Yesterday I spent a lot of time reading various news sites, from Huffington Post to World Net Daily and everything inbetween.
First of all this is not a you lost we win thing. This is a wake up call to every politician elected and seeking re-election, that no seat is guaranteed, no seat is 'safe'.
When Obama campaigned for the White House and ultimately the presidency, he made a lot of promises, he raised the level of expectations that the voters had for him, that he could produce change. Well a year into his term, things are looking worse, and now he can't continue to blame Bush, or anyone else for that matter, he has to look at HIS actions. He needs to look at what he has done, and congress has done.
Someone said on a forum that I belong to said that the Democratic party should get tough and aggressive, and right now I don't think that's the answer. The election this past Tuesday for Senator Kennedy's seat shows that getting aggressive will not help. And that vote shows that no matter who you are, or what party you belong to your seat isn't guaranteed. Conservative Liberals may very well swing their vote to a flat out no on health care, in fear of becoming the Next Martha Coakley.
Getting aggressive isn't the answer. Lets look back to Clinton, and I despise Clinton. He went through some unpopularity when he pushed health care reform during his first term, seats were lost to GOP because of it. But, as much as I don't like Bill Clinton as a politician, he worked in small steps to gain trust of Congress, of both parties, and things got accomplished. Getting aggresive and trying to force votes isn't going to help either party. Yes Obama could learn from Bill Clinton's actions, I think a lot of people could. But to get that kind of cooperation, politicians, ALL parties, need to size down the egos from the President on down to the junior senators and especially some of the senior senators. Respect needs to be given when a person is on the floor speaking his or her mind about health care reform. Because, Yes, we can do it better!
The chants of yes we can to that statement by Scott Brown, had to be heard by Congress, by the President, and its a definite statement that the voters want change, that health care reform is not the issue, its how its done. People don't want new taxes that they can't afford to pay for health care. We don't want to be paying for illegal immigrants health care any more than we want to be paying for them to be on welfare, or receive Social Security benefits. People don't want to be told when to die, and loved ones don't want to see people they love and care about not get treatment. Yes we can do it better and I urge Congress and Barack Obama to work together to figure out how to make it better.
The News networks can no longer ignore the protests, the town hall meetings, the tea parties, they can no longer say that because we disagree we are racist, its more than that. Obama can no longer ignore it either, because if he does, he will be, WILL BE, a one termer.
He promised so much that he just can't deliver. And Americans don't like a president that apologizes, and seems to side with the opposition. And if Barack Obama does not see that, he will see it come the next election, because many people are counting down the days to that next election and voting him out of office.
This Special Election is a wake up call to all politicians! Not just the GOP, or Democratic Party but to EVERY politician holding office......
Listen to the people you represent, or you will be voted out!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Look around, America is no longer a 'rich nation'
On a wall in Facebook someone said that America was a rich nation, and that we should donate to the cause in Haiti.
Problem is right now I disagree.
About the only people becoming rich are the politicians, their friends and those that are in oil, other than that NO, I don't think America is a rich nation.
We were at one time but as the jobs went over seas, American were given false security during the Clinton years, wars have taken their tolls on everyone.....Recession is in no hope of recovering, jobs are scarce people are loosing their homes, unemployment is at an all time high, we've turned to China for hundreds of million in aid, the deficit got quadrupled in a year alone, the auto industry isn't recovering.
No we aren't wealthy, we are a poor nation and at the rate we are going will become poorer.
I watched a segment the other day on TV, I don't know what show it was, or what channel it was, but it was talking about the long term effects of Katrina. The aquarium in New Orleans is all but a ghost town, there is one animal surviving in that building, an Alligator or crocodile, whose body adjusts itself to going without food, and can live off its fat alone for a year, its heartbeat slows to 1 beat per minutes.....this is a town that still suffers from Hurricane Katrina, and will likely never be the same. We should be focusing on rebuilding the lost business like the aquarium.
Our country is sending 100,000,000 to Haiti for aid. We have numerous organizations over there, all begging for our help to get Haiti back on its feet.....but yet here at home we still suffer, from a recession. Families out of work, families homeless.
It doesn't take a natural disaster to lose everything. And while Haiti is the unfortunate nation to suffer a devastating earthquake, I have to wonder what's next.....how many times can America as a nation keep giving.
Yes countries came to our aid when Katrina happened, notably our Neighbors to the north, Canada, and our Neighbors across the ocean, England. I know there might have been more, but these are the 2 that stick out in my mind, and I am forever greatful to those countries and to any that sent us aid. But look how long its been since Katrina, and look at what we are still going through.
It took more than one person to get us into this mess, and I'm sure it will take more than one person to get us out of this mess, I guess what I'm saying is that for America to be successful again, we need to start looking at home, and helping those here at home.
Not just with 'bailout' programs that end up costing us more in the long run, but longer term things.
1) Sell Oil to America first before exporting it
2) Allow for offshore oil exploration along the coasts of America
3) Do what is necessary to bring the jobs back home
4) Penalize the companies that do take their business overseas and outsource the work. And penalize them heavily
5) close the borders, force people to come into this country legally
6) Stop giving handouts to illegal immigrants, and if these people do get handouts, ie free benefits or health care, submit a bill to their country and send their buts back. Let their people support them.
Even starting some of these things would help put America back on the track to becoming wealthy.....but if we continue at the rate we are going, we are going to be worse and worse off.
Mooch
Problem is right now I disagree.
About the only people becoming rich are the politicians, their friends and those that are in oil, other than that NO, I don't think America is a rich nation.
We were at one time but as the jobs went over seas, American were given false security during the Clinton years, wars have taken their tolls on everyone.....Recession is in no hope of recovering, jobs are scarce people are loosing their homes, unemployment is at an all time high, we've turned to China for hundreds of million in aid, the deficit got quadrupled in a year alone, the auto industry isn't recovering.
No we aren't wealthy, we are a poor nation and at the rate we are going will become poorer.
I watched a segment the other day on TV, I don't know what show it was, or what channel it was, but it was talking about the long term effects of Katrina. The aquarium in New Orleans is all but a ghost town, there is one animal surviving in that building, an Alligator or crocodile, whose body adjusts itself to going without food, and can live off its fat alone for a year, its heartbeat slows to 1 beat per minutes.....this is a town that still suffers from Hurricane Katrina, and will likely never be the same. We should be focusing on rebuilding the lost business like the aquarium.
Our country is sending 100,000,000 to Haiti for aid. We have numerous organizations over there, all begging for our help to get Haiti back on its feet.....but yet here at home we still suffer, from a recession. Families out of work, families homeless.
It doesn't take a natural disaster to lose everything. And while Haiti is the unfortunate nation to suffer a devastating earthquake, I have to wonder what's next.....how many times can America as a nation keep giving.
Yes countries came to our aid when Katrina happened, notably our Neighbors to the north, Canada, and our Neighbors across the ocean, England. I know there might have been more, but these are the 2 that stick out in my mind, and I am forever greatful to those countries and to any that sent us aid. But look how long its been since Katrina, and look at what we are still going through.
It took more than one person to get us into this mess, and I'm sure it will take more than one person to get us out of this mess, I guess what I'm saying is that for America to be successful again, we need to start looking at home, and helping those here at home.
Not just with 'bailout' programs that end up costing us more in the long run, but longer term things.
1) Sell Oil to America first before exporting it
2) Allow for offshore oil exploration along the coasts of America
3) Do what is necessary to bring the jobs back home
4) Penalize the companies that do take their business overseas and outsource the work. And penalize them heavily
5) close the borders, force people to come into this country legally
6) Stop giving handouts to illegal immigrants, and if these people do get handouts, ie free benefits or health care, submit a bill to their country and send their buts back. Let their people support them.
Even starting some of these things would help put America back on the track to becoming wealthy.....but if we continue at the rate we are going, we are going to be worse and worse off.
Mooch
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Environmentalism as a religion?
http://www.bobbyshred.com/globalwarmingfools.html
Someone once said if you want to become rich invent a religion. Get people to follow you and let them give you money.
Is this what Al Gore did? Created A religion?
Did Al Gore in his documentary use a clip from a fictional movie The Day After Tomorrow?
One News sight reported that Al Gore in his 'Documentary' "An Inconvenient Truth', used a computer generated image taken from the FICTIONAL MOVIE, "The Day After Tomorrow". The scene shows the arctic ice shelf breaking up and disintegrating. But what if said is true, it wasn't ice, it wasn't in the Arctic....What gave a lasting impression was computer graphics and a bunch of styrofoam.
Al Gore puts people who don't believe his theory of Global Warming in the same group of people that debunked Columus for think the Earth was round and not flat. But if Al Gore were a 'true scientist', which he's not, he's a politician, then he would be open to debate and discussion.
But he has yet to explain why people want to be removed from his research!!??
Why did Al Gore turn down 200,000 dollars, his speaking fee, and refuse to show up at The International Conference on Climate Change?? Why does he refuse the press to sit in on his lectures? Why does he think his law is right and there is no room for debate?
If there is no room for debate why did someone report that 15,000 Scientists speak out against Global warming
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?id=50
So in short while the original author of this page has passed away and there are many links to videos that have been removed. Information and photos still remain.
Has anything been achieved by 'selling' Carbon credits? I mean in the end you have the same amount of pollution being emitted into the air, so it really does nothing to help except offset someone's conscience. Right?
Temperture readings, where these thermometers and instruments are placed is critical to get accurate readings, but yet they are often placed in areas that give very inaccurate readings. The videos were taken down, however, the information and arguments are still there.
Every page I go through on this sight makes more sense to me that the Global Warming rubbish spewed forth by the likes of Al Gore and other people who don't have a clue about science, are not scientests, but in fact politicians, and very well paid ones at that.
Al Gore is heir to a family fortune built on money earned from Occidental Petrolium, hmmm seems to me that a lot of pollutants would be emitted into the air from this......
Sorry but Al Gore is no worse than the preacher who said God Hates Barack Obama, hes sunk to a new low pushing his religion, and berating anyone and everyone who doesn't believe his hogwash.
When in reality Global Warming may just be a prelude to worse things to come things that were prophesized thousands of years ago in the Bible.
So is Al Gore a 'preacher', because I sure know he ain't no scientist!
Mooch
Someone once said if you want to become rich invent a religion. Get people to follow you and let them give you money.
Is this what Al Gore did? Created A religion?
Did Al Gore in his documentary use a clip from a fictional movie The Day After Tomorrow?
One News sight reported that Al Gore in his 'Documentary' "An Inconvenient Truth', used a computer generated image taken from the FICTIONAL MOVIE, "The Day After Tomorrow". The scene shows the arctic ice shelf breaking up and disintegrating. But what if said is true, it wasn't ice, it wasn't in the Arctic....What gave a lasting impression was computer graphics and a bunch of styrofoam.
Al Gore puts people who don't believe his theory of Global Warming in the same group of people that debunked Columus for think the Earth was round and not flat. But if Al Gore were a 'true scientist', which he's not, he's a politician, then he would be open to debate and discussion.
But he has yet to explain why people want to be removed from his research!!??
Why did Al Gore turn down 200,000 dollars, his speaking fee, and refuse to show up at The International Conference on Climate Change?? Why does he refuse the press to sit in on his lectures? Why does he think his law is right and there is no room for debate?
If there is no room for debate why did someone report that 15,000 Scientists speak out against Global warming
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?id=50
So in short while the original author of this page has passed away and there are many links to videos that have been removed. Information and photos still remain.
Has anything been achieved by 'selling' Carbon credits? I mean in the end you have the same amount of pollution being emitted into the air, so it really does nothing to help except offset someone's conscience. Right?
Temperture readings, where these thermometers and instruments are placed is critical to get accurate readings, but yet they are often placed in areas that give very inaccurate readings. The videos were taken down, however, the information and arguments are still there.
Every page I go through on this sight makes more sense to me that the Global Warming rubbish spewed forth by the likes of Al Gore and other people who don't have a clue about science, are not scientests, but in fact politicians, and very well paid ones at that.
Al Gore is heir to a family fortune built on money earned from Occidental Petrolium, hmmm seems to me that a lot of pollutants would be emitted into the air from this......
Sorry but Al Gore is no worse than the preacher who said God Hates Barack Obama, hes sunk to a new low pushing his religion, and berating anyone and everyone who doesn't believe his hogwash.
When in reality Global Warming may just be a prelude to worse things to come things that were prophesized thousands of years ago in the Bible.
So is Al Gore a 'preacher', because I sure know he ain't no scientist!
Mooch
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