An Open Letter to Progressives
Mar 11, 2021 2020 Election
Joe Biden has been President for about 6 weeks now. Let’s set aside any issues of the legitimacy of the election for the moment. Your guy won, and is firmly ensconced in the White House. Your party has a slim majority in the House of Representatives, and with VP Harris’ tie-breaking vote, a 51-50 majority in the Senate. Now that you have control over these lawmaking vehicles, the question remains: Is this what you wanted to happen?
First, President Joe Biden. I nearly feel sorry for the guy. 43 days into office, and counting, and he still hasn’t had a press conference. For the first time in 100 years, the President has not delivered a State Of The Union Address, normally delivered by March 1. Opinions vary, but the prevailing theory is that Biden simply isn’t capable—not of handling the press corps, or of delivering a SOTU address. Upon taking office, President Biden, in spite of his party’s control of Congress, began pumping out Executive Orders at a pace never seen before. He’s over 50 EOs now, and doesn’t appear to be slowing down any. His EOs have ranged from closing the Keystone XL Pipeline project to affirming transgender rights (whatever they may be), to re-entering the Paris Accords, to reversing as many of former President Donald Trump’s policies as possible. I think most Democrats would agree with the last part of that statement, but I’m not sure of the rest. Do Democrats really want higher energy prices? Closing Keystone doesn’t prevent Canadian oil from getting to the Gulf Coast refineries—it just makes doing so more expensive, rougher on the environment, and riskier. Do Democrats really think the Paris Accords are a good thing? While not in the Accords, the US decreased CO2 emissions more than any other country. And I still do not see how allocating BILLIONS of US tax dollars to the Accord will impact weather or climate in any way. As to transgender rights: did women’s rights expire? Because the obvious impact of promoting transgender athletic participation and locker room/bathroom access sure seems to have an adverse effect on women. Is this what Democrats wanted to happen?
Now to Congress. You’re in slim control. The House has already passed two incredible pieces of legislation: a $1.9T ‘COVID Relief Bill’ and HR-1—an attempt to Federalize Election law. First, the COVID bill. Holy Cow. Less than 10%; of this bill is COVID relief! Over 90% of the expenditures are completely unrelated to COVID. $1.9T! Put that into perspective, it is exactly ½ of the 2019 tax receipts for the entire country for the entire year! And 2019 was the record year! This bill passed the House with zero GOP votes. It is being hammered in as a ‘budget reconciliation’ bill just to be subject to a simple majority vote, rather than the normal 60 vote threshold. HR-1 attempts to Federalize Presidential Election law. Note that the Constitution specifically states that the STATE legislatures are the sole responsibility for selecting their Electoral College delegates. This measure also passed the House with zero GOP yes votes, and President Biden says he will sign it when it hits his desk. Again, Democrats: is this what you wanted to happen? A 90% pork-laden ‘COVID relief bill’ and a bill that is likely unconstitutional, rammed thru on only a one-party vote?
If Democrats, Leftists, and Liberals are fine with this methodology to pass legislation, I am truly concerned with our government. Pushing thru legislation of such magnitude, that reportedly isn’t even popular with the people, using parliamentary tricks like ‘budget reconciliation’, just to avoid the normal 60 vote threshold, is decidedly dangerous. Remember the last four years? Where you yelled that Trump was destroying our republic and our democratic process? Trump never did this kind of despotic rule-breaking. It is entirely within the Democrat party that this is happening. Again: is this what you wanted?
More Clinton Socialism; Hold Your Wallets
Oct 9, 2007 Uncategorized
It is beyond me why Democrats think it is perfectly OK to take money from rich people and give it to poor people. The Maryland Governor (a Clinton backer) is looking to change taxes in Maryland and saddle the rich with a higher income bracket to pay for the out of control spending. He calls it a fair system. Hillary Clinton, who is a socialist, has already been shot down on her plan to give $5000 to each newborn. Evidently the polls showed this was a bad idea because she abandoned it.
Now the Socialism queen is saying that she would start a government 401(k) plan for all workers and this plan would cost 20-25 BILLION dollars a year. How will she get the money? Why tax the rich, of course. Hillary said the plan was to take away the inequity in our society and allow everyone to have savings for retirement. What she is doing is making the rich pay for the retirement of the poor. It is a disgrace and it smacks of Socialism.
The government already extorts money from us in a ponzi scheme they call Social Security. The money is taken from workers, ostensibly for their retirement, but it is not saved for the worker. It is immediately turned over to the current crop of retirees. Anything left over is spent by the idiots in DC with nothing more than an IOU left in the safe. The courts have ruled that the money is not ours and that the government can decide how to distribute it, or even not to distribute it. The money does not even transfer to your heirs if you die before collecting it. This system has been extremely mismanaged by the government and there are no protections for workers because the money is not controlled by the worker. It is extorted and then wasted.
If the government wants us to have a mandatory savings plan then let us take the system that is in place and revamp it. First of all, set up individual accounts so that money paid in is earmarked (I know they know what that means) for the employee who paid it in. Then allow the employee to invest that money in a number of savings and stock plans just as federal employees do with the Thrift Savings Plan. The money will belong to the employee and pass to his family when he dies. No one in the government will be able to touch it. This is one of the problems with Social Security. The government takes control of the money and spends it on things that are not retirement benefits (they transfer it to the general funds). The second problem is that Social Security has morphed into a social panacea for all problems. They pay for handicapped kids, disabled people, and a number of other things that has nothing to do with retirement.
With the track record of the idiots in DC do we really want them to have any more control over our money? What would stop them from spending it on their pork projects? What would stop them from deciding that they needed to cover the unemployed with our money? If they contend that the money will be in individual retirement accounts and cannot be touched by the feds then I say revamping Social Security would accomplish the same thing.
The federal government does not run anything efficiently and they do not look out for our interests. They are concerned with how to get elected and how to stay elected. I do not want them messing with my money as I can handle my own retirement accounts much better than they can. I certainly do not want them to dig into my pockets for more of my hard earned cash.
Hillary Clinton is a socialist and she will ruin this country if she is elected. Her ideas are anti American and they are not, despite what people like the Maryland Governor would say, fair.
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Tags: Democrats, Hillary, Political Opinion, socialism, taxes
The Democrats Will Be Transparent, Sure They Will
Oct 4, 2007 Uncategorized
Transparent, that was the claim they made when they pandered for the votes of Americans. They would be open and honest and yet, they continue to make back room deals with people like Abscam Murtha leading the charge to spend your hard earned money. Here is an interesting video that discusses the “earmarks” that this transparent Congress has requested. I just want to know if it is so transparent, how come no one is aware? I also want to know if the Muslim Congressman, Keith Ellison, is allowed to participate in the pork fest.
They are corrupt and they need to go. Having said that, Republicans were not very good at fiscal responsibility either. We need people in office who will do what is right. Let’s replace them all and start over.
Tags: corruption, Democrats, earmarks, Murtha, Pelosi, Political Opinion, pork
The Left Will Hate This News, Fewer Soldiers Killed
Oct 1, 2007 Military
The left in America will not be happy about the news out of Iraq where it was reported that the number of US deaths in the month of September was the lowest in 14 months and marked the fourth month of decrease. Seems to me that this coincides with the time line of the surge:
US military losses in Iraq for September stood at 70 on Sunday, the lowest monthly figure since July last year, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.
The figure also marks the fourth consecutive drop in the monthly death toll following a high of 121 in May. June saw 93 deaths, July 82 and August 79. The monthly toll in July 2006 was 53.
Two US soldiers were killed on Saturday in separate incidents, pushing the overall toll of American losses since the March 2003 invasion to 3,801. Breitbart
The anti war left is hell bent on using the names and faces of our war dead to force a surrender. They love to count the number of dead and use that information as a reason to stop and surrender immediately. Since they insist on using the number of dead as a benchmark to bring them home, will they now say it is OK to stay?
We are winning the war and the surge is working. Anything good for America is bad for the Democrats and the rest of the liberals. I wonder how this will change what the Democratic candidates have to say?
This also cannot be good news for those in Congress who want to surrender. Now they have to think of another reason…
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Tags: KIA, liberals, Link Fest, Political Opinion, surrender, traiters, treason, war
No Muslim Should Ever Be President
Sep 29, 2007 Uncategorized
I Finally Agree with McCain — Almost.
John McCain was interviewed by the website Beliefnet and in that interview he said that America was founded on Christian principles and that he did not want to see a Muslim in the White House and that Christians should be elected to office, though he said a Mormon would be OK. I believe that those country was founded on Christian principles but I think people some other faiths would make good Presidents. Jews could certainly hold that office without a problem and a Mormon would not bother me. I do agree that a Muslim should never hold that office and neither should a Satanic Worshiper (or Satan aka Hillary).
Some of the Muslims apologists, namely CAIR, complained about McCain’s statement and he had to clarify it by saying that a Muslim would be OK if it was the right person. This is the kind of back peddling that politicians do that infuriate me. State you belief and be done with it. Changing positions makes you look like a Clinton (who have no beliefs except the belief that they belong in power).
Now, I am not suggesting that any Christian would be a good candidate because McCain would not. He abandoned our POWs in Vietnam, he backs amnesty for the ILLEGALS and he called me and people like me racists for not agreeing with the amnesty bill. He is not fit to run this country and neither is Kennedy, Pelosi, or Murtha, all whom I believe profess to be Christians or members of a Christian religion.
Let me make this clear so that idiots like Ibrahim Hooper and the rest of the terrorists at CAIR and other Muslim apology groups can understand it. Do not demand that I clarify my statements because they are clear and to the point.
No Muslim should ever be the president of the United States. Muslims are intolerant and are forcing their way of life into our country with no regard for the beliefs and feeling of others. Muslims complain when we eat at our desks, when we serve pork products in school or work cafeterias, they complain because they do not have a place to wash their feet, they complain about Christmas and Halloween not being inclusive and concern about their feelings is causing at least one school system to stop acknowledging those days but there is no mention of ignoring Ramadan. Let that happen and we are a bunch of bigots. I would also note that Muslims are not tolerant of Jews and one idiot Muslim wants to eliminate them from the Earth.
Muslims have primitive beliefs imposed by a child molester named Mohammad who waged war on neighbors and killed those who would not submit and convert to the religion of maniac killers known as Islam. Mohammad is a false prophet who pretended to speak with Allah in order to do what he wanted without punishment. Allah’s will and all that. The truth is, Mohammad was a degenerate who killed for fun and had sex with a nine year old girl. He has spawned a religion of people who beat women to death for failing to cover up or for being the victims of rape. Islam is a religion of bigots who murder homosexuals and oppress women. They strap bombs to their kids and have them kill themselves in the name of Allah or Mohammad (pig be under him). They have also expressed a desire to replace our Constitution with Sharia Law (a law of morons).
Let me restate in case Hooper or any other idiot did not get it.
NO MUSLIM SHOULD EVER BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
We will never allow our people to come under the rule of Muslims or Sharia Law. There are a few dhimmis in this country but the real patriots will not let the Muslims take over. They are one of the enemies within.
The other enemy is the Democratic Party.
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Tags: CAIR, child molester, Ibrahim Hooper, Link Fest, McCain, Mohhamad, Political Opinion, President, rape, Sharia Law