Today I want to talk about the American people. The reason for this is the recent tornado that hit my hometown and destroyed most of my neighborhood.
In case you have been living under a rock (or like me, not had power of Internet for the last few days, though my power is back on finally, no Internet yet) you may not have heard of the F5 tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa, AL causing massive destruction across the city and the rest of the state. Last count I heard, in Tuscaloosa alone, there are 47 confirmed dead and over 500 still missing. The city will take years to rebuild, yet with death and destruction all around, the people who have lost it all still lift themselves up and work to help one another.
Five minutes after the storm blew over my house I emerged wondering what wreckage I would find. I looked around at my neighbors homes to see trees down on top of them, trees down in yards, cars who's windows had been busted out from debris. My fellow neighbors emerged from their homes, dazed, as if in a dream, I must have had the same look on my face. We checked to make sure each of us were ok, then began surveying the damage to our homes. I was lucky. Other then my neighbors pecan tree down in my back yard and a few spots where shingles had been torn off, my house and property was undamaged.
We all pulled out cell phones and started trying to get in touch with our families to inform them that we were alright and to see how they were. Cellular service was terrible. Calling out was nearly impossible.
Some of my neighbors that had chainsaws saw that the roads were blocked by trees and knew if people were injured, emergency services couldn't get to them. They got to work clearing the way while the rest of us moved over to the next street, seeing if people were alright. Slowly over the coarse of an hour we made our way over the next 2 blocks... that's when we could see the true horror that this storm had left in it's path. The housing project that was nearby and all the houses close to it were gone, nothing but rubble remained. Police, firefighters and EMS were all working as hard and as fast as they could trying to pull people out of the rubble while trying to keep well meaning citizens out of the area due to exposed and busted gas lines and live wires laying about.
I describe all that so that you understand when I talk about how people have handled the aftermath.
The people of this city have all come together, volunteering their time and resources to help one another. We have people working side by side with the police and national guard to check homes and trees for people alive and dead. We have local businesses that were spared offering their services to those in need, not charging a dime. We have restaurants and individuals traveling the areas that can be traveled to offer food and water to all that need it. We have local hotels that weren't damaged offering shelter to the people who lost their homes. Even our locally owned Buddies food mart is selling gas at cost and donating gas to relief workers, just to help out.
The power of the people in this area is just a small showing of what makes the American people great. We have the most generous people in the world here in the USA. Where disaster falls we rise up and overcome it by helping each other as we can.
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Obama Lied, The Economy Died
I was planning on using this post to use this post to detail how the Republicans lost the 2011 budget battle instead of winning it like you will hear from the news media, instead, due to recent events I must change my focus.
While it is true that the Republicans caved on their budget promise to the people of this great nation, I have now reached the conclusion that it is of no fault of their own that they could not complete this promise. It is hard to uphold your promises when you are so stupid that you will believe anything that is told to you by your political opponents, instead of fulfilling the promises you made. You have now set the stage for your defeat in 2012.
After all, we started out with a promise to cut 100 billion from the 2011 budget, but after much name calling, you caved. So then it was 61 billion, and you swore that you would stand firm on that, yet once again, the mud slinging caused you to slip and fall further. Wanting to prove that you didn't want women and children to die or old people to eat dog food, you dropped the cuts to 31 billion. Someone in the Republican party must have realized that a mistake had been made though, so you then worked it back to 38.6 billion.
You smiled and patted yourselves on the back after that, never mind that we the people were demanding that you ignore the vilification and keep your promise. The news media touted about how this was such a great victory for the Republican party and the Dems hung their heads in defeat, screaming bloody murder about how draconian these cuts were! But little did you know, that the Dems were actually laughing and praising themselves for being so clever. The Dems played up their defeat while the CBO got to work on the that actual numbers.
Within a few days the CBO report came out revealing the vile treachery of the Democrat party was thrown into the light. The 38.6 billion in budget cuts only came out to little more then 300 million, and on top of that it added 3 billion to the over all budget instead of actually cutting it.
To make matters worse it comes out that Obama had promised to cut 4 key czar positions then in a written statement said He would not hold up his end of the bargain. The czars that he was supposed to cut were, the Health Care, Climate Change, Auto Industry and Urban affair czars in case you were wondering. Obama lied, waited till all was said and done, then in written word confirmed too all that would listen.... he lied. In a bold move he openly admitted he lied, no sugar coating it, he lied.
Republicans, please explain how it is you trusted this war criminal to up hold his end of any bargain? He has already stated that he will do anything he has to to see his vision for this country come to pass, so how could you believe he would up hold anything? Are you really that stupid?
Think about it, the man that has passed illegal laws and shoved them down the American peoples throats, telling them they will thank him for it! This is the man that illegally went to war without the approval of congress! This is the man who talks down to anyone who disagrees with him because he knows better! This is the man who said he would cut the budget and then at every turn has tried to increase it instead! This man that has passes executive orders that fall outside his given power! This is the man who can't tell the truth about anything, because the truth one day may change for him the next! What the hell makes you think he would do anything he promised to do?!?!?!?
Now because of your caving on the 2011 budget, you have proven you can't be trusted as much as our future dictator can't be trusted.
Obama on the other hand is setting himself up to be the dictator the liberals claimed Bush was and there is no one in Washington that we the people can trust to stop him. The man has grown bold, knowing there is no one to oppose him, after all the Dems think he is the messiah and the Republicans are fools, easily lead astray.
Obama should be impeached for all the crimes he has committed, yet who will stand against him? Not the Dems, Not the Republicans!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Obama's 3rd War
Sorry for not posting sooner but work has been crazy busy for me recently. My posting will be sporadic till things slow down here, so now with out further adieu...
I know I criticize the President quite often, I do. The reason for this is the fact that I am not convinced all the things he has done that is tearing our country down were done with the best interest of our country in mind. Everything the President has done (in my opinion) points to him trying to destroy the values that this nation was built on. Now whether he is just an idiot without a clue or he is doing this with the destruction of our values and economic standing in mind, I don't know.
I want to think he is just an idiot, I do, but idiot or not, he is devaluing our nation's values, morals and economy.
To be fair, Obama isn't the one who started up down this path. This started many years ago when the progressives first got into power. They set up (I know there are more then this, just making a point) the federal tax system, welfare system, social security as well as legislation designed to push industry out in the name of conservation.
"But all those are for the good of the country and it's people!" you say. On the surface these programs sound good, right? After all, the country needs money and the only way to get that reliably is through taxes, right? Well, yes, the country does need funds to operate but what most people don't realize is the way it is supposed to be set up is the states tax their populace then the state pays taxes to the federal government. Not the state taxes it's people and pays the federal government while the federal government taxes the people as well. Originally the way things were set up it was states responsibility for setting the taxes for the people. This allowed states to compete with one another other and made the federal government reliant on the states to operate. This also insured that the states didn't have their sovereignty impeded upon by the federal government.
Once the federal income tax was forced upon the people, it opened the door for the feds to start taking over more and more aspects that had once been considered as the responsibility of the states. This has lead a lose of state sovereignty and an imposing of the federal government's will upon the people. (it has also led to tons of wasted money that was spent on things that it never was meant to for and this has lead to out lovely deficit, but that is a rant for another time)
And those who are unable to work due to disability or unfortunate circumstances should be taken care of, right? Why, yes they should, but the biggest problem with out welfare system is the amount of people that abuse it. In an ideal world it the welfare system wouldn't be needed anyway because the people that can work should support the people that legitimately can't. Unfortunately, this isn't an ideal world. There are people that just don't care about anyone other then themselves, therefor they don't care to help anyone. Then there are the people that realize that there are people who will lie and cheat to get others to help them, thus keeping the money from the people that actually need it, therefor they don't want to give money to help anyone.
The people who lie and cheat the system (this includes the politicians that take money from welfare and waste it elsewhere) are the ones that are breaking our welfare system. These people will do anything they can to avoid having to work and and contribute to society. I remember a group of girls as I was growing up that would talk about how they wanted to get pregnant as soon as they could and have as many babies as they could so that the government would take care of them. What a sorry bunch of losers! The sad thing is, our welfare system actually encourages this ridiculous and pathetic behaviour.
If we are going to keep the welfare system we really need to sit down, examine the people in it and go case by case to see who needs it and who is abusing it. If someone is mentally retarded and can't work then yes, they should be completely taken care of. If they can work but due to their retardation can't hold a full time job, then the should be supported by the system and have people who help them find jobs they can do and not be abused at. If someone is permanently physically disabled due to injury or birth defect them yes, they should be taken care of (much in the same fashion presented for the mentally handicapped).
If someone has fallen on hard times due to the various events of life, we should reach out and lift them up. The key wording being "lift them up" not "carry them completely". I think this is the key area where we need to go case by case. If someone has had life throw them a curve ball that isn't of their own devising (getting pregnant, buying houses you can't afford, and whatever other irresponsible actions you can think of are considered of their own devising) then they should be given a hand up. Helping them get their life in order so that they can pull themselves up and out of the hole and strike out on their own is a good thing. We just need to make sure they don't get locked into the system and that they make the effort to get back on their feet.
And if you work hard your whole life, paying into the system you should expect to have the system take care of you in your twilight years, right? If you are paying into the system then yes, you should get the return on your investment. The problem here being it should be an investment for you future, but politicians have access to your investment and and use it to pay for their little pet projects that will never put the money back that they take.
Social Security has actually become Social Liability due to this practice. The people who currently pay into Social Security are supposed to be paying money that they can then see when they get to retirement age. But slowly over time (due the the diligent help of our elected officials) it has slipped to where the people that are currently paying in are not paying for themselves, but are paying for the people currently on Social Security. The biggest problem with this is the law of diminishing returns. The more people that go on SS will draw more and more causing the people paying in to have to their money spread between more and more people. Granted you have more people entering the workforce and contributing, but, with inflation people are making less money, therefor paying less money and supporting more people. Everyone gets a little less more and more often, and when you factor in the politicians dipping their grubby little fingers into the fund, you have a problem.
SS is soon to be broke and everyone is turning a blind eye. We need to just dissolve SS and reform it in such a way that nobody else can touch your money that you pay into it. "But that will leave all the current retirees in a hole, abandoning them!" Not if you keep people paying a portion of what they pay into SS while also having them pay into the new system gradually and completely phasing out the payments to SS while phasing them into the new system. As well as placing protections on what is left in SS so that it can't be wasted on pet projects. Sure it will take a long time to completely shift to the new system but that is the best route I can see.
And who isn't for helping the environment out? Helping the environment out is all fine and dandy, but we have taken it to the point of ridiculousness. The environmentalist have so gimped our ability to tap into our nations natural resources that we are having to rely on nations that don't care about the damage they do to the environment for resources. In the process we are causing these nations to overtax their lands because of the demand, that they are doing more harm to the environment then we ever would. So by conserving our land here, we hurt ourselves economically (due to the high cost we have to pay others for stuff we have here naturally), we risk our sovereignty as a nation (due to having to rely so heavily on the other nations), and we assist in (this is for all you green movement people) destruction of mother earth by concentrating the damage done in a smaller, not giving it time to recover. So all the green movement crap is really counter productive when you look at it like that.
We need to stop screwing ourselves over and start harnessing our natural resources once again. it will help us economically and help slow the destruction done to the earth in other nations due to lowering demand.
Obama pushes these programs harder and harder trying to reinforce them and build them up, making them bigger and bigger. Eventually something will have to give. If we keep going along this path it will be us.
Mr. Obama, I know you think you need a way to secure your second term and the best way to do that is with a war. Sir, I implore you, don't make your third war with the American people.
I know I criticize the President quite often, I do. The reason for this is the fact that I am not convinced all the things he has done that is tearing our country down were done with the best interest of our country in mind. Everything the President has done (in my opinion) points to him trying to destroy the values that this nation was built on. Now whether he is just an idiot without a clue or he is doing this with the destruction of our values and economic standing in mind, I don't know.
I want to think he is just an idiot, I do, but idiot or not, he is devaluing our nation's values, morals and economy.
To be fair, Obama isn't the one who started up down this path. This started many years ago when the progressives first got into power. They set up (I know there are more then this, just making a point) the federal tax system, welfare system, social security as well as legislation designed to push industry out in the name of conservation.
"But all those are for the good of the country and it's people!" you say. On the surface these programs sound good, right? After all, the country needs money and the only way to get that reliably is through taxes, right? Well, yes, the country does need funds to operate but what most people don't realize is the way it is supposed to be set up is the states tax their populace then the state pays taxes to the federal government. Not the state taxes it's people and pays the federal government while the federal government taxes the people as well. Originally the way things were set up it was states responsibility for setting the taxes for the people. This allowed states to compete with one another other and made the federal government reliant on the states to operate. This also insured that the states didn't have their sovereignty impeded upon by the federal government.
Once the federal income tax was forced upon the people, it opened the door for the feds to start taking over more and more aspects that had once been considered as the responsibility of the states. This has lead a lose of state sovereignty and an imposing of the federal government's will upon the people. (it has also led to tons of wasted money that was spent on things that it never was meant to for and this has lead to out lovely deficit, but that is a rant for another time)
And those who are unable to work due to disability or unfortunate circumstances should be taken care of, right? Why, yes they should, but the biggest problem with out welfare system is the amount of people that abuse it. In an ideal world it the welfare system wouldn't be needed anyway because the people that can work should support the people that legitimately can't. Unfortunately, this isn't an ideal world. There are people that just don't care about anyone other then themselves, therefor they don't care to help anyone. Then there are the people that realize that there are people who will lie and cheat to get others to help them, thus keeping the money from the people that actually need it, therefor they don't want to give money to help anyone.
The people who lie and cheat the system (this includes the politicians that take money from welfare and waste it elsewhere) are the ones that are breaking our welfare system. These people will do anything they can to avoid having to work and and contribute to society. I remember a group of girls as I was growing up that would talk about how they wanted to get pregnant as soon as they could and have as many babies as they could so that the government would take care of them. What a sorry bunch of losers! The sad thing is, our welfare system actually encourages this ridiculous and pathetic behaviour.
If we are going to keep the welfare system we really need to sit down, examine the people in it and go case by case to see who needs it and who is abusing it. If someone is mentally retarded and can't work then yes, they should be completely taken care of. If they can work but due to their retardation can't hold a full time job, then the should be supported by the system and have people who help them find jobs they can do and not be abused at. If someone is permanently physically disabled due to injury or birth defect them yes, they should be taken care of (much in the same fashion presented for the mentally handicapped).
If someone has fallen on hard times due to the various events of life, we should reach out and lift them up. The key wording being "lift them up" not "carry them completely". I think this is the key area where we need to go case by case. If someone has had life throw them a curve ball that isn't of their own devising (getting pregnant, buying houses you can't afford, and whatever other irresponsible actions you can think of are considered of their own devising) then they should be given a hand up. Helping them get their life in order so that they can pull themselves up and out of the hole and strike out on their own is a good thing. We just need to make sure they don't get locked into the system and that they make the effort to get back on their feet.
And if you work hard your whole life, paying into the system you should expect to have the system take care of you in your twilight years, right? If you are paying into the system then yes, you should get the return on your investment. The problem here being it should be an investment for you future, but politicians have access to your investment and and use it to pay for their little pet projects that will never put the money back that they take.
Social Security has actually become Social Liability due to this practice. The people who currently pay into Social Security are supposed to be paying money that they can then see when they get to retirement age. But slowly over time (due the the diligent help of our elected officials) it has slipped to where the people that are currently paying in are not paying for themselves, but are paying for the people currently on Social Security. The biggest problem with this is the law of diminishing returns. The more people that go on SS will draw more and more causing the people paying in to have to their money spread between more and more people. Granted you have more people entering the workforce and contributing, but, with inflation people are making less money, therefor paying less money and supporting more people. Everyone gets a little less more and more often, and when you factor in the politicians dipping their grubby little fingers into the fund, you have a problem.
SS is soon to be broke and everyone is turning a blind eye. We need to just dissolve SS and reform it in such a way that nobody else can touch your money that you pay into it. "But that will leave all the current retirees in a hole, abandoning them!" Not if you keep people paying a portion of what they pay into SS while also having them pay into the new system gradually and completely phasing out the payments to SS while phasing them into the new system. As well as placing protections on what is left in SS so that it can't be wasted on pet projects. Sure it will take a long time to completely shift to the new system but that is the best route I can see.
And who isn't for helping the environment out? Helping the environment out is all fine and dandy, but we have taken it to the point of ridiculousness. The environmentalist have so gimped our ability to tap into our nations natural resources that we are having to rely on nations that don't care about the damage they do to the environment for resources. In the process we are causing these nations to overtax their lands because of the demand, that they are doing more harm to the environment then we ever would. So by conserving our land here, we hurt ourselves economically (due to the high cost we have to pay others for stuff we have here naturally), we risk our sovereignty as a nation (due to having to rely so heavily on the other nations), and we assist in (this is for all you green movement people) destruction of mother earth by concentrating the damage done in a smaller, not giving it time to recover. So all the green movement crap is really counter productive when you look at it like that.
We need to stop screwing ourselves over and start harnessing our natural resources once again. it will help us economically and help slow the destruction done to the earth in other nations due to lowering demand.
Obama pushes these programs harder and harder trying to reinforce them and build them up, making them bigger and bigger. Eventually something will have to give. If we keep going along this path it will be us.
Mr. Obama, I know you think you need a way to secure your second term and the best way to do that is with a war. Sir, I implore you, don't make your third war with the American people.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The Democrat Party... Party of Freeloaders
Today, I'm addressing all the democrat senators out there who have fled their state or are planning to flee their state in order to block the new "Right to Work" laws from being voted on. Then I will address the republican senators in these states and end with a few comments to the people that read this.
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Democrat Senators,
You were put into office to vote either for or against the bills, laws and legislation that are put before you, as well as to introduce new bills, laws and legislation. You are currently being paid by the tax payers of your state to fulfill this duty. It's really that simple. It's not even a hard job. The hardest part is understanding all the legal language in these documents and I understand that the double talk can get confusing. But, most of you have people who read these documents for you and tell you what they say by breaking it down into simple english. So when you think about it, all you have to do (and get paid to do) is say yes or no.
If either yes or no aren't good enough, you then have the option of presenting ideas that will be taken by the people that work under you, who then turn them into amendments that you get to present for more (are you ready for it?) yes or no votes.
"Well, you're over simplifying the work we do!" is probably what you are saying to yourself at the moment. I will admit, I am simplifying it a little, but not a lot. Even the long drawn out speeches you give aren't even written by you. Once again you fall back on the people under you to do all the work. You are nothing more then a face to present a collective view.
Now to be fair, it is the same on the other side of the isle. The republicans are just like you, they have people under them that do all the work, while they just present it and vote on it. The key difference is, the republicans are actually doing what they are paid to by showing up to vote and debate. They aren't trying to shut the government down by fleeing so that they can avoid the issues that they have been paid to deal with.
You, on the other hand, have been running away from your responsibilities like a thief running from a police dog. You have fled your states, running to states that have democrat governors out of fear that if you go to the red states you will be detained by the troopers in that state, the shipped back to your state where you will be forced to do your job. Oh the humanity!
Now, I understand protesting a bill by refusing to vote, I do... just not when it is going to lock up the system. Doing so while still accepting pay has made you all into a bunch of freeloaders. You are no better then the people who abuse the welfare system just because they don't want to be responsible citizens (I am only talking about the ones that abuse, not the ones that actually need it). You have made yourselves a parasite upon the tax payers of your state and you should be ashamed.
I hope the people in your state see exactly what you are doing and how you are stealing from them. If they do, then you are screwed. If they do, come next election cycle, this will hang like a cloud over your head as you are cast down from your high and mighty perch to the streets below. If they do, you will become a footnote in the pages of history, perhaps even forgotten all together.
You will destroy yourselves and the party you represent if you continue along this destructive path.
Sincerely,
Princess Arylin
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Republican Senators,
Thank you for coming to work even when your democrat colleges refuse. You are showing the tax payers in your state that you actually care about the work you were sent to do for your state. You are doing what many people feel is the right thing by sticking to your guns and not caving. Make sure that the people know that you are doing what you were sent to do and you will not back down because this is what the people of your state demanded.
Also, be sympathetic to those that disagree with you, empathize. Let them know that you understand their concerns and will address them as best as you can. But do not cave on your principles, that is what got you in trouble the last time. If you give in and let yourselves be overrun you will not get a second chance.
You have a lot to prove and make up for in the eyes of the people. Trying to pass as "At least I'm not as bad as the democrats are!" isn't going to cut it. You need to show the people that you have backbones, that you aren't going to just bend over and take it any more. Stand and fight.
Now is the time to prove yourselves.
Sincerely,
Princess Arylin
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We are at a time where our country has a lot of important decisions to make. We, as citizens of this great nation, have to stand up and let our leaders know where we stand. If we sit by passively, let the minority of people who want to see the US go the way of Europe take control and overrun our state houses and our national capital, then we deserve to fall. But I have faith that we as Americans are better then that. We will stand up and fight for every inch of ground. We persist. We do not back down. We will prevail.
We must not allow the self-destructive policies that have been pushing up to the brink to continue. We must use the power of the vote and throw the people (both democrat and republican) out of office that have brought up to this place. We must draw the line and be ready to defend it at all costs.
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Democrat Senators,
You were put into office to vote either for or against the bills, laws and legislation that are put before you, as well as to introduce new bills, laws and legislation. You are currently being paid by the tax payers of your state to fulfill this duty. It's really that simple. It's not even a hard job. The hardest part is understanding all the legal language in these documents and I understand that the double talk can get confusing. But, most of you have people who read these documents for you and tell you what they say by breaking it down into simple english. So when you think about it, all you have to do (and get paid to do) is say yes or no.
If either yes or no aren't good enough, you then have the option of presenting ideas that will be taken by the people that work under you, who then turn them into amendments that you get to present for more (are you ready for it?) yes or no votes.
"Well, you're over simplifying the work we do!" is probably what you are saying to yourself at the moment. I will admit, I am simplifying it a little, but not a lot. Even the long drawn out speeches you give aren't even written by you. Once again you fall back on the people under you to do all the work. You are nothing more then a face to present a collective view.
Now to be fair, it is the same on the other side of the isle. The republicans are just like you, they have people under them that do all the work, while they just present it and vote on it. The key difference is, the republicans are actually doing what they are paid to by showing up to vote and debate. They aren't trying to shut the government down by fleeing so that they can avoid the issues that they have been paid to deal with.
You, on the other hand, have been running away from your responsibilities like a thief running from a police dog. You have fled your states, running to states that have democrat governors out of fear that if you go to the red states you will be detained by the troopers in that state, the shipped back to your state where you will be forced to do your job. Oh the humanity!
Now, I understand protesting a bill by refusing to vote, I do... just not when it is going to lock up the system. Doing so while still accepting pay has made you all into a bunch of freeloaders. You are no better then the people who abuse the welfare system just because they don't want to be responsible citizens (I am only talking about the ones that abuse, not the ones that actually need it). You have made yourselves a parasite upon the tax payers of your state and you should be ashamed.
I hope the people in your state see exactly what you are doing and how you are stealing from them. If they do, then you are screwed. If they do, come next election cycle, this will hang like a cloud over your head as you are cast down from your high and mighty perch to the streets below. If they do, you will become a footnote in the pages of history, perhaps even forgotten all together.
You will destroy yourselves and the party you represent if you continue along this destructive path.
Sincerely,
Princess Arylin
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Republican Senators,
Thank you for coming to work even when your democrat colleges refuse. You are showing the tax payers in your state that you actually care about the work you were sent to do for your state. You are doing what many people feel is the right thing by sticking to your guns and not caving. Make sure that the people know that you are doing what you were sent to do and you will not back down because this is what the people of your state demanded.
Also, be sympathetic to those that disagree with you, empathize. Let them know that you understand their concerns and will address them as best as you can. But do not cave on your principles, that is what got you in trouble the last time. If you give in and let yourselves be overrun you will not get a second chance.
You have a lot to prove and make up for in the eyes of the people. Trying to pass as "At least I'm not as bad as the democrats are!" isn't going to cut it. You need to show the people that you have backbones, that you aren't going to just bend over and take it any more. Stand and fight.
Now is the time to prove yourselves.
Sincerely,
Princess Arylin
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We are at a time where our country has a lot of important decisions to make. We, as citizens of this great nation, have to stand up and let our leaders know where we stand. If we sit by passively, let the minority of people who want to see the US go the way of Europe take control and overrun our state houses and our national capital, then we deserve to fall. But I have faith that we as Americans are better then that. We will stand up and fight for every inch of ground. We persist. We do not back down. We will prevail.
We must not allow the self-destructive policies that have been pushing up to the brink to continue. We must use the power of the vote and throw the people (both democrat and republican) out of office that have brought up to this place. We must draw the line and be ready to defend it at all costs.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Great Education Heist
Anyone who has been paying attention should know about the current teachers strike up in Wisconsin. The teachers union in the state has a bunch of it's members crying bloody murder because of legislation to end collective bargaining (In fact, some of the teachers have gone so far as to bring in their students so they can hide behind them, students that have no clue why they are there.). Anyone with half a brain knows this will cripple the unions in that state and if it can be passed there, it can potentially pass anywhere in the US. That makes it a threat to unions everywhere.
Obviously, you can't expect the unions to sit back and just take this. They are, when you think about it, fighting for their continued existence as they currently are. In fact, the unions are so afraid of this passing that they have started shipping in people from other states to build numbers. If this law passes the union powerhouses will be a thing of the past, at least in Wisconsin. This much is true, but there is a lot of misinformation out there trying to cover the truth of what is happening.
The unions claim that if this law passes, union workers (teachers being the main target here) will start being fired left and right, that they will have their pension plans stripped from them and that they will lose all the benefits they have worked to earn.
Take this into consideration, IF the law passes and the state starts firing teachers without regard to their service or abilities, the state will just cripple itself. For this reason, the only teachers that should have anything to fear are the ones that are just crappy teachers. My personal opinion is that all the teachers that lied about being sick just so they could go on strike and protest at the capital are the bottom of the dung pile. They are the ones that must realize they are such horrible teachers that they feel the only way to keep their jobs is to try to bully the state government. These are the one hiding behind the kids they teach (mean while these days that the teachers are on strike count as snow days. Poor kids, don't realize this is just going to make the school year last longer and longer.).
Also, if all the teachers were to have their pension plans stripped away, how would the state be able to bring in bright new teachers to educate the children? Wisconsin would have no way to stay competitive in the field of education if they were to do this. Anyone who really believes the state would hurt itself like this is an idiot. All the state wants to do is require the teachers to pay 5.8% into their pensions so that the state can devote the difference in tax money to the hole the state is in. For that matter, it is only a less then 1% change to the take home pay of the teachers. I realize that that will be a little pinch in the pocket, but if it allows the state (provided they do what they say they want to with the money) to dig it's way out of the financial hole it is in, it will be worth it in the long run. I'll go so far as to say, it will help the students that these teachers claim to care about so much.
On top of all this idiocy, the state Democrats have fled the state in order prevent having to sit down and make a decision on where they stand on the law. By fleeing they have locked up the process they claim they strive to respect. They are making a mockery of the legislative process by doing this and I think the next law that needs to be implemented after this one passes is one that requires by law, senators to show up to votes they have been informed about. If they don't show to vote, then they should not get a vote. It's that simple. They are still getting paid to do their job, yet like these teachers, they are refusing to do what they are getting paid to do. If I were to do this I know what would happen to me.... I would be fired faster then I could blink.
While I think Governor Walker is doing a superb job not backing down, in fact, I think he should go one step further. I think he should do what President Reagan did when PATCO went on strike in 1981. Governor Walker should give the teachers 48 hours to return to work, if they refuse then they should be fired. The state should not waste anymore money on people who aren't willing to do the job they agreed to do when hired. There is an overabundance of teachers out there looking for work so it wouldn't be hard to find replacement teachers.
Think about what the children are learning from this strike. This strike (if it succeeds) will teach these kids that if they complain loud enough they can get away with anything. This warped sense of reality will cripple them when it comes to the professional world. They will grow up thinking they should be given hand outs for nothing and there should be no repercussions. This line of thinking will lead to a whole generation of losers who don't have a clue and will destroy themselves.
Also any of the children that are affected by this strike, have something to hold over their teachers heads. After all, how can these teachers expect to punish these kids for anything. They have set an example for these children that says you should be rewarded for acting out. This is the wrong message to be sending such impressionable minds.
Lastly, Mr. Obama.... I hate having to single you out..... again. This is what is referred to as internal state politics. You have no business in them. Learn your place, because apparently you don't know it. Stay out of states rights, you have no place there. If asked your opinion, that is one thing, but you weren't. You jumped right in and started to chastise the Governor for sticking to his guns even though he is in the right. You offered support to the people who are are trying to break the system, which as far as I'm considered that is like the equivalency of you coming out in support of Al-Qaeda. You might want to think about where you stand, because it sure looks like you want to destroy the system that makes this country great. Stop aiding this heist of our education system.
Obviously, you can't expect the unions to sit back and just take this. They are, when you think about it, fighting for their continued existence as they currently are. In fact, the unions are so afraid of this passing that they have started shipping in people from other states to build numbers. If this law passes the union powerhouses will be a thing of the past, at least in Wisconsin. This much is true, but there is a lot of misinformation out there trying to cover the truth of what is happening.
The unions claim that if this law passes, union workers (teachers being the main target here) will start being fired left and right, that they will have their pension plans stripped from them and that they will lose all the benefits they have worked to earn.
Take this into consideration, IF the law passes and the state starts firing teachers without regard to their service or abilities, the state will just cripple itself. For this reason, the only teachers that should have anything to fear are the ones that are just crappy teachers. My personal opinion is that all the teachers that lied about being sick just so they could go on strike and protest at the capital are the bottom of the dung pile. They are the ones that must realize they are such horrible teachers that they feel the only way to keep their jobs is to try to bully the state government. These are the one hiding behind the kids they teach (mean while these days that the teachers are on strike count as snow days. Poor kids, don't realize this is just going to make the school year last longer and longer.).
Also, if all the teachers were to have their pension plans stripped away, how would the state be able to bring in bright new teachers to educate the children? Wisconsin would have no way to stay competitive in the field of education if they were to do this. Anyone who really believes the state would hurt itself like this is an idiot. All the state wants to do is require the teachers to pay 5.8% into their pensions so that the state can devote the difference in tax money to the hole the state is in. For that matter, it is only a less then 1% change to the take home pay of the teachers. I realize that that will be a little pinch in the pocket, but if it allows the state (provided they do what they say they want to with the money) to dig it's way out of the financial hole it is in, it will be worth it in the long run. I'll go so far as to say, it will help the students that these teachers claim to care about so much.
On top of all this idiocy, the state Democrats have fled the state in order prevent having to sit down and make a decision on where they stand on the law. By fleeing they have locked up the process they claim they strive to respect. They are making a mockery of the legislative process by doing this and I think the next law that needs to be implemented after this one passes is one that requires by law, senators to show up to votes they have been informed about. If they don't show to vote, then they should not get a vote. It's that simple. They are still getting paid to do their job, yet like these teachers, they are refusing to do what they are getting paid to do. If I were to do this I know what would happen to me.... I would be fired faster then I could blink.
While I think Governor Walker is doing a superb job not backing down, in fact, I think he should go one step further. I think he should do what President Reagan did when PATCO went on strike in 1981. Governor Walker should give the teachers 48 hours to return to work, if they refuse then they should be fired. The state should not waste anymore money on people who aren't willing to do the job they agreed to do when hired. There is an overabundance of teachers out there looking for work so it wouldn't be hard to find replacement teachers.
Think about what the children are learning from this strike. This strike (if it succeeds) will teach these kids that if they complain loud enough they can get away with anything. This warped sense of reality will cripple them when it comes to the professional world. They will grow up thinking they should be given hand outs for nothing and there should be no repercussions. This line of thinking will lead to a whole generation of losers who don't have a clue and will destroy themselves.
Also any of the children that are affected by this strike, have something to hold over their teachers heads. After all, how can these teachers expect to punish these kids for anything. They have set an example for these children that says you should be rewarded for acting out. This is the wrong message to be sending such impressionable minds.
Lastly, Mr. Obama.... I hate having to single you out..... again. This is what is referred to as internal state politics. You have no business in them. Learn your place, because apparently you don't know it. Stay out of states rights, you have no place there. If asked your opinion, that is one thing, but you weren't. You jumped right in and started to chastise the Governor for sticking to his guns even though he is in the right. You offered support to the people who are are trying to break the system, which as far as I'm considered that is like the equivalency of you coming out in support of Al-Qaeda. You might want to think about where you stand, because it sure looks like you want to destroy the system that makes this country great. Stop aiding this heist of our education system.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The Bullet Trains to nowhere
I don't know if anyone who reads this blog has heard about the Presidents grand plan for a bullet trains here in the good ole US of A, so if you haven't let me bring you up to speed. The President wants to put am $8 billion (yes, billion) dollar down payment to begin funding a project that will span the majority of the continental US states. Now keep in mind, that is just the down payment. The actual estimated is roughly around $35 billion per state (larger states costing more and smaller costing less, obviously).
The majority of the costs to build the train will come from the federal government with the states that the trains will go through chipping in. Unfortunately, that means that people who live in these states are going to effectively be taxed twice on these trains. The states are also responsible for the planning, developing and building of the the project, so once again, the tax payers in the states that this is passing through, get shafted for the costs. Also, most of the maintenance costs are going to be heaped on the states as well. No matter how you look at it, everyone is going to have to pay in order to get this monstrosity built and keep it running.
Some governors, have been more then happy to hop on the bandwagon and agree to take federal dollars (with all their little strings attached) to get started on this "visionary" project. I'm not going to name any of these states because you can find out easily which ones they are. Needless to say the states in question are all bankrupt and should be focusing on how to pull themselves out of the hole they dug instead of agreeing to dig more.
Other governors have refused to accept the federal funds, stating that they will not be a part of the project because it is such waste of money and places further burden on the tax payers in their state. These governors realize how damaging this will be to the economy, not just for their state, but the US economy as a whole.
Due to the willingness to not cooperate (a wise decision in my opinion), the rails from some of these states will connect to... nothing. This I must admit, makes me laugh.
Mr. Obama, please, stop wasting our money on stuff like this.
The majority of the costs to build the train will come from the federal government with the states that the trains will go through chipping in. Unfortunately, that means that people who live in these states are going to effectively be taxed twice on these trains. The states are also responsible for the planning, developing and building of the the project, so once again, the tax payers in the states that this is passing through, get shafted for the costs. Also, most of the maintenance costs are going to be heaped on the states as well. No matter how you look at it, everyone is going to have to pay in order to get this monstrosity built and keep it running.
Some governors, have been more then happy to hop on the bandwagon and agree to take federal dollars (with all their little strings attached) to get started on this "visionary" project. I'm not going to name any of these states because you can find out easily which ones they are. Needless to say the states in question are all bankrupt and should be focusing on how to pull themselves out of the hole they dug instead of agreeing to dig more.
Other governors have refused to accept the federal funds, stating that they will not be a part of the project because it is such waste of money and places further burden on the tax payers in their state. These governors realize how damaging this will be to the economy, not just for their state, but the US economy as a whole.
Due to the willingness to not cooperate (a wise decision in my opinion), the rails from some of these states will connect to... nothing. This I must admit, makes me laugh.
Mr. Obama, please, stop wasting our money on stuff like this.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The new Illegal Heath care law
My first REAL post, YAY!
Ok, today, in case you couldn't tell by the title, I want to talk about the new Health care law. A law that has illegally been implemented by a bunch of politicians that have no respect, nor care to respect, our constitution. This law forces people to buy health insurance or face a fine. The people that this law claimed to help is only going to punish them instead.
How does nObama expect people who can't afford insurance already to be able to afford it when the prices get jacked up even higher? They can't!
How are the people who have to take medication everyday for things like Lupus or Diabetes etc. supposed to afford their medicine when the price jumps because nObama made a deal with the Pharmaceutical companies? They CAN'T!
All this Law is going to do is make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer by widening the gap between the two. The middle class is going to vanish and all these idiots in Washington can do is either pat themselves on the back because only they know whats best no matter what the American people think or whine because they don't have the balls to stand up to the ones who put this idiocraty (my word, I claim it) into place.
Barack Insane nObama, STOP FUCKING OUR COUNTRY UP YOU STUPID IDIOT!
Democrat hippy butt fuckers, STOP FUCKING OUR COUNTRY UP YOU FUCKING SOCIALISTIC BASTARDS!
Republicans who claim to be conservative, GROW A PAIR OF BALLS! STOP WHINING AND DO SOMETHING! YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH LITTLE BITCHES!
And lastly, to the real conservatives, keep pushing. Fight till you have no fight left then fight some more, don't let these well meaning, yet harmful people another inch of ground. They want to destroy what makes this country great so the rest of the world can feel better about itself. Fuck the rest of the world. Lets get our shit together and show the rest of the world why they should look up to us. Because we are the best there is, but we won't be if we let ourselves be drug into the ground with the rest of the world.
(To those who are offended by my choice of words, I'm sorry I offended you. Please, if you can't handle my talking like that, don't read my blog. Those of you who this inspires to be violent, seek help, you need it. To the people who disagree with me, congratulations, you have an opinion. Feel free to express it in the comments section in a civil manner. Any comments not in a civil tone will be deleted. I know my tone in this post wasn't very civil, that was intentional.)
Ok, today, in case you couldn't tell by the title, I want to talk about the new Health care law. A law that has illegally been implemented by a bunch of politicians that have no respect, nor care to respect, our constitution. This law forces people to buy health insurance or face a fine. The people that this law claimed to help is only going to punish them instead.
How does nObama expect people who can't afford insurance already to be able to afford it when the prices get jacked up even higher? They can't!
How are the people who have to take medication everyday for things like Lupus or Diabetes etc. supposed to afford their medicine when the price jumps because nObama made a deal with the Pharmaceutical companies? They CAN'T!
All this Law is going to do is make the rich get richer and the poor get poorer by widening the gap between the two. The middle class is going to vanish and all these idiots in Washington can do is either pat themselves on the back because only they know whats best no matter what the American people think or whine because they don't have the balls to stand up to the ones who put this idiocraty (my word, I claim it) into place.
Barack Insane nObama, STOP FUCKING OUR COUNTRY UP YOU STUPID IDIOT!
Democrat hippy butt fuckers, STOP FUCKING OUR COUNTRY UP YOU FUCKING SOCIALISTIC BASTARDS!
Republicans who claim to be conservative, GROW A PAIR OF BALLS! STOP WHINING AND DO SOMETHING! YOU SOUND LIKE A BUNCH LITTLE BITCHES!
And lastly, to the real conservatives, keep pushing. Fight till you have no fight left then fight some more, don't let these well meaning, yet harmful people another inch of ground. They want to destroy what makes this country great so the rest of the world can feel better about itself. Fuck the rest of the world. Lets get our shit together and show the rest of the world why they should look up to us. Because we are the best there is, but we won't be if we let ourselves be drug into the ground with the rest of the world.
(To those who are offended by my choice of words, I'm sorry I offended you. Please, if you can't handle my talking like that, don't read my blog. Those of you who this inspires to be violent, seek help, you need it. To the people who disagree with me, congratulations, you have an opinion. Feel free to express it in the comments section in a civil manner. Any comments not in a civil tone will be deleted. I know my tone in this post wasn't very civil, that was intentional.)
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