WHERE ARE THE JOBS!!????????

The White House spin cycle has been working overtime, with all their heavy hitters, on all the major channels still trying to pressure people into thinking that Health Care Reform (HCR) is the most pressing (and only) issue that American’s are currently worried about?  We are witnessing this administration slowly lose America.

            After the epic drumming Obama and the Democrats have taken in the recent polls, while having a supermajority in both the House and Senate, you would need to think they would at least try to refocus their agenda to creating jobs.

            Instead, much to the dismay of the suffering middle-class they continue to ram this HCR agenda down our throats. This is neither what the public is asking for right now, nor what the public needs right now.

            We need JOBS!  How can a “supposed” unmatched intellectual such as are current president be so blind to this fact?

             The $787 BILLION dollar stimulus which the President pushed through sloppily last February was done so on the premise and promise of putting American’s back to work by creating shovel ready projects, building roads, and bridges, and stopping the sky-rocketing unemployment our country is facing.

            Instead, unemployment figures continue to grow, as fewer jobs are being created and even more are being lost, month after month. A stagnant 10.6% unemployment remains.

             Meanwhile, the president continues to downplay his poll numbers as they continue their downward spiral, yet all politicians focus on their approval numbers and one as egotistical as Obama is surely scrutinizing them daily.

            He has focused on Nukes, Green Energy Initiatives, Healthcare, and Cap and Trade, yet refuses to focus on job- creation. The only answer as to why he hasn’t shifted focus is because he doesn’t know how to solve the problem or what the country needs to escape this current unemployment rut.

            Exactly the problem which occurs when electing a person for president who has never been in the job creation business or even worked in the private sector!

            President Obama continues to let our country down. While more and more people realize how awful and expensive his landmark HCR is, more and more people begin to hate it and the government intrusion, taxes, and job LOSS, it will bring to normal Americans daily lives. This will be a huge problem for the Dems in 2010 and an even bigger problem for Obama in 2012.

            Also as facts begin to emerge about Obama’s dealings with Wall Street and the donations he received from them, it will make matters for him worse.

            People have a general mistrust of Politicians to begin with, but when one comes in promising the lofty “Change” which Obama did, they will take their general anger out at the polls and will not forget all his broken promises easily or quickly.

            Obama passed the stimulus package by boldly declaring that it will create over 2.5 million “shovel ready” jobs which will immediately put Americans back to work.

            Now, everyone has their shovels, but are still waiting for their jobs…

A Solution to America's Energy, Welfare, and Obesity Crisis?

Maricopa County, Arizona’s famous Sheriff Joe Arapaio, or “Sheriff Joe” is known for his unorthodox treatment of prisoners. He has saved the county millions by setting up a “tent city” which houses prisoners in outdoor military tents, provides inmates with three tiny meals equaling 2,400 calories total, and makes male prisoners wear cheap pink underwear- all to remind them that they broke the law and to think twice before doing it again in his jurisdiction. n           

            Well, Sheriff Joe just debuted another brilliant idea which consists of making inmates who want to watch TV pedal  stationary bikes hooked up to generators in order to power their televisions. One hour of pedaling generates one hour of TV! Incredible, saves tax payer money, gets prisoners in shape and the ole Sheriff is going green, all at the same time.

            This sparked an idea within me. After all the recent chatter coming from politicians about going green and using alternative sources of energy such as wind and solar as well as solving the unemployment crisis which is rampant in our country.

            If we followed the good sheriff’s idea, we may just be able to do both at once and even take it a step further by helping America’s obesity problem.

            Imagine if we hooked up stationary bicycles in major cities that are all powered into the same type of energy grid which Sheriff Joe uses, one that can harness the energy of the people cycling. Then instead of doling out the massive amounts of taxpayer funded welfare checks, we make the recipients peddle, every day, for a certain number of hours.

            This ingenious method would help power cities cleanly, whip people into shape, and make them earn their welfare check- all at once!

            There are almost no downsides to this solution. Everyone knows how long and expensive the process is to construct, assemble, and put-up the solar panels and wind-turbines in America. Not to mention figuring out the ways of correctly harnessing the energy they absorb.

            This solution would solve all those problems and give electricity to buildings instantly!

             Now, I don’t want to jump to conclusions and assume everyone on welfare wants to be on it, because that’s certainly not the case, but I’m sure after a few days of pedaling for six hours  people may become more motivated to start looking for other jobs and get off the government dole. 

            Unfortunately, this ingenious idea created by Sheriff Joe and expanded on by me, will never see the light of day, because the current Politicians we have in office lack something that both Sheriff Joe and I have- COMMON SENSE!

           

Melting Steele

At a time when the GOP should be out embracing disgruntled independents, raising campaign funds for the EXTREMELY important mid-term elections, and plotting strategies to take back the House and Senate in 2010- instead  are dealing with a Republican National Committee President who is determined to lead the GOP off a cliff- or at least hope they follow him- as he goes charging right over the edge.

            RNC Chairman Steele’s behavior has been a never-ending roller coaster ride since he was elected. Besides making multiple embarrassing statements (some which included elements of race) and catching flack for redecorating his RNC office to the tune of $17,000, or billing the RNC for private flights and expensive care services, as he focused more on promoting his new book than raising funds for the party, which is what Mr. Steele has refused to address.           However, after releasing the latest fundraising numbers in February, the RNC has spent $115 million and only raised $109 million- spending more than we raise is a liberal move.

            Now, as the GOP should be in “serious mode “ preparing for its candidates final stretch before elections season begins- Chairman Steele is again bringing negative press to the RNC as it deals with a $1,200 reimbursement given to a donor who attended a LA sex-bondage themed club. As the MSM (predictably) runs-wild with any story that goes against the GOP’s “Family Values” grain, Steele decided to throw gasoline on the fire by responding to an interview in which he said “that he has a slimmer margin for error" because he is an African-American running the RNC. Just the type of inflammatory statement our party needs right now.

             That was enough for his Chief-of-Staff and the RNC’s outside consulting group to both resign Monday, fleeing in embarrassment at a time when the GOP should be solid, not fractured.

            Insiders recognize what an embarrassment he has been to the party, yet they have little chance of ousting him from within; because of this big-time GOP donors are fore-going donating directly to the RNC and instead giving their money to smaller, more centralized, and more focused fundraising groups comprised of state and local Republican Committees, to protest our leader’s irresponsible behavior.

            Either way, the GOP is facing important mid-term election which they need to win, with or without the self-aggrandizing leadership of someone who’s made of more silly putty than Steele.

This Bill and Obama Stink!

The Heath Care Reform Bill which President Obama signed into law today leaves many questions unanswered about how the future will shape this bill and especially the effects it will have on the country in the next four years………
•The President, House, and Senators are all EXEMPT… THIS SHOULD TELL YOU HOW BAD THIS BS BILL IS. Why would they exempt themselves from something they think we need?
•We have no money to pay for this bill, the real “cost” issues are not addressed, and there is no “civilized” nation as populated as ours (with 300 million people) that has “socialized healthcare”
•Every American for the 1st time in our nation’s history must PAY, to be an American Citizen or face fine/ and or jail time.
•Taxes begin immediately while benefits begin……… FOUR years from now!
•The Senators and Reps. who voted for the passage of this bill were bribed and bought like common criminals; embarrassing the American Legislative process and showing how awful this plan is, or else their wouldn’t need to be such a massive display of corruption in America’s most sacred political landmark.
•President Obama is a huge, naïve, and egotistical fool, this ensures him as a one term president. When you sign a bill that brings the pain early and backloads the effects then be prepared to deal with the next 2.5 years of angry citizens being laid-off because of his miss-guided bill.
•What happened to Obama’s dog “BO” ? He was all the MSM could focus on for a few short days, suddenly he’s not anywhere in sight…. It may be a coincidence he disappeared right before Obama’s first official State Dinner…. With INDIA!!!

President Obama's B+?

 

President Obama, in a recent interview with Diane Sawyer was asked what he would give himself as a grade for his first year in office, without missing A beat Obama replied, “ solid B+”. 

            Now, dismissing the fact that most Presidents wouldn’t even fall into the trap of answering this question, especially when unemployment is continuing to rise every month, “Arrogant Obama” just couldn’t refuse.

            Let’s take a look at his first year and try to figure out how Obama’s grading system works and why I couldn’t get a college professor to be as easy grading me as the grade he gave himself.

            Obama’s first act of closing Guantanamo Bay has failed miserably. In fact, Obama who signed the Executive Order closing G-BAY on his 2^nd day in office, has had so much trouble with this topic that the Democratic Controlled Senate has refused his request for additional funds to upgrade existing prisons within the US, to meet the maximum- security standards which are applied at G-BAY. As of now, the 2010 budget is closed and the prisoners will not be moved until 2011 at the earliest.

            Staying on the issue of terrorism, Obama again fumbled the ball along with his Attorney General Eric Holder, who decided to reverse Bush Administration policies and place Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) on trial as a civilian in NYC, instead of using Military Trials.

            Obama and Holder allowed their liberal out-look to cloud their judgment and after the Mayor and Gov. of NY publicly spoke out against this awful decision and the cost it would incur on the city in both overtime and tourism dollars, the administration retreated from their original positions and are now in the process of trying to figure out how to escape this predicament.

            Obama also wouldn’t come out and admit that the Fort Hood shooting, where Nidal was heard yelling “Allay Akbar” was not a terrorist attack. Wrong.

            He also decided to allow the Christmas day bomber to lawyer up after his failed attempt to ignite an underwear bomb over Detroit. It has been reported that he was singing like a canary until informed that he had “the right to an attorney” which prompted him to immediately stop talking.  On Homeland Security alone, he should have deducted at least a point.

            Last February, Obama insisted on a “nation saving” $787 billion stimulus package in which he vowed would stop unemployment (was at 8.6%) from rising past 10%. Now, we have watched it rise almost every month as it hit a high of 10.8%, worried American’s are still waiting for the “millions” of jobs he promised Main St., as Wall St was rewarded with billions in bailout dollars.

            Instead of pursuing an aggressive job creation plan, the President decided to use his majorities in both chambers to push unpopular legislation such as Cap-and Trade and Health Care, which were heavily, influenced by Unions and big money Liberals.

            Obama decided to tackle huge problems such as HC and Global Warming instead of creating jobs, which may have avoided losses in VA and NJ’s Governors races, states that heavily favored and supported Obama in the election. Not to mention the embarrassing loss of Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat to a Republican.

            Obama still has time to turn around his Presidency if he decides to slow the government spending down and focus on jobs. However, this seems unlikely. After his State of the Union, Obama made it clear that his agenda will not be swayed to the middle, which will hurt his party in the 2010 mid-term elections.

            This will make passing any major bills even harder and lead to the gridlock which Bush suffered during his last 4 years.

            While Obama spent his first year bowing to foreign leaders, making a failed bid  to hold the Olympics in Chicago, and blaming Bush on anything and everything, He needs to start getting people jobs and slowing down foreclosures because if not, his first year B+, will lead to a first term president.

Obama willing to use the "Nuke" on Health Care

President Obama just announced that he is ready to use the controversial practice of “Reconciliation” to pass Health Care if he cannot get an up and down vote on the legislation soon.

            Reconciliation is known on Capitol Hill as “The Nuclear Option” because it skirts the Senate rules of a majority vote and instead passes a bill with a mere 51 of 100 votes. Much less than the 61 which the democrats would need to pass Health Care reform using normal procedures.

            After Republican Scott Brown’s stunning victory over Martha Coakley in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat, most political pundits and politicians (especially Democrats) conceded that the process of passing major H.C reform was all but dead.  

            Now, Obama is going to announce passing it through reconciliation. This stunning announcement comes after President Obama recently held a “Health Care Summit” which included members of both parties and proved to be nothing more than a dog-and-pony show, as many predicted it would be.

            The summit accomplished nothing and  neither party was budging on how to formulate a low-cost, high-coverage plan, which in itself seems implausible. The President is simply not in tune with Middle-America’s concern’s over the tremendous deficit Health Care will add to our already out-of- control debt.

            The problem lies with the MSM taking their talking points from the WH and smearing       The Republican Party by saying that they are the party of “NO”. However, they and the President miss the point. We all understand that HC needs to be fixed and that costs are indeed spiraling out-of-control, except they refuse to allow Republican ideas be included in “their” bill.         Republicans want a cap on Medical Malpractice Lawsuits, which will immediately eliminate many of the unnecessary procedures which doctors use simply to cover their back over future lawsuits.  They also want to see a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid fraud which runs rampant and pushes costs up for everyone else paying taxes into the system and Republicans are against state-provided abortions.

            There are a few other points as well, but these seem to be the major ones on which neither party will budge. The three buyoffs of Senators continued to enrage an already angry general public and hurt the process as well.

            As President Obama starts feeling the pressure to simply pass a “bill”, he has forced himself into a corner, one that will define his presidency over the next three years. He knows that he campaigned on HC reform and will look weak and lost if he cannot get a bill passed, however, if the bill doesn’t appeal to the ultra-liberal left they may abandon him come 2012. Already, the           Obama had the chance to pass HC with the advantage of having control over both the House and Senate early in his presidency- and he blew it, then came the unexpected win of Brown, winning a seat that hasn’t been held by a Republican since 1972, which forces Obama to use Reconciliation simply to save face.

            Americans are not dumb, but angry and as the Tea Party Protest’s have shown, and sick of being taxed and taxed and taxed. We know this is just yet another tax increase which will kill Middle- America. As Obama finished his HC Summit he stated that “This is what elections are for, If Americans like this bill he shall see in November” with the Democratic party already running scared, the term “Nuclear Option” couldn’t be more fitting- because if it passes, then it will obliterate the Democratic Party.

           

Escalating While Retreating?

On last Tuesday night, in front of attentive Cadets at West Point, President Obama laid out his long-awaited speech concerning his war strategy for Afghanistan. It had taken him months of deliberation to finally agree on a strategy for the war he considered “necessary” and “vital” during his presidential campaign.

            Obama had begun to receive increasing criticism and pressure from both sides of the aisle- with Republicans urging the president to make a quicker decision and encouraging him to seriously consider following Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s request for an additional 40,000 troops. Democrats however have suddenly soured on the war and many within their ranks are beginning to question if we should even continue sending troops into the area at all. Some democrats have even called for a complete withdraw of US forces in Afghanistan.

            For a president who ran his campaign on the fact that he never agreed with going to war with Iraq this puts the President into a peculiar position. President Obama is an anti-war democrat who gained a lot of support and money from powerful and important liberal, anti-war, grassroots movements like Moveon.org and Codepink. These groups are vital for his re-election campaign because of their influential connections, big donations, and extensive volunteer lists. He knows that it is important to remain on their good side; however he also knows that he cannot be seen as being weak internationally in a war which he has stated was important for the safety of our country and for the future stabilization of the region.

            In the end, President Obama made a wise decision by committing an additional 30,000 troops to be deployed quickly to the region. This will provide an immediate “surge” of US forces- first of highly trained US Marines, then followed by the Army’s 10^th Mountain Division, with additional   US troops being deployed shortly after.

            The President made an intelligent choice by deploying a considerable number of troops to join the initial 21,000 he sent in February. By agreeing to send a substantial amount of US forces now it should prevent him from needing to send anymore additional troops over in the near future. If, for instance, he only committed 15,000 troops now and things began to turn for the worse in the theatre then Obama may have needed to send additional reinforcements- making his decision making seem shaky- especially when his general asked for a considerably higher number. For this Obama needs to be applauded. It also shows he understands that he knows how important his decision will be with independent voters when 2012 rolls around.  

            This strategy was inspiring because of the level of skepticism within his administration. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Vice President Biden both were against sending more troops to the region and publicly displayed their feelings for committing additional troops. These doubts shown by some of his top aides may have contributed to President Obama’s prolonged decision, yet in the end, he went against his V.P and S.S and listened to his advisors from the Pentagon.

           

            The only criticism I have concerning his plan was providing an 18 month timetable for withdraw.

“Taken together, these additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011.”

            Which coincidentally occurs right as campaign season for the 2012 presidential elections will start to begin.

            For some reason, President Obama has become infatuated with these timelines and timetables for many of his policies. The problem with this is that he has yet to reach one of them. He will not be able to close Guantanamo Bay by the end of this year, as promised, didn’t meet his August 1^st Health Care legislation deadline, and has pushed back government incentives benefits, which he promised would be “temporary jolts”, but are looking more and more, like they will become new permanent government entitlement programs.

            By setting an 18 month deadline to withdraw the troops in Afghanistan, he is essentially telling the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to take an extended vacation to their safe havens in Yemen or Somalia for a year or two then simply return because we will be gone. This doesn’t help to defeat the enemy; it just provides them with a game plan to regroup after our set 18 month deadline. The other problematic thing about this is that if he does not reach his prearranged withdraw by July 2011; he again, begins to lose trust with the public and it makes his administration look inept.

            President Obama’s speech Tuesday night was average one for such a great orator, yet for a “dove” he showed some serious determination to try and defeat this dangerous enemy. I think that he is very worried about being a wartime president and realizes how quickly public perception can turn on its leaders when in war.  I think that the president made a good decision and the right decision concerning his troop increase and now he will need to wait and see how he will respond when our troops inevitable begin dying in combat and if he will lose the war in the battle of the media.

            As President Obama ended his speech he said:

 “America - we are passing through a time of great trial. And the message that we send in the midst of these storms must be clear: that our cause is just, our resolve unwavering. We will go forward with the confidence that right makes might, and with the commitment to forge an America that is safer, a world that is more secure, and a future that represents not the deepest of fears but the highest of hopes. Thank you, God Bless you, God Bless our troops, and may God Bless the United States of America.”

            As our President, I hope he has the unwavering resolve which he speaks of and the confidence to not be swayed by the media’s perception of this battle because he made the right decision and they brought this war to us and they need to pay dearly for messing with America.