tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81543339065993442582024-03-08T01:50:42.280-08:00Conservative CornerPJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-22523453822837994002012-10-14T07:27:00.001-07:002012-10-14T07:27:41.413-07:00
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Years from now, historians may regard the 2008 election of
Barack Obama as an inscrutable and disturbing phenomenon, the result of a
baffling breed of mass hysteria akin perhaps to the witch craze of the Middle
Ages. How, they will wonder, did a man so devoid of professional accomplishment
beguile so many into thinking he could manage the world's largest economy,
direct the world's most powerful military, execute the world's most
consequential job? Imagine a future historian examining Obama's pre-presidential
life: ushered into and through the Ivy League despite unremarkable grades and
test scores along the way; a cushy non-job as a "community
organizer"; a brief career as a state legislator devoid of legislative
achievement (and in fact nearly devoid of his attention, so often did he vote
"present"); and finally an unaccomplished single term in the United
States Senate, the entirety of which was devoted to his presidential ambitions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">He left no academic legacy in academia, authored no
signature legislation as a legislator. And then there is the matter of his
troubling associations: the white-hating, America-loathing preacher who for
decades served as Obama's "spiritual mentor"; a real-life, actual
terrorist who served as Obama's colleague and political sponsor. It is easy to
imagine a future historian looking at it all and asking: how on Earth was such
a man elected president?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not content to wait for history, the incomparable Norman
Podhoretz addressed the question recently in the Wall Street Journal: To be
sure, no white candidate who had close associations with an outspoken hater of
America like Jeremiah Wright and an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers,
would have lasted a single day. But because Mr. Obama was black, and therefore
entitled in the eyes of liberal Dom to have hung out with protesters against
various American injustices, even if they were a bit extreme, he was given a
pass. Let that sink in: Obama was given a pass - held to a lower standard -
because of the color of his skin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Podhoretz continues: And in any case, what did such ancient
history matter when he was also so articulate and elegant and (as he himself
had said) "non-threatening," all of which gave him a fighting chance
to become the first black president and thereby to lay the curse of racism to
rest?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Podhoretz puts his finger, I think, on the animating pulse
of the Obama phenomenon - affirmative action. Not in the legal sense, of
course. But certainly in the motivating sentiment behind all affirmative action
laws and regulations, which are designed primarily to make white people, and
especially white liberals, feel good about themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Unfortunately, minorities often suffer so that whites can
pat themselves on the back. Liberals routinely admit minorities to schools for
which they are not qualified, yet take no responsibility for the inevitable
poor performance and high drop-out rates which follow. Liberals don't care if
these minority students fail; liberals aren't around to witness the emotional
devastation and deflated self-esteem resulting from the racist policy that is
affirmative action. Yes, racist. Holding someone to a separate standard merely
because of the color of his skin - that's affirmative action in a nutshell, and
if that isn't racism, then nothing is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And that is what America did to Obama. True, Obama himself
was never troubled by his lack of achievements, but why would he be? As many
have noted, Obama was told he was good enough for Columbia despite
undistinguished grades at Occidental; he was told he was good enough for the US
Senate despite a mediocre record in Illinois ; he was told he was good enough
to be president despite no record at all in the Senate. All his life, every
step of the way, Obama was told he was good enough for the next step, in spite
of ample evidence to the contrary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">What could this breed if not the sort of empty narcissism on
display every time Obama speaks? In 2008, many who agreed that he lacked
executive qualifications nonetheless raved about Obama's oratory skills,
intellect, and cool character. Those people - conservatives included - ought
now to be deeply embarrassed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">The man thinks and speaks in the hoariest of clichés, and
that's when he has his Teleprompters in front of him; when the prompter is
absent he can barely think or speak at all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not one original idea has ever issued from his mouth - it's
all warmed-over Marxism of the kind that has failed over and over again for 100
years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And what about his character? Obama is constantly blaming
anything and everything else for his troubles. Bush did it; it was bad luck; I
inherited this mess. It is embarrassing to see a president so willing to
advertise his own powerlessness, so comfortable with his own incompetence. But
really, what were we to expect? The man has never been responsible for anything,
so how do we expect him to act responsibly?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In short: our president is a small and small-minded man,
with neither the temperament nor the intellect to handle his job. When you
understand that, and only when you understand that, will the current erosion of
liberty and prosperity make sense. It could not have gone otherwise with such a
man in the Oval Office.<br />
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~ Matt Patterson -- columnist - Washington Post, New York Post and San
Francisco Examiner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-79861748691667577002012-08-23T07:41:00.002-07:002012-08-23T07:48:06.844-07:00Obama's Economy is in the ToiletToday there are 88 million working age Americans that are not employed and that are not looking for employment. That is an all-time record high. <br /><br />When Barack Obama was elected, the percentage of unemployed Americans that had been out of work for more than 52 weeks was less than 15%. Today, it is above 30%. <br /><br />There are 1.2 million fewer jobs in America today than there were when Barack Obama was inaugurated. <br /><br />When Barack Obama first took office, the number of “long-term unemployed workers” in the United States was approximately 2.6 million. Today, that number is sitting at 5.6 million. <br /><br />The average duration of unemployment in the United States is hovering close to an all-time record high. <br /><br />During the Obama administration, worker health insurance costs have risen by 23 percent. <br /><br />Since Barack Obama has been president, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States has increased by 90 percent. <br /><br />Since Barack Obama has been president, home values in the United States have declined by another 13 percent. <br /><br />Under Barack Obama, new home sales in the U.S. set a brand new all-time record low in 2009, they set a brand new all-time record low again in 2010, and they set a brand new all-time record low once again during 2011. <br /><br />Since Barack Obama took office, the number of Americans living in poverty has risen by more than 6 million. <br /><br />Since Barack Obama entered the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has increased from 32 million to 46 million. The amount of money that the federal government gives directly to Americans has increased by 32 percent since Barack Obama entered the White House. <br /><br />According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of Americans living in “extreme poverty” is now sitting at an all-time high. <br /><br />When Barack Obama first took office, an ounce of gold was going for about $850. Today an ounce of gold costs more than $2000 an ounce. <br /><br />Since Barack Obama became president, the size of the U.S. national debt has increased by 44 percent. <br /><br />During Barack Obama’s first two years in office, the U.S. government added more to the U.S. national debt than the first 100 U.S. Congresses combined. <br /><br />During the Obama administration, the U.S. government has accumulated more debt than it did from the time that George Washington took office to the time that Bill Clinton took office. <br /><br />The U.S. national debt has been increasing by an average of more than 4 billion dollars per day since the beginning of the Obama administration. PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-9496047074826741812012-08-23T07:35:00.003-07:002012-08-23T07:49:24.933-07:00Top 12 Reasons I Voted DemocratThe top 12 reasons I voted Democrat. <br /><br />12. I voted Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t. <br /><br />11. I voted Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would. <br /><br />10. I voted Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it. <br /><br />9. I voted Democrat because I’m way too irresponsible to own a gun, and I know that my local police are all I need to protect me from murderers and thieves. <br /><br />8. I voted Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday can tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius. <br /><br />7. I voted Democrat because I’m not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive. <br /><br />6. I voted Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we should take away the social security from those who paid into it. <br /><br />5. I voted Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as the Democrats see fit. <br /><br />4. I voted Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters. <br /><br />3. I voted Democrat because I think that it’s better to pay billions to people who hate us for their oil, but not drill our own because it might upset some endangered beetle, gopher or fish. <br /><br />2. I voted Democrat because while we live in the greatest, most wonderful country in the world, I was promised “HOPE AND CHANGE”. <br /><br />And, finally, the No. 1 reason to vote Democrat: <br /><br />1. I voted Democrat because my head is so firmly planted up my rectal cavity; it’s unlikely that I’ll ever have another point of view.” PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-28024866280078687992012-08-23T06:47:00.002-07:002012-08-23T07:54:30.653-07:00The 2 John's from MichiganThe two John’s from Michigan; John Dingell and John Conyers. <br /><br />Dingell serving over 54 years and Conyers over 45 years represent all that is wrong in politics. <br /><br />Our founding fathers are spinning in their graves watching what is happening to this country. <br /><br />Dingell has never had a paycheck from a private company; he has been on the government payroll since 1955, he took over his father’s job. <br /><br />Conyers has been there since 1965 and is the congressman that when asked if he would read the helthcare biil stated; stated, he would need “two attorneys’ and a week to get through it” Isn’t this his job? To represent the people and protect us from bills like these? <br /><br />Let’s just take a look at how Michigan has fared under this democratic “leadership” <br /><br />In 1948 Republicans had controlled both U.S. Senate seats from Michigan, held all statewide elected offices, and enjoyed a 95-5 majority in the state House and a 28-4 majority in the Senate. <br /><br />In 1955 Michigan's per capita income was 16 percent above the U.S. average—among the highest in the world—and by 1960 the state had perhaps the world's broadest middle class. Michigan economy was ranked 8th in the nation. <br /><br />By 1959 Democrats held U.S. Senate seats, all statewide partisan offices, 12 of the 34 state Senate seats, and 55 of the House's 110 seats, and continued to grow. <br /><br />Michigan has been dominated by democratic US senators for the last 60 years.<br /><br />Fast forward to 2010, under the democratic leadership, Michigan is now ranked 41st economically and we have the highest unemployment rate in the country. The Democratic Party likes to say that they stand up for the poor and working class, yet is was the democrats that fought civil rights in the 60’s, used hate and racist tactics such as the KKK to undermine the movement. I<br /><br />t was President Lincoln, a republican who abolished slavery. The democrats are the party of choice for union leaders even if the membership does not agree. The union leadership donates millions of dollars of member’s dues to the Democratic Party, regardless of what the membership tells them. This is not representation of the working class; this is representation of the rich union leaders. <br /><br />Obama has lied to the American people in his efforts to “transform” our republic into a socialist government. <br /><br />This is a flawed governing style and has failed economically in every instance it was tried. <br /><br />Obama is a member of the New Party, an organization of socialist street organizers intent on stealing tax money from those in the suburbs to give to the poor in the inner cities through a program known as Regional Tax Sharing. Look for this and anything with the word “regional” attached to it to surface in the coming months. This is where reparations come into full swing. PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-12344254716302264802011-10-05T12:56:00.000-07:002011-10-05T12:56:17.673-07:00Occupy Wall Street?Don’t protest Wall Street, protest the government that made the the rules and regulations they are required to live by.<br />
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Blame the government that rewards Wall Street, banks and other financial institutions for failure by guaranteeing investments with taxpayer backed securities.<br />
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Blame the government from regulating and taxing manufacturers until they leave the country because it is cheaper to do business elsewhere.<br />
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Blame the government that gives loans to these same manufacturing companies to “save the workers” and then give the money to unions while stiffing the investors.<br />
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Blame the government that has set in place policies that are killing jobs, like the ban on carbon light bulbs and banning drilling in the Gulf.<br />
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Blame the government that has shut-off our natural resources to the point that we are no longer self-sufficient while allowing foreign countries move in to extract these same resources.<br />
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Blame the government that has thrown in so much red tape that opening a coal power plant will cost investors more than any profits they might make and take more time than it’s worth.<br />
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Blame the government that does not consider gas and food prices when figuring inflation rates. Bacon was $3 a pound 2 years ago, now its $7 for 12 ounces and gas is a dollar a gallon higher than last year.<br />
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Blame the government that lost 2/3 of the equity in homes in the last 2 ½ years.<br />
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Blame the government that has spent more than $4 trillion tax dollars to “stimulate the economy” and wants another $500 billion.<br />
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Blame the government who are investing our tax dollars in companies that are risky at best like Solyndra.<br />
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Blame the government that produces nothing and in order to give it to others must first take the money from someone that earned it.<br />
The problem is not Wall Street, the problem is government.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-32057863791901069432011-09-06T17:49:00.000-07:002011-09-06T17:49:05.905-07:00Jimmy Hoffa - Democratic PawnIt’s amazing the stupidity of Jimmy Hoffa suggesting that the tea party folks are destroying American workers jobs, that they are somehow pawns led around by the Koch brothers and they are to blame for “right to work states” Huh?<br />
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The tea party started in February of 2009, all of the 22 Right-to-Work states were instituted prior to that date.<br />
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The tea party members did not invoke the free trade agreements that leave us with a lopsided trade deficit.<br />
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The tea party people did not start congressional over-spending<br />
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The tea party is not responsible for Café standards on automobiles<br />
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The tea party did not place restrictions on energy companies driving costs up nationally<br />
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The tea party did not threaten voters at the polls or partner with an organization that illegally registered Mickey Mouse and the entire Dallas football team to vote.<br />
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The Tea Party does however endorse reduced government spending, opposition to taxation in varying degrees, reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit and adherence to an originalist interpretation of the United State Constitution<br />
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Maybe Jimmy Hoffa should take a look at these statistics before spouting off.<br />
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<i>Percentage Growth in Real Personal Income (1999-2009)<br />
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Right to Work States 28.3%<br />
Forced-Unionism States 14.7%<br />
National Average 19.5%<br />
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Cost of Living-Adjusted Per Capita Disposable Personal Income<br />
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Right to Work States $35,543<br />
Forced-Unionism State $33,389<br />
National Average $34,256<br />
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</i>Here’s another little tidbit of info for Jimmy; leading the pack in Big Labor’s violence category is the Teamsters. Since 1991, they have had 454 incidents of violence and they have twice as much as the group in 2nd place.<br />
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The comments this past weekend by these “democratic operatives” shows the level of urgency that this party is experiencing. The Democrat’s cannot run on their record so they need to attack anybody and anything to distract from that record. <br />
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When a conservative group of ordinary America’s concerned on which way their country is heading are called “terrorists, racists and jihadists” then they should know that they are the right track, especially when the name-calling comes from the extreme left wing, such as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the number one race baiter in this country, Al Sharpton.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-11268257255840632062011-08-18T03:36:00.000-07:002011-08-18T03:41:31.550-07:00Obama’s Record Setting Presidency<i>By Chuck Green of the Denver Post<br />
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Obama has:<br />
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Largest budget ever.<br />
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Largest deficit ever.<br />
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Largest number of broken promises ever.<br />
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Most self-serving speeches ever.<br />
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Most golf rounds ever.<br />
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Most vacations ever.<br />
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Largest number of agenda-setting failures ever.<br />
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Fastest dive in popularity ever!<br />
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It was Bush’s fault!<br />
On G. W. Bush:<br />
He broke Obama's promise, to put all bills on the White House web site for five days before signing them.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to have the congressional health care negotiations broadcast live on C-SPAN.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to end earmarks.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to keep unemployment from rising above 8 percent.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to close the detention center at Guantanamo<br />
in the first year.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to make peace with direct, no precondition talks with America's most hate-filled enemies during his first year in office, ushering in a new era of global cooperation.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to end the hiring of former lobbyists into high White House jobs.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to end no-compete contracts with the government.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to disclose the names of all attendees at closed White House meetings.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, for a new era of bipartisan cooperation in all matters.<br />
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He broke Obama's promise, to have chosen a home church to attend Sunday services with his family by Easter of last year.<br />
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Yes, it's all George Bush's fault ! President Obama is nothing more than a puppet in the never-ending failed Bush administration.<br />
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If only George Bush wasn't still in charge, all of President Obama's problems would be solved.<br />
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His promises would have been kept, the economy would be back on track, Iran would have stopped its work on developing a nuclear bomb<br />
and would be negotiating a peace treaty with Israel.<br />
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North Korea would have ended its tyrannical regime, and integrity would have been restored to the federal government<br />
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<i>What makes this story so sweet is the fact that Chuck Green is a life-long liberal Democrat.<br />
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PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-8136101806228816142011-08-08T11:15:00.000-07:002011-08-08T11:28:09.997-07:00Tea Party Down-GradeThe democrats and some republicans are looking to put the blame on anyone but themselves for the downgrading of our countries AAA credit rating when the blame lies squarely on them. <br />
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The Tea Party from its inception has been harping that we need to cut the debt, cut spending and in turn, cut the size of the federal government. <br />
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Standard and Poor’s explanation for the down-grade was the result of the government’s failure to cut spending. They feel the cuts were not deep enough and no plan was shown to curb spending. <br />
Standard and Poor’s even warned that if the debt wasn’t cut by $4 trillion, they would down-grade America’s credit rating.<br />
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Here’s another way to look at it so you can understand what this latest plan did:<br />
A family making $58,000 spends $75,000 a year and has a credit card debt of $325,000. The new plan is that the family will now only spend $72,000 a year. Makes a big difference doesn’t it?<br />
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Here comes Obama, the democrats and a few RINO’s calling the credit rating drop as “the tea party down-grade” This is one messed up political machine we have running right now. How can anyone make the connection that the tea party is to blame for this? Governemnt officials did exactly the opposite of what the tea party wanted, which by the way was the same thing Standard & Poor's suggestions were to avoid this down-grade, yet here we have democrats proclaiming that it is the tea party's fault.<br />
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Why is he not attacking the tariffs imposed on our exports to China and Mexico? Mexico taxes our companies 17% to sell a product in their country and China charges us 19%, yet we charge them nothing to sell their goods here.<br />
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Obama, in today’s speech, tells us he can't find anywhere to cut spending. I have a few suggestions for him, starting with the Dept. of Education, The Federal Reserve and the repeal of ObamaCare just to get started and these will save us trillions almost immediately.<br />
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The republicans are always accused to catering to the rich while the democrats cater to the poor. The democrats what to keep the poor -- poor so that they will not have to pay taxes and in turn, will keep voting for democrats.<br />
PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-46741962723641766272011-08-02T17:34:00.000-07:002011-08-02T17:34:18.529-07:00The Tea Party Won?A Detroit News column from today (8/2/2011) annouced “Stop griping on the debt deal tea party, you won”<br />
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Who won?<br />
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Nobody won.<br />
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What happened was, we allowed the largest even debt ceiling increase in history ($2.4 trillion). The Republicans settled for "future cuts" 5 years down the road, which is business as usual from the DC elite. <br />
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I don’t want cuts down the road, this is business as usual for the DC elite, I want cuts NOW!... TODAY!<br />
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I want to see federal government workers walking out with a cardboard box and a pink slip. <br />
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Oil Can Harry is at this minute working on who to put on this debt reduction panel and who he can trick or bribe the republicans to put on it. RINO's like McCain, Lindsey and Collins that will vote FOR tax increases.<br />
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John Boenher for the second time this year had his ass handed to him and he still thinks he did well and so does a lot of the other republican congressmen who voted for this POS bill. The only people that stood strong against this was the tea party members in the house.<br />
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We've been screwed again while the GOP country club types and talking heads such as Bill Bennett are trying to sell this as a good compromise... compromise my ASS!<br />
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There is so much waste in this system and the only idea the democrats can come up with is to take more from us, raise our taxes and to hit up the rich for more.<br />
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It’s much easier than doing some actual work that will cut out programs that allow funds to go to a student to pay his tuition ($22,000) a year plus a stipend for food ($1,000) a month and ($450) a month for rent and after 3 years he can’t speak proper English, carries a D average and uses his rent money on illegal drugs to party with.<br />
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Studies have shown that there is somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 billion a year in Medcare fraud. Why are they not tracking this down?<br />
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We need people to do the work in DC to restore this country to what it once was, not to vacation, golf, travel, eat and drink on our dime. <br />
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I saw a quote from Warren Buffett. He said he could end the debt problem immediately. “Anytime the deficit reached 3% of GDP, all congressman and senators become ineligiable for re-election.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-50525002027105979182011-07-30T11:31:00.000-07:002011-07-30T11:31:17.901-07:00The Reality of a Balanced Budget AmendmentI find it extraordinarily moronic that we need to pass a constitutional amendment to get our government officials to work within a budget. <br />
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This is a no-brainer for each and every citizen of this country with a 5th grade education or higher but for some reason those with a law degree think they can work “outside the box” and somehow make it happen without one.<br />
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The economy is going down for the third time, yet lawmakers in DC see this as an opportunity to make the other side look bad either by raising taxes and spending or not raising taxes and spending. One thing is for sure; doing the same thing over again and again is insanity and there seems to be no shortage of this in the DC beltway.<br />
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It’s as simple as the nose on your face for all the rest of the country, but the politicians feel they need to look down upon us and explain that it’s “not that simple” that there are other things to take into consideration, such as who supports them with campaign funds for re-election or which bill they need to vote “for” in order get another politician to vote for a bill they favor.<br />
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The only people holding true to what they were elected to do are those birthed from the Tea Party, those who don’t care if they are re-elected, who won’t take a bribe, those that will not only have to explain to their family members but also to the citizens that helped them get elected once they return home.<br />
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Going against the tea party is a tough fight as Sen. Harry Reid found out in his re-election bid in 2010. Oil Can Harry had to raise millions to defeat the tea party favorite and Harry had to get contributions from outside his state as there wasn’t enough “local” support for him. Then he had to spend every dime of it to beat Sharon Angle. This so upset Oil Can that he can’t utter a sentence publicly without taking a swing at the tea party.<br />
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I write this blog to vent my frustration as I live in a state with two mindless Democratic senators who take months to answer emails; letters or phone calls if they answer at all.<br />
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We’re looking at taking one of them out in 2012, Debbie Stabenow, aka Debbie Stab-n-the-back. She is a useless tool, generally voting strictly along party lines, never doing the research to see what the effects her actions will befall our state. <br />
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When she does answer a letter (her aide) she gives her stance and why she favors it. She doesn’t care what her constituents favor, only what her party favors. She is not a representative of the people; she is a dictator to the people.<br />
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If congress cannot stop their spending ways, then we the people must put a shock collar on them, if they cannot work within a budget, which they have proven they cannot, then they no longer need to work for us. <br />
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Because of the way our political system is structured, we will apparently have to pass a balanced budget amendment or this economic disaster may happen again.<br />
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John Boehner has done all that he can in the recent months. He needs to step out of the way and let these mentally incompetent democrats do themselves in.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-48844804764391622392011-07-30T06:24:00.000-07:002011-07-30T06:24:25.693-07:00State of US PoliticsI cannot believe the state of politics in this country. We, the people, sat by helplessly while Nancy Pelosi and Barrack Obama rammed bills into law by buying votes from congressmen and senators, some examples are the “Cornhusker Kickback” the “Louisiana Purchase” and even one of my senators Sen. Carl Levin got his hands dirty for the insurance companies here in Michigan. A quick Google search will bring these up in detail.<br />
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The people spoke loud and clear in the 2010 elections showing congress and the world that we were fed up with these kind of shenanigans and the out of control spending.<br />
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Now I sit back and watch as the republican house speaker, John Boehner is pulling the same crap that Pelosi did, twisting arms and making back door deals to get a bill passed that does not cut spending, does not lower the debt ceiling and does not address the growing problem of entitlements.<br />
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The republicans have put forth 3 budget proposals in the last year, while the democrats have not put forth a single one, even when they had full control of the house, senate and the White House. Obama put one forward but every single democrat and republican voted against it.<br />
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These people (congress) are stealing our money right in front of our eyes and the majority of the people are too stupid to realize it. They sit back watching reality shows, sports or playing video games believing that all is fine in their world so long as they can have these few distractions. The people of Greece thought the same way and now their world has come crashing down. The same has happened in Great Britain.<br />
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The governments of those countries have spent them into oblivion and they cannot pay it out anymore and the people are rioting in the streets. This will be coming to a street corner near in a city near you if you don’t wake up and I mean TODAY!PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-24109732842523024512011-07-18T12:12:00.001-07:002011-07-18T12:15:16.583-07:00Terumo Heart Press ReleaseThis is a press release from the company I work for; <br />
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Terumo Heart Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Terumo Corporation announced that a patient implanted with the DuraHeart Left-Ventricular Assist System (LVAS) has surpassed 5 years of support on the mechanical circulatory support device.<br />
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“Now I can breathe again… for years before I had received the DuraHeart, I was unable to do anything with my children or grandchildren. Since receiving the DuraHeart, I was able to experience the birth of my little grandchild… now I can do things like walk and play catch and I’m able to participate in the lives of my family” states Ms. Helga Gieseke from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany<br />
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One of our companies motto's is "We save 1000 lives a day"<br />
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You can see why I look forward to going to work each day.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-83028450443309443632011-04-22T06:35:00.000-07:002011-04-22T06:35:55.958-07:00Raising the SS Retirement Age -- Why?No matter how the politicians in DC try to spin the Social Security problem, it like most of the other economic problems in this country, originated with them. <br />
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SS will run out of funds with the current funding options. Medicare is out of money and the reason is politicians decided to use the money for “other projects” This was an easy move for them because they are not on the same system we are. They found that it wasn’t lucrative enough to satisfy their greedy needs in coverage and lifestyles.<br />
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Instead of reducing the amount DC spends on pet projects, foreign aid, military actions, unwarranted environmental concerns and funding departments that do nothing or serve no practical purpose, they decided to raise the retirement age that a lot of us worked most of our lives towards.<br />
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A lot of things are going on in DC right now because of the economic depression we have been in and there is no one else to blame for this other than the government for this happening. <br />
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We paid in trillions of dollars to fund these bureaucrats and they in return did nothing for us. When the Wall Street crew got greedy, instead of Barney Frank cracking the whip, he held his hand out and got it greased and then turned around and stated, “that all is fine at Fannie and Freddie” all the while knowing that Franklin Raines and his crew were cooking the books.<br />
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Not one of these people whose job it was to oversee these agencies were fired, jailed, or fined.<br />
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So, with this battling over the debt ceiling, cutting spending, reducing the budget, I would think that one of the top things on this list should be securing SS and Medicare benefits. <br />
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Putting them in an account that is off-limits to all politicians, that the funds can only be used for their intended purpose and to make sure the stay that way, all those in congress must use the same system as the general public, including years served against amounts paid in.<br />
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Lets make it a law punishable by long jail terms for anyone suggesting or trying to alter the funds to be used for other purposesPJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-91701517656300619732011-04-14T06:05:00.000-07:002011-04-14T06:05:47.077-07:00The Obama Budget PlanHere’s the breakdown on taxing the rich, the Obama Plan.<br />
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72 million are what are called “Mega Rich” those that make $10 million a year or more or $720 million<br />
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About 315,000 make $1 million to $10 million a year or averaged at $1.5 trillion<br />
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Approximately; 4 million make $200,000 to $1 million a year or $400,000,000 a year at the most.<br />
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All of this money confiscated together would add up to less than $2 trillion, the deficit is $14 trillion and that all depends on how much we spend each year on our budget and Obama is getting dangerously close to that $4 trillion a year figure, we’ll never catch up<br />
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This equates to a family of 4 making $46,000 a year and spending $78,000 a year. How are they going to pay that credit card bill of $32,000?<br />
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Does Obama think that he can take all of the money from the rich and give it to the poor? <br />
This was tried a few times in history, it was called communism and it failed everywhere it has been tried. <br />
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Why is he hell-bent on taking us there?<br />
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What this plan represents is that 5 million Americans pay for the other 330 million. <br />
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Does this sound fair? <br />
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How many poor people gave you a job?PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-20089802396430219472011-04-05T06:21:00.000-07:002011-04-05T06:23:02.574-07:00Michigan Film IndustryIf the only reason the film industry is willing to come to Michigan is tax payer dollars, then let them find another state to do business in. Michigan needs companies to invest in this state. <br /><br />One of the best incentives to make that happen is to reduce the taxes charged to businesses and the other is to make sure government stays out of the way so that the business can grow.<br /><br />Michigan legislators have destroyed the auto industry in this state by continuously adding additional taxes on these businesses and the federal government, not wanting to miss out on that money, did its part by adding mandates, standards and laws intended to “protect” the people from accidents caused by these vehicles. Don’t let them fool you into thinking they cared about the American people; they won’t write a bill unless there is money to be made somewhere.<br /><br />Government greed has destroyed just about every business in this country. Look at oil, coal, and nuclear. They are literally millions of jobs sitting idle because apparently they cannot find a way to milk these businesses for any more money. <br /><br />And look at what they did for Social Security. We had billions in reserves back during the Johnson administration when they decided they could count is as part of the budget and use the money for “investing” which we all know is the code word for spending. It is now on the brink of insolvency and we can thank the geniuses in DC that think they know better how to spend our money.<br /><br />Government has grown too large and they are causing undue financial hardship on the American people not because of inactivity but because of inept, corrupt politicians in search of their slice of the pie, problem is their slice now consumes the slice of those that paid for the pie.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-5298845965550008912011-02-18T06:05:00.000-08:002011-02-18T06:08:26.956-08:00Wisconsin "Teachers" StrikeBack in the spring of 2009, Nancy Pelosi called the Tea Party movement nothing more than Astro-turf; nothing could have been further from the truth. One look at the signs and you could tell who the “Astro-turf” crowd was. <br /><br />The Organizing for America (OFA) crowd, funded by George Soros and supported by the White House and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is nothing more than an organizing for Obama organization.<br /><br />This is a well orchestrated protest; the DNC and OFA are bussing in people from all over the country to the Wisconsin capital. Teachers have instructed their students to show up to protest and then when asked why they are there, they students reply “I don’t know, I guess we’re protesting today”<br /><br />This scene is going to be repeated all across America as state governments struggle to keep their heads above water from rising tides of debt. Governor Scott Walker introduced a budget to protect teachers from being laid off, about 2,000 of them. Included in this budget is a plan for teachers to pay part (5%) of their health care costs and to contribute to their retirement fund.<br /><br />Workers in the private sector have been paying a portion if not all of their health insurance costs and also to their retirement funds, the teachers don’t want any part of this. They want this governor’s to raise taxes so that the rest of us will continue to pay their part.<br /><br />Obama, the DNC, Organizing for America and George Soros want this country in turmoil, the want the system (capitalism and free markets) to collapse so they can rebuild it the way they see fit and spread the wealth around and destroy capitalism. George Soros has already done this to several countries, that’s how he makes his money; betting that the currency will collapse and then investing his money towards that goal. He was convicted of insider trading in France and banned from investing in Great Brittan for this very reason.<br /><br />On every level this man is trying his hardest to collapse the dollar, through his Tide’s Foundation, his Open Society Foundation, Organizing for America, MoveOn.org, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for American Progress and these are just a few on his list.<br /><br />Teachers and public union workers need to recognize that the rest of us can no longer afford to pay for their lavish benefits just as was witnessed in the private sector when the UAW drove the auto companies into the dirt. <br />In 1945, 37% of the American workforce was unionized, the union bosses repeatedly told the workers they should vote the democratic ticket because they support the poor and they will save your jobs.<br /><br />Today that number is less than 12%. Just look at Detroit, the Motor City capital of the world has been rusted away by democratic rule. John Dingell and John Conyers are the major contributors to this decline.<br /><br />So when we go back to the polls next year, remember who is stopping the progress in this nation and who is hell-bent on destroying our way of life.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-68271027321155618622011-02-14T15:01:00.000-08:002011-02-14T15:05:25.302-08:00ALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZALL EUROPEAN LIFE DIED IN AUSCHWITZ By Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez<br /> <br />I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth - Europe died in Auschwitz .. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world. <br /><br />The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, International trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned. <br /><br />And under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty, due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.<br /> <br />They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime.<br /> <br />Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. <br /><br />And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. <br />We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs. <br /><br />What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe ... <br />The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. <br /><br />They have received the following Nobel Prizes: <br />Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfooz <br />Peace: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1990 - Elias James Corey 1994 - Yaser Arafat 1999 - Ahmed Zewai <br />Economics: (zero) <br />Physics: (zero) <br />Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad <br />TOTAL: 7 SEVEN <br /><br />The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.<br /> <br />They have received the following Nobel Prizes: <br />Literature: 1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World <br />Peace: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin <br />Physics: 1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabl 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger <br />Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel <br />Medicine: 1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1996- Lu RoseIacovino <br />TOTAL: 129 <br /><br />The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. <br />The Jews don't traffic slaves, or have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. <br /><br />Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. <br />Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them. <br /><br />Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all: <br /><br />"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel." - Benjamin Netanyahu <br /><br />General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.<br /> <br />He did this because he said in words to this effect: <br />'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened' Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population, which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.<br /> <br />It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This letter is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way. <br /><br />Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. <br /><br />This letter is intended to reach 400 million people. Be a link in the memorial chain and help distribute this around the world. <br /><br />How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-64023524882379337412011-02-01T09:26:00.000-08:002011-02-01T09:30:29.563-08:00How to be a good Liberal – A guide for the rest of usVirtually anyone can be a Liberal. Simply quit thinking and vote that way. However, to be a Top Notch Liberal, there are some prerequisites. Compare below and see how you rate: <br /><br />1. You must believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding. <br /> <br />2. You must believe the same teacher who cannot teach 4th graders to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex. <br /> <br />3. You must believe that guns, in the hands of law-abiding Americans, are more of a threat than U.S. Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese Communists.<br /> <br />4. You must believe there was no art before Federal funding. <br /><br />5. You must believe global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs. <br /> <br />6. You must believe gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural. <br /><br />7. You must be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand. <br /> <br />8. You must believe businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. <br /> <br />9. You must believe hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists from Seattle do. <br /> <br />10. You must believe self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it. <br /><br />11. You must believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars where military personnel, not corrupt politicians, die. <br /><br />12. You must believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution. <br /><br />13. You must believe taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high. <br /><br />14. You must believe Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, or Thomas Edison. <br /> <br />15. You must believe standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't. <br /><br />16. You must believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady. <br /><br />17. You must believe the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge. <br /><br />18. You must believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and sex offender belongs in the White House. <br /><br />19. You must believe homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites and bestiality should be institutionally protected and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal. <br /><br />20. You must believe illegal Democratic Party funding by the Chinese Communists is somehow in the best interest of the United States , and legal contributions by American businesses are not.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-37039941879898814722010-11-23T16:58:00.001-08:002010-11-23T16:58:53.369-08:00How the Stimulus Plan OperatesVia the internet:<br /><br />It is a slow day in the small Wyoming town of Sleepy Hollow, and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is<br />living on credit.<br /><br /><br />A tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and<br />lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs<br />to pick out for the night.<br /><br /><br />As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next<br />door to pay his debt to the butcher.<br /><br /><br />The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to<br />the pig farmer.<br /><br /><br />The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his<br />supplier, the Co-op.<br /><br /><br />The guy at the Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local<br />prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her<br />"services" on credit.<br /><br /><br />The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel<br />owner.<br /><br /><br />The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the<br />traveler will not suspect anything.<br /><br /><br />At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms<br />are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves.<br /><br /><br />No one produced anything. No one earned anything. However, the whole<br />town is now out of debt and looks to the future with a lot more optimism.<br /><br /><br />This is how the stimulus plan operates.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-35347311540762695132010-11-05T07:57:00.000-07:002010-11-05T07:59:57.145-07:00We've Been HadGeorge Soros has been banned from trading in Russia because he de-valued their currency by 20%. He broke the bank of England through his financial moves focused on breaking the “nation” and has turned his sights on the US.<br /><br />He adopted Barack Obama and helped him break the Clinton political machine by announcing he was backing Obama and not Hillary. Soros’s oil company has been drilling off the coast of Brazil to which Obama granted $3 billion of US tax dollars to help Brazil “develop off-shore drilling”.<br /><br />Obama also closed drilling on our southern shore and the Gulf for 6 months because of a leaky oil well knowing full aware that this would drive most oil rigs out of the area and would allow Soros’s company to increase profits.<br /><br />If you read any book in the next few years, make it “We’ve Been Had” by James R. Keena. It is available through any online book store such as Amazon.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-64657972118148120812010-10-25T07:04:00.000-07:002010-10-25T07:07:03.115-07:002010-2012Wasn’t TARP supposed to be used to buy up bad loans on homes to save the banks?<br />Isn’t it still true that all of us taxpayers are still on the hook for more than $400 million for the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?<br /><br />Just who decided the Federal Government should be in the home mortgage business anyway?<br /><br />And who thought it was a good idea to put a private bank (The Federal Reserve) in charge of our economy?<br /><br />Why did this Federal Reserve keep interests rates so low when the housing bubble continued to grow?<br /><br />Obama likes to blame republicans and Bush but wasn’t he pushing for low interests rates so “poor people” could afford new homes through his connections at ACORN?<br /><br />Acorn the community organization that forced our government to loan to people that could not afford a home. ACORN that told a pimp and a prostitute how to get more money from our government and how to claim child prostitutes as “dependants” for tax purposes.<br /><br />If the stimulus money was supposed to stimulate private sector jobs, why is 90% of the money being spent everywhere but the private sector?<br /><br />When government bailed out Chrysler and GM, it didn’t bailout the owners of these companies or the bond holders and the people that made it possible for these companies to exist, it bailed out the UAW.<br /><br />Why is it that the stimulus money that went to the states went to pay union pensions and benefits and to save public union jobs?<br /><br />Why did Obama give billions to Mexico and Brazil for further off-shore drilling off their coasts when he won’t allow it here? Does he think that a spill off the Mexican or South American border won’t do any damage here? <br /><br />Why is it that Obama and his cronies continue to push us towards a socialistic state when socialist countries like Greece, France, Russia, Great Brittan and now even China have moved to free market capitalism to expand and benefit their economical system like no other plan can?<br /><br />We also know that the Democrats are not solely to blame for this. We will remove the rest of those who follow the self righteous path to wealth at the taxpayers’ expense in 2012.<br /><br />We are slowly working towards a libertarian style of government, just as the democrats slowly moved towards Marxism.<br /><br />All you politicians’ are on notice. If you vote to increase spending or the size of government, you should probably start looking for a new line of work.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-27939717496114164132010-10-09T05:13:00.000-07:002010-10-09T05:14:49.577-07:00Our Efficient GovernmentVia the internet; author unknown<br /><br />Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." <br />So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.<br /><br />Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.<br /><br />Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people, one to do the studies and one to write the reports.<br /><br />Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created two positions: a timekeeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.<br /><br />Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.<br /><br />Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one Year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cutback." So they lay off the night watchman.<br /><br />NOW slowly, let it sink in… Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.<br /><br />Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY... during the Carter Administration?<br /><br />Anybody?<br />Anything?<br />No?<br />Didn't think so!<br /><br />Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency.... the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!<br /><br />Ready?<br />It was very simple. and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.<br /><br />The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977<br />TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.<br /><br />Hey, pretty efficient, huh?<br /><br />AND NOW IT'S<br /><br />2010 -- 33 Years later – and the budget for this necessary department is at $24.2 BILLION a year. It has 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES and approximately100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES and what a fine job it has done!<br /><br />33 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports.<br />Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.<br /><br />Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.<br />Now they want us to turn over control of our banking system, health care and auto industry to these same people and the same methods of mismanagement<br /><br />Hello!! Anybody Home? Are you awake yet my little SHEEPLE?<br /><br />NOVEMBER is just a few weeks away. Time to TAKE OUT THE TRASH!PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-31136051408617802722010-09-22T10:03:00.000-07:002010-09-22T10:09:43.230-07:00Back Door JennyLast night I attended a meeting where the keynote speaker was Matthew Schneider, the president of the Michigan chapter of the Federalist Society and a constitutional college professor. He gave a presentation on about whom the candidates in the upcoming November election are and how they stand constitutionally speaking and what their backgrounds are. <br /><br />It was very informative.<br /><br />He also made note of the difference between a “rule of law judge” and a “judge activist” An activist judge rules based on how they feel on a particular issue while a rule of law judge rules based on the law and nothing else. <br /><br />Activist judges believe they can circumvent the legislature and “make” law based on their decisions. This is not an acceptable option. The basis of our laws were written by our fore fathers who took many years to make sure they got them right and to make sure they could not be mis-read.<br /><br />All judges up in the 1960’s were constitutional non-partisan rule of law judges and then something began to change, this was about the same time the Democratic Party started it’s crawl towards a European style socialist government.<br /><br />The part of his presentation I really got an eyeful was the back door deal our Governor Jennifer Granholm pulled off. <br /><br />Elizabeth Weaver a republican turned moderate-turned liberal judge decided she was ready to retire (we can only assume, she has not let anyone know why). So in order to make sure the seat stayed filled with a judge activist; she made a deal with Back Door Jenny. Elizabeth would step down so long as Jenny would replace her with a “like-minded” judge such as Alton Davis, another judge from northern Michigan who liked to write laws based on his decisions.<br /><br />Why you might ask does this guarantee the seat for an activist judge? <br /><br />Seems that most people going to vote who are unaware of whom the judges are will vote for the incumbent 20% more often than not. This is pretty good odds knowing that they will get an additional 20% of the votes based solely on the fact that they are incumbents.<br />So by Back Door Jenny placing this man in the position just two days before the Democratic Convention and then having the democratic delegates seat him, he is an incumbent.<br /><br />Ms. Granholm, John Conyers, John Dingell, Kwame Kilpatrick, Monica Conyers and the Democratic Party in general has certainly left their marks on this state in so many ways, from the ruins of Detroit to the million people who have left this state in search of work and the American Dream. <br /><br />I wonder if Back Door Jenny is done or if she’s got one more up her ass to pull out before she’s gone.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-75092580313884373772010-09-20T15:32:00.000-07:002010-09-20T15:33:48.970-07:00War on Terror"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it not started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores in July 2002, and in New York on 11 Sept 2001, and have continually threatened to do so since?<br /><br />Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day in London, and in downtown Manhattan, and in a field in Pennsylvania? <br /><br />Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible, burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?<br /><br />And I'm supposed to care that a few Taliban were claiming to be tortured by a justice system of the nation they come from and are fighting against in a brutal insurgency.<br /><br />I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repents for incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11 and 7/7.<br /><br />I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East start caring about the Holy Bible, the mere belief of which is a crime punishable by beheading in Afghanistan<br /><br />I'll care when these thugs tell the world they are sorry for hacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.<br /><br />I'll care when the cowardly so-called 'insurgents' in Afghanistan come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques and behind women and children.<br /><br />I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of Nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.<br /><br />I'll care when the British media stops pretending that their freedom of speech on stories is more important than the lives of the soldiers on the ground or their families waiting at home to hear about them when something happens.<br /><br />In the meantime, when I hear a story about a British soldier roughing up an Insurgent terrorist to obtain information, know this:<br /><br />I don't care.<br /><br />When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take this to the bank:<br /><br />I don't care.<br /><br />When I hear that a prisoner - who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and 'fed special food' that is paid for by my taxes - is complaining that his holy book is being 'mishandled,' you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts:<br /><br />I don't care.<br /><br />And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled 'Koran' and other times 'Quran.' Well, believe me!! You guessed it…<br /><br />I don't care!!<br /><br />Only five defining forces have ever offered to die for you:<br /><br />1. Jesus Christ<br /><br />2. The British Soldier<br /><br />3. The Canadian Soldier.<br /><br />4. The US Soldier<br /><br />5. The Australian Soldier<br /><br />One died for your soul, the other 4 for your freedom"<br /><br />Author UnknownPJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154333906599344258.post-17101455559767523172010-09-17T12:08:00.000-07:002010-09-17T12:09:57.288-07:00CapitalismWhen you wake up in the morning, everything you see around you; your room, your house, clothes, shoes, alarm clocks, TV’s, radio’s, your mirror, the sink, toothbrush, your morning coffee, just about everything you have was made possible by capitalism. Capitalism drives you to work or the store to buy goods again created by capitalism.<br /><br />Michael Moore thinks capitalism is a bad word, yet if it weren’t for capitalism, we would not be making his films, nor could he profit from them. In an interview with Sean Hannity, he would not deluge what tax bracket he was in but he certainly lives a lavish life-style although he does not dress for the occasion.<br /><br />Capitalism built the middle class in this country starting right here in this state known as Michigan. It is “big business” that the democrats try to persuade us is the problem with this country, that big business somehow has screwed the American people over by taking our jobs over-seas, by having things built in places like Taiwan, China, India and other places. It wasn’t big business that decided to go there, it was pressure put on them to compete. <br /><br />Our government has helped destroy the auto manufacturing in this country, first by regulating it into submission and then by passing “unfair trade policies” One recent shiny example of our governments trade policy in action was when they tried to dry up the drug trade by convincing the people of Bolivia to quit growing Coca for cocaine and grow asparagus instead with the promise that we would buy it from them.<br /><br />Seemed like a good plan to those Einstein’s in charge at the time, but now we are importing ten times more than we have a demand for. His has forced the Michigan growers to sell below costs to get rid of their crops, not to mention an unbalanced trade deficit.<br /><br />There is a reason these kinds of people are in politics. Most of them couldn’t run water if we showed them the faucet; the rest are bad attorney’s that couldn’t find where to sign their names on a contract unless you drew and X it in front on them. <br /><br />In Michigan, the politicians could not help themselves, they saw the money the auto companies generated and they needed to get their spot at the trough.<br />They started by propping up their position by making Michigan the third state in the union to have a full time state legislature, costing tax payers billions over the years but wasn’t a problem, we’ll just tax the auto-makers. The same policy was repeated over and over whenever the budget was running short because of over-spending; they would raise another tax on our manufacturing industry.<br /><br />When the manufacturers saw this happening, they started to move some operations out of the state. The politicians noticed that they golden goose was laying less eggs than it used to. What to do? I know; let’s add a Michigan Business Tax (MBT) so we can collect more from those still doing business in the state.<br /><br />It never occurred to them to cut some programs and reduce spending and time and time again the budget fell short. <br /><br />Desperate times call for desperate measures. During the Granholm regime who continued to drive businesses out by not only adding another 22% surcharge on top of the MBT, but decided they should pick and chose who was going to be successful by offering massive tax incentives to bring businesses to Michigan, businesses such as Cabela’s. It didn’t matter that there was already a major sporting outlet (Jay’s Sporting Goods) already in the state employing over 2,000 people. What did Jay’s receive to stay in the state? Zero -- How much money did Jay’s ever borrow from the state in the terms of loans or tax credits? Zero -- What was the outcome of this move? – Competition to already weak business climate due to mass of people leaving this state looking for a future.<br /><br />This process was repeated again and again giving money to meat packing companies, the movie industry and battery makers. These businesses will pick up and leave as soon as the money pit runs dry. As long as they are gaining credits and incentives, it serves their purpose but as soon as the MBT and the surcharge whack them upside the head, they’ll be gone.<br /><br />Capitalism built this country. Are there bad eggs in the carton? Sure there are but what would the alternative be? The liberals won’t let us drill for the oil here so we can’t depend on that like the Middle East does. Europe has been dying a slow death but the speed has picked up and they are broke, trying to dump their public health program as is Canada. Greece is out of money from promising its work force unaffordable benefits and retirement packages. We have let our technology companies dwindle by supporting electronic manufacturers from China, Japan and Korea to build our products.<br /><br />We need to bring conservative ideas back to this country. We need to bring manufacturing back and along with it the R&D that will change our future needs for energy and products; it will be the only way to recover. <br /><br />Spending has led us to the brink and it must stop yesterday.<br />Political Correctness has seen its day and it’s time to bury that notion. We need people that really and truly care about this country to take the helm and bring us back, but the rest of us need to hold their feet to the fire to make sure they do the will of we, the people.PJSolarzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10221755113327342476noreply@blogger.com0