A Real Fix.

I have a real fix for our economy. It’s simple and would happen with out the intervention of our government. First let me say this will be illegal in many states and on a tax basis.

My suggestion is to hire a person that you know (or comes with a high recommendation) to do some of the things that you have been putting off for a while. This could be re-soding a yard, having that deck built, painting the room that you want to spruce up, any of those little things that would require a tradesman to do it properly. At this time in our nation the largest group of unemployed is the tradesman (yes that includes women).

I suggest that you write a simple contract that requires both parties to sign it. In this contract you should state particular dates so as to guarantee that you pay in full when complete and the jobs completion is timely. All payments should be in cash, with a receipt for any and all moneys exchanged.

This is highly illegal in the field of taxation. Uncle Sam wants your money to pay for their entitlements and some of the other wasteful expenditures’. Don’t get me wrong I think government should mange certain aspects of our nation such as, the military, our infrastructure systems, and promotion of advancements in technologies. Don’t be undaunted. Our government will still get money (mine and yours). Just not from a direct withdrawal. They will only receive it threw the purchases of the materials for the previously mentioned home improvements, and the purchase of goods that those who have worked so hard for you (not for the government) will now be able to buy.

This will not reduce the unemployment rate, the amount of people who get food stamps, or fix many things that are wrong with our country. On the other hand it will stimulate our economy in a way that will be a real fix.

Never Before.

Never in the history of man kind (at least according to my government education), has the leader of a nation, the ruler of a sect of people, ever given a time for the end of a conflict.

Our President has truly made history. In his speech to the nation (given to a less then enthusiastic West Point audience) stated that he was going to grant General McCrystal the 30,000 troops he had requested. Of course we all know that the General had suggested that we need 40,000 more troops.

I don’t know or understand why our President has not given General McCrystal the entire sum, nor can I rap my mind around his statement of troop withdrawal in a given time line (18 months is his time line), when the enemy has made it clear that they are willing to fight this fight for as long as it takes. Does our President not understand the importance of not giving away your plans to the enemy? Should we give them information concerning each attack so they can ready them selves? Does our President not know that we have been fighting this war (as an undeclared war) for many years prior to September 11^th ?

Our nation has here and now a leader like never before.

Not a Freaking Peep !!

I was listening all day to the radio, later I watched the T.V. this is a normal part of my daily ritual. I do this to keep informed on the events of both the nation and the world. Many people know this day, it’s the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. (A.k.a. the end of the cold war). The Germans are celebrating, and much of Europe is putting on mock demolitions of walls. All these events are to commemorate this auspicious occasion. Seems like, no one is mentioning the major player in this. President Ronald Ragen. Yes the man who stood before the world and demanded that President Gorbachof tare down this wall. (and he did).

Now you might think that alone would be enough to tick off any red blooded American, and it is pissing me off. Truth be told that doesn’t upset me nearly as much as what our present President has said, both of the occasion and the man who stood up to the other great power of the day.

Not a Freaking Peep !!!

Greedy, Greedy, Bastards!!!

I hate to think about it but there are some truly greedy people in the world. They take from whom ever they can when ever they can. They don’t serve the greater good and they milk every service for what it’s worth. They don’t contribute on any level, be it for their own good or the good of those that depend on them. They are parasites.

Who are these greedy bastards? They are the people who make a living off our hard earned tax dollars. They would rather sit on there ever increasing ass’ talking about how the government needs to do more for them (such as health care, which they are more then likely already receiving). On most occasions these people have no job skills (why bother when the government will pay your bills), no real education, and no ambition to better their situation. They are truly greedy. Yet they are the first people to call the well educated, hard working, money makers greedy. Yet if you ask them if they’d like to have a million dollars they would say yes! If they did receive such money they would be broke in a short period of time, much like the many lottery winners who are broke or even dead. You know the ones who try to live the life of those who have earned their fortunes. the ones who lack the knolage ond skills to manage that sort of money.

To all those who bleed our government dry, you are a blight on our culture and truly Greedy, Greedy, Bastards !!!

I Quit !!!

Those would be the first words out of my mouth, were I one of the many C.E.O., C.O.O. Chairman and or the many who run the big corporations that have taken government funds. Second, I’d have to say that the rules of commerce are the resone that I was put into this situation, I’d then tell them that had there not been the forced financing of loans to home owners that had neither good sense of debt to value or loan to equity, we wouldn’t be in this situation! I have to say that were I even less aware then the average child of ten. .I guess, I would still blame the law makers in the house and senate jn the last eight years, and finally I have to say if you are going to cut my base contracted wage by fifty percent and tax my bonus’ by ninety percent. as the new administration is going to (as a punishment) for all those long hours, and hard work.

I Quit !!!!

Simple Truths.

I listened to Fox News Sunday Morning. They had a man who is not a political figure, nor is he a common man. His name is Steve Whin. He is a hotel / casino owner and the employer to some twenty thousand employees, who all receive a health benefit. Mr. Whin was up against two governors and a member of a think tank. They were talking about ways out of our economic mess (the one created by the political propaganda of an election season). Now what I know about Mr. Whin could fill a thimble, but I do know he built a gambling empire with little start-up capital.

In his conversations on how to fix the economy Mr. Whin made a point that, we should not, focus our efforts toward a revamping of our medical systems, cap-in trade, attempts to rebuild the infrastructure and fighting the so called global warming. His point was that these are the things that we could worry about in a good economy, not during tough times like we are in at the moment. Jobs and the creation there of should be the main concern. These are the real things that the governing bodies’ should concern them selves with. The fact that we do not pursue these simple truths will keep us in a slumping economy for a greater duration.

This seems to be something our government can’t handle. Simple truths.

I Hate to Be Right !!

In one of my previous post I spoke of how cash for clunkers was a bad thing for the future of the American car industry. I said that the car industry would suffer a major slump in sales. Well the latest new is that car sails for the month of September is that sales are down forty three percent for General Motors and down thirty seven percent for Dodge. The only American car company that really isn’t being hit that hard is the Ford motor company! They are only down by five percent. Now what can we expect our co-owners of General Motors and Dodge to do? Is our government going to dish out more money, are they going to allow them to finally go belly-up? Well my non-educated guess is that we are going to hand them more money, which we will have to take out of the stimulus money. This should give the Union a boost but, will do nothing for our general economy. I really hope that we will finally let them go into bankruptcy. Let the natural process of the capitalistic system finally take its toll. Now will this be a good thing? I think so. The market will eventually right it’s self, as it always has. Then when the demand has risen to the point where cars are being bought, Ford Motor Company will grow and grow. They will become as big as General Motors ever was. With two American car builders having left skilled workers in their wake, Ford will be able to hire staff at a discount. This will allow them to build cars at a lower price. And that would be a benefit to the entire nation.

In hind sight I guess I can still say

I Hate to Be Right!

I Have a Question!

If I don’t want to buy auto insurance what do I do?

Tough question huh?

How do I side step the state requirements for auto insurance, don’t drive! I could take a taxi, (I live in an area that would take much too long to walk anywhere). I could ride the bus, that would certainly get me where I’m going. If I did live in an area where every thing was closer I would walk, matter of fact there was a time when I did just that. I could even ride my bicycle. So with these options for opting out of the system I have in a sort, freedom! The freedom that is granted by our fore fathers. This brings me to my point.

How can I drop out of a national health plan that requires us to have insurance? How can I walk? Much like my former comments, if I don’t want to pay for the national health care, is there a bus I can ride? Or could I ride my bicycle? The answer will be NO!!

So if I’m not mistaken the new cost of my citizenship will be between sixteen hundred to thirty two hundred dollars. If this happens all will be lost. How can our government become so over powering as to charge us to live in America. People will say that the cost is to help the poor have coverage. Well we will not cure stupidity now will we? If we could then I might just pay to live in a country that could do just that, cure stupidity.

Now please don’t get me wrong I’d give my life to ensure the freedoms of our country, to maintain the security of it’s citizens. But I really can’t come up with the annual dollar I’d pay if we must put a price on citizenship. I think that we will loose more then we will gain with a mandatory charge for health care.

So I have a question!

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The Man for the Job,

Any one who thinks that President Obama isn’t doing a good job has got to be blind! Man, O-man! He has certainly done the job he set out to do. First thing that comes to mind is the fact that he said he would set heavy guild lines for our banking structures. And this he has. Not alone but, through the political machine that was already in place in the House of Representatives and the Senate, none the less he has done that. Then he said in way to many ways, he was going to make fossil fuels so expensive that no one could afford it, thus creating the need for so called green technology. That was done with cap and trade. That’s two major projects out of the way, I’m sure he said in a non answer, ever evasive way, that he would end the war definitively. This he did by doing nothing then changing the name. Next he said he’d raise taxes’. He tried to explain to use (when we started to gripe) that only the rich would pay a hire tax, that was false.

So after all this, how can anyone say that president Obama isn’t doing a great job? I would even say that he’s achieved more of his personal agenda them most of the presidents that I’ve lived under. Problem is he is also driving us to a socialist nation, and in this case he’s The Man for the Job.

What Do You Deserve?

I’ve been thinking about a word that bugs me.

Now any one who knows me knows that I don’t believe in a few words like, accident, luck, entitled, and special. Recently I’ve really been bothered by a word. The word is, deserve! What does this word mean? Well to me it means some one thinks they should get something for either a return of an applied effort or by some right given to them; i.e.being.worthy. Now I’m pretty sure that I’m correct. Problem is we all ready have a word that describes why we get things that we have, it’s earned! I have nothing that I deserve, nothing that was given by right or worth. Even my pay is earned. If I was given what I (so called) deserved I would be wealthy (far beyond my modest miens). I would have a brand new motor cycle, car, home, clothes, shoes, and so on! See what I mean? No? OK then, let me tell you that people have not only told me that I’m a hard working man, but people I’ve worked with in the past have sent word through my siblings and friends that I am truly a hard worker. If this is true (which I like to believe it is), then don’t I deserve the things that I listed? Believe me or not, I think I’ve received things that I have earned. I don’t have a motor cycle, my car is a 1986-7 Volvo, I rent a small house, and the clothes I’ve owned for years. These are all things I have bought with hard earned money. Not money I deserve. So I guess I’ll add deserve to the list of words that I’ll not likely use.

Accident, some thing caused by no fault

Luck, random occurrence from chance alone

Entitled, received from by right of birth

Special, as though your better

Deserve. granted by some one

A Matter of Perception

Truth ! ! !

This is about perceptions and how we call them truth.

I recently had a conversation (internet chat) with one of my many nieces. She got on to the subject of truth and that there is only one truth!

Now I have to tell you she has recently found God in her life. This is a good thing and I’m happy that she found something to believe in that will steer her towards a life of faith. I am known for being one of deep faith. I always have been.

My point was that the perception of truth is a personal thing. My comment to her was not to shake her beliefs or to undermine the teaching that her church has presented her. I gave her a good point of reasoning. Or so I thought. I tried to tell her that with so many various Christian faiths we have an example of different truths. I pointed out the truth of the Buddhist, Jews, and Muslims are right to them. Now all but the Buddhists have the same deity. So I told her that this is an example of how God gave us the power of choice, and with this choice we have all moved to join others who believe the same truth. Their truth! Or at least how they perceive it.

The only problem is that the same people who say they believe in the so called true word of God are the same ones who are closed to others truths.

Now I have one thought for all those who believe or don’t. My truth is just that, mine, as well as that your truth is yours. True???

Anti-Social

Society ??

I saw a clip from the Phil Donahue show with Ayn Rand. Phil asked Mrs. Rand if she thought we all had a responsibility to society I was shocked with the rebuttal, Mrs. Rand responded with some thing of a short toned question, WHAT IS SOCIATY? Man what an answer, what a question! Is society you and I? Is society where you live, is it America, just what is society! What a deep philosophical question. Good old Phil had no real answer. Webster says that society is a group of animals or plants living together under the same environment and regarded as constituting a homogeneous unit or entity: especially, group of persons regarded as forming a single community. Ok. That sounds sound. Now for Mrs. Rand’s follow up to a similar answer from Phil. Where do we draw the boundary and why do any of us owe any thing to this society? I have to say (as someone who doesn’t ask any thing of others) we don’t. I’m not condoning anarchy. I just don’t think that I should pay for some fat cow to get steaks with food stamps (while she pays for the cigarettes and alcohol with cash), nor do I think I should pay part of the bill for health care, cars, homes, (coming soon) appliances, child care, meds for Grandma and Grandpa (I’d help mine but I’m not responsible for them), the education of other peoples children, or any thing that does not have to do with my well being. My friends will say Jamie you do so much for others I can’t believe you feel this way. To be honest I don’t do it for society, I do it for MY friends. No I don’t own them. I have earned some thing from them, it’s some thing I own, cherish, and wish to retain, there friendship and respect! So I do it for me don’t I?

Poor Poor Pitiful Me.

Man he’s rich, he’s doesn’t have to worry about money!

I’ve heard that statement so many times. That statement makes me sick! Most of the people who say such things have much more opportunity to succeed then they actually know. Problem is they try to live like the wealthy, rather then try to live so they will be wealthy. I’m considered poor. A lot of that has to do with not driving a newer car or having much as for nice clothes. I know that makes me look a little slob-bish. I have even had people tell me that I look like a hippy. Meaning that I look like a slob. This doesn’t bother me because my cloths are clean, I’m clean and my car runs well (for a 1986). The thing that people don’t know is, I have given away (in cash) some thing in the neighborhood of two to three thousand dollars of my hard earned money. This in the year the past year alone, Most of the people who received this cash make more then I do. They also complain about not having money. And they complain about the filthy rich! then they show me some stuped thin they baught that will sit in a garage, closet,or be thrown away. so tell me why are you not rich? Is it that your just not responsible with your money? Pitiful

Home Grown Socialism !!!

There seems to be a bad trend arising. It started with the bail-outs of our financial systems, then it grew when our government poured billions into the auto industries. Now it seems to be coming home. It’s the result of how we look at other peoples wealth, I’d even go as far as to say it’s based on envy.

What exactly is my point? It’s our prying into what the corporate executives receive as compensation. When A.I.G. was found to be paying hundreds of millions in bonuses to their executives, people started screaming bloody murder. The bonus contracts were not known to the general populous but, they were known to the treasury department. These are the same people who put the deal together in the first place. Next G.M. and Chrysler were going to congress with hands out reached, telling there tale of troubled times. No sooner did they get there to testify and people started screaming about there use of corporate jets. Then when they got close to getting the money that congress had approved, people once again started hollering about the money that the executives make every year, not to mention the bonus’ they receive. Now, closer to home, people started moaning and complaining about the rate the local power company charges for there service. Followed by what seems to be an uproar about what the executives make in this industry. What next? Are we going to make a big ruckus as to how much the people who run the oil companies make? Then what? Are we going to watch for the food industries executives? Perhaps we will hound the insurance industries (as a supposed way to save money), or even the cable companies.

I think these are the luxuries we’ve taken from just that luxury, and have started calling necessities. So now they’re necessities, we complain that the people who provide them are greedy. We show no appreciation for the long hours that the executives must put in. When most of us do nothing more then work forty hours a week, and complain about how we will find time, when there are still one hundred and twenty eight hours left in the week. No the average executive works seventy to one hundred hours a week. Often they spend large amounts of time far away from their families.

The thing that scares me about this is, how we the people seem to be asking for socialism! We are demanding that the people who work the hardest pay more then their share of tax, and demanding that our leaders provide us with more luxuries (that we’ll call necessities). Tell me that is not socialism! Even worse tell me it’s not our own making.

Speak Up People

Why you and I can’t be the President of the United State of America! Race is no longer a factor so we’ll toss that aside right away. But if you are a small business owner, a mom, a community collage graduate, a hunter or someone who speaks of personal responsibility, then you can not possibly be President. This has been made clear to we the lowly working class, courtesy of the mass media, political establishment and the standard bureaucrat that has been running Washington into the ground for most of the past century. They imply that we are too ignorant to understand the complexities of world affairs, economics, social policies and national security. Apparently you must be a graduate of Harvard, Yale, or some other Ivy League collage. You must have a degree in B.S. from what I can tell.

So tell me, like so many others have, why not Sara Palin? Try to tell me that you agree with all the talking heads, the folks who have only known politics as there living who say that someone from a mediocre up-bringing with a less then stellar education and an over all regular life, can’t be the next leader of the free world

You would think this is about Mrs. Palin. Not really it’s about what we lost in the political world, the people, like, of the people, by the people. for the people. The way it was meant to be all along.

please someone buy a car

O-My GOD!!!

I heard the funniest thing just this evening. I was listening to the BBC nightly news. The anchor brought up cash for clunkers. So like most people who think that it was a bad idea from the start, I applied my full attention to what he was saying. Wait for it!.........Now that our government has allocated two billion dollars for our clunkers, the demand has dropped off to about the same amount as before the program was enacted! Tell me that’s not a knee slapper! The after thought is just as funny. The people who were going to buy a car in the next couple of months, have now ran to the car dealers to take advantage of the government hand outs. This is too funny!

So now that the (what was) growing car market has shot it’s wad, who’s going to buy cars? Excuse me while I whip away a tear (I’m just laughing so freaking hard). O.k. stick with me, the government put how many billions into G.M. and Chrysler? Set up a system to get people to flock to the car dealers. The people who would have bought a car in the next month or two (possibly three and four months) made there purchases. This is the kicker! Who’s going to buy cars in the months heading toward the holiday sales season? NOBODY! Ha! Ha! Ha! That’s going to hurt for sure. Freaking! Dumb Asses. If no body buys cars in a incressing fashion, then the industry will slow down. How in the hell are they going to pay us back? They have not made enough money off the three hundred thousand cars sold (I’m rounding the numbers because no one has any exact numbers).

These are the same people who want to try and fix our insurance industry? Sure just like they did the car industry! Or social security, the veteran’s administration, the post office, Medicare and Medicaid and so on and so on! How stupid do we have to be to vote the same dumb asses into office over and over again?

Democracy??? I don't think so!

I am so glad that I don’t live in a democracy. Yup I think that democracy is a very bad idea. The principles of a democracy are the same as that of a lynch-mob. Yup one guy says I didn’t do it and thirty say he did, well the guy doesn’t have much of a chance does he? Mob rule that’s how democracy works!

I am glad that I live in a representative republic! Yup, the United States was never set up as a democracy. Our fore-fathers knew what kind of effect the mob could have on government. The first thing the people would do would be to vote them selves all kinds of benefits, well beyond the provisions of a union of states. They even split the governing bodies’ into three separate entities This way the word of the mob could be worked through a set of process that makes for a balancing of public opinion verse laws. Don’t get me wrong there are plenty of examples where a large group of citizens have swayed both laws and policies. But it’s not easy, nor is it quick. Think how long it took to integrate the different ethnic groups or for veterans to get benefits. (I’m sorry to see those take so long), but they are good examples of how a representative republic works, and it does!

So when the politicians (be they republican or democrat) try to push things down our throat. We must step up like people did during the times of Dr Martin Luther King (peacefully and with an unbreakable will). Showing the general consensus, or more so the unity of the citizens of the states, and forcing our representative republic into action. It’s our job as American citizens.

Not My Clunker

Today I overheard a friend of mine on the phone talking about cash for clunkers. My friend isn’t a politically active person. As a matter of fact I can’t say she ever brings politics up as a topic for discussion. She’s more the busy homemaker. She however made a really good point. I like my clunker! The person she was talking to was trying to tell her. She needed to trade her car in (obviously some one who drank the liberal kool-aid). My friend surprised me when she told her friend that she liked her clunker, not for the fact of the statement but more so her follow-up. She immediately went on to the point that incurring a payment was ridiculous. She would not only have to make a payment that was out of her budget but, she would also have to increase her insurance. From what I’m not sure but the insurance on a new car has to be full coverage. That’s got to be a big increase over what she pays for her early two-thousand Chevy blazer. She also made the point that she would more then likely have trouble finding parts when she does have to make repairs

I sat there thinking that this girl of twenty two years of age will not be trapped by the false premise of this so called cash for clunkers. She understands the problems with the program, why can’t a politician?

Truly stimulating

I have an idea for a stimulus plan for our nation. Tax all fast food restaurants. I’d say a rate increase of forty percent would be a good start. Next tax all soft drink manufactures (not in the case of real fruit drinks) at the same levels. Don’t forget to tax any prefabricated foods. I’d say increase tax on cigarettes but they’ve already raised my smoking cost by four times at least. Yup 4x what I paid last year (I’m actually o.k. with that). Also put the same level of taxation on video games.

Now this may sound absolutely ridiculous. Truth be told, it is a little bit nutty but I’ll explain my self. If you increase the cost to the fast food companies, soda, micro-wave foods and video games, you lessen the patronage. You’d say this is a bad thing I’m sure. But the effect would reach much further then just the number of employees that will be lost in the reductions to these industries. The first of the benefits would be that people would have to cook there own food. This would have such far reaching benefits. For-most would be the health factor (yup! we would lose weight). Next would be the benefit to the farming industry, and then would come the industries that manufacture cook-ware. Soon would be the growth to any industries that have to do with sports and fitness, from the manufactures of beach wares to the batting cages. And don’t for get the clothing industries (this would include the entire spectrum, manufacturing, delivery, sales) because, all the people who have now lost weight will need new clothes to go play or just show off there trim and fit body. A less obvious benefit will be the effect of the family dinner. Truly stimulating! Truly!

Lets Change To a Responsable Nation

In conversation with a person whom I don’t know (never even got his name), the politics of personal responsibility came up. I should note this was a conversation held at our local court house (he and I were both waiting on someone to finish there appearance before the judge). We both had the same starting point, the reason we were waiting on these people was a lack of personal responsibility on there part. I couldn’t help but bring up the current political situation. The reason for our economic down turn was, you guessed it, a lack of personal responsibility. Then our conversation turned to the cap and trade (or as I like to call it, our economic death Nell). The gentle man I was speaking with told me how it was going to increase our utility bill, I told him about the provision that says we must retro fit a home that we are going to sell to bring it up to today’s energy standards.

We both had to agree that this was part of the new political power we granted the leaders in Congress as well as the White House. This is the CHANGE we have to look forward to. The CHANGE that was voted in by the people who were not even responsible enough to do any thing more then listen to the thirty second sound bites. The CHANGE asked for by people who are (in a good percentage) not willing to even be responsible enough to feed there children in the mornings, rather just letting the schools ( who are already spending money feeding kids lunch) take care of there parenting responsibilities. The CHANGE being brought down upon us I fear will be more irresponsibility.

As this gentleman took his leave he made one last comment, we rode out the other CHANGES, well ride this one out to.

I can’t help but think that same animosity is what will make this CHANGE even worse.