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)?