Tag: Congress

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.

Hilary Clinton is an Old Woman

http://news.yahoo.com/ap-interview-clinton-raps-benghazi-critics-084552064–politics.html

It is time for those of us, and I too am 65, to give over and let the younger generation have a time at bat.  This is why I am appalled by those who want to run Hilary Clinton in 2016.  By then she will be 70 and frankly, although I too, do not think of myself as old, nonetheless, she and I are old, and it is time to give over the world to our children.

Regarding Benghazi, it seems to me that she should just move on and be a grandmother.  Her last grandstand is merely a revenge tactic against fellow citizens who do not agree with her view of what happened and what we can do about it.  She is merely trying to focus attention upon her critics and not upon the facts.  And this is doubly egregious since her whole speech is about the real world and the facts.  Yet, she is spinning about others and ignoring the false information from President Obama about the video, and the false talking points from some bogey man in the CIA, and the false statements on national television by the USA UN ambassador, and the weeks of administration insistence upon the video and the mob.

Mrs. Clinton lashes out at others as being not realistic, while she and the Obama administration attempted to blind fold the American public to the facts of Benghazi and her own and President Obama’s failure to treat the attack realistically.  She, and Obama, and the joint chiefs and the CIA and the FBI were all watching the events as they were happening.  It is the same as watching a person on a public street being attacked by a gang of four knife wielding crooks and doing nothing about it.  Because that is what she and President Obama did, they watched it happen, did nothing about it and went to bed as our citizens were tortured and brutally murdered at our embassy in Libya.

Mrs. Clinton should not be allowed to escape the verdict of the people that she and President Obama failed, and that they covered up by lying to the Press and the American people.  Both she and all involved should not be allowed to turn the tables on her accusers.  She and President Obama were in charge, our military was at the ready and it was Mrs. Clinton and President Obama who failed to grasp the gravity of the real life situation and instead waited for some kind of magical solution as they watched our citizens die in Benghazi.

This writer is not a Clinton hater and I know that many admire Mrs. Clinton for standing by her man during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.  Nonetheless, Benghazi is something that we cannot ignore in an attempt to “honor” a spurned wife.  Some would ask why I bring up the impeachment over the Lewinsky scandal.  Some would ask why I bring up Mrs. Clinton’s own evaluation and scathing criticism of Obama when she was running against him.  I do it because history is real and no amount of good intentions or fervor in favor of a particular person should blind us to the facts.  In fact, Mrs. Clinton’s parting speech says the same thing.  However, she wants to apply the rules to others but not to herself.  Well, friends, that is not real.

Obama Administration Always Fast to Point Finger

http://news.yahoo.com/gdp-reminder-congress-address-spending-white-house-150028918–business.html

“Today’s report is a reminder of the importance of the need for Congress to act to avoid self-inflicted wounds to the economy,” said Krueger in a blog post shortly after the release of new government data on gross domestic product.

Amazing that the White House and those sympathetic are fast as lightning to point the finger of accusation against the Congress.  Every time there is any bad news, the President or one of his advisors immediately diverts attention away from the White House and toward the Congress.  This is so very convenient for them and easy to do.  There are only a few of them at the White House while there are 100 Senators and 495 Representatives.  Easy for the few at the White House to quickly accuse while the 595 Congress people are always hesitant to speak for any other Representatives.  The result is the impressive myth that the White House pronouncements speak for the whole Government and not merely the executive branch. However, any member of the House or the Senate who accused would be considered speaking only for him or her self.

Is this an unfair advantage?  Yes, it is.  However, it can be argued that is the nature of politics.  So be it.  However, the news reporters can be un biased and represent the facts clearly.  Instead they abet the myth that Obama speaks for the whole government while the Congress people speak only for themselves.

Syria and Terrorists

The terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra does not differ ideologically from other Syrian Salafi Islamist groups like Ahrar al-Sham and Liwa al-Tawhid. In the end what they want is to establish an Islamic State. Since November 2011 the group has claimed responsibility for “nearly 600 terrorist attacks, killing and wounding hundreds of Syrians

Like Jabhat al-Nusra, a number of other Islamist groups also want to install an Islamic state in Syria, while even secular rebel units increasingly speak in ugly sectarian terms that demonize minorities, particularly members of Assad’s Alawite sect and the Christian minorities.

I am not with the regime but I am against their enemies because they are worse than then them! I pray for the safety of all innocent lives in Syria, especially the Christian minorities that are now being targeted by these radical Islamist groups.

Obama is Not a Dictator

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-immigration-reform-ill-act-congress-doesnt-224408712.html

 

“But the president indicated that his patience is provisional. He laid out principles he said should be reflected in any comprehensive immigration-reform legislation, and he said that if lawmakers get bogged down bickering, he’ll act.”

Obama is not a dictator.  He is an elected president.  His election is according to the law and it is under the rule of the law.  We need to remind our young reporters of this fact.  It seems that they very much want to give him dictatorial power. Or they want a daddy.  Maybe all young college educated reporters want the tyranny of the classroom Professor to remain in their lives forever.  Whatever is it, it is annoying to read news reporters using language in describing the President that casts him in the above mentioned roles.

The facts of our national law, however, are in the way of the unmerited enthusiasm of our young reporters who want to grant Mr. Obama power that he does not possess.  Hopefully, the rest of the nation sees this and will not fall into the Obama mania crowd.

Mr. Obama’s bellicose pronouncements and threats to the US Congress are actually the rants of someone who thinks of himself as the law or above the law.  These kinds of statements are not mere politics such as one might use to influence the decision-making of the 595 elected officials of the US Congress.  Rather, they are cast in the language of threat and they are meant to convey a threat.  He is saying that either they act of he will do whatever he wants to do, and he will do it whether or not he has the power to do so.

President Obama does not respect the Congress of the USA and by extension, he does not respect the people of the nation because they are the ones who elected the Congress.  His threats indicate a person who still believes that America should be thankful that he is willing to allow himself to rule over us and if we don’t recognize that, it is we who are wrong.

There is a Constitutional process in place for Mr. Obama to influence the House of Representatives and the Senate.  It is called proposal of legislation.  That means that he has his staff actually write down proposed legislation, submit this legislation to the House and Senate through his surrogates and let them debate the issues.  The second is to use the threat of a veto of proposed legislation to influence the Congress.

Mr. Obama does not work within the system.  He thinks that he is supposed to say something and it is to be done.  He thinks that he is supposed to give a speech and that is the same as proposal of legislation.  In order words, he wills it to be done, like some kind of Czar and everyone else is to bow down, says yes your majesty, and then go out and do exactly as he says to do.

But the USA is a Republic and not a monarchy.  It is also not a dictatorship with a merely phony Congress.  The USA is a Constitutional democracy ruled by laws and Mr. Obama is not outside of nor above those laws.  So, although the process may be tedious and at times it may make mistakes, ultimately, its is the will of the people as expressed by the people’s elected Representatives in the Congress.  If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he should work harder at the actual writing of legislation and he should be more cooperative in working with the Congress and not against it.

Obama a Centrist?

http://news.yahoo.com/don-t-hem-him-in—liberal–can-t-define-the-obama-presidency–154423941.html

 

Indeed, Obama is now a second term President, fair and square.  But the so-called mandate is not true.  Yes, he won 53 percent of those who voted.  But how many eligible voters actually voted?  His four years have tempered him for the better.  I did not vote for him.  But I do have hope.  My hope is that he will be more left of center than left of left.  America, I believe is a fair-minded and good nation.  I do not know if President Obama loves the America over which he fought so hard to Preside.  But I know that I love America.  I love it enough to accept him as the legal President. I love it enough to pray that God will help him to be just, fair and magnanimous in his administration. I love it enough to hope that he really, maybe way down deep, but I will take what I can get, that way down deep, he does love his country.

Immigrational Reform is Good

http://news.yahoo.com/bipartisan-push-immigration-reform-doomed-093500366.html

We have asked our Congress to do something.  Now let’s ask them to vigorously debate this.. I mean. really get onto the floor of the House and Senate with real people in the audience and not empty seats like on CSpan. Let them really wrestle with this thorny issue and let them broadcast how the Congress is supposed to work and let the people chime in via blogs and emails and have a long drag out debate and get into the weeds with all of us participating.  We have the technology.  Let’s support our Congress. Let’s see If they are serious and are not making quick back room deals that leave us out of the deal.  Let’s force these people who claim that they want to be Senators and Congress-people to do their job right in front of us, on TV and on Internet and let’s solve this issue and at the same time let our Congress people know that ALL of us, not just the special interests, are watching and will hold them accountable, not only for what they say but what they do.  It is time, VOTERS, for all of us to stand up and to call out our elected representatives.  No more hiding behind Obama, or party meetings, or Harry Reid with his “Dead on Arrival” policy.  No more allowing them to say, “Oh, well” and “Ah, shucks” and all of that phony baloney.  No more publicity from Chuck Schumer and John Mc Cain.  Let’s call them all out and see who they really are not only their veneer.  And while we are at it, let’s call out Jay Carney, the Obama Press Secretary for all of his “bull!@!@”  Lets demand that Jay tell us the real truth or just shut up and close down the propaganda room because it certainly is not a news room.

Sarah Palin

http://news.yahoo.com/why-fox-news-dropped-sarah-palin-164000188.html

 

this parting of the ways may be the best thing for Gov. Palin.  She is talented and although maligned as a person that some people love to hate, many Americans identified with her and her “mama grisly” attitude.  Don’t write her obituary yet, because I think that Gov. Palin is savvy, smart (her detractors to the contrary) and will be able to hone her considerable skills.  As the reporter on this article rightly said, she backed several candidates in the 2012 election and considering the number that went on to victory, her credibility as a politician is enhanced.  And for the Sarah Palin haters.  Well, you just go on hatin’ all you want because the rest of America are not haters.  We are not stupid, red necks and clingers to our guns and Bibles as your leader says.  Rather, we are college educated professionals who do not follow the phony politics of the liberal left.  We think for ourselves and make our own decisions based on our values and our analysis of each situation.

Putin’s Policu On Mid East Better than Obama’s

http://news.yahoo.com/russias-vladimir-putin-says-west-fomenting-jihadi-blowback-173800021.html

President Obama should get outside his Muslim childhood and hear the real call of Islam which is a called to radicalism, terrorism, and Jihad.  All of these are against democracy and freedom. Instead they are religious, medieval, and tyrannical.  It is very surprising that V. Putin, a former KGB agent but for the second time, the President of Russia, should see the world with more clarity and realism than B. Obama.  Yes, you can throw the relative state of freedom and democracy in Russia against me.  Nonetheless, Putin’s realistic and politically incorrect assessment of the Terrorist Islamic movement in Mid East, is accurate and should be given a lot of attention.