Is It Any Wonder?

Is it any wonder we are in the mess we find ourselves in? The Detroit Mayor is under indictment for lying under oath, the NY Governor is a sexual predator, and the presidential candidates are economic illiterates who consider the government the solution to everything from poverty to a bright retirement. We have Senators playing footsy in the men’s room, a president putting everything American up for the lowest bidder. We have the same politicians that created the mess saying they are the key to fixing the mess. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

We have citizens that believe healthcare should be “free”, but have no qualm about spending a hundred bucks a month on cable. Knowing that education is the key to success, we are still willing to allow unions and the government to put out a defective product with no consequences. The black community of America is still blaming everything on racism but ignores the breakdown of the family, the opportunity to get educated, and how teenage pregnancy perpetuates the cycle of poverty. We accept an open border policy that allows people to cross our border illegally, undermining or job market, stretching our healthcare and educational resources, and undermining our future unity as a melting pot nation a true immigration policy encourages.

We have criminals running our government, a citizenry that accepts failure from their representatives, and an attitude of entitlement because, I’m not sure but there are too many people that think their entitled to other people’s hard earned wealth.

We are a great nation of good people but where are they in government? We need true leadership, not the people currently holding office or the ones currently running for office. We need real reform and that means changing the current crop of politicians. We need you. We need you to step up and run. I know it seems hopeless but it’s not. But we need you.

Is it any wonder we are in this mess when we have so many good people sitting on the sidelines waiting for someone to step up? We need you to step up; now…

Economic Ignoramuses…

Yesterday Obama offered an “Economic Plan”, and surprise, surprise; it’s based in government regulation, and provides no details. When are we going to start calling these politicians what they are; economic idiots! Now there are many greedy thugs on Wall Street that need to be punished, but the way to regulate Wall Street is to pay attention to where you place your money in the form of stocks and mutual funds.

Obama is offering to steal 30 billion more from the taxpayers to give to the people that have made bad decisions with their finances. Now that’s a smart plan. Add to the already ridiculous plan of President Bush, more debt and wealth re-distribution from the producers and future generations, to the, well, you know who they are, and how is that going to “fix” our economy? It won’t. It will only exacerbate the problem.

“While he laid out a half-dozen principles for closer scrutiny of the financial markets, he offered no specifics, such as which agencies should be reorganized or exactly how the government should go about peering over the shoulders of bank executives.”

While I’m no huge fan of John McCain, he nailed it with this statement: “Even before Obama finished his speech, McCain said in a statement, "there is a tendency for liberals to seek big government programs that sock it to American taxpayers while failing to solve the very real problems we face."”

Having politicians making any market based financial decisions is frightening to our future. We must trust the market, punish the individuals and companies responsible if they have broken laws, and resist the temptation to create new laws and regulations that could cripple our economy. We don’t want our markets operating anywhere close to how our government operates. God forbid. Just a thought and a prayer…

The Doobie Brothers at our HDI 2008 Conference in Dallas




























Pat Simmons signing my boot


















Rob with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders (Check out the smile!) Click on any picture to expand view! (I wonder which one will be enlarged the most? Hmmmm!)



Rich with the Doobies feeling small next to Skylark the bass player extraordinaire!

What are their credentials?

There is talk about congress imposing new regulation on the financial markets to “insure” and bring “confidence” back to Wall Street. Who the he _ _ believes any one of the current politicians in office have an iota of intelligence to impose new regulations? There are regulations in place for most of the criminal activity that went on, for the rest of it; it is simply the inherent risk of playing the market. Send the people responsible for falsifying documents and loan applications straight to jail. Let the companies that were stupid enough to loan money to unqualified applicants to fail. We don’t need a bunch of misfit politicians getting their tentacles into our financial markets because if there is anything we can derive from their past “experience” with finances, is they are morons.

This article here talks about the programs (Social Security and Medicare) these politicians are directly responsible for, tinkering on the brink of financial ruin. This is their legacy, and they want to regulate the private sector? With what credentials? The lobbyists will write the new regulations, and does anyone think there will be an ounce of good that comes out of that? Give me a break!

We need to get rid of all the morons in both politics and business if we are going to thrive. Let’s not encourage the same people that have ruined Social Security and Medicare to do the same thing to the private markets. Let them focus on putting the crooks in jail that have created this mess (including themselves). That would be something that might have a positive impact on our markets; maybe. It is better than having them act in an area where they have no credentials at all. Just a thought…

Thinking like a typical “white” person?

What did Obama mean by that comment? (Great commentary on Obama here) I consider myself a typical “white” person, although I don’t think about being white very much, and I know what I think about all Americans. I am color blind like Dr. King dreamed about. I have respect for all communities of Americans that share my values, hopes, and dreams. If you have read my book, My Life; Ignored! you know that my family was blessed with the support of my Dad’s co-workers (mostly black), at a time we needed it most. This experience and others, like attending a mostly Black and Hispanic High School, have shaped my feelings on race relations.

So when Obama makes a blanket statement about all whites, I am extremely offended. This comment puts him in the company of race baiters, similar to the Sharpton’s, Jackson’s, and Farrakhan’s of the world. This kind of statement gives us a window into the soul of the candidate. He is not a uniter as he proclaims, his beliefs are rooted in a past time that continues to keep us from uniting as the human race, and as Americans in particular.

If he is going to continue to associate with the likes of his Reverend, and other extremists, he will lose the general election in a landslide because like most “white” Americans; I have a dream…

It’s Just the Chinese being Chinese…

The communist Chinese government is “cracking” down, which is code for, killing their own people for protesting Chinese oppression. With the Olympics right around the corner, God forbid they be embarrassed by those pesky monks in Tibet. We can’t have that now, so we stand by and watch, justifying our continued “relationship” with China by saying, “we can’t punish the poor athletes that train so hard for the actions of the Chinese government. Why not?

When are we going to pull the plug on these thugs? They have undermined our economy by using child labor, and ignoring every environmental regulation we have in the US. Fair competition? I think not. We should be ashamed of ourselves. When will we start defining fair competition fairly? When will we start ostracizing governments that enslave their people? When will we start looking to a higher principle than the dollar?

They buy our debt because we are addicted to spending; have politicians that are economically illiterate, and a population that must have it now whether or not they can afford it. We are in for a big adjustment, and until we cut our spending we will continue to have to allow the Chinese to be Chinese; brutal and oppressing to their people. Pathetic! Just a thought…