The Man on the Edge

Let's talk immigration

2010-04-26T09:05:00.003-04:00

Friday, the Governor of Arizona (my home state), signed a law that would allow police officers in the State of Arizona to require people to provide proof that they are in this country legally if there is reasonable doubt that they are. This has sparked protests among angry hispanics.

Well, I am hispanic. And, I am angry.

But, I am not angry at the State of Arizona for passing this law. As a matter of fact, I applaud them for having the guts to pass it. You see, first and foremost, I am an AMERICAN!!! My dad's family happens to be Mexican. So, I can relate to this issue. However, to say that this law violates the civil rights of people who are in this country illegally is just insane. It's the same as saying that the "Christmas Bomber" has the right to a lawyer. Or that we need to read the Miranda Rights to enemy combatants that are caught on the battlefield in Afghanistan. The Miranda Rights are part of our rights as AMERICAN citizens. They do not extend to people who come over here from other countries and try to blow up our citizens. They certainly do not extend to those who are here illegally. If they want to be afforded the same rights as a citizen of the United States of America, then, by all means, they need to abide by the laws of this country, the first of which, is to come into this country using the proper channels.

Our beloved king liberal has called the law misguided. But, what I see as misguided is the audacity to continually kick the American people in the face by attacking the Constitution. The very document that should be guiding everything that is done in this country. What I see as misguided is to treat with kid gloves the very people who attacked us on our own soil, and then have the ***** to say that they deserve to have a civilian trial in the very city that they attacked. To say that we have not treated these people in accordance with the Geneva Convention when the Geneva Convention is very forthright in saying that it is for people who follow the "Rules of War". That means that they wear a uniform, represent a country and do NOT attack civilians. All three of which the terrorists that this administration wants to put on trial in New York have violated. If the king liberal wants to talk about misguided, he should look in the mirror. But, then again, he is guided by a whole different set of principles than those that this country was founded on.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am all for immigration into this country. It is one of the things that has made this the greatest country in the world. The diversity that we have do to the different backgrounds that our citizens bring to the table is unmatched both in the present time and anytime in history. It is one of the things that makes this country unique and why it has been able to rise up to the status that it has in such a short amount of time. However, the immigration that I support, is the immigration of people who use the proper channels and push their way through to come here and make a better life for themselves and their families, NOT the kind that involves sneaking across an unprotected border like a common thief!! While I think it is great that so many people want to be here to earn a decent living, do it the proper way or else don't whine about it when we enforce the laws that are put in place to protect OUR CITIZENS!!

There is going to be a lot of debate over this issue during the coming months. People are going to say that we need to fix the current system. I agree. However, the quickest way to fix it is to enforce the laws that are in place now. Build the fence that was authorized a few years ago and then halted because the funding wasn't approved. Kick the people who are here illegally out of this country and tell them that they are welcome to come back, as long as they do it properly. You see, we don't really need to fix the illegal immigration problem, we just need to enforce what is already in place instead of passing a few laws, just to appease the constituents (us) and then letting them fall by the wayside.

By the way, in case you missed it, I am angry at the people who are here illegally and are whining about their rights under US laws. As far as I am concerned, they don't have any. They do have the right to be treated humanely, but, it stops there. They need to go back to their own countries, and, if they want to come here, then do it properly and be documented.

How Embarassing

2010-04-01T16:03:00.003-04:00

I saw this after I had completed my earlier post. I am impressed with Admiral Willard who actually kept a straight face.

See, this is why I could never be a politician. I would be in a debate against someone who would say something this stupid, to which, I would just have to say either, "Are you stupid?" or "How stupid are you?".

Some Random Thoughts

2010-04-01T10:52:00.003-04:00

Well, this country has officially changed. It is no longer the country that I served for 20 years. The Democrats in Washington have made sure of that. They have let everyone know, in no uncertain terms, that the Constitution, the very document that is the framework for this Republic that we call home, doesn't matter anymore. At least not to them.

I have had a few days to mull over everything that has gone on up there. Now, I do not want to lay all of the blame on the Democrats. That is just the latest, albeit the largest, straw that broke the camel's back. Keep an eye on the things that they are going to try and do over the next few months, once Congress gets back from their break. From my reading, I believe that there are two more items that they will try and cram down our throats. Cap-and-Trade and Immigration Reform.

Reform, as a noun, means the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory. This is exactly what is happening in our country. The king liberal truly believes that this country has wronged others around the world. He believes that we are arrogant and wants to reform this country into something that it was not intended to be. He has gone around the world apologizing for the United States. He bows to leaders of other countries. He is demanding that we bow down to him and let him give away the very basic thing that we have in this country, our freedom. The freedom to choose how we live. This is what I have spent 20 years defending. The freedom of the people to live life the way they see fit. Not to have government make us change our lifestyle just because we don't eat properly, or drive the right car. This is where we are headed. The Democrats are going out and telling people that this is not what Health Care Reform does. Well, guess what? Nancy Pelosi already admitted that if the insurance companies raise their premiums, then they will not allow them to be part of the exchanges. Just about everything that they are telling you now is a lie. It is like she said before, "we have to pass it to find out what is in it." Now, what kind of sense does that make? Shouldn't we, the American people, be reasonably assured that our elected representatives have read the bills that they are voting on and know what is in them before they pass them?

As far as Cap-and-Trade, what kind of sense does it make to pass something that the king liberal himself admitted, "would necessarily cause energy prices to skyrocket." This does not sound like something that is good for the average American who is getting by by the skin of their teeth just to make sure all the bills are paid. These are the very people that he says he is trying to help. I have seen enough to know that he doesn't give a hoot about the average American. All he cares about is how much money he can take from people who show a little bit of success so that he can give it to people who are just looking for the next handout from the government. If the utility companies have to pay these Cap-and-Trade taxes guess who is actually going to pay them. The very same people who pay every corporation's taxes, THE CONSUMER!! It's simple economics. If a company has to pay more in taxes, then the cost of producing their product has gone up, so the price will have to go up accordingly. Far too many people are not seeing this simple logic, and the Democrats prey on that. They vilinize every company who is prosperous. They make them out to be the bad guys, when it is the Federal Government who is causing the prices of everything to skyrocket. Check out the FairTax link to the right to find out more.

Now, as far as Immigration Reform goes, I feel very strongly that everyone who has allowed Lindsey Graham to be the Republican candidate for Senate in South Carolina, should be ashamed of themselves. This man is not a conservative (at least not on this subject). He is co-sponsoring a bill, with a Democrat, that would put over 12million ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS on a path to citizenship. EXCUSE ME??? I think that the first idea of becoming a citizen of any country is that you should respect the laws of that country. These people have no respect for our laws. They have proven that by being here illegally to begin with. I do feel that reform is needed in this area, however, and I have a brilliant idea.......WHY DON'T WE ENFORCE THE LAWS THAT ARE ALREADY IN PLACE? We have plenty of laws in place already. We don't need anymore. Let's build that fence that Congress approved a few years ago. That would certainly help to at least curb the illegal migration across our southern border. Next, we need to enable our I.N.S. agents to actually do the jobs that they are hired to do. When we find illegal immigrants, they need to be deported. Just because they have had a kid in our country does not give them the right to be here. If they truly want to become a part of the American society then they can go through the proper legal channels and come here properly. This country was founded on the idea of immigration. I fully support immigration and the desire for people from other countries to come here to try their hand at making a better life for themselves, as long as they respect our laws and do it properly. I have visited other countries. They expect us to respect their laws. Why should it be any different here?

Keep an eye out for these issues over the next several months. The Democrats think they have the momentum now. They will try and ride it through at least one other tough issue. Stay informed and remember to vote in November, while we can still tell Washington how we feel at the ballot box.

It was a sad day in Mudville........

2010-03-22T12:43:00.002-04:00

The Mighty Casey has struck out.

I will ask your forgiveness before I start typing, because, I am so overwrought right now, that I don't know exactly what will come through my fingers.

Just as the story, it is a sad day in this country. This country that I have spent the greater part of my adult life defending has changed. The king liberal promised change. Well, last night, he got one of the big changes that he wanted. The House of Representatives, the people's representation in the federal government, voted last night (in case you haven't heard) and passed the Senate bill on what they call health care reform.

Obama promised to spread the wealth around. He gets his chance even more so now. This bill raises taxes on just about anyone who is successful and gives it to those who don't care to work for themselves. The Democrats are doing nothing more than punishing those who succeed and rewarding those who don't.

This is the United States of America. The only thing that has been promised since the founding of this country is that everyone will have the opportunity to succeed should they be willing to do the things that it takes to succeed. That is what has makes this country great!! The only thing that happened last night, is that our country has been weakened.

The vote last night looked at the Constitution and ripped it right in half!! Since when has the federal government been able to tell us that we need to buy something?

I watched as all of this unfolded. It made me truly sick to my stomach. I will admit to getting teary eyed when the House voted on Thursday to deny the block of the "Deem and Pass" rule. This signaled that there would be no way that the Republicans could block the passing of this bill. I am still teary eyed over the loss of the country that I so truly love.

There were two things that truly stuck out last night.
First: Nancy Pelosi must be a frequent visitor to one of those medical marijuana places that are out there in California. Last night she actually said that the "Stimulus" bill and the king liberal's budget together cut the deficit. If you call quadrupling the deficit and then writing a budget that lowered by 1/10 the deficit that you developed within the first 6 months of your administration lowering the deficit, then, I guess she was right. The deficit was lowered, slightly, only after running up the massive debt that this country is now under. The Heritage Foundation rates many economies as to there relative freedom. We are no longer the free-est economy in the North America. That title belongs to Canada. We are even in danger of dropping off of the list that would be called "economically free" economies. That's great change.

Second: Bart Stupak (D-MI), the supposedly pro-life Democrat who held out on the House's bill, passed in October but could not get past the Senate, until federal funding for abortion was removed from the bill, made a deal with the king liberal stating that there would be an executive order preventing federal funding for abortion. Well, that wording is not in the bill that was passed last night. And, guess what, the law is superior to an executive order. That means, that no matter what the king liberal says, once he signs this bill, tomorrow, then the federal government will be funding abortion. This man had the audacity to get up there in the House and put down the Republicans for offering an amendment to the bill, that, by the way, would have killed it, that would prevent the federal funding of abortion. He said that it was just a trick by the Republicans to try and defeat this necessary bill. They were standing up for the very thing that he prided himself for standing for and caved in. And he criticized them!!

These two things were by far the most hypocritical things that I saw as all of this unfolded.

This country is no longer the country that I love. No longer the country that I have defended. All I can right now, is to apologize to my children for not being able to pass down the country that I love. I vowed to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I have a feeling of failure in this. I could not defend it against the domestic enemies that continue to ravage it. I apologize to every American who holds the Constitution dear to there hearts, as I do.

Please don't take this as meaning that I have given up. There are many more things that are going to happen as a result of all of this. I will continue to look for ways that I can be involved in fighting for the Constitution. I can not stand idly by and watch the destroying of this country. And, you shouldn't either. Stand up and let the people in Washington know that we do NOT approve of the government taking over and telling US what to do.

A PIG IS STILL A PIG!

2010-03-17T12:51:00.003-04:00

The king liberal, Barack Obama, once said that you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.

Well, guess what......

That was the most profound and truthful thing that I have ever heard come out of his mouth.

Right now, as I am typing, Nancy Pelosi is doing everything she can to pass the Senate bill on health care reform. By all reports, at this moment, she does not have the votes, and it is not likely that she will get the votes. Step in Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY). She just happens to be the Chair of the House Rules Committee. She is the one who is saying that they should just "deem the bill to be passed" and pass a reconciliation bill to fix the problems (reconciliation only needs 51 votes in the Senate to pass). This way, the House would not have to vote on the Senate bill and everyone can go back to their districts and tell us that they didn't vote for the bill. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!! That means something to me. The Constitution is the very founding and core principles upon which this nation has become the greatest nation that the world has ever seen. What is happening in OUR House of Representatives right now goes against every fiber of my being. I dare to say that the very people we have voted to represent us in Washington, D.C. are enemies to the Constitution.

There are a couple of problems with this. As I pointed out yesterday, along with many other people, the Constitution says that every bill that goes before the President shall be "passed" by both houses. Also, along with this, the rules of the House say that any reconciliation bill has to lower the deficit by at least $2Billion over the next 5 years. Any proposal they have to change the bill would raise the deficit. You see, reconciliation was put in place for proposals to reduce the deficit. Not to take over 1/6 of the nation's economy. Lastly (I'm sure I could come up with more problems, but, this is enough for now), why would the Senate pass any changes to a bill that they already passed? They don't see anything wrong with the bill. They already voted on it. My fear is that the House will vote on changes to the bill and pass it straight up to the "DEEMED" to be passed Senate bill for the President's signature, bypassing the Senate on the changes. Why not? They are bypassing the Constitution on passing the Senate bill, why not bypass it for the changes?

Why are they needing to do all this? A look back at what Louise Slaughter said about the Senate bill when it passed the Senate:
"[U]nder the Senate plan, millions of Americans will be forced into private insurance company plans, which will be subsidized by taxpayers. That alternative will do almost nothing to reform health care but will be a windfall for insurance companies. … Supporters of the weak Senate bill say “just pass it — any bill is better than no bill.”
I strongly disagree — a conference report is unlikely to sufficiently bridge the gap between these two very different bills. It’s time that we draw the line on this weak bill and ask the Senate to go back to the drawing board. The American people deserve at least that."

Even the leadership in the House don't want to pass the Senate bill. But, don't be fooled, it isn't because they don't want the government to take over the insurance industry, and our health care, they do. They believe that the Senate bill does not do enough. They want to destroy everything sooner. The problem is that they know they cannot get their ideas passed. They blame the Republicans for this. However, they have, for well over a year now, had control over both Houses in the Congress and the White House. They even had a filibuster proof Senate. There was NOTHING that the Republicans could do to stop the Democratic agenda. The Democrats had everything in place to run with what ever they wanted. They even have a man in the White House who is as liberal as the most liberal among them. They can call the Republicans "obstructionists" all they want. THEY CAN'T GET THEIR AGENDA PAST THEIR OWN PARTY!!!

I have served this country for over 20 years. With the words that I will defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. No one can say that people serve in the armed forces for the money. My family lived from paycheck to paycheck for quite a few years. I did it, as do most people who make it a career, for the love of this country and the citizens herein.

2010-03-16T13:48:00.002-04:00

I have to admit, that I have not taken the time to put my thoughts down in this blog. A lot of things have happened over the past 6 months. I have now officially retired from the Navy, started a new job, and moved my family (hopefully for the last time). I am still busy, but there is too much going on that has a direct affect on the very things that I spent 20 years defending. So, it is time for me to start back up and put my thoughts out there for everyone to read.

As I stated when I started this, I know that everyone is not going to agree with me, but, this is how I see things and how I feel, along with a few facts to back some things up. If you agree with me, great. If not, well, that is your right and I respect your right to disagree with me. After all, I have spent the greater part of my adult life defending your rights.

Today, there is a lot of talk about the "Health Care Reform" bill that is before the House of Representatives. This bill has been passed by the Senate. However, at least two votes were bought by giving concessions to Louisiana and Nebraska. The American people have consistently made the politicians in D.C. know how they feel about all of this. Every poll that is out there right now will show that there are some aspect of the bill that the majority of people may support, however, when it comes to the bill in its entirety, NO poll shows that the majority of Americans are for it. Every one shows that the majority of the American people do not want this bill to be passed.

What's the House of Representatives solution? They want to DEEM the bill to be passed and have started working on the fixes that they will propose to the bill once it becomes law. Now, anyone who has even read the Constitution can tell you that this blatantly goes against the Constitution. More precise, Section 7, Paragraph 2 of Part I. It actually says that any Bill that has PASSED both houses has to go to the President for his signature or veto. The point is, they can't just DEEM a bill, they have to pass it. Their strategy for all of this is very simple. They get their health care bill into law and nobody has to admit that they voted for it when the elections come around in November.

If this is such a good piece of legislation, why in the world does the King Liberal himself have to go out on a campaign to try and convince the American public that this is what is best for us. He has even postponed a trip to the Far East over this.

Alright, now, a few things that upset me about what all is going on.

First; For 20 years I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic. I believe in the Constitution. I believe in America. I believe in the American people. I also feel that the Constitution and the American People are under attack by the very people that have been elected to represent us in OUR government. Our very way of life is at stake here. We must continue to fight for our way of life. Ronald Reagan was right when he said that freedom is never more than a generation from extinction. It is time to tell these people what we think of them.

Second; We have nothing to apologize for. Why in the world is this leader of ours, going around and apologizing for us. All we have done is defend our allies and tried to rid the world of evil. We won the Cold War because we had the backbone to defend our way of life. There is no reason to apologize for that.

Third; Why don't we teach our children more about the founding of our country? Not the watered down version that is being taught today, but, the real, no kidding founding of our country. I would be willing to bet that very few College graduates would be able to tell you what the Constitution or Declaration of Independence says. We don't teach these things any more.

Fourth; The villanization of Corporate America. Just because someone works hard, and makes a success of their lives, doesn't mean that they are bad. As a matter of fact, what kind of sense does it make to tax corporations? What they don't tell you is that the corporations do not pay any taxes. The taxes go down as part of the cost of production and, therefore, are reflected in the price of their products. WE PAY THEM!!

Fifth; Why in the world does South Carolina keep voting for Lindsey Graham? He is now talking about immigration reform again. I have an idea, let's ENFORCE the laws that we have in place and get rid of all the people who are here illegally! They don't deserve to have the same rights as I do under OUR Constitution. Fund and build the wall that passed through Congress years ago.

Sixth; Why are we giving Constitutional rights to terrorists???!!!

Seventh; Why are ignorant people allowed to vote? Where I believe that everyone should have a voice in their government, I also feel that this last election was very much a tribute to how uninformed our population actually is. I find it very scary that we have more information at our fingertips with the internet than at any time in our history, yet, when it comes to electing the people to represent us in OUR government, quite a few people fall far short of knowing exactly what they are voting for.

Well, I guess this enough for now. I will promise to write MUCH more frequently. I feel like I need to be better at this as I am getting more and more frustrated.

Watch what happens in the House of Representatives over the next couple of days. If they try and pass a reconciliation package before they pass the bill, then everyone in America should be shouting "FOUL" at the top of their lungs. They can't just deem a bill to be passed. They HAVE TO VOTE. The king liberal himself, has said time and time again, the time for debate has passed. It is time to vote. WE DESERVE an up and down vote, RIGHT NOW!! It would not pass and everyone knows it. The Democratic Party thinks that they need this to save the Presidency of Obama. What good is it if we save his presidency at the expense of our Country? OUR country is under attack, from the worst kind of enemy. The enemy within. They are attacking the very founding of our country and they are not even trying to hide it anymore. They don't care about us. All they care about is making the American people more and more dependent on the Government to make it from day to day. Then, they can control our very lives and how we live.

Just Some Food for Thought

2009-11-16T19:03:00.004-05:00

I saw the first video that I am posting today on Thursday. Glen Beck said that this man just came up to him. I am pretty sure he was in Harlem for the interview in the second video. Each video is a little over 3 minutes in length. The first man didn't vote for the king liberal. The second one did, but, is now asking himself why?

I know what I am about to say is nowhere near politically correct, but, at the end of the Civil War, did we just trade one form of slavery for another? Most of the politicians in Washington would just as soon keep the citizenry of the United States ignorant of the facts. They want to tell us what is best for us. This is the very same reason we fought for our independence from England. The more people they can make dependent on the Federal Government, the better. That means the more votes they get.

This is not the way things were supposed to be. The power was supposed to be with the local and state governments.

"WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, PROVIDE for the common defence, PROMOTE the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

The only thing that the Federal Government is supposed to PROVIDE is the defense of this great nation and all the citizens under the Constitution. It is not supposed to provide for the the general Welfare, it says to PROMOTE the general welfare. These mean two totally different things, and the people in Washington are telling us they are doing all the things they are doing to look out for the little people. THAT IS NOT THEIR JOB!!!!

The states are supposed to be the more powerful governments. They are supposed to have a say in how the Federal Government is run. This is why, before the 17th Ammendment, each State Legislature appointed two Senators. They were to represent the State at the Federal level. The House of Representatives is supposed to be the people's representatives.

I highly recommend a website that someone told me about. I looked at it, and it is a wonderful idea. It's called Get Out Of Our House. Check it out here. I will put a link to it at the left.

I truly can't believe that I am letting all of this get to me, but, I put in 20 years of my life in defense of this country and its Constitution. I put in 20 years of my life so that people could live in peace and be able to say the things that are on their minds without worry. I put in 20 years of my life so that my generation and the generations that follow could know what it is like to live under a blanket of freedom. The freedom to choose what is best for us individually. Not have a bunch of people with an agenda to remain in power tell us how to live our lives and what is best for us. We need to do everything we can to take this government back. And we need to do it NOW!

2009-11-12T17:16:00.003-05:00

I know that it has been almost three months since I posted anything. I absolutely apologize to everyone who checks in from time to time to read my opinions on things. But, between my retirement from the Navy, family visiting and getting started in my new career (yes, I actually was able to find a job in this economy and I thank God every single day for that), it has just been absolutely hectic in my life. But, don't worry too much, I have been paying attention to what is going on in this crazy time we live in.

Before I get to my opinions, I want to say a thank you to everyone who prayed and are praying for me and my family as we have set out on this new adventure in life. You have no idea how much it means to us. The second thing I would like to do is to recognize the men and women I have served with. There are too many to list here, but, rest assured, I would not have had the successful career I had without them. And, lastly, my family. From seeing my dad so proud and full of emotion, that I actually saw him speechless, to my lovely wife and children who have had to put up with my emotional roller coaster (especially the past few months), the support they have provided me is priceless and means more to me than any of them will ever know, or I could ever tell them. Thank You all.

Now, on with business. I have been paying attention. I even watched CSPAN on the computer this past Saturday to watch that joke of process they like to call the legislative process as they voted on that monstrosity of a health care bill. It was a joke. I truly don't know how they ever get anything done. It amazes me, every time I venture to watch them, how the person with the gavel can claim that "a sufficient number having stood" when he NEVER even looks up from the podium.

In case you didn't know, here are a few highlights from the 1900 page document that not too many of them have even read.
- One of the many ways they are going to pay for this, is to repeal tax cuts for EVERYONE. In other words.....RAISE TAXES. The very thing that that king liberal promised wouldn't happen.
- Something I just found out. If you remember the idea that if you failed to buy health insurance then you would have to pay a fine when you filed your taxes, forget it. If you don't buy health insurance, YOU WILL GO TO JAIL!! Nancy Pelosi just got done saying that her bill was fair when asked about this.
- Right now, there is an amendment that would ban all federal funding of abortions. Some say that this is the same thing as saying that abortions are illegal. Are they kidding? Are they delusional? Since when does holding back federal funding make something illegal? Anyway, it really doesn't make a difference because they put it in there just to get the pro-life democrats to vote for it. They plan on removing it from the final bill.

That's enough. These alone make me mad enough. They say that they are worried about the people who can't afford health care. Then, they need to do something about the cost of liability insurance the doctors need to pay to cover them for malpractice. I am not saying that doctors are perfect and that none of them should ever get sued (there are bad apples in every bunch), but, the threat of malpractice suits means that the doctors have to have so much malpractice insurance that that is the major cost that they have to cover when they charge us so much. It is well over the cost of a procedure.

As far as going to jail for not having health insurance, this bill will still not cover about 65 million people. Some of these people will still not be able to afford health insurance. Are they going to throw 65 million people in jail? How fair is that Nancy?

I am not even going to go into the abortion debacle.

One of the democrats biggest attack on those of us who are apposed to their health care bureaucracy is that the Republicans haven't come up with anything. Well, they had a bill that would have nullified the democrat's monstrosity. I didn't totally agree with that one either, but, it was MUCH better than the alternative. And, it wouldn't have cost $1Trillion either. They also want to blame Republicans for their having such a difficult time in passing some of the things that the far left wants to force down our throats. Well, just in case you haven't been paying attention, they don't need any of the Republicans and they know it. They don't consult with the Republicans on anything. Sure, the Senate will throw an occasional bone to the likes of Olympia Snowe and Lindsey Graham for some added insurance, but, truly, they don't need them. There are enough Democrats in both houses to do whatever they want. They are starting to have problems convincing people within their own party.

By the way, we all need to watch out for this trick in the Senate. Watch for the Senator that will vote for cloture on a bill and then not vote for the bill. See, many people believe that the Senate needs 60 votes to pass a bill. This is not the case. They need 60 votes to stop debate on the bill. This is called cloture and it is how they get around the filibuster. Once this happens they only need a simple majority. So, be careful of Senators saying that they didn't vote for something, yet they helped pave the way for it to pass.

Please, make sure that your representatives know how you feel, and remind them that they work for us.

I will be up on here much more often, now. I promise.

2009-08-22T17:44:00.002-04:00

Watch this video and then ask yourself this one question.....If the liberal Air America can see the lies that are being told, why doesn't the regular media see it?

This explains why the Administration is in full campaign mode. They want you to buy into the lies, just like the majority of voters did in November. The king liberal will say anything that he thinks you want to hear. He did the same thing during the election. He said anything he had to say to get elected. He offered "Hope and Change." Well, when he started surrounding himself with people to form his administration, he basically said that it would be stupid for someone with his lack of experience to not use people from the last Democratic administration. A lot of these people have been in Washington for years and know how to make things work to their advantage. Not a lot of change. He promised that bills would be available to the public to read and that every lawmaker would have at least 48 hours to read the bill before they voted on it. Then, he proceeded to set deadlines on Congress that totally invalidated this promise. He promised that his "stimulus" bill would keep unemployment below 8%. Now, it is pushing 10% with at least 15 states over 10%. This man said that he is a new comer that would not allow politics as usual. However, he has shown that he is very savvy in how to get his way in Washington and he has done NOTHING to change how things work in Washington.

He believes that the Constitution is restrictive to the government. Well, guess what......IT WAS DESIGNED THAT WAY!!

It appears that the public is finally starting to wake up from the fantasy that Obama and the Democrats have tried to sell this country. They are starting to make their voices truly heard. The American people are forcing the Democrats to show their true colors. The fact that they don't think any more of the American people than to call them an angry mob that are brandishing swastikas says a ton as to what they think of us. They want to RULE us, not govern us.

We need to keep the pressure on. Keep letting our representatives know what we think and want. That is the only way we are going to stop the Democrats from taking over our lives and telling us how we need to live.

I am an ignorant racist!!!

2009-08-19T09:31:00.002-04:00

I have been reading a lot of articles lately that have attacked anyone who has the gumption to speak out against the health care reform bill that is in the House of Representatives as either ignorant or racist (or both). So, I guess that makes me both.

This is the typical type of attack that the liberals like to throw down. They vilify anyone who will speak out against their agenda. What ever happened to free speech? What ever happened to the fact that it is our responsibility to question this or any other administration as then Senator Hillary Clinton said in 2003. I guess that only applies to Democrats questioning and protesting a Republican Administration.

As far as ignorant.........I feel that anyone who will blindly follow what they hear and read without confirming things for themselves does so out of ignorance. Therefore, they are ignorant. The king liberal has done everything that he said he would do. Even since before he was a Senator. People just weren't listening. He speaks and people fawn over him. They don't actually listen to what he says. He contradicts himself, most of the time in the same speech. Shoot, we can't even call the House health care bill his idea. He admitted, early in his campaigning for it, that he hadn't even read it. If he hasn't read it, how can he speak intelligibly about it? I call that ignorant. One of the senior Democrats in the House of Representatives even admitted that there is no way he can read all of these bills. He said that it would take two days read it and two lawyers to explain it to him. If you don't have time to read and understand the bill and all of the ramifications, you shouldn't support it and then go out and try to sell it to the American people. I call that ignorant.

I have read the majority of this bill, and as far as I can tell, it is a piece of crap that is designed to expand government into controlling our health care. Designed to infringe on our right to choose our health insurance (or even to have health insurance at all), our right to choose our doctors, and even, with the consult of our doctor the type of care we get. It is designed to move us away from private insurance to a single payer system, the federal government. Just like the king liberal had said at least twice while he was running for the office he currently holds. See, we didn't see him say those things because the media never showed them to us. He said it twice while speaking to union groups. The very people that he helped take over two of the three automakers in the United States. He never said it in his big televised speeches, because he knew that if the "common folk" knew that that is how he felt, he would never get elected. This is no dumb man. The problem is, he thinks that We the People are a bunch of ignorant people who will believe anything he says. Well, the people are actually getting out there and letting him know that we don't believe him anymore.

I have one question. If this HR3200 is such a good bill for reforming the NUMBER ONE health care system in the world, then why do the Democrats have to be so hard on the campaign trail and attack anyone who dares to question it? If it were that good of a bill, they would not have to campaign for it. It would speak for itself.

So, since I am totally, 100% opposed to HR3200, then, I guess I am an ignorant racist. I will accept this totally unfounded label and wear it proudly (even though I have read the bill).

I am finally going to finish this

2009-08-17T11:11:00.002-04:00

I have started to write this post several times over the past week. It just seems like there is always something to get in the way. Anyway, I am going to start out with a quote from an ordinary citizen. She is a mother of two and lives in Pennsylvania. This is what she said to Sen. Arlen Spectre, the turncoat who changes his party affiliation whenever it seems to fit his political aspirations.

"I don’t believe this is just about health care. It’s not about TARP. It’s not about left and right. This is about the systematic dismantling of this country."

This is exactly what needs to be echoed throughout this country RIGHT NOW!! These people in Washington have long gone away from being representatives of the people. They are full fledged in representing their own, self absorbed political agenda. They have no interest in doing what the people want. All they care about is expanding the power of the government so that it intrudes on our very lives. They want to be able to tell us what we can and cannot do. The people in Washington are attacking the very Constitution upon which this country was founded. You already know that the Health Care Reform Bill that is in the House right now, will take away our freedom of choice when it comes to our healthcare. Here are just a couple of more examples of how the Constitution is coming under attack.

I received a phone call this past weekend from the NRA. Now, I will admit, that it was partially a solicitation for membership. I would gladly join, if I could. They mentioned something that brought a chill down my spine, right to the bone. The lady said that there is a treaty, proposed by Mexico, before the UN that would ban the private ownership of guns. That's right, if the United States were to sign this treaty, it would violate the Second Amendment to our Constitution, our right to bear arms. And, to top it off, right now, we have one of the most anti-gun people in the country as our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. So, this is not just some idle thing that we know would never be signed. It is something that is REAL and a THREAT to the Constitution itself.

The second thing that I have for you is the fact that people in the White House are trying to silence Glen Beck for things that he has said on his program. That's right. Van Jones, the self-proclaimed communist and the Czar for Green Jobs (what the heck is that anyway?), is the co-founder of a left-wing political group called Color of Change. This group exists "to strengthen Black America's political voice. Our goal is to empower our members—Black Americans and our allies—to make government more responsive to the concerns of Black Americans and to bring about positive political and social change for everyone." This group has actually contacted companies who advertise on Glen Beck's television program and threatened to boycott their products if they did not pull their advertisements from the program. There are several stories I have read about this and am linking to them (just click on the names of the websites). The first is on Human Events. The second is at RedState. And, finally, the third is at the Capital Research Center. This is a clear attack on the very backbone of what everyone in the United States looks to when they talk about their freedoms. THE very basic freedom of Freedom of Speech. The First of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America.

The king liberal himself, when he was interviewed early in his political career, even said himself that he believes that the Constitution is too restrictive to the Federal Government. DUH!!! YOU IDIOT!! It's supposed to be. He says that the Constitution lays out what the government can't do, but, doesn't tell the government what it MUST do. I will tell you what you MUST do, get the hell out of our way and let the people decide what they must do for themselves. Let the country return to the way things have worked in this country. The government was never intended to do things for us. It was designed to be a means by which our states could come together and provide for our common defense and PROMOTE (NOT PROVIDE FOR) the general welfare.

Too many people in this country have forgotten what it is like to work for something. The satisfaction one gets from knowing that the accomplishments you achieve are from the work that you put into the endeavor. That things are not handed to you. You have to work for them. The government's only job as far as this goes is to get our of our way.

The king liberal, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and all of the other Democrats that seem to be getting the media's ear, have now turned to vilifying normal, everyday people who are concerned about their future, showing up at the town-hall meetings, calling them angry mobs who are brandishing swastikas and such. They are all paid hacks sent to represent the EVIL insurance companies. However, it was only after the king liberal himself, told the SEIU and ACORN to help him out with these townhall meetings that things have turned violent.

Oh yes, I just heard, again, something that I truly think is hilarious. The king liberal keeps saying that a public option in health care would not cause private insurance companies to go out of business. The fact that he is truly lying about this is not what I find funny. It's the example he uses.....He says that FedEx and UPS run very healthy businesses, it's the Post Office that has all of the problems. Now, he is using the fact that the Post Office has issues to explain away the fact that a private option won't necessarily mean the end of private insurance, while at the same time giving a very valid example of why the American people do not want the government running our healthcare. The government can't run the health care programs they have now, the Post Office or Social Security without them going bankrupt. Shoot, privately run government entities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can't even keep themselves out of trouble.

It is time to tell these people in Washington we are sick of the job they are doing and they WILL pay for what they are doing by losing their jobs at the next election if they don't STOP!!

P.S. I do have to apologize for a word I typed while writing this. I usually don't use words like that, however, I am growing more and more frustrated with the direction that this country is going and could not think of any other word that would truly convey that frustration.

2009-08-09T16:44:00.003-04:00

Alright, as promised, I am going to weigh in on this Health Care issue. I had actually intended to write this a few days ago, however, some things came up and I wasn't able to get to a place to truly do this justice, so, here it goes.

I am happy about two things with the monstrosity that the king liberal is trying to pass off as Health Care Reform. The first is the fact that it didn't get the chance to be rammed through Congress. There was enough opposition from BOTH sides to stop it. The second thing is the fact that America is starting to truly speak out. It isn't just behind the scenes and in polls anymore. There are people showing up at the town hall meetings all across the country and telling the politicians how they truly feel about the health care issue. Not only that, they are starting to get under the skin of the liberals.

Nancy Pelosi has even gone as far as saying that people are showing up brandishing swastikas. Several other Democrats have accused these American citizens of being part of an organized effort led by anybody from Rush Limbaugh to the insurance companies. They just can't stand the idea that people have actually read this thing and are not going to just roll over and let them take over. As a matter of fact, one person that has been said to be one of the leaders has been identified as someone who actually has a facebook page with something like 15 friends and a twitter page with about 5 followers. And, the king liberal himself has even said that they need to hit back twice as hard. I wonder if he intended the violence that happened in Tampa Bay when he said that. It seems that a Democratic official actually slapped someone at a town hall meeting.

So, what is everyone getting all worked up over? No matter what the king liberal and all of his cronies tell us, if this bill gets signed into law, we will have to be on a government approved health plan withing 5 yrs. This, of course, means that we will NOT get to keep our current health insurance like Obama says. Also, this bill provides for you to get counseling about your "end-of-life" care. There are also many cuts to Medicare. You combine all of this together, and you get a government take over of the health care system. The same government that can't seem to run anything. Medicare/Medicaid is going bankrupt. Social Security is going bankrupt. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are over run with corruption. Even that monstrosity of a "stimulus" bill that was passed back in January (or February, I forget, it has kind of all run together) is over run with mismanagement. Just ask Joe Biden. He actually said so. If they get this bill passed, they will have succeeded in taking away our choice in health insurance, choice of doctors, and even, our choices of care should we be unfortunate enough to be terminal.

The Administration that said they were going to be the most transparent in history, is anything but. Congress, in conjunction with the White House has promised that no bill will be voted on until 48 hours after it was introduced in its entirety to give every lawmaker a chance to read it. And then, it was supposed to be published for the public to read before it was voted on. They have definitely not lived up to that. They are rushing bills through at such an alarming rate that it is truly hard to keep up with everything they are doing.

Speaking of which, the White House has actually put out that they are taking information on people who dare to speak out against the Health Care Reform Bill. They say that there are people who are spreading lies about this bill. Well, after reading the bill, I can truly say that the only people who are spreading lies about it are the very people who want to shove it down our throats. So, if you read this, and you truly want to tell the White House that I am 100% totally against it, you can e-mail them at flag@whitehouse.gov. I guess, the actual terms they use is that if you get an e-mail or see something that is fishy, they want you to e-mail them.

So, to summarize, my take on this whole health care bill (that the king liberal has even admitted to not reading) is that it is nothing but another way for the Democrats to try and make us more dependent on government to take care of the very things that we should be taking care of ourselves. This will allow them to do what ever they want and tell us what we can and can not do. This is not Freedom. This is not what our forefathers intended when they founded this country. This is not what many, many men and women have died defending. They even want us to start telling them when people disagree with them. Even Hillary Clinton said, in 2003, that we have an right and obligation to question an administration when we don't agree with it.

In the immortal words of the Great President Ronald Reagan, "Freedom is never more than a generation away from being extinct." Now is our time to fight for what we believe in. Let your Representatives and Senators know what you think about this bill.

2009-07-30T09:46:00.003-04:00

Alright, I have been pretty quiet lately. Mainly because I have just been getting madder and madder at what is going on up in Washington, D.C. But, after seeing everything that is going on, I can not stay silent any longer.

I had actually planned on blogging about health care, but, I will save that one for another day while I finish getting all my thoughts together on that subject.

Meanwhile, I found this video over at MsUnderestimated. I did a little research and found most of the same stuff that Glenn Beck and Phil Kerpen are talking about. I encourage you to watch the video, but, I will break it down.

The Apollo Alliance is an organization whose goals, as found at Wikipedia seem to be well intentioned. However, the whole basis for the foundation of the Apollo Alliance is pure evil. They are looking to take over the entire economic structure of this country. It is purely a left wing, socialist organization. Van Jones, who just so happens to be the GREEN Jobs Czar for the king liberal, is a self proclaimed COMMUNIST. He also happens to be on the steering committee for the Apollo Alliance.

This organization is designed to combine the Labor movement (unions) with the Green Movement and Social Justice. I will have to admit, that one of the very reasons why some of these organizations aren't already in charge of things is because there are so many and the special interests of each individual group is limiting. However, the Apollo Alliance is designed to bring them all together for one common goal under one umbrella. Can you imagine if the likes of ACORN, the SEIU and Greenpeace all are on the same agenda? We are in a world of hurt.

Why is all of this important to you and me? Well, many people have been talking alot about how our very Constitution is under attack. How our very freedom and liberty is under attack. This is how they are doing it. Neal Boortz has said many times that the environmental movement was something that really gained power after we flushed out all of the communists in this country and left them little hope of really ever having any power. They all turned into environmentalists. This is the vehicle that they are using to get us to do what THEY think is right. This Apollo Alliance is living proof. They helped write that $800BILLION stimulus bill that never had a prayer's of a chance to stimulate anything other than the government and all of their selfish political agendas of gaining more power over you and me.

This is what we are up against. A leader who appoints tax cheats, proven unethical people, and even communists to help make policy about our lives. On top of that, we have other elected officials who really are proving that they don't care one iota about us or what we think. They are going to continue down the road and tell us that they have our best interests in mind, when all they want is to stay in power.

We need to take back this country. We need to get back on the track where people who work hard are rewarded and those who don't will soon learn that they need to. We also need to get the government OUT OF OUR EVERYDAY LIVES and return back to a time when the elected truly do work for the governed.

A Little Break

2009-07-24T11:58:00.002-04:00

While, it seems, that we have dodged a bomb, at least temporarily, in the health care reform bills that are being debated in both the House and the Senate, I feel compelled to take a break from politics for just one brief moment. I will resume regular posts again after this.

Every once in a while, someone does something that is truly incredible. In this case, it is something that has only happened 18 times before. Along with politics, which is really something that I have (admittedly) just recently truly followed with a passion, I do follow sports. Last night, the Chicago White Sox beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0. Now, this in and of itself isn't that remarkable. What is remarkable is the fact that the Rays only had 27 at bats during the game. That's right, Mark Buehrle pitched a PERFECT GAME.

If you have seen the movie For Love of the Game, with Kevin Costner, you get a glimpse of how remarkable this is. And, how, when something like this is in the works, the other players around him truly step up their game to make it happen. It happened in real life in the ninth inning. Kaplar, of the Rays, hit a ball that should have been a home run and would have spoiled the whole thing, HOWEVER, Dwayne Wise, who had been put into center field because of his defensive skills made a truly outstanding catch (you can watch the clip here). Buehrle went on to strike out the next player and get the last one to ground out.

To give you an idea of how monumental this is, Nolan Ryan, who holds the records for the most strikeouts and no hitters, NEVER pitched a perfect game. It has only been done 18 times in Major League Baseball. Only 16 times since 1900. And, only ONE time in the World Series. The last person to pitch a perfect game was Randy Johnson, with the Arizona Diamondbacks, on May 18, 2004.

So, I take this break from politics to tip my hat and congratulate Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox, and the entire White Sox team, on this truly monumental achievement.

CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN

2009-07-20T21:05:00.002-04:00

In 2008, Barrack Obama promised that he would give us change. He promised that there would be transparency in government. He promised that no bill would be voted on until it was published for the public to read for at least 48 hours.

How is all of that working for you? It doesn't for me. At all.

The stimulus bill passed without any problems and barely anybody actually read the thing. Including those in Congress. The king liberal promised that this bill would save or create jobs. Well, it has, in Washington, D.C. Their unemployment rate is 6.2% while there are 15 states with unemployment over 10%. Michigan is over 15%. The only states that have lower unemployment rates than Washington, D.C. are North and South Dakota and Nebraska. That bill was nothing more than a whole bunch of pork. Pet projects for Democrats. Nancy Pelosi even got billions of dollars for the habitat of some rat in her district. Remember, Obama said that unemployment would not go over 8%, it is now at 9.6%, and he now says it will go over 10%.

And don't forget TARP. That pushed $750Billion out of the coffers and into banks. With this money, came the gateway for the government to take over the banks. A handful have been able to pay the money they were forced to take back to the government. However, there are literally hundreds that want to pay the money back but the government won't let them. They have instead, turned the prime option stocks that they had into common stock. This means that the government is a voting stockholder in the company. And, the government owns as much as 71% of the stocks in some of these companies. No wonder they can tell the banks how much money they can pay their employees. We can actually thank the Bush Administration for this (just so that people don't think that I am only blaming one man).

Then, there was that Omni-bus bill. It raised our deficit to over $1Trillion. The first time we have ever reached that mark.

Now, we have two bills that will wreak havoc on the economy and our freedom. The first is that massive Cap-and-Trade bill that passed the House about a week and a half ago. It is a 1500 page bill that was voted on less than 12 hours after 300 pages were added to it. The extra pages were added at 3a.m. And, as a matter of fact, this bill barely passed the House. The vote was 219-212. 44 Democrats voted against it and 8 Republicans voted for it. If even four of the Republicans had voted against it, the bill wouldn't have passed. And, one of the Republicans has had over $93,000 donated to him from a company that will benefit from this bill. He threw the people of his district under the bus. Remember, this is a bill that the king liberal himself "would necessarily cause utility bills to skyrocket." Again, they tax the companies, we pay the bill.

The second bill is health care reform. The king liberal promised that if you like your current health care plan, you can keep it. Well, here is what the NY Post has found out. Under either plan, one in the House and one in the Senate, a government bureaucracy will decide on approved plans. If your employer provides your health care, they would have a five year grace period to put you into one of the approved plans, otherwise pay a fine.

As soon as anything in your contract changes, i.e. co-pays or premiums, you'll have to move into a qualified plan (House Bill pg. 16-17).

When you file your taxes, if you can't prove to the IRS that you have health insurance, you will be fined thousands of dollars and then immediately enrolled in an approved plan (House Bill pg. 167-168).

Limits you to a managed-care plan even if your employer is footing the bill (Senate Bill pg. 57-58). The goal of this is to reduce everyone's consumption of health care and that everyone has the same health care experience regardless of their ability to pay (i.e. rationing health care and lowering the standards, even for the rich).

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the cost of this will be somewhere between $1.04 and $1.6 TRILLION.

If you want to see what government controlled health care is like, check out this video.

On top of all this, the White House has announced today that it's economic estimates that were due out today, will be delayed until the middle of August. After Congress goes into recess, when Obama wanted a health care reform bill on his desk. Kind of ironic to me. If you want to get something passed that is going to cost a bunch of money, you don't tell them that the economic outlook is bleak. Which is what the report would have to say.

NOTHING that this man has had pushed through the Congress has worked out. EVERYTHING that has come out of his mouth is a LIE!!!

Some good news, the king liberal's approval ratings are going down. It seems that America is finally waking up to the lies that he has been pushing on us. The transparency that he has promised is non-existent.

You need to call your Senators and Representatives and let them know how you feel about all of this. If you don't know who your Senators are, check out the Senate's website (link to the right). As far as the Representatives, you can call 1-877-SOB-USOB (1-877-762-8762 and I am NOT kidding) and give them your zip code.

Liberty and Tyranny

2009-07-07T09:38:00.002-04:00

Before I start this particular post, I want to apologize for leaving the Independence Day message to the end of the last post. As I said in it, to me it was the most important message. However, everything else I put in the post are the very things that are threatening the independence that so many have fought to preserve.

Now, let me start with a quote.

"We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name ---liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names---liberty and tyranny."
-Abraham Lincoln, 1864

This quote is on the back of the book "Liberty and Tyranny" by Mark R. Levin. Reading the book, I know why. This man could have very well written the political agenda for the Democrat Party. He understands it that well. He is, however, conservative. I am not quite finished reading this book, but, I can tell you this, if you are at all concerned with the well being of this country then you should read this book.

Here is my take on everything that is going on.

I must first take a trip back in history to the Civil War. The northern states wanted to do away with slavery. The southern states did not. It was a vital part of running their plantations. Where the north became mostly industrial. The Civil War came down to this, the north wanted to stipulate that any new state in the Union had to be a free state. The south contended that it should be up to the states to choose. So, even though slavery was the underlying issue, the real issue at stake was the states' right to choose. Ironic how the Democrats (south) were on the right side of the main issue. They wanted to keep the majority of the power in the hands of the states. In the South, however, the power belonged to few people. The rest were dependent upon those that held the power to be prosperous.

Now, when the North won the War, and outright slavery became something of our past, the Democrats began to change the battle front. They saw this as an opportunity to use the Federal Government to expand their own power. This expansion has been very subtle over the course of the last 150 years.

Income tax is one way thing they use. Another is the fact that judges "set policy", to quote a certain nominee for the Supreme Court. They use the schools to advance their agenda. Professors teach the lawyers their political views. They in turn become judges who are not at all concerned with the rule of law, but rather what is fair. The view that a judge should be sympathetic with someone when they are determining law is ridiculous. It shouldn't be about what a persons background is, but, what the rule of law is. That is the only way that the laws are to remain fair. If they apply to everyone, no matter what their background or current situation is. The idea that a "Latina woman would make a better decision, because of her experiences, than a white male" is not only ludicrous, it is outright racist.

They followed the income tax with something called the "New Deal". This was Franklin Roosevelt's big plan to get out of the Great Depression. Economists that have studied this, have since determined that the New Deal, with all of it's government spending, prolonged the Depression by about seven (7) years. Social Security was born of this. Shoot, Roosevelt himself even admitted, "Those taxes were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll taxes there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no damn politician can ever scrap my social security program." To me, this sounds like someone who is more concerned about their own political agenda than with the welfare of the people he was elected to serve. They sold Social Security as insurance, even though, there is no insurance model that even remotely resembles the Social Security plan.

Next, came the Great Society from Lyndon Johnson in 1965. He actually used the Social Security Act to establish Medicare and Medicaid. These two programs were designed for the elderly and the underprivileged who didn't have health insurance. Lyndon Johnson called it "the most important addition to the structure" that was started with the cornerstone of the Social Security Act laid by Roosevelt. He went on to explain, "Through this new law...every citizen will be able, in his productive years when he is earning, to insure himself against the ravages of illness in his old age. This insurance will help pay for care in hospitals, in skilled nursing homes, or in the home. And under a separate plan, it will help meet the fees of doctors." A noble enough cause, however, in doing so, and by not giving the American people the choice of participating, he, as Roosevelt before him, took a huge chunk out of the liberty that every American enjoyed.

Next, came Jimmy Carter. He did nothing more than to hand over the worst economy since the Great Depression to Ronald Regan. And, he did his damage in just four years. During his presidency, unemployment rose to double digits, and the tax brackets were through the roof. Regan came in and actually cut taxes. The result was an economic boom that lasted about 25 years. Yes, the stock market corrected itself in the late '80's, but, it is what happens in a free market. There are corrections.

Now, we have the king liberal and all his cronies. They have done nothing but spend, spend, spend. They have gone out and told us that it is up to us to tighten our belts and start to live within our means. However, they do the exact opposite. They spend money like there is no tomorrow. They haven't even come up with a way to pay it back. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that our national deficit will be as high as $10Trillion. The current administration is using class envy to try and sell us on a bunch of new taxes that no one seems willing to call them on. The Cap-and-Trade crap that they are currently trying to shove down our throats, by the king liberal's own admission, will, necessarily, cause our utility bills to skyrocket.

The one major thing that the liberals don't want us to put together is the fact that consumers pay taxes. We pay our taxes, then, when we buy something, we pay that companies taxes. So, if you raise the taxes on a company, they pass that cost along to the consumer. So, even though Obama can say that he gave a tax cut to, however many, Americans, at the same time he is raising taxes on the companies who then pass it on to the consumers, Americans. The problem is, that when he raises the taxes on all of the companies, we end up paying more. So, in reality, he is raising our taxes because our dollars don't go as far.

If we look at history, there are two common threads that run through all of these events. One is that it is all about grabbing more power for the people in charge, at the expense of individual freedom and liberty. The second thing is this, the Democrats use crisis to further their agenda. As Rahm Emanuel once quipped, "every crisis is an opportunity." Yes, it is. An opportunity for the Democrats to take advantage of. An opportunity for them to wedge more animosity in the hearts of Americans and to seize more power for themselves. An opportunity for them to make the average American more dependent on federal government than ever before. Exactly the opposite of what the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were written for. In other words, make us slaves to the federal government.

Either way you put it, the Democrats have always stood for slavery. It has only changed forms.

Some tidbits

2009-07-04T08:19:00.002-04:00

I will open this post with two quotes. The first is from the blog Mere Rhetoric.

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) enlisted two senior committee members to help assemble the House energy bill... The authors' bottom line was a cap that would gradually reduce greenhouse gas emissions... When Obama entered the fray on May 5, summoning all 36 committee Democrats to the White House, he didn't make a single demand. Rather, participants say, he pointed to a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and said, "He had a chance to affect history. You, too, have a chance to affect history."

The second is from the man that the king liberal pointed to. The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.

"Property is the fruit of labor...property is desirable...is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."

Now, does the man that the king liberal pointed to sound like the same man that said that the rich should be an encouragement to others? I think not.

Now, this is in regard to the Cap & Trade bill that passed the House by a vote of 219-212. 44 Democrats voted against it. 8 Republicans voted for it. That's right, if even half of the Republicans that voted for it, the bill will never have gotten out of the House. The 8 that voted for this tax hike are from the states of California, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Illinois and Washington. As a matter of fact, this will be the LARGEST tax hike in US history if it gets past the Senate.

Speaking of the Senate, the Democrats now control 60 seats in the Senate. Yes, Al Frankin is now, officially, the second Senator from Minnesota.

Now, back to the Cap & Trade bill. The bill that got through the House includes a 300 page amendment that was added at 3:00 AM the morning of the vote. This amendment would give Democrat Marcy Kaptur in, Ohio , $3.5BILLION to hand out as she sees fit for "green" technology. That is what they needed for her vote. That's just ONE vote. Inside the rest of this bill are things like having to have your home inspected by the EPA prior to you selling it. This is also a bill the the king liberal even said, last year, that would cause utility bills to, NECESSARILY, sky rocket. He actually admitted that the cost to the utility companies would be passed on to the consumer.

So, he actually gets it. That when you raise taxes for companies, they aren't the ones who pay those taxes. It gets passed on to the consumers. The costs go up, so the price goes up. He actually admitted that the people he is hurting are the very people that he has promised to help.

We NEED to get a hold of our Senators and tell them that we will not stand for this. This bill needs to be defeated in the Senate. That is our last chance. Otherwise, we will be paying out of our noses.

The next thing I want to mention is that Sarah Palin will resign as Governor of Alaska. Effective at the end of this month. No matter what the reasons are, or her future plans, I wish her and her family well in whatever they decide to do.

Now, I saved the most important for last. I have given nearly 20 yrs. of my life in defense of this country and the way of life that many have come to take for granted. On this 4th of July, Independence Day, the day we celebrate the Birthday of the GREAT COUNTRY, I will celebrate my last one in uniform. I would like to take the time to recognize the men and women who are currently serving in uniform. These are the people who need our gratitude. They are the people who keep us safe, day and night. Along with those, are the men and women who have gone before us. It is because of them, I have had the opportunity to defend the people of this country. I thank them. And, we can't forget the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for this country. I can never express what that means to me. To know that someone, who I don't even know was willing to give their life so that I could enjoy the freedoms and liberties that I do.

So Happy Birthday to the United States of America. And may GOD continue BLESS AMERICA!

2009-06-25T12:34:00.005-04:00

I got the following video from LiveLeak via Ms.Underestimated. It is amazing to me that what Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson says is what conservative talk show hosts were saying all last year. This is the reason that they were making a big deal out of what Rev. Wright was saying in the pulpit.

As was said last year, you can't believe that the king liberal could sit in the pews of Rev. Wright's church and not believe the filth that he was preaching. This is the man that people voted to be our leader. I know that the regular media didn't give a whole lot of credit to the Rev. Wright's words. Shoot, even Obama himself said that he had never heard him say stuff like that. Everyone bought it. He said that he could no more disown Rev. Wright than he could disown his own grandmother. Then, two weeks later, when it became politically expedient, he did just what he said he couldn't do.

Oh yeah, and by the way, I have to say that it is about time that someone stood up to what the federal government is trying to do. It is great to see that Arizona is taking a proactive approach to this health care boondoggle.

This man got elected for three reasons. One, he was able to tell people what they wanted to hear. His true colors started to come out when Joe the Plumber asked him about taxes. Remember, He said that he wanted to share the wealth. Not his, mind you. But, everyone else's. Well, look at what he is doing now. The "stimulus" bill raised the limits for unemployment. He has taken a vested interest, in the name of the government, in over 500 companies. He is pushing for the power to tell every financial institution what they can and cannot pay their employees. He controls two of the "Big Three" Auto makers.

The second thing he did to get elected was to turn down public funds for his campaign. This was after he promised to take the funds. He spent so much money that he even had his own channel to blast his infomercial 24 hours a day. The man wasn't even able to keep a promise then. Nobody ever listened to what he said. He is doing exactly what he has said he was going to do. He would put on a very eloquent persona while in the public eye and then tell exactly what he thought behind closed doors. He even got careless about that once in a while. Remember when he said that he was going to pass the cap-and-trade bill even though it would necessarily cause everyone's utility bills to skyrocket. He even said that it would put some companies out of business. He doesn't care. He wants POWER.

The third reason that he got elected was the fact that the majority of the media was so enamoured with him that they refused to let the public know the whole truth. They only would report the good things. They did not, and do not, have faith in the general public to make the right choice when they vote. They are still not covering the outright illegal activities of ACORN. An organization the the king liberal has direct ties to. The "stimulus" has even given MILLIONS of dollars to ACORN and actually named them as people to work the census. These are not the people that should be in charge of drawing legislative district lines. They have been under investigation in several states for voter fraud.

It is time we take this country back. Back from the Statist Democrats that want the federal government to have all the power. Back from the people that think that hard work needs to be punished. Back from people who think that everyone has a right to be prosperous, no matter what they do. And, especially, back from the people who think that the Constitution is something that is constricting. That think that it "doesn't tell what the government must do." The Constitution was designed to limit government. To celebrate the individual and his/her abilities to do what they needed to do to pursue their dreams. We are not a bunch of people who can be led around mindlessly. We are a group of individuals that must be allowed to decide what is best for ourselves.

WE ARE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Concentration at Home

2009-06-22T12:22:00.005-04:00

I know that a lot has been made of the happenings over in Iran over their elections. The current regime has even shot a few people who are protesting the election. And, now, Iran has finally admitted that there are some irregularities. Such as, more votes in over 50 cities than actual number of voters in those cities. The Internet and the news is chock full of videos and pictures of the mayhem that ensues over there.

But, here on the home front, there is a fight going on. A fight for us to keep our individual rights and freedoms. A fight against hypocrisy. A fight for the very way of life that many people have given their lives to defend.

Now, I know that the things that are going on in Iran are an all out assault on freedom, but, if we look away for too long, our freedoms will be gone as well.

Two years ago, the king liberal, who was then a senator, co-sponsored a bill that would require a president to give 30 days notice and a reason, in writing, to Congress to fire an Inspector General. Now, he has gone totally against this LAW to fire Gerald Walpin, the IG for the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). This company oversees and distributes billions of federal dollars to many charitable organizations. Mr. Walpin is being fired after investigating misuse of funds by an organization that Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is involved in. Mr. Johnson happens to be a very staunch supporter of the king liberal himself. The reason that was given, only after Senators held to the law and demanded a reason, was that Mr. Walpin was "incoherent and appeared to be disoriented" during a meeting held back in May. I mean, heck, Mr. Walpin was even asked to speak at a conference this week (he got uninvited after all this happened). The very same conference that Mrs. king liberal spoke at yesterday.
And, talk about coincidence.....Mrs. king liberals' ex-chief-of-staff, Jackie Norris, has been assigned as a "senior advisor" at CNCS. Now tell me she had nothing to do with firing Mr. Walpin.
Add to this the fact that the Democrats are trying to shove so much debt down our throats that we will have no choice except to be a socialist country, and this country is in more trouble than anyone could have thought. I mean, the so called "stimulus" bill that was passed in January even punished some of the people that were on food stamps because it raised the amount of welfare that they received, therefore, making them ineligible for food stamps. This is the kind of thing that happens when no one has a chance to read the legislation (as was promised) before they are forced to vote on it. Oh, yes, and don't forget about the 150,000 or so jobs that have actually been saved or created by this "stimulus". Unemployment has gone up by an average of approx. 500,000 per month since the passing of this bill, so, in reality, we are still in the negative by quite a bit.

Let's not forget about "Health Care Reform". This is just another way for these people to grab more power. The bill that was originally introduced, by the king liberal, was going to cost about $1TRILLION and only provide coverage for about 16 Million people. The estimate is that there are about 40 Million people without coverage. By the way, there is already a National Health Care program. It's called Medicare/Medicaid. The government has so mis-managed this program that it is predicted that it is going to run out of money during our lifetime. Are these the people we want telling us what kind of medical care we can get? I think not.

There are two states that are in grave danger of going bankrupt. California and New York. And, yet, the Speaker of the House is that lying, traitorous Nancy Pelosi, from California. And, Barbara Boxer, a Senator from California, thinks so highly of herself, that she actually attacked a General who was testifying for calling her "Ma'am" instead of Senator, a title that she thinks she has worked hard to earn. Now, on this point, I have to agree with Neal Boortz who went on a 10 minute tirade about who in that room actually "earned" their title. But, these are the people who are trying to tell us what we need to do as a country. They are from a state that is in financially in crisis and they want to make our federal government like their state government. What kind of sense does that make?

Remember when Joe Biden said that there was going to be a crisis to test the mettle of this guy (Obama)? Well, I think that between Iran and North Korea, we could be facing that crisis. However, it may also prove to be the perfect distraction the king liberal needs to get his Health Care agenda passed while we aren't looking. I don't mean to say that we shouldn't concern ourselves with the violence that is going on in Iran, or the very real threat that North Korea poses, but, we must be careful not to forget about the threat that our country faces domestically as well.

CARS & POLITICS

2009-06-11T12:40:00.004-04:00

I guess I have been kind of waiting to see exactly how all of this was going to play out, but, silent I can no longer be.

You may ask yourself what cars and politics have in common. Well, up until the end of 2008 about the only thing that they had in common was that politicians sure like to regulate what the average gas mileage a line of cars was. But, then everything changed. Now, they are so intertwined that you can't tell where one ends and the other begins.

I was reading over at the Gateway Pundit about the closing of Chrysler dealerships. It seems that any dealership that gave money to the GOP was in danger. If you examine the 789 dealerships that were closed, they gave money to the GOP over the Democratic Party at a ratio of 42-1 (for every dollar given to the Democratic Party, $42 was given to the GOP). Now, I am actually hearing on CNN Headline News that Congressional hearings are being held about the closing of these dealerships.

Another thing that directly ties these two things together is the fact that in bankruptcy proceedings, without regard to the actual bankruptcy laws, the United Auto Workers (UAW) Union is actually gaining ownership in Government Motors and Chrysler/Fiat. Now, I must ask, "Why in the world should one of the biggest contributors to the problems that these two companies are facing should actually gain from this?" The answer is actually quite simple. The UAW has been one of the biggest contributors to the Democratic Party and to the king liberal himself. It is a reward for their loyalty.

I know I have included a letter from Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) before, but, one I just received puts all of this into perspective.

Dear Friend,

The bankruptcy filing of General Motors last week didn’t have to be this way.

GM could have – and as many of us argued at the time, should have – declared bankruptcy last December. Our bankruptcy laws exist to give troubled companies a chance to restructure their business models and get out from under crushing debts.

But now, after we lost $50 billion in a misguided bailout scheme, the bankruptcy GM is entering is not even real bankruptcy. It’s a political bankruptcy, brokered by the Obama administration to reward the very people who helped to destroy the company in the first place.

Under the agreement, investors and creditors were wiped out, while the federal government, the Canadian government, and the labor bosses will own 90 percent of the new company.

Going forward, GM won’t be able to make the tough business decisions necessary to get back to profitability. They will be second-guessed and overruled by politicians in Washington. Meanwhile, as GM becomes a government program, car companies that are succeeding will have to compete at an unfair disadvantage – all because the labor bosses funneled millions of dollars to Democrat candidates over the last few election cycles.

It isn’t fair, and it needs to stop.

Broken companies and greedy labor bosses shouldn’t be rewarded for their failures. Washington needs to get out of this quagmire before politicians do to our auto industry what they’ve already done to our financial system.

A free auto market will help revive our industrial economy, and give GM its best chance to succeed.

As always, freedom will work…if we let it.

Sincerely,
Jim DeMint
United States Senator

(I have to say something here, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is actually the Senator from the district in which I vote, but, I get more information out of Sen. DeMint's office than I do from his, so, I do use Sen. DeMint more often.)

I for one, am of the belief that these two companies should have filed for bankruptcy if they were in trouble to begin with. Just as the financial companies should have. That's the beauty of capitalism. If a company is managed poorly, it fails. The bankruptcy system allows these companies to restructure and try to recover. Airlines have done it in the past. Some have survived. Some have perished. Either way, the unions have had to make concessions so that the companies can survive.

The UAW has made no discernible concessions. They say that their people get paid an average of $28 per hour while Toyota and other foreign companies building cars in the United States pay their employees an average of $30 per hour. This is true. However, the one thing they don't want you to know is this: the foreign companies do not have to deal with the UAW. But, because of the UAW, the average cost of building one vehicle for GM, Chrysler, or Ford is up around $75 per hour. There are some people who actually make more money by not working than they ever did when they were actually producing something for the company, plus, the companies actually spend more money, per hour, on people who don't actually work for them anymore than they do on the production workers themselves. I don't know about you, but, this just seems totally backwards to me.

You combine this with the fact that the federal government loves telling the car companies what kinds of cars they need to make and it is no wonder that they are having financial problems.

A recent report showed that GM had 20 vehicles that actually made a profit. Now, when you consider that GM includes GMC, Chevrolet, Buick, Pontiac, Cadillac, Hummer, and SAAB, 20 vehicles making a profit is not all that many. But, of those 20 vehicles, 11 of them are trucks and SUV's. These are the very vehicles that Democrats want to get rid of. They want the company to build vehicles that are "more environmentally friendly". In other words, they want the company to build cars that only a handful of people actually want to buy.

The king liberal has also stated that he had no desire to run these companies. However, actions speak louder than words. He has actually forced the GM CEO to resign. He has assigned a CAR CZAR. What in the world is that if it isn't someone in HIS administration to tell these companies what they can and cannot do?

What is happening in this country is EXACTLY what the founders and writers of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence didn't want to happen. However, the king liberal looks at the Constitution as a restriction. He feels that instead of telling what it's limits are, it should say what the government SHOULD do.

CARS and POLITICS. They shouldn't be synonymous, however, today, they are.

2009-06-04T11:07:00.002-04:00

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

If this looks, or sounds familiar, it is because it is the First Amendment to the Constitution. The very first of the Bill of Rights. Why did I start out with this? Read on.

It seems that among all of the other stuff going on, a story from San Diego County missed the national spotlight.

A pastor and his wife were required to get a permit to hold a Bible Study in their home.

It seems that on April 10 (Good Friday), a county code enforcement officer visited the home of David and Mary Jones after receiving a complaint about their Christian gatherings. The Jones' attorney, Dean Broyles, president of The Western Center for Law & Policy, conveyed in disbelief, "The county asked (Mrs. Jones), 'Do you have a regular meeting in your home?' She said, 'Yes.' 'Do you say "amen"?' 'Yes.' 'Do you pray?' 'Yes.' 'Do you say "praise the Lord"?' 'Yes.'"

The officer then warned the family to "cease and desist" the "religious gathering" or they would face weekly fines. A few days later, the county delivered a citation claiming that the Joneses were guilty of "unlawful use of land" and mandating them to "stop religious assembly or apply for a major use permit."

Now, this wasn't a huge group of people. It only averaged about 15 people. This is nothing more than an attack on our First Amendment rights. Both the right to freely exercise our choice of religion as well as our right to peaceably assemble (and the peaceable assembly part is intended for public places). Not to mention, that someone who had done NOTHING WRONG had their privacy invaded.

Now, our beloved king liberal has gone overseas and made a speech in Cairo that the White House says is designed to bridge the gap between the Muslim world and the United States. But, I believe that he is doing nothing but showing weakness. Just as he has done in World Policy since he took his oath of office. He has shown great resolve in turning our extremely strong republic into a very weak socialist country.

Just read for yourselves. I am only giving you the first six paragraphs of this article, but, the point is made very well. By the way, this article was in Pravda. That's right, the Russian newspaper.

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

Now, the saying goes if we can't learn from the mistakes of the past, we are destined to repeat them. We have been going down the path to socialism for quite a while. The introduction of "nationalized medicine" is just another cog in the wheel. A man in Parliament in Great Britain has even warned us to learn from them. He says they are about 10yrs ahead of us in regard to socialized medicine.

The king liberal even had a line in his speech today that went something like this, "a world organization that places a group of people above another group of people is destined to fail." Now, he has spent a great deal of time apologizing for our past. The very past that has made us the WORLD'S ONLY SUPER POWER. The very past that has rescued Europe from the tyranny of dictators more than once. The very past that has supported those whose sole desire is to have an inkling of the freedoms that we enjoy (and, for the most part, take for granted).

Have we made mistakes? Sure. But, honestly, WHAT IN THE WORLD DO WE HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR? We have worked hard and sacrificed a great deal to have the place we have in the world today. It wasn't because we were entitled to it. It was because we EARNED it.

The pastor and his wife were just the beginning. We have taken our freedoms for granted far too long. If this man has his way, we will all be the same. No matter how hard we work. Those who work hard to make something will be no better off than those who sit around on their lazy hind ends. The people who work hard will give up everything they have so that those who don't will have. We SHOULD have social envy. But, only in the regards that it should be a driving force for people to work hard to get the things they want. People who make money are not evil. They are not the enemy. They should be the example of what everyone can do if they put their mind to it.

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!

2009-05-25T08:11:00.003-04:00

I know I haven't been blogging regularly. Give me another week to finish my classwork. Then, I will have more time, even though I will be knee deep in finding a job.

I have been keeping track of everything that is going on. However, even though this blog has taken on a very political theme, and, I do have several thoughts that I will be putting down very soon, I wanted to take a moment to recognize Memorial Day.

This is one very important holiday to me. I know that it has gotten to the point that Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer for most people, but, to me, it is still about what it was meant to be. A time to remember those great Americans who have given their lives in defense of this country and our way of life.

Now, being active duty (soon to be retired) military, I appreciate the thank-you's and the recognition for my service, which, by the way, has been one of the greatest pleasures I have known, this holiday is not about me, the men and women who are serving now, or those who have served and are home to enjoy the fruits of their service. It is about those who never came back to their earthly home. Those whom we owe our very lives to because they gave theirs for ours.

So, if you read this, please take the time to thank the Good Lord above (no matter how you choose to address or worship Him) for those men and women who have given their lives so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have, live the lives we live, and have the opportunities we have to make a better life for ourselves and our families.

I, for one, am extremely grateful for the opportunity these men and women have given me to serve this great country and you, the citizens who live here.

So, HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY. Enjoy your day, as I am sure that those who we are remembering would want you to.

2009-05-15T08:53:00.002-04:00

I saw a commercial the other day. It basically blamed the insurance companies for the cost of health care getting so high. It said that we already have the answer that everyone can turn to. MEDICARE. Can you believe that? It said that Medicare was the answer to the current cost of health care and the fact that a growing number of people seem to be going without health care.

The next morning, I heard a report that said that Medicare would be broke about four years earlier than they were predicting before. And now, the new administration is pushing Congress to come up with some legislation to reform this country's health care system.

I got a letter from Senator Jim DeMint the other day that pretty much sums up everything that I feel about this.

May 14, 2009
Dear Friend,

It is now clear that Congress and the president’s top priority for 2009 is health care reform.

Since the collapse of Hillary-Care in 1994, Democrats have been working to re-plan and re-package a government takeover of your health insurance.

This year, they’re hoping to get their chance. Last month, Senator Ted Kennedy offered a glimpse of what they have in mind when called for the creation an optional, "public health insurance plan, where coverage is provided in the public interest."

That may sound nice, but in one sentence, it describes everything that is wrong with a government take-over of American health care.

Health care, by definition, can’t be provided in the public interest because no doctor has ever seen "the public." Doctors see patients: one at a time, providing personal care in the patient’s interest only.

Now, if you listen to the ongoing debate about health care reform, you hear a common theme, especially from those who favor a government take-over.

They talk a lot more about costs than they do about care. Only here’s the thing: the government is the reason that costs are spiraling out of control now. Government now covers 100 million Americans, and costs are exploding. Under the proposed takeover, 130 million more will be added to government health programs. How can they expect to get costs under control by doubling the government’s role in health care?

The answer is by rationing care. If government wants to cover 230 million Americans and bring down costs, the only way it can possibly do it is denying care to people whose health care is deemed – you guessed it – not in the public interest.

Under similar schemes in Canada and Great Britain, people wait weeks to see their doctors, months to see specialists, and years to get routine procedures and treatments. High-tech tests and breakthrough medicines are off-limits because the government decides – in the public interest – that they are too expensive.

When the late actress Natasha Richardson suffered her skiing accident in Canada this spring, the hospital didn’t have an MRI machine. The doctors never knew her injuries were life-threatening… until it was too late.

That’s how a government take-over of your health care will try to get costs under control: cheap, outdated treatments, long waiting lists, and low-tech hospitals. It won’t take long before families realize the true costs of such a plan aren’t counted in dollars and sense.

Instead of the government-controlled "public option," we should move toward a "personal option," where we help individuals and families buy and own their own health insurance plan that no government can ever take-over or take away.

Health care is personal and private. It should be administered by doctors and nurses in their patient’s interest, not the interests of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington.

Because never forget: any law that empowers government to provide health care in the public interest implicitly empowers government to deny it for the same reason.

I plan to play a big part in the health care debate this summer, and my website will be a clearinghouse for information about the issue as it develops. Feel free to check in often, as new content will be added every week. And to help you stay informed, I’ll be in touch frequently as the health care and other debates move forward.

Thanks very much, and God bless.

Jim DeMint
U.S. Senator, South Carolina

And then, to top all of this off, Nancy Pelosi's true colors have been coming out lately. She is a lying, coniving woman who will do anything to try and keep her position and her power. She has blatently come out and said that everyone has lied to her when she is the one who has changed her story. Over and over again. Since she is third in line to the President, she has an obligation to know the things that she at first said she didn't know about. Then, she was briefed but didn't realize that she didn't realize that the techniques were already in use.

Now, either she is lying, which, by the way, there are at least three witnesses that says she is, or she is as incompitent as the king liberal. I mean, how else do you explain putting the safety of the men and women in uniform, as well as every red blooded American, in jepordy by exposing the techniques used to get information that has saved so many lives. Now, if our Navy Seals and other Special Forces can go through this treatment as part of their training, how can it be torture?

We need to get out and vote next year and turn the tables to ensure that the king liberal stays in check and doesn't go and change our country into something that we don't recognize. He is already well on his way. He has taken over the banking industry and the automotive industry. He is now turning his sights on the whole financial industry. Trying to think of ways in which he can impose salary caps on the entire financial industry.

This is not America. No one person is supposed to have enough power to tell people how much money they can make. Or be able to tell companies how much they can pay. This country was founded on the freedoms of the individual with limited power to the government. The Democrats have completely turned it around the other way and we are headed down a path that will change America. It was founded on the Free Market system, where you can make as much money as people were willing to pay you for your goods and/or services.

We need to take this country back!

100 Days

2009-04-29T22:02:00.002-04:00

Well, I know that I have been silent for quite a while. I would even have kept quiet right now, because I have a lot of things going on over here right now, but, I just could not leave some of the things that have been going on alone.

We have one of the biggest hypocrites leading this country in the history of this great nation. He says that we are on a path that will return the United States back to being respected as a leading nation in the world. All the king liberal and Hillary Clinton (known from now on as the queen liberal) have been doing is going around and apologizing on behalf of our country. Well excuse me, but, I truly don't feel like we have anything to apologize for. All we have done is protect just about every country in Europe from being taken over by Hitler and Mussolini. Liberated both Kuwait and Iraq from a tyrant leader who was killing over 3000 of his own people a month. As well as liberating Afghanistan from the tyranny known as the Taliban. We have also come out of the Cold War with a victory. WHAT DO WE HAVE TO APOLOGIZE FOR??

He is taking credit for ending the war in Iraq. Well, first of all, as I have said before, it is a front on the War on Terror (oh, wait, the overseas contingency plan). Second, the business of pulling troops out of Iraq was agreed on by Bush and started by him. The king liberal has done NOTHING in regards to pulling troops out of Iraq except to follow the plan that was already in place.

He blames Bush for the status of the economy. Bush is one of the people that tried to warn the Democratically run Congress that the economy was going to be in trouble if something wasn't done, at least 3 years ago. McCain even tried to get something done back in 2005 and was told that it was witch hunt.

This man has spent more money than ALL of the other presidents in the history of this country COMBINED. A budget blueprint was passed through Congress today. The Democrats say that it is going to lower the deficit to about $518BILLION by 2014. However, the budget for the year beginning on Oct 1 of this year will spend $3.7TRILLION. Over a third of which is going to be borrowed. The king liberal has the audacity to tell the American people that he knows that we are having to tighten our individual belts and live within our means when he truly has no intention to do the same thing with the money that we give them to spend. As a matter of fact, he is even using the fact that we are having to tighten our belts as an excuse to spend more money.

He even has the audacity to ask a Catholic school, Georgetown, to cover up all of the things that showed any type of religious symbols when he gave a speech there. THEY DID IT! Then, he mentioned the speech that Jesus gave known as the Sermon on the Mount and used one of the parables to try and tell us that he was trying to rebuild the economy on a rock instead of in the sand.

The unions are now in charge of both Chrysler and GM with the government owning a very large share of the stock in both of these companies. As well as running almost all of the banking industry.

This man has done nothing except begin to turn our country into a laughing stock in every third world country that is run by a tyrant dictator. Hugo Chavez sure believes that he can do whatever he wants now. As does Ahmadinejad. Shoot, even he is now setting preconditions for meeting with the king liberal who has over and over again said that he would meet without preconditions.

Add to this the fact that the man never took the oath of office as prescribed in the Constitution, and it really makes you wonder just how far this is going to go. I mean, he has two years of clear sailing before we can even try and get a Congress that has its head screwed on right to stop this man.

A slight correction and a Happy Easter

2009-04-11T11:38:00.004-04:00

On Thursday I blogged about the oath of office that the king liberal took on 20January. Well, I have to apologize because I got it wrong. But, not totally. The Constitution actually tells us what the oath of office for the Presidency will be. It is the last paragraph of Article II Section 1. Here it is:

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation -- "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."

So, I got the wrong section of the Constitution, but, the idea was the same. There is still a part in there about the Constitution and it was never mentioned in the oath that the king liberal took.

Now, on to other things. Tomorrow we celebrate, that is to me, one of the most important holidays we have. Easter is a time to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. His victory over death and sin in our name. This is the very basis of Christianity and, therefore, the very basis for the foundation of this country.

The Bible tells us that Christ died for our sins. We are born into sin. That's just a fact of life. There is no way that any human can live up to the Ten Commandments. Therefore, we are sinners. And, as such, we are destined for an eternity of torment in the pits of Hell. Christ payed the fine for us much the same way that in a court of law, a judge can let us go free if we pay the fine. Otherwise, he has to put us in jail. All we have to do is repent and put all of our belief and faith in Him. Then, we will be before the Almighty on Judgement Day with a clean slate. Our sins will be washed away with the very blood of His Son Jesus Christ. We will have an eternity of beauty and bliss worshipping at the very throne of our Lord.

This is what Easter means to me. It is the very reason we have the opportunity to have a direct relationship with our Father. It is the guarantee that if we believe, and put our faith in Him, we will have a place in Heaven with Him.

So, if you are saved, and have a relationship with our Lord, I look forward to seeing you all in Heaven. If not, then, please, take a good look at your life and compare it to the Ten Commandments and be realistic about whether or not you deserve Heaven or Hell. Then, all you have to do is pray and ask Him into your heart and your life will be changed forever.

As always, I will continue to pray for each and every one of you.

HAPPY EASTER!!

Something you won't see here in the U.S.

2009-04-10T12:22:00.004-04:00

I read this, and it sure seems to sum up the first trip across the pond by the king liberal. My only question is: If they get it in the UK, why can't the majority of the US understand what it is they voted for?

Barack Obama: President Pantywaist - new surrender monkey on the block
Posted By: Gerald Warner at Apr 10, 2009 at 10:20:05 [General]
Posted in: Politics , Eagle Eye
Tags:
Barack Obama, G20, Kim Jong-il, nato, North Korea

President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you'd notice. Barack Obama in Prague on his astonishingly successful tour
Barack is not the first New World ingenue to discover that European leaders will load him with praise, struggle sycophantically to be photographed with him and outdo him in Utopian rhetoric. But when it comes to the critical moment of opening their wallets - suddenly it is flag-day in Aberdeen. Okay, put the G20 down to inexperience, beginner's nerves, what you will.
On to Nato and the next big objective: to persuade the same European evasion experts that America, Britain and Canada should no longer bear the brunt of the Afghan struggle virtually unassisted. The Old World sucked through its teeth, said that was asking a lot - but, seeing it was Barack, to whom they could refuse nothing, they would graciously accede to his wishes.
So The One retired triumphant, having secured a massive contribution of 5,000 extra troops - all of them non-combatant, of course - which must really have put the wind up the Taliban, at the prospect of 5,000 more infidel cooks and bottle-washers swarming into the less hazardous regions of Afghanistan.
Then came the dramatic bit, the authentic West Wing script, with the President wakened in the middle of the night in Prague to be told that Kim Jong-il had just launched a Taepodong-2 missile. America had Aegis destroyers tracking the missile and could have shot it down. But Uncle Sam had a sterner reprisal in store for l'il ole Kim (as Dame Edna might call him): a multi-megaton strike of Obama hot air.
"Rules must be binding," declared Obama, referring to the fact that Kim had just breached UN Resolutions 1695 and 1718. "Violations must be punished." (Sounds ominous.) "Words must mean something." (Why, Barack? They never did before, for you - as a cursory glance at your many speeches will show.)
President Pantywaist is hopping mad and he has a strategy to cut Kim down to size: he is going to slice $1.4bn off America's missile defence programme, presumably on the calculation that Kim would feel it unsporting to hit a sitting duck, so that will spoil his fun.
Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride.

This man (Obama) is going to make sure that Joe Biden's prediction is going to come true. What prediction you might ask. The prediction that the world is going to test this man. It is happening right now.

North Korea shoots a missile. Somali pirates take over an American vessel. What have we done? NOTHING!!!

A line from the movie A Few Good Men comes to mind. Jack Nicholson's character tells Tom Cruise's character, "all you've done is weaken a nation today, Caffey." This is exactly what has happened in this case. The king liberal has done nothing but weaken a nation. OUR NATION!!

Something that has been bothering me

2009-04-09T09:02:00.003-04:00

I have to blog about this because it is something that has been bothering me since it happened.

As we all know, January 20 2009 Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. Well, something has bothered me about the ceremony since I watched it.

The third paragraph of Article VI of the United States Constitution says:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

This portion of the Constitution has not been changed by any amendments.

So, the thing that bothers me is this; there was never any mention of support for the Constitution in his oath.

The king liberal has made it very clear that he believes that the Constitution is a good "jumping off point", but, we need to move forward and be more sympathetic towards the underprivileged.

This man has never intended on following the Constitution. He is remaking this country as we live and breath. He is preying on the fact that there is an economic recession to get passed his agenda that very well could bring this country to its knees. He is pushing the hate of rich people. These people should be the ones that we are trying to emulate. Not the ones we are punishing. These are the people that have worked and worked and made their way.

Now, this man comes in and wants to punish these people and give the money to those who do not push to be their best. "To the many according to their need from the few according to their ability." Karl Marx said this. It is exactly what Obama and the liberals are trying to put into effect. And they are winning ... for now.

We need to take this country back and break it down the very basics of what has made it great. We need to push back to a freedom of religion, not a freedom from religion. We need to look to the Constitution, not as a starting point to move forward, but, as the basis for moving the country forward. We need to look to capitalism as the vehicle to move our economy not as something to be feared.

A Couple of Explanations

2009-04-05T09:08:00.002-04:00

I have read a couple of good explanations that I want to share with everyone who reads this blog.

The first one, I read a little while ago in Rush Limbaugh's news letter. Ever wonder why, even though every time he speaks to a legislative body it snows or is very, very cold, Al Gore is pushing the "Global Warming" agenda so much? This explains it.

"'Tortilla riots' in Mexico. Violent protests in Haiti, Egypt, Morocco, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Mozambique, Bolivia, and other nations. World Bank president Robert Zoellick notes 33 countries face social unrest - all due to skyrocketing world food prices, which have risen by 83% in three years.
What is the 'root cause' of this misery? One word: ethanol.
'This is the world's big story,' Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute, told CNN. 'We've been putting our food into the gas tank - this corn-to-ethanol subsidy ... really makes little sense.'
So who is behind the ethanol scam that's taking food out of mouths around the world?
Thank Al Gore.
Back in 1994, a hotly contested bill to extend an EPA regulation requiring ethanol to be added to the nation's gasoline supply came up before the U.S. Senate. The bill also raised the amount of ethanol mandated to dilute gasoline. None other than Vice Perpetrator Algore was responsible for its passage. In an article titled "Rule on Ethanol Upheld," the Aug. 4 1994 New York Times reported:
'With a tie-breaking vote by Vice President Al Gore, the Senate upheld today an EPA rule requiring that ethanol and other renewable fuels get a share of the gasoline additives market. The Senate voted 51-50 ... to carry out a rule guaranteeing renewable fuels a 15 percent share of the lucrative fuel oxygenate market in 1995. That share rises to 30 percent in following years.'
Then-President Clinton noted: 'In the United States Senate, it came down to a tie vote. And Al Gore broke the tie in favor of ethanol.' At the Third Annual Farm Journal Conference on Dec. 1, 1998, then-Vice President Gore boasted: 'I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better off our farmers and our environment will be.'
Actually, the worse off the environment (ethanol emits more CO2 than conventional gasoline) -- and the hungry of the world -- are.
But Algore himself is benefiting handsomely. On March 1, as reported by NewsBusters, Gore told the Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference in Monterey, CA: 'Here are just a few of the investments I personally think make sense. I have a stake in these...' As Gore spoke those words, company names appeared on his slide presentation, including Amyris and AltraBiofuels -- both of which are heavily into ethanol.
According to the National Review, 'the venture capital group Gore joined in November, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, also has investments in Amyris and AltraBiofuels. One of the key partners of this firm, John Doerr, is advocating legislation that would expand biofuel usage ... Add it up, and you've got an astounding number of dollars invested in agritechnology companies by Gore and folks connected to him...'
The poor are rioting for food; Algore says: let me burn corn.

Again, it's all about money and control. They want all the money and the ability to control our very lives.

The second one was sent to me by a friend. I read it this morning. It explains socialism in a nutshell.

"An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class... The class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little.. The second Test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else. All failed to their great surprise and the professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder to succeed the greater the reward but when a government takes all the reward away; no one will try or succeed'

This is a very simple explanation as to why rewarding those who won't work and punishing those who work and earn won't work. It never has and it never will.

This is exactly what the Democrats are trying to do. They are expanding the government at an alarming rate. They are spending so much money that the only way we are going to be able to pay for it is to raise taxes, on everyone.

This is the CHANGE that the majority of voters in this country voted for. I think they are beginning to realize just how stupid it was to put this man in office.

WE ARE UNDER ATTACK!!!

2009-03-31T13:11:00.002-04:00

In case you haven't gotten what I have been trying to put into words on this blog, here it is in plain English: OUR LIFE AS WE KNOW IT ARE UNDER ATTACK!

You have, I am sure, been hearing a lot about the AIG bonuses and all of that mess. Well, since the House was able to pass a 90% retroactive tax on the bonuses paid to AIG executives. Well, I heard this next thing first on Neal Boortz's show, then on Rush Limbaugh's show. Now, I have read it for myself. So, here it is for you to read.

"[I]n a little-noticed move, the House Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the “Pay for Performance Act of 2009,” would impose government controls on the pay of all employees — not just top executives — of companies that have received a capital investment from the U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.
The purpose of the legislation is to “prohibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and compensation not based on performance standards,” according to the bill’s language. That includes regular pay, bonuses — everything — paid to employees of companies in whom the government has a capital stake, including those that have received funds through the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP, as well as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The measure is not limited just to those firms that received the largest sums of money, or just to the top 25 or 50 executives of those companies. It applies to all employees of all companies involved, for as long as the government is invested. And it would not only apply going forward, but also retroactively to existing contracts and pay arrangements of institutions that have already received funds.In addition, the bill gives Geithner the authority to decide what pay is “unreasonable” or “excessive.”
And it directs the Treasury Department to come up with a method to evaluate “the performance of the individual executive or employee to whom the payment relates.”
The bill passed the Financial Services Committee last week, 38 to 22, on a nearly party-line vote. (All Democrats voted for it, and all Republicans, with the exception of Reps. Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones of North Carolina, voted against it.)"

This includes companies that didn't even want to take the TARP money, like Wells Fargo, but were strong armed into taking money. Now, they won't even have control over what they are going to pay people within their own company. These companies have totally lost control over their own destinies. Just like General Motors and Chrysler.

Let me tell you about something else. You know that part of the king liberal's plan is to force the auto makers to make more hybrids and other alternative energy source cars. Well, let's look at GM for a moment. They have 20 models of cars that are making a profit for them. Of those 20 models, 11 are trucks or SUV's. So, under the government control that GM now falls into, these 11 vehicles that are making the profit for the company are going to go away. Does that make any sense? Not to me it doesn't.

So, this all begs the question, who is coming up with all of this? Well, this all started when the Sierra Club started attacking all the SUV's. It is the liberal environmentalists that are driving all of this. Just the same as they are driving all of the Climate Change nonsense. They want everyone to live the way that they CHOOSE to live. They don't want people to live the way that they want to if it is not in line with what they believe. THIS IS NOT FREEDOM. This is not what I have spent the greater part of my adult life defending. They finally have people in charge of this country who will listen to them and push their agenda.

The Democrats made a push to gain control over this country in the 1930's with the New Deal. They made another push in the 1960's with the Great Society. Now they are making an even greater push this year. Many of them have been quoted as saying that a crisis is opportunity. An opportunity for what? An opportunity for the democrats to try and get their agendas passed.

I am now going to ask, did anyone else notice that when the king liberal was sworn in, that the Constitution was not even mentioned? I believe that that is because he never had any intention in upholding the Constitution. As a matter of fact, he is doing everything he can do to make the Constitution a thing of the past. All of the liberties and freedoms that were guaranteed to us by the Constitution are under attack. And we are under attack by the worst of all enemies, the enemies from within. It isn't really about people, it is about how the Democrats can gain control.

We need to fight to get our country back, because, right now, it is no longer ours. It is under attack and we are the only one's who can save it and save our way of life.

I am just getting tired of hearing all of it

2009-03-30T15:40:00.002-04:00

Alright, even though I have been off line for a little while, trying to figure out what I am going to do with my life as well as trying to catch up with my school work, I have been listening and paying attention to what is going on. And, I will tell you, I am sick of all of it.

This administration seems hell bent on trying to get a hold of everything they can control and push their values on everyone. And, they are being helped right along the way by the Congress. I have made the point before that the auto makers should just restructure under bankruptcy. Well, they are learning that lesson right now. The king liberal, today, announced that the restructuring plan that GM and Chrysler came up with were not good enough. WHAT DOES HE KNOW??!! He has NEVER run anything before in his life. He has no sense of what is needed to run a corporation. So, at the request of the administration, the CEO for GM resigned. This is the same thing that is happening to AIG (and every other financial institution that has received money from the government). The administration is starting to tell everyone what they need to do. They are telling financial institutions what they can pay the people who work for them. They are telling Chrysler who they can partner with (FIAT). They are telling GM who their CEO is going to be.

I said in my last post that this was the great wealth confiscation. I take this back. It is the Greatest effort in Government take over of private industry that has ever taken place. If it seems that something like this has happened somewhere before, it has. Just look at what Hugo Chavez has done to Venezuela. It is essentially the same thing. He has taken over everything and threatened anyone who opposes him. The king liberal is doing, essentially, the same thing. They are playing on peoples emotions that this "crisis" is reason enough for the actions that he is taking. He is accusing people of being the "evil rich". Those greedy people who have caused this whole thing to begin with. This whole thing started back in the '90's . Congress was even warned about it in 2005. But, the Democrats then, decided not to do anything about it. They called it a witch hunt. Now, those same Democrats are blaming George Bush. They receive thousands of dollars from the people they are crying about making too much money now. They can't have it both ways.

In California, they want to outlaw certain colors of cars. Like black because the color absorbs heat, therefore, they believe that the air conditioning will work harder and, thus, create a bigger carbon footprint.

These people want to be able to tell us everything that we can and cannot do. The book 1984 is here. We must stop this insanity!! I read that the middle class will go away and then, another point of view that it won't. Well, the second person was right. It won't go away. We will all be middle class. Even those people who are making a ton of money right now. The government will make it where they will not be able to make that much money anymore. Because if they do, they will be taxed until they don't want to work anymore. This is what is going on. It isn't about bringing the poor class up to the middle class. It is about driving the upper class down to the middle class. We make too much money. There is not one thing that has come out that is about people helping themselves to make more money to improve their station. It's all about how can we punish those who have the audacity to make more money when there are people who make so little. That became evident when the House passed a 90% tax on bonuses that everyone in the administration knew were going to be paid to AIG executives. The loophole was put in during a joint discussion on the bill so that they could get the thing passed. The only people who didn't know this was going to happen were the people not in the "closed door joint negotiation session" because they didn't have time to read the bill before voting on it.

It doesn't take much at all to see a bunch of hypocracies in what is actually going on and what is being told to the people of this nation. I don't know if I can keep up with it all.

So, the socialism experiment is fully under way and the captialism that has made this country great is very much in danger of becoming a thing of the past.

The Great Wealth Confiscation

2009-03-20T12:53:00.003-04:00

The first thing I am going to do is apologize ahead of time. I am going to be a little sporadic in posting. It seems there has been a huge change of plans and I will be changing jobs in the very near future. So, I have some other things that I have to do to make sure my family is taken care of. I am sure most of you will understand.

Now, on with the post. I will start with a quote.

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the
other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

This was said by the late Dr. Adrian Rogers.

This is the exact reason that the current tax system has to go. The Democrats have used the tax codes to entice citizens to vote for them. Now, we are very close to the point that over half of the people in this country will not be paying taxes or even get more money back from the government. Why would people vote against something if they are getting something out of it? This describes socialism. It's when we take things from people based on their ability and give it to people based on their needs. This is the idea that the king liberal explained in the campaign and it is the same thing that Karl Marx said way back in his time. It isn't anything new. It ISN'T change.

Now, let us look at some of the other things that have been going on while our lawmakers and administration are distracting the rest of the company with these AIG bonuses.

Yesterday they moved to put another $5Billion into the auto industry. That was on top of the announcement to print an additional $1Trillion to buy up treasury bonds and mortgage securities sold by the government.

Barry Ritholtz, a financial blogger, tallied up $8.5Trillion in bailout costs between December 2008 (not including $5.2Trillion in the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac portfolios that we are now responsible for).

$50Billion (at least) proposed by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to bail out home owners and lenders who need the money because they made bad decisions to begin with.

He also wants to spend an additional $2.5Trillion on the next bank bail out.

The Senate just passed a $10Billion bill that is filled with pork. And, it is immune from amendment. Meaning, no one can change it.

Oh, yes, and don't forget the $410Billion spending bill that was passed two weeks ago.

The House passed a $6Billion volunteerism bill (the "GIVE Act").

Coming soon, the "cap-and-trade" global warming plan. Cost: $2Trillion (nearly three times the White House's original estimate).

And, at last, the health care scheme. Estimated cost: $1.5Trillion over the next decade.

In case you weren't adding all of this up, it comes to over $21Trillion. That's, $21,000,000,000,000. Just to put all of this into perspective, they have been ranting about how much money we have spent in Iraq. The total we have spent to fight on the front in Iraq is $8Billion. ($800,000,000,000). Even more prospective, that is the same amount that the "stimulus" bill spent (and I didn't even mention that one).

Now, how bad does the $165,000,000 that AIG paid to private citizens look? Especially when the Administration and Congress knew that this was going to happen to begin with. It was written into the "stimulus" plan. Chris Dodd has admitted to it. Of course, that was after he first said that he knew nothing about it. Then, it came out that he actually wrote the amendment. And at the very least, Tim Geithner was one of the ones pushing for it. So, they all knew. Now, they are running around like they are outraged and even have the audacity to say they are going to tax the bonus money by 90%!! The great wealth confiscation is beginning. Even Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac employees are saying they will walk if they don't get the bonuses that they are under contract to receive over the next year.

This administration and Congress are going to cause us to go even further into the recession. The only way they can pay for all of this is to raise taxes (this will stifle investing and peoples success) and print more money (this will cause inflation because the dollar will be devalued).

This is where this country is headed. This is where the king liberal and all of the other liberal leaders are leading us.

So, WELCOME TO THE GREAT AMERICAN WEALTH CONFISCATION!!

What the *&%$?!

2009-03-17T11:26:00.002-04:00

Over the past couple of days I have been reading about something that really just sets my skin crawling. I still can't even come to grips with it.

It seems that the king liberal is so against the military that he is ready to propose a bill that would require Disabled Veterans to have their private insurance companies reimburse the federal government for their medical bills. So, thank you very much for serving your country and defending the very freedoms that we hold dear, but, we are not going to help you with those injuries you sustained while performing that service.

I can't even begin to tell you how upset this makes me. Some of us have spent the majority of our adult lives defending this country. Everyone who has served in the military DESERVES to be respected for their service. Not have our faces slapped.

Don't get me wrong, I am not asking for a handout. I just believe that it isn't too much to ask that the government cover the medical costs for disabilities incurred while on active duty in service of the country.

I know that the Democrats have had a history of disrespecting the military. So, this doesn't come as too much of a surprise. I mean, look at the track record. Pelosi and Reid both said in 2006 that the war was lost. This was before we even started to deploy the troops that they voted to send. They don't respect the military. They don't have any regard for the military. This is just the icing on the cake.

On a side note; tonight at 6pm EST, the Fair Tax will be discussed for one hour on the House floor. The discussion will be on C-SPAN. It may be a little late depending on other things on the schedule. But, they will be discussing how the Fair Tax is exactly what we need to pull us out of this recession and improve the economy right now. Hopefully, they will actually explain the whole thing well. So, please, tune in.

This is what you get

2009-03-16T13:03:00.003-04:00

A big story today is that AIG, which, by the way, is now 79.9% owned by the Federal Government, gave out $165Million in retention bonuses. The king liberal today pretty much bashed the company for doing this, however, he singled out CEO Edward Liddy as not having anything to do this.

FoxNews reported today that in a letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner on Saturday, Liddy said, "We cannot attract and retain the best and brightest talent to lead and staff the AIG businesses which are now being operated on behalf of the American taxpayers." This is exactly the same thing that I have said over and over again. The article also says that the White House conducted its own analysis of the bonus contracts and agreed they are binding. So, if you have already looked into it, and agree that these bonuses must be paid, how can you turn around and bash the company for trying to fulfill its contracts?

The reason is very simply this, when the company took bail-out money, they pretty much agreed to fall slave to the whims of the people running the government, right now, the Democrats. He rips this company, however, he wasn't surprised by it. All it is doing is giving him more ammunition to feed the class envy and scare the American people into going along with everything that he wants.

This is all part of his scheme. He is trying to turn our country into a socialist country. Instead of trying to inspire people to do their best and get ahead, he is punishing the people who do well in this country and rewarding those who are expecting the payout for doing nothing. It's all here, in this one issue. AIG has contracts to reward the best and brightest people to try and help it recover, the people who do the best work, and yet, they are the bad guys for trying to do the right thing.

This is exactly how FDR got the New Deal to pass with such ease in the 1930's. It is how the king liberal got the $800Billion "stimulus" package to pass. He even had three Republicans who agreed to it because we needed to do something. Even though doing nothing was better than doing what we did.

One thing that they are not reporting, AIG received about $173Billion in bailout money. They paid $94Billion to other banks they owed money to (of course, most of these banks are in Europe). So, the $165Million is less than 10% (1/10) of the money they received from the government.

Again, they are trying to make the American people mad at the greedy businesses that actually hire people and will be the backboard for getting us out of this recession. Privately owned companies are the ones who hire people. If they are paying more in taxes, because they make more than $250,000, then they don't have as much to pay their employees. Plus, the costs go up, so the price of their products go up. This is how economics works. It really isn't that hard. If we want the economy to grow, do things that will encourage people to better themselves.

The owner of the Miami Dolphins was trying to sell the team when it became apparent that the king liberal was going to win the election. He knew that the taxes were going to kill him. I have read countless other stories where people were trying to renegotiate contracts or other such things so that they would fall below the $250,000 limit for tax cuts so that their taxes would not be raised. This is exactly what I have been writing about. This Administration is bent on punishing people who do well. This is NOT America.

Let's not forget the fact, in all of this, that AIG is allowing $165Million to enter into the economy because the people who are getting these bonuses will now have this money to spend.

NOW THAT'S STIMULUS!!!

More Flip Flopping

2009-03-13T09:27:00.004-04:00

Yesterday, in a speech, the king liberal announced that the economic problems faced by this country is "not as bad as we think." What? All the way up to this point, he has said that, in the economy, this country was facing a "crisis of epic proportions." Which is it? If he thinks by all of a sudden telling us that things aren't so bad that he is going to instill confidence he is sadly mistaken.

He continues to change his mind on just about everything. He said that he would withdraw all troops from Iraq, now, he plans to leave about 30,000. The economy is in crisis, now, it's not so bad. Change must come to Washington, however, he continues to surround himself with people who have been apart of the Washington scene for quite some time. His excuse for this, "it only makes sense, with my inexperience, to surround myself with people from the last democratic administration." Which, by the way, contradicts his insistent pleas, during the campaign, that he had the experience to do what needed to be done. There is just no end to his hypocrisy.

On a brighter note, it appears that people in Congress are finally starting to see through all of the smoke screens. Senator Judd Gregg, the one who pulled his nomination for Commerce Secretary due to irresolvable conflicts with the administration, actually told Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner that the administration's budget forecast was a lie. He said that "the argument that it cuts the debt in half in four years is, ahh, is truly spurious." Now, this is a man of whom the king said, "He shares my deep-seeded commitment to guaranteeing that our children will inherit a future they can afford." So, the fact that he is now pointing out the obvious fact that the administration is on a track to do exactly the opposite is quite telling.

On top of that, there are four governors who are not taking stimulus money. There are several reasons. Gov. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana, said that taking the money and spending it the way he will have to will violate state law. The same goes for Gov. Mike Sanford, South Carolina. The Texas Governor has actually said that it would be irresponsible for him to take money to pay out at levels that would cause him to raise taxes to maintain. Again, looking down the road to protect the people.

This is the type of people we need running our country. Fiscally conservative people who will not spend more money than they have. Oh, yes, that is what the king promised, too. Now he has us so far in debt it will take decades to climb our way out.

What the Federal Government is trying to do is model itself after California. Governor Schwarzenegger promised to limit government when he was running for office. He instead has expanded the government in California by 40%. The state is billions of dollars in debt. They cannot afford to pay the people that they have hired. They are on the verge of bankruptcy.

We have a chance to stop all of this. We can write to our legislators now and tell them exactly how we feel. As well as look forward to elections next year and push to get a Republican majority so that we can block the king's socialist agenda.

I am going to actually make a plug for something. If you are interested, please check out the Fresh Tea Daily blog. They are planning a Tax Day Tea Party nationwide. I am pretty sure there is at least one planned in every state. We can't continue down the path we are headed. It's time to come to action.

As the Declaration of Independence so eloquently states;
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to their opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Now, I am NOT saying that we need to overthrow the government or anything like that. What I am saying is that we need to take it back. We need to remind these people that they work for us, not the other way around.

More Hypocritical Actions

2009-03-12T14:36:00.002-04:00

Now, I will admit, I first heard this from Rush Limbaugh. However, it is a story on the Fox News website. Read the following from the Fox News report:

"On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville was hoping for President Bush to fail, telling a group of Washington reporters: "I certainly hope he doesn't succeed."
Carville was joined by Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who seemed encouraged by a survey he had just completed that revealed public misgivings about the newly minted president.
"We rush into these focus groups with these doubts that people have about him, and I'm wanting them to turn against him," Greenberg admitted."

Minutes later, as news of the terrorist attacks reached the hotel conference room where the Democrats were having breakfast with the reporters, Carville announced: "Disregard everything we just said! This changes everything!"

Do you believe this? These people actually told reporters that they hoped President Bush to fail and then, eight years later, turn around and attack Rush Limbaugh for saying the same thing when the king liberal takes office. And the attacks keep coming. They started from the top. The king himself even told House Republicans that nothing was going to be able to get done if all they do is listen to Rush. Mr. Gibbs, the king's press secretary, even went as far as to say that Rush Limbaugh was the head of the Republican party.

These people will do anything to try and distract this country from what they are actually doing. What they are doing, is destroying the very economic fabric of this country. As well as doing everything in their power to throw out the Constitution and reconstruct this country into a socialist society with them in power. They are doing everything they can to punish people who work hard and make a little bit of money and reward those who want to sit around on their hind parts and let the government take care of them. It's patriotic to pay more taxes. That's what Biden said.

I saw in the news this morning where Bill Gates is now the richest man in the country. He lost $18Billion last year. The reason that he is #1 now is because Warren Buffett lost $25Billion. Now, I know that I will probably never see that kind of money in my lifetime, however, I am not envious of these men who have gone out and earned it. They have worked hard for every bit of what they have and I say we should be celebrating that. Not punishing it. It should be reason for people to notice and say, "hey, if they can do it, so can I." The Democrats really play into the class envy. They try and tell you that everyone who has that kind of money is bad. They are not necessarily bad. They just worked very hard at what they did and were ahead of the competition. Plain and simple. This country has gotten to the point that people think that the government should guarantee success of every individual. This is not the case. The Constitution says that the government should "promote the general welfare". This means that every one should have the same opportunity for success, if they earn it. It does not mean that everyone is guaranteed the same results.

Last thing, Obama issued his first bill signing statement when he signed the Omnibus bill. He said that just because he is signing it does not mean that he is obligated to carry out every part of the bill if he finds any part of it un-constitutional. Two things on this. First, President Bush used to get hammered every time he uttered these words. I bet you won't hear anything about Obama saying it. Second, and final thought, since when is this man have any idea what is Constitutional and what is not?

Let's look at the past 50 days

2009-03-11T12:56:00.002-04:00

- Obama is on track to spend more money than any person in the history of the planet.
- Obama and Pelosi's "stimulus" bill was the largest spending bill in the history of the planet.
- Obama and democrats have already saddled America's children and grandchildren with a massive debt.
- He's lost at least three nominees due to tax fraud.
- He appointed a tax cheat to run the IRS and the Treasury.
- He insulted America's greates ally, Great Britian.
- He reneged on missle agreements with allies Poland and the Czech Republic.
- His administration has already met with the murderous Assad Regime from Syria.
- Obama signed legislation to close Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility.
- Obama freed a dirty bomber from Guantanamo Bay to Great Britian.
- Obama and Biden told US soldiers and marines in Afghanistan, "WE'RE LOSING."
- Biden told US soldiers and marines that US deaths will rise in Afghanistan.
- Obama has already discussed holding peace talks with the Taliban.
- The stock market had it's worst January in 113 years.
- The stock market had it's worst February since 1933.
- The Dow has dropped faster under Obama than any other new president in 90 years.
- Obama's budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, and adds more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined.
- Obama has managed to spend more money than we have on the entire War on Terror.
- Obama will quadruple the deficit this year.
- Cap & Trade that has been introduced will cost America 4 million jobs as well as cause every American family at least $700 per year, and he ADMITS IT!
- Obama's team has announced easing restrictions in trade with communist Cuba.
- Meanwhile, democrats further restricted free trade with ally Columbia.
- Obama signed legislation to fund foriegn abortions.
- Obama signed legisltation to fund embryonic stem cell research.
- Democrats already banned offshore drilling.
- Democrats scrapped oil and natural gas leases in Utah for energy development.
- Obama's party permanently banned drilling in ANWR.

All of this and they are already talking about ANOTHER STIMULUS BILL! That's right. In case you haven't heard, economists from BOTH sides of the aisle are saying that there will be another stimulus bill and that it will probably come sooner than everyone thinks. These people have the audacity to blame Bush for spending money in Iraq when he has spent more money than Bush spent in BOTH fronts of the war.

This man is making friends with our enemies and making enemies of our allies. This seems an awful lot like lending aid and comfort to the enemy. A most horrendous act of treason. The only reason I will ever listen to this man is so that I can get more information to post here so that I can help to inform as many people as possible so that we don't make this grevious mistake again.

Now, let's look at something that truly makes no sense what-so-ever. A recent poll says that 56% of Americans approve of the King Liberals policies. However, 53% of Americans believe that we are heading into a depression much like the 1930's. Now, how can 56% of us approve of the King Libera's policies when 53% believe that we are heading into a depression? It makes no sense. It is his policy of tax and spend that has helped to drive this economy further down. Not only that, where is the 'HOPE' that he promised the American people? If over half of the Americans believe we are heading into a depression, then there is very little HOPE.

Oh yes, and before I forget again. There is one more thing that upsets me (see the last post).

AL GORE!

Some things that upset me

2009-03-10T13:45:00.003-04:00

"Any woman or person of color in the Republican party suffers from Stockholm Syndrome."
---Jeneane Garofalo

This woman said this on Kieth Olberman's show. I listened to a clip of it and had to listen to it again just to make sure I heard her right. She was talking about Sarah Palin. Where does she get off? I used to like Jeneane Garofalo as an actress. I never liked too much of her comedy, but, now, I truly have no use for her. What makes her such an expert on political issues anyway?

And don't even get me started on Kieth Olberman. This is the man who went from ESPN to work as a political talk show host. What kind of sense does that make? Granted, I never really liked him as a sports analyst, but, he says such stupid things now, I just don't know how he can even have a job.

I know it has been a little over 50 days ago, but, did anyone else notice that when the King Liberal was sworn in, the Constitution was never mentioned? I am still trying to find past inaugurations so that I can compare the Oath of Office. Everyone else who has been sworn in under this administration said the words "to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States." It is in the oath of enlistment for the armed services. Why can't the Commander In Chief say those words. I still think it is because this man has the vision to remake this country. He has no regard for the fact that he is working for us. He is on his own agenda and the things he is trying to do have nothing to do with the Constitution. Plus, it seems, that even Democrats are starting to jump off the band wagon.

Even Whoopi Goldberg has started to question why she has to pay more taxes. According to Joe Biden, it's patriotic to pay more taxes.

Now, if you have been paying attention, you will notice that the King Liberal NEVER speaks without teleprompters. Everything that he is saying is calculated, by someone else. Nothing he says is from himself. So, you have to ask the question, "who is actually running this government?" Even when he signed the order to close Guantanamo Bay, he had to ask his counsel what they were going to do with the prisoners. And now, he gives the Prime Minister from Great Britain a DVD set that can't even be played in the UK? Let's not even mention the fact that every single time he opens his mouth the DOW takes another plunge. He even says that he doesn't pay any attention to the daily fluctuations of the market. Well, I have news for you, King Liberal, it isn't fluctuating, it's going down!!

And how about the personal attacks on Rush Limbaugh? Why in the world would the President of the United States go out of his way to attack a private citizen? It is our right to say what we believe even if we disagree with what the administration is doing. They are trying to take our minds off of the fact that the economy is going through a rough patch. They don't mention the recession of the '80's, because we got out of that recession by cutting taxes. That was the worst decline in the market. That was the worst recession this country has been through. NOT the GREAT DEPRESSION. During the recession in the '80's the market plunged over 20%, the Great Depression was only about 16%.

Obama wants us to believe that he has the best interests of this country at heart. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has surrounded himself with Marxist, racist, and socialist people. This is what he has in mind for this country. Not, what the Founding Fathers crafted to guide this country. It has stood the test of time. It can still work. All we have to do is actually follow the guidelines that they put forth.

So, the question still remains, "why didn't he swear to uphold and defend the Constitution?"

My Soap Box

2009-03-06T08:28:00.002-05:00

I heard something this morning that just really stuck in my craw. It was about that big spending bill that the Democrats (and three Republican Senators) are calling "stimulus". It seems that there is a provision in the bill that would do away with the voucher system. In case you don't know, the voucher system allows parents (who would not otherwise be able to afford it) to send their children to schools that are outside their school district or even to private schools. Now, what I heard this morning was that it is affecting the King Liberal's children. It seems that there are some children in their classes that are at that private school because of the voucher system.

A spokesperson for the White House yesterday said that Washington, D.C. was a special case. Basically, telling the rest of us, that those people who happen to live in Washington, D.C. are deserve better than the rest of us.

There is also a piece of legislation that will allow Washington, D.C. to have a seat in the Senate. Now, forgive me for a moment, but, the Founding Fathers of this country purposely set aside the District of Columbia as a non-state because it was supposed to be neutral from the states. Sort of like our own little Switzerland. This administration and Congress seem hell bent on defying the very foundation upon which this country was formed.

Now, here is what I propose (I will admit, that I heard this elsewhere, but, upon further research, have decided that this is actually a very good idea). What we need is to form a Constitutional Convention of the States. This Convention should have three things on its agenda.

1) We need to repeal the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment provides for the US Senators to be elected by popular vote. This was not the intention of the Constitution. The main body of the Constitution says that Senators are elected by the State Legislatures, and, if there is a vacancy (i.e. resignation, death, etc.) the replacement is elected by the State Legislature. The whole problem with the Illinois Senate seat vacated by the King Liberal would have been avoided because the Governor would not have had to make the choice, unless the Legislature was on recess, and then it would have only been temporary. What the Senate was meant for was to be a representation of the State Governments, not the people directly.

2) We need to repeal the 16th Amendment. This is the amendment that put the IRS in business. It allows the federal government to levy taxes on income, regardless of the source. There is even some people who agree that it was never ratified properly, but, putting that aside, we need to get rid of it. The current tax rules make up over 67,000 pages of text. No wonder no one understands it. This alone will cause so much stimulation to our economy that there would be no stopping it. The United States would be the most favorable place to due business so businesses from other countries would be banging down our doors to get in. People would be able to keep all of the money they work hard to earn. They would be able to invest without being afraid of being in a higher tax bracket. People would be able to save and send their children to whatever schools they decide.

3) The last thing that would need to be addressed is setting term limits on members of the House of Representatives. This would allow us to avoid career politicians who have no real contact with their constituents from staying in Washington and passing laws that the people don't want. It would make them have to get out and find out what we really want.

Now, no amendment to the Constitution has ever been passed this way. It has always come from the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government. But, it is written into the Constitution, so, it is a very viable option. None of these things will ever get through the legislature, so, we will need to do this on our own. We need to contact our State Representatives to do this. We need 38 states to say yes to these three things. That's all. Then it would be done and the yahoos who sit in their comfy seats in Washington would have nothing to say about it. It is time to take back OUR government. Stop letting them slowly take away our freedoms.

If this government is allowed to continue down the road they are traveling, we will lose everything that has made this country great. We will no longer be able to enjoy the freedoms that we take for granted. All of the sacrifice of the brave men and women who gave their lives and sacrificed to defend this country would go right on down the toilet.

This is why I do what I do

2009-03-02T22:46:00.010-05:00

Now, I need to put a disclaimer before I actually start this post. As most of you who read this know, I am active duty military. EVERYTHING I post on this blog is MY opinion formed from watching the news, listening to what is going on and reading. NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, I post has anything to do with the views of the military.

Now that that is out of the way. I was actually working on a post of a different flavor, however, Rush Limbaugh addressed CPAC this weekend. He was given 20 minutes, however, he took an hour and 20 minutes. It was televised on Fox News. I am posting the entire speech. It is in ten sections on YouTube. The text of the speech can be found here. I hope that you can listen to the entire thing (or at least read it).

This man, no matter what people think of him, put into words the very ideals that I have spent the vast majority of my adult life defending. The very ideals that so many men and women have died defending around the world. People think he's arrogant because he says things like "With talent on loan from God." However, if you truly listen to him, he is humble about abilities. He is right most of the time, but that's because of his research. This is all the man does. He is truly living the American Dream and loves this country with more passion than most any politician that I have seen in the past couple of years. He genuinely cares about where this country is headed.

The ideals he is portraying here, are the very things that I believe about this country. That EVERYONE has the opportunity to do well. It's up to them. NOT THE GOVERNMENT! No matter where you come from, no matter what the barriers, it is up to the INDIVIDUAL to pursue his/her dreams.

This is what I believe. This is what I have spent the past 20yrs defending. This is what I will write and talk about until the day they put me in the grave.

Watch out for terms like "local programming", and "diversity in ownership" because these are the very things that the Democrats are going to try and shove down our throats next. These terms are just another way to get the Fairness Doctrine (although they are not using that term anymore) reinstated so that they can control the programming on radio stations. This is how they are going to try and keep us from hearing people like Rush, Sean Hannity, and countless other conservative talk show hosts who are syndicated and heard all over the country.

Thank you Rush, for putting into words, so eloquently I might add, the very things that I have been trying to say on this blog.

Buckle Up. It's going to be a bumpy ride

2009-02-25T14:02:00.002-05:00

I watched the King Liberal's speech last night. I have a few things to say about what he said.

However, first, I want to say about what Katie Couric said at the beginning. As the Assembly was waiting for the President to make his way to the podium, there stood Nancy Pelosi, The Speaker of the House, and Joe Biden, President of the Senate, and Katie Couric spouted out "This is a historic moment. We have the nations first black president, a female Speaker of the House, and there is the white guy." Now, if any of the roles had been reversed, she would lose her job!

Now, down to the nitty gritty.

I was surprised that he didn't use the word crisis more. I only counted three, but, might have missed one or two. Either way, it wasn't alot. He laid out quite a few things that he wishes to accomplish. He says that the three things that are high on his priority list are Energy, health care, and education. I will get to that a little bit more later.

He didn't come right out and blame Bush for the economic situation, but, he sure did pile it on and anyone who was actually listening knew he was. He said that the banks and lenders pushed bad mortgages on people. He said that the surplus that Bush inherited became a holiday for the rich and an opportunity for the wealthy to gather more wealth. About the only thing he got right in this part of his speech was that we have piled on more debt than ever before and that we need to "take boldly, the responsibilities of our future."

As far as the surplus, our nation was attacked and thrown into a war that has cost. A LOT. He continues to say two wars. Read past posts to find out how I feel about that. As far as the mortgage situation, it was Clinton who declared that everyone has a right to own a home. It was Clinton's administration that put into practice quotas for mortgage companies essentially telling them who they had to lend to. It was ACORN, that community activist group that Obama used to work for, who would threaten banks if they didn't lend to people who couldn't afford the home to begin with. The banks came up with these types of loans so that they could meet the quotas and keep out of court due to the federal regulations that they were supposed to follow. Then came Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They continued to encourage this process and guaranteed loans that the banks knew were bad to begin with. Now, I am not saying that the banks are blameless, but, there was a lot of pressure for them to continue the bad lending practices that led to the current mortgage mess. Let's not forget, that as far back as 2001, the government was warned that this is where we were headed. John McCain even brought it up before the Senate and was told that it was nothing but a lynching and that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were just fine by Democrats.

He says that this "stimulus" plan will create 3.5 million jobs. 90% in the private sector. I read the thing and would like to know where the jobs are. All this thing is doing is growing government to the largest it has ever been. It is trying to increase our dependency on them so that they can keep their jobs and continue to tell us what to do. He said the oversight for this bill will be led by Joe Biden, because, "nobody messes with Joe." He also said that everyone who gets money from this bill will be accountable to him. He is going to be one busy man. As if he didn't already have enough on his plate.

He is going to take over the banking systems. He is going to start a new lending fund for auto loans, student loans and small business loans. MORE MONEY SPENT. He is also going to go into the banks and force the changes that need to be made. If that's not nationalizing the banking system, I don't know what is. He says no more money for redecorating, private jets, and padding private accounts. I say, if a bank is international, then it may be in their best interest to have a private jet to be able to get to the places that they need to go to operate their business. And, why should the government be telling them yes or no anyway.

As far as energy goes, he said that we need clean, renewable energy. What is renewable energy anyway? But, he said we will double the supply within the next three years so that we can make progress on "Climate Change". He is going to make good on his promise to put the coal industry out of business by putting market base caps on carbon emissions. And promises to invest $15Billion in this avenue. MORE OF OUR MONEY!!

He said that the Auto industry must stop the bad practices that has led them to where they are. Here's an idea. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT KEEP OUT!! Let the companies build the cars they know the American people want instead of trying to tell them what kind of cars the government wants them to make. Stop allowing the unions to have so much power. The unions and federal government are what put these companies into the situation they are in today.

Health care. He has already taken the first step in nationalizing health care by implementing a board that will decide if medical treatments are necessary. He wants to have electronic health records. I am pretty sure they are already there. He just wants to centralize them. And, he is going to convene another panel for health care reform next week. We'll see how that goes.

Education. He told us that dropping out was not only quitting on ourselves, but, it was quitting on your country. He wants to ensure that every child has access to a complete education and reform the schools. He wants to ensure that the US has the highest college graduation in the world by 2020. Supports rewards for teachers who meet measures of success. Whose definition are we talking about here? And what is the bar that defines success? He also said that education has to start at home. With the parents. I believe Bill Cosby once said this and got ridiculed for it. The King Liberal got a standing ovation.

Finally, he said that he passed a recovery bill with NO EARMARKS and doesn't want to pass on a debt that our children cannot pay. Both lies. The bill is nothing but earmarks and he is already talking about bills worth about $1.4TRILLION and that is before interest. He says he will cut the deficit in 1/2 by the end of his first term. Is this the deficit at the time he took office or after he passes all of these spending bills? He wants to cut weapons systems that we don't use. Last time I checked, if it is a DEFENSIVE system, we don't want to use it. These are the things he is talking about cutting.

He did say that he wants to raise pay for the military and increase veterans benefits and increase the size of the military. This is the majority of the money we spend on the military already and he has already said that he wants to cut the military budget.

Now, Boby Jindal, the Governor of Louisiana, gave the rebuttal. It could all be summed up in a quote from the GREAT Ronald Regan, "Let us resolve to stop spreading dependency and start spreading opportunity. Stop spreading bondage and start spreading freedom." Jindal said that "the strength of America is NOT found in government, but, in the American people." It is time to empower the people by allowing them to keep more of what they earn and decide what is best for themselves.

The government is not the answer. They never have been. Every time in our history that they have increased their reach into our lives, there have been dire consequences. Let the American people do the things that we do best. WE CAN DO ANYTHING.

Overall, between getting a kick out of the spring that Nancy Pelosi was on and laughing at how battered and beaten Hillary Clinton looks, the speech was nothing but a bunch of hot air. The only problem is, he has the means to make us ingest all of the crap that he has in his head.

So, buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY???

2009-02-23T19:03:00.002-05:00

ARE YOU KIDDING ME???

Now, I know that I am one of the last people who should be saying anything about fiscal responsibility, but, there was a "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" today at the White House. The King Liberal basically got up there and said that we were going to go to a "pay-go" system much like what happened under Clinton. We will no longer spend money that we don't have. We will only spend as much money as we take in.

Who is he kidding? He just signed into law a bill that is going to cost the Federal Government approximately $800BILLION, and that is just the face value. By the time we end up paying for all of this it is going to cost more than $1.2TRILLION. We don't have this money, but, we are spending it. He has also announced an idea to help people who are in danger of losing their houses stay in the homes that they shouldn't have been able to afford to begin with by telling the lenders that they have to renegotiate the mortgages so that the borrower will fall into a lower debt-income ratio. This will cost the United States about $275BILLION. We don't have the money for that either.

We have borrowed or printed money to the sum of over $2TRILLION over the past year to pay for stimulus packages, TARP funds and the like and NOW we are going to a "pay-go" system?

Mr. Obama, I have some ocean front property in Arizona AND a bridge in Brooklyn I would like to sell. If you think I buy your ideas of fiscal responsibility then I would like to know if you would like to buy these items from me.

Some Random Thoughts

2009-02-20T10:03:00.004-05:00

I want to start out with a couple of quotes. The first one is the one I was trying to find, in my last post, by Winston Churchill. The second is by John Adams, one of our Founding Fathers and one of the framers of the Constitution.

"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never,--in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

-Winston Churchill

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions which are unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

-John Adams

In light of recent events, I think that these two quotes are perfect. I look at the way the three Republicans in the Senate have turned their back on the very things that should be the foundation of any true conservative. The Republicans in the state Congress in Kansas got it right. They didn't give up. They MADE the Democratic Governor submit a BALANCED budget before they passed it. This is what should have happened in the U.S. Senate. The Republicans in the House of Representatives didn't give in. They all voted against this big old spending bill. There are even some governors who are telling the Federal Government "NO" we don't want any of this money. Bobby Jindal, Louisiana, is one of them. I am not sure who all the rest of them are.

This "stimulus" bill was supposed to be what was needed to jump start our economy. Have you seen what the market has done over the past couple of days? It opened today at the same level it was in Oct. 1997. This is the lowest it has been in almost 7 years. I have even read a report that said that $39Billion was supposed to be released in April or May. It was signed into law on Tuesday. There was an urgency that this needed to be passed because we needed to get money into the economy quickly. This isn't very quick.

I have also read a report that we should expect to be in this recession for about 6 or seven YEARS. This makes my head spin. History has shown that recessions usually lasts about 6 or 7 MONTHS. The last time we tried to spend our way out of a recession, we had the Great Depression. It is happening now. 6 or 7 YEARS? Are they serious? You may think that there is no way to go but up, but, as it is looking right now, we are going to head down even more before we make the turn.

Why have we reached this point? Look at the second quote again. Our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people. Our nation has gone away from what has made us great. It is apparent in the fact that our kids are no longer allowed to pray in most schools. This spending plan even says that colleges cannot receive any money from this plan if they plan to use it on any building that has any type of religious activities. Our King Liberal made it apparent in his first forum as the Democratic nominee. Remember back to the Saddle Back interviews. When asked when life began, he said that it was his belief that life began at conception, but, it wasn't his place to tell a woman how to live her life. Now, granted, I don't want to tell any woman how to live their lives, but, I do believe that life begins at conception and, with some exceptions, that to take that life is immoral.

And, finally, to answer Mellie's question from the comments. The troops are an interesting issue, that is near and dear to my heart. He actually only ever promised to bring the troops out of Iraq. He has contended that we have always needed to keep our concentration on Afghanistan. He, as well as almost every other candidate, actually differentiated between these two. They called them two different wars. I have long contended that they are actually two fronts of the same war. When President G.W. Bush said that he would not allow any country to harbor Al Qaeda, the American people were on board with that. Congress was on board with that, UNANIMOUSLY!! Now, the King Liberal wasn't in the U.S. Senate at the time and he says that he has always been against being in Iraq. That there was no Al Qaeda in Iraq until our troops went in their. Now, my opinion is this, it's Al Qaeda. It doesn't matter if they are in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, or even Timbuktu. They are still Al Qaeda and this threat needs to be eliminated. Otherwise, they will become strong again and try another attack.

Remember, we must remain strong. We must continue to let people know the truth and how we feel about what is going on. This is what I and many of thousands of other people have sacrificed to allow us to do. It is our right to be able to say what we believe. It is our responsibility to educate ourselves so that we can continue to keep this country the greatest nation on this earth.

Change We Can Believe in...

2009-02-17T08:34:00.005-05:00

Remember these words being spouted out for the past 2 yrs? Do you remember who said them? I am sure you do. These are the words that got us our first 1/2 black, 1/2 Caucasian president.

I just have one question. WHERE IS THE CHANGE????

Just a couple of the promises that were spewed out of the King Liberal's mouth for the past 2 yrs. 1) The American public would have at least five days to review any bill that came before Congress before it was passed into law. 2) There would be no more "closed door" meetings.

Well, this afternoon, the King Liberal will sign into law the BIGGEST spending bill in the history of this great country (yes, he continues to make history). This bill was barely written and voted on, on Friday. That makes 4 days since it passed through both houses. Let's not even talk about the fact that our representatives didn't even get the promised 48 hours to review the bill before voting took place. Strike promise #1. It was hashed out between the two houses with NO REPUBLICANS present, or even invited, behind closed doors. Strike promise #2.

I will give it to them, we will get a little bit in tax cuts. It averages about $13 per person per paycheck.

What happened to the transparency that the King Liberal promised? What happened to the big tax cuts that the man promised us?

This is exactly what happens. The Democrats will say anything they think the citizens want to hear to get elected and then go about their business without any concern about what the people want.

I just looked up the vote in the House and Senate on H.R. 1, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. It passed the House 246-183 with one Present and 3 not voting. NOT ONE Republican voted for this bill. In fact, six Democrats voted against it. It passed the Senate 60-38 with one (Ted Kennedy) not voting. Of course, Minnesota only has one Senator seated right now because of the issues going on with the results of the election. But, Senators Collins and Snowe of Maine as well as Specter of Pennsylvania, all three so called Republicans, voted for it (no surprise there).

Again, Change we can believe in is to brow beat people into believing that we need to do something, even though doing nothing would be better for the country, until you get enough people from the other side to vote your way so that you can pass some ridiculous legislation that promises to do nothing but put this country further into debt, and guarantee the futures of our children will be spent trying to get us out, and have very little promise to actually stimulate the economy. It also includes the very things that Obama promised us would not happen and the NOT the things he promised would happen.

The last thing I would like to say is mainly to the three so called Republicans that voted for this spending bill, but is something that we all should take to heart. Winston Churchill once said, "we shall never surrender." If something is right in your heart, NEVER SURRENDER.

2009-02-11T20:47:00.004-05:00

This is the woman that Vogue Magazine has put on the cover with the headline "The First Lady the world has been waiting for."

WHAT??!!! ARE YOU SERIOUS??!!!

I know the media seems to have some sort of love affair with these two, but, give me a break. They talk about change, but, then, her husband insists on appointing the very people who worked for Clinton when he was in office. He got upset when people questioned his lack of experience, but then, went on the rampage attacking Sarah Palin for lack of experience when she has much more executive experience than both Obama and Biden put together. He said his wife was off limits when she goes out and says the things that she says in this video. And yes, Whoopi, she said it twice in the same day. Once with the word "really" and one without. Therefore, there was no misunderstanding what she meant. The only time, in her adult life, that she became proud of this country was when her husband had a legitimate chance to become the King Liberal.

We have more information available to us than ever before. Yet, the general population seemed to be the least informed of any in recent history. The average person who voted for Obama seems to think that just because he is President, then all of their individual problems will be solved. They didn't bother to look into what his background was or even listen to the words he was saying. He flat told us that he was going to increase spending and raise taxes.

Now, the lead liberals in Washington (Obama, Pelosi, and Reid) have shoved a spending bill, the likes of which this country has never seen, down our throats. Obama says that economists agree that this is the best way to stimulate the economy. Well, 200 economists took out an ad in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal in which they all said that they do not agree with this spending bill. Now, that's agreement. And, once the Senate passed their version of the bill, thanks to the three traitors that call themselves Republicans, the House and Senate began negotiations to bridge the gap between the two versions of the bill. Well, I should say that the Democrats negotiated. The negotiations took place today and it was behind closed doors with NO REPUBLICANS present. That's bipartisan now, isn't it?

Now, to address a comment left by USSRETIRED. This bill doesn't put socialized medicine into law, per se. It's more of a back door. I don't understand why they just couldn't have come forward and tell us what they were doing. They have actually come right out and said almost everything else. They have actually lied about a lot of things, but, they have been up front about the fact that they were going to put us into debt up to our eyeballs. The provision is for their to be a panel or individual of some kind to review whether or not procedures we are getting are necessary. This is just the first step in the government taking over and telling us what kind of medical care we can have. Tom Daschle, the man who was originally picked to be the secretary of Health and Human Services, has even said that people should face the fact that they are getting old insinuating that we should not want procedures that will allow us to enjoy our lives as we get older. This is how they are putting health care into this bill. How it is going to stimulate our economy, I have no idea.

The audacity of these people knows no bounds.

Does anybody have a Hand Basket?

2009-02-10T13:02:00.003-05:00

Guess where we are going as a country.

The Senate just voted 61-37 on a bill that will cost $838 Billion. That's right, they got three Republicans to vote for it. Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, both Republicans from Maine, and Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania all three voted in favor of this outrages spending bill.

Worse than that, Arlen Specter got on Sean Hannity's radio show yesterday and actually said that he was voting for it because it was better than doing nothing even tho he did not believe in massive government spending. IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN IT, THEN DON'T VOTE FOR IT!!! It's that simple.

Last night, the King Liberal got on TV for his first press conference. He actually stood up there and flat out lied to the American People. He said that this bill has NO EARMARKS in it. Like I have stated before, I read the whole bill, as it came out of the House, and, except for some tax cuts, there is nothing but earmarks in this bill. That's all it is. The Democrats have all said that we can't just throw a bunch of money at this problem and expect it to get fixed. Well, what are they doing now?

This is another good time for me to make the plug that I make from time to time about the Fair Tax. This is a plan that would stimulate the economy. Again, it is a consumption tax. It would create a favorable tax advantage for companies to have operations in the USA. If they don't have to pay payroll taxes, then it would be advantageous for almost every company in the world to keep people employed here. People would be able to keep every bit of their income. Every household would also get a check each and every month to cover the taxes that would be collected up to the poverty level for their household. We already are paying about 22% of every dollar we spend to cover the taxes that the company that produces the products has to pay. If we get to keep the 20-30% (depending on our bracket) that the government takes out of our paychecks to begin with, it will more than make up for the 1% more we will have to pay when we buy something new.

Imagine it. No more income tax. No more IRS. No more of these complicated tax laws that the people in Washington, the King Liberal included, like to manipulate in order to garner our votes. No more having to worry about April 15. It would become just another day. Or maybe, we could make it another Federal Holiday to commemorate the follies of our past.

What a wonderful world that would be.

RESPECT

2009-02-09T12:48:00.003-05:00

Some people will say that we have to respect Barrack Obama because he is the President of the United States.

I say, I don't have to respect the man just because he is the President of the United States of America. I do respect the office of the President. I respect the fact that the majority of people, who voted in the last election, decided that Barrack Obama was the best man for the job of President.

What I don't have to respect is the fact that the majority of the people who seem to think that this man is best for this country are, for the most part, a bunch of misinformed people who wouldn't have the foggiest idea what is involved in running this country or the sacrifice and price that has been paid to make this country great. Most of the rest are a bunch of people looking for a hand out and someone else to fix their problems instead of accepting the fact that the majority of the reasons they are in the situation they are in is because of their own actions (or inactions). They think the Government owes them something. They refuse to go out and earn their own way.

Another thing I don't have to respect is someone who speaks to the public without being prepared to answer the questions that are posed. In his first week in office, he signed an executive order to have Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility closed within a year. He has no plan as to what to do with the detainees that are housed there. When he signed this order, he did it in front of a bunch of cameras and was asked questions. Just about every question he looked to his counsel (attorney) for the right answers. He was not prepared to answer any questions about this. This, to me, was a testament to his lack of experience and his not being ready to lead this country.

The last thing that I am going to say is that I do not have to respect a "stimulus" bill that is designed to shove a bunch of spending down our throats that truly has very little chance of stimulating the economy. A bill that will put our futures, the future of our children and grand-children so far in debt that they will not know which way is up. Our the hypocrisy of saying that this is a bi-partisan bill when the only involvement with the Republicans came after the bill was introduced and then, it was only to try and convince them that this was the right way to go. It truly wasn't to try and work out a compromise. Otherwise, the bill that passed through the House would not have been worth $825 Billion. This President would not have to travel around the country and convince the 63% of the people who don't agree with this bill.

So, long story short, I respect the office of the President of the United States of America. I DO NOT respect the man who fills the position at this time.

They do like trying to scare us.

2009-02-05T22:43:00.002-05:00

This is the tactic that the Democrats have been using for many, many years. They started back with the Great Depression. That's how FDR got the New Deal passed. It was a massive spending bill that lengthened the Great Depression many more years than it needed to be.

In more recent times, in the '70's, we were supposed to be heading into the next Ice Age. Now, it's Global Warming, the economy, and anything else they can use to scare us into believing that they have all the answers.

Well, guess what. They don't. Nobody does. All anyone can do is the best they can. But, the Government can't spend our way out of this economic recession. I don't understand why, even though it has been proven time and time again, they can't seem to get it through their thick skulls. Japan tried it eight times in the '90's. We tried it in the '30's. Neither time it worked. Every other countries markets follow ours. They have even put a clause in this bill that will mandate that everything that is used in carrying out this bill will be made in the USA. This has upset the leaders of many European nations as a threat to free trade.

This is what we will get if the Government starts to impede into our lives economically. The same thing that is happening right now to the banks. President Obama, in case you hadn't heard yet, has set a limit on what executives can be paid to $500,000. Now, don't get me wrong, I agree that some of the luxury trips and stuff like that are a bit over the top, especially for companies that have received money from the Government to stay in business. However, if a company is limited on the amount of money they can pay someone, then, they will not be able to hire the best people. They will continue to have to depend on the Federal Government to stay in business.

I thought it would be the Chinese or some other country that would attack us through our economy. The Democrats are doing it. They are trying to buy their way into impeding on our freedoms. They are using scare tactics to do it. They are telling us that the situation is dire, and that the Federal Government has to take action now. Well, the country isn't going to stop working if the Government doesn't do anything. As a matter of fact, the free market will survive. It always does. It does correct itself at times. Shoot, the Democrats can't even talk intelligently about this. Nancy Pelosi has stated that the country is losing 500,000,000 jobs a month. That's right, 500 MILLION. According to her, nobody in America should be working.

One thing I have been glad to see over the past couple of weeks is that the people of this Great Nation are getting fed up with this anti-"stimulus" bill. The approval rating for it has gone down to about 38%. Even some of the Senators are reporting that their phones are getting clogged with people calling them to tell them how fed up they are with it.

This is what should be happening. After all, the people in Washington, DC do still work for us.

CAN WE CALL IT A HOAX YET???

2009-02-03T13:49:00.011-05:00

Below is a picture of Al Gore addressing Congress about man made Global Warming.

You may ask, "Why is he posting a picture of this man?". It is because he is the Head Honcho in trying to pass along this fear of our world warming to the point that we will all burn up. Well, here is a picture of what it looked like in Washington the day he addressed Congress. As well as a map of what the average temperatures have been doing in the USA.

Now, as you can plainly see, we TOTALLY have a problem with Global Warming(sarcasm intended). In fact, it was recently discovered that NASA, yes the astronaut people, who also has been tasked with monitoring the temperatures of the earth, when they reported that October 2008 was the hottest October on record, it was actually the September 2008 numbers that they were reporting. It has also been recently reported (and you know you didn't hear this in the main stream media) that the Arctic Sea Ice growth finished 2008 at the same level they did in 1979. The Oceans have actually been cooling since 2003 (no matter what the King Liberal says). Greenland's glaciers are stabilizing. Alaskan Sea Glaciers are moving for the first time in 250 yrs. Right now, we have several thousand people without power in Kentucky and the surrounding states because of a massive winter storm.

When are people going to wake up and realize that Global Warming, or Climate Change, or whatever you want to call it, is not man made and there is nothing we can do about it!!! It is part of the regular cycle of the earth. Now, don't get me wrong, there are things that we should be doing, such as recycling and such, but, only because it is the responsible thing to do, NOT because it is something that needs to be done to save the earth. AND, we should have the FREEDOM to do it if we please or not to do it if we please.

Look at the pictures again, and ask yourself this question, "why is it that every time Al Gore speaks to a group of lawmakers, it looks like the second picture outside?"

I am just wondering about it.

Correction

2009-02-01T21:27:00.002-05:00

I have to make a correction. Yesterday I said that the person the King Liberal was nominating for Secretary of Commerce was a Senator from Vermont.

It is actually Senator Gregg from New Hampshire. However, the rest of what I posted was correct. NH has a Democrat Governor who will likely choose a Democrat to replace Mr. Gregg.

I do apologize for my mistake.

No Bounds

2009-01-31T16:21:00.002-05:00

It seems that the Democrats know no bounds when it comes to money, or hypocrisy for that matter. Reason also seems to be thrown out the window.

It seems that our wonderful lawmakers in Washington now have an extra $93,000 in each of their petty cash funds. Yes, while they are planning on spending close to a TRILLION dollars on liberal agenda pet projects that have no real hope of ever "stimulating" the economy, they are also mad at Wall Street executives for paying out bonuses they are busy giving themselves more money to spend. This will be over $46,000,000. Now, I know this is chump change when we compare it to the Billions of dollars that they want to spend else where, but, $93,000 is more money than most of us make in a year. These people just gave themselves this for a petty cash fund. When you are trying to lecture other people on how they are being wasteful in spending their money, you should watch what you are doing in your own house.

Top this with the fact that the King Liberal wants to spend all this money on such projects as STD prevention, welfare, and family planning (because supporting the use of contraception lowers costs, therefore, will stimulate the economy (thanks Nancy Pelosi for that insight)), bees, and fish, but then he turns around and tells the DoD (that's Department of Defense) that they have to cut their budget by 10%? This man has told us exactly what he wants to do to our country.

The one thing he did lie about was defending the Constitution. This document does not say that the government is to provide for the general welfare, it says that the government is to promote the general welfare. The only thing this document says the government is to provide is for the common defense. So, how can anyone in Congress justify spending so much money on welfare and then telling the military that they have to cut their budget? That is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!

To top all of it off, he is asking a Republican to be the Secretary of Commerce. Now, this would not be a bad thing, except........The Senator is from Vermont. Vermont has a Democratic governor. The governor gets to appoint a replacement. Now, if he appoints a Democrat as the replacement senator, and Al Franken wins the lawsuit that will determine who won the election in Minnesota (yes, that is still going on). Right now, the Secretary in charge of the recount has declared Franken the winner, but, there are so many holes and questions in the whole process, there is no telling what the court is going to do. Anyway, back to the point I was trying to make, if this happens, then the Democrats will have 60 members in the Senate. This would give them a filibuster proof Senate. There will be NOTHING that can be done to stop the Democrats from sending this country down the socialist path they seem bent on pursuing. Now, if you think that this is just Obama trying to reach across party lines, you are wrong. It has nothing to do with that and everything with trying to keep the Republicans from being able to stop them and their socialist agenda.

Add to all of this that two of the people that he has nominated to his cabinet seem to have had a problem paying their taxes. That's right, the patriotic thing to do according to Joe Biden. One of these men is now the head of the IRS. How ironic is that? There were actually some Republicans that voted to confirm him. Now Tom Daschle, who the President has nominated for Secretary of Health and Human Services has had to pay over $100,000 in taxes that he failed to pay when he was supposed to.

Now, I don't know how it could be any more obvious that this President does not have the best interest of this country in mind. All he has in mind is a socialist agenda that, if not kept in check, will throw the Constitution right out the window and drive my beloved United States of America right down the drain with it.

Hypocricy at it's finest

2009-01-30T08:46:00.002-05:00

Sorry to be so long between posts, but, rather than just getting information from other blogs and the like, I went straight to the source. I actually read the Bill that the House of Representatives passed two days ago. You know, the one that President Obama (shudder) is trying to shove down everyone's throat. It is 647 pages long, and, if you know me, it takes me a while to read.

So, on with the post.

This morning, I heard on the news, our new President chasitzing Wall Street for paying bonuses. Again, not that I think he is wrong. These people are paying very large sums of money as bonuses when they are taking money from the government supposedly just to keep running. I don't think that that is a good thing.

Now, in the same breath, he is backing (actually shoving) this "Economic Stimulus" bill through Congress. The price of this one piece of legislation (face value) is in the neighborhood of $850,000,000,000. By the time the government pays all the interest it will be well over $1TRILLION. Now, admittedly, there are some tax cuts in there (that's how they tried to get the Republicans to vote for it), but, for the most part, this is the biggest government SPENDING bill in history. They have $200Million just for the National Mall, of which, $20Million will be spent just on sod. What does that have to do with the economy? Or the Millions of dollars that Nancy Pelosi wanted to spend to support contraception. She said it was because it would lower costs. Imagine that, if we don't produce as many babies, then costs would go down. And they say that trying to teach abstinance is archaic.

There was so much garbage in this bill, that I can't even begin to list all of them. But, I know that NASA is getting some of the money for "Global Warming Research", and, NOAA is getting a bunch for some habitat restructuring or something like that. It is just downright ludicrous.

The President said, just the other day, that the government wasn't going to be able to get us out of this recession. That it was up to the individual industries and the working people to pull us out. That was on 28JAN. Contrast that with his comments on 8JAN: It is up to the government to take action to stop the recession and to restore the economic system and we must act now. (I have paraphrased each of these). So, which is it? He made the comments of 28JAN just after speaking with House Republicans about this bill. I know it was to try and show that he was reaching across the party lines. But, that is what should have happened before a bill was before Congress. It should have been an idea born from the efforts of both parties. Not the efforts of one party with a couple of ideas from the other party thrown in for good measure.

I like what Mr. Bartlett told the President during their conference .

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md.: "Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective. I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932. So I remember the Great Depression very well. I don't remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the Depression. Government programs didn't work then, I don't know why we think they would work now. Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids. Now we're working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids. Mr. President, I think it's more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born."

All of this on top of the President promising to end "Pork Barrel Spending". This bill has more pork than a stuffed pig.

It should say something to the Ruling Party when this vote was taken, NOT ONE Republican voted for this bill. Actually, even eleven Democrats voted against it.

Now we'll see what happens in the Senate.

History Made

2009-01-20T22:48:00.002-05:00

I have been sitting here trying to figure out what I want to say about today. I was trying to figure out how to be politically correct since he is the Commander in Chief. It is a historical day.

Screw it. I am watching Jeff Dunham right now, and one of his dummies said that being politically correct was a pain in the ass. (please forgive the slip)

This man had the audacity to sit up there and blame PRESIDENT George W. Bush for everything that is wrong today. Believe me, it started going wrong a long time before George Walker Bush took his oath. Now, I don't agree with everything Bush tried to do (what we need to do with illegal immigrants is just one), but, he certainly doesn't deserve the crap that the Democrats and their media has been dishing out over the past two years.

The Democrats in Congress all voted to go into Iraq, and then criticized every single move that was made. They voted in favor of a troop surge, and then, before the troops even hit the sand, went out and said that this war was lost. This was treason. Now Obama announces that we are going to start to pull our troops out. Well, guess what. Bush has already started.

He also said something that really got into my craw. He said that he was going to go through the government programs and look at each one individually and ask if this program does anything to provide jobs or better the lives of the American people. The Constitution says that the federal government is to "promote the general welfare". No where does it say that the government is to provide for these things. The only thing the government is to provide for is the common defense. He doesn't care how big the federal government gets. He even said so. The democrats are doing everything in their power to infringe on the very freedoms that the men and women, both past and present, have fought and are fighting to preserve.

He used THE bible that Lincoln used for his oath. He tried to make his speech as memorable as Kennedy or Martin Luther King. Alas, the only democrat in this group of men is Kennedy. That should say something. Lincoln was the first Republican President. And, most people don't know this, but Martin Luther King was a Republican as well. So why is it that the majority of the black people in this country vote Democrat?

It was a Historical day.

Teflon!!

2009-01-14T20:01:00.001-05:00

You have heard of the Teflon Don, I am sure. If you haven't, his name was John Gotti. He was the man in charge of the Gambino mafia family in New York. It didn't matter what the authorities did, they could not get to this man. Well, they finally did, and the only way they were able to finally get to him was to get one of his people to turn on him.

Flash to Barack Obama. The media has been having a love affair with him. He can do no wrong in their eyes. The Senate isn't much better. ANY OF THEM!!! I remember when Condoleeza Rice was first appointed to the office of Secretary of State. The Senate grilled her like there was no tomorrow. Now, they are letting Hillary Clinton off the hook. I understand the Democrats doing it, they are her colleagues. But, the Republicans have totally lost their minds. The confirmation hearing was nothing more than everyone patting everyone else on the back.

The man that he has appointed to run the Treasury owed approximately $30,000 in taxes since 2001 up until about a week and half ago. The Treasury Secretary is in charge of the IRS and is supposed to collect the taxes. But, the Senate says that he is still on track to being confirmed.

I am a little ashamed to say it, but, about the only person that was asked to be a part of the upcoming administration that I have any respect for is Bill Richardson. He had the integrity to step aside when something came up that would have even given the idea of impropriety.

This man has promised change, then he has gone and surrounded himself with a bunch of people who have been in Washington for years, and even came out and blatantly told the American people that we can expect to have a trillion dollar deficit for the next few years.

We, as Americans, need to take back America. Our country is going down the tubes and there isn't anyone in Washington or the media who is trying to stop it. In fact, the majority of the media are encouraging it. The Republicans that we have in office are rolling over.

Hold on tight.....the Democrats are going to get exactly what they want and then, because they may have had to reword something or another, complain that they can't get anything that they want. This has been their mantra for many years. Make the American people afraid of the Republicans. Make the American people afraid of some crises and then shove their socialist agenda down our throats.

As I have said before, it's going to be a bumpy ride.

I'm Back........

2009-01-13T08:46:00.002-05:00

I apologize to those of you who had begun to read my blog on a regular basis. My lack of posting was a combination of a few things. The Christmas Holiday, Calculus, and wanting to give the incoming administration a chance to prove that they might actually do something worthwhile. Well, no more. I have been biting my tongue long enough!

First of all, let's look at the administration Obama is appointing. The majority of these people are from Illinois, New York, or California. And, the majority of the people he is asking to be a part of his administration served under the Clinton administration. Funny, I thought he was running on "change". If you surround yourself with the very people that have been in Washington, then you are not changing anything. As far as California and New York go, these two states have two of the worst economies of any of the states in this union. Michigan is pretty low too. But, New York is about bankrupt and California isn't much better off. As a matter of fact, California was asking for Federal assistance not too long ago. New York just passed a bunch of new taxes in the form of fees. Now, if these people can't run their own states, why should we think that they can run the Federal Government?

The next thing I want to point out is that the person he has asked to be the Czar of Global Warming is a known socialist. She was listed on socialist organization's web site as one of their leaders. Since she was appointed by Obama, her name has been removed. However, a picture reportedly still remains.

Now, let's talk about the promises he has made. He promised to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Since he was elected he has stated that his tax cuts might have to wait. He also made America believe that as soon as he took office he would bring the troops out of Iraq. Now, he has said that some of the troops will remain. This is the same man that promised to take public funds for his campaign and then denied it. He knew that he could raise more money without it.

He has now promised that the deficit will be over $1 Trillion ($1,000,000,000,000) for some time. Where is the responsibility? This makes absolutely no sense. Our Congress has already approved over $1 Trillion in bail outs. Now Obama wants to ask for $800 Billion more. When will it end?

Rememberence

2008-12-12T11:04:00.005-05:00

First, let me apologize because I was wanting to put up a post on December 7 and somehow, it completely slipped my mind. It seems like a lot of things have been doing that lately. I have a great deal of respect for the men and women who have served this country and gave their lives to protect her. I have had the tremendous opportunity to visit the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor as well as the museum in Nagasaki, Japan and the U.S.S. Missouri. That means that I have seen the museums commemorating both the beginning and the end of WWII on both sides of the war in the Pacific. Standing in the Memorial over the Arizona is a haunting experience. Looking into the end of it, you will see a list of names of Sailors and Marines who lost their lives on board that ship on December 7, 1941. They are still on board. In Nagasaki, you can visit ground zero. The place where the bomb actually hit as well as look at the city both before and after. That too, is a haunting experience. To realize that there is something in this world that can cause that much destruction in just the blink of an eye. I ask everyone who reads this to please remember those who have given their lives in defense of this country (this includes both the living and the deceased because even the living have given at least a portion of their lives) in your thoughts and prayers every single day.

Now, this all brings me to the story that caused me to look at my blog and realize that I had forgotten to post that day. The Reverend Jeremiah Wright went back to the pulpit on Sunday, and, in his usual fashion began to bash the United States again. This time, he got his history wrong. (Sort of like Obama when he said that his uncle was part of the first forces to go into Auschwitz which was in fact liberated by the Soviets.) Rev. Wright actually said that December 7 marked the anniversary that the United States killed 80,000 innocent people by bombing Hiroshima. Now, why would anyone, who actually loves this country, still be attending this church and listen to this nut. He obviously doesn't know what he is talking about.

On a side note, have you ever noticed how, when a Democrat is in office, it is the United States that does bad things. But, when a Republican is in office, it is him alone. Look at it. America dropped the atomic bombs. It wasn't Harry S. Truman who gave the order. America put Japanese Americans in interment camps, not Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was America that boycotted the Olympics, not Jimmy Carter. But, it was Bush who attacked Iraq. It was Bush who put people in Guantanamo Bay. It was Bush who authorized torture. The liberals in this country just don't get it. Well, actually, they do. As long as they can make the Republicans to look like the bad guys then they continue to win elections. So, they portray everything to be the Republicans' fault while protecting the Democrats. The media buys into this, so they do the same thing. This is why Chris Dodd and Barney Frank are still in office, even though they are two of the biggest reasons the economy is in the situation it is in.

Change

2008-12-10T09:56:00.002-05:00

Well, Barack Obama promised he would change things if he got elected president. He is delivering on this promise. So, buckle up. It's going to be a bumpy ride.

The biggest thing he is planning on the day he takes the oath is the way bills become laws. He has asked Congress to pass his new economic plan by January 20, 2009 so that he can sign it into law the day he becomes president. This would bypass all the ordinary debates over the bill that would normally go on. It will probably pass. Congress is usually busy in January swearing in their new members, reviewing election results, making committee assignments and other such things that need to happen in order to set up shop (so to speak). In the midst of all this, Obama is asking them to consider one of the most comprehensive packages in history.

He is using the current status of the economy to try and fast-track his socialist plans. He wants to do this on day one. Forget the 100-day agenda that FDR put into practice during his "New Deal" plan when he took office. I am afraid that this will happen. His plan will tie jobs, the economy and several other things that would normally all be in different bills into one bill. And, once it passes Congress and is signed into law, will not ever be on the table for debate again. How scary is it that this can happen?

This bill will not even get the due process that we depend on to ensure that Congress does the right thing (or at least that's the intent). He is looking to be able to get Congress to do exactly what he wants. He is looking for more power than any other president in history. What he is asking is unprecedented. The normal process is supposed to be in place. It is supposed to be a process of checks and balances. There is supposed to be debate. He is asking to bypass all of this. The programs he is proposing will extend the current recession beyond the normal correction time that the economy would have done by itself. What most people don't seem to understand is that the free market will always correct itself. Sometimes it is painful. But, it will always work through it in the end. The fact that the housing market tanked was caused by the government forcing lenders into an area that they had never gone. Trying to get people into homes that they could not afford. Then, people got greedy, and, in order to correct itself, it had to collapse. It will come back. The same thing happens in the stock market. Look at what happened before the Great Depression. The market was up. Then it crashed. The same thing has happened here. It was up at the highest point in history. It had to go down. It was getting to the point that there was no more room to go up. Add to that the fact that the banks were being forced to take on bad loans and their liquidity was all dried up. Now, you have a mess. But, it is a major correction. You hear the economists talking about small corrections all the time. Every now and again, you need to have a major correction. This is what is happening right now.

Rush Limbaugh asked something that sticks with me right now because it is appropriate. "If times are so tough, how can parents afford to spoil their kids?" If this is truly another depression as the Democrats would want us to believe, then why would we even be asking this question? Parents would not be spoiling their kids. Times are tough, don't get me wrong, but, they could be a whole lot worse. Obama wants us to believe that this is a major crisis. He wants us scared. This way, he can force his socialistic ideals down our throats. And, we will thank him for it. Well, not me. I do look forward to being compensated for the years of service that I have given this country, but, I don't need anything from government. Especially when it comes at the cost of the very freedoms that thousands upon thousands of people have defended.

If you don't like the idea that Obama wants Congress to pass this bill, especially without the due process that it needs to go through, I highly encourage you to drop an e-mail or a letter to your Congressman/woman. You can find the US Senate here. The House of Representatives here. From there you can find your respective representatives. A little more research will be required for those of you who have new people going into office in January.

LET ME ASK A QUESTION

2008-12-05T10:55:00.002-05:00

Didn't we form this country to get away from Europe?

As I read more and more about everything that is going on in this country, I am getting more convinced that there are quite a few people in this country that want us to be more like our European counterparts. I mean, that is the only way I can explain it. In Europe, the governments pretty much run everything. They oversee everything. This is the direction we are heading.

Why in the world would we do that when our economy determines how the rest of the world goes? Watch the markets sometime (if you haven't). However our market goes one day, the rest of them will follow. Everyone compares their currency to the dollar. That is the way it has been for quite some time. What made it this great? Capitalism. Plain and simple. The idea that people had the freedom to succeed or fail all on their own. If I can come up with something that people need or will buy, I work hard to provide it and can watch how my business is run, then I will succeed. If any of these things are not in the mix, then I will fail. That is how everything in this country works. Some of us work for those who have the ideas. But, that doesn't mean that we can't be a success in our own right. We all have our own talents. I mean, the person with the ideas, sometimes, is not always the same person with the skill to make or promote the idea. There are other people who can do that much better. They provide the service and get paid for it. If someone gets to greedy and tries to grab too big a share of the market, then they end up cutting their own throats. If they spend more than they have, they go under. It's extremely simple, but it works.

The idea that the federal government needs to get into the business of running businesses is asinine. They can't even run the things that they are supposed to run. The more they get involved, the more we will become like our European brethren. The less control we will have over our own destinies. Don't get me wrong, I fully understand that the auto makers are a huge part of our economy. But, I still don't believe that we need to spend the amount of money that they are asking for. I say, if they are really as close as they say they are to going bankrupt, then let them. It doesn't mean that they have to go out of business. I mean, airlines go bankrupt on a fairly regular basis. they don't go out of business. Bankruptcy will mean that the companies will have the opportunity to restructure everything, including the ridiculous Union contracts that they have to pay.

It seems that since this economic down turn has taken place, that everyone and their mothers are coming to the government for a hand out. The government in turn is demanding more control. The very people who demanded that we leave Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae alone and let them run of their own accord, refusing to provide oversight, and thus, precipitating the current economic conditions, are the one's who are sitting up there on Capitol Hill and demanding they get control over every aspect of the economy. They are the one's who voted to give the Treasury Secretary $700 billion to spend as he saw fit (him and him alone) and then, a month and a half later, had the audacity to question the way he is spending it. These are the people who are to blame for the status of the economy. Not us. They are the one's who supported ACORN who would go to banks and demand that they give loans to people who did not deserve them for housed that they had no business buying in the first place. If they didn't then they were discriminating. They are the one's who allowed F.M. and F.M. to continue down the path that would cause this "CRISIS", even when people were warning them that this would happen. The warnings came as early as 2000. They had eight years to see the light and prevent this from happening. What makes us believe that they can do anything now?

We have elected a president whose every promise, during his campaign, will lead us more and more down the path to socialism. More and more to a government controlled population. Instead of a population controlled government.

So, again, I ask, "Didn't we form this country to get away from Europe?"

Redistribution on our terms

2008-12-04T10:20:00.003-05:00

Who will ever forget Barack Obama telling Joe the Plumber that he wants to distribute the wealth? I know I won't. I have pointed out many times that this is what Obama's economic policy is. He wants to take more money from the "rich" (people who work hard for what they have) and give it to the "poor" (those who choose not to work, complain about their lot in life and look for the government for a handout because they are entitled to it for some reason or another). In the mean time, he turns around and gives money to such organizations as ACORN who is known for their fraudulent involvement in elections. His right hand man, Joe Biden, who makes quite a bit of money in his own right, only gave something like $3000 to charity (I don't remember the exact number, but when you make as much money as he does, this is truly a small sum). I have long pointed out that there are still good people in this country and that people will do the right things with their money.

Last night, I watched a show that shows exactly that. It is called "Secret Millionaire" and it is on Fox. Last night was the first night of it and they showed two stories. The premise is this: Millionaires will live in poverty for one week (I know that truly isn't a long time but just follow me on this one) and at the end of that week, they give at least $100,000 to people they think deserve it. I liked the first story better than the second. The first story was a man who has made millions in real estate. He has something like 16 aircraft, all kinds of cars (including a Rolls Royce), and a yacht. His 22yr old son has never had to work for anything in his life. The two of them went to Imperial Beach near the Mexican border in California. They had $150 to live on for the week. They found a place to live that they had to pay for every day. It cost them $57 for the first night. Most people would have turned and walked out right away when they saw this place. They figured out quickly that they had to work. They found someone looking for some help on a construction sight. They were knocking down walls and stuff like that. The woman that supervised them talked to them and invited them to her house for breakfast the next morning. She had actually lived for a while in an irrigation canal and now, even though she was still in debt up to her ears, found the time to help out other people because she was finally starting to get back on track. They then met a lady that fed anyone who came to her and asked for food. She had something like 17 people living in her house. Finally they met a family with a little girl with cancer. Both parents worked for small companies that had no insurance. They struggled just to make ends meet and couldn't afford the medical bills. The son actually broke down when he realized how lucky he was to be in his situation. The father said that the experience changed his life. The two of them gave a total of $125,000 to these three people. After listening to them, I think that they will be doing a lot more in the future.

The second story was about a couple who went and lived for a week in a town that was flattened by Katrina. They were more on a fact finding mission than anything. Sure, they stayed in a trailer for the week, but they drove around in their Suburban and volunteered and talked to people. They did not have to work. The money they had was for food and driving around. They didn't get to eat steak or any of the things they were used to. They ended up giving a total of $300,000 to three people. A preacher whose house was totally gone but he rebuilt his church and was now working on a house for volunteers to stay in while they were there got $100,000. A football coach who combined the teams from three rival schools after the hurricane and went on to win the state championship two years later got $100,000 to rebuild the facilities that they didn't have. And finally, a couple who was living in FEMA trailer and rebuilding a coffee shop to help feed the people of the area (really more of a soup kitchen) and were rebuilding a small apartment upstairs so they could move out of the trailer got $100,000 because in the midst of building they took time out to distribute food.

This show proves that there are still people in this world who know how fortunate they are. It also shows that you don't have to be rich to give back. These people pretty much had nothing, but were still giving back what little they had. Nothing fancy. Just what they could. Then these people come in and actually took the time to find out what these people were made of. And then, even though it wasn't a large sum of money to them, it was enough to make a difference in their lives.

We do not need government to redistribute our wealth. We can do that all on our own.

Change??????

2008-12-03T11:48:00.002-05:00

Has anybody noticed that just about everyone of the people that Obama has announced as his team that is going into the White House with him all served, in some form or another, under Clinton? This is not what he promised during his campaign. He said that it was time to do away with "politics as usual". But, now he goes and announces that the very people that he is going to rely on for advice are the same people that have been in Washington for many, many years. How is this NOT Politics as usual? He says that in this time of economic crisis, it should not surprise people that he would draw on the experience from the last Democratic Administration. In fact, he said that he believes the people should expect it. WHAT???!!! You promised that your administration would not be the same old people. It appears to me, that what you are admitting is the very same thing that many people tried to point out from day one, you do not have the experience to run this country. Why else would you turn to the experience of the last Democratic administration? It just makes no sense.

Harvard economist Ken Rogoff has said, "Some see political motives in all this foot dragging (speaking of the fact that Obama pretty much disappeared for a while). Obama may want to avoid being linked in any way to the policy failures of the Bush era. By not taking ownership of the problem now, Obama can reappear dramatically as a savior on Jan. 20 like Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, thereby reclaiming the commanding heights of US politics for the Democratic Party. It's exactly the FDR model. The market may sink another 10%, but then they can win elections for another 10 years. It makes sense politically to hang Bush out to dry, but Obama has to hang the economy out to dry at the same time. Obama, in other words, may want to turn crisis into opportunity."

As a matter of fact, the model is set. Towards the end of a third consecutive Republican Term as President, the stock market crashed. Now, as we all know, it ended up being the start of The Great Depression. But, instead of letting the market recover, the people voted in one of the most socialist Presidents in the history of this great country, Franklin D. Roosevelt. Instead of depending on the principles that founded this country, the fact that government was to be limited with most of the power being given to the states and cities, FDR instituted The New Deal, in which the Federal Governement seized control over a huge portion of the economy and our lives. Now, fast forward. At the end of the second consecutive Republican Term as President, the stock market has crashed. We have elected a Democrat, who is relatively unknown, but who has the most liberal voting record in the Senate and whose policies point directly to the Federal government taking even more control over our lives. The New Deal actually extended the effects of the Great Depression. Obama's policies will do more of the same. FDR has been touted as one of the greatest presidents this country has had even though the only reason we came out of the depression was World War II.

Social Security and Medicaid/Medicare are both almost bankrupt. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are a big reason why the economy is the way it is. These are federally run entities. Are these the same people who we want to tell us how to live our lives? The politicians who have protected these entities have lined their pockets and gotten big fat bank accounts while the economy goes down hill. Do you really believe that these people have the Average American's best interest at heart? NO WAY!! All they are worried about, is getting their hands on more of our money so they can reward people who don't deserve it. All under the guise of CRISIS.

Crisis is good for Democrats. That's why they push Global Warming (or climate change). They want us to be scared so they can control more of our lives. The lead scientist at NASA who is in charge of reporting the world's climate has been caught in so many lies that there is no way we can believe a word he says. They reported that October was the warmest October on record. Then it was discovered that they had actually entered September's numbers by mistake. Glaciers around the world are growing. Many places are reporting record snow fall. Shoot, even Al Gore delivered a speach in London on Global Warming during the first snow storm that they had seen that early in the year in something like 50 yrs. He blamed it on Global Warming. The are beginning to blame everything on Global Warming. How can we have record snow falls and blame it on Global Warming? It just makes NO sense.

This is what the Democrats do. They foster panic. They want their to be a crisis. That way, they can come in and "save the day". What they are actually doing, is eating away at the very fabric that has made this country great. The very foundations of this country.

Just a little more food for thought. This is not change. This has all been done before and until the majority of people in this country can start to look back and realize the mistakes that have been made in the past, and commit to not making them again, then we will continue to go through this cycle, over and over again. Every generation will face the same kinds of crisis that we are facing now.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

2008-11-27T06:52:00.002-05:00

I am taking a few moments this morning to wish anyone who stops by a Happy Thanksgiving. Please don't forget to give thanks for the many blessings in our lives. And, please, continue to pray for my family and this country.

Will We Ever Learn

2008-11-25T20:41:00.002-05:00

This post is going to be a little history lesson. Mainly about the Constitution of The United States of America. The first two paragraphs are straight from Wikipedia. The entire Constitution can be read there.

The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. It provides the framework for the organization of the United States Government. The document defines the three main branches of the government: The legislative branch with a bicameral Congress, an executive branch led by the President, and a judicial branch headed by the Supreme Court. Besides providing for the organization of these branches, the Constitution carefully outlines which powers each branch may exercise. It also reserves numerous rights for the individual states, thereby establishing the United States' federal system of government. It is the shortest and oldest written constitution of any major sovereign state.[1]

The United States Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787, by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and later ratified by conventions in each U.S. state in the name of "The People"; it has since been amended twenty-seven times, the first ten amendments being known as the Bill of Rights.[2][3] The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was actually the first constitution of the United States of America.[citation needed] The U.S. Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation as the governing document for the United States, and transformed the constitutional basis of government from confederation to federation, also making it the world's oldest federal constitution.[4] The Constitution has a central place in United States law and political culture.[5] The handwritten, or "engrossed", original document is on display at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, D.C.

No where in this original document does the government have the power to tax the people. The 16th amendment, ratified on February 3, 1913, took care of that. Under this amendment, Congress has the power to impose a tax on any income made here in the United States. It doesn't limit the amount of tax the Congress can levy. How scary is this?

In 1819, the state of Maryland tried to levy a tax on the Second Bank of the United States. James McCulloch, head of the Baltimore branch refused to pay it and a suit was filed. The Supreme Court of Maryland upheld the tax so it went to the Supreme Court of the United States. In the decision, Chief Justice John Marshal said, "The power to tax involves the power to destroy." There is nothing I agree with more.

Now, I understand that the Federal Government needs some income in order to provide for the things that the Constitution says they are to provide for. But, can't they just make it simple? I mean the tax code requires a warehouse just to house it. You need a lawyer to translate it, and you might not even get it right then. Politicians don't hesitate to use taxes to try and win your vote. The Democrats are positively masterful at this.

The Fair Tax is the only truly fair way that the government can get the money that they need to pay for the things that they need to. Read about it. Educate yourselves. And then, let your Congressmen/women know that this is what this country needs.

OPEC and other Random Thoughts

2008-11-24T10:14:00.003-05:00

You know, I have never actually looked into OPEC and figured out who, exactly, OPEC was. Well, now I know. OPEC stands for Organization of Petrolium Exporting Countries. It has 12 members. They are Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela. Now, I don't know about you, but I always thought that this was a middle east organization. Little did I know that there were countries in this hemisphere that were members. Venezuela is the one that worries me the most (after Iran, of course). Hugo Chavez is brokering deals with Russia and other communist (or former communist) countries. They are planning on buying military weapons and such in exchange for help in developing their own country. Russia is even going to help them develop a nuclear reactor. If you have been watching the news at all then you know that Chavez hates us. Almost as much as that radical in Iran. So, all of this has been eye opening to say the least.

Now, some other random thoughts.

Let's turn to the auto industry. We all know that they are asking for $25billion so that they can stay in business. Congress is asking for them to come back to the table with a plan as to how they are going to turn their businesses around (in other words, Congress wants more oversight). I have an idea, get Congress the heck out of their business. Stop the idiotic meddling that they have been doing over the last several years. Stop giving foreign companies concessions to import their cars. And give our companies tax breaks for employing local people. (This is where I would normally give the Fair Tax a plug, but, you can read about that and decide for your self here). Let these companies either succeed or fail of their own accord. They have been doing pretty well so far, even with our government messing with them. It is just getting to be too much for them to overcome. I know I sound like a broken record sometimes, but, I can't emphasize enough, everything that the government tries to run has failed, or at least is operating at such a high cost that if it were a private company, they would have failed a long time ago. I mean, look at the list, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Welfare, even the Military. Why do people in this country insist on thinking that government is the answer for everything? They think that the government needs to step in and make sure these companies are being run properly. They can't even run the things that they are supposed to. How can we possibly expect them to ensure the success of any other venture. More government is not the answer. Less is. The list I gave is just a couple of the ways that government interference has caused the American auto industry to be where they are now. It has nothing to do with the car makers not responding to the public. It is simple economics, if the people stop buying something, make something else. That is what they have been doing form many, many years. That's why other companies have failed. It is why GM, Ford, and Chrysler will continue to operate. Get the government out of our businesses and let people succeed or fail of their own accord. THAT IS WHAT HAS MADE THIS COUNTRY GREAT!!

The Ignorant Shall Be Punished

2008-11-20T23:57:00.002-05:00

Along with the rest of us.

I heard Rush going over a Zogby poll today. I actually blogged before about something that Howard Stern had done on his show that showed that there were quite a few people who truly had no clue why they were voting for Obama. But, this poll just floored me.

The poll was taken after the election. From Nov 13 to Nov 15. This is what they found. The people polled all voted for Obama. 97.1% were high school graduates. 55% were college graduates. 57.4% didn't know which party controls Congress. 88.4% did not know that it was Obama who said that his policies would bankrupt coal industries. 71.8% did not know that Biden had quit a previous campaign due to plagiarism. 56% did not know that Obama started his political career in the home of two previous members of the Weather Underground. 56% didn't even know who Bill Ayers is. 86.9% thought Sarah Palin said that she could see Russia from her house. Tina Fey said that on Saturday Night Live. Only 2.4% of the people got at least 11 correct. Only 0.5% got all the questions right.

What does all of this mean?

The ignorant shall be punished. Along with the rest of us.

Some Random Thoughts

2008-11-17T10:47:00.003-05:00

I just got finished reading two stories that I wish to share my views on.

The first is a letter from Chuck Norris (yes, you read that right and it is him) to President-Elect Obama. Read the entire letter here. In it, he congratulates him on his victory in the election and wonders how he can work for our new president to better America. Then, he realized that the President works for us and quickly changed his tune. Now, I ask you, do you really think that our 44th President will actually care what we think or how we want him to run his administration? I'll give you a clue, Vice-President-Elect Biden already has given that one away. He actually told a group of supporters during the campaign that there was going to come a time when something serious was going to happen and that the decisions that were made would not seem like the right ones. That people would have to remember the support they have given him up to this point and continue to support our President even though they didn't agree with what he was doing. This kind of blind support is not how it is supposed to work. Do they want us to support them the way that this country has supported Bush? The Congress, in prticular, who were all on board a few years ago, are now totally against any idea that Bush has. Now, they again have all the power. We'll see how it all turns out until 2010 when we get to vote on the members of Congress and the Senate again.

The second thing a read was that Al Franken is heading to Washington. He hasn't even been elected yet. He is going to meet with Harry Reid and other Senate leaders so that if the recount comes out in his favor, he can hit the ground running. He said that he wouldn't be attending the orientation that the Senate has for their newly elected officials because that would be "presumptuous". First of all, if anybody has been watching this Senate race in Minnesota, then it would raise all kinds of red flags as to the validity of anything going on up there to begin with. The incumbent, a Republican, was ahead by over 700 votes. Granted, it was close. But, then all of a sudden, there were some more votes found. The number was down to 500. Then, some more were found. The number now stands somewhere between 200 and 300 votes. The recount is this week. However, if you look at the map I posted in my last post, guess where all of these votes were found. That's right, in the northeast portion of the state. That area that is predominantly blue. Now, guess how many votes were found in favor of the incumbent. That's right ZERO. When combine all of this with the fact that some pretty major instances of voter fraud have been found out and accused in other states, why shouldn't we question the validity of this race and of Al Franken, who happens to be one of the most liberal people running for a seat this year? And presumptuous, Mr. Franken, is the idea that you have any business at all in Washington until the election results are final and you, if your voter fraud supporters, have manufactured a victory.

Plain and simple. The Democrats have bought this country. Obama, by refusing to accept public funds he had promised to take, was able to throw so much money into his campaign that McCain never stood a chance. Although I was hoping that there were enough people in this country who could think for themselves and see through all the hype. The Democrats have supported and thrown so much money into the state elections to get their left wing liberals voted in, in any way they could fathom, that we are headed down the path of socialism.

This is what the people said they wanted. Voter fraud that leads to unbridled corruption and power to the very people that are seeking to destroy the very foundations that this country was built on. This is what we have to look forward to.

Who Really should have won?

2008-11-13T12:58:00.003-05:00

Now, I am not typically a sore loser. However, if you look at this map you may see red (pun totally intended). This is a map of the Presidential election results by County. If you really look at this map, you will see that the majority of the Country actually voted for McCain (well, at least by number of counties). The map is almost totally red. The blue areas are around the fringes for the most part. Most of the areas have large cities within them. New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and San Francisco to name just a few. Shoot! Look at Illinois! It is pretty much split by counties.

The thing that bothers me the most about this is the fact that it seems like the Republicans just let the large cities go to the Democrats. They don't seem to worry about them. Now, I will agree that the greater Los Angeles area seems to be a lost cause at times, due mainly to Hollywood (the same could be said of San Francisco but only because that community is way out on the left as a whole to begin with), but, if McCain could have taken just one of the larger cities, such as Philadelphia or Miami, then the whole election would have changed.

Has anyone ever wondered why the Democrats campaign mainly near the larger cities? It is extremely obvious to me just by looking at this map. That's all they need to do. If they can take the larger cities, then they can carry the whole election. No matter what the rest of the country does.

So, Obama will be a President voted for by the inner cities and those that are way out to the left way of thinking anyway.

Happy Veteran's Day

2008-11-11T20:48:00.002-05:00

I know that I haven't been writing here too much lately. I decided to take a little break after the election. But, don't worry, I have been doing a lot of reading, however, so, I will continue.

But, tonight, I have a different agenda. Today is Veteran's Day. The one day a year where we tell everyone who has served our country Thank You.

As most of you who read this blog know, I currently serve in the US Navy, so, some of those thank you's today have been for me. However, I want to thank all of the people who have served before me, THANK YOU.

I have been serving for 19yrs now. I am proud to do it. There is nothing that I could have done differently. I will admit, when I first came into the Navy, it was for money to go to college. I had only planned to do six years and then get out. But, as my life progressed, a desire to serve grew inside of me. It is not something I do for the money (anybody who has served, or is married to someone who does or has knows that). I am proud of what I do. The very idea of "upholding and defending the Constitution of The United States of America against enemies both foreign and domestic" is what keeps me going. It is about preserving a way of life. A way of life that is the envy of every other country in the world. This is why Al Qaeda doesn't like us. We are a threat to their way of life. Iran is the same way. People see the way that we live and they want to be more like us. The leaders of these countries know that if they let their people live the way we do, then, they will not be able to control their lives anymore. Their way of life will go by the wayside.

I love this country and the people who live here. Even if I don't agree with their beliefs or their points of view. That is one of the very things that I have spent a lifetime defending. The right of everyone to have their own points of view.

However, I would be remiss, if I didn't thank those who have gone before me. The one's who served before me. The one's who are the reasons that I have the opportunity to do what I do. So, to my father, father-in-law, all of my cousins who have served, grandfathers of both me and my lovely wife, all of the people at our church back home who have served, and everyone else who has served, I SAY THANK YOU for the opportunity to return the favor.

The last people I would like to thank are the ones who are currently serving, both home and abroad. Especially those who are engaged in the War on Terror no matter what front you are holding. THANK YOU for doing your part to make this world a safer place for all of us.

Reset Expectations?

2008-11-06T08:33:00.005-05:00

I am going to do something that I have only done once before. I am going to post an article that I found on Yahoo.

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President Obama's First Step: Reset Expectations

Posted Nov 05, 2008 12:15pm EST by Henry Blodget in Newsmakers, Recession, Election

From ClusterStock, Nov. 5, 2008:

If President Elect Obama were the incoming CEO of a corporation, he would now be preparing for the first act of his tenure: A massive write-off of the mountains of rotted junk buried on the company's balance sheet and an announcement that recovery will take a long, long time.

This flush would clear the way for several years of better than expected results. It would also take advantage of the new leader's one chance to blame the sorry state of the organization on his sorry predecessor.

President Obama began this process last night, in his victory speech, when he noted that restoring the country's health might take more than a term. In the next few weeks, he should go well beyond this:

The deficit will be more than $1 trillion a year for several years

The country needs a massive new fiscal stimulus

The housing market will continue to decline through at least 2010

Interest rates and taxes will eventually have to rise (after the economy stabilizes)

Weak corporations have to be allowed to fail

Millions of homeowners will lose their house

Unemployment will probably rise to 10%

The government simply cannot "bail the country out" -- not because it lacks the will, but because it lacks the power

In short, Obama needs to acknowedge reality, erring on the side of overstating the problems and challenges, and he needs to prepare the country for several tough years. Because if he doesn't, within six months of his taking office, the country will have forgotten all about the prior administration and will instead be blaming everything on him.
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It's me again. I found this interesting in light of all the promises that Obama has made over the course of his long campaign. I truly believe that most people who voted for him are expecting an immediate improvement in the economic situation. But, truth be told, it isn't going to go away over night. As he said himself on Tuesday night, it is going to take a lot of work. Those of us who actually have a clue knew that already. The funny thing about all this, is that the faces on the people who attended the victory celebration in Chicago actually looked stunned when he said that.

Again, just keep praying and hold on for the bumpy ride.

Here's to November 6, 2012

2008-11-05T09:12:00.002-05:00

First, let me congratulate all of those people out there who supported Barack Obama as well as the man himself.

I truly didn't want to have to say that, but, I am humble enough to know that this is what the majority of people in the United States voted for yesterday and that is that. So, all we can do at this time is congratulate him, pray, and get ready for the next election.

There are two things that worried me about yesterday. It was two things that really resonated within my soul.

First, one of the commentators said that there were more people who voted for Obama because he was black than voted against him because he was black. This indicated, to me, that one of the main reasons this man won the election was because of his skin tone. This is not right. You combine that with the second thing I heard, and that was that Obama got about 67% of the vote in the age group 18-29 and McCain won almost 65% of the vote of people over the age of 60 and you soon begin to realize that this election wasn't truly about the issues at hand. That the majority of the people made decisions on misinformation or downright ignorance.

The second thing I want people to realize is that when it became apparent that Obama was going to win, McCain/Palin very calmly came out and conceded the race. No big drawn out fight that would take the election into December (remember 2000 and 2004). They were very gracious and promised to continue to serve the people of this great nation. This is something that neither Al Gore nor John Kerry did.

And, go ahead and read my wife's blog and you will know why I am so worried about this decision.

So, congratulations. America has spoken. I just hope that we avoid too much damage from being done.

I just don't know

2008-11-04T08:18:00.003-05:00

I have been thinking, and reading, trying to come up with something to write about. I was actually going to post something last night, but, I truly didn't know what else I could have said before the polls opened today.

Just some things to remember about how important this election is (let's set aside the fact that no matter which side wins, it will be history. On one side, the first Black President. On the other side, the first female Vice-President).

First, let's look at the different views the candidates have. I have pretty much made it clear how I feel about Obama's views. He is a socialist in his thinking. He will not come right out and say that because it would have totally cost him this election. He wants to expand the government so that people will become even more dependent on government. He wants to "nationalize" health care. He wants to expand Social Security and Medicare. He wants to give a tax break to people who don't pay taxes. He wants to raise taxes on people who make too much money to pay for all of this. He has said himself that he wants to spread the wealth. McCain wants to keep the tax cuts that have been put into place by Bush and make them permanent. A little known fact, is that while Obama may give you a credit now, when the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010, EVERYONE'S taxes will go up. McCain also supports less regulation by the federal government. He has almost always supported this. There are times when he has felt that we needed to have more regulation (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2005). McCain wants US to be able to do the things that we do to make this economy grow and continue to make this country great.

Second, let's look at the contradictory remarks that have been made by the Democratic ticket. Biden has said himself, that Hillary Clinton would have been a better choice for Vice-President than he himself was. Between him and Obama, the level of money that one has to make to ensure that their hard work is punished by higher taxes is somewhere between $150,000 and $250,000. They have actually used three different figures, the lowest being $150,000 and the highest $250,000. Which is it?

Lastly, let's look at something else Biden has said. He guaranteed that within the first six months of his presidency, some international crisis will happen that will test the mettle of Obama. If that statement alone doesn't scare you, here are a few things that I have read in the news that might put this into perspective. Iran (you know, that little country that isn't a threat, according to Obama, even though they continue to pursue nuclear weapons) is putting naval bases along their southern border. This is right at the mouth of the Straits of Hormuz, the only passage into Arabian Gulf. And, if that isn't scary enough, remember Libya and Moammar Gadhafi? Remember Russia? Russia invaded the country of Georgia during the Olympics. Now, Gadhafi is in Russia trying to negotiate deals for weapons. He is actually going to allow the Russians to build a naval base in Libya. Also, the report says, that he is interested in buying air defense systems, combat aircraft and warships from Russia. There are some serious things going on in this world. I truly don't want someone in the White House that people around the globe feel the need to "TEST".

The election that is happening today is extremely important. Not only for the near future, but for generations to come. My wife and I have voted. I encourage everyone who can, to vote. Don't sit this one out. Even though it is NOT a Constitutional right to vote, it is our obligation, as citizens of this great country, to do so, but, to do so with knowledge about what we are voting for. I am sure I will prayers just about every waking moment of the day concerning this election. I know what I believe, and in whom I believe. What about you?

More random thoughts

2008-10-31T15:47:00.008-04:00

Alright. I just thought that this was interesting when my wife got it e-mailed to her. It explains an awful lot. I would say funny, but, it is actually sad.

Remember back when Obama was a long shot? He actually signed an agreement to take public financing for his campaign. Well, as we all know, that never happened. He figured out that he could make more money if he relied on private funding. And he sure did. That's how he is able to afford making 30 minute info-mercials. How he can afford to have an entire advertising channel on satellite.

Well, here are a few other random thoughts for you.

First, concerning both his info-mercial the other night and his acceptance speech (this part was played again during the info-mercial). He actually said, "It is that fundamental belief -- I am my brother's keeper, I am my sister's keeper -- that makes this country work." Well, in case you haven't heard, he has a brother (half brother actually) that is living in a one room hut in Kenya making about $12 a year. He also has an aunt that was found living in a slum in Boston. She walks around with a metal stick. If he truly believes that this belief is what makes this country work, then how can he have so much money while relatives are living in poverty? If you haven't heard about this, it's probably because both were found by the media in the United Kingdom. That's right. English newspapers found this stuff out. The media here will not even think about playing stories like this.

Maybe the following will let you know a little about why.

What I am referring to here is something that was found on a blog called HillBuzz. I highly encourage you to click on the link and read the comment left on this blog. The person says that she is working for the Obama campaign. In it, she describes all of the things that have been going on in the Obama campaign concerning manipulation of the polls, attacks on Sarah Palin and John McCain, and just a whole other number of things that are designed to cause us to vote Obama. I knew that they were trying to buy this campaign. I knew that the media was trying to shove him down our throats. But, the actual audacity of these people actually makes me sick. The fact that they are actually controlling the media, both on and off the internet, is what really gets me. We need to send the message that we can not be bought.

Thoughts on the economy. Exxon Mobile reported record profits for the 3rd quarter, $14.8billion. That's $14,830,000,000. While this is amazing to me, what I find even more amazing is the fact that they paid $32,510,000,000 in taxes before they came to this number. $11,327,000,000 of that was INCOME TAX. That's right, approximately 67% taxes. Why are we so worried about how much money Exxon Mobile makes? They are NOT the bad guys. They are only doing what the stockholders pay them to do.

Last thing. There are several stories out there about how we are in a recession. Base on what? Through all my reading, I have found out that a recession is usually called if there is a decrease in the GDP for TWO CONSECUTIVE quarters. The GDP for the third quarter was just reported on Wednesday. It did go down, but, it didn't in the second quarter. This means, that by everything that has been used, we are NOT in a recession. Are we in difficult times, absolutely. But, this country is not in a recession right now. And as far as the Bush economic policies, the GDP has grown just about every quarter since the second year Bush was in office. If the GDP has grown, then, the economy has done very well.

Just some food for Friday thought.

As Promised

2008-10-29T20:52:00.002-04:00

Well, I did fib a little. These are not actually videos. They are audio soundbites from YouTube. The first one is a series of bites from a radio show on which Obama appeared back in 2001. Tagged onto the end of it is the bite in which he told "Joe the Plumber" how he felt about redistributing wealth.

The second is a bite is something he said, that, to me, just confirms that he can not possibly take an oath in which he swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

PLEASE, let me know what you think.

Promote vs. Provide

2008-10-29T10:09:00.010-04:00

One of the things that all military personnel and most public officials promise to do when they are sworn in to office is to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic."

Now, one of the things that the Constitution says is that the government will PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE. This is what the military is for. Next comes, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE. We are all intelligent people and we know that there is a difference between provide and promote. What Obama wants to do is to PROVIDE for the general welfare. This goes against one of the very things that the Constitution stands for. He is even willing to go through the courts to do this. He wants judges to have empathy towards the people that are before them. He wants judges who know what it feels like to be poor, African-American, gay or what ever else. He wants these judges to disregard what the law is and find it in their hearts to decide these cases in the best interest of the downtrodden. I have read several articles that state just this. He thinks that we need to redistribute things here in the United States. Mainly, he wants to tax those that are making too much money (according to him) and give it to those who don't make enough (according to him). To me, this goes against the Constitution itself. Later today, I will post a video of an interview with Obama back in 2001 that explains all of this. My question at this time is, if Obama believes this and wins, how can he take the oath of office? Will he actually swear to defend the Constitution against himself?

And, while we are at it, let us talk a little about the freedom of speech. The Obama campaign has cancelled a scheduled interview with Biden's wife, Jill, that was to be given to an Orlando station, following an interview of Joe Biden in which he got asked the very questions that, I feel, should have been asked all along (finally, someone is willing to ask some tough questions). The campaign told the station, “This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election.” What were the questions you might ask? Here is how part of the interview went.

She compared Obama’s comments to the socialist doctrine of Karl Marx then asked Biden, “How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to ‘spread the wealth?’ ”

Biden paused momentarily, grinned, then asked, “Are you joking? Is this a joke? Is this a real question?”

He defended Obama by saying he hoped to spread the wealth by giving the middle class tax breaks. “It’s a ridiculous question,” Biden concluded.

But West wasn’t finished as she asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America’s days as the world’s leading power were over.

“I don’t know who’s writing your questions,” Biden shot back.

Now, this is on top of another blow up by Biden over similar questions being asked by a reporter in Philadelphia.

You combine this with the fact that Obama, Biden and many other Democrats support a thing called the Fairness Doctrine, and you get a governmental infringement on one of the dearest rights afforded to us by the Bill of Rights. The Fairness Doctrine says that for every minute that a station airs one point of view, they must also air a minute stating the opposite point of view. In other words, a radio station no longer has the right to determine what it is putting on the air. This is a direct attack on Conservative Talk Radio. The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, and Sean Hannity, just to name a few. Radio stations air these shows because they make them money. It's plain and simple. People listen to them. The Liberals tried to counteract the effects of conservative talk radio by implementing their own station called Air America. Well, guess what, it fell flat on it's face. Nobody wanted to listen to it. Liberals can't get their views into this format, and they can't fight the conservatives who are there either. So, they want to make it a federal law to let them in. I don't get it. They already have control over the main stream media in most areas. Wait a minute, I do get it. They know that a lot of people listen to these people on the radio. They also know that most Americans have access to more and more information. We can look into things, almost instantly, that would have taken many hours of research before. If they can control everything, then they can infuse their liberal, anti-Constitutional views on everyone.

If we allow the Democrats to have unchecked power in both Congress and the White House, this is where we are heading.

Some things to think about

2008-10-26T11:12:00.003-04:00

I want everyone to watch this. I got it from another blog that I look at. What I want you to pay attention to is what the moderator says about raising taxes and government revenue. This is one of the Democratic debates.

In case you didn't notice, this moderator is one of the very people who is trying to push Senator Government down our throats. It's the same as Biden. You didn't agree with him then, why should you agree with him now? It makes no sense.

Now, let me ask a few questions.

What is America 's first line of missile interceptor defense that protects the entire United States ?
What is the ONLY National Guard unit on permanent active duty?

The answer for both of these questions is: 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard.

Next:
Who is the Commander in Chief of the 49th Missile Defense Battalion of Alaska National Guard?

What U.S. governor is routinely briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counter terrorism?

What U.S. governor has a higher classified security rating than either candidate of the Democrat Party?

You guessed it. The answer to these three questions is: Governor Sarah Palin, Alaska

Now, with all of this in her corner, why are the Democrats trying to attack her lack of experience? It's because they know that they have to take the spotlight off of the fact that Obama has NO EXPERIENCE WHAT-SO-EVER!!!!

They have the gawl to attack her on her experience when they know that Obama has NONE! Biden has even guaranteed that something will happen within the first six months of his Presidency, should he be elected. Biden has even admitted that Clinton would have been a better choice for Vice President than himself.

Between wanting to punish people for their success, and a lack of experience that guarantees something is going to happen, we can not afford to have this man elected.

Senator Government

2008-10-24T23:11:00.002-04:00

I know that is not his real name, but, it was priceless when McCain called Obama that in the last debate. I think this is how I will refer to him from now on.

I know a lot of people are a little dissapointed at the announcement that Colin Powell endorses Obama. But, let us look at a couple of things.

First, let us look at what kind of company he is in. A man by the name of Ali Larijani, who happens to be the Iranian Parliament Speaker, says that Iran would prefer it if Obama was the President. Hugo Chavez, the dictator in Venenzuela, has stated that he would like to see Obama win the White House. Now, before someone brings it up, I know that there has been postings on al-Hesbah that AlQaeda supports McCain, but, reports also say that it is because they believe he will continue the failing policies of Bush. It also says that an attack on the United States would certainly guarantee a McCain win because we would want him to get revenge on AlQaeda. AlQaeda would then succeed in exhausting America. Iran wants Obama to win because they know that Obama will talk to them without any preconditions and they can continue to do what they want. They have, on many occasions, said that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and continue on to take out America. So, Mr. Powell's endorsement of Senator Government, although slightly surprising (considering he owes his entire political career to Republicans), sure puts him into an interesting group of people. I forgot about Muammar Qaddafi (a blast from the past that is still alive and kicking), of Libya supports Obama as well as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran. If all of these people who, so obviously don't like America, want Obama to become President, why would we want him?

Second, they have totally stopped hiding their socialist agenda. Obama has actually said that he wants to spread the wealth around (see the video in the previous post). He isn't even trying to hide it anymore. He fully admits it. He wants to take money from people who have worked hard and make a right decent living and give it to people who don't. But, wait, there will be a work requirement for people to get the money, so it isn't welfare. Also, Joe Biden has said that they are going to go after the big C.E.O.'s retirement funds. Now, while I don't believe that a CEO whose actions have caused a company to go into the ground should be rewarded with a big payout at the end, and, that in a lot of cases, there probably even be some sort of fine, I feel that the retirement funds of individuals should be left alone.

The Democrats are the same as they always have been. They are the one's who wanted to keep slavery. Now, they have caused the dependence on the government to grow to the point that there are people out there who don't know how to survive on their own. They have succeeded in creating two new classes of people in this country. First, you have the people who have been getting the handouts from the government. They depend on this money for their very survival. They believe they are entitled to this. Second, you have the Political Elite. They are the one's who say they are campaigning for the very people whom their programs have caused to be right under their thumbs so that they will vote to keep them in power. Now, I know that there are bad apples on both sides of the "aisle". But, the majority of the people who think that they are better equipped to decide what is best for the people of this country than the people themselves, are Democrats.

Lastly, Biden has said two things that I have found to be very disturbing. First, he guaranteed that something would catostrophic would happen to test the mettle of Obama within the first six months of his presidency. Second, he told voters in the Northwest, that there would be a time when they would have to remember their support right now, and provide that support. Because, something would happen that would cause a decision to be made that would go against what everyone would think was right. Now, here we have a guarantee of something big happening, along with a promise that the American people are not going to like something that is being done by his administration, but, we are supposed to support it blindly. WHAT?! Now I know that they are crazy.

Do we want someone who every terrorist organization in the world supports? Do we want someone who fully admits to wanting to take more of our hard earned money and give it to people who don't have the gumption to go out and make something of themselves? Are we going to guarantee that something catostrophic is going to happen?

I KNOW that we can't afford any of this to happen.

Some Random Thoughts

2008-10-20T21:31:00.001-04:00

Here is something that a friend sent to my wife to make sure I looked at.

This man says it exactly the way I want to. I just can't say enough about everything the main stream media is doing to try and shove Obama down our throats. I know that there are people out there who are waking up to this fact. I also don't understand the people who are still on the Obama band wagon.

Something else that has scared me in the past couple of weeks. I was listening to one of the radio shows that I like to listen to (Neal Boortz), and they actually played sound clips from, of all things, the Howard Stern show. In it, one of his people was in Harlem asking people on the street who they were voting for. All of them said Barack Obama. Then he asked them follow on questions like (now, you have to pay attention to this) is it his stance on allowing the troops to stay in Iraq and come home with victory? Is it his stance as pro-life? Is it his stance against stem-cell research? (notice, all of these questions are the stances of McCain). Every one of them said yes. The final question in every interview was the one that truly got to me. What do you think of his pick of Sarah Palin as his running mate? Do you think that was a good choice? Every one of them said YES!!!!!!

They played a few of these clips. I just can't believe that people, in this day and age, are going to vote for someone and not even know what his stance is on the issues, or even who his running mate is. This is just plain ignorance. People need to wake up.

One thing that was encouraging, I was listening to another radio show (Rush Limbaugh) and one of his callers called in and said that she has been working for the McCain campaign in her state and that she is getting a lot of people who are Democrats driving up and saying that they are going to be voting for McCain.

So, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. It isn't completely dark yet. It may even be getting a little brighter. Most of the polls have shown that Obama's lead in the polls is waning. McCain seems to be making up some ground. I just hope he has enough to pull it out in the end.

Senator Government

2008-10-16T15:49:00.002-04:00

First, let me apologize for being absent 11 days. Changing jobs, along with a long weekend without internet, and things just got away from me.

Quite a bit has happened while I was gone. John McCain and Sarah Palin have gone on the offensive. They have started to bring into question some of Obama's relationships. I say, it's about time. This man truly has no experience and this is the only thing that we have to judge him on. Besides all this, you can not find anything on the things he claims to have done in the past. He has even admitted to being a socialist (although, he would say otherwise and I will talk more about this in a minute).

We have heard of his relationship with Bill Ayers. This man bombed the Pentagon and several other sites in the U.S. Has denounced the United States, and, as recently as 2001, said that he wished he could have done more. Obama sat on a board to reform education in Chicago with this man for about 8 yrs and says it was a casual acquaintance. He has used the tactics described in the book "Rules for Radicals" by communist Saul Alinsky. Shoot, Michelle Obama even used exerpts from this book in a speech. He was associated with ACORN. A group which is under investigation for voter fraud and that he has given several thousand dollars to. He is backed by every Muslim terrorist group on earth. He is even friends with Louis Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam. This man is known for his radical views and speaches denouncing everything that the United States stands for. He sat in a church, for 20 yrs., in which the Reverend Wright spouted anti white, anti American rants as well as met with Mohmmar Gadhafi.

If this isn't enough. He was speaking with "Joe The Plumber" in Ohio. Joe is a man who has worked for about 15 yrs. and finally has enough to buy the company that he works for. However, he has found out that, under Obama's plan, he will be taxed more and will not be able to afford to run the business the way he wants. He actually came face to face with Obama and asked him about it. Do you know what Obama told him? He said that "it isn't that he wants to penalize him, but, he wants to give the person behind him the same chance that he has." He further went on to admit that he wants to "distribute the wealth". McCain attacked Obama on this last night. He said that he would rather "Joe The Plumber" distribute the wealth, not the Government. This is the biggest diference between the two. McCain doesn't want to take any more of anyone's money. Obama says that he is going to raise taxes on everyone who makes more than $250,000. These are the same people who hire other people. And, who do you think is going to actually pay these taxes? We are. The very same people Obama is saying that he is going to cut taxes for.

Taxes are one of the biggest tools politicians have. Every Democrat has promised to lower taxes, and then have raised them. I feel that it is time we get some truly conservative people in office and switch over to the Fair Tax. I highly recommend that everyone take a look at this site and read about it. Everyone that I have discussed this with believes that it is the way we need to go. It would certainly solve the delema for "Joe The Plumber" and anyone else in a similar situation.

They just don't get it

2008-10-05T21:59:00.002-04:00

I have been listening to the candidates for President over the past few days. Even caught the Vice Presidential Debate on Thursday. There is one very prominent subject. Taxes.

The Democrats say that they are going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans. Well, at least 50% of these people don't even pay income tax. I have asked this question before, "how can you cut something that isn't there to begin with?" Secondly, they say that they are going to raise taxes on anyone who makes over $250,000. I just don't see how they think that this is going to help the middle class. Oh yes, Biden says that it is "patriotic" and "fair". Well, I just can't help but go over this again. If you raise taxes on companies, or people who own their own business, then they are going to be forced to raise their prices. This is because their costs just went up. This will affect the middle class. They want you to believe that oil companies are evil because they make a lot of money. They make a lot of money because we buy a lot of oil. It's as simple as that. I saw an article that showed that one of these companies makes a profit of about $1500 a minute. Now, that is a lot of money. But, they pay $5000 in taxes to the federal government. They actually take in close to $20,000 a minute. This comes to a 7.5% profit margin. This is lower than just about any other business. Do you really think that they are going to let the government cut into their already small profit margin? It isn't going to happen.

At the debate, Biden talked about reaching across party lines. This is one of Obama's biggest selling points. It's also one of the biggest lies they are telling to the American people. Biden, when he was trying to win the nomination for himself, actually said that Obama wasn't qualified to be the Commander in Chief. Now, as soon as he was asked to run with him, he is the first one to defend him. If this isn't going along with the party lines, I don't know what is. You disagree with the man until you can further your own political agenda by agreeing with him. Governor Palin was very adamant about pointing this out during the debate. Another thing that actually got me very excited was that someone, besides the talk shows, actually, finally, called the Democrats' strategy for Iraq to "waive the white flag of surrender".

The Democrats are using taxes to buy your votes. They are stopping at nothing to try and keep their upper hand in the Congress. They are also trying to make people hate anyone who makes more money than they do. Well, guess what. THEY make more money than most of us do. Besides, how much sense does it make to punish those people who work hard and do well? It is counter productive. I still stand by the idea of the Fair Tax (see link to the right). We already pay approximately 22% of every dollar we spend in taxes (on top of whatever income tax we pay). If we get to keep all of our income, then it isn't going to be a hardship to pay 23% on every dollar we spend on new items. I encourage everyone to check it out. Let me know what you think.

Obama is constantly talking about change. But, he and Biden are going right along with the same old Democratic ideals. Raise taxes on the rich, thus, making it harder on the working class. Oh yes, and don't forget about "universal health care". Wait a minute. We already have it in Medicare/Medicaid. And, yes, it has been run into the ground. Why should we trust them with our health care? Everything they say just makes no sense what so ever.

Party Politic Games

2008-09-30T14:35:00.003-04:00

Alright. I am getting sick and tired of all the politics that is being played in Washington. I know, I know. That's what they do best, but, I don't understand sometimes why they just can't set aside their petty things until this all gets ironed out. WAIT!! I do know. The Democrats need every little game they can play so that the average American can think that there is a major crisis so that it will be easy to make the decision to vote for Obama so that they can regain control of the White House as well as maintain control over the Congress. Oh yes, last thing that needs to happen is that the Republicans need to be the blame for the crisis.

So, this is what happened. The House of Representatives voted against the Economy Recovery Bill that was before them this week. This is the same bill that they blamed the House Republicans for foiling in the meeting last week with the President, both presidential candidates and leaders of both the House and the Senate. But, as these same Republicans said, the Democrats have control and can pretty much pass anything they want, so why are they the bad guys? Nancy Pelosi took this bill to the House for a vote yesterday. The members barely had enough time to read it, let alone figure out what it really said. The Senate was to have the bill for vote tomorrow. Now, if this was such a good deal, why did so many people vote against it? Why did 95 Democrats vote against it? I'll tell you why. Nancy Pelosi wanted to be able to blame everything on the Republicans. Either way it went, she could do that. The media is helping in all of this. They won't tell you that nearly 40% of the Democrats in the House voted against it and 1/3 of the House Republicans voted for it. They only want you to believe it the Republicans who either want the largest Socialist move in this country to take place or don't want to do what it takes to help out the country. She knew she didn't have the votes to make it pass. That's why the big play for the House Republicans. The Democrats couldn't even convince their own party that this bill was the best thing for this country.

The Democrats have a history of trying to create crisis to get your votes. Thirty years ago, we were headed for another Ice Age. Recently, it's been Golbal Warming (Climate Change), the LOST war in Iraq, and now, finally, the economy. There is nothing we can do about the changes in climate. We are winning the War on Terror, icluding the front of Iraq. And, finally, the market will correct itself. It always does. It may be a little painful, and, we may need to pay closer attention to what is going on, but, it will happen.

Will they ever learn?

Economics and the Debate

2008-09-27T22:16:00.002-04:00

If you have been paying attention to the media and trying to follow everything that is going on, then you have probably heard that McCain is trying to bring Presidential Politics into someplace that it just doesn't belong. That he is the reason the whole deal fell through. Well, nothing could be further from the truth. Let's look at what actually happened.

First, McCain announces that he is suspending his campaign. The next day, the Democrats in Washington announce that there is a deal. This was before McCain even showed up. Then, the House Republicans (the same people that refused to leave when Pelosi called for their month break because she refused to even consider a vote on an energy bill) announce that they have a better idea than to spend $700 billion out of the treasury. Then the President has a meeting with all the congressional leaders, including McCain and Obama. The meeting ends in catastrophe and they are at square one again.

Now the media would have you believe that McCain is the reason for the meeting to blow up. But, what actually happened is this: the President gave the Democrats the floor. They all deferred to Obama so that he could come in and appear the savior. He basically went through all the talking points that he was given before getting there, and then proceeded to bash the House republicans. McCain never said a word until the very end and even Harry Reid, the leader of the Senate, said that he didn't even understand what McCain had said. Obama is the one who caused the meeting to go haywire.

See, first, the Democrats tried to make it appear like McCain wasn't even needed, by announcing the deal when they didn't actually have one. Then, they tried to spin everything to appear that McCain was just mucking everything up. When, the exact opposite is true.

The House Republicans actually have the right idea now, I think. I will be the first one to admit that I am not an economist. But, they are proposing to keep the taxpayers' money out of this deal. But, as they say, the Democrats can pass whatever they want. They have the majority in both houses and have the support of the President. So, why are they worried about the House Republicans?

Now, to the Debate. First, let me point out the familiarity that Obama tried to portray. He only called Senator McCain Senator McCain a couple of times. Most of the time he called him John. Now, McCain called Obama Senator Obama EVERY time. And besides, Obama surely stutters quite a bit.

Some people think that Obama has a better handle on the economy. I don't think so. He is still hammering away that he is going to cut taxes for 95% of the citizens. The majority of these peoples don't even pay taxes. How can you cut taxes on people who don't pay them to begin with? He still doesn't get this. Besides, he wants to raise taxes on big corporations and says that he is helping out the middle class. NO HE'S NOT!! The corporations just figure all of their costs when they make their prices. The new taxes will raise the costs for the corporations, therefore, their prices go up. Then, everyone, including the middle class, will be paying more for the things they need to buy. How is this helping. Besides, the taxes is one of the major reasons that companies are outsourcing their jobs. IT COSTS LESS!!! When asked if there were any of his plans that he would have to cut because the government is planning on spending $700 billion Obama just kept adding programs that he wanted to spend money on. How is this helping us? IT IS NOT!

Then, they went to Foreign Affairs. This was supposed to be what the entire debate was about. Someone still needs to tell Obama that there aren't two wars right now (Afghanistan and Iraq). They are two separate fronts of the SAME war. He talks like they are two separate things. He also wants to invade Pakistan. He just doesn't understand anything when it comes to how to deal with any of these countries.

If you want to lose the war on terror, pay higher prices and continue to depend on foreign oil, then, Obama is the one you should vote for. That's what I got out of the debate last night.

What a turn of events

2008-09-24T21:47:00.003-04:00

In case you missed the President's speech tonight, he laid out the plan for saving the economy. The money that he is asking Congress to allow to be used for all of this is not supposed to be money we are just giving away. It is to allow the bigger companies to be saved by purchasing the mortgage backed investment packages that have gotten everyone in trouble until everything stabilizes and they can be purchased by investors in the future. Secondly, there is to be an independent council to oversee how the money is disbursed. Also, he has called for leaders in Congress, including Obama and McCain, to a conference to finish hashing out all the details and make this a truly bipartisan agreement.

As far as Obama and McCain are concerned, I really don't care who called who first, the fact is, McCain is going to suspend his campaign until there is an agreement made that everyone can live with. He is going to return to Washington to actually do the job that the citizens of Arizona elected him to do. On the other hand, Obama doesn't seem to think that there is any reason for him to go unless they tell him he needs to. So, both men are doing the very thing that they have been doing their entire adult lives. One, serving his country. The other, serving his own ambitions.

Who do we truly want to lead this country?

Sorry it took so long

2008-09-23T19:55:00.003-04:00

As the title of this post says, I am sorry it took so long for me to put down another post. There has been quite a bit going on around here. Plus, I was sick and I have been reading quite a bit about this economic mess so that I could make an informed post on everything that is going on.

Let me first take an aside and wish my lovely wife a late HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! It was on Saturday. I was sick. Sorry about that my love, but, you continue to make me the happiest man on the face of the earth.

Now, down to the political business. Like I said, I have been doing quite a bit of reading on everything that is going on. Forgive me, this will be a little long, but, you really do need to stick with it to the end.

So far, we have the fact that the government has to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. First of all, they kind of had to do this. They are government entities. Now, another investment bank went under and one was bought out by Bank of America. See, it is kind of essential to understand that investment banks get all of their money through their investments. Regular banks have people who deposit their money. That is a big source of capital. Well, now, the government has to bail out an investment bank branch of the largest insurance agency in the world and the treasury is asking for $700 billion to correct the market.

Most people have already heard all of that. What they don't know, because the media won't tell them, is what truly lead to all of this. I am going to do a little comparison here.

Something happened almost 40yrs ago called affirmative action. This, in case you don't know, set quotas on the amount of minorities everyone had to hire. What it did was to force companies to hire non-qualified people for positions based solely on the fact that they were a minority. Something very similar happened in the housing market a few years back. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) set quotas on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as to how much of their portfolio was to be considered "affordable housing". The problem was, they never defined what affordable housing was. They set such high quotas, that it encouraged companies to broker mortgages that encouraged people to buy houses that they truly could not afford. They had programs that would provide mortgages to people with little or no verification of income. The mortgage companies would lend the money because they knew that Fannie and Freddie would buy the mortgages. HUD, who was supposed to be overseeing the activities of these two companies, never did.

Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006, warned that all this was going to happen in 2005. He told Congress, "If Fannie and Freddie ``continue to grow, continue to have the low capital that they have, continue to engage in the dynamic hedging of their portfolios, which they need to do for interest rate risk aversion, they potentially create ever-growing potential systemic risk down the road,'' he said. ``We are placing the total financial system of the future at a substantial risk.''

A reform bill went before the Senate Banking Committee. This bill gave a regulator the power to crack down and would have required the companies to eliminate their investments in risky assets. Freddie and Fannie would have had to sell off all of the bad paper that they held. Some large institutions would have been buried, but, the market for these mortgages would have no longer existed. Problem averted.

But, the bill never even got to the full Senate. It was defeated by a party line vote in the committee. Opposed by the Democrats. The Securities and Exchange Commissions chief accountant actually wrote that this was a classic case of "socializing the risk while privatizing the profits".

Now, let's look at the fact that many of the Senators that blocked this bill, protecting Fannie and Freddie, received sizable amounts of financial support from these two institutions. Guess whose names are at the top. Chris Dodd is first with $165,000. Second, in only two years, is Barack Obama at $125,000. Hillary Clinton is actually 12th with $75,000. These are the people who could have helped to prevent the record number of foreclosures we see to day as well as the unstable market that this country is seeing. These are the very same people who want to oversee the bail-out proposed by the Treasury. One of these people wants to run our entire country.

Now, to quote one of Obama's own ads, "do we really want more of the same?" Or is this the type of change that we can believe in?

Oh, yes. One final thing I found out while reading over all of this material. Guess who was one of the co-sponsors for the bill the could have prevented this whole mess. That's right, Senator John McCain. Who, if enough people educate themselves and truly make a decision that would be right for this country, WILL BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Patriotism

2008-09-17T22:50:00.005-04:00

I just saw part of an interview Joe Biden did this morning. He actually said that it was our patriotic duty to pay more taxes. WHAT??? He said it was time to step up to the plate. Now, correct me if I am wrong, isn't this the same type of attitude that we wanted to get away from over 200 years ago when we declared our independence from England? Now they want us to do our part. They want us to give them more money to mismanage. You have go to be kidding me. Obama and Biden keep talking about cutting taxes on the middle and lower class. Tell me this, how can you give tax cuts to people who are not paying taxes to begin with? It is a proven fact that the rich people in this country already pay all the taxes. These are the same policies that lead us into a recession when Clinton was in office. And they talk about Change.

Now, you want to see a patriot, look at McCain and Palin. I also watched the interview of Sarah Palin by Sean Hannity. He asked her some pretty tough questions on a wide range of subjects. I think the thing that stands out the most is that she never hesitated in her answers. It was as if she listened to the question and is so grounded in her faith and beliefs that she immediately answered. No hesitation. Not a lot of himming and hahing (however you spell that). She says that she knows that there are people who don't agree with her, and she could change to try and get their votes, but, she doesn't have time for that. She is not going to change just to try and please everyone. McCain has dedicated his life to service to this country.

I know that I am not looking forward to Obama being President. He talks about change criticizes McCain for having lobbyists as his advisers. Obama has two people who ran Fannie Mae as his advisers on economics. These two made 10's of millions of dollars off this fraudulently run company. Remember ENRON? Once the books were looked into at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they were compared to the books at ENRON. Obama even received the second most money in contributions from these two companies in the past 10 years. That's right, they gave him more money in the past two years than they did all but one other person in the past 10 years. This is the type of stuff that we are paying for. And the things we have to look forward to.

Where it all started

2008-09-17T22:50:00.003-04:00

Now, if you are all like me, you are watching the news and seeing all of these companies going under and asking for the government to help them out. Why in the world should they? These are private companies that are going under because of the inept way that they were run. I mean, if you start a business and then lose everything they don't give you money so that you can stay in business. Why should they do it just because it is a bigger company? Why should they spend the money that you and I give them to bail out companies that took other people's money and then mismanaged it to the point of failure?

Obama is going around saying that the government needs to regulate this more. But, check this out. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was started by the government as a private venture to ensure that more people could buy a home. It started encouraging the current housing situation by buying up all the mortgages that crooked companies like Countrywide were providing to people who could not even afford to pay them back. Then, when these people could not pay their mortgage, that put these two companies in a bad way. Now, the taxpayers are paying $200 billion to keep these companies from going under. The government has been regulating these two companies right into the ground. And, two of the people that ran these companies, and profited quite nicely from them, are two of Obama's biggest advisers on the economy. Why should we trust these people? This is the reason that the real estate industry has gone south.

Obama said, in a two minute message to America, "I approve this message because bitter partisan fights and outworn ideas of the left and the right won't solve the problems we face today, but a new spirit of unity and shared responsibility will." New spirit of unity? Is he kidding? He sounds just like Nancy Pelosi did when she was running and facing becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives as the most senior Democrat, which party is now the majority of the House and the Senate. I will reach across the isle and involve the Republicans. She has done the exact opposite. She wouldn't even acknowledge the Republicans who wanted to debate the subject of offshore drilling. She took a month long vacation. SHARED RESPONSIBILITY??? What ever happened to holding someone responsible for their own actions? This is a SOCIALIST idea if I ever heard one.

I truly feel that if Obama gets elected, then this country will face some of the darkest days it has in quite a long time. And this is just on the economy.

Then, news has come out that Obama, while he was over in Iraq, he discussed with the President of Iraq and tried to strike a deal to keep all of our troops there until after the election. What gives him the right to do that? NOTHING!!! He wants credit for bringing the troops home. Now, there has been an announcement that the withdrawal will begin very soon. Not all of them, mind you, but, a withdrawal none the less. Obama is NOT the President, and hopefully never will be. This, along with all of the other anti American things that spill out of his mouth on a regular basis, is borderline treason. Don't get me wrong, I respect his right to have a different opinion, and his right to speak this opinion. That doesn't mean that I have to like it. And, I don't. I don't want him to be President. I don't even want him in the Senate. But, since he is not representing my state, then, I guess I will have to put up with him in some way.

Simple Economics

2008-09-12T10:04:00.003-04:00

I had thought about blogging yesterday, but, decided to let everyone remember 9/11 however you wish to do so. I had several moments of silence and watched the news coverage while working to get my reports done.

Today, I was going to write about things to try and remind you all of who it was/is that responded to the attacks and how brave men and women put their lives in harms way each and every day to keep this country safe. Of course, I am talking about the men and women in the respective uniforms of this country. While, I usually talk about the Military, this is intended to also include the Police Officers and Fire Fighters throughout this country who provide protection on a local level. They too, are heroes who help to maintain the people of this country safe from it's enemies. So, let's all give a big "THANK YOU" to everyone who wears a uniform in service of this country.

Alas, something has come up that I feel needs to be mentioned. If there is any reason for Congress to get off their collective butts and lift the ban on drilling in this country, Ike is providing substantial proof that we need to do it NOW!!!! A friend of my wife's called us this morning and told us that gas went from $3.80 to $4.99 from 10pm last night to 2am this morning. There are stations here that are limiting the amount of gas that you can purchase at one time to 10 gallons. That's not even 1/2 a tank for our family vehicle.

Along with the drilling, we need to build more refineries. The majority of our refineries are in the area that is being affected by Ike. As a matter of fact, the largest refinery in the U.S.A. is in Houston and is now shut down and evacuated. This storm is what is causing the price of gas to go up so drastically. If we had our own oil and other places to refine it, then we would not have to worry about a storm coming through quite as much. There would be other places that we could rely on to provide the demand.

Also, along with this is this stupid "windfall profit" tax that Obama and other Democrats want to institute on the oil companies. Let me tell you something, anyone who thinks that raising taxes on a company will somehow benefit the people who buy the end product is high. The company will just raise their prices because their costs have gone up. It's simple economics.

I came across some statistics that I found to be pretty interesting. Exxon Oil reported a profit of about $1500 a minute. Now, that is quite a sum of money, however, they also pay almost $5000 per minute in taxes and spend almost $15,000 in other costs such as research and development, the actual refining process, etc., etc., etc. Now, I ask you, if the company is paying more than 3 times their actual profits in taxes, what will their reaction be if Congress raises our taxes? I can't say this enough, IT IS SIMPLE ECONOMICS!!