More thoughts on the NationPosted Monday, March 2, 2009, at 11:24 PM
The Great Balancing Act of 2009
Think about this! We are the proud owners of the Big Three Automakers, big banks and major insurance companies (considering we paid for about 40% of the companies). Well, truth be told, the government owns it, not us. If that is not nationalized, that I don't know what is. What's worse is that the government are part owners in struggling manufacturers. It has got to stop! We can't keep bailing out companies or there won't be any free market left. The major part of the taxes that will be paid will come from those who make more than $250,000. Right? Well, small business owners (those who employ up to 250 employees) make up about 68% of those who make just over $250,000. I thought that Obama said that "middle class comes first"! Another lie! Did you know that about 70% of the jobs in America are with small businesses? So what does that tell you? How is this helping small business? Either they have to go to the government to get those loans that the President said he wanted to make available to small businesses or they have to cut employees. If they get one of those stimulus loans, then once again, the government has effectively bought your business. The government will now have more control over what you do with 'the American Dream' and regulate everything your company does even more than it already does. Is this the republic that our forefathers established? Or is the predictable cycle of civilization that I wrote about before. Compliancy (to conform) flowing nicely into apathy? Apathy is defined as a lack of interest in anything, or the absence of any wish to do anything. Sound familiar? Have you not seen this in the new generation? Do the young people of today have any idea what it means to be passionate about anything important? Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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Well...........all these "sheeples' voted for "change", and now they're getting it. Those of us who spoke out against Obama and his horde were just a bunch of "mean-spirited know-nothings."
No, our young people today only follow "fads." The idea of being irresponsible and having Obama bail them out with someone else's money is appealing to them at the moment. Their new savior is an "exciting ethnic change." He's eloquent, speaks well and can charm a fox out of his fur.
But the time will come when our young folks see who REALLY ends up paying for this "stylish camelot." Socialism doesn't work, and we need to put a stop to it before it doesn't matter anymore.
Heard about the Texas rancher who is being sued for defending his property against an illegal invasion?
This is the kind of crap.........well....people just better start waking up, that's all I know.
And thank you to the many "sheeples" that voted based on color, lies/promises...not record (what he did for the people of IL)...you have been a part of history! You can buy the coins and plates---and pay MORE taxes as the middle class than under any other US President. 32 days in office. When will the spending stop? Welfare gets better. Why not reward the many that have NEVER worked a day in their lives for generation after generation. Why not "reward" the art of living on your back and having more and more kids when you cannot afford to feed yourself. Keep allowing the "illegals" more money---OUR money.
"Medical program." If it does not work for Canada and England why would we even want it here? Oh, more spending---there is a pattern here. We have a friend who brought her 80 year old mother back to the US from England because of the medical system in England and who is treated, who is not and when. If I had breast cancer in England I would not want someone to tell me IF/WHEN I could be treated. Further, how about depending a little less on the same government that continues to screw all of us over and over and over again! Really. It is like sleeping with a rattlesnake or cobra. You would think after being bit we would get out of bed with it---one would think anyway. At some point, we will need to take a stand against these yahoos in DC. They really and truly are out of touch with the people.
Schools (college level is what I will talk about) have had to cut classes/programs due to less people in school and less funding. Student loans? Very hard to come by. Grants for college? Funny...few and far between. If we cannot educate ourselves, what happens? If we cannot go back to school to better/update our skills, what happens? We are a nation in trouble---big trouble. Our government has us right where they want us...poor, depending on them to "fix" things, unemployed and on our knees. Wake up already. How is any of this "good" for us?
Nice post Kim and nice post Mike. Change we can all believe in IF we are all complete and total morons with our heads in the sand. Let us HOPE it only lasts 4 years and there is anything left at the end of Obamanation.
This is good:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_o...
And then there is this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090303/ap_o...
I have to laugh regarding the "new" money for the "people." The banks are raising credit card interest rates---not lowering them. If you have good credit why would you want to pay 29% interest for purchases? So, how is this going to help?
Missy, do you ever wonder what happened to our blog professors from the "college of knowledge?"
Where are all of these diehard Obama worshippers NOW? I think somewhere in the next few months, it's going to be hard to find anyone out there who will admit to have voted for him.
And he continues to have problems with his cabinet appointees. The guy doesn't make good choices, because as I've said a dozen times, he can't make decisions.
When this debacle finally overwhelms him, he'll just answer his Oval Office phone with his customary....."present."
I still check back in a few times a week to get a chuckle out of the distortions, lies and selective admission of what few genuine facts facts are present.
And since I bet "do you ever wonder what happened to our blog professors from the 'college of knowledge?'Where are all of these diehard Obama worshippers NOW? I think somewhere in the next few months, it's going to be hard to find anyone out there who will admit to have voted for him" is a crack at me, I figure I'll weigh in, just to clarify that, no, I don't regret voting for Obama in the slightest.
The U.S. is leaving Iraq. It will take time - apparently three years, down to 50,000 in 2010 and out in 2011. And while John McCain can now, after General Odierno and General Petraeus have endorsed President Obama's plan, back it as well, as a candidate he nonchalantly speculated about staying in Iraq for decades. And that alone was a risk that wasn't worth it.
There's a lot of good stuff in the stimulus plan, and the deficit-spending is no more a crisis now than when Bush and Reagan did it - the major difference being they threw the money away on foreign nations and the idle rich. Reagan went as far as to aid both Saddam Hussein and the terrorists who would become Al-Qaeda. And yet here he gets lionized as some kind of hero while Obama is labelled a failure after six weeks and THIS deficit spending, which goes to hiring more public-sector employees here in America and to funding federal contracts which private enterprises will bid on, is somehow a looming distaster.
The stimulus includes more money for Pell grants - good for college students and anyone in line for a loan behind them at the bank. It includes money for projects the ground for which will not be broken for another year or two - but that's a good thing. Municipal projects two, three years in advance are usually at the stage where the officials are looking to line up the money, and they often borrow it, including from banks - funding them now reduces demand for private credit. And I don't know this just from "college," just from reading it in "liberal newspapers," I know it from talking to municipal authority members, city council members, engineers and technicians, from attending the public meetings for years and from paying attention.
It includes money for hiring police officers. Building roads. Is there ANY wasteful spending in it? Probably, and when conservatives get done lying about money spent on a California marsh mouse and a Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas train - both lies which distort good programs - maybe we'll hear about it.
In the meantime, the Republicans are slandering $30 million for wetlands restoration that could be spent anywhere and that San Fran isn't even asking for a portion of, $30 million my part of the country could use part of to pay people to dredge polluted stream soil, since past periods of lax regulation left Pa. legally incapable of holding the mining companies liable for what they dumped into our watersheds, and $8 billion for maglev rail lines that A) can also be spent in any part of the country, B) where it would create jobs laying track and C) provides a more fuel-efficient means of transporting either passengers or freight - we just spent this past summer learning the consequences our energy dependence has for the working middle-class.
So, yeah, I'll stick with Obama.
Reading back over that, I realize that as long as it is, it barely scratches the surface.
Everyone's bent out of shape at the lavish salaries and bonuses the executives of the bailed-out financial institutions now. Well, who do you think was paying those salaries and bonuses before the bailouts? The consumers, in price-gouging fees and charges. A large part of the economic problem is foreclosures on mortgages homeowners couldn't afford.
Now, should we staff our government with people who think government intervention in the markets is always intrisically evil? Only if you hate the American consumer and want to set them up for more pillaging by banks in the future. Only if you want wage laws chipped away so companies can suppress wages even more recklessly and members of the American middle-class can have an even harder time owning their own homes.
Look at what the conservatives and Republicans have been up to in the last six months. Almost all of them voted against holding employers accountable for gender discrimination in pay. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee tried to use the auto industry bailout to force working Americans who make less than he does to take a pay cut.
Conservatives don't want to help the American middle-class; they'd rather lecture them about how they should feel grateful the sainted rich bless them with jobs. But at the end of the day, its consumer demand for goods and services that creates jobs and the rich are little more than the middle-men best skilled at scamming themselves bigger and bigger chunks of cash, usually by either overcharging consumers or underpaying workers.
We should at the VERY least staff our government with people who pay their taxes---not dodge them. We should staff our government with people who look out for America---not China or Mexico FIRST! Obama is what he surrounds himself with and does not even try to deal with honest people. So, a guy does not pay taxes. Sure put him in charge of the nation's money! Only in America. Change you can believe in. So, you admit you voted for him but under the cover of a screen name. Priceless. There should be a test before you can vote! Once again we can only hope this lasts 4 years. We can only hope.
Opinionmissy:
The medical programs work great in Canada and England. Heck they even treat tourist for free if they get sick or hurt while vacationing in those countries. And I'd be willing to bet, that the reason your friends brought their 80year old mother to America, was not because of the medical system, but rather that they didn't want her to live alone at such an old age.
Besides all that, it's too much fun reading your comments that are "created" by the (racist, lying and overly rich) conservative talk show hosts, in an effort to make Obama or anyone that doesn't agree with them, look bad.
If anyone is "sheeples?" it is you, ignorant conservatives, that worship talk show hosts that resort to yelling, when they're proven wrong about their rants.
Yep, me "juss" an uneducated Bubba, welfare hound who has never been outside of Idaho. I have family in Canada...the medical system sucks there just like in England. Nothing like waiting to find out if someone behind a computer will find that today your "deserve" to have your breasts removed due to cancer and be lucky enough to get to follow that up with chemo. No, wait...you are 69 years old and will not live much longer anyway so you get to appeal and wait.
As far as Obama goes, I do not need the media to explain that guy to me. I lived in Illinois (born and raised there) and have family still there...I know first hand how "great" he is and with all of his spending he has proved it millions and millions of times over to me that he is no better than the rest of them in DC. Chuh-ching. Flush! Now that is "change" that I can believe in.
Only a bunch of blithering idiots would sign an 1100 page bill, concerning nearly a TRILLON dollars without reading it first!..........but then, when you look at the Congressional roster............and it's STILL lined with earmarks.
Didn't Obama say he wasn't going to DO earmearks?......wasn't that a big selling point during his campaign?
Didn't he ALSO talk about tax breaks for the "little guy?" 95% of the people?..................well, WHO in the hell is going to pay for all of this?
Now he wants to "reach out to the Taliban." If Reagan was still around, HE would "reach out to them!"
Obama is giving away everything that has been fought for and none of these morons out there see it. They'll stick with this dummy all the way to the ocean floor. This country was not founded upon communism. Communism doesn't work.
The Feds now own about 40% of the banks and they are moving to take over health care. Why don't you liberals out there just invite "Big Brother" to come live with you, because that's what he's doing.
STAFF the government?.......We need to REDUCE the government, NOT GROW IT some more! And look at the people this new "messiah" has surrounded himself with........some of 'em are having to bail back out already.
Ex-Intern..I told you several times that your boy can't make decisions and he continues to prove it every week.
Why don't you ask the families of the victims of 9/11, if they'd like Obama to "reach out" to the taliban.............you know, BUSH didn't handle it right either, but at least he didn't offer any comprimise with the enemy.
God only knows what kind of nuclear deals Hillary is trying to make with the Russians.....Janet Napolitano, who wouldn't do anything to keep the illegals out of Arizona....now gets ALL FIFTY states to ignore (as our new Head of homeland Security).
Own your own home, Ex?....making your mortgage payments on time? If so, I guess you surely don't mind helping the irresponsible make theirs too, eh? And your kids can take over doing that after you're gone as well. It's called "spreading the wealth."
Obama's an absolute WIZARD!....he's gonna create more jobs by taxing the big corporations some more, so they'll have to cut back even MORE jobs, as MICRON just did...and are looking to do again.
And almost a billion to the U.N. to help rebuild the Gaza Strip....we're restoring golf courses, federal buildings....all of this NECESSARY stuff. Pelosi has to have her own private 767.........
Yeah Mike...........you stick with Osama-Obama...........the country's in good friggin' hands!
Pardon me, folks, but I neither have the time nor desire to be polite anymore. There is too much at stake and Obama himself is shoveling coal into the tender of the train headed for disaster.
While George Bush is "Obviously" responsible for everything from Satan tricking Eve to whatever's going to happen today, there IS some reality here.
We might have been steadily sliding downhill when Obama got elected, but SINCE then and SINCE he took office, we've taken a SHARP nose-dive, that the Democrats still want to pin on "Junior"
Fact is, the economists, and some of the other notables who actually THINK for a living, have NO confidence in Obama's "Stimulous" plan....the one nobody read and the Republicans wisely didn't put their fingerprints on. Stock market has been a pretty good reflection of it.
Folks losing their jobs left and right, forclosures escalating, businesses shutting down, people not buying much and not investing at all.
Obama putting people in charge of things they haven't a clue about, doing NOTHING to seal the borders and seeking to "make peace' with the dirtbags who took down the Twin Towers and 3,000 Americans with them.
He and Biden's voting record, coupled with the power swing to the left in Congress has caused a panic all over this country within the Freedom Fraternity, to where I have to drive to BOISE and hunt all over hell's half acre to find a lousy box of 38 Specials, let alone anything else....and pay nearly TWICE as much as I used to, for them.....but as the gun dealers all say, "He's been good for business!"
Fortunately, I've seen these communists coming since the days of "slick willie" and have stocked up, but it still irks me.
Obama irks me. The liberals irk me. If we need to BAN something in America, it should be these carpet-bagging, tree-hugging, pot-smoking, Marx-loving Socialist pinkos.......just boot 'em OUT or shoot 'em, (their choice), toss the U.N. out WITH them along with their cousins in the ACLU.
Illegals gone. Drug cartels hunted down and killed on the spot by our troops. No politician at any level more than two terms, no exceptions.
College professors who insist on side-stepping academics for defiling our youth with "doctrine" need to be shot for treason, or at the very least, be deported back to the Soviet Union where they belong.
....you may gather I'm s little upset...........
Liberals make me sick. Generations of true Americans (including myself) didn't duck and dodge bullets, just so you clowns could give it all away, and play "pattycake" with those who want to destroy what's left of it.
I don't want the government in my living room.........if YOU DO.......go live in Russia, Canada, England or Australia.......there's lots of places where you'd fit right in. I hear China is nice this time of year.
I can't wait until it gets under way...........Lord have mercy, I can't wait.......
And like da song say man, "we be takin' care o'business!
Obama may be the most visible person to criticize but he is one of only many who factor into this economic crisis. One forgets that he is only man amongst many other strong-willed POLITICIANS! We need a cultural shift away from cheap credit and living above our means. The SEC and Federal Reserve affect the economy more than any politician could ever hope to. So with that being said, Maybe americans should look at their decisions and write about them.
Bazookaman
You do realize that without the stimulus, we could end up in a depression. That is no guarantee of course but not spending leads to skyhigh interest rates and investment drying up. Something needs to be done to help Americans to not store their money in jars under the bed. A decrease in Gross Domestic Product due to lack of spending will not be solved by simply sitting on our hands.
We could END UP in a depression?
And, shouldn't any "stimulous" be used PURELY to help US?.....shouldn't it be READ before signed?
Why are we continuing to spend money for pork projects? Why are we still giving money to other countries?
Before any "stimulous" package got passed, it SHOULD have been given time to have been scrutinized and STRIPPED of the B.S. FIRST, before just blindly signed.
This is not just OUR money, but our children's money as well. Obama is a Socialist, as are many around him, and every politician in Congress who supports his ideals.
The GOVERNMENT never solved anything. As Ronald Reagan once said, "Government is not the solution to the problem....government IS the problem."
It's already too big and in typical Democratic fashion, Obama wants to make it bigger. They almost have the banks and are looking to take over our health care. Pretty soon, they'll be aiming at the schools, controlling communications, and "bailing all of us out"...at a heavy price.
Right now, it's a pretty sound idea to keep money in a jar..........at least you'll always know that it'll BE there when you want it!
I am speaking in pure economic terms. this knows no partisan blabbering. Its not about Obama or whoever would have been elected. If McCain would have been elected, he would have the same issue and would have consulted similar individuals. Being that the money supply was expanded in the past with no regard to the bubble bursting eventually, this contraction is neither Obama's fault nor can he completely solve the problem. I tire of everybody acting like politicans really are that powerful. If we stop spending, the banks will not have money to lend and therefore investment by business dries up and so starts unemployment and deflation. Deflation would devalue what everybody has.
Thomas Jefferson, our 3rd President and author of our Declaration of Independence had something to say about "deflation" back in 1802, when he said,
"Banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of our currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
They knew it back then.
Jefferson also said that "Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work, and give to those who would not."
Obama continues to lie. One of his great "selling points" during his campaign was "NO MORE EARMARKS", yet this newest spending package of 400+ BILLION has nearly 9,000 of them in it, INLUDING money for tattoo removal!
The Dems are quick to blame Bush for all of this, but Bush had NOTHING to do with the 1100-page NON-READ "stimulous", NOR this "Omnibus"one...........and they're talking about yet a SECOND "stimulous" package to follow very soon!..........now folks, all of THIS garbage is on THEIR watch. THEY are creating all this new debt, which will amount to significantly more than anything Bush ever his-handled..........THIS one is by design!
Twilcox1978......this night seem a novel or outdated idea, but besides all of US tightening OUR belts, how would it be if WASHINGON did the same?
>>>"Gulp....gasp.........catch breath......OH MY GOD!......stop wasteful spending on Capitol Hill? Are you MAD?......what about my Bahama Trips? What about my champagne and cavier
parties? What about Nancy's 767? What about my pet projects?>>>
Know why they rescued AIG, after letting a few others fail?........not from sense of urgency to the investors............AIG insures the RETITEMENT FUNDS of CONGRESS!
Twilcox.........no one in their right mind is going to keep SPENDING, or spending ANEW when you don't know from one day to the next if you're even going to have your JOB next week.
Just came on the news a few minutes ago...........Citibank has loaned 8 Billion dollars to the government of Dubai...........Bank of America kicked in 7 Billion to China..........we're paying for all of this.
Silly me..I thought all this "bailout" was supposed to help US.
Bush's fault......Bush's fault...........
I dont blame Bush nor will I give him credit. He is only man of many. Politicians again do not make the big decisions. Those are made by the SEC and Federal Reserve. Again, Obama is only one man of many. McCain would have had to take similar action and we would be having the same discussion. The hole was dug prior to the election.
I realize that Washington is wasteful. My overall point is that Obama should not be the scapegoat. This current fiscal crisis was caused by Americans being greedy. Because of that greed and desire to have lavish lifestyles, they took it upon themself to go after cheap credit no matter the cost. Banks and other financial service providers undertook risky measures and those failed. Now people are crying about unemployment when if they had been more frugal over the past ten years, this would not be occurring. We all know someone who maxed out their cards and refinanced their home. Those decisions were not made by POLITICIANS. When you accumulate those decisions over the population of the US it means that we do not have the equity to support the debts. Now, what happens when one cant pay debts? one goes bankrupt, increases revenue, or decreases expense. Cant increase revenue due to cutbacks so what does one do? Decrease spending.
Companies, big and small (especially small) rely on low interest rates to purchase equipment that could not be purchased with cash. If interest rates are high, then that means less investment and less jobs. Slower velocity of money due to lack of spending equals deflation. Deflation means that the number of transactions decreases and so starts the cycle until demand can be hoisted back up. Politicians are bound to try to solve problems like this. Having a huge government debt is not desireable but it may be necessary. You forget how greedy and self-absorbed most Americans are. Having to sacrifice one of their vehicles would be beyond them
FRUGAL?..............How about WASHINGTON D.C. being "frugal" for once?
No.......no........Obama and his boys can't lay THIS one on the past administration for several reasons.
First of all, THEY'VE had control of the Congress for the past few years.
They TOO, continued to fund a war that has chewed up American lives and a lot of our tax dollars.
It was THEY who blocked drilling, causing us FURTHRR dependance on foreign oil.
THEY passed this UNREAD package, and with their CONTINUED lack of oversight, some banks are ALREADY giving BILLIONS to other countries. This "stimulous" was supposed to be for US, was it not?
Obama signed one yesterday with over 8500 earmarks in it, lying once again.................that ain't the same drum he beat during the race.
Pelosi wants a more plush jet.........and she has already been using the one she HAS to carry family and friends back and forth across the country.
The meetings in the most lavish resorts, vacations in the tropics, the mansions and multiple homes.the "perk list" is endless..............
twilcox..how about WASHINGTON doing a little bit of "leading by example?"
No..........George Bush is no longer President, which is INDEED a good thing.
Obama is. OBAMA is......and when OBAMA concocts these 1100 page packages that he allows NO ONE time to read.......SIGNS IT..........then comes up with this Omnibus for another 410 Billion, smeared with B.S.........no discussion, no debate, and signs IT just as quickly, when half of the idiots he selects for his cabinet are crooks and have to resign............
No, my friend...............this isn't on BUSH's watch...........the Dems can only play that song for a few minutes. Everything Obama has done in these past 52 days.........OBAMA has done.
HE's the President (God help us all).......HE sits in that office with the Red Phone.............HE gets to say the "Have to's" and the "Don't have to's"
HE can send back, or VETO any bill he doesn't like..........HE gets to do that.....he really does.
HE's the one who wanted the job, and he lied and charmed his way into it. It's all HIS now.
This is 2009.the "stimulous", the Omnibus....and everyhing yet to come. The whole piece of pie..................this is no longer about George Bush.
Again, I realize that Politicians are wasteful. We are not there so please stop pretending to know all that there is to know. We are all dependent on media and its bias for this info. The whole earmark thing is undesirable but complaining is not going to change it. It is done and lets not pretend that McCain would have been a patron saint.
I am an economist so pardon the fact that I dont play the he said/she said game. The facts are that Americans and their lack of restraint caused the economic crisis. About Bush, I did not like him but he is not the responsible party for this economic meltdown. He is only one man. Loose monetary policy, cheap credit, greedy citizens, and lack of foresight by all contributed to it.
As for the sentiment that less government is better. I somewhat agree but i find that people reap the benefits of this and then criticize it. The interstate highways and the railroad are the two big examples. If you dont like it, dont use them. Now who will actually do that? No one.
One last point is that even if all drilling was permitted and we let the flood gates open. That would only supply our rampant demand for a short while and we would be back to buying foreign oil. The domestic supply falls woefully short of the demand. There is no debating that. Americans with their big trucks and SUV's are wasteful. If we would be responsible, this would not be an issue. And for your information, gas was subsidized until the late 80's. Americans were only paying 15% of market value so really they are not getting screwed.
We pay for our services. There is a tax on everything in this country that you can think of. Multiple times in some cases.
I just paid a sales tax on a recently acquired 73 Volkswagen when I went to register it. There was a tax paid on it when it was bought NEW back in 73. Each time it has changed hands over the last 36 years, it has been taxed again! Multiply that by the number of used cars in this nation...................
Got a savings account? Why? To make a little interest along the way? Well, what's the incentive to do THAT when the IRS is allowed to tax your interest? Kinda defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
I'm surprised they haven't put meters on our toilets so they can tax us for every flush.
Did your Aunt Margaret die and leave you her grand piano and a few dollars. Been in your family for generations, but if they figure you've inherited something, they still feel they deserve a piece of it, don't they?
Own a home? Got the deed on it? Why do you still have to pay taxes on it, and why can they take it from you if you don't? It's supposed to be YOURS, free and clear, isn't it?
They get our friggin' money, twilcox....and what buns ME is what they do with it.
And I wouldn't know about an SUV, I drive an old Volkswagen, but I'll bet Al Gore, "MR Global Warming HIMSELF" has an SUV.....or 2 or 3, as does everyone ELSE back there.
WE are paying for their yachts, their limos and Lear jets, their multiple homes and mansions...........and it is WE who are told to be "frugal"
We're supporting a war that Reagan would have stopped with a phone call to SAC. We're supporting 12 million illegals who have found a haven within our Congress. We're supporting bums who have made welfare a way of life and continue to give money to countries that spit on us.
I'm not an economist as you are, twilcox.......but even the old Bazookaman here knows where the CUTS SHOULD START!
You can't expect your kids NOT to smoke if you're sitting at the table puffing on a Camel.
They keep telling US to spend..............because that's all THEY know how to do.
I wont blather on but I feel that Americans need to stop demanding the services that politicians offer. Americans need to realize that there will be some poor and some not so poor. Equalizing the field is part of the problem that frustrates Americans.
On the surface, it sounds good. The issue is that give 100 people $1000 and see what they do with it. Not all of the people would maximize their best interests with that. Some will blow it and then want more because they know that the funds will come at some point in time in the future. A boycott or some other civil disobedience would change the fundamental picture. Violent revolt would only instill fear and fear does not yield logical, well-thought out responses. Overall, Americans should not complain when politicians dont fund their causes. Taxes are not all from the Federal level but on all local levels as well so take your issue up with them too.
Well, SOMETHING more tangible needs to be done, since so many voters don't seem to be smart enough to vote out the deadwood.
You're right, Americans SHOLDN'T complain when the politicians don't fund their causes. They should stand up and demand EVICTION when the politicians BLOW money on the USELESS crap. Foreign Aid, perks for illegals and such........
and there's PLENTY of "and such" in everything Obama's boys have passed thus far.
Oh yes......there's always been the blayant waste in Congress, but there is NO excuse for it now.....too many people have made a national issue of it today. The "earmarks" subject is a household name right now, yet Washington IGNORES it, even now.........with the economy in the toilet and voters screaming about it.
"Screw the people........sign it."
That's what it comes down to now........they know better by now..BOTH sides....and they do it anyway.
Tea in the harbor is all they're gonna understand., because they surely do NOT listen to us, nor care.
We CANNOT and SHOULD not continue to accept this "business as usual B.S."
By saying "Tea in the harbor is all they're gonna understand., because they surely do NOT listen to us, nor care" do you mean taking up arms and taking up a bloody civil war or an act of civil disobedience such as Gandhi's march to the sea to protest the monopoly that the British had on sea salt.
this is a pipe dream but if everyone refused to drive. That means truckers, ferries, passenger cars, etc. it would send a message that would be felt worldwide.
There is truly no such thing as "civil disobedience." Under a Republic, upon which this nation was founded, the government is NOT our mommy and daddy. They are supposed to REPRESENT us....not REGULATE us.
If we all stopped driving for a day or so, as you suggest, it might INDEED get someone's attention, same as if we stopped shopping.
If we started ridding our country of illegals and drug cartels, all by OURSELVES, and securing the borders by force if necessary, that's not some act of "disobedience"....it is simply running the
bad dogs out of our yard....and this IS OUR YARD.
If we evicted the one-world-order U.N. and deported them from our shores, it would be nothing less than re-securing our SOVEREIGNTY that our Constitution demands.
This isn't "them and us"....this is "We The People"...America is OURS, and if the government cannot and WILL not protect what our forefathers left us, it's up to us.
On the majority of police cars in this country are the words "To Protect And To Serve."......How many robberies, home invasions, rapes and murders are they able to stop?
When it comes right down to it, it's still up to US in the end.
WE are the MANY.....our politicians are the FEW. If they can't do their jobs, they don't need to be there. As far as our individual responsibilities go, you're absolutely correct, twilcox.............you are.
Let the irresponsible FAIL. It's not our job to bail them out, or the banks who loan without oversight, either. I've busted my butt all my life..and I didn't do it to help support the welfare bums, the illegals, the Chinese, and pay for some ELSE's house because they got in over their head without thinking.
If knucklehead wants to "spread the wealth", let him spread his own.
I have spoke of civil disobedience and there have been a few who have agreed with me. The "Tea Party" was reinacted last week, I think in 24 cities. I wish that Boise had done one in the river.
Bazooka and twilcox1978 both mentioned stop driving. I have told many many people that if we all really got together and made a true committment, we could make a real statement. I would stop driving for a week if others would join me, but realistically it would be a miracle to get people to do it for one day. I know that it would make a great statement and cost billionaires lots of money. I'm all for it!
I am all for people agreeing to hold off on their taxes for awhile. If enough do it, the government would have to take notice! Just send a nice note with a blank tax form. Could you imagine the news that would get if thousands and thousands of blank tax forms with notes were mailed on April 15? How major would that be. The media would have a great time with that and the politicians along with Obama would be sick. But it doesn't matter if just one or two or three do something. It must be a large number who are willing to do something together. That is going to get noticed.
Revolution is the final last attempt when other nonviolent things fail. Lets focus on great civil disobedience! How can we get them to take notice? We must do that before taking up arms.
If one needs an example of this concept, watch Gandhi. The man made the mightiest country on the planet leave India with very little armed resistance. They would have lost millions of lives for no good reason if they would have reacted violently. With tact, class, and exact purpose they expelled the British Empire and its overly oppressive taxes and policies. The general service worker strike depicted in the movie which is factual crippled the economy in just two days. The GNP of British India shrunk by 3% in one day.
Now that would not have the same effect numerically in the US but if everybody quit driving for a day, it would have a bigger impact than any violent uprising could ever hope to have. One forgets that the government has the military behind them and most civilians are not former soldiers or trained to be. Overall, the culture that makes politicians be the way that they are has to start at the core. They are creatures of opportunity just like every one of us. They win elections because they do promise to do things that others were criticized for not doing. By not incentivizing their actions, we make it less likely they will fund these unproductive causes.
"Now he wants to 'reach out to the Taliban.' If Reagan was still around, HE would "'reach out to them!'"
"Why don't you ask the families of the victims of 9/11, if they'd like Obama to 'reach out' to the taliban.............you know, BUSH didn't handle it right either, but at least he didn't offer any comprimise with the enemy."
Nice try, Bazooka Man, but Reagan aided Saddam Hussein's regime and armed the terrorist network which attacked us on 9/11 - the mujahideen, now known as al-Qaeda. And Bush compromised left and right with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The Taliban are vicious tyrants - the kind every president, Republican and Democrat, has dealt with for at least seventy years - but they didn't attack us on 9/11.
"Own your own home, Ex?....making your mortgage payments on time? If so, I guess you surely don't mind helping the irresponsible make theirs too, eh? And your kids can take over doing that after you're gone as well. It's called 'spreading the wealth.'"
No, I rent. I saw enough co-workers and friends get suckered by realtors and banks. And to think, they all thought I was being eccentric. What I'd like to see is interest rate caps on mortgages to stop the usurious gouging - actually I'd like to see rate caps on all forms of lending. And I'd like to see federal and state governments aggressively pursue policies which increase middle-class wages and earnings - I think people with jobs ought to be able to afford nice houses - I don't know if that makes me a sickening liberal or not. I do know I won't ever get to see any of that with any candidates who think government intervention in markets is always too fraught with peril, and what I would see is what meager progress has been made get rolled back.
Citibank and "Bank of the Americas" claim to be showing a profit now. Does that mean they will start RE-PAYING the bailout loans?
According to Senator Sessions, one of the key players in finance on Capitol Hill, only about 4% of all that dough is being used for highways and such..the BULK is going to Obama's Social programs.
And they want more...."Fancy Nancy" is already talking about a SECOND stimulous package.......(after she gets her new jet, of course).
You're smart right now to rent. A lot of your leftside brothers out there are chanting "spend, spend, spend, part of the Donkey party's National Anthem....................makes sense to ME! Massive layoffs, unemployment rising at a rapid rate..let's all go out and spend money we may not have tomorrow.
ALREADY...........here come the banks again.......loaning money to overseas interests and enticing Americans to come back and buy homes again.
It's in our FACES and STILL....we've learned nothing.
Ex...........I don't care what professors you've clung to, what you've read in the pinko papers, or what you've heard in the media, but I was THERE at Lakenheath...ON THAT FLIGHTLINE..........ON INAUGERATION DAY when we NUKE-UPLOADED with pilots stnding by with sealed orders, just in case the Ayatollah DIDN'T turn the hostages loose as Reagan had pre-ordered.
I don't care what you read or what you think you know about that situation...........BUT I WAS RIGHT THERE ON THAT BLUE SECTION FLIGHTLINE.
"Uncle Ronnie" wasn't playing, or "rattling sabers..........we were GOING FOR IT!
There is no doubt in my mind what he would have done had 9/11 occurred on HIS watch. Reagan took nothong off anybody. Khadafi was bombed into silence, the Berlin Wall came down, and NOBODY screwed with us.
There's been no fortitude in that White House since. When one of YOUR "wannabe's" takes America 44 states to 6.........and then FORTY-NINE to ONE on a re-election................THEN you talk to me about Ronald Reagan........THEN we'll discuss "PUBLIC CONFIDENCE"
49 to 1 includes a hell of a lot of Democrats too.............and THAT many people can't be wrong.
Claiming to show a profit and actually being profitable are two different things. If one has ever worked in accounting or a like field, one will know what I am getting at. There is probably a bit more to that situation than that simple statement implies.
Bush and his comrades could not have handled that situation worse. Obama should not be trying to be a friend. Simply pulling out and letting that part of the world hate one another would be best, in my opinion. I would be in support of just letting them be. That might hurt some diplomatic relations in the short term but thats life.
Fortitude in the White House is overrated. The decisions and choices made by the masses have more impact than any one man or person could ever hope to. Forget complaining about politicians, why dont we start at home. They simply manage the results of our decisions.
Gotta go with you on at least part of that, twilcox. The ragheads have been killing each other for centuries, and it won't stop after we leave,....IF we ever do.
We probably won't get Bin Laden. Wimp Bush wasted way too much time and let him get away. Obama wants to sit down and have tea with him.
The country's gone, man. It's a matter of survival now. The "masses" you speak of our basically puppets today and don't think at all before going to the polls...........
Reminds me of something Hitler told Goebbels around 1937 or so......."It is well for our movement that the masses don't think."
I wont go on about this. It would hurt diplomatic relations and some import prices would go up but is that such a bad thing? Yes, the extremists will always despise us but that is unavoidable. I would say just quit wasting money and lives. As one wise man named Gandhi said, "One will always prefer the bad rule of oneself over the good rule of a stranger." We have nothing to gain by trying to Americanize people who dont want to be democratic. Our democracy or lack thereof depending on who you talk to was the evolution of thousands of years of European cycles and changes.
Good point, twilcox, and WE don't need to be under the rule of a stranger either!........All the MORE reason the U.N. needs to be evicted from our shores.
But we don't need to be "ruled" PERIOD...............says so in the grand old parchment that nobody reads or pays attention to anymore.
It is "We The People"............not "They The Bureaucrats."
The government is supposed to work for US............or so I've read.
to clarify, I am speaking about Iraq and the Middle East as a whole. They will always prefer the bad rule of themselves over the good rule by the US. These people do not want us there and never will. The time to move on was upon us a long time ago. We are wasting our time trying to be an imperial power of sorts. We are not improving their lives. From a pure economic sense, they are benefiting but there is a cultural difference. We are spinning our gears trying to Westernize these individuals. Change comes from within. If they truly want to be democratic and have the open market economy, they will make the necessary sacrifices with or without a foreign country dictating to them.
Gotta go with you on THAT one.......George Washington himself warned us to stay out of foreign affairs.
Our government chooses to continue sticking its nose into places it doesn't belong.......and WE THE PEOPLE don't seem to have the collective brains to vote them OUT.
The democracy that we enjoy or despise was the result of hundreds of years of conflict in Europe. Without the history and bitter memories, the revolution would not have had the almost unanimous support that it did. Iraq, Iran, or whoever needs to go through that evolution on their own. Americans telling them what to do just pisses them off, wastes our money and lives, and gives them a reason to be ignorant.
No argument there............we NEED to let the rest of the world kill each other on their own.
But we're still sending them billions of tax dollars while our own people are hurting. Part of Obama's "spreading the wealth" I suppose.
We're even going to financially support terrorists being released into our streets from GITMO.
Only in America....(or what used to BE America).