Spurring on the economy while riding a lame Elephant.

Once again Tax breaks do NOT create jobs.  Demand for products creates jobs. Middle Class Americans with good jobs that have money to buy your product creates demand.  In my opinion it is that simple.  Here is an idea,  Some really rich dude should look at my argument as an experiment and buy a town then have some kind of business that pays the towns people really good and a rule that every new business that comes into the town must pay that same good wage.  Then see what happens.  What would this town look like in five years.

Politicians: "We are not a witch". "We are you."

Our leadership, our government, our congress, our senate, are saying, "We are you.", "we care about you", Republicans say we want to give you "less government", "a lower deficit", "lower taxes."  At the same time Democrats say, "you have national health care."  Nice, I like insurance but I already had Kaiser.  What does our government want for us?  What are they going to do for you?  I guess to answer that we have to ask which "YOU", are we talking about?  The "You" that is working a job making about $10k, $20k, or $30k per year or, the "You" that is making over $250k per year?  The "You" that makes over $250k already has tax cuts, STOPS paying into SS after about $108k.  Why, I don't know.  The "You" that makes over $250k can afford accountants and lawyers to insure they pay as little taxes as possible.  They also get tax cuts for shipping jobs out of the country, while the "You" that make less than $108k pay every cent of the SS tax, has lower and lower wages with less safe work places, gets kicked out of their home while the banks won't help with the bad loans.  What do the Republicans mean when they say less government in your life?  Does that mean I won't have to go to the DMV anymore and be there all day to get a drivers license, or spend hours getting my car through emissions, or maybe I won't have to renew my tabs or, maybe I won't have to bother with filling out confusing tax forms every year.  Maybe they will stop SPAM in my INBOX or my mailbox from being flooded with ads I don't want.  That would be nice.  But no, what they mean by less government means .....  hmmm,  well I don't know what it means.  Does it mean they will stop fixing roads and bridges?  Nope it can't mean that, they stopped doing that a long time ago.  Maybe it means they will stop going to wars all over the world.  Probably not.  Ok, so were not to sure about less government.  What about a lower deficit?  Well they want to extend tax cuts to the richest Americans which will add to the deficit so, I haven't heard too many other things that will lower the deficit.  They say they will cut spending but, over the last ten years they spent like there was no tomorrow.  OK, so we are not quite sure how they plan to lower the deficit except they did say they want to take away working peoples retirement money (pensions) to do it.  I must say I am not down with that.  Maybe the rich bankers that got all those big bonuses should pitch in a little something to lower the deficit instead of taking away the retirement money from middle class hard working Americans.  They say they want to lower taxes.  Cool,  who doesn't want lower taxes.  I wonder how they will do that?  They could extend the tax cuts that we currently have but that is not really lowering taxes that is keeping it the same as it is.  Do we start to see a pattern here?  Not really doing much of anything are they.  Just sayin.  Now lets look at the Democrats and what they want to do for "You" under $250k a year.  Well so far they have already cut taxes for 98% of Americans that make less than $250k a year.  I bet you didn't even know that.  They actually did get a healthcare bill that really does help "You".  Did you know that right now your insurance company cannot drop you because of a preexisting condition?  Did you know that your children can stay on your insurance plan until they are twenty six?  There are some other things in it that are good for "You", but it would make my blog way to long.  They want to make it even better by having more choice and more competition.  The Democrats want to have prescription drugs prices lowered by buying from the drug makers directly in bulk like Walmart, Kroger, and Target do to get the lowest prices for their products.  For some unknown reason Republicans are against this.  Democrats want to create jobs by investing in our country building fast rail, new bridges, better roads, and new schools and new government buildings.  Think of how many jobs could be created with just the hight speed rail project alone.  Construction, cement, steel, wood, and a whole lot more will be needed for this project creating lots and lots of jobs and a high speed train would be really cool.  But Republicans are against this too.  They say it is wasteful spending.  How is a high speed train across the country a waste?  The skys are already really overcrowded and not everyone likes to fly.  I don't understand why they stand in the way of what you would think they would want to do to help regular middle class hard working Americans.  Well folks I hope you start to watch what the Republicans are doing to "You" and not for "You".  You still have a chance to fix it though. Next election vote for the people that really do want to help you.

What is a Patriot?

What is a patriot?  Someone who loves their country?  Yes!  Someone who waves the American flag?  Maybe.  Someone who sing patriotic songs like "America the Beautiful"?  Sure!  Someone who starts a war without being attacked?  Uh, it doesn't sound very patriotic.  How about someone that screams about having to pay taxes that pay for our Army, Navy, Air Force, Interstate Highways, Forest services, Fire, Police, Coast Guard and a lot more, while at the same time saying " Keep your hands off my Medicare"?  It is easy to scream about having to pay taxes but, should you be screaming about it while just a few months earlier you were screaming about how the government wasn't doing enough for you when the oil was flowing into the gulf!  Is this patriotism?  Hmmm.  Many of the pundits on the radio talk about freedom, flag waving, and patriotism but that is where it ends talk, all talk.  Their real job is to make ratings and "Punk you".   The country was really founded on the freedom to express ideas wasn't it?  The freedom to practice your religion no matter what it is, even the Muslim faith; the idea that an Americans should actually be able to pursue happiness!  What a great thing.  Pursuing happiness.  I think it is really hard to pursue any kind of happiness when you have Republicans that want to ship all of our jobs overseas. Pay the lowest possible wages; they even want to lower the minimum wage that most families cannot live on.  They want to put most of the tax burden on you, pretend to care about the national debt while they increase it by giving the rich almost a trillion dollars to put in their pockets at your expense.  It says in the bible you will know them NOT by their words but by their deeds.  The deeds of the Republicans are many.  I know many people believe that Republicans are the voice of family values but, lets take a look at that.  On the surface it sounds really impressive to say I am for family values, against abortion, for personal responsibility, and financial restraint.  WOW, I am for most of those ideals.  The problem is the Republicans talk about that stuff but they do not practice much of it.  First off  No one makes a woman have an abortion.  It is a very difficult decision that responsible women make based on their circumstances.  The dirty little secret is that even Republican women get abortions.  No one makes a women do it.  It is not an easy thoughtless choice.  It is one of the most difficult decisions anyone can make.  They make the choice and it should be their choice not the decision of Republican hypocrites.  I don't even need to go into the history of the many, many, many GOP scandalousness stories; and that is just in the last 12 months.  So the idea that the Republicans are the voice of family values is a total joke.  Lets look at the idea that Republicans are fiscally conservative with your tax dollars.  If this were really true they would HAVE to be for letting the Bush tax cuts expire and reduce the national debt.  But NO,  they want the rich to keep the tax cuts that they had 10 years ago, 5 years ago, 2 years ago, last year, that are somehow supposed to create jobs now.  Why will they create jobs next year if they have not created them over the last 10 years.  ASK THEM!  They don't have an answer for that or for the cuts in spending they pretend they will make.  Stop listening to what they say, and start watching what they do.  You will know them by their deeds NOT their words!  I think a patriot is someone that loves their country and their country is made up of many, many, people with many different faiths, looks, traditions and a REAL patriot is someone that has his or her brother or sister AMERICANS back!  Not the one that is reaching into his or her pocket to fill their own.

Sarah Palin destroys "Dancing With The Stars"

This could be it folks.  The end of Dancing With The Stars.  We are in the semi-finals of the show and Curt Warner has just been voted off.  People are starting to talk.  Ron said, "If Bristol Palin wins one more time I will not watch D.W.T.S anymore."  "These Tea Party people are keeping her on."  "She should have been gone a while ago."  People are getting angry.  Sarah Palin has spurred another new controversy!  "Bristol seems like a sweet girl that I am sure would be fine to have tea with but she just cannot dance".  And that was from a Republican!  The feeling is being echoed all over the country.  Let us all hope that this great nation can come together as one and vote.  Vote for the two great truths,  Bristol cannot dance and Sarah cannot, and should not not govern.  Well, I will admit that Bristol dances way better than her Mom could ever govern.  I will give you that much.  Once again the Tea Party people have chosen to vote for NOT what is best for the country but for what makes them feel good!