On the threshold of new “Dark Ages”

Why do we think this country went from being basically a wild land, to being the most influential, rich, and most powerful country on the planet in just a few short years, as history goes?
It certainly wasn’t that we took the European model of government, ideology and socialist programs and just moved them geographically to a new place and started over, not by a long shot.
We escaped the tyranny of a system that was not working for the people, only for the government and those to which the governing body wished to bestow its gracious larder upon. We became so powerful so quickly because of the type of government our founding fathers formed. It was a Government, “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” What that meant was that government would secure the basics and get out of the people’s way and allow them and the new system to dictate how and where the country would grow and also how fast. This being unique in history it was an experiment of which no one knew the outcome. As history has shown, this tenuous little experiment unprecedented in history has kick butt. Allowing the entrepreneurial spirit to soar and the free market and capital system to flourish is the reason for our great success.
The “Dark Ages” was a time in European history when all manner of human spirit was repressed not just art and writings and knowledge but the basic spirit it self was suppressed. The Renaissance period was a re- awakening of the spirit in Europe, just as the forming of a new nation was ours here in America.
Now however we find ourselves about to embark upon a new “Dark Ages.” I’m sure you are asking yourself, what is this lunatic talking about now? Well I’ll try to explain.
Here we are at a critical point in U.S. politics where a man that has no business even being in the race (and I use that term very loosely) is looking like he may win the presidency. Let me clarify that statement. The reason I say he has no business even being in the race is this, ask yourself this question; if Obama were a white person with that many dubious connections to such undesirable characters, would he even be in the race at this point? The answer to that would be no, if you are being truthful. Another question, once again if he were a white person would all his proposals and ideologies be glossed over and not analyzed to this extent? Once again if you are being truthful the answer would be no. So if you are laboring under the false allusion that this is not about race you are sadly mistaken. There is no racism here, there is no bigotry, there is no antipathy, just straightforward pragmatic thinking and observation. What saddens and worries me the most is how easily people can be led astray. There seems to be no discernable reason for the popularity of Obama. I hope dearly that it is not his ideology or proposals, for if it is those things that are fueling his popularity I am truly surprised. I am surprised because I can’t believe that a country and society that has become so affluent is willing to throw it all away by electing a man that wants to model this country after Europe, the exact place we broke away from, the exact socialist way of government and an ideology that suppresses the human spirit rather than allowing it to be free and prosper. Please don’t let demagoguery, or white guilt, or a misplaced hope guide your choice in electing a new president. Think about the future of the country and the next generations. Don’t forget Obama will use ideology as a trait for appointing Supreme Court justices. A justice is suppose to be appointed by their ability to interpret the constitution not legislate from the bench. If there are indeed three justices to be appointed in the next administration they will dictate the direction of the country for years to come. Remember they are there to adjudicate not to legislate. If McCain is the one to appoint new justices he would appoint them according to their abilities, not ideology, he has proved that by his past votes for justices.
In a nutshell what we have is a man that wants to plunge us into what we escaped two hundred and thirty some years ago, what we fought such hard won victories for, some of them pyrrhic victories indeed, and a man that wants to let the proven spirit of this country soar and grow to be what it was meant to be all those many years ago. A country that if allowed to flourish as a free society, capital system, and a country of entrepreneurs will once again be the shining city on the hill.

They get golden parachutes, we get golden showers

Yep here we go again. Let me just name a few of the decadent profligate recipients of the golden parachutes.

Stanley O’Neal of Merril Lynch, 161.5 mil, Angelo Mozilo of Countrywide, 121 mil, Charles Prince of Citigroup, 68 mil, Richard Fuld of Lehman Brothers, 22 mil, Kerry Killinger of Washington Mutual, 22 mil, Alan Fishman of Washington Mutual, 22 mil, after only three weeks, Jimmy Cayne of Bear Sterns, 61 mil, I’m getting tired of this, there are more, but I’m getting nauseated and don’t want to puke on my keyboard. Then of course as I mentioned before there are the AIG guys who stuck their fingers on our collective eyes and laughed all the way to the St. Regis Resort in California, the most exclusive place in the U.S. While on their little junket it cost that recently bailed out (by us taxpayers) company $440,000.000 green back samolians. The ones that get me are the two from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Daniel Mudd and Richard Syron. They were the worse perpetrators of bad lending practices and started this whole avalanche. They get to walk away with 7.3 and 6.3 respectively of good old golden parachutes, then there are Jim Johnson and Franklin Rains, they had to get their 100 mil golden parachutes. while we beleaguered taxpayers once again get the golden shower.

It all started with the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to counteract redlining practices. Since the original act there have been 6 regulatory changes. Each one has led us further down the path to ruination. The last big snafu was in 93 to 95 when Clinton asked regulators to reevaluate criteria so more people could get housing. The strong arm tactics that were used were just short of Jack-booted thugs, there by forcing lending institutions to lend to everyone and anyone. All this considered, in the final analysis this could have been avoided if people were doing their jobs. I don't have to tell you how we got wet, the problems are too many to enumerate here and are as varied as there are people. The guilt lies with both parties and many individuals, however from what I can glean by research trying desperately to be unbiased I find the onus and preponderance of evidence lies more heavily on Liberals than Conservatives. There certainly are times when the opposite is true, however in this case I found theses fact to be true. It’s outlandish how, no matter who these guys are, or how bizarre the circumstances, they will still end up with golden parachutes and we will end up with golden showers.

The vicissitude of politics

Politics by its very nature is capricious. It turns and twists, ebbs and flows according to the whims and vagaries of the moment. Why should we be surprised when one candidate or the other changes his or her mind? Situations change, needs change, and peoples perceptions change constantly. Politicians are continually sticking their fingers in the air to check the winds of change. This time they stuck their fingers in our eyes and laughed all the while. No one wants to take responsibility for what has happened. We know full well that the parties will be tendential, after all that is the character of ideology. However for us to get over this we need someone with some backbone, someone who is not an invertebrate to grab this situation and make some tough decisions. We need a candidate that is willing to be tangential, a maverick to take us out of the darkness. What we don’t need is someone whose background is fraught with coadjuvancies of a dubious nature, dubious nature hell, Obama’s connections and associations are out and out just wrong. I am insulted as an American that someone of such ilk can even be considered for the highest office in the land and the leader of the free world. It is disgusting to see so many be taken in by his slick demeanor and manipulative packaging. On the other front, where for decades Democratic controlled government has systematically set about tearing down our capitalistic society and slowly are replacing it with socialism, we have the final assault, a contrived crisis turned into a Christmas present for a multitude of malefactors. We are just hearing that the executives of AIG are at the most exclusive and expensive resort in the country celebrating their good fortune. Are any of you celebrating this calamity? I think not. I mean there aren’t even any apologies given or responsibilities taken by anyone at all. What have we come to? I, and the American taxpayer should be implacable in calling for heads to roll. Wall Street and the high rollers of these institutions should be ashamed of themselves, but most of all our elected solons should be not only ashamed, but should along with the miscreants of these companies be held accountable to the point of prosecutory action. The action may only be not to allow golden parachutes, or in the case of our so-called politicians, to remove them from their positions, either through impeachment or criminal action, there by rendering them unfit to serve, serve, ha!, what a joke that has become. I realize that they may not have actually committed any act of breaking the law, however does no one ever adhere to the laws of morality any longer? What about good ol ethics? I suppose that is down the tubes also. I don’t know, I’m becoming disillusioned with this whole process, well I guess it’s not so much the process as what the system has turned it into. They have accomplished near nihilism, perhaps when we have reached the final depths we will have another tea party and clean house so we can get back to being the affluent, moral, ethical society we are meant to be. The only problem with that is we have to weather the storm of indifference until real reform can be accomplished. There in lies the rub.

SAME OL-SAME OL

About two minutes into what is laughingly referred to as a debate, I got the feeling of déjà vu all over again. We heard the same things we have been hearing for the last forty years from Biden and the democrats, when it was Palin’s turn we heard how they were going to change things, rather the same that we heard from Biden. Well, here is a news flash for those guys, we have heard it all before and now we have what we have, a mess. I am so sick and tired of the blame game with everything from roads and bridges to the recent financial debacle that I am ready to throw the whole bunch of them off a cliff. It’s always the other guy’s fault and we can do better, bull-ticky. What ever happened to admitting mistakes and learning from them and getting on with what they are there for? I must admit I did hear that mistakes were made and they intended to learn from them from Palin and not from Biden. Over all I came away with more trust in McCain/Palin than in Obama/Biden, Well Obama pretty much sleazed his way out of my good graces with his associations and his economic rhetoric. I keep trying to be objective, but it’s either one side or the other that lets me down. As I said over all I feel better with the “R” Ticket than the “D” ticket and believe me I really don’t care what letter there is after their names, I just want what is good for my country and ultimately good for me.

my heart is saddened

I am so disgusted with these politicians it isn't funny any more. I’m disgusted and Pissed off and shamed. They kept banging on about how this was so bad and even though like 90% of Americans were against it they said, “oh you don’t understand and we know better because we are politicians.” Well riddle me this Batman, the bill wouldn’t stand on it’s own, what is that telling us? That in spite of what they said, it wasn’t that bad because they would have passed it otherwise. This 700 Billion is so full of pork it’s like the Chicago stockyards for crying out loud. Hell they got this tax break for some wooden arrow manufacturer, some deal for woolite or some such thing, (not really, but it may as well be) some bicycle incentive package, it just goes on and on with ridiculous earmarks and pork. If this were as bad as they lead us to believe they wouldn’t have had to buy votes to pass it, by porking the U.S. taxpayer. I’m so infuriated that I don’t even want to know half the crap they loaded into this alleged bale-out. It’s only as high as 700 Bill, because of all the pork. We probably could have taken care of business in the tens of billions, I ‘m livid, incensed, furious, fuming, enraged, beside my self, ripping, oh I could go on, but what’s the sense. I see it doesn't matter a fig what we the people want, it’s what the politicians can finagle and wrangle out of us. How about THEY start paying for all their screw-ups. How about they have to live like the rest of us, with the insurance we have and the benefit pacages we have. How about they don't give themselves raises anymore without our say so. How about they don't take a job for 160 grand and then after a couple of terms they are multi millionairs, or they can't retire with bennies and the lot after a couple of terms, how about them apples? That would put a screeching halt to their shenanigans. The scariest part is that we are heading straight into the United Socialist States of America. It’s so very sad to see a great country going down the road to perdition on the way to wrack and ruin. Oh my poor country, I cry for thee, how could this happen? As I said before if you think it is bad now, wait and see what it will be like if Obama gets in. We can only hope and pray that won’t be the case. Sadness fills my heart at the prospect of this country going further into the depths of paucity and dearth.