What was Obama thinking? Veterans paying for their own insurance, or at least their own insurance company paying instead of the people of the United States that owe everything they have to the people who keep us safe. Oh boy the veteran’s administration would save $530 mil. A year, big whoop! These guys are spending like insane Zillas and they want to turn their backs on our vets. I’ll tell you what, they don’t want to find themselves in a dark alley with me, I’ll give them something to claim on their insurance. How about this, instead of the Senate and Congress getting the cream of all the benefits, they get regular stuff like the rest of us, and the vets get their insurance package.
Granted after much pressure Obama retracted his proposal, but gees man what was he thinking in the first place?
I don’t want to beat this AIG thing to death but if the government goes after a specific entity or person isn’t that what is called a bill or writ of Attainder and isn't it totally unconstitutional? I believe so. Okay, I found the definition; A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution. (ref. on line legal dictionary) As I said before this stuff was all agreed to in the noseeum stimulus package. Now we have all the solons in high dudgeon and righteous indignation running around blaming everyone else for their ineptitude. The temerity has no bounds with these cretins and mooncalves.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
What the hell ?
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
I cry for my country
What has happened to my country? We are just throwing money at things, the good after the bad. There is no common sense. The ginormous spending bills are not allowed to be scrutinized. What have we come to, a dictatorship? It seems no one is trying to actually solve any problems, just make more by increasing the deficit.
This Detroit school system thing is outrageous and typical. Obama wants to throw 530 mil. at a system that is missing 54 mil. and has already had way too much money thrown at a totally failed system. With only a 35 percent graduation rate and only 5 percent ready for collage, the system needs a total make over not just a blank check. The system had a deficit of 200mil last year and 3 superintendents have been fired, 18 of 19 schools are on the verge of failure and this is the system he wants to turn his back on and just give them money to go away. We are going to have to take a long hard look at the failed systems and make some hard decisions. You can’t take away the choice system, the voucher system and expect not to have people think they were hung out to dry, guess what, they are.
Obama wants to banish the phrase enemy combatant, he wants to close Gitmo and confer all legal rights afforded law-abiding citizens of the U.S. He wants to not use the words war on terror, again, where are we?
If things keep going this way, sadly, all too soon our country will not be recognizable.
We have lost 11trillion dollars worth of wealth since the stock market started its plummet.
We have tax increases on the way next year. How can any compassionate group of people do such a thing in such stressed times. They want to punish people that are the backbone of the country who make over 250k. That would be 70 percent of small businesses that make up the majority of jobs in this country. Tax cuts for the so-called rich are the ones that create jobs. I have never seen a poor person give anyone a job.
Talk about draconian rules. Pelosi won’t allow bills to be submitted by republicans and won’t even allow amendments to try and find a more sensible answer to this mess.
What about the Fairness doctrine, wire taps, the Patriot act?
If some have their way we will be in a socialistic society and will have few if any rights left that were afforded us by our constitution. The sworn enemies of our country will hold all the cards and we will be left holding the bag. That bag folks is full of crap. As a matter of fact I would say it is a blivit. A blivit is ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag and when you open it guess what? It’s going to hit the rotating finned air delivery service. That is what, allegorically speaking, we will have.
Missouri State Police are directed to use extreme caution if they see a bumper sticker from a third party on a car (i.e. Ron Paul etc.) the state government claims that it is possible they are subversive and dangerous. Once again, will somebody tell me where it is we are living?
Eminent Domain; (the state and local mostly) government has taken many private homes and land for the purpose of building the tax base not for the betterment of the general public. Their argument is that more tax is for the betterment of the public. That is not what that law was set up for at all, and they damn well know it. There are documented cases where old veterans are evicted, long time businesses are shut down and a similar business put in its place, yet the original proprietor is not allowed to put his business there, it has to be the chain the municipality wants in place. A car dealership needed more parking space, so a landmark old business is being pushed out to accommodate the dealership that has the political clout. What county is this again?
This AIG thing is such a boondoggle. Last year when Tim Geithner was in on the deal to fix AIG and the stimulus/bailout the government knew perfectly well that those contracts were in place. They signed the package with that information in it. Now that people have time to actually look at the stimulus package they are finding out some of the agreements aren’t all that fantastic. That’s what you get for slamming a bill in before anyone can scrutinize it.
Those bonuses are actually severance packages. Everyone keeps wining about firing the screw-ups, well that is what they are doing. The money is part of the severance. Do they deserve it? Not in my view. If you allow the government to break agreements and what amounts to a contract, then what kind of a country are we looking at here?
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t enjoy getting played like this. Where was the outrage when we bailed out Lehman Brothers? They gave out 2.5 Billion not a mere 165 mil. How is it that someone can run a company up on the rocks and get a bonus for it? Doesn’t make sense, does it? If you or I screw up, it’s hasta la vista baby.
Okay here is how to fix this fix we are in right off.
(1) Initiate immediate tax cuts across the board.
(2) Lower the capital gains tax.
(3) Remove the death tax
(4) Encourage not discourage businesses by offering incentives not penalties for investing.
(5) Medical concerns: allow competitive private sector insurance, not government control.
You get the idea here, it’s really not rocket surgery. You may ask, “how do we pay for all this stuff"? That my friends is the coup de gras. It would be time for Obama to actually keep one of his promises, i.e. cut useless and non effective waste and programs out of the budget.
Plus if you guarantee these initiatives for 4 years that will blast the stock market back up, housing will once again become viable and there will be liquidity in lending.
Now if you and I can figure this out by just looking back at historic events, why is it that all those supposed frigg’n brainstorms keep pulling a Barney (i.e. reference Barney Frank/ Chris Dodd, a couple of the architects behind this debacle)?
This Detroit school system thing is outrageous and typical. Obama wants to throw 530 mil. at a system that is missing 54 mil. and has already had way too much money thrown at a totally failed system. With only a 35 percent graduation rate and only 5 percent ready for collage, the system needs a total make over not just a blank check. The system had a deficit of 200mil last year and 3 superintendents have been fired, 18 of 19 schools are on the verge of failure and this is the system he wants to turn his back on and just give them money to go away. We are going to have to take a long hard look at the failed systems and make some hard decisions. You can’t take away the choice system, the voucher system and expect not to have people think they were hung out to dry, guess what, they are.
Obama wants to banish the phrase enemy combatant, he wants to close Gitmo and confer all legal rights afforded law-abiding citizens of the U.S. He wants to not use the words war on terror, again, where are we?
If things keep going this way, sadly, all too soon our country will not be recognizable.
We have lost 11trillion dollars worth of wealth since the stock market started its plummet.
We have tax increases on the way next year. How can any compassionate group of people do such a thing in such stressed times. They want to punish people that are the backbone of the country who make over 250k. That would be 70 percent of small businesses that make up the majority of jobs in this country. Tax cuts for the so-called rich are the ones that create jobs. I have never seen a poor person give anyone a job.
Talk about draconian rules. Pelosi won’t allow bills to be submitted by republicans and won’t even allow amendments to try and find a more sensible answer to this mess.
What about the Fairness doctrine, wire taps, the Patriot act?
If some have their way we will be in a socialistic society and will have few if any rights left that were afforded us by our constitution. The sworn enemies of our country will hold all the cards and we will be left holding the bag. That bag folks is full of crap. As a matter of fact I would say it is a blivit. A blivit is ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag and when you open it guess what? It’s going to hit the rotating finned air delivery service. That is what, allegorically speaking, we will have.
Missouri State Police are directed to use extreme caution if they see a bumper sticker from a third party on a car (i.e. Ron Paul etc.) the state government claims that it is possible they are subversive and dangerous. Once again, will somebody tell me where it is we are living?
Eminent Domain; (the state and local mostly) government has taken many private homes and land for the purpose of building the tax base not for the betterment of the general public. Their argument is that more tax is for the betterment of the public. That is not what that law was set up for at all, and they damn well know it. There are documented cases where old veterans are evicted, long time businesses are shut down and a similar business put in its place, yet the original proprietor is not allowed to put his business there, it has to be the chain the municipality wants in place. A car dealership needed more parking space, so a landmark old business is being pushed out to accommodate the dealership that has the political clout. What county is this again?
This AIG thing is such a boondoggle. Last year when Tim Geithner was in on the deal to fix AIG and the stimulus/bailout the government knew perfectly well that those contracts were in place. They signed the package with that information in it. Now that people have time to actually look at the stimulus package they are finding out some of the agreements aren’t all that fantastic. That’s what you get for slamming a bill in before anyone can scrutinize it.
Those bonuses are actually severance packages. Everyone keeps wining about firing the screw-ups, well that is what they are doing. The money is part of the severance. Do they deserve it? Not in my view. If you allow the government to break agreements and what amounts to a contract, then what kind of a country are we looking at here?
I don’t know about you guys, but I don’t enjoy getting played like this. Where was the outrage when we bailed out Lehman Brothers? They gave out 2.5 Billion not a mere 165 mil. How is it that someone can run a company up on the rocks and get a bonus for it? Doesn’t make sense, does it? If you or I screw up, it’s hasta la vista baby.
Okay here is how to fix this fix we are in right off.
(1) Initiate immediate tax cuts across the board.
(2) Lower the capital gains tax.
(3) Remove the death tax
(4) Encourage not discourage businesses by offering incentives not penalties for investing.
(5) Medical concerns: allow competitive private sector insurance, not government control.
You get the idea here, it’s really not rocket surgery. You may ask, “how do we pay for all this stuff"? That my friends is the coup de gras. It would be time for Obama to actually keep one of his promises, i.e. cut useless and non effective waste and programs out of the budget.
Plus if you guarantee these initiatives for 4 years that will blast the stock market back up, housing will once again become viable and there will be liquidity in lending.
Now if you and I can figure this out by just looking back at historic events, why is it that all those supposed frigg’n brainstorms keep pulling a Barney (i.e. reference Barney Frank/ Chris Dodd, a couple of the architects behind this debacle)?
Monday, March 9, 2009
Where are we headed?
President Barack Obama has sent a secret letter to Russia offering a nuclear trade-off.
Obama offered to back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Russia helps stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, American media reported. Obama offered the deal in a letter hand-delivered to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow last month by top administration officials. Senior U.S. officials confirmed the report.' The letter touched on a range of subjects, including missile defense and how it relates to the Iranian threat,' an official stated. Russia vehemently opposes the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The system was proposed by the administration of former President George Bush.
Moscow has not yet responded to Obama's offer, the report said. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov inGeneva Friday.
William Burns, the State Department's political director and a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, went to Moscow in February to help prepare for that meeting and to broach ideas to improve ties.
If you don’t agree with all of Obama’s policies, take heart, there is one person who agrees with nearly all his policies and says that we have a friend and ally in the White House. Oh, did I forget to mention his name? Sam Webb, the head of the American Communist party.
What the hell is going on?
Okay, first we are spending more money in three months than every president since Washington to Bush, which will in effect indebt the next two generations. The illusion that Barack Obama will lead from the economic center has quickly come to an end. Instead of combining the best policies of past Democratic presidents -- John Kennedy on taxes, Bill Clinton on welfare reform and a balanced budget, President Obama is returning to Jimmy Carter's higher taxes and Clinton's draconian defense drawdown. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined. It reduces defense spending to a level not sustained since the dangerous days before World War II, while increasing nondefense spending (relative to GDP) to the highest level in U.S. history. It would raise taxes to historically high levels (again, relative to GDP). All of this before even addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs because of all the baby boomers.
Now we have secret letters, secret talks with Dmitry Medvedev on behalf of Obama to hold off on deployment of the missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. That may not be such a bad idea, but where is it leading us? Appeasement just simply will not work with some factions.
Get this, the war in Afghanistan is to tough for poor little Barry now that reality has smacked him square in the face, so now he wants to appeal to the more moderate Taliban and make some sort of appeasement deal, what the F*** is that? more moderate Taliban is an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Anyone who has not been either living in a vacuum, or under a rock, knows that the main goal of the Taliban is to terrorize and eliminate the infidels. There is no making a deal unless in includes everyone convert to Islam and do as they say, oh yeah and they decide who gets to live or die at their whim. They are a bunch of nut jobs looking to enslave the world. The temerity of this administration is becoming tiresome and it has just begun.
This is what I see; a total collapse of our system, as we know it, a mass exodus of companies from the U.S., a redistribution of wealth till we run out of other people’s money, that is just for beginners. That of course is supposing that all these policies are carried out.
Here is the problem; Obama has some ideas that have merit, however you can’t do everything all at once, it doesn’t even make sense to try, yet here we are. The shotgun approach is not the way to go at this juncture. We need precision marksmanship. The thing to do is concentrate on the core problems, get that part of the economy back on track and then address the other problems. Right now the democrat controlled administration and congress are running wild like kids in a candy shop. They have saved up all their Christmas lists for the last forty years and are now going bugshit with it. (By the way, that word “bugshit,” is held in very high regard in argot, lexicon and etymology circles.)
Obama offered to back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Russia helps stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, American media reported. Obama offered the deal in a letter hand-delivered to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in Moscow last month by top administration officials. Senior U.S. officials confirmed the report.' The letter touched on a range of subjects, including missile defense and how it relates to the Iranian threat,' an official stated. Russia vehemently opposes the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. The system was proposed by the administration of former President George Bush.
Moscow has not yet responded to Obama's offer, the report said. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov inGeneva Friday.
William Burns, the State Department's political director and a former U.S. ambassador to Russia, went to Moscow in February to help prepare for that meeting and to broach ideas to improve ties.
If you don’t agree with all of Obama’s policies, take heart, there is one person who agrees with nearly all his policies and says that we have a friend and ally in the White House. Oh, did I forget to mention his name? Sam Webb, the head of the American Communist party.
What the hell is going on?
Okay, first we are spending more money in three months than every president since Washington to Bush, which will in effect indebt the next two generations. The illusion that Barack Obama will lead from the economic center has quickly come to an end. Instead of combining the best policies of past Democratic presidents -- John Kennedy on taxes, Bill Clinton on welfare reform and a balanced budget, President Obama is returning to Jimmy Carter's higher taxes and Clinton's draconian defense drawdown. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined. It reduces defense spending to a level not sustained since the dangerous days before World War II, while increasing nondefense spending (relative to GDP) to the highest level in U.S. history. It would raise taxes to historically high levels (again, relative to GDP). All of this before even addressing the impending explosion in Social Security and Medicare costs because of all the baby boomers.
Now we have secret letters, secret talks with Dmitry Medvedev on behalf of Obama to hold off on deployment of the missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. That may not be such a bad idea, but where is it leading us? Appeasement just simply will not work with some factions.
Get this, the war in Afghanistan is to tough for poor little Barry now that reality has smacked him square in the face, so now he wants to appeal to the more moderate Taliban and make some sort of appeasement deal, what the F*** is that? more moderate Taliban is an oxymoron if I ever heard one. Anyone who has not been either living in a vacuum, or under a rock, knows that the main goal of the Taliban is to terrorize and eliminate the infidels. There is no making a deal unless in includes everyone convert to Islam and do as they say, oh yeah and they decide who gets to live or die at their whim. They are a bunch of nut jobs looking to enslave the world. The temerity of this administration is becoming tiresome and it has just begun.
This is what I see; a total collapse of our system, as we know it, a mass exodus of companies from the U.S., a redistribution of wealth till we run out of other people’s money, that is just for beginners. That of course is supposing that all these policies are carried out.
Here is the problem; Obama has some ideas that have merit, however you can’t do everything all at once, it doesn’t even make sense to try, yet here we are. The shotgun approach is not the way to go at this juncture. We need precision marksmanship. The thing to do is concentrate on the core problems, get that part of the economy back on track and then address the other problems. Right now the democrat controlled administration and congress are running wild like kids in a candy shop. They have saved up all their Christmas lists for the last forty years and are now going bugshit with it. (By the way, that word “bugshit,” is held in very high regard in argot, lexicon and etymology circles.)
spending spree
Yet another insane spending plan, 3.6 trillion, that is 3,600.000.000.000.00 budget.
What’s next? Million, Billion, Trillion, Quadrillion, Quintillion, Hexillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion, Decillion, Undecillion, Dodecillion and on and on, these are the Latin prefixes for denominational increases. A million use to be a lot of money, now it’s chump change.
Obama and Congress has the dubious distinction of being the man and the people who have spent more that any other person or people in the history of mankind, and get this, it isn’t near over and he has only been there for a month. We thought Bush spent like a crazed lunatic. These guys make him look like a piker.
Omnibus, Definition: Pertaining to, including, or dealing with numerous objects or items at once: an omnibus bill submitted to a legislature.
They did nothing but complain about George Bush and yet now they are saying because of the budget cutbacks of Bush they need to spend all this money, well which is it, that he spent too much, or that he cut back, they can’t have it both ways. No one has ever spent this much money so quickly. It almost looks to me that they are trying desperately to bankrupt the country, a.k.a. the taxpayer.
Are these guys out of their minds? Did you see some of the crap that they want us to pay for? They already passed it, so we are paying for it.
Whatever happened to campaign promises. I thought we were looking forward to a new Washington without earmarks. This new omnibus $410 billion spending bill has 9,000 earmarks. Many of which look ridiculous at first glance, however at closer inspection some actually do have some redeeming qualities.
Modesto bee: We know there have been beehive problems the last few years and without bees we get nothing to eat.
Tattoo removal: This on it’s face looks foolish and stupid, but if you have a former gang member that wishes to become a productive member of society, he or she will have to expunge all traces of affiliation with gangs and removing the tats is what this money is for.
Fruit fly: I suppose when you look at the individual earmarks some are worthy. If the fruit flies attack the crops, the citrus and the rest of the growers will go belly up and we will have no food once again, add to that the corn they are using for fuel and there is another disaster in the making.
The Maine lobster earmark: is another one that researches farming lobsters to improve the market and the availability.
Foot odor research: Something smells funny here.
School voucher program in D.C. bye, bye
Bush tax cuts: bye, bye
Universal healthcare: $634 Billion, and that is only a down payment.Are we beginning to see the irony of this? In times when everyone in government keeps telling us that we have to cut back and be frugal, Washington is spending like there is no tomorrow, guess what, they keep this up and there will be no tomorrow.
What’s next? Million, Billion, Trillion, Quadrillion, Quintillion, Hexillion, Septillion, Octillion, Nonillion, Decillion, Undecillion, Dodecillion and on and on, these are the Latin prefixes for denominational increases. A million use to be a lot of money, now it’s chump change.
Obama and Congress has the dubious distinction of being the man and the people who have spent more that any other person or people in the history of mankind, and get this, it isn’t near over and he has only been there for a month. We thought Bush spent like a crazed lunatic. These guys make him look like a piker.
Omnibus, Definition: Pertaining to, including, or dealing with numerous objects or items at once: an omnibus bill submitted to a legislature.
They did nothing but complain about George Bush and yet now they are saying because of the budget cutbacks of Bush they need to spend all this money, well which is it, that he spent too much, or that he cut back, they can’t have it both ways. No one has ever spent this much money so quickly. It almost looks to me that they are trying desperately to bankrupt the country, a.k.a. the taxpayer.
Are these guys out of their minds? Did you see some of the crap that they want us to pay for? They already passed it, so we are paying for it.
Whatever happened to campaign promises. I thought we were looking forward to a new Washington without earmarks. This new omnibus $410 billion spending bill has 9,000 earmarks. Many of which look ridiculous at first glance, however at closer inspection some actually do have some redeeming qualities.
Modesto bee: We know there have been beehive problems the last few years and without bees we get nothing to eat.
Tattoo removal: This on it’s face looks foolish and stupid, but if you have a former gang member that wishes to become a productive member of society, he or she will have to expunge all traces of affiliation with gangs and removing the tats is what this money is for.
Fruit fly: I suppose when you look at the individual earmarks some are worthy. If the fruit flies attack the crops, the citrus and the rest of the growers will go belly up and we will have no food once again, add to that the corn they are using for fuel and there is another disaster in the making.
The Maine lobster earmark: is another one that researches farming lobsters to improve the market and the availability.
Foot odor research: Something smells funny here.
School voucher program in D.C. bye, bye
Bush tax cuts: bye, bye
Universal healthcare: $634 Billion, and that is only a down payment.Are we beginning to see the irony of this? In times when everyone in government keeps telling us that we have to cut back and be frugal, Washington is spending like there is no tomorrow, guess what, they keep this up and there will be no tomorrow.
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