So you didn't hear my speach.... ;) to bad... I won't repeat it here.
If I really was the president on Pennsylvania Avenue.... I wouldn't have the guts to call that a State of the Union address... but would certainly consider it a propaganda campaign speech. It has been a couple of days so I can sit here and write rationally without getting up and wanting to yell and scream at him leaving me spitting and sputtering because words I shouldn't be speaking are wanting to escape from between my lips.
If you did listen to it... I bet you were surprised to hear that the State of the Union is as well as it is. Whether it is or not I don't know... those are just a bunch of numbers that were given. They hardly fit what I see as reality around me. Just think about this. We were told as this man campaigned how bad the economy was. 4.8% unemployment and a stable but shaky housing market. The banks weren't lending money fast enough or for the right things... businesses couldn't produce because they couldn't get the money to pay the payroll, buy the supplies.... on and on and on.
So what I am wondering is, now that we have an effective unemployment rate of over 16%, counting everyone... a housing market that is basically busted...a banking system that lives in fear and over regulation, gets slapped in the face on the front page of the paper, forced to give money to people who couldn't pay... set up as greedy sharks and heartless villains, then handed millions in the back door. Car companies taken over by the government because the unions couldn't meet the healthcare and retirement draw down, then basically given to the unions who bankrupted them to begin with... gasoline doubling since he took office... and a government who is throwing millions and billions around like candy to all their friends and supporters in the green energy sector... How can we be doing so wonderful?
Oh, I see... it depends on who is in power. They are doing wonderful, now that they are in power and their friends are happy. Before it was horrible because no one would just hand them the millions they wanted... they had to work for it.
OK... Okaaayyy... so the speech was a political fund raiser... so why am I so upset? Well, it was the president who was speaking and the speech was to be about how we as a nation are doing. This is what I heard.
America is not fair. The defining issue of our time is to keep alive the American Promise. The basic American promise is that if you work hard, you can do well enough to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college, and put a LITTLE away for retirement. Wait... the American Dream became the American Promise.... since when... nothing is promised from any where in any way! This is another reforming of America. Not promoting the best... but a complete change. Not a revitalization of the basics of our rights as granted by our creator... but a complete change of who is providing the rights. Rules based on what is fair... fair in who's eyes? American Values... not Democrat values nor Republican values.... but who's values?
Well... there is so much more that BO presented for us to consider... programs to organize and organizations to shape to help those who are struggling. These programs and organizations are going to spend money.... who's money? The government has none. It is your money... my money. I don't understand what it is about the leftist that find so much joy in spending someone else's money... but then that would be human nature. We all would love to do with other's money what we can't afford to do with our own.
Which brings us to the real State of the Union and what he really should be talking about. Lets see... oh there wasn't a State of the Union address... it was a campaign speech... so off to spread the wealth around... yours & mine that is, to his friends... you don't deserve it... you have to much.
January 30, 2012
January 11, 2012
Presidential Candidates
We have seen candidates skyrocket to the top of the polls and then fall off the cliff. What is going on. It seems the one that keeps getting knocked out of the top position has friends in dark boiler rooms manufacturing attack adds on the newest leader and money pouring into focus groups to find the weakest point at which to hit. It may seem a little sadistic at first to see our political players slicing and dicing each other in front of people we figure will take the dirtiest of attacks and replay them when it comes to the final race. But if the candidate achieves the leadership, wins the nomination, it will be because he has overcome the attacks and learned how to spin the negatives in a positive way. That will be a good thing.
As I see it here, Mitt Romney has achieved a monumental hurdle. Having won the first two state challenges, can he keep that ball rolling? We will see.
My take on Mitt's record. He is a business person, who has been successful in many ways in many industries. He has been successful in handling the business of a state government. He may have done some things that we don't care for... being that BO has taken the form of one of his successes and bastardized it into something totally communistic. For example: the health care initiative Mitt put together provided funds to help those who couldn't afford to purchase health care. Yes it said they must buy health care, but that is what everyone wanted. Ok. So a state tried it and we see now what will happen with the nationalization of this plan by looking at the trouble that state is having. Most people thought by opening the state up to all companies and creating an environment of competition, it would keep the cost down. It didn't because of the stipulation there could be no exemptions for prior conditions. So.... Mitt should just own up to the fact that it didn't turn out as they had hoped... and because he tried it and knows it won't work... the president should have been willing to relinquish his dream of making it a national mandate. But, NO, he went ahead and put forth a plan to do something that would be a failure before it even got put on paper and sell it as something good even though it stank like a pile of you know what.
Mitt is also has put together a following of political machines though he can not direct them... they are his supporters and will annihilate anyone who gets in his way. That is a good thing. We want someone who can take out OWE-BOMB-a in a big way. *He said the other day that he actually liked being able to fire someone. It was in the context of a company offering a service... (insurance I think), isn't that what we need in Washington? Someone to do some house cleaning? Someone willing to get rid of the excess baggage and wasteful overhead? No wonder it is making everyone within the gov. paranoid of him. Just think what would happen if the government were run like an efficient business, no production, no pay. A progressive talk show host was saying the other day that the OWE-BOMB has only increased the size of the government by 13. He must have meant the Czars. The figure I heard from a little more reliable source was something like 250,000. Remember... we just added another agency to the list of regulatory enforcers. In reality... we may never know exactly how many are there and what they are paid because we have no budget put forth by the White House as a guideline to understand their direction and desires.
On to another successful candidate. Rick Santorum... He has a political style like none other. He is a ground man. Getting out there and talking, meeting, eating with, pressing the flesh with everyone. I like his record. He has been consistent in his dealings with the political machine and getting things done. He knows how to put the pressure on and hold it wearing down the opposition. However, I don't feel he would be able to expand this style of campaign into a successful national race and win. So far he has made some good progress and produced some surprises. Lets see if he can continue and build on that.
Mr. Newt has been in Washington for many years and has been successful in many things while there. As Speaker he accomplished the balancing of the budget, usually that credit goes to Mr. Clinton, but all budgets come from the House. Also he accomplished the movement to gain control of the house after 40 years being controlled by the Democrats. In my mind that accomplishment may eclipse most of his other accomplishments. I don't have a list of them all... but in the debates they have come out different ways and I usually end up standing in awe of them. Just a couple of the things his detractors bring to the table that I always bring up when someone starts talking about how much baggage this man has... his divorce from his wife on her deathbed. Well... it could hardly have been her deathbed if she is still living. Also the real story is that she ask him for the divorce. Ok, so then they bring up the distrusting someone who has had an affair. Well... to some that matters a lot... but I am sorry, how does that change his accomplishments in his political career. Sometimes our private life isn't always like we would like it to be. When that happens in business... people move on and change jobs. It isn't such a big deal. So to me it just is what it is. I will look at what qualifies the man for the job he is looking at doing and the rest is as it is.
*As I have watched and listened to this attack Newt has perpetrated on capitalism... I am starting to realize there is a larger issue here that isn't being though of. Newt is parroting the leftist talking points and that is a problem. To use an invalid mindset and talking points based on an invalid assumption that it is bad to lay a person off or fire a person, is a reaction based on desperation not on intellectually sound principles. If this is all he can come up with to differentiate himself from Mitt, then he has a very shallow minded approach to his primary campaign which is a reflection on his ability to stand before the OWE - BOMB and beat his scathing hatred of America. I am simply disappointed with his ability to keep this process a positive spotlight on the principle based vision the founders had for this country. So we go to the South Carolina debate... and Newt has his best performance yet. My opinion changed more from his last few minutes of the debate than from the standing ovation he got with his denouncing the racist attack and child labor accusation from his endorsement of letting the children work.
Rick Perry is also very successful. Ok, some say he was handed success and he didn't do anything for it. Well, he hasn't messed it up. He has learned what works by watching it. Look at the White House. That man has taken success and dissolved it and created the largest mess in the history of the world, bar none. Rick oversees the largest government and economy besides California. California and Texas have the same problems with the boarder and Texas is handling the problem much better than CA. Texas doesn't have an Income Tax. Can you believe that? Their legislatures only come into the capital to do business once every other year. They go into session for 140 days to lay out and approve a budget for two years. These people understand what it means to keep things simple. Rick inspires them to keep it that way... balanced budget is mandated in TX so they have no choice but to take care of business... cutting when the money isn't there. Wouldn't you like to have a man in the White House that knows how to keep the budget balanced? Kick the legislatures out of town and tell them to get a real job? He might not get the job done right away... but I think he would keep the possibility out there in front of everyone till they warmed up to it and decided to make some serious changes.
Another man that knows an understands simplicity in government is Ron Paul. He also comes from Texas. Ron has a lot of good ideas. He understands the roll of the Federal Government and the difference between what the states are suppose to do and what the federal responsibilities are. This difference needs to be more clear in everyone's mind. There is a significant difference. However; Ron Paul has a world view that isn't really possible. It is more than a view that says we are in a couple of wars that should not be... he thinks we brought 9-11 on ourselves by being spread around the world. Well I guess that is one way to look at it. There are countries out there that want us dead. Their philosophy is that we are evil and their god has instructed them to purify the earth. They can't mingle or interact with us, they have to kill us. Yes these people are radicals and not all people within the countries where these people reside hold that belief. But they are there and they will rise up every chance they get and they will kill us. That will happen around the world, not just here in the United States. We, as the strongest and wealthiest nation in the world, have a responsibility to governments who don't have the ability to protect themselves from this kind of advance, to keep them safe by having a presence in their country or close to it. We have forces strategically placed for maximum coverage and protection for all who need it. Without those forces where they are, the world would deteriorate into chaos and it would effect our economy in a devastating way. *This man must really hate America almost as much as the OWE-BOMB to be so vocal about his hatred of what the military does around the world.
Most of Ron's support is from the young and the old hippie crowd who want drugs legalized, and could care less about the rest of the world. They really are many, can and do band together in a heart beat to provide a lot of verbal support but I am not sure how much financial support there is available for him. That being said, there is a huge wealthy crowd that would love to enjoy things not available legally so they indulge illegally. That could provide a base of support beyond our wildest dreams if they actually thought he had a chance.
Just some of my thoughts on what we have currently. Things will change and I have other things that don't come to mind at this time... so will continue to add them as they are remembered.
The President
*edit added 1.15.12
*edit added 1.18.12
As I see it here, Mitt Romney has achieved a monumental hurdle. Having won the first two state challenges, can he keep that ball rolling? We will see.
My take on Mitt's record. He is a business person, who has been successful in many ways in many industries. He has been successful in handling the business of a state government. He may have done some things that we don't care for... being that BO has taken the form of one of his successes and bastardized it into something totally communistic. For example: the health care initiative Mitt put together provided funds to help those who couldn't afford to purchase health care. Yes it said they must buy health care, but that is what everyone wanted. Ok. So a state tried it and we see now what will happen with the nationalization of this plan by looking at the trouble that state is having. Most people thought by opening the state up to all companies and creating an environment of competition, it would keep the cost down. It didn't because of the stipulation there could be no exemptions for prior conditions. So.... Mitt should just own up to the fact that it didn't turn out as they had hoped... and because he tried it and knows it won't work... the president should have been willing to relinquish his dream of making it a national mandate. But, NO, he went ahead and put forth a plan to do something that would be a failure before it even got put on paper and sell it as something good even though it stank like a pile of you know what.
Mitt is also has put together a following of political machines though he can not direct them... they are his supporters and will annihilate anyone who gets in his way. That is a good thing. We want someone who can take out OWE-BOMB-a in a big way. *He said the other day that he actually liked being able to fire someone. It was in the context of a company offering a service... (insurance I think), isn't that what we need in Washington? Someone to do some house cleaning? Someone willing to get rid of the excess baggage and wasteful overhead? No wonder it is making everyone within the gov. paranoid of him. Just think what would happen if the government were run like an efficient business, no production, no pay. A progressive talk show host was saying the other day that the OWE-BOMB has only increased the size of the government by 13. He must have meant the Czars. The figure I heard from a little more reliable source was something like 250,000. Remember... we just added another agency to the list of regulatory enforcers. In reality... we may never know exactly how many are there and what they are paid because we have no budget put forth by the White House as a guideline to understand their direction and desires.
On to another successful candidate. Rick Santorum... He has a political style like none other. He is a ground man. Getting out there and talking, meeting, eating with, pressing the flesh with everyone. I like his record. He has been consistent in his dealings with the political machine and getting things done. He knows how to put the pressure on and hold it wearing down the opposition. However, I don't feel he would be able to expand this style of campaign into a successful national race and win. So far he has made some good progress and produced some surprises. Lets see if he can continue and build on that.
Mr. Newt has been in Washington for many years and has been successful in many things while there. As Speaker he accomplished the balancing of the budget, usually that credit goes to Mr. Clinton, but all budgets come from the House. Also he accomplished the movement to gain control of the house after 40 years being controlled by the Democrats. In my mind that accomplishment may eclipse most of his other accomplishments. I don't have a list of them all... but in the debates they have come out different ways and I usually end up standing in awe of them. Just a couple of the things his detractors bring to the table that I always bring up when someone starts talking about how much baggage this man has... his divorce from his wife on her deathbed. Well... it could hardly have been her deathbed if she is still living. Also the real story is that she ask him for the divorce. Ok, so then they bring up the distrusting someone who has had an affair. Well... to some that matters a lot... but I am sorry, how does that change his accomplishments in his political career. Sometimes our private life isn't always like we would like it to be. When that happens in business... people move on and change jobs. It isn't such a big deal. So to me it just is what it is. I will look at what qualifies the man for the job he is looking at doing and the rest is as it is.
*As I have watched and listened to this attack Newt has perpetrated on capitalism... I am starting to realize there is a larger issue here that isn't being though of. Newt is parroting the leftist talking points and that is a problem. To use an invalid mindset and talking points based on an invalid assumption that it is bad to lay a person off or fire a person, is a reaction based on desperation not on intellectually sound principles. If this is all he can come up with to differentiate himself from Mitt, then he has a very shallow minded approach to his primary campaign which is a reflection on his ability to stand before the OWE - BOMB and beat his scathing hatred of America. I am simply disappointed with his ability to keep this process a positive spotlight on the principle based vision the founders had for this country. So we go to the South Carolina debate... and Newt has his best performance yet. My opinion changed more from his last few minutes of the debate than from the standing ovation he got with his denouncing the racist attack and child labor accusation from his endorsement of letting the children work.
Rick Perry is also very successful. Ok, some say he was handed success and he didn't do anything for it. Well, he hasn't messed it up. He has learned what works by watching it. Look at the White House. That man has taken success and dissolved it and created the largest mess in the history of the world, bar none. Rick oversees the largest government and economy besides California. California and Texas have the same problems with the boarder and Texas is handling the problem much better than CA. Texas doesn't have an Income Tax. Can you believe that? Their legislatures only come into the capital to do business once every other year. They go into session for 140 days to lay out and approve a budget for two years. These people understand what it means to keep things simple. Rick inspires them to keep it that way... balanced budget is mandated in TX so they have no choice but to take care of business... cutting when the money isn't there. Wouldn't you like to have a man in the White House that knows how to keep the budget balanced? Kick the legislatures out of town and tell them to get a real job? He might not get the job done right away... but I think he would keep the possibility out there in front of everyone till they warmed up to it and decided to make some serious changes.
Another man that knows an understands simplicity in government is Ron Paul. He also comes from Texas. Ron has a lot of good ideas. He understands the roll of the Federal Government and the difference between what the states are suppose to do and what the federal responsibilities are. This difference needs to be more clear in everyone's mind. There is a significant difference. However; Ron Paul has a world view that isn't really possible. It is more than a view that says we are in a couple of wars that should not be... he thinks we brought 9-11 on ourselves by being spread around the world. Well I guess that is one way to look at it. There are countries out there that want us dead. Their philosophy is that we are evil and their god has instructed them to purify the earth. They can't mingle or interact with us, they have to kill us. Yes these people are radicals and not all people within the countries where these people reside hold that belief. But they are there and they will rise up every chance they get and they will kill us. That will happen around the world, not just here in the United States. We, as the strongest and wealthiest nation in the world, have a responsibility to governments who don't have the ability to protect themselves from this kind of advance, to keep them safe by having a presence in their country or close to it. We have forces strategically placed for maximum coverage and protection for all who need it. Without those forces where they are, the world would deteriorate into chaos and it would effect our economy in a devastating way. *This man must really hate America almost as much as the OWE-BOMB to be so vocal about his hatred of what the military does around the world.
Most of Ron's support is from the young and the old hippie crowd who want drugs legalized, and could care less about the rest of the world. They really are many, can and do band together in a heart beat to provide a lot of verbal support but I am not sure how much financial support there is available for him. That being said, there is a huge wealthy crowd that would love to enjoy things not available legally so they indulge illegally. That could provide a base of support beyond our wildest dreams if they actually thought he had a chance.
Just some of my thoughts on what we have currently. Things will change and I have other things that don't come to mind at this time... so will continue to add them as they are remembered.
The President
*edit added 1.15.12
*edit added 1.18.12
January 9, 2012
Presidential Election Ramblings
One of the reasons for this blog is to vent my frustration with the political shenanigans perpetrated upon the unaware American public.
Having been involved in businesses, the President of a white house in Iowa, I have a little experience in failure and some success. One of the biggest problems with the current economic situation is that we are spending double and triple what we should be spending for things we don't need.
It is hard to go through the candidates for the 2012 election and list what we know and can verify via easy to reach reliable sources, because as of 2008 the lame stream news sources lost credibility. Very little real news is reported by these organizations. So much is fabricated by sources used by these organizations as sources of fact. Where are the real reporters out there getting real unbiased news on what is really going on? It looks like they have all sold out to the highest bidder... CORRUPTION.
Where do we go from here? We have to band together and pick a candidate that can inspire us to stand for the right and work for smaller government, (less intrusion on our choices), and focus on serving who elected them and protecting our boarders.
Serving the citizens does not mean funneling money to their pockets, nor installing regulations to protect their business interest from failure. Regulation to protect business interest is the largest demand on Washington today. Lobbyist spend fortunes contributing to campaign funds of every sort giving unfair advantage to those who sent them to Washington. How do we get back the the true capitalism? The true meaning of capitalism has been destroyed by the leftist who want to control every aspect of your life.
Protecting our boarders means sealing them. This is hard to do since we are a nation spread across vast empty lands. But we have technology that can help us with this task... we just have to have the desire to do it. It is hard for a free society to put limits on those who want freedom... but we have to protect what we have from those who want to destroy it or we will loose it.
I started this post to discuss the candidates... but as you can see it got on a different tangent and I will have to try again on the next post....
God Bless the USA...
Having been involved in businesses, the President of a white house in Iowa, I have a little experience in failure and some success. One of the biggest problems with the current economic situation is that we are spending double and triple what we should be spending for things we don't need.
It is hard to go through the candidates for the 2012 election and list what we know and can verify via easy to reach reliable sources, because as of 2008 the lame stream news sources lost credibility. Very little real news is reported by these organizations. So much is fabricated by sources used by these organizations as sources of fact. Where are the real reporters out there getting real unbiased news on what is really going on? It looks like they have all sold out to the highest bidder... CORRUPTION.
Where do we go from here? We have to band together and pick a candidate that can inspire us to stand for the right and work for smaller government, (less intrusion on our choices), and focus on serving who elected them and protecting our boarders.
Serving the citizens does not mean funneling money to their pockets, nor installing regulations to protect their business interest from failure. Regulation to protect business interest is the largest demand on Washington today. Lobbyist spend fortunes contributing to campaign funds of every sort giving unfair advantage to those who sent them to Washington. How do we get back the the true capitalism? The true meaning of capitalism has been destroyed by the leftist who want to control every aspect of your life.
Protecting our boarders means sealing them. This is hard to do since we are a nation spread across vast empty lands. But we have technology that can help us with this task... we just have to have the desire to do it. It is hard for a free society to put limits on those who want freedom... but we have to protect what we have from those who want to destroy it or we will loose it.
I started this post to discuss the candidates... but as you can see it got on a different tangent and I will have to try again on the next post....
God Bless the USA...
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