Barack Obama likes to lay the cause of the current financial meltdown at the feet of the current administration. The facts are very different.
An editorial in Investors Business Daily, titled “The Real Culprits in this Meltdown” says
Obama in a statement yesterday blamed the shocking new round of subprime-related bankruptcies on the free-market system, and specifically the “trickle-down” economics of the Bush administration, which he tried to gig opponent John McCain for wanting to extend.
But it was the Clinton administration, obsessed with multiculturalism, that dictated where mortgage lenders could lend, and originally helped create the market for the high-risk subprime loans now infecting like a retrovirus the balance sheets of many of Wall Street’s most revered institutions.
Tough new regulations forced lenders into high-risk areas where they had no choice but to lower lending standards to make the loans that sound business practices had previously guarded against making. It was either that or face stiff government penalties.
The untold story in this whole national crisis is that President Clinton put on steroids the Community Redevelopment Act, a well-intended Carter-era law designed to encourage minority homeownership. And in so doing, he helped create the market for the risky subprime loans that he and Democrats now decry as not only greedy but “predatory.”
Yes, the market was fueled by greed and overleveraging in the secondary market for subprimes, vis-a-vis mortgaged-backed securities traded on Wall Street. But the seed was planted in the ’90s by Clinton and his social engineers. They were the political catalyst behind this slow-motion financial train wreck.
And it was the Clinton administration that mismanaged the quasi-governmental agencies that over the decades have come to manage the real estate market in America.
As soon as Clinton crony Franklin Delano Raines took the helm in 1999 at Fannie Mae, for example, he used it as his personal piggy bank, looting it for a total of almost $100 million in compensation by the time he left in early 2005 under an ethical cloud.
Other Clinton cronies, including Janet Reno aide Jamie Gorelick, padded their pockets to the tune of another $75 million.
Raines was accused of overstating earnings and shifting losses so he and other senior executives could earn big bonuses.
In the end, Fannie had to pay a record $400 million civil fine for SEC and other violations, while also agreeing as part of a settlement to make changes in its accounting procedures and ways of managing risk.
But it was too little, too late. Raines had reportedly steered Fannie Mae business to subprime giant Countrywide Financial, which was saved from bankruptcy by Bank of America.
At the same time, the Clinton administration was pushing Fannie and her brother Freddie Mac to buy more mortgages from low-income households.
The Clinton-era corruption, combined with unprecedented catering to affordable-housing lobbyists, resulted in today’s nationalization of both Fannie and Freddie, a move that is expected to cost taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.
Read the whole article.
It is Barack Obama and his Democrat cronies who are really responsible. This video gives an idea of how connected to Fannie Mae Obama is:
In an article in To the Point News, Jack Kelly writes:
Fannie and Freddie went broke because they had bought billions of dollars worth of subprime mortgages, on which borrowers defaulted when the housing bubble popped. Fannie bought most of its bad mortgages from Countrywide Financial, whose CEO, Angelo Mozilo, gave sweetheart loans to senior executives of Fannie Mae.
Fannie and Freddie cooked their books so senior executives would be paid millions of dollars in bonuses to which they were not entitled. Inadequate regulation kept the book-cooking from being discovered until the crisis had become a catastrophe.
President Bush proposed regulatory reforms in 2003, but Congress took no action. In 2005, John McCain and three other GOP senators proposed a strong reform bill. It died when Democrats threatened a filibuster. When the bill was reintroduced in this Congress, Sen. Chris Dodd, the new Democratic chairman of Banking Committee, refused even to hold a hearing on it.
Democrats opposed reform in part because they feared it would mean fewer loans to poor people.
“Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, told the New York Times when the Bush bill was introduced. “The more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
Democrats and some Republicans opposed reform because Fannie and Freddie were very good at greasing palms. Fannie spent $170 million on lobbying since 1998, and $19.3 million on political contributions since 1990.
The principal recipient of Fannie Mae’s largesse was Sen. Dodd. Number two was Barack Hussein Obama.
Sen. Dodd was also the second largest recipient in the Senate of contributions from Countrywide’s PAC and its employees. The number one senator on Countrywide’s list?
Barack Hussein Obama.
Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines was forced to resign in December, 2004, because of “accounting irregularities.” The Washington Post reported July 16 the Obama campaign has called Mr. Raines “seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.”
Sen. Obama appointed Mr. Raines’ predecessor, James Johnson, as head of his vice presidential search committee, until he was also implicated in “accounting irregularities,” and it was revealed he’d received cut rate loans from Countrywide.
Chicago billionaire Penny Pritzker, chairman of Sen. Obama’s finance committee, cooked the books to conceal losses from subprime mortgages at her now defunct Superior bank. The holding company her family owned collected $200 million in dividends on phony profits.
The trouble with crony capitalism isn’t capitalism. It’s the cronies.
This meltdown can be laid directly at the feet of Democrats. Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and other Democrat cronies are responsible. It will be interesting to see how Obama spins his way out of this one.
UPDATE: In a speech today at Green Bay, Wisconsin, Sen John McCain stated:
There are certainly plenty of places to point fingers, and it may be hard to pinpoint the original event that set it all in motion. But let me give you an educated guess. The financial crisis we’re living through today started with the corruption and manipulation of our home mortgage system. At the center of the problem were the lobbyists, politicians, and bureaucrats who succeeded in persuading Congress and the administration to ignore the festering problems at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
These quasi-public corporations lead our housing system down a path where quick profit was placed before sound finance. They institutionalized a system that rewarded forcing mortgages on people who couldn’t afford them, while turning around and selling those bad mortgages to the banks that are now going bankrupt. Using money and influence, they prevented reforms that would have curbed their power and limited their ability to damage our economy. And now, as ever, the American taxpayers are left to pay the price for Washington’s failure.
Two years ago, I called for reform of this corruption at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Congress did nothing. The Administration did nothing. Senator Obama did nothing, and actually profited from this system of abuse and scandal. While Fannie and Freddie were working to keep Congress away from their house of cards, Senator Obama was taking their money. He got more, in fact, than any other member of Congress, except for the Democratic chairmen of the committee that oversees them. And while Fannie Mae was betraying the public trust, somehow its former CEO had managed to gain my opponent’s trust to the point that Senator Obama actually put him in charge of his vice presidential search.
This CEO, Mr. Johnson, walked off with tens of millions of dollars in salary and bonuses for services rendered to Fannie Mae, even after authorities discovered accounting improprieties that padded his compensation. Another CEO for Fannie Mae, Mr. Raines, has been advising Senator Obama on housing policy. This even after Fannie Mae was found to have committed quote “extensive financial fraud” under his leadership. Like Mr. Johnson, Mr. Raines walked away with tens of millions of dollars.
Senator Obama may be taking their advice and he may be taking their money, but in a McCain-Palin administration, there will be no seat for these people at the policy-making table. They won’t even get past the front gate at the White House.
My friends, this is the problem with Washington. People like Senator Obama have been too busy gaming the system and haven’t ever done a thing to actually challenge the system.
We’ve heard a lot of words from Senator Obama over the course of this campaign. But maybe just this once he could spare us the lectures, and admit to his own poor judgment in contributing to these problems. The crisis on Wall Street started in the Washington culture of lobbying and influence peddling, and he was square in the middle of it.
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Seven years ago today, America was attacked on her own soil. This was the worst attack against the United States by a determined enemy in an ongoing effort to assert dominance over the West, and especially over America. There have been a series of attacks against America by that enemy that began in 1979 in Iran. The attack on 9/11 was the most deadly, killing nearly 3,000 innocent Americans.
After eight years of being attacked around the world without responding in a serious way, a new President of the United States made a decision to respond to the 9/11 attacks with all the might of the United States and to dispel the notion then held by the Islamic jihadists that America was weak - a paper tiger.
Since 9/11/2001 America has routed out Al Queda leaders and other Islamic jihadist leaders from Afghanistan and Iraq. She has removed the deadly iron-fisted Taliban from rule in Afghanistan and the cruel dictator who supported jihadists and who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people in Iraq. We have liberated 50 Million people and removed two totalitarian regimes.
The U.S. has been responsible for the formation of democratic governments in both Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing freedom to millions of grateful Muslims in both those countries. Iraq is now a strong friend of America and the West in a strategic location in the Middle East. We have won the support of the ordinary Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan who don’t agree with the jihadists and who oppose violence. We are very close to a victory in the Iraqi battle. As Secretary of Defense Gates said yesterday to Congress, “We are entering the end-game in Iraq.” That is a big achievement. But, keep in mind that Iraq and Afghanistan are only battles in an ongoing war with radical Islam. There will be more battles in that war.
We have done much to destroy the organized groups who want to destroy us. But we aren’t finished. Through good intelligence activities we have managed to identify and disrupt over 150 terrorist threats and cells.
Further accomplishments made by the US and our Western Allies are: Worldwide, nearly two-thirds of al Qaida’s known senior leadership has been captured or killed — including a mastermind of the September 11th attacks; Worldwide, more than 3,000 operatives have been incapacitated; Five terrorist cells in Buffalo, Detroit, Seattle, Portland (Oregon), and Northern Virginia have been broken up; 401 individuals have been criminally charged in the United States in terrorism-related investigations; Already, 212 individuals have been convicted or have pleaded guilty in the United States, including shoe-bomber Richard Reid and “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh; and Over 515 individuals linked to the September 11th investigation have been removed from the United States.
We won’t always be so lucky. It is certainly probable, even likely, that additional attempts will be made to attack America. We should be very concerned about electing leaders who don’t truly understand the continuing threat to America and who think that we can deal with radical Islamists by appeasement or by negotiation alone.
Iran presents
a credible threat to Western democracies in the region, and to the whole world. It’s leaders are not guided by the morality and Judeo-Christian values of America and the West. Terrorist organizations sponsored by Iran such as Hezbollah, Hamas and the Revolutionary Guard constitute ongoing threats to peace and democracy, as do Al Queda and its related organizations. It is inevitable that the United States, and its allies, will have to confront Iran in the near future.
We need to elect those who are capable of standing up to Iran and to other potential threats to America with strong leadership going forward.
We must never surrender. We must not forget 9/11, and we must never let another attack occur on American soil.
While you are considering who you want to see as the next President of the United States, keep in mind that the war is not over, and that America will continue to be under threat in the coming years. When you cast your vote for President, you should thoughtfully choose who you think will best be willing and able to defend this country against our enemies.
We should all take a minute today to think about those whose lives were cruelly taken on September 11, 2001, and about those brave Americans who have lost their lives in voluntary service to their country since 9/11, defending the freedom we all enjoy in our wonderful country.
Said Bear to the Right @ 7:09 pm Comments (0) | Permalink
Terse commentary found on Neptunus Lex’s site on this topic:
Adeodatus // Sep 9, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Realism. States act out of their own interest and not the interest of their competitors.
If the world wants Obama as President, that means Obama is bad for the United States.
On target.
Said xformed @ 12:20 pm Comments (0) | Permalink
Be careful what you wish for they say….but then you’d have to take a moment and think ahead, and not be so stuck in instant gratification that you refuse to see the train headed your way as you sit on the tracks, living in a dream world.
Humpty Dumpty comes to mind…oh, but that’s probably “sexist” to bring it up, and egg in a children’s story having a male name and all. Oh, wait! Perfectly legit, after all, Winne the Pooh can teach us about foreign policy!
Be careful when you set a precedent, I have learned, for you never know when you’ll have to live by it yourself.
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It seems Michelle O had great ideas about developing young protesters…on the guv’ment dime:
[…]
“Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities,” Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for “justice” and “equality” in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. “I get to practice being an activist,” and get paid for it, gushed Cincinnati recruit Amy Vincent.
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Oh, great. I guess it wasn’t so bad when the capitalists Democrats just sold sleeping rights to the Lincoln Bedroom.
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Mark Steyn sez in “Credit Where Credit is Due:”
I would like to thank the US media for doing such a grand job this last week of lowering expectations by portraying Governor Palin - whoops, I mean Hick-Burg Mayor Palin - as a hillbilly know-nothing permapregnant ditz, half of whose 27 kids are the spawn of a stump-toothed uncle who hasn’t worked since he was an extra in Deliverance.
How’s that narrative holding up, geniuses? Almost as good as your “devoted husband John Edwards” routine?
I trust even now Maureen Dowd is working on a hilarious new column mocking proposed names for the Governor’s first grandchild. Perhaps Richard Cohen can just take the week off and they can rerun his insightful analysis comparing the Palin nomination to Caligula making his horse a consul. Whereas we sophisticates all know that if McCain were as smart as Obama he’d have nominated a dead horse to be his consul. No wait…
That’s gotta leave a mark! However, the MSM just plasters more makeup on their bruises and proceeds on.
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Yeehaw! The Black and White Guy, Zo, is back and he’s got some crushing comments for the rap dude:
Bonus: “The Vote Reaper”
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There is something to the associations you have in your life
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I’ve had a full 24 hours to digest the news about McCain choosing the Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin, as the choice for his Vice Presidential running mate. While I like to focus on markets, homebrewing, and my running (something I haven’t mentioned much lately), my blogging career, if you want to call it that, was launched on the eve of the last general election so I want to say a few words about this election and then move back to my center. Thanks for bearing with me.
The initial reaction that I saw and read was one of disbelief, mostly from women, who were saying that McCain must think that women are stupid for thinking this choice will win over women voters. I was traveling to see clients yesterday so I got an earful of pundits on the radio and the television channels (I have XM radio in the car so I can hear the t.v.), who all had a different and very incorrect take on McCain’s selection.
The last election in which Bush beat the socialist senator from Massachusetts (not Kennedy, but the other socialist) was won by energizing the conservative base, not, as some have incorrectly said this weekend, by pandering to the “undecided middle.” It irks me to no end that the undecided middle of this country has so much pull in politics, but my lack of patience for people who cannot make simple decisions is a subject for another post.
While I was catching up on my reading this morning, I found that a trader that I occasionally read actually had the nerve to say that McCain’s choice was irresponsible given his age and the likelihood that this inexperienced governor of Alaska might have to takeover office before his term(s) expire. While some centrist and leftist women in this country may be upset with McCain’s choice, seeing it as some sort of ploy to win their votes, the trader’s “irresponsible” comment was over the top.
I do not plan to be a vocal supporter of Sarah Palin, but the research that I have done regarding this choice for V.P. actually had me excited for the conservative party yesterday. A few bullet points may help you understand my view, as this choice fits right in with my view of who would be a perfect choice for high office. Otherwise I was likely to throw my vote away on Ron Paul, who is actually on record as saying that writing his name in for President would be irresponsible because he stands no chance of winning against the monstrosity we call the two-party political machine.
Of the four candidates for high office, McCain, Obama, Biden, and Palin, Sarah Palin is the only one with executive experience. The other three have merely been senators, and regardless of how long they have been in Washington, they are still merely elected officials who have been sucking off the gubmint teet in various lengths of service. Not one of the other three has ever held an executive office, elected or otherwise, as head of their own company or at the top of a government organization, let alone a State in these United States.
McCain, while I’m sure he would love to woo the undecided women in the center of the political spectrum, was more concerned about the missing conservative base that elected George Bush. Without that base, no amount of disenchanted Hillary voters or undecideds would ever carry McCain to the White House. Palin, as his pick for V.P., wins back and energizes that base. The wife and I, and a client who I visited with yesterday, before yesterday were all going to throw away our vote on Ron Paul in protest. By choosing Palin, McCain just brought us back under the conservative tent.
A few qualities to note about Palin that McCain knew conservatives wanted, or at least knew that most of the conservative base wants:
Executive experience.
A firm backer of the Second Amendment.
Pro-life, and a working mother of five.
A steam roller over corruption, she vetoed several pork barrel spending bills brought to her by her state legislature.
And, the winning note comes in the form of her decision making regarding legislation, she actually checks the constitutionality of a bill before signing it into law or vetoing it.
You undecideds should check your inability to make a decision at the door, as Sarah Palin is actually a woman that you could respect (if you could make up your darned mind) because she speaks her mind and stands up for the right thing, all the time. She does not pander to polling data, or vote according to whatever political winds may be blowing or in which direction they may be headed. This pick of McCain’s was not only a stroke of political genius in the big chess game of getting elected to the white house, but he doesn’t have to rely on the undecideds to get him there.
Congratulations Senator, you won back a very big portion of the conservative base with your choice, which includes many of my friends and me. To finish this rant I’d just like to borrow and rephrase a ridiculous comment that I heard during the last two elections, If Obama wins the election, then I’m moving to Alaska.
Cheers, and Godspeed to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Said Uncle Jack @ 12:08 pm Comments (7) | Permalink
“Palin the Punisher” comes to mind.
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Sad…you know you can’t critize a Democrat on their positions, speaches, or associations, because you’re either a racist, parnoid or a woman hater.
When a woman enters the race on “the other side,” the presumptive Whiner-in-Chief’s campaign, who said they weren’t going to run a negative campaign, kicked their words to the side (a common character “feature” (others would say “defect”)) and began attacking in a very negative manner:
Team Obama Lashes Out at Palin
Team Obama cannot even say, “Congratulations, Governor Palin, we look forward to a spirited race.” Nope, first thing they do is attack, attack, attack:
Barack Obama’s campaign is blasting John McCain for putting “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
The scathing description of Sarah Palin, from Obama spokesman Bill Burton, comes as Democrats scramble to gather a response to a selection that nobody in the political world expected.
“Governor Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies — that’s not the change we need, it’s just more of the same,” added Burton.
Democrats will likely push the inexperience line against Palin as they race to comb oppo files from Wasilla to Juneau.
First, after spending the entire campaign talking about how experience isn’t everything, Barack Obama, who’s never held a full-time job for four years, cannot start hitting her on inexperience.Rove just called the response “petty and small,” and boy, this is going to just further convince the Pumas that sexism drives the Obama campaign.
UPDATE: The guys on Fox News note that the Obama campaign can’t even bring themselves to call her “Governor Palin.” That response is going to blow up in their faces.
ANOTHER UPDATE: To clarify, in the release, they call her “governor”, but they don’t even deal with it, calling her “the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.”
By the way, mocking the size of the town — I guess that town is full of bitter clingers, clutching guns, religion, xenophobia, opposition to trade deals…
Like going after Stanley Kurtz for merely finding the story of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), showing a completely connected relationship, the democrats are holding up a man who is not mereley inexperienced, but flawed in his entire view of the Nation he says he wants to lead.
BhO isn’t looking to lead this country, by his actions, he’s looking to rule it, and he will abuse whatever power he gains to keep his opposition for having a free and open debate on the issues we face.
Side note: I think McCain hit one out of the park. Consider the ramp up to 2012, when one woman can step forward and say “I have the best experience you can have for the top position of this Nation.” Hint: It sure won’t be Hillary…or Michelle. The Clinton Era is most likely merely waiting for a shovel full of dirt to be placed in the grave.
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I know I’m just a slow witted conservative, with a a bad academic track record (that’s why I went into the military, according to jfk) who clings to my guns and religion because I’m bitter about having a great life, lots of friends,who are people who would do anything for me or anyone else in need, but…I digress. I need help understanding things today, as presented by the “news” media.
Here comes a little random streaming from the brain cage:
Have we really arrived at the “tyranny of the minority?” I’ve blogged in a few places, about how so many years ago the US Navy came out with a “if any one person objects, no one can smoke in a space (read room for those not lucky enough to have experienced the joys of shipboard life)” policy in the mid to late 80s. While I have never been a smoker, I did think it was odd that one could trump all, but at the same time, it does get awful smoky inside a small compartment on a ship, when (at the time) most of the crew did smoke…and “sea store” (meaning no taxes when you were outside the 12 NM limit) cigarettes were really cheap….interesting situation.
Over time, I have noticed how that entire mentality, which I deemed (and it’s most likely not original) the term “Tyranny of the Minority” as a way to easily identify the condition. Think about it. That attitude permeates our society. The self-esteem and diversity and environmental crowd push it hard, and, no longer just say it, they legalize it. Thank you, those lawyers, who regulalry subverted your common sense to the ability to buy all those fancy cars and house and political influence, but that’s a whole other topic of discussion.
What does this have to do with today? Consider the two breathlessly reported issues of this week: The “Mortgage Crisis” and Congressional inaction on securing an internally controlled energy supply.
On one hand, in the case of the “mortgage crisis,” all of us (read majority - or at least those of us who actually put a net amount of taxes in the Treasury with each paycheck), have to pay off the bad decisions of a minority. On a local real estate talk show two Saturdays ago, it was framed thusly:
120M homes in the US, 40M paid for, 40M bought after 2000 (sold today at “depressed” market prices would still yield about 45% profit), 28M owned by families/persons with good credit. That leaves 12M homes…10% of the market. About 1.2M are either behind on payments, or in the foreclosure process. “Old Math” tells me that’s about 1% or the entire mortgage market is actually the troubled part of the system. ONE Freaking PERCENT! Now…you’re the news, what do you report? “Want to know where some of the best opportunities are? REAL ESTATE!” or (get breathless, you’ll have to be to make the contrived impact) “OMG!!! OMG!!! THE SKY IS FALLING, ONE MILLION HOMES ARE LOCKED, THEIR OWNERS ON THE CURB, TOSSED OUT OF THEIR HOMES BY EVIL MORTGAGE COMPANIES!!!!” Same story, true enough numbers…extreme difference in the “take away” perception of the reality, right?
Our response? Bail out those, a 1% minority of the entire market. Make all the arguments about “predatory lending practices” you’d like, but who signed the bottom line? Who didn’t read the fine print (as all “good” lawyers tell us to do), only to employ lawyers to explain why it wasn’t their fault when they signed the bottom line. My life philosophy? Unless there is a gun to your head (or another human’s), there is no forcing involved. Grow up, take your lumps and don’t make me pay for it.
Help me understand this: Tell a successful business person they can get into a market where only 1% of it is an issue financially. See how quick they are dialing the phone to their money people, while simultaneously asking you for the wire transfer info. What am I not getting about how “BAD!” the sky is falling in the mortgage market?
Now, the second crisis. Congress is getting ready, using the heavy handed control of the majority, to leave for home to get votes to place them back in a job where they get next to nothing done for the majority of the country. You’d think they’d be embarassed with a 9% approval rating, but, holding power is more powerful in their lives than shame over a failed responsibility. They leave us, at the whim of the minority who thinks they can save the planet from the forces of the Universe. Silly little humans.
Look at that stark picture? 70% plus of American voters want to drill in the nearby oceans. Congress has to go home, it’s vacation! They have worked hard. Yeah, right. Remember the way “work” is measured from physics class? Movement from one place to another. Ending where you began = no work. Congress: Redefining “work” as run about in the same cicle, end where you began, tell people how sweaty you got, then go home and hold multi-thousand dollar a plate diners with “friends” and tell them how stupid and out of touch “The Majority,” or if you like “We The People” really are. Oh…but hold up a signed bill that takes money from net positive taxpayers and gives to those (herein after referred to as “The Minority”) who entered a contract legally and then demanded our money to bail them out. Call that work. I call it “political entropy.”
Some might call it “National Suicide,” but that might be judged by the feel good crowd as unnessicarily inflamatiory as a characterization of the issue. BTW, is there a crisis help line for a nation who has thoughts of, and seems to be making plans for, its demise? In my state, people who act like this are subect to the “Baker Act,” and are put in a safe place, for their own protection, at least for a few days.
The “Tyranny of the Minority” is upon us, and no longer just for “policital correctness” of speech anymore! Somehow Congress can pander to “The Minority” and not manage to address the real issues of the moment, and the future. Regardless of how we got here, the bottom line is money, in large sums, will flow out of our banks, to those overseas. How has it become a bad thing to keep the money in our economy when we can? The same people who want us to keep shifting our dollars overseas are the one who will crow about how large the trade deficits are each month, yet someone, for being the of the self-acclaimed (yes, you, jfk) most brilliant among us, will not manage to make this intellectual connection. Poor dumb me.
There we have it. 5 weeks more of only sightly lowered gas and diesel prices, that policy decisons that will yield actual energy products years from now couldn’t have possibly had an effect on. And, I’m sure after getting back, there will be a small matter of an FY 2009 Federal Budget that manages to become the issue to force the next stoppage of any constructive work by our elected officials, merely to help the press put out a story on how George Bush wrecked the country by not signing the budget.
My suggestion? I think we need to call Nancy Pelosi’s home home office, and that of Harry Reid, daily, or email, or fax and demand to know why they are not in Washington, DC right now, handling the business of the people.
I have often toyed with the idea of sending correspondence to all sorts of Congressional elected officials, regardless of their “district” or state designation. Why? My tax dollars pay them. They are appointed to handle the business of the people. By those indicators, I then am one of their employers. It sucks to have an employee give you the Hawaiian Freindship hand gesture all the time. Actually “The Majority” could quickly educate any one of those power hungry, tax “color that allows no other color to escape” holes, on just what would happen if they gave their supervisor/boss/employer the sign of not so brotherly love in reposnse to “I just need you to do the job I am paying you for” type of comment. I can imagine the next uttering, in the real world, would be words to the effect of “YOU’RE FIRED!” Now, in the “normal” cultural environment of PC, it’s the unspoken response of then making your life miserable to the point you then resign (for God knows we can’t fire anyone anymore for fear of a legion of lawyers coming around to retreive every email archived and wrecking your bottom line, when all you were doing was trying to keep a place of employment open for those who do want to return a day’s labor for a day’s pay). In the parallel universe of Congress, “The Majority” then do the “Animal House” frat rush thing….and allow them to pass more pay raises for their lack (rhymes with jack) of nothing for you, “The Majority.”
Somehow, when Congress garners a 9% approval rating, and still manages to have the incumbents keep their seats (and getting away with pointing at President Bush as the problem), I’m having a hard time “getting it,” but then, I cling to my guns and Bible in bitterness, as I go to work with great people in a cool job, every weekday, earning some good money and enjoying a relatively trouble free life.
Help me, please, I’m obvioulsy too dull to figure out why this is happening…
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Barack Obama is a candidate who wants a one-world government, it would appear from his comments and speeches. If we just look at his speech in Berlin, there are numerous examples that support his one-world view, and also many historical errors. I have enclosed the actual speech below.
The portions that support his one-world views are in red. My comments appear in blue.
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Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for welcoming me earlier today. Thank you Mayor Wowereit, the Berlin Senate, the police, and most of all thank you for this welcome.
I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen — a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world.
I know that I don’t look like the Americans who’ve previously spoken in this great city. [An obvious attempt to point out the fact that he is black, and therefore you must be racist if you don’t support him. ]
The journey that led me here is improbable. My mother was born in the heartland of America, but my father grew up herding goats in Kenya. His father — my grandfather — was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.[An attempt to show he comes from humble origins despite his being a wealthy intellectual elitist. Also, reminding everyone, another time, that he comes from a mixed-race family] >> Read more
Said Bear to the Right @ 2:19 pm Comments (0) | Permalink
So…Harry Reid…it’s only one step, but are you telling us that more than one step is a “too hard” for America? Yeah, we who went to the moon in a little over 8 years, we who are the engine of the World’s economy, the farmers for the planet, the innovators, who, with less than one percent of our own population, can provide freedom and protection, and disaster relief to the rest of the world.
And to Nancy Pelosi and “It won’t help for 10 years.” Guess what, just by setting the intention is having a major effect right now!
And she calls the President dumb? Well, I’m sure history will have the last laugh about her in this issue.
If you haven’t signed, go to American Solutions and sign up. Send the message to Congress.
Said xformed @ 9:45 pm Comments (0) | Permalink
BUT….if you have your fingers in your ears and are yelling “LALALALALALALALALALALALA!!!!!” for all you’re worth, you still won’t ever gain knowledge:
BTW, the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” petiton is up to 1,259,246 signatures. Short of the 3M, but moving that direction smartly!
I really like his statement:
It shows that is you’re a Congress dominated by trial lawyers, you know what the answer is to everything is: It’s a law suit, you just don’t know what the topic is yet.
As I drove into work today, scanning the gas price chages on my route, I realized how lawyers, for the sake of ever expanding their ability to make money, have become the catalyst for the great divisions in society, and…as I explore this topic further, I submit, in the World, but that’s a real essay in the percolator right now.
Sign the petiton today. Press Congress to act for the good of the survival of our economy, and that of ther rest of the World, too.
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