Saturday, January 17, 2009

Request to Uncle Sam: Give the Bailout Money to Me

Yesterday Chrysler announced they were receiving another $1.5 billion of our hard earned tax money with the stated purpose of offering zero percent loans to folks who normally can't afford them. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Do Bear Stearns, AIG, Merrill Lynch, and Wachovia ring any alarm bells? It's the mortgage meltdown all over again. Here's a suggestion to the incoming administration that has worked every time it's been tried. Lower taxes across the board,lower them a lot and see the capital flood in.

What's next interest only car loans? Seven or eight year car loans? Free loans to union members hiding out in work bathrooms for an hour a day?

How about Uncle Sam gives the bailout money to me, and I'll loan it out to folks? I'll bet I would ultimately earn a better return than Uncle Sam ever could. All I need to successfully loan out money is a cursory review of one's FICO score. We must not being using FICO scores in this country with the meltdown we've been having? That whole "check your credit score because without a good number you can't get a loan" idea is a joke. Imagine that, I could charge the borrowers' 5% interest payable to Uncle Sam, charge a 1% commission to the US government and I could retire right now! Sign me up!

Wait. I've got one more bright idea. How about a zero percent car loan to anyone who has a valid social security number? Do you think this plan would stand a chance? Nope. Liberals would cry foul since we would be discriminating against the 20 million illegals we already have here.

I've had it. We need another Boston Tea Party to get rid of all these spineless wimps in government on both sides. It is becoming increasingly clear, my future children's children don't stand much of a chance.

Huckabee: Do the Right Thing

Every page in Mike Huckabee's 'Do the Right Thing' from Sentinel Publishers, convinces me of the gigantic mistake we've made this election cycle. We are talking a contrast as potentially stark as Carter vs. Reagan. Can you guess who I think is the next Carter and who would be Reagan??

The first sixty pages emanates more common sense than I heard from all the other candidates this election cycle. Mind you, these aren't talking points. No democratic or republican pollsters are speaking through this man. Huckabee expresses his core convictions about our country and its future with a surprising honesty I've almost assumed doesn't exist anymore. It's certainly been strong enough to energize me towards 2012 after a bitter loss this year.

Huckabee, like Bush, is a man of deep personal conviction. Huckabee, unlike Bush, has strong CONSERVATIVE principles. For "Huck" there is no wishy-washy open border policy to buy Hispanic votes, or letting Congress appropriate funds for anything they want. No government inspired solutions to our economic problems either. All of which were George Bush solutions. It was this avoidance of core conservative principles, demonstrated all to often by Mr. Bush and his wimpy friends in Congress, that tossed our butts back to the political sidelines.

What does Mr. Mike describe in these first sixty pages compelling enough for me to write about? The radical notions of self-government and respect for life. Such radical concepts they've become it almost seems too good to be true when the words leap off at you as you're reading. With each turned page, I've become more encouraged that sanity still exists in the USA. And Huck is the politician who articulates its message best right now.

Deep down, don't you dream wildly about what the good ole USA could be if it reverted back to the crazy notion of personal responsibility? We are still a prosperous nation despite the claims of liberals and our media. But how much higher could we go?? Isn't it almost delicious to conjure up images of people actually owning up to mistakes, apologizing for them, and working to not repeat them? You would vote for such a man in a minute wouldn't you? Even if you didn't agree with everything he said...Crazy ideas aren't they?

If you've dreamed about returning to this paradise, then Huckabee's book is for you. Stick around for my next posting and I'll share with you how Huckabee's radical blueprint could bring our country back from its continued nose dive off the cliff of prosperity and civility. Plus, if you've read anything lately you think is a must read, drop me a line and let me know because I seem to have this thing for books!

Friday, January 16, 2009

Are You Ready for the Insanity?

Remember Joe the Plumber? Remember the liberal media's angst over his $1,200's IRS bill and the swarms of media sharks descending on his home to investigate? The story had to be told! What about our incoming Treasury secretary, have you heard about him?? You know, Mr. Obama's change pick, Mr. Geithner? It seems as though our new IRS chief skipped out on $35,000 in social security taxes? How does this same angst ridden media, their democratic friends, most Republicans, and Barack Obama respond? It apparently is a 'hiccup' and an honest mistake. Mistake? Hiccup? Or liberal double standard like you couldn't believe. Say what you want about Bush, but the man has principles.

Want more????????????

Incoming Attorney General, Eric Holder, recommended pardoning a group of terrorists a few years back and this apparently won't hurt his confirmation, but Democratic senators voted against John Ashcroft's confirmation as Bush's AG citing his radical support of laws limiting abortion. So, pardoning America haters is okay, but sticking up for unborn children is wrong?

Carol Browner, our future leader in charge of 'dealing with climate change' is currently a member of a foreign group (Commission For a Sustainable World Society)whose sole goal is world wide socialism. Trouble is, these socialists have now changed the dialog from global warming to 'climate change' because of in case you haven't noticed it, here in Ohio as I type, it is minus 10 degrees outside.

Surely, the insanity stops at the door of our next President???? I mean some of his nominees are kind of nutty but since associations don't affect character, Mr. Obama is straight forward, right?? Think again. Barack "change" Obama is projected to spend between $80 million and $150 million on January 20th while celebrating his new White House bedroom. Interesting. So, change is spending $100 million on frivolity during the midst of this "Great Depression" as Barack continually tells the electorate? Never mind that during the actual Great Depression unemployment was 25% and most people were just trying to get food while today a weekend trip to your local steakhouse means an hour wait. But, this rhetoric is probably just a hiccup or mistake, right?

What is Barack's stated first order of business after January 20th?? Closing Gitmo where hundreds of terrorists wanting to kill us all reside. His second executive decision?? That would be spending over $800 billion to prop up our economy by giving tax rebates to folks who don't pay federal income tax while increasing taxes on the only people with enough money to create jobs. Have we all gone mad?

Finally, our government is prosecuting Bernie Madoff for taking money from one investor to pay another while pocketing a lot along the way ($50 billion). A great big Ponzi scheme. A scheme he should go to jail for! Yet the US government continues the biggest Ponzi scheme in the world's history- social security. Let's take money from Tom's paycheck to pay for someone else's retirement and then hope thirty years from now to reimburse Tom out of the pocket of another person. Seems pretty similar to me, how about you?

Stay tuned, my conservative friends for a treasure trove of hypocrisy, broken promises, and even more debt than we have now. I'll be here talking about it along the way, and I invite you to drop me a line with topics along the way!

I just checked the temperature outside and it is now minus 12 degrees...someone tell Al Gore.