Once Again Obama Cries WOLF!

Have you noticed every time the Obama Administration wants to enact a radical policy we’re faced with The End of The Country as we know it if we don’t pass the current boondoggle immediately.There is no intelligent reason to vote to increase the Debt Ceiling. We don’t have to default on anything. When you hit your credit card limit do you ask the credit card company to increase your limit. No, you pay the minimums and cut expenses until you can bring your balance below the limit . Sounds simple doesn’t it. Then, WHY DON’T THESE TALKING HEADS AND MEDIA TOADIES GET THE MESSAGE?

If we were to raise the Debt Limit there would simply be another rash of spending until we faced the same problem again next year.We need SPENDING LIMITS-NOT INCREASES!

Draw a Line in the Sand and force the Democrat experts to cut spending now! If you cut spending by the same level they’re asking us to raise the Debt Limit the supposed danger of default vanishes.

Those owning U. S Securities would be less likely to panic and sell their holdings if we were to show some financial sense and Permanently Cut Spending and vote to Reduce our Debt Limit. Think about it. If we started to show some fiscal responsibility companies would start hiring, the real unemployment rate of 17% would drop like a rock. Markets, seeing the increased optimism and activity would take off and the current depression would evaporate almost immediately. Seniors would stop worrying about their retirement and we could reform rather than cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.


Folllow me for a minute. We’re supposed to believe that Bernanke, Geithner, Obama and most of the Democrat lawmakers are financial wizards when they tell us that the quickest way to get out of a financial hole is to keep borrowing and spending? You go to be kidding.

A previous column went into great detail on how we could cut spending drastically. A quick review. Eliminate the Dept. of Education altogether and return control of Education to local communities. Sell the Postal Service to UPS and/or Fed Ex. Eliminate the FDA and contract those services to Consumers Union. Abolish the EPA and transfer their more sensible policies to the Dept. of the Interior. Abolish Public Service Unions and end this illusion that actual collective bargaining exists between Government and their financiers.

Drastic, hell, I’m just getting started!

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Teachers Attack The Wrong People

If youʼve been following the news lately “Teachers” across the country are out in the street demonstrating against further cuts in education. Weʼre hearing complaints that we arenʼt “fully” funding Education, whatever that means.

We used to have Elementary schools and High Schools until they came up with the idea of a middle school. What did that accomplish? New schools were built, at significant cost increases. More teachers were hired adding even more costs. And the quality of our childrenʼs education deteriorated.

Then we were told that the problem was that class sizes were too large and teachers couldnʼt provide each student with the personal attention needed to improve their overall education. The results, more teachers were hired, at substantial costs and the quality of our childrenʼs education got worse. Remember when a teacher controlled, fully educated and demanded the respect of classes of 35 to 40 children who actually learned something.

Compare that with the recent Department of Justice Announcement that 145,100 Public-School teachers were attacked by students and 276,700 were threatened with injury during 2010. In my day that would be unheard of. When we took discipline out of the classroom we created a real Blackboard Jungle.

In spite of these funding increases, the clamor for even more money to “fully fund” our childrenʼs education continued. Federal, State and Local Governments poured billions of dollars into elementary and high schools.

The amount spent per pupil on education in the country has increased over 30% while student achievement has not improved and some claim even deteriorated.

Where did the money go? Consider the Education Bureaucracy. We have a Federal Dept . of Education, State Deptʼs of Education, County Deptʼs of Education and in some cases even City Deptʼs of Education all staffed with Union members.

Remember when the education of our children was a LOCAL matter run by Local school Boards? Now we have a bloated bureaucracy, increased red tape, paperwork and administrative costs and a multitude of unfunded mandates. Currently, there are over 4,000 employees at the federal Department of Education making an average annual salary of over $100.000. Consider the salaries of those employed at the State, County, City and Local Deptʼs of education and you can see where all the money went! It sure didnʼt get to the class room.

We never had a Federal Depʼt of Education until the 1960ʼs and donʼt need one now.

If I were a teacher Iʼd be outraged too, but my outrage would be directed at the Unions and Bureaucrats that work hand in hand to siphon dollars from the classroom..

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Have You Ever Wondered Who Selected The Current Crop of Black “Leaders”

Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Charlie Rangel and others of their ilk have been appointed by the Democtrat Party and the “Main Stream Media” as the GO TO representatives of the Black population of the United States.

These phonies are front and center whenever an injustice, real or imagined, is perpetrated upon one of their race. Theyʼre shown leading marches in the streets, featured in the headlines and first to be interviewed by their “Main Stream Media” partners. They guard their positions of “leadership” jealously and are the first to label real Black leaders as pretenders or Uncle Tomʼs.

Have you ever wondered why youʼve never seen them lead a picket line at a failed inner city school? Think about it, these parasites eagerly seek out even minor slights yet totally ignore the biggest crime against Black Children since Slavery.

Have you seen the crowds of Black parents with their children at the lotteries held to gain admittance to inner city Charter Schools. Those selected rejoice while the unlucky ones are sentenced to yet another year attending a dangerous, sub standard location that passes for a school in too many of our inner cities. Yet we donʼt hear a peep out of the “appointed leaders”, nor a headline or lead story from the “main stream media”. (They donʼt deserve to be capitalized). The school district actually hired a private investigator who shot a video of this mother driving her children to the forbidden school.

This is not an oversight, they both know whatʼs going on. If not with their support, surely with their deliberate neglect. They donʼt dare oppose the teachers unions, who fund the campaigns of the elected officials, who are responsible for the conditions in these schools.

Where was the support for the mother who was sent to jail for falsifying the record of her residence so her children could attend a safer and better school? Who among us would not do exactly the same thing to protect and educate our children?

Where was the support when school officials asked her to pay $30,000 in back tuition?

A better question is What Are We Going to do about the problem?

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Defenders Of The Public Trust?

Our media has been sold to us as our eyes and ears on the Government, our protection against malfeasance in office in addition to providing us with the NEWS of the day. Those days are gone forever.

Recently a forum of journalists actually voted on whether they should be mandated to tell us both sides of a particular story or controversy. A majority actually voted against this concept. Their explanations were as hairbrained as their votes.

They claim that Fox News simply repeats the Republican talking points. Have you noticed the words and even the phrasing and headlines are almost identical from paper to paper, station to station and program to program as they present their side of any particular story. Remember “Gravitas”?

Their headlines bemoaned the fact that levels of Mercury above that authorized by the FDA were found in some Tuna and Swordfish. Yet nary a word about the Mercury levels in the cfl bulbs they’ve mandated. Have you seen the instructions
for cleaning up after one of these happens to break?

The USA Today banners “Nonsense about death panels’ springs back to life”.
While they ignore the FACT that the FDA currently condemns Terminally Ill patients to death by denying them access to experimental drug testing programs.
They also overlook the Fact that every country with socialized healthcare is forced to withhold many end of life treatments from patients simply because of their costs.

“Let’s Grow Our Own Fuel” They praised the use of Ethanol and even provided subsidies for people to grow corn for this con job. Then they ignored the fact that the price of corn went through the roof increasing the cost of feed for cattle causing beef prices to increase. And I haven’t even got to the byproducts yet.

In spite of the fact that people can’t find a job they kept parroting Obama’s Summer of Recovery wishful thinking slogan.

Now that the republicans are determined to repeal Obama’s Health Care monstrosity were seeing a barrage of headlines supporting this job killing, budget busting piece of garbage. “Law’s impact on jobs likely to be modest”.”Vitriol eases on health care law” “Calling health law a job killer doesn’t necessarily make it so” Poll says opposition to health care law is softer” etc., etc. All of the reputable pollsters tell us that 60% of Americans want it REPEALED!

Here’s an even better one “Obama’s ratings surge as voters optimism rises”. Under what rock did they find these optimists.

Have you noticed the full page ads, often 2 or 3 per edition, running in most Daily newspapers, “Buying your Gold, Silver& Platinum. Or the outfit that sends you an envelope for you to send them your precious metal items and they’ll send you what it’s worth. In spite of the fact that Consumer groups are warning us that people are receiving a pittance compared to what their items are actually worth, the prostitutes in the media turn a blind eye to these claims. One such ad claims to offer you a minimum of $12.00 for $1.00 Silver coins minted prior to 1935. What a deal, since the silver content of that coin is going for about $30.00.

In short, integrity in Journalism is a DEAD issue. Some say the media is biased. I don’t believe that at all. The problem is that the Elites in media share a belief in the Progressive Agenda and see no legitimate reason for bringing you anything other than progressive propaganda.

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Economics For Progressives

The degree of stability of consumer spending is a reflection of the consumer’s continued feeling of well-being and a high degree of confidence in their own future. If the consumer each year is able to look back upon an increase in their net income, they can look forward to improver personal prosperity. Consumers who purchase big items on credit--who take on major credit commitments--need to feel confident about their prospects for future income. Since the consumer is always the most important single factor in determining whether business is good or bad it follows that consumer demand is a key sector of our economy.

Consumers have to learn to buy and consume in order to survive and function in the American economy. Although many excellent organizations are working to improve consumer welfare, the best protection against consumer fraud is a well informed consumer, one well grounded in personal economic competence.

A consumer education mandate So that all students who leave high school are provided with a basic understanding of our private enterprise system and with instruction in consumer education. In the past many states have passed consumer education mandates few schools have included consumer education in their curriculum.

Our economy is constantly changing, due in large part to it’s continuing development of new products, services and methods for meeting the changing needs. In our economy, we are free to exercise choice among many alternatives in both earning and spending. Our ability in the United States, to produce quantities of goods and services has raised the standard of living of the average consumer far beyond that of most of he rest of the world. This continues to be true even though we have unemployment and poverty in our society.


















How Our Economy Works. Increases in the items that appear in the left half of the circle Such as Investment, which creates more Production and Employment, will result in increases in the items that appear in the right half of the circle, such
as Demand and Income. Increases of the items that appear in the right half of the circle such as Employment and Production.

The diagram illustrates the relationship between the Investment Theory and the Consumption Theory. Both Investment and Consumption functioning together make our economy work!

Consumer education aims to help the student to become an informed consumer; to understand the role of the consumer in our society; to develop a sound decision making process based upon one’s goals and values; to utilize resources to facilitate greater satisfaction in making consumer decisions; to understand the rights and responsibilities of the consumer in society.
Instead, our Government, educators, media and even our elected representatives would prefer to keep the public at large uninformed and susceptible to their manipulation and easy prey to the shysters, WHY?


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Real Deficit Cutting Ideas

In December a “Bipartisan Commission” of political cronies came up with a multitude of ideas they claim would trim $4 trillion of our $14 trillion national debt, over the next 10 years. If you paid any attention to the details, their ideas, as usual, were long on increased taxes and short on budget cuts.

I have a few suggestions that would accomplish twice the reduction in half the time.

Abolish the Department of Education and return to local control of the education of our children. Established in the 60’s this boondoggle succeeded in dumbing down our system of education while tripling the cost. Currently, we have national, state and county Departments of Education while we’re graduating kids, those who don’t drop out, who can’t read, write or count.

Abolish the U.S. Postal Service. The continued growth of e-mail has resulted in the tripling of the USPS annual debt. FedEx and or UPS would be more than happy to step in and fill the void.

Abolish the Food & Drug Administration. I could write a book on the reasons why, but I’ll limit myself to their most grievous faults. They’ve been a day late and a dollar short in taking action prior to actually recalling tainted foods. Their regulations require drug companies to spend billions in testing and retesting and turn around and complain about the high cost of the end product and arbitrarily limit the length of time of the patented results of that testing.. They deny TERMINALLY ILL patients access to experimental drug tests and are supported by the Supreme Court’s ruling that there is no constitutional right to receive unapproved drugs. What don’t they understand about the term TERMINALLY ILL? What do those people have to lose?? Talk about Death Panels. Explain that to me! FDA functions could be replaced by an expansion of the Consumers Union who do an excellent, and graft free, job of Consumer Testing and Reporting. Cellular intervention to slow aging is a science in it’s infancy. It seems as if the FDA is determined to keep it there. Although I can understand that seniors living longer would devastate Obamacare.

Demand Congressional approval of regulatory agency mandates prior to their
implementation. These groups play fast and loose when forcing questionable
mandates onto private sector companies.

Scrap the or severely modify the Endangered Species program. They sold us on the idea that a handful of animals were in danger of becoming extinct. Now one nut wants the thousands of varieties of Beetles added to the list. Add up the time, money and jobs lost when public projects are litigated and delayed for years simply because someone “says” they saw an endangered species on the site.


In closing I ask that you run through the lengthly list of U.S. Departments, Boards, Commissions, Committees and Agencies, each of which have a staff, sub committees and a substantial budget. Then tell me that we couldn’t get along very well with about 25% of just those listed.

And I’m just getting warmed up!


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Intercepted Russian E-Mail

TO: Dimitry Medvedev

FROM: Vladimir Putin

RE: Retirement Advertising Program

Dimitry, we’re missing the boat!

We’ve been following the Obamacare and election debates in the U.S. and have come to the conclusion that we should institute an immediate advertising program in the U. S. media to offer free transportation for Americans to relocate
to Mother Russia/ Where else could we find so many people willing to run headlong into Communism?

If they’re dumb enough to buy the idea that single payor health care will not lead to rationed care and Death Panels. In spite of the fact that every current Universal Healthcare program in the world has been forced by rising costs to adopt those elements. They’re dumb enough to buy the propaganda that Russia is a workers Paradise.

While their leaders claim to want to eliminate their dependence on foreign oil, they refuse to drill for their own oil. And this while we and the Chinese drill in their backyard. Let’s see how long their NATO Alliance lasts when we cut off oil and gas deliveries to their European members.

While our citizens riot in the streets to protest our selections, I mean elections, they readily elect incompetents to their highest offices. People who have no experience, think they have 57 states and can’t deliver a speech without a teleprompter.


They stand by silently when these idiots reduce the strength of their nation and urge the signing of one sided treaties.All while their President spends his time playing golf or traveling the world apologizing for America’s past transgressions.
Dimitry, when have we ever apologized for anything we’ve done?
While the Start Treaty signed by him and ratified by the U S Senate restricts the U S from building and operating missile defense systems. He tells his people the treaty “places NO limitations on the development or deployment of our missile defense programs”. He sounds like a Russian.

Talk about gullible. they ignore the fact they we’re providing Communist Nations in their own backyard with missiles and apologize for and hesitate to provide Eastern European countries with the missile defense systems they had promised, Go figure.

How quickly can we implement this advertising program

Maybe we can get even get this patsy to our weekly poker game!


Vladimir


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