I have been MIA the last two weeks, to much work and to do at home in the nice Spring weather to spend time on the computer.
1) California Supreme court rules Prop 8 is a “legal” amendment but stating the only the term marriage is what was made illegal for same sex couples in California. This is a ruling I actual agree with. Marriage is a religious term and should be taken totally out of the Governments hands. The government should create a mutual support contract to be filed with a government agency to give the “marriage rights” to any two people who want to enter such a relationship. Also a dissolution of the mutual support contract form and process would be needed. No need for lawyers or courts. Just a notarized form.
A good legal analysis can be found here.
2) Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, A normal far left wing hack job who thinks that they no better than anyone else what is “good” and “just” for all without any regard for the actual law.
3) Government Motors is now bankrupt. Big shock here, a poorly managed company for the last 30 years that has a huge union presence so short and long term costs can’t be controlled. To bad it will result in a motor company which is fascist in nature, supposedly privately owned by run by the government.
4) Obama stumping for his health care plans passage this summer before the bill is even written. The plan is here but there are no specifics. Normal politics, talk, give speech, no substance and rush through a plan in the darkness of night that nobody can read or comprehend since a true debate of the bill will result in it being something a vast majority of US citizen’s do not want.
5) North Korea leaves the peace Armistice, blows up a nuclear weapon and tests some long range missiles, the US response, maybe we can get a harsher worded letter to be considered at the UN but no passed. While this is going on make statements that this is not tolerable and North Korea is a rogue state, yada yada yada, nothing changed in 20 years on this front.
Searching for a silver lining but do not see anywhere that people are being told to be responsible for themselves and live with the consequences of poor decision making. Another couple of weeks on the road to fascism.
The US federal government is in the process of bankrupting the world as accounting practices that the federal government does not allow private companies to use are used to hide the real government debt. This cuts across party lines and the end of liberty and personnel freedom in the world.
The total economic of the world based on the ponzi scheme known as government spending is close (if not already beyond) the tipping point. Paper currency will be virtually worthless since the governments that print them have no possible way to back their value.
Government spending is the problem and drastic government spending cuts (real cuts not decreasing the rate of increase) of 50 to 90+% in some cases are required.
As the Obama administration pushes through Congress its $800 billion deficit-spending economic stimulus plan, the American public is largely unaware that the true deficit of the federal government already is measured in trillions of dollars, and in fact its $65.5 trillion in total obligations exceeds the gross domestic product of the world.
The total U.S. obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits to be paid in the future, effectively have placed the U.S. government in bankruptcy, even before new continuing social welfare obligation embedded in the massive spending plan are taken into account.
The real 2008 federal budget deficit was $5.1 trillion, not the $455 billion previously reported by the Congressional Budget Office, according to the “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government” as released by the U.S. Department of Treasury
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“The federal government is bankrupt,” Williams told WND. “In a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary.”
Assuming 330 million Americans, 65.6 trillion debt is equal to $198,484 per American. This is on top of any state, local or personnel debt.
If you want to really understand the what the future holds and the consequences read the A Citizen’s Guide published by the treasury department.
It would be nice if government would live by this motto in the report.
Using the government accounting methods that if any private business used, the CEO, CFO and board of directors would be in jail, here are some tables from the report on future predictions.
These projects do not take into account the money spent since Oct 1, 2008. TARP and the new stimulus plan are on top of this staggering debt.
Americans need to hold our employees the elected government officials responsible. New blood is needed.
This is a link to a Juan Williams article in the Wall Street Journal. I have never been a great fan of Juan but sometimes the best comments come from the least expected places.
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If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else — fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism — then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors. To treat the first black president as if he is a fragile flower is certain to hobble him. It is also to waste a tremendous opportunity for improving race relations by doing away with stereotypes and seeing the potential in all Americans.
Yet there is fear, especially among black people, that criticism of him or any of his failures might be twisted into evidence that people of color cannot effectively lead. That amounts to wasting time and energy reacting to hateful stereotypes. It also leads to treating all criticism of Mr. Obama, whether legitimate, wrong-headed or even mean-spirited, as racist.
This is patronizing. Worse, it carries an implicit presumption of inferiority. Every American president must be held to the highest standard. No president of any color should be given a free pass for screw-ups, lies or failure to keep a promise.
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When fellow Democrats contending for the nomination rightly pointed to Mr. Obama’s thin proposals for dealing with terrorism and extricating the U.S. from Iraq, they were drowned out by loud if often vacuous shouts for change. Yet in the general election campaign and during the transition period, Mr. Obama steadily moved to his former opponents’ positions. In fact, he approached Bush-Cheney stands on immunity for telecommunications companies that cooperate in warrantless surveillance.
There is a dangerous trap being set here. The same media people invested in boosting a black man to the White House as a matter of history have set very high expectations for him. When he disappoints, as presidents and other human beings inevitably do, the backlash may be extreme.
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There is a lot more at stake now, and to allow criticism of Mr. Obama only behind closed doors does no honor to the dreams and prayers of generations past: that race be put aside, and all people be judged honestly, openly, and on the basis of their performance.
President Obama deserves no less.
If what Juan Williams writes about comes true that it will prove that the liberal media is doing its job. If it is 4 years of fawning over the first black president then the media is demonstrating the prejudice and racism that a lot of conservatives believe exists in liberalism.
I agree with Juan that a lack of critical analysis of President Obama policies and the media continually challenging every decision he makes is a necessity, anything less does a disservice to America.
The National Retail Federation reported on Monday that more than 41 million people had not started holiday shopping, and those that had were further from being finished than they usually are by the third week of December. In New York, 60 percent of merchants surveyed by the Retail Council of New York State said their sales in the past two weeks were below their sales last year for the same period.
On the other hand there was a traffic jam leaving a local mall yesterday. I was at this mall area about noon on Saturday and the traffic was heavy and there very few empty parking spots and there was a line of cars waiting to enter the mall.
Traffic jams plagued Eastview Mall in Victor on Saturday night, with delays of up to three hours reported, according to the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office.
The cause: an unusually large influx of last-minute shoppers.
“It’s just volume-related,” said sheriff’s Sgt. George Killian. “(The traffic) is the worst that I’ve ever seen it up there, and I’ve been on the job 25 years.”
The 911 dispatch center was overloaded with calls reporting the backup.
Eight to 10 deputies controlled traffic at Route 96 and High Street and at Route 96 and Turk Hill Road.
Mall security officers patrolled the parking lot, where no serious incidents were reported, Killian said.
Delays were down to less than an hour as of 7 p.m.
Which is it, terrible sales or huge traffic jams at the mall because so many people are shopping?
Since I can see the huge lines at the store checkouts and the people waiting to enter and exit the parking lots I will go with the latter that the sales are not as bad as the whining that is occurring.
Maybe the retailers are setting themselves up to ask for a bailout from the Obama administration, retailers are an important cog in the US economy. Having them close would be catastrophic to the economy just like the mortgage brokers, banks, insurance companies, auto companies, etc… they need a government loan to get them through the lean times.
Media: If, as they say, it’s journalists who write history’s first draft, then future texts will be riddled with errors about the origins of the subprime disaster, teaching future leaders the wrong lessons.
Read the entire article for a better understanding the media bias towards Republicans and especially Bush. Bush has given up his free market principles if he ever had any but the blatant omission of history by the media is a major part of the reason why American is in such long term trouble.
The big media want to be invited to all the right parties in DC and NYC so they can’t report truth since they would miss out on the parties and the illusion that they have power and are important.
This man is the one who decided on his own that the wire taping of the Bush administration was illegal so he decided he is above the law and now is complaining he is being investigated.
He should be being prosecuted and put in jail for releasing confidential information not even being considered being looked at as a potential hero.
If there was a debate in the justice department about a above top secret projects legality it should have been discussed and debated internally. If the bosses say drop it, an employee then has two choices, drop it and keep working or quit and never mention why. The 3rd illegal option of going to the press should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and if found guilty the person should be put in jail for as long as possible under the law.
There are right and wrongs, the ends do not justify the means. Doing the right things only matters when no one knows you are doing the right thing.
No entity can contribute to a political candidate for a general election which cannot vote for said candidate.
This means that only individual contributors can donate money to political candidate.
No business $, no Lobbyist $, no Union Dues $, No out of district contributions.
For the general election of a president only 20% of contributions may be spent outside of the state in which the contribution was collected on national advertising. 20% of the money collected in NY can be spent on a nationwide commercial purchase, no regional advertising with this 20% of the money.
Political parties are only allowed to spend money in the district the money was collected.
No collecting money in California for a Maine congressional candidate, no collecting money in Texas for a New York candidate.
This would make the congress members more responsible to their constituent since they can’t rely on people other than their voters for campaign contributions and it would make all states important in presidential elections since every state would need to have money collected to advertise in that state.
Do Americans want to be tolerant of the way others lead their life?
Do Americans want more efficient government that only does what is necessary?
I think both of these answers are yes and yes.
The majority of Americas do not want to intrude on others way of life but in return we do not want to be forced to accept others intruding on our way of life. If you do not like what is on the TV or Radio, change the channel. If you do not like the business practices of a company or a store do not purchase their product or go to that store.
I think that the majority of Americans want freedom and the ability to be allowed to try and be successful. We know we are not guarantted success but we want to be allowed the opportunity.
This is America I know and I hope will continue to exist.
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