THE REAL REASON OBAMA WANTS A TAX INCREASE

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Faced with a nation that wants drastic spending cuts and no tax increase, Obama is flatly refusing to sign any legislation that does not include a tax increase.  Why?  Why is he willing to risk the future of this country?  Why is he willing to send more Americans to the streets without jobs? 

Well, here you have it, the real answer.  It's because... If he doesn't get a tax increase, he can't save his sacred damned ObamaCare. 

Now, isn't THAT just a fine kettle of fish? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

OBAMA’S FAILURES MOUNT

I had intentions of getting away from the subject of politics with this week’s post, but the new bad economic statistics coming out this week point to the unmistakable fact that Obama’s leadership is not only substandard, it is abysmal… abysmal at a time when the nation so desperately needs strong, positive leadership. 

Despite the fact that his economic “stimulus” cost $275,000 per job, unemployment has stayed above 9%.  He’s already spent more money in his first term of office than any other President in their full term and managed to increase the national debt by more than all previous Presidents combined.  Both new and used housing are in the dumps and foreclosures are at their highest rates in recorded history… higher than during the Great Depression. 

ObamaCare still has over 65% of Americans grumbling, with all American businesses except AARP screaming and yelling, and the costs are mounting way beyond projections while we’re just getting his "great gift" off the ground.  They say Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid are “unsustainable;” why don’t they tell the truth about ObamaCare? 

Unemployment is not a laughing matter.  With people losing everything they have worked so hard for, with families being split up because social service agencies are requiring it before they will provide services, how can our President make a sick joke about his “shovel ready projects” not being so shovel-ready?  Not only is he a piss-poor President, but he obviously has no compassion, either. 

He’s so glib; hell, let’s just raise taxes.  Well, here’s the plain and simple fact that any businessman in the country who is successful will tell you: When business volume goes down and profits suffer, you do not raise prices or you will lose more volume.  You lower prices and get a tight rein on costs.  Theoretically, and it has been proven true over and over again… lower prices means more volume and more volume overcomes the decreased prices.  Meathead thinks that if he raises taxes to $25,000 per year per American, he’s going to make the government a ton of money; he doesn’t understand that Bill Gates and Donald Trump will kick in a total of $50,000 and the rest of the country will be bankrupt. 

Ask any American and they will tell you that government is sticking its big, fat nose into too many places where it does not belong.  Obama has been growing the size of our already obnoxious government by leaps and bounds.  It is virtually impossible to create a situation where everyone works for the government unless the government is the all-encompassing socialistic slave master.  What we should be doing here is slashing the number of government employees and reducing the size of government, consolidating departments as we go along.  We really need a mean and slim machine running our country right now. 

Just ask yourself, given the endless parade of continuous bad news, where we will be in 18 months, January of 2013 when Obama expects to again take his oath of office.  Finally, now IS the time for change.  We need to change Obama and all of his cronies out of office in 2012.  And, we need to change ourselves into being more alert to what is going on in the smoke-filled back rooms of Washington. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

COBELL SETTLEMENT LONG OVERDUE, BUT SHORT OF JUSTICE

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Many decades ago, our government started “banking” money due Indians from land sales and other Native American incomes to protect the funds for future Indian generations. The lands owned by Indians were fractionalized as generations wore on, because all family members owned a portion of the land; today, a hundred or more might own 20 acres of land or less.  Some of these accounts were Individual Money Accounts, which were supposed to receive deposits from the federal government from sources such as lease revenues from oil drilling on Tribal land. 

One day, it seems long ago, someone woke up and realized that the money had disappeared.  Yes, our government had somehow managed to “lose” it.  What’s worse, it seems that all of the accounting records were either missing or in very bad shape.  Remember that this is the government that knows to the penny how much you earned last year and every year going back to the beginning of time.  Once again, it appeared that Native Americans had been royally screwed by the United States Government, the same Government that cleaned out Social Security and is now after your savings, your cars, houses, piggy banks and anything else of monetary value it can glom on to. 

It is estimated by some people that the funds amounted to $100 billion or more, counting the interest.  When discovered, litigation called “Cobell vs. United States” and also vs. varied Secretaries of the Interior ensued.  The case dragged on and on for years and years, but was finally settled in less than a day.  The result is that about $4.8 billion was ultimately awarded to Native Americans, http://www.nativelegalupdate.com/2011/01/articles/cobell-settlement-payments-how-do-i-apply/

Doesn’t this make you proud to be an American?  Doesn’t this make you want to go and kiss your Congressman or Senator on the cheek?  Well, you’d better kiss up to them, because right now they’re not looking to cut Federal spending by much and you’re the one they need money from. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.

PEEYEW!

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The Czar Supreme, the Messiah reinvented, His Holiness Abdul Ahmad, President Barack Hussein Obama, laid down his golf clubs and returned from the hinterlands last week to pronounce that Congress, and the Republicans in particular, had better get with the program and resolve the deficit ceiling or they would be foregoing future days off and subjected to public flogging.  He then mounted his trusty steed and trotted off to Camp David for the weekend.  Whew!  As if his shit doesn’t stink? 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

 

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY FROM YOUR CONGRESS

OBAMA SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

The issue is not if we should be in Libya.  There are pros and cons to the argument about humanitarian concerns and the criminal background of Ghadafi versus the legal authority for is to intervene.  Nor is the issue about whether or not our troops are on the ground and taking charge directly, or whether we are doing it through the auspices of a NATO support role.  Those are all side issues. 

The issue is whether or not the President has the authority to send our troops into battle in a foreign country without Congressional approval unless we have been attacked first or such an attack is imminent.  Semantics are semantics, but they do not apply here.  Obama contends that there is some subliminal difference between sending troops and arms without a formal declaration of war and having a declaration of war, as if it is not an act of war unless you declare it to be so even though you are sending troops and weapons.  I don’t know about you, but both of those are acts of war, pure and simple. 

Nevertheless, put that aside for the moment.  Ask yourself why, except in cases of national emergency, just one person… The President… should have the authority to put our young men and women into potential harm’s way.  His answer is that he can send troops anywhere at any time without Congressional approval as long as it is a “support role” and not war.  Yes, he does admit that he should have conferred with Congress out of some meek sense of propriety, but insists that the situation was so bad in Libya that he just didn’t have time.  I guess there was no way he could call the top Congressional leaders over to the White House for a briefing; just simply not enough time. 

The arrogance of this President toward our Constitution and our laws is too much to bear.  He should be impeached for this and a multitude of other transgressions against our country.  You know it and I know it. He makes Nixon look like a saint. 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.  

JOBS SITUATION GETS UGLY

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It's bad enough that our Federal Government under President Obama and Congress has failed to deliver an answer to the jobs problem.  The Republicans are insistent that the business climate has to be better to create jobs and the Democrats are saying that given enough time, their stimulus programs will get things moving.  Because neither side is budging and jobs are not being created, the situation continues to be bleak and the unemployed are paying the penalty for it. 


Now a new and much more sinister snake rears its ugly head.  Due to the large number of unemployed, businesses are being inundated with applications whenever they advertise an open position; this is often unmanageable.  So, the HR heads get together to try and resolve this issue and guess what they come up with? The thought process logically progresses to a theory that people who are employed are better employees and are being retained by their current employers for that reason; the weak employees are on the streets looking for work. 

Hence,  the evolution to:  "Unemployed need not apply."  

Now, this truly is a form of class warfare and it's being perpetuated by a government that refuses to get off the dime and change things.   It makes me sick. 

But, that's not all.  Families that lose their jobs, homes, cars, furniture end up turning to social agencies for assistance and they answer?  Men and women must be segregated and families must be broken up.  We have students dropping out of school, people going hungry, suicides... 

The failure of our government to get people back to work is creating a horrible, ugly blight on our society and it is immoral, unethical and contrary to every value that we as human beings should have.  A government that refuses to lay down its political positions and to resolve such a situation within its own humanity is not only negligent, it is guilty of a crime of the worst magnitude.   

How can we justify sending one damned dime to another nation while this situation exists?  How can we justify being at war in three foreign countries when this situation exists?  How can we as a nation focus on a Blagojevich, a Casey Anthony, an Anthony Weiner... when this situation exists? 

When are we actually going to do something about it? 

That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

TO CONGRESS: YOU MUST DECIDE WHERE YOU STAND

I was ensconced in the waiting room of a car dealership, hoping and praying that there was enough money left in my sinking bank account to cover the car repairs that were taking place.  Hiding with my nose deep into my laptop, I could hear the other unfortunate souls lamenting and commiserating about their misfortunes and their similar prayers for reasonable costs for their own repairs.  The ruckus was like listening to a chorus full of women in a hair salon. 

Everyone in there was ticked off at Congress and the President.  I mean to tell you that out of about 25 people, not one took the side of government.  And the diatribe was horrendous, calamitous.  The din was so loud that someone actually got up and walked over and turned off the TV, saying, “I don’t know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of hearing what is coming out of Washington that I just simply don’t want to listen to the crap anymore.”  There was general agreement; even the guy emptying the trash concurred.    

Here is the issue.  Most of us legal Americans were brought up to obey the law and to always do what is right.  We were taught moral and ethical values that kept us out of trouble for all of our lives.  “If you always stand on the right side of things, you will always win the day.” 

I cannot begin to tell you how many times in my life I have had to own up to something that I did that did not turn out right.  There were countless times when I knew that an employee was right in their stance against an overbearing boss, and I took the risk of standing up and defending them.  I just have been involved in a situation where the boss is doing something unethical and immoral, I’m a consultant, and an employee came to me and asked me for advice.  Talk about being between a rock and a woman’s purse…..

Anyway, I was in an ethical situation here.  How do I counsel the employee that he is right and he should quit rather than do what he is being asked to do, when I am likewise drawing a paycheck from the same employer?  You know what?  I thought about that decision for less than a fleeting second.  Stand on the side of right and you will always win the day.  The employee was a very good employee and I hated to see him go, but he walked into the boss’ office and told him where to stick it.  Unbelievably, faced with the choice between losing the good employee and gaining some self-advantage by doing something wrong… the employer relented and changed his mind.  He did what was right. 

You know where I am going with this, don’t you?  There they are in Washington, our President and our Congress.  How long has it been since any of them stood up and did what is right for this country?  How many of them consistently put their own agendas and their political interests far ahead of what is right?  If, after reading this little epistle, how many of them will have the guts and the courage to stand up and start running this country like it was supposed to be run? 

How many will set aside their Republican or Democratic Party dictates and stand up and do what is right for this country?  I’m not talking about the budget, or the economy, or jobs, or war, or healthcare or energy or anything else in particular; I’m talking about all of it.  Every day of every week that they are in their jobs, how many of them are willing to always do what is right, regardless of the consequences?   

I’ll bet you will need less than one finger to count them.

Do you really want to reelect them?  Or do you really want to take our country back? 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted. 

 

WASHINGTON LACKS COMMITMENT TO RESOLVE ECONOMY

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The news coming out of Washington about the economy has been, at the very best, dismal this past week.  All indicators say we are back in deep cow manure.  The Federal Reserve has issued warnings about the “economic recovery” and the Congressional Budget Office has issued even more urgent warnings about the debt.  Now, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor has walked out of budget talks while lamenting that the Democrats flatly refuse to even discuss spending reduction unless the Republicans agree to extensive tax increases. 

In the meanwhile, the supposed leader of the free world is off on another campaign trip and his chief lackey, Joe Biden, is doing the fiddling while the nation’s economic bus heads for the cliff. 

Is this sweet, or not? 

That’s MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.