Good News

In the past few weeks it seemed that the country was going to hell in a hand basket so to speak. We had federal judges attacking the institution of Marriage, (Attack on DOMA) and promoting Same Sex Marriage (Attack on Prop 8).

This week we had a federal judge rule against killing embryos for stem cell research, and in Louisiana, a federal judge ruled against the abortion industry, by requiring an ultra sound of an unborn fetus and making it available to the mother. I think this is very important because when a mother can see her unborn fetus, she will be less likely to want to have an abortion.

Both of these decisions are steps in the right direction.

Mufi's Record

Mufi Claims that he is proud of his spending record while with the City. Hannemann trumpeted his spending record as Mayor of Honolulu as his "greatest accomplishment," claiming that his administration left the city in a better financial situation than he found it in. "At the end of the day, it's about watching your money," Hannemann stated.

The Grassroots Institute reports that The actual numbers hardly match up with Mr. Hannemann's glowing self-assessment, however. Indeed, the ex-Mayor's bold assertions are particularly shocking given the recent emergency furloughs the city has enacted in order to make ends meet. At the end of the Harris Administration in 2004, the City and County of Honolulu's operating budget totaled $1.178 billion with $1.251 billion in costs. After five years under Mayor Hannemann's administration, however, City and County costs ballooned to over $1.8 billion with no surplus in revenues. Even after adjusting for inflation, this represents a whopping 31 percent increase in the cost of running Honolulu's government under Mr. Hannemann.

You just cant trust Mufi Hanneman.

New York Mosque

I have heard about people condemning the New York Mosque because of it's proximity to Ground Zero, the site of the Twin Towers.

I think this is really unfair to the Muslims who live in New York, who had nothing to do with 9-11. Islam is a world religion, and should not be held in contempt because of a handful of extremists.

Even Christianity has its extremists, such as Anti-Abortion activists that have gone on to Murder Abortion Doctors. You can't hold a religion responsible when it actually commands you not to kill, and certain followers ignore those commands.

Freedom of Religion is guaranteed under our constitution. It does not guarantee Freedom From Religion! Apparently the separation of Church and State people believe this fallacy. So I say let the Muslims have their Mosque, and pray with us for peace in the middle east.

In Defense of Reaganomics

President Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States. Originally an Actor, Democrat and Union Man, Ronald Reagan became a Republican and one of the greatest Presidents we have ever had in my opinion.

Reagan's 1981 Program for Economic Recovery had four major policy objectives: (1) reduce the growth of government spending, (2) reduce the marginal tax rates on income from both labor and capital, (3) reduce regulation, and (4) reduce inflation by controlling the growth of the money supply.

Reagan delivered on all 4 of his objectives, but not to the extent he wanted. Defense Spending went from an annual increase of 4.5 percent under the Carter Administration to 2.5 or 22% of GDP. This in spite of record defense spending during peacetime.

The Income tax was much more impressive with the top income earners paying 70% in income tax dropping down to 28%. The Corporate income tax went from 48% to 34%. The income tax rates were adjusted for inflation and the poor were exempted from income tax.

Reagan eased or eliminated price controls on oil and natural gas, cable TV, long-distance telephone service, interstate bus service, and ocean shipping. Banks were allowed to invest in a somewhat broader set of assets, and the scope of the antitrust laws was reduced.

Real GDP per working-age adult, which had increased at only a 0.8 annual rate during the Carter administration, increased at a 1.8 percent rate during the Reagan administration. The increase in productivity growth was even higher: output per hour in the business sector, which had been roughly constant in the Carter years, increased at a 1.4 percent rate in the Reagan years. Productivity in the manufacturing sector increased at a 3.8 percent annual rate, a record for peacetime.

Most other economic conditions also improved. The unemployment rate declined from 7.0 percent in 1980 to 5.4 percent in 1988. The inflation rate declined from 10.4 percent in 1980 to 4.2 percent in 1988.

For those who believe Reaganomics was a failure, they are simply ignoring the facts.

Information in this blog was drawn from:
William A. Niskanen, "Reaganomics." The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 1993. Library of Economics and Liberty. 11 August 2010.

Marriage is under attack.

Marriage is under attack. Make no mistake about it. The homosexual activists are waging an organized effort to undermine the family, and thereby our nation.
There has been a steady march against Marriage and the Family by the Same Sex Marriage Advocates.
Some say that a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman is the only way to protect it. I beg to differ. What happened in California yesterday is shocking. In the case (Perry v. Schwarzenegger) Proposition 8 was struck down by an Activist Judge saying that the constitutional amendment declaring marriage as a union between one man and one woman is unconstitutional. (Go figure the constitution is unconstitutional?)
I say the way to stop this march towards immorality and destruction is to pass laws criminalizing sodomy. The supreme court be damned.

Most Fed up with Incumbants

KHON did a survey last night and confirmed what many of us believe is that Hawaii residents are fed up with the one party government and the arrogance of the incumbents.

In the survey conducted on their website 61.1% say they are riding the anti-incumbent wave, when 28.1% are saying they are voting for familiar faces. The remaining 10.8% saying they aren't voting.