This week in America – November 18, 2009

Sorry I haven’t been as handy with this as I had wanted but I have been quite busy this summer and football season. Someone gave me a radio microphone this football season and I have been completely engrossed with that. But now it’s time to get back to the grindstone in the issues,

1. Attorney General Eric Holder wants to bring the terrorists in for a civilian trial. Hey Eric, this isn’t “What’s My Line,” or the “People’s Court,”…well I guess maybe it is some of the latter, but you get my meaning. These are dangerous terrorists and KILLERS. They were combatants caught on the battlefield and as such they should be prosecuted in a military court as approved by the Congress a few years ago.

2. Unemployment figures for October 2009 is over 10%...well thank God we passed that stimulus package back in the first few weeks of the Obama administration. Remember that one? It’s the one that President Obama said we needed because without it unemployment might reach 8%. What are they playing by golf scores? Isn’t 10% worse than 8%? Nice call on that one.

3. So in Allentown, Pa., a 17 year-old Boy Scout volunteered his time and worked hard to clear a walking path in a city park as part of his work towards earning Eagle scout. Commendable of the young lad. In this time when most teens are looking for some direction, here is this young man working hard to better himself. Then comes Nick Balzano, he’s the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) boss for Allentown. Nick is threatening to sue Allentown for allowing this scout hoodlum to volunteer when there are plenty of out-of-work union members who could have been used – for a price. You know, the SEIU already seems to have free run of the White House, now they want to go after the Boy Scouts of America – NICE!!

4. So Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Democrat who wants to run for Texas Attorney General says that the 2005 state constitutional amendment that makes the definition of marriage in Texas a union between one man and one women also contains a clause that eliminates marriage altogether in the state – Brilliant. Current Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says this law is perfectly fine and does not mean what Ms. Radnofsky declared. She is going to point this out and try and use this as a campaign issue – Really? Well go ahead Barbara, you should get the vote of everyone who is married and wants to remain married cause that’s what we want, to elect someone who is going to come into office and tell us all we aren’t married.

5. And the Winner of the Day, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled in favor of several New Orleans plaintiffs saying the U.S. Corps of Engineers caused the disaster in parts of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina due to their lack of supervision of the levee system. The judge called it a manmade disaster. So let me get this one straight, if you live in an area that is below sea level and a once a century storm blows through, it is somehow the governments fault. Where was this judge when I was growing up and sent a baseball through Mrs. Johnson’s house? I could have sued on the grounds that Mrs. Johnson shouldn’t have built that house there in the first place – This is Genius!!!!

Carry On Folks,
Bill

This Week in America, August 11, 2009

1. Senator Arlen Specter, in a town hall meeting this morning, said the Senate doesn’t have a healthcare bill. Yes they do, it passed out of committee last week. He also said he wouldn’t vote for a bill that increased the debt – YEAH, just like when he voted for the stimulus bill.

2. In several 2007 interviews, then-Senator Obama made statements about how the development phase of a new healthcare bill should be open to all sides for discussion, even going so far as to state that he would have the meetings shown on C-SPAN. My, my, my how times have changed.

3. In yet another end-of-the-news-cycle, Friday move, The Obama administration (this time in the form of Timothy Geithner) sent a request to Congress to raise the national debt ceiling. By the way, this would be the second time in the last six months the ceiling has been raised; the other was in the stimulus bill.

4. If you go to any of the congressional town hall meetings with any other opinion other than those that agree with the proposed healthcare reform, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer have labeled you Un-American.

5. In 2005, Michigan Representative John Dingell said that President Bush should have to explain himself for leaving the public health and environment at risk while toxic sites lay untreated in the United States. Under President Bush, the government cleaned up an average of 38 such sites a year. President Obama’s administration will clean up 20 this year and 22 next year. Where is Rep. Dingell’s outrage over this reduction?

How’s you week going?
Bill

This Week in America July 31, 2009

1. President Obama has started his backyard beer drinking tour. How do I get on this list?

2. The Cash for Clunkers program has already exceeded its planned budget in the first week. By the way, it was budgeted through to the end of October. Congress and the President say it’s a great success. Since when is something a success when you overruns a three month budget in one week?

3. In the legislators-not-reading-bills-they-are-voting-on segment, Representative John Conyers, head of the House Judiciary Committee, said this week that he loves when other congressmen get up and ask the question, “did you read the bill?” His response is to know how you can read a 1000 page document in one or two days and understand it. He said that if the congress read everything they voted on, they would never get anything done. HEY, not doing anything, now that might be a concept.

4. An Inspector General’s report released this week said that 64% of the U. S. Department of Energy failed to use proper climate controls in their buildings resulting in $11.5 million in wasted energy. That’s enough to power 9,800 homes for one year.

5. Senator Christopher Dodd announced this week that he has Prostate Cancer. Since he and Senator Ted Kennedy are fighting cancer, and they are the champions of the President’s healthcare reform, I wonder if they will even be able to stomach using the antiquated and failing healthcare system here in America?

Well, I’m off to see the Wizard!
Bill

Today in America July 23, 2009

Here is a new slant to give Quick Points a little added shock to the system. Hopefully several points a day to give everyone something to think about. Maybe five or ten points a day.

1. Did anyone notice in last night’s “News Conference” that President Obama completely took aim at every aspect of our healthcare and law enforcement? Not one time did he even thank or show any sort of appreciation for the work of the American medical professionals – NICE!

2. He also took the time to point out that even though he knew very little about the incident, he felt the Cambridge, Mass. Police Department acted stupidly. Nice word to use to describe a situation that he admittedly knew little about. And on national TV no less – AWESOME!

3. Another special point from the Obama Hour was when the President made the case that this healthcare issue had to be taken care of as soon as possible. WHY? At a time when it appears that many Americans want some sort of healthcare reform, why not take some time and find a bill that a true majority can agree on.

4. Why is it okay for the president of the Black Chamber of Commerce to refer to Senator Barbara Boxer as “ma’am” but when a General of our Army respectfully calls her “ma’am” she jumps up on her high horse and demands he call her “Senator?”

5. Joe Biden is running around the country proclaiming that the stimulus plan is working as advertised and predicted only a few weeks after he said the country was worse off than predicted after the stimulus because conditions were worse than they had originally thought. That Makes Sense – kind of. GO-JOE-GO!!!

6. Did you know the U. S. Government has a Bureau of Public Debt? Shocking, someone should check on just what it is they do over there.

Enough for now, more tomorrow…maybe!
Bill

New Hampshire Creating Jobs!

Hats off to New Hampshire, they are charging forward with this stimulus thing! According to the New Hampshire’s own Office of Legislative Budget Assistant, the state has received $413,600,000 of federal stimulus money and has created – wait for it – 50 new jobs.

50 NEW JOBS – OUT-FREAKIN-STANDING!!!!!

Of course only 34 of those jobs are going to be permanent jobs, the rest will be full-time “temporary” jobs (don’t ask, I have no idea what that means). For those in the temporary status, don’t worry, all of these jobs will be state employee jobs and like all government jobs they are pretty much forever.

For those math nuts out there, that comes to just about $8,272,000 for each job created, or roughly a pay rate of about $5,000 an hour. Hurry now, apparently job applications are going fast.

Time to polish up the old resume,
Bill

Government Creating Competition?

The last week Goldman Sachs reported a better-than-forecasted second quarter earnings and now able to repay the bailout money. Something that should make every U. S. tax payer feels better about the current economy. But wait, even Goldman Sachs admits that much of their success is due to less competition in the marketplace.

Goldman Sachs CFO, David Viniar, called it a “fragmented competitive environment” and went on to say that fragmentation came from the failure of its two main competitors; Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, while the others were either bought out, failing or in some sort of reformation process, with government help.

It is important to point out that at the time Goldman Sachs received its bailout money the former Treasury Secretary who issued the bailout also happened to be the former Goldman Sachs CEO. Is that why Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers received no government bailout money, they had no big government connections?

What is the point of all of this? Well, before everyone gets excited with the possibility of an economic upswing based on the performance of the bailout gang, remember, a major part of their success is driven by less competition. A situation controlled by federal government involvement.

Look Out Ford,
Bill

Hillary – Keeping her word

Months ago a certain senator proved that he was not being true to his words and now here comes Secretary of State Clinton doing the same. Yes, it shouldn’t shock anyone that a career politician is not keeping their word. After all, this is a world where a politician who actually sticks to his or her word is as shocking as finding an automaker not looking for a handout – wait, that’s a different rant.

As a U. S. Senator representing the great state of New York, Hillary Clinton abhorred the idea of allowing foreign governments to NOT pay taxes on their diplomatic residences. She championed that cause and railed against the loss of tax money that would ensue should these foreigners be allowed to get away with such a travesty, much of which happened just last year.

Now, as the Secretary of State, she has CHANGED her position on this issue, much to the chagrin of the very voters she once called her own people (wait, isn’t she from Illinois or Arkansas or somewhere – oh never mind). This is a tax evasion that would essentially allow foreign countries to not pay New York a little over $260,000,000 in back taxes and $7,000,000 in annual taxes in the future.

But remember New York, she now serves at the pleasure of the man she once vehemently criticized as being unprepared for the office of President. As a result, it would seem that pleasing our foreign friends is much more important than you, and that your pettily tax revenue problems are no longer her (or the President’s) concern.

Does Milam County have a diplomatic residence?
Bill