Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thoughts for Thursday 11-25-10

$19,000,000,000.00

This week a Democrat Senator came out against banning “earmarks” because she said: Earmarks account for only about $19 Billion. She said that eliminating them would not have any affect on the deficit. So $19,000,000,000.00 apparently is not a lot of money. Is there anyone out there that lives in the real world that thinks that $19,000,000,000.00 is not a lot of money? Is there anyone out there that lives in the real world who doesn’t understand why we have a spending problem in Washington, DC? OK there are those who think that the money grows on trees or that we can just take it away from the "rich." Of course those people may be depending on winning the lottery so they can retire.

Just in case you are reading this and you don’t understand. You have a much better chance of being hit by lighting then winning the lottery. Also many more people play the lotteries once the jackpot passes $100,000,000.00. So by winning a $100 Million jackpot 190 times would equal that $19 Billion that would not make a dent in the deficit. So do you still wonder why we have a spending problem in Washington?

Korea

I believe that North Korea once again is attempting to bait the South into attacking. Now that the North has nuclear weapons I think that they now feel invulnerable. With the anticipated change in leadership they may be trying to cement support for the new leader by egging on an attack. They control all media in the country, so they can say that any attack was unprovoked and paint the new leader as a hero. The scariest thing about what I believe is the length to which they will go to provoke an attack. North Korea is mostly mountainous. From the bombing on Nagasaki Japan it was learned that nuclear weapon blast are deflected by mountains. I would be willing to say that the leaders of North Korea are well aware of this fact. Of course as most Communist nations, they really don’t care about their citizens.

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Lame Duck Update

It is amazing how many “emergency” bill that have been laying around for months suddenly need to be passed. Considering that the Democrats have controlled Congress for 4 years (yes four years) and both branches for 2 years, how many things that are the primary job of Congress where never even brought up for a vote. Things like a budget, the START Treaty, and the Obama Tax Increases. While they have been looting the treasury, paid off political allies, bailed out union pension plans, taking over major segments of the economy, working to nationalize the Heath Care System, and other Fascist policies, they ignored their oath of office while playing fiddles while the country burned. (Benito Mussolini would be proud.)

It appears that they want to blame it all upon the Republican Party. I hope that the majority of Americans are paying enough attention to understand how the two parties have played this us against one another. The two dimensional thinking of our politicians seems to make them think that everyone is either a D or an R and we all walk in lockstep with one party. It just shows how intellectually lazy many of our elected officials are when it comes to understanding the complexities of the people who put them in office.

I do believe that many of the elected Republicans are beginning to understand that the game has changed. If the leaders of the Democrats don’t begin to get a clue they may find themselves in the same category as the WHIG Party. But if they are correct. Then the nation could find itself in the ranks of such other countries as the Soviet Union.

The Obama Tax Increases

Congress talks a lot about helping the middle class. But when it comes down to it, they are more interested in Class warfare. Instead of making sure that there is no tax increase in a little over a month, they continue to bash the so called rich. Once again they rather have an issues then an answer. It is clearer to me everyday that their agenda is to “spread the wealth around” by putting the entire country into poverty. They see that as being fair. If they can get everyone in the US to the same standard of living as say Nigeria then the country will be fair. By bankrupting the country and increasing the ranks of the poor they believe that equity will be obtained.

So with continued uncertainty and ever increasing expenses being put upon those who create jobs they can finally finish what the Progressives and FDR created and make it permanent. You remember The Great Depression?” If you look at the policies of today’s Progressives and those of the FDR administration they are the same.