Category: Paul Ryan

childlessness Could Doom the Childless and the Nation

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/02/18/why-the-choice-to-be-childless-is-bad-for-america.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheatsheet_afternoon&cid=newsletter%3Bemail%3Bcheatsheet_afternoon&utm_term=Cheat%20Sheet

 

This is a very extensive, interesting and insightful article on the “Childless Culture” of modern urban America.  Will there be enough children to replace those who are growing older and those who are dying?  If there are not enough children who will pay for the elderly?  If the childless generation succeeds, then they too will suffer.  For this writer, one area that the author of this article neglected, and probably could not gauge, was the effect of aging on those who are electing to be childless.

Now, these folk have living parents and often grandparents.  But grand parents and parents will die leaving the childless children without family.  Friends, yes.  But are today’s friends the same as today’s children who remain your children when you are old!  This idea of family as companions along the journey of life may be quaint, but I suggest a visit to a contemporary elderly life home, or a nursing home.  The people in these places often have families and yet, they cannot stay at home because of illness, frailty, behavioral problems, or simply because their children do not want to take care of them.

So, we posit the idea of millions of men and women who today could have children we imagine that they successfully carry out their childlessness.  So, imagine that they are now fifty or sixty.  They are weaker than they are now.  Some are sick.  Some are frail.  All are without grandparents, parents or children.  They are also either out of a job because of technological advances eliminating their employment, or they are forced to continue working until they are dead because of the increasing costs of urban singleton living.

Hey, they may indeed be happy.  But this is also true, there comes a point in biological life when it is no longer possible to have children.  So, the decision to be childless becomes, at that point, not reversible.  Hey, they may be used to being a “family” of one.  However, the socially hip scene changes with age.  The friends move away or die away.  The body degenerates.  So, what!  They may think that is not their problem.  And it isn’t.

As the article inferred, Obama will take care of them.  Oh, I forgot, he will be old too.  And surprise! Obama is married and has two children.  His retirement will be generous.  His wife is a successful business person.  And although his parents and grandparents are dead, I am sure he will have plenty of friends to keep him company as he grows older.  Maybe, using him as the  image for ourselves is not the best idea.  Well, to each his/her own.

It is the President and the Administration that is Stopping a Solution to the Fiscal Cliff

As reference see previous post concerning the Revenge Politics advocated by the Daily Beast.

“I can tell you the most recent promise the president has broken. He campaigned on a balanced approach to deficit reduction with more spending cuts than increased taxes. He even talked about it in the 2nd or 3rd debate. Instead he is proposing to raise taxes $1.6 trillion (the first year he has already outlined how it is to be spent on “stimulus” so no deficit reduction there at all). The spending cut is a POSSIBLE $400 billion over 10 years but nothing definite outlined.
For those of you who are math deficient, that is $4 in tax increases for every $1 of possible (but not likely) spending cuts. ”

It is very distressing to see the willingness of our people to accept the lie that the President only wants to tax the top two percent while everybody else gets a tax cut.  The facts of the President’s proposal are exactly opposite to what he tells the people.

Secondly, Pres. Obama wants the Congress to give away its right to review the debt ceiling and approve or deny raising it.  Why should they?  The Constitution gives the power of the purse to the Congress, specifically the House of Representatives.  When they are asked to give up this right, then we the people who voted for them are asked to give up this right.  We should not do it.

The Daily Beast newsletter may believe that it is right, just and proper for Obama to take revenge on the Republicans of the Congress for opposing him.  I do not agree.  The Congress is supposed to prevent tyranny by a systematic review of the Executive and the Judicial just as these branches of government are, in turn, to review the Congress.  This is not a system of revenge politics as proposed by Pelosi and Reid.  It is the Constitution.

Lastly, I believe that the rules of our social contract intend that the President is the President of the whole nation and not only of those who voted for him.  He is not supposed to be the President of the Democrats and the enemy of the Republicans.  If the Daily Beast believes such foolishness, then Obama is supposed to be the enemy of 48 percent of the citizens and the friend of the remainder.  If that is the case, can anyone blame the 48 % of the citizens to do all in their power during the next four years to opposed Obama who, in this case, is said to be their enemy?

Yes, the Democrat party won the Presidency but that is no excuse for attempts to destroy the Republican party.  Likewise, the Republicans won the majority in the House of Representatives and that is no excuse for always opposing the Democrat President.  The same applies to the Senate.

This writer is distressed by all of what Secretary Geithner calls “political theater.”  I agree that it is a necessary part of the political process, however, he then turns around and says that the House of Representatives, symbolized by the Speaker, is required to prove to the Executive how much they are willing to raise taxes.  That is absurd.  The Constitution gives the power of taxation to the Congress and not the President. Secondly, the House need prove nothing to the President.  He is required to submit his proposals to the House and they are required to debate, argue and either accept, reject or modify them.  What Geithner here proposes is to accomplish the legislation in a conference with the White House before it is even submitted to the Congress.  I disagree.

Let the President put his proposal to the House.  Let the administration, by using their Congressional Democrat proxies, argue their case before the full 495 Representatives.  And let the House vote and send it onto the Senate.  Only in this way will progress be made.

And Senator Harry Reid should stop bragging that any House of Representatives budget proposal that is not pre approved by Obama is Dead On Arrival in the Senate.  Who is the obstructionist in this process? There are many and they are:  The President, Nancy Pelosi, Reid, Geithner.  What the Republicans are trying very hard to do is to play according to the rule book which is called the Constitution.  There may be some who adhere to the Revenge politics advocated by the Daily Beast.  I do not.

Why did the Republicans Lose?

http://news.yahoo.com/gop-mourning-mitt-not-much-215916231.html

This article is exactly why they lost.  It is because each individual Republican thinks of themself as being right.  They do not think as a party, or a movement or a political philosophy.  They think of themselves and themselves and themselves.  It is amazing that the Republicans get any votes!

This writer is chagrined that the feast of sharks has already begun.  The various Republican Presidential hopefuls have already fallen upon the wounded body of Mitt Romney with intentions of devouring him and demolishing everything he accomplished.  You say, “Did he accomplish anything?”  Yes, he moved the party to the right of center and away from the terrible defeat of Mc Cain in 2008.  He moved the party out of the TEA party label into the Republican label.  He sent the brand name Republican to the top of the voting chart for hundreds of millions of voters.  He ran a well-funded campaign that was disciplined, on message and well run.  He conducted himself and his campaign with forceful dignity and obvious integrity.  He and Ryan put their all on the field of battle and they held nothing of themselves, their talent or their resources back.  No, they did not win but to this writer, especially as I viewed the concession speech, they were true Americans, true Republicans and they did what all Americans admire, they did their best.  Yes, they lost, but you can lose and still be a champion. And Romney and Ryan are champions.

To the point that Romney made to his donors.  Well, first of all, this was a private conference call.  He spoke his mind.  I too speak my mind and when I write private letters to my friends, or make private phone calls to my neighbors I do not expect and I would deeply resent if what I said was broadcast.  Yes, Romney is a public figure and he cannot expect immunity from the scrutiny of a public press.  But why do we still not know what President Obama said during the raid on Benghazi?  Why do we still not know if he ordered people to stand down or if he ordered the military to rescue the ambassador?  It is because his associates do not betray his private words, they do not betray his conversations and they do not betray his trust.  Obviously, many feel that what is due Obama is not due Romney.  You say, “Such is life.”  Well, that may be so but I don’t agree and I don’t like it.

I invite a fair and objective analysis of what Romney actually said during this call and the famous 47% call.  Based upon what he considers the facts, namely that the dream act, Obama care and other actions of the Obama administration have favored certain groups above others, I would argue that Romney is merely reflecting a viewpoint shared by many others.  I listened to the phone call and felt that his main thrust was that faced with the power of an incumbant to not only promise favors but to actually give those favors, a challenger has little recourse.  That is a fact, in these areas an incumbant definitely has the advantage.

Lastly, the criticisms of the defeated candidate are from persons who think overly highly of themselves, are convinced of their own infallibility, and who want to be President.  Therefore, their critiques are skewered to reflect positively upon themselves and position them to benefit from Romney’s defeat.  What is distressing is that Romney did not treat them poorly, yet his reward for integrity is to be savaged by Christie, whom Romney chose for Keynote, by Jindal, who Romney favored with a highlight at the convention and by Gingrich who Romney defeated fair and square and who now shoots from ambush.

I think of President George W. Bush won election twice, the second election confirming the faith of the American people after the turmoil of chads and cits in Florida.  He ran an honest administration without scandal.  He rallied the American people after 9/11 and he led a economy which enjoyed a 4.8 % unemployment rate.  We had excellent relations with Russia, China, Europe, South America, and Israel.  We were respected by Arab nations as a fair and balanced nation that did unduly favor their antagonists.  Yet, the Democrat campaign led by the late Senator Ted Kennedy against George Bush prevailed.  Why? Not because GW Bush was a terrible president?  No! That just is not the case.  Rather, it is because people love to hate someone and our nation was led by Democrats into an eight year campaign of hate. It was the thing to do, the thing to say and it was definitely considered savvy to hate George W. Bush.  Why?  No reason but hatred.  An unfounded and unearned hatred that is much to our shame persists today.  Asked if they blamed Bush for our problems, pro Obama voters overwhelming said, YES.  But asked what specifically he did to cause our problems, the answer was that he was President when it went into the crapper so its all his fault.  None for the Democrat Congress and nancy Pelosi.  None for the greed of people who purchased what they could not afford.  None for the shoddy business practices of mortgage bankers or Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae.  It’s all Bush’s fault and then we can go home and eat our Turkey.

The great sorrow of all of this was that Republicans then as they are now, were active participants in the blame game.  They too blamed Bush for their woes.  Not their fault that they did not do their job in Congress and block the excesses of a Democrat Nancy Pelosi majority.  Not their fault that they did not stand up to Democrat Harry Reid.  Not their fault that they lost contact with their constituents.  No it was all Bush’s fault!!

I am in NJ and in my town the Republican party in the 2010 election put up a party regular in a contest against Steve Rothman, a formidable Congressman.  They lost. Why?  Because the Republican party was not serious.  In this past 2012 election the Republican party didn’t even put up a candidate for the mayor of my town.  They left the Democrat un opposed.  Come on, fellas, what does it cost to at least put a name on the ballot?  Why did they lose in NJ?  Because the Republicans are not serious.  They accept the fact that this is a Democrat State and they do not try.

It is a very sad state when a great Republican party decends to the level of sharks feeding on wounded prey.  Did Santorum campaign hard for Romney? I think not.  Did Gingrich constantly encourage and fire up his constituents to work and give and vote for Romney? Hardly?  And Christie?  He gave Obama a shameless and obsequious display of support when he hosted the President during Sandy.

So, for this writer I look to the future and it does not include these three nor Pawlenty or Santorium.  They have used up their time and they have failed miserably both in the Primary and as loyal Republican supporters.   They have no great vision nor higher goal, other than themselves as President.  Shame.  I say that with sincere sadness of heart and pain of soul.

Ryan, for me, a definite YES.  Rubio, here too a definite YES.  And the Governor of Virginia, I think Yes, he was out there for Romney, let’s see if he abandons ship and crew while cursing the captain.

By the way, have you read Killing Kennedy by Bill O Reilly.  A really great book.  It will startle you, to say the least.  You may even be the type to admire the behavior therein described.  I don’t.  All of them are not really worthy of our admiration.

Romney’s Concession Speech was a Class Act

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/146205/mitt_romneys_concession_speech_now  Since I suuported him, I thought he would be the best and I think that this speech reveals that the Republicans had supported the very best candidate they had.  He probably won’t be in government any more and that’s too bad.  His abilities on behalf of our nation are very welcome.  Who knows maybe we are big enough to invite him to participate.  What could be wrong with that.

Will Obama Offer Romney a Cabinet Position?

There is a rumor that he will.  But you know about rumors!!
I think that offering Mitt Romney a cabinet position would be awesome.  Would he accept?  Let’s be honest and human, after all Mitt is a human so we all realize what a crushing emotional burden his loss is to him.  I am only his supporter and I feel really sad. Yet, would I be big enough to accept such an offer.  Truth…I don’t know.  I hope that I would and I probably would but I don’t want to be joe the righteous here.  Nonetheless, an offer of the President to Governor Romney would indeed be most gracious.  Hilary took the offer but it can be argued whether she did a good job.  Mitt would definitely do a good job but philosophical reasons may hinder him.  Yet, is it better be inside the halls of power influencing decisions, or outside shouting at the walls?  We’ll see.  This is all probably the citizen’s wishful thinking.  But if it were to happen it would be revolutionary.

What Happened on Election night is a Mystery!

Why are Republicans blaming Republicans? Romney was their candidate. He fought through their system to come out on top. He attended their convention and submitted to their rules. He then campaigned with all his heart, mind and soul. He had tremendous stamina and got huge turnouts. He chose an excellent running mate, gave several major policy speeches which were well received and led a campaign team which was top of the line.  He raised enormous money, leaving the party without bills and helping many candidates to win.  What happened on election night was and is a mystery. Was it the pre votes that do not need ID? Was it buying votes in the center cities? Was it black solidary -people voting as blacks? Was it Democrats busing tens of thousands around the State to vote in different places.? Was it all of these or none of these?  But one thing is sure, Mitt Romney was the best candidate the Republicans had and he was accompanied by a very popular Paul Ryan.  If some Republicans and some talk show mouths want to accuse the candidate for the failure well, that is plain bull-sht.  Romney Ryan won the support of 47 percent of Americans which is no small accomplishment. If anything failed it was the parrty itself, its skepticism and in many conservative hearts, a refusal to support their candidate because he wasn’t pure Conservative, or for others not pure liberal or others, not moderate enough.  So they stayed home, didn’t contribute and now brazenly blame their chosen candidate for their own craven failures.

Dis illusioned Citizen

There is not much to say since my candidate lost and Barrack Hussein Obama won.  However,  just a few observations:

The Republican party is merely a foil to the dominant Democrat party.  The Republicans do not make any difference at the national level, rather, in a weird twist, they are merely a legitimation of the Democrat dominance which unwittedly gives the illusion that there really is political choice in America when there is not.

The right pundits like Hannity, Rush, Levin, Riley and the like were failures because they are conservative purists who have a elite viewpoint of “true conservative.”  This arrogant viewpoint was exclusionary and allowed them to withhold full support of Romney and  Ryan until R/R met their elitist demands.

American Unions are merely the willing tools of the left and the Democrat party.  The sadness here is that many Americans are forced to allow their weekly dues to be used to support a political party with which they disagree.

The Media of the USA are the willing accomplices of the Democrat party and especially of Barrack Hussein Obama and they are very willing to deliver the nation to him because they believe, as did many of the press in nazi Germany, that Barrack is the “Leader” who will lead us into a nirvana.

The Federal bureaucracy is a willing tool of the Democrat party and constantly seeks to increase it power over the sovereign States because this will ensure them life long jobs.

Our Academic community is a product of a liberal anti Christian and anti Conservative process that indoctrinated them and in turn is indoctrinating our children into the belief that the government is the source of all things instead of God, a deification the State over the individual person.

The solution:  Give up!  Yes, give up and give over.  If the nation wants one party and only one party;  If the nation wants a welfare state;  If the nation is indicating by Barrack Hussein Obama’s election that he is the “Leader” we all should follow.  Then so be it.

After all this is still America and at least for now, our federal election system is honest.  However, the best bet for Republicans and for Independents is to abandon the system and take care of yourself first, always and only.

Sound cynical?  It is.  Sound angry? It is,  Sound like a sore loser?  No, just the voice of an older person, who has believed in America but is seeing that his America is no more.  It is just the voice of a parent who wants the children to move out on their own and pay their own bills and set up their own institutions and do their own thing without any reference at all, to my house, my possession, my accomplishments, my institutions, my money and without any reliance on getting my inheritance because you know what (?) I am gonna spend it on myself and real fast because I fear that the youth who voted for Obama will want it and I ain’t gonna give it to them,

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Romney Foreign Policy based on Strength and Negotiation

http://news.yahoo.com/erdogan-quarrel-assad-one-thing-putin-another-123411634.html

The comments here that Romney will dictate to Russia are shallow.  Of course Romney, as does Obama, uses two-minute sound bites to tell complicated stories.  The Romney premise is that Obama is not sophisticated enough with Russia and allows Putin to unduly influence our decisions on Middle East.  The key line from the Romney Foreign affairs speech was that a robust military is a deterrent to war.  But it is not just having a military but a consistent foreign policy that will convince our adversaries we will not be shy about protecting our national interests and our ambassadors.  Remember, Romney has dealt with several of the most powerful entities in USA, namely; Big Corporations, Big Labor Unions and Big Banks.  He knows that one cannot bully them.  His record shows that he can convince them to cooperate and collaborate because he is a unifier and an achiever who shows them all that he can get the job done.  Because they believe in his ability and his proven record these big entities are willing to work together because it is in their interests to have him succeed.  This will be true of the Democrats working with the Republicans in a Romney administration.  Romney will not allow Harry Reid to get away with a “dead on arrival” policy in the Senate.  Romney will not broadcast that any law he doesn’t like will be automatically vetoed if it gets past the Senate.  Unlike Obama who encourages Harry Reid and who’s policy is to veto or circumvent the Congress, all the while pointing his finger at them and blaming them for the stalemate, Romney will be persistent in getting the work of the nation done by working with and not against the Congress. It is different from the scolding, finger waging and philosophical/political  speeches of the Obama administration.  We need a known achiever in the leadership of our nation. Romney is the man.