Bloomberg and Shaheen are Wrong on the Gun Bill!

The recent Gun Control bill that failed in the US Senate (Thank You Senator Ayotte!) was nothing more than a knee jerk reaction to the Connecticut tragedy. Worse, its main thrust was to make normal legal gun owner behavior a criminal act subject to confiscation of their guns and other assets. Doesn’t this remind you of the IRS scandal targeting and criminalizing average Americans for believing in something other than Liberal Progressive Socialist pabulum!

Bloomberg’s commercials attacking Senator Ayotte claim that this bill would have kept guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable is a bold faced lie. Mentally unstable people are protected by HIPPA, the Health Information Patient Protection Act. The recent Colorado shooter’s caregivers were aware that he was making threats of violence yet no one did anything about it fearing lawsuits.

Bloomberg’s commercials also claim that the bill would have prevented criminals from getting guns. What a Crock of Crap. Criminals still get most of their weapons the same way they always did they steal them! Mayor Bloomberg has control of the New York City Police Department, order them to go out, find where criminals have weapons, which is already against the law, arrest, and prosecute them to the full extent of the law. Pressure the liberal Judges to punish them to the full extent allowed by law.

Senator Shaheen needs to represent her NH constituents, and not the Democratic National Party and the elites that drive their policies. Senator Shaheen also previously voted for a UN Sponsored Gun Control bill that would have turned over New Hampshire residents 2^nd Amendment rights to the United Nations! Fortunately for New Hampshire residents the Treaty, supported by 46 Senate Democrats, was not enough to take away our rights. Although rumor has it that President Obama has indicated that he will sign the United Nations Gun Control Treaty without Congressional approval.

To be fair I will offer some solutions:

1.) Revisit HIPPA to make it easier for healthcare professionals to notify Law Enforcement when they suspect a client has plans to implement a violent confrontation.

2.) The States could include a law, or an amendment to current gun laws that make it illegal to posses a stolen gun. I know that is already illegal but I would make it a mandatory 10 years no parole jail sentence. I would include a waiver to this law if the person voluntarily turns in a gun he believes stolen. Include a database of stolen weapon serial numbers!

3.) Mayor Bloomberg could have used the millions he is spending attacking Senator Ayotte to create a program in conjunction with gun safe manufactures to make locking up your guns less expensive.

These 3 simple steps provide far more protection from gun violence than the flawed US Senate Gun Control Bill offered.

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Bob DeMaura

NHInsider Owner/Operator

501(c)(4)'s Prove Democrats Corrupt Hypocrits!

Hypocrisy rules in Liberal-Progressives here in NH. First U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen writes a letter to the IRS calling out Americans For Prosperity and other groups like them 501(c)(4)’s as operating illegally. She suggests that the IRS should do something about them.

Well we all know now that they did do something about them, they harassed and tried to intimidate any “Conservative” groups like AFP as Senator Shaheen calls for in her letter. Note she fails to ask them to investigate groups like MoveOn.org or Organizing For America (the old Obama for America group) which supplies support and people to Senator Shaheen’s campaign.

Now we have Kathy Sullivan, former head of the NH Democratic Party, calling for further investigation of these illegal groups all while she runs a 501(c)(4) group herself. http://nhjournal.com/2013/05/21/sullivan-calls-c4s-gross-misuse-of-tax-laws-despite-running-c4/

We have corrupt politicians, lobbying the IRS to come down hard on groups pointing specifically at Conservative groups like Senator Shaheen did in her letter to the IRS, all the while they are benefitting from these 501(c)(4) groups. In fact OFA is the largest 501(c)(4) in the United States. Oh and did I mention that the Democrats are the recipients of oodles of Union money (4 of 5 largest non-campaign spenders in the 2012 election were Unions) including Public Employee Unions like the IRS Employee Union that donated $5000 to Senator Shaheen's campaign.

As Ed Naile would say Liberal-Progressive thought represents up as down and down as up! The same folks that loitered in front of our Town Houses proclaiming the horrors of Big Government during Republican controlled years are all eerily silent. Can they not put 1 & 1 together and see that the abuses of this administration will be the standards to rule by for the next administration. Precedence will have been set!

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Bob DeMaura

Owner/Operator NHInsider.com

Get Government Out Of Relationships

The argument about marriage in our society today is full of emotional considerations. Some believe that there is some sort of “Right” that is associated with relationships and perhaps there are. Others feel this word is a religious word with religious connotations. The word Marriage had its origin in religious ceremonies. It came to be the name that the Government uses to define personal partnerships when the Government took over the record keeping functions formally done by the churches.

The Government doesn’t do emotion and shouldn’t do religion. The Government can only offer legal remedies for any partnerships that they may approve. The first thing a good divorce lawyer does is get their client to stop thinking emotionally and start looking at distribution of assets.

There is no reason for the Government, whether State or Federal, to use the word marriage with all its baggage to describe what the Government see as a contractual business type relationship. Government can’t and shouldn’t act in any other way.

Rename the Government required registration to something more neutral such as “Personal Partnership” or the hated “Civil Union”. Remove the emotion from the Government's realm. After getting the proper approval from the Government for your Personal Partnership, and you still want a marriage ceremony you can get one from someone that supports your particular definition of marriage. Whether that is a Church, a Backyard family thing, or a destination event is up to the individuals to define for themselves.

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Bob DeMaura

Gambling Revenue Estimates Seriously Flawed!

Honorable Steve Vaillancourt has put forth his revenue estimates for gambling in NH but I think the numbers may be seriously flawed. Was this on purpose or an oversight I don’t really know that, I do know that I entered the following information and questions for Steve as a comment to his blog post and it disappeared, take that to mean whatever you want to read into it.

Steve claims that we will net between $150 and $250 per day per machine. His plan has 5000 machines, I assume that 5000 is also the number in the Governor’s/Senate plan. I do agree with Steve that speading out the machines at 6 locations (I’d add Hinsdale to the list) is better than all at one location.

Lets examine the $150/$250 net revenue number a bit further. Steve’s Plan calls for a 92% return to the gamblers meaning that the net  revenue will be 8%. To get $150 per day net revenue the gamblers would have to spend $1875/machine per day on the low estimate and at $250 per day net revenue the gamblers would have to spend $3125/machine per day.

Using the Senate plans return of 87% to the gamblers the amount needed to net $150/machine/day would be $1154 and to net $250/machine per day would be $1923.

Using Rep Vaillancourts return to gambler of 92% results in the gamblers in NH having to spend $9,375,000 per day ($1875/machine X 5000 machines), or $3,421,875,000 per year. The $250 net figures would be $15,625,000 per day or a yearly gambling amount of $5,703,125,000. That’s right, folks in NH would have to ante up over $3 BILLION dollars per year and that’s at the low end estimates.

Connecticut reported in 2006 that NH residents spent ~$93,000,000 in 2005 at their casinos. The figures Rep Vaillancourt gave us equals Connecticut’s total NH revenue in 10 days!

Do we really believe that NH residents can and will ante up over $3 Billion per year on Gambling?

I’m a Free Enterprise supporter, but we have to use realistic numbers. The Democrats will start spending any flawed over estimates as soon as possible so we must be as accurate as possible and all inaccuracies must be on the low conservative side.

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Bob DeMaura

Dow 14,000 Recovery or Stagflation!

Recently the Dow has crossed and hovered around the 14,000 mark, a level not seen since 2007. The Main Stream Media have been singing the praises of this event, declaring that peoples 401K’s have finally rebounded back to where they were in 2007. Of course they attribute this to that brilliant economic genius President Barack Obama.

If the Main Stream Media were doing more reporting and less edifying of President Obama they may uncover a less rosy outlook than they are portraying.

Wikipedia defines Stagflation as : “Stagflation, a portmanteau of stagnation and inflation, is a term used in economics to describe a situation where an inflation rate is high, the economic growth rate slows down, and unemployment remains steadily high. It raises a dilemma for economic policy since actions designed to lower inflation may exacerbate unemployment, and vice versa.”

Wikipedia defines the causes as : “Economists offer two principal explanations for why stagflation occurs. First, stagflation can result when the productive capacity of an economy is reduced by an unfavorable supply shock, such as an increase in the price of oil for an oil importing country. Such an unfavorable supply shock tends to raise prices at the same time that it slows the economy by making production more costly and less profitable.^[5][6][7] Milton Friedman famously described this situation as "too much money chasing too few goods".

“Second, both stagflation and inflation can result from inappropriate macroeconomic policies. For example, central banks can cause inflation by permitting excessive growth of the money supply,^[8] and the government can cause stagnation by excessive regulation of goods markets and labour markets.^[9] Either of these factors can cause stagflation. Excessive growth of the money supply taken to such an extreme that it must be reversed abruptly can clearly be a cause. Both types of explanations are offered in analyses of the global stagflation of the 1970s: it began with a huge rise in oil prices, but then continued as central banks used excessively stimulative monetary policy to counteract the resulting recession, causing a runaway price/wage spiral.^[10]”

The government will try to tell us that inflation is only around .02 percent per month but the key to understanding that figure is it is always qualified with the phrase “excluding food and energy”! What a bunch of hogwash! Inflation is the increase in prices we pay out of our pocket and food and energy are two of the primary drivers of most people’s budgets!

With the Federal Reserve pouring $85 billion new money into the economy every month with their Quantitative Easing program the result is a deflating dollar and increasing prices.

Our Government through the various agencies such as NLRB, EPA, FDA FCC, etc as well as the presidents Executive Orders have placed excessive regulations on everything. The New Affordable Care Act (AKA Obamacare) has over 13,000 pages of regulations. The EPA is on a course to eliminate Coal as a viable and reliable source of energy. The NLRB has been activist in blocking companies like Boeing from locating plants in States that have Right to Work laws.

Your 401K may have recovered to it’s 2007 levels but the amount that can be purchased with the money has been cut in half. Gasoline was around $1.80 per gallon when Obama took office it is over $3.60 per gallon today. Food marketers have shrunken the package sizes while raising the prices.

Conclusion we are deeply embedded in Stagflation as a result of the second definition of causes above. The recovery is only a sound bite for the no longer trustworthy Main Stream Media.

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Bob DeMaura