Ohio: Barometer for Failure

Congratulations social agenda! Ohio is the 7th worst state for employment in the nation. We haven't hit the bottom yet, as there has already been another massive round of layoffs for the month of July. If the Obama Administration Stimulus has had any effect, the graph would show at least a blip. Nothing. So again, congratulations, with benefits running out, there should be a much larger and angrier group of citizens. Shall we wave the media wand of Hope and Change? Or will they actually see what little greedy politicians have to offer a group of uncaring television worshippers. Here's to creating jobs and getting us out of bankruptcy by spending money that doesn't even exist.

Please note that the steepest unemployment began just after the November 2008 Congressional elections. Our legislature handles the budget and unemployment, so remember to hold them accountable, our Democrat majority, who clearly has not a clue as to which end is up.

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Why America is a Fiscal Nightmare

It never ceases to amaze me of the number of ridiculous lobbyist organizations out there. They seem to have corralled and saddled our nation's legislature to brand them with all kinds of bills that benefit very few while burdening the majority. Please take a look at H.R. 1018: Restore Our American Mustangs Act. The name sounds patriotic and proud, but the rest of us can identify with the act as "Wasting Tax Payer Money to Support Alien Wildlife."

Wild horses and burros have all been introduced from Europe and they are destroying indigenous plants, yet we are going to spend roughly $600 million to enhance their breeding, pay for any damages they cause to native plants, and to employ people to guard them. For cripes sake, horses are getting a bailout while the rest of the country is being laid off and people are living in fear because they cannot put food on the table for their families.

The sheer audacity of Rep. Nick Rahall to have spent so much time and effort fabricating such a piece of excessive tax payer waste is beyond my ability to comprehend. We are in one of the worst financial recessions of all time, and we have not nearly hit rock bottom. We are about to approve the biggest national debt ever imagined, if you can imagine what a trillion dollars is even like. We are also about to receive the biggest load of propaganda to nueter and destroy our largest industry: healthcare. Yet we need to spend money on pet projects like this to guarantee a bunch of hooved animals get more protections under the government then the american worker.

Please call or write to tell Rep. Nick Rahall who the real jackass is, this is absurd.

WV (D) Rep. Nick Rahall
email him
or call (202) 225-3452
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June Unemployment

Stay tuned, the big unemployment numbers are coming on Friday, July 17th from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. My prediction puts Ohio at 11.5% unemployment, the National average at 10.2% and the poor state of Michigan into the 16% range. The worst, apparently, is yet to come. Once unemployment benefits begin drying up, the country is going to be in a real angry mess. Hopefully grassroots conservatism and libertarianism picks up those angry, laid off blue collar workers and reminds them that they voted for Change. I still dream of the day civic responsibility overcomes fancy campaign commercials and media worship.
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Ford Sells More Fusions Then Chrysler Does Cars

This should be a lesson to those companies that took / needed bailout money. It seems using the ideas of a free market is the best way to go. Ford managed to cut back, reorganize and reevaluate their future investments to still be churning out enough product that they haven't gone under. Meanwhile, consumer confidence has been eroded so bad at GM and Chrysler, that they are going to plummet even faster. The next two years are critical for Ford, and I expect them to pull out of this whole mess with a better outlook for the future. Checkout the Fusion, it ranks high in the categories most people consider.

GM seems to have taken market lessons well and introduced the most ridiculous things from R&D. These soon to be classic models show exactly why Americans will continue to ignore the faltering auto-giants offerings. Would you invest in a company that thinks the future of driving is in a flimsy, upright Segway knock off? People seem to want cargo space, seating for 5, fuel economy and RELIABILITY. Not some death pod with gyro-training wheels. Seriously, how much medical marijuana was needed in the design meeting when this passed from a lousy napkin sketch to budgeting development? Enough to help Michigan toward 20% unemployment, that's for sure.

P.U.M.A - AN ASSAULT ON COMMON SENSE

I was happy to see Goldman-Sachs predicting positive growth and repaying their TARP money. The more companies not on the government dole, the better. We need to do exactly as President Obama said "roll up our sleeves and do the hard work". Asking Uncle Sam for money that isn't even really his, isn't exactly "tightening our belts". It is backdoor theft, and we are asking our children to be witness to a new culture of beggars. There are dozens of banks that needed punishment with failure. How soon will it be that another wave of companies is asking for help while promising campaign support? 2010 is next year, and I imagine the begging is already happening in the meeting rooms of many Congressmen and Senators as we speak.

I ask you to all continue to support and REWARD successful corporations. A Corporation is a business made up of individuals, and we should quit demonizing them and start supporting them. We are the ticket out of this mess, not more debt and doomed-to-fail-socialist fantasies. Let us help the country by fixing it at the bottom, not by adding weight to the top.

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In Obama We Trust

Sorry that it has been awhile since I have written anything, I have been slogging through the post graduation unemployment. Funds are dwindling, but I won't get a bailout because I live in a real world where you are punished by your situation, not praised. It is troubling to see the homeless here in DC with cellphones. Mine is about to be shutoff because I am back a few months on the bill and this homeless bag lady is ranting about cats on her phone. I feel like there are a lot of missing things here in the nation's capital.

My favorite so far has been the unnatural obsession DCers have with President Obama. I have seen more ridiculous bumper stickers then I care to ever see. I think a good percentage of the cars here are being held together in parts by these propaganda badges. We get it, you support the ticket. You just know that half of these stickers were applied after the election and likely by people who didn't even vote. We all want to pick a winner, even if the winner is a cheat. You can always say later on, "I thought he was great, but when I found out the truth, it was nice to know that I didn't vote for him, so, don't look at me".

This sort of is life though, full of false prophets and false hope. We all want it so bad that we latch onto whatever is shiniest and full of the most promises. Then slowly the gold paint tarnishes and we are left with what is real. This is such a constant theme in politics, sports and fame. We turn away from believing in the little guy and putting all our betting chips on one person. Even if they are Superman, all our hopes on one person makes them vulnerable to everything. Instead of believing in American workers, we are now believing in one man and his cupboard full of Czars. We bailout one executive after another, and ignore the workers struggling at the bottom. Someone keeps their yacht while another loses their retirement.

Perhaps instead of seeing people wildly looking to the sky every time a marine helicopter flies over, screaming "Obama, Obaaaamaaa!!", we can all look around at ourselves and begin to worry about our neighbors. He isn't our savior, and the paint is only beginning to flake.

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UNREAD: American Clean Energy and Security Act

We were told that the Obama era would be about accepting Change. Apparently naturally changing weather patterns were left off the list of allowable change. Also, we were told this would be the era of transparent government. So while everyone else calls on this bill to save our energy and save the environment; I can't help but wonder what the Security section is about. We will likely never read it. You can devote a lot of writing to garbage in 1,200+ pages. Remember this:

"We will go through, line by line, with a scalpel..."

More campaign promises, as I doubt a single person has read this bill. Do the secretaries and pages just run into the committee chambers and through large stacks of the bill in at the last minute? Do they have a thousand page bill shuffler? This bill, loaded with all sorts of unrelated nonsense, is as long as the Bible. It will likely never see the light of day as far as the public is concerned. Where is the ACLU pumping their angry fists demanding that we have public access to all these closed door shenanigans?

Just remember, Obama said the average American would not see a single tax increase during his tenure. The soft drink companies, ammunition manufacturers tobacco companies, grocery stores, gas stations and car dealerships see the increase instead. We don't get the increases directly and most of our children will bare the burden later. Think of the hundreds of copies at over 100 pages each were printed for this bill. Now we are going to label and go after those that produce carbon dioxide, or all living things. This is only within the first few months of this so called "moderate" presidency. If we do not exercise what rights we have left now, we will not have them later.

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ATTENTION: Please Read

One of the things I am a strong advocate of, especially given the vast resources of the internet, is finding and reading primary sources of information. There is no slant, bias or prejudice involved. Reading, listening or watching the news without someone analyzing or presenting you their opinions is the best way to view the world. I highly encourage you to take a look at the Bureau of Labor Statistics and see for yourself what is going on in our country. There is no sugar coating the facts. Please take the time to read and digest the information, it is important to understanding our Country's current crisis.

ECONOMIC NEWS RELEASE

I want everyone in this country to understand the information in that release from the Labor Department. There are many ways to correct unemployment, please think about what makes the most sense and compare that with what the government is doing and not doing.

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San Francisco: Gayest City in the World

If California spent as much time and effort with their budget as they do thinking up schemes to nanny their citizens, there would be no state deficit. From banning real energy solutions, to denying consumers the purchase of a certain color car; California has gone from a land of opportunity to a land of supervision. San Francisco is pushing hard to be the city with more fines and regulations for citizens with the least for illegal immigrants. Their newest law on food scraps might take the cake.

FINISH YOUR FOOD: THERE ARE STARVING POLITICIANS WHO NEED YOUR PAYCHECK

Penalizing homes and businesses for throwing away scrap food is like penalizing people for having their house too cold in the summer. This is the sanitary department asking you to make your home a little less sanitary. I have spent a lot of time in San Fran, and there are numerous homes with compost bins in the kitchen. All of them stink. Worse yet is you cannot compost processed foods. Perhaps we should just quit eating processed foods all together, and switch to your local, organic market. They aren't viable businesses, but with the right legal tinkering, you won't get the choice.

Then you have the many businesses that will be required to compost, but cannot. Any fast food restaurant that doesn't serve unprocessed food is fine. I know of two. Then you have places like In-N-Out, who are going to be in a lot of trouble within city limits. Finding ways to tax and punish successful business always bodes well in a tough economic climate. San Francisco may have just upstaged Los Angeles ban on Taco Wagons by nailing 90% of the restaurants in the city with outrageous penalties. How happy is Boudin's going to be when they are slapped with millions of dollars for wasted food? The systematic punishment of successful business labelled with the moniker "crisis" has got to stop in this country. No infrastructure can continue to support failed socialist businesses with "living wages" in the backdrop of economic turmoil. We are all failing.

For the consumer, the outlook is less dim. Just stop in at your local hardware store and pick up an in-sink aerator. The Garbage Disposal needs to make a comeback anyway. Nothing melts your frustrations away like watching left over food disappear to the grinding sound of a legal and fine free disposal solution. Maybe by this time next year, the George W. Bush Water Treatment plant will be guzzling down millions of gallons of food waste. You knew naming that plant would be ironic, just not like this.

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AFLCIO: Actress Edie Falco Joins Healthcare Reform

You heard it right folks, actress Edie Falco, star of "Nurse Jackie", has gone ahead to endorse HCAN according to the AFL-CIO. HCAN is the Heath Care for America Now! organization that seems to think that the largest employer in the U.S. is not a viable business, but a burden. It sounds like someone was trying too hard to connect healthcare reform to "Yes We Can" and NOW! They finally have the acclaimed actress's blessing. If only playing a nurse on TV was like going to med school for 10 years.

RIVETING NEWS: FALCO MAKES A DIFFERENCE

Give me a break. Where are the endorsements from the private health sector? Where are all the stories pouring out from real physicians and real nurses. Mostly just service workers, free healthcare providers, certain politicians, marxists and television stars. When the new Government Regulated Healthcare passes, does Falco win a nobel peace prize for supporting it and appointed a position in the White House? It wouldn't be the first time an actor was appointed to head up a position for President Obama. And I doubt it will be the last.

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Unconstitutional Laws at Work

My heart goes out to those families involved in yesterday's senseless act of violence at the National Holocaust Museum. Especially the loved ones of Stephen Johns, who was killed doing his job. I also want to extend my prayers to the family of the shooter, James von Brunn, because he is obviously a very confused and lost person. Unfortunately in a country where free thinking and individual ideas are supposedly protected; you will always have an element who decides to take away the another's pursuit to life, liberty and happiness.

I did want to note, that the 88 year old white supremacist managed to somehow, circumvent laws in Washington, and bring in illegal firearms. Yes, even with a Gun-Ban in place, he somehow still managed to carry weapons within the district. Like a stealthy spy, he concealed and blatantly violated a law. How are we supposed to sleep know that law abiding citizens will not exercise their 2nd Amendment Rights, while seedy criminals will? This is a Gun-Ban dammit! It is supposed to stop crime.

Yet gangs, criminals, thieves and murders continue to use unregistered, illegal firearms. The government also continues to act in a completely unchecked, tyrannical manner. Because police cannot be everywhere at once, we rely on private security forces. Even with private security guards present, a shooting and a murder occurred. I am not arguing that privately armed citizens may have made a difference, but without legally concealed weapons and a death penalty, what did an 88 year old gunman have to lose? At worst he would be in jail till his death, or at best he would die a martyr to his scum cause.

Given that we live in a world where the constant threat of terror is very real, and given that ANYONE can obtain and carry a weapon; why are the law abiding letting this continue. In Chicago, where violence has escalated at an obscene pace, a Gun-Ban continues. The solution: a proposed highway speed camera system that uses fines to fund an elite urban commando force. The solution is never to generate legal business in gun sales, lessons and licensing. It is always the opposite, enforcing stricter fines, increasing infrastructure and adding more powerful policing units to the street with little effect.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote, "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes....Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."

He knew in 1764 that in order to be independent, courageous and bold, you had to be armed at all times. Also, that carrying a firearm also places great respect and responsibility on the citizen. If our own history is not taken more seriously, we will be doomed to repeat it.

The indicators are all there, and I feel sorry that more could not have been done to instill fear and respect into the mind of von Brunn so he would never attempt such a heinous act of cowardice. This isn't about gun lobbying, or using violence; this is about our constitutional rights to protect ourselves and generate respect for those who wish to control us. The sovereignty of this country lies within the people, not the law makers. We must exercise our freedoms as is written and protected. Otherwise, those who wish to violate the constitution will continue unchecked to take the lives, liberties and happiness of others.

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Diplomatic Relations with the Wrong "Diplomats"

I felt it pertinent to comment on the sudden revelation that Obama has Muslim roots. After all, he campaigned heavily to the extent that he was a good, hard working Christian, until that became unpopular too. I guess being the president of Harvard Law Review contradicts with the claim that you were unaware that your pastor was inflammatory after 20 years of sermons. When your image is all the experience you have, controlling what the public knows is crucial.

Now, we are playing up the Muslim heritage and this world traveller idea to be diplomatic with the Islamic world. Maybe the public will suddenly get over their islamaphobia and see this as another great reason for having elected President Obama. To be honest, I am not entirely sure what the outcome is to be.

This isn't going to get Iran to cease on their path for nuclear technology, their fight is with Israel. I also feel that the further we strain relations with Israel, the more panicked they are going to become. The entire world reacts now as if EVERYTHING were a crisis, so imagine Israel taking a crisis and arming their warheads.

Is Saudi Arabia going to pressure OPEC? The last 4 presisdents have had a hard time dealing with that situation (Jimmy Carter doesn't count) and I doubt Mr. Obama bowing to the Saudis is going to make a bit of difference.

The only discernible difference I can imagine from the Islamic world is Egypt. By getting Egypt to take up sides with the U.S. and the rest of the Islamic nations on the accord of a Palestinian state, perhaps Israel will concede? With hardline conservative leadership, this seems like it will only push Israel into exclusion.

That aside, Osama bin Laden managed to get onto Al Jezzera today (why can't they reveal their sources) and continue his jihad against America. So it continues. Unless our president sits down and negotiates, "diplomatically", with terrorists, they aren't going to stop. They don't stop because Islamic leaders are shaking hands with a black Muslim president. They don't stop because you bow to the Saudis. They HATE America and will not end their jihad until they are captured, or America falls. Diplomacy is great, but don't let the image fool you. We still are in a dangerous chapter, and without real pressure on the terrorists, 9/11 will find a repeat.

 

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Nuclear Holocaust

What right does the United States of America have in imposing the viewpoints of the righteous upon those who support tyranny? I'm sorry Mr. President, look up honor and service. Our brave men and women didn't die fighting for our freedoms so a tyrannical nation could come to power and threaten the security of the entire world. Did you not pick up a a newspaper in the past year? Were you too busy gazing admirably into the mirror that you missed the various international sanctions on a country threatening to go nuclear? A nation that believes it has no gays, and the holocaust did not exist.

IN AGREEMENT WITH THE ENEMY - THE NEW AMERICAN PASSIVIST

Honestly, as the morally superior world super power, we have EVERY right to impose our views onto an increasingly hostile world. If we don't, will we be allowing terrorist to dictate our daily lives because of our new passivist attitudes? We are rolling over on the biggest error in modern foreign policy, and Sec. Hillary will take the fall from the impending fallout. Never mind which nations might survive global warming, which ones will survive the nuclear winter?

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Entitled: The Boys in Blue

I'll confess, I was in Washington DC for Memorial Day weekend. I saw the concert Sunday night in front of the Capital Building. After the concert we stayed put on the green and were talking when an officer strolled up and shone a flashlight in our faces. I hate when they do that, although I understand that is just part of their job. I feel like I should spread my arms and call out for Jesus in the blinding light. He told us, flatly "Show's over, you need to leave". To which I responded pointing at the Capital and land around it, "didn't I pay for all of this, didn't my ancestors pay for this ground with their blood?". Cops apparently don't have a sense of humor, and we were forced to move.

We then crossed 3rd street back onto the mall to take the Smithsonian station Metro. We had to wait as two cops blazed down the gravel pedestrian paths in the dark and cut through the crosswalk onto the street. I thought maybe they were in a rush, but after getting on the street, they just slowed down, both officers smiling. Thanks for the rock and dirt shower.

This is a great representation of the problems in American government today. Congress Members, Senators, Judges and Presidents do things because they can. We don't have a real system of "shouldn't" but instead we have a system of "can". Maybe this is why Jefferson wrote about the government fearing the people. Tyranny must be held in check, otherwise, authority will continue to do everything and anything they CAN.
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GE: Government Everything

President Obama is bailing out banks, pushing green technology, rebuilding our energy, extending the war into Afghanistan and nationalizing healthcare. Doesn't General Electric:

1: Sign Loans
2: Produce Compact Fluorescent Lights
3: Supply Wind Turbines
4: Make Military Aircraft
5: Distribute MRI equipment

Thank goodness they don't own a media outlet, like NBC who is connected to Universal. Maybe our kids will be getting GE textbooks this year too.
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Move Over Bush, Hospitals Ruined The World

If you haven't seen the latest economy related political ads running on TV, I will direct you right to their source.

HEALTHY ECONOMY NOW - WORSE THEN TYING SADDAM TO WMDs

Prepare your defense liberals, because you are still complaining about the assertion that Saddam had WMDs and this wasn't reason enough to enter Iraq. You ignored the economic and political rationale at the time. This should be griped about equally, but you'll pass over it because your hypocritical policies never make sense as a whole. You don't mind waiting a few months for your AIDS treatment.

Apparently, the group Healthy Economy Now is blaming the current financial CRISIS on America's outdated and inefficient healthcare system. The commercial looked like it was made by the same producers who worked on the Obama campaign. The affiliated industries who make up this new group are the typical capitalist hating, socialist loving organizations. Surprise, surprise.

Healthcare in this country may need some work, but it certainly does not need to go nationalized. It is the largest employer in the country. Again, Healthcare is the #1 industry in America, and should be treated as one with room to grow, not a financial burden. The government does not need to get into the position of controlling healthcare. If it takes the President 2-3 days to know what he is talking about, how quick will it take budget leaders who decide whether or not your kidney surgery is too expensive. I'm guessing 2-3 days too late. Maybe the coffin and mortuary lobby is behind the scenes on this one.

Sadly, this is only the beginning of the propaganda parade associated with the new administration. I can't wait to see the other connections that are made. When we are attacked again by terrorists, I am sure it will be the fault of coal miners because they are tunneling too close to Pakistan as they dig in Appalachia. When do we decide the lies end?

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A Liberal House of Cards

The slogan for Ohio used to be "The Heart of it All," but has since been changed to "Birthplace of Lies." Alright, so it is really "Birthplace of Aviation," they meant to put soaring campaign promises and plummeting realities. I write this because our new, improved, liberal Governor Ted Strickland fails to keep up on his main campaign promise to assist education by listening to the people.

It hasn't received enough coverage, but Governor Strickland used the budget crisis last fall to cut education funding after making it a key issue on his election campaigns. He was sneaky too. He issued at the state level, that state grants and scholarships would be cut by up to 25%. Then the schools were given there own decision to also cut them by 25%. That is back to back cuts on money students need for schools. I didn't see any cuts in pay or staff at the state level, just student money. Good thing the unemployment rate is at 10%, so those students who need the extra money from jobs to support their education, will have to think about high risk loans and the prospect of dropping out.

For the rest of the country, Ohioans pay, on average, over $9,000 a year for in-state tuition. It is painful to think about the average being almost half that a decade ago. I paid almost $11,000 alone for this year, and I am glad I graduate when I do. My debt is enormous, but I don't get any bailout, just bills. My taxes pay for single mothers with 5 kids in 4 bedroom homes while I scrape by on rent. I don't have a flat screen TV or entertainment center, just an off-brand set I got at a garage sell with cash. I don't have a brand new government subsidized car, just a 20 year old beater I afforded after earning it with cash. I don't need a bailout because I was wise in my financial decisions.

Somehow, Ohio will get out of the red. Mr. Strickland wants to use "casinos" to generate the cash needed. I hate that mentality, finding schemes to pay for wasteful governments. The casino idea has been rejected by Ohio voters four times, and will continue to be, because the plan is too ludicrous for the media to spin. The idea was that Ohioans fork over millions to a casino company in money needed to fun the design, development, construction and staffing for a facility. They were asking Ohioans to pay all the upfront costs in the hopes that the casino would meet or exceed expectations on expenses and starting generating money. When the casino generates the required revenue, a variable figure, then Ohio could start to see money returned on it's investment. It was looking like paying millions of dollars over the next ten years, to start seeing money that might take another ten to pay off the investment. 

It literally was a scheme to buy a casino for a company to profit off of, and they campaigned hard to do so. The 2009 campaign for a casino in Ohio cost $60 million. Sounds philanthropic, right? This was to be 1 of 4 to be built, so the investment may have gone into the billions. Gov. Strickland scoffed at the latest election showdown as voters just not understanding what is good for them, and he vowed to do everything in his power to get more gambling into Ohio. You had to be the least bit curious as to where Keno suddenly came from?

STRICKLY OPPOSED TO GAMBLING, GOVERNOR OK'S KENO

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A New America: The Reward for Failure

President Obama may thank current Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm with a nomination to the United States Supreme Court. Yes, thank her. After all, she is CEO of the state with the worst unemployment rate in the nation. We need to think about Mayors, Governors, and Presidents as CEOs because they run the executive branch in their respective offices. She isn't to blame entirely for the high unemployment in the nation, and neither is President Obama. However, both have made it worse with their poor judgement on "stimulating" the economy.

The recession nationally, would have been a lot better off without such ridiculous and frivolous "stimulus" add-ons like that list of requested capital projects from the US Conference of Mayors. If you haven't casually browsed this list, it is highly recommended, because it is comedy writing at its best. Al Franken will do well in the Senate at this pace. $40 million for a Homeland Security training facility in Oklahoma that doubles as a manager training facility for motels. You can't make this nonsense up.

USCM READY TO GO PROJECTS - READY TO WASTE BILLIONS

State wise, Michigan has been spending billions on wasteful projects instead of protecting business investments to the state. They never seemed to diversify any further outside of the automotive industry, and Mrs. Granholm just continues to burn through tax payer money. Instead of encouraging their transition, Madame Governor sought to expand expensive green energy policies. Sound familiar? Instead of protecting jobs, she protected unemployment benefits and union interests. As it stands, Michigan's per capita is dropping and unemployment is skyrocketing way past national averages. Rumor has it, Michigan hasn't hit bottom yet, and bottom is a ways to go. Try and blame the conservative representatives, because you can't, it is a one party state.

Shall I Put That Into Large Bills?

This is just a series of foolish liberal ideology that President Bush shouldered at the end of his tenure, and President Obama is quickly expanding. Instead of punishing failure, and allowing businesses to earn their punishment for not being competitive in the market, we are destroying the Nation. We are telling businesses, like many of the employed, and those who have made gross errors in their financial lives; "don't worry, help is on the way!" Culturally, we are bastardizing the competitive spirit of all people, and replacing it with this government caretaker. Instead of Lady Liberty recognizing her nephew has a gambling problem, she just slips him another $400 and looks the other way.

We must stop the government from shelling out bailouts and rewards to those who fail. It is our tax money, supposed to be used to help support an institution that WE govern. I don't pay my taxes so people who don't pay them are rewarded with a US Treasury Secretary position. I don't pay my taxes so people who don't pay them are rewarded with a Health and Human Services Secretary position. How about appointing executives with poor judgement to the Supreme Court? How about bailing out corrupt, failed, campaign-contributing financial institutions so their directors can go on vacation and receive most of the bailout in the form of bonuses? Human embryonic stem-cell research shows less promise then adult stem-cell research, and we're advancing them more grants.

We all know what happens to the wealthy, spoiled brat who continually fails, while his father just knocks down any road locks on the kid's path to success. He assumes he deserves EVERYTHING and gets whatever he wants, hungry with power. Is this the lesson we are to pass onto our children? If you fail, someone will clean up the mess. The taxpaying in this country are tired of cleaning up messes and there has to be a breaking point. Bring back competition, and quit rewarding failure with my hard labor.

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Close Guantanamo, the Jail for Terrorists

It is only commonsense that punishments only encourage criminals. Why. if they got rid of prison sentences and trials, there would be less murders. The prison at Guantanamo Bay, which is run in accordance to the 3rd Geneva Convention of Humanitarian Law, is clearly causing an increase in terrorists recruitment. 

Radical Islamic Jihadist! Please hear our call, we are closing a prison that is entirely legal within International Law, agreed upon by the United Nations. You now have no reason to plot and kill the evil American Citizens. None what-so-ever. I know you said in all those tapes that it was because of our evolvement in the world, or exporting our culture, or the fact we give women responsibilities and authority power. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must completely contradict your way of life. Have no more fear! Guantanamo will be gone soon, and you can have full access to the judicial system I pay for to make a mockery of me.

Give me a break President Appeaser. Guantanamo, while not always managed perfectly, is there to scare domestic terrorists out of committing heinous acts. Quit taking publicity polls drummed up by more special interest groups, who call themselves humanitarians, but would rather hurt and kill our men and women in the Armed Forces. When your national security policy fails, don't come crying to those who used to prevent it and blame them.

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The Empire Strikes Back

President Obama spelled out his plan for closing Guantanamo Bay without ever actually stating what the plan is. Look, no politician is infallible to holding a press conference to share details while at the same time withhold the very details the conference was called for in the first place. Mr. Obama does share the secret about finger pointing, how it gets us nowhere and that he will continue to avoid it. He then later contradicts that by stating that the issue of closing the detention center isn't on him, but rather on those who opened it. 

Official White House Transcript

This all seems to comply with the idea of making campaign promises to never tax the lower class a single dime, then increase their taxes on sugary drinks, cigarettes, gas and "unhealthy" foods. It also sounds like promising to use a scalpel like a surgeon to go through the budget line by line to remove unnecessary spending like pork, only to knowingly and swiftly approve of billions of dollars in new pork projects. He lambasted the Bush Administration for using illegal military tribunals, and then just last week gave his approval of them.

I thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Cheney's comments on the whole matter. If you haven't watched the video of his speech, please do so. Although you may have many policy disagreements with the former Vice President, his intentions are clear. He used a method to make America safer, one that the current President has decided to personally attack, and he is receiving a response. Cheney said it best when he pointed out that attacking the method without releasing the results is foolish.

C-Span Video of Mr. Cheney's Response

Take a look at how concise and firm Mr. Cheney's message is. This should be the tone Conservatives and Independents need to use in order to win back citizen control of America. We need more, well thought-out, simply constructed, logical arguments without this feel-good, sugary image loaded nonsense in the current President's speeches. Simply having Robert Gibb answer every questioner with "ad hoc patchwork of laws" isn't going to show your intelligence. It is going to reveal why it takes Mr. Obama 2-3 days to "know what he is talking about." I am tired of hip teleprompter writers where experienced leadership is needed.

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Clooney's Hollywood Still at the Forefront of Civil Rights

Remember George Clooney's acceptance speech from the Oscars? He said how he was "proud to be out of touch" as a member of Hollywood.

Oscars Speech

I saw that three, wealthy, white Hollywood producers would be in charge of the upcoming Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. biopic. I am so glad Clooney cleared up the fact that they are all out-of-touch in Hollywood. If Spike Lee doesn't issue a statement for this, then the world is ending.

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