President Obama set out a very political speech while insisting that he wants everybody That of itself should tell you all you need to know. But lets go further. He wants to cut social security taxes for individuals and employers. This writer believes that he wants to destroy social security. A cut in social security will create how many jobs? None. A cut in Social Security will help save the Social security system? No it will not but it will further weaken it and destroy the social security system creating the crisis he so onemindedly has pursued. What about encouraging a systematic overhaul of the progressive tax system. How about encouraging business to return money made by sales oversea to the USA by not taxing that money, amounting to many billions of needed investment money to be put to work in USA. The President asked to speak to Congress. The Congress graciously accepted his request and as is the law, it agreed at some great trouble to itself, to invite him. But instead of a speech of was full of Leadership, Obama merely waged his bony finger in their face, and scolded them while attempting to set them up for 100% of the blame. So, what shall the people do? Ignore Obama. We have this guy’s mode of operation and it is not a method of helping America but of destroying America. Secondly, we must see beyond the Obama administrations use of phony class warfare which sets American against American. Thirdly, we need to overcome the blame game and give Congress the chance they need to correct the problem. It is very important to note that the Congress and the Congress alone can allocate the money and reduce the deficit but that through enormous discretionary funding the Presidents, as they have in the three wars, can squander hundreds of billions of dollars annually on destruction while American dies.
Tag: America
Republican Debate-Valid Scores?
I did not watch the first debate and I did not watch the debate last night. I do not like debates. Why? Because as a very young man I listened to the radio broadcast of the Nixon/Kennedy debate and I believed that Nixon was the definitive winner of the debate. However, the paid commentators and political pundits all gave the win to Kennedy. Many have since written that the debate definitely was Nixon’s on content and relevancy. It was Kennedy’s on looks, charm and rhetorical flare. So I do not watch debates. How many others, especially Republicans who are likely to vote, did not watch? Therefore my question is, Did Romney lose and Perry win? And should we care? My vote is that the debates are not real indicators of the quality of a candidate’s potential to be a serious minded President of the USA. What do you think?
Is Intervention Selective?
Should the UN intervene in Syria. Obviously, as some have pointed out about the situation in Libya, the Syria leader is a dictator. He is brutal in repression of his people. He has torture chambers. He has decimated cities. The reports so far are numbering above one thousand innocent civilians killed, thousands more arrested and whole urban populations surrounded by the Army. Yet, no Security Council resolution? No French and British, Canadian and USA demand for NATO bombs and USA Cruise missile attacks? So, let’s see! The Libyan situation was worse? I think not. Or, the Libyan dictator was more brutal. No? Oh, it must be that the Libyan civilian population is more worthy of foreign intervention via NATO and the Syrians are not? (Are Syrian civilian dead less valuable than Libyan civilian dead?) Or maybe there is no ready-made French and British dominated government in exile residing in London or Paris? Or maybe the foreign oil companies are not interested in Syrian oil fields? So, what is it about selective foreign military intervention that makes the Libyan foray legitimate and any other is suspect? Some would say that the UN which is a peace keeping institution has to first okay foreign nations who want to war against other member nations? Does that make UN a world government? What about the rule of law. Does the rule of Law apply to War between the sovereign governments ( that usually includes dictatorships< surprise surprise>!) or does the rule of law apply only to some countries and not others? In the case of the USA, the silence of the Congress on the deployment of USA military assets into the war against Libya is troubling. Estimates are the war cost the US taxpayers one billion dollars. What did it cost Canada? What did Germany pay? What about Russia, or Australia? Is only the USA the moral policeman and the beleaguered US taxpayer the only ones who must pay up for wars to free the poor down trodden people of South West Asia (the USA military designation for the areas involved).? The moral case can be made for UN intervention in many places. This writer is completely in favor of the defeat of brutal dictatorships wherever they are to be found. None the less, the argument made in these posts concerns the serendipitous pursuit of illogical and capricious foreign policy. I am a citizen of the USA so my opinions regarding Sarkozy and Cameroon are those of an outsider, although under the rubrics of critics they would be allowed under the concepts of one world order. However, the main concerns are: US foreign adventurism by the USA administration; the lack of USA Congressional authority for the deployment and use of USA military assets in the obvious pursuit of war by one sovereign State against another, (the UN does not have authority to okay US deployment of weapons of Mass destruction ( that is not only nuclear bombs but includes Cruise Missiles, A-10 anti personnel aircraft); UN mandate or no, the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance fare exceeded the UN resolution 1973 when it (as the Brits said) “…pursued the obvious extension and logical conclusion of resolution 1973…which is the defeat and destruction of the Gaddafi Government…” By the way this writer was in the US Army for thirty years and has witnessed the lethal nature of bombs, missiles and the A10. These are not exact (pin point) weapons. When they are used they may indeed hit the target but the blow up effect is wide and in the case of the bombs and missiles anyone within thousands of feet to the impact area would be killed or at the least very seriously injured. Since the UN okayed the effort and NATO launched at least five hundred missile attacks and thousands of bomb runs and thousands of strafing attacks, are we to suppose that zero civilians were killed?
Obama Falls in the Polls.
No one is saying Obama is a bad person. Nor that is is not a good husband and father. The key issue is that his agenda is the wrong one for America. And his agenda is part of his creed. He actually believes that he should apologize for America. Instead of helping us to remain strong economically, he has wasted our resources on failed programs. A strong USA is a blessing to under developed nations. A vibrant US economy is a help to struggling nations. A healthy US economy is a buyer of the goods and services for sale by others. When we buy their goods we put food on their table as well as feed our economic engine. So let us not paint all critics of the Obama administration as Obama haters. Sure there are some who will not see any good in the man. They are wrong. None the less, Obama cannot change his core belief that America is just another nation among a world of nations. In a classroom philosophy class that may be true. But he is the President of the USA and such a belief is not the right one.
Anti White Racism by US Congressman is okay?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rep-andré-carson-tea-party-members-congress-want-142624474.html
This is not political speech. This is anti white racism. But I guess liberal/progressives are okay with it because it is anti white. Strange really, because most liberal/progressives are white. I guess they are okay with it because they think the attack is against the “other” white meat.
Libyans on Wednesday wept over the graves of those killed in their six-month war against Moammar Gadhafi, then celebrated their newfound freedom with morning prayers and joyous chants in the capital’s main square — bittersweet rituals marking the start of a major Muslim holiday
The prayer leader urged the crowd not to seek retribution against Gadhafi loyalists. “No to revenge, yes to the law that rules between us and those who killed our brothers,” he said. “Let there be forgiveness and mercy among us.”
Wednesday marked the start of the three-day holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which caps the holy fasting month of Ramadan. The start of the holiday is determined by the sighting of a new moon, and several countries in the Arab world started marking the holiday on Tuesday. Morning visits to cemeteries are part of the Eid al-Fitr tradition across the region
Why do the secular news reporters always talk about the “holy” prayers, the Mosque worship, and give extensive explanation of Muslim religious festivals. Yet, these same secular reporters insist on a strict separation of Church and State in the US and on the major Christian holy days in the USA we read about the Santa Claus and the Easter bunny? Are the Muslims worthy of respect for their religion but USA Christians are to be barely tolerated?
Obama and His Secret War Against Libya
Obama is a President who does whatever he wants to do, including involvement in a full war against Libya without congressional approval, without a declaration of war and without wide public support. How does he do it? Read the article and weep for our democracy which is being under mined by its President! It is very well presented in this article.
Parochial Versus Public Schools
http://news.yahoo.com/ind-vouchers-prompt-thousands-change-schools-170216446.html
The inference of this article is that parents are choosing Roman Catholic Schools instead of Public schools for reasons of religion. Others would say that the parents are choosing the Roman Catholic schools because of the potential for a better education for their children at the Christian schools. What do you think?
Obama Regime Must be Replaced
http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-legacy-failed-recovery-double-dip-recession-052627528.html
It is time for regime change and the place is Washington, DC. As this very fair and insightful article tells us, all of the ideologically motivated “changes” of the Obama Administration have damaged the USA. Why?
1. The Obama Administration was from the very first, an ideologically motivated administration. That of itself is not surprising since most elections are about ideas. a. However, the Obama administration has plenty of ideas but no experience in governing a nation. b. The ideas of Mr. Obama and his appointees were hidden under benign liberal slogans like, “hope and change” but were actually revolutionary Maoists, socialist, egalitarian, and even in some forms communist political philosophies. c. Others may have had the same ideas but the Obama administration actually tried to implement them with the aid and protection of a main stream news media that covered up all facts and fed the American people carefully selected pabulum. ( this was ridiculously illustrated by the reporting that Mr. Obama was “losing sleep” (poor baby) over the debt debate and recently was forced to curtail his Cape Cod luxury vacation because of Hurricane Irene. ( I wonder if he was afraid to bail water at the multi million dollar mansion in which he resided?) Folks, the main stream press, as you know, actually reported these items to get our sympathy for our President!
2. The Obama administration has not presented any plan for the economic recovery of America. instead they have passed that off to the Republicans in Congress. It seems that they have reversed the tried and true axiom of our government, namely, that the President proposes and the Congress disposes. (Maybe the President has never graduated from the Illinois Senate?)
3. The President actually thinks that the identification of the problem is the entire scope of his job and that the rest of the government is supposed to come up with the solution. Okay! But when they do come up with the solution, such as the numerous Republican legislative proposals, he has his henchman Harry Reid say, Dead on Arrival in the Senate and if that fails, he tells the problems solvers that he will veto their efforts. And he does all of this while going on record saying that we need more cooperation and collaboration in Washington.
4. Lastly, and this is simply my personal pet peeve…I do not think that Barrack Hussein Obama likes America. Oh, yes, he likes Air Force One. He uses it as his personal private plane while at the same time criticizing corporate executives for using private company jets. Oh, yes, he likes the massive serving staff of the White House, that caters to his whims ( as they did for other Presidents) but Obama at the same time tells us to stop eating at fast food restaurants, and to tighten our belts and learn to give up our perks and share the wealth…all the while he luxuriates in the splendors of the perks we lavish on our Presidents…and all the while, I believe, he doesn’t even like us.
There is a solution to all of this. It comes in November 2012 when the citizens of this great nation should tell Mr. Obama, “Thanks, but no thanks.” Give him his pension and get him out of the White House before he completely destroys the nation we love and he doesn’t even like.
Obama, Sarkozy and Cameron are Liars
http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-rebels-attacking-tripoli-224402452.html I am a little guy. I live in a small house, I earn an average salary and I live modestly. And I hate liars.
I am embarrassed. As a proud citizen of the most powerful nation in the world, I am ashamed of the conduct of this War of Illegal aggression against the Sovereign State of Libya.
Yes, I tis a dictatorship. But so are many, yes MANY nations around the world.
Yes, it is a third world nation, but so are many African and Arab countries.
Yes, it has the oil in abundance, but so do many nations in Africa.
And I am ashamed, because the United Nations is a whore. It sold itself to French Imperialist Sarkozy, British Colonialist Cameron and Just straight out liar Obama. This article which clearly details the egregious aggression of the NATO European Military Alliance against Libya, is a terrible indictment of the Obama Administrations duplicity and outright lying in its pursuit of World domination at the expense of fundamental civil liberties. All three leaders are liars. And I hate Liars. It is impossible for any truthful citizen of our world to read this article and conclude that the NATO ( that definitely includes USA, no matter how much Obama seeks to hide his lies and bullying ways) I HATE BULLIES…NATO is engaged in an illegal act of criminal aggression of enormous scope which boggles the mind. NATO and therefore the USA is engaged in an undeclared war, which by definition of the so-called “August” Hague Tribunal, is itself a war CRIME.
In so far as the USA has engaged with the NATO military alliance in illegal acts of aggression against the people of Libya and against the Sovereign and independent country of Libya… these actions must be brought before the tribunal of fair and equitable American public opinion and judged according to the laws and rules of the USA. It may, (sadly) be that Obama and his administration are found to be criminally engaged in an illegal act of international significance which would be cause for impeachment and conviction by the Congress of the USA.
Progressive Politics 