Finally! Some GOP Members in Congress Attempt to Recognize Drug Cartels For What They Are
Harbison: Atlas Shrugged is Prophecy
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| Jim Harbison |
Many of us in the audience knew this was just a fictional movie about what could happen in a future society. Unfortunately, we have all become increasingly aware of similar actions being undertaken by the current Obama administration. In order to impose “green energy policies” oil companies are being denied permits to drill and restrictions are placed on timber and mining industries which essentially prohibit their operations. Obama offers to support oil exploration and development in Brazil while prohibiting it in the United States. He is systemically implementing an environmental agenda that is destroying our free market system. 
He campaigned on “change” but his change is to implement government control over the means of production. Again reminiscent of the Ayn Rand novel. The Obama Czars, right out of the Atlas Shrugged novel, are administratively implementing regulations that are destroying our capitalist free-market system. A case in point is the mandated elimination of the incandescent light bulb. It is the American entrepreneurial way to develop a “better mouse-trap” and if the development of the Compact Fluorescent Light bulb (CFL) was viewed by the public as a better product its success would be guaranteed. New companies sprout up all across the nation if given the opportunity to succeed. Unfortunately, this administration does not support this entrepreneurial spirit and instead makes every effort to regulate American innovation, production, and prosperity.
This administration has negatively impacted healthcare, manufacturing, banking, energy production and numerous other businesses and industries. Its restrictive and destructive policies have eliminated jobs across the nation and caused the resulting rise of dependency upon the federal government. It was recently disclosed that 51% of the population pays no income tax and more people than ever are now receiving some type of federal assistance, both partly due to the high level of unemployment. In Atlas Shrugged the government imposed restrictions on many industries to force them to adopt its policies.
Currently, we have many “public private partnerships” that have succumbed to the will of the government to stay in business. They no longer operate under free enterprise concepts and owe their very existence to the federal government just as the movie portrayed. The message in the movie was clear and it has been reinforced by the recent actions of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB ruled that Boeing cannot open a new plant in South Carolina because it is a Right to Work State and this is an overt attempt by Boeing to circumvent employment of Union workers by relocating jobs out of Seattle, Washington. The truth is that no jobs were being eliminated in Seattle and in fact additional positions had been created. Opening a plant in South Carolina was a business decision to expand the company.
It would have created thousands of additional jobs in South Carolina and increased the tax base for that State. This Obama administration action was to increase the power and control of the unions as well as diminish the rights of private enterprise - not unlike that of the Atlas Shrugged world. It is time for the American people to recognize that the freedoms and prosperity that made this nation great are being systematically destroyed by this administration in the manner described in Atlas Shrugged.
Dr. Terry McMillan to Appear on NewsNM
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| Dr. Terry McMillan |
Special Driver's License Session?
Murphy Suspended Without Pay Following Charges
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| NM Supreme Court |
Data: Bleak Outlook for NM Unemployment
The Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of New Mexico has new data that shows the state's unemployment rate may not return to pre-recession numbers for another six years. Read full story here: News New Mexico
$35 Million in Stimulus Went to Santa Fe Company
Martinez: Brief Statement on Murphy Indictment
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| Susana Martinez |
Artesia Hosts Science Roundtable on the "Lizard"
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| Steve Pearce |
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| Dennis Kintigh |
The need for a listing has come under increased scrutiny. In recent weeks, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has officially voiced its opposition to the proposed listing, saying that existing agreements address “all major threats to the species,” and that “the listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard is not warranted, because of the various conservation tools in place to ameliorate threats to the species.”
“I am encouraged that an independent group of scientific minds is gathering in Artesia,” said Kintigh. “This group will begin an organized review of the assertions and claims made in the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing of the Sand Dune Lizard as an endangered species. Decisions that can have significant impact on our economic well-being demand careful and critical examination. I am confident this team will do that review.”  |
| Oil and Gas Industry Roadrunner |
PNM Rate Case: The Things Some People Say
The Republic - PNM is asking regulators for the increase mainly to recoup investments made in infrastructure to ensure reliability of its hundreds of miles of transmission lines and power generating stations. An additional $20 million could be recouped for more infrastructure investments made through the end of 2012, if approved by regulators. When PNM initially made the request last summer, the utility estimated that investments in its system would total more than $575 million through 2011 and it wanted to raise rates by about 21 percent, or $165 million. Negotiations with the commission's staff, the attorney general's office and others helped cut the proposed rate increase in half. PNM officials have argued that they tried to strike a balance among investments needed to keep service reliable, investments in the environment and making sure rates stay affordable.
Critics contend the latest request doesn't accurately reflect the impact on customers. Steve Michel, an attorney with Western Resource Advocates, told The Santa Fe New Mexican that his group and others opposing the rate hike will ask the hearing examiner to reject the settlement and the rate case or modify it. "PNM is proposing an across-the-board increase for most residential customers. What we've said is this is not the way to collect these rates," he said. "We think the largest users should pay the highest rates." Read full story here: News New Mexico
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