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.
There was a time when dear leader MaObama did not find it a good idea to raise the debt ceiling. That was when his big government brother Bush was raising the limit during his term. Seems raising the debt limit is only a good idea when your party is in power. Patriot Post uncovers this statement from MaObama when he was a senator in 2006:
“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.’ Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
Hypocrite, thy name is Barack.
The United States military may be winning the battles against terrorism but the war has been lost for the United States. Bin Laden may be dead and the cavemen terrorists are running around Afghanistan and Pakistan like the cowards they are, but we still lost. Why? Because we have allowed internal threats like the TSA destroy our liberty and freedoms. Terrorism has given our bureaucrats the excuse to act like imbeciles and control our lives. I’m not certain who is the bigger threat to our freedoms, the TSA or Al-Qaeda. I’m MORE afraid of our government than anything that may come from political Islam or any other terrorist group.
Gateway Pundit via The Daily News reported that the TSA agents forced a 95-year old lady, with leukemia, to remove her diapers. Are you fucking kidding me?
A woman has filed a complaint with federal authorities over how her elderly mother was treated at Northwest Florida Regional Airport last weekend.
Jean Weber of Destin filed a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security after her 95-year-old mother was detained and extensively searched last Saturday while trying to board a plane to fly to Michigan to be with family members during the final stages of her battle with leukemia.
Her mother, who was in a wheelchair, was asked to remove an adult diaper in order to complete a pat-down search.
“It’s something I couldn’t imagine happening on American soil,” Weber said Friday. “Here is my mother, 95 years old, 105 pounds, barely able to stand, and then this.”
Sari Koshetz, a spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration in Miami, said she could not comment on specific cases to protect the privacy of those involved.
“The TSA works with passengers to resolve any security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” she said.
Our government continues its assault on the American people. When the hell are people going to wake up? Liberals and conservatives have to get their collective heads out of their asses and understand that we are losing our country. We are losing the battle against the statists. There are big government types on both ends of the spectrum that want to control every aspect of your lives. The freedoms and liberties that were fought and died for are being destroyed. Your way of life is being taken away. Maybe one day you will need state permission to travel by plane. Maybe there will be checkpoints on our highways. Is that what you want? Are you OK with these idiots at the TSA groping your wife? Asking your mother to undress? Stand up. Stand for something besides American Idol.
The Congress is trying to come to an agreement for raising the debt ceiling. It seems to hinge on taxes. The leftists want more of your money. The conservatives are trying to allow people to keep what they earn. The leftists believe that wealth is the government’s and that they will allow you to collect so much. Conservatives believe you earn your money and deserve to keep it.
The leftists are wrong. Politically speaking they are pandering to their base so they can stay in control. I have no interest in giving the government one more dime. They have proven that they only know how to spend. What makes anyone think that if they take even more money out of my paycheck that it will be spent any better? It won’t. They will continue to over spend and borrow money we don’t have.
It’s time we strangle this beast. This is what Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor are trying to do along with hundreds of others in the Congress. The problem is that the spending cuts that they want, $2 trillion over 10 years are simply not deep enough. We can’t afford this big government apparatus. The empire is broke. It’s time to get serious about the debt and deficits. Of course that doesn’t sit well with the leftists and their horrendous agenda of collapsing the economy in the United State.
Please encourage your representatives to sign the Cut Cap Balance Pledge. You should sign it too.
Ayman al-Zawahri is now the new leader of Al-Qaida since the U.S. government delivered a high velocity bullet into the skull of Osama and dropped him off as fish bait.
As a young man, shown below in 1984, al-Zawahri fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan.
Today, at 60 years of age, he warns America that they still face an international community of Muslims that seek to destroy it.
He will continue the jihad against the West saying:
“Pursuing the Americans and Jews is not an impossible task,” he wrote. “Killing them is not impossible, whether by a bullet, a knife stab, a bomb or a strike with an iron bar.”
His Islamic followers agree having an equal hatred of the West despite their hypocrisy of loving all the trappings of Western life:
The war between the West and Islamic cavemen apparently will continue.
Today Representative Anthony Wiener finally admitted to what we all knew, that he was lying about his Twitter affairs. I really don’t care what the prick does on the Internet. I just don’t want him to lie about it when asked. We deserve honest officials in our government. We have very few that would be honest.
For instance, surely you aren’t naive to believe the crap the Obama Administration says about Libya. “No boots on the ground” my ass. The Democrats lied constantly about health care until it was rammed down our throats. “The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.” Nobody believes that crap.
Lying happens all over the globe. Japan admitted that the earthquake induced meltdown was much worse that suspected. From Zero Hedge via CNN:
Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant experienced full meltdowns at three reactors in the wake of an earthquake and tsunami in March, the country’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters said Monday.
The world knew this months ago. Why didn’t Japan tell the truth?
I could fish story after story off the Internet detailing the lies governments tell their citizens. Some lie because they want to stay in power. Some lie to “protect” the citizens. Some lie to cover up crimes. I’m mostly concerned about America. Liars like Wiener, former President Clinton and current representative Charles Rangel infest our government. There are many many more on both sides of the aisle.
My hope is that Americans wake up and restore some honor and integrity back into the hallowed halls of Congress and our White House. This is getting ridiculous. We deserve better.
It is clear that the takers are in full control of this country’s economy. A Republican stronghold in NY was overtaken by a Democrat who demagogued the Ryan plan as it relates to Medicare. The American people seem to only care about what the government is going to provide them. Democrats seized on this mentality.
Democrat Kathy Hochul drew on voter discontent over Republican plans to revamp Medicare to score an upset win on Tuesday in a special election to represent a conservative upstate New York congressional district.
Virtually this entire race was fought over Medicare. Never mind that none of the changes in Medicare would effect anyone over 55 today. Never mind the system is broken and Republicans took a stab at fixing it with a better plan. No, the people listened to the Democrats saying that the Republicans are taking away your Medicare. Nothing could be further from the truth.
See, if Medicare continues the way it is it will bankrupt this country. NOBODY will have this gov’t safety net. These assholes who voted to keep the status quo in NY just shit all over their kids and grandkids. Sure they will keep theirs but any meaningful changes to the plan in 20 years won’t happen. The attitude that NY has is the same across the country. Do not touch Medicare. Period. No matter if the changes will never affect me. Don’t even talk about it.
Socialism always succumbs into an inglorious death. Statists continue to prop it up because they know that if they can keep people reliant on the government then they can stay in power. These Socialist programs will ultimately collapse and may even destroy this country. We cannot keep kicking this shit down the road. But as long as we have takers overwhelming the makers in this country nothing will ever change. Grandpa should be ashamed that he is screwing his grandkids in a most egregious manner. Do we not wish that our children and theirs to have a better life than ours? As it is grandpa is further enslaving his future generations in government debt.
“The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.” –Irish writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Obama’s Peace Prize is now more ironic than ever after his speech on the Middle East yesterday. As has been said many times in media Obama just threw Israel under the bus. He suggested that Israel go back to the pre-1967 borders. That is not going to happen without a war. His speech may go down in history as the singular event that ignited a Middle East war.
As an American I am fearful of living in my own country. Our federal government is nothing but jack-booted thugs. From the IRS to the TSA to the Secret Service citizens of this country are in danger of losing their liberties and freedoms. Hell, they have already lost them. But now our foreign policy, if you can call it that, is endangering our supposed allies.
I don’t understand this President. He bows before tyrants and dictators, kow-tows to our enemies and turns around and insults our allies. Our enemies will never respect our weakness, which is HUGE with this inexperienced and naive President, and we are losing our allies. Allies like Israel.
I support Israel. I do not support Islam. I despise that our government is so tolerant of this ideology. They think rolling over for Islam is going to bring about peace. It’s not. Interesting that Obama’s vision of peace between Palestine and Israel hinges on Israel giving up everything.
From Gateway Pundit via IMRA:
It is breath-taking, shocking and frightening that at a time when the Nazi-like terrorist group Hamas (a proxy of Iran), whose charter calls for the murder of every Jew (Article 7) and Israel’s destruction (Article 12), merges with Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah, forming a unity government, Obama can now call for a PA state and on the ’67 indefensible lines yet. Obama was recently given a Noble Peace Prize; he should now receive the Nobel War Prize for increasing the likelihood of a Mideast war and endangering Israel’s
very existence.
After the Hamas-Fatah signing ceremony this month in Cairo Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal said Hamas would never recognize Israel’s right to exist and never abandon liberating all of Palestine.
Hamas Minister Fathi Hamad said, “the Jews have become abhorred and loathed outcasts…whenever we achieve something against the Jews, the world applauds us…hatred for Jews is on the rise…people who hate the Jews…will support us.”
President Obama is now supporting a racist, Jew-hating Hamas/Fatah state.
Obama’s tenure as President has been dangerous to all Americans who believe in liberty, freedom and constitutional government limitations. Now our President is a very dangerous individual to the people of Israel. If you love Marxism, European Socialism and anti-Zionism then Obama has been your dream. Assholes.
As an American, do you feel safer now that Usama Bin Laden is dead? How much do you trust your government after the story unfolds about the operation? Do you feel good about your government essentially assassinating someone no matter how vile that person was? Revenge can feel good but at what cost? Are we any better dancing in the streets after killing Bin Laden than the Middle Eastern cavemen were when political Islam murdered 3,000 fellow citizens? I’m not sure how I feel about millions of Americans acting like apes after we assassinated Bin Laden. At once I am glad he is dead but I am also not sure I’m proud of our government. Who will we assassinate next?
Sure it’s cool to think about the SEALs doing their thing but Americans should be better morally I think. Don’t get me wrong, the SEALs did the job their commanders asked of them. They are badasses. But what was the point? We spent trillions of dollars for this one man. I’m sorry but we have had Al Qaeda neutralized for 9 years. Guess what? There are more immediate problems than a neutered Al Qaeda like Hammas and Muslim Brotherhood.
I realize that we have been fighting wars for 10 years but our government can’t even bring themselves to say they are at war with (radical) Islam. We are engaged in a “kinectic military action.” So what do you think, does political Islam think they are at war with the west like Bin Laden said or do they appreciate the Obama appeasement strategy of the “kma”? Political correctness does not work on any level. Muslims are still pissed today even after a supposed respectful burial after blowing Bin Laden’s face off.
I am ready to bring home all the troops. The special forces dudes can go down and do their thing on the violent Mexican border. There are plenty of opportunities to practice their craft down there while at the same time protecting our borders. Politically that can’t happen because god forbid we insult Latinos who might vote for the shitheads in office.
If a Muslim country asks for our assistance they can pay for the protection. If Israel is bothered by Lebanon or Egypt or Iran then we bomb the shit out of the offenders. We leave you alone. You leave us (and Israel) alone.
You know, I get why Americans were happy, happy, joy, joy with the demise of Bin Laden. We have had nothing to be happy about for about 4 years. Bush and Obama have been the worst thing to happen to this country. At least Bush loves his country. Obama sees nothing exceptional about America. That is the reason for the celebration. We FINALLY had something to be proud of. I want this country to kick ass. I want this country to be the best. For some reason Obama does not and prefers mediocrity.
Anyway, back to the original question, no I do not feel safer. I do not trust my government. I believe that our liberties will further erode AFTER the Bin Laden assassination.
You know, Bush captured Saddam Hussein. Hussein was put on trial. He was publicly hung. Muslims witnessed the arrest, trial and the death. No problems. Muslims constantly are releasing videos showing their sport of cutting off people’s head. But for some reason Obama can’t even release a photo of the hole in Bin Laden’s face. Hell, they should release the video from the SEALs helmet cams as pay-per-view and use the proceeds to either pay down the debt or give to the Wounded Warrior Project.
And it is interesting how excited the left are over Obama’s “leadership”. For years they excoriated Bush for his Middle East war but now that Obama is in charge of the empire they are pissing themselves with joy. This country is completely screwed.
This didn’t make news in the liberal media to their south, but Canadians just voted in a Conservative majority into their parliament. Looks like the statism that threatens to take over the world is running into some serious road blocks. Britain is in love with austerity these days. Now Canada. From Reuters via Yahoo News:
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, now backed by a powerful parliamentary majority, said on Tuesday the energy sector can rest easy that his government will not impede plans to vastly expand the country’s oil sands output and ship some of the crude to Asia.
Harper, in his Western Canadian home base of Calgary on the morning after his Conservatives won big in the federal election, singled out the Western-based oil industry as being a beneficiary of his party’s pro-business agenda, which will also include corporate tax cuts and deficit reduction. Investors greeted the result with relief.
If only the U.S. would get with the program. We now have the highest corporate taxes in the world. Our government refuses to allow our natural resources to be exploited. And the country is deep in debt. Hopefully our next elections are as successful.
Congratulations Canada.
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