Liberals, Conservatives, Moderates, Progressives, all with very different ideas on how we, the people, should live in this country. Democrats and Republicans both have moderates in their party but only one has progressives under their roof, Democrats.
The economy in Congress is the current hot issue, whether to tax creators and spend like drunken sailors, or both. There are so many people , about 20%, who believe it’s right to take money from the rich and redistribute it. Bill O’reily called them thieves last night and he’s right.
The idea of robbing from the rich to give to the poor has been popular since Robin Hood. If you were a benevolent robber back in the day and you stopped a coach and asked the three passengers to empty their pockets and one had only a dollar, the second had a hundred, and the third had a thousand, how much would you take from the three of them. Remember you are a benevolent robber. A conservative robber would take the same percent from each, a progressive would take nothing from the poor, most of the hundred and all but a dollar of the thousand. Who is the benevolent one? Neither, they are both robbers and belong in jail. Note; the man with the thousand employed the other two, hired the coachman and planned to finance a business venture they were bound for. Now all four are beside the road, broke, out of work with futures bleak waiting for a Robin Hood to give them a handout. The conservative at least left them with prospects for survival and the coachman may get a little less than he bargained for.
Liberal progressives insist that taking from the rich and giving to the poor is and honorable mission. There is no honor in stealing from anybody. Our government was set up to collect taxes, by force if necessary, and use it to protect us, and build infrastructure, period. Where did it get the idea its mission was to set up a retirement fund, a medical fund, and a safety net for individuals and businesses? Progressives bent those original limited rules to further their honorable agenda but, as usual when you bend the rules things get out of hand. First they rob those they think can afford their robbery then they spend more than they steal. Tell me what is honorable or benevolent in that? Not only are they misguided thieves but they are irresponsibly mismanaging other peoples money.
Congress has no honor and is proving it daily in the way they are stealing and mismanaging our money. That is why it’s approval rating is in the toilet. It will stay there as long it behaves like a drunken sailor. But maybe honor is passe'.
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Monday, November 29, 2010
Don't Under Estimate Sarah Palin
The Woman is Sharp. She is playing her cards right so far. By limiting challenging political interviews she has kept herself out of the the negative. The left media would love to have some meat to chew but for now she's not giving it to them. She is staying away from hostile political reporters (no Katy Coric for now) and that's smart. They would love to put her on the defensive, she knows it so why bother with them right now. She hasn't formally announced that she is running for any office and until she does she is building political allies with those through the Tea Party she's helped to get elected.
Instead she's giving them Bristol and dancing, Fox TV, and reality TV on'homey Alaska.' So far it's all good. Her soft interviews and comments through Fox gives her positive exposure and favorable political hay with the political junkies.
In the meantime, as a contributor to Fox and her Alaska reality show, she has the opportunity to slip in her core political values and opinions unchallenged. Pretty smart. Her public office political experience and her differing views versus Obama's aren't to be dismissed to lightly. There is some clever calculation in the mix. Any future candidate would love to have her kind of paid platform to speak from. Can she continue to have this kind of positive exposure for much longer? I think she will find a way to continue to have and effective platform.
Substance, does she have substance? The past two years have shown that she is the only viable political possible candidate that have been effective in the Republican Party. Who else has raised the money she has, and who else has been able to get Republicans elected like she has? Substance equals effectiveness and she has been as effective as Romney, Gingrich, andHuckabee with possibly more political experience, Romney is charming and smart and from the east but old line Republican and a health care failure. Gingrich is a man with statesmanship and ideas but a lot of baggage. Huckabee is not taken seriously as a challenger to anyone, especially Obama. Palin is a clear choice candidate, the opposite of Obama and the left. You can feel the substance of the lady. She means what she says, will follow through and not back down. Sound like anyone in the past you know that was so belittled by established Washington insiders as a potential president? Truman and Reagan come to mind.
She will buck lots of negative labeling and derisive editorials from inside and outside her party but she seems to have the ability to let the negative roll off her shoulders. She is the brightest dark horse in the running.
Instead she's giving them Bristol and dancing, Fox TV, and reality TV on'homey Alaska.' So far it's all good. Her soft interviews and comments through Fox gives her positive exposure and favorable political hay with the political junkies.
In the meantime, as a contributor to Fox and her Alaska reality show, she has the opportunity to slip in her core political values and opinions unchallenged. Pretty smart. Her public office political experience and her differing views versus Obama's aren't to be dismissed to lightly. There is some clever calculation in the mix. Any future candidate would love to have her kind of paid platform to speak from. Can she continue to have this kind of positive exposure for much longer? I think she will find a way to continue to have and effective platform.
Substance, does she have substance? The past two years have shown that she is the only viable political possible candidate that have been effective in the Republican Party. Who else has raised the money she has, and who else has been able to get Republicans elected like she has? Substance equals effectiveness and she has been as effective as Romney, Gingrich, andHuckabee with possibly more political experience, Romney is charming and smart and from the east but old line Republican and a health care failure. Gingrich is a man with statesmanship and ideas but a lot of baggage. Huckabee is not taken seriously as a challenger to anyone, especially Obama. Palin is a clear choice candidate, the opposite of Obama and the left. You can feel the substance of the lady. She means what she says, will follow through and not back down. Sound like anyone in the past you know that was so belittled by established Washington insiders as a potential president? Truman and Reagan come to mind.
She will buck lots of negative labeling and derisive editorials from inside and outside her party but she seems to have the ability to let the negative roll off her shoulders. She is the brightest dark horse in the running.
Tuesday, November 09, 2010
Obama and the Left.
Newt Gingrich noted recently on the Sean Hannity program that President Obama can't come out and say in so many words that Jihad a bad thing. Hannity was totally lost on why Obama can't face the fact that there are bad people in the world that want to do us harm. Gingrich and Hannity and others on the right know how to call a spade a spade, or a red a red and have had for years no trouble identifying who our enemy's are. It's true that many equate Muslims with bad guys and are scared. Muslim fanatics are the bad guys not Muslims in general. Not to many Muslims are coming forward to condemn fanatics in their religion and there in lies the rub.
Obama blames America for creating those fanatic enemies. In fact, any enemy of America seems to have his sympathy. He believes that America, being a superpower has wielded to much belligerent weight and he is intent on apologising for it. Most others believe we have nothing to apologise for.
The American left tries to look at America from a foreigners eyes, as a bully, greedy, selfish and overly self indulgent nation. We pollute to much, we use to many natural resources, we exploit third world resources like colonialists and our strong military presence around the world intimidates lesser nations. Intimidates so much in fact that it spawns radicals. We, according to the left, are like the great sports teams of the world, the Yankees for example, have many supporters but many more haters. The USA and the New York Yankees are the 'Evil Empire'. Writers love to say how unfair it is that the Yankees have so much and the rest of the league has so little. The US has so much and he rest of the world so little. The US has the number one economy and China number two with China being one forth the economy of the US.
Most Americans are proud of the accomplishments of our country but those on the left try to down play or appease and stroke those that dislike or are jealous (best word) of America.
Sports fans in Pittsburgh are proud of their Pirate ball team and dislike the Yankees, but they will suddenly come out in droves to the their usually half empty ball park when the Yankees come to visit on a rare occasions. Why, because the human condition of admiring or being jealous of success is in all of us, and we just have to be near it. The world might not like us but they do admire us. Obama needs to understand that winning friends around the world by apologising for our greatness will not succeed and his efforts would be better spent by solving problems rather than making empty speeches.
Obama's effort to play down America's success and strengths to the world is witnessed by his sending, and embarrassing, three of his top executives from his administration to the world court to listen to Cuba, Iran, Argentina, etc. accuse America of human rights complaints and abuses. He feels that in the long run America, by this kind of apologetic behavior we will some how, more endear ourselves to the rest of the world. We will be showing our human side more and our bully side less by this Obamaesque form of self- deprecation. People see what you are, not what you say you are. Obama hasn't show that he understands that people are smarter than that.
The left in this country is ashamed of the USA. The left in this country is pointing a finger at America's image and blaming big business, Wall Street, and the military as culprits for why the world hates us. Obama's mission is to repair that image by tearing down and belittling America's successes to the rest of the world. As the lefts offered proof; The UN votes against America on 80% of all issues. Why? Simple answer; the little guy almost always votes against the big guy. Simple reason: They are little.
The left thinks that conservatives in America are so pro-business and reckless in their pursuit of the almighty buck that they will destroy all that is good in America. They fear that the land, air, and water will be destroyed if the pro business community is left unchecked. They believe that conservatives want less government control and a strong military presence around the world to protect those business interests. They fear that conservatives, with their greed and avarice will make more enemies for America than friends. We have been unintentionally creating jealous 'enemies' for generations, it's a side effect of success. I grant that some checks and balances are necessary for every aspect of the business and home community but without successful businesses we would be no better than a third world country, many of which are hungry, unemployed, and with out hope. Big government of the left is strangling energy production, financial management, and global business creation, through demonizing, high taxes and over regulation. The people of this nation finally woke up during mid-term elections and slowed the strangulation. They hope to reverse it in 2012 elections.
Creating big government does not create growth in the economy, businesses do. Government does not pay taxes, big and little businesses do. Government employees do not create products that sell and generate taxes, private industry jobs do. Government should interfere as little as possible with the growth of business.
Obama blames America for creating those fanatic enemies. In fact, any enemy of America seems to have his sympathy. He believes that America, being a superpower has wielded to much belligerent weight and he is intent on apologising for it. Most others believe we have nothing to apologise for.
The American left tries to look at America from a foreigners eyes, as a bully, greedy, selfish and overly self indulgent nation. We pollute to much, we use to many natural resources, we exploit third world resources like colonialists and our strong military presence around the world intimidates lesser nations. Intimidates so much in fact that it spawns radicals. We, according to the left, are like the great sports teams of the world, the Yankees for example, have many supporters but many more haters. The USA and the New York Yankees are the 'Evil Empire'. Writers love to say how unfair it is that the Yankees have so much and the rest of the league has so little. The US has so much and he rest of the world so little. The US has the number one economy and China number two with China being one forth the economy of the US.
Most Americans are proud of the accomplishments of our country but those on the left try to down play or appease and stroke those that dislike or are jealous (best word) of America.
Sports fans in Pittsburgh are proud of their Pirate ball team and dislike the Yankees, but they will suddenly come out in droves to the their usually half empty ball park when the Yankees come to visit on a rare occasions. Why, because the human condition of admiring or being jealous of success is in all of us, and we just have to be near it. The world might not like us but they do admire us. Obama needs to understand that winning friends around the world by apologising for our greatness will not succeed and his efforts would be better spent by solving problems rather than making empty speeches.
Obama's effort to play down America's success and strengths to the world is witnessed by his sending, and embarrassing, three of his top executives from his administration to the world court to listen to Cuba, Iran, Argentina, etc. accuse America of human rights complaints and abuses. He feels that in the long run America, by this kind of apologetic behavior we will some how, more endear ourselves to the rest of the world. We will be showing our human side more and our bully side less by this Obamaesque form of self- deprecation. People see what you are, not what you say you are. Obama hasn't show that he understands that people are smarter than that.
The left in this country is ashamed of the USA. The left in this country is pointing a finger at America's image and blaming big business, Wall Street, and the military as culprits for why the world hates us. Obama's mission is to repair that image by tearing down and belittling America's successes to the rest of the world. As the lefts offered proof; The UN votes against America on 80% of all issues. Why? Simple answer; the little guy almost always votes against the big guy. Simple reason: They are little.
The left thinks that conservatives in America are so pro-business and reckless in their pursuit of the almighty buck that they will destroy all that is good in America. They fear that the land, air, and water will be destroyed if the pro business community is left unchecked. They believe that conservatives want less government control and a strong military presence around the world to protect those business interests. They fear that conservatives, with their greed and avarice will make more enemies for America than friends. We have been unintentionally creating jealous 'enemies' for generations, it's a side effect of success. I grant that some checks and balances are necessary for every aspect of the business and home community but without successful businesses we would be no better than a third world country, many of which are hungry, unemployed, and with out hope. Big government of the left is strangling energy production, financial management, and global business creation, through demonizing, high taxes and over regulation. The people of this nation finally woke up during mid-term elections and slowed the strangulation. They hope to reverse it in 2012 elections.
Creating big government does not create growth in the economy, businesses do. Government does not pay taxes, big and little businesses do. Government employees do not create products that sell and generate taxes, private industry jobs do. Government should interfere as little as possible with the growth of business.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
One Hundred Years Ago
1910, One hundred years ago this country was at peace, had no income taxes, not until 1913, no Social Security, even later than income tax, no Medicare, no federal welfare, no Medicaid, no housing subsidies, no food stamps, no clunker car rebates, no stimulus packages, no bailouts, not much help for the poor and downtrodden. Doesn't sound like a nice place to live for the average poor family.
But during this terrible time to live in the United States people were immigrating by the hundreds of thousands anyway. People were pouring into Ellis Island, New York to start their new lives in America legally, and they paid to get here too. Were they promised anything like food stamps, Medicare, welfare, etc? No, yet they came anyway. Must have come from worse places than here, huh?
Immigration was at a peak, people were clamoring to get into this country from all over the world. They wanted opportunity to improve their lives over where they came from. They wanted religious freedom from persecution, they wanted a chance to have their children have a better life than they did. They wanted out from under stifling, corrupt governments that promised to perpetuate their dead end lives. Some were just tired of being hungry all the time.
Today, we have all the things that should make the lives of the poor and downtrodden much better than a hundred years ago but if you listen to the liberal point of view we haven't done near enough. Federal and state governments need to do more, spend more, tax more, and spread the wealth more to lift the poor and downtrodden up to live better lives. Federal and State liberal governments have invented programs and have had a hundred years to tax and spend to improve lives in this country. They have failed miserably. We spend more to educate our children than any country in the world and still rank near the bottom among developed countries. Fortunately, we still have old fashion 'pay as you go' medicine like a hundred years ago that is world wide respected, (for a few more years). Ask the leaders of most countries where they go for critical medical treatment, the US of course. Now, that too is nearing and end as a liberal government takes control of the medical field for the first time. They are forcing every American to buy health insurance or pay a fine. Not satisfied that every American will have health care, they want control of the health providers, and what, how, and to whom they provide care, and what they can charge for it. The health care system will go the way of education, down, down, and down.
Over these hundred years people still come to America, but we are no longer a pioneer, freedom loving country. We have become staid, stale, and even regressive. Among peoples of foreign countries we still have the luster of a new, exciting, opportunistic country but in reality, liberal minded voters and legislators have torn away at Uncle Sam and what he has stood for. The coat of stars and stripes (freedom and independence) is gone, replaced with hand outs,(dependency) of other peoples money. The spirit(self reliance) of the American people is being replaced with anger, insecurity, fear, apathy, and ignorance, all of which, by design, makes for the perfect liberal voter.
Undaunted, immigration is still going on by the millions in 2010. We had stable immigration for years, every one entering the US was registered and was legal, eventually becoming proud citizens. Today, immigrants are coming in the back door and our government is turning a hypocritical, blind eye. Immigrants of today want the same thing immigrants of a hundred years ago wanted so why do they not come in legally? We have laws that say they don't meet eligibility rules so they can't immigrate. Wow how hypocritical is that? If we don't enforce immigration laws why do we have eligibility laws on the books at all? Why not just announce we are open for any to immigrate? If government leaders don't respect and follow the law why should the people respect their elected leaders? Why are laws ignored so flagrantly? This country and especially it's leaders must respect the rule of law or be guilty of the US being truly known as a decadent society. One that fosters fear, frustration, and disgust.
Immigration to the US is like a funnel, at the top everyone wants in, at the bottom only the few make it with the current rules, fences, officers, troops, and gates. The government seems satisfied with the current flow.
I'm not satisfied with the government.
But during this terrible time to live in the United States people were immigrating by the hundreds of thousands anyway. People were pouring into Ellis Island, New York to start their new lives in America legally, and they paid to get here too. Were they promised anything like food stamps, Medicare, welfare, etc? No, yet they came anyway. Must have come from worse places than here, huh?
Immigration was at a peak, people were clamoring to get into this country from all over the world. They wanted opportunity to improve their lives over where they came from. They wanted religious freedom from persecution, they wanted a chance to have their children have a better life than they did. They wanted out from under stifling, corrupt governments that promised to perpetuate their dead end lives. Some were just tired of being hungry all the time.
Today, we have all the things that should make the lives of the poor and downtrodden much better than a hundred years ago but if you listen to the liberal point of view we haven't done near enough. Federal and state governments need to do more, spend more, tax more, and spread the wealth more to lift the poor and downtrodden up to live better lives. Federal and State liberal governments have invented programs and have had a hundred years to tax and spend to improve lives in this country. They have failed miserably. We spend more to educate our children than any country in the world and still rank near the bottom among developed countries. Fortunately, we still have old fashion 'pay as you go' medicine like a hundred years ago that is world wide respected, (for a few more years). Ask the leaders of most countries where they go for critical medical treatment, the US of course. Now, that too is nearing and end as a liberal government takes control of the medical field for the first time. They are forcing every American to buy health insurance or pay a fine. Not satisfied that every American will have health care, they want control of the health providers, and what, how, and to whom they provide care, and what they can charge for it. The health care system will go the way of education, down, down, and down.
Over these hundred years people still come to America, but we are no longer a pioneer, freedom loving country. We have become staid, stale, and even regressive. Among peoples of foreign countries we still have the luster of a new, exciting, opportunistic country but in reality, liberal minded voters and legislators have torn away at Uncle Sam and what he has stood for. The coat of stars and stripes (freedom and independence) is gone, replaced with hand outs,(dependency) of other peoples money. The spirit(self reliance) of the American people is being replaced with anger, insecurity, fear, apathy, and ignorance, all of which, by design, makes for the perfect liberal voter.
Undaunted, immigration is still going on by the millions in 2010. We had stable immigration for years, every one entering the US was registered and was legal, eventually becoming proud citizens. Today, immigrants are coming in the back door and our government is turning a hypocritical, blind eye. Immigrants of today want the same thing immigrants of a hundred years ago wanted so why do they not come in legally? We have laws that say they don't meet eligibility rules so they can't immigrate. Wow how hypocritical is that? If we don't enforce immigration laws why do we have eligibility laws on the books at all? Why not just announce we are open for any to immigrate? If government leaders don't respect and follow the law why should the people respect their elected leaders? Why are laws ignored so flagrantly? This country and especially it's leaders must respect the rule of law or be guilty of the US being truly known as a decadent society. One that fosters fear, frustration, and disgust.
Immigration to the US is like a funnel, at the top everyone wants in, at the bottom only the few make it with the current rules, fences, officers, troops, and gates. The government seems satisfied with the current flow.
I'm not satisfied with the government.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Angry, Apathitic, Ill Informed
The public is angry with the lack of jobs, government excessive spending, corruption and waste. Promises were made and high hopes were raised for people wanting something for nothing like health care. Or single issue voters who wanted immigration enforcement, or the troops to come home and the war to end or the hope and change crowd, who weren't sure what that meant but wanted something positive to happen. Angry voters wanted to punish banks and Wall Street. Instead, they got wild spending for no return. They got even higher unemployment, huge new government deficits and more confusion with business, banks and Wall Street resulting on current growth stagnation. And the war goes on.
New, yet to be understood government regulations and threats of raising taxes along with still unknown health care costs have put the clamps on business borrowing and risk taking. This is killing job creation. Banks are unsure of yet to be determined government regulations to lend to business and home buyers. Government interference in the market place has created stagnation, fear and uncertainty.
Big business needs to show profit to shareholders and they currently are. Their top line has suffered while everything has been done to shore up the bottom line. But the old business adage of, Grow or Die is always in play and growth is hampered by high taxes and the unknown. Businesses have gotten lean and cautious while building reserves because they are leery of what the government might be up to next. Small business are not as flexible as large corporations, they sometimes operate like the average wage earner, month to month. They need to borrow in the lean times and when lending institutions find themselves in uncertain times like now, they say no to small business loans.
The uncertainty?
What is the government planing next? Are they going to raise taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts run out effecting many small businesses and jobs expire or lower corporate taxes to allow big businesses to be more competitive world wide? Good luck on both counts. Will the Pay Czar or another business Czar step in and cause the top people in banks and business to walk away? Is the current government pro business or not? Take a guess.
Our government is so out of touch with citizen and business needs that this November changes should be made in Congressional and Senate seats. There is hope that the current liberal-socialist trend in this country will be seen by the average voter as counter productive to job creation and economic growth. Changes in government will come because there is too much instability in our daily lives. Whether we own a business, work at a job, retired, or unemployed we don't feel comfortable now or about the future. Even the never-working voter is uncomfortable with and uncertain future. Our comfort level determines how we vote.
Tea party movements nationwide have been a reflection of that discomfort.
Set aside for a moment your political point of view and recognise that the reason so many diverse average citizens have grouped together at Tea Party rallies shows their frustration with government. These are not unruly one-issue-mobs burning flags or defying police lines, or making threats of any kind, they are you and me, unhappy with the way things are with our current administration and trying to tell the administration to change it's ways or be voted out of office. Is the administration listing? I don't think so.
Have you ever seen so many private political emails between friends and acquaintances for and against our current government? That's a Tea Party movement in hyperspace.
Still there are many out there that are angry, apathetic and ill informed and they are the ones that scare me the most. They are voters that vote their emotions rather than with informed minds. More the fifty percent of the public does not pay taxes. Voters that are poor, on welfare, disabled, retired, or rich feel guilty about it, are not likely to vote for candidates that espouse cutting government spending. If anything fifty percent want more goodies, like free health care, free education, guaranteed jobs, housing, food, energy, etc. There is no end to the things that people want for free. There will always be politicians out there making promises to give it to them. It's getting scarier, and scarier when so many are blindly willing to accept a free ride.
The remaining fifty percent has to convince the 'in love with government' public that free goodies are not in their best interest. Good luck with that.
Freedom isn't free.
New, yet to be understood government regulations and threats of raising taxes along with still unknown health care costs have put the clamps on business borrowing and risk taking. This is killing job creation. Banks are unsure of yet to be determined government regulations to lend to business and home buyers. Government interference in the market place has created stagnation, fear and uncertainty.
Big business needs to show profit to shareholders and they currently are. Their top line has suffered while everything has been done to shore up the bottom line. But the old business adage of, Grow or Die is always in play and growth is hampered by high taxes and the unknown. Businesses have gotten lean and cautious while building reserves because they are leery of what the government might be up to next. Small business are not as flexible as large corporations, they sometimes operate like the average wage earner, month to month. They need to borrow in the lean times and when lending institutions find themselves in uncertain times like now, they say no to small business loans.
The uncertainty?
What is the government planing next? Are they going to raise taxes by letting the Bush tax cuts run out effecting many small businesses and jobs expire or lower corporate taxes to allow big businesses to be more competitive world wide? Good luck on both counts. Will the Pay Czar or another business Czar step in and cause the top people in banks and business to walk away? Is the current government pro business or not? Take a guess.
Our government is so out of touch with citizen and business needs that this November changes should be made in Congressional and Senate seats. There is hope that the current liberal-socialist trend in this country will be seen by the average voter as counter productive to job creation and economic growth. Changes in government will come because there is too much instability in our daily lives. Whether we own a business, work at a job, retired, or unemployed we don't feel comfortable now or about the future. Even the never-working voter is uncomfortable with and uncertain future. Our comfort level determines how we vote.
Tea party movements nationwide have been a reflection of that discomfort.
Set aside for a moment your political point of view and recognise that the reason so many diverse average citizens have grouped together at Tea Party rallies shows their frustration with government. These are not unruly one-issue-mobs burning flags or defying police lines, or making threats of any kind, they are you and me, unhappy with the way things are with our current administration and trying to tell the administration to change it's ways or be voted out of office. Is the administration listing? I don't think so.
Have you ever seen so many private political emails between friends and acquaintances for and against our current government? That's a Tea Party movement in hyperspace.
Still there are many out there that are angry, apathetic and ill informed and they are the ones that scare me the most. They are voters that vote their emotions rather than with informed minds. More the fifty percent of the public does not pay taxes. Voters that are poor, on welfare, disabled, retired, or rich feel guilty about it, are not likely to vote for candidates that espouse cutting government spending. If anything fifty percent want more goodies, like free health care, free education, guaranteed jobs, housing, food, energy, etc. There is no end to the things that people want for free. There will always be politicians out there making promises to give it to them. It's getting scarier, and scarier when so many are blindly willing to accept a free ride.
The remaining fifty percent has to convince the 'in love with government' public that free goodies are not in their best interest. Good luck with that.
Freedom isn't free.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Our Future and Government
We know where we are or do we? Economically we are headed towards a European style of Socialist country. The only difference is national health care and our current government is certainly pushing us in that direction. People who know how we should live, progressives, have ushered us in a socialist direction for decades. Starting with F.D.R., we have been putting reigns on our economic growth for the sake of the ‘less fortunate’. As Sarah Palin would say, ‘How is that working out you?’
There is, after eighty years, a sizeable portion of the population still living in poverty. So all the years of scaling the economy to give entitlements to help the poor folks hasn’t worked so well, has it. Those entitlement promises are crushing us today. The number of poor and less educated is actually growing daily in this country.
By holding back sucessful people and businesses with more and more regulation and taxes, you not only don’t accomplish helping the less fortunate you actually put more out of work. The job creators are being penalized for creating. The more they create the more regulation and taxes they are burdened with. Are we moving towards being a country of pizza shops and beauty salons? I’m all for small business supplying job creation but I’d like to see the USA be the leader in vibrant big business as well. They are not the enemy as progressives would like us to believe. They don’t deserve to pay the highest taxes of any nation in the world. They don’t deserve to be as constrained by government regulation as they are. Big businesses are composed of stockholders, Americans that have invested their savings and futures in the success of big corporations.
Governments are either for business or against them. That seems to be the simple logic to determine the success or failure of a country. Currently, the most successful growth countries are China, and India. Their central governments have created an environment for a successful business climate with favorable taxes, shackles on unions, and minimal regulation. Sounds too simple doesn’t it. That was the formula for America’s unprecedented growth in the early late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Unfettered capitalism works. Some regulation is, of course, warranted to control the unscrupulous and reckless but in moderation.
So why do governments push for so much control and socialism? I think it’s not so much because they are compassionate or benevolent by nature, I think it’s due to the power trip of high office. Corporations don’t vote, rich are in the minority so it's the rest of the folks who determine who is in government to serve the people. Conservatives selling the idea of less services or entitlements is a tough sell, always has been. In the old days, I’m talking early England in the 1700’s, politicians would bribe and pay voters to get elected. In the thirties elections Chicago started the idea of rigging elections. More recently, organizers were responsible for ‘getting out the vote’ to help their candidates get elected. Rich candidates spend millions of their own money to get elected. Mayor Bloomberg of New York spent untold millions to get elected a job that pays so little compared to what he made in the private sector? Why do he and many others do it?
Power!
Power to push agendas. More than half the voting public thought that Obama’s agenda was their agenda.
‘And how’s that working out for you?’
Most of Europe is going down the toilet from overspending, over regulating, and over growing government with unions dictating benefits and wages. Sound familiar? The only correct thing Europe is doing is holding down the per cent of taxes on big business. This helps growth and generates more tax revenue to keep the governments oversized. They have learned that much.
Who will deliver what the people want? Sarah Palin, Scott Brown or Obama? What do the people want? Smaller government, less spending...living within our means, resonable benovelence and security? Like I said, who will deliver that and not let power corupt?
We know where we are or do we? Economically we are headed towards a European style of Socialist country. The only difference is national health care and our current government is certainly pushing us in that direction. People who know how we should live, progressives, have ushered us in a socialist direction for decades. Starting with F.D.R., we have been putting reigns on our economic growth for the sake of the ‘less fortunate’. As Sarah Palin would say, ‘How is that working out you?’
There is, after eighty years, a sizeable portion of the population still living in poverty. So all the years of scaling the economy to give entitlements to help the poor folks hasn’t worked so well, has it. Those entitlement promises are crushing us today. The number of poor and less educated is actually growing daily in this country.
By holding back sucessful people and businesses with more and more regulation and taxes, you not only don’t accomplish helping the less fortunate you actually put more out of work. The job creators are being penalized for creating. The more they create the more regulation and taxes they are burdened with. Are we moving towards being a country of pizza shops and beauty salons? I’m all for small business supplying job creation but I’d like to see the USA be the leader in vibrant big business as well. They are not the enemy as progressives would like us to believe. They don’t deserve to pay the highest taxes of any nation in the world. They don’t deserve to be as constrained by government regulation as they are. Big businesses are composed of stockholders, Americans that have invested their savings and futures in the success of big corporations.
Governments are either for business or against them. That seems to be the simple logic to determine the success or failure of a country. Currently, the most successful growth countries are China, and India. Their central governments have created an environment for a successful business climate with favorable taxes, shackles on unions, and minimal regulation. Sounds too simple doesn’t it. That was the formula for America’s unprecedented growth in the early late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Unfettered capitalism works. Some regulation is, of course, warranted to control the unscrupulous and reckless but in moderation.
So why do governments push for so much control and socialism? I think it’s not so much because they are compassionate or benevolent by nature, I think it’s due to the power trip of high office. Corporations don’t vote, rich are in the minority so it's the rest of the folks who determine who is in government to serve the people. Conservatives selling the idea of less services or entitlements is a tough sell, always has been. In the old days, I’m talking early England in the 1700’s, politicians would bribe and pay voters to get elected. In the thirties elections Chicago started the idea of rigging elections. More recently, organizers were responsible for ‘getting out the vote’ to help their candidates get elected. Rich candidates spend millions of their own money to get elected. Mayor Bloomberg of New York spent untold millions to get elected a job that pays so little compared to what he made in the private sector? Why do he and many others do it?
Power!
Power to push agendas. More than half the voting public thought that Obama’s agenda was their agenda.
‘And how’s that working out for you?’
Most of Europe is going down the toilet from overspending, over regulating, and over growing government with unions dictating benefits and wages. Sound familiar? The only correct thing Europe is doing is holding down the per cent of taxes on big business. This helps growth and generates more tax revenue to keep the governments oversized. They have learned that much.
Who will deliver what the people want? Sarah Palin, Scott Brown or Obama? What do the people want? Smaller government, less spending...living within our means, resonable benovelence and security? Like I said, who will deliver that and not let power corupt?
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Political Happenings
The past few months have revealed a lot about the future political direction of the country. Voters have been unhappy with the Obama's vision and they've show their displeasure with a resounding voice. Even with complete control of Congress and the White House President Obama's agenda of social change in health care, global warming carbon management with Cap and Trade, and the stimulus programs for job growth have all been busts.
They failed because they were doomed by bad planning and special interest deals. Health care needed step by step Congressional planning and approvals for laws that would,
A. Allow employees to carry forward their company health plans to another job,
B. Prevent Casino law suits against Doctors and health care facilities, cutting down on defensive, unnecessary, wasteful medicine.
C. Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines to encourage competition and lower insurance costs.
D. Eliminate pre-existing conditions as and excuse for insurance co's claims denials and new policy denials by forming high risk pools. Pools that offer insurance companies manageable risk.
E. Give tax credits to encourage 18 to 30 year olds to have health insurance.
F. Make it a law for medical providers to publish price lists for services.
G. Get rid of the health related lobbyist's and trial lawyers that influence law makers.
Cap and Trade is simply not good business for America and will not happen while India and China are growing their economy's like weeds. Obama should have know that in advance of his wasteful trip to Norway.
The burden on the EU, who have such a law is showing on their countries overburdened economy's. They are faced with very high unemployment rates and extremely high energy costs and slow growth. The Chinese and Indians know this and will distance themselves from anything that will slow there economies.
The $700 billion Jobs Stimulus program is not working and is not going to work because the governments idea of spending our way out of a recession does not work. FDR tried from 1933 until WWII came along he was failed miserably. The war finally brought us out of recession. A second planned stimulus plan will not work either. Obama should have know that if he had studied the history of recessions in this country. The American people know that leaving business alone is the answer for bringing us out of recession.
The Tarp program started by the Bush administration helped see the financial institutions through a difficult time and now most of the money those institutions borrowed from the government has been paid back. Ford survived without it and just announced a 35% growth is car sales year over year. Instead of reducing the debt with these paid back funds as he by law is supposed to do Obama wants to spent it. Stop the spending voters in Massachusetts said. Is he listing?
All of the administrations efforts listed above show that this administration's vision for the future is without understanding of what happened in the past or what the people really want. The American people are smarted than government gives them credit for. They saw eminent failure in the administration's efforts and do not applaud failed efforts, rather they look elsewhere for answers, like newly elected Senator Scott Brown. His election is a rejection of Obama's liberal style of government.
You cannot talk about transparent government then have Harry Reid and some special interest group write a 2000 page health care bill behind closed doors that nobody has a chance to read and insist on a quick vote.
You cannot tell the American people that the government can run health care better than private industries can and expect the American people to believe it.
You cannot promise hearings on health care and other legislation to be on C-Span and deny C-Span access at the same time.
You cannot promise that passage of the Stimulus Bill will keep unemployment under 8% and watch $700 billion be spent and unemployment rise to 10%.
You cannot say that 2 million jobs were saved or created when at the same time 4 million jobs were lost. When stimulus money runs out many of the temporary extra police, city services workers and teachers jobs will be cut.
You cannot promise to close Guantanamo in a year and fail.
You cannot try prisoner's of war as you do American citizens and give them the same protections as American citizens, they haven't earned that distinction of being and American Citizen.
Washington DC has the lowest unemployment by half in the country, that is an open sore to people in Detroit and many other places. Why isn't government cutting labor like the rest of the country has been forced to? Don't they know that they are overwhelming regarded by the American public as doing a poor job?
The American people want the blame game to stop, they want real and sensible plans for cutting waste, cutting spending, cutting the size of government, and real bi-partisan co-operation in government.
To often we put labels on government, what it is to be a Republican or Democrat, a Conservative or a liberal. Scott Brown showed politicians what America wants. A government that is smaller in size, less in control of our lives, more responsive to the wishes of the electorate, lives within it's means and stops blaming industry as the cause for the countries ills.
The past few months have revealed a lot about the future political direction of the country. Voters have been unhappy with the Obama's vision and they've show their displeasure with a resounding voice. Even with complete control of Congress and the White House President Obama's agenda of social change in health care, global warming carbon management with Cap and Trade, and the stimulus programs for job growth have all been busts.
They failed because they were doomed by bad planning and special interest deals. Health care needed step by step Congressional planning and approvals for laws that would,
A. Allow employees to carry forward their company health plans to another job,
B. Prevent Casino law suits against Doctors and health care facilities, cutting down on defensive, unnecessary, wasteful medicine.
C. Allow insurance companies to sell across state lines to encourage competition and lower insurance costs.
D. Eliminate pre-existing conditions as and excuse for insurance co's claims denials and new policy denials by forming high risk pools. Pools that offer insurance companies manageable risk.
E. Give tax credits to encourage 18 to 30 year olds to have health insurance.
F. Make it a law for medical providers to publish price lists for services.
G. Get rid of the health related lobbyist's and trial lawyers that influence law makers.
Cap and Trade is simply not good business for America and will not happen while India and China are growing their economy's like weeds. Obama should have know that in advance of his wasteful trip to Norway.
The burden on the EU, who have such a law is showing on their countries overburdened economy's. They are faced with very high unemployment rates and extremely high energy costs and slow growth. The Chinese and Indians know this and will distance themselves from anything that will slow there economies.
The $700 billion Jobs Stimulus program is not working and is not going to work because the governments idea of spending our way out of a recession does not work. FDR tried from 1933 until WWII came along he was failed miserably. The war finally brought us out of recession. A second planned stimulus plan will not work either. Obama should have know that if he had studied the history of recessions in this country. The American people know that leaving business alone is the answer for bringing us out of recession.
The Tarp program started by the Bush administration helped see the financial institutions through a difficult time and now most of the money those institutions borrowed from the government has been paid back. Ford survived without it and just announced a 35% growth is car sales year over year. Instead of reducing the debt with these paid back funds as he by law is supposed to do Obama wants to spent it. Stop the spending voters in Massachusetts said. Is he listing?
All of the administrations efforts listed above show that this administration's vision for the future is without understanding of what happened in the past or what the people really want. The American people are smarted than government gives them credit for. They saw eminent failure in the administration's efforts and do not applaud failed efforts, rather they look elsewhere for answers, like newly elected Senator Scott Brown. His election is a rejection of Obama's liberal style of government.
You cannot talk about transparent government then have Harry Reid and some special interest group write a 2000 page health care bill behind closed doors that nobody has a chance to read and insist on a quick vote.
You cannot tell the American people that the government can run health care better than private industries can and expect the American people to believe it.
You cannot promise hearings on health care and other legislation to be on C-Span and deny C-Span access at the same time.
You cannot promise that passage of the Stimulus Bill will keep unemployment under 8% and watch $700 billion be spent and unemployment rise to 10%.
You cannot say that 2 million jobs were saved or created when at the same time 4 million jobs were lost. When stimulus money runs out many of the temporary extra police, city services workers and teachers jobs will be cut.
You cannot promise to close Guantanamo in a year and fail.
You cannot try prisoner's of war as you do American citizens and give them the same protections as American citizens, they haven't earned that distinction of being and American Citizen.
Washington DC has the lowest unemployment by half in the country, that is an open sore to people in Detroit and many other places. Why isn't government cutting labor like the rest of the country has been forced to? Don't they know that they are overwhelming regarded by the American public as doing a poor job?
The American people want the blame game to stop, they want real and sensible plans for cutting waste, cutting spending, cutting the size of government, and real bi-partisan co-operation in government.
To often we put labels on government, what it is to be a Republican or Democrat, a Conservative or a liberal. Scott Brown showed politicians what America wants. A government that is smaller in size, less in control of our lives, more responsive to the wishes of the electorate, lives within it's means and stops blaming industry as the cause for the countries ills.
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