Obama's "Guarantees"

A few hours ago I happened to catch a short "blurb" on Fox News Channel where the run up to the story showed a portion of an Obama interview with one of the many "left wing" hacks that produce "Obama News" for their audience.  I am not sure if it was Matt Lauer or Bill Moyer, but that doesn't matter.  They are both left wing nuts anyway.

 

The focus of the FNC report was Obama's answer to some softball question about what would happen if the Senate didn't pass the massive health care bill that is currently being debated there.  What struck me about Obama's answer was not the answer itself, but his emphatic, theatrical delivery of the answer.  To paraphrase, he said, "I can GUARANTEE the American People that if this bill does not pass the cost of their health care will go up, they will be dropped from their employers plans, and insurance premiums will be so high that no one can afford to pay for insurance".  With the booming voice and demeanor that was, and still is, present during his many campaign oratories, Obama made crystal clear his "GUARANTEE".

 

Does anyone remember Obama's "guarantee" of transparency in government?   Does anyone remember Obama's "guarantee" of "cleaning up" Washington, D. C.?   No more lobbyists.  No more "politics as usual" for his administration.  No sir!  Not in his Presidency.  His administration would "open to the American People" and "clean".

 

Did he back up those GUARANTEES?  I think the answer to that question is as clear by now as it ever will be.  He never intended to keep those promises.  He's nothing more than a "political hack" for the left wing extremists who have taken over the Democrat Party.  A "mouth" that spews the rhetoric.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I think it would be safe to say that this man is a very convincing BALD FACED LIAR!

 

With the super majority that now exists in the House and Senate, there is little hope that anyone or anything can stand in the way of these outrageous spending bills, the Cap and Trade Bill, global warming "giveaways" to third world countries, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and God only knows what else they will foist upon the backs of working Americans.  Now with the Fed printing money so fast that they are burning up the printing presses, Americans will loose buying power at an unprecidented rate when the "chickens come home to roost".  More dollars for less product.  That's what inflation does.

 

Do  you think another three years of this kind of reckless fiscal behavior will be sustainable?  I don't. And if you agree, then I suggest that you make a decision right now, that you and your family will have to make sacrifices you never dreamed of when it comes to pass and prepare your children and grand children for their loss of liberty and freedom.

 

Alternatively, you can make another decision.  Make whatever sacrifice you have to in order to help stop the Obama Express.  I urge you to visit this link and watch a brief video.  If this video doesn't inspire you to action, then nothing will.  It is time to get involved.  Help save America!

 

 

Another Hypocrite Identified!

Okay.... Let me see if I have this right. 

 

The leftist crowd has been pushing a radical environmental agenda for years under the widely touted assumption that all the ills that we might be suffering from time to time, whether its tied to "global warming" or "global cooling", are caused by the industriousness of human beings.  That is to say, in a little different way, that we humans, as an element of the earths population, are destroying our planet in our attempts to improve and advance civilization. 

 

In a concerted effort that has spanned over 4 decades, these self-righteous, ideological nutcases have been attempting to prove their "theory" by trotting out the opinions of so called "environmental scientists" (only the one's whose opinions support their theory) in a overt and blatant attempt to brainwash as many of our children and young adults in government run schools and left leaning universities as they possibly can.  They have been very successful in cramming their "one sided views" into the minds of the masses who were simply taking them at face value without question.  Of course they must be right, many thought, because they have the "scientific data" to prove their point.

 

Now we have a new development coming to light that raises questions as to their motives and veracity.  Emails from inside the small cluster of "scientists" (please note that I am using that term loosely) who have been at the epicenter of these "global warming theories" that have been made the basis for a massive piece of legislation in the United States (Cap and Tax) and other worldwide environmental initiatives, are being made public (leaked is the leftist terminology).  These emails show that there has, at the very least been an inside effort to "hide" certain data that would be harmful to the environmentalist nutcase' agenda, and beyond that, to poison the well of data that would debunk their theory. 

 

One would think that most "right thinking people", and by that I mean those who employ logic and common sense, will gladly welcome this new information that has come to light on the eve of a great push for legislation that will, by all accounts, literally put the brakes on the American economic engine, as it could lead to a more sensible non-emergency approach to curbing whatever polluting indulgences our industry might have been guilty of since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.  And I believe that most "right thinking people" will react just that way.  But not the leftist nutcase ideologues.

 

No... The leftist nutcase ideologues are having a much different reaction to this "leaked" information and the damage that it will undoubtedly cause to their push for more government control of every aspect of American Freedoms.  Their reaction is currently being "showcased" by one nutcase U. S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California as she calls for an "investigation" into the "criminal acts" of the "leakers".   Doesn't that seem to be a strange position for a U. S. Senator who is sworn to "uphold and defend the constitution" of the United States? 

 

In the context of our political history over the last 40 or so years, Boxer's leftist outcry seems to me to be a little hypocritical.  Perhaps we should think back a few years to a time when Barbara Boxer was likely a very young, still wet behind the ears, leftist nutcase in training in the mid 1970's when the Democrats (whose party was in the process of being hijacked by the left wing nutcases of the day) were ever so gleeful that President Richard Nixon was in the thick of an illegal cover up of the break in of the Democrat Headquarters at the Watergate Hotel.  Wasn't that scandalous event perpetuated by "leaked" information by an informant who was only identified as "Deep Throat"?

 

If anything, Ms. Boxer should be nominated as an all time champion "political gymnast" for this demonstration of back flipping ability.  Otherwise, she and others like her should be awarded their rightful place in American Political History as the back stabbing, power grubbing, special interest hypocrites that they are.

 

Yes... I think I have it right...

Just 5 Minutes

This is a 5 minute presentation that clearly demonstrates the dilema of the current immigration problem. I urge you to take JUST 5 MINUTES to watch, and then if you still don't understand the destructive nature of U. S. Government Immigration Policy and get involved in correcting this massive miscarriage of Federal power, then God help your children and grand children because they will loose the legacy of American Freedoms that could have been passed to them by our generation.

Why?

As I pen this post, I am wondering if there is any limit to the stupidity of the established elite in Washington, D. C.? 

 

For many years now we have been attempting to deal with Islamic aggressors who have been attacking our facilities at home and abroad.  Whatever their grievance is seems to have become manifest with the take over of our U. S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran in 1979, and has not ceased since that time.  I could, but won't, recreate a long list of attacks that are all aimed directly at the heart and soul of America, American, and the American way of life, which to this point, has been liberties and freedoms known nowhere else in the world.

 

The way that we have chosen to deal with those who were caught and blamed for the aforementioned attacks has alternated between treating them as combatants on the one hand because they have chosen to "declare" war... not us, or as criminals who have acted against the established laws of our country, which then causes us, according to our U. S. Constitution, to be required to extend to them the same rights as "citizens" of the United States.  In the case of the latter, they have the full power of the court system at their disposal, including their right to be represented by counsel for which we may be required to pay.  This is an absurd position regardless of any context. 

 

It is very clear to me, and many other Americans, that these operatives are terrorists by their own admission and their goal is to destroy not only our government, but all of our other freedoms under our constitution, including that of religion.

 

Now we have the "liberal elite", who happen to be in power in Washington, D. C. at the moment, calling for the the admitted mastermind of the attacks of 9/11 to be tried in New York City, in a Federal court.  Why?  That is the simple question that screams for an answer!  Why?

 

Why give the terrorists the same standing as a U. S. Citizen in a Federal Court?

 

Why give the terrorists the full power of the mostly misguided American media?

 

Why give the Citizens of New York City and New York State the bill for the cost of security for such a trial?

 

Why give the terrorists a much needed forum in which to declare their disdain for our culture?

 

Why create a litteral propaganda juggernaut that the terrorists can use to further forment hate and discontent among their legions?

 

Why set up a mechanism  with which the terrorists can enhance their recruitment of other Jihidists?

 

A long list of "why's" could be called for here... but ultimately there is only one question in my mind...

 

Why give the terrorists anything other than about 5 minutes to spew their hatred just prior to tightening a noose around their neck and hanging them?

 

In my opinion, a trial of these terrorists should be a Military Tribunal and shouldn't last more than a day at the most with hanging to commence within 48 hours or sooner if the gallows can be built before that time.  They have already admitted guilt in most cases, and if not explicitly, then by their knowledge of the events of 9/11.  That is enough! These operatives are "soldiers" in a jihad that has been declared and is currently being carried out around the world against anyone who does not subscribe to their beliefs.

 

If we continue to allow our elected and appointed officials to attempt to deal with these terrorists as part of a civilized society, then we will loose this war eventually, because the terrorists have no such respect for civility.  By the actions that they take on a regular basis, IE; bombings, etc, they demonstrate that they care not about any "convention of war".. such as the Geneva Convention.  Their targets are innocent civilians enmasse as a means of creating an atmosphere that will stifle the economies of the countries that they target.  They don't care if there are women, children and other innocent non-combatants whose lives are destroyed... they only want to acheive one thing and that is total Islamic dominence of the world.  We should be reading their "play book".  Why tie one hand behind our backs in the name of civility and eventually loose the war?  The only way to win is to seek them out, no matter where they are, and totally destroy them, not capture and try them.

 

Consider this an appeal to every right thinking American, and I don't mean "right" in the sense of the far political right.  I am referring to just common ordinary everyday thought.  It is called common sense.  Then apply a little extrapilation to see where that will take us.  We must fight back and we must do so now.

 

There are two enemies of our attempts to save our way of life... One is the terrorists themselves and you already know what I think should be done with them.  The second enemy of our success in saving the American way of life is the misinformed, misguided elite establishment in Washington D. C. who are, through their distorted vision of this time in the history of the world, allowing the enemies of freedom everywhere to gradually win their battles by intimidation tactics.  Simply put the terrorists are attempting to "bully" their way to their goals and our stupid officials in Washington D. C., no matter their political allegiance, are helping them.   Therefore, part of the solution to the world's terrorism problem is to "change" the thinking of the officials who are making these insane decisions.  It must be done quickly before they are allowed to implement their intentions.  I suggest that can be accomplished peacefully through a very strong POPULAR UPRISING of the electorate in America.

 

America is the last bastion of hope for freedom  and we are currently loosing the battle. Join with me to encourage your neighbors and friends to engage the idiots in Washington DC and make known our demand for a change in the "rules of engagement" in this war to destroy us.

 

 

A Timely Message (1961)

In 1961 I was just graduating from high school.  Politics was the last thing on my mind.

 

At the same time, Ronald Reagan was already being called upon to use his many talents to help spread the warnings that we have been given over the last 50 or so years.  The message you will hear in this 11 minute 45 second radio broadcast by a younger Ronald Reagan couldn't be more appropriate to the debate that is raging currently about "healthcare".

 

Please listen.

 

And Then There Was The Second Amendment

Following The Progression

You're sound asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers. At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way. With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.. You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it. In the darkness, you make out two shadows.

One holds something that looks like a crowbar. When the intruder brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire. The blast knocks both thugs to the floor. One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside. As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few That are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless. Yours was never registered. Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died. They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm. When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years," he replies, as if that's nothing. "Behave yourself, andyou'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.. Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys. Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them. Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times. But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die." The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters. As the days wear on, the story takes wings. The national media picks it up, then the international media. The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win. The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects. After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time. The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial. The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted. When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you. Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man. It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.

The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened.

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk , England , killed one burglar and wounded a second. In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term.

How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire ?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903. This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license. The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.

Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.. Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed Man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.. When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions. (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable or worse, criminals. Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners. Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns. The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, Sealed the fate of the few sidearm still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism. Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.. Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying, "We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."

All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences. Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply. Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.

Sound familiar?

WAKE UP AMERICA ; THIS IS WHY OUR FOUNDING FATHERS PUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN OUR CONSTITUTION.

"..It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." --Samuel Adams

And The Insanity Spreads

Just the fact that the American People are sitting on their hands as the socialists are preparing to "chop off" the last of our dwindling liberties is reason enough to pass on this recent dispatch from "the hill"...

 

 House health care bill makes individual private medical insurance illegal

 

Thanks.  I went to IBD and verified this.  Thanks to the President,
Administration, and Democratic Congress, the citizens who work and
contribute are going to be screwed.  Thanks, Mr. President... This looks
like change we can believe in... but, it stinks.

But, keep smiling.  You may not have long to smile.  After age 65, you will
be left to die without somewhat costly life-lengthening medical treatment
you literally busted your ass over the years to now have.  Sorry.  No hips.
No knees. No dialysis.  No bypass.  No stent.  No pacemaker.  No life.  And,
no money for a funeral because the Government taxed you to death to cover
the $10T committed/spent in just the past six months.  About ten times what
Bush did in eight years.   

Never though I would seen such a crappy Government in this Country. 
Cheers,

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It's Not An Option

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 4:20 PM PT

Congress: It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the
House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a
provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.

IBD Exclusive Series: Government-Run Healthcare: A Prescription For Failure

When we first saw the paragraph Tuesday, just after the 1,018-page document
was released, we thought we surely must be misreading it. So we sought help
from the House Ways and Means Committee.

It turns out we were right: The provision would indeed outlaw individual
private coverage. Under the Orwellian header of "Protecting The Choice To
Keep Current Coverage," the "Limitation On New Enrollment" section of the
bill clearly states:

"Except as provided in this paragraph, the individual health insurance
issuer offering such coverage does not enroll any individual in such
coverage if the first effective date of coverage is on or after the first
day" of the year the legislation becomes law.

So we can all keep our coverage, just as promised - with, of course,
exceptions: Those who currently have private individual coverage won't be
able to change it. Nor will those who leave a company to work for themselves
be free to buy individual plans from private carriers.

From the beginning, opponents of the public option plan have warned that if
the government gets into the business of offering subsidized health
insurance coverage, the private insurance market will wither. Drawn by a
public option that will be 30% to 40% cheaper than their current premiums
because taxpayers will be funding it, employers will gladly scrap their
private plans and go with Washington's coverage.

The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimated in April that 120 million or more
Americans could lose their group coverage at work and end up in such a
program. That would leave private carriers with 50 million or fewer
customers. This could cause the market to, as Lewin Vice President John
Sheils put it, "fizzle out altogether."

What wasn't known until now is that the bill itself will kill the market for
private individual coverage by not letting any new policies be written after
the public option becomes law.

The legislation is also likely to finish off health savings accounts, a goal
that Democrats have had for years. They want to crush that alternative
because nothing gives individuals more control over their medical care, and
the government less, than HSAs.

With HSAs out of the way, a key obstacle to the left's expansion of the
welfare state will be removed.

The public option won't be an option for many, but rather a mandate for
buying government care. A free people should be outraged at this advance of
soft tyranny.

Washington does not have the constitutional or moral authority to outlaw
private markets in which parties voluntarily participate. It shouldn't be
killing business opportunities, or limiting choices, or legislating major
changes in Americans' lives.

It took just 16 pages of reading to find this naked attempt by the political
powers to increase their reach. It's scary to think how many more breaches
of liberty we'll come across in the final 1,002. 

A Timely Message

Every once in a while a message comes along that makes sense. This one does and therefore, earns a post here.

Here's what you get. When you visit the link in the title of this post, you will see and hear what is fast becoming a rising sentiment in America. Some are beginning to wake up to the fact that our government has been "off the track" for a long time, and our current course has been, and continues to be, policy that will literally destroy the great experiment of a "virtuous people, governing themselves" through a "Representative Republic".

Some of us believe that the destruction will be even more catastrophic, leading to the break up of the United States, and the end of the worlds greatest economic power, and force for good that has ever been conceived by man (through devine intervention), forever.

America as a "way of life" is fast coming to an end. If we are to save ourselves from what has been a debacle of stupidity and ill conceived policy, we must do all we can to wake up the ordinary work-a-day citizens to the facts. The alarm is being sounded. Commonsense must prevail and we must start now.

My fervant hope is that, in some small way, this blog, this post, this communication, will help provide the impetitus or spark for more to get involved...

"Do it now" has never been said with more urgency than I want to impart to you here. Do something... join a "Tea Party" in your town, or support a patriotic effort of some sort. Become a part of a growing movement to "take back our country".

Thank you.
Bill Reid

A Message To The Republican Party

To: Chairman, RNC

Dear Mr. Steele,

Thank you for contacting me. I did not send a contribution and I am going to take a few minutes here to tell you why.

I am not a Republican, I am not a Democrat, and I consider myself an Independent thinker. In the most strict sense of the term, I am an American. I believe in American values, not socialism, communism, or any of the other "isms" that so many of the radical special interests groups espouse. I want what is good for America. It just happens to be that I am a 66 year old white male who has been retired on a fixed income now for about 4 years. The savings that my wife and I thought would provide the cushion that we could fall back on in the event that hard times happened along, has dwindled to about half of what it was when I retired... just 4 short years ago... and now those "hard times" have arrived. Not a pretty picture.

8 years ago I supported George W. Bush and the Republican Party with both my votes and my money, primarily because I could not stand the thought of having an environmentalist nutcase, nit-wit like Al Gore as our President. We came dangerously close to seeing that reality then, and so again, 4 years ago I supported George W. Bush and the Repubilcan Party with both my votes and my money (though it was much less than before), and "right thinking Americans" were able to stave off yet another attempt of the "left wing" of the Democrat party's attempt to take over our government. I should tell you at this point that the support that I gave to the Republicans and George W. Bush was done with my eyes wide open. I heard him when he promised "free trade"... not fair trade. And again when he emphatically exclaimed that Mexico, our neighbor to the South, "is our friend"....I heard him, and I knew that translated into a "sell out of American jobs" to the ineffective border controls that would allow illegals to flood our nation and suck the life out of our social systems. That is now a reality as untold millions have come here for the "perks" that we "give" them. Yes, they do work, and they are generally good people. But our system was not designed to care for all the indigent of the world, Mexico and otherwise. It was designed for Americans. Americans like you and others who were born here or became Americans through legal immigration and legal means.

Here's the bottom line Mr. Steele. During those 8 years, during which about 12 years of Republican control of the house and the Senate ended, I lost ground. I am less secure financially today and find myself seeking a continuing means of support as there is little hope that the "system" that so freely supports the illegal immigrants and other "slackers" who should not be getting money from the government, will not be the level of support that my wife and I envisioned when I retired. At the current rate, and I think the rate will escalate under the Democrat dominated government that we are now saddled with, I expect that within 5 years I will be forced to divest myself of all that I currently own (regardless of whether the markets are favorable or not) and have spent literally a working lifetime to acquire, in an attempt to stave off absolute poverty. Much of this is due to the policies and inept leadership that we were provided by Republicans and a Republican controlled Congress. I could enumerate a long list of greivances for which I hold Republicans responsible. Not because they were the only game in town, but because when they had the power to make a difference, they didn't. The Republican Party, in my humble opinion, squandered away a golden opportunity to put this country back on a successful track, but instead, decided to become "bi-partisan" and let the Democrats "share" power in all the congressional committees and other institutions as well. (As I recall the first really major accomplishment of the Bush Administration was to get a Democrat back education bill passed. Isn't that a little bit sick? I don't think that is why Americans elected Republicans into power. Do you?)

I believe in simple economics and business practices and I think politics and politicians should be held to the same ethical standards as is any business that is worth its salt. It's simple. If I come to your store and you are selling peanut butter (maybe not the best example right now), I take the jar from your shelf and bring it to the counter. There we do an exchange, my money for your peanut butter. You then have payment for what you have already provided to me, (the peanut butter), and I have the jar of peanut butter. I take the product home with me, open it up and begin to consume it. If I find that the product is not as represented, then I am coming back to your store... not to buy another jar of peanut butter, but to make you take back the "bad" peanut butter, and then I will go to someone else's store to see if they have a good product that I can use. Most likely I will not even shop at your store again, and if enough people have the same experience with your products you will go out of business.

Mr. Steele, I think that is where the Republican Party is today. They are on their way "out of business" because the products that they promised to the people who "shopped at their store" turned out to be less than the advertising lead everyone to expect. Now, if you were in business, as in the last example above, would you appeal to the people, whom you have alienated by providing them with bad products, to "give" you enough money so that you could go out and try to develop a better product that you can sell somewhere down the road, say maybe 2 or 3, but more likely 4 or 6 years? I doubt that you would be so naive.

If you want my money, of which there is precious little left, then you are going to have to prove to me that you are already offering a product that I know will work. When your Republican politicians can learn to stand together to hold off the insane policies that the Democrats are very busy "cramming" down the gullet of every American, those who are stupid enough to believe the stimulus that is offered will work and those who are wise enough to see that we will never be able to "borrow" our way out of debt, then I will consider doing more than just try to enlighten everyone that I know about the consequences we are about to suffer. In the meantime, we will all go down the tube together, good or bad, wise or not, just because a hand full of so called Republicans chose to go over to the other side and "aid the enemies of American Independence.

This is a sad day for America, and if the tide of stupid, self destructive policies, both Republican and Democrat supported idiocy, is not curbed soon, this country will be America in name only, just a gutted shell of what was, and could have continued to be, the most productive and benevolent society ever to occupy this earth. A very sad day indeed.

Bill Reid
Phone:469-595-0661
http://billreid.info

The Bubble Is Bursting

The current economic crisis is the result of irresponsible spending that dates all the way back into the 1950's and 1960's, with a marked upturn during the Johnson administration. We have faced similar but lesser circumstances 7 or 8 times since then, and each time we have sought to resolve the issue by pushing the "bubble" further into the future by printing additional money and/or devaluing our currency.

The problem that we are now facing is that we cannot print money fast enough to keep the "bubble" from bursting. To continue this same type of failed remedy (spending our way out of debt) as has been done in the past, is pure folly. Borrowing money to pay off debt will not work. It does not work with individuals and it does not work with governments. Eventually the currency that is being devalued to create this "illusion of plenty" will become worthless and having it will be senseless.

There is only one solution to this economic crisis, which is just a bigger version of all those that came before, since the end of WW II, and that is, to once again become a nation of producers instead of encouraging our status as "consumers".

Eventually, the "buck will stop somewhere", either voluntarily or involuntarily in the form of a total financial collapse. If it happens involuntarily then chaos will reign and blame will be assigned, but the end result will be the same. The United States will devolve into a fractured, confused collection of regional economies based on their ability to produce something necessary for the survival of the masses, but overall will settle into a world role something like the Europe of today and will be vulnerable to the whims of totalitarian governments that will survive simple due to their heavy handed population control tactics.

God Save America, because those who are currently in power, the same as the last two eight year administrations of Clinton and Bush, do not have either the vision or the leadership ability to avoid the inevitable.