Monday, December 13, 2010
Weeper of the House
The new Speaker of the House (R) John Boehner will open new levels of transparency in the 112 Congress .
Citizens will soon be able to log on to CSPAN Congressional Telecast to witness John Boehner's emotions. John's state of composure being used as the current model for State of The Union. Teary eyed would indicate a arise in taxes for people making more than $400,00 a year. Chocked with tears could result in another TARP giveaway to Bankers. Swine markets have tightened the belts of Bush's Masters of Pork Barrel. The daytime TV Soap Operas are bracing for a big drop in viewers with the Boehner competition.
The question on everyone mind is whats he crying about?
He's got a job,($223,500) health care paid, unbelievable full retirement ($60,972 avg) and considerably overpaid. This does not include money from Tobacco Lobby. Kleenex is reported to be considering John as their new national advertising program "A Hanky for a Yankee" spokesman.
Boehner a self described conservative is Pro Tobacco and hand picked to distribute checks from Tobacco Lobby on the floor of the House of Representatives in 1995.
Note: a conservative is against all spending but, favors giving TARP money away. Awards No-Bid contracts to contractors for imaginary aggression of Arab Nations. John Boehner voted for the Bush TARP bailouts on October 3, 2008. Some people continue to reject conservatives with Free TARP for Bankers, GM and Fiat. In their defense, they respond with the $4.oo a gallon gasoline in 2007 as proof of their love of capitalism. Capitalism is for the greedy not the needy. The Buckeye State has also spent $7,874,070,000 of Obama Stimulus Money without a whimper of conservatism.
Boehner is against extensions of unemployment and favors cutting Social Security benefits. Both unemployment and Social Security appear as deductions from your paychecks. John's position is "even though the money is yours GM and Goldman need it more".
In spite of Ohio's high unemployment of 10.5%, well above the national average and home foreclosures not seen since the Great Depression the people of Ohio's 8th Congressional District continue to Re-Elect The Tan Man.
John says he weeps for Americas Children that they may have the opportunities he was given. He weeps for children but the pork all goes to GM, Fiat, Goldman, Citi, AIG and the children they go to Afghanistan when their eighteen. The children sleep in the streets as the Dirty Dozen Banksters hoard their homes with TARP money for resale in better markets.
The conservatives run to the aid of the Car Czars and Bankster bolstering the Stock Market and Housing as wages plummet in illegal immigration and skyrocketing unemployment. This is not the America that John Boehner was given. John's former college janitors job is now performed by illegal free ranging aliens. Tough to work your way through college competing with illegal aliens, John.
The Dream Act provides scholarship money for illegals now competing with law abiding American Children. The world is flush with deserving smart children. In America we say American Children first.
Maybe John's concern is for Mexican Children illegal in the US. 60 Minutes Lelie Stahl should have asked " Do you weep in Mexican or English Mr Speaker................
Friday, December 10, 2010
The Viagra Economy
More socialism 2big2fail for the Banksters and Oligopoly Corporation and less freedom for the capitalist workers forced to live in tyranny under The Patriot Act.
Offering the sugar rush of more borrowed debts to stimulate Americas long dead economy. Life support that only turns the wheels of greed, while Congress defiles the worker with "Sober up or Sleep in the Streets".
If we profited so well from giving TARP money away, why do we need to raise our debt ceiling and borrow more money from China. Relax if loaning money to yourself is a profitable form of commerce then we can all quit working and just borrow money. Similar to the Bush Housing Market where nobody paid we just borrowed today for tomorrows that never come.
One day were broke and told to "Sober up or sleep in the streets" The next day the Treasury announce we made money from TARP. Is it premature to declare victory until all the money is repaid and then adjusted to inflation numbers? Should we be so naive?
If America becomes independent from foreign oil buying windmills from China aren't we going from the fryer and into the fire. Are our leaders interested in creating jobs in America or do they simply cycle our money through the economy to attach fees, permits and bribery to fill their greedy pockets.
We don't have a economy. It's time to stop this nonsense and attach tariffs to foreign products until we achieve a trade balance with each country individually. When we have a trade balance then we should have free trade restrictions lifted.
If our exports fall and the world tumbles into depression at least we all suffer equally and have a chance to rebuild Free Market Capitalism without the 2big2fail Socialism Oligarchy
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Windmills Of Your Mind
This action violates every aspect of the Obama Pledge to bring new green energy jobs to American workers. Clean energy jobs leading us back to prosperity. Stopping the exports of jobs while investing in America. Seems as though we didn't read the fine print as to "which country he intended to improve"
The money from the Stimulus and Recovery Act is borrowed from the Chinese. The Chinese will seize the opportunity of foolish Americans to employ more Chinese Workers build new cutting edge factories and further their Research and Development for new Universities in China. They will also operate the Windfarm in Texas to insure even modest American jobs will not be created.
Maybe we should pack up the Statue of Liberty and send it as part of the deal. How long will it be before Americans immigrate to China to provide slave labor building Railroads in China.
See report below:
WASHINGTON — Top Democratic fundraisers and lobbyists with links to the White House are behind a proposed wind farm in Texas that stands to get $450 million in stimulus money, even though a Chinese company would operate the farm and its turbines would be built in China.
The farm’s backers also have close ties with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who, at the height of his hard-fought re-election bid this fall, helped blunt congressional criticism over stimulus dollars possibly going to create jobs in China by endorsing a proposal by the Chinese company to build a factory in his home state. Although his campaign received thousands of dollars in donations from the wind farm’s backers and Reid stood on stage with them at a campaign event they hosted, his office declined to answer any questions about the wind farm’s organizers or their plans for Nevada.The wind farm, first announced more than a year ago, would consist of 300 2-megawatt wind turbines, each perched atop a 26-story-tall steel tower and spinning three blades — each half the length of a football field. The farm would span three counties and 36,000 acres in West Texas land best known for its oil. Dubbed the Spinning Star wind farm, the project’s 600-megawatt capacity is, theoretically, enough to power 180,000 American homes and would be the sixth-largest wind farm in the country.
It is being planned by an unusual joint partnership between the U.S. Renewable Energy Group, a Dallas investment firm with strong ties to Washington and the Democratic Party, and A-Power Energy Generation Systems, an upstart Chinese supplier of wind turbines. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate the Chinese are bringing financing and the turbines.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
1964
Color TV tubes were all manufactured in Indiana. The fathers of the kids who lived in my neighborhood all worked in factories of Central Indiana. Western Electric made every telephone in America at the East side Indy plant. Phones were mostly black and most people only had one line. Party Lines were common and cheaper if on a budget. You could not own a phone. You rented phones and lines. Then paid for long distance calls. Long distance could be across the street.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
BB-63
One of these efforts was BB-63. On January 6, 1941 the keel was laid for the USS Missouri BB-63 ( Mighty Mo) Mighty Mo was the last of the Iowa Class Battleships built in World War 2. She followed the USS New Jersey, USS Wisconsin and USS Iowa.
The Emperor of Japan would sign total surrender to the Iron Will of the American People and the brave emissary servicemen who witnessed the event for the Great Land who built BB-63
Friday, December 3, 2010
"Sober Up or Sleep in the Streets" Alan Simpson
Forty years ago I worked building new factories to produce American Products in the heartland. RCA, Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler, International Harvester, Western Electric and Marathon Refinery are now all gone. Vanished with the jobs and wealth they created. Restore the American Middle Class and most of our problems will vanish.
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
My Too Cents
The logic here is why must we have thousands of workers employed in collecting revenue for the same objective. All we need is one person or machine to collect money to pay for our fine roads.
I see the problems as not in the road quality. The real problem is in the accountability in the systems of tax collection for quality roads. Pay as you go toll roads would be an inconvenience to the user, however the efficiency of maintaining our roads will sky rocket. Insuring the most bang for your buck through real cost controls. Tracking the receipts and expenditures is simple for toll roads. We shouldn't need teams of CPA's to tell us where our money is spent. We do need to streamline the way we collect taxes. Roads not used get no funding. Roads traveled receive more money and expansion as needed. The analogy for toll roads may be extreme to the right but, our current systems of collecting money for our roads is a wasteful extreme to the left. We have people collecting for gas tax, federal, state, county, and city . That's a lot of people doing the same thing. Buy a battery or tires, more people. It's insane!!
The Florida Turnpike is a great road and everyone is impressed with the upkeep, safety and cleanliness. I would support a federal license for your car but not a 6"x 12" plate for all to see. A federal licenses for driving would be acceptable as long as it wasn't used for anything but driving records. The registration would be to establish ownerships and insure the tax is paid for interstate travel. States could issue temporary fees for visitors. If adjoining states established reciprocation for State roads that would be OK.
I think people should be responsible for their driving. If you cause an accident then you should pay to repair the other persons car and medical bills. You should not be required to purchase Auto Insurance, cuze we know they never pay. Insurance is for people who enjoy waiting in line and filling out endless paperwork. If you cannot pay then you would forfeit your license and auto. Remarkably that is how we did it forty years ago. People who don't pay are handled in courts. Bankruptcy is an option. Mandatory Auto Insurance is for Joe Stalin.
Now we have mandatory insurance and nobody can afford it cuze their crooks. The state will take your license, tags and jail for not paying your premiums. If your not familiar with this law, eventually you will get to a point where premiums cannot be paid and receive the bad news from your Governor. A good business model today is to have Congress make your products mandatory and threaten with incarceration. This pretty much makes you a quasi monopoly and guarantees huge salary ($24,ooo,ooo) and bonuses ($1,000,000) for your business savy
Florida is being sued for selling Operator's Permit Information to private sector uses.
This information includes your retirement information from the embedded Social Surveillance Number on your State Operator's License. You may not see it but it's there. The importance of the information must be valuable or criminals wouldn't pay for the bribery.
I also like the idea if you don't vote you don't pay any taxes. I think everyone should serve their country. Young, Old, Handicapped should serve 4 years. Starting today. When called to service you serve your country in any number of ways. Possibly collecting money at the toll booth? This way we are all eligible for health care and access to education systems. Everyone would have the same health care and retirements of Congress. I never understood how people without health care or retirement plans provide same for Congress. Makes no sense at all.
Another thing that really burns me is Homeland Security and TSA Workers. Let the Airlines provide security for their planes. The whole cost of the security should be paid by the Airline via ticket prices. This will cause ticket prices to increase ten fold or about what it was before President Reagan's Deregulation. I don't fly and never will. I don't see why I should provide subsidy to those who fly. We provide Airports and the use of the Port is charged for each landing, takeoff and ticket counters. People who fly should pay all costs. People who drive should pay for roads.
I think that schools should be administered locally and without federal intervention. You pay for the schools in your neighborhood and kids walk to schools. Colleges should be open to everyone regardless of age or intelligence. If you have the money and want to take and receive college credits then nobody should be denied. The days of one lifelong occupation are gone. People live longer and technologies are the doorway to new occupations. If you have children when your twenty then you should be accepted at thirty or forty to enter college. We need federal standards for curriculum and minimum standards. No bogus degrees from Matchbook University. No discrimination based upon education. Requiring a four year degree from college should be replaced with a comprehensive test that all are eligible. Proving competency over degrees allows people who already do the job from experience get paid the same as a college graduate in Zoology.
We need to get our government out of our Banking. The Banks have become the unconstitutional forth branch of government. Swiss Banks are separate from the government for five hundred years without incident. We have the FDIC which insures nobody can steal your money except Congress. The criminal have all gone to work for the government. I could never understand how people could get rich in Banking without stealing. I think they do steal and Congress makes it legal.
I think our elected official should be held accountable to the economy. If unemployment is 10% and poverty rate is 14% then Congress should see a 24% reduction in their paychecks. This would give them an incentive to grow up and act adult.
We know there's allot of waste in government and you can witness the abuse at every Post Office and License Branch. Recently we find the USDA was confronted with accused racism and followed through firing an individual without due process. The actions were found to be those of incompetency when facts of racism were dispelled. The person accused of racism was fired the incompetent was allowed to stay. The taxpayer is told, perceived racism is not tolerated but incompetency is acceptable. A few months later 2 thousand people contracted salmonella poisoning missed by USDA and FDA. Racism should not be allowed on a level playing field. Racism is not the work of USDA. We have people at the Justice Department that are also not working and should be the cop on the beat. Justice Department is not involved in rotten eggs as yet. The Justice Department is also failing miserably at controlling our borders and immigration. Same story there. They seem more concerned about profiling than controlling the borders. We have our priorities second to minorities and nobody is working!!!
Thing are worse at the Treasury Department where people at SEC downloaded pornography while the criminal raided the Stock Markets. These clowns at SEC were college graduates dragging down $250,000. a year in compensation. So much for higher education Mr President!
At the Department of Interior they were bribed with hookers and drugs for not enforcing the Laws at MMS offshore oil leases. Deepwater Horizon murdered 11 men at the Macando BP lease.
We need to fire half of our government workers and then hire back qualified people based upon test score. Slowly hiring each year as needed. I think we need to establish new home energy codes nationwide. Each time a house is sold it must be fitted with Solar Panels, Solar Hot Water, Windows and Insulation. No sense buying homes you can't afford to heat and cool. Houses that are foreclosed should be sold or torn down if empty more than ninety days. If Banks want to hoard homes they should pay people to live in the homes until a sale is made.
This may sound like a bunch of crap from a person who knows nothing. If you look at each item you will see ways to reduce spending and increase productivity. I concede, many people in government would be against my ideas. Sadly, I have more.