I heard an audio bite from Martha Coakley today on Rush Limbaugh's show. She stated that our health system was broken because it actually treated people who were ill, instead of preventing the illness which was too costly to treat after it had established itself. Rush capitalized upon another aspect of the comment, the openness of the left to willingly impose their crazy ideology upon the rest of us regardless of the majority being against them. While that was very true, the part that caught my ear was the flawed idea that we have the capability to detect all illnesses before they happen and that the left views ill people as a financial drag on society because of the costs associated with treating them to make them well again.
As Rush likes to call it, "the Universe of Lies" that the left lives in was made painfully evident by the clueless remarks of a hapless Martha. As if we have the technology to predict who will come down with whatever illness before hand and prevent it from happening is absurd. Where is that crystal ball at? I would like to know what the next set of lottery numbers are!
As people age they are more susceptible to illnesses. As people age the probability of contracting an illness increases. It is a mathematical certainty that nearly everyone will at some point in their lives suddenly find themselves battling some illness. It could be cancer, arthritis, dementia, MS, Heart disease, allergies, asthma, diabetes, or many others. Some of these diseases have genetic markers that predispose certain people towards contracting them, but even that is not any guarantee that they will come down with whatever it is.
No, the real intention of the left was inadvertently exposed in Martha's comment that it was too costly to treat people who already were battling some disease. That is why the left really thinks that their rationing of health care is a sensible, rational, and reasonable thing to do. After all, it is the responsible thing to do. I mean, all of you people who dare to actually be ill, should do the right thing and reject treatment, to save society money. You who are ill, should die responsibly, and quickly so that the rest of us can have the easy life with well paved roads and bridges to drive on and higher unemployment benefits for those who are out of work. You who are sucking up resources by treating your illness, are being irresponsible bad citizens. You should be thinking of the potential benefit to society first.
This is the twisted thinking that plagues the rabid leftists in the liberal horde. It is warped to say the very least. I can't think of a better example of egalitarianism and yet they will sell this bilk all day as compassion. It is elitism and nothing else. They try to package it as compassion but it does not pass the smell test. They would have two classes in society if they got their way, theirs for the elite and yours for the rest of the dregs. That is how they view the world; through a warped prismatic lens that is their heart. These stalwarts will never change. They represent about 20% of the population. Another 20% feels that nothing they can do will make a difference, and so they sit on the sidelines doing nothing. The do nothings will not change either. It is the remaining 60% who can be swayed either way. Those are the ones worth the effort of reaching to change their minds to make a positive change. That 60% can be persuaded that conservatism is the answer.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
For Jackie; Please Keep All Comments Clean!
To commenter Jackie; I am not quite sure how you got misogyny out of my recent post, "The Smell of Desperation", (which was about the imminent political defeat of "tax and spend" liberalism in Massachusetts), but nothing could be further from the truth. I love women, and respect all life from the unborn to the elderly. I knew two complete sets of my own Great Grandparents for the first 18 years of my life! The reason that I did not publish your dissenting comment was strictly the language used. I have published dissenting comments before, in fact, I welcome them! For future reference, please keep the language clean, so I can publish your comments whether you agree with me or not. Thank you.
The Smell of Desperation.
The blood is in the water now. the Massachusetts senate race between Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican contender Scott Brown is one of the most closely watched races in recent history. The fate of Obamacare rests upon the outcome. Obama just finished stumping for Martha in Boston. He was shouted down twice by a man and his son who were opposed to the support for abortion in Obamacare. The hecklers were removed, but Obama was clearly unnerved by the incident, probably because his teleprompter wasn't loaded with a contingent quip against such moral objections. He actually walked away from the podium for a moment, and when he returned struggled to remember where he was in his rhetoric, amazing!
All of the polls show that the defeat of Obamacare is imminent with the crescendo of common sense that is building in Massachusetts to deliver the crushing death blow at the ballot box soon. The very fact that Obama is there stumping for Martha, is proof that they are running scared. Obamacare is on the ropes and with Brown's win, we can knock it clear out of the ring.
Obama talked about his idiotic idea of a special tax on big banks to "recover TARP funds" that were given to them. What a load of crap. The treasury department forced them to take that money. They were not "given" it! Most of them did not even ask for that money. And most of them have paid that back already. All this will do is make any transactions with potential borrowers more expensive which will crimp lending by driving demand down even farther than it is now. In a time when they want to encourage lending to grease the wheels of commerce, this makes no sense. This just shows how very little Obama and his administration really understand about the free market and how it works.
He spoke about equality, which the left frequently does to try to frame their argument for increasing the size and scope of government and its increased intrusion into everyone's lives, as a humanitarian endeavor. This is of course, hogwash because while all are created equal, (having equal rights and intrinsic value as human beings) not all have equal talents, or are given equal opportunities by God. And so this is the tactic that they employ without fail. They are so predictable. Wrong, but predictable.
The President started his speech stating that he did not know much about the record of Scott Brown, and then he spent the rest of his time attacking it! That is pure desperation!
The public has had enough of politicians attitude of "tax and spend" from both parties. But it is the liberal democrats that have ratcheted that policy up exponentially since just last year. The tipping point has been passed, and the liberals are not aware of it yet. They will get the message loud and clear soon enough though. It started a while ago with Virginia, and New Jersey. It continues with this month's senate race in Massachusetts, and it will surely continue this November elsewhere..
Keep the faith folks. We are going to defeat Obamacre and so much more before it is all said and done with.
All of the polls show that the defeat of Obamacare is imminent with the crescendo of common sense that is building in Massachusetts to deliver the crushing death blow at the ballot box soon. The very fact that Obama is there stumping for Martha, is proof that they are running scared. Obamacare is on the ropes and with Brown's win, we can knock it clear out of the ring.
Obama talked about his idiotic idea of a special tax on big banks to "recover TARP funds" that were given to them. What a load of crap. The treasury department forced them to take that money. They were not "given" it! Most of them did not even ask for that money. And most of them have paid that back already. All this will do is make any transactions with potential borrowers more expensive which will crimp lending by driving demand down even farther than it is now. In a time when they want to encourage lending to grease the wheels of commerce, this makes no sense. This just shows how very little Obama and his administration really understand about the free market and how it works.
He spoke about equality, which the left frequently does to try to frame their argument for increasing the size and scope of government and its increased intrusion into everyone's lives, as a humanitarian endeavor. This is of course, hogwash because while all are created equal, (having equal rights and intrinsic value as human beings) not all have equal talents, or are given equal opportunities by God. And so this is the tactic that they employ without fail. They are so predictable. Wrong, but predictable.
The President started his speech stating that he did not know much about the record of Scott Brown, and then he spent the rest of his time attacking it! That is pure desperation!
The public has had enough of politicians attitude of "tax and spend" from both parties. But it is the liberal democrats that have ratcheted that policy up exponentially since just last year. The tipping point has been passed, and the liberals are not aware of it yet. They will get the message loud and clear soon enough though. It started a while ago with Virginia, and New Jersey. It continues with this month's senate race in Massachusetts, and it will surely continue this November elsewhere..
Keep the faith folks. We are going to defeat Obamacre and so much more before it is all said and done with.
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The True Cost of Bottle Deposits.
I recently found out that Michigan is losing five and a half million dollars per year on its bottle deposit program due to bottles that were purchased out of state and returned here. To understand how this works, I followed the flow of money logically.
First of all, lets understand just what the bottle return deposit system is. All plastic and glass bottles, and aluminum cans that contain carbonated beverages have a ten cent deposit placed on them by our state government.
1) This deposit is collected by retailers from consumers and handed over to the state.
2) The bottles are returned to retailers through machines that issue receipts to consumers.
3) Consumers exchange the receipts for cash at retailers.
4) The retailers collect and aggregate the receipts and exchange them for cash with the state.
The whole system adds costs to products. Bottles must be handled by retailers. It used to be that a human being did this in the beginning. This person had to collect the bottles and cans, issue receipts and separate them for the recyclers who picked them up. Retailers had to hire a person who did nothing but handle returns. The free market came up with a solution to this by introducing collection machines. There are separate machines for glass, plastic and aluminum. So separation is performed by the consumer as they are returned. And the counting of the returns and issuance of receipts is now automated. The machines require minimal attention and can be maintained by current employees.
The machines cannot differentiate between out of state bottles and cans because it merely reads a bar code that has only product information in it. Retailers are not required to accept for return, brands that they do not sell. So cans and bottles that were purchased out of state that do not have the deposit on them, can easily be returned in the machines. So money is siphoned away from the state by people who have exploited this loophole. I call it the Kramer loophole, after the famous episode of Seinfeld in which the wacky Kramer teams up with Newman to run a postal van full of bottles and cans from New York to Michigan to turn them in for money.
Evidently, the count of out of state bottles and cans returned in Michigan is fifty five million per year. This would equal the five and a half million dollars that is lost each year on Michigan's bottle return program. So, in order to keep the environment free from aluminum cans and plastic and glass bottles, Michigan is spending five and a half million dollars each and every year.
Does this sound like a good use of public funds to you? I grew up in northeast Ohio, and I never saw a blight of aluminum cans or plastic and glass bottles littering the environment. Ohioans, collect the cans, crush them, and take them to the scrap yards who pay the current market price for them based on weight. Also, they turn in plastic and glass when they recycle the cans. In Ohio, there exists a culture of recycling. They also recycle cardboard and paper. In fact it has always been a common thing to do as a way to raise funds for local schools. I can remember my grade school and high school having a "paper drive" with one or two roll-offs placed on the property which community residents were encouraged to fill with used newspapers and magazines. The paper collected was turned in to the paper recyclers and money was issued to the schools based on the tonnage collected.
In Ohio they spend far less than five and a half million per year to promote this culture of recycling. They do place occasional adds on television and on billboards to maintain this culture of recycling, the environment is cleaner, and the cost to the public is far less.
Meanwhile back in Michigan, the cost of the bottle return system to the taxpaying citizens of Michigan is bigger than just the deposit on the bottles and cans. Because the program pays out more than it receives, the funds must come from somewhere. Typically it comes out of the general fund leaving less for other uses like road maintenance. This has helped create a structural deficit in state finances and it must be addressed. The typical response of our government is to tax more heavily. They have raised taxes on rental cars, and hotel rooms and bed and breakfasts, because they reason that these are typically paid by nonresidents to try to make up for the shortage. But this is a shortsighted fix because about 60% of the 5.5 Billion dollar Michigan tourism industry is fueled by locals. This hurts the tourism and hospitality industries which are involved with tourism. This causes more job losses in a state that can not afford to lose any more jobs!
This is a prime example of why government intrusion into the lives of citizens no matter how well intentioned, can have disastrous consequences for the economy as a whole. It is very interesting to note that the one mention of the free market in this article is a positive one while the same can not be said of government solutions to a problem.
First of all, lets understand just what the bottle return deposit system is. All plastic and glass bottles, and aluminum cans that contain carbonated beverages have a ten cent deposit placed on them by our state government.
1) This deposit is collected by retailers from consumers and handed over to the state.
2) The bottles are returned to retailers through machines that issue receipts to consumers.
3) Consumers exchange the receipts for cash at retailers.
4) The retailers collect and aggregate the receipts and exchange them for cash with the state.
The whole system adds costs to products. Bottles must be handled by retailers. It used to be that a human being did this in the beginning. This person had to collect the bottles and cans, issue receipts and separate them for the recyclers who picked them up. Retailers had to hire a person who did nothing but handle returns. The free market came up with a solution to this by introducing collection machines. There are separate machines for glass, plastic and aluminum. So separation is performed by the consumer as they are returned. And the counting of the returns and issuance of receipts is now automated. The machines require minimal attention and can be maintained by current employees.
The machines cannot differentiate between out of state bottles and cans because it merely reads a bar code that has only product information in it. Retailers are not required to accept for return, brands that they do not sell. So cans and bottles that were purchased out of state that do not have the deposit on them, can easily be returned in the machines. So money is siphoned away from the state by people who have exploited this loophole. I call it the Kramer loophole, after the famous episode of Seinfeld in which the wacky Kramer teams up with Newman to run a postal van full of bottles and cans from New York to Michigan to turn them in for money.
Evidently, the count of out of state bottles and cans returned in Michigan is fifty five million per year. This would equal the five and a half million dollars that is lost each year on Michigan's bottle return program. So, in order to keep the environment free from aluminum cans and plastic and glass bottles, Michigan is spending five and a half million dollars each and every year.
Does this sound like a good use of public funds to you? I grew up in northeast Ohio, and I never saw a blight of aluminum cans or plastic and glass bottles littering the environment. Ohioans, collect the cans, crush them, and take them to the scrap yards who pay the current market price for them based on weight. Also, they turn in plastic and glass when they recycle the cans. In Ohio, there exists a culture of recycling. They also recycle cardboard and paper. In fact it has always been a common thing to do as a way to raise funds for local schools. I can remember my grade school and high school having a "paper drive" with one or two roll-offs placed on the property which community residents were encouraged to fill with used newspapers and magazines. The paper collected was turned in to the paper recyclers and money was issued to the schools based on the tonnage collected.
In Ohio they spend far less than five and a half million per year to promote this culture of recycling. They do place occasional adds on television and on billboards to maintain this culture of recycling, the environment is cleaner, and the cost to the public is far less.
Meanwhile back in Michigan, the cost of the bottle return system to the taxpaying citizens of Michigan is bigger than just the deposit on the bottles and cans. Because the program pays out more than it receives, the funds must come from somewhere. Typically it comes out of the general fund leaving less for other uses like road maintenance. This has helped create a structural deficit in state finances and it must be addressed. The typical response of our government is to tax more heavily. They have raised taxes on rental cars, and hotel rooms and bed and breakfasts, because they reason that these are typically paid by nonresidents to try to make up for the shortage. But this is a shortsighted fix because about 60% of the 5.5 Billion dollar Michigan tourism industry is fueled by locals. This hurts the tourism and hospitality industries which are involved with tourism. This causes more job losses in a state that can not afford to lose any more jobs!
This is a prime example of why government intrusion into the lives of citizens no matter how well intentioned, can have disastrous consequences for the economy as a whole. It is very interesting to note that the one mention of the free market in this article is a positive one while the same can not be said of government solutions to a problem.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Smell the Truth of New Year's Eve 2010
As a pool driver I work on many different accounts. Some I like better than others, but it is all work that pays. Recently I did a run for a company that provides research animals. They breed them and ship them all over the country. I have done a few runs for them before, but this one was different. The other times it was rodents, rabbits specifically. Rabbits are shipped in cardboard boxes that are stapled shut and they have enough food and water for a 24 hour trip inside each box. So as a transporter, you never actually see the rabbits nor have to handle them. You are transporting boxes of live animals.
This time however, it was a canine load. beagle puppies in large crates. Ten crates each with three pups in them. I had to water them every 12 hours. And when I got to the destination, I had to help the client unload them. I had to handle each one of the 30 pups, handing them over to workers at a pharmaceutical company where their fate was uncertain. I did not ask what would be done with or to them. I just handed them over, got a signature on the shipping papers and left for the nearest motel.
By the time that I finished delivering the pups, except for the 4, twenty minute power naps that I took slumped over behind the wheel of the Ford E-250 van on the way there, I had not slept in 48 hours. I was beyond tired. But when I laid down and closed my eyes I could not sleep because I could instantly smell those pups, their Eukanuba food, the puppy poop in the cages, and I could hear their cries. Then I thought about how it must have felt to have been one of the Jews that worked for the Nazis in the camps processing fellow Jews in with the ever present stench of the ovens permeating the air.
How inescapable the truth was then. One can lie by deceit or by omission but that assumes that lies are always perceived by ear. Body language can also conceal or give away your intentions because it relies on trained eyes to read it. But you cannot lie by smell! Even scented candles really aren't what they purport to be. Sure they smell close, but you can tell they are imitations.
I cried for about an hour before taking my allergy medications for the night and then going to bed. That is how I spent my New Year's Eve as 2009 changed into 2010.
I once heard that the reason that men have shorter life spans than women is because we simply internalize these kind of stressors. We don't talk about them with anyone else and as a result it eats us up inside. The price we pay for this coping mechanism, is a shorter lifespan.
This time however, it was a canine load. beagle puppies in large crates. Ten crates each with three pups in them. I had to water them every 12 hours. And when I got to the destination, I had to help the client unload them. I had to handle each one of the 30 pups, handing them over to workers at a pharmaceutical company where their fate was uncertain. I did not ask what would be done with or to them. I just handed them over, got a signature on the shipping papers and left for the nearest motel.
By the time that I finished delivering the pups, except for the 4, twenty minute power naps that I took slumped over behind the wheel of the Ford E-250 van on the way there, I had not slept in 48 hours. I was beyond tired. But when I laid down and closed my eyes I could not sleep because I could instantly smell those pups, their Eukanuba food, the puppy poop in the cages, and I could hear their cries. Then I thought about how it must have felt to have been one of the Jews that worked for the Nazis in the camps processing fellow Jews in with the ever present stench of the ovens permeating the air.
How inescapable the truth was then. One can lie by deceit or by omission but that assumes that lies are always perceived by ear. Body language can also conceal or give away your intentions because it relies on trained eyes to read it. But you cannot lie by smell! Even scented candles really aren't what they purport to be. Sure they smell close, but you can tell they are imitations.
I cried for about an hour before taking my allergy medications for the night and then going to bed. That is how I spent my New Year's Eve as 2009 changed into 2010.
I once heard that the reason that men have shorter life spans than women is because we simply internalize these kind of stressors. We don't talk about them with anyone else and as a result it eats us up inside. The price we pay for this coping mechanism, is a shorter lifespan.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
The True Cost of Freedom
Since our elected leaders in both houses of congress have taken leave of their senses and succumbed to the rabid ideology of the far left, it is obviously high time to force feed them a dose of reality. The evidence of this psychotic break is clear, with Obama publicly declaring that "a comprehensive bill dealing with health insurance reform is one step closer to becoming a reality, and was done in a way that was devoid of undue influence from special interests". What a load of crap. In fact, one might even say that the special interests were the legislators themselves, as one by one they were marched into the Oval Office and were bought off with pet pork projects for their own districts. Absolutely shameful behavior for any civil society to participate in. Though I am sure that they all sleep quite well at night, because they lack any semblance of a conscience.
Well, I am officially proposing that we hit them were it counts. No, not the ballot, that is too easy, too obvious, and actually rather ineffectual; no, what I am suggesting is instead that we citizens go straight for the jugular and choke them off at the wallet. That's right, a tax revolt, not entirely unlike the one that was at the very foundation of the greatest society to ever grace the planet. I vow, that if in any way at all, abortion is supported financially with public funds, or is condoned or encouraged in any way, I am fully prepared to be thrown into jail for refusing to pay any taxes to the federal government. I fear that it will take even more drastic actions to drive home the full measure of the displeasure of the vast majority of the population of this great country with the skulduggery of our leaders. Actions like violence, which was warranted as the basis of the revolutionary war was a similar disregard for the will of the people from the king of England. Or perhaps they have conveniently forgotten that rather important part of our established history. We know that they like to participate in creating revisionist histories for many issues rather than abiding in the truth and dealing with actual facts. They create their own versions of the facts so that they can manipulate the outcomes to their liking. Well, reality does not work that way.
Their objective is to destroy the capitalism that has created the wealth of our nation and distribute it among the poorer nations of the world. Us true patriots will not allow that to happen. They will be thwarted by any means including violence if necessary.
Here are the real facts; medical inflation took off in 1965, the very same year that our government stuck it's big nose into the insurance industry by creating the medicare program. They immediately started underpaying providers and caregivers for services rendered and the reaction from those providers was to shift costs to other entities that could and would pay the difference, the for profit insurance companies. And now the same government that caused that problem, proposes to fix it by creating yet more onerous restrictions and regulations upon the private for profit insurance market. They just don't get it. This will not produce the desired results, it will have the exact opposite effect. It will drive up prices and premiums for everyone and it will water down the quality of care delivered to match the payments received for them.
They like to point to the Canadian system and brag that they love the system. Well that is a lie because the only Canadians that love their system are healthy ones. I have talked to several Canadians that have chronic conditions and every single one of them loathes their system because it really only works well for those who are healthy to begin with. This is not just opinion, it is verifiable facts based on experience. Socialized health care is a disaster. Everywhere it has been tried it has become an abject failure. The best system in the wold is a private for profit capitalistic one in which the majority who have good insurance enjoy good care when needed, and for those without good insurance or who have no insurance, charities fill in the gaps. Someone always steps up to give a helping hand. We are without question, a very generous nation and not just with helping out our global neighbors, but also here at home.
No friends, this nightmare that they are hell bent on perpetrating upon us from the Hill is not at all about helping anyone but themselves to more power and control over our everyday lives. It is unconstitutional, immoral, and unethical what they are attempting to do to us through the guise of compassion for the poor. Can you think of any instance where the federal government has improved the lives of the poorest among us? While some are indeed helped, most simply game the system and I have known many who fall into the later category. The best way to help people is to encourage them to help themselves, not provide for them. Providing for them will only lead many to rely upon it as a trusted safety net, rather than being prudent and making sensible contingencies for hard times. Creating a large population that regularly relies upon that help only drags the entire economy down because a larger proportion of the scarce resources are allocated to them. There is only so much "pie" to go around. You cannot create more pie for everyone. Each will be able to purchase a small piece according to his means. This is the reality that Obama rejects as evidenced by his "spreading the wealth around" philosophy that he espouses so often. He is an ideologue, who lives in what Rush Limbaugh so aptly has coined "the universe of lies" otherwise known as liberalism.
While I pray that this monstrosity of vile legislative excrement dies in committee, which seems to be our last hope now. I know that there is still the chance that this may get passed into law. Which will be challenged on constitutional grounds. But in the meantime, I hope that others like me will stand up and be counted among those who truly love this country enough to do what needs to be done; resist with every conceivable armament in our collective arsenal. First with civil disobedience and tax revolt, then escalating towards civil unrest and protests, and finally if absolutely necessary, armed conflict. This is a patriotic clarion call my fellow citizens. Do not simply hand over your freedom, liberty and prosperity nor that which rightfully belongs to our posterity. As our forefathers pledged before us, let us "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." in order to keep the lights on in that "city on the Hill" that President Reagan referred to. Freedom is never free. It is never more than one generation away from extinction. Freedom is not passed on to each successive generation in the DNA, it is paid for with blood by the current generation.
Well, I am officially proposing that we hit them were it counts. No, not the ballot, that is too easy, too obvious, and actually rather ineffectual; no, what I am suggesting is instead that we citizens go straight for the jugular and choke them off at the wallet. That's right, a tax revolt, not entirely unlike the one that was at the very foundation of the greatest society to ever grace the planet. I vow, that if in any way at all, abortion is supported financially with public funds, or is condoned or encouraged in any way, I am fully prepared to be thrown into jail for refusing to pay any taxes to the federal government. I fear that it will take even more drastic actions to drive home the full measure of the displeasure of the vast majority of the population of this great country with the skulduggery of our leaders. Actions like violence, which was warranted as the basis of the revolutionary war was a similar disregard for the will of the people from the king of England. Or perhaps they have conveniently forgotten that rather important part of our established history. We know that they like to participate in creating revisionist histories for many issues rather than abiding in the truth and dealing with actual facts. They create their own versions of the facts so that they can manipulate the outcomes to their liking. Well, reality does not work that way.
Their objective is to destroy the capitalism that has created the wealth of our nation and distribute it among the poorer nations of the world. Us true patriots will not allow that to happen. They will be thwarted by any means including violence if necessary.
Here are the real facts; medical inflation took off in 1965, the very same year that our government stuck it's big nose into the insurance industry by creating the medicare program. They immediately started underpaying providers and caregivers for services rendered and the reaction from those providers was to shift costs to other entities that could and would pay the difference, the for profit insurance companies. And now the same government that caused that problem, proposes to fix it by creating yet more onerous restrictions and regulations upon the private for profit insurance market. They just don't get it. This will not produce the desired results, it will have the exact opposite effect. It will drive up prices and premiums for everyone and it will water down the quality of care delivered to match the payments received for them.
They like to point to the Canadian system and brag that they love the system. Well that is a lie because the only Canadians that love their system are healthy ones. I have talked to several Canadians that have chronic conditions and every single one of them loathes their system because it really only works well for those who are healthy to begin with. This is not just opinion, it is verifiable facts based on experience. Socialized health care is a disaster. Everywhere it has been tried it has become an abject failure. The best system in the wold is a private for profit capitalistic one in which the majority who have good insurance enjoy good care when needed, and for those without good insurance or who have no insurance, charities fill in the gaps. Someone always steps up to give a helping hand. We are without question, a very generous nation and not just with helping out our global neighbors, but also here at home.
No friends, this nightmare that they are hell bent on perpetrating upon us from the Hill is not at all about helping anyone but themselves to more power and control over our everyday lives. It is unconstitutional, immoral, and unethical what they are attempting to do to us through the guise of compassion for the poor. Can you think of any instance where the federal government has improved the lives of the poorest among us? While some are indeed helped, most simply game the system and I have known many who fall into the later category. The best way to help people is to encourage them to help themselves, not provide for them. Providing for them will only lead many to rely upon it as a trusted safety net, rather than being prudent and making sensible contingencies for hard times. Creating a large population that regularly relies upon that help only drags the entire economy down because a larger proportion of the scarce resources are allocated to them. There is only so much "pie" to go around. You cannot create more pie for everyone. Each will be able to purchase a small piece according to his means. This is the reality that Obama rejects as evidenced by his "spreading the wealth around" philosophy that he espouses so often. He is an ideologue, who lives in what Rush Limbaugh so aptly has coined "the universe of lies" otherwise known as liberalism.
While I pray that this monstrosity of vile legislative excrement dies in committee, which seems to be our last hope now. I know that there is still the chance that this may get passed into law. Which will be challenged on constitutional grounds. But in the meantime, I hope that others like me will stand up and be counted among those who truly love this country enough to do what needs to be done; resist with every conceivable armament in our collective arsenal. First with civil disobedience and tax revolt, then escalating towards civil unrest and protests, and finally if absolutely necessary, armed conflict. This is a patriotic clarion call my fellow citizens. Do not simply hand over your freedom, liberty and prosperity nor that which rightfully belongs to our posterity. As our forefathers pledged before us, let us "with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." in order to keep the lights on in that "city on the Hill" that President Reagan referred to. Freedom is never free. It is never more than one generation away from extinction. Freedom is not passed on to each successive generation in the DNA, it is paid for with blood by the current generation.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Fall From Grace, Public Disgrace, and Tabloid Race.
Recently there have been two high profile persons in the media here in Detroit. One, a national figure and the other a former local public servant. The common thread between them two involves a public fall from grace due to marital infidelity and the inability to face the truth.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Mayor of Detroit has been in Judge David Groaner's courtroom for the past three days this week answering questions from Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy. She was probing his finances because he has not been paying the restitution that the court had ordered in his conviction regarding lying under oath. He was ordered to pay one million dollars as restitution to the city since the original case in which he lied under oath had cost the city over eight million dollars. He is living large in a Texas town with a million dollar job, and yet he claims that he only has six dollars left at the end of each month. He is supposed to be paying over six thousand per month. He has spent over 15 thousand on a new Motorcycle, and six thousand on a boob job for his wife so there is obviously nothing left to pay the city of Detroit.
Kim Worthy is pressing the court to revoke his bond and find him in contempt of court and place him back in jail. He obviously has no intention of paying his restitution.
And then there's Tiger Woods. Apparently he was thrown under the bus by two of his trysts who had it out for one another. One decided to hurt the other by taking the story to the National Enquirer and Tiger, his squeaky clean image and brand, and most importantly his family went up in flames. Never before has any public persona crashed and burned so completely so fast. His meteoric rise to super-stardom has now been eerily paired with a super-sized flameout. His sponsors did not even have the chance to drop him because the television networks pulled all of his advertising voluntarily.
And then just tonight he released a statement that he is taking an indefinite break from professional golf while he concentrates on healing himself and his relationship to his wife and his family.
Two very different people, with very similar problems; lying to themselves and believing the lies! Truly sad in both cases.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the disgraced former Mayor of Detroit has been in Judge David Groaner's courtroom for the past three days this week answering questions from Wayne County Prosecutor Kim Worthy. She was probing his finances because he has not been paying the restitution that the court had ordered in his conviction regarding lying under oath. He was ordered to pay one million dollars as restitution to the city since the original case in which he lied under oath had cost the city over eight million dollars. He is living large in a Texas town with a million dollar job, and yet he claims that he only has six dollars left at the end of each month. He is supposed to be paying over six thousand per month. He has spent over 15 thousand on a new Motorcycle, and six thousand on a boob job for his wife so there is obviously nothing left to pay the city of Detroit.
Kim Worthy is pressing the court to revoke his bond and find him in contempt of court and place him back in jail. He obviously has no intention of paying his restitution.
And then there's Tiger Woods. Apparently he was thrown under the bus by two of his trysts who had it out for one another. One decided to hurt the other by taking the story to the National Enquirer and Tiger, his squeaky clean image and brand, and most importantly his family went up in flames. Never before has any public persona crashed and burned so completely so fast. His meteoric rise to super-stardom has now been eerily paired with a super-sized flameout. His sponsors did not even have the chance to drop him because the television networks pulled all of his advertising voluntarily.
And then just tonight he released a statement that he is taking an indefinite break from professional golf while he concentrates on healing himself and his relationship to his wife and his family.
Two very different people, with very similar problems; lying to themselves and believing the lies! Truly sad in both cases.
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