Sunday, May 31, 2009
Stupid TV Executives
I'm starting a campaign to boycott all TV networks that cancel shows that actually make sense to keep like Life, Reaper, Smallville & The Unusuals, among others. While some have had years on the air and the writing has become senseless, boring and predictable they overall plot can still have a chance if only they'd get new writers instead of just canceling the shows. It's almost like they are using a focus group of 3 year olds that are being trained to become replacement moronic TV executives. There have been too many shows that have remained on the air despite being stupid, mainly because the majority of viewers are also stupid. Survivor, American Idol, The Bachelor, and any other 'reality' shows that are as far from real as one can be should have all never been made let alone remained. This country is becoming so dependent on watching other people do stupid things that we ourselves become stupid and blinded by the hoopla that is force-fed down our throats. Yes there is more to life than watching TV but damn it I'm tired of the networks starting a show, hooking me on it then ripping it from my grasp only to replace it with some ignorant 'reality' show or something like Supernatural that started out okay but then, much like Smallville, turns to crap. At least Eureka isn't dead and better not be any time soon. At least the writing there is interesting enough but I bet they'll rip the barbed hook out of my mouth sooner or later.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
I have nothing to say
Or do I?
I should always have something to say but sometimes I don't. It'd be nice if former vice presidents didn't have anything to say, much like they did while in office but I'd be dreaming if I expected that.
On a similar note, I've noticed some people on TV have misstated President Obama's name. It seems that those that say it incorrectly are those that have yet to see the light, or have blinders on and just plain can't see it, either that or they are just plain rude. It's PRESIDENT OBAMA not Mr. Obama. Show some respect people!!! You had your chance with the last guy and he screws all of us so get your head out of your ass and learn to live with the choice that the real Americans have chosen. If you don't like it, I hear there's plenty of room in Mexico seeing how a lot of people have moved here.
And what's with the government getting involved with a teenager's decision to not have poison pushed through his body? Since when does any branch of government in this country have the right to tell parents that they must use this treatment or face prison? The family cited religous reasons for not letting the doctors give chemotherapy to their son yet went through with it because the courts said they must. It's my understanding that in the past those that have religous reasons for not seeking medical support have been left alone. Somehow the court in this case is as blinded as those calling President Obama by his pre-chief executive name.
On a lighter note my wife and I are about done hanging drywall and should beging the tedious process of taping and mudding the 50-60 sheets which I'm not looking forward to. Although when that is done it'll be time for paint then I can install the flooring and get my office moved downstairs which will be awesome!
Other than that I have nothing to say.
I should always have something to say but sometimes I don't. It'd be nice if former vice presidents didn't have anything to say, much like they did while in office but I'd be dreaming if I expected that.
On a similar note, I've noticed some people on TV have misstated President Obama's name. It seems that those that say it incorrectly are those that have yet to see the light, or have blinders on and just plain can't see it, either that or they are just plain rude. It's PRESIDENT OBAMA not Mr. Obama. Show some respect people!!! You had your chance with the last guy and he screws all of us so get your head out of your ass and learn to live with the choice that the real Americans have chosen. If you don't like it, I hear there's plenty of room in Mexico seeing how a lot of people have moved here.
And what's with the government getting involved with a teenager's decision to not have poison pushed through his body? Since when does any branch of government in this country have the right to tell parents that they must use this treatment or face prison? The family cited religous reasons for not letting the doctors give chemotherapy to their son yet went through with it because the courts said they must. It's my understanding that in the past those that have religous reasons for not seeking medical support have been left alone. Somehow the court in this case is as blinded as those calling President Obama by his pre-chief executive name.
On a lighter note my wife and I are about done hanging drywall and should beging the tedious process of taping and mudding the 50-60 sheets which I'm not looking forward to. Although when that is done it'll be time for paint then I can install the flooring and get my office moved downstairs which will be awesome!
Other than that I have nothing to say.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Blinded by the Snow
In the few years I've been a visitor on this planet I've noticed one important detail about most people: THEY ARE COMPLETE MORONS!
It's March. It's snowing outside (of course because snow inside would be just plain silly). Cars and trucks and roads and ditches and guard rails and weeds are covered in snow. A great percentage of cars on the road that I've seen, hopefully with a driver of some sort behind the wheel, cause me to cringe. Why you may ask? I can't see the driver through the thick blanket of snow covering every window of their vehicle!!
If I happened to catch a glimpse through the tiny spot in the middle of the windshield on the driver's side would I see a child driving? Did they quickly clean off one spot to see through just before sneaking the car from home without mom and dad knowing or is it in fact more likely that it's mom and/or dad in the car? How is it that these people survive on this planet anyway? They go through life in a huge hurry, not a worry on their mind, except getting there fast regardless of the danger they've put everyone, including themselves in.
Earlier this week I happened to leave the house; it's rare but yes I did leave to get some things done that had to be done. Whilst sitting in the vehicle awaiting the return of my beautiful bride from behind the sliding glass doors of a small grocery store to obtain a succulent treat called chocolate my eyes captured a glimpse of a white beast zooming through the parking lot without a care in the world, except to get wherever quickly. I then noticed a dark spot. Could it have been a skin lesion on the bright white skin of this beast? Should I call out to this beast and yell 'hey you should see a doctor about that' or should I let it alone? The latter was my choice as I noticed the beast had black tires which told me this was no beast, it was a car that some MORON swiped a spot in the vast white snow cover on the windshield to see directly in front of them but of course no where else. I hoped the approaching train would notice the idiot and stop before plowing into them and luckily for the driver of the beast, I mean car, the driver turned the other direction avoiding the train altogether. I wonder now if that same driver is the one that lost control of their vehicle, crossed the median going 65MPH and plowed into 2 vehicles, of which I can only hope they were smart enough to clear the snow from their deadly weapons unlike the beast's driver did. Probably not one in the same but very likely.
Isn't it bad enough that this planet decides when to give us snow, when to melt it, when to freeze it and when to evaporate it and there are people dumb enough to drive in conditions that any sane person would at least clean their entire car off so that when they lost control doing 80MPH they wouldn't have to say that they couldn't see? Get it together people of this planet before my people all arrive and take over to show you how much of a moron you all are.
Or am I the moron thinking people can change...
It's March. It's snowing outside (of course because snow inside would be just plain silly). Cars and trucks and roads and ditches and guard rails and weeds are covered in snow. A great percentage of cars on the road that I've seen, hopefully with a driver of some sort behind the wheel, cause me to cringe. Why you may ask? I can't see the driver through the thick blanket of snow covering every window of their vehicle!!
If I happened to catch a glimpse through the tiny spot in the middle of the windshield on the driver's side would I see a child driving? Did they quickly clean off one spot to see through just before sneaking the car from home without mom and dad knowing or is it in fact more likely that it's mom and/or dad in the car? How is it that these people survive on this planet anyway? They go through life in a huge hurry, not a worry on their mind, except getting there fast regardless of the danger they've put everyone, including themselves in.
Earlier this week I happened to leave the house; it's rare but yes I did leave to get some things done that had to be done. Whilst sitting in the vehicle awaiting the return of my beautiful bride from behind the sliding glass doors of a small grocery store to obtain a succulent treat called chocolate my eyes captured a glimpse of a white beast zooming through the parking lot without a care in the world, except to get wherever quickly. I then noticed a dark spot. Could it have been a skin lesion on the bright white skin of this beast? Should I call out to this beast and yell 'hey you should see a doctor about that' or should I let it alone? The latter was my choice as I noticed the beast had black tires which told me this was no beast, it was a car that some MORON swiped a spot in the vast white snow cover on the windshield to see directly in front of them but of course no where else. I hoped the approaching train would notice the idiot and stop before plowing into them and luckily for the driver of the beast, I mean car, the driver turned the other direction avoiding the train altogether. I wonder now if that same driver is the one that lost control of their vehicle, crossed the median going 65MPH and plowed into 2 vehicles, of which I can only hope they were smart enough to clear the snow from their deadly weapons unlike the beast's driver did. Probably not one in the same but very likely.
Isn't it bad enough that this planet decides when to give us snow, when to melt it, when to freeze it and when to evaporate it and there are people dumb enough to drive in conditions that any sane person would at least clean their entire car off so that when they lost control doing 80MPH they wouldn't have to say that they couldn't see? Get it together people of this planet before my people all arrive and take over to show you how much of a moron you all are.
Or am I the moron thinking people can change...
Friday, January 30, 2009
$45.2 billion profit
The economy is in the toilet. Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs. People have killed themselves and their families due to financial losses. Tens of thousands have lost their homes. Unemployment claims have risen past 4 million. The cost of food has risen. The cost to heat homes has risen. Consumer spending is down.
The good news is that Exxon Mobil has shown a $45.2 BILLION profit in 2008! That's $45,200,000,000. I've never seen so many zeros. Now if they start laying off workers the economy will truly be bad.
Now wait just a minute. Diesel and gas prices have risen dramatically since 2007 yet American jobs have been lost, people have lost their homes and some have lost their lives and this country still allows a company like Exxon Mobil to turn record profits? Something is very wrong with this picture. The big car companies had to borrow money from the government to stay afloat. Insurance companies like AIG and others had to do the same. Financial institutions also had to borrow money to keep from laying off or firing workers. The government did nothing to prevent this. They did nothing to stop Exxon Mobil from price gouging which is exactly what they were doing.
Back in January 2007 there was an ice storm that knocked out power for most of the city I lived in for 2 weeks. Hotels charged double the normal rates. Gas stations increased prices by $0.50/gallon or so. After the storm passed and the ice melted, the state Attorney General fined those companies for price gouging which is exactly what Exxon Mobil has done. They know that we all need gas to get to and from work, school or the grocery store and that we don't have a choice to buy cheaper gas since everyone has the same price and we don't have a choice to not drive unless we live in a large city with public transportation or a town that we can ride our bicycles to get where we need to go, without having to breathe in the exhaust fumes from drivers that can afford a gallon of gas.
We do have a choice not to buy the 60" LCD TV, the $100 shoes, the $40k gas-guzzler, the Playstation 3 or the Godiva chocolates but we can't choose not to buy gas unless we own an electric or hybrid vehicle or can take public transportation or can ride our bikes.
This economy has turned sour because gas prices rose beyond our budgets so we had to make a choice: Eat, pay the mortgage or starve and be homeless just so we can have that one thing that will make our lives happy even just for a second. That may be the LCD, the shoes, the PS3 or the Hummer but in any case, the lack of consumer spending has caused all of these companies to close, layoff workers, cut pay or to borrow taxpayer's money to stay in business. We haven't spent because we can't afford gas and everything else.
The Bush administration is to blame for this mess. If GW had his hands in the pockets of Sony, Nike, Catepiller or some other company besides Exxon and the like, we wouldn't be in this trap. He did nothing because it would affect his retirement money. That $45.2 billion profit that Exxon Mobil shows for 2008: part of that is going to Bush and it can't be denied because why else would, at the end of an 8 year reign, Bush do nothing to curb this downfall of the American Way yet when an outsider attacks our people he declares war?
We have been attacked by someone on the inside yet he just goes about his business as if nothing is wrong and that by doing nothing, he did nothing wrong.
Exxon Mobil should be fined for price gouging, as should any other oil company, or any company that Bush had stock in, that shows higher than normal profits for the last 8 years.
Price gouging is a crime and so is being a Bush.
The good news is that Exxon Mobil has shown a $45.2 BILLION profit in 2008! That's $45,200,000,000. I've never seen so many zeros. Now if they start laying off workers the economy will truly be bad.
Now wait just a minute. Diesel and gas prices have risen dramatically since 2007 yet American jobs have been lost, people have lost their homes and some have lost their lives and this country still allows a company like Exxon Mobil to turn record profits? Something is very wrong with this picture. The big car companies had to borrow money from the government to stay afloat. Insurance companies like AIG and others had to do the same. Financial institutions also had to borrow money to keep from laying off or firing workers. The government did nothing to prevent this. They did nothing to stop Exxon Mobil from price gouging which is exactly what they were doing.
Back in January 2007 there was an ice storm that knocked out power for most of the city I lived in for 2 weeks. Hotels charged double the normal rates. Gas stations increased prices by $0.50/gallon or so. After the storm passed and the ice melted, the state Attorney General fined those companies for price gouging which is exactly what Exxon Mobil has done. They know that we all need gas to get to and from work, school or the grocery store and that we don't have a choice to buy cheaper gas since everyone has the same price and we don't have a choice to not drive unless we live in a large city with public transportation or a town that we can ride our bicycles to get where we need to go, without having to breathe in the exhaust fumes from drivers that can afford a gallon of gas.
We do have a choice not to buy the 60" LCD TV, the $100 shoes, the $40k gas-guzzler, the Playstation 3 or the Godiva chocolates but we can't choose not to buy gas unless we own an electric or hybrid vehicle or can take public transportation or can ride our bikes.
This economy has turned sour because gas prices rose beyond our budgets so we had to make a choice: Eat, pay the mortgage or starve and be homeless just so we can have that one thing that will make our lives happy even just for a second. That may be the LCD, the shoes, the PS3 or the Hummer but in any case, the lack of consumer spending has caused all of these companies to close, layoff workers, cut pay or to borrow taxpayer's money to stay in business. We haven't spent because we can't afford gas and everything else.
The Bush administration is to blame for this mess. If GW had his hands in the pockets of Sony, Nike, Catepiller or some other company besides Exxon and the like, we wouldn't be in this trap. He did nothing because it would affect his retirement money. That $45.2 billion profit that Exxon Mobil shows for 2008: part of that is going to Bush and it can't be denied because why else would, at the end of an 8 year reign, Bush do nothing to curb this downfall of the American Way yet when an outsider attacks our people he declares war?
We have been attacked by someone on the inside yet he just goes about his business as if nothing is wrong and that by doing nothing, he did nothing wrong.
Exxon Mobil should be fined for price gouging, as should any other oil company, or any company that Bush had stock in, that shows higher than normal profits for the last 8 years.
Price gouging is a crime and so is being a Bush.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Something is wrong with Americans. They believe everything they hear and see regardless of where it comes from. They don't account for the fact that some places they obtain information from are bias and only tell them what they want them to know, or think, not what is actual fact.
I recently heard some McCain supporters state that they were afraid that if Obama was elected that this country wouldn't be the same as we have come to know; that he would put on a turban and sit around with his Muslim friends at the White House; that he would 'spread the wealth' among the middle class; that America would be in bed with terrorists. I also heard Palin and McCain state that Obama's plan would put us in a Socialism state.
Statement #1:
Why would you want the same America? The idea of getting away from Bush ideals is to make this country better. We are in this economic crisis because of the Republican ways of doing business. If someone has a better idea of how to get us out of this mess then let them. Apparently the trillion dollars the government has given to banks and financial institutions hasn't done any good for the rest of this country - only the people that run those places have.
Statement #2:
Obama isn't Muslim and he has stated that fact numerous times so I don't understand why people still insist on pulling that lie out of their ass and saying something that isn't and never was true. He doesn't wear a turban except for that one time when he dressed up. I can't remember the exact reason but I remember he explained it very well.
Statement #3:
Spreading the wealth is exactly what this country needs. The reason we are in this mess is because the rich kept getting richer by taking advantage of the poor and middle class. An officer of any corporation generally makes 5 times or more than any employee of that same company. Why is that? Isn't the reason the officer has the ability to make that kind of money the people they employ and pay way too little to? If those same people gave their employees a higher wage they would perform even better, making the company more money and giving the officers of that company the opportunity to give bonuses to themselves AND to those that made it possible in the first place. If Obama wants to cut taxes to the lower and middle class and raise it on the rich, that is the way it should be. If you make $500k / year you are stealing from Americans. If you make even $250k / year you are stealing from Americans. Most people that make that much every year can afford tax attorneys to find loopholes in the system to help them save even more money. Those loopholes need to be closed. It isn't fair that the rich get better tax rates than the poor. The poor and middle class are the only ones paying to keep social security around, the only ones that pay doctors and hospitals more money because they can't afford insurance, the only ones that are contributing to the economy - no wonder the market fell.
Statement #4:
Obama doesn't associate with terrorists. Bush wanted to bring down Hussein because he harbored terrorists but the truth is Hussein kept them out of Iraq with an iron fist. Once Hussein was captured and removed from power the terrorists moved back in and have remained there despite the Bush White House saying "mission accomplished" (over 2 years ago by the way).
Statement #5:
Socialism may be the label applied to what Obama wants to accomplish once in office but the idea is the same: tax the rich because they are too greedy and that is why this country's economy is in the crapper.
If people are truly scared of Obama being elected, move to Canada. You'll get free health care and you can move your business out of the US and hire foreign workers at lower wages and make even more money that you can write off, or does Canada even have an income tax? Either way, go away and take your KKK, skinheads, racists and bigot friends with you. They are too stupid to realize that they aren't true Americans. True Americans are only those that have always been here - Indians. We all come from another country, some by choice some by force. Don't show your stupidity. Get off your high horse and shut up.
I recently heard some McCain supporters state that they were afraid that if Obama was elected that this country wouldn't be the same as we have come to know; that he would put on a turban and sit around with his Muslim friends at the White House; that he would 'spread the wealth' among the middle class; that America would be in bed with terrorists. I also heard Palin and McCain state that Obama's plan would put us in a Socialism state.
Statement #1:
Why would you want the same America? The idea of getting away from Bush ideals is to make this country better. We are in this economic crisis because of the Republican ways of doing business. If someone has a better idea of how to get us out of this mess then let them. Apparently the trillion dollars the government has given to banks and financial institutions hasn't done any good for the rest of this country - only the people that run those places have.
Statement #2:
Obama isn't Muslim and he has stated that fact numerous times so I don't understand why people still insist on pulling that lie out of their ass and saying something that isn't and never was true. He doesn't wear a turban except for that one time when he dressed up. I can't remember the exact reason but I remember he explained it very well.
Statement #3:
Spreading the wealth is exactly what this country needs. The reason we are in this mess is because the rich kept getting richer by taking advantage of the poor and middle class. An officer of any corporation generally makes 5 times or more than any employee of that same company. Why is that? Isn't the reason the officer has the ability to make that kind of money the people they employ and pay way too little to? If those same people gave their employees a higher wage they would perform even better, making the company more money and giving the officers of that company the opportunity to give bonuses to themselves AND to those that made it possible in the first place. If Obama wants to cut taxes to the lower and middle class and raise it on the rich, that is the way it should be. If you make $500k / year you are stealing from Americans. If you make even $250k / year you are stealing from Americans. Most people that make that much every year can afford tax attorneys to find loopholes in the system to help them save even more money. Those loopholes need to be closed. It isn't fair that the rich get better tax rates than the poor. The poor and middle class are the only ones paying to keep social security around, the only ones that pay doctors and hospitals more money because they can't afford insurance, the only ones that are contributing to the economy - no wonder the market fell.
Statement #4:
Obama doesn't associate with terrorists. Bush wanted to bring down Hussein because he harbored terrorists but the truth is Hussein kept them out of Iraq with an iron fist. Once Hussein was captured and removed from power the terrorists moved back in and have remained there despite the Bush White House saying "mission accomplished" (over 2 years ago by the way).
Statement #5:
Socialism may be the label applied to what Obama wants to accomplish once in office but the idea is the same: tax the rich because they are too greedy and that is why this country's economy is in the crapper.
If people are truly scared of Obama being elected, move to Canada. You'll get free health care and you can move your business out of the US and hire foreign workers at lower wages and make even more money that you can write off, or does Canada even have an income tax? Either way, go away and take your KKK, skinheads, racists and bigot friends with you. They are too stupid to realize that they aren't true Americans. True Americans are only those that have always been here - Indians. We all come from another country, some by choice some by force. Don't show your stupidity. Get off your high horse and shut up.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Is it just me or have we gone nuts?
This is an email that I just sent to my state governor in the hope of getting someone to understand that what the US Senate and House have done recently will destroy our country.
I understand there is another bill trying to be put through the House and Senate regarding bailing out the US banks and corporations.
I do not support any government assistance for any company that caused this issue in the first place. If a lender loaned money to someone with sketchy credit, no job or low income and couldn't afford what they were buying, that is the responsibility of the lender, not the taxpayer. If you give or loan money to any bank, business or corporation as a government, you are using taxpayer money and I do not want my tax money going to organizations that can't run a business properly. If they have to learn the hard way by going out of business, so be it. Let them work at McDonald's to learn how to count money. Just don't let them count the money I pay every month to the state and to the IRS.
I know that as governor you don't have the same power in Washington as Max Baucus, Jon Tester or Denny Rehberg regarding bills but you can help put a stop to this nonsense. Make sure that our voted leaders know how me and many other Montana voters feel about helping out companies that don't deserve to give their CEO's millions in bonuses then ask the government for help or companies that take $400 million of taxpayer money that was meant to help them stay in business but instead blow it on some spa retreat.
The way things have been going in Washington in the past few weeks makes me wonder if I should ask the government for help with my struggling business but I know that since I don't have million dollar salaried employees or the hands of lobbyists in my pockets then I don't stand a chance. Neither should irresponsible bankers and CEOs.
Why is it when the economy gets bad the idiots in Washington give money to other idiots? How stupid do you have to be to beg for help then take part of that help and spend a weekend with your fellow workers at a spa getting massaged and having facials? Let's take an example of someone that's on welfare:
1. 5 kids and counting;
2. No job and no intention of getting one;
3. Living in an apartment managed by the government with no prospects of every buying their own home;
4. Taking their child support and spending it on lotto tickets, booze and cigarettes;
5. Taking their welfare and spending it on having their hair and nails done or buying fancy clothes that will likely get stolen or ruined but buying them just to say they did.
Tell me that doesn't happen in this country and I'll take it back with my sincerest apologies.
Now you've got multi-billion dollar companies taking their 'welfare' and doing the exact same thing. They don't want to help their business or their employees, they just want to help themselves before they can't any more.
"Hey, let's tell our pals in the Senate that we are in debt, thousands may lose their jobs because of it and we need some financial help. They are our buddies so I know they'll help us."
I'm not saying that's an actual quote from some idiotic CEO but I'm not saying it wasn't either. I'm sure someone, somewhere at least thought the same thing when this all started. Loan money to people on welfare with no job, 5 kids and no intention of every getting a job or furthering their education but I'm sure that some mortgage company out there decided to give them a chance and loan them money for a house that they knew they'd have to foreclose on but at least they made some money on the deal at closing, oh and after the government said "oh we're so sad to see you, as a huge contributor of our campaign, fail to get paid those mortgage payments you were promised, even though it was a dumb thing to loan money to them in the first place, this country can't afford for you to go out of business because who'd load money to the idiots then so we'll just give, I mean loan (wink) you some money to help you stay in business. Its taxpayer money anyway, so it's no skin off my back. Here's $2 million, have fun with it."
Oh My God! Can someone please tell me what's in the water in Washington these days? Did a terrorist make it through the hours of checkpoints at the airport and interview with a low-paid government employee (TSA) and pick up a cab in NYC then have them drive to DC all while holding a bottle of stupid serum then pour it into the water source for the Senate and House?
Now they want to 'help' them again because the first time didn't take. If the government was a loan shark and the banks and corporations borrowed money from them and then the loan shark found out that the morons spent the money on drugs then didn't pay them back (which we all know the companies will do) then the loan shark would have his guys breaking some legs, which is what the government should do. What we can hold prisoners in Gitmo for no reason other than suspicion of terrorism but we can't break the legs of complete idiots who begged for help then blew the money on a spa retreat? Get real. The C executives at corporations don't deserve million dollar salaries or bonuses unless they can run the business in the black. If that were the case here, the US government wouldn't need to be loaning them money to bail them out. If you are a C executive and see that your salary is putting your company at risk of bankruptcy, shouldn't you figure out that it's probably your outrageous salary that's caused the issue in the first place so you shouldn't beg for help then take your friends to some vacation weekend. NO that wasn't a question. Get it through your thick skulls: I'm not here to pay for you to blow my money on stupid idiotic weekends with your buds. I haven't worked hard these past 10 years getting my business to this point just to have your stupid butt come in and take the money that find missing from my bank account because the government overstayed its welcome and still requires me to pay taxes on what I should rightfully get to keep since I'm the one that made it, not the government and taxes were supposed to be a short-term solution to WWI. Then again this is the same idiotic government that put GW in office even though the majority of the country was as much in shock as I was when he 'won'.
I think it's about time we get some 'guys' and start breaking some legs, or at least cracking some nuts.
I understand there is another bill trying to be put through the House and Senate regarding bailing out the US banks and corporations.
I do not support any government assistance for any company that caused this issue in the first place. If a lender loaned money to someone with sketchy credit, no job or low income and couldn't afford what they were buying, that is the responsibility of the lender, not the taxpayer. If you give or loan money to any bank, business or corporation as a government, you are using taxpayer money and I do not want my tax money going to organizations that can't run a business properly. If they have to learn the hard way by going out of business, so be it. Let them work at McDonald's to learn how to count money. Just don't let them count the money I pay every month to the state and to the IRS.
I know that as governor you don't have the same power in Washington as Max Baucus, Jon Tester or Denny Rehberg regarding bills but you can help put a stop to this nonsense. Make sure that our voted leaders know how me and many other Montana voters feel about helping out companies that don't deserve to give their CEO's millions in bonuses then ask the government for help or companies that take $400 million of taxpayer money that was meant to help them stay in business but instead blow it on some spa retreat.
The way things have been going in Washington in the past few weeks makes me wonder if I should ask the government for help with my struggling business but I know that since I don't have million dollar salaried employees or the hands of lobbyists in my pockets then I don't stand a chance. Neither should irresponsible bankers and CEOs.
Why is it when the economy gets bad the idiots in Washington give money to other idiots? How stupid do you have to be to beg for help then take part of that help and spend a weekend with your fellow workers at a spa getting massaged and having facials? Let's take an example of someone that's on welfare:
1. 5 kids and counting;
2. No job and no intention of getting one;
3. Living in an apartment managed by the government with no prospects of every buying their own home;
4. Taking their child support and spending it on lotto tickets, booze and cigarettes;
5. Taking their welfare and spending it on having their hair and nails done or buying fancy clothes that will likely get stolen or ruined but buying them just to say they did.
Tell me that doesn't happen in this country and I'll take it back with my sincerest apologies.
Now you've got multi-billion dollar companies taking their 'welfare' and doing the exact same thing. They don't want to help their business or their employees, they just want to help themselves before they can't any more.
"Hey, let's tell our pals in the Senate that we are in debt, thousands may lose their jobs because of it and we need some financial help. They are our buddies so I know they'll help us."
I'm not saying that's an actual quote from some idiotic CEO but I'm not saying it wasn't either. I'm sure someone, somewhere at least thought the same thing when this all started. Loan money to people on welfare with no job, 5 kids and no intention of every getting a job or furthering their education but I'm sure that some mortgage company out there decided to give them a chance and loan them money for a house that they knew they'd have to foreclose on but at least they made some money on the deal at closing, oh and after the government said "oh we're so sad to see you, as a huge contributor of our campaign, fail to get paid those mortgage payments you were promised, even though it was a dumb thing to loan money to them in the first place, this country can't afford for you to go out of business because who'd load money to the idiots then so we'll just give, I mean loan (wink) you some money to help you stay in business. Its taxpayer money anyway, so it's no skin off my back. Here's $2 million, have fun with it."
Oh My God! Can someone please tell me what's in the water in Washington these days? Did a terrorist make it through the hours of checkpoints at the airport and interview with a low-paid government employee (TSA) and pick up a cab in NYC then have them drive to DC all while holding a bottle of stupid serum then pour it into the water source for the Senate and House?
Now they want to 'help' them again because the first time didn't take. If the government was a loan shark and the banks and corporations borrowed money from them and then the loan shark found out that the morons spent the money on drugs then didn't pay them back (which we all know the companies will do) then the loan shark would have his guys breaking some legs, which is what the government should do. What we can hold prisoners in Gitmo for no reason other than suspicion of terrorism but we can't break the legs of complete idiots who begged for help then blew the money on a spa retreat? Get real. The C executives at corporations don't deserve million dollar salaries or bonuses unless they can run the business in the black. If that were the case here, the US government wouldn't need to be loaning them money to bail them out. If you are a C executive and see that your salary is putting your company at risk of bankruptcy, shouldn't you figure out that it's probably your outrageous salary that's caused the issue in the first place so you shouldn't beg for help then take your friends to some vacation weekend. NO that wasn't a question. Get it through your thick skulls: I'm not here to pay for you to blow my money on stupid idiotic weekends with your buds. I haven't worked hard these past 10 years getting my business to this point just to have your stupid butt come in and take the money that find missing from my bank account because the government overstayed its welcome and still requires me to pay taxes on what I should rightfully get to keep since I'm the one that made it, not the government and taxes were supposed to be a short-term solution to WWI. Then again this is the same idiotic government that put GW in office even though the majority of the country was as much in shock as I was when he 'won'.
I think it's about time we get some 'guys' and start breaking some legs, or at least cracking some nuts.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Politics, Of Course
It never amazes me but sometimes I'm surprised that some people still believe that the Republicans can actually help make our lives better.
Here are some minor points:
1. GW Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol
From wikipedia "The United States o f America is the only developed country to have signed but not ratified the Kyoto Protocol". The Kyoto Protocol would have made us reduce greenhouse gasses and made our air cleaner and our dependence on oil much less.
2. GW Bush wants to drill for oil off the shores of the United States to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
This is a technical term so I hope you understand "BULL". He wants to get this passed so they can drill offshore so after he's out of office he can still make money. We all know he's got both of his hands deep in black gold. He's from Texas and that's what people with money do in Texas - drill for oil. That is unless you are a multi-millionaire and realize that wind is the new oil. (see previous blog). There is no economic reason to drill offshore. Allowing offshore drilling won't reduce the price of gas for at least 3 years, and that's only if they actually find oil. Since the oil companies already have access to millions of acres of untapped possible oil resources but haven't touched them, they don't need to drill offshore and in my opinion they don't need to drill anywhere. Oil is not everlasting and while some say we have many years of it left, there is no reason not to investigate and improve alternatives to oil.
3. Every term that a Republican is in office the people that actually work for a living (as opposed to those that already have money and don't actually do work of any kind) make less money, lose more benefits, pay more taxes and sometimes, like recently, lose their home that they worked very hard to get in the first place. More jobs are lost while a Republican is in office. More Republicans complain about paying too much taxes when a Republican is in office so the taxes on the wealthy go down. To make up for the loss, those lower on the totem pay more therefore have less to buy food for their families, fill up the tank with gas, pay their mortgage or even pay the co-pay on any health insurance that they happen to have.
4. In 1861 Republican Abraham Lincoln took office. Later that year the Civil War started. In 1898, while Republican William McKinley was in office, the Spanish-American War started. The Vietnam War started while Republican Dwight D Eisenhower was in office. Grenada and Panama were interviened or invaded while Ronald Reagan was in office. George Bush was in office when the Persian Gulf War started. In 2001 his son George W Bush initiated the Invasion of Afghanastan. Yes I admit that there were some wars that the United States started involvement in while a Democrat was in office: WWI, WWII (both of which were not initiated by the US), Mexican-American War, Korean War and a few more. Think about the types of wars the ones started by Republicans were - wars to push the views of the party into other countries or people. Yes, Lincoln was in office at the start of the Civil War but he did put a stop to it. In my opinion Lincoln was the best president this country has ever seen. While he was a Republican with Republican views, I applaud him for his efforts to bring this country together. There was no reason for slavery other than to improve the lives of people with money (DUH! Now that's Republican if I've ever seen it).
5. The people of the Republican Party seem to always intiate negative ads to their Democratic counterparts while the Democrats do their best to ignore it because it's a bully tactic. I suppose the Republicans still think they are in high school.
Why is it that people can't see the real truth about any political canidate? Why can't people see that one day a Republican will say one thing then months later they will change their views because someone they want in office feels differently than that person said previously?
One day you have a governor saying that if she were in the White House that she would ban abortion yet when her own child gets pregnant and tells the public "it's up to her." Now I'm confused, if the decision is hers, yet if you were in office and could make the change, there would be no choice for any woman. Makes sense, after all it's a Republican.
Then you have a guy that's married to a woman half his age, or so it appears, and was once married to another woman that he left while she was sick and dying, or so I hear. Yes he was a prisoner and held captive but that doesn't mean I want to be held captive in my own country by a government that's run by idiots!
I work hard for my family. Sometimes I work 12 hours a day and sometimes that's 7 days a week. When April 15th comes around all of that hard work I did goes directly to the IRS to add to the enormous pot they have set aside for people that already have money. You then have people that are on welfare just because it's easier than getting and keeping a job. Those same people have 10 kids and keep popping them out because they can get a bigger check from the government every month to pay for the crappy food in the crappy government housing they force their familes to live in. On top of that, those kids get free health care while working families have to get second mortgages just to pay for a hospital visit for thier own child.
If the US Government was run like a business, as it should be, it would have declared bankrputcy many, many years ago, but them I'm sure it would have bailed itself out much like it's done to Fanny Mae and Fanny Mac and big 'for profit' corporations - they only bailed them out because they too had their hands in deep, much like Bush does now in oil.
We didn't need this war. We don't want this war. Our families don't need to keep losing their children in some far away land in a war that only benefits the Republicans. It's not to protect our country from attack, it's to protect the Republican's investment from attack.
If you vote a Republican into the office of President of the United States of America, it won't be united much longer.
Here are some minor points:
1. GW Bush refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol
From wikipedia "The United States o f America is the only developed country to have signed but not ratified the Kyoto Protocol". The Kyoto Protocol would have made us reduce greenhouse gasses and made our air cleaner and our dependence on oil much less.
2. GW Bush wants to drill for oil off the shores of the United States to help reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
This is a technical term so I hope you understand "BULL". He wants to get this passed so they can drill offshore so after he's out of office he can still make money. We all know he's got both of his hands deep in black gold. He's from Texas and that's what people with money do in Texas - drill for oil. That is unless you are a multi-millionaire and realize that wind is the new oil. (see previous blog). There is no economic reason to drill offshore. Allowing offshore drilling won't reduce the price of gas for at least 3 years, and that's only if they actually find oil. Since the oil companies already have access to millions of acres of untapped possible oil resources but haven't touched them, they don't need to drill offshore and in my opinion they don't need to drill anywhere. Oil is not everlasting and while some say we have many years of it left, there is no reason not to investigate and improve alternatives to oil.
3. Every term that a Republican is in office the people that actually work for a living (as opposed to those that already have money and don't actually do work of any kind) make less money, lose more benefits, pay more taxes and sometimes, like recently, lose their home that they worked very hard to get in the first place. More jobs are lost while a Republican is in office. More Republicans complain about paying too much taxes when a Republican is in office so the taxes on the wealthy go down. To make up for the loss, those lower on the totem pay more therefore have less to buy food for their families, fill up the tank with gas, pay their mortgage or even pay the co-pay on any health insurance that they happen to have.
4. In 1861 Republican Abraham Lincoln took office. Later that year the Civil War started. In 1898, while Republican William McKinley was in office, the Spanish-American War started. The Vietnam War started while Republican Dwight D Eisenhower was in office. Grenada and Panama were interviened or invaded while Ronald Reagan was in office. George Bush was in office when the Persian Gulf War started. In 2001 his son George W Bush initiated the Invasion of Afghanastan. Yes I admit that there were some wars that the United States started involvement in while a Democrat was in office: WWI, WWII (both of which were not initiated by the US), Mexican-American War, Korean War and a few more. Think about the types of wars the ones started by Republicans were - wars to push the views of the party into other countries or people. Yes, Lincoln was in office at the start of the Civil War but he did put a stop to it. In my opinion Lincoln was the best president this country has ever seen. While he was a Republican with Republican views, I applaud him for his efforts to bring this country together. There was no reason for slavery other than to improve the lives of people with money (DUH! Now that's Republican if I've ever seen it).
5. The people of the Republican Party seem to always intiate negative ads to their Democratic counterparts while the Democrats do their best to ignore it because it's a bully tactic. I suppose the Republicans still think they are in high school.
Why is it that people can't see the real truth about any political canidate? Why can't people see that one day a Republican will say one thing then months later they will change their views because someone they want in office feels differently than that person said previously?
One day you have a governor saying that if she were in the White House that she would ban abortion yet when her own child gets pregnant and tells the public "it's up to her." Now I'm confused, if the decision is hers, yet if you were in office and could make the change, there would be no choice for any woman. Makes sense, after all it's a Republican.
Then you have a guy that's married to a woman half his age, or so it appears, and was once married to another woman that he left while she was sick and dying, or so I hear. Yes he was a prisoner and held captive but that doesn't mean I want to be held captive in my own country by a government that's run by idiots!
I work hard for my family. Sometimes I work 12 hours a day and sometimes that's 7 days a week. When April 15th comes around all of that hard work I did goes directly to the IRS to add to the enormous pot they have set aside for people that already have money. You then have people that are on welfare just because it's easier than getting and keeping a job. Those same people have 10 kids and keep popping them out because they can get a bigger check from the government every month to pay for the crappy food in the crappy government housing they force their familes to live in. On top of that, those kids get free health care while working families have to get second mortgages just to pay for a hospital visit for thier own child.
If the US Government was run like a business, as it should be, it would have declared bankrputcy many, many years ago, but them I'm sure it would have bailed itself out much like it's done to Fanny Mae and Fanny Mac and big 'for profit' corporations - they only bailed them out because they too had their hands in deep, much like Bush does now in oil.
We didn't need this war. We don't want this war. Our families don't need to keep losing their children in some far away land in a war that only benefits the Republicans. It's not to protect our country from attack, it's to protect the Republican's investment from attack.
If you vote a Republican into the office of President of the United States of America, it won't be united much longer.
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