So Much Bullcrap

Can you believe we have eleven more months of this political tripe before we vote in 2012?
 
Here they are arguing back and forth about a 2% payroll deduction.  That's $1,000 for an annual salary of $50,000.  In other terms, it takes $120 BILLION out of the broke Social Security Trust Fund.  What the hell are they thinking?  Congress and past administrations have looted the Trust Fund and left worthless IOU's. They have voted to give money from the Trust Fund to people who never contributed one cent.  Now these SOB's call it an entitlement;  an entitlement my ass.  That's our money. The real entitlement programs are the biggest problems.  Medicaid, food stamps and all of the other give away programs have gone awry from the original intent.  They are out of control.  Check one of my earlier blogs for the statistics.  People need to be weaned off the government teat.  This cow is going dry. All of them, Democrats and Republicans, will not  address the real issues of way too much spending by government.  What will it take for them to put politics aside and put the country first? 
None of them seem to have any basic understanding of how a free market works.  Quit playing with the money supply.  Quit micromanaging interest rates.  Quit micromanaging banks and credit.  Quit playing with the housing market.  Politicians are the worst at telling the free market how to do their business.  By and large they are lawyers and even community organizers who have never started a business, managed a business, grown a business, met a payroll or even failed at a business.  They have inflated egos that give them the right to tell ever one how to conduct their business about which they have no idea except what some lobbyist told them.  Government meddling has destroyed family farming, is doing the same to domestic manufacturing and makes it virtually impossible for the average person to start a successful small business. 

Now back to the opening statement.  Obama must go . He and the rest of these socialist goons need to be thrown out next November.  Progressives cannot bring this economy back from the brink.  Government is not and never will be the answer to solving our nation's ills.  It created them.
The two leading Republican candidates, Gingrich and Romney, are running from their own progressive records.  In this age, your past in audio and video is just a click away. They cannot hide it. Gingrich has many ideas and balanced the budget, but as I have believed after reading one or two of his books years ago, he is a statist.  He believes more government is the answer to every problem.  Romney has many accomplishments to his credit, but who is he and what does he really believe in.  Granted, he had to compromise to work with the left as governor of Massachusetts.  But you cannot call yourself a progressive one year and a conservative ten years later.  It's another, I was for it before I was against it, quandary.  A quandary to be exploited by Obama, the man with no past.

Crossroads

President Obama actually spoke a truth in his speech in Kansas this week.  America is at a crossroad and the choices are quite clear.  We have a choice between the America that created a nation of unparalleled prosperity or a new America, a socialist state modeled after the European governments now wallowing in debt and civil unrest.  Our President is counting on class envy to carry him to another four year term.  He constantly speaks of "fairness", but his idea of fairness is not the ideal of fairness I believe in.  He also speaks as a champion of the "middle class", but really, no way.

I have come to the realization that our President doesn't just have socialist leanings, but that he is an advocate of communism.  He is carrying out a full front assault on capitalism.  The federal government and his  administration are doing everything they can to kill free enterprise and to destroy the American economic engine.  He didn't start this, but he is pushing it to a certain end.

Private industry, creating value from raw materials, is the key to a strong middle class.  We have systematically driven manufacturing and industry from our shores to other countries with taxation and over regulation from EPA, FCC, Departments of Labor, Energy and the rest of the huge federal bureaucracy.  This administration has pushed for leftist changes to labor laws to favor unions over industry.  When they couldn't get card check, the NLRB instituted changes to restrict a company's ability to fairly fight unionization drives. We all know that unions dues become big money for Democratic Party candidates.  The government will not allow this country to become energy independent.  We cannot drill to develop our domestic petroleum and natural deposits.  They are working to end coal as a fuel, the same with nuclear power and regulations make it impossible to build a refinery. 

I confess to not knowing what our President considers the "middle class".  I don't think he considers it to be people becoming financially independent though their own labors, whether working in  thriving industry or in their own small businesses. This President and his administration are all about the haves and have-nots.  It's the 99% vs. the 1%.  It's the demonization of the successful.  They work to convince people that if you are poor, its because someone else is rich.  Their idea of "fairness" is taking money from those working to improve their lives and giving it to those who don't, just to even things out.   We are supposed to believe him when he says he wants a more fair playing field so all have a chance at success.  The biggest obstacle to that success is big government and he is all for bigger government.

Obama is right, we are at a crossroad.  We must make the choice. Do we want to stay on the path to full blown socialism and government control over our lives?  Do we want a President hell bent on turning us into a third rate country?  Do we want a President who owes everything to the likes of George Soros,  corrupt labor unions, and numerous socialist and communists? 

I will vote for anyone running against this man.  I might gag doing it, but there is no alternative. It would be nothing new, I gagged voting for McCain.