You Can Sense it, Something is Not Right…

We are in for a rude awakening. You can feel it coming just like in the movies where things seem to be heading out of control right before a crisis. The country is going bankrupt and John McCain is calling for us to support “rebels” in Syria with more bombs and devastation. Our involvement will only come back to bite us and a question for John McCain; how are you going to pay for it? We are tapped out. It is time to leave the Muslims in the Middle East to sort out their own problems. That is why energy policy is so important.

The price of gas is skyrocketing and what is the response of this President? “I wish they were not so high…” Hmmm that makes me feel confident he is on the job. Instead of worrying about what political commentators are saying about political activists, maybe the President should reconsider the Keystone Pipeline and open all federal lands to drilling. That would be a start. These gas prices are a not so hidden tax on the economy that goes straight to the Muslims in Iran, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia who would love nothing more than our death and downfall.

The media is not covering any of the important issues with any zeal whatsoever. Unemployment is not going down, people searching for work is. We are seeing our country resetting expectations to the lowest common denominator under this president. He is spreading the misery instead of spreading opportunity. By continuing to punish wealth creators he is destroying the opportunities of the middle class. He has implemented policies that are drowning innovation and business startups. Regulations are strangling us to economic death. Just try opening up a lemonade stand or a taxi business and you will see what I mean.

Healthcare is dying. Religious liberty is under attack. Private insurance and hospitals will be converted to government bureaucracies if Obama is re-elected. And for all of you socialists it will not be for the better. Death Panels, benefit panels, and cost panels will begin to deny care, drugs, and new technologies at a breakneck speed if Obama is re-elected. We will be Europe or South America before the end of a second term. We are talking about paying for other people’s birth control when it is already “free” at any Planned Parenthood facility underwritten by our taxes. Why are we even discussing it? Because this President’s record on everything is dismal, and if people pay attention to his record, his re-election will be impossible. That is the reason behind the new mantra “War Against Women” the Republicans are supposedly engaged in. They are not. Their “war” is to unseat Obama.

Occupy “whatever” is planning chaotic demonstrations to defeat capitalism. The golden goose, capitalism, if defeated will mean the end of prosperity and America. These people are a minority but are receiving coverage that makes them seem like a majority. The good news is that gun sales have soared through the roof so I think many Americans are getting into the “Make my day” mode getting ready for these radicals. And that is what I mean by a “feeling”.

I heard a guy on the radio last night frustrated with all of this hypocrisy and double standards being practiced by the media and he was on the edge. I could feel for him and I have to say that the fuse is short for many hard working, law abiding, tax paying citizens that have had enough. We have been playing by the “rules” but it seems the rules have changed. It could get ugly soon and it will be interesting to see how many people are ready to defend their country and constitution. Like I said there is something in the air and it doesn’t feel right…

Let’s Have a Real Debate About Faith…

If we are going to hammer the GOP candidates on faith, let’s also discuss the President’s propensity to glaze over the disturbing and violent aspects of the “Religion of Peace.” The president is apologizing for the burning of some religious books that were riddled with enemy communications, possibly communications that threaten the lives of our soldiers. In response to this act of common sense and security, we get the usual cry from the followers of “the religion of peace.” Two American soldiers are dead and still this president apologizes; outrageous.

This country was founded on Judeo Christian values and is the foundation of our civil society. We separate our religious institutions to protect them from government intrusion and meddling as we have seen recently in the mandate of religious institutions to do things that go against their conscience. Our country is the success it has been because the people of this country have always believed their rights come from a higher power than some King, dictator, or preacher. We are free because we have been endowed by our creator. We don’t follow our creator to dominate the world and kill all that do not adhere, we simply hold our government accountable through constitutional government and practice our religious beliefs in the manor we see fit. Our religious beliefs enhance our civil society by instilling virtuous values; we do not use religious beliefs to try to dominate the world.

The GOP candidates have every right to believe what they want in their religious lives, and they understand the constitutional restraints against imposing those views on civil society. But to separate living a moral life and the character we will see in the office of president are not realistic. We see a current president that has little moral grounding, and the results that he has given us in our civil society. He promotes partial birth abortion which almost every American cringes at. He supports the “religion of peace” even when they kill our soldiers over a book, fathers continue to kill their daughters and cite Sharia law, and the lunatics in the “religion of peace” are threatening to wipe every Christian off of the face of the earth simply because we are Christians. This president apologizes to them for us? Why? What have we done except try to bring some of these countries into the current century? Maybe that is our mistake that we should just allow them to treat each other the way they have since time began. Maybe we just move on.

The news media believes that by “exposing” the GOP candidate’s religious beliefs they will scare the voters back to Obama. But what are Obama’s religious beliefs? Let’s have a debate about the tenets of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. What does this president believe the role of religion is in our society? Does he believe in our founding as a Christian nation? Which founder cited Islam as a bases of our founding?

Is Islam a “religion of peace” or a violent movement to take over and dominate the world to comply with Sharia law? Is it really a religious movement or is it a political movement that needs to be treated as such? Is Christianity a danger to our civil society? If our candidates believe strongly in the 10 commandments, does that make them dangerous or desirable? Do the Jewish people pose such a threat to the world that they deserve the treatment they receive from the “religion of peace” followers?

I think we should have an open debate about the atrocities we are increasingly seeing throughout the world against the Jewish and Christian faiths. We should look very closely at how our next president perceives these threats and their feelings about the increase of Sharia law in this country. Let’s have the debate but a real debate that doesn’t gloss over the true threat of people following a “religion of peace” to the values we were built upon. Bring it on…

The Incompetence Tax

It is happening all around us every day prices rising. Whether its gas, food, or the price of a product like a car, we pay a tax on incompetence. It happens mostly in the government but you can trace the price of a car to factors in the private management of companies as well. For example, when executive management agrees to ridiculous union wages and then approves ridiculous bonuses rewarding their incompetence, we pay a higher price for a car.

If you have been to the grocery store lately, it seems no matter how many items you purchase you can’t get out of the store for under $100. A full shop can set you back a couple of hundred bucks. And it isn’t going to stop. Transporting food to the store has sky rocketed due to fuel prices. Read my previous post on the cost of the incompetence tax being placed on gas.

The fools in our government, many of them have never run a business; continue to grow government at a pace we can’t sustain. Their actions and inactions are placing additional costs on us every day. By not allowing oil and gas companies to drill on federal land is adding to the cost of gas. Allowing the Keystone pipeline would also have an impact on prices in the future at the same time adding jobs now.  All of the loans being handed to “green” energy simply to pay off donors have all gone bankrupt or are in the process of going bankrupt. They are costing us a fortune in taxes. By allowing the OPEC cartels to continue to drive our markets is inexcusable. We need to reform the markets for energy to limit the ability for the Middle East to monopolize the markets.

The increasing government regulations in the healthcare and insurance markets are driving the costs to where most families are going to start going without insurance. Many already have. Total government incompetence.

In this election cycle we need to vet every candidate and decide on whether or not they pass the competence test. We need business people and term limits. We also need to limit the time representatives stay in Washington. We need a total sweep of the congress and the White House to eliminate the tax we have endured due to total incompetence!

Shut Up or Pay Up

If you want a say in the debate over the largesse of the Federal Government then you have to pay to play. Why should the takers be able to vote to take more from the makers? The makers need to be thanked for all they give to keep this country’s coffers afloat.

How can we allow people to vote on policies that ultimately line their pockets? Should we make it a requirement to pay taxes to vote? I don’t want to hear how that discriminates against any given group. Fifty percent, that’s right FIFTY percent of people pay no federal income tax and they get to vote to make the rest of us pay more. I for one am done!

“Only half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax, according to the latest available figures.

In 2009, just 50.5 per cent of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government - the lowest proportion in at least half a century.

And the number of people outside the tax system could have climbed even higher since as the economic downturn has continued to bite and unemployment has remained high.

The decreasing number of taxpayers threatens government revenues, and could also cause resentment from those who believe that welfare recipients are taking money out of the economy.

151.7million U.S. citizens paid no federal income tax in 2009, according to figures compiled by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank.

In 1984, the middle of the Reagan era, 85 per cent of Americans paid federal income tax, meaning just 34.8million people did not. “

Cause resentment? You think? Why not tie federal voting rights to paying taxes? Either way the system is going to collapse because we working stiffs are starting to look at ways we too can get away with paying nothing to the federal government. Maybe we cut back in hours. Maybe we sell everything and live off of our savings until it runs out and then jump on the gravy train with everyone else.

The only thing stopping us from stopping work is we are engrained with work ethic. We take nothing and give everything. We are the makers, the volunteers that keep the world going, we are the creators, and we are the hopelessly optimistic patriots believing it has to change. But will it ever change?

I challenge you to look around and ask yourself: what has happened to America? Oblivious to the fact that their way of life is being stolen by rat politicians. At least half of them aren’t paying for it…

Thousands of Your Dollars Wasted on Bad Energy Policy

When President Obama took office the price of gas was $1.86 a gallon. Today it averages about $3.50. If you are “lucky” enough to live in California it is over $4.00 a gallon. Gas goes up and down but why? And more importantly what does it mean to the economy and your family?

A few simple math equations to make the point:

To fill a 20 gallon tank:

At $1.86 it costs $37.20

At $3.50 it costs $70.00

The difference of $32.80 every time you fill up your tank.

Now let’s say you have to fill up once a week. The average commuter may have to do it more and depending on the car you drive it may vary as well.

At $1.86 the cost per year is $1934.40 a year to keep your gas tank full once a week.

At $3.50 the cost per year $3640.00 a year to keep your gas tank full once a week.

A difference of $1705.60 a year for a once a week fill up for one car.

Now the average family has at least 2 cars and I would expect for some it is 3 and it may even be that one of the cars get filled up more than once for those commuters in bigger cities. But I want this to be as simple as possible so by multiplying by 2 the average family has had to pay $3411.20 additional since the policies of Obama have taken hold.

What could you do with an additional $3411.20? Make a mortgage or rent payment or two? Pay for a vacation, food, clothing, and kid’s sports? Maybe put it in a savings or 401K plan? There are many things people could use this money for in their lives.

This President in his 2008 campaign said he wanted gas prices to go higher “gradually” to make “green” energy more attractive. More attractive at what cost? Why would we pay more for green energy when we have such an abundance of fossil fuels? Why are we paying our hard earned income to the Middle Eastern countries because we are unwilling to show the market we are willing to produce more oil?

This additional cost is killing the economy and making life more difficult for families. Is that what we hired this president to do for us? Solar and wind power will not power our cars anytime in the near future. These investments should be made not at the expense of rising gas prices but as a sound long term strategy to supplement oil energy.

This president does not care about the $3411.20 cost to the hard working American family. He has an agenda to line the pockets of his fat cat green energy pals with our tax money and in addition our higher price at the pump. You see if the Middle Eastern countries knew we were serious about harvesting our own oil they would be frightened to death. Oil is the only thing they have to offer this world. If we reduce our dependence on their oil they would have less money to feed their people. That would immediately impact the price of oil and the arrogance they show. The problem is they know this president is not willing to do what’s right for American energy policy so the prices continue to rise.

This issue alone is enough to replace him in November!

The Myth of a Less Confrontational Political Past

In light of President’s Day, I started thinking about the books I have read on the founding and early presidents. The political landscape in which many of our greatest presidents accomplished the most was during great opposition. The founding days of our great nation were anything but collaborative or bi-partisan. Many a political argument ended in a duel with dead bodies. Not the collaboration so many pundits suggest we find in our political environment today.


We hear commentators say “I wish these politicians could just do what’s right for the country” almost on a daily basis. The dirty little secret is that most of them think what they are doing is good for the country. It is sad but true, that Harry Reid believes it is best that they don’t pass a budget for the political future of this country. He believes by doing so it will help more democrats get elected and that will make it easier to keep going in the direction he wants for the country. I would rather see a duel myself!

The one thing you can say about Obama is he is moving his agenda forward in spite of the critics. For those of us that believe it is the wrong direction we want him stopped. But for his supporters they are behind him 100%. Elections matter and the 2012 election will be the only way to stop this president.

I believe Washington, Jefferson, and Reagan were the greatest presidents. They all put country first and respected the Constitution. The rest, well I won’t bore you. But one thing I pray for is a prodigy of one of these three great presidents to show up in 2012. So far the field is quite disappointing!