The problem with...

Ron Paul, is he has the wrong body and voice to be my representation.  The idea of individual liberty and responsibility for ourselves is fine in theory, and his commitment to minding our own business internationally (not that we can't be a world influence, but it should be economically, not militarily) would mean that we wouldn't HAVE to have a color coded chart for our national security.  It's an odd notion, that we aren't the answer to EVERY world issue...but it's a GOOD notion.  We should be working on our own problems.  On second thought...maybe he's the perfect voice for my thoughts...exactly.

Rick Perry, is that he really does think he answers to "god".  I wish he were a bit more fearful of me, the citizen and tax payer.  Whatever his religious feelings are, I don't care...it's insignificant to me.  It would be as important to me as if he were a gun owner.  It's his overall character that is what we are judging with his message...but he's off target.  It isn't whether he's a "good citizen"...of that, I have little doubt.  So Rick, spend less time convincing me of your character, and start talking about the content of your intellect.

Michelle Bachman, is her voice.  I'm sorry, but Sarah Palin can butcher English into my ear all night and I'd prolly not hate it any more than a few scattered vowel raping words from Michelle.  But my issue isn't so much when she speaks, but if she can really back up those big boy world ideas she is espousing.  What does it take to change the culture of Washington?  Can she affect that change.  My problem with Michelle is that I believe she is right on many of her theories, but ineffectual in her scarce record of practices.

Newt Gingrich, is that he knows he's right, and my ego tells me he needs to suffer and learn a little humility, but my house is on fire and he's got a damn hose.  Regarding changing a culture in Washington...well, only Newt and Ron Paul would be a real CHANGE in Washington.  Newt could be the most effective leader, based on idealistic principles and a superman approach to being transparent in order to show off to the electorate his nobility.  It's kind of like giving praise to success to a child, and seeing how far and successful he can be...but if you criticize failures...he can be just as aggressive on defence as offense.  Could he work with Congress if he hits a speedbump, or will he stomp away?  I'm not sure, but he's still got a damn hose.

Mitt Romney, is well, his record, his methods, his compromises, his lack of evidence that he isn't as big a douchebag politician that we are trying to throw OUT of the damn White House.   If you're voting for Mitt, you prolly aren't reading this blog...that's for sure. 

Please remember, whatever happens in Iowa, it's just a vote, in one state.  You have your chance, and nothing is decided in January.  But I know that we can't talk about anything else while 100000 people get ready to tell us what's important to them.

Yes, I see the irony in that.

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Found Some more Ron Paul quotes...

"If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be." - Ron Paul, 1992
Sounds…well, duh.


"We don't think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That's true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such." - Ron Paul, 1992
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/jar.asp
Facts are not racist. 

"What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn't that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?" - Ron Paul, 1992

If people listened to Ron Paul in 1992, would we have overlooked Madoff, Corzine, Goldman Sachs, etc…?  Yeah, shut up people…Ron Paul isn’t racist, he’s right.

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Ron Paul Newsletter quotes

"Given the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal."

http://www.colorofcrime.com/colorofcrime2005.pdf Facts aren’t racist.

"We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational." (Context??)

So, in order to not be "racist" I routinely jog through North Vegas with $100 bills taped to my naked white ass without fear of being accosted. WTF is wrong with being wary or aware of thug looking people of any race? I even look at thug looking women with a stink eye to make sure they know I’m watching. Some bitches can be just as brutal as dudes.

After the Los Angeles riots, one article in a newsletter claimed, "Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks."

Riots did end on May 04; first Monday of the month… coincidence?

One referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as "the world-class philanderer who beat up his paramours" and who "seduced underage girls and boys."

There is plenty of evidence that he was a philanderer, and it was widely held that he beat white prostitutes...(Herman Cain didn't get the benefit of the doubt either) and he was a proven plagorist. As far as seducing underage girls and boys...that's far from racist...it's just an allagation...see Herman Cain and cry with him if you are offended.

Another referred to Barbara Jordan, a civil-rights activist and member of Congress as "Barbara Morondon," the "archetypical half-educated victimologist."

Here are a couple of quoted gems from this dumbass.

“A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.”

“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants. “

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

“Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap. “

Sounds to me like she is nothing short of a moron. And considering I disagree with every fiber of her desire for a socialist USA, she seems to be the archetypical half-educated victimologist that she was called.

That's all I found that "Ron Paul" said...in his newsletter written by other writers. If you have something more hateful, please send me the link. So far, racism isn't found...just some statements of truth, or allegations...but no racism.

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Very important announcment

I am supporting the libertarian candidate...and i hope it will be...
http://www.lpnevada.org/blogs/37-general-libertarian-party-information/241-gary-johnson-announces-libertarian-run

What about the Friday Pizza Night?

I have heard a lot of arguments in the past 30 days that were heartfelt, tear-jerking and really moving testaments to the wonders of Christmas and the spirit of giving that is what the holiday season is all about...and apparently it is all a bunch of Reindeer shit (Not to be mistaken for Unicorn crap, which look and taste like gumdrops).  Two weeks ago, it was "Republicans in the House are taking $40/paycheck from every working family because they are Scrooges."  This means no family pizza Friday night, or maybe an electricity bill goes unpaid...because the poor in this country are barely making ends meet, and that $40/paycheck is the difference between starving and being able to share a Christmas meal with family.   And then...Christmas spirit, and that extra $40/paycheck turns into mayhem, riots, fights, peppersprayings, and even women beating the hell out of each other to get a chance to buy $200 Nike shoes.  These are the same poor innercity black families who are taking a break from preparing their Holiday meals (thank goodness for the Social Security raping tax holiday extension of two months) in order to stand in line to spend close to $200 for a pair of shoes that probably has $6 worth of material and low cost labor putting it together.  Next thing you know, there's gonna be a government program to subsidize the cost of Nike's to innercity poor, paid for with a tax on the 1% no doubt.  And some people wonder why I am not more sympathetic to the "poor"...probably because I have $20 payless loafers on, and my tennis shoes for working out were $40...and they last a couple years.  Yeah, I am a little bitter about these poor souls...it reminds me of Oprah's comment:
When asked why she built a school in South Africa instead of Chicago...she said, "I asked the kids in Chicago what their most important NEED was, and they said Ipods and Nikes.  When I asked the kids in South Africa, they said 'textbooks and other teaching aids.'"  Yeah...that sounds about right.  Good thing they got their $40 tax holiday extended, those ipods are expensive, and they only take cash...not foodstamps or vouchers.  But it brings up an interesting idea:
What if we stopped all welfare, foodstamps, section 8 housing, etc.  and instead contracted Apple and Nike to give tax deductable donations of ipods and shoes to everyone in "need", but they had to buy their own food and pay rent and no more welfare.  Would they do it?  By "They" I mean the recipient class (AKA Deadbeat grifting 'poor' leaches on society).  It seems that the important things to them are shoes and ipods, so if we save money on welfare, and give out shoes and ipods...we may be able to save a ton of money.  Reid, look into this will ya?  Maybe put a restriction on it, like you have to have a job to qualify...or you must have your childsupport paid to get your Nike.  I'm not sure, but I'll bet the needle moves with this incentive...we won't cure all their issues, but nothing gets a lazy bum off his ass faster than a motivation based on what is important to him.  
There is one possible downside of this idea, and that is what will PROBABLY happen if this idea catches on.  Instead of substituting welfare for shoes/ipods, the lazy recipient class will start to demand the shoes/ipods AS WELL AS the welfare, because we know that once the gov't starts a program, it takes an amendment to the constitution (prohibition) to end it.  And if the program is a giveaway, it never ends...ever...even if the problem the program was tasked with fixing is gone...the program lives on.   So now instead of a solvent Social Security fund, we'll have pizza eating poor folks wearing Nike's in their gov't housing and all it costs us in this country is our very future.  Maybe the $10,000 bet Mitt Romney made isn't as big a deal as the pundits said...I mean, Mitt probably wears $200 shoes as well...but I doubt he had to play "knock out" with someone in line to get them.  ( Google it, it's an inner city game the "youts" are playing nowadays.)  Merry Christmas, I hope you enjoy our free gifts we keep giving to you all...no need to write us a thank you note...it's our "patriotic duty" to pay our taxes.  This is getting old...fast.  I wonder if I can even afford a pizza night...but Harry Reid doesn't care about my plight...

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Anybody But Obama…but…

                The argument against a third party is starting to make sense now.  The “Anybody but Obama” camp is really making a lot of logical sense, seeing as how this administration is doing things that make a constitutionally conservative person fold up into the fetal position and just wait for this nightmare train-ride to end.  There isn’t a person alive in the USA that can justify this abject failure in office, but what about the alternative…even the worst Republican has to be better than Obama.

                So to summarize Fox News, Fox on Sirius, and most republican establishment bloggers, we will rally and support whoever it is that gets the nomination in order to defeat Obama and make him a one term president…EXCEPT Ron Paul, he’s too wacky and his followers are fanatical and wear tinfoil hats…but besides him, we’ll get behind anyone else…EXCEPT Herman Cain, he had too many women accuse him of stuff 15 years ago, even though they had no evidence, we can’t support him…but anyone else…EXCEPT NEWT, he’s too Zany and unpredictable and worked for a consulting firm that was paid by Fannie/Freddie, so besides him we support anyone but Obama.  EXCEPT Gary Johnson, he’s not electable because we don’t talk about him enough and he doesn’t have the political establishment behind him…but besides him we support anyone that gets the Republican Establishment’s endorsement to beat Obama…UNLESS it’s …OH FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST!!!!  Just say what you want to say you morons…YOU WANT ROMNEY.  Just be honest, he gives you the best chance to get back to business as usual in Washington.  He’s your stooge.  Why do you give us the lipservice about conservative principles, then forgive this guy for a history of liberal idealism when it suits him.  AHHHHHHHHHHHHH, just get rid of the name Republican Party and rename it “Occupy Business as Usual”.  What happened to the Tea Party ideals of conservative constitutional values and limited Federal  Government…???what, that’s not the Republican position anymore?  Whose is it?

                I hear people say that Paul will hijack the Iowa Caucus and that the republicans should not take the caucus serious…2 WEEKS BEFORE IT HAPPENS!!!  What are you afraid of?  Seriously?  What…Ron Paul will force congress to approve military action wherever we are, and if it isn’t approved, our troops will come home.  This is too outlandish for Republicans?  Ron Paul will remove presidential approval of certain departments of the Federal Government and remit the authority back to the States…this is a problem to whom?  The people making LOTS of money from the Dept. of Education, Labor, HHS, etc??  Ron Paul will put immense pressure on the FED to justify its existence, it’s monetary policy and there will be debate in this country over what TRULY is needed to get us back on our hegemonic ways.  How AWFUL.  You can ignore the results, you can call Ron Paul supporters tinfoil hat wearers, and you can flounder around trying to justify your progressive practices…but for your own sake, don’t ignore the 10-20% of this country that supports Ron Paul and what he stands for.  He symbolizes the frustrations and anger that is permeating this country because of the Democrat and Republican parties refusal to be responsible and honest…and you ignore us at your own peril.  We aren’t going away, we are growing in popularity and support, we have money, and we aren’t afraid to “throw our vote away” by supporting a third party instead of Obama and Romney…so it really is up to you, establishment.  Put Romney up there, and we will stay in our fetal position until YOU realize that Romney and his type are UNELECTABLE and no better than Obama to us. 

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My Racist Wallet?

I had no idea when I was getting my driver’s license, that one day it could be construed as a tool of racism.  I feel badly for those in Arizona and Alabama who are constantly being racially harassed when they are forced to show their legal picture identification, when all of us go through our lives without a tattoo on our forearm or our “papers” like in the old DDR.  It is an absolute shame that our government in certain states wants to take away the “rights” of people to vote without having proof of whether they are citizens…as if that is a requisite to voting.  If only we could show these government officials the racism of their actions.

Take me, for instance.  A white, 37 year old male with a job.  I don’t have to show my ID anywhere I go, because I’m white, and we are above the laws…except when I buy liquor, I have to show my ID…and when I get pulled over, have to show my ID…or when I win at gambling and it needs to be reported to the IRS…or when I’m at the bank and want to make a withdrawal…or at the airport when I want to get on a plane.  Besides that, as a white man I don’t have to show my ID, except when I’m in a kitchen and the health inspector needs to see my health card, or my Concealed Weapons Permit if a law enforcement officer asks for it…or when I write a check.  Besides those instances, showing ID is racist.  You want to know what’s really racist?  I’ll tell you,

   When the first black president refuses to free hundreds of thousands of black youth in American prisons for possession, trafficing and usage of marijuana…that is racist.  The half of Obama that doesn’t care about the American black youth and lets them sit in prison for breaking a racist law, supported by racist prison guard unions and racist DEA and ATF agencies whose sole job is to harrass, arrest and abuse minorities in these United States.  Please tell me how forcing people to show ID when voting is anywhere as bad as the institutional and methodical imprisoning of a large percentage of minorities in our cities.  Perhaps the sheet wearing half of Obama should pick battles that matter, instead of hiding behind the hypocracy of antiquated laws that hurt our poor and minorities…because you know damn well that if the name of the defendant is Kennedy or Bush, those kids aren’t going to jail, they’re going to Malibu Rehab and getting a book deal.  That is racist.  End the hypocracy.

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Everything for Everyone...and Nothing for Ourselves?

Oh, the air is ripe with politics...like a stroll through a pig farm during a tropical heatwave.  I can't help but be filled with hope; hope for change, hope for the future, and hope for someone else (Not You Donald) to enter the race to replace Barry.  The echo from the left, that fateful cry, "We will provide, you deserve fair wages, 5 weeks of vacation per year, full pensions no matter how you mismanaged your finances..." and in return, we simply ask for 17 days of vacation in Hawaii for our Christm...uh...Holiday break.  Sounds like a fair bargain, those who get the benefits of the progressives, aren't really the ones who pay into the system, or for the President's brood's vacation...so...sure, it's a deal.  Marie Antoinette couldn't live within her means, why the hell should Michelle?  In fact, Barry had to be delayed in order to make sure we don't have energy independence at the expense of his Environmental extremists votes, and of course, we need to reload the coffers or the gov't won't be able to fund the UN, the wars in the Middle East, more money to defunct and bankrupted solar energy and car companies...the list of important gov't functions is endless...no, seriously, endless. 
   "So is your plan any better?" you ask.  And I answer...yup...but it'll sting a bit if you're one of the leaches on the teat of Uncle Sam.  How about this little effort, now mind you, I'm spitballing here:
No vacation for the wife and kids of the president of the US if he's stuck in town, and you want to go play in Hawaii (or Asia, as Barry likes to call it), then you pay for it yourself...and fly Commercial.  Go through the TSA molesta...er....patdowns.  No Airforce 1, no military entourage...you aren't Vincent Chase, you're a damn home gardening, jumping jackass...now quit acting like a spoiled princess who just figured out daddy is too busy to bitch-slap you for being a prima-donna.  Jesus, your kids are gonna end up feeling entitled to...oh...now I get it...it's just who you are.  Sheesh, you aren't allowed to speak to my kids, if that's your idea of "shared sacrifice" in this economy. 
  Next, Congress...The House passes a budget, and the Senate won't take up a vote on it.  House, go home...Senate...no more continuing resolutions.  The gov't stops if you are too partisan to even allow a vote.  A budget is the basis for fiscal responsibility, as any accountant knows, if you spend as you go, without budgeting, you end up spending EVERYTHING YOU HAVE, and more.  A little discipline, Harry, I'm talking to you...leader.  pshaw.
Now that we have everyone's attention, and a budget...let's do something outrageous.  Let's READ, on primetime, the bill just passed that allows the President to detain a US Citizen without due process, indefinitely.  I'm just curious how only 7 of the 100 members of the Senate voted against this after taking the oath of office which states, "I will defend the constitution..." really?  Really?  Too difficult to find a judge?  Is having a lawyer present during interrogations too much to ask?  How about this little diddy:
  Democrats, please list in order of displeasure the Amendments to the Constitution that you don't agree with, and we will discuss how to get rid of them.
Republicans, please list in order of displeasure the Amendments to the Constitution that you don't agree with, then we will compare with the Democrats and then vote you out of office you hypocritical son's of bitches.  How dare you take a position in gov't to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and then conspire, cajole and manipulate the workings of the government to erode the very protections the document espouses.  If ever there was a time for a mass revolution away from either party occupying Washington DC, it is now.  If ever there was a time for a candidate who can articulate clearly what most Americans want to see, it is NOW.  Instead of a divider and conqueror, we need someone willing to tell the Occupy W.S. crowd to shut the hell up, and go work...start a business, shave and shower and get a job...be willing to work hard for your own future.  The government is out of the business of providing...instead we will protect your ability to provide for yourself.  MY GOD, is there nobody willing to be honest with the people? 
So, my plan is less of a plan, and more of a beckoning to our next great leader in the mold of Reagan, Jefferson, and all the other leaders who allowed America to be great, instead of using it's greatness to allow it's citizens to not have to be great.  The republican field is just weak, and we just don't believe you when you say what you know we want to hear...but your record doesn't back it up.  We don't need a US Religion, we don't need a US cheerleader, we need a damned leader willing to trade his second term for real and probably painful change...a weaning off the dried up teat of our old and crippled Uncle Sam.  If you voted for McCain, Dole and are thinking of voting for "whomever is nominated", then you will see a resurgence of the Obama crowd next election, because you will still be fighting their war, with their rules.  A game changer does just that.  New rules...Everything for Everyone who earns it for himself...and nothing for people who sit back and wait for their lunch to be served...

PS, we won't let you eat OUR cake...go get a job.

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What's good for the STATE?

OK, lets join the fantasyland that Debbie "Wuzz-a-man" Shultz lives in, and assume that the Federal Gov't isn't too big, and should do more because it's helping turn this economy around.  Now that we have gum drops instead of rain, and the only pitfall is avoiding the unicorn crap on the ground, and the constitution is made of rubber, we can bend it to the will and whim of our "democracy".  Is there anything, anything at all that the federal government can't take control of?  YOU WILL encounter people in this country that think that there is no problem too small for the federal gov't to deal with.  The states just have to mirror the fed, they aren't allowed to think for themselves, and they sure as hell better not enact laws that disagree with the fed policy, or they will get sued by the Fed.  What do we need state gov't for?   The next logical progression of this progressive world is to subjugate the individual to the good of the whole.  This means that if you are a great maker of toothpics, and you want to get into making tennis rackets, too bad, the state needs you making toothpics.  Sounds too Orwellian, huh? 
  We are at a crossroads this election cycle.  We have been taken on a collision course with some very tough times.  As Britain is set aside in Europe, and Europe is consolidating under the financial strain of leftists...Russia is rattling sabres, China is looking for energy and the Middle East is wide open as we lose all our allies in the region.  Is there anything else that needs to happen to make 1936 sound all-to-familiar?  Maybe we can have a grassroots effort in the US to blame the Jews on Wallstreet for everyone's problems, and then allow Palestinians gain statehood in the UN which should make Israel very secure with their arsenal...hmmm, perhaps the only thing we are missing in this orgy of idiocy is a leader?  Who do we want to lead us...maybe a MESSIAH ordained by the poor for his titmouse promises of everything to everyone?  FDR is so loved by the left for all his feelgood policies...of which every one is broke, or dragging down other aspects of the economy.  FDR also appointed 8 of 9 supreme court appointees in the 30's and 40's which watered down the constitution in order for him to seize power which has never been ceded back to the states.  or...
   Do we need someone who is defiantly against military action without congressional approval?  Someone who wants the States to deal with State issues like education, health care, labor relations, energy policy and transportation.  Maybe the federal gov't could then solve the issues it is charged with in the constitution?  maybe?  But one thing is certain, we wouldn't need all those people in the gov't wasting our money.  They could be added to the list of qualified, unqualified, semi qualified and overqualified people looking for work.  Yes, that sounds like a bad thing, but it isn't.  Think about this, if we fired every person who isn't elected to office in the gov't, then had everyone apply again, but the budgets are cut by 50%, are the lazy idiots going to get rehired?  nope, the good ones would, and the lazy idiots go back to what they are supposed to do...starve, or find a talent or skill to survive.  Anyone that thinks they are too good to pick strawberries, but still want a paycheck without doing anything constructive, SHOULD STARVE TO DEATH.  For the good of the State.
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The Making of a Liberal

What makes a liberal tick?  Is it compassion?  Does screaming about taking money from "the rich" to give to those "without" equal compassion?  If not, then what does?  How about giving money to a charitable organization?  What if you write it off your taxes, is it any less meaningful?  Does it mean more to give to the poor through government agencies that haven't made any progress in the war on poverty in decades, or through a church or private organization that works with these people directly in their neighborhoods?  Perhaps compassion is not measurable, how about "fairness"?
  Many of us were reared hearing "Life's not fair, get over it." while others were coddled and told that they are entitled to more because others had more.  Where does this come from?  Who started the rumor that the rich got rich by taking it from where the poor's share was?  Where is this sense of fairness in the following scenerio? 
     A boy studies in High School, goes to college, studies and works part-time...learning how to manage his time, take on responsibilities, earn what he makes and see the value of his time...OR the guy who blows off High School, skips college, or smokes enough weed and skates through until his folks are tired of subsidizing his Van Wilder lifestyle...then he bags groceries or is a barrista at a coffee shop but barely makes rent every week between the smokes, booze and xbox.  He knocks up some random one night stand, hits 30 and has no savings, job experience, skills or discipline, but FEELS that it's not fair the other guy doesn't worry about rent.  The other guy is worried about where the kid (who was created after financial security and a wedding) is going to go to private school...aint it funny how "cause" and "effect" work?
   Take someone with off the charts talent...like Mike Tyson or any basketball player that got caught up in the lifestyle until he was too old to compete...but didn't have any skills at money management.  Is it fair they had opportunities very few could have?  Is it anyone else's fault they squandered the earning years of their profession?  Should someone else have to pay for their incompetance or poor habits and money management?  This kind of shortsightedness starts somewhere...I wonder:
   In Clark County Nevada, we are telling public school kids that it is GOOD to get welfare, school lunches and gov't assistance.  There's no shame in your mom and dad not caring enough to even make sure you are fed.  You deserve fried hashbrowns, processed meat and rehydrated veggies that end up in the trash anyhow.  Too bad mommy couldn't find time or $.30 to make you a goddamned PB&J.  This is what our schools do now, they educate the kids on how to get food stamps, section 8 housing and then if they are teased for being unloved bastards of the state, the bully is disciplined.  hahaha, Good thing the democrats who KNOW this is sick, well, they put their kids in private school.  Sickening.  I'm sure they FEEL badly about it.   When stupid and lazy start hurting more, less of our population will continue to do it, or they'll be culled out of society.  Either way...this village is screwing up it's idiots very early.

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Perspective...how I see it

There are few phrases that sum up how I see life that are more poignant as "Stupid should hurt".  As a society, though, we end up putting up safety nets to minimize the pain.  What this does is allow others to attempt stupidity without the pain to really drive home the "teachable moment".  Examples: No cell phones in cars without devices to minimize distraction.  Meanwhile, as long as that stupid douchebag detector device is snuggly in your ear, you can put on makeup, eat, read and otherwise get distracted by anything else your stupid heart desires.  Idiots...as Napolean would say.
I digress...what I want to talk about now is Obama.  Not about his ideas, his policies, his wife or his golf game.  I wanna discuss the millions of people who "heard" how amazing he would be as a president in 2008.  The people who were "told" about his non-negro dialect, his American dreamlike rise to the top of Harvard Law, Illinois state politics, US Senate and now President of the US.  What is missing?  We were all told how he was the perfect picture of familyman, statesman and black man to lead us to a new world.  What is missing?  I think I know what it is.  WE TRUSTED WHAT WE WERE TOLD without READING for ourselves, looking into his past, his policies and his job history, mentors and what molded him into the man he is.  So????? America was stupid.  Simple...now the stupidity hurts.  This is good.  Why?  Because Carter ruined the democratic party for a long time...as Barry is ruining the Democratic party.  We are learning that we cannot take the words of the establishment to determine if a candidate is a communist, a Marxist, a capitalist hating narcissist with a predisposition to spreading wealth to lazy people who "deserve more"...in fact, if we had done our homework on this guy (MEDIA????) we might have avoided this scraped knee of an administration.
So now what?  Let's take the Republican Establishment's word for it that Romney is the hope of the nation?  "He is a businessman with experience and conservative roots."  Really?  Has he run a company, or did he just sit on a board?  Did he push for a public healthcare policy in Mass, or did he push for privatizing it?  Did he have policies contrary to the 2nd amendment, or did he champion gun rights?  Does he believe in continuing the current wars/gov't military action in non-congressionally approved wars across the world, or does he take a strong stand against military action directed from the White House without Congressional approval?  Does he believe in State's Rights before Federal mandates/fiats?  There are questions out there that need answering...the question I want to know is are we going to believe the words of a man running for office that needs to act a certain way, or are we going to really look at his record and determine for ourselves what kind of man he is.  I know it takes longer to care and look it up for yourself...but how much more pain will it take to make you realize that being in a democratic republic is HARD WORK.  We aren't guaranteed a painfree life, we are guaranteed the right to pursue our own success.  That's what makes conservatives different from liberals.  So vote however you want, it doesn't matter to me.  But don't cry about how the president isn't who he said he was, when you didn't bother to look into it yourself.  Stupid should hurt, and elections have consequences.  I won't throw MY vote away, because my integrity tells me that Obama and Romney are the STUPID that ends up hurting.   You can't say you weren't warned.

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I swear...but I'm not sure why.

President, Senator, Representatives, and Justices swear to uphold the constitution.  Why?  Seriously.  What do we have the constitution for?  It's an antiquated document that doesn't have any practical purpose in our society.  We look to political leaders for leadership, but they don't look to our historical founding documents for guidance...so why not vote it out.  Just have a vote, and replace it with a Apple Software Agreement?  This can't be made up folks, and some of you know me as sarcastic and witty...even "prick" gets tossed in at times.  But we have some serious problems...read on:
Nedra Pickler of Associated Press says, "...The court ruled that congress had the power to pass the requirement (OBamacare) to ensure that all Americans can have health care coverage, even if it infringes on individual liberty.  'The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems.' Judge Laurence Silberman"  Uh...did a judge just declare a war on the very basis of our Republic?  I almost can't believe this, the words would be seen as treason a century ago.  I just hope we don't have a national scare of Herpes or  Syphillis.  We may be forced to drop trou and let a US doctor of VD inspect us at all public restrooms and bus terminals.  Laugh...please...when you define authority of the FEDERAL gov't as ANYTHING that affects the Nation...you leave a lot of room for crazy narcissistic nationalistic dictators who get swept into power during economic hardtimes to do whatever he wants, from killing millions of Jews to running this country like his own personal god damned bailout factory for his crony pals in Unions, Green Energy, Academia and jail.  Hitler and Obama may not be equals, but that is probably because Hitler had more time to accomplish his goals.

Tick Tock motherfucker...

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What is the word I'm looking for...

If someone is in a position of power, and usurps his authority and makes rules at his whim, and uses legal technicalities and vagueness to do whatever he wants because the politburo...I mean Senate was too cowardly to do anything to stop him?  Hmm, still need more hints.  Let's say he also gives his buddies hundreds of millions of public dollars in exchange for their support in an earlier election...and he calls for a civilian authority military style police force to answer to him only, with no oversight from congress...can you guess what that is called yet?  OK, he also has sidestepped any type of oversight by instituting thirty or so tzars instead of congressionally approved appointments, and even uses legal technicalities to allow his pals to assume roles of judges, directors and other positions to help his mission...and on top of it all, the top law enforcement officer in the country is his ole' pal who has agreed not to prosecute black on white crime, or enforce laws the ___ doesn't agree with.  Can you fill in the blank yet.  I'll give you a hint.  He's a real "scary" guy to be married to...well, that's what his wife says.  Still nothing?  All right, but this is giving it away.  "Hussein" is in his name.  No, not the Iraq dictator, the American one.

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I'm with Evil...uh...wait...

Recently, I have heard so many similar arguments from different areas of life...that I want to explore this idea that a person can be part of a group, organization, religion, political party, cult, or gang and not be responsible for the actions the group does.  Specifically, if you are Catholic and your church leaders do not denounce, expose and help prosecute men of the cloth that touch 9 year old boys penis', sodomise them, and even cast a shadow of guilt on these kids with the punishment of God Almighty himself in order to keep them quiet.  Kinda harsh...no, not even close.  In fact, if you are Catholic, and you don't call your parish tomorrow and demand a full audit of current and past priests, monsignors, cardinals and bishops to rid the church of these god damn animals, then you might as well fuck a 9 year old yourself.  How's that?  I hope it stings, it's supposed to when you do something horrific.  Forgive me father?  Yeah, I'm not sure what kind of god you are representing, but if there is a god, and he allows you to be his emissary on earth, well, then he's a real dick.
Now...what about Islam?  Can you be a Muslim and allow every major public leader of Islam to condone genital mutilation, honor killing, sodomy of children, and that's just what Muhhamed did.  What about his brainwashed zombie bombwearing fascists?  How can a religion preach so much about rules, but their world leaders are caught with all types of porn, drugs and slaves?  I mean Gaddafi had a knife jammed in his ass when they caught him...and they cheered it.  Yeah, Libya is in good hands...holy shiite
What about Occupy somewhere?  If rape, assault and theft is allowed...in fact encouraged, and seperate camps are needed to keep women from being raped nightly...is this a movement you want to be associated with...Barry?  These people crap on cars, push old lady's down stairs, rob stores, damage everything they are allowed to touch...and on top of it all, they say the very businesses that keep these parks available to be occupied are part of the problem?  Uhhh well, I'm sure there is a park out there subsidised by unemployeed hippie community organizers.  Right?  You are part of an organization that is against progress and equal opportunity.  You scream at the top of your lungs that you want access to the money the top 1% has, but you aren't willing to put in more than 40 hours a week, you want 5 weeks vacation per year, and you don't want to put up any of your own skin/capital to invest in your own future...well who the hell is supposed to believe in you if YOU don't?  You want to join a group, join the chamber of commerce.  Just stop blaming people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates for making something of themselves, they put their soul and sweat into their beliefs and talents...and they didn't have to take a shit on a cop car to be a success.  Grow up.

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If the NFL commissioner was Barrack Hussein Obama

I thought this would be a lighthearted discussion, but it turns out more people are passionate about the National Football League than they are about the United States of America.  Well, here's what the hubbub was about:
It is Spring, teams are practicing...getting ready for the season.  Assuming the lockout was settled over a beer at the White House, and instead of Campbell's Chunky Soup, Ray Lewis was being fed by Michelle's garden full of fresh fruit and veggies, while she and Barry looked on with a face full of Lobster and drawn butter, fried fat cakes and mayo covered french fries.  But that's enough cheap shots, it's not like anyone's hiding behind Gloria Allred attacking this president for...well...anything.  Let's get to the Football talk, my friends are starting to get rowdy...oops.
  It's opening day, almost time for kickoff, and Barrack changes the rules for kickoff, too much excitement and danger on kicks, let's just let them start at the twenty...oh god, they actually did that?  (sigh)  Since Barrack is from Chicago, they start with 10 points at the beginning of every game.  New England and GreenBay have the top 1% of talent at QB, so it's only fair to let Chicago start with a lead.  After all, it's not Chicago's fault they can't have a better offence.  It's the fault of the bad evil team owners who hog all the money these poor fans shell out every game...they are entitled to a better game, with a closer score.  In that case, I'm assuming the Colts get 30 points to start, but if they are losing by halftime, Barrack will bail them out with another 30 points...in fact, we'll just take the points from their opponents.  Fair is fair. 
Do you see why the "boss" should not be picking winners and losers in this scenerio?  NO?  ok, how about this; Midseason, the team with the fewest wins can change the rules, raise their contracts to get paid more, cut the games down to 3 quarters to allow players to spend more time at home with their baby mama's.  After all, what's more important than family.  You aren't against family, are you?  ok, good.  Next, I think we should let Miami play all their games  at home.  It's not fair to make them travel when they are as bad as they are, the rest of the country shouldn't be forced to endure their team...actually, I agree with this one.  :)
 Al Davis died, and the new owner would not be in favor of all these new rules, so instead of arguing the points in public, Barrack and his friends are going to change the rules of voting for the new rules and pass the rules without reading them and do it before the new owner can be sworn in...because it's too important to wait a few days to read this stuff...we need to act.  Yes We Can.  The best is yet to come.  I can't wait for this football season, it sounds like change we can believe in.
 Now, some cities are starting to complain, they are even forming groups called "Tailgaters" who want the game returned to it's natural and beautiful historical roots of a sport.  Many in the Barrack group and the sports media deride them for being racists and call them pejoratives like "Tailhumpers", but they remain undeterred because they actually believe in their grass roots efforts.  After awhile, Barrack's getting some bad press for the game starting to suck, and game attendance drops, and tv channels put dog shows and magicjack infomercials on instead.  So he gives subsidies for football tickets to his buddies in the unions, and even let them sit in their pickups at halftime and smoke weed and drink beer.  It's ok, they bargained for it...collectively. 
When the season is over, there are no winners, the season ends in controversy as  some teams threaten to take their teams to other countries where they can play it fairer.  Barrack calls them unpatriotic,then says that at least we aren't soccer.  Then tells his buddy that the Jews have ruined everything and they're so difficult to deal with.  Perhaps if he can get all his friends to organize another type of protest, without any theme or organization...just anger.  If there are enough rapes, assaults and thefts, they'll all come back to him for salvation.   
The sad thing about this, is there are some people who actually think the answer from this half-fucked position is to keep plowing ahead with more tweeks, changes, feelings and idiotic ideas, instead of admitting that he's a picture of complete failure at the difficult task of leadership.  But since we've NEVER heard this man say he screwed ANYTHING up, due to his infallibility I'm sure, I guess we'll just wait until the 2013 season...unless we can get some of the coaches in the league to grow a pair of hairy hanging...footballs and throw this bum out of his position, with the first "lady" and that damn ugly mutt too.  But since most coaches are only worried about getting another season as coach, they won't put their necks on the line.  I miss Ditka, Knoll, Landry, Madden and Lambeau...those were the days when we could be proud of this sport.   I wonder if we'll ever see a good game again?  Well, we do know that we won't until this organizer is thrown out of his position, and probably won't if the next Commissioner is the same type of slick talking power hungry New England governor...errr...I mean ...whatever, you know what I mean.

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Wait...What? You're demonstrating against what?

First it was Wisconsin, now Ohio, and it's all over the treatment the mean State Governors are proposing for state workers.  It must be awful.  I mean really mean stuff like no lunch breaks, and forced body cavity searches and mandatory drug tests.  This kind of draconian treatment of our civil servants will...wait..., it's not?   Well what is all the crying and protesting over?  It has to be something Torquemada would support, surely.   Let's break it down. 
1) The law bans strikes by all of Ohio's 350,000 government workers.
2) Restricts collective bargaining in the public sector.
 OK, for issues 1 and 2, I think it is only fair to remind the  Public Unions that they can, at any time, leave the "civil service" and look for work in the private sector to really take advantage of all of their hidden talents.  Perhaps the State of Ohio doesn't think it is worth destroying their state to give public sector employees the ability to extort high wages etc...not that the public unions are overpaid, underworked and spoiled compared to the rest of our society.  I digress.
 3) The law requires all public employees to pay at least 15% of their healthcare premiums.
 OMG, you mean the same group of hoodlums that voted for Obama, and force fed his poisonous pablum to us without allowing us to read it (obamacare) are upset that it is such a failure and costing so much more than they thought...that even THEY don't want to pay into this system of corruption?  I'm truly shocked.  I'm agog that Ohioans can be so mean as to force the same Obamacare crap down the unions throats like we've had to chew on.  Remember now, Elections have consequences.
 4) 10% of worker's salary must be used to fund pensions. 
Uh...10%?  That's it?  They don't even want to be on the hook for their own pensions?  Who else should pay for it?  Oh...me.  Yeah, No thanks...I've got 99 problems and you are already 98 of them.  This one is all yours.
 5)More meritocratic calculations on pay and job cuts.
 Uh...this one is a no-brainer.  No, I mean, stupid should be fired first.  No brain, more pain.  Why should someone who's been slacking off for 20 years be safe from cutbacks? 
 6) A cap of holiday time of five weeks a year!!!!!!!!!!
  No Way.  There is no way in hell that a person should have to work all year and not get more than 1.25 MONTHS off per 12 months... that is over the line Smokey.  There is a little
story I remember reading about, it was from Benjamin Franklin I believe.  There once were two wolves and a lamb.  They decided to vote on what to have for lunch.  You see, democracy is fine, until 50% + 1 figure out that they can vote themselves a free lunch at the expense of the "lambs"...unfortunately for them, the story goes on...as when the lamb produces a gun, he decides to let the wolves know that liberty comes when you fight for what is right, even though you are out voted.  Lambs...it's time to protect Liberty.  We are in a representational Republic...not a democracy.  Liberty is our right by birth from our creator.  You cannot vote it away...but it only rears it's head when we stand up for ourselves.  We do not have to convince 50%, we just have to stand up for ourselves...and friends, there are enough of us to protect ourselves from the wolves.
"The second amendment of the constitution is there to protect the first amendment from the government."  I wonder if "Give me Liberty or give me death", "Don't tread on me", and "Live free or die" are just platitudes from a day long gone, or the battle cry for freedom that needs to ring from every corner of this once great land.  If unions can't live without threatening us, stealing from us, living lavish lifestyles at our expense and on top of that, having us fund their early cushy retirement plans...well, then let them rot and die.  12 months from this day, you may be at a voting booth face to face with a nazi leftist who would try to keep you from exercising your right to vote.  Make sure you vote first, then when you come out do what you think is right.  If leaving the thug to intimidate others is right for you...so be it...but I kinda hope there are reports of SEIU thugs, Black Panthers and other Obama civilian policing goons in the hospital...bottom floor...in a nice cold room.  Live Free or Die. 
Rev.

Is it me, or has the whole world gone retarded?

When I was a young child, I heard about the crazy crap happening in the world by watching my folks watching the news and listening to the commentary.  It was relatively mild stuff compared to now...gas shortages and inflation, tax rates, crappy domestic cars, Japan was taking over the world...but compare that to now, and it seems like the days we long for.  Maybe it was all going on back then, but I never heard too much about crooked senators, tax evading economic advisors to the President, unapproved wars, gun running to Mexican cartels, TSA maulings at the airport, Solyndra/Sun Power crony capitalism, Gibson Guitar Wood controversy, Union bailouts, Election fraud/Acorn, tsars for every aspect of our lives...etc.  I'm not sure if I am more outraged at all these things, or if what really grates my gonads is the acceptance we have of these things, while focussed on the unwashed idiots and paid homeless who camp out pretending to be outraged at businesses who are jumping through hoops to avoid taxes in our ridiculous tax code.  Where is Susan Powter to yell "STOP THE INSANITY"? 
   Have we ever had a society so brainwashed into thinking that communism is the answer?  It seems like 50% of the people I speak with have no problem saying things like, "I don't mind if some billionaire gets taxed more if I can get out of paying my ..." but when I say, "would you be ok if the company owned by the billionaire fires you to pay for the increased taxes?" all of a sudden, there's a different tune being sung.  But these homeless and jobless morons being organized by ACORN in NY don't have to worry about being fired, they don't care about working.  They come from a sad part of America that said it was ok during the 60's and 70's to live the free love lifestyle, and someone else would watch out for them.  Just look at Obama's speeches.  "Stay on your parents insurance until you are 26"  "Just because you made an agreement with a bank to pay off your education doesn't mean that you should have to sacrifice your creature comforts to pay those evil banks back"...who the hell is going to cover those bad debts?  oh, the federal gov't guarantees them...cool...so...shit, that means I WILL.  DAMN YOU BUMS, if you wanna grow your hair out, dye it green and put all sorts of crap in your ears, nose, eyes and cheeks, fine...but when you can't get a job because you look like a crayon drawing done by a blind retarded 6 year old, then have the decency to starve quietly in some alleyway somewhere.  "Stupid should have consequences".  idiots.
   I'd really like to know why our houses of congress can impeach a guy for lying about a hummer in the oval office, but this guy in office now has done more to violate 5 U.S.C. 7311, and should be shot by a firing squad or hung for treason.  Now...I'm not saying we should do a predator drone strike against him, that's not legal to do against a US citizen without due process...or...is it now?  hmmm.  Unfortunately, 18 U.S.C. 1918 says the most we can do to him is fine and imprisonment up to 366 days.  I say we bring him up on charges ASAP, and if congress/House are too chickenshit to do anything about it, maybe we need some civil disobedience of our own...like thousands of emails and calls and sitins and letters and shouting and picketing our members of congress and the house.  There is a reason for the previously mentioned laws...it is to guarantee that if there are 50% idiots in this country, they can't force the other half to pay for all their free goodies.  In effect, it is a way to make sure we don't turn into Greece.  Well, if the laws aren't enforced...what's to stop us from being trillions of dollars in debt with no fortitude to get out of debt.  The times, they are a changin...and unless there is a revolution in Nov of 2012, there will be a bigger one after that. 
   At least we have one saving grace, this super committee that has less than a month to find 1.2t dollars...as long as SS and medicare isn't touched.  WHAT?  OK, if there are 70 year olds out there living on SS, I have to ask you, WHY DIDN'T YOU PLAN TO RETIRE WITH PRIVATE SAVINGS ALSO?????  Oh...you shouldn't have to...SS was designed to sustain you...ahhhh...then answer me this, "Why in the name of all that is holy are you asking ME to find a way to pay you're debt, and save privately for my own retirement?"  How about we force you, the 70 year olds, to pay the piper.  YOU voted for these criminal senators to rob the SS funds.  You have kicked the can down the road for the past 30 years, assuming your kids and grandkids will solve this problem...Fine, we will solve it.  All union pension plans that have any money in them at all go to the SS fund immediately.  Union bosses who are collecting all sorts of money from pensions, including fraudulent 200,000 /yr scams that most are doing...all gets put into the SS fund, and the union bosses and members get put on the SS dole at reduced levels.  That should be a shot in the arm.  How's that for a start...a little skin in the game...or is it "peas" on your plate.  I'm done being in the 53% of fed tax payers...if you make 35K/year, get ready to pay YOUR fair share...
Gas, Grass, or Ass, nobody rides for free.  Hows that for a 70's reference?

Feb 18, 1981. A leader leads...

New (1981) Ideas for Economic Stability

This is the second installment of 30 year old leadership principles that are forgotten or ignored by current policymakers in the USA.  I think they ring true, and if a politician quotes Reagan…make sure it’s not  just one line to justify their idea…Reagan was consistent, concise, and direct.  Here is what he said after a few WEEKS in office.  Not THREE YEARS like Obama.  Actions speak louder than words.

                “Each Executive Dept and Agency cut travel by 15% from amounts available for the remainder of the Fiscal Year. (This also includes Michelle Obamas trips all over the world with her two Senior Executive Policy Advisers…ie her children)

                Cut obligations for consulting, management and professional services, and special contract studies and analyses by 5% from the amounts shown in the budget (is there a budget?)

                Stop procurement of furniture, office machines and other equipment except military equipment and equipment needed to protect human life and property.

                Members of the Cabinet and other appointees set an example by avoiding unnecessary expenditures in setting up their personal offices.  Appointees are not to redecorate their offices.

Now, I know that exaggerated and inaccurate stories about these cuts have disturbed many people, particularly those dependent on grant and benefit programs for their basic needs. Some of you have heard from constituents, I know, afraid that social security checks, for example, were going to be taken away from them. Well, I regret the fear that these unfounded stories have caused, and I welcome this opportunity to set things straight.

All in all, nearly $216 billion worth of programs providing help for tens of millions of Americans will be fully funded. But government will not continue to subsidize individuals or particular business interests where real need cannot be demonstrated. And while we will reduce some subsidies to regional and local governments, we will at the same time convert a number of categorical grant programs into block grants to reduce wasteful administrative overhead and to give local governments and States more flexibility and control. We call for an end in duplication to Federal programs and reform of those which are not cost-effective.

Now, already some have protested that there must be no reduction in aid to schools. Well, let me point out that Federal aid to education amounts to only 8 percent of the total educational funding, and for this 8 percent, the Federal Government has insisted on tremendously disproportionate share of control over our schools. Whatever reductions we've proposed in that 8 percent will amount to very little in the total cost of education. They will, however, restore more authority to States and local school districts.

There are a number of subsidies to business and industry that I believe are unnecessary, not because the activities being subsidized aren't of value, but because the marketplace contains incentives enough to warrant continuing these activities without a government subsidy. One such subsidy is the Department of Energy's synthetic fuels program. We will continue support of research leading to development of new technologies and more independence from foreign oil, but we can save at least $3.2 billion by leaving to private industry the building of plants to make liquid or gas fuels from coal.

This brings me to a number of other lending programs in which government makes low-interest loans, some of them at an interest rate as low as 2 percent. What has not been very well understood is that the Treasury Department has no money of its own to lend; it has to go into the private capital market and borrow the money. So, in this time of excessive interest rates, the government finds itself borrowing at an interest rate several times as high as the interest it gets back from those it lends the money to. And this difference, of course, is paid by your constituents -- the taxpayers. They get hit again if they try to borrow, because government borrowing contributes to raising all interest rates.

By terminating the Economic Development Administration, we can save hundreds of millions of dollars in 1982 and billions more over the next few years. There's a lack of consistent and convincing evidence that EDA and its Regional Commissions have been effective in creating new jobs. They have been effective in creating an array of planners, grantsmen, and professional middlemen. We believe we can do better just by the expansion of the economy and the job creation which will come from our economic program.

The Food Stamp program will be restored to its original purpose, to assist those without resources to purchase sufficient nutritional food. We will, however, save $1.8 billion in fiscal year 1982 by removing from eligibility those who are not in real need or who are abusing the program. But even with this reduction, the program will be budgeted for more than $10 billion.

We will tighten welfare and give more attention to outside sources of income when determining the amount of welfare that an individual is allowed. This, plus strong and effective work requirements, will save $520 million in the next year.

I stated a moment ago our intention to keep the school breakfast and lunch programs for those in true need. But by cutting back on meals for children of families who can afford to pay, the savings will be $1.6 billion in the fiscal year 1982.

Earlier I made mention of changing categorical grants to States and local governments into block grants. Now, we know of course that the categorical grant programs burden local and State governments with a mass of Federal regulations and Federal paperwork. Ineffective targeting, wasteful administrative overhead -- all can be eliminated by shifting the resources and decisionmaking authority to local and State government. This will also consolidate programs which are scattered throughout the Federal bureaucracy, bringing government closer to the people and saving $23.9 billion over the next 5 years.

Our program for economic renewal deals with a number of programs which at present are not cost-effective. An example is Medicaid. Right now Washington provides the States with unlimited matching payments for their expenditures; at the same time, we here in Washington pretty much dictate how the States are going to manage those programs. We want to put a cap on how much the Federal Government will contribute, but at the same time allow the States much more flexibility in managing and structuring the programs. I know from our experience in California that such flexibility could have led to far more cost-effective reforms. Now, this will bring a savings of $1 billion next year.

Now, coming down from space to the mailbox, the Postal Service has been consistently unable to live within its operating budget. It is still dependent on large Federal subsidies. We propose reducing those subsidies by $632 million in 1982 to press the Postal Service into becoming more effective, and in subsequent years the savings will continue to add up.

Now, let me say a word here about the general problem of waste and fraud in the Federal Government. One government estimate indicated that fraud alone may account for anywhere from 1 to 10 percent -- as much as $25 billion of Federal expenditures for social programs. If the tax dollars that are wasted or mismanaged are added to this fraud total, the staggering dimensions of this problem begin to emerge.

The Office of Management and Budget is now putting together an interagency task force to attack waste and fraud. We're also planning to appoint as Inspectors General highly trained professionals who will spare no effort to do this job. No administration can promise to immediately stop a trend that has grown in recent years as quickly as government expenditures themselves, but let me say this: Waste and fraud in the Federal Government is exactly what I've called it before -- an unrelenting national scandal, a scandal we're bound and determined to do something about.

Marching in lockstep with the whole program of reductions in spending is the equally important program of reduced tax rates. Both are essential if we're to have economic recovery. It's time to create new jobs, to build and rebuild industry, and to give the American people room to do what they do best. And that can only be done with a tax program which provides incentive to increase productivity for both workers and industry.

Our proposal is for a 10-percent across-the-board cut every year for 3 years in the tax rates for all individual income taxpayers, making a total cut in the tax-cut rates of 30 percent. This 3-year reduction will also apply to the tax on unearned income, leading toward an eventual elimination of the present differential between the tax on earned and unearned income.

American society experienced a virtual explosion in government regulation during the past decade. Between 1970 and 1979, expenditures for the major regulatory agencies quadrupled. The number of pages published annually in the Federal Register nearly tripled, and the number of pages in the Code of Federal Regulations increased by nearly two-thirds. The result has been higher prices, higher unemployment, and lower productivity growth. Overregulation causes small and independent business men and women, as well as large businesses to defer or terminate plans for expansion. And since they're responsible for most of the new jobs, those new jobs just aren't created.

Now, we have no intention of dismantling the regulatory agencies, especially those necessary to protect environment and assure the public health and safety. However, we must come to grips with inefficient and burdensome regulations, eliminate those we can and reform the others.

I have asked Vice President Bush to head a Cabinet-level Task Force on Regulatory Relief. Second, I asked each member of my Cabinet to postpone the effective dates of the hundreds of new regulations which have not yet been implemented. Third, in coordination with the Task Force, many of the agency heads have already taken prompt action to review and rescind existing burdensome regulations. And finally, just yesterday I signed an Executive order that for the first time provides for effective and coordinated management of the regulatory process.

Well, together we can embark on this road, not to make things easy, but to make things better. Our social, political, and cultural, as well as our economic institutions, can no longer absorb the repeated shocks that have been dealt them over the past decades. Can we do the job? The answer is yes. But we must begin now.

We're in control here. There's nothing wrong with America that together we can't fix. I'm sure there'll be some who raise the old familiar cry, ``Don't touch my program; cut somewhere else.'' I hope I've made it plain that our approach has been evenhanded, that only the programs for the truly deserving needy remain untouched. The question is, are we simply going to go down the same path we've gone down before, carving out one special program here, another special program there? I don't think that's what the American people expect of us. More important, I don't think that's what they want. They're ready to return to the source of our strength.

The substance and prosperity of our nation is built by wages brought home from the factories and the mills, the farms, and the shops. They are the services provided in 10,000 corners of America; the interest on the thrift of our people and the returns for their risk-taking. The production of America is the possession of those who build, serve, create, and produce.

The taxing power of government must be used to provide revenues for legitimate government purposes. It must not be used to regulate the economy or bring about social change. We've tried that, and surely we must be able to see it doesn't work.

Spending by government must be limited to those functions which are the proper province of government. We can no longer afford things simply because we think of them. Next year we can reduce the budget by $41.4 billion, without harm to government's legitimate purposes or to our responsibility to all who need our benevolence. This, plus the reduction in tax rates, will help bring an end to inflation.

In the health and social services area alone, the plan we're proposing will substantially reduce the need for 465 pages of law, 1,400 pages of regulations, 5,000 Federal employees who presently administer 7,600 separate grants in about 25,000 separate locations. Over 7 million man and woman hours of work by State and local officials are required to fill out government forms.

I would direct a question to those who have indicated already an unwillingness to accept such a plan: Have they an alternative which offers a greater chance of balancing the budget, reducing and eliminating inflation, stimulating the creation of jobs, and reducing the tax burden? And, if they haven't, are they suggesting we can continue on the present course without coming to a day of reckoning? If we don't do this, inflation and the growing tax burden will put an end to everything we believe in and our dreams for the future.”



If you are too young to remember Reagan, that’s a shame.  He was a guiding light of decency in the world.  He was courteous, polite, strong, and dedicated.  A true gentleman.  If we only had ONE more like him in the world that could unite and get order back into the USA.  

An open letter to the Republican/Independent Candidates (Obama might learn something from this as well?)

                The last time our Nation was tested with economic calamity of this magnitude was 1980.  Iran was militant, gas was in short supply, inflation was in double digits for 2 years…and America was at a crossroads.  Not dissimilar to what we are engaged in now.  Let’s examine what a “leader” did then, vs what we are doing now.

Feb. 05, 1981 Address to the Nation on the Economy by President Ronald Reagan. 

            “I'm speaking to you tonight to give you a report on the state of our Nation's economy. I regret to say that we're in the worst economic mess since the Great Depression.  The Federal budget is out of control, and we face runaway deficits of almost $80 billion for this budget year that ends September 30th. That deficit is larger than the entire Federal budget in 1957, and so is the almost $80 billion we will pay in interest this year on the national debt.

Twenty years ago, in 1960, our Federal Government payroll was less than $13 billion. Today it is 75 billion. During these 20 years our population has only increased by 23.3 percent. The Federal budget has gone up 528 percent.  And finally there are 7 million Americans caught up in the personal indignity and human tragedy of unemployment. If they stood in a line, allowing 3 feet for each person, the line would reach from the coast of Maine to California.

Regulations adopted by government with the best of intentions have added $666 to the cost of an automobile. It is estimated that altogether regulations of every kind, on shopkeepers, farmers, and major industries, add $100 billion or more to the cost of the goods and services we buy. And then another 20 billion is spent by government handling the paperwork created by those regulations.

I'm sure you're getting the idea that the audit presented to me found government policies of the last few decades responsible for our economic troubles. We forgot or just overlooked the fact that government -- any government -- has a built-in tendency to grow. Now, we all had a hand in looking to government for benefits as if government had some source of revenue other than our earnings. Many if not most of the things we thought of or that government offered to us seemed attractive.”  (Please note Reagan isn’t blaming Carter…the previous administration is not a scapegoat.  Leaders solve problems, they don’t pass the buck or look for others to blame)

“We know now that inflation results from all that deficit spending. Government has only two ways of getting money other than raising taxes. It can go into the money market and borrow, competing with its own citizens and driving up interest rates, which it has done, or it can print money, and it's done that. Both methods are inflationary.

We're victims of language. The very word ``inflation'' leads us to think of it as just high prices. Then, of course, we resent the person who puts on the price tags, forgetting that he or she is also a victim of inflation. Inflation is not just high prices; it's a reduction in the value of our money. When the money supply is increased but the goods and services available for buying are not, we have too much money chasing too few goods. Wars are usually accompanied by inflation. Everyone is working or fighting, but production is of weapons and munitions, not things we can buy and use.

Now, one way out would be to raise taxes so that government need not borrow or print money. But in all these years of government growth, we've reached, indeed surpassed, the limit of our people's tolerance or ability to bear an increase in the tax burden. Prior to World War II, taxes were such that on the average we only had to work just a little over 1 month each year to pay our total Federal, State, and local tax bill. Today we have to work 4 months to pay that bill.

Some say shift the tax burden to business and industry, but business doesn't pay taxes. Oh, don't get the wrong idea. Business is being taxed, so much so that we're being priced out of the world market. But business must pass its costs of operations -- and that includes taxes -- on to the customer in the price of the product. Only people pay taxes, all the taxes. Government just uses business in a kind of sneaky way to help collect the taxes. They're hidden in the price; we aren't aware of how much tax we actually pay.

We invented the assembly line and mass production, but punitive tax policies and excessive and unnecessary regulations plus government borrowing have stifled our ability to update plant and equipment. When capital investment is made, it's too often for some unproductive alterations demanded by government to meet various of its regulations. Excessive taxation of individuals has robbed us of incentive and made overtime unprofitable.

Over the past decades we've talked of curtailing government spending so that we can then lower the tax burden. Sometimes we've even taken a run at doing that. But there were always those who told us that taxes couldn't be cut until spending was reduced. Well, you know, we can lecture our children about extravagance until we run out of voice and breath. Or we can cure their extravagance by simply reducing their allowance.

It's time to recognize that we've come to a turning point. We're threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save us. Together, we must chart a different course.

We must increase productivity. That means making it possible for industry to modernize and make use of the technology which we ourselves invented. That means putting Americans back to work. And that means above all bringing government spending back within government revenues, which is the only way, together with increased productivity, that we can reduce and, yes, eliminate inflation.

In the past we've tried to fight inflation one year and then, with unemployment increased, turn the next year to fighting unemployment with more deficit spending as a pump primer. So, again, up goes inflation. It hasn't worked. We don't have to choose between inflation and unemployment -- they go hand in hand. It's time to try something different, and that's what we're going to do.

I've already placed a freeze on hiring replacements for those who retire or leave government service. I've ordered a cut in government travel, the number of consultants to the government, and the buying of office equipment and other items. I've put a freeze on pending regulations and set up a task force under Vice President Bush to review regulations with an eye toward getting rid of as many as possible. I have decontrolled oil, which should result in more domestic production and less dependence on foreign oil. And I'm eliminating that ineffective Council on Wage and Price Stability.

But it will take more, much more. And we must realize there is no quick fix. At the same time, however, we cannot delay in implementing an economic program aimed at both reducing tax rates to stimulate productivity and reducing the growth in government spending to reduce unemployment and inflation.

On February 18th, I will present in detail an economic program to Congress embodying the features I've just stated. It will propose budget cuts in virtually every department of government. It is my belief that these actual budget cuts will only be part of the savings. As our Cabinet Secretaries take charge of their departments, they will search out areas of waste, extravagance, and costly overhead which could yield additional and substantial reductions.

Now, at the same time we're doing this, we must go forward with a tax relief package. I shall ask for a 10-percent reduction across the board in personal income tax rates for each of the next 3 years. Proposals will also be submitted for accelerated depreciation allowances for business to provide necessary capital so as to create jobs.

Our spending cuts will not be at the expense of the truly needy. We will, however, seek to eliminate benefits to those who are not really qualified by reason of need.  Our basic system is sound. We can, with compassion, continue to meet our responsibility to those who, through no fault of their own, need our help. We can meet fully the other legitimate responsibilities of government. We cannot continue any longer our wasteful ways at the expense of the workers of this land or of our children.

To the Congress of the United States, I extend my hand in cooperation, and I believe we can go forward in a bipartisan manner. I've found a real willingness to cooperate on the part of Democrats and members of my own party. (??? So that’s what leadership is about…someone needs to take a note)

We can create the incentives which take advantage of the genius of our economic system -- a system, as Walter Lippmann observed more than 40 years ago, which for the first time in history gave men ``a way of producing wealth in which the good fortune of others multiplied their own.''

Our aim is to increase our national wealth so all will have more, not just redistribute what we already have which is just a sharing of scarcity. We can begin to reward hard work and risk-taking, by forcing this Government to live within its means.  (Can this ever be stressed enough?)

We can leave our children with an unrepayable massive debt and a shattered economy, or we can leave them liberty in a land where every individual has the opportunity to be whatever God intended us to be. All it takes is a little common sense and recognition of our own ability. Together we can forge a new beginning for America.”  (He’s dead, and still gives me goosebumps when I hear his words.)



Many of you, including Barrack Obama, have used the words, images or ideals of Ronald Reagan in your adds, speeches and when trying to make a zinger against an opponent you are running against.  I beseech you to stop acting like a fool.  If you want to learn from, emulate, or call on the wisdom of our greatest President of these United States, then do so in a complete manner, respecting his ideas and vision for the future.  Don’t just use this great leader as a punch line.  None of you are acting like a leader, and if you read this speech of Reagan’s above, you should be ashamed to call yourselves Republicans…or Democrats for that matter.  This is the first installment of Reagan’s speeches, edited for content (do you want to read matters like Iranian hostages or the Space program?)… In short, Reagan was a leader who transcended political bickering for the good of the country…is your President, Senator or Representative able to say the same thing?  If so, then hold them accountable.



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