Well..it’s been a busy day today..had lots to do to get to this point and I am now just sitting down for the first time today to take a look at the world of politics and put in my two cents. I am just amazed at the repub hypocrites that have the gall to ask ‘where are the jobs?” as a campaign slogan when, for the 8 years they held power, not one net job was produced by them or their voodoo economics of tax cuts, tax cuts, and more tax cuts. As I have said many times before, if tax cuts spurred job growth, why aren’t we swimming in new jobs with tax rates being at their lowest overall level in more than 50 years. I am more than frustrated by the dems not standing on any flat surface and shouting these facts; that the repub policies do not work for job creation…and I’m sure that business is not hiring just for the fact that they want a repub back in the White House to de-regulate some more and take the remaing shards of the American dream and rip it from the last few hands of the middle class…ignorance is going to be the end of this country I fear…
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Still no politics…
Well…it has been a nice day so far with another great lunch with T and since it’s raining, I’m going to take the day off from riding the bike and to try to not feel guilty about it. Even though there have been some events in politics that I could comment on, I just haven’t been able to work up the outrage necessary to put together a long one. Okay, there is one that I will drop a short one on…the self-destruction and implosion of ole Newt’s presidential campaign and the smile it brought to my face…the whole thing was just an exercise in narcissism that pointed out that Newt is great at talking and telling people what to do but when it comes to actually doing the work necessary to govern, he just doesn’t want to get his hands dirty and wants to act like the political elite he inveighs against constantly. Who else but one of the elites could have a 500K charge account at Tiffany’s? Oh, I do have another…ole Mitt working across our state claiming that he was the first one to suggest that the auto industry should be saved…but that’s not what he said, he said that the auto companies should be required to go through a non-structured bankruptcy that likely would have resulted in the liquidation of Chrysler and possibly that of GM and the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. He was against the government help that preserved all those good, middle class jobs, just as he did running his venture capital company that was responsible for the destruction of many more jobs than he ever created….not to mention hundreds of millions in profit he put in his own pocket that would have saved a lot of those jobs. Flip flopping again, eh, Mitt?
It’s not that easy…
Well…don’t have a long-form topic again today…it seems that there are so many things up in the air about my life that I’m just not thinking clearly enough to be lucid for long periods of time. So, this is going to be a short one with a few topics….let’s start with Anthony Weiner…what a fricking idiot…what the heck is wrong with politicians these days? Don’t they understand that electronic records last forever once they hit the web? I’m not sure if he should resign but this whole incident just shows that he’s not too bright…but what politician is? Hmmm…oh, the whole lost jobs thing in Obama’s term…the repubs just keep lying about the issue and no one is calling them on it….blaming Obama for the 2 million jobs lost before he even took office…so, that means he’s responsible for 9/11, Katrina, and anything else that happened before he was sworn in, too, I guess. Then, we have ole Tim Pawlenty coming out with his economic plan that includes more tax cuts and a promise that these cuts will result in a 5% growth rate for the economy….never has happened…never will happen….these guys are just pulling figures out of their asses and their base is eating it up…I really fear for this country now…geez…
Back from the beach…
Well…a nice morning on the beach with the fog rolling across it when I got there and a nice breeze keeping the temperature bearable but the water temp was only in the 50′s and that is just too cold for me to go in…maybe tomorrow if I go back again…but that’s not what I wanted to talk about this time…well…I did or I wouldn’t have written it. But, let’s get to the real topic…I know you’ve heard of sister Sarah’s revising of the history of Paul Revere’s ride and her adamant defense of that on Fox News where even Chris Wallace could barely keep a straight face when she admonished him when he asked if she misspoke, and she then went on to dig the hole deeper by explaining with a jumble of random words that made absolutely no sense. Then we had her legion of troglodyte followers (I’m sure spurred on by her protectors) that then attacked Wikipedia by posting false information on that site that would mirror what she said. This is normal repub behavior and just reflects and amplifies their disdain for objective truth or history…after all, these folks believe that the world is 6,000 years old and can’t be convinced of anything else…geez….
A mixed bag….
Well….got a slight shock this morning with the coffee shop that I have gone to every morning for more than 6 years closing with no warning…I’m a little un-anchored right now sine the Biggby that is up the street is not Kava….I am going to miss the ladies that worked there and seeing the rest of the regulars…oh, well….next, it finally hit me that my daughter is moving to Seattle next week….I know that I didn’t visit much while she was in Chicago but there was always the possibility that I could….but things change and I have to get used to it…just a little unsettled today…
On Politics….we have the idiot repubs in the US Senate blocking the nomination of a Nobel prize winning economist whose specialty is labor markets to the governing board of the Fed…if you had any thought that these guys don’t give a damn about job creation, this is another brick in the wall and goes along with the decisions made in the boardrooms across the country (after consultation with the repubs), that business is going to sit on their hands with job creation to make sure that jobs remain an issue into the 2012 election….this should be against the law…geez…
Sarah Palin is still an idiot…
Well…had to write about this one before I forgot about it since it is so stunning of an example of the real Sarah Palin…and she is still an idiot….”He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.”—on Paul Revere, June 3, 2011
Is there anyone out there that is older than 5 who doesn’t know the true story of Paul Revere? This is the woman that wants to be president? Geez….I can’t remember a more stupid national politician…and, as you know, I’ve been around a long time…
Pushing toward 1,000…
Well…got lunch in the oven (making some Texas style ribs with roasted red potatoes)…can you smell that? That’s some good food that I’m really looking forward to…made them with G’s recipe in a foil pouch…yummy….was just looking at the dashboard for this thing and found that I’m quickly approaching the 1,000 post mark and I’m not sure how I feel about it….I know it’s some sort of an accomplishment to have written more than two of these every day for over a year…but then I sit back and think what has been the point? No, I’m not dropping back into depression…just thinking about a lot of things…doing a little introspection over the past two days and I’m not sure if I like what I see…always too self critical but that’s me I guess…
Now, on to other stuff…I find it funny that the repubs are bitching so much about the stimulus package not working and that it was such a waste of money even though over 200 billion of the 800 was tax cuts and other tax relief. Now, what its it repubs? Do tax cuts spur job creation or don’t they? If we look at the math, and I want to, let’s compare what they are doing here in Michigan with the 2 billion in tax cuts for business that our gov Snyder and all of the other repub crazies here say will create thousands and thousands of jobs. If that will work here, why hasn’t the 200 billion in tax cuts on the federal level resulted in millions and millions of new jobs across the country? This just points out the repubs reliance on outdated ideas that have been shown over time to not work…but here’s the kicker…why do the repubs want so much measurement of middle class workers (i.e teachers) and to eliminate the jobs of those that don’t perform while they give billions and billions to corporations with no strings attached? In the latest budget giveaway to business here in Michigan, no metric is in place that would tie the tax breaks for business to anything…that means they can spend the tax windfall any way they want…outsourcing jobs, giving the ceo’s raises, or stock buybacks that do nothing to spur the economy or create jobs. This just isn’t fair and I think America is starting to see who these idiots for who they are…a paid arm of business that is ruining our democracy…
Did you expect anything different?
Well…I’ve been reading about the big conference on Mackinac Island where the repubs and business leaders, who purport to represent the people of Michigan, are meeting to gloat over ramming through their radical right-wing agenda. Since this conference is supposed give voice to the plans to “reinvent” Michigan, where is the input from the ordinary Michigan citizen? Where is the input from organized labor? Where is the input from our retirees? The quick answer is nowhere….none of those groups were even invited to this “victory lap” where business and their repub lapdogs sip champagne on the porch of the Grand Hotel and make plans to steal even more of the state from you and me. What else can you call it when taxes are raised on everyone but business and then those taxes are given to the ceo’s who then will pad their pay that is already higher than ever in history. How does it feel to write a check to a ceo that makes 20 million dollars a year? What are you going to give up to make sure these guys get another summer home or two new Mercedes?
I guess we only have ourselves to blame for voting for these thieves…or, no, I blame everyone else…I didn’t and will never vote for these thugs….
This is a day for shorties…
Well…it appears that the thoughts are coming in small bites today so that what is coming out and I guess I’ll just live with it…I don’t know if it is too soon to say I told you so…but a couple of months ago I predicted that without a continuing stimulus program that included additional government spending on infrastructure and other projects such as schools, roads, and high speed internet, that the economy would head back into recession and that is just what is happening. No matter what the repubs would have you believe, Keynesian economics and its principles that have been proven time and again over the years to be correct cannot be denied just because it goes against the orthodoxy of the repub party. And, they are compounding the problem by doing just what they did in the great depression…cut too much spending before the economy was self-sustaining. You know where this is going to go don’t you? These repub know-nothings are going to try to blame this on overspending by Obama…but, there appears to be a building groundswell of buyers remorse about the repubs control of the House and their radical right-wing agenda. Hope so….geez…
Oh, one last thing…if the business world truly believed the fantasy of the repubs economic policies, wouldn’t they still be hiring to get out ahead of the boom that is supposed to be coming? Business truly knows that the policy of cutting spending during a recession is wrong headed and they are predicting the results that are coming by not hiring any more people that they will just have to lay off when the second dip comes…stupid, stupid repubs…
The republicans are still hypocrites…
Well…if you needed any more evidence on how hypocritical the repubs are about austerity measures that they say are necessary to make the economies of many states healthy again…and those measures invariable hit the poor and aged like a ton of bricks, just take a look at the latest repub star and his “let them eat cake” moment. Yesterday, governor Chris Christie of New Jersey took a Sate Police helicopter to see his son’s baseball game….yep, he wants to cut the benefits for workers, the poor, and the middle class since the state is so broke, then spends thousands to illegally use state property for personal benefit. But, you know that is how these guys are; once they are in power they use the government as their own personal plaything on the backs of the voters…geez….can’t they do better?