Socialism: What comes next? Will they take our guns away?
February 18, 2009 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
In case you have been living in a hole somewhere, our country is headed down a very rough road, one that could lead to many different problems, and possibly solutions, depending on your view of them. I live in Texas, and hey, we have been our own Republic before, if things start to get too bad, what makes anyone think it won’t happen again? Hey, I live here, I could see it happen, get enough pissed off Texans together anything is possible. Hey, Texas is the only state in the country that has everything that the rest of the country together has, and we are big enough to take in folks from elsewhere that want to get away, so, it could happen! All I know, is before any stuff hits the fan, I am getting a couple of new guns! Why, because, if Fedzilla gets its way, they will try and take them away from us!
Yes for many folks, the ones that live in a place like New York, or San Francisco, this may not matter, but to us gun totin’ Texans, this is a very big issue! Just in case you don’t know, that is why the right to bear arms is in our Constitution! Yep, just in case the Government gets crazy and tries to take our freedom away, you have to remember how the country started, it was a Revolution!
No, I am not trying to get a militia together, all I am doing is saying it could happen, if you add in the border situation, the fact that Mexico could fall apart, Texas is in the line of fire, and it could get ugly, because Texans will defend themselves. My point in writing this is simple, there are Americans all over the place that are worried about Fedzilla getting too big! There could be all kinds of trouble in the future, just as I know that Texas will, I believe that most Americans will stand up and defend their homes.
The bigger Fedzilla gets, the bigger the uproar will get, I believe this is a serious issue, and if you see what Fedzilla is up to, growing bigger every day, sooner or later something is going to happen, Americans will do anything to stay Free!
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Economy Problems: Mexico Scares Me! Look-out for Chavez!
February 17, 2009 by OpinionHead
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As the entire world is having economic problems, what is next? Mexico has always been a “Third-World” country, but it is getting even worse, much worse, so what happens if the Mexican government completely collapses? You know how many people are already coming here to get away and to make a living, if the entire thing down there goes bad, what will happen? Here is an article by Glenn Beck on FoxNews.com, “As Goes California, So Goes America”, read this for but one scenario, a very real situation, even if Mexico doesn’t fall apart.
Look at the events in Venezuela, Hugo Chavez has pretty much set himself up as dictator, and the idiots that live there voted for it! Hmm, reminds me a bit of our most recent Presidential election here! It just goes to show you, if you promise people something for nothing, they fall for it every time! What is really scary, and should give people even more reason to worry, is who Chavez’s friends are, look at the picture, Chavez and Ahmadinejad look pretty chummy!
I know why they are laughing, they are talking about how they and Obama are going to wreck the U.S. and take over the entire North American continent, like Canada would do anything. Ffirst it starts out socialism, then its communism! Why would any of that make Ahmadinejad happy? Simple, Chavez and Obama take the West, Putin takes Europe and Asia, and Ahmadinejad takes the Middle east and Africa! With America out of the way, since Obama is helping them, the disease of socialism can spread, the U.S. becomes a poor country, and then we are all here just wondering what happened! Funny thing is that nobody seems to know what is bad about socialism. You can’t blame Bush for that one!
Yes, that is a severely exaggerated opinion of but one possible scenario, and I pray to God that Obama is not going to let it go that far, but, my point is, It Could Happen! Remember “Yes, We Can” and “Change You Can Believe In” and all of the rest? Americans were acting like the lemmings down there in Venezuela, I have to say, I am embarrassed, I am a Proud American, and to see where we are headed is a big dissappointment.
There always have been poor people and there always will be. The whole point of Free Markets and Capitalism is so that if you work hard enough you can make it to the top, way above the bottom, the whole point of Socialism is to make everybody the same, and, if you look at Venezuela, that means everybody but the Dictator is poor! Yes, Capitalism can also be described as “Survival of the Fittest”, people and businesses may fail, but, it is that opportunity to make it back to the top!
I heard an old German saying that translates to something like this; A man who makes a lot of mistakes, works hard, A man who makes no mistakes, is a lazy dog! How many mistakes have you made?
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Socialism: Why is this bad for America?
February 12, 2009 by OpinionHead
Filed under Political Rants
For those of you that do not “Get It”, socialism is where control of your life, your business, your family, and everything else, is taken away from you and given to the government. Socialism always starts out looking like a nice thing, Free Stuff for Everybody! Welfare for all! However, somebody has to pay for it!
I am sure that everyone has seen that the government CANNOT be trusted to spend money wisely, look at what happened with the TARP program, you know, the first wave of the bailouts, they have already “misplaced” $78 Billion! Had this program been handled the way it was said that they would, this money would now be helping things in the housing market, did it work? Obviously not, now they want more! So, where were you on the first one? Did you agree with it? Did it do you any good? Now, “President” Obama is trying to get a new spending bill shoved through the system, under the guise “Stimulous”, even Obama himself has called it a spending plan! So, why should We the People, let the government spend another Trillion or two, or three, or whatever it ends up being? We shouldn’t!
What is the plan? Well, at this point, Obama’s idea is to create jobs through re-building the infrastructure, you know, old government buildings, roads, bridges, and so on, sounds good right? Have you ever noticed who is doing the construction work? I don’t know about where you live, but here in Texas, you don’t see too many Americans actually doing the work, so, who will this help?
Here is another part, Obama is going to make the Unions have even more power, you know who runs the unions, right? So, if you combine Unions, and labor jobs, to get this “job” you will have to join a union! I have seen what happens when they are in charge, the cost of the job is more than double what the private sector could do the work for, that sounds wasteful to me. Does the $700 hammer come to mind yet? I thank God I live in Texas, those Pro Union states will be the one that waste the most money!
Back to the main topic, socialism, these union jobs are a perfect example of socialism at its best, in order to get these jobs, you must pay an additional tax, called “Union Dues”, since I am not in a union, I don’t know what the percentage is, but I do know it is like paying double the FICA tax you already pay! Now, lets look at this from the consumer side, do you know how much “extra” a car costs you because of the union? Well, the last I read, there is an addition $1000, just to cover the health care costs of the workers! Think about this, how many cars are built each day? Lets just say it is one car per employee average, that is what $30,000 a month, per employee, just for health care! Here in Texas, you can get health insurance for a whole family for maybe $600, per month! See where I am headed? It is called waste!
I lived in Germany for almost 10 years, and at that time, I paid 10% of my gross pay for health insurance, a couple of years ago, my daughter, who lives there, told me it was up to 15%, then, she will be here in a few days and I will ask again what it is now, but regardless, 15% of your paycheck gone for insurance, that doesn’t sound bad if you only make a couple of bucks a month, but, this is per person, so, if you are married, husband and wife pay 15% each. What this boils down to, is myself and my ex, together were paying between 6-800 per month at 10%, at 15%, that would be 9-1200, per month, and yes, I was in my 20’s then! This is just for health insurance, the income tax is astronomical as well!
Once the government has control of everything, do you think prices will go down? Look at Luftansa airlines, owned by the German Government, to fly with them it costs double or triple the rate of an american airline like Delta, once the government bails out the airlines, who will be able to fly? What will happen to the cost of a new car? What about a government owned home? Is socialism sounding like a good thing? America is supposed to be free, the right to life, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness and all of that right? As Glenn Beck has pointed out, the pursuit of happiness is not a guarantee of happiness, just the right to pursue it! We all have different levels of skill, intelligence, and ability, should the person who can earn millions be responible to pay for people like me that don’t? There is no such thing as a free ride, and if your boss has to pay more, just to have you as an employee, will you be the one he has to get rid of, to pay for keeping someone else? Remember, it is the dead weight that goes first, if you want a free ride, are you a productive employee?
Maybe you noticed, all of the big layoffs started when it became obvious that Obama would win, these companies were just getting ready for what was coming! Once you add in all of the Welfare and Entitlements, this country will be like France, in other words, a really big mess! Since it is these companies that pay the most in taxes, what else can they do?
Tax cuts are the answer, not more spending, if you are in debt and cannot pay your credit cards, do you go out and buy a new car? I don’t think so, but that is what this spending bill amounts to! If your neighbor does this, should you make his or her car payment? Well, that is what is coming, welcome to socialism!
If Obama gets his spending bill passed, and I am sure that he will, this country will be in debt at the tune of $37,000, per person, per year, are you ready to write that check? With the government bailing out, or buying, private companies, increasing entitlements, not just social security, but welfare as well, what will this do? Just get out that checkbook and don’t worry about it, the government will fix it, with your money!
Oh, I almost forgot, remember that tax cut for 95% of Americans? Well, I hope you enjoy that extra $13 on your paycheck!
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Redistribute the Wealth: Barack Obama has another skeleton stick its head out of the closet!
October 27, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Political Rants
For those that haven’t understood what Barack Obama has been saying all along, here is a little more proof!
Follow the link and read the article yourself, listen to the interview, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand what he is saying, don’t fall for his line about change, it isn’t the kind oof change that you orI want! Read the article and see for yourself!
Here is an excerpt from the article at Fox News:com
Obama, in 2001 Interview, Lamented Failure of Civil Rights Movement to Redistribute Wealth
The interview — conducted by Chicago Public Radio in 2001, while Obama was an Illinois state senator and a law professor at the University of Chicago — delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further than it did, so that when “dispossessed peoples” appealed to the high court on the right to sit at the lunch counter, they should have also appealed for the right to have someone else pay for the meal.
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In case you didn’t believe me before, you can hear it in Obama’s own voice! This is proof as to what his plans are, and what his true definition of CHANGE really is. This makes a lot of things clear, just like his connections to Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, and the others as well, he wants to CHANGE the country all right, he wants to destroy the U.S. Constitution or at least re-write it to the point that it is not even the same document!
What is income redistribution? Income redistribution is taking from those that have and giving it to those that don’t! It doesn’t mean those that have a lot or too much, just those that have! If you believe that his tax increase will only effect the rich, you had better understand that that means you! If Obama gets elected it will be too late to stop him! With Pelosi and that bunch already in charge, Obama will be able to get away with anything!
“The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent as radical as people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical,”
“It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it has been interpreted.”
The above quotes pretty much say it all, unless you want to see America turn into a welfare state, where you have to work your butt off to support those that won’t work! A vote for Obama is a vote for welfare, a vote for welfare is a vote for socialism, a vote for either is a vote against America, and our Constitution!
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Question, what is Welfare? What does it cost?
October 14, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
What is Welfare, is it an Entitlement? Is it Help for those that need it? Is it a Right? Is welfare an Opportunity, a Privilege or an Obligation? Some of these choices actually mean the same thing, is is just a little bit different emphasis depending on which word you choose. The point is, Welfare is expensive!
I cannot imagine anyone wanting people to starve, go without health care, or even be denied an education, however, at one time this was the case here in America! No, we are not perfect, but we have come a long way from those days!
Today in America, there are extensive resources for help, if you qualify! QUALIFY! That is correct, have you ever tried to get help? I have, and no, I didn’t qualify!
Yes, the food banks found at your local church and such will hand out food to anybody, and yes, there are those that abuse that, they go around to many different sources, collect these can goods and such, then sell them, yes, I have met people that bragged about doing just this! Abuse of anything is inevitable, it is always going to happen, but that doesn’t mean we need to stop helping, does it?
If the U.S.A. were to attempt stopping the giving of food and support to the whole world, we would be ridiculed! So, if we provide so much, for so many in the world, who would imagine America not providing help to our own people? Well, there are many here that will try to tell you that is the case, but, it is not true! Not by a long shot, America offers more welfare to it’s people than any other country in the world offers to theirs!
So, what is my point? We need to FIX IT! Not do away with it, just FIX IT!
Here is an excerpt from The WhiteHouse on Welfare Reform:
President’s Welfare Reform Agenda
Last year, Congress began the process of reauthorizing the historic, bipartisan 1996 welfare reform law. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, welfare reform helped to move 4.7 million Americans from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency within three years of enactment, and the number of welfare caseloads has declined by 54% since 1996. The 1996 welfare reform law expired at the end of last year. President Bush is calling on Congress to act now to sustain and expand on the success of welfare reform.
So, follow that link and read the whole article, it will help you understand the rest of this post.
As you see, even the most hated President in the world, is trying to FIX things, but he hasn’t, why hasn’t he gotten it done? Simple, Congress, even though only dominated by Democrats for two years, the Democrats have been at war with George W Bush since he beat Al Gore for president! Yes, Bush has made mistakes, many of them, but I can assure you, that he is not the only one! The Democrats don’t want to FIX welfare, they want to expand it!
I cannot find any proof of what I am saying, but it should be obvious that the Left Wing of our country has been working very hard for a very long time to not only destroy George W Bush, and the Republican Party, but the very foundations of our country! Do some research on Pelosi, Frank, Dodd and that bunch, nothing has been right according to them, our whole way of life is wrong! Why would they do this? Simple, if they run down the country far enough, and blame it on Bush and the Republicans, the surely they will be put in complete control of the country, again! Unlike the Bill Clinton era, is a much further to the Left Agenda! I know, it sounds like a dastardly wicked plan, but I know it is true, I have been watching them for years, and this is the very reason I built this website! So, now back to my point.
What is welfare? Where did welfare come from? Back in the 30’s, President Roosevelt came up with his “New Deal” to help during the “Great Depression” and it has been expanded since, and especially in the 1960’s, until it is where we are now.
The “NEW DEAL” From Answers.com
In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt in accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency said, ‘I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people’. At the time this was little more than campaign rhetoric, but the New Deal was subsequently widely used as an umbrella term to characterize the domestic reform programmes of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s. These included banking and finance reform, various relief programmes for the unemployed, agriculture recovery legislation, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the act setting up the Tennessee Valley Authority, the National Labor Relations Act, the Social Security Act providing unemployment insurance and old age pensions, and much else besides. The phrase ‘New Deal coalition’ is often used to denote the coalition of blue-collar workers, blacks, ‘ethnic’ (non-Anglo-Saxon) white Americans, and Southerners which continued to support the Democrats until the 1960s.
— David Mervin
Many of these programs were and are a great thing, like Social Security, but as with anything the Federal Government does, it grows, gets added to and changed until the Original and the Revision look almost nothing alike! Look at what the left keeps doing to the Constitution! Amendment means change, again, some are good, some are not, sometimes they even want to change the changes! All the while, moving our country further to the left!
“We the People“, at least the lefties haven’t gotten that line changed, YET, but they are trying! Follow that link to read the Constitution, get familiar with it, then hide and watch as the liberals keep changing it!
So, once again, back to my original point, what is Welfare? If kept simple, it is a good thing, but continuous expansion has made it a monster and Barack Obama wants to turn an alligator into godzilla! Or, as Ted Nugent calls it, FEDZILLA! Check out his book, Ted, White, and Blue!
By expanding the “Entitlements” or welfare, it takes more and more control from “We the People” and turns into “We the Sheeple” and makes us more and more dependent on the Fedzilla!
Yes, America has more “wealthy” people than any other country, but Fedzilla doesn’t like that and wants to make us all beholden to it! Fedzilla is a beast and needs to be treated as such, let’s keep it as is written in “The Declaration of Indepenence” and watch out what we give consent to! Barack Obama wants you to give consnt to CHANGE, and that change WILL NOT be what you think it is!
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.
Once we give Consent, it will be practically impossible to take it back!
So, now, do you have a different opinion on Welfare? We need to stop worrying about government FREEBIES and start worrying about the Welfare of the Country!
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Spoiled Rotten: Can you fix Capitalism with Socialism?
October 12, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Political Rants
For some reason there is this confusion over what is right and wrong in our country and in the world these days. Opinions range from one extreme to another, but who is right? Who is wrong?
Well, this is my opinion, everybody is both right and wrong! It depends on where you are and how you got there and why. This is a very deep subject and there is no single solution, the mess the world is in, is self inflicted and will get worse before it gets better!
This is the reason that I believe all of these socialist bail-outs are the wrong way to go! Why? It costs too much! If you are a tax payer, a small business owner, a Wall Street executive, a lawyer, doctor, or plumber, you see things differently depending on a multitude of variables, so numerous that to come to some sort of solution, it must be made simpler for it to have a chance to work. So, what does this have to do with the bail out?
Do you know what I mean by Spoiled Rotten kid? If a kid grows up getting anything and everything he or she wants just by having a temper tantrum, what happens to that kid? That same kid, given a swat or two on the backside instead of a cookie or handout is going to learn that it takes hard work and discipline to succeed. By bailing out everybody that made a bad decision to buy more home than they could afford, it is the same thing! In a Capitalist system, failure is just one of the steps on the way to success! Failure is what creates balance with success. Many of the richest people on the planet failed many times before they succeeded. If you don’t hit the bottom, how do you know which way is up? Have you ever seen a baby learning to walk? Think about it, if you were to carry that baby around and never let it fall down or bump it’s head, would it ever learn?
Yes, falling down or bumping your head hurts for a while, but the lessons learned are more valuable than the pain felt at the time. So, if you bought a home that you could not afford, and you lost it, I bet next time around you will get something more affordable!
Have you ever seen the fanatical lefties at a protest? What about their counterparts on the far right? I look at that as an example of kids that never got spanked throwing a temper tantrum and wanting attention!
So, throwing money at the problems we are facing will only make it worse in the long run. If there were no bail-out, yeah, a few business would go under or get bought up by bigger companies, the ones that were more disciplined in the past, and the homes that are dropping in value, will get bought up the same way! Once everything hits bottom, it just means that it is on sale! Those that worked hard and saved will be able to buy bigger and better homes, at an affordable price! That is how it works with Capitalism, by dumping tax-payer’s money on it, it just prolongs the problem, those same businesses and people are still gong to fail, it will just make it hurt everybody more!
One thing I want to make clear about what I am saying, “I do believe that those that can not help themselves, deserve some assistance, but not people that just made a bad choice.” If you have gotten sick or old, that is not by choice, it just happens, and we have programs in place to help already, yes, they need to be fixed or made better, but not bigger!
One day I am going to write about my mothers $600 shoes, yeah, that is what Medicare got billed for some shoes that sell at Pay-Less for 10 bucks! The difference, an insert that makes them better for diabetics. That is what I mean, if spending is cut, by making the government work better and smaller, these programs can be improved.
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Just my Opinion: Why is our economy and the World Markets Crashing?
October 10, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
You know, I am over 18, and it seems to me that every election year, there is a crisis of some sort, no, not like this one, but there is always something!
I know, that before G.W. Bush was elected, things went down, and this was before Bush even had a chance to mess up!
Personally, I feel that the early days of GW Bush were good, then came 9/11 and the whole world changed, and he did a good job with that. Hind-site being 20/20, yes, there could have been a few “better” choices, but not as it was happening, W did a great job, thank God that Al Gore wasn’t in charge!
Anyway, my point being, if you look at all of the “Crises” going on, in advance of the election, not after, what could that mean?
As I see it, things were fine, then, Obama started beating Hillary! Then, McCain won his party, then……….Obama was in front of McCain, things got questionable, but not bad, then McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, things got good again, then McCain started slipping, after “hiding” Sarah Palin and McCain’s awful debate, then, Obama started pulling ahead, and at that point all shit hit the fan! Then came the “bailout”. Had McCaine fought that stupid bailout, like a “real” republican, it would all be different!
Once it started looking like an Obama Presidency was inevitable, the bottom completely fell out! The market took a serious dump, and things got as they are now!
So, in my opinion, if McCain shows some leadership, without those liberal bailout tendencies, appoints people to his cabinet that will clean up the Democrats mess, yes, G.W.Bush too, after all, he wanted “everybody” “even those that should not” to buy a house, then, if that happens, things will straighten out!
However, if Obama sneeks into the white house, oooh, it will get ugly! (I will write more if that should happen)
In my opinion, the reason for all of the mess in the markets (worldwide) is because everyone is afraid that Barack Obama will win!
I know that for me, and others in my area, if Obama wins, gun sales will go up!
Why you may ask? Because our world will be hitting the bottom! Should this happen, many will feel the need for personal protection! That is protection from the government! The liberals will want to take our rights and our guns away! After all, they will have already taken our country away!
Before you start yelling about race, that is NOT it, it is the whole Marxist/Socialist/Communist thing! When you take the power from the people and give it to the government, that is what happens next!
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If Barack Obama Does not Scare you, maybe you are someone I should be scared of?
October 6, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Opinions and Attitudes
I am sorry, If you like Barack Obama, and he does not make you worry, then maybe, just maybe, you are also someone for the rest of us to be afraid of?
I to post a link to other posts I have written that include Barack Obama but I decided to link to an entire category, if you want to read it, scroll down the list! Here is the link to my other posts about Barack Obama.
People, I don’t care who you are, if you are an American,and you love your country, OBAMA is a bad thing! It is not about politics! If you don’t do drugs, do you hang out with dope dealers? Then why does Obama hang out with Terrorists? If he is,not a racist, Then why does he hang out with racists?
If these people don’t scare you, then maybe, we need to be afraid of you?
If you like Obama because he claims that he will give you FREE college, do not hold your breath, it won’t happen, it is just his pitch! If you like Obama because he will give 95% of America a tax cut, then you probably don’t have a job or pay taxes! If you like Obama because of his ever changing Health Care Plan, then you will really be upset! In fact, If you like Obama, for any reason based on one of his promises, you will be really mad to find out he lied! That is unless you believe the lie he will tell about why it doesn’t happen!
However, if you are voting for Barack Obama, just because he is…….(Not White)……(Not Republican)….or not whatever, then yes, you may be someone all of the rest of us need to be afraid of!
Unless you are on welfare, want welfare, or think socialism is a good thing, if Barack Obama gets elected, you will find out why the rest of us do not like him! Do Not Fall for his Chicago Ganster Politics, if you do, I know I will regret it!
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A.C.O.R.N. What is it and why should you care?
September 30, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Political Rants
If you have never heard of A.C.O.R.N, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, you are in for a surprise, maybe you’ll care, maybe you won’t, just read on and decide!
Here is the first story, they try to make ACORN sound like an innocent victim stating that FOX news pundits are angry, hmm.
Next, here is an excerpt:
Follow that link and read! Then, read this excerpt and follow that link.
You should know, the above was written January 14, 2007! Once you have read these things, maybe a little bell will go off and tell you who this guy, Barack Obama, really is!
If you try to go to ACORN’s website, well, something is wrong, at this time, it is not there! Here is the link http://www.acorn.org/ see if it works for you!
Now, here is my opinion!
Note the real name of that acronym, A.C.O.R.N., Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, now read my previous post, “what is a community organizer”, are you starting to see what I am talking about?
In this latest fiasco, they tried to pass a bill to bail-out those that have screwed up big enough that it would hurt everybody, but, it didn’t pass, why? I hope that one reason was the money that would be included for ACORN in that bill! Among many others, it was just not good for the country! Ok, maybe it would be good for ACORN, and it’s supporters, but not AMERICA!
So, what is ACORN? If you have followed the links above, you should now know, it is just to promote more WELFARE! As in FREE housing for those that have no house! I am sorry, I would love to have a new Porsche, but until the Democrats create a special fund for “old white guys that have no money but want a Porsche” I am up a creek! I am sorry, I live in a shack because I am broke, I live within my means, so should everyone else!
I believe in and love Capitalism because it gave me the chances I have had, socialism will not, vote for Obama, and he will turn this country socialist! That means TAX, TAX, TAX! You may wonder what happened to me, TAX, TAX, TAX, I couldn’t afford to be in business because taxes were too high! I tried to offer a fair price for everyone, but, little did I know, the tax I had to pay was more than I made! Next time you want to complain about prices, just look at the TAXES! This was during those glorious Clinton years, I am a quick learner, are you?
The moral of the story is, before you vote for a tax and spend politician, DO THE MATH, it does not help, it only hurts!
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What is the Right Change? I found a website that may help!
September 16, 2008 by OpinionHead
Filed under Political Rants
I know, everybody is talking about change, and there is such a giant difference between what Barack Obama is saying and what John McCain says, so how do you know who is right? How do you know who is wrong?
My advice to anyone looking for that answer is simple, RE-SEARCH! If you have found this website you obviously know how to use a search engine, that is a great first step, but the second step is the hard part, actually doing the searches, then reading the info on the websites you find, and NOT just the ones you already agree with! If you are a liberal, conservative, moderate, or whatever, just read! Look at the links on the website, if you only find liberal or conservative links, then you know immediately that there is at least some bias. I will tell you now, I am about three clicks to the right of dead center, and I will explain:
- WIN THE WAR! Winning the War on Terror is vital to the safety of our country, not just you and me, but everybody! Just bringing the troops home any old way is not the answer, it will just motivate the terrorists and make them feel like they have won, we must defeat them, in Iraq, and everywhere else, including Iran, which the UN now says Iran has worked on designs of a missile re-entry vehicle, rockets to carry nukes!
- I am Pro Life. I believe that if you were involved in what it takes to make a baby, you should be prepared for the consequences! I also believe that anyone wanting to have a baby should have to get a license! Hey, you have to have a license for everything else, from driving, to plumbing, to selling beer, so why not making a baby? It would be simple, Are you married? Do you have a Job? Do you have insurance? Do you have a place to live, other than your parents house? You have to have insurance to drive a car, why not to have a baby? So, if you are Pro Choice, just remember, you had the choice to have sex or not, you had the choice to use birth control or not, once you made up your mind to have sex without birth control, your choice was already made! If you choose to drive after drinking, or without insurance, and you got caught, you can’t just kill the penalties of a bad choice, and an abortion is doing exactly that!
- I am Anti-Big Government. I believe in a small government, one where your local community is involved and actually knows it’s people and the local problems. Not some giant bureaucracy, which costs too much to maintain! Our elected officials should come from our communities, like Sarah Palin, not some Career Politician, I just want Uncle Sam to leave me alone! Hmm, maybe I am part Libertarian?
- I am Anti-Entitlements. Except for Vets, or other, EARNED entitlements, like pensions and such. Yes, I think Social Security is a good thing, and yes, I think that it needs to be fixed, or CHANGED, to where it is actually a viable thing, sort of like a 401K or something, but unlike a 401K that you have to work for a big company to get it, then have to work there and hope the company stays in business, but that would be an investment that grows and that I would have at least some control over, and determine how much to put into it, over and above the minimum required, however, it should be one that can’t flop like the stock market! Speaking of which, Wall Street has problems, but that is how it works, just like me, my business failed, nobody bailed me out! If Fannie and Freddie would have just been allowed to fail, it would have hurt, but that is a good thing in the long run, because it will teach them not to sell houses to those that can’t afford it! Now that they have been bailed out, those of you that have made your payments, and pay taxes, will have that debt added to your taxes! Welcome to Socialism!
- When it comes to Health care, I believe that if all the Insurance Companies, Hospitals, Doctors, and Pharmaceutical Companies wanted to, they could put a tiered system together, that would be from extremely affordable on up, like it is now, but, instead of a bunch of individual efforts, like they have now, a group effort. You have seen Montel on TV right? There are many things like that now available, combine that with efforts from the Hospitals and Doctors, and mix it with that $5 a day type of Insurance, and it should bring down the costs to like maybe $1 a day! Hey, the Doctors and Hospitals get screwed out of millions now, so if they just made a cut rate where they would at least get something, and offer a Ward instead of private or semi-private rooms, like they used to, and like the military does, it could be done, and still be private insurance! Keep the government out of it! That will keep your taxes from going up, and save all involved a lot of money! We already have Medicaid for those that can’t or won’t afford the cheap insurance!
- Legalize Pot! yeah, I said it, and no, I am not a serious pothead, but if weed was legal, and taxed like cigarettes, it would give people a legal alternative to alcohol or the harder, drugs. Yes, I will burn one on occasion, If I look at the clock at 4:20, I do smile! Just like I sometimes get the urge to drink beer, wish I had both right now, but I don’t smoke regularly, hey, it is ILLEGAL! I feel that if it is a seed, and i plant it, and it grows, just like corn or flowers, it should be legal! In many cases both weed and cheap beer are popular with us lower income folks, so imagine, if I am saving my beer and weed money, by growing my own, legally, i can easily afford that cheap health Insurance! See my thinking on this?
- Mandatory Service! Either military or community service, for both males and females! Service would do kids some good, even if it was just 18 months or something! Oh, and if they stay in the military, like 4 or more years, they get FREE medical if they need it! However, there should be a third option, JAIL! Yeah, send them to the big house for a year or something!
- Real Tax Cuts. This is where I tie in the website I found, I want to be clear, I am a broke bum, I have a bad back and can’t do much of anything, so I don’t pay much, BUT, if you have a job, and you pay taxes now, Barack Obama will raise your taxes! In one way or another, it will cost you! I don’t mean if you pay in taxes out of your check, then get a refund bigger than what you paid in, I mean if you have, after all the deductions, more tax paid than you get back! Here is another way it will get you, if the company that makes widgets gets a tax increase, widgets will cost more, period! Prices and Taxes will go up if Barack Obama gets elected, it is that simple.
Now, you know where I stand on these issues, do some research, study and learn, be open minded and stop listening to that buddy that thinks he knows something, make up your own mind and VOTE, that is how we will get change, it is up to all of us, if we don’t we end up with something that we didn’t help decide, and YES, YOUR VOTE DOES COUNT!
Here is an excerpt from the website that I mentioned, RightChange.com
Change?.. What’s it cost?.. Who pays?..
We’re hearing a lot about change — and we’re sure to hear much more.
Problem is, we heard a lot about change before, and look what’s happened: higher gas prices and food prices, record home foreclosures, massive bank failures and a do-nothing Congress.
In fact, we often hear politicians making grand promises with other people’s money. That is, with our money.
Because the issues are so serious, and the stakes so high, to cut through the clutter and spin, RightChange.com is starting a national conversation, in plain language, around key questions: (Click Here to Read More)
NEW INFORMATIONREAD THIS!
After writing this post, I saw an Ad by the AMA, the doctors that I mentioned above, here is what I wrote.
When it comes to Health care, I believe that if all the Insurance Companies, Hospitals, Doctors, and Pharmaceutical Companies wanted to, they could put a tiered system together, that would be from extremely affordable on up, like it is now, but, instead of a bunch of individual efforts, like they have now, a group effort. You have seen Montel on TV right? There are many things like that now available, combine that with efforts from the Hospitals and Doctors, and mix it with that $5 a day type of Insurance, and it should bring down the costs to like maybe $1 a day! Hey, the Doctors and Hospitals get screwed out of millions now, so if they just made a cut rate where they would at least get something, and offer a Ward instead of private or semi-private rooms, like they used to, and like the military does, it could be done, and still be private insurance! Keep the government out of it! That will keep your taxes from going up, and save all involved a lot of money! We already have Medicaid for those that can’t or won’t afford the cheap insurance!
Below is a bit of what they have to say. If you really want to know about the future of Health care, go to their site and start reading! They have links to what both Presidential Candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain have to say about it.
The AMA is committed to expanding coverage and choices for all Americans. See how we intend to benefit patients everywhere and drive positive change in our health care system.
Read the .pdf files that they offer, there are many, i have been reading about an hour and have learned quite a bit about who is actually saying what, and what makes sense. I have to be honest here, all that Obama has to say is he wants to spend more money, but Mccains plan sounds a lot like what they have to say. Read this and the PDF’s for yourself and tell me what you think.
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