You want to create jobs, you want to get the economy moving, you want banks to start lending again. So what do you do? You tell the banks you are going to penalize them for recession so they have to help fund the bailout.
What are the banks going to do? They are going to divert their investments from the stock markets, they are going to start holding cash to build up reserves for this asinine plan of yours.
You clearly do not understand how any healthy economy is supposed to function. You have not listened to the ones who matter, your own citizens. You’ve imperiled our very existence as a free country. By listening to the rest of the world, you’ve complied with their desires to see the USA be reduced to a nation that does not matter, that can’t make a difference. The morale of this country is currently in the toilet.
You want to make a difference, invest in Main Street USA. Invest in people. This will create jobs. When people are back to work, you’ll have the money for infrastructure, small investors and others will come back into the market. Tell the oil companies to find and develop new reserves, ask them to reduce domestic crude prices to lower energy costs for American, this can be done as green energy tech emerges. There were ideas, workable models, submitted to your administration and members of Congress, that would have been far more effective, not jeopardized our financial standing as a country and would have had meaningful economic stimulus, but these were ignored in favor of more regulation. You and Congress spent a year working on a health plan that the majority of us didn’t want. What could have been accomplished if you had worked on getting Americans back to work and listening to the American people?
Have you noticed what your actions are resulting in? WTF Obama!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
We Told You, It’s the Economy Stupid!
The following article is both original and gleaned quotes from: AFP, AP, Reuters, Politico, Pravda, and the Huffington Post.
"If there's anybody in this building that doesn't tell you they are more worried about elections today, you should absolutely slap them," Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri told reporters at the Capitol. "Of course everybody is more worried about elections. Are you kidding? It's what this place thrives on."
Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, head of the House Democrats' campaign effort, said Coakley's loss won't deter his colleagues from continuing to blame the previous administration. "President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident," he said. "President Obama and congressional Democrats have been focused repairing the damage to our economy."
"Whatever happens on health care, we've got to focus on jobs," said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who said he'd still like to see health legislation passed.
Casey said the party's challenge was not the perception that it is viewed, as Bayh contended, as overly liberal.
"I don't buy the ideological positioning argument," Casey said. "People want us to be talking about the biggest problem in the country right now, jobs and the economy."
Wounded in Massachusetts, frustrated Democrats on Wednesday urged the White House to focus on jobs and the economy — not the health care overhaul that's now at risk…
"We need a jobs bill. We need short-term, focused strategies to create jobs, real fast," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. "If the dominant message isn't about jobs and spending, we'll be making a difficult challenge exponentially more difficult."
Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "We will move forward with their considerations in mind, but we will move forward."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters: "That anger is now pointed at us because we're in charge. And rightly so." Gibbs said of the president: "We will have him… …focus on the economy and jobs."
[The Democratic] Congress writes the laws, so they can tax, penalize, hold your funds hostage and although they'd never use the word, "confiscate" your assets at their discretion. Marxism at it’s finest. Pravda.ru
Warren Buffett said he thinks government should be more focused on the economy than health care reform right now.
Okay so now they are saying they need to focus on the economy and jobs!!!??? That’s what they’ve been telling us all along. That’s what T.A.R.P. and all of the other stimulus crap was supposed to be…. RIGHT!? And Pelosi has the gall to say that she will keep our considerations in mind???? But will move forward????? Against the majority’s wishes??????
Other nations press is comparing the Obama Administration to Chavez’, calling it “State Capitalism” or “Pseudo-Socialism”, whereby the State (Federal Government) controls every aspect of your life and has it’s fingers in every aspect of business. The Russians say this is totally destructive to a society and they should know, they tried it… …it was called the Soviet Union.
Next on the agenda is, are you ready….
Guaranteed Retirement Accounts. The Feds need cash and they need it now. Where are they going to get it? From China? No Silly, from you of course. Re-distribution of wealth. It will be painless and unseen, because it will come out of your pay, before you ever get your pay check. It’s only $600 per year or 5% of your gross income, which ever is greater.
You people had better wake up and take your country back! It will be gone before you know it.
What’s your thoughts?
"If there's anybody in this building that doesn't tell you they are more worried about elections today, you should absolutely slap them," Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri told reporters at the Capitol. "Of course everybody is more worried about elections. Are you kidding? It's what this place thrives on."
Rep. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, head of the House Democrats' campaign effort, said Coakley's loss won't deter his colleagues from continuing to blame the previous administration. "President George W. Bush and House Republicans drove our economy into a ditch and tried to run away from the accident," he said. "President Obama and congressional Democrats have been focused repairing the damage to our economy."
"Whatever happens on health care, we've got to focus on jobs," said Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), who said he'd still like to see health legislation passed.
Casey said the party's challenge was not the perception that it is viewed, as Bayh contended, as overly liberal.
"I don't buy the ideological positioning argument," Casey said. "People want us to be talking about the biggest problem in the country right now, jobs and the economy."
Wounded in Massachusetts, frustrated Democrats on Wednesday urged the White House to focus on jobs and the economy — not the health care overhaul that's now at risk…
"We need a jobs bill. We need short-term, focused strategies to create jobs, real fast," said Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa. "If the dominant message isn't about jobs and spending, we'll be making a difficult challenge exponentially more difficult."
Said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "We will move forward with their considerations in mind, but we will move forward."
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters: "That anger is now pointed at us because we're in charge. And rightly so." Gibbs said of the president: "We will have him… …focus on the economy and jobs."
[The Democratic] Congress writes the laws, so they can tax, penalize, hold your funds hostage and although they'd never use the word, "confiscate" your assets at their discretion. Marxism at it’s finest. Pravda.ru
Warren Buffett said he thinks government should be more focused on the economy than health care reform right now.
Okay so now they are saying they need to focus on the economy and jobs!!!??? That’s what they’ve been telling us all along. That’s what T.A.R.P. and all of the other stimulus crap was supposed to be…. RIGHT!? And Pelosi has the gall to say that she will keep our considerations in mind???? But will move forward????? Against the majority’s wishes??????
Other nations press is comparing the Obama Administration to Chavez’, calling it “State Capitalism” or “Pseudo-Socialism”, whereby the State (Federal Government) controls every aspect of your life and has it’s fingers in every aspect of business. The Russians say this is totally destructive to a society and they should know, they tried it… …it was called the Soviet Union.
Next on the agenda is, are you ready….
Guaranteed Retirement Accounts. The Feds need cash and they need it now. Where are they going to get it? From China? No Silly, from you of course. Re-distribution of wealth. It will be painless and unseen, because it will come out of your pay, before you ever get your pay check. It’s only $600 per year or 5% of your gross income, which ever is greater.
You people had better wake up and take your country back! It will be gone before you know it.
What’s your thoughts?
Monday, January 18, 2010
Was Rush Right? Is it all about Obama?
According to the press in the rest of the world, he is and it is.
The United Nations must investigate and clarify the dominant U.S. role in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a French minister said Monday, claiming that international aid efforts were about helping Haiti, not "occupying" it.
International aid flights coming to Haiti have been waved off and refused permission to land, giving priority to such flights as arriving U.S. Diplomats or U.S. only planes.
Citizens of our allies have been refused seats on flights to the U.S. even when available, this has recently been changed, due to protests from Canada and France, among others.
With the U.S. Military in control of the airport in Port-Au-Prince heavy lift equipment and other cargo handling equipment has been denied to other nations planes, resulting in hours long delays in unloading and no logistical support to get aid where it needs to go.
Formal complaints against the U.S. are expected to be filed in the United Nations.
This is supposed to be a humanitarian action. It’s been said that orders for how the Haiti aid program is to be conducted is coming from the top or nearly the top down of the Executive Administration.
If the orders come from the top down, then let the people who know how to do the job do it.
In my opinion, Haiti is in our back yard. We need to be first and lead this effort; but not with grand standing tactics. If others are there to help, let them help. It’s not only up to the U.S. tax payers to bail out everyone all the time around the globe.
Should we do all that we can? Absolutely, it’s a crime against the very soul of humanity not to want to help. If the U.S. wants to lead, then step up and lead, but don’t do it for political points at home and most definitely not against the very lives we are suppose to be saving.
What’s your thoughts?
The United Nations must investigate and clarify the dominant U.S. role in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a French minister said Monday, claiming that international aid efforts were about helping Haiti, not "occupying" it.
International aid flights coming to Haiti have been waved off and refused permission to land, giving priority to such flights as arriving U.S. Diplomats or U.S. only planes.
Citizens of our allies have been refused seats on flights to the U.S. even when available, this has recently been changed, due to protests from Canada and France, among others.
With the U.S. Military in control of the airport in Port-Au-Prince heavy lift equipment and other cargo handling equipment has been denied to other nations planes, resulting in hours long delays in unloading and no logistical support to get aid where it needs to go.
Formal complaints against the U.S. are expected to be filed in the United Nations.
This is supposed to be a humanitarian action. It’s been said that orders for how the Haiti aid program is to be conducted is coming from the top or nearly the top down of the Executive Administration.
If the orders come from the top down, then let the people who know how to do the job do it.
In my opinion, Haiti is in our back yard. We need to be first and lead this effort; but not with grand standing tactics. If others are there to help, let them help. It’s not only up to the U.S. tax payers to bail out everyone all the time around the globe.
Should we do all that we can? Absolutely, it’s a crime against the very soul of humanity not to want to help. If the U.S. wants to lead, then step up and lead, but don’t do it for political points at home and most definitely not against the very lives we are suppose to be saving.
What’s your thoughts?
Saturday, January 16, 2010
What’s WRONG with the Media, and what American Investors aren’t getting about the Internet? Or, 8 year old Cub Scout on Terror Watch List again and ag
How many of you have seen the article on 8 year old Mikey Hicks, the Cub Scout Terrorist, like for the last week. It’s ridiculous! Why is there not better coverage on what’s going on in this country. Unless this kid is from the same gene pool as Stewie Griffin or his surname is bin Laden or has graduated from Suicide Bomber U, he’s probably not much of a threat and it’s probably not newsworthy for a weeks worth of headlines.
News is spontaneous. News is frequent, and instant. Traditional news organizations are reporting the same stuff over and over again, on the world fastest way of disseminating information, the Internet, what a waste of technology. There are some blogs and news groups, in my opinion, getting it right. Take ‘Tech Crunch’, these guys are fast and up to the minute on Tech and Internet news. While they are often very opinionated, they are dead on the mark for factual content. Now Yahoo News, these guys could dominate. They use to have “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone”, that was great stuff. But it’s gone, and Yahoo has reduced itself to a clearinghouse for other news organizations, although they have Tech Ticker, which is good for financial news and opinion.
The point is, that we have at our disposal, the fastest, most economical way to get vast amounts of information and news out to the public, on a global scale, and we aren’t doing it.
Why China is gaining and we’re not. Google is strong arming their position in China. Is it admirable? Is it Noble? I think it’s stupid. Google has a presence in the largest internet user market in the world. As far as advancement in tech. China and the rest of Asia included has the largest 4G network in the world, they are light years ahead of the U.S. in internet technology and distribution to mobile. China is also grasping New Media. I have a prediction; Google is going to so piss off and embarrass the Chinese that the get booted out of the country. Baidu, Jadoo and Yandex are going to jump in there and dominate the Asian Market and Google will be out for good.
Right now there is tremendous investment in both Europe and Asia in New Media, 4G infrastructure, Web 3.0 applications and platforms while the U.S. and predominately North America is going to be left out in the cold. If American investors want to see go return on investment, the should be heavily in tech and new media. These areas are where there will be significant job creation and areas of opportunity. American investors are saying show me “Bricks and Mortar” types of investment. They want to see bricks and mortar! I’ll show them dozens of vacant sub-divisions, empty commercial buildings and sundry other bricks and mortar projects. American investors need to get off of their asses and move toward the future or they will be left out in the cold just like traditional media.
What’s your thoughts?
News is spontaneous. News is frequent, and instant. Traditional news organizations are reporting the same stuff over and over again, on the world fastest way of disseminating information, the Internet, what a waste of technology. There are some blogs and news groups, in my opinion, getting it right. Take ‘Tech Crunch’, these guys are fast and up to the minute on Tech and Internet news. While they are often very opinionated, they are dead on the mark for factual content. Now Yahoo News, these guys could dominate. They use to have “Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone”, that was great stuff. But it’s gone, and Yahoo has reduced itself to a clearinghouse for other news organizations, although they have Tech Ticker, which is good for financial news and opinion.
The point is, that we have at our disposal, the fastest, most economical way to get vast amounts of information and news out to the public, on a global scale, and we aren’t doing it.
Why China is gaining and we’re not. Google is strong arming their position in China. Is it admirable? Is it Noble? I think it’s stupid. Google has a presence in the largest internet user market in the world. As far as advancement in tech. China and the rest of Asia included has the largest 4G network in the world, they are light years ahead of the U.S. in internet technology and distribution to mobile. China is also grasping New Media. I have a prediction; Google is going to so piss off and embarrass the Chinese that the get booted out of the country. Baidu, Jadoo and Yandex are going to jump in there and dominate the Asian Market and Google will be out for good.
Right now there is tremendous investment in both Europe and Asia in New Media, 4G infrastructure, Web 3.0 applications and platforms while the U.S. and predominately North America is going to be left out in the cold. If American investors want to see go return on investment, the should be heavily in tech and new media. These areas are where there will be significant job creation and areas of opportunity. American investors are saying show me “Bricks and Mortar” types of investment. They want to see bricks and mortar! I’ll show them dozens of vacant sub-divisions, empty commercial buildings and sundry other bricks and mortar projects. American investors need to get off of their asses and move toward the future or they will be left out in the cold just like traditional media.
What’s your thoughts?
Monday, January 4, 2010
God Puts the Smack Down on Global Warming
As I write this from my Central Florida office, I can’t help but wonder why temperatures are 20 degrees below the average, and are my lime trees going to survive the next few nights for my margarita and Land Shark beer pleasure.
Isn’t it ironic that during the big global climate fiasco last month in Europe, that those all knowing, gonna save the world, gonna tax the people ‘til they bleed to pay for it, Global Warming neophytes/posers froze their tushies off, with record cold temperatures.
The Global Warming crowd says that the U.S. is experiencing a typical cycle due to El Nino. Okay, what about Asia, Europe and everywhere else? Why are they experiencing below normal temperatures? Well according to the “experts”, this is due to… … you guessed it, GLOBAL WARMING.
When asked, ‘how is record cold a result of global warming’? Their response is sometimes, ‘the planet is trying to regulate itself’. Wow, imagine that! Is this something we fully understand?
Now I’m not a scientist, and I don’t claim to be. I tend to look at things from a common sense approach. I remember hearing that icebergs are mostly underwater, about 10 to 20% is above the surface. This means that all of this Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing a lot of water. Sea ice contains a lot of air, 10 to 20%, trapped inside and is not as dense as say, an ice cube. So if the bulk of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing most of its mass in water and also has trapped air, how much is the sea level really going to rise if it does melt? I think the problem to rising sea levels is Super Tankers and cruise ships, and probably shipping in general. For that matter, people displace water and so do whales. So we should ban all shipping, prohibit people from swimming at the worlds beaches and get rid of all the whales. That would drop the sea levels by at least 5 or 6 feet.
Eroding beaches is another sign of Global Warming. Erosion has taken place on this planet since the introduction of wind and water. Which brings me to beach reclamation. A hurricane comes through, tears up the beaches and we reclaim them. How? We go off shore a few hundred yards and dig a massive trench and pump all of this sand back to shore to build a bigger and better beach. The ocean is going to want to fill that trench, and we just increased the angle of decline dramatically from the beach to the trench. Where do you think our reclaimed beach is going to go? Back to the trench. Then the Global Warming crew says, ‘Oh my gosh, the beach is disappearing, the water must be rising’. “GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL WARMING!”
Didn't we learn in school, that eons ago, large portions of the U.S. was under water? Was this attributible to the methane gas from dinosaur farts? Was there an ancestor of man, whose vast industrial campfires caused this calamity to flood most of what is present day North America?
Something I never understood, if we pump a lot of pollutants into the air it causes global warming. When volcanoes pump pollutants into the air, it causes cooling. If a super volcano were to pump pollutants into the air, it would cause the equivalent of a nuclear winter. Where’s the correlation?
I’m not a super religious guy, but I think its possible God is putting the Smack Down on us for buying into something that we claim to understand and don’t.
Isn’t it ironic that during the big global climate fiasco last month in Europe, that those all knowing, gonna save the world, gonna tax the people ‘til they bleed to pay for it, Global Warming neophytes/posers froze their tushies off, with record cold temperatures.
The Global Warming crowd says that the U.S. is experiencing a typical cycle due to El Nino. Okay, what about Asia, Europe and everywhere else? Why are they experiencing below normal temperatures? Well according to the “experts”, this is due to… … you guessed it, GLOBAL WARMING.
When asked, ‘how is record cold a result of global warming’? Their response is sometimes, ‘the planet is trying to regulate itself’. Wow, imagine that! Is this something we fully understand?
Now I’m not a scientist, and I don’t claim to be. I tend to look at things from a common sense approach. I remember hearing that icebergs are mostly underwater, about 10 to 20% is above the surface. This means that all of this Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing a lot of water. Sea ice contains a lot of air, 10 to 20%, trapped inside and is not as dense as say, an ice cube. So if the bulk of the Arctic and Antarctic sea ice is already displacing most of its mass in water and also has trapped air, how much is the sea level really going to rise if it does melt? I think the problem to rising sea levels is Super Tankers and cruise ships, and probably shipping in general. For that matter, people displace water and so do whales. So we should ban all shipping, prohibit people from swimming at the worlds beaches and get rid of all the whales. That would drop the sea levels by at least 5 or 6 feet.
Eroding beaches is another sign of Global Warming. Erosion has taken place on this planet since the introduction of wind and water. Which brings me to beach reclamation. A hurricane comes through, tears up the beaches and we reclaim them. How? We go off shore a few hundred yards and dig a massive trench and pump all of this sand back to shore to build a bigger and better beach. The ocean is going to want to fill that trench, and we just increased the angle of decline dramatically from the beach to the trench. Where do you think our reclaimed beach is going to go? Back to the trench. Then the Global Warming crew says, ‘Oh my gosh, the beach is disappearing, the water must be rising’. “GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL WARMING!”
Didn't we learn in school, that eons ago, large portions of the U.S. was under water? Was this attributible to the methane gas from dinosaur farts? Was there an ancestor of man, whose vast industrial campfires caused this calamity to flood most of what is present day North America?
Something I never understood, if we pump a lot of pollutants into the air it causes global warming. When volcanoes pump pollutants into the air, it causes cooling. If a super volcano were to pump pollutants into the air, it would cause the equivalent of a nuclear winter. Where’s the correlation?
I’m not a super religious guy, but I think its possible God is putting the Smack Down on us for buying into something that we claim to understand and don’t.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
WHY IS AMERICA LOSING?
As hard as our government tries, or says they are trying, the Good Ole USA is losing.
Let’s take the ‘War of Terror’, what is wrong with it? People in general hate war, I hate war, but it has been a necessary evil since biblical times. Whether it’s been for gain of territory, because of political or ideological differences, revolutionary for good or evil, or for the preservation of freedom; war has happened and will continue to happen.
War is not pleasant, it’s not meant to be pleasant; if it was it would be call badminton or croquet, baseball or sex. The problem with America at war is that the government makes it political, look at Vietnam, we called it a police action to make it more appealing. 50,000 plus lives later, it was one of the bloodiest most demoralizing non-wars ever. The U.S. Government makes sure politicians run the wars, which result in the U.S. losing sight of the goal, which is to win. Victory must be decisive. If we are going to be ‘Offensive’, be on the offense. If we are going to win, we must kick ass the first time around. If we are going to lead a coalition, lead it to win. If the cause is just, there is great glory in winning and a boosting of morale for all.
The U.S. has always been a nation that kicked ass, from the Revolutionary War, up to WW II. General Douglas MacArthur wanted to win in Korea, but the politicians became involved and so our will to win has diminished since. Our past military dominance has been viewed as Imperialistic and warmongering. The one exception to pols running a war was during the Reagan years and the invasion of Grenada. Reagan said he didn’t like the situation there, told his military brass to figure it out and win, and that’s what they did, in one day.
The U.S. has grown to the lone Super Power, but that is waning fast. The USA use to be feared, loved, hated and most importantly respected. We may kick your butt if you mess with us, but we will try to help make you better after we do.
This indecisiveness in how we conduct our wars is a direct reflection on how as a government we conduct our day to day business. The government says they have all the answers, put us in debt up to our unborn great grandchildren’s ears and their solution is not working. Our government is to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and so on. The things that made us great are going away fast. The people that made us a great nation, the melting pot of the world are no more. We look to an entity, the Great God in Washington to save us from ourselves; and in their quest for ultimate power are destroying the very fabric of their creation…. Us.
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