Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Tax and spend Plutocrats

Here, maybe I'll see you later
So, we send all these tax dollars to the National government and they send it back to us in projects as they see fit.
Instead of us paying for things that need to get done, such as helping a town save itself from the encroaching ocean, we rely on an inept government to do so. Instead of just going there and helping build the walls and such that is needed, we think we paid taxes so that emergency is averted. But the taxes we thought were reserved for emergencies somehow got reverted to something else entirely. A huge National government heard that 12 people in BFE wanted a little bridge and a road to go to and fro. Our money dwindles in a bureacracy. And from that bureaucracy we get price tags that balloon. So they say that the whole aforementioned town could move its 600 residents for 200 million dollars and it will take 20 years. Cut to news footage of Mexicans jumping the border

War on drugs
Have we become more sober through this war on drugs? The white-collared folks can afford to be prescribed drugs and can afford the unfortunate realities that join being high. The poor sit in jail.

I can't read it
What a surprise! Our lawmakers can't read the bills they write because they are too complicated and won't try because they are too long.

STOP
Paying for Obama to attend a Democratic fundraiser
1) Your not drawing any money or people to the fundraiser; that which will come will do so regardless.
2)Do your job-this is not a part of your job.
3)I'm not a Democrat, and my $ is not yours to go fundraising with.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Aid and murder

What the hell are we doing in Afghanistan
Obama says that he will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central gov't can be a credible and effective U.S. partner. This begs the question of whether more troops are needed. If they are needed, then what kind of burden is this policy putting on the current troops there? The Afghan gov't says there are too many strings attached to our aid packages and are telling us what to do with our money. I say we should keep our money. We have enough money in our military to do what we need to do.
What the hell are we doing in Pakistan
We sent billions in aid to Pakistan's army and hardly any was spent on it. Later we send another package to them and they want assurances that it won't mess with their sovereignty. First off, we taxpayers that are sending them money should know exactly where our money is going. And apparently they have been using the money for whatever they want it to be used for. Our lawmakers should only be assuring them that they won't get any more aid.
-7.5 billion dollar aid package passed in congress unaminously.

Hillary Clinton says that all nations must play a part in Afghanistan mission. However, the terrorists don't hate all countries.
Is a deadline for troop withdrawal and a troop surge conflicting messages?

Friday, October 02, 2009

simple media for simple people

http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/commentary/.../murrow.html

This is Edward R. Murrow's speech to the RTNDA in Chicago on October 15th, 1958.

In it, he told us what was happening to radio and television. He told us of the "evidence of decadence, escapism and insulation from the realities of the world" that the media provided. He later said that he had no hope that his words would produce any change in the industry, which seemed determined to destroy itself. With the "exciting and fruitful method of communication" in the hands of timid and avaricious men and the apathetic appearing public, effort may prove to be futile.
This medium was never "corrected". There are few out there still that know how to run it correctly; it's so sporadic it is too hard to find. Those that know where to find it are already on board. (Even Olbermann, who emulates Murrow, mimics him to a fault.) The medium has grown too fat to correct now and money/entertainment rule the day. Too late now, media has destroyed the society it was supposed to inform.
A candidates image and timing are more lauded than his idea or design. So the public gets nothing and seems not to care.