Punished with a...what?

I was up late watching Glenn Beck, and I watched a clip that I had seen before more than a year ago, but seeing it again just made my blood boil. In it, Obama is speaking to a group and, of course without the teleprompter to help him, says one of the dumbest things I think I have ever heard from a politician.



I can't even believe that anyone who expects to represent us as a nation would have beliefs such as this. I hope his children have something to say about it when they get older, since he believes that they may have been a "punishment." I cannot imagine life without my three little ones, and I have to believe that many of you, whether you like this president or not, feel the same way. How can I trust someone to lead our nation when he speaks so frivolously of human life. If all punishment were like these three, I think I'd like to have little bit more of it.

Does anyone but me see where this is going?

I've neglected to write anything political for some time, but after listening to some of the things that have been happening recently, I decided I had to write...for posterity's sake. To start, I was driving around this morning to drop Joram off at school and then to Kiran's eye appointment, and I listened as of the Congressional Black Caucus spoke of their recent visit with former Cuban president and Communist dictator Fidel Castro, and I almost had to pull over the car because I was so dumbfounded. They "heaped praise" on the dictator, calling him "warm and receptive" during their visit.

“'It was almost like listening to an old friend,' said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable. 'In my household I told Castro he is known as the ultimate survivor,' Rush said." Really? An old friend? I can picture it now...

...Good Ol' Fiddy hanging on the back porch at the Rushes home, sipping on ice tea when the phone rings. Fiddy excuses himself for a few minutes, and when he returns he tells his buddy Bobby that he just had to execute some dissenters, confiscate some property, and confirm the building plans of his 6th mansion. He and Bobby sit back and share a hearty chuckle. "All in a day's work," Fiddy says.

It's not enough that we've been doing everything to wreck our economy, and possibly our nation, but now we need to pump our dwindling American dollar into Communist Cuba so that the Castros can build a few more mansions. This may even end up working out better than the UN "Oil-for-Food" that blessed the Iraqi people SO much!

This follows our illustrious leaders "muscling" private institutions and determining their fates, screaming about bonuses for AIG when other failed institutions also paid out bonuses (some of them much larger bonuses!) during and after receiving bailout funds, yet all we hear is the uproar over AIG. I thought that "Turbo Tax" Timmy was a Treasury Secretary, not a mob boss. I'm not saying whether or not the bonuses should be paid, but that's something for the Board of Directors or the shareholders to decide, not the President or Congress. Even a failing company, however, will have good executives, and in order to get back on track the companies will need the good ones to help rebuild, but if they're not getting paid they'll likely go elsewhere. Did I fail to mention that the AIG CEO reduced his salary to $1 last year for 2008 and 2009 in conjunction with the bailouts?

It's embarrassing that Congress wrote the bonuses into the bill, yet when public opinion sways to anger against the bonuses members of Congress and the President himself jump on the bandwagon to help whip up the frenzy instead of maintaining heads. It wasn't until much later that we found that Congress already knew about the bonuses, and this after Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn) first denied writing it into the bill. Does anyone in Washington have any moral stability left?

The way to improve things is to let failing institutions fail, not give them government money that doesn't exist and help them hold on a little longer, only to see them drag the rest of the American economy down with them. These bailouts may work, though they've never been proven to work in the situation we're in now, but we'll have to wait and see. We also can't expect success with the government in charge of private institutions, hiring and firing who they will, determining salaries and bonuses, and messing things up in the way only the government knows how. They continue to slip their fingers into every industry they can in order to exert a tiny bit more control, all on a quiet path to fascism. At least with socialism, there isn't any hiding what the government is trying to do. Now we have a government that claims to be leaving things in the private sector, but all the while they take control inch by inch. It's no wonder that a Communist dictator is anxious to "help" the current administration. Soon we'll be hand-in-hand with Cuba. Hopefully the American people will shake off the haze of a good public speaker with a nice smile and wake up before it's too late. That's the kind of hope and change I'm looking forward to.

And now back to your regularly scheduled programming...

It's about time for level financial heads

Early this morning Mr. Obama held a conference to get to the bottom of the out-of-control government spending and told members of Congress, and the American people, that something has to change. Really? Isn't this some kind of revelation that should have been reached before a 1 trillion plus bill was shoved through Congress and just signed by the president? He also said that we would have to start making "the tough decisions" about where to spend our money and what areas would have to go without. I'm not sure which was the tough decision for Mr. Obama in this bill, whether to give $2.2 million to partisan community groups like ACORN, or spending on the mob museum in Nevada, or possibly buying new electric cars for Washington politicians? What did the American people have to give up to get these "needs," without which the US economy would fall apart? It's a good thing that Mr. Obama is on top of the unnecessary fiscal spending in government, otherwise how much money would we Americans actually be on the hook for? I'm just saddened that my children will still be paying for this monstrosity 20 years from now. And I thought we were supposed to make life better for our kids.

Change we can believe in?

Many months ago we were given promises of change coming to Washington, and most of the country fell in love with the idea. Even some conservative friends of mine, dismayed by the thought of McCain as our party's choice, were temporarily swayed by "Slick" Barry's silver tongue. Many weeks now into his new administration we have had some change, though not the changes we thought we were getting, especially with oversight of the Census Bureau moving to the highly partisan White House (thus leading to possible changes in district borders, which would drastically affect elections and funding) and the copious withdrawals of Cabinet appointees (although "Turbo Tax" Tim still made it in).

The change that we were promised, however, doesn't seem to have taken effect as of yet. There was abundant outcry of "fear-mongering" by President Bush in relation to the war on terror, yet now we see similar tactics by our current administration that the stimulus must be passed immediately to prevent total economic destruction. There was also considerable outrage about the "hidden actions" during the Bush years, yet the lavish promises of "transparency" by our current administration has brought us the most abundant spending bill in US history, put through Congress like a thief in the night with Senators and Representatives given scant few overnight hours to read and comprehend a thousand-page piece of legislation before being forced to vote by the empowered Democrats. Even Obama's pre-election commitment to complete bipartisanship was thrown by the wayside as the authorship and voting of the bill went nearly strictly down party lines, with even numerous Democrats voting against it.

It seems that the "change" Mr. Obama had been promising all along turned out to be something other than expected, and we the people are still left uncared for while the politicians bicker about things that have little to do with the rest of the country. One thing that hasn't changed about Washington, however, is that politicians will still tell you what you want to hear in order to get elected. I, for one, Mr. Obama, would like my money back because the change you're giving us just doesn't add up.