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This is a great country. By virtue of the security offered by the expanse of the oceans, our country was able to develop in relative peace. Our vast natural resources enabled our economy to grow and produce a standard of living unmatched in the world. The United States was the only place in the world where a man could litterally begin life in poverty and by the product of his efforts alone, raise himself out of poverty and achive wealth and success. No class system holds a man down. No caste system denied opportunity. The product of a man's efforts were his to do with as he saw fit. We were a nation of a strong and free people. As a result, the citizenry of the United States of America achieved wealth and success an order of magnitude above that achieved by any other country in the history of the world. While the impoverished masses of other countries eat grass and live in huts with dirt floors, America's poor watch Oprah on color TV's in air conditioned comfort.
Today, our government is about to address the poverty problem. By nationalizing our banks, our government will begin to work through the social injustices and economic inequity inherent in our economic system. The Banks will no longer be run by those who have invested in them, but by a government who seized them. Because they are run by the government, the banks will no longer be operated for profit. They are vehicles for social change.
The corrupt wealthy are being dispossed of their ill gotten gain, and power returned to the people. Redistribution of the wealth is a good and rightious reform, or, at least that is the story that CBS/ABC/NBC sells. Interestingly, none of this will lift a single person from poverty. It will simply add to the numbers of the impoverished. Is it just me, or does it seem that a government program that seeks a more equal distribution of poverty is just fundamentally wrong. The law of unintended consequences is an intersting thing. The question, however, is whether or not this is actually an 'unintended' consequence. Many believe as General Powell said yesterday, governmental dependence is a good thing.
Not long ago, it was said that our failing automobile industry could not be allowed to collapse. Turns out that was wrong. Actually, it can collapse, but not entirely. After dumping billions of dollars into automobile industry because it is simply to big to fail, it has been decided that bankruptcy is, after all, an option. This wasn't an option until we pumped billions into the this black hole? Of course not. The billions went to the UAW.
In an impressive display of selective reasoning that only government experts can understand, our government has determined that it was a failure to producing enough unprofitable eco-box, hybrid cars that caused the collapse of the American automobile industry, and not the insane UAW contracts that rendered GM, Chrysler and Ford economically unviable. Soon, thanks to the abandonment of SUV production, and the increase in Hybrid production, Americans can to continue to subsidize the auto industry, and a government subsidy to buy expensive Hybrids because we have a 'right' to a car.
The really weird thing about all this, is that we get it all for free. Absolutly free. Will we ever pay for all this? Nope. Not us. We won't pay for it, but you can bet your sweet bippy that our kids and our grandchildren will. Our kids, too young to vote, and our grandchildren not yet born, are being spent into a life of poverty and debt servitude so deep that they will never emerge into a prosperity anywhere near that which we have enjoyed most of our lives. All this so we can force GM to produce cars we don't want to buy. When we prop up GM, and force them to produce Hybrids that no one will buy, we are forcing our kids to buy us cars we do not want.
Clearly, investments and possessions are no longer safe. If your vote is countered by the tide of votes cast by those who profit from the government treasury, then you can not change your government. If that government can seize your income and possessions, that of your childrens, and your children's children's, and distribute it today to those whom it favors, and you have no recourse, then I would argue that it no longer is your government. It has become your captor.
We know who the President is.
I'm looking for Moses.
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Age of the Idiot
The President says he doesn't want to control the banks, but he won't allow them to return theTARP money. He's having the government insist that it be converted to common shares of stock.
He says he's not interested in 'prosecuting the past', but his Attorney General is looking prosecuting the lawyers who wrote the interrogation memos, and the officials who ok'd the memos, and the guys who did the interrogations.
He tells us he 'inherited a tremendous deficit', but he as a member of congress, he supported the spending bills. He tells us that the 'earmark' spending must stop, but the budget contained many earmarks that he put in the bill when he was still in the Senate.
He told us bankruptcy was out of the question for Chrysler and GM. Chrysler just filed.
The polls still show him to be highly popular.
All this is a result of the influnce of lawyers in our socieity.
By putting warning labels on things like hair dryers, bug zappers, and leaf blowers, they have thwarted the natural selection process. Absolute idiots are no longer being electocuted by hair dryers, bug zappers and the like. Instead, these bastards are surviving.
We have reached the tipping point. There are more absolute morons in this country than thinking people. They elected this lying bastard. They still like this theiving weasle. The do not compare his words with his actions.
This meglomanic who sits in the oval office is a socialist intent on remaking America into something more 'equal' society.
Thank a Lawyer, or start removing those damn stickers and giving hair dryers for Christmas.
He says he's not interested in 'prosecuting the past', but his Attorney General is looking prosecuting the lawyers who wrote the interrogation memos, and the officials who ok'd the memos, and the guys who did the interrogations.
He tells us he 'inherited a tremendous deficit', but he as a member of congress, he supported the spending bills. He tells us that the 'earmark' spending must stop, but the budget contained many earmarks that he put in the bill when he was still in the Senate.
He told us bankruptcy was out of the question for Chrysler and GM. Chrysler just filed.
The polls still show him to be highly popular.
All this is a result of the influnce of lawyers in our socieity.
By putting warning labels on things like hair dryers, bug zappers, and leaf blowers, they have thwarted the natural selection process. Absolute idiots are no longer being electocuted by hair dryers, bug zappers and the like. Instead, these bastards are surviving.
We have reached the tipping point. There are more absolute morons in this country than thinking people. They elected this lying bastard. They still like this theiving weasle. The do not compare his words with his actions.
This meglomanic who sits in the oval office is a socialist intent on remaking America into something more 'equal' society.
Thank a Lawyer, or start removing those damn stickers and giving hair dryers for Christmas.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Call Me Arrogant
After France and The United Kingdom had been bled white by the German Maxim Guns, artillery barrages and gas clouds in the fields of France, American Doughboys arrived. Our young Americans made the difference, and the Kaiser was defeated. No one called us arrogant.
Twenty years later, American soldiers again crossed the Atlantic. Our young Americans liberated everything from the English Channel to the Rhine River. After the Nazi guns had fallen silent, America asked for nothing more than a place to bury her thousands of dead. No one called us arrogant.
When all of Europe was nothing more than a smoldering ruin with a shattered economy and exhausted armies, the Soviet Union cast a covetous eye over the broken continent. American Soldiers stood alone in the gap between Europe and Soviet domination. America pledged to defend Europe as if it were American soil, and no one called us arrogant.
I am an American and I believe that every human being is born with certain inalienable rights. I believe in individual liberty, personal and religious freedom. I believe in a fair and open market, and a free press. I believe that all men were created equal and I believe in a government by the people, of the people, and for the people. I believe in a government of laws, not men. I believe that these rights are worth fighting for and defending.
My president, and all of Europe may call me arrogant, but I'll never appologize for that. I am proud of it. I am proud to be an American.
Twenty years later, American soldiers again crossed the Atlantic. Our young Americans liberated everything from the English Channel to the Rhine River. After the Nazi guns had fallen silent, America asked for nothing more than a place to bury her thousands of dead. No one called us arrogant.
When all of Europe was nothing more than a smoldering ruin with a shattered economy and exhausted armies, the Soviet Union cast a covetous eye over the broken continent. American Soldiers stood alone in the gap between Europe and Soviet domination. America pledged to defend Europe as if it were American soil, and no one called us arrogant.
I am an American and I believe that every human being is born with certain inalienable rights. I believe in individual liberty, personal and religious freedom. I believe in a fair and open market, and a free press. I believe that all men were created equal and I believe in a government by the people, of the people, and for the people. I believe in a government of laws, not men. I believe that these rights are worth fighting for and defending.
My president, and all of Europe may call me arrogant, but I'll never appologize for that. I am proud of it. I am proud to be an American.
Povety for All
One half of the American People pay no taxes.
The other half pays all income taxes. The top 1% pays more in taxes than the bottom 90%
One of the fundamental problems that we as a country have is that one half of our population does not contribute to the support of the government, and instead see the government itself as a means of support, a provider of sustinance.
Because the government is becoming a provider of essentials to so many, it endangers us as a country because it makes us vulnerable to pandering politicians who promise to have the government give more and more to those who contribute less and less. Beggers voting themselves more and more benefits, and seizing more and more profits until the engine of commerce is choked out. When that happens, there will be poverty for all, and justice for none.
Thank you American, It's been fun.
The other half pays all income taxes. The top 1% pays more in taxes than the bottom 90%
One of the fundamental problems that we as a country have is that one half of our population does not contribute to the support of the government, and instead see the government itself as a means of support, a provider of sustinance.
Because the government is becoming a provider of essentials to so many, it endangers us as a country because it makes us vulnerable to pandering politicians who promise to have the government give more and more to those who contribute less and less. Beggers voting themselves more and more benefits, and seizing more and more profits until the engine of commerce is choked out. When that happens, there will be poverty for all, and justice for none.
Thank you American, It's been fun.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Government Motors
Now that our government is calling the shots for General Motors, give some thought to this. The same people who run Social Security are about to run our largest car company.
If past history is anything to go by, here's what we can expect:
- We are about to be required by law to pay for a car that we can never own, possess or maintain.
- When we die, the government will take the car away.
- We, who are paying for the car, can not choose anything about the car.
- We might not even ever get to drive the car, but we will certainly pay for the ride.
- People from other countries will be able to sneak in and get a car for free.
- Congressmen will get Mercedes Benz sedans for free, serviced by Germans.
- There will be one Warranty program for everyone…except large corporations, favored minorities, and politically correct special interest groups who will each have their own Warranty program.
- Warranty programs will be underfunded and overpromised…except for those warranties affecting large corporations, favored minorities, and politically correct special interest groups. Those will be lavishly funded, and any failure to meet expectations will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as the failures will obviouslyl be the result of hate crimes.
- The guy who greets you at your dealership will barely be able to speak English. In the event he does speak English, he will be surley.
- Maintenance and repairs will be performed by mechanics hired to address social injustice. All errors will be the result of the failed policies of George W. Bush.
- Warranty claims will be reviewable only by a Warranty administrator, who is a civil service employee who can never be fired, or held accountable.
- Tremendous amounts of money will be wasted doing maintenance on automobiles that no longer exist.
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but President Obama is carjacking the American Dream.
If past history is anything to go by, here's what we can expect:
- We are about to be required by law to pay for a car that we can never own, possess or maintain.
- When we die, the government will take the car away.
- We, who are paying for the car, can not choose anything about the car.
- We might not even ever get to drive the car, but we will certainly pay for the ride.
- People from other countries will be able to sneak in and get a car for free.
- Congressmen will get Mercedes Benz sedans for free, serviced by Germans.
- There will be one Warranty program for everyone…except large corporations, favored minorities, and politically correct special interest groups who will each have their own Warranty program.
- Warranty programs will be underfunded and overpromised…except for those warranties affecting large corporations, favored minorities, and politically correct special interest groups. Those will be lavishly funded, and any failure to meet expectations will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as the failures will obviouslyl be the result of hate crimes.
- The guy who greets you at your dealership will barely be able to speak English. In the event he does speak English, he will be surley.
- Maintenance and repairs will be performed by mechanics hired to address social injustice. All errors will be the result of the failed policies of George W. Bush.
- Warranty claims will be reviewable only by a Warranty administrator, who is a civil service employee who can never be fired, or held accountable.
- Tremendous amounts of money will be wasted doing maintenance on automobiles that no longer exist.
Nero may have fiddled while Rome burned, but President Obama is carjacking the American Dream.
Friday, March 27, 2009
Rome or Weimar?
I have read the writings of some of those who were present at the fall of the Weimar Republic. The German economy had never really recoved from the Great War and was in shambles. The nation was strangled by a treaty which halted hostilities, but did not end the war. Worldwide, Germany alone was blamed for The Great War. Germans were split in all directions by political extremists. Out of the chaos following the war and the deprivation of the Great Depression, emerged an inspiring young leader full of soaring rhetoric and great plans for a reborn nation. Out of the dark and fog one night in March of 1933, a New Germany was born.
I have also read of the fall of Rome. Inflation, invasion, decay of citizenship and multitude of other contributors brought about a slow collapse that actually took several centuries to complete. Roman culture survived in bits and pieces throughout the West. Roman settlements became the towns that now populate Europe. From the Fall of Rome rose the world we know today. When the barbarians arrived at the gates of the last Roman palace, the last Ceasar, Romulus Augustus simply walked away.
In college a number of instructors pointed out to me and others, the startling similarities between the United States and it's relative state, and that of Rome during it's decline and fall. The similarites were shocking to young, relatively unread minds. I, like many, was enamoured with the comparison of the United States to Rome. Both reigned suppreme on the earth. No military power could challenge either. The economies of both utterly dominated every other economic system the encountered. Both enjoyed a prosperity never before imagined, much less achieved. In the end, both engaged in unwise military adventures, poor public policy, and economic mismanagement. Both, we all solemly concluded, would crumble in similar manner.
Today, I realized that we were wrong. We engage in self flattery and dillusions of grandeur when we compare our selves to the mighty Rome. Rome's influence has lasted 2000 years. Roman influence in education, military, and commerce is what dragged the world kicking and screaming out of the Bronze Age and started it toward the Information Age. Rome civilized the world. No, we are not Rome.
We are the Weimar Republic. We are quietly and meekly allowing our Congress to pass laws giving sweeping new powers to a president who will use them. We are about to create a 'National Civilian Security Force', and mandatory youth service. We are nationalizing businesses and banks. We are offering tax free status to the press in exchange for it's freedom. We are handing our individual responsibility for our health care over to the national government. We are taxing the engines of production, and subsidizing corrupt social organizations. We are ignoring the constitution and forgetting it's protections.
On Feburary 28 1933, Adolph Hitler, declaring a crisis following the Reichstag fire, asked the Reichstag of the Weirmar Republic of Germany to suspend many Constitutional protections. On March 23, the Enabling Act authorized the Cabinet to pass legistation without the approval of the Reichstag. The coup was done. The Weimar Republic died without a whimper. The echo of the vote had not yet died in the chambers when the brown shirts, Hitler's civilian security force, came. In the dark of night the first of their victims vanished. Some went quitely. Others ran away. Most died filthy, hungry, alone and cold, behind barbed wire.
No, we are not Rome. We are Wiemar. We did not elect Romulus Augustus. No, we elected a man who tells us he needs special powers and tools to handle the "crisis". Think you are a patriot? They will come for you first. What will you do when they come for you?
Remember, work will make you free.
I have also read of the fall of Rome. Inflation, invasion, decay of citizenship and multitude of other contributors brought about a slow collapse that actually took several centuries to complete. Roman culture survived in bits and pieces throughout the West. Roman settlements became the towns that now populate Europe. From the Fall of Rome rose the world we know today. When the barbarians arrived at the gates of the last Roman palace, the last Ceasar, Romulus Augustus simply walked away.
In college a number of instructors pointed out to me and others, the startling similarities between the United States and it's relative state, and that of Rome during it's decline and fall. The similarites were shocking to young, relatively unread minds. I, like many, was enamoured with the comparison of the United States to Rome. Both reigned suppreme on the earth. No military power could challenge either. The economies of both utterly dominated every other economic system the encountered. Both enjoyed a prosperity never before imagined, much less achieved. In the end, both engaged in unwise military adventures, poor public policy, and economic mismanagement. Both, we all solemly concluded, would crumble in similar manner.
Today, I realized that we were wrong. We engage in self flattery and dillusions of grandeur when we compare our selves to the mighty Rome. Rome's influence has lasted 2000 years. Roman influence in education, military, and commerce is what dragged the world kicking and screaming out of the Bronze Age and started it toward the Information Age. Rome civilized the world. No, we are not Rome.
We are the Weimar Republic. We are quietly and meekly allowing our Congress to pass laws giving sweeping new powers to a president who will use them. We are about to create a 'National Civilian Security Force', and mandatory youth service. We are nationalizing businesses and banks. We are offering tax free status to the press in exchange for it's freedom. We are handing our individual responsibility for our health care over to the national government. We are taxing the engines of production, and subsidizing corrupt social organizations. We are ignoring the constitution and forgetting it's protections.
On Feburary 28 1933, Adolph Hitler, declaring a crisis following the Reichstag fire, asked the Reichstag of the Weirmar Republic of Germany to suspend many Constitutional protections. On March 23, the Enabling Act authorized the Cabinet to pass legistation without the approval of the Reichstag. The coup was done. The Weimar Republic died without a whimper. The echo of the vote had not yet died in the chambers when the brown shirts, Hitler's civilian security force, came. In the dark of night the first of their victims vanished. Some went quitely. Others ran away. Most died filthy, hungry, alone and cold, behind barbed wire.
No, we are not Rome. We are Wiemar. We did not elect Romulus Augustus. No, we elected a man who tells us he needs special powers and tools to handle the "crisis". Think you are a patriot? They will come for you first. What will you do when they come for you?
Remember, work will make you free.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
It's Simply UnAmerican
This country has changed in ways unimaginable thirty years ago. The Democrat Party is still dominated by Unions, urban political machines, and corrupt political monsters, but today, there is a special brand of lawlessness among the players that we as Americans simply can not tolerate. In the old days, when you 'bought' a politician, he stayed bought. Not anymore, and that, my friends, is unAmerican.
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecuticut is a prime example. AIG has offices in Connecuticut. Senator Dodd recieved more money from AIG than any other politician. Many of his constituents work in the finance, banking or insurance industries. He sits on the Senate Finance Committee. He inserted into the AIG bailout bill language that not just allowed AIG to pay the bonuses, it guaranteed that they would pay the bonuses. He didn't do this on accident. It was deliberate. It was for stuff like this that the AIG gave him all that bribe money...excuse me,....all those campaign donations.
Now, we the people have found out about the bonuses, and we're pissed. Despite having come from this industry and having received bonuses of this type in the past, Geithner and Paulson are shocked that this occured. President Obama claims no prior knowledge of this, and Senator Dodd is scrambling to find a way to undo his clause and to cover his ass. All sorts of people are arguing that the money should be given back. Congressman Barney Frank is loudly lisping that the money should be taxed at 91%.
The real problem is that we are bailing out failing businesses. We should allow them to fail. If we let them fail, the others will realize that we won't save them. Those who can save themselves will save themselves. Those who can't will perish. In the case of GM, both GM and the UAW will be slapped with the reality that the American taxpayer isn't going to subsidize their health care and retirement programs. GM must become economically viable or die. Only then will the UAW either get reasonable with GM, get broken, or GM will fail.
In the case of AIG, everyone from Obama down knew about the bonuses. Because so many of the players either come from that industry, or are closely associated with that industry, it's simply not resonable to believe Gietner's, Paulson's and President Obama's claims that they had no knowledge of the bonuses. Geithner ran the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Paulson was CEO at Goldman Sachs. Didn't know? Hell, they were beneficiaries of these types of bonuses in the past. From the perspective of the Democrat Party, the real problem here isn't the bonuses, or even that the American public found out about the bonuses. The real problem is that the American public may realize that this particular bunch of crooks can be trusted even less than the prior bunch of crooks.
Senator Chris Dodd is the worst of the worst. AIG bought and paid for him, and now he's rolling over on them. If I am one of the executives at AIG who got the bonus, I'd be angry. If I have to give up my 'bonus' money, I'd be demanding, loudly and publicly, my bribe money back.....excuse me...my campaign donation money back. What good is it to buy a politician if he won't stay bought?
That's just throwing good money after bad.
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecuticut is a prime example. AIG has offices in Connecuticut. Senator Dodd recieved more money from AIG than any other politician. Many of his constituents work in the finance, banking or insurance industries. He sits on the Senate Finance Committee. He inserted into the AIG bailout bill language that not just allowed AIG to pay the bonuses, it guaranteed that they would pay the bonuses. He didn't do this on accident. It was deliberate. It was for stuff like this that the AIG gave him all that bribe money...excuse me,....all those campaign donations.
Now, we the people have found out about the bonuses, and we're pissed. Despite having come from this industry and having received bonuses of this type in the past, Geithner and Paulson are shocked that this occured. President Obama claims no prior knowledge of this, and Senator Dodd is scrambling to find a way to undo his clause and to cover his ass. All sorts of people are arguing that the money should be given back. Congressman Barney Frank is loudly lisping that the money should be taxed at 91%.
The real problem is that we are bailing out failing businesses. We should allow them to fail. If we let them fail, the others will realize that we won't save them. Those who can save themselves will save themselves. Those who can't will perish. In the case of GM, both GM and the UAW will be slapped with the reality that the American taxpayer isn't going to subsidize their health care and retirement programs. GM must become economically viable or die. Only then will the UAW either get reasonable with GM, get broken, or GM will fail.
In the case of AIG, everyone from Obama down knew about the bonuses. Because so many of the players either come from that industry, or are closely associated with that industry, it's simply not resonable to believe Gietner's, Paulson's and President Obama's claims that they had no knowledge of the bonuses. Geithner ran the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Paulson was CEO at Goldman Sachs. Didn't know? Hell, they were beneficiaries of these types of bonuses in the past. From the perspective of the Democrat Party, the real problem here isn't the bonuses, or even that the American public found out about the bonuses. The real problem is that the American public may realize that this particular bunch of crooks can be trusted even less than the prior bunch of crooks.
Senator Chris Dodd is the worst of the worst. AIG bought and paid for him, and now he's rolling over on them. If I am one of the executives at AIG who got the bonus, I'd be angry. If I have to give up my 'bonus' money, I'd be demanding, loudly and publicly, my bribe money back.....excuse me...my campaign donation money back. What good is it to buy a politician if he won't stay bought?
That's just throwing good money after bad.
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