Still in partial turkey-induced coma, I am emerging from the holiday fog to find that the Senate is going balls-out in regulating our food supply, voting down a ban on earmarks, and voting against repealing the b/s 1099 reporting for small businesses that got crammed into the Health Care Reform. There has yet to be any movement on the Bush Tax Cuts that expire at the end of the year. I did hear the Bush Tax Cut Expiration referred to as The Obama Tax Hike. At this point, that is exactly what it is.
There has been the pay freeze on Federal Workers, but I am still trying to find out exactly who these freezes affect. And please don't fail to realize that salaries have been frozen at $150,000.00 and more, the number of people who earn that amount has doubled since the Coronation, and that amount is a reflection of about a 30% disparity between what a Federal worker makes versus what a person in the private sector makes for doing the same work. So you freeze them at a 30% disparity for 2 years...Exactly how long would you have to extend this freeze before the private sector, through periodic raises and cost of living increases, caught up with the Feds in pay rates??? Anyone give me a number? I am not that financially savvy or mathematically literate that I can give you a number on this, but I know damned well that 2 years is not going to cut it. You want to share the sacrifice? Cut the federal workforce! Cut the federal pay to be in line with the private sector! Get the federal employees' benefits in line with ours! Don't vote for another goddamn bill that institutes another goddamn government agency that will take over how our food is produced! How much is THAT going to cost?!
Wow...it's going to be a long 2 years...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Ya big Nancy!
So. The vote was something like 150ish-43ish to elect Pelosi House Minority Leader... A 3-1 margin made this fruit bat the continuing face of the Democratic Party, even with ousted Democrats blaming her for their lost seats. Brilliant. Really.
So what it is it that is going to happen now? Anything different than if she were not Minority Leader? Probably not. We will see continuing evidence that she is absolutely around the bend. Every word from her mouth, backed by 2/3 of her party, as I have said before, should be another nail in the Democrat coffin in 2012. Her continued unabashed support of Obama and his anti-Capitalist, anti-Constitution, and anti-American policies, and vice-versa, will do the damage it needs to.
However, I think and hope that no matter the lunacy that the Dems come up with, people will be paying far more attention to the reactions of the Republicans. I hope that more attention will be paid to the ramifications of passing or not passing Bills as opposed to the semantics and symbolism, politics and hyperbole that are so blatant.
Example: The extension of the Unemployment benefits. There is no money for this. People dependent on the benefits, for whatever reason, rather than admit that extension is not going to help the debt and therefore the overall economy, will adopt the 'me' attitude that crippled the country in the first place and become part of the problem. This is an untenable position for someone who truly has no other means, but I think that there are more people out there that could work, but make a choice not to. After all, you can get a gubment check for what? 60% of what you made before, or get a job for 50% of what you used to make in a field you consider beneath you. Or a Union member who made 3 times what at non-Union worker made and had the means to save some of that exorbitant salary for 'a rainy day' is now drawing down benefits that are greater than that non-Union worker who still has a job. What to do? Leave the Union and go work for a prevailing wage? Yeah, right?
There is no sense of the common good now. Even I am not immune to an attitude of doing only for me and mine. Perhaps, if I didn't see so much of my family income stolen from me before we ever get it, I would feel a little more altruistic. I would help the truly needy people in the country if it were a choice. As it stands, I have many levels of government that take care of anyone who chooses to be a good subject.
Fortunately, we have the psychotic Prozac smile and inane statements of Nancy Pelosi, and the arrogant condescension of Barack Obama to remind us for another two years what is wrong with this country.
So what it is it that is going to happen now? Anything different than if she were not Minority Leader? Probably not. We will see continuing evidence that she is absolutely around the bend. Every word from her mouth, backed by 2/3 of her party, as I have said before, should be another nail in the Democrat coffin in 2012. Her continued unabashed support of Obama and his anti-Capitalist, anti-Constitution, and anti-American policies, and vice-versa, will do the damage it needs to.
However, I think and hope that no matter the lunacy that the Dems come up with, people will be paying far more attention to the reactions of the Republicans. I hope that more attention will be paid to the ramifications of passing or not passing Bills as opposed to the semantics and symbolism, politics and hyperbole that are so blatant.
Example: The extension of the Unemployment benefits. There is no money for this. People dependent on the benefits, for whatever reason, rather than admit that extension is not going to help the debt and therefore the overall economy, will adopt the 'me' attitude that crippled the country in the first place and become part of the problem. This is an untenable position for someone who truly has no other means, but I think that there are more people out there that could work, but make a choice not to. After all, you can get a gubment check for what? 60% of what you made before, or get a job for 50% of what you used to make in a field you consider beneath you. Or a Union member who made 3 times what at non-Union worker made and had the means to save some of that exorbitant salary for 'a rainy day' is now drawing down benefits that are greater than that non-Union worker who still has a job. What to do? Leave the Union and go work for a prevailing wage? Yeah, right?
There is no sense of the common good now. Even I am not immune to an attitude of doing only for me and mine. Perhaps, if I didn't see so much of my family income stolen from me before we ever get it, I would feel a little more altruistic. I would help the truly needy people in the country if it were a choice. As it stands, I have many levels of government that take care of anyone who chooses to be a good subject.
Fortunately, we have the psychotic Prozac smile and inane statements of Nancy Pelosi, and the arrogant condescension of Barack Obama to remind us for another two years what is wrong with this country.
Let's just pull this out of our...
It is being reported that there is going to be a vote on a Bill to extend Unemployment benefits by another 3 months. Democrats seem bent on keeping us broke and dependent and forcing the new Republican Majority to be the assholes that vote against such a bill. And let's not forget about the Paycheck Fairness Bill that got voted down that is now evidence that Republicans don't care that women are discriminated against in the workplace. As if women have no legal recourse against discrimination!
So. We can assume that Republicans are going to vote against the benefit extension, and then they will also be the assholes that don't care about the unemployed. I'd like to see some numbers about how many people drawing down unemployment are in Unions and are on layoff. Union members that are the driving force behind a good portion of Democratic power. How many are drawing down unemployment because they won't work in this field or that field, or do this job or that job, or that they are making enough on unemployment that it just isn't worth it to work.
So. The country is being crushed by debt and this Congress is still trying to heap some more shit on the pile for no reason other than to start bidding on reelection in two years...Absolutely unbelievable.
So. We can assume that Republicans are going to vote against the benefit extension, and then they will also be the assholes that don't care about the unemployed. I'd like to see some numbers about how many people drawing down unemployment are in Unions and are on layoff. Union members that are the driving force behind a good portion of Democratic power. How many are drawing down unemployment because they won't work in this field or that field, or do this job or that job, or that they are making enough on unemployment that it just isn't worth it to work.
So. The country is being crushed by debt and this Congress is still trying to heap some more shit on the pile for no reason other than to start bidding on reelection in two years...Absolutely unbelievable.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Big Brother?
Perhaps it is coincidence. Perhaps I am growing paranoid. Perhaps one of my "Friends" is not a friend at all. Maybe it is a glitch or mistake of another sort.
I got to my computer today to get on my Facebook and catch up on inane b/s with family and friends only to find my account disabled. No reason given, no warning, and the "Help" menu was, of course, less than helpful. The most I could glean was that I was shut down for having a false account of some sort. I could reactivate my account, however, once I submitted a GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID! For Facebook?! Are you kidding?!
I have had this account for a few years now, but once I began this blog and linking to it via my FB Wall, I get shut down. Again, am I just paranoid? Is the big green middle finger OFFENDING one of my "Friends"? Are my comments and rants about the "Messiah" and his Socialist ideals OFFENDING someone to the point that they felt the need to complain to FB?
I am jumping through a couple flaming hoops trying to get my account reactivated, but I will be damned if I am submitting a government-issued ID to do it!
I got to my computer today to get on my Facebook and catch up on inane b/s with family and friends only to find my account disabled. No reason given, no warning, and the "Help" menu was, of course, less than helpful. The most I could glean was that I was shut down for having a false account of some sort. I could reactivate my account, however, once I submitted a GOVERNMENT ISSUED ID! For Facebook?! Are you kidding?!
I have had this account for a few years now, but once I began this blog and linking to it via my FB Wall, I get shut down. Again, am I just paranoid? Is the big green middle finger OFFENDING one of my "Friends"? Are my comments and rants about the "Messiah" and his Socialist ideals OFFENDING someone to the point that they felt the need to complain to FB?
I am jumping through a couple flaming hoops trying to get my account reactivated, but I will be damned if I am submitting a government-issued ID to do it!
Thursday, November 11, 2010
How is thie MY problem???
Looking at some of the broad points of this Deficit Commission proposal for getting control of the national debt, I am struck by how much of it is going to further screw the working American.
The removal of child tax credits and mortgage interest deductions merely add up to my having to pay more in taxes without the benefit of being able to call it a tax hike.
The raising of the retirement age...Granted this will most likely be implemented after I die, but it still doesn't address the money being flat-out stolen from my paycheck every two weeks of my working life for 55 years. Finally! Finally, Social Security is being called what it is: A Ponzi Scheme. How long did the government send Madoff to prison for? Life? I honestly don't remember. Kind of hypocritical, isn't it???
Higher income earners to receive fewer Social Security benefits because 'they can afford it.' Doesn't matter that you paid into the scheme for 55 years. Doesn't matter that you paid MORE into it because you made more money. Your higher 'contribution' is going to be rationed. You will get less so that someone else who wasn't as 'fortunate' in life can get more out than they EVER put in. And there is never any abuse of the SS system, is there? It's income redistribution, plain and simple.
A 15 cents-per-gallon tax hike on fuel. Just what we all need. We are back up to $3.00 a gallon here in Dayton-area, Ohio.
To be fair, there are also proposals to ban earmarks, cut government employee salaries (the number of government employees making $150,000.00 or more has doubled since Obama has taken office), and reform the tax code with a flat tax anywhere from 8% to 23%. The income tax reform would be better achieved with its elimination altogether. Tax what people spend, and everyone pays. If you can't afford to spend, then you don't have to pay the tax...Sounds "FAIR".
The removal of child tax credits and mortgage interest deductions merely add up to my having to pay more in taxes without the benefit of being able to call it a tax hike.
The raising of the retirement age...Granted this will most likely be implemented after I die, but it still doesn't address the money being flat-out stolen from my paycheck every two weeks of my working life for 55 years. Finally! Finally, Social Security is being called what it is: A Ponzi Scheme. How long did the government send Madoff to prison for? Life? I honestly don't remember. Kind of hypocritical, isn't it???
Higher income earners to receive fewer Social Security benefits because 'they can afford it.' Doesn't matter that you paid into the scheme for 55 years. Doesn't matter that you paid MORE into it because you made more money. Your higher 'contribution' is going to be rationed. You will get less so that someone else who wasn't as 'fortunate' in life can get more out than they EVER put in. And there is never any abuse of the SS system, is there? It's income redistribution, plain and simple.
A 15 cents-per-gallon tax hike on fuel. Just what we all need. We are back up to $3.00 a gallon here in Dayton-area, Ohio.
To be fair, there are also proposals to ban earmarks, cut government employee salaries (the number of government employees making $150,000.00 or more has doubled since Obama has taken office), and reform the tax code with a flat tax anywhere from 8% to 23%. The income tax reform would be better achieved with its elimination altogether. Tax what people spend, and everyone pays. If you can't afford to spend, then you don't have to pay the tax...Sounds "FAIR".
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
For the enlightened ones.
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2010/11/happy-birthday.html
Never forget that there have always been, are now, and will always be those who die for your 'rights'. So burn the flag, protest military funerals and in front of recruiting offices, call them baby killers, and denigrate the ones who actually make it home. Conveniently forget that THEY are the reason YOU can do these things. Forget that the soldiers are the reason you can have an opinion.
Never forget that there have always been, are now, and will always be those who die for your 'rights'. So burn the flag, protest military funerals and in front of recruiting offices, call them baby killers, and denigrate the ones who actually make it home. Conveniently forget that THEY are the reason YOU can do these things. Forget that the soldiers are the reason you can have an opinion.
A request of the World Traveller...
Mr. Obama, you need to get your black ass home and deal with the problems you created and exacerbated here.
It really is staggering that we have a 'leader' who feels that spending $200,000,000.00 a day to traipse around Southeast Asia appealing to the Muslims is more of a priority than the economic disaster he created in what is presumed to be his own country. To run away, which is exactly how it is perceived by we stupid masses of voters, on what is nothing more than another vacation to visit his childhood home after this round of elections and pointedly ignore the coming shift in power is further evidence of the arrogance and petulance of this 'President'.
I will grant that nothing is really going to happen in the government until January, and even then we are more thank likely looking at 2 years of legislative gridlock that will do nothing to improve our current collective situation. However, I still expect my president to be on domestic soil!!! No speeches! No more fucking interviews with the popular liberal media hacks! Get to work, Mr. President!!! It is a job! A four-year contract to grow the security and economy of the country, not a four-year publicity tour!
You are an employee, Mr. President, an employee of ALL OF US. You were not put into office to have your twisted idealism shoved down the throats of the average American.
I honestly cannot fathom how you were elected. Hippie idealism, illegals, welfare degenerates, American Idol culture, and white guilt. That's how you got into office. Unfortunately for you, the attention spans of those segments of the population lasts about as long as the month's welfare check. About as long as the segments between commercials. Well, the rest of us have memories that are long. We remember what life was like before the threats you pose and impose. Before $13,000,000,000,000.00 in national debt that will only explode, now if, and when your 'historic' health care reform is implemented. Before we had to worry about seizure of our private retirement accounts. Before we had to watch you literally bend over before the leaders of the rest of the world. Before we had to listen to you tell us how stupid we are because we can't appreciate what you are trying to do.
You made this bed. Now get home, stop spending OUR money to kiss muslim ass on the other side of the planet (not that we know where that is, right?), and lie in it!
It really is staggering that we have a 'leader' who feels that spending $200,000,000.00 a day to traipse around Southeast Asia appealing to the Muslims is more of a priority than the economic disaster he created in what is presumed to be his own country. To run away, which is exactly how it is perceived by we stupid masses of voters, on what is nothing more than another vacation to visit his childhood home after this round of elections and pointedly ignore the coming shift in power is further evidence of the arrogance and petulance of this 'President'.
I will grant that nothing is really going to happen in the government until January, and even then we are more thank likely looking at 2 years of legislative gridlock that will do nothing to improve our current collective situation. However, I still expect my president to be on domestic soil!!! No speeches! No more fucking interviews with the popular liberal media hacks! Get to work, Mr. President!!! It is a job! A four-year contract to grow the security and economy of the country, not a four-year publicity tour!
You are an employee, Mr. President, an employee of ALL OF US. You were not put into office to have your twisted idealism shoved down the throats of the average American.
I honestly cannot fathom how you were elected. Hippie idealism, illegals, welfare degenerates, American Idol culture, and white guilt. That's how you got into office. Unfortunately for you, the attention spans of those segments of the population lasts about as long as the month's welfare check. About as long as the segments between commercials. Well, the rest of us have memories that are long. We remember what life was like before the threats you pose and impose. Before $13,000,000,000,000.00 in national debt that will only explode, now if, and when your 'historic' health care reform is implemented. Before we had to worry about seizure of our private retirement accounts. Before we had to watch you literally bend over before the leaders of the rest of the world. Before we had to listen to you tell us how stupid we are because we can't appreciate what you are trying to do.
You made this bed. Now get home, stop spending OUR money to kiss muslim ass on the other side of the planet (not that we know where that is, right?), and lie in it!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
On behalf of ...
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.cnn.com%252F2010%252FUS%252F11%252F09%252Fcalifornia.fast.food.ban%252Findex.html%253Fhpt%253DT2&h=d0757&ref=nf
Sorry about your possibly having to cut and paste the link. This was brought to my attention by a 'Friend'. I have yet to read the story, but fear that the headline says quite enough. Aside from a fantastic lack of personal responsibility, realize that this 'government' that implements these sorts of absurd Nanny State restrictions and mandates is voted into office in free elections. Sad fact: There are apparently very focused populations of people in this country that are so cut off from reality, say everything between Vegas and DC, that something like a ban on fast food seems logical to them. These sorts of decisions are made by people who themselves don't indulge in the bliss that is a Baconator, and feel that we rubes out here in the middle of the country can't possibly know that a Baconator is not good for us.
These are the same people and legislatures that live in beautiful areas of the country that none of the rest of us can even afford to visit let alone move to, because the cost of living is absurd due partly to the level of taxation on the private citizen and businesses that is required to support the welfare system in those areas. Can't neglect our Illegal Alien population, now can we? Only a place like San Francisco with all of its enlightened, forward thinking, ex-hippie Liberals (baby-boomers that lived high on the hog in the prosperity of the 80's and 90's and are now most holing public office) could come up with constituents that are doing so well as to have nothing better to rally around than banning fast food. (The same people feel that an $8.00 coffee is a small price to pay for being so fucking enlightened.)
My cousin suggested we sell Michigan to Canada as a means of bringing in money. He is, of course, and Ohio State fan. I suggest that we sell California, for starters!, to France, or Greece or any other Socialist European country in the throes of economic collapse. Hell, give CA away as a fucking Christmas gi-- Sorry, HOLIDAY--- gift!!!
We fought a War of Secession once, I say it's time for another.
Sorry about your possibly having to cut and paste the link. This was brought to my attention by a 'Friend'. I have yet to read the story, but fear that the headline says quite enough. Aside from a fantastic lack of personal responsibility, realize that this 'government' that implements these sorts of absurd Nanny State restrictions and mandates is voted into office in free elections. Sad fact: There are apparently very focused populations of people in this country that are so cut off from reality, say everything between Vegas and DC, that something like a ban on fast food seems logical to them. These sorts of decisions are made by people who themselves don't indulge in the bliss that is a Baconator, and feel that we rubes out here in the middle of the country can't possibly know that a Baconator is not good for us.
These are the same people and legislatures that live in beautiful areas of the country that none of the rest of us can even afford to visit let alone move to, because the cost of living is absurd due partly to the level of taxation on the private citizen and businesses that is required to support the welfare system in those areas. Can't neglect our Illegal Alien population, now can we? Only a place like San Francisco with all of its enlightened, forward thinking, ex-hippie Liberals (baby-boomers that lived high on the hog in the prosperity of the 80's and 90's and are now most holing public office) could come up with constituents that are doing so well as to have nothing better to rally around than banning fast food. (The same people feel that an $8.00 coffee is a small price to pay for being so fucking enlightened.)
My cousin suggested we sell Michigan to Canada as a means of bringing in money. He is, of course, and Ohio State fan. I suggest that we sell California, for starters!, to France, or Greece or any other Socialist European country in the throes of economic collapse. Hell, give CA away as a fucking Christmas gi-- Sorry, HOLIDAY--- gift!!!
We fought a War of Secession once, I say it's time for another.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Say SOMETHING!!!
I am listening to Obama (because I cannot stand to look at him), and the man is saying absolutely nothing. Nothing. He is talking in circles and circles and circles and really taking no responsibility for anything that has lead to the power shift in the House. It is still Me! Me! Me! But not in a way that expresses culpability.
NOW he is talking about listening to the Republicans' ideas about Health Care Reform. NOW he is talking about the 1099 issue in the Health Care Bill (which has not one thing to do with Health Care)! Where was this consideration when the President and the Congress were ramming this Bill with all of its hidden garbage down our throats? Where was the Bipartisan effort then? There wasn't any, because the burden of being Bipartisan falls on the Majority to take into consideration the concerns of the Minority, and it falls to both parties to listen to the constituents. This did not happen. It has not happened for two years.
He is still convinced that HE is the Way, the Light, and the Truth, and I cannot see how anything resembling progress is going to be made in the next two years. We are at a stalemate if this is the attitude this man is going to affect.
And again, another reference to the deficit that he 'inherited'...
How about cutting taxes on the companies that make R&D possible for things like airports and railways? Nope. Going to stick with the 'Middle Class Taxcuts' argument...
You had to know what this was going to sound like. He was nowhere near contrite or responsive. His tone was defensive and petulant. He confidently accepts the power of the position and the accolades for his 'historic' legislative efforts, but will cast responsibility for failure of any kind to any and everyone else. So, if the next two years do show a turnaround, it will be his Bipartisan effort. If it remains status quo or worsens, it will be the fault of the Republican Majority in the House for not sending any Bills to the Democratic Senate that could be sent to his desk. The Senate will now be a buffer, thrown under the bus by Obama, if things go badly now. Watch.
NOW he is talking about listening to the Republicans' ideas about Health Care Reform. NOW he is talking about the 1099 issue in the Health Care Bill (which has not one thing to do with Health Care)! Where was this consideration when the President and the Congress were ramming this Bill with all of its hidden garbage down our throats? Where was the Bipartisan effort then? There wasn't any, because the burden of being Bipartisan falls on the Majority to take into consideration the concerns of the Minority, and it falls to both parties to listen to the constituents. This did not happen. It has not happened for two years.
He is still convinced that HE is the Way, the Light, and the Truth, and I cannot see how anything resembling progress is going to be made in the next two years. We are at a stalemate if this is the attitude this man is going to affect.
And again, another reference to the deficit that he 'inherited'...
How about cutting taxes on the companies that make R&D possible for things like airports and railways? Nope. Going to stick with the 'Middle Class Taxcuts' argument...
You had to know what this was going to sound like. He was nowhere near contrite or responsive. His tone was defensive and petulant. He confidently accepts the power of the position and the accolades for his 'historic' legislative efforts, but will cast responsibility for failure of any kind to any and everyone else. So, if the next two years do show a turnaround, it will be his Bipartisan effort. If it remains status quo or worsens, it will be the fault of the Republican Majority in the House for not sending any Bills to the Democratic Senate that could be sent to his desk. The Senate will now be a buffer, thrown under the bus by Obama, if things go badly now. Watch.
Now. Let's see what happens.
As expected, the Republicans took the House. Would loved to have seen them take the Senate as well, but the West Coast and Northeast would not be swayed. Forever staunch Democrats with their ridiculous costs of living and crippling tax rates...It would be better off for the rest of the country to have those areas of the country secede from the Union.
Anyway, now we will see if the Republicans are really paying attention. Let's see if they really understand why they won the House. We will also see this afternoon how Obama is going to spin this situation. Is he suddenly going to start spouting all of the Bipartisan, Moderate nonsense that helped get him elected? Sure he will. He's already campaigning for 2012, and he won't stand a chance if he persists with his arrogant disregard for the People. The Democratic Majority in the Senate won't stand a chance if they, too, persist in their arrogant, elitist disregard for the People. And the Republicans will be utterly finished if they get the next two years wrong.
I will finish today with a comment about the media and women in Politics. At the end of an interview with Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro, Megyn Kelly of Fox News makes sure to mention that Bristol Palin has been voted safe on Dancing With The Stars. Way to go girls. Way to go.
Anyway, now we will see if the Republicans are really paying attention. Let's see if they really understand why they won the House. We will also see this afternoon how Obama is going to spin this situation. Is he suddenly going to start spouting all of the Bipartisan, Moderate nonsense that helped get him elected? Sure he will. He's already campaigning for 2012, and he won't stand a chance if he persists with his arrogant disregard for the People. The Democratic Majority in the Senate won't stand a chance if they, too, persist in their arrogant, elitist disregard for the People. And the Republicans will be utterly finished if they get the next two years wrong.
I will finish today with a comment about the media and women in Politics. At the end of an interview with Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro, Megyn Kelly of Fox News makes sure to mention that Bristol Palin has been voted safe on Dancing With The Stars. Way to go girls. Way to go.
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Polls... and polls.
Anyone out there ever been Polled? Or known someone who was Polled? I don't. No one I know does. You have to wonder who the chosen few are. In sampling a thousand voters in a concentrated population, do you get real numbers?
I ask this because one of the local news stations is already reporting on a possible recount for the Governor's race here in Ohio. It is 9:39 a.m. on election day! to be reporting on recounts at this point is another example of totally irresponsible 'journalism'! Of course, the story is based on Poll numbers. I do wonder how many voters are influenced by polls. Say I want to cast my Libertarian vote, but the polls say that the Democrat and Republican candidates are in a dead heat and that a recount is likely. At that point I have to decide if my fear of a Democrat taking the race is greater than my belief that the Libertarian is the better man for the job. Because we all know how the media and the Two-Party system like to tell us that non of the Third Party candidates stand a chance...
On another Polling issue...Perhaps 100 feet is just not far enough away from the Polls. Amazingly, as I left my polling place, a woman that had been out front of the polls at the required 100 feet was in the lobby of the polling place 'warming up', I assume, and sporting her sticky-badge of support for a county levy in support of Human Services. Is this legal?! Somehow, I doubt it.
I was also accosted by a woman pimping her candidate for Auditor, and a man with a list of the appropriate candidates to vote for to have a "Christian" government...I cannot tell you the fear that the thought of a "Christian Government" instills in me. The fact that the list is probably Republican down the line is disconcerting, too, seeing as how the allegedly Fiscal Conservatives are also Social Conservatives...
The trade offs, the trade offs...
I ask this because one of the local news stations is already reporting on a possible recount for the Governor's race here in Ohio. It is 9:39 a.m. on election day! to be reporting on recounts at this point is another example of totally irresponsible 'journalism'! Of course, the story is based on Poll numbers. I do wonder how many voters are influenced by polls. Say I want to cast my Libertarian vote, but the polls say that the Democrat and Republican candidates are in a dead heat and that a recount is likely. At that point I have to decide if my fear of a Democrat taking the race is greater than my belief that the Libertarian is the better man for the job. Because we all know how the media and the Two-Party system like to tell us that non of the Third Party candidates stand a chance...
On another Polling issue...Perhaps 100 feet is just not far enough away from the Polls. Amazingly, as I left my polling place, a woman that had been out front of the polls at the required 100 feet was in the lobby of the polling place 'warming up', I assume, and sporting her sticky-badge of support for a county levy in support of Human Services. Is this legal?! Somehow, I doubt it.
I was also accosted by a woman pimping her candidate for Auditor, and a man with a list of the appropriate candidates to vote for to have a "Christian" government...I cannot tell you the fear that the thought of a "Christian Government" instills in me. The fact that the list is probably Republican down the line is disconcerting, too, seeing as how the allegedly Fiscal Conservatives are also Social Conservatives...
The trade offs, the trade offs...
A nagging conscience...
Yesterday, I was content to vote Republican across the board. This morning as I get ready to leave the house and vote, I am feeling more of an anti-incumbent mood. If I go in and vote for my incumbent Republican Representative, I will be voting for a man that voted with the liberals to pass the Porkulus Bill. How can I complain about the current state of government in this country and then go cast a vote for a man that is part of the problem.
I am a Libertarian if I have to wear a label. I do not want the Dems legislating my financial life, and I do not want the Reps legislating my morality. If I am not hurting anyone else by my actions, then stay the hell out of my life! Let me earn money in a Capitalist economy and leave me alone. If I choose to be altruistic and DONATE my money to a social program to provide for 'the less fortunate' or someone 'trying to get back on his feet', then so be it. If I choose to 'discriminate' (please feel free to look up the definition of the word before you automatically put a negative twists on it), and reserve my expendable income for my own needs, then so be it!
I am feeling Libertarian this morning. I am feeling that, if called out, I can much better defend a vote for a Libertarian candidate that I know very little about this morning, than defend a vote for a Republican that stood up and voted for something I deeply, deeply opposed!
In the immortal words of Ross Perot, "Vote your conscience!"
I am a Libertarian if I have to wear a label. I do not want the Dems legislating my financial life, and I do not want the Reps legislating my morality. If I am not hurting anyone else by my actions, then stay the hell out of my life! Let me earn money in a Capitalist economy and leave me alone. If I choose to be altruistic and DONATE my money to a social program to provide for 'the less fortunate' or someone 'trying to get back on his feet', then so be it. If I choose to 'discriminate' (please feel free to look up the definition of the word before you automatically put a negative twists on it), and reserve my expendable income for my own needs, then so be it!
I am feeling Libertarian this morning. I am feeling that, if called out, I can much better defend a vote for a Libertarian candidate that I know very little about this morning, than defend a vote for a Republican that stood up and voted for something I deeply, deeply opposed!
In the immortal words of Ross Perot, "Vote your conscience!"
Monday, November 1, 2010
Cluster fuck.
While I hold out great hope that tomorrow will see an end to the Democratic Majority that has enabled this president to effectively cripple this country in every way possible, I also think that a Republican Majority in the Congress will do nothing more than lock this country in the state that it is now for the next 2 years. Nothing is going to get done. There is gong to be as much bipartisan cooperation the day after tomorrow as there is now.
I do not feel that, even though these politicians are flipsides of the same coin, there will be anything other than bitter contention the likes of which have yet to be seen from a sitting president. Lately, on the campaign trail , Obama has shown how petulant a character he possesses. He has been clipped and frustrated and agitated when faced with anyone who does not immediately glom onto his ideals. Imagine if he is faced with a Congress whose ends are the antithesis of his own. A Congress put there for no other reason than to thwart his attempts at further damage and try to repair the damage he has done.
We will see the real Obama in 48 hours. We will see if he has the courage of his convictions or if they are only convictions when he can rule unchallenged. We will see if he spouts the usual rhetoric as he and Pelosi did prior to his Coronation in 2008 and then proceeds to Veto every Bill that comes across his desk because it came from a Republican Majority. We will see if he cooperates with efforts to repeal health care and put a stop to outrageous spending and then proceed to take credit if the country does make any real progress in the next 2 years.
We will see.
I do not feel that, even though these politicians are flipsides of the same coin, there will be anything other than bitter contention the likes of which have yet to be seen from a sitting president. Lately, on the campaign trail , Obama has shown how petulant a character he possesses. He has been clipped and frustrated and agitated when faced with anyone who does not immediately glom onto his ideals. Imagine if he is faced with a Congress whose ends are the antithesis of his own. A Congress put there for no other reason than to thwart his attempts at further damage and try to repair the damage he has done.
We will see the real Obama in 48 hours. We will see if he has the courage of his convictions or if they are only convictions when he can rule unchallenged. We will see if he spouts the usual rhetoric as he and Pelosi did prior to his Coronation in 2008 and then proceeds to Veto every Bill that comes across his desk because it came from a Republican Majority. We will see if he cooperates with efforts to repeal health care and put a stop to outrageous spending and then proceed to take credit if the country does make any real progress in the next 2 years.
We will see.
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