An Historic Day

Today becomes a day for the ages.  I haven't decided what the slogan of the day is.  I'm tossing two around.  First: Yes, We Will      Second: Today, hope and change become hopefully change.  Let me know which you prefer.  I should have had bumper stickers printed.  Oh, well.  Today, the "referendum on Obama" is a day which we never thought we would see.  The messiah, the "one", the non-partisan, America joining, joiner of forces conservative and liberal will today, fail.  It has become not an "if" but a how bad.  Let's pray that at the end of the day (week for Floridians, they seem to have digit enumeration issues there) that Obama has to hide in a hole because of embarrassment.  Let's hope that the newly elected conservatives do what we've been asking for.  At least, draft legislation to repeal Obamacare, stop spending, and at most listen to everything that the majority of Americans are saying.  If the newly elected conservatives don't at least offer these sacrifices, they time is fated.  Their time will be short.  If they don't listen, they'll spend less time in Congress than O in the White House.  Today, VOTE!  Remember that our votes are the things that separate our great Representative Republic from a dictatorship.

                                                  

Grumpy Guy at Philly Polling Place - Click for story

                                                  

Addendum- I asked my wife this morning to make me a costume.  You know, since Halloween was just the other day.  I told her I wanted a sheet and a pointy ghost hat with eye holes cut out.  She refused.  What a shame.  I don't know why no one would want a vintage Strom Thurmond Costume at the polls.  I was just going to ignore this writing here, ya know, not post it, but then I saw the picture of the "assumed" New Black Panther at the same polling place in Philly (see link for my take on that) that had the issues last year, ya know, the one that Mr. Holder tossed out of the courts?  I wanted to dress vintage Strom to see if the case that was brought against me (which definitely would have been brought) would have been tossed out of the courts also.  My first guess, no.  I also was afraid that my vintage Thurmonesque costume could have turned the tensions of race in this country into something worse.   Maybe I'd have been a martyr, not sure, but I do know that I wouldn't have had 70 some virgins waiting for me if I had been martyred.



J-Mussolini: Rise and Fall of a Dictator

So, our pristine former President...

Lost the code and blew his....

He is just the pinnacle of ineptitude.  I can't believe she stayed with him.  My wife would have hit the road and taken three quarters of everything, and the children.  Oh well, some people are just so power hungry that nothing can stand in their way of seeking power.  Let's remember that the President who lost the code and blew his... is and still is a democrat.  Let's remember that when we can vote against the people he's campaigned for.  Let's also remember that even though our current President (that we're aware of) didn't lose the code, or presumably his...  (Michelle doesn't count, she is his wife).  And let's remember that when we have the opportunity to vote against the morons that actually wanted him to campaign for them.  What idiot would want this President to show up to "support" them?  He's like a letter in the mail with a powdery white substance inside (with him, most likely cocaine).  Let's turn this country upside down on November 2.

J-

Double Down Domino: New ingenuity VS Old standby

Today's subject was the battle between conservative and liberal values, the battle of note concerning job creation.  It occurred to me today that either way jobs are created would help individuals, but when concerning ourselves with the overall health of our economy, one stands the clear winner.

When new jobs are created in the private sector, new money "trickles" into our economy.  This is especially true when new businesses are started or additional services are included in "old" business.  The interesting thing about this process is that the money these "new" workers are paid is money that was not originally part of our economy.  Contrasting this idea with the creation of government jobs such as infrastructure is a must.  The government cannot create wealth.  It can, I suppose create wealth for individuals (think tax evasion, think pork, think Charlie Rangel). It cannot introduce wealth into our economy.  It can only, I'm afraid to say, redistribute "original" wealth.

The discussion today was whether the free market or the government would be quicker to upend joblessness.  Could the government in one giant fell swoop use it's finances to immediately put people to work?  Or, conversely could the free market, doing what it has always done, create jobs for the unemployed at a faster pace.  It is a difficult subject to work with.  It would seem, at first glance, that the government, once again unfortunately, has the funds to put people to work almost overnight.  But, let's look at what has happened in this recent debacle.  Before W left office he started the trillion dollar stimulus.  O came later and put the majority of the remaining in play for "job creation".  Are we better off now than before the stimulus was paid into the system?  I find it necessary to remind you that every other day the estimates are "adjusted" and the adjustments always seem to favor the worse.  We are currently standing at about 10% unemployed.  So, since we're talking a period of two years, how fast has the government actually gotten people "to work"?  Now, taking the antithesis of government job creation, private enterprise, into account, we'll find that the job creation, in this current fiscal fiasco, isn't there either.  One probable problem with our comparison between private and public employment is the fact that the government in one way or another, has the ability to control private sector growth.  Taxes, laws and other legislation can and has had effects on the private sector.  Considering laws such as NAFTA (private enterprise creates jobs, but they aren't in the US), taxes on corporations and taxes on individuals, the government has done little to date to stimulate new small business growth.  When, if we look, we see that small businesses are the beast of burden in our economy, if the government and the private sector worked together, could we solve the problems faster?  The impediment to the two working together is they seem antithetical.  Business wants low taxes and cheap labor.  Government attempts to force on business, expensive labor and high taxes.  Government does this to keep government in government.  They don't want to lose their jobs.  So I suppose in conclusion to my rambling dissertation I should say that I believe in situations such as we're facing, I expect government to work with private sector.  Working together, without pork, without raising taxes, without leftist or rightwing rhetoric, we could probably solve our problems much faster, and possibly much more permanently.

J-

The totally naked half-truth...

I suppose a million bucks is a lot of money.  Enough money it seems to bring out some strange people with stranger acts.  Perhaps even stranger is the jackass that made the proposal in the first place.  I digress, supposing someone just ran naked in front of me, and the only thing standing between that man and a million smackeroos is my say so, I'd probably give him the nod, just so he didn't make an ass out of himself for nothing.  If I were the president, and I was pushing the economy, and this guy was poor, and he needed the million, I'd give him the nod.   What better way to stimulate spending than giving some poor minority a million dollars to spend (think Elvis)?  Obama, give him his million.  He might just stimulate spending.  I'd buy some stuff if I had an extra million.  Wouldn't you?  Nope, I doubt it, you're still spending trillions of our dollars.  Hey, jackass that made the proposal in the first place, give him his damn money, or else, be a lying democrat, up to you.

J-