March 28th, 2010 by TNM

Ever since the Health-care boondoggle started I’ve been suspicious of Mac Baucus (D Montana) and his motives.

“Greasy”was the term that popped into my head when his ugly puss first started showing up in the press. He just seemed to have that quality to him, that “I’m from the government and I’m here to help you” look that while he’s “helping” you with his right hand, that left hand is busily stealing everything you have.

Guess I wasn’t too far off in my thoughts now was I? Remember when Baucus was the front man at the outset of the Health Care legislation?

Looking back over the last year, As things wore on and on with the Health Care debate, it seemed as if Baucus sort of faded from the spot light, I wondered why that was, but now I’m pretty much convinced of one thing.

Baucus is one of the useful idiots of the purist Marxist stripes. He’s was so far left and prone to speaking out and saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, that the Democrats had to tone it down some, so he was quietly removed from the legislative process.

None the less as a true believer in social engineering schemes Max was a solid vote Yea. And now that it’s passed, he’s out there full bore spouting what we’ve pretty much known all along. The Democratic Party is full of people like Baucus. It’s full of far left useful idiots.

Need proof? This is a quote directly from Mr. Baucus.

Too often, much of late, the last couple three years, the mal-distribution of income in American is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy and the middle income class is left behind, Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America.”

Fury cannot even come close to describing my reaction to this pandering jack ass of a Senator

I’m still trying to wrap my head around his words…I really am, and I just can’t do it.

Are people like Baucus really just so deluded, so arrogant as to actually think that they have some divine right to decree who in this country makes too much or not enough? Just because they were elected? Really?

Guess the time for the socialist infecting the Democratic party shading their true colors is over.

I never really wanted to be “rich” just comfortable and secure in my life, but I sure don’t now though. Not with idiots like Max painting a target on one’s back simply because they’ve been successful, in the guise of some sort of bullshit ideal about “social justice”. Pathetic.

March 27th, 2010 by TNM

I don’t write much anymore, these are just random thoughts that I have had since the Health Care bill passed, and on most days it seems futile to rail against the Federal government and it’s supporters.

I don’t know how we got here, this past 10+ years have been like watching a train wreck called the Fedball-Express (no insult to the actual company by a similar name intended) that just wont go away, yet gets ever worse as time goes on.

If it’s not the Republicans throwing money around like drunken sailors, the Democrats not to be out done, take it to even greater extremes.

I’m in my mid 40’s now, so maybe I pay more attention, but growing up and even into my late 20’s it seems to me we had a Federal Government, but it was in DC, back then in Ohio, and on to other places I lived, it might as well have been on the Moon I guess. Maybe I was too busy trying to make my own way in the world to notice it.

I knew it did things like manage the EPA, and send our Military where it was needed to go, I was part of that same Military under both Regan, & Bush and then Clinton.

There was this abstract notion of taxes, but we all had to pay them and people didn’t seem to think about them like they do now. We didn’t always like the taxes I guess, but it wasn’t to the point people took to the streets in protest. The Federal Government was there, but it never seemed to touch our lives in the ways it has started to this last 2 decades. To me I guess it started more or less with Clinton.

None the less, I’ve more or less resigned myself to the fact that the Health care bill passed, the Federal government will take over health care, & we will loose another part of our freedoms. To me, it really comes as no surprise the Dem’s got their way, not when nearly half the country STILL approves of the job Obama is doing. And foolishly instead of thinking things though that same half of the country handed the entire economy, and the future of this nation to the feel good rhetoric of the snake oil salesmen over the last 4 years.

They wanted to teach those “republicans” a lesson. I guess they did. They wanted “change” I guess they got it.

Personally I expect I will see my health care costs and taxes rise significantly, I don’t believe for one second anything these people in DC are saying….

I’ll have to give up yet more of my life’s work & liberty in the interest of “social justice” so that others get a “fair chance” or at least that’s what Obama and his cohorts seem to want me to believe.

Obama said once words to the effect that “we all have to have some skin in this game”. Sorry no sale.

It’s not out of a sense of selfishness that I say that, but rather, simply put, I’ve had my skin in the game now almost 30 years, since I was only 15 working my 1st job. I’ve paid taxes, I’ve paid SSI, I’ve paid and paid..now they want more “skin”. Fact of the matter is, I don’t have much more “skin” to give.

Sometimes I wonder if these people in DC and on down the through the states and local governments just fail to realize that someone making average wages and average incomes just can’t afford the never ending array of additional taxes to fund their projects and wish lists.

I’ve long pondered the disconnect between me and my Federal Government, It’s almost like the political class are well off, and they truly think that is how everyone should be or even is, they see the world, and the country through a prism of their own successes and they think that is how it is for millions of us out there. Fact is they are way off the mark. They aren’t even in the ball park.

And I guess maybe if you’re Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid with net worth’s in the millions, paying more taxes doesn’t hurt nearly as much as it does the rest of us “common folk”. I think they just don’t understand that at all.

A more bitter thought is, that in fact, yes, they do know. They know damn well what it’s like for the middle class, and they simply do not care. Their agendas and their ideals, their thirst for power, and their dirty backroom deals to keep that power trump all else. They’ll lie to us and tell us how great our lives will be if they just get their agendas enacted…But in reality, They want us all dependent on the largess of the Federal Government, far more easy to control us that way.

And the in the end …the sum of it all…As this bill takes effect it’s highly likely the Federal government is going to make it just that much harder for me, my family, and millions of other middle class Americans to make ends meet.

We are told by the shrills on TV, and these people in DC that we are on the eve of a “sweeping reform” of the US Health-care system. It will be the eve of a new era of “American progress’ as the left is wont to hype, affordable and cheap health insurance for the masses. Prove it. I’m not buying.

The powers to be continue to crow about how great this reform will be, even with reports surfacing to the contrary, across a wide range of sources, that this bill will not cost what it was advertised as, but considerably more. But hey, that’s yet to be proven, so in the spirit of being a hard working American, lets just be neutral or attempt to be and ignore that part….and focus on what we know to be true. And what is true is the simple fact that the Federal government has a poor track record when it comes to management of …well almost everything.

Social Security is broke…raided by these same people that are selling us this “health-care reform”.
Our VA hospitals are a mess….ask any vet like me, most of us, unless desperate, wont go near the places.
Amtrak is bleeding red ink…
The US Postal service looses billions…and still cant seem to do half the job as Fed-Ex or UPS.
Billions in wasted funds for “No Child left behind” and still …Our schools are a joke….
Billions spent for “welfare for the needy” and still 1/3 of our population wallows in poverty, and the inner cities grow worse…
The IRS is drowning in red Ink…and still tax compliance cost this economy hundreds of billions every year.
Our federal courts are a joke…yet child predators and other psycho paths are running wild, our children preyed on like game.
We’re trillions of dollars in the hole as a country for Federal programs already underwater….and still they keep adding more debt.

Need I go on?

If an Obama supporter or a even an honest Democrat can come on here and point to ONE system the government runs that isn’t bleeding gallons of red ink, that is half efficient as a private run firm or facility, I’d sure feel a whole lot better about them running health care. Trouble is they can’t. It simply doesn’t exist.

It’s been over a year of wheeling, dealing, & shady political tricks in D.C. and it’s all come down to this point.

The Democrats are feeling “giddy” about things.

Really; did a elected statesman in our hallowed halls of government really say they were “giddy”? How quaint.

Perhaps that’s the whole problem with our nation today is that, we’re “giddy”……we’ve elected a bunch of ruffled pantie wearing school girls to run the country, rather than honest statesmen.
They “feel” more than they actually think.

The electorate is part to blame…seems the entire country has become nothing but “feelings” on the issues that face our country rather than being able to think critically. One only need to browse any of the comments on just about any new site to see the “feelings” on display.

Of course, the conservatives are “feeling” too…. feeling outrage.

No-one seems to knows how many people were in D.C. to protest this latest governmental decree, 10’s of thousands? But there was certainly outrage and anger out there, and it’s not going away any time soon from the looks of things.

The headlines are full of things like protesters hurling racial invectives and threats at elected officials, and of course not to be outdone, sneering jackass officials like Hastings (D) Florida, sarcastically snarling to the Republicans “the minority party knows what the country wants”.

And we grow more divided than ever despite the promises of this man in the the white house to the contrary.

Eve of a new era for America …Or maybe it’s the eve of an all out hot war against the entrenched political class in D.C. and their supporters?

RCP Polls show 60+ percent of the country says were heading in the wrong direction, & more disapprove of Obama than approve for the first time since his election. It varies by poll but as I mentioned above Americans STILL even after this boondoggle support this guy nearly by half. Madness.

Even worse is the congressional approval ratings and the fact that 68% of the respondents in a recent FOX news poll say they want to clean house and remove every current elected official in DC….that’s just two or three set of polls…some seriously bad numbers flying around out there but the DC Establishment , Pelosi, Reid, Obama, Graham, ….all of them Republican and Democrat alike seem oblivious. What’s it going to take, for these people to wake the hell up, blood shed?

And it might yet come down to that, Seems to me that it is only going to take one spark, an unruly crowd at a town hall, A Capitol Policeman with a nervous trigger finger, a whack job out there with a gun… a politician or one of their staff will get hurt, the Federal government will react badly ….and it will start. 10 elected officials reported death threats?… stop and think, that’s only what they reported, who knows how many of them are under threat of violence, at this stage, it wouldn’t surprise me that 90% of those senators and congressmen are in the cross hairs…The cracks are showing.

December 26th, 2009 by TNM

BAH!!

If I hear one more person accusing those of us that oppose this monstrosity called Health-Care reform of being “callous” “uncaring” (insert the insult of your choice here _________), one more time I swear I am going to punch someone in the face.

The whole mantra goes like this: “You’re selfish because you don’t want poor people to have health-care!” Or the ever popular “only a greedy conservative (I’ve noticed that on most forums…pointy headed posters seem to somehow think they get bonus points for skewing the spelling and making it “KKKonservative”) would deny those less fortunate than themselves health care!” “Only a racist would deny others Health-Care!” and on and on the litany goes.

So okay I’ll play the insult game with the liberals, and be all the nasty things they claim I am for refusing to hand over my very personal health care choices, not to mention a good chunk of my salary to some faceless donkey’s ass in Washington D.C.

You’re right my hysterical little friend….I DON’T CARE!!! I’M SELFISH!!

You want to know why I don’t care? Why I am so selfish? Well let me tell you why.

I started my Work life almost 30 years ago. You want to know what I was doing?

I was an orderly in a Nursing Home. I emptied fouled bedpans and cleaned shit off of the sheets and grandma, when grandma lost control of her bowels.
I cleaned up the puke and the blood and the urine when that was needed to be done too.
I watched old people die, alone, heartbroken, forgotten by the world.

From there I went onto the arcane art of morticians assistant. I’ve been in a morgue with the dead, helping to embalm them for burial, I’ve watched the mortician slide the embalming rods into their bellies and break up their internal organs and watched a pump as it sucked out the body fluids….. as a 17 year kid. (You do know that they do that don’t you? No? Watch an embalming someday..it’s a real screamer of a time let me tell you.)

Miraculously I never did end up in a fast food joint….Perish the thought.

Facing 18, and realizing I was going no where in life at breakneck speed, I decided it was time for a change. I joined the Navy.

So yeah, back then I was part of government controlled health care and I saw the best and worst of it all for 10 years. Being so young I had little use for it, but I did, at times, use it, and every single time I did, I seemingly ended up worse off then when I went in for whatever ailment I was seeking treatment for.

Now they want me to come back to that three ring circus? I don’t think so sparky.

When I left the Navy, I went with a private company with good benefits, and I still am to this day working for yet another private company with decent benefits.

Not making much money back then, I worked other jobs on the side. One job was unloading semis, lousy wages, long hot hours on a loading dock and back breaking work. But I did it.

I also worked on a Horse Farm in exchange for room and board during those first few years out of the military. I shoveled horse manure and mucked out urine soaked horse stalls at 4 am in freezing ass cold, and stifling heat. I’ve been bit, kicked, and stepped on, by horses so many times I lost count. But I did it. Go on call me a “red-neck” Because I am I’ve worked throwing hay into a barn or mending fences until the sun burned my neck to a crisp…I wear the moniker proudly.

I’ve watched the government pillage my check for Social Security which I will never see, I’ve seen them take 20% and more of my earnings, and then HALF of my hourly wages when I dared to work overtime in an effort to make my lot in life better….and now?…Now they want more. More Taxes, more health insurance costs, more, more, more. In short they are going to redistribute my wealth, what little I have scratched out thus far that is.. to others.

Nay!! I won’t stand for it!! It’s not theirs to give!!

So why don’t I care if someone else doesn’t have the same access to Health Care that I do?

Because I bleeping EARNED it that’s why.

I’ve worked my fingers to the bone in my life time, I’ve done probably some of the worst jobs in the world, and I scratched, clawed, and fought to get to the level I am today.

No-One handed me a job, A 401k, A college education, A Health Care plan…..I went out in the world and I EARNED THEM. I’ve paid my taxes, I’ve given to my fellow man, I’ve done my part. I’ve paid my dues as an American both in taxes and blood…..I will do NO MORE!

Until anyone that DARES accuse me of being selfish can point at someone …just one person out there that has worked as hard and a diligently in life as I have to overcome the odds, that has made the sacrifices in life that I have, that has busted their tail as I have to succeed in life, that hasn’t mewled and pissed and moaned about how they are being mistreated….. yet somehow just hasn’t made it….I don’t want to hear it.

Chances are you’re going to find it hard to find such a person in America. The fact remains America IS the land of opportunity…those that try succeed, those that don’t fail. It is that simple.

A true American takes one thing to heart. And that one thing is “Failure is not an option.”

Anyone else calling themselves an American that believes otherwise, that somehow it’s okay to fail because of the color of ones skin, or whatever other qualifier should give them special status over another American…is not a true American, they are a fraud, an impostor…. a dime store cowboy wannabe.

Yes! You’re right!! I simply don’t care. Because one simple fact in all the hysteria over health care and the “30 million suffering with out it” is this, of those 30 million probably less than 1 or 2 % of them are actually people that for whatever reason are truly in need, the rest of them are illegals, moochers, slackers, and free loaders and yeah they can go screw themselves….with a rusty nail embedded 2×4. I owe them nor any pandering jack ass in a suit from D.C. NOTHING.

Bottom line to all you bleeding hearts crying about the poor, about the minority flavor of the week, about whatever victim group is your cup of tea….is simply this:

I nor do millions of Americans like me owe the black man, the red man, the yellow man, the white man, or for that matter the man in the white house a damn thing…. they owe it themselves to make their own way in America.

And by the way? I don’t owe YOU anything either my bleeding heart friend …Election of your Poser in Chief and your so called “mandate” be damned.

Take note…and try to take that “something” by force at your peril… for I will not submit.

July 2nd, 2009 by TNM

As I browsed through blogs, the news etc, I kept looking for information on the Coupe in Honduras, and the White house Kremlin reaction to it.
I fully expected Obambo to stick his foot in it once again, and predictably like the sun rises in the East, and right on cue heeeeer’s Barak!!
Well that didn’t take long I guess.

Obama came right out and said he denounced the overthrow of the Honduran president. Well that would be just swell 0-bamai except for one, well two little things:

1. The Honduran President Violated the Honduran Constitution

2. The Honduran President’s attempt to ram rod this was overruled by the Honduran Supreme court.

Yet the leader of the free world *gak* refused to support the Honduran people when they demanded that their elected President adhere to the Honduran Constitution.

Nice Obama, tell me, did you ever see a Constitution, ANY constitution you DID want upheld? I mean we know you don’t give a furry rat’s ass about ours, that much is now painfully obvious to all but the most mentally defective, but come on work with me here, Just ONE..?

Really, I’d like to see it, because not only do you routinely piss all over ours in your quest for remolding a country into whatever your arrogant over pampered terrorist coddling ass thinks is should be, now you’re off upholding two bit tin pot screw balls like this Honduran president that ran so afoul of his countries constitution they… forcefully removed him?

Jesus on a pogostick, can’t you do ANY thing right??

How in the blue fuck did you get elected in the first place? Oh right, ACORN and 52% of the country on Prozac or stoned to the gills watching American Idol, silly me, I forgot.

What; Maybe you’re a little worried ? Are you getting a little nagging feeling now that if it happened in Honduras, that maybe, just maybe, it could happen here?

And it should, you and that sorry excuse for a administration, and your cohorts in the house and Senate should be run out of DC at the end of a pitch fork.
Far as I’m concerned, it can’t happen fast enough.
Moron.

June 28th, 2009 by TNM

Here are some sobering numbers to read in direct opposition of the CBO, what the Media is reporting, and EPA’s, warm fuzzy rhetoric, of the C/T bill amounting to *only* the price of a “postage stamp per day”:

My congressional District, already well below national median income will see on average, a Cap and Trade cost of living increase, of 500.00 dollars a year. In my neck of the woods, that’s a death knell for almost every small business owner in the area who already live on razor thin profit margins.

That’s a “stamp” costing well over a dollar per day.

We’ll let the “inconvenient truth” slide for a second that this once again makes Barak Hussein Obama A liar. Oh screw it, ignoring the obvious won’ make it go away.

Barak Huessien Obama is a two faced, backstabbing, snake in the grass LIAR.

And I quote…”95% of Americans will receive a tax cut”

LIES, DAMN LIES, AND MORE LIES, You can’t defend it, you can’t justify it, you can’t deny it. Those are his EXACT words, yet this Cap and Trade tax doesn’t target some bogey man “fat cat rich white guy”, this tax doesn’t target the evil Haliburton KBR, Dick Cheney Cabal, it doesn’t target rich liberals in NYC and LA.

IT TARGETS YOU OBAMA VOTER.

500.00 Dollar electric bill just arrived? Little unsure just how you’re going to come up with that money?

How’s that feel pal? Not so good does it? Already out of work? Can’t pay the Electric bill this month, you better brace yourself, come 6 months from now you’ll be choosing between having electric for hot water and food for your children. You think the Utilities companies aren’t going to start hijacking rates early to protect themselves from this bullshit? No? You better think again.

Which incidentally, who is the nit wit mouth breathing moron that came up with that stamp a day garbage? I haven’t mailed a bill in over a decade, I pay everything including the US Governments extortion money, AKA taxes, online. My Parents as old fashioned as they may be, don’t use stamps much anymore, they have a computer, if they do it, I’m pretty sure 90% of Americans out there don’t buy a whole lot of stamps these days either. What alternate reality is that government drone living in?

Why do these lying weasels insist on trying to paint ‘purty pictures’ for the masses, and in doing so directly insult their intelligence? I wish I was standing with in striking range of that one, I really do, watching them pick their teeth up would give me great joy.

Alas, on to those numbers I mentioned, read em and weep…..This study was done by two PhD level Economists. And it appears on the Heritage Foundations Website

Link 1

Link 2

The Bill has passed the house, and is heading to the Senate. If this passes, we should be in the streets, armed to the teeth and looking for blood, enough is enough.

Sadly, as I watch the destruction of my homeland in utter dismay, my voice silenced, I lean ever closer and closer to the Militant. I think many Americans feel likewise, many are becoming unwilling to accept this governments actions, tolerate their abuses, nor will they continue to succumb to their vile agendas one more day.

It is an ever increasing worry, a nagging doubt that says; A point is rapidly being reached where negotiation and debate is no longer a viable alternative, we have no voice.

How many million Americans do not agree with the agenda being shoved down our throats by Obama and less than 1000 elected officials political elites, yet they refuse to listen?

So now, who are you going to believe?

(Strangely when I ask a Obama Supporter that very question, I get huffy nonsensical rhetoric).

Al Gore, with his souped up Power Point slide show and his claws in the carbon offset swindle, making him a wealthy man?

A political appointee of Obama’s in the CBO?

Another political appointee of Obama’s in the EPA?

Or the reality, the fact global warming is a farce, a myth concocted by radical environmentalists and Marxists?

In the end the “stamp a day” mentality is exactly what is wrong with our government, they have no qualms, none what so ever, of slapping additional burdens on the American people, they simply poo-poo it away with lofty rhetoric, and they refuse to understand that they are not by the constitution allowed to do so, they have no Legal right to do so, yet they do.

I have a choice to buy stamps, I choose not to, but with this bill I have no choice and sooner or later, when too many choices are taken away form the American people, there will be a reckoning, and I fear it will be bloody.

UPDATE **

The Bobo Files digs thru this abortion of a bill, and finds out, low income earners will get money, cash, shekles, call it what you will, placed directly into their bank accounts via the bill.

Worked and paid your electrical bills? Uncle Sam is going to take that money, and give it to the “poor”. In Cold hard Cash.

May 23rd, 2009 by TNM

Obama is a liar. But we know that don’t we?

But to add further proof,  he most certainly will be if he signs the Cap and Trade bill now making it’s way through the legislative branch.

Drafted by far left liberal H.Waxman (D) of where else, *sigh* California, and pushed by the radical environmentalist lobby the bill is one of Obama’s centerpiece campaign platforms, and is now being forced onto the American people by the liberals communists in the house and senate.

This bill is estimated by some to add up to a staggering 30% increase in over all energy bills for ALL Americans from every walk of life.

I would imagine the American Idol crowd will be quite upset when they see their electric bills go through the roof I’m sure, but typically, a dumbed down electorate, with the attention span of a retarded chipmunk will not blame Obama and his cronies. That wouldn’t be politically correct!

Instead they’ll scream about “greedy Utility companies”, and “greedy CEO’s” and how “UNNNNFAIR” it all is.

Screw em, I hope they  freeze.

“What did you just say?!?!?” you ask?

I hope they freeze. Screw ‘em, If Wanda Sykes can get up on national TV and say she hopes Rush has a kidney failure, then I can hope people like her freeze.

And I do, I hope her ass turns to a chocolate Popsicle. I’m done playing nice with idiotic Americans like her that can’t think for themselves but let retards like Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews tell them how to vote. Or worse yet vote the race card…Screw em’. You people that voted for this mouth breathing retard are every bit as stupid as he is, all of you.

I’m I being to0 harsh for you? Did I offend you, did I hurt your feelings? Outraged?  TOUGH!!

Here let me spell it out for you ….pay attention.

This isn’t a “tax on the rich”.

This isn’t a “tax on greedy capitalist corporate America”

This isn’t a “tax on Capital Gains on rich Wall Street tycoons”

This “Cap and Trade” is just a fancy way of saying T-A-X And that is what makes Barak Hussein Obama a bold face liar. He is on record loud and clear stating that there would be “tax cuts for 95% of America”.

“But-But he gave us rebates!!”…You sputter, Sure did, and This Cap and Trade bill  is nothing more than “Give a little with one hand and then take more with other”, meaning he’s nothing more than a typical greasy politician. A liar.

And you bought off on it, he gave you 13 measly dollars a week. Now he is going to slam you with an cost in energy increase, a  TAX,  that will stagger your budget, make paying your bills harder, make you work yet longer hours, and sacrifice more of your time that could have been spent with your family, just to keep up. Happy now?

I have to wonder about the one woman caught on camera gushing how she wouldn’t have to worry any more about things like filling her tank with Obama getting elected, How’s that working out for you? Still thinking “I’m not going to have to worry no more about how to put gas in my tank or pay my mortgage”?

If you are you’re dumber than a box of hammers.

Aren’t you proud of your vote?  Congratulations.

Newsflash: This is a tax on you Joe “It’s time for Change” America.

Congratulations, you voted this Communist empty suit into the White House, now you reap the rewards.

Too bad I have to suffer along with you. Thanks for that.

Enjoy those Tax “rebates” of 13 dollars a week (which BTW expire soon) and your electric bill is going to be 400.00 dollars a month.

Still can’t quite do all those big numbers and come up with the very clear conclusion that Obama just taxed you when he signs this bill into law? Here let me help you…

Lets say your electric bill is now 200.00 and it goes up 30% That is a 60.00 dollar increase in just your electric bill, those with Natural Gas or Heating Oil will get hit even harder. But for the sake of argument lets say you heat your home with electric.

Your rebate was 52 dollars a month. You just lost 8 dollars a month, soon to be the full 60 because those tax cuts are going to expire.

But Guess what? Cap and Trade doesn’t expire..Lets say you live in TN like I do, and TVA is now buying these Cap and Trade credits, they aren’t going to eat that cost Joe, they are going to pass that to Y-O-U and every other customer on their grid.That makes it a Tax. Call it whatever you want, you can’t polish a turd.

So now your electric bill is 260.00  a month. You’re not using any more electricity, in fact you might even use less to try to keep that bill under control. What did you get in return for that additional 60 dollars? Nothing that’s what.

If you can’t see this for what it is you are stupid. It is a massive  tax on EVERY AMERICAN, rich, poor and in between, and its not the utilities companies fault, it’s not some CEO of the local Power company making this call, It is Obama and his commie cronies in the house and Senate. And that makes it a tax. There’s no other way to say it.

Tell me Obamaphiles, How many middle class families in WI, MI, OH, and other Northern states are going to shiver through next winter because they cannot afford to heat their homes? If you voted for this ..I hope you feel good about it….and I hope you freeze.

Me, I have to go split some firewood, it promises to be a long cold winter again this year….

March 14th, 2009 by BoBo

H/T to TexasFred for this one:

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.

You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank..

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.

The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red .

If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it’s because they want them in IRAQ

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!

February 22nd, 2009 by TNM

General Motors is dying.

We all know it, and we watch with muted dismay as a once great American Icon shrivels before our eyes.

As far as I see it, here are some of the underlying reasons for GM’s demise.

• The UAW

The UAW is the elephant in the room that no-one wants to look at. The Obama administration has said absolutely nothing about the strangle hold the UAW has placed on a  once profitable American owned and operated company. Prior to the current Administration, Bush and his GOP party likewise were completely silent on the UAW.

Obama, and other democrats as well as those on the GOP side of the aisle have taken billions over the years from the UAW in campaign contributions, placing them at the mercy of the unions. To confront the UAW, and say the gravy train has come to a screeching halt, that concessions in benefits and compensations for their retirees, as well as the active work force must be made, would be political suicide.

This is not a Democrat or Republican problem, this is a U.S. Federal Government problem with lobbyist and big money influence from the UAW corrupting the outlooks and judgment of the people we elect.

• The media and consumer bias.

The media bears some of the burden for GM’s demise as well as other domestic car makers ills. Especially in the print media. Browse through a Consumer reports, or any other publication that reviews consumer purchased products and it is an endless litany of Asian / Foreign products good, US products are bad.

For years now Car and Driver, Consumer Reports etc, have touted the mantra that import name plates are superior to GM, Chrysler & Ford. They consistently harp that the imports are more reliable, get better gas mileage and are better backed cars. They rate them better consistently, based on nothing more a lot of the times, then some so called “car experts” opinion.

I personally have failed to see this. I’ve owned both Chrysler  and GM products all my life. I own both now, A Dodge truck, and a Chevrolet Coupe. One is a year old, the other now 7.  These are far from the only vehicles I have owned.  I’ve had no less than 4 Chevy trucks, every thing from an S-10 to WT 1500’s, and fully loaded Silverados, that performed flawlessly.

One of them had 129,000 miles on it when I bought it, the Odometer had quick working “oh about a year or so ago”  according to the owner I purchased it from, and I put another estimated 50,000 miles on that truck. I sold it, and it is still going strong to the best of my knowledge.

In all I’ve owned some 30 different cars in my life, some new, a majority of them used. I had one Pontiac way back in H/S that gave me some issues, it was a mid 70’s built car, and there is no secret that the cars built then by Domestics…were awful. I will concede that point.

However, moving into 2009, GM, Ford, and Chrysler? Their products are every bit as reliable and good as any import, and I will put my domestic name plates against an import any day.

That’s the impression I get from most people these days, they are more or less convinced that anything an American manufacture puts out is inherently worse than an import.

Another myth that seems to pervade the mass media is that imports get better fuel economy than American made cars, which if you’re comparing a Pirius to a Malibu, I suppose they have a valid point however, if you compare a Honda Accord or Toyota Camry to that same GM produced Chevy Malibu, the Malibu either matches or in some cases exceeds the Mileage ratings of the imports.

Don’t ever hear about this in the press do you? Only research, and careful comparisons will reveal the truth of this. And frankly most consumers are too lazy to be bothered to even care, they accept what they see in print and on TV as gospel and there is no changing of their minds.

I rented a Chevy Malibu not long ago, I drove it from Atlanta to Tampa. To say I was pleasantly surprised is an understatement. Like others in America, I really didn’t put much stock into a Chevy Sedan anymore, I needed transportation, and that is what I wound up with at the car rental counter.

Driving that car was fun, I zipped out of Atlanta, and being a bit of a gear head that I am I decided to let the car prove itself to me, and I was pleased both with the power of it, the comfort and the ergonomics and design. After a 400 mile drive I loved the car, and I’d buy one in a heart beat if I had the need for one.

Americans need to take a second look at the domestic automakers, they need to look hard, and they might just come to find out that the Toyota they are driving isn’t any better than that Chevy Malibu.

• The Government at both State and Federal level

The Federal government and governments in states like Michigan need to reduce corporate taxes on GM and every other Manufacturer. They are simply too high. Michigan with it’s hostile business environment is now turning into a ghost town, Detroit and areas like Deerborne are a mess, and the elected officals wallow around in utter ignorance of how to help fix the problem.

And it all comes back to a simple precept, those that ignore history’s lessons….are doomed to repeat them.

Detroit and Michigan should have looked no farther than their neighbors in Ohio, and the now mostly silent steel industry for a lesson on this. 30 years after the collapse of US Steel And others, the once mighty Steel Valley in Eastern Ohio, is still but a shadow of it’s former self. Again cheap foreign goods, and greed from a powerful union as well as greed from the government did them in.

Sadly, Michigan didn’t and now they are reaping the results of it.

Between state, local, and federal taxes, The US has the 2nd highest corporate tax rate in the world, higher than even Socialist based economies such as Sweden. This simply has to stop.The governments are totally out of control and they must be forced to curb their spending.

GM pays billions in taxes as does Exxon, and other huge producers. This is then simply passed onto you me and every other consumer in the guise of higher prices. It’s double taxation, and it could I suppose be considered Dangerously close to a violation of the constitution, as it become taxation with absolutely no representation.

These draconian taxes damage business, they increase cost of products and in the case of GM, add literally thousands to the price of a domestic car and other products.

• The way forward

Pouring billions of taxpayers dollars into GM is not likely to work, as far as I can see.

In the earlier 80’s Ronald Regan broke the Air controllers strike, and the Union that brought air travel to a screeching halt by demanding unrealistic pay and benefits for their members.

Obama and the Congress should take a page from his playbook, and force the UAW to the table. The simple fact of the matter is, the UAW is not making the moves it needs to make to help GM stem the red ink. They make small but meaningless gestures, and consider that as they are doing their part.  Sadly they are not even in the ball park, and like a vampire they will continue to suck the life blood out of GM.

If Obama and the Democrats or Republicans  really wish to bail out GM they would issue an ultimatum to the the UAW, Reduce your over head or face the possibility of the same thing that happened to the Air Controllers Unions. It really starts coming down to a simple case of common sense. The UAW is a problem for GM, and you cannot fix GM without first fixing the UAW.

Leadership of the country is a huge responsibility, and thus far Obama, and the Democrats are failing miserably by not getting tough with the UAW and forcing their hand. Instead they pour billions upon billions of the taxpayers dollars into the coffers and it winds up right in the hands of, who else? The UAW.

Again I will state, this is not just a Democrat or Republican party problem, this is FEDERAL GOVERNMENT at it’s very worst, they are in the UAW and other unions grasp, and they refuse to confront them for fear of loosing money they use to get re-elected.

These billions upon billions the Fed is pouring out to GM do not help the employees at idle plants, or their families, they aren’t getting any of this money, the Management of GM is not getting this money. The UAW is, via ongoing demands for unsustainable levels of benefits, and legacy pension costs.

Additionally, other than propping up a few UAW robber barons, and their retiree base, this gives very few dollars back into the economy when compared to what would be input should the tens of thousands of the workers now laid off return to work.

I am reminded of a debate I had with BoBo,  one of the contributors to both this blog, and my 454monte.com blog. Who stated in no uncertain terms he would not purchase a GM product for the simple fact that he refused to support a Union like the UAW.  Sadly he is correct and I think, a lot of people feel exactly the same way about the UAW and domestic car makers. The perception is out there and it is widespread that low skilled workers are making way too much money and the UAW is the one driving that type of pay structure. How true that is open to debate, but that is the perception.

• We as Americans can help GM

Drive a GM product lately? Or have you been living in the world of “Consumer Reports says an Accord is a better car so I won’t even consider a domestic name plate”.

Go try one if you are in the market for a new car, what does it really hurt to at least do a comparison? Other than maybe having to put up with the annoying car salesman, and some time, you loose nothing. But you do stand a chance to gain a quality product every bit as good as a Honda or a Toyota.

If you have stocks, buck the doom and gloom , and take a gamble, throw some cash on GM stock and let it sit. It’s a bargain at the current prices. You stand to gain a lot and loose very little at this point, and you help to save GM.

I would argue that less than 10 years ago GM was doing a bang up business, profits were good, they made good products and still do, and they can return to a viable company.

One needs to keep in mind, when they think of GM, GM does not just make cars, that they do a lot of finance business, via their GMAC Division. GMAC is one of the largest lenders in the land. In fact GMAC holds my mortgage on my home, and they have been 100% honest, upfront and easy to work with.

I digress, Think about that for a second, GMAC loans money on homes, cars etc, and then the Sub-prime mess starts, what is going to happen? GM is going to get hit just as hard and like every other loan provider out there, including Bank Of America and Citi Bank.  I would further argue that GM’s current troubles have very little to do with the automotive products they produce.

In the end, it is my thoughts that, Government bailouts, and spending billions to prop up the UAW via confiscation of taxpayers dollars is an utter waste of time money and effort.

GM can be saved, but we the people need to save them, not idiotic politicians in D.C. with Unions yanking their leashes, and a lust for tax dollars that is unsustainable.

TNM

February 17th, 2009 by TNM

Guess the congress critters didn’t learn the lesson the first time with TARP I and the market slide when that got pushed through….Dow off 270 pts and still falling.

Good job Democrats, and RINO’s you guys simply suck. All of you.

Definition of Stupidity : Doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.

*** Update***

Markets off over 6% on fears of GOVERNMENT Intrusion into the banking system as of Fridays close, welcome back to 2002.

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February 16th, 2009 by BoBo

While I was cruising the blogosphere this past weekend looking at all the reactions concerning this spending stimulus bill there was a very common theme that I noticed coming from you guys on the left.

1. The GOP’ers in Congress are obstructionists and they don’t care about the people, and
2. It really doesn’t matter what is in the stimulus bill because we just need to do something, and
3. There really can’t be anything in there THAT bad

Man, you guys are fools!  With reactions like this, all I can think of is that you did not actually read any of the details in the bill yourselves.  You too are just toeing the party line of the Dems and listening to the crap coming out of the MSM.  Lord knows that no one in the MSM actually read the spending stimulus bill themselves because surely that non-biased bastion of free press surely would have scrutinized everything and called out the government on their spendthrift ways, right?

You guys are getting so caught up in the fact that the Republicans voted NO down their party line that you aren’t looking at the BIG picture.  This is supposed to be a stimulus package!  This is supposed to be about stimulating the economy!  Frankly, I’m surprised after eight years of saying yes to everything that Bush wanted, to include increasing the size of government and doubling the deficit (which is totally against all Conservative principles which they are supposed to be for) that they actually voted NO in unison – with the exception of the three turncoats.

Sure, I’ll give you that they probably voted NO for political purposes – however, no matter the reason – it was, and still is, the right vote.  NO ONE read the whole bill before voting on it!!!  Doesn’t that resonate with any of you on the left?  Let me say it again – NO ONE READ THE BILL BEFORE VOTING ON IT!!!!

Would you buy a car or a house without reading through the contract to see what you are agreeing to?  Shouldn’t we all as Americans be demanding better of our elected officials?  If there was such a rush to get this thing passed – why did Obama take a weekend off for vacation (less than 1 month in to his Presidency – can you take a vacation in the first month of a new job?) and will wait until Tuesday to actually sign it in to law?  If this was so important that it needed to get passed immediately to make sure our country does not collapse – shouldn’t he have signed it Friday night or Saturday morning to get things rolling?

You guys on the left are being completely and totally played right now.  Is there no sane voice on the left remaining?  I thought you guys were all about freedom of speech and huge proponents of privacy rights?  Do you not understand that included in this bill is the underpinnings of socialized mass media, nationalized banks, and nationalized health care?  Perhaps you heard about it but don’t really understand what this means.

Socialized Mass Media – this is a direct assault on Freedom of Speech.  The government wants to control the radio waves and the Internet.  They will quash dissenting opinions.  Sure, you might think that is great because conservative talk radio and bloggers will get their come-uppance – but – what does that say about you liberals who are supposed to be about freedom and liberties and the like if you go along with this?  Your only hope is that the next time a Republican/Conservative/Libertarian gets in office they reverse this part of the bill – otherwise – the next time it could be your voices that are quashed.

Nationalized Banks – again – do you not understand what this means?  If the government is controlling the flow of money and gets to make the decisions as to who gets the loans and who doesn’t – that will directly influence the direction of commerce.  You might think Capitalism and the free-market doesn’t work – but – the biggest stinger here is the fact that now the Federal Government will have direct access to ALL of your financial information.  Seriously, where is the ACLU on this?  Why aren’t you guys on the left screaming privacy right violation at the top of your lungs right now?  You did it when Bush passed the Patriot Act.  This new bill makes the Patriot Act look like a novice hacker stealing your identity.

Nationalized Health Care – okay – I know how you bleeding heart liberals want to take care of everyone and just could not wait for the day when the federal government would guarantee everyone access to health care.  I understand why you are for this part of the bill – but – did you not read the part about the duties of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technologies?  Did you not read the part about the mandate for electronic medical records through a national database?  If you did, you did not understand what it is you read.  Once this thing gets in to full swing, all of your personal health information will be stored at the Federal level for accessing by the NCHIT to make decisions to pass on to your physicians at the time of care with regards to what treatment you are allowed to have.  Again, why aren’t you screaming about the violation of your privacy rights?

Your party has gotten you in such a dander to play the “us versus them” game that they played you.  You have come to trust your elected officials so much that you have followed them blindly down a path of no return.  If you thought GWB was “Big Brother” with the Patriot Act – Orwell just found his main character in Barack Obama, Pelosi, and Reid – and all you guys can talk about is how the Republicans obstructed this wonderful piece of crap legislation.

It is time to wake up people.  This is not about being a democrat, republican, conservative, liberal, libertarian, etc.  This is about being Americans.  I wish you guys would begin the scrutiny of Obama and the Dem leaders as you did the past 8 years under Bush.  You are still gushing about your win and the fact that the Dems finally got control again that you are selling your souls to the devil.  You are pissing away the freedoms that you so declare you cherish.

I really don’t know what to say.  You called anybody who supported Bush “sheep.”  I can’t even think of the term that would currently identify you guys on the left that would be comparable.  You’re worse than sheep.  Perhaps lemming is the proper term as you are prepared to follow Obama over the cliff to your death and bring down the rest of the country with ya.

If any of you have ever followed my own blog – you will see I have been very critical of Bush and the Republicans because they went against my core values and belief in the constitution and this country.  I’m waiting for you guys on the left to finally wake up and do the same thing.  We ARE the people.  We get to make the decisions – not them in Washington.  You need to wake up and join the rest of us that refuse to let ANYONE in government make our decisions for us.  They need to listen to us.

In case you did not know this – 63% of this country opposed this bill.  If 63% of the country opposed it – then how can you explain 61% of the government approving it?  Doesn’t that mean they are not listening to WE THE PEOPLE?

Where are you bloggers on the “left” that will stand up and hold your government accountable?  Your messiah has backtracked on EVERY campaign promise so far – and not one of you is holding his feet to the fire on it.  At least we on the “right” spoke out against GWB and his administration when he strayed.

‘Nuff said!