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s it me losing my mind, or does the liberal  Democrat sound like what the public, wants/expects, and the Republican sounds like he is, big business/oil orientated, and both hell bent on destroying the middle class through political chicanery?

Read, “Putting the voters in chains”.

I am seriously thinking of voting “NO” in November.

I would like to see a third party made up of veterans and their families, then we just might have a “Choice”, if theres anything left to chose.
Amvet

Lets talk a bit about “attitude”.  I am a reasonably well informed and educated individual and I despite my personal practice of not watching political debates, I tuned in to the Tuesday “debate”.

I am normally a pretty laid back individual, but I lost it when the Democratic contender took his hand mike and leaving the podium, began a diatribe, waving his hands and prancing all over the podium instead of responding to the question he had been asked.

I am an Independent moderate, but this dolt putting his hand in my face, and talking down to me as though I was a three year old spoiled child, left me with but one out, and I’m mad as a wet hen.

Senator McCain, you are a mature experienced politician and an American veteran, you just got my vote and whatever influence I can muster.

Senator Obama, you have offended me and I will work to see that whatever I can legally do to prevent your election you may rest assured, I will!

O.K. so now we have bailed out the inept banking and loan business and as of the time of this writing, Sunday, October 12th, 2008, the rude awakening has hit.  The “bail out/rescue” bill has been passed and signed into law and the cold light is upon we middle class tax payers but no relief in sight for those folks who cannot make mortgage payments and will be foreclosed on.

Guess who is going to make the big bucks on this whole idiotic setup? The banks, the mortgage companies and WOW!, please don’t forget the lawyers, and the realtors will make a ton on the sale of these foreclosed homes. You can bet the farm that these guys are going to buy up the foreclosed houses and make another ton on the rentals and/or resale of them.

The vast differential in the alleged bail out and the cost of the governmental scam will be paid for by, you guessed it, the middle class tax payers.

The less than 600 folks who make up our federal government will not feel the brunt of these fiscal shenanigans until the next elections.

The MILLIONS of American voters are not stupid and when the smoke clears it may be, bye bye lala land, in Washington. D.C.

I hope I will be around to see this epiphany occur.

There is a 450 page document representing a trillion dollars of American taxpayers future fiscal obligation that was sent to each member of the U.S. Senate TODAY!

This is being force fed by the United States Chamber of commerce which is backed by a $40,000,000.00 war chest in an effort to put fear into the senators if they don’t pass this legislation.

I am perhaps a voice in the wilderness crying out for some kind of logical approach to cure the financial distress now being perpetrated by groups who's primary interest is one of personal greed and the middle class Americans being saddled with this boondoggle.

We will be heard!

Words are strange “animals”.  Today the word is “Rescue”, yesterday the word was, “Bailout”. Today these words are synonymous.

These words are used (or abused) to describe the absolutely abhorrent idea of the wasteful spending of millions of taxpayers dollars without a public vote, ostensively to save a few bankers and other lending institutions that have through poor judgment brought their
businesses  to their knees.

This is an attempt by our political leaders to fix a problem that they have been warned about for around the past ten years, but were more interested in keeping their plush jobs than looking after their constituents best interests.

If passed this will be paid for by our great grand children, if ever, and is an absolute disgrace to our governing bodies.

BAILOUT FAILS-STOCKMARKET FALLS

Now if the senate will vote against the “bailout”, we will have taken the first baby steps of getting our nation back on some sort of fiscal stability.

The obvious next step and one that should have taken years ago will be the idiotic drunken spending bills that have been passed and become law by many generations of tax and spend politicians inside the Beltway.

I am not pointing a finger at any one administration, there has been enough blame to go around regardless of political party affiliation.  I must in all fairness also point a finger at the lackadaisical voter apathy as one of the prime mover in this whole mess.  Vox populi, “we the people”, have not demanded through our voting that our elected representatives be held accountable so now we are going to have to take the licking for this apathy.

I wrote in an earlier blog that we will survive and that I, at age 83, had managed to live through one depression, and I now write that it is my sincere hope that we as a nation will have learned from these experiences.

It is my opinion, that with the common sense that our Lord gave us, we just might manage to take this bitter fiscal pill and get on with our somewhat bent national pride.

     
  Taxes and "income redistribution"...When and where does it stop...This is socialism at its best...

 

  READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY

 

      Soooo difficult to understand some of our idiot legislators........ 

 

Windfall Tax on Retirement Income
 
Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you're so stupid that we're going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That's what the Speaker of the House is saying. Read below...............

Democrat Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income.  In other words tax what you have made by investing toward your retirement. This woman is a nut case! You aren't going to believe this.

Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi  ;wants to put a Windfall Tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K and Mutual Funds! Alas, it is true - all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

This woman is frightening.
She quotes...' We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income, (didn't Marx say something like this), in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.'  ( I am not rich, are you)

 When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied:
 'We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our countr y who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profit taxes could go a long way to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as 'Americans'.'  (Read that quote again and again and let it sink in.  Lower your retirement, give it to others who have not worked as you have for it.   

I frequently get reader response to my blogs, often the readers simply disagree with me, but my comments on the “Debates” drew fire from folks who apparently scan rather than actually read the words then jump on me for something I “DID NOT” write.

A case in point was readers comments that I said that the Debates were interrupted by commercials.  Here's the direct quote from my blog.

“If I read it right and I’m reasonably sure that I have made a correct assessment of these goings on, this whole process of “Debates” is a reach out for TV ratings and big bucks for advertising, and not the very least one heck of an ego feed for the moderators.”

 As a retired professional journalist I also had a daily broadcast program similar to my blog.  Those “Read and Misunderstood” folks should be aware that the name of the broadcast business is ratings, ratings, ratings and they have lead in commercials about the “Debates” running for weeks that hopefully will entice folks to tune into their channel.  The lead ins and follow ups to the “Debates” are the way that the networks are the way they hope to entice sponsors to throw copious amounts of cash into their tills.

My blog if you read it carefully describes these activities refers to  “A REACH OUT FOR RATINGS AND BIG BUCKS FOR ADVERTISERS” and does not imply that there are “Debate” interruptions.

You are forgiven, so please keep those cards and letters coming.

I thought that there was something fishy about the “Debates” between candidates at the time of the last electoral round four years ago.  Well I have just made the same observation in the current waste of air time.

If I read it right and I’m reasonably sure that I have made a correct assessment of these goings on, this whole process of “Debates” is a reach out for TV ratings and big bucks for advertising, and not the very least one heck of an ego feed for the moderators.

These blatherings do not really make any real difference in how the average voter is going to cast their ballots in November as most of them use their own personal yardsticks as to how they vote.

My final comment is quite simple, I will not watch the rest of the “Debates”, and I will not waste my time reading all the writers commentaries in the print media, and will hit the delete key on my computer if I receive the garbage in my e-mail.

I can do simple research on the candidates qualifications then make up my mind as to how I will vote. I will walk away from any conversation that makes disparaging remarks about personalities between the players, and I will not indulge in boring my readers and listeners with slanted, yellow journalistic remarks.

Yes, I will try my utmost to report factual information as I see it with the codicil that these are my personal comments period.

I hope you will continue to visit my blogsites and offer your comments as you see fit.

Dateline Wednesday, September 24, 2008-Washington.

QUOTE:

Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today’s leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt’s response to a financial crisis.

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, “Look, here's what happened,” he recently told the “CBS Evening News.”

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929.  There also was no TV at that time.

UNQUOTE

My comments, first off, this was buried in most major print media including the Statesman, and next I am given cause to wonder if Senator Biden flunked History 101, or is suffering first stage of old age. Finally, I don’t want this kind of mentality to be a heart beat away from being president.

I’m still an Independent Moderate but this article was too good to miss.

I cannot help but be amused at the stupidity exhibited by the Wall Street financial wonders.  These folks have looked down their Puritanical collective noses at we commoners, but have now got their hands firmly caught in the fiscal cookie jar.

Our feds have taken the same collective fiscal stupidity as the guys who are expecting the government to bail them out.  

I for one would like us to cut our losses and let the chips fall where the may, instead of using trillions of taxpayer dollars to end these idiots plight.

The analogy I use is that if a mom and pop business fails through bad management they lose the business and have to somehow start anew. The feds are not going to send them copious amounts of cash to “FIX” their errors.

As a 83 year old tax paying voter I hereby “DEMAND” that the folks I helped put into congressional and legislative offices renounce these cries of anguish and tell these folks to get on with their life, get a job and be glad they were not strung up to the nearest tree for lying to their shareholders.

This country will survive a depression, I know that to be the truth as I lived through the last one.

I enjoy hearing from many of the folks who read my blogging efforts, and once in a while they make e-mail contact and as  a relatively shut in, disabled, Amvet, these comments and e-mails are really appreciated.

I always allow the comments to be printed whether they agree or disagree with mine as I figure that I’m not the smartest guy in the whole world.  

I had an inquiry the other day as to whether I had a spam blocker or not.  My response is that my browsers and my ISP take care of the majority of the kooks who want me to invest in some offshore project or inform me that I have just won the lottery in Lower Slovobia.  My delete key coupled with common sense generally catches those who slip through my firewall, so I depend on my software to keep to a minimum the idiots who want to send me a virus.  

However, it cost me a couple of hundred bucks and the loss of all my data just a few months ago, so yes, I can get caught, but for the life of me cannot fathom why some one would want to cause me problems, so I’ll just keep on plugging away and backing up my data onto CD’s and hope for the best.

It is now, in my opinion, time for me to bring order out of chaos, financially speaking.

Lets take a look at the basic problems, the housing financial market has gone bust, the stock market is crashing, and fuel costs are looking at a sure fire increase. If these are not enough we need to address the cost of food, and last but far from least the outsoursing of our labor market is in the hands of greedy stockholders, heck bent on bringing our country’s economy to a shuddering halt.

The whole thing hinges on a word in the last sentence, “GREED”.

There is another, that is one of the most overlooked and it has to do with our politicians apparent lack of a fundamental understanding of Economics 101.

I have written in days and years past, using the analogy of the Texas ranchers housewife who takes what her husband brings in, feeds and clothes the family, pays the mortgage, tithes to their church and still has a few dollars left to spend on birthdays, Christmas and school supplies, and would you believe actually is able to salt away a few bucks for a rainy day. Wow!

I have included in this writing that if a gal with a minimal education can bring about these miracles, why in the flying cat hair can’t our Washington politicians do the same with our tax dollars?

I agree with both parties candidates that “CHANGE” is in order, and if they can’t figure out how to make our national budget work with all the Phd’s available, then for goodness sake lets hire some of the simple commoners that meet these daily needs to set some spending rules that make sense. They will work a darn site cheaper than these Washington wannabes.

God bless these United States and please give us some sensible leadership.

I will absolutely NOT! argue politics or religion with anyone at any time.  My simplistic reasoning is that the other guy has a closed mind and cannot recognize that anything they might say will fall on deaf ears. Additionally, I also have too much respect for someone's opinion that may differ from mine.

My wife and I do occasionally discuss politics and religion and we each have mutual respect enough  not to let personalities intervene, so we have been happily married for over 20 years and are each others best friend.

I have never had the temerity or stupidity to tell her how to vote and she reciprocates in kind.

I have kind of unusual approach to selecting whom I will vote for in national elections generally.  I read and listen to each parties sales pitch and often will vote for the one who, in my opinion has told the least lies.

In this upcoming election I have an additional bombardment of STUFF coming into my internet connection, and it is not hard to separate the wheat from the chaff in these offerings.

This simple preachers prayer is that the folks who promulgate these offerings would respect the fact that I have the ability to reason and make decisions  without having my intelligence insulted by their blatherings.

I subscribe to one home delivered newspaper, but enjoy having several others available at my fingertips on my keyboard and computer screen. I get a wide view of the offerings of the world wide mainstream media.

I sincerely recommend this technique to all potential voters, you just might get a straight look in at the real political world.

As a contemporary American comedian is quoted, “Release the hounds!”.

I am writing this on Friday September 5, 2008 and our election day is scheduled for November the 4th of this year.

I have been arraigning my thoughts so as to be able to have some fun with the players now that the “Conventions” are over and we are finding out just how silly the majority of the media “Experts” look.

This blog will be short as I sort through my notes and remembrances of the last few weeks.

I will remind you folks who read my musings, that I am a certified Independent Moderate, so I get to throw stones and shoot arrows into those who purport to have the inside track on everything, when they just pray that whatever they voice will somehow become fact.  

I have been watching and participating in our electoral process for many lustrums and this on its face makes me as much an expert as any of those self centered pundits who run about in circles braying and bragging about how much inside information they possess.

Shucks, I’m just an old country boy who tries to use applied common sense and if I’m right 10% of the time, I feel like I’m ahead of the game.

As I started this epistle, “Release the hounds!”

60 Days and counting.............