Mar

28

Angry mob descends on Buffalo for the Western New York Tea Party

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It was a perfect day for a tea party on Buffalo’s historic waterfront as over 300 angry Western New Yorkers got together to protest America’s #1 dysfunctional state government. To say that they were angry is no overstatement as even the mention of names like Paterson, Silver, Smith, Volker or any other of New York’s entrenched pension grabbing political class brought on resounding jeers and boos from the audience.
Only one politician dared to show up to make a speech, State Senator George D. Maziarz an ally of one of the event organizers, activist Rus Thompson. Senator Maziarz gave some tips on how citizen action can stop Albany’s constant schemes to tax everything in sight. Even so Senator Maziarz was not immune from the mood of some of the protesters, a few hecklers were not in the mood to hear anything from any politician this day.

Views and Press Coverage of this event (I will update this as reports come in):

From the Buffalo News:
Tea Party protests high taxes, ‘failed’ government

From the Buffalo Bean Blog: Buffalo Tea Party: Mad As Hell

The Buffalo Shark has a few pics posted: Tea Party After Action Report

Progressive blogger Buffalo Pundit has a number of posts, video and pictures.

Speakupwny article: Russ Thompson’s speech highlights Buffalo tea Party

Political Class Dismissed (Jim Ostrowski’s speech): My Remarks to the Western NY Tea Party (March 18)

Niagara Gazette: TAXES: Hundreds show up for ‘Tea Party’

Tonawanda News: TAXES: Angry citizens stage revolt

WKBW Article: Taxpayers Stage Real-Life Tea Party to Protest High Taxes

Mike Rebmann from the North Buffalo Journal and Review has a slide show on Political Class Dismissed.

From WIVB: Tea party tax revolt on the waterfront

Mar

24

Erie County/Western New York Tea Party on March 28th

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Erie County-Western New York Tea Party

Details at the Albany’s Insanity Blog

More at Political Class Dismissed

Apr

21

Invitation to a Guerilla War

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Jim Ostrowski waking people up to the damage they are doing to their children by sending them to government schools at LewRockwell.com

You Are Cordially Invited to a Guerilla War
by James Ostrowski

Recent events in Buffalo have me thinking about government schools again. Fourteen Catholic schools closed including the neighborhood school my children happily attend. We were devastated. My son asked me, “Are you going to send us to a government school?” I said, “No way would we ever do that!”

Long story short. The government school system is finally beginning to realize its original mission: to knock off Catholic schools. The nuns and brothers had fought the good fight for 150 years. Without reinforcements, Catholic schools, with one-half of all private school students, are in deep trouble.

Government’s de facto monopoly over primary and secondary education is our single biggest problem, a problem that is genetically linked to all our other political problems.

READ ON

Mar

27

Ron Paul On WNYM Internet Radio

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Ron Paul will be a guest on a new internet radio show this Thursday, March 29th hosted by Free New York’s Jim Ostrowski.

This is Jim’s first show on Buffalo and Western New York’s first 24 hour all local talk, sports and music internet radio station, WNYM.

The show runs from 1:00-2:00PM, Ron Paul will be on at 1:30

There was some technical difficulties that kept most of the show off the Internet, but the show went on and the Podcast is now available.

Mar

14

Compassionate Socialism In Action

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A tale of a Canadian that came to Buffalo, NY so his own government couldn’t kill him.

Mar

1

Woe is New York State

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Mike Rebmann at the Free New York Blog and the North Buffalo Journal and Review has pointed out a notable hypocrisy of Spitzerism. “Since Day One, Eliot Spitzer has pledged not to raise taxes. His pledge is about as valuable as the paper your money is printed on.”

Mike is talking about Spitzers no new taxes turnabout in his proposal to raise taxes on companies by nearly $600 million. Like Mike says, “Apparently the pledge to not raise taxes does not apply to businesses.” A small clarification Spitzer inadvertently left out of his pledge by accident I’m sure.

To first understand Elliot Spitzer, you must understand he thinks of himself a man of action, he believes that a public executive can defy the laws of economics. He suffers the same delusions of every social democrat; he thinks he can plunder the scarce resources of an economy and pump it into that cesspool of inefficiency and waste called government and out comes utopia. It’s utopia for the political class, but for everybody else. it’s hell.

He told New Yorkers in his inaugural speech that “Franklin Roosevelt advised us to be, “bold,” and to recognize that people demand “action, and action now.”
Spitzer must be a student of the FDR school of political economy, he’s going to now get us into prosperity by increasing taxation on business, and recklessly transferring more wealth to his outer circle of special interest plunderers, mainly New York State’s bloated unionized government employee workforce. Dumb boy, his ivy league education was a waste, he probably actually believes that crap about FDR getting the US out of the Great Depression as so many high school books of distorted American history say.
His economic sophistry was clear from the beginning, with his solutions to fix our problems by pumping more money into failed bureaucracies including public schools (or more correctly, school teacher unions), Industrial Development agencies ect… It’s all been done before with the same pathetic results. Does he actually think that he can get the large part of NYS out of its economic malaise with the same tax, borrow and spend foolishness and government regulation that got us there over the last 50 years?

The story is the New York businessmen are mortified by Spitzer’s new proposal to tax them, including I’m sure those that hoped to get more political clout by endorsing him like the Buffalo Niagara Partnership and the Rochester Business Alliance. They should have known better, but they chose to be unprincipled and ignorant, if not just greedy for special privilege.

They should have heeded the words of Bastiat:

“Our ignorance is the raw material of every extortion that is practiced upon us, and we may be certain beforehand that every sophism is the precursor of an act of plunder. My friends, when you detect a sophism in a petition, get a good grip on your wallet, for you may be sure that this is what the petitioners are aiming at.”

Jan

17

Let Them Eat Plastic

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I still remember many moons ago when it was politically correct and an accepted scientific fact that eating sticks of butter was bad for you, but eating sticks of margarine (trans fats) was good for you.
Now in our new politico-medical enlightenment, it is the trans fats that are the killers of millions. A world turned upside down.

Ryan at Throwing Stones has commented on an article in the Buffalo News about Demone A. Smith, a new common council member that has parroted the nannyist buffoons in city councils like Chicago and New York City.

Buffalo’s newest common council member has shown his intelligence parallels that of a baloney sandwich. I’m going to send him an entertainment book coupon for a buy-one-get-on-free colonoscopy.

Demone has wasted no time to find a cause to put his name in lights as a champion of the little people by way of a little fear mongering.

Buffalo restaurants would be banned from using trans fats under a law that will be proposed this week by the city’s newest Common Council member.
Eating establishments that use artificial fats are harming people’s health, Demone A. Smith of the Masten District said Tuesday as lawmakers met with a group that is lobbying for the ban.
“It’s like eating plastic,” Smith said of trans fats, which are partially hydrogenated fats.

Mike Rebmann posted his thoughts on Free New York, which are far more lucid than what comes from Demone Smith’s clogged chemical synapses.

Trans-fat bans are nothing more than a veiled attempt by politicians making it look like they are doing something worthwhile. What they are really doing is setting a very dangerous precedent that leaves us open to even more intrusive regulations. At this rate, obesity will become a crime and the fat police will be showing up at people’s front doors with arrest warrants. Even the American Heart Association opposes the ban on trans fats

I say if you want to munch on some Styrene, Styrofoam, or congressionally approved freedom fries, that’s your business. You don’t need any grub-police to tell you what to eat.
I’m completely confident in restaurateurs and food manufactures to heed the desires of the consumers as to what foods they want to buy. McDonalds has heeded consumer signals and is now offering an assortment of chicken salads as an alternative to the traditional greasy hamburgers and fries and other fare. Did they need the advise of paternalistic politicians to come up with that idea?
Let the consumers and producers in a free market decide what is edible and desirable, it’s the parasitic politicians and their special interest cronies that need to be banned.