Sunday, August 1, 2010

What I Missed

Seems I missed a lot over the last couple of weeks. We took a couple of weeks off to play with our new used pickup truck, go to an awesome beach wedding between our middle son and his lovely now wife, and take care of some chores around the house. It was great forgetting the real world for a while, but it was still there.

We get back on the road and tune in our new Sirius radio to our favorite talk show hosts and get the jolt back to reality. One of the first things I hear about is an idea on the table by a couple of Democratic Senators from CA and WA. Seems they are purposing a bill to socialize 401K’s. They want to put them under Government control, make the earnings a flat 3% instead of being dependent on how mutual funds are doing. They also want to take away the tax breaks for the employer contribution which will cause employers to not want to contribute. There is also talk of them making it mandatory. Sounds a lot like Social Security all over again, except that this time there will be earnings of 3%. Now in some ways this sounds like a real good thing, making retirement planning mandatory. First we have to think about how it turned out the first time this was tried, Social Security is nothing but files full of IOU’s. Secondly we need to ask why they would even suggest a bill like this. Try this on for size, the Government is operating on major deficits, where else can they get their hands on millions or even billions of dollars, you guessed it, all of our hard earned 401K’s. If this was to get passed do you think they would stop there, oh no, better hold onto your IRA’s, they would be next. The Federal Government has turned into a slight of hand con artist, they are telling us that every thing is great, the recession is over, the economy is getting stronger, and the job market is getting stronger; what’s really happening is that the unemployment rate is still hovering around the 10% mark, businesses are closing all over the country, trust me, I’ve seen too many closed businesses, and we as a country are already placing the next 3 or 4 generations in debt, and that’s only if we stop spending now, if not America will never be out of debt. I did my research on this one as soon as I heard it, especially since I only heard one of the right wing talk show hosts talking about it. This is only a proposal by 2 Congressmen, so far as I could find it has not gone anywhere, so far. What scares me and I hope it scares everyone is that we have Congressmen that would even think of doing this, what’s worse is we have a large chunk of the voting populace that would think this was a great idea.

The next thing I hear about is this memo floating around from the White House to the Department of Immigration and to Homeland Security about bypassing Congress to defer deportation of illegals. So what exactly does that mean? Well let’s translate, it’s called amnesty. To give credit where credit is due, Homeland Security issued a statement that they would not grant deferred deportation to all the illegal immigrants in the country. What this means to me is that they will grant amnesty to any illegal immigrants that have no criminal record. That sounds good on the surface, we won’t grant amnesty to the criminals; hold on, isn’t crossing the border illegally a crime? Doesn’t committing a crime make you a criminal? What they are doing with this is not only making Congress inconsequential, they are trying to increase the voting block for the progressives. By making Congress inconsequential the White House is creating a monarchy, you know the same thing that the original colonists left to create this country, the same thing they fought against in the revolutionary war and during the Philadelphia Convention to create the Constitution of the United States of America.

The other stories I heard about just led me to a conclusion that has been bouncing around inside my pee brain for some time now. The DOJ doing nothing about the New Black Panthers and their statements about killing crackers and their babies; the NAACP not coming out condemning the New Black Panthers; the injunction against the State of Arizona’s new immigration law and the Shirley Sherrod firing. When you look at these issues and past issues you have to wonder what is really going on. This administration, the President in particular, wanted to bring all races together. The President even went on “The View” this past week saying we needed to make sure we have all the information before jumping to conclusions, kind of like in the Cambridge case where without all the information the Cambridge Police acted stupidly. What is happening is that this administration is doing everything they can to try and drive a wedge between the major races of the United States. Instead of trying to bring the citizens of the United States together, regardless of race, creed, color or religion, they are doing everything they can to keep racism alive. There have been attacks on the Tea Party’s accusing them of racism, irregardless of the fact the people of color attend the Tea Party’s and are active in the Tea Party movement. Why would the Government want to keep racism alive? This Government is trying to tear apart America as we know. The only reason I can think of for why they would want to do this is because they are going fly right past socialism to a monarchy.

And lastly while listening to one of the talk show hosts that I like to listen to a story came up about the President visiting GM in Detroit. The talk show host, who I’m going to leave nameless, went into a rant about how if the Democrats who are backing the President had traded their foreign cars and bought American made cars then the auto industry would not have needed a bail out. While some of that may be true and it does point out some of the hypocritical attitudes that elites have, do as I say not as I do, it was not an entirely true rant. While GM, Chrysler and Ford may have been started in America and are probably mostly American owned, they are no more American companies then Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota or any of the other foreign car manufacturers that have plants here on American soil. All of those companies, while being foreign owned, employ Americans, as do all the small businesses throughout America that produce parts for those companies, parts that we frequently pick up from small single machine shops or warehouses converted to factories to deliver to major assembly plants throughout the country. On the other hand the “American” auto industry has steadily imported parts and exported jobs and factories either overseas or across our southern border to save a dime, or to escape the unions. The host went on to blame those that are driving foreign cars and the Government taxes and regulations on the decline of the “American” auto industry since more and more Americans are buying foreign cars since they can get more bang for their buck in the foreign car market. Let’s give credit where credit is due, the foreign car manufacturers have learned that having unions in the workplace causes the cost of manufacturing to go up, and that increase is therefore passed on to the consumer, so no unions in the foreign car factories. American car companies are literally run by the unions, therefore the cost of an American car is well above it’s worth. I know this is a departure from my normal ranting against the Government, or is it? Our Government is propping up the unions and helping them to take over all forms of manufacturing within our borders, in fact they are trying to help them spread out world wide. What is going to happen to the price of goods then?

If this is what I see has happened in the last couple of weeks what is going to happen in the next couple of months or years. If the American people don’t get out and vote in November to remove the progressives from Congress what is going to happen during the remainder of the Presidents term. Does this President even care if he is reelected? Is there some greater plan in the works behind the scenes that will make this President the last President we will ever have in this country? I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I am very concerned with the direction we are headed, I for one do not want to live under a monarchy or under socialism. I like the fact that I control my destiny, at least to some degree.

Steve Avery
8/1/2010

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