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President Obama is obviously a great orator.  This works well for his position because most who watch are taken by delivery, not content.  If he makes the majority feel bad enough, then his solutions have to be done because it is a desperate situation.   Unemployment was three times worse in the great depression but if Obama makes it seem as bad now, “anything” is better. 

   If you were to spend $2 million dollars a day, every day, and started 2,009 years ago, you would not have spent as much as Obama’s cronies have spent in the last two months.  TWO MONTHS!! Staggering!  More is yet to come.  The solution is to give business incentive to grow and to stop talking about how bad it is which only makes it worse.  Neither has been done in all of this. 

   Speculation is based on fear.  Fear moves the markets down, the price of oil up.  This might happen or that might happen.  Ninety-eight percent or more of everything we worry about, NEVER happens.  God addresses our anxiety in scripture for a reason.  One of the reasons is so that we are not susceptible to fear mongering and as a result allow bad decisions to be made on our behalf.  Unfortunately, we are allowing the bad decisions.  The President hedges his bets by saying it’s going to take time and it will be a while before we see the results.  He’s just hoping that it will take at least four more years before the public realizes we’ve been sold a bill of goods that will result in nothing.  He’s a carnival barker, more eloquent perhaps, but the medicinal product he’s trying to sell is just as worthless and unfortunately more harmful.  Absolute power still corrupts absolutely.  The balance of power is gone.  Gridlock is far better than this.  If we did nothing, in the end, the capitalistic system would eventually right itself.  If we did the right things it would happen faster but these wrong things are going to do nothing but slow it down.  Since he obviously wants to be re-elected, perhaps that’s the design anyway.

We haven’t spent enough, so let’s spend $410 Billion dollars more.  WHY?  Because the Democrats want to.  $700 Billion Bank bailout, $800 Billion “stimulus” package, $410 Billion dollar spending bill (at least it’s the first one named correctly), and by the way let’s give $900 million to Gaza, our best ally’s worst enemy to rebuild.  Is someone nuts?  Or is just the majority party nuts?  Obviously, yes they are.  We didn’t have the money for the first bailout.  Where are the cries of inflating the national debt that would accompany anything close to this for a Republican President?  And while we’re at it, let’s put ourselves in the position to have to keep begging the Chinese for more money and to not call the loans they’ve already given us.  Good job Hillary!  That should give all a sense of security.  Trusting the Chinese.  This is just in the first two months.  At this rate we will be printing enough money to paper the world and that’s all it will be worth.  Wallpaper.

Finally some people with common sense are beginning to catch on to the ridiculousness that is Washington.  How many rescues will it be?  GM and Chrysler are already back.  Some banks are beginning to make noises of needing more.  Where is the money coming from?  It doesn’t exist.  We are making it as we go and the economy is not responding, except getting worse.  Many people are beginning to become concerned, as they should.  A backlash is beginning to take shape, as it should.  Taxation without representation is not a far fetched concept.  How can the government expect our citizens to live within their means when our government does not and hasn’t for a long time?

  The governor of Wisconsin presented his new budget with cuts to combat a five billion plus deficit and yet the budget increased by five billion.  How can you have cuts in a budget and yet have the budget increase nearly ten per cent?  This is governmental math and unless we, the people, stop voting just for people who give us what we individually want instead of what is good for the union, it will not change.

The “Fairness” Doctrine is raising its ugly head again because the left doesn’t like descent and would prefer censorship over free speech.  The issue of the public airways is simple, listenership equals advertising dollars, equals viable programming.   Only the most liberal of towns like Madison, Wisconsin have a wide enough listenership to justify liberal talk.  Everywhere else, conservative talk shows garner enough listenership to financially justify their existence.  Ask Al Franken.  To force radio stations to carry programming that will not generate enough patronage in the name of providing equal time means that radio stations will not carry either, which is the point anyway.  The left wants to get rid of the opposition any way they can.  The reason liberal talk shows don’t get listeners is because liberals can get their information from virtually every other media source in existence, so they don’t need to hear it too.  President Obama has said that without Fox News, he would have been up at least five more points going into the election.  Why is that?  It’s quite simple, Fox News was the only news outlet that asked the questions that needed to be asked about Obama; questioning his associations with Wright, Ayers, Acorn, his comments about Western Pennsylvania voters and on and on.  Remember, he evicted reporters from his campaign plane who questioned his projected policies instead of bowing to the one.  The tolerant, compassionate left is only tolerant and compassionate when you agree.  I have unposted reaponses to prove it.

In the never ending trip into the ridiculous and dangerous, efforts are being increased to allow illegal aliens to have driver’s certificates and insurance.  The push for certificates is to circumvent the Federal REAL ID law designed to prevent states issuing driver’s licenses to anyone without first verifying their immigration status.  These people are illegal.  Apparently, the word has earned a new definition as the battle over “rights” has been waged.  I do not understand why anyone, given the circumstances in the world, would think that it is a good idea to have millions of undocumented people in our country and now giving them the opportunity to have mobility in addition to obscurity.  I suppose a written certificate would give some documentation as to identity and location but given the current limited pursuit of illegals, it will not serve to reduce their risk to our national security.  Has anyone noticed that up to eighty percent of the money earned by illegals finds its way out of our economy and back to their homeland?  Do you think that the loss of that money might reduce some spending in our economy,  not to mention that their continued illegal residency drains billions of dollars in resources from our health and public school systems? Plus it eliminates jobs taken up by illegals that at least some citizens would be able to fill, even if it were as a last resort for them, still a job.  In our Republic, the majority should be followed in the policies towards illegals.  Every survey says their “rights” should be reduced.

   We can’t expect Mexico to stop it, the influx of American dollars keeps their economy afloat.  We can’t expect Democrats to do it because it is worth too many votes.  We can’t build enough walls.  There is only one solution.  Remove incentives for illegals to be here.  Give an opportunity for those in this country already to formally register as aliens with the possibility of citizenship as long as they fulfill citizenship obligations that every legal immigrant has done.  They should be removed but I don’t believe that is possible.  However, any that do not register within a prearranged time frame should to be pursued and prosecuted, perhaps by a bounty system.  Any new arrivals after the deadline shoud also be prosecuted.  Any business hiring illegals should be fined and prosecuted.  If we don’t get serious, the influx will never stop and it desperately needs to.  The golden goose is dying.

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner held a long awaited news conference today.  His nomination to the position in October sparked a nearly five hundred point surge in the Dow.  However, his first appearance in his official capacity had a nearly one hundred and eighty degree impact as the Dow fell about three hundred and eighty points.  I have no doubt that he is an intelligent man, which makes his excuse for not paying thousands of dollars of taxes because his use of TurboTax didn’t tell him he owed them a lame excuse at best.  He came to the Treasury Department form the position of president of The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Is it unreasonable to assume that he has been critically aware of the banking industry’s problems long before taking office?  Yet, he was unable to give any definitive indication of what the Obama team is going to do with the second half of the first $700 billion dollar bank bailout.  Don’t worry, your money is safe with us and whatever we do with it will be just fine.  We’ll get back to you.  Great!

   Democrats blame Republicans and visa versa.  No oversight from who?  The evil Bush, of course.  I could have sworn that the crisis came to a head during the last two years and who had Congressional oversight?  The point really is everybody screwed up.  Very few in Congress can be trusted and the market reflected that today.  Special interest groups/lobbyists influence both side of the isle but for the President to stand in front of the nation and say that the Senate passed bill had no earmarks is absurd.

   However, perhaps even more absurd was a question posed in the highly scripted news conference leading with something to the effect of, “if you can only successfully get a few Republicans to agree on something so easy as giving money back to taxpayers and creating jobs, how are you going to do when the really hard things like health care reform and the like come up?”  It is absolutely the first time ever creating a $826 billion dollar bill paid for with funny money that doesn’t exist could be characterized as easy.  If this is really a no brainer, and it absolutely isn’t, than we are in very big trouble.

It sure seems like politics as usual to me, especially considering the campaign for change.  Go to a job hungry area to speak to people desperate for help, no matter in what form, and tell them how bad the opposition party is for their petty politicking.  Pass the bill now.  What President Obama doesn’t say is that the vast number of potential government jobs won’t even come on line for one to two years, that government jobs will tend to stay on when the “stimulus ” money is gone so they’ll have to be supported by tax hikes in either the local, state or property tax and that this bill doesn’t solve any of the problems in the economy.  It sounds like trust me because I’m from the government and I want to help.  That phrase has been the brunt of the joke for decades for a reason.  The cover headline on Newsweek should send chills down anyone’s spine with a brain attached to it, “We’re All Socialists Now!”  Have you been to France to see the beacon of socialism?  You don’t want to live there unless you have a lot of money.  If you don’t have it when you go, you won’t be able to earn it.  If the headline is true, you wont want to live here either.  It was whimpered during the campaign.  We better start shouting it now so hopefully the electorate wakes up before it’s too late.  Socialism doesn’t work.  It never has and it never will. 

   The opposition party opposes it because it is a BAD bill, in either form House or Senate.  The President wants to have a pork roast at your expense.  The meat will be hard to swallow and it won’t taste very good, ever.

It doesn’t matter what party or what persons are responsible.  How can the American people trust our own government, when the Treasury Department gives $78 Billion more than it was supposed to during the dispersal of the first stimulus package.  Now the Department is run by a guy who doesn’t pay his taxes unless exposed.  Can you really name one person in this current administration we can trust?  Another cabinet appointee’s family hasn’t paid their taxes until she was nominated.  Suddenly her husband “found” that he still owed past taxes and paid them just before she was nominated.  MIraculous discovery, don’t you think?  This would have to be a record number of nominees with some kind of trouble but not the two Republicans he has in his cabinet, at least not yet.  Who knows what is yet to come?

   “Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”  The saying, often used but because of overuse with diminished significance, is still true.  There are currently no checks and balances in our government because both Houses of Congress and the President are all from the same party.  The “stimulus” package is the first example of absolute power run amok.  I have heard no objective evaluator of the package say that it is a good idea or a bill that will do what it is supposed to do.  The President is doing a good job of going through the motions of an attempt at bi-partisanship but without any serious attempt at action, just appearance.

   Seventy-eight billion dollars given without a vote of Congress, given without oversight.  How can anyone make a seventy-eight billion dollar “mistake?”  There is no one in power to stop the madness except us.  Call your Congressmen and Senators, particularly your Senators.  Scream bloody murder.  It is still supposed to be “government for the people, by the people” but if we are silent we have no one to blame but ourselves.  Anyone who believes that this bill is going to help the little guy or create any jobs other than government jobs is either not reading or is smoking something really funny.

President Obama is accusing the Republican members of Congress of being partisan and continuing the same old rhetoric that the electorate wants to end.  It’s a great time to take this approach.  He continues to submit that the end of our economy is near without the “stimulus” package that isn’t.  The liberal press keeps hammering the same approach and unfortunately many Americans are buying it.  WAKE UP PEOPLE!!  The only thing this estimated $920 Billion dollar package will stimulate is inflation, debt and more votes from those receivers of the dough, in the next election.  How can opposition be partisan, when some of his own party are opposed to the bill?  Ironically the hands reaching across the isle are trying to amend the bill and get rid of all the junk that does nothing to put Americans back to work.

   President Obama, you said you were going to bring change to Washington.  So far the change has been trying to pass the most obviously worthless spending ever.  How can an intelligent man completely miss the point?  Republicans are opposed to this bill on principle not politics.  Finally, conservatives are standing up for conservative principles.  If we had been doing this over the past four years, we wouldn’t have a Democratic President and at least one of the Houses of Congress would still be Republican controlled.  We have always been a right of center nation when conservatives don’t do dumb things.

   While on the subject of dumb, can someone please explain to Nancy Pelosi that we don’t have 500,000 million jobs in America total, so how can we lose that many jobs?  And while on the subject of principle, President Obama has done it again with his nomination of David Ogden, who is opposed to protecting children from online porn and in favor of anything Playboy.  Remember our character is formed by those we associate with and the books we read.  President Obama seems to have some pretty scary associates.  I hope he chooses better things to read.

“Free” money makes people do some very strange things.  How else do you explain bonuses to bank executives who work for banks that took money from the bailout in December because they were failing.  That would be the first bailout.

   There is no justification for paying bonuses to executives who played their harps while Rome was burning.  Employees, if they did the job they were assigned to do and did it well, should be treated differently.  The buck of failure should stop with the bank administration.  Exorbitant bonuses should stop period.

   President Obama said today that no executive from an institution using bailout money should be paid over $500,000 a year.  In almost any situation, I could not agree with government intervention in private business.  However, if you need to take “free” money to hold you over and don’t demonstrate the responsibility incumbent with borrowing public money to survive, this expectation strikes me as reasonable.  Have you ever noticed how many laws are the result of irresponsibility.  If we don’t police ourselves, than someone else needs to and in this case banks and car companies have not shown the ability to police themselves.  Sad but true.  I think my face is going to crack.