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.

They don’t want to televise the revolution.

As the Occupy Wall Street movement heads into its third week, the police has cracked down heavily, arresting hundred of protestors (over 700 so far). The NYPD has pepper strayed and used excessive force on protesters and you have to go on the Internet and Youtube to see it in its entirety. The network news doesn't want any part of covering this the way they should.

Let me send a direct message to the meatheads in blue out there beating up protesters, you are middle class dumb ass. The bankers are foreclosing on your homes, they are busting your unions, they are stealing from your pension, they are robbing from your kid's future, and these protesters are speaking up for you. Stop with pepper stray and bully tactics. You drones in blue suits are doing the bidding of the people who hate your guts. These protesters are heroes.

The movement is gaining momentum and protests are shifting to Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco, Boston, and Seattle. New demonstrations and protests are popping all over the country. Where is the national news? This is important stuff, we get endless streams of Arab Summer and protests over in the Middle East but they barely want to address what is going on right here.

I hope these protesters continue this, I hope more join the cause. We have a revolution going on but they dam sure do not want to televise it.

And where is Obama? Can he take a minute from raising his billion dollars for reelection to pretend like he is leading this country?

Bloomberg has had enough.

According to the Wall Street Journal, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the specter of shutting down a two-week long demonstration on Wall Street, telling protesters who are speaking out against greed and corruption that the banks deserve support.

Of course these banks that have destroyed the world's economy and has brought our country to the brink of disaster, they deserve our support. If you are one of the people who hadn't even missed a payment but had your house foreclosed on due to robo-signers, the bankers deserve your support. If you are a college graduate who can't even get a job at Arbys but you are 100k in debt, the bankers deserve your support. If you are a teacher who lost your pension due to these scams, get over it, the bankers deserve your support.

We just don't do enough for the bankers; they shouldn't have to face protest and scrutiny for robbing this country of trillions of dollars. That is so unfair to them.

Asked directly on his weekly radio show Friday whether he will allow the protesters to stay indefinitely, Bloomberg replied, “We’ll see.”

The cops have been out there pepper spraying, beating, and arresting these peaceful protesters while bankers who have pulled off the biggest heist in history are just living it up. To date, after all the evidence of fraud and corruption, not one of these scumbag bankers have been arrested.

We should all support these people out there protesting because they are actually doing something.

The truth about Mitt Romney

There seems to be a hundred different reasons why Republicans are not warming up to Mitt Romney. I have heard everything from him being a Mormon to his healthcare plan that supposedly inspired ObamaCare to he isn’t good with people one on one, A to Z there is a laundry list of reasons. But the real reason has nothing really to do with Mitt and everything to do with the crazy fringe of the Republican Party. They want to be tough guys so they want to elect a tough guy.

This element refuses to acknowledge science, facts, reason, or logic for any issue. They cheer for the death penalty, they scream for uninsured person to be left to die, and they boo gay soldiers fighting in Iraq. They want the tough guy persona in the White House. They want the president to mirror what they want to be. Go back to 2000 and why they loved George Bush, he was a cowboy from Texas that they would love to have a beer with. They ate up his talk about tracking down and killing terrorists, they loved the idea of Jack Bauer like tactics to extract information from suspected terrorist and did not care to hear from the experts that said those tactics do not work, and they loved him landing on the carrier in the flight suit. They want to imagine this guy grabbing a rifle and mowing down terrorists himself. It’s a huge fantasy.

In 2008, they largely ignored Mitt, they rushed to Rudy Giuliani, who talked about killing terrorists and was considered America’s Mayor. He was presented as an expert on terrorism despite the fact he was the mayor of the city that suffered the biggest terror attack in our country’s history. I could see had he been the mayor of the city that stopped the biggest terrorist attack in our country’s history that he could have those credentials, but he wasn’t so to act as an expert was ridiculous and his campaign soon crashed and burned.

Then they wanted Fred Thompson, TV cop and all around tough guy. He was going to swoop in and put some law and order on Obama. But once he opened his mouth and begin to talk he put the party to sleep. So instead of Mitt, they went with war hero John McCain and his maverick gimmick, despite the fact he didn’t run a very good campaign and was showing signs of dementia.

So that brings us to 2011, the party start doesn’t want Mitt. So they talk another tough guy, cowboy, rebel governor from Texas into the race. He says things like how they would treat Ben Bernanke poorly in Texas and the reasonable people think that he sounds ridiculous, but the crazies eat it up. But after only a few weeks, his act is wearing thin on everyone except the crazies so they want New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the race. They look at him like he is the Republican Tony Soprano.

So a race that really should be a 2 man race between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul has been clouded by these insane people. So if Mitt wants to be president, he needs to stop with the who let the dogs out and start quoting some Johnny Cash. Mitt should come out talking about his gun collection and how he loves to shoot animals. Mitt should get some cowboy boots and maybe then the Republicans will warm up to him.

A quick note to some of the crazy people….

President Obama is an American citizen.

President Obama is the legal and rightful President of the United States.

President Obama is a Christian and not some secret Muslim.

President Obama is NOT the Antichrist.

Stop being a bunch of dumb asses and if you don’t like him, organize and vote for whoever you think will do a better job. Stop with all the craziness. All the antics do is give President Obama a chance to show grace and dignity.

The Democrats….

 

So I wonder how anyone can really identify themselves with this party? This party can not defend any position they take and will completely give in to the Republicans on any issue. How can you want to associate yourself with a party that doesn’t have the conviction to stand by their beliefs?

President Obama has lost nearly all the support of independents and rapidly losing his base, his approval is at 39%, just because he doesn’t fight for anything. He has lost every negotiation with the Republicans. 

The Democrats are spending a lot of time blaming the Bush administration for the economy and the job loss, and while he has his share of the blame, the Democrats are not innocent. It was President Clinton that singed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which resulted in jobs beginning to leave. It was President Clinton that repealed Glass-Steagall which most economists believe contributed greatly to the economic fiasco. And it was President Clinton who pressured Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to extend mortgage loans to people with low and medium incomes.

President Obama ran on a single payer health care system and completely against mandates. After he cut deals with the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, we ended up with more of the same only now with mandates. That isn’t to say there is nothing good about the Obama Heath Care Plan but it sure isn’t what he ran on. We still have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, Guantanamo is still open, we still use rendition, none of the things he said he would fight for.

Look at the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Bill, it’s about the most corrupt and bought piece of legislation that has been forced down the American people’s throats in the past 25 years.

Democrats do a great job of trying to brand themselves as the party of inclusion; the Republicans don’t even try to bother. But in the end, they can’t fight or stand up for what they supposedly believe in. When John Kerry said its poor kids getting sent off to war to die, the Republicans just said he was degrading the troops and he completely caved. He was right. Al Gore helped in the creation of the internet and yet he allowed himself to be mocked like was a goof.

The Democrats just don’t stand for anything. And if you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.

The Republicans….

 

 

Looking at the Republican Party and the positions they take, one question comes to mind. How can anyone who is not making at least 200k a year be a member of this party? When you watch the positions they have taken, including the bank bail outs which were proposed and pushed through under George Bush, they do not care about middle class America and certainly not about the poor.

Lets go back to last December when millions of Americans were looking at their unemployment benefits running out, right before the holidays, and they blackmailed the president into extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich or they wouldn’t extend the unemployment benefits. I listen to Republicans now talking about how Obama extended the Bush tax cuts, like he had a choice. The Republicans had no problems leaving millions of Americans out in the cold (literally) if they didn’t get to take care of the rich.

The Republican budget proposal back in Feb, was an all out attack on the middle class and the poor, cutting money from Pell Grants, from Head Start, from energy assistance programs, slashing social security benefits, cutting thousands of teachers, and billions cut from job training programs. The Republicans have no problems cutting all these programs so they do not have to raise the taxes of the super wealthy one penny.

The Republicans have attacked Unions, wanting to destroy the American worker’s right to collectively bargain. They want to slash job safety inspectors, food safety inspectors, and get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). They want the market to regulate our environmental standards, our food, and our prescription drugs.  They want to go back to the days when you would drive past rivers that were brown. There is no doubt that these agencies need to be reformed because we have seen how special interest has bought the regulators who are supposed to be monitoring them. When you think about how BP spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf, I don’t want to trust them to monitor themselves.

The Republicans want to privatize social security. Really? They want to give Wall Street access to all the social security funds. Can you imagine millions of Americans who lose their social security because of the bad gambles by Wall Street? What the uproar would be?

“Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, have introduced legislation to end a corporate tax break allowing corporations to deduct stock option expenses on their tax returns in amounts greater than the expenses shown on their books, thereby making the tax code more fair and cutting the budget deficit by $25 billion over 10 years.

“As middle class families struggle, corporations are sitting on record profits.  If we’re going to ask working families to make sacrifices to reduce our deficit, then we should be willing to ask corporations to forgo excessive tax breaks for stock options,” Brown said. “It’s time to end these corporate earmarks and reduce our deficit.”

Guess what, they are opposed by the Republicans.

As the President announced his job bill (which isn’t perfect) but most bipartisan estimates say it will raise GDP and lower the unemployment rate by a point. That is millions of people going back to work. That is middle class Americans able to provide for their families. And the Republicans are going to block it, because they would rather have Americans lose than Obama get a win.

The Republicans act as if spending 5 cents on the American people is the worst thing they have ever heard of. They had no issues with 7 plus years of billions of dollars being spent on wars and tax breaks for the rich. They had no problem with the doubling of the deficit, but now, we can’t spend any money. The Republicans had no problem with the extension of the Bush tax cuts which cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars last December. No Republicans had a problem with all that spending, except Ron Paul.  

So if you are part of the super wealthy, I can completely understand your allegiance to the Republican Party. It makes sense. They are looking out for your best interest. But for the extremely dumb Americans who get all their news from Fox News, how can you associate yourself with this party?

Do you really hate gays that much, that you will allow your future, your kid’s future, and their kid’s future to be taken away, in plain sight, just so gays can’t get married? Do you really hate other religious preferences so much that you will see your right to collective bargaining stolen from you?

This isn’t a partisan blog, the Democrats are next…..

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/levin-brown-bill-would-end-corporate-stock-option-tax-break-reduce-deficit-by-25-billion

How dumb are some Republicans?



Seriously! Anywhere between 10-14% of Republicans polled are saying they are voting for Sarah Palin? Who isn’t even a candidate? She isn’t running folks! She is making way too much money with Fox and the 10-14% of you fools that keep her back account full.

The only thing worse than voting for Sarah Palin is attempting to vote for her when she isn’t even running!

She is comedy gold:

"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"Well, let's see. There's ― of course in the great history of America there have been rulings that there's never going to be absolute consensus by every American, and there are those issues, again, like Roe v. Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So, you know, going through the history of America, there would be others but ―" --Sarah Palin, unable to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with other than Roe vs. Wade, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008

"He who warned, uh, the British that they weren't gonna be takin' away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells, and um, makin' sure as he's riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be sure and we were going to be free, and we were going to be armed." --Sarah Palin, botching the history of Paul Revere's midnight ride, June 3, 2011

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin, after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas, interview on Glenn Beck's radio show, Nov. 24, 2010

I know you want to go watch her crappy documentary, Undefeated, the title to the vice president runner up’s story. I guess she feels happy that she came in second place. Or go read her crappy book, but seriously, can’t the 10-14% of brain dead Republicans stop trying to be mavericks or stop thinking they are going rogue when you throw your support to arguably the dumbest, most unqualified person in recent memory.

I’m tired of this country’s habit of celebrating stupidity. It’s not cool to be dumb and ignorant. It’s the reason our country is in the shape it’s in.

And please don't take this as a Republican bashing post; this isn't a partisan post. But Sarah Palin, like The Jersey Shore, like John and Kate plus 8, like the Kardashians, like Paris Hilton, celebrate being shallow, stupid human beings.

America is Michael Jackson?

 

According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), our 15-year-olds rank 17th in the world in science and 25th in math. We rank 12th among developed countries in college graduation (down from No. 1 for decades). We come in 79th in elementary-school enrollment. Our infrastructure is ranked 23rd in the world, well behind that of every other major advanced economy. American health numbers are stunning for a rich country: based on studies by the OECD and the World Health Organization, we're 27th in life expectancy, 18th in diabetes and first in obesity.

The endless wars, insane tax code, and a bunch of clowns in Washington that can’t pass a budget let alone solve the many problems that threaten our country. As we rapidly approach (and quite possible have already reached) the point of no return, what can be done to turn this country back around.

I love this rant by Bill Maher and even though the fact it is nearly 2 years old, it’s still spot on.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2056723,00.html#ixzz1Vt5UuHx0

Jobs, jobs, jobs

So Thursday night the president will announce his jobs bill. He will basically announce a plan to start rebuilding infrastructure, roads, bridges, good stuff. But here is the problem. He sat on the bill since last month back in Iowa. "I'll be putting forward a very specific plan to boost the economy, to create jobs and to control the deficit," Obama said on the first day of his three-day Midwest bus tour. "And my attitude will be, 'Get it done.' "

So instead of canceling his vacation and calling back Congress to move forward on this plan to get people back to work immediately, he waited. So then he scheduled it for Sept 8, and Obama's beleaguered supporters actually got excited, thinking Obama is fighting back. He scheduled his job announcement at the same time as a fairly meaningless Republican debate. Obama supporters said he is flexing his presidential muscles and showing the Republicans who is boss.

Their excitement didn’t last long because the Republican said, no way, and Obama like he has done his entire presidency, backed down. He changed it once again to Thursday at an earlier time not to conflict with football.

So the most important issue in America, jobs, has been scheduled, rescheduled, kicked around, and postponed, kind of the same treatment the American worker has actually received. So is it any wonder why Obama’s numbers are now at all time lows. 

“After the bruising debt-ceiling fight — as well as Standard & Poor's subsequent downgrade of the nation's credit rating — Obama's job approval rating has sunk to a low of 44 percent, a 3-point drop since July. His handling of the economy stands at a low of 37 percent. And only 19 percent believe the country is headed in the right direction, the lowest mark for this president.

Perhaps most ominously for Obama, a majority of poll takers — 54 percent — think he's facing a longer-term setback from which he's unlikely to recover. Back in January, just 39 percent agreed with that assessment.”

George Bush was at 54 percent after his handling of Katrina, which is where the president is at. Katrina Bush levels. Right now the only people in worst shape than the president is the American workers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44401295/ns/politics/

Happy Labor Day

 

Happy Labor Day. Labor Day, it was the creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

More than 100 years after the first Labor Day observance, there is still some doubt as to who first proposed the holiday for workers.

Some records show that Peter J. McGuire, general secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners and a cofounder of the American Federation of Labor, was first in suggesting a day to honor those "who from rude nature have delved and carved all the grandeur we behold."

But Peter McGuire's place in Labor Day history has not gone unchallenged. Many believe that Matthew Maguire, a machinist, not Peter McGuire, founded the holiday. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, N.J., proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. What is clear is that the Central Labor Union adopted a Labor Day proposal and appointed a committee to plan a demonstration and picnic.

No matter who proposed the holiday, there is no doubt that we need to really celebrate the holiday and acknowledge the true meaning because the American worker is under attack and heading toward extinction.

The real unemployment rate in this country is 22%. The government keeps finding ways of not including people so they can lower the rate and the Federal Reserve can claim their tricks are working. The President has been waiting over a month for the right time politically to announce his new jobs bill. He held back announcing it until after all the crooks got in their vacation, then pushed it back a day so he didn’t interfere with the Republican debate, and then changed it again to not interfere with football. The American worker is a political football, and you know what folks, we have fumbled the ball. So enjoy your Labor Day…..while you still can. The American worker is rapidly going the way of the dinosaur.

http://www.dol.gov/opa/aboutdol/laborday.htm

The Not-So Dream Act

    The California Bill that has been labeled the Dream Act will provide public funds to illegal immigrants to go to college.

“The legislation would still need to pass the Assembly and be signed by Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, to become law.

Proponents acknowledge that illegal immigrants who attend college are still not able to find legal employment after graduation, but they say the bill could eventually help spur the federal government to grant those students citizenship.”

So let’s not look at this from the immigration policy stand point or that this is another way the government is trying to set up paths to citizenship other than the legal path. Let’s not even look at this as a “we have to control our borders” issue. You can completely remove the politics from this and look at it as an economic issue. This is just bad economics.

President Obama’s budget plans and discussions on how the “Super Congress” plans to deal with the debt issue all have Pell Grants being cut. When legal citizens are not able to afford college and can not access funds to attend, how can you put the tax payers on the hook to pay for illegal immigrants to go to college?

“The latest bill would go into effect in 2013 and could cost the California budget about $40 million a year, but not all of that would go to immigrants because some legal residents from other states could qualify for the funds as well, according to an analysis prepared for a state Senate committee.”

California is in a serious debt crisis, they have the lowest credit rating among the 50 states and they want to use tax payer money to pay for college for illegal immigrants? In 2010, JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon warned California was a bigger risk than Greece. In July 2011, California went out to private investors for 5.4 billion in loans fearing a government shutdown. This state is in horrible financial shape, they are cutting services for residents, cutting pay and laying off state workers, and yet they want to take tax payer money and pay for illegal immigrants’ college tuition. And they are calling this The Dream Act….I wish it was a dream.

This is just another example of how mismanaged our country is and how special interest buys laws and public policy; at the same time regular, hard working citizens are have the American Dream turned into the American Nightmare.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/01/us-dream-act-california-idUSTRE7800OW20110901

Finally some good news

BAGHDAD — August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died, according to an Associated Press tally.

Figures compiled by the AP show that no American forces died in Iraq in August either in combat or non-combat related situations, a significant achievement in a conflict that has claimed the lives of 4,474 American service members since it began.


This war has gone on far too long and cost way too much. But an entire month where not one American solider died in Iraq is great news.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44359137/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/?GT1=43001

Guillotine Day

   April 25, 1792, the guillotine claimed its first victim, a robber  Nicolas Pelletier. For the next 189 years the guillotine remained France’s top method of execution. In 1939, the last public beheading by guillotine occurred, but it was France's official execution method until 1981.                                                                                          

  Now 30 years later, it is about time for the United States to break out the guillotine. The main method of execution during the French Revolution should be the iconic symbol for the American Revolution. 

We have Wall Street and corporate goons who have snatched up the wealth in this country. The wealth distribution gap is at an all time high. Chief Executive Officers are making 185 times the salary that the regular working is making (more than any other country) and they make that for doing a terrible job. This country isn’t making anything anymore? These guys are gutting their company and sending jobs overseas just so they can have a better quarterly report. A spreadsheet is now more important than the American worker – an American life. 

When the top brass from the nation’s failing car industry went to Congress begging for a bailout, they flew there in private jets. This is the arrogance these sociopaths have, and yes, they are sociopaths. They have no remorse for any injury or harm inflicted upon workers, as long as they can have their perks. I would like to see how arrogant they would be when we line them up and use the guillotine, while the American worker chants “off with their heads.” 

We have a Congress that can not solve problems. They are bought and paid for by special interest which allows corporations to continue their abuse of American wealth. The Congress currently has an 86% disapproval rating. They continue to use social wedge issues to divide the country and exploit that division so corporations can receive bailouts, tax breaks, and a pass to purchase any legislation they can afford. After BP dumped millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf, they spent over 20 million lobbying Congress and they keep on going, business as usual. Congress spends hours upon hours performing political theater, but what would they be doing if we were lining them up for the guillotine? 

Change in this country will not come from an election, we are too far gone. It will only come from Revolution and the American people coming together to chant “off with their heads.”