Apr 4, 2009 | 1:30 PM
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Political
It seems our lives are dominated now by financial concerns, we can’t open a paper or turn on a T.V. without having it thrown in our faces. We are being told that we have to save this company or that concern, or the World as we know it will come to an end. I don’t know about you but I’m really tired of all the rhetoric. First of all our country was built on capitalism and the free market system. Americans will never accept the direction this country is going. The people of America will never openly revolt against their government but they will defeat this faker and his mob of Socialists. This is why they are moving so fast to change the World as we know it. Our chance is going to be in 2010, for the mid term elections. If we can rid ourselves of the liberal majority in the House and diminish the majority in the Senate, we will have stopped them cold in their tracks. It is in our hands, the media will continue to heap praise on the false Messiah, and he will continue to have the support of those who want big government to take care of them.
You will notice I did not use the term Democrat when speaking of these criminals as I really don’t believe they are Democrats. The people of the Blue Party that I was raised with are not Marxist or Socialists, the are hard working everyday Americans. Republicans have a habit of lumping all Democrats into the liberal mold, and by doing so they are giving up on a big portion of the voting block. We need to stop this practice now, these are the people who helped elect Ronald Reagan in 1980. They are basically conservative in nature and want the same things for this country as you and I. The Republican Party did nothing to woo these voters in the last election, they dropped the ball during the pre campaign, when the media was tearing the heart out of President Bush. The Party sat back and allowed this to go on for two years, without an answer to the nefarious claims being made. Once the campaign started in earnest it was way too late to catch up. They tried to placate the Reagan Democrats with a moderate candidate, this wasn’t what they were looking for. To these voters there was little difference between McCain and Obama. They believed the Democratic Party line that a vote for McCain was just an extension of the Bush administration. This country had lived under liberal administrations before and they felt Obama was the safer of the two picks. No one really convinced them that he was a Socialist, Marxist trained, Communist influenced Faker.
It’s now our job to convince these people that this is not the change they bargained for. Obama and his team are giving us all the ammunition we need with their far out liberal agenda. The spending alone is enough to convince some, we need to show in real dollars how they are setting us up for ruination. How our kids and their kids will never be free of this debt. We have been bamboozled into funding these bailouts, and thereby basically giving control of our businesses, to the government. A market driven economy will recover on its own if allowed to do so. Just like good old Mother Nature, the less you try to control her, the better things come out in the end. This group has worked for years to capture control of our industry. They tried with the Global Warming hoax to force inoperable conditions on the factories and the car companies, but the American people didn’t buy it and it soon faded. Now that they are in power we’ll be very fortunate if our power bills and regular utilities don’t double due to the increased cost of production.
The only truth to this bailout fraud is the sudden mysterious November drain on the World Monetary Fund. Someone somewhere caused the fund to drop by hundreds of Billions in just a few hours. That is when President Bush first asked for the bank bailout program. They closed the fund immediately that day and gave it a boost $150 Billion of cash to offset the loss. No one to this day has been identified as the culprit, but their day is coming. As I have said many times this was a brilliantly manufacture politically motivated recession, it just got away from them and they were unable to slow it in time.
If the government wanted too, they could have turned this fiasco around without all the so called stimulus, that will have us begging from China before we are done. They could have stopped the recession and saved the automobile manufacture in one easy move. Our economy here in the United States is driven basically by retail purchases. If the government would have reacted quickly they could have given tax breaks for big purchases. Example if the government gave a tax credit of $40,000 for people to buy a new car and limited the access to those funds to a period of three months, and allowed the taxpayer to amortized this credit over a 5 year period, even you would have run out and bought a new car. The same program would work for washers and dryers, furniture or what ever strikes your fancy. Figure it out; if all the people are out shopping their would be no layoffs. The car companies would be sailing along and the market would have hardly skipped a beat. The revenue from the sales would have more than covered the tax credit. Just a little of what you might call a market driven recovery. What we have now is a big government, take over of industry and the financial system. It has never worked anywhere and won’t work in the long run this time either.
I don't care what any of these so called Greenies say, I truly believe the only way we can be energy independent is by drilling our vast reserves. We have billions of barrels in the Dakotas and in Alaska. Many geologists give our oil reserves a life span of over 300 years. I believe Mr. T. Boone Pickens has gone to the other side for monetary gain. His push into the Wind Mills has big dollar investment written all over it. Do you remember all the scare about transmission lines through neighborhoods causing cancer? Just how are they going to get the electricity from the desert Southwest, to the places that need it in New York? Some of these people won’t be satisfied until we live in government controlled domed cities, driving all electric cars.
Our goal here in America should be to lead the Worlds economy by being the highest producer of the products that the World needs, just as we were in the past before this push for a One World Economy. Economic growth means freedom, our people have been brainwashed into thinking that imports create better value, I disagree. If you paid $0.50 more for a product made in America, by American workers, it would equate to nearly $0.65 in personal tax savings at the end of the year. Our annual budget is full of grand give a ways, rather than bring industry back to America through slightly reduced environmental laws, and tax credits. What we really need is tax breaks and incentives for the entrepreneurs who risk their fortune to build these products, and create these new jobs, our government keeps adding to the problem, with more taxes and increased regulatory environmental laws. I don’t know about you, but I want my family to drive in safe strong cars and trucks capable of withstanding an impact. I want them driving over bridges and highways that were constructed by experienced workers, not the unemployed army of Mr. Robert Reich. See video
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If you have any doubts about what I am saying, listen to it in their own words.
I am not a politician and I have no ambition to be one, but surely there is someone out there that can see the same things I do, and is leader enough to take this country forward. We have but 14 months to stop this train wreck, it does not give us time for niceties, it’s time to go for the juguler of the Harry Reids and Nancy Pelosi’s of the Congress. If we don’t beat them we will just be beating ourselves. .
Mar 8, 2009 | 8:44 PM
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Political
Who can I blame for the condition America is in, for the lack of morals and the disrespect of our flag? Who can I blame for the financial chaos and lack of spending discipline that has brought us to our knees? Who is the culprit that is responsible for the lack of patriotism I feel exists today? These are not hard questions for me to answer, all I have to do is turn on the TV or pickup a syndicated newspaper. The indifference the media shows towards what I have always considered American principles and values, is the first clue I’ll give you. The National Education Association (NEA) is another. How is it that good parents are allowing their children to be turned into robots of the liberals right before their eyes. The leftist teaching that is promoted in our public schools today is guarantying a continued dominance of liberalism for the next decade. We Americans, who still carry with us the traditional values of our countries historical makeup, are like the straight shooting cowboys of old, and will soon find ourselves totally obsolete. The word of a politician seems to be worth nothing. For example, we hear so much rhetoric about the illegal aliens during an election, and here we are about to legalize their invasion and give them the rights that so many have fought and died for. How about the political paybacks we are seeing right now, like the unions and the Hollywood Producers.
It isn’t just the Democrats, it’s all the politicians. They can lie through their teeth about their ambitions or true feelings and nothing is done to them. We are either the stupidest people on earth or we just don’t seem to care if we’re lied to. I don’t know about you but I feel cheated. I feel we were cheated out of an election, I feel 60% of the people who voted for this administration, were blindly following a promise of change to honest effective government, a change that they will never see in their lifetime. I feel that the United States of America is being sold out from under the very flag that I find so dear. I feel that the Socialist reform we are experiencing is a plan that has been in the works for the last two generations, and just now being put upon us. Socialists like Communist, seem to have the patience to wait out their opportunities and will create them through lies if necessary.
I honestly believe that our financial situation in this country is the result of such a campaign to discredit the Bush Administration that went too far, and got totally out of hand. The cover up of the facts of the Fannie Mae and Freddi Mac fiasco are just one example. It’s very easy to pull off these things if you have no conscience, and are willing to lie and rewrite history as the Democrats have done in this last two years.
You know, I don' t even like to call these people Democrats anymore, I feel it denigrates the hardworking blue collar folks I grew up with. These folks weren’t socialists, nor did they expect anyone to take care of them. They were hardworking men and women on whose backs this country was built. I was fortunate enough to be brought up by such people, my father was a union man who put in a full days work for his pay. In the forties the unions were there to help the workers, in today’s world it seems the workers are there to help the unions. The unions have become stronger than the employers, and are no longer in control of the workers, who they supposedly represent.
The reason our people are so easily fooled, is the fact that so few of them are even slightly informed. They have their personal agenda’s that are much more important than contemplating our future, or the future of our children. We are a Television society, the reporter on TV tells them we are losing the war, so it must be true, we are losing the war. The reporter tells them our president’s policies caused this recession, so it must be true our president policies caused all this hurt. Now a charismatic man comes along and tells them all the things they want to hear and, and it will require no effort on their part, and Whallah’, they suddenly have a new leader, one who they feel will bring them out of this contrived recession. The problem is, it doesn’t work that way. You cannot spend your way out of debt, if you could we’d all be rich. We have elected a person with absolutely no experience, no moral character and no idea how to get this done. He has provided change alright, he is changing us into a socialistic society modeled on the Venezuelan principle, being used by Caesar Chavez. This actually comes out of the Cuban handbook of Fidel Castro. Think I’m crazy, read your history books. Read the writings of Castro. Don’t choose the history books presently being used in our schools though, as a lot of the historical facts have been purposely left out of them to make them politically correct.
No I’m not crazy, I’m just here to tell you that we have a real problem on our hands. We have so many people who are mesmerized, and under the spell of this narcissistic usurper, and his who’s who of leftist activists that surround him, that it will take nothing short of a miracle, to keep them from transforming our once prosperous country, into a third world kingdom.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Mar 4, 2009 | 10:29 AM
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Political
We have finally reached a time in this country where our vote means nothing. Overwhelmingly the majority of people in the United States favor the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman. Now it will be up to the courts to decide if our vote was improper and is somehow construed as a racist. I was never aware that Homosexuality was a race unto itself. The political correctness that has taken over the Democratic Party is way beyond the norm. If it’s a far left agenda, it’s in, if it’s in regards to commonsense, it’s out. When are the hardworking people of the Democratic Party “The real democrats of America” going to wake up and see who they have left in charge of our future. Can any one of them say they would like to be friends with Nancy “the whacko” Pelosi? Smell the coffee people. You have saddled us all with Narcissistic President who is not unlike Jim Jones or David Koresh, you have made a leftwing whacko Nancy Pelosi, 3rd in line to the presidency and you give us Harry Reid a pork barrel specialist as our leader in the senate. God help us, I beg you, wake up and see the world for what it is, not just what these people and the leftwing media tell you it is.
Of course I’m certain most Americans want the same thing, to be free, happy in their work, and secure in their financial life. We have proven methods for attaining that goal and it’s not through socialistic endeavors by our government. America has thrived for centuries on the ability of anyone to achieve wealth and fame if they so desire. Turning the United States into a welfare state is not how we got to where we are in the world. Why have people from other nations come to America for generations? They came here because of one thing, opportunity. Not the opportunity to sit back and draw welfare and free medical, they want the opportunity to be successful in their own right. America became strong on the backs of these working immigrants over the years. Many of these people were your parents and grandparents. Most of the new immigrants are not here to become American citizens, they’re here to take from America, and are transferring our wealth to their homeland. We have 20 some million illegal’s right now that are draining our society of the life blood of our welfare system. The Americans who have lost their jobs and their homes, and who are desperately in need, are the losers in this system.
I would say it is past the time to wake up, your snooze has left us very vulnerable to every disease known to mankind, including poverty that could leave us in a third world status. We can and will survive, only if the economy is allowed to turn around. Constant interference from the government with these huge spending bills will never cure the economic malaise we suffer from, it will only prolong the agony. Give the free market a chance and it will correct itself. The only way we can possibly get out of debt is through prosperity, and that word is not in the leftwing dictionary.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Mar 2, 2009 | 11:30 PM
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Political
This letter is for those who do not agree with me or my conservative views. I consider myself an independent thinker and a free man of this century. I do not march lock step with anyone and I have formed my opinions after years of experience.
First of all, why on earth would anyone with half a brain, think that by over taxing the people who are the builders of our industry, and the employers of America, will grow the economy? Doesn’t it make more sense to offer tax credits for jobs provided? Doesn’t it make more sense to provide tax credits, for new employers who are bringing new jobs to the table?
Anyone who has studied the basic business health of this country, knows it has always responded well to incentives and has failed to respond to over taxation. To answer the old standby liberal question, yes it allows the rich to get richer, but it also allows the rich to reinvest in America and provide more jobs in the process. I know liberals hate the term trickle down economics, but in essence that’s what capitalism is. Someone has to take the risk to start a business, when they take that risk it’s with the understanding that if it succeeds they will make money. When the business succeeds, it expands and hires even more workers, filling the dinner plates of more families. I myself have never worked for a poor man nor I would think have any of you. I have watched as tragically good men fail in their efforts loosing all, and I have never seen a single case where the government came in and gave them their investment back. It was their money to lose just as it should be their money to gain if successful.
Once the government takes over a business, the productivity goes down and the cost of operation goes up. Why you ask does this happen? It happens because there is no incentive to succeed. No one who has invested their life savings and their honor is standing behind the effort. Take a good look at what a Socialistic government has meant to Cuba a once prospering country. They have no industry, no wealth potential for individuals, no freedom to leave if they want to. Oh I forgot, they have Socialized Medicine, they don’t need to work to get by, the government will take care of them. I haven’t a clue why so many Cubans live in Florida, when they could have such a fine life and free medical in their homeland.
Why am I saying all this? I’m pleading with you to understand that we are on a fast track to socialism. Now if you are an under achiever, who has never stood for anything but a free ride, you may like this form of government. Most of us here in the United States don’t feel that way. This is not a Party issue, republican or democrat, it’s an issue of freedoms. Many of us have fought to keep this country free, so that our children and their children can have the opportunity to be successful entrepreneurs in their own right. Whether it be owning a small store, a gas station or an oil company like Exxon, we claim their right to do so. Achievers should be praised not punished by their government. Our present government has a Robin Hood fetish, they seem to think it’s okay to take from those who have built something, and give it to those who haven’t tried. Without turning to all the standard liberal talking points, please, tell me where my theory is flawed.
Don
Feb 18, 2009 | 9:43 PM
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Political
It’s funny how age sneaks up on us, just when we think we’ve finally got everything figured out, we get old and forget what we were trying to understand in the first place. This whole government thing just has me buffalo’d. I can’t for the life of me figure out why some in the government think we can buy and spend our way out of debt. Government spending has never led to prosperity, just the opposite. If they gave the money to you and told you to spend it in a 60 day spree, just maybe they would create enough business to get our retail economy moving. We’ve bailed out the banks, the financial wizkids on Wall Street and the car companies. Don’t they understand that if they gave the money to us, more Americans would be out buying cars and they wouldn’t need a bailout? Somehow we have to have accountability with these bailouts. Giving Taxpayer money to privately held businesses is wrong. I don’t even agree with giving Taxpayer money to anyone, but our government seems hell bent to make sure we spend every nickel in our coffers.
The real sad thing about all this is, that if anything, this spending bill will be short lived as far as a stimulus is concerned. Jobs is what creates Stimulus, I can’t think of a reason that saving a mouse in San Francisco will do much for creating jobs. If Mrs. Pelosi needs more mice in her house, I suggest she quit spreading her garbage around the country and in Italy and stack it up at home. I’m sure that the money to stop the spread of venereal disease will give us all a big boost in the wallet. Ever hear about not messing around with strangers? The bullet train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas will at least create jobs, but it comes with the stipulation that we can’t just give those jobs to Americans only. I’m not making any of this up my friends, this is the caliber of legislators we have in Washington. The only good measure that was in the bill was the $15,000 allowance for buying a house, but alas, they took that out in a last minute deal to lower the cost.
We are in deep trouble and there is no quick fix, I had hoped that the rhetoric about this President being the most Liberal and in fact a Socialist, was just that, rhetoric, but I am seeing our country change before my very eyes. I just don’t understand those that can never seem to learn from history. If we don’t learn we are bound to repeat and that’s what’s going on here.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Feb 6, 2009 | 8:33 PM
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Political
How different are we, really.? As I sit in my office staring out at this upside down world, I’m reminded of a time long ago. In a place that was full of majestic architecture and rich history, a place of glorious church’s with spires that reached toward heaven itself. A place where the people were strong and self serving, not timidly lurching for the next handout. The place was Russia, the year was 1917. A charismatic leader emerged from the proletariat and railed against the rich, the noblemen and the rulers. People listened as he promised them the fruits of the rich and the power of the nobles. The poor among them who had never thought to be among the achievers, rose to tear down the structures of beauty that had for centuries been in their minds only for the Noble among them. They destroyed the very infra structure of government and set out to spread the wealth among themselves. As the wealth soon dissipated, they discovered that Anarchy was no better than a Monarchical form of government. They decided that someone had to be in charge, someone to run the trains, the police and the army. Vladimir Lenin emerged as the leader they were looking for, he came at a time of great distress and promised them he would build a nation of the people. He promised them that the government would be there when ever they needed something. That all they had to do was to go to their jobs and produce for the state and the state would reward them.
We all know what he really built, he built a state controlled Oligarchy. A government controlled by a few. People soon found that they didn’t own their businesses or their homes. The State did, it didn’t matter though the State would take care of them. They wouldn’t have to worry about all the things they needed to run things, the State would see to it. They soon lost their personal ambition and allowed the state to provide for them. What they didn’t see was that the State was becoming more and more subversive, as sometimes happens when the power is in the hands of a few. Suspicions grew and rumors spread. Soon the Oligarchy decided they needed a government police force to go after those who would speak out against their regime. The KGB was formed and the people were told that they were safer now because the KGB would look after them and protect them from those who would destroy the country from within. They even closed the beautiful churches, as they were only giving the people false hope, the Oligarchy was enlightened, and they knew there was no such thing as God. They got rid of the teachers who talked of God and replaced them with atheists who taught the children the enlightened way of the world, one where the government was their savior.
I have brought this up so we can analyze the differences in our government and that of Communist Russia. In our form of government the state doesn’t control the banks, well maybe some of the banks. In our government the state doesn’t control business, well maybe just some of the business. In our government the state doesn’t take from the achievers and give it to the un-achievers. Could that maybe be like welfare? In our form of government there are three branches to protect us from anybody who would try to seize control. We have the Executive branch, The Legislative branch and the Judicial branch. This way one group cannot get total control of our system. Oh oh, what would happen if the people ever lost sight of what the republic really stood for, could they really give up those rights?
Quotes by Lenin:
“Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty”
“A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.” Does that sound like gun control or what?
“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” Sounds like a liberal tax plan to me.
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Wow sounds just like our public schools today!
“The surest way to destroy a nation is to debauch its currency.”
We know what that is like don’t we?
“The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into small states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.” Sure sounds like a One World Government?
These are all actual quotes of Vladimir Lenin, do they sound familiar? We are either the dumbest people on the face of the earth, or we have allowed ourselves to be duped and are allowing this transformation of our way of life to be accomplished right before our very eyes. Where are the leaders among us now to right this wrong?
Don
Feb 2, 2009 | 3:23 PM
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Political
A commonsense approach to the economy.
I choose commonsense.
As I go through life I have often been presented with obstacles that require a decision to be made. Now I could go on for hours about some of the bad choices people make, and how it affects their lives in the long run, but I’m just talking about me here. When I’m presented with a problem I always try to consider the long run. If I do this will it be beneficial in the long run or if I do that will it be instant gratification with long term consequences? These are questions to ask ones self when formulating a plan of action. When approaching something as critical as the economy these principals have to be considered, will it jump start the economy and get it running on all cylinders, or will it be just a flash in the pan with no staying power? To me going in deeper debt to get out of debt goes against all commonsense. I can’t think of a single time in our history where that worked. Every time we’ve raised taxes our economic indicators showed a slowing and every time we cut taxes they improved.
If we can’t tax ourselves out of debt and we can’t buy our way out of debt, what’s the answer? The biggest resource this country has is its people. The American people can and will in time lift us out of the muck and set us back on the track to success. Using a combination of tax cuts for corporations who bring jobs back home, and tax incentives for buying new American made manufacturing equipment, we can start the ball rolling. Now these two things do not cost us anything but future tax income that will be offset by increased business. Now lets look at the consumer because without him being onboard we have nothing. Offering a tax incentive for the purchase of a new automobile or other major purchase will start the process and to make it all come together issue each taxpaying American,a stimulus check for $2,000. This check must be used in 60 days from issuance or it will be void. It must be used towards the purchase of either an automobile, appliances or furniture, the catch here is that these products must be 60% American made. I don’t care what you’ve heard in the past about banks and financial institutions, our American economy is run on retail. When the retail goes to hell so does the economy. What this will do is immediately pump about 350 Billion dollars into our economy.
Lets see, what have we got, first we have large corporations vying to open new jobs here in America. Secondly we have these corporations ordering new equipment, to build these new factories. Third we have the consumer taking advantage of his tax incentive to go shopping and forth we have a $2,000 bonus in our hands that has to be used within 60 days.
What will happen is that the states who have been suffering due to lower tax revenue will suddenly find their coffers filling back up. The auto companies will soon be able to buy back their loans from the government, and the banks will be forced to loosen up their loans if they want to compete for these businesses accounts. If we really are serious about building back or nations economy, we have to get off the idea that we can legislate green, blue or pink products onto the market. Do a good enough job in education, and we will turn in that direction in time. This package costs less than $350 Billion. And that’s nowhere near a Trillion dollars that Obama and the Congress is trying to shove down our throats.
And that's my opinion,
Don
Feb 1, 2009 | 11:03 AM
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Political
The most important thing you can do today.
This is a very short note to ask you to please take the time to view this film. It is not propaganda nor influenced by anything but my hopes and fears for America. If you have ever taken the time to view a documentary of importance this is it. Please do this for your family and your friends. Don
http://blip.tv/file/1382254/
Jan 29, 2009 | 8:58 AM
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U.N.'s gotta go...
Today I would like to discuss the United Nations. I have over the years been fairly hard on this over rated organization. I have wondered why we have allowed these foreign representatives to ignore our laws, and thumb their noses at millions of dollars of traffic tickets, all the while living in the safe comfort of our cities. We have allowed ourselves to be sucked into a program where we have little or no power to change things, and to top it off, we have given our enemies veto rights over the things we do try to change. In my mind all the U.N. is capable of doing is costing us more money. It is the biggest nest of spies ever found under the auspices of a single organization.
The Peace keepers they send abroad to be buffers to prevent clashes between hostile parties are a joke. They are responsible for more rapes and crime in countries like Haiti and Rwandan than the regular criminals who live their. Their work in Lebanon is a classic example of their tenacity. They run and hide whenever there is a problem, they actually got in the way when the Israelis went after Hezbollah. They were put there to stop the proliferation of weapons from Syria and Iran, and where did the Israelis find a large cache of weapons, right in the neighbohood of the barracks of the U.N. troops.
This is one of the greatest drains on our bank account we have, and yet when ever we have gone before them for assistance, we get the bums rush out of there. They allow people like Chavez and Ahmadinejad a forum in which to spread their hate for America. We would be much better off by putting our efforts into an Alliance of Western Allies than to continue to support those who are our enemies.
The Hoover Institute compiled the following cost analysis for the United States share;
? The U.S. share (25 percent) of the U.N. administrative budget, which funds all Secretariat staff and programs: $298 million.
? The U.S. share (31.7 percent) of the peacekeeping budget: $1.2 billion.
? U.S. contributions to all U.N. specialized agencies (World Health Organization, Food and Agriculture Organization, High Commissioner for Refugees, et cetera): $368 million, exclusive of capital contributions to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Cumulative total: almost $2 billion.
Two Billion plus dollars a year to get our face slapped over and over, and that’s not counting our share of funding the World Bank. We know the 1st international organization, “The League of Nations” failed badly, and so has the United Nations. Everything we have tried to do to bring peace to the world, has been blocked and ridiculed by the UN members. There is an old saying that one should always keep their friends close and their enemies closer, well it doesn’t fly with this mess. Why should we constantly put ourselves in a position of a third world country? That’s how we’re treated and that’s how much power we have within this corrupt organization. There have been countless cases of corruption that have never been prosecuted. There have been countless cases of power abuse that have never been prosecuted. There have been cases of accidents involving UN diplomats, driving drunk who killed, yet never been prosecuted. Do I really need to go on? This is one expense this conservative would like to see gone.
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And that’s my opinion,
Don
Jan 27, 2009 | 2:23 PM
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Political
Where are we headed America?
For those of you who call information, Right Wing Rhetoric, I’m certain you won’t like this blog. We are at a point where our nation is being threatened from with-in by an ideology that encompasses a lot of far left theories. If you have followed the rise to stardom, of Chavez in Venezuela, you can understand my concern when you hear the latest discussions taking place with-in this Administration. The following headlines pretty much say what they are thinking:
Reich: Unions Can Save This Economy
Clinton-era Labor Secretary Robert Reich says bank bailouts won't revive the U.S. economy, but an expansion of union membership might, and he says controversial “card-check” legislation should be passed by the Congress now in order to stimulate job growth.
If passed, union organizers would no longer have to conduct a secret ballot election to get employees of a small business represented by a national union.
Pelosi: Nationalization of Banks Possible
Monday, January 26, 2009 2:59 PM
By: Gene J. Koprowski
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says that the idea of nationalization, or perhaps partial nationalization, of America's leading banks is gaining currency among U.S. policymakers.
"Whatever you want to call it," Speaker Pelosi told ABC News, "If we are strengthening them (the banks), then the American people should get some of the upside of that strengthening. Some people call that nationalization."
When you couple this with the move to silence Talk Radio, worries about our 2nd amendment rights and the un proven Global Warming Culture that is so prevalent in this administration, many educated Americans get a little nervous. We’re talking about a real threat here that is a greater threat to our freedom than Osama and his henchmen.
What happens after the soon to be coming Amnesty of millions of illegal aliens, 20 million more voters will be ever grateful and vote accordingly. How long will it be before the military is reduced to a minimal force and actually replaced by a national militia. Think it’s impossible, I hope you’re right, because if you aren’t we are in for a ride down the slippery slope to an Oligarchy form of government which translates to, ruled by a few.
Most Americans feel this is an impossibility because the majority wouldn’t allow it to happen. The problem with that theory is that in America the majority doesn’t have the power. In our present situation, we through our vote last November, have given the Legislative Branch, The Executive Branch and with the power of those two in the hands of a few, it will soon encompass the Judicial Branch of government to the far left in our society.
The United States was founded on the basic principles of freedom. The drafters of our Bill of Rights and our Constitution never intended for one group to have total control over our society. They felt the checks and balances of a 3 part government would be sufficient to protect our republic. Just think for a moment about what would happen if we had a National Militia loyal to one administration, frightening is how I would put it, but who am I, just some right wing whacko who worries about things like this. Remember, I warned you liberals that you wouldn’t like this blog, so don’t blame me if you have nightmares or scary thoughts.
My goal in writing this piece is just to make people think. Hopefully none of these scenarios will ever take place. America is a treasure that belongs to her people. Nothing nor anyone should ever be allowed to change that. When our liberties are at stake, we the people will make ourselves heard over the roar of any government.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Jan 26, 2009 | 8:47 PM
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Political
Definition of Conservative, he who stands up for our rights.
Where are all the Conservatives in the House and Senate? What happened to our Friend Senator Ensign? Have they just folded their tents and settled in for a comfortable term? I am angry, and any conservative worth their salt should be angry about the railroading of the Timothy Geithner appointment. The man didn’t even pay his taxes. He has his mark all over the big bank bailout, as well as this failure to pay self employment taxes for several years. If that were you or I, we would have been swallowed up and spit out looking like a wad of used up gum. What happens to him? He's now in charge of the IRS.
I guess you have to be a liberal to understand these things. A conservative wouldn’t hire his brother with a record like that. 10 Senators of Republican ilk voted for his appointment. I guess the communication from their constituents didn’t reach them in time. Oh I forgot in this new beginning they don’t work for us anymore they work for the administration and don’t want to rock the boat. We already saw what happens when we rush a program through, remember just in the last few months, the huge 700 Billion dollar bailout that was going to solve all our banking problems. We were told that if it didn’t pass, the world was going to end, and all business as we knew it would be gone. All that the bail out did was let the banks buy littler banks, and get stronger and more defiant. Heck some of these banks we bailed out with our tax money are stronger than our own government.
To my liberal friends, and some of you republicans and blue dog democrats who voted for this change, I would like to ask just how far are you willing to go before you realize your mistake. I know that Socialism is just another word to you, but have you checked the dictionary for its definition? What will be your turning point, maybe the Amnesty of the illegals, or will it take something more like the silencing of talk radio and any opposition to liberalism. How about the battle that’s coming on the 2nd amendment, will you give up your guns to them without a fight? I’m not trying to be radical, I’m just stating what I believe is coming down the road. Now Ms. Pelosi says that by giving our kids condoms and other devices as part of this so called new stimulus we will save money by not having unwanted pregnancies. If there is a mechanic in the house, please report to the Speakers office, we have a loose screw in there.
We have a chance for redemption, if we somehow can open enough eyes between now and the 2010 Congressional elections, just maybe we can cut down on the administration ability to railroad legislation. This will mean turning out weak republicans as well as liberal democrats. We need people who live by, and understand the Constitution of the United States. We have to be prepared to battle the National Press, as well as fight for our place on ballots with liberal registrars. Don’t get confused, this can not be a race war, this is a race to war, to claim our God given rights.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Jan 26, 2009 | 3:14 PM
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Political
Monday, January 26, 2009
Are we Socialists yet Daddy
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 to December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. He said this in a 1944 speech:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened. I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."
**** "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." ~~Margaret Thatcher
check out this video, it's worth the time. Don
http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/
Jan 25, 2009 | 2:53 PM
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Political
Whose entitled to what?
Who is entitled to what and what does the term entitlements mean? If you take a good look at what has happened to America, the biggest culprit is our entitlement mentality. We are all guilty of some type of entitlement wish. Every where you look there are organizations to join that promise you a voice in government, or it could just be your membership in Aarp. Why do you belong? In most cases people belong to get benefits from the government. Many people are asking our government for free medical, Free education, for free housing and free food. Ask the average American under 50 today and they will say these are entitlements. Who made them entitlements? There are strings attached to each benefit we get from our government, strings that make us more and more dependent on government.
It’s the fallacy that we all are entitled to houses, that brought down the housing financial world. You can’t give people what they haven’t earned and expect them to respect it. It’s the fallacy that we are all entitled to medical benefits, that has ruined many a company just trying to survive. The cost of medical insurance is so high because of the fact that so many frivolous lawsuits have had huge monetary awards at the expense of the companies. The jury of their peers felt that the victim needed to have millions of dollars for the loss of a finger in an accident. I don’t know about you but if someone offered me a million dollars for a single finger, I’d hand it to them with the bloody knife still in my hand. I sure wouldn’t feel that I was entitled to it. We have families, who have been on the welfare roles for decades, why are they there? Because they feel they are entitled, the government told them they were. Our government made quotas for higher education and federal hiring practices, were these people always qualified? No but the system said they were entitled.
I don’t want to sound like a scrooge but who do you think has paid for all these things? Me, that’s who, and I have never so much as drawn unemployment in my life. You know what, I’m tired of paying everybody’s way. I was taught at an early age that we were lucky to be born in America because we have 3 basic rights no other country had; The right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I was taught that they weren’t free rights either, if needed, we were expected to fight for the first two rights,and the third one meant courting a wife and that never came cheap.
Who was the dummy who made up all these new rights that have broken our system? Does the term New Deal or Great Society or War on Poverty come to mind? I’m going to para-phrase this next statement because I don’t have the actual quote in front of me; In 1787, Alexander Tyler (a Scottish history professor) made the following statement; A democracy will only last about 200 years, because when it’s people find out that they can vote themselves money from the treasury, they will and it will destroy the whole concept of democracy. Think about it, this was stated just 11years after our Declaration of Independence was made. I wonder how many new rights or shall we say entitlements will come out from the administration in the next week.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Jan 24, 2009 | 8:38 PM
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Political
Just in case you think Freedom is forever.
A few month ago I saw a video from England about gun control. I hadn’t given it much thought at the time, because living in Nevada, I really never considered that someone could ever take away my privilege of owning guns. Now that I’ve heard some of the rhetoric come out of Washington D.C. this week I am growing more and more concerned. If Robert Reich can get away with stating that the stimulus package should be tied to a provision, that stops companies from hiring qualified laborers to rebuild our infra structure, well than I guess anything can happen. Could gun legislation be far behind?
Stop and think for a minute, take time to watch this video from England. I guaranty you they didn't think it could happen either. It is now easier for a criminal in England to buy a gun on the street from the Black Market, than it is for me to go get a new pistol at the gun shop here in Nevada.
Here we are proposing to give the prisoners at Gitmo the same rights as Americans in the Judicial System yet our rights have been slowly evaporating for years now. When are we as Americans going to say enough is enough? Even if you don’t own a gun, do you want your right to do so taken away? This is not something that should have to be fought for by lawyers and decided by judges, this is an inalienable right given us by the Constitution. If any fighting comes from it, it will be by the people themselves who cherish freedom above all else.
Please take the time to visit this site and listen closely to the voice of freedom lost.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGVAQOUi6ec)
And that’s my opinion,
Don
Jan 23, 2009 | 9:47 PM
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Political
The government is working on a new stimulus plan tied to the Infra Structure of America.
Leave it to good old Robert Reich to show his colors first. Not happy with just creating jobs, now he wants to force companies to hire unqualified labors to work on your roads and bridges? We have millions of qualified individuals, who have worked all their lives to be good at what they do and Reich thinks we should hire those who haven’t done a thing without any of the hard earned experience, to fix our infra structure. Sorry RR but that idea stinks. When my family is traveling along the Interstate system at 70 MPH, I want to know that the guy who tightened the bolts on that bridge knew what the hell he was doing. We will always have some chronic unemployed here in America. I don’t care how you manipulate the system Mr. Reich, some of these bums don’t like to work.
Here we are in a major recession with thousands of construction companies who have paid into the system for years, dying on the vine for lack of jobs, and he wants to throw a monkey in the mixer, to saddle us with some of his liberal ideals. Go jump in the lake Mr. Reich, or better yet, go out and earn a real living for a change, and see what it takes to survive outside of politics. I have a friend who has spent years building a grading and excavation company who is on the verge of bankruptcy, because of this economy. You want him to fail so somebody of color with no experience can get ahead? This man has paid his taxes and has somehow kept most of his men working for 20 years, and that seems to mean nothing to you?
I had hoped beyond hope that common sense would at least be given a chance of survival in this administration, but it looks like it’s going to be a very caustic four years. I say four years because knowing the American people as I feel I do, they will become totally turned off by this kind of governance. The great masses of middle of the road republicans, and blue dog democrats who they fooled into helping this administration get elected, will be watching in disbelief at this type of behavior. We don’t even need Rush and Hannity to bring it to our attention when they pull stuff like this. I’m afraid this is just the beginning. They seem to feel they have a mandate to do what ever they feel and damn the consequences.
The only hope we have is to smother them with cards and letters and phone calls demanding common sense in all they do. I have been asking for calm, and to allow this president time, to show his abilities, but I guess the only ability I’ve seen so far, is that he is living up to his liberal billing. If this attitude of "we won, so get used to it," prevails, you will find a rocky road ahead Mr. President. It’s time to reign in these far-left supporters and put some common sense to work, for the sake of this country.
And that’s my opinion,
Don
