So here we are, all waiting for the president to show just a little leadership. Instead we get sermonized with a good dose of 'casting the blame' elsewhere (as usual). With the immense problem of the Gulf oil spill, we received no answers and no real proposals (unless you count the creation of another Czar with another government department). But our President seemed so ... detached. Removed. 'Like cool, man'. As if this were somebody else's problem, really. The country doesn't need another president like this. But it seems to be getting one. Sadly disappointing.
Back to politics . . . instead . . . he, and his minions (led by the ever popular Nancy and Harry), will try to slip his 'Cap & Trade' fiasco over on us while we are distracted. Forget the cost to the people . . . 'Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead'.
So could we please just fix this troublesome little oil problem, which ain't so little after all, before we start contemplating our navels? Let's leave the philosophizing until later. Until then, let's concentrate on this major problem and FIX IT! Then, maybe, we can go back to arguing politics. In the meantime, the country could use a president who leads, follows or just gets out of the way.
Instead all we have is this ... Community Organizer.
DE
Friday, June 25, 2010
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Stop And Think!
Now is the time to STOP AND THINK! Use some common sense. Relate this to reality. Basic economics.
If the United States government was a business, it would be bankrupt today. If the US government was you, it would be facing the bankruptcy judge.
The doors would be padlocked. The courts would be auctioning off assets for pennies on the dollar.
But our government isn’t a business. So we start the printing presses rolling, run up more debt, expand the deficit, year after year. And the value of money goes plummeting down.
When the media and politicians refer to the U.S. debt, they’re talking about the $13 trillion “public debt.” This is an insanely large amount of money.
But this doesn’t even include the huge and very real obligations the government has made for Social Security, Medicare, and other huge entitlement programs.
The TOTAL U.S. debt stands at $104 trillion, according to best estimates of the CBO and other experts.
There is simply NO POSSIBLE WAY that these amounts of money can be repaid. And considering how few honest men there are in Washington, that won’t happen anyway.
Inflation and higher taxes will soon become inevitabilities as the politicians and Federal Reserve take the only steps they know to “fix” a mess they’ve caused.
Sanity must prevail. The Cap & Trade bill will only place more financial burden on everyone.
It is up to each of us (I will repeat --- IT IS UP TO EACH OF US) to educate as many people as we can about basic economics and the direction this 'creeping socialism' is taking us.
How would you like to pay $50 for a loaf of bread? Or $100 for a pound of coffee? That is what it was like in Germany just before Hitler came to power.
If you are not seriously concerned, you must be living in a vacuum.
Election Day in November cannot correct these problems . . . but it is a helluva start.
If the United States government was a business, it would be bankrupt today. If the US government was you, it would be facing the bankruptcy judge.
The doors would be padlocked. The courts would be auctioning off assets for pennies on the dollar.
But our government isn’t a business. So we start the printing presses rolling, run up more debt, expand the deficit, year after year. And the value of money goes plummeting down.
When the media and politicians refer to the U.S. debt, they’re talking about the $13 trillion “public debt.” This is an insanely large amount of money.
But this doesn’t even include the huge and very real obligations the government has made for Social Security, Medicare, and other huge entitlement programs.
The TOTAL U.S. debt stands at $104 trillion, according to best estimates of the CBO and other experts.
There is simply NO POSSIBLE WAY that these amounts of money can be repaid. And considering how few honest men there are in Washington, that won’t happen anyway.
Inflation and higher taxes will soon become inevitabilities as the politicians and Federal Reserve take the only steps they know to “fix” a mess they’ve caused.
Sanity must prevail. The Cap & Trade bill will only place more financial burden on everyone.
It is up to each of us (I will repeat --- IT IS UP TO EACH OF US) to educate as many people as we can about basic economics and the direction this 'creeping socialism' is taking us.
How would you like to pay $50 for a loaf of bread? Or $100 for a pound of coffee? That is what it was like in Germany just before Hitler came to power.
If you are not seriously concerned, you must be living in a vacuum.
Election Day in November cannot correct these problems . . . but it is a helluva start.
Monday, June 7, 2010
The Peter Principle (Redux)
I have referred to 'The Peter Principle' from time to time in describing the performance of someone in a particular job.
Some people are not cognizant of 'The Peter Principle'. Therefore, below you will find a descriptive note taken from WikiPedia.
The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"). This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "the actual work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
This being noted, may I refer you to the current performance of our President.
Now we are witnessing his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all (in tennis terms) unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment, indifference and instincts.
It is my opinion that this inventory of presidential mistakes could (and probably should) be fatal:
• 1.) There was the unnecessary war over his healthcare proposal and its misleading (and now evident) excessive cost.
• 2.) There was his indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration.
• 3.) And now the past 40 days or so of dodging and floundering in the face of an environmental calamity.
As evidenced by recent elections, he has not understood the mood of the electorate. It is evident that the landscape of the American political system is changing and, based on his performance, it is completely understandable.
You can make your own decision. Case closed.
DE
Some people are not cognizant of 'The Peter Principle'. Therefore, below you will find a descriptive note taken from WikiPedia.
The Peter Principle is the principle that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of Hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by Peter. It holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"). This principle can be modeled and has theoretical validity. Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out his duties" and adds that "the actual work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence".
This being noted, may I refer you to the current performance of our President.
Now we are witnessing his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all (in tennis terms) unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment, indifference and instincts.
It is my opinion that this inventory of presidential mistakes could (and probably should) be fatal:
• 1.) There was the unnecessary war over his healthcare proposal and its misleading (and now evident) excessive cost.
• 2.) There was his indifference to the views and hopes of the majority of voters regarding illegal immigration.
• 3.) And now the past 40 days or so of dodging and floundering in the face of an environmental calamity.
As evidenced by recent elections, he has not understood the mood of the electorate. It is evident that the landscape of the American political system is changing and, based on his performance, it is completely understandable.
You can make your own decision. Case closed.
DE
Cloward & Piven Plan to Socialize America
This is a bit lengthy . . . but PLEASE take the time to read.
Obama attended Columbia University (at least for a indeterminate amount of time) which is a hotbed of liberalism. From childhood on he was always in the company of socialists, Marxists and those of extreme liberal thinking.
Obama is studiously adhering to the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University (check them out). They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Individually considered, some can be scary. Taken individually they're totally alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn (transform) the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that simply depend completely upon the government for survival ... and will thereafter always vote for bigger government. The reason is easy to understand why. They don't have to pay for it.
– Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Our president doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. He does care however that it indelibly creates the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. No one but a true revolutionary socialist would pass this oppressive and crippling spending bill in the middle of a serious economic downturn.
– Cap and trade. Just like health care having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors. Those powerful, wealthy unions and contributors (like GE (owners of NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will finance Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power regardless of the cost. This simply is a mechanism to "spread the wealth around."
– Make Puerto Rico a state. Who’s asking for a 51st state . . . and why? A better and more truthful question would be who is asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. This has been in Obama’s thinking all along. It would add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who would be dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. This occurrence alone would give 12 million potential new citizens free health care and overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. And you can take this fact to the bank. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters and another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security. Soon we will have to 'Press 2 for English'.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did the money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN for example), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs for government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting our country. You should be reminded that includes you and me by creating higher taxes, higher prices and less freedom for everyone of us. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means. Or does it? I think not.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it. Conservatives want to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Liberals and Socialists want to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
Consider carefully the acts outlined above. The Obama administration has created a huge and rapidly expanding base of voters dependent on big government; an immense privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by Columbia University professors and the minions of liberal socialist believers they created.
Unless we join together to educate the public we may doomed to conditions that we cannot correct in my lifetime. Election Day 2010 is only 147 days away. WAKE UP FRIENDS.
DE
DE
Obama attended Columbia University (at least for a indeterminate amount of time) which is a hotbed of liberalism. From childhood on he was always in the company of socialists, Marxists and those of extreme liberal thinking.
Obama is studiously adhering to the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University (check them out). They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Individually considered, some can be scary. Taken individually they're totally alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn (transform) the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that simply depend completely upon the government for survival ... and will thereafter always vote for bigger government. The reason is easy to understand why. They don't have to pay for it.
– Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Our president doesn’t care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. He does care however that it indelibly creates the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. No one but a true revolutionary socialist would pass this oppressive and crippling spending bill in the middle of a serious economic downturn.
– Cap and trade. Just like health care having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama’s biggest contributors. Those powerful, wealthy unions and contributors (like GE (owners of NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will finance Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power regardless of the cost. This simply is a mechanism to "spread the wealth around."
– Make Puerto Rico a state. Who’s asking for a 51st state . . . and why? A better and more truthful question would be who is asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. This has been in Obama’s thinking all along. It would add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who would be dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. This occurrence alone would give 12 million potential new citizens free health care and overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. And you can take this fact to the bank. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters and another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security. Soon we will have to 'Press 2 for English'.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did the money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN for example), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs for government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting our country. You should be reminded that includes you and me by creating higher taxes, higher prices and less freedom for everyone of us. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful.
The ends justify the means. Or does it? I think not.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it. Conservatives want to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Liberals and Socialists want to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
Consider carefully the acts outlined above. The Obama administration has created a huge and rapidly expanding base of voters dependent on big government; an immense privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by Columbia University professors and the minions of liberal socialist believers they created.
Unless we join together to educate the public we may doomed to conditions that we cannot correct in my lifetime. Election Day 2010 is only 147 days away. WAKE UP FRIENDS.
DE
DE
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