Nancy Pelosi Running For Dogmatist Of The Year

Quote of The Day:

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)



Nazi Nancy Pelosi said That the failed Republican policies of George Bush drove the USA into the recession and financial meltdown of 2008. All during 2009 and 2010 she praised Obama nonstop for his relentless efforts to attain his legacy with the takeover of the health care industry by him and his fellow socialists. Obama, Biden, Pelosi and their comrades need to be reminded that Bush inherited a great big mess from Slick Willie Clinton. One country offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to The USA for his attacks on U.S. embassies during his administration. He refused the offer, wanting the Saudis to take custody of Bin Laden. One of my worst "what if" scenarios is what if the Supreme Court did not uphold Bush's election in 2000 and Al Gore was president when The September 11 attacks occurred. I doubt Gore would have responded half as quickly and effectively as Bush did.
Also, the Bush Administration tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but the House Financial Services Committee stonewalled his efforts to protect their 2 cash cows. Click here and here to view my earlier posts on this subject.

DNC Chairwoman Returns From Pluto

Quote Of The Day:

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain, a Biography

DemagoguesDemocrats are obsessive about accusing Republicans of being heartless and cruel to anyone besides the rich. Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) displayed a Democratic flaw, the dreaded LGCA (little gray cell anemia) on Fox And Friends with Gretchen Carlson. Ms. Carlson said the unemployment has increased since Obama took office. Ms. Wasserman Schultz told Ms. Carlson that the unemployment rate has not gone up since Obama became president and is going down. Ms. Carlson realized that the DNC Chairwoman was fact-impaired and tried to help her out by using a simple yes or no question, Has the unemployment rate gone up since Obama took office? Wasserman Schultz gave a very vague and evasive answer that unemployment was nearing the rate it was at when Obama took office. Here is the unemployment rate monthly since Obama took office.

Unemployment Rate in the United States:

2009

January, 7.6%

February, 8.1%

March, 8.5%

April, 8.9%

May, 9.4%

June, 9.5%

July, 9.4%

August, 9.7%

September, 9.8%

October, 10.2%

November, 10%

December, 10%

2010

January, 9.7%

February, 9.7%

March, 9.7%

April, 9.9%

May, 9.7%

June, 9.5%

July, 9.5%

August, 9.6%

September, 9.6%

October, 9.6%

November, 9.8%

December, 9.4%

2011

January, 9.0%

February, 8.9%

March, 8.8%

April, 9.0%

May, 9.1%

June, 9.2%

July, 9.1%

August, 9.1%

September, 9.1%

October, 9.0%

November, 8.6%

Thanks to CNSNews.com for the unemployment data

Here's a video of Ms. Wasserman Schultz's misstatement of facts.

Barry Seotero's Thanksgiving day failure

President Obama forgot (OOOOPPPPSSSS!!!) to mention GOD in his thanksgiving speech to the USA. Well, so what, when you consider the abuse he had to take from his 20 year pastor Jeremy Wright, maybe it was not so bad. WRONG!!! IF you want to lead a nation with the religious traditions of the USA you need to mention GOD in your speeches.

Occupy Chicago teach in receives instructions from above

Occupy Chicago had a teach-in recently that was disrupted by Chicago Board of Trade employees. The CBOT employees dropped McDonald's employment applications of the teach-in participants. I personally found it very offensive. The politically correct thing to do would be to mix in applications for Wendy's, Pizza Hut, K-Mart and others. Interesting fact. One in eight Americans has been a McDonald's employee at one point in their lives.

patriotic millionaires for fiscal strength "oops" moment

On November 16, 2011, the patriotic millionaires for fiscal strength petitioned the super committee to raise the marginal tax rate on everyone earning one million dollars or more to 39.5 percent. Too bad none of them brought their checkbooks. I guess they plan to mail in their contributions to boost the bottom line of the USPS.

Advice for Obama, Biden & other "Fair SHare for Rich People's Taxes" Stop Demagoguing the Rich

Here is a few words of sage advice for Barack "middle class warrior" Obama. Stop demagoguing the rich. Who do you think is funding your campaign? If you think you are the advocate of the lower and middle classes, Do your campaign dinners at $1000.00 a plate and up take the food stamp card for payment?? No, there's a good reason for that. All lower class income and most all middle class income people cannot afford such outrageous prices, no matter how much they support you. Please note that Mr. Johnson is only one of three millionaire democratic contributors to be interviewed for this video segment.

A Short Video on Obama's Leadership

Here's a video I found on Facebook. I hope you enjoy it.

Carney On Obama's Leadership from RightChange on Vimeo.

Nancy Pelosi has Another Foolish Rant

Someone videotaped Nancy Pelosi ranting at the GOP for their fiscal responsibility acts. This was a fund raiser on August 21, 2011. This was after Standard & Poor downgraded the USA's credit rating for the first time since 1917, when S&P first started coverage of the USA credit worthiness. I guess Ms. Pelosi was so busy teaching Girl Scouts how to camp or sell cookies to notice the downgrade. Either that or she does not care about passing $14+ trillion in debt on to the next generation(s) of Americans, i. e. our children.

Another Quote On The U.S. Debt

"The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic." Presidential Candidate Barack Obama in Fargo, ND Campaign Event July 3, 2008

Remember, Barack Obama would not wear a U.S. Flag lapel pin on the campaign trail, preferring to find other methods for expressing his love for the USA and all it stands for; The U.S. Constitution and the rights it protects.

A Quote and an Observation

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Founding Father Patrick Henry

I just read an interesting article on the "Debt Runup Race" between George W. Bush and Barack H. Obama. Bush took 96 months to add $4.9 trillion to the U.S. debt. In 31 months Obama added $4.0 trillion to the U.S. debt. Is Bush a slacker compared to the overachieving Obama?? Or is it the other way around, Bush is an overachiever in fiscal responsibility compared to Obama's tax and spend, rinse and repeat approach to the U.S. debt problem??? Unless Obama really puts the brakes on the pending train wreck of the U.S. debt, I think Obama's one term spending will make Bush look like a penny-pincher, not a common characteristic of a U.S. politician, regardless of party.

I'm in Love!!!

Wow, Amilya Antonetti,chairman and CEO of AMA productions, is even smarter than she is gorgeous. Here is a brief clip of her on Fox morning news with Neal Cavuto. Just watch this to see what I mean.

S & P lowers the U. S. credit rating to (gasp, moan ) . . . . AA+!!!

Standard & Poor reduced the U.S. government's long term credit rating to AA+. The good news is AA+ is the 2nd highest credit rating. Microsoft now has a higher credit rating than the U.S., but AA+ is still the envy of many governments and corporations. Ford Motor Company has a B+ rating, pretty impressive when you realize Ford did not request any stimulus, bailout or any other form of handouts from the U.S. government.

Here are a few fearless predictions on the effects of this historic event. (S&P has rated the U.S. government's long term debt at AAA since they first rated it in 1917)

1. No increase in the interest charged to the U.S. government. Remember, AA+ is still investment grade. Also remember lots of countries and the U.N. are dependent on the U.S. for protection from larger enemies.

2. We do have a large stockpile of thermonuclear weapons.(sarcasm alert!!)

3. We give away loads of money in foreign aid.

4. In the long term, The U.S. will learn a few valuable lessons and mend its ways. One of the biggest messages the election of 2010 sent to Washington was the lack of approval many voters have for the Pirates of the Potomac (our politicians). They believe D.C. suffers a severe lack of adult supervision.

Ignore all the finger pointing and blame setting. the U.S. did not get into this depression overnight because of one political party or one presidential administration. It took a long time and a lot of bad judgment by lots of people to get into this mess. It will take a while to undo the damage. The Japanese have a saying, fix the problem and not the blame. (Sean Connery to Wesley Snipes in Rising Sun, a great movie worth watching more than once )

President Obama Going Bipolar Over Corporate Jets

In Wednesday's raging rant presser against Republicans over the debt limit extension, he specifically named corporate jet owners as a group the Republicans should deny any tax breaks to in order to help lower the deficit without cutting taxes and spending. This struck me as peculiar for at least two reasons. President Obama's stimulus bill encouraged purchase of large manufactured goods, corporate jets included, by offering accelerated depreciation. Accelerated depreciation allows corporations to write off more of the jet's purchase price on their tax returns. The goal was to get companies spending to help the economy, especially the ailing aviation industry. In September 2010, Mr. Obama signed the H.R. 5927, the Small Business Lending Fund Act. This bill also offered tax breaks for companies that purchased corporate jets. Mr. Obama said in Wednesday's speech, “I’ve said to some of the Republican leaders, you go talk to your constituents, the Republican constituents, and ask them are they willing to compromise their kids’ safety so that some corporate jet owner continues to get a tax break.” Quite a change of attitude, wouldn't you say?

I cannot imagine any private corporation, no matter what size it is, using a Boeing 747 to haul their CEO and senior executives around. Mr. Obama frequently uses Air Force 747s for his travels. According to Boeing, the 747 gets 5 gallons per mile. That is no typo folks, 5 gallons of jet fuel per mile. Mark Knoller, CBS news reporter, found this out from Boeing so he could report this on Mr. Obama's trip to DEs Moines, Iowa, to plant a single tree for earth day. Let's face facts, folks, Obama is just another limousine liberal. Do what I say and not what I do because I am smarter, wiser and better than you.

$3.6 Million for studies of drugged up monkeys on Taxpayer's Tab

Where's PETA when we need them? The National Institute for Drug Abuse, a division of the National Institute of Health, received $3.6 million over the last 10 years to get rhesus monkeys to smoke PCP, Heroin, Meth and Cocaine. One study even researched the effects of drugs on female monkeys during different stages of their menstrual cycles. I can just hear ex Madame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi complaining of gender discrimination because no studies were made of the effects of contraband drugs on male monkey menstrual cycles. What an affront, wait, make that assault on women such as Ms. Pelosi.

Here's the part that's really shocking. Monkeys react to drugs like people do: dilated pupils and high strung agitated behavior. Wait one minute, don't researchers experiment on monkeys because they are so similar to humans? I've got a better idea. Leave the monkeys in the jungles and rain forests, use convicts for research. The U.S. has lots of drug addicts in prisons now, let them earn their keep as research volunteers. They can get money like research volunteers on the outside do. Maybe give them less money and a get of jail early card as a reward for volunteering. Just make certain they live drug free after the research is completed so they will not fall back to their old habits when they are released.

(Yet Another) Warning on The U.S. Government Debt

Today Fitch's Ratings issued a statement that if the U.S. Government does nothing to correct its growing debt problems it will review the U.S. Government's credit rating in August 2011. August 2011 is when the current emergency measures to extend the U.S. Government's ability to borrow money under the current debt ceiling expire. Moody's as well as Standard and Poor rating services have already issued warnings of a credit rating review. Is anyone in Congress or the Administration paying attention here?? We'll find out by Sept. 30. 2011, when the 2011 fiscal year ends.

Obama's slip of the tongue on religion

Here's a brief YouTube clip of an interview of Barack Obama by George Stephanopoulos. It is done in a barn. I wonder whose benefit this is for, Obama or Stephanopoulos? Anyway, Obama says McCain has not commented on his Muslin faith and his loyal sock puppet Stephanopoulos promptly corrects him by saying Christian faith.

Time is Running out on the U.S. Debt Problem

China recently lowered its holding of U.S. Treasury bills by 97%. Treasury bills are debt instruments that mature in 12 months or less.

Moody's said it would have to re-evaluate the U.S. credit rating of Aaa if there is no progress on reduction of the U.S. debt by Mid July, 2011.

The U.S. unemployment rate for May 2011 increased to 9.1% The Stimulus bill was supposed to lower unemployment to an 8% rate.

A word to the wise and our congress. We cannot keep delaying action on our debt problems any longer. Our past approach has been described as kicking the can down the road. We have hit a road block the size of the Great Wall of China and need to act now to reduce our debt. 40% of U.S. government spending is borrowed money. The interest on the debt is snowballing. Soon it will become an avalanche that will bury us and drastically reduce our economy and standard of living.

One last request of our congress: stop pointing the finger of blame at each other. There is enough blame for every democrat, republican, socialist, tea partier and everyone else. Be bold. Stop fixing the blame and start fixing the problem.

Qaddafi's Green Book On Socialism

Here is a clip of former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney's appearance on Libyan TV. She sounds like a grade school teacher which leads me to believe she regards anyone that does not agree with her politics is juvenile. She ran on the green party ticket for the U.S. Presidency in 2008. Chronic overachiever that she is, her goal was to capture 5% of the votes. The Green Party was created for people of color. That is the politically correct term for non-white people. She said she discovered Qaddafi's Green Book on a visit to Libya. The Green Book opposes capitalism, the creating force behind modern transatlantic travel. I guess she either swam to Libya or used capitalist created jet airliners. She also liked Qaddafi's concept of direct democracy which she defined as the politically correct term for Socialism.
Ms. McKinney's only reference to the Libyan resistance movement was to say someone attributed Qaddafi's mercenary troops as black, which she said was typical propaganda that U.S. black people were used to. I never read anywhere the mercenaries were black, they were referred to as Syrians, an Arab nation not an African one.

To see the clip on YouTube just click here.

Michigan Man wins Lottery Big Time, Legally Keeps Food Stamp Card

Over 11 months ago, Leroy Fick, age 59 of Auburn , Michigan won $2 million in the state lottery game "Make Me Rich". After taxes and fees, he was left with a less than paltry $850,000. Prior to his winnings, he was a Michigan Bridge Card recipient, AKA food stamps. Mr. Fick reported his winning to his local Department of Human Services. He was advised that since he accepted his winning in a lump sum payment, it did not affect his bridge card eligibility at all. If he had taken the winnings in annuity form spread over time, the money would be counted as income, rendering him ineligible for food assistance. Apparently, there is no resource or asset limits on food assistance. I used to work as a welfare case worker in the early 1990s and there was a $1,000.00 asset limit on food stamps. This was in Ohio. I cannot imagine that the Federal Guidelines for food assistance have changed that much. How will we ever balance our budget or reduce government spending if we keep giving money away like this??
Michigan's state population for 2010 was 10,079,985. 1.9 million people in Michigan received food assistance. That is 18.8 percent of the state's population on food assistance funded by taxpayers. In 2009 the Inspector General's office investigated 2600 food assistance complaints and found $5 million + in fraud. My question is how flagrant were these fraud cases if money in the bank is not fraud???

The Train to Nowhere Departing at a Leisurely Pace

Remember back to the Stimulus/Bailout/spend our way out of a recession caused by subprime lending ad nausem era how high speed trains (faster than a speeding bullet) were going to create lots of jobs and improve our infrastructure?? Well, guess what. Several states have reviewed their budgetary state of affairs and decided now is not the time to throw more money at a system that is currently losing money. So, no bullet trains for now. But wait, the state of Illinois is spending $3bn of their existing stimulus funds on adding 3 new trains to the 5 that run between Chicago and St. Louis. Not only that, the average speed of these trains will increase from 51.2 mph to 56.8 mph!!! Woo Hoo Hold on to your hats everyone!! We'll need airline pilots to fly these rail rockets!! I wonder how much more $$$ it would take to get these trains to the magical mile a minute speed of 60 mph?? 1, 2, 4 billion?? I doubt it. There would be calls for research on the effects of breaking this subsonic barrier on the environment, no doubt about it. Never mind that tractor trailer rigs break this barrier on a daily basis. To paraphrase Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's former chief of staff and the future mayor of Chicago, "Never let an opportunity to waste taxpayers money go to waste."