They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin
Today America marks the 10-year anniversary of the Islamic attack on our country on 9/11. It was an insidious act of terrorism and cowardice from our enemies in the Middle East. It has forever changed this county in the most despicable ways imaginable. That one terrorist act has brought down the most free and wealthy country the world has ever known. Despite the disgusting and wasteful wars in Iraq and Afghanistan I do not think for a minute this country has won a motherfucking thing.
Our government has turned a war against Islamic terrorists into a war on their own citizens. 9/11 will forever be marked as the singular event that undermined the freedoms and liberties Americans had always enjoyed. In the name of “patriotism” these ideals have been destroyed. Fuck the Patriot Act nine ways to Sunday.
We are now strip searched without warrant at our airports. Our finances are now meticulously scrutinized by the feds…Want to pay someone $10K? Oops there goes a red flag. We have no idea what the National Security Agency is doing daily via the phone system and Internet. You can damn sure bet every single message or phone call is screened for anything that they deem unreasonable. Have a look around at your communities and tell me what the hell is going on with the militaristic jackboot law enforcement.
Sure we may have gone to the Middle East and slung our missiles over the desert and let our SpecOps folks kill the bad guys, but how exactly has that benefited you? Keeping the terrorist horde over there? Great but it cost us $1.2 Trillion and counting. We are dead broke. $14 trillion in the hole…and counting. Wasn’t there a way to safeguard the U.S. without getting in two wars and spending this country into oblivion as well as not reverting to an Orwellian nightmare?
Islamists hate our freedom and liberties. So what did we do after 9/11? We gave them up. Just like they had hoped. Osama achieved everything that he had hoped he would. We let that bastard win by doing exactly what he wanted us to.
Following the attacks Bush over-reached in the powers he desired and took away Americans freedoms. Americans succumbed to false patriotism and unknowingly allowed our leaders to take down the country.
So Benjamin Franklin was right, we deserve neither liberty or freedom. We gave it up for temporary safety. Now we are paying for it with a government that dismisses the Constitution daily. A government that gets bigger and stronger each day. A government that neither fears or responds to the will of the people.
We are all endowed with the unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and that the only function of government was to insure those rights. Apparently we were happy enough to give that up and live under government rule.
We lost fuckers.
North America celebrates fuckers working today. The U.S. has its Labor Day and the Canadians enjoy their Labour Day. I don’t know shit about Canada and how it’s doing economically. I know I buy quite a few resource stocks with their HQ in the perma frost so I hope they keep working their asses off.
The U.S. has its own problems. Last month this country of 300 million people added no new jobs. None. Not a fucking one. To celebrate Labor Day is to get on your fucking knees and be thankful you have a job and pray you get to keep it. Our government is doing everything in its power to ensure the country continues its recession. The current administration may have inherited a sewage tank full of economic shit but, but motherfuckers, they are not competent enough to solve the problem. It’s like having someone clean up a fucking frat party by covering it with horse shit. These Chicago government gangsters are idiots.
I began my work celebration early yesterday by spending 4 precious afternoon hours building 8 Squidoo lenses. Waste of time? Maybe. Maybe not. Each month my income from those increase nicely. How? I dunno. I do nothing with or for them but I get paid more each month.
In these perilous days I find that to be important because I feel the need to increase my money supply when I can and while I can. I plan on working in the cubicle slavatoriums as long as I can. It’s easy money and they pay for needed benefits and such. Collecting coin from online ventures is part of the economic ritual I endure as well. I survive as a wage slave. I thrive as a web sewer magician.
Of course America is the new Greece. I’ve read stories where scumbags will apply for work and ask that they be employed in 2-3 months. Seems these lazy jackwagons prefer the easy comfort of having the government, ME motherfucker!, pay for their lounging activities in their over-mortgaged abode while they eat gravy sticks bought with their weekly supply of food stamps and spend their 50th week of unemployment bennies on hand lotion and PBR.
But this is not typical. Americans are badass. If the government at all levels get the fuck out of the way we will work our asses off. We will invent and innovate. This country knows how to create wealth. It’s why the rest of the world fucking hates us. We are free, or used to be, to create businesses that are the envy of the world. Now our leaders apologize for our success and are doing everything in their power to control our ability to be great. For whatever reason they see European Socialism as some kind of wonderful ideology. Fucking Europe. It’s worked out so well over there. We know exactly what has worked well. Republic government with a capitalist economy. Our history is fucking amazing. We have freed more people from tyranny and helped more people live a better life than any other country in the history of the world. One day America will get its collective head out of its ass and shitcan these statist, socialist, leftist motherfuckers.
I’m sick of hearing how shitty the U.S. is. This country needs a leader that will stop apologizing for this country. Nobody in the world gives like the U.S. Nobody. Nobody works like America. Nobody creates wealth like America.
I am celebrating Labor Day by create little money makers. I am creating more wealth. It’s what Americans do…at least us fuckers that aren’t slaves on the American plantation.
The US economy created no jobs and the unemployment rate held steadily higher at 9.1 percent in August, fueling concerns that the US is heading for another recession.
It was the first time since World War II that the economy had a net zero jobs created for a month.
Didn’t our dear leader say something about a laser focus on jobs? Didn’t our government spend something like a billion dollar to stimulate the economy ostensibly for job creation?
At what point will the Obama Administration get the government out of the way and let the free market economy work?
Their only answer is more government spending and more government meddling. An infrastructure bank. Seriously? How about reform the tax code? How about dump ObamaCare and Dodd-Frank to lessen the burden of regulations on businesses. How about get the damn EPA, HHS and Justice of the backs of Americans and let them get to work and create wealth?
None. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Nein. No jobs created in August. That is pathetic.
It’s Bush’s fault right?
Three years in and leftists still blame Bush for all their problems. Fair enough. But if that is the case then they are proving that they are not smart enough to figure out a solution. Next! The Obama administration should simply resign.
The worst President ever.
Jeremey Hill killed a grizzly that wandered onto his property in Idaho. His kids were outside playing. Now the government is going after him for violating the Endangered Species Act.
Apparently the fact that his kids were endangered has no bearing on the common sense of the U.S. Attorney in Idaho who is filing federal charges.
There is not a parent on this planet that would not have put as many holes in the hide of that grizzly to stop it from coming close to their kids. The enviro-wackjobs forget that the grizzly would gladly rip your head off and eat your liver if it thought you were within 20 miles of its cubbies. Apparently human life means so little to the leftist regime that it would be preferable for the grizzly to maul the kids than kill it. Seriously?
After Hill shot and killed the grizzly he called the Idaho Department of Fish and Game which was probably the right thing to do. But I guarantee that the next time something like this happens they won’t be getting a cursory call.
Hill has the support of his two U.S. Senators, Representative and Governor. The Governor even wrote a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar for all the good that will do.
Unfortunately the man will have to endure the cost of a trial which will be a complete waste of time and money. Do you really think a jury of his peers will find the man guilty?
I think the feds are more of a terrorist threat to the citizens of this country than the radical cavemen in the middle east.
No wonder the liberals were in full attack mode today. Governor Rick Perry declare his candidacy for President. And in doing so signaled:
I promise I will work everyday to make Washington DC as inconsequential in your lives as I can.
For a government that wants to inflict their power into virtually every facet of your life (Drive a tractor? DOT wants to make you get a CDL to drive it) this is welcome news.
He’s saying the right things to rid this country of statism:
In America the people are not subjects to the government. The government is subject to the people.
He also plans to terminate the healthcare plan.
I’m listening. He certainly has my interest.
Lberals hit the Sunday talk shows doing what they do best – blame someone else for their mess. David Axelrod, John Kerry, et. al. memorized today’s liberal talking points and blamed the Tea Party for the S&P credit downgrade. The downgrade has been a long time coming. Particularly given the proclivities of the statists in both parties in spending tax payers money. Funny thing is if the government had done what the Tea Party said it wanted which is to cut, cap and balance then the S&P downgrade would not have happened. Instead we ended up some mishmash political bullshit agreement that furthers our debt. And we end up with a bunch of liberal whiners mad because it further proves the incompetency of the Obama administration and his minions.
Liberals need to man up. Stop blaming everyone else. It’s pathetic. Nobody trusts them. Nobody believes them. They are losers. They are failing. At least the Republicans are saying that it is the government’s fault. Both sides are to blame (see Paul Ryan on Fox News Sunday today). At least the Tea Party had a plan. At least Paul Ryan had a plan. The Democrats can’t even come up with a budget. Their only plan is raise taxes. Talking point #348 – “shared sacrifice”.
Fuck shared sacrifice. 50% of this country don’t even pay taxes. Let’s broaden the base. Then we can honestly talk about shared sacrifice.
As long as these asshats continue to blame the Tea Party, FOR EVERYTHING!, you have to figure that the movement is scaring the shit of them. It’s a beautiful thing.
The left really needs to get it together. First the Tea Party were Tea Baggers. Then racists. Extremists. Cannibals. Vampires. Last week we were terrorists. Today we are drug addicts. I guess they can’t find anything that really sticks. What was once insulting is now rather funny. Name calling. Really libs? Really?
Liberals are terrified of the Tea Party and it’s happy band of conservatives. From the first day the Tea Party evolved the left has done everything they can to demonize and marginalize the movement. Interesting that it continues to grow stronger, much to their chagrin.
I LOVE watching the left squirm. The attempts to marginalize doesn’t bother me. It’s about respect. They are not respectful to their fellow Americans. They haven’t earned my respect, so why so why would I care what they say? They are petty and childish. They are losers. This is what spoiled brats do when they lose and/or don’t get their way. The liberal attacks are simply proving the Tea Party has won.
The left is so completely unhinged over the Tea Party. They have no answers to fight this movement except for name calling. Now Tea Partiers are “terrorists”. That’s a laugh, and rather insulting, when ALL the movement wants is limited government and to stop the damn spending. The Vice President lashed out at Tea Party conservatives for “acting like terrorists” during the recent budget battle in Congress. Unbelievable that Biden represents us all, no matter what our ideology, yet will stoop to such disgusting rhetoric. It’s shameful. You would expect the Tea Party to be battered by leftwingnuts like Paul Krugman, Thomas Friedman, Fareed Zakaria, among other notable leftists, but not the VP. Amazing how fast they all got the memo to refer to the Tea Party as terrorists.
I’m not offended by being called a terrorist. The left is void of any originality. If this is the best they have to argue against the Tea Party then our work is paying off. The left is scared to death. Their policies have been a huge failure. Big government is dying and these media gas bags are resorting to school yard name calling. Real classy.
If the leftist gas bags were silent about the Tea Party then I would be worried. As long as they are pulling out their hair over the Tea Party then everything is perfect.
Update: The debt deal passed the Congress. Obama signed it into law. I am embarrassed today to have succumbed to supporting this piece of shit as discussed below. It seemed like the right thing to do and it ultimately pissed off the far left which is good, but it also pissed off the Tea Party which is not. The country spends too much money. This doesn’t help much at all.
I support the Tea Party. I attended the big protest in D.C., supported the local protests and was involved during the November 2010 election. But today they are getting on my nerves. This country needs to move past this debt ceiling impasse. At some point you are going to have to compromise. The Tea Party needs to allow the GOP to take this victory. The Boehner plan sucks but it does no good to stab the man in the heart just to make your point.
Yes I believe in principals. I understand that some of these representatives are standing for their principals. But in doing so the potential for unwinding the victories in Nov 2010 and seeing Obama win in 2012 are real. take the victory today and work on getting another down the road.
Look if it wasn’t for the Tea Party we wouldn’t be having this conversation. They would have raised the debt limit with no strings and just kept on spending, probably adding taxes and driving us down the socialist road. But some of these reps have got to not be so rigid. It’s a long fight. We don’t have to win it all today. You can’t change the government immediately. The Tea Party is squandering it’s momentum with this ill-advised squabble with Boehner.
I believe that the leadership, Boehner, Issa, Ryan, Pence, West, etc., are all doing what they can in a political shitpile. What else can they possibly do? Nothing they pass will make it through the Senate or past the Presidential robo veto pen.
I don’t believe that the government should raise the debt ceiling. In a perfect world we wouldn’t have to. In a perfect world the Socialists and leftists would not be in the Senate and we could actually cut spending, reduce strangling regulations and grow the economy, getting people back to work and paying taxes. But that isn’t reality.
We have to defeat them when we can. With the Boehner plan we can once again defeat them. We did during the Cut, Cap and Balance plan and we can do it again. But stabbing the Speaker in the back by not even voting on something is just wrong. Let’s send Boehner’s plan to the Senate and make them the shit heads. As it is the Tea Party and rigid reps are pissing people off. We simply do not have the power with the Tea Party to fully control this debate. Take the fucking victory that you can!
The politics of the moment are quite revolting. The debt ceiling “debate” is one that everyone should get but few of the clowns in Washington are willing to make the right choices. The statists want to continue to spend taxpayer and borrowed money. Those with a brain do not. The House passed the Cut, Cap and Balance bill much to the chagrin of most Liberals. The Senate won’t vote for it. The President will definitely not sign it into law. The games that are played in DC are simply retarded. The right could vote on a bill stating that we all have a right to breathe oxygen and the left would vote against it simply because it was the right’s idea. The inverse is true as well.
Our country is broke. It borrows more money than it takes in. There is not a revenue problem, unless you want to throw in that 50% of the county’s citizens pay no taxes. There is a spending problem. Most States in this country have to balance their budgets or things shut down. See Minnesota the last few weeks. Most households cut back when the revenue is not there. They (usually) don’t buy more than they can pay for. Credit card idiots notwithstanding.
Columnist John Hayward sums it up best from The Patriot Post:
The same politicians who spent $1.7 trillion more than they collected, in just this year alone, say the problem is that private citizens are not paying enough. … [B]ecause the political class has made the national debt so high, it is able to insist that taking a chance on the power of liberty is an irresponsible gamble. Because the government lives so far beyond its means, it would be irresponsible to provide it with reduced means. This is how we have reached the madness of a moment when the national debt is used as an argument against spending reductions, or growth-oriented tax and regulatory policies. The insane problem becomes a weapon against rational solutions.
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