The Wuss-in-Chief.

Just in case you had any lingering doubts about the utter  incompetency of our illustrious leader, this past week's actions, or lack thereof, regarding Libya should relieve any of those doubts.

It has been a policy, generally, for the U.S. to get involved in the resolution, or perpetuation, civil wars around the world for as long as I can remember. The administration tends to hit the big-ticket items that the U.N. or E.U. or the Liberal Media tells them to, leaving the rest of the world to fend for itself. I can't think of any intervention that has really been truly resolved. Sometimes, as with Somalia, for example, our government bails right smack in the middle because of social pressure that could affect one's reelection campaign or future book deals.

What I personally feel about Libya is unimportant when compared with how each of the parties is handling the situation. The conservatives are rabid with scent of political blood Obama is oozing from wounds inflicted by his own party. The Peace Prize Winner President authorizing air strikes...The Libs are rabid, too! Both sides attacking the Pantywaist-In-Chief, standing on their respective mounds of hypocrisy.

What I found to be galling was the fact that Obama vomited up all of his usual euphemism-laden, politically correct, Trying-to-earn-my-Peace-Prize bullshit right up until THE FUCKING FRENCH led the way into Libya. Great Britain was calling out Gadhaffi (sp) even before the French went in! Since when is the U.S part of the E.U?


Oh! And please, lets not forget the focus on how much money this offensive is costing taxpayers! If I hear one more word about the cost of this 'war', I am going to retch! All of the money that this administration is spending and printing and spending and printing for the last two years and NOW???  NOW the media starts focusing on the few hundreds of millions being spent on Libya??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? The 'President' has taken whirlwind Apology Tours in Indonesia in the last year that cost more than what has been spent on Libya!!! How much does it cost for that son-of-a-bitch to go golfing in Rio while all of this is going on?

I fight it and fight it, but the fact that we will not recover from the last two years in my lifetime is just that- A fact. And we still have two more years. And if these turncoat Republicans don't get their shit together...I fear there are six years to go...

Reality slap, Anyone?!

A couple of times over the past few days, I have had the misfortune to get sidelined by this Suze Orman or whatever the hell her name is. This morning I was able to change the channel before I had to listen to her speak, but I was not so lucky the other night when she was hawking her line of products on PBS. The encounter lasted only 2 minutes, but it was enough to raise my hackles, and it even triggered a visceral response in my 15-year-old son who happened to be in the room.

An Eight-Month Emergency Fund, a Fully-Funded 401k, No Credit Card Debt, Own Your Vehicle...All very nice ideas in and of themselves. Collectively, nearly impossible. Particularly now. I am sure there are pockets in the country of populations that live this little pipe dream. Certainly not here in the ghost-state of Ohio. (You've heard of ghost-towns? Well Ohio is a ghost-state...Anyway.)

This mornings encounter would have been a segment called "The New American Dream," where the financial guru would have further lectured me on all of the things that I am doing wrong in life. When I saw the title of the segment and then a close-up of her psychopathic smile, I nearly lost my mind. It certainly triggered a violent exterior monologue.

The American Dream is dead. There is no New American Dream.

Now, to be fair, I have to admit that I have a natural pessimism. Always have. This fact makes me and other like me more sensitive to having smoke blown up our asses. Ms. Orman and others of her ilk are profiting not from some innate superiority of their ideas, but from the fear people have when faced with the prospect of financial ruin....

***Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin has just signed the Bill that will limit collective bargaining 'rights' for public sector Unions***

We are all faced with financial ruin thanks to decades of abusive Government and Entitlement culture, the we for whatever reason have tolerated over and over and over. And Ms. Orman wants us to continue living this lie that we have been sold for the last 60 or so years. Be a cog in a wheel in this broken machine. Fund that 401k that the Federal Government will take at least 30% of...Put back 8 months of salary to support you when the Government passes some sort of mandate that causes your company to downsize or shut down altogether. Oh! And the 8 months' emergency fund will get you through about 2 months because the U.S. Dollar will be damned-near worthless. Pay off your cars and credit cards so that your God Almighty Credit Score can actually DROP because you have no debt...Then go try and get a loan for a house!

I support Capitalism, but I have no interest in being a part of this system anymore. Not that I ever really did. Unfortunately, prior generations and the structure of society now prevent anyone from really getting out. It is ironic that a country founded on Freedom and Individuality progressed to support nothing but conformity. We have all picked our boxes, or been forced into them. Now we wait. Trapped, gasping, grasping, foundering, slowly dying. Watching the futures we were sold evaporate. The facade lifts to show the void behind. Regrets for what world we brought our children into plague us daily.

We have real fears, stifled, for fresh water, food supplies, fuel, heat, clothing, shelter. We have real fears of working until the day we die because we were trapped in a system that forced us to work a good portion of our lives to pay for people that were content to live off the government teat. We could not and cannot withdraw into a more self-sufficient state...I have a real fear that the only way a self-sufficient state will be possible is in the rebuilding after the Collapse occurs.

Our reality is dire. Our future is dire. And fully funding my 401k...amassing an 8-month Emergency Fund...that is NOT OUR REALITY.

(Insert clever title here...)

I don't know about you all, but I was very happy to find out that Mel Gibson avoided jail time with a plea agreement, and the Spiderman musical is being completely revamped...

I've yet to get my Charlie Sheen update for the day, and I think I just missed a story about Lindsey Lohan because of a bathroom break, so I don't know the latest on her.

The fact that it looks like our Federal government is headed for a shutdown on the 18th...well, I had to get my Jamie Dupree FB update to get that information. Although, the Big 3 did take a blip to show a story how the Wisconsin GOP basically told the AWOL Democrats to 'shove it' and voted on their Collective Bargaining bill anyway. I am always, always, always intrigued to see hordes of Union members protesting and yelling 'Shame!' If they put a tenth of the effort into doing their jobs that they do into protesting, picketing, and bargaining, they'd have no need to do any of the three.

I do feel badly that the police and firefighters are lumped in with degenerates like teachers' Unions and other Civil Service Unions. From what I understand of the Wisconsin bill, at one point anyway, it was to exclude police and fire from the restrictions on Collective Bargaining. We do have they opportunity to vote on tax levies that affect Public Safety, but you have the Fear Factor that does not come into play with other issues. Public Safety hold us hostage with a soft fist. Vote down a levy and lose policemen. Vote down a levy and lose a fire station. Vote down a levy and lose a medic.

Teachers' Unions...Vote down a school levy and you don't lose teachers so much as you lose programs, bussing, sports, books, computers...And you NEVER lose an Administrator.

So. With regard to the Unions, I will remind you that they are protesting a government that gave them everything they wanted without regard for the long-term costs. Bottle-fed for decades. Now the government is trying to take away the bottle and Unions are having temper tantrums.

SHUT UP AND GET BACK TO WORK! IF YOU ARE OUT OF WORK, YOU PROBABLY HAVE YOUR UNION AND YOUR GOVERNMENT TEAT TO BLAME!

That said...The Governments themselves, who are literally one and the same with Public Sector Unions, need to do some house cleaning of their own. Your salary, your gold-standard life-long benefits...GONE! Our Representatives from top to bottom need to keep their day jobs. You should get a 'modest' (see 'median household income') stipend for your efforts. That stipend should come from whatever money you raise in your campaigns...

Well, my real life makes demands, and the rant endeth here...for now.

For my Lone Follower...

I have been deliberately absent for the last 6 weeks or so in an effort to salvage some of what is left of my sanity and avoid having a massive stroke for all of the political nonsense that has run rampant since the midterm elections.

That being said, I have still not been able to completely bury my head in the sand and ignore politics. What I am missing now is any sort of objective presentation of the news. I no longer pay for my TV, and I have to say that the liberal bias one hears about so often listening to Boortz or Hannity or watching Fox is, indeed, a profound and obvious reality. This week it has been nearly impossible to get anything other than Charlie Sheen stories (after stories, after stories...), or American Idol updates, or inane sound bites of Obama trying to 'organize' peace in Libya. Qadaffi (sp) may as well get on Al Jezeera (sp) and give Obama the finger.

One of the big issues here in Ohio has been the SB5, which, last I was aware, passed the Ohio Senate and is generally expected to skate through the House and right to Kasich who is waiting, pen in hand, to pass the Bill. What has been impossible to find throughout the presentation of this issue has been coverage of anyone in favor of this Bill. Our state capitol has been shown to be inundated with protesters, many of whom are bussed in from other states, and many of whom are members of private sector unions. It is made to look like the vast majority of the State Of Ohio and the country in general is against this Bill. I have literally heard only ONE statement aired on the news in the last 3 weeks from a citizen supporting the Bill. Biased? Naaahhhhhh....

Maybe it isn't bias. Maybe it is just the fact that everybody else IS AT WORK! The rest of us don't get to strike, protest, walk-out, drag-up, and for the Politicians, simply leave the fucking state to avoid doing our jobs! The public sector Unions and the Politicians are the same people. They eat from the same trough. A trough filled with money from OUR pockets. Non-union, non-government wages STOLEN from us to pay at least 40% more to people who generally do less, contribute nothing or almost nothing to their health care or retirement, and who will draw down 90% of their 3 highest earning years, and be availed of Social Security and Medicare for the rest of their natural lives! And if you want to whine about Union dues...That's OUR money, too! You wouldn't have that money if it weren't stolen as taxes first, negotiated into your pay and benefits, and then recycled as campaign donations to politicians who give it back to you, with interest, in the form of contracted wage/benefit increases!

Oh, and lets not forget the non-creation of jobs, the government's total inability to come up with a budget for more than two weeks, the fact that gasoline if $3.50 a gallon...Let's spend some money sending weapons and aid to Libyan Rebels. Realizing of course that if we don't stabilize that area, gas will be astronomical...However, maybe if our illustrious liberal leaders had let us drill for and refine our own oil supplies starting in the 70s...No. No. You Libs are right. You Green Party fruit bats are right. This system we have now is working just fine. It just needs to be "Organized"...That is, after all, why you elected a "Community Organizer", right?

Sometimes, I just love my life!

http://www.facebook.com/THEHermanCain

Nothing else to say.

Always making friends.

I follow Jamie Dupree on Facebook. This has been the biggest threat to my health since I quit smoking.

The vast majority of respondents to his posts appear to be Conservative or Republican, but the few that are Liberal are SO Liberal that it staggers the imagination. I have rarely in my life encountered people with an utter incapacity to accept a reasonable logical argument to any point they may have. More often than not these 'conversations' end with my being called any number of names, 'racist' most recently, or I get "What would Jesus do?" These are responses to arguments made by me that I should get to keep the money I earn for me and mine, and then maybe I will be charitable to what people or causes I choose. Arguments that I should not have to fund government programs that facilitate a lifestyle of entitlement for an entire segment of the population that feels they have a right to my money to pay utility bills and buy food, while spending whatever cash they can get on shoes and nails and cell phones and flat screens and cigarettes and handbags and Sean Jean for their 3 toddlers. Racist, right?

I have most recently argued that Altruism should be a choice. To this I got a reply of 'What would Jesus have to say or do about that?" I replied that Jesus is conspicuously absent, isn't he? To that, I received, " Okay, keep your money," and something to the extent of how dare he "suggest that we help each other." This was the end of this. A snotty little look-down-my-nose at you snipe. No argument as to why the government should be able to tax me to give to someone else...

There really is nothing other than blind party-line allegiance at work most of the time. And with a zeal that is truly frightening. Idealism, plain and simple. No logic, no reason, no room for admission of imperfection of thought, no room for Capitalism, no room for independence, no willingness to admit that there is a large portion of the population that is truly abusive of the system that Liberals are so desperate to build and grow...I am willing to admit that the way we are doing things leaves a lot of gaps for people to fall through, but I cannot get one concession that people for the most part make their own beds. Not one. Because it's easier to call me a racist.

In the crosshairs?

Have to wonder now how far speech against the government or any one administration will be allowed to go. Where this mass-murdering fruit bat in Tuscon is legally allowed to say anything he wants, perhaps it would have been prudent to keep a sharper eye on him based on the things he was publishing about himself. The flip side of that thought is who decides whom and what is threatening versus whom and what is free speech. That has always been the problem, hasn't it?

Where I think of this blog as a self-indulgent rant against a government that has run amok with my tax dollars, there are some that would see my comments as hate-filled, vitriolic, racist, right-wing rhetoric and that I could inspire or commit violence because of it. This is, of course, absurd, but not out of the realm of possibility. Where I feel that I make legitimate points about the abuses of the government and those that voted in the current administration, I have been accused of all of the things previously mentioned by those that cannot argue with anything other than name-calling: hate-filled, vitriolic, racist, right-wing, etc. They have no argument to back up the financial abuses of this current administration, they have no answer for the Republican election in November, and now are using the murders and attempted murders in Tuscon in much the same way as they use the word 'racist'.

I have seen comments that go so far as to call the murders 'social justice' and 'a logical response' to desperation and loss of hope! It is absolutely outrageous! To have that mindset is baffling to me. These people who are calling out the Right for their 'hate-speech' can go right on their merry way making statements that justify the actions of this kid! Condoning it, if you will. If the Congresswoman had been a Republican, no doubt the Libs would have made arguments that she had asked for or deserved it for promoting the right-wing agenda and trying to repeal 'Health Care'.

I do firmly believe that Right or Left, politicians are flip sides of the same coin. They draw a paycheck from our taxes far disproportionate to the amount of work that they do, and some of them do it for a lifetime while engaging in morally and/or fiscally questionable behaviors to keep as much of that money as they can. We are relegated more often than not to voting for the lesser of 2 evils. I tend to vote Republican because they promise to let me keep more of the money that I earn. This rarely happens. Independents and Libertarians just do not have the money or the numbers to get into office themselves, but only serve to weight one of the 2 major parties. However, it has become all too evident that the Left, Liberals, Democrats, whatever they call themselves, are frighteningly disconnected from what is reality for the rest of us.

It is imperative that we get these people out of power, AND NOT BY SHOOTING THEM, mind you! Last time I checked, we were a free voting society that has the power to seat and unseat officials with our votes, our words, our minds. Only when a government threatens the freedoms and safety of its own people with force is force a 'logical' response by the People.

Just an aside.

I did not see most of this film. I missed the beginning, and I lasted about 30 minutes before I felt an overwhelming urge to to pluck my eyes out with forks and drive very sharp No.2 pencils into my ears. I knew when I chose this movie from the guide that I was probably not going to last, but I held out hope that there was going to be some sort of objectivity in the presentation. (There may have been some, and I just didn't make it that far.) However, the portion of the movie that I could tolerate was simply a camera crew following a group of Uber-Liberal Hollywood actors who were apparently pimping Obama prior to and at the DNC in Denver in '08.

Poliwood is the name of the film.

To be fair I must give credit to one of the actresses. Anne Hathaway, during the time I watched, was the only one who seemed to NOT have a preset opinion that she had an overwhelming need to voice. She appeared to be objective and very thoughtful about. her political statements overall. I will simply assume by her presence among the Uber-libs that she does have a decidedly Liberal bent in her politics, but I will give utmost respect with regard to her voice, lack thereof, and her composure.

The rest that chose to speak, frequently and loudly and very visibly, were idealistic, self-absorbed, obnoxious, and condescending. Everything that one associates with Hollywood personalities.

So. If you have two hours to kill and a penchant for self-abuse, check this out and see how long YOU last.

And...Back to business as usual...Again...

Forty-eight hours in, and I am feeling all of the potential for this Congress circling the drain. Realistically, nothing was going to get done anyway, what with Obama and his .50 cal veto pen locked and loaded. Now we are seeing what is probably the tip of the iceberg of Republican "yeah, but(s).

I desperately want to be wrong. I really do, because we need "Change We Can Believe In" (rim shot, thank you!) For anyone that is actually paying attention, and especially for those of us that have in desperation pinned all of our immediate hopes for the future on this House, failure of this House is going to be devastating. When I say 'failure' I do not mean failure to produce, because nothing will come from this session of Congress, I mean failure to keep promises. So far, they have done nothing but break promises and flub. Transparency? Fail. Budget cuts? Moderate fail. (They did vote successfully to cut the Congressional budget by 5%). Simply reading the document that our entire way of government is supposed to be based on? Flub. Voting without being sworn in? Super fail.


I think that the Speaker should hold a whip and not a gavel. After all, he is the face of this Session, the voice of the Republican party, and the 'champion' (if you will) of the People. To see his party fall flat on its face out of the gate has to be disheartening to him as it is to us.

Behind the Curve...

Which is exactly where they want us to be, isn't it?

I can barely keep up with the holiday/family stuff, let alone politics. What I can say is that I cannot say anything definitively until January. Everything that is going on now is a lot of posturing and placement. When it all goes good or bad, each side will take the credit or blame the other, but nothing has really been accomplished in the last week...

What I have noticed over the weekend is that this Lame Duck/Limp Dick 'Tax Deal" that Obama has signed into law has morphed from a cave-in of his principles to a 'victory'. Really f*cking amazing...Are we as Americans and constituents and voters really so vapid and thick? Are our attention spans so short as to be placated by the spin, the HARD spin, that the White House and the Media put on issues like this???

For my part, I would have been content to see an impasse. Let the unemployment benefits expire as well as the tax cuts, then start with an iron Republican fist at the turn of the year. However, they are all, on both sides, politicians to the core, and each one has to secure his-her job, regardless of party or personal ideals or the promises made to get votes. An iron fist in a kid glove, perhaps...

The stock market has apparently responded positively to the posturing, and this will give the Republicans a bit of ammunition next month to start pushing for permanency of the tax cuts...Because make no mistake, the extension of the BUSH TAX CUTS fuels the economy, not the unfunded year-long extension of welfare for the unemployed.

Merry Christmas everyone, Happy New Year, and here's to looking forward to an interesting and definitive next two years!!!

Helsinki Syndrom?

Is that what it's called? When hostages begin to identify with and care about their captors...Seeing as how we middle class workers and the genuinely unemployed are political "hostages" according to our illustrious leader. The leader that has led the way for the captors up to this point. Now, he can put himself in yet another Messiah-like capacity of Liberator of we hostages.

Republicans are holding fast to the promises that they were elected on 5 weeks ago without a whole lot of budge. They gave in on the continuation of the Unemployment benefits with no plan to fund them, which will simply tack the cost onto the current deficit. And please do remember that the Republicans still DO NOT HOLD THE HOUSE MAJORITY YET! We are dealing with the exact same Present, House, and Senate that we have been saddled with for the last 2 years. So do not sit here and think for a second that this is the new Republican Majority throwing its weight around.

As per usual, you have a faction of life-long rank and file Dems that absolutely refuse to have the tax cuts continue for "The Millionaires and Billionaires", to use the new wealth envy crowd's catch phrase. They seem to be willing to let the cuts expire on everyone with a job, give up a 2% reduction in payroll taxes, and let the once all-important extension of unfunded Unemployment expire at the same time the tax cuts do...All because they cannot stand the fact that they cannot tax The Millionaires and Billionaires (which would actually be any family making over $250,000), at a higher rate than they themselves are taxed or we the political hostage middle classes are! They preach FAIR, FAIR, FAIR! But can you tell me what exactly is fair about paying a higher PERCENTAGE because you EARN more?! If we all pay 15%, The Millionaires and Billionaires are still going to foot the bill for the VAST majority of the tax revenue required by the Imperial Federal Government to fund their outrageous spending....

Actually have to take a breath and take my kid to school. More to come!

It's been a loooooong day.

Watching one C-SPAN channel or another all day has brought me to the limits of my sanity and physical well being. Watching Barbara Boxer nearly work herself into tears over the poor, abused, misled hourly workers of the evil McDonald's Corporation and its MiniMed health insurance options...I am about to vomit!

Maybe I am old, but I don't ever remember thinking that my high school education and part time hourly employment should offer me the option of  'golden hoop' health care. At some point you could buy a limited benefit policy at a rate you could not really afford to have taken out of your check every two weeks, but I never did this. And we all knew it was crap insurance. In order to get better options for insurance, you had to work full time, get into management, and so on. You invest your effort into the company and they increase what they are willing to give you as benefits. Logic, right?

When did things suddenly change? why on god's green earth would any company provide 75-80% subsidy on a part-time worker's premiums for a comprehensive policy? Particularly with the age group of most of the workers and the ridiculous turnover rate in food service, retail, and other low education industries? Even if McD's were to subsidize 80% of a full benefit comprehensive policy, that hourly part time worker still probably could not afford the damned premium! But, that's the evil corporation's fault too, isn't it? A person that saw fit to do nothing more with themselves than get enough education to work in food service for a living is definitely worth the same as my husband who busted his ass getting an Engineering degree so that he could make more than the goddamned food service worker!? I don't think so.

I delivered pizza for the best part of my working life and only within the last 7 years started making any progress towards better. What did it take? School. Not a lot for what I do, but school nonetheless. I make double on the hour than what I would if I'd not pursued further education. I still work part time, but do have the availability of full time and benefits if I choose. They won't be great, but that is part of the price that one pays for making bad decisions, procrastinating, and relying too heavily on others for the first part of my adult life. One bad decision has led to another and another, and they compound. It takes twice as much work to get out of the hole. Ultimately, the responsibility for my status in life is my own.

I will certainly admit that sometimes things just go wrong. Providers die, people get sick or injured through no fault of their own...There has to be some sort of remedy against happenstance. I would want help if I needed it to stay alive or feed my children. I don't want people to starve or die because they decided to be a housewife and the provider gets cancer. What I can't abide is this notion that people who are un- or undereducated and can't DO anything other than sling fries because they decided to have two babies and drop out of high school are somehow entitled to the same pay and benefits as another person who graduated, worked her way through college, and eventually got to a position that offered pay and benefits reserved for those who have earned them.

There are differences in people and there are differences in those persons' worth in a corporate and economic sense. Plain, simple, painful fact. I am economically not as viable as my husband. Fact. I am more economically viable than a highschool graduate. Fact. A person with a 10th grade education, two kids by two different men by the age of 17, a history of drug use, including during pregnancy, legal problems, and no work history??? You guessed it...Worthless! And whose problem is this? Not yours. Not mine. The responsibility lies at the feet of the parents and the girl herself. But Barb Boxer is going to wail up because this useless girl can't get access to the same pay and health care that my husband can!   

It's too early in the morning for this!

Started out scanning through the Liberal networks, then Fox, and stopped on C-Span during the broadcast from the British Parliament. Always entertaining. Unfortunately, I was then subjected to the inane babble spewing forth from the mouth of a Rep. Marcy Kaptur-D from the Toledo/Sandusky area here in Ohio. Another long-sitting incumbent Democrat from one of the lovely urban areas of this state. (Dems held onto districts around Cleveland, too. Do I really need to explain the correlation?)

Short on time here at the moment, I will suffice to say that the rhetoric coming from this woman this morning is nothing short of chapter and verse from the Democrat Bible of Hyperbole, peppered liberally (no pun intended) with a blatant and willful misunderstanding of economic principles. Apparently, we are in a recession because there are no jobs. The way I remember it was that the economy started slowing due to the housing cluster f*ck, the financial sector cluster f*ck, the automotive industry cluster f*ck, and the government being hell bent on spending as much money as humanly possible to "bail out" these various cluster f*cks. Bush said, To hell with it, and signed the first round of Porkulus. Obama rode that wave, carrying with him all of his overt disdain for and will to crush the Capitalist private sector. He "bailed out" and Porkulated to the point that the gubment has it's greasy fingers in all of the bailed out industries and a much higher segment of the population dependent on gubment checks. And, Yes!, the over-extension of unemployment benefits is a gubment check program!

More to come...

And...Back to business as usual...

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...

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.

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.

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!

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".

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.

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!