NFL players give up and kill themselves

I was just reading about the boating accident down in Florida where the ex-UW linebacker, now with the Raiders and the lineman for the Lions, along with a College football player and a personal trainer were out fishing when their boat capsized in some rough water while they were anchored. The water was about 60 degres, brisk but survivable for a long time.

It seems that within 2 to 4 hours one of the NFL players took off his life vest and let himself be swept out to sea, not long after that the other NFL player did the same thing. Later on the college player saw a light in the distance and decided to swim for it, so he took off his life vest and swam for it leaving behind the personal trainer who was holding on to the boat and wearing a life vest.

I am blown away at how the NFL players basically committed suicide. They were not accidentally killed, and no one should feel sorry for them. They deljavascript:void(0)iberately ended their lives. I was thinking about this last night and incredible this is. I know that there is absolutely no way I would give up after a few hours in the water wearing a life vest. I mean, they were not alone there was 4 of them to keep each other's spirits up. The college kid was just dumb to remove his jacket so he could swim faster. What was he thinking.

I was trying to come up with a reason for the NFL players doing what they did. Could it be that these to physical specimens, these undoubted high school standout athletes, college studs and NFL players didn't know what to do on their own? Could it be that they were so use to having people coddle them and tell them how great they are, and doing everything for them that they lost the survival instinct that the common everyday person has? Is it any coincidence that the lone survivor was the one person that worked for a living and didn't have an entourage waiting on them hand and foot?

This tragedy illustrates a problem that our society has, and that is not promoting the competitive instincts in our children, not making them work hard for everything, putting them up on pedestals because they can dunk a ball, or hit a baseball, or because they are just big athletes. Most of the professional athletes have not had to do anything on their own their entire lives. They have people to do it for them. Is it any wonder that when these guys are left to decide and act in their own behalf that they so often come up short and make bad decisions? I think not. Look at all the athletes that get in trouble with the law, all the while making millions of dollars a year and yet they still go out and make stupid decisions. And in the case of these two NFL players, when faced with life's greatest challenge, they didn't know what to do and took the easy way out. What a shame, all they had to do was be part of the team in the water and stick it out and they would have survived just like the personal trainer did.

Obama's the King of Earmarks over 1.1 Billion worth

Don't you wish that you could spend money that you don't have like your elected officials are doing?

If you have Excel you can see all the earmarks, value and who wanted it. There were only a handful of responsible people that asked for no earmarks, and they are true Americans. The rest should be run out of DC.

Obama's Laundry List of Earmarks

Wealthy people and fair taxation for everyone, yes, even those that get a free ride.

There are many people out there that think it is okay to tax the really wealthy, because after all, they have so much money and it isn't fair to those of us that don't have a lot. We have discussed this notion on my page here, and that is not really the idea of this note.

I wanted to point out that the wealthiest 5% of Americans own basically 95% of everything in our country when it comes to wealth. They are the ones that own all the companies that we all depend on for work. They own the Farms that we rely on for food. They manufacture the things we buy, and employ millions of workers. They are the ones that give tens of billions of dollars to charitable causes every year. They fund community outreach programs that help the needy. They give globally to causes to help people around the world, and they pay 60% of all the taxes that are used to operate out governments and provide essential services locally. All the entitlement programs are made possible because of these mega rich people.

Obama now wants to take away their tax deductions for their properties. He wants to raise their tax rates as well. He wants to tax businesses for their carbon usage. He wants to take away there deductions for their charitable contributions.

When I was filing my taxes this year I noticed that you can no longer deduct cash contributions. You have to have a form from some organization. I think it was gone last year as well, but I can't remember. You use to be able to write-off $200 I think it was per year without documentation. I wonder whose bright idea it was to eliminate that tax credit, hmm. I think I know but the effect is I am sure people give less out of pocket to the homeless people. When you take away credits like this people do remember. It is an incentive for people to give, because they can rationalize that they can write it off and actually get it back in a way. But when you get rid of it and people realize this, they give less than they would normally, it is human nature. Yes some will give the same because it makes us feel good, but was it really necessary?

What about the millions and millions of Americans that enjoy all the services that Federal and Local governments have to offer, yet, they pay ZERO income taxes. Is it fair that they don't share in the burden as is a familiar liberal phrase going around. We should all share in the pain of the economy shouldn't we. Why is it we think it is all right that people don't pay anything and yet we expect others to pay for them?

I know that I would have no problem paying a flat percentage of my income every year to the government. Why not do away with all the deductions and credits, period. Everyone just pays 15% of their income and we are done with it. One page income tax sheet. Granted all those tax preparers would be out of a job. Hell, our employers could be taking this tax out as they already do and there would be no need for people to file tax returns at all. Why should someone with 5 kids get to pay a lower income tax than someone with no kids? Married versus single.

As usual this idea will never be implemented because certain groups in our country would not be able to accomplish their agendas with this method of taxation. It would be very difficult to redistribute the wealth of our country.

Most liberals are really Moderate Conservatives

Answer honestly yes or no, no qualifiers, yes or no, be truthful with yourself.

1. Do you believe that we are all created equal?
2. Do you believe we all have the ability to succeed?
3. Do you believe that people should reap the reward of hard work?
4. Do you believe that people should be held accountable for their own actions?
5. Do you believe it is wrong to punish people for being successful?
6. Do you believe that people should not spend more than they make?
7. Do you believe that a woman has the right to chose to have a child?
8. Do you believe America is a great country?
9. Do you believe in the American worker and their ingenuity?
10. Do you believe it is wrong to overly tax companies/people?

Can you be honest and answer the questions truthfully? For most, not all, this will seem very silly the answers are so obvious.

No. 7 is on this list to point out something to people that are on the left and that is that many on the right can easily answer yes to this question. Not every person that votes with the GOP is against abortion, many are, but not all. Conservatives would rather not have it out there, but they accept the reality that it is here to stay and the overwhelming majority don't have a problem with it. They would just like a few limits placed on it here and there, which most liberals also agree with.

20-30% hardcore Leftwing Liberals
20-30% hardcore Rightwing Conservatives
40-60% Middle of the road Moderates

At any given time the above percentages are pretty accurate. If you use 30% for left/right and 40% Moderates, that means Obama won 22% of the 40% of middle roaders. Obama achieved 52.87% of the popular vote Okay, fine. They drank the Kool-Aid and believed in the change that never came. McCain had 42.something.

If you took away about 5% of the Moderates that voted for Obama and gave them to the GOP candidate, it would have been a dead heat. So really we are talking about 5-6% of the moderate vote that has to be convinced one way or the other. Since they didn't a conservative choice it was all too easy to vote for the messiah Obama with his message of hope and change and fairy tales. Now that people are seeing that Obama was just a slick teleprompter reading used car salesman, I don't think it will be so easy next time for him to con a nation, especially after he has decimated the wealth of our country for four years.

Why Obama won

A friend of mine was pointing out that Obama won so that must mean that most of the country is liberal, to which I replied:\

Let me break it down for you one time. John McCain is a moderate, some would say he isn’t much of a conservative at all, but I digress. The GOP ran a campaign trying to appeal to the middle and the left. Why do you think the conservative talk radio shows all hated McCain from the beginning but made due after he had the nomination? Barack Obama ran a campaign of change and middle income tax cuts, which is clearly a conservative campaign. Given that the supposed conservative candidate ran as a liberal and the liberal candidate ran as a Conservative it is no wonder he won. So no, your premise is sort of misguided. Obama ran about as middle of the road and leaning to the right as he could, because he knew he would get all the liberal vote, because true liberals will NEVER, and I mean NEVER vote for a Republican candidate. This is about as certain as death and taxes, period.

There was a gal on TV and the host asked her if Obama did a terrible job if she would vote for the GOP candidate and her response was no, cementing the point. For liberals it is all about being in control. They don’t care if the person that is in control is a total idiot and doing a bad job, they just want the power. History bears this out repeatedly. Oh, by the way, plenty of republicans voted for Obama. Republicans have no problem voting their conscious, they are not about the power, but doing what is best for the country, and many in the republican party did not want McCain to win.

The reason Obama won was because he told people what they wanted to hear. It really is that simple. You could ask 10 different people from all over the US what Obama is going to do and they would give you 10 different answers because he appealed to what they wanted to hear, so everyone had a different idea. He said he was about change and hope. He sold them a bill of goods. He preached that Bush was bad and was to blame, which anyone that knows anything about the mess we are in will tell you is a joke, but Bush Hating is a disease and many are afflicted with it. It is a very slick technique in politics, find a common enemy and then blame everyone’s plight on that enemy. Hitler used the same technique to rise to power as well, the big lie.

Since Obama has been in office he has changed almost none of the Bush policies that were in place the last 4 years or more. If they were so bad why didn’t he change them all? Because the truth is they weren’t, that’s why.

Obama has the distinction of presiding over the worst ever first six weeks of any presidency when it comes to the market. The market is a forward predictor and is almost never wrong, so what does that tell you about Obama? Be in denial, refuse to see the truth, it is up to you, but the facts are the facts, no emotion just the facts. I believe Obama will go down in history as the worst president we ever had, and Jimmy Carter is jumping for joy, because he can move to No. 2.

Local government vs. Federal

After reading a comment left on one of my other notes, I thought I would point out something that may not be clear. Local government, city and state, are responsible to the people of their jurisdiction as it were. The people that live in these areas get to vote on what they want their governments doing, they have representation, hopefully, and they can use referendums on the ballot if they want to change something. These things affect local matters. Local matters are police, fire, education, welfare issues. The local government taxes us with property taxes, sales taxes, taxes on rental cars, hotels, businesses,workman's comp and the list goes on and on and on, oh, let us not forget our gas tax, one of the highest if not the highest in the country.

Big Government, The Federal government is tasked with defending the country, taking care of the ederly via Social Security and Medicare, and if you have some a disability to where you can't take care of yourself you qualify for Social Security as well. Watching over the Securities and Banking industries to ensure they are operating as they are supposed to. OOPS, they didn't do that one too well did they, hence the crisis now. There is no provision in the Constitution for the government to be running the Education system in our country, none. There is no provision for our Government to be subsidizing (giving handouts) to farmers and other companies. Government had a very narrow scope of involvement in our lives when it was written.

Universal healthcare, Nationalized banks, Corporate bailouts, Bailouts for irresponsible people are not part of what the Federal Government is supposed to be doing.

Why should someone living in Washington State have to pay for saying a Marsh Mouse in San Francisco? Shouldn't California be responsible for their own State? Or about sending money to some state so they can have a Tea Cup Museum. Why should we have to pay for a Nevada History museum to be build in Harry Reid's state? Or how about a high speed rail between Disneyland and Las Vegas, why should we pay for that? This is your BIG government at work spending money that hasn't been made yet without regard to the consequences to our country. Why do they do this you ask? Why, well it is very easy, because they can. They don't really care about the true well-being of our country. The more people dependent on government the more votes they will have. They have kept the minority vote in the their back pocket for 50 years. They dangle the carrot out there filling their heads with hope and dreams and Change we can believe in, and then they give them the same old song and dance.

Rise up and be pissed off. If you don't think that we are all in this together, you better think again. The bread lines were filled with republicans and democrats and socialists and every other political party. When we fail we all fail together, and when we succeed we all succeed. Capitalism is what paid for all the liberal programs that you dems like so much. If you take away the income, you can keep on spending. It is easy to see why Democrats are against tax cuts though, judging by Obama's nominees most of the democrats have given themselves self-imposed tax cuts and they just don't pay their taxes.

Decline of the American Spirit

How much better off do you think we would all be as a society if parents started telling their children that if you want something you have to work for it. And if you don't get it, well, that is life. We are all born equal, but what we achieve in life is up to us, not our government, our employer, our friends or family. I have raised 3 children, the last of which just finished high school a year ago, and it simply was amazing to me the things that she was told at her high school by counselors, and from college recruiters. They blow so much smoke up these kids asses it is scary.

We have raised a generation of children that think it is their God given right to succeed. All they have to do is get up in the morning. Over that past couple years fewer and fewer high school seniors are even looking for work. It fell below 50% for the first time ever in the last couple years. When I was a child if you weren't good enough to play, you didn't get to play, period, end of story. You got to be on the team and you got to practice and you had the opportunity to better yourself. Cream rises to the top. Nowadays, we don't keep score, and little johnny gets to play regardless of his skills or ability. He never has to practice, there is no reason to try and better himself because he is going to play regardless. A generation of entitlement.

We just elected someone who promised change and hope, and then he turns around and expands all these different entitlement programs. Can't pay that home you shouldn't have bought to begin with, that's okay, we will bail you out. Change and hope, I don't think so. We are just going to create more people that rely on the government. The end result is you destroy the American spirit of achievement. You take away any incentive to better yourself through hardwork. Imagine that there were people that actually though Obama was going to buy them cars and houses when he got elected, because they didn't have them and that is what they thought he had promised during the campaign.

Our country was built on the successes of the individual, not on the government. History has taught us very clearly that government is not the solution, it is the problem.

Teach your children to rely on themselves, achieve, work hard and prosper. People will succeed and people will fail, that is the way of life. We don't need to be the United Welfare States of America.

Politics and Religion

I think that it is interesting that so many people in our country are afraid to discuss politics or religion. I understand why, but it is curious nonetheless. Our society has devolved to the point that nobody respects anybody if they don't agree with them. People are unyielding in their points of view and cannot fathom the other side of a discussion.

I myself have no problems discussing anything, because I don't get emotionally attached to the subject. I try and discuss facts as much as possible, things that are historically accurate. I try not to blindly follow the party line on anything. I can respect someone else's point of view. The sad thing is we don't teach our children to be able to have discussions, debates. Once upon a time in America we taught debate in high school. People were taught how to take either side of an issue and make an argument in support of it, and against it. Nowadays people can't stand to hear the other side, let alone try and learn from it.

During the campaign I used to love asking Obama and Gregoire supporters why are they voting for their candidate, and it was very interesting to hear the responses. I would then ask them pointed questions on how their candidates were going to address very specific issues, and they would give me the party line, but when I asked very specific questions, they usually would not answer and instead move on to another party line. Most of the people I talked to couldn't, or didn't know how to defend their positions. They just blindly spouted the CNN, NBC, MSNBC lines they heard over and over and over.

If we are respectful, and stick to facts, not emotion, we can learn from the discussion and yes, we can change minds.

Unfortunately, our society only learns by trial and error, of which we are experiencing on a very grand scale right now. Everybody wants the country to succeed and have the economy take off upward, but dreaming and hoping just isn't going to get the job done. That is why I take a stand and voice my opinion in the hope that I could open just one pair of eyes to the reality of the situation.

So, please, feel free to express yourself. I will take no offense for the discussion is far too important to shy away from. We all need to be proactive. I say kick them all out and let's start over, term limits for all. New blood, new ideas.

Obama's address to Congress

I am beginning to think Obama can't help just talking out his ass.

OBAMA: "We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before."

THE FACTS: Oil imports peaked in 2005 at just over 5 billion barrels, and have been declining slightly since. The figure in 2007 was 4.9 billion barrels, or about 58 percent of total consumption. The nation is on pace this year to import 4.7 billion barrels, and government projections are for imports to hold steady or decrease a bit over the next two decades.

OBAMA: "We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages. It's a plan that won't help speculators or that neighbor down the street who bought a house he could never hope to afford, but it will help millions of Americans who are struggling with declining home values."

THE FACTS: If the administration has come up with a way to ensure money only goes to those who got in honest trouble, it hasn't said so.

OBAMA: "Regulations were gutted for the sake of a quick profit at the expense of a healthy market. People bought homes they knew they couldn't afford from banks and lenders who pushed those bad loans anyway. And all the while, critical debates and difficult decisions were put off for some other time on some other day."

THE FACTS: This may be so, but it isn't only Republicans who pushed for deregulation of the financial industries. The Clinton administration championed an easing of banking regulations, including legislation that ended the barrier between regular banks and Wall Street banks. That led to a deregulation that kept regular banks under tight federal regulation but extended lax regulation of Wall Street banks. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, later an economic adviser to candidate Obama, was in the forefront in pushing for this deregulation.

OBAMA: "In this budget, we will end education programs that don't work and end direct payments to large agribusinesses that don't need them. We'll eliminate the no-bid contracts that have wasted billions in Iraq, and reform our defense budget so that we're not paying for Cold War-era weapons systems we don't use. We will root out the waste, fraud and abuse in our Medicare program that doesn't make our seniors any healthier, and we will restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas."

THE FACTS: First, his budget does not accomplish any of that. It only proposes those steps. That's all a president can do, because control over spending rests with Congress. Obama's proposals here are a wish list and some items, including corporate tax increases and cuts in agricultural aid, will be a tough sale in Congress.

Second, waste, fraud and abuse are routinely targeted by presidents who later find that the savings realized seldom amount to significant sums. Programs that a president might consider wasteful have staunch defenders in Congress who have fought off similar efforts in the past.

OBAMA: "Thanks to our recovery plan, we will double this nation's supply of renewable energy in the next three years."

THE FACTS: While the president's stimulus package includes billions in aid for renewable energy and conservation, his goal is unlikely to be achieved through the recovery plan alone.

In 2007, the U.S. produced 8.4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources, including hydroelectric dams, solar panels and windmills. Under the status quo, the Energy Department says, it will take more than two decades to boost that figure to 12.5 percent.

OBAMA: "Over the next two years, this plan will save or create 3.5 million jobs."

THE FACTS: This is a recurrent Obama formulation. But job creation projections are uncertain even in stable times, and some of the economists relied on by Obama in making his forecast acknowledge a great deal of uncertainty in their numbers.

The president's own economists, in a report prepared last month, stated, "It should be understood that all of the estimates presented in this memo are subject to significant margins of error."

It is a shame that saying it is so will not make it so. Until the day that Liberals stop living in a fantasy world and spend more time living in the real world with real consequences to their actions, they will never solve any problem.

Obama, what a bust.

This presidency has been maybe the most disappointing in history. Usually people talk about the first 100 days. People are already talking about the honeymoon being over. Could this be because Obama has shown zero leadership thus far?

Why is this guy racking up so many miles on Air Force 1 campaigning all over the country trying to convince people that his plan is going to work. Why is he working so hard at convincing people? Is it because everyone on Planet Earth has proclaimed that it will fail at its projected goal?

They say you get what you pay for and with Obama it was an empty shirt.

Obama cutting the deficit, what a joke

Just listened to the messiah's press conference about how he pledges to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term in office. I wish I could drink/smoke whatever he is getting. He just authorized the largest increase in spending in the HISTORY of the US and he is talking about cutting the deficit. I wonder how many more times he is going to blame the last administration for his deficit troubles, considering how there is a report out today that says the SPENDULUS package is actually going to cost close to 4,000,000,000,000. Yes, that is 4 trillion dollars, and that is not taking into account the 2 trillion Geithner wants to spend on the banks.

In order to cut the deficit you have to do one of two things. You either have to cut spending, or increase your income. To increase income you have to RAISE TAXES.

Considering Obama just increased the size of government like never before it is not too likely he will find anything to cut. After all, he does belong to the party of big government, and bigger government is even better. This leaves one thing that they can do, RAISE TAXES, period. There are no other options. Anyone telling you differently is blowing smoke up your ass.

The one thing you CANNOT do in a recession/depression is RAISE taxes. Well, unless you want it to last years and years and years. You cannot stimulate the economy by raising taxes, you depress the economy. But then this does play into what many people fear, and that is a society totally dependent on the government for everything. Can you see the bread lines now?

Hopefully, more people will take an interest in what our government is doing so that in 3 more years they will know the truth of what has gone on, instead of just believing the smooth talking. Our country has its own people to blame. They are the ones that weren't paying attention over the last decade to know the truth. The blindly follow. Once upon a time in America, people paid attention. They researched and questioned. The media did real investigations and reported what was going on. Now, the media is suspect and cannot be trusted. Maybe the millions and millions that have, and will lose their jobs in the coming months will take some of the time they have to research why it all happened. They will see it was the ENTIRE governmental process that was to blame, NOT BUSH, not just the democrats and not just the republicans.

America is on the slow decline into the Abyss.

Foreclosure Bailout plan

Can you imagine getting paid $1,000 a year to make your mortgage payments on time? How about an extra $5,000 over five years just for paying your loan on time. Um, isn't that what you are supposed to be doing when you take a loan out from anybody. Only in the U.S.S.A (United Socialist States of America) would be come up with an idea to give people money for doing that they are supposed to be doing.

This is right out of Obama's Plan:

If Family C remains current on their payments, they will receive incentive payments up to $1,000 a year, or $5,000 over five years, which would go towards reducing the principle they owe.

On top of this the Obama's want to pay the mortgage servicers a fee of $1,000 to $3,000 if the people stay in their homes. Just remember some of these mortgage servicers are the same ones that gave these deadbeats the loans they are defaulting on now.

Only in America do we reward bad behaviour and actually incentivise it.

If you don't think America is swirling around the toilet bowl with Obama doing the paddling you better put down the crack pipe.

The race card

Well, we have been lowered to the point where Representative Clyburn (D-SC) has suggested that if you oppose the stimulus package you are a rascist. I was getting worried that the race cards had all been played, but thankgoodness we have a new use for them.

Racism will be alive and well in America as long as narrow-minded pinheads keep using it as an excuse for what ails them. Here we have a BLACK man in the President's office and yet, somehow if we disagree with him me must be racist. It must be nice being born with a nice little security blanket wrapped around your shoulders so that when life throws you a curveball you can cry racism. Things don't go your way, obviously, rascism. You don't get hired for that job, rascism. You don't get the big promotion, racism. You are black and somebody disagrees with you, racism.

It can never be that you didn't work hard enough, or you were right for the job, or you didn't deserve the promotion, or your ideas are constipated. no, no, no. It must be racism.

Why is it you don't hear every other ethnic group in America crying rascism like the black population? What makes you so special? Jews, Muslims, Asians, Hispanics, Europeans the list goes on and on and on. The success stories go on and on and on. We see prominent black people all over our society that had no problem achieving lofty goals and positions in our country. As a matter of fact, a black person has held the top spot in just about every job that anyone can achieve.

This is just another example of the Leftwing liberal party trying to pandor to the black vote that they take advantage of and manipulate every election cycle. Wise up people, maybe you should stand up for yourselves and stop relying on politicians to spoon feed you what you want to hear. After all, they have not done all that much for your causes for the last 30 years, but maybe you just haven't noticed, because they talk so smoothily.

Obama Spendoholic

Well, he is at it again. Another spending package. Why should people that are getting foreclosed on get to get money from the government? If they can't pay their mortgages now, why do we think they will pay them in a 6 months? a year? The new plan actually rewards people for being irresponsible. It gives them a $1,000 up front and then if they are still current on their new mortgages another $1,000 in a year. WTF is going on in America. Is anybody going to give us money for paying our mortgage on time? Answer, no.

Why should these people get to re-negotiate their loans? This is the new Liberal America where there are no consequences for personal conduct. Buy a house to big for your income, no problem, the government will sweeten the deal and lower your payments to 31% of your income level, and the governement will pick up the tab for any fees associated with lowering yoru rates. Get pregnant because you are too stupid to use contraception, no problem, just get an abortion. The liberal left will not be happy until the day when Americans are totally reliant on the governmente for their handouts. Ask California how well it is working in their state. Last check has California at $42 billion in debt, oopsy.

Hopefully the majority of people losing their jobs are liberals, after all, it was the liberal agenda of Clinton and the Democratic controlled congress that put us in this position to begin with. It is amazing that people have forgotten that when Ronald Reagan took office unemployment was almost 11% and prime interest rate was 21%. What did he do to get the economy going again?

CUT TAXES ACROSS THE BOARD, PERIOD. What happened after he did that? Well, the biggest economic boom this country had seen since World War II is what happened, but the Democrats wanted to spend money on all their liberal pet projects instead, and because of their egos and their ignorance you will suffer for the next 10 years probably, 4 for sure. Why is it you have not heard one economist say that Obama's plan as it is laid out will restart the economy and get things going forward and upward? Because it won't, that's why.

Thanks Microsoft

Just wanted to say thank you for screwing up Internet Explorer whatever edition you are on. It is nice having it crash almost every time I use it. Forget about using IE8 with Facebook. It will freeze every time you try and use the Java application to upload pictures. Use Firefox instead, much more stable browser.

Bill Maher is a Liar

I was on a commercial break from the show I was watching so I flipped on Larry King because he was supposed to have Cpt. Sullenberger on his show. Instead it is Bill Maher sitting there. Larry asked some question about the Spendulus Bill and Bill Maher responded why should anyone look at the Republicans Stimulus package when after all it was just a few months ago that they were in charge. LIAR

The Democrats have been in charge since 2006. The congress, NOT the president drives legislation coming out of the congress. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been in charge. The real question is why doesn't anyone give them credit for what they did to America the last 2 years. The economy was actually doing well for 6 years up to when they took control of congress again.

The Democrats were in charge of EVERY committee, that's both Banking committees. You remember the hearings they held a couple years ago where Barney Frank and that idiot Maxine Waters were saying that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were in great shape and there was no need for any investigation of them.

Bill Maher is your typical left wing Liberal. They can't rely on the truth of the record. They have to lie and distort, or outright rewrite history to escape what they have done to this country. Every time the liberals are in charge the country is weakened, see 9/11 and the Cole, the Embassy bombings, the mortgage crisis, the first Twin Tower bombings. Wake America before you find yourself with nothing.

The sickness that is our Government

Here we are in just one of the worst economic periods in our country and the people that we have voted into office to run the government are more concerned with lining their own pockets and the pockets of their friends, than they are in solving this problem.

During the 90s Japan tried to spend their way out of a recession. You might have heard Obama bring up how Japan's recession lasted 10 years. What you didn't hear Obama say was that the reason it lasted 10 years was because they tried to SPEND their way out of it, and it didn't work. It never works.

Historically our Government spends between 17-21% GNP. Whenever we spend over this amount unemployment rises with it. If you go back 30 years you will see that every time we have gone above these numbers the unemployment went up with it. After it got up to 24% or so and unemployment was above 10% and they got spending under control and brought it down to 17%GNP, guess what? the unemployment dropped to all time lows of 3 - 4%. The projections for GNP spending after the stimulus bill has been put into action and the bank bailouts and such could approach 39% which would be an ALL TIME high. Look for unemployment to push close to 15%.

The Democrats got what they wanted. This bill will not do much in the way of creating any jobs for up two years. The Republicans had a stimulus plan that was designed to create 6 million jobs, or about twice the Democrat Spendulus bill and it would have cost HALF as much. Imagine that two times as many jobs for half the cost, but there was a downside to the Republican bill, it wouldn't have paid off the unions and all the other people that the Democrats wanted to funnel money to.

The Congressional Budget office, a not-partisan organization, has estimated that the Stimulus bill over ten years will cost 3.7 Trillion dollars.

Obama and his pals have really screwed the United States by putting themselves first, and the country a distant second. It is a shame that we are all going to have to suffer so much to prove to the masses that voted for Obama and his cronies that you got sold a bill of goods that didn't exist. He was a smooth talker and you drank the Kool-aid. Wake up America. Big government hurts us all. Conservatism is the way out of a recession not liberalism. You cannot afford to be liberal in a recession.

Those that don't learn from History, have no Future.

Obama and Faith

It will be interesting to see how little the far left media in our country ignores the creation of a Faith-based inniatives office in the White House. I remember when President Bush suggested letting community faith-based operations take care of many of the problems plaguing our society and people were up in arms. The fact that he was a very out front Christian seemed to really irritate people in this country on the left.

I suppose it is not surprising given the fact that liberals only bring out faith or religion when they want to score some political points with somebody. They use it like a shiny new suit that they put on every four years when it is election season. The left after all wants to see the elimination of morals and values in our country. They want no consequences to our actions. After all they are the party of abortion, the party of special rights to people that have altering sexual preferences, the welfare party, the socialist party.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_go_pr_wh/rel_obama_faith_based

Obama, the first few days

Isn't it great to see that the man who proclaimed that Change was coming, is pretty much behaving like every other liberal that has entered the oval office. It is nice to see that he had to take shots at the outgoing administration in his innaugural speach, and has continued to take pot shots at Republicans every chance he gets.

When R-Oh, Eric Cantor expressed that you can't increas benefits to low income people that don't pay any taxes at all, Obama responded, I won. I can trump you on that.

Closing Gitmo, how childish can you be. Saying that you won't abandon your ideals for the security of the US, again, how naive can you be? I guess this is what you get when you vote somebody into office that has absolutely no clue about what is going on.

Obama's solution for the economy, let's create 3 million new government jobs. Let's have the government spend 1 trillion dollars.

You would get more economic stimulus if you divided up that money and gave it to the taxpayers of this country. The economy would be instantly flush with cash and spending from the ground up. The economy would be flying again, the banks would be flush with cash, creditors would be flush with cash as people paid off their bills, and merchants would be getting business from all the spending.

The government throwing a trillion dollars to the top of the food chain will not stimulate anything.

Gay Marriage, Proposition 8

How sad is it that people think that being able to get married is a right. It is not a right. Not too mention we have all kinds of laws that govern who can get married and under what circumstances it can happen.

Gays have developed a history of expecting EXTRA rights to be guaranteed to them, when in reality they do not deserve any thing extra. Why should be select any group of people an confer on to them some special status deserving of more consideration than the rest of society?

Most jurisdictions around the United States have some sort of civil union statutes that allow any two people to enter into a relationship that is legally binding, much like a marriage would be. It carries with it all the weight that a marriage certificate would have. They get to share insurance plans, pensions plans and inheritance rights.

There is absolutely no reason that gays should be able to get married to each other when the VAST majority if our citizens in this country are against it. The fact that the voters of California voted against gay marriage says it all. They do not want that, and therefore it is the will of the people. It is not discrimination.

The liberals in our society will not be satisfied until there are no moral boundaries. Until they erode all of our values in this country so that there are not consequences to anything, they will not be happy.

What time period was better as far as our society now, or 1970, or 1960, 1950. I would proffer to you that our society was safer and happier 40 years ago, than it is today. Yes, people will bring up the racial inequalities of earlier periods, and that is true, but if you remove that element from the discussion it is very clear what time was better, and it certainly is not the amoral, decadent lifestyles of today.