Eric Cantor

The Republican Party has seemingly lost touch with reality or at least the reality for 99% of Americans. I have written questioning how anyone who is not wealthy can actually identify with this party. Eric Cantor is one of the main reasons that I can not deal with this party.

So let’s take a look at Mr. Cantor. Eric Cantor is the U.S. Representative for Virginia’s 7^th Congressional district; he has been in that role since 2001. Eric Cantor became the House Majority Leader in January 2011.

Eric Cantor blames Democrats after a bullet was fired through the window of his Richmond campaign office. This was after the Richmond police stated that after an investigation that the bullet was not intentionally fired at his office but came from random gunfire. That did not stop him from coming out and blaming the Democrats for “dangerously fanning the flames” at Republicans who voted against the health care bill.

In 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that Cantor owns shares in a fund that would greatly benefit if U.S. Treasury bonds were to perform poorly:

“Eric Cantor, the Republican Whip in the House of Representatives, bought up to $15,000 in shares of ProShares Trust Ultrashort 20+ Year Treasury ETF last December, according to his 2009 financial disclosure statement. The exchange-traded fund takes a short position in long-dated government bonds. In effect, it is a bet against U.S. government bonds—and perhaps on inflation in the future.”

Recently Cantor was to give a speech on income inequality, when he found out that 300 tickets were made availible to the public, he canceled. He thought he was going to give a speech to a bunch of supporters but when he found out that opposition could be there, he ducked out.

Time and again, this party shows their distain for the not only the American people but the people who continue to vote for Republicans. They have blocked every piece of legislation that would address tax code reform or income disparity. There are more than 300 million people in the country. 400 families control as much wealth as the bottom 160 million.

99.9% of the people voting for Cantor are part of that 160 million.

Cantor and the Republicans have blocked President Obama’s job bill. Now was the job bill perfect, no. Did it solve all the problems, no. But it would get a million people back to work, policemen, firemen, teachers, and construction workers, all would be back to work. It would help address fixing our roads and bridges, a much needed fixing.

The idea of government intervening and stimulating job growth is not something that just started with this president. The Roman empire had public works programs. Eric Cantor and the Republicans would prefer that people did not have jobs rather than work with the president. 

When you put your own self interests in place of 300 million of your fellow Americans, you are not fit to hold office. This Thanksgiving Eric Cantor will allow 60 Minutes into his home as he tries to rehab his image, his negatives are sky high. I can only hope that the American people or at least the ones in the Virginia’s 7^th Congressional district don’t fall it and let’s get this guy out of office.

Mitch McConnell is next…

Hallelujah

So I am at work when I hear the news, the President is bringing all the troops home from Iraq, this year. I could only think of the word, Hallelujah!

Now some cynics out there may be saying, this is nothing more than an election year trick. So what? The troops are coming home! I don’t care what his motivation is, the troops are coming home!

Tens of thousands of soldiers will get to spend the holidays with their families. Hallelujah!  

The Real Herman Cain



So Herman Cain seems to be getting a lot of buzz lately, with Perry’s crash and burn, the Party’s refusing to acknowledge Ron Paul, and their lackluster feelings for Mitt Romney. Herman is certainly taking full advantage of his 15 minutes.

Once you start really looking at Herman Cain, he may start seeing some things that you don’t like. The first one being the 9-9-9 plan that he has promoted it as a bold and fresh approach to the tax system, but how fresh is it?

An interesting story was presented on the Huffington Post:

“But there's already a 999 plan out there, in a land called SimCity.
Long before Cain was running for president and getting attention for his 999 plan, the residents of SimCity 4 -- which was released in 2003 -- were living under a system where the default tax rate was 9 percent for commercial taxes, 9 percent for industrial taxes and 9 percent for residential taxes.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/herman-cain-999-sim-city_n_1008952.html

Did he lift his bold and fresh new plan from an 8 year old video game?

What about Ron Paul busting Cain on his position to audit the fed and Cain’s claiming Paul was not accurate about his remarks.

“As recently as 2010, long after the Fed began engaging in the lending Cain says he now opposes, Cain belittled those calling for an audit.

"Some people say that we ought to audit the Fed. Here's what I do know. The Federal Reserve already has so many internal audits it's ridiculous. I don't know why people think we're gonna learn this great amount of information by auditing the Federal Reserve. I think a lot of people are calling for this audit of the Federal Reserve because they don't know enough about it. There's no hidden secrets going on in the Federal Reserve to my knowledge," he said.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/11/ron-paul-herman-cain-fed-audit-gop-debate_n_1006228.html

We can not forget Cain’s ridiculous statement that no bill under a Herman Cain administration will be over 3 pages long.

Herman Cain thinks that an important piece of legislation should be shorter than a high school research paper.

And then Herman telling people if they do not have a job, if they are not rich, don’t blame Wall Street, blame yourselves. Any time you start off a statement with “I don’t have facts to back this up” you should probably shut up.

Herman Cain is so out there, so full of his self, so pro-corporate America, he may just be the guy the Republicans want as president.    

The Tea Party – an ignorant political force

So the Tea Party people have set their sights on the Occupiers. They are going after them, they want to discredit them. What happened to this party?

The Tea Party started their movement after the bailouts of Wall Street and the outrage that these corporate fat cats got away with stealing billions of dollars, possibly trillions. They were upset that not one person from Wall Street was arrested and held accountable for their actions. Sound familiar?

That’s what the Occupiers are saying. The Tea Party has completely shifted their focus from Wall Street. The grass roots movement in the party has been completely manipulated by special interests. The Tea Party is a joke now, seen as stupid people who booed a gay soldier who was fighting in Iraq and cheered the fact that Rick Perry sleeps just fine after executing 234 people.

The Occupiers are the movement the Tea Party wished they were. While the Occupiers are out marching and protesting, the Tea Party has become the darlings of Fox News and even had their own Presidential Debate. The fact missing on these nitwits is that most of them are part of that 99%. That the causes that the Occupiers are standing up for, are also your causes.

According to a politico article:

Tea partiers and their allies are looking to de-legitimize the protests circulating in the anti-Wall Street crowds, hunting for evidence of union ties, fringe rhetoric and bad behavior — ranging from news of arrests, to recordings of incendiary speeches, to tales of littering, drug use and debauchery.
They’re posting what they find online, like a photograph of a demonstrator apparently defecating on a cop car that has circulated widely, and are accusing the mainstream media of ignoring extremist elements.
Meanwhile, tea party groups are rallying their activist members by pointing to the new threat in pitches to raise money.

The tea party’s swift counteroffensive — which is remarkably similar to the left’s response to the fledgling conservative movement when it burst onto the scene in 2009 — suggests that the onetime rag-tag operation has matured and feels the need to protect its reputation as the nation’s leading grass-roots protest movement.
“The left is trying to create a counter force to the tea party, but it’s almost laughable that anyone is comparing the two, because they’re totally different,” said Sal Russo, chief strategist for the Tea Party Express.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65826.html#ixzz1afpTYE9K

So there is no doubt that the Tea Party has developed into a force, unfortunately, it’s an ignorant force.

More Bloomberg Craziness

You know the Occupy Wall Street movement is really hitting a nerve, from the media trying to portray them as criminals, losers, bums, job killers, terrorists, the rhetoric goes on and on.

Bloomberg characterized the protesters as a gathering of self-obsessed job killers seeking to “take jobs form the people working in the city” on his weekly radio broadcast.

Bloomberg also is claiming that the activists are trying to “get rid of” jobs in the finance sector, “which is a big part of our economy.”

“[W]e’re not going to have any money to pay our municipal employees or clean the parks or anything else,” Bloomberg said.

Representative Peter King stated:

“It’s really important for us not to give any legitimacy to these people in the streets,” said King on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Friday evening. “I remember what happened in the 1960s when the left-wing took to the streets and somehow the media glorified them and it ended up shaping policy. We can’t allow that to happen.”

You can't have democracy taking place. They want to shut this deal down.

The truth about the assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki and Samir Khan

The assassination of Anwar Al Awlaki and Samir Khan should bother Americans. There has been no evidence brought forward to prove these men were involved in any crime, any terrorist plot, Al Awlaki’s actual position inside Al Qaeda is questionable, and Khan had no known position within Al Qaeda.

Anwar Al Awlaki, was he vocal against the United States? Yes, he was. Was he probably happy with the successes that terrorist groups had in their struggle against us? Yes, he probably was. Was he a bad man? Yes, he probably was. But that doesn’t mean his death was legal or correct. Do we want the government deciding which American citizens are bad people and then ordering their assassination?

There is nothing to indicate this man was anything more than a man using the internet to get his message or opinion out. Now the larger question is; did we take this man and make a martyr out of him?

This is just a case of where the US can claim a victory killing one of the few recognizable names left in Al Qaeda. They are not even mentioning Samir Khan’s name. Why aren’t they taking a victory lap on his killing? The US has linked Al Awlaki to the Fort Hood shooting (a charge Al Awlaki denied) and the underwear bomber, where is the evidence? Can we trust anything the government puts forth as evidence without getting to see it ourselves? The last time we did we ended up with tens of thousands of soldiers in Iraq. Where was Saddam’s yellow cake, his nuclear weapon, his weapons of mass destruction, his link to 9/11? Lies!

The media wants to forget him but we should not, Samir Khan was also killed, 25 year-old North Carolinian who just last year started a English-language jihadist magazine titled ”Inspire.”

The media has decided not to talk about this, what’s new? But the US killed two American citizens, not one. No charges against either man. A grand jury had been convened for Khan, but no charges levied. There is no evidence that Samir Khan was even on the capture or kill list.

The Department of Justice, the FBI, and the CIA have all been looking at Al Awlaki for years, and they never put forth a single formal charge against this man.

Where are the charges? Where is the evidence against these men?

Here is where Americans should be concerned. Since 9/11, the government has now seen fit to give itself the power to eavesdrop on American citizens without a warrant, to lock American citizens up indefinitely without charge, and now assassinate American citizens without formal charges being put forth or due process.

Those are not the actions of a democracy but of a dictatorship.

Steve Jobs

The co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs has passed away. It was no secret that he was in a battle with cancer. As we look at the world eroding away under greed and corruption, the world needs men like Steve Jobs, men of vision and innovation.

Steve Jobs founded Apple; he created the iPod, iPhone, and iPad which revolutionized telecommunications. Steve Jobs also founded Pixar entertainment which has made some of the most well reviewed and hit movies of the past 15 years including Finding Nemo, the Toy Story franchise, and Monsters Inc.

The passing of Steve Jobs is a huge blow to the entire world. We need more men like him.

He will go down as one of the greatest innovators in our country’s history. He belongs right there with the likes of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Milton Hersey, and Walt Disney.