For all the TBP sports fans, let’s see who is most knowledgeable or lucky regarding an event that will get 300% more viewers than the Commander in Thief’s State of the Union Address.
The Federal, State and local government leeches are in desperate need of more blood to fund their bloated bureaucracies, gold plated pensions, vote bribing entitlement schemes, and overall crony machinery. The State of PA is effectively insolvent if they used GAAP accounting . So is virtually every state and municipality in the country. The PA government pension liability alone will drive the state into bankruptcy. Rather than address the real problem with honesty and courage, the weasel politicians and bureaucrats solution is to defer, delay, tax and pretend. The weasels increase the gas tax, tolls, fees, and anything else they control to pay for their incompetence.
Earlier in the week, I heard another story about PA expanding gambling to fill their gaping budget hole. The Phila Inquirer described the situation:
As budget discussions unfold over the next few months, it is widely expected that the GOP-controlled House and Senate, along with the Corbett administration, will seriously consider a proposal to expand lottery gambling and, possibly, one to legalize online gambling. Both measures could mean hundreds of millions in annual tax revenue at a time when the state is in the red. The administration says Pennsylvania could be facing at least a $1.2 billion budget gap for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
These bozos already have a $1.2 billion budget shortage, COMPLETELY due to the mandatory government pension payments required to fund the retirements of government drones who retire at 50 years old. Instead of addressing that issue, they milk the cows for more revenue. The morons think they can generate another $200 million from keno and on-line gambling. Of course, all the other states have the same plan. You can’t get blood from a stone. The real people living in real houses across the state are making less real money than they did in 1989. But the clowns in Harrisburg think they can extract another $200 million per year from these people. None of these lowlife politicians mention the FACT that it is mostly senior citizens, the poor and the ignorant who are lonely, bored, and stupid enough to gamble. PA is taxing the poor and stupid to fund their pensions.
And now they are coming for your Superbowl pool. The Pennsylvania State Police are out to get you.
Two government drone politicians crafted Act 92 to, among other things, allow nonprofit clubs to run pools, as long as it is structured so any wager is an entry fee, not a bet on a specific outcome, with the house taking the other side. Wagers are capped at $20. But State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said Act 92 specifically says it cannot conflict with federal law, and Noonan said placing any kind of wager on sports violates the federal Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. State Police had its legal team review Act 92, and found the federal law doesn’t leave any wiggle room for Super Bowl or March Madness pools, Noonan said.
We are seeing the heavy hand of government getting heavier by the day. Every State and municipality will be growing increasingly desperate as their un-payable entitlement promises come due. Everyone is seeing gas taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, real estate taxes, car registration fees, sewer fees, water fees, utility fees, cell phone fees, cable fees, and tolls increased. Government is bleeding us to death. The time is coming when we say we’ve had enough.
Reduce your footprint. Drive less. Cancel services that are taxed. Work for cash under the table. Barter. Buy less stuff. Don’t ever participate in state sanctioned gambling. Starve the beast until it collapses.
You don’t see Obama’s pliant MSM talking too much about the fact his State of the Union, which was on 13 stations, drew the lowest rating of any presidential state of the union address in history. The country does not care what the lying son of a bitch has to say. They know he is the teleprompter president who makes promises and never delivers. He’s an empty suit. There is no substance, intelligence or integrity. He is a complete and utter failure. This was his fifth state of the union address and the ratings have fallen every year, from 32.5% in 2009 to 20.7% this week. The graph looks like the inverted chart of the number of people leaving the workforce and number of people signing up for Obama’s most successful program – SNAP.
Obama was on 13 stations and attracted 33 million viewers. I’m sure only a fraction of that number watched more than 15 minutes of the kabuki theater. The Grammy Awards were on the night before and attracted 28 million viewers on one station. Last year’s Super Bowl got a 46% rating and attracted 108 million viewers. Duck Dynasty regularly attracts over 11 million viewers on a crappy cable channel. American Idol gets 13 million viewers a couple times per week.
The country is no longer listening to the savior. He is nothing but a bloviating windbag. This is another sign that the ruling class and the peasants are getting closer to conflict. The people no longer care what the talking heads in the legacy media are saying. Their ratings are also at all time lows. No one trusts the corrupt snakes in Congress. Their approval rating is lower than syphilis. No one trusts the Wall Street shysters, as the average person is out of the market. The disconnect between the ruling class and the plebs has never been wider. Time is growing short. There will be further financial turmoil, boiling anger, violence and eventually war. The ruling class isn’t using their NSA surveillance and DHS arming of police forces around the country for nothing. They know what is coming.
The tuning out of the public to the lies and propaganda being spewed by Obama, lowlife captured politicians and the corporate media is a sign of coming retribution for the guilty and presumed guilty. There will be blood.
| Networks | Combined Household Ratings | No. of Households | No. of Viewers (P2+) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, Azteca, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Al Jazeera America, Galavision, Mun2, UNI* | 20.7 | 23,949,843 | 33,299,172 |
| Source: Nielsen *Tape delay. |
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Below is a historical look at past State of the Union addresses.
| Date | Networks | Combined Household Rating | Combined No. of Households | Combined No. of Viewers | President |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/12/2013 | FOX, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, Azteca, UNI, MFX, CNBC, CNN, Fox Business, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Current, Centric, GALA | 21.8 | 24,767,047 | 33,497,607 | Obama |
| 1/24/2012 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, TF, UNI, CNBC, CNN, FBN, FOXNC, GALA, MSNBC and MUN2 | 24 | 27,569,423 | 37,752,613 | Obama |
| 1/25/2011 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, UNI, CNN, Centric, CNBC, FOXNC, and MSNBC | 26.6 | 30,871,688 | 42,789,947 | Obama |
| 1/27/2010 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, TEL, UNI, CNN, BET, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC | 29.8 | 34,182,725 | 48,009,595 | Obama |
| 2/24/2009* | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC, TELEMUNDO, UNIVISION | 32.5 | 37,185,000 | 52,373,000 | Obama |
| 1/28/2008 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC, TELEMUNDO^, UNIVISION | 24.7 | 27,702,000 | 37,515,000 | G.W Bush |
| 1/23/2007 | ABC, CBS, FOX**, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC, TELEMUNDO**, UNIVISION ** | 29.6 | 32,968,000 | 45,486,000 | G.W. Bush |
| 1/31/2006 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC | 26.9 | 29,578,000 | 41,699,000 | G.W. Bush |
| TELEMUNDO, AZTECA AMERICA, TELFUTURA, TELEMUNDO | 8.4 | 950,000 | 1,480,000 | ||
| 2/2/2005 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC | 25.2 | 27,699,000 | 38,382,000 | G. W. Bush |
| TELEMUNDO, TELEFUTURA | 6 | 660,000 | 1,050,000 | ||
| 1/20/2004 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC | 28 | 30,286,000 | 43,411,000 | G. W. Bush |
| 1/28/2003 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC | 38.8 | 41,447,000 | 62,061,000 | G. W. Bush |
| 1/29/2002 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC | 33.6 | 35,547,000 | 51,773,000 | G.W. Bush |
| 2/27/2001* | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC | 27.6 | 28,201,000 | 39,793,000 | G.W. Bush |
| 1/27/2000 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC | 22.4 | 22,536,000 | 31,478,000 | Clinton |
| 1/19/1999 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, FOXNC, MSNBC | 31 | 30,700,000 | 43,500,000 | Clinton |
| 1/27/1998 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN, CNBC, FOXNC, MSNBC | 37.2 | 36,513,000 | 53,077,000 | Clinton |
| 2/4/1997 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN | 28.4 | 27,600,000 | 41,100,000 | Clinton |
| 1/23/1996 | ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, CNN | 29.6 | 28,400,000 | 40,900,000 | Clinton |
| 1/24/1995 | ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN | 29.5 | 28,100,000 | 42,200,000 | Clinton |
| 1/25/1994 | ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN | 32.9 | 31,000,000 | 45,800,000 | Clinton |
| 2/17/1993* | ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN | 44.3 | 41,200,000 | 66,900,000 | Clinton |
| Source: Nielsen | |||||