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Recently a friend commented to me that I ought to be glad that my Social Security dollars were not invested in the stock market as some had advocated a few years ago. After the meltdown of the last year or so, IRA and other investments are worth a lot less today than they were 18 months ago. As the econonmy continutes to crap out, and as President Obama struggles to get things moving again, the market will continue to be a very 'risky' place to put our retirement funds, my friend maintains.
Though tragic, at that moment, I realized that my friend is a moron.
Though my investments have lost roughly a third of their value, I still have them. I own them . They are mine. With Social Security, I have nothing but a 'deal' with the government. The government promised that they would take money from me each payday, which they did. In exchange, starting at 65 years of age, Social Security would send me a stipend for the rest of my natural life. Hmmm....not a bad deal...especially with life expectancies approaching 80 years.
Ah, but there is a catch in the giddy-up. Social Security will be broke in just a few years. This isn't news. We have known that it was acturiarly unsound for several decades. The weasles we send to Washington have not had the guts to fix it, thought they did figure out that if they give Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who 'follow a path' to citizenship, they will have a whole new class of paupers dependant on govenrment handouts for their existance.
After a lifetime of being coerced into contributing to and relying on a government promise of a retirement fund, the benefits side of the promise is about to be changed. Unless you are one of the thousands of illegal aliens who have never contributed to the program but whom the government wants to grant Social Security benefits to, the benefits side of that government 'promise' are about to change for the worse. The reality is that those who have contributed the most to this program are about to become the ones who recieve the least.
My 401k is invested in the America. I contribute to it every month. No matter whether the market is going up, or going down, I put a percentage of my income each month into my retirement accounts. I put my faith in free enterprise and capitalism. Through diversification and prudence, I protect my funds as a shepherd protects his flock, and I pray that President Obama doesn't nationalize anything have an interest in. ( It's really just a fancy way of saying the government stole a business.)
My friend laughed when I told him that I had lost roughly a third of my portfolio's value.
I asked him what he had. He said he had Barak Obama and Social Security.
I laughed.
You can't fix stupid.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Friday, July 17, 2009
The Obama Imperial Court
In the next few days, the Senate will confirm a racist, social engineer to become a member of the United States Supreme Court. Though she denied it during her sworn testimony before the Senate, the trail of her history on the Appeals Court betray her to be an 'activist judge'.
What is an 'Activist Judge'?
For starters, an activist judge is much smarter than you or I. They know what is best, and see it as their responsibity to use the power of their role and position to achieve their personal aims, regardless of what the Framers of the Constitution actually intended, regardless of laws that Congress passes, and regardless of what the people have voted on.
An activist judge is a judge who can find rights and meanings in the Consititution and laws that are not actually written there, and one who can fail to find rights, limitations and meanings that are cenumerated and learly spelled out.
An activist judge is a judge who 'makes law' from the bench. The activist judge is an un-elected super judical legislative functionary who believes that they are enpowered to shape society as they see fit; a super-judicial legislative functionary to solve our problems for us and who is appointed for life.
A activist judge is a judge who doesn't see their mission as the persuit of equal justice all. A activist judge is an advocate for a point of view, and will use their position to advance that point of view regardless of the provisions of the Constitution and the actions Congress.
Now, we have an Activist Judge testifying in Confirmation hearings and about to become member of the United States Supreme Court.
The most damning thing about the Sotomoyor confirmation hearings is that she is lying under oath. It is obvious to everyone on both sides of the isle in the Senate. The good judge knows that her her radical judical history would, in the minds of most Americans, disqualify her for the Supreme Court. Honest and fair minded people want justice based on the facts and the law, and not on their skin color or ethnicity. Judge Sotomoyor knows this, otherwise she would not have denied racist and manipulative past in her testimony.
Her racist comment about a 'wise latina woman' making better decisions than a 'white man' would have disqualified anyone else. Anyone else would be run out of Washington, and probably lose their Appelate Court position. Can you imagine if a white man had said that a 'white man' would make better decisions that a 'wise latina woman'? Several years ago, Senator Trent Lott said nice things to a 90 year old retiring collegue, and was stripped of his Senate post by jackels screaming 'racist'. Where are the jackels now? They are about to confirm Judge Sotomoyor.
Call your Senator. Tell them to oppose this person. This woman isn't really a judge. A judge applies the law. She is an activist. Her interest isn't justice. It's advancing her particular ideology. Is that what we expect from a Supreme Court Judge, or even a municipal judge?
Apparently, justice depends on the color of your skin.
Welcome to The Imperial Court in Obama's World.
What is an 'Activist Judge'?
For starters, an activist judge is much smarter than you or I. They know what is best, and see it as their responsibity to use the power of their role and position to achieve their personal aims, regardless of what the Framers of the Constitution actually intended, regardless of laws that Congress passes, and regardless of what the people have voted on.
An activist judge is a judge who can find rights and meanings in the Consititution and laws that are not actually written there, and one who can fail to find rights, limitations and meanings that are cenumerated and learly spelled out.
An activist judge is a judge who 'makes law' from the bench. The activist judge is an un-elected super judical legislative functionary who believes that they are enpowered to shape society as they see fit; a super-judicial legislative functionary to solve our problems for us and who is appointed for life.
A activist judge is a judge who doesn't see their mission as the persuit of equal justice all. A activist judge is an advocate for a point of view, and will use their position to advance that point of view regardless of the provisions of the Constitution and the actions Congress.
Now, we have an Activist Judge testifying in Confirmation hearings and about to become member of the United States Supreme Court.
The most damning thing about the Sotomoyor confirmation hearings is that she is lying under oath. It is obvious to everyone on both sides of the isle in the Senate. The good judge knows that her her radical judical history would, in the minds of most Americans, disqualify her for the Supreme Court. Honest and fair minded people want justice based on the facts and the law, and not on their skin color or ethnicity. Judge Sotomoyor knows this, otherwise she would not have denied racist and manipulative past in her testimony.
Her racist comment about a 'wise latina woman' making better decisions than a 'white man' would have disqualified anyone else. Anyone else would be run out of Washington, and probably lose their Appelate Court position. Can you imagine if a white man had said that a 'white man' would make better decisions that a 'wise latina woman'? Several years ago, Senator Trent Lott said nice things to a 90 year old retiring collegue, and was stripped of his Senate post by jackels screaming 'racist'. Where are the jackels now? They are about to confirm Judge Sotomoyor.
Call your Senator. Tell them to oppose this person. This woman isn't really a judge. A judge applies the law. She is an activist. Her interest isn't justice. It's advancing her particular ideology. Is that what we expect from a Supreme Court Judge, or even a municipal judge?
Apparently, justice depends on the color of your skin.
Welcome to The Imperial Court in Obama's World.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Independence Day
As we celebrate our indendence, let us consider the men who won it for us, and how the did it.
For almost a 1000 years, every rebellion against an English king had failed.
The Rebels were hunted down.
They were brought to London.
They were hanged, drawn and quarted, and beheaded. Some were burned at the stake. Their families were dispossesed and often exiled to the far corners of the empire.
Not some of them. All of them.
The men who signed our Declaration of Independence were not malcontents. They were wealthy, successful men. They were Planters, and Brewers, publishers, and merchants. They were men who knew what happens to Traitors to the British Crown.
And they signed anyway. They signed their own death warrants.
They were more than just a bunch of rich white guys pissed at the king.
They were men longing to be free. In declaring their independence, our founding fathers were doing more than declaring one state free from another state. It was Man thowing off shackels and freeing himself from royal subjecation. Free men throwing off the royal boot of the English Crown. American sovorignity resides in the individual.
In 1775, with English troops all around, and arrest a very real possibility, Patrick Henry stood up in a church in Virginia and loudly said "Give me liberty, or give me Death."
As our slithering, smothering Obamacracy slowly wraps it's coils around us, who has the balls to say that now?
For almost a 1000 years, every rebellion against an English king had failed.
The Rebels were hunted down.
They were brought to London.
They were hanged, drawn and quarted, and beheaded. Some were burned at the stake. Their families were dispossesed and often exiled to the far corners of the empire.
Not some of them. All of them.
The men who signed our Declaration of Independence were not malcontents. They were wealthy, successful men. They were Planters, and Brewers, publishers, and merchants. They were men who knew what happens to Traitors to the British Crown.
And they signed anyway. They signed their own death warrants.
They were more than just a bunch of rich white guys pissed at the king.
They were men longing to be free. In declaring their independence, our founding fathers were doing more than declaring one state free from another state. It was Man thowing off shackels and freeing himself from royal subjecation. Free men throwing off the royal boot of the English Crown. American sovorignity resides in the individual.
In 1775, with English troops all around, and arrest a very real possibility, Patrick Henry stood up in a church in Virginia and loudly said "Give me liberty, or give me Death."
As our slithering, smothering Obamacracy slowly wraps it's coils around us, who has the balls to say that now?
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