From Foxnews.com, well Harris Polling.... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/21/poll-obama-popular-jesus-gandhi-king/
A quote from another article this morning talking about the week ahead in DC... God help us.
"Facing such eye-popping deficit numbers and the massive federal spending already gushing from the stimulus and bailout bills, people may need to catch their breath and survey Obama's plans with a cooler, calmer gaze." - If people in the administration don't like the spending being done in our recently passed and signed PORK SPENDING BILL aka Stimulus Package, why did they let that go on and be passed without ANY Debate or any actual member of Congress READING THE BILL?!?!!?
FOLKS! Do you know how many of our illustrious Congressmen READ the ENTIRE BILL before it was passed? NONE. ZIP! ZERO! NADA! 1000+ pages of spending my grandchildren and maybe great-grandchildren's "future" into oblivion and no one took the time to read it in its entireity, or a little of it, before just blindly bleating in line to vote? ACK!
21 February 2009
Personal Responsibility
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497707,00.html
Are you mad that not only do your tax dollars pay for people not working, or trying, but now we're going to let people who shouldn't have bought the biggest house they could by a loan, but can't afford now to pay for? Those honest folks out there who are paying their bills, now have to foot the bill for the schmuck down his street costing him housing value. Does anyone have any responsibility for themselves these days?!?! I don't get it. We have no debt except for the two cars and the monthly credit card statement. We're RESPONSIBLE. Did we quit teaching our children about being good, upstanding citizens? About DEMOCRACY? About the evils of SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM?
Yesterday I saw that there is now talk of nationalizing our banks, if only temporarily. Let's think on this just a moment. Anything the government throw money at tends to not improve. Anything we start funding, usually has no end in sight. (ie Social Security, Welfare, the telephone tax paid to finance the Spanish-American War back in the late 1800s and wasn't repealed until 2000-something I believe if not the 1990s) We TRUST these people to temporarily take control of banks?
Ever hear the term NANNY STATE? We're quickly approaching socialism where Uncle Sam will be going broke to provide for the nation's food, health, housing and so on. Isn't that just a grand thought? Are there that many stupid people who don't have an ability to flip a burger at McDonald's on a regular basis to get a paycheck? It's not glamorous, it's not a great job for a college grad, but if one has a family that needs fed, one must find a job, no matter what it is.
I was talking to someone at work the other day about the amazing, super, absolutely won't do much for really anyone, $400 tax credit (or the $250 one time payment to Social Security recipients or veterans). What do they think that $14 will do for the average family every two weeks? It won't make a difference in my life. I was put under the bus kind of by someone who says "Maybe not to you but that's formula for a family." I'm not immune to families who struggle... I'm a military spouse... I've seen my share. I have a family member of my own supporting a family of 5 on a self-employed income. Do you think that $14 every two weeks, if he could get it, would really do much for him? For a family of 5, it's almost 1 meal at McDonald's for the whole family. WOOO HOOOO! Run and spend that extra $14 every two weeks and stimulate the economy. OH YEAH!
I can't find the article I saw last night and didn't have time to share. BUT, the gist of the headline is that MOST people want a nanny state where the federal government takes care of them. Ever been to eastern Europe? Even western Europe? Lovely apartment buildings, (actually I think it is) good public transportation, socialized medicine (and having spoken to a few people about English and German health care, our system may suck, but it's still better). I don't want the government taking care of me in all aspects of life. I do try to be RESPONSIBLE. Where did we go wrong as a country in thinking 1984 was a good idea? If you don't know what 1984 is, I suggest a trip to the library and some time to read it. George Orwell in general is a pretty good read. Animal Farm, too. I think I'm going to go to the library today now I think about it.
May your Saturday be super! And full of personal responsibility. Go stimulate the economy! Spend that $14 we'll soon have every two weeks. God bless America! (The USSR may have died a slow, painful death, but the USSA is on the rise LOL)
Are you mad that not only do your tax dollars pay for people not working, or trying, but now we're going to let people who shouldn't have bought the biggest house they could by a loan, but can't afford now to pay for? Those honest folks out there who are paying their bills, now have to foot the bill for the schmuck down his street costing him housing value. Does anyone have any responsibility for themselves these days?!?! I don't get it. We have no debt except for the two cars and the monthly credit card statement. We're RESPONSIBLE. Did we quit teaching our children about being good, upstanding citizens? About DEMOCRACY? About the evils of SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM?
Yesterday I saw that there is now talk of nationalizing our banks, if only temporarily. Let's think on this just a moment. Anything the government throw money at tends to not improve. Anything we start funding, usually has no end in sight. (ie Social Security, Welfare, the telephone tax paid to finance the Spanish-American War back in the late 1800s and wasn't repealed until 2000-something I believe if not the 1990s) We TRUST these people to temporarily take control of banks?
Ever hear the term NANNY STATE? We're quickly approaching socialism where Uncle Sam will be going broke to provide for the nation's food, health, housing and so on. Isn't that just a grand thought? Are there that many stupid people who don't have an ability to flip a burger at McDonald's on a regular basis to get a paycheck? It's not glamorous, it's not a great job for a college grad, but if one has a family that needs fed, one must find a job, no matter what it is.
I was talking to someone at work the other day about the amazing, super, absolutely won't do much for really anyone, $400 tax credit (or the $250 one time payment to Social Security recipients or veterans). What do they think that $14 will do for the average family every two weeks? It won't make a difference in my life. I was put under the bus kind of by someone who says "Maybe not to you but that's formula for a family." I'm not immune to families who struggle... I'm a military spouse... I've seen my share. I have a family member of my own supporting a family of 5 on a self-employed income. Do you think that $14 every two weeks, if he could get it, would really do much for him? For a family of 5, it's almost 1 meal at McDonald's for the whole family. WOOO HOOOO! Run and spend that extra $14 every two weeks and stimulate the economy. OH YEAH!
I can't find the article I saw last night and didn't have time to share. BUT, the gist of the headline is that MOST people want a nanny state where the federal government takes care of them. Ever been to eastern Europe? Even western Europe? Lovely apartment buildings, (actually I think it is) good public transportation, socialized medicine (and having spoken to a few people about English and German health care, our system may suck, but it's still better). I don't want the government taking care of me in all aspects of life. I do try to be RESPONSIBLE. Where did we go wrong as a country in thinking 1984 was a good idea? If you don't know what 1984 is, I suggest a trip to the library and some time to read it. George Orwell in general is a pretty good read. Animal Farm, too. I think I'm going to go to the library today now I think about it.
May your Saturday be super! And full of personal responsibility. Go stimulate the economy! Spend that $14 we'll soon have every two weeks. God bless America! (The USSR may have died a slow, painful death, but the USSA is on the rise LOL)
14 February 2009
CEOs Lambasted for Privy Planes: Why Not a Senator?
From cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/13/brown.stimulus.vote.flight/
I wrote him last weekend to not vote for this package as Ohio is my home state. So to get the almighty 60 votes, since they couldn't get mainstream Republicans to vote for it, we got to pay for Senator Brown to fly from Ohio to DC just to vote on this pork bill. Nice, isn't it, that we're footing a bill of about $3000/hour to jet him to DC. So, while they roasted the CEOs of Detroit (and I agreed with it), they fly ONE senator back to DC for a vote. Where is the outrage? HYPOCRITES! Every last one of them.
GS employees are not actually salaried. I always thought they were. They fill out hourly time sheets every two weeks to get paid. PERHAPS, we should make Representatives and Senators (and Presidents too) GS employees, accountable for every minute they work? So, that said, we've just passed spending for the next three or so years... send them back to their states until August when we'll be in the midst of yearly budget woes, to work real jobs. They're just going to rubber stamp the president's budget when it comes in anyways. They don't need more than a few DAYS (weeks) debate to do that. They certainly have no more money to spend. Heck, we don't have the funds for the insane bill that just passed yesterday.
Just food for thought.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/13/brown.stimulus.vote.flight/
I wrote him last weekend to not vote for this package as Ohio is my home state. So to get the almighty 60 votes, since they couldn't get mainstream Republicans to vote for it, we got to pay for Senator Brown to fly from Ohio to DC just to vote on this pork bill. Nice, isn't it, that we're footing a bill of about $3000/hour to jet him to DC. So, while they roasted the CEOs of Detroit (and I agreed with it), they fly ONE senator back to DC for a vote. Where is the outrage? HYPOCRITES! Every last one of them.
GS employees are not actually salaried. I always thought they were. They fill out hourly time sheets every two weeks to get paid. PERHAPS, we should make Representatives and Senators (and Presidents too) GS employees, accountable for every minute they work? So, that said, we've just passed spending for the next three or so years... send them back to their states until August when we'll be in the midst of yearly budget woes, to work real jobs. They're just going to rubber stamp the president's budget when it comes in anyways. They don't need more than a few DAYS (weeks) debate to do that. They certainly have no more money to spend. Heck, we don't have the funds for the insane bill that just passed yesterday.
Just food for thought.
13 February 2009
Welcome Socialism
HACK! COUGH! SPEW! HACK! COUGH!
Our superior, know more than everyone else, Congress tonight passed the Pork Bill, I mean stimulus package.
The House didn't complete its PRINTING of the bill until overnight. Where was the chance to read or at least glance through it?!?!?! Oh God! Ain't bipartisanship supposed to be flourishing?
So, did you notice some of the things counting as "stimulus"? Of course not! Giving money to organizations like ACORN, that helped President Obama win, is stimulating? Please explain. Oh the big ones I noticed this morning? A ONE TIME payment of $250 to Social Security recipients. WOW! $250? ONCE? Going to get the economy started on THAT?!?!?! Our country is hurting now... it's only going to get worse from here on out. WAKE UP FOLKS! The left won and continues to let us know about it.
The president talks about responsibility, YET, the government says, "Here is your ration of health care (or food or tax rebate to those who don't even pay in). We'll appreciate and expect your vote in 2010 and 2012 to keep us LIBERALS in business." Nothing like buying a vote. Oh wait! Isn't Chicago where one votes early and often? And now we get that type of attitude all over the leadership?
Well, I won't say I'll read 1000+ pages of the "stimulus" bill, soon to be unfortunately, law, BUT I hope some reputable news source has it available. I want to check things out. We're screwed folks. In short, kiss the good things about our country prior to November 2008, goodbye. Capitalism is gone. Our dependency upon the LIBERALS for all our lives, that's here. Lucky UNLUCKY us.
Our superior, know more than everyone else, Congress tonight passed the Pork Bill, I mean stimulus package.
The House didn't complete its PRINTING of the bill until overnight. Where was the chance to read or at least glance through it?!?!?! Oh God! Ain't bipartisanship supposed to be flourishing?
So, did you notice some of the things counting as "stimulus"? Of course not! Giving money to organizations like ACORN, that helped President Obama win, is stimulating? Please explain. Oh the big ones I noticed this morning? A ONE TIME payment of $250 to Social Security recipients. WOW! $250? ONCE? Going to get the economy started on THAT?!?!?! Our country is hurting now... it's only going to get worse from here on out. WAKE UP FOLKS! The left won and continues to let us know about it.
The president talks about responsibility, YET, the government says, "Here is your ration of health care (or food or tax rebate to those who don't even pay in). We'll appreciate and expect your vote in 2010 and 2012 to keep us LIBERALS in business." Nothing like buying a vote. Oh wait! Isn't Chicago where one votes early and often? And now we get that type of attitude all over the leadership?
Well, I won't say I'll read 1000+ pages of the "stimulus" bill, soon to be unfortunately, law, BUT I hope some reputable news source has it available. I want to check things out. We're screwed folks. In short, kiss the good things about our country prior to November 2008, goodbye. Capitalism is gone. Our dependency upon the LIBERALS for all our lives, that's here. Lucky UNLUCKY us.
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