Archive for September, 2009
Let’s Cut It to the Bone II
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 | Economics, Healthcare | 1 Comment
Now aside from doing away with our Armed Forces being used for a World Poliice force and doing away with the minimum wage I have a few more suggestions. Maybe if we implement some of these we could pay for healthcare.
This next idea might, at first,seem radical but it might be closer to being realistic. We should grow and distribute drugs. Since the war on drugs seems to be going the way of the Viet Nam War maybe we should declare a truce.
Now we all know that drugs in this country are controlled by organized crime and if we control the sale of drugs and tax it we could be making that money. The money we would save from fighting a futile war would again go in the public coffers. We could put more police on the streets although we might not need them since a lot of crime is drug related.
We would be creating more jobs for Americans and fighting the War on Terror at the same time. The Afghans have increased poppy production over twenty times since 2001, who do you think is buying?
One of the things that got us into problems was oil. The countries that have oil have been holding us hostage. Well I recently heard that in the future water may be the new oil. Along with this, food will become scarce and therefore more valuable then oil. If we started to hold the world oil producing countries hostage for food then maybe the price of oil would come down. If not, let them eat sand.
Let’s Cut It to the Bone
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
In the movie Dave, Kevin Kline is told he can have the money for a child care program if he can cut the budget to cover it. He enlists his accountant friend, played by Charles Grodin, to actually cut the budget which they do and they keep the child care program. I never thought I would ever say this but we need Charles Grodin.
I want a good healthcare bill and I think we can manage it if we cut some things. First we should get rid of our Police Force, no not the local one. I mean the one that has been policing since the end of WW II. The one that is in Iraq and Afganistan. The one that had those missions in Korea , Viet Nam and Kuwait. I’m not suggesting that we do away with our Armed Forces, just the policing part.
We have been engaged in police actions since WW II and I can’t think of one success.It seems that all of our interventions have just made the people we were trying to help hate us more.
Let’s do away with the minimum wage. We can no longer pretend that we are not part of a global economy. How are we goiung to compete if our minimum hourly wage is the weekly wage for an other country’s worker? Besides money is just a piece of paper. the value of money is what you can buy with it. I think of it as the loaf of bread theory. If you are getting paid $.10 an hour and you can buy a load of bread then you are better off then the neighboring country that gets $100 an hour but bread costs $101.
Besides the wage is unfair, it didn’t raise everyone’s wages just the ones making the minimum. If I’m making the Federal Minimum wage of $7.25and my co worker is making $7.30and they raise the minimum to $7.29 I just got a raise but my co worker didn’t. Worse than that is the fact that the raise was probably caused by inflation. This means that the loaf of bread that used to cost $7.25 now costs $7.29 which means that my co worker will not be showing up at $.05 beer night.
I have more ways we can cut but I’m saving that for next week cause I am typing this. I literally started personal typing in High School at 25 wpm and ended at 15 wpm so if I type too much my fingers bleed and mess up the keys. Till next week
PS I know that you are wondering if I forgot or maybe I am going by an Aztec calendar( if I am then none of this will matter in 2012) but wasn’t yesterday Tuesday? Yes it was and I have to apologize.
The good news is that everything still has positive and negative effects. Let me explain. When I finish my blog I normally ask my wife to check it out for errors, cause she is smarter than me in everything but picking mates. Once or twice when she was extremely busy I actually posted without her review. Last night I told her I was finished and I expected her to check it and post it. She took it to mean that I had finished and had posted it.
So now the good and bad news, The bad news is that you the reader may have been disappointed and have lost all faith in me. the good news is that my wife now feels guilty and being a typical male I will parlay this into something that is beneficial to me. with any luck I may be busy next Tuesday too.
Easier to Ask
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 | Life, Politics | No Comments
Grace Hopper is credited with the quote “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission,” so she might be to blame. This seems to be the rallying cry of the last few weeks.
The two most recent occurances seem to be from Joe Wilson and Kanye West. At this time the House has decided to formally rebuke Republican Representative Joe Wilson for his “You Lie” comment.
The Republicans are crying that the Democrats are politically motivated. They are saying that they should be talking about healthcare; that they are wasting valuable time. Was this the same Party that wasted time with the Clinton Impeachment? I guess the difference is that they were the ones wasting it then.
I know that many people feel that freedom of speech is at stake here but we don’t truly have unrestricted free speech. You can’t yell fire in a crowded theater. So, yes, there are times when the government has decided to restrict our free speech for the public good.
I have friends that don’t have the same religious views as I do and I know that if I talk to them about religion I might lose friends. If I were to invite them to my house and embarass them by attacking their religion I would be solely responsible for losing their friendship and also a poor host. Not only was Rep. Wilson a poor host, he was also an embarassment to the people he represents. I’ve often heard about Southern Hospitality, if this is an example then I’m staying in the North.
Then we have Kanye West who interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech to inform us of his opinion. Now he had the opportunity to vote like everyone else but he felt that we were waiting to find out, not what the majority of people thought but what Kenye thought: guess again. Now I could understand if it was Jay Z up there cause he was going home with Beyonce but I think he has too much class to do that. Maybe that is the answer. We may live in a classless society but that doesn’t mean our society shouldn’t have class.
Damn You! Liberal Media
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | Life, Politics | No Comments
President Obama has brought a very glaring problem to the attention of the public. We are being indoctrinated. Now I’m not talking about the disgusting things that the President suggested in his speech like our children getting a good education; no, I’m talking about the despicable things that the liberal media has forced us to believe.
I remember the first time it happened to me. It was 1965 and the media put on this ridiculous show called I Spy. The liberal media wanted us to believe that Blacks and Whites could work together and even be friends. They wanted us to believe that Blacks could become Rhodes Scholars. The sad part is that I felt that way already due to a previous indoctrination from my mother but that was when parents actually taught their children right from wrong.
This was sort of when the flood gates openned. Soon we had the groundbreaking Kirk kissing Uhura which is kind of funny when you think that Kirk had already interacted with a green Orion slave girl and no one complained. Soon we had Chico and the Man espousing the view that Hispanics and Whites could get along. What next World Peace?
Better to Die
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 | Politics | No Comments
I had a friend who went out drinking and the next day someone asked him how he was feeling. He said “I would have to get better to die”. I feel the same way. I have the flu and it is knocking me for a loop. This therefore may be very short.
I noticed that we have been awash in forgiveness. The Scottish have just released the Lockerbee terrorist, Michael Phelps is appearing in commercials again and Eliot Spitzer may run again.
At one time the things they did would have been the end of it; their careers would have been over,they would have served their sentences and they wouldn’t be selling subs on TV. The question is do we stand for anything?
When I grew up we used to have this ritual as a prelude to a fight. We would draw a line in the sand and tell the other person to cross it. If he crossed it the fight would be on but, of late, we seem to be drawing more and more lines in the sand,
When Bruce Jenner or Mark Spitz won the Olympics they were role models and because he isn’t on a reality show Mark Spitz still is. Nixon wasn’t allowed to finish his term because of Watergate and he didn’t even use public funds to do it and we used to let people who terrorized our country or our allies die in prison. When did we become wusses?