Political Jedi

My Own Personal Hell

2010-03-12T08:40:00.000-06:00

NAMBLA Members
Circle I Limbo

DMV Employees
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Scientologists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

General asshats
Circle IV Rolling Weights

Oakland Raider Fans
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

PETA Members
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Nancy Pelosi
Circle VII Burning Sands

Parents who bring squalling brats to R-rated movies
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Osama bin Laden
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

More Governmental Bailouts...Now to the Tune of $800 Billion!

2008-12-10T19:29:00.008-06:00

This is a reply to Ryan Riojas’ post on Political Soup titled Does anybody know what’s going on?. He is talking about the new federal bailout to the tune of another $800 billion. I believe that that is entirely way too much of our taxpayer money going to those bankers and CEOs that caused this crisis in the first place. If you give more money to those people, you are just feeding the flames and making the problem worse. The government should give them that money only under conditions that will fix the problem and require oversight by not just the government, but by economists and other learned financial persons. They should also show accountability and responsibility. If the government keeps giving money to the wasteful bankers and CEOs, we will have a serious problem on our hands as they squander away our hard-earned money . It could put the country in dire straits for generations to come, and may even hinder our ability to defend ourselves.

Obamas New Workforce

2008-11-22T12:19:00.003-06:00

A new article from Fox News says that President-Elect Barack Obama has declared the country is facing a huge economic crisis of historical proportions. Perhaps it is, or perhaps it is not.

Obama has outlined a plan to create nearly 2.5 million new jobs to rebuild the infrastructure of this country along with developing new energy sources and producing better, more efficient cars.

That is all well and good, but how about actually treating the disease, not the symptom? Maybe, as opposed to creating those jobs to prevent others from becoming unemployed as the economy crashes even further, Obama should actually fix the economy.

Some pundits compare this crisis to the Great Depression but others call it a recession, so who knows? It may actually get to be that bad. If it does, we as a nation are in big trouble. Those of us that are college undergrads may find ourselves with no job prospects when we graduate. In China, there was a college student protest because of the fact that there is a white collar job shortage. (See link for full article from the Statesman)

If our nation gets that bad it won’t just be college grads that are out of a job. It will also affect a lot of other people, such as Joe the CEO, Joe the Plumber, and Joe Six-Pack just to name a few.

I think that Obama’s idea to create new jobs will help the economic crisis, but will not cure it. For that to happen, the nation, both the citizenry and the government, needs to spend less and save more, which hopefully, will fix the economy and its many problems. Good luck getting the nation to do that, Mr. President.

A link to the original article is below: (The article actually has several typos and/or grammar errors.)

Obama's New Workforce

Should We Vote?

2008-11-11T17:38:00.007-06:00

I am commenting on Deborah’s most recent post on iGov: ‘I Think we Should Vote’.

I agree 100% with what she is saying and believe it is absolutely necessary to vote in any election. If everybody says “my vote doesn’t really count, so I’m not going to vote” then nobody goes to vote, and nobody is elected. That can’t be good for our democracy.

Another point she brings up is that, sometimes, a person doesn’t like either candidate and therefore doesn’t vote. If you are in that position, go for the lesser of two evils and vote for the one you hate the least.

Here is an interesting side note: Keith Olbermann, the psycho host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, has never voted, even though he makes a living smashing and destroying the candidate that he doesn’t like.

Yet another good point is that the American populace needs to become more active in the election process than they are by reading articles or watching the news. You need to be informed about the candidates so you can make a well thought out decision come Election Day.

Joe the Plumber and Obama's Tax Plan

2008-10-22T15:33:00.026-05:00

Joe Wurzelbacher, more commonly known as Joe the Plumber, has become a sort of representative of the average American. How did he get the almost celebrity status? It all started when he spoke with Senator Barack Obama at a campaign event in Ohio. When asked “I’m getting ready to buy a company that makes $250,000 to $280,000 a year. Your new tax plan is going to tax me more isn’t it?” Obama replied, “...I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s better for everybody.” If that’s not a socialistic ideology, I don’t know what is.

The definition of socialism is basically “shared wealth and shared productivity.” Unfortunately, history has shown otherwise, the hardest working people are punished while the ones who don't work at all are rewarded. An analogy of that is; say you have two cows, the state takes one cow and gives it to someone who needs the milk more than you, but doesn’t know how to milk it and doesn't want to learn how.

Obama’s tax plan includes taxing the small businesses along with the larger corporations. If he taxes them they, in turn, will jack the prices up for the rest of the nation and fuel his socialistic government.

Anyway, back to Joe the Plumber, who only wanted to buy the business that he is employed by. Under Obama’s plan, he would have higher taxes and not be able to buy his company, thus not fulfilling the American dream. Under McCain’s plan, Joe would be able to buy that business and his taxes would be lower than they would be under Obama.

Obama says that, “Not only do 98% of small businesses make less than $250,000 a year, but I want to give them additional tax breaks. They fuel the economy, generating the most jobs and income.” According to Wurzelbacher, Obama’s statement made him feel uneasy and worried, adding that he still thinks that Obama’s plan would keep him from buying his company and inhibit growth of the business. Businesses are run based on profit vs. loss, so under Obama, those businesses would start firing people to keep up their profits.

If Obama is elected president, our nation will most likely become a socialist republic like Russia, China, and the former Soviet Union. I don’t think we want that to happen to the longest standing constitutional republic since the time of the Romans. The nation deserves a strong leader for president. That leader is Sen. John McCain.

Some articles supporting my view are linked below.
Spreading the Wealth

Who is Joe the Plumber?

Somebody Pull the Hair Plug on This Guy

2008-10-14T18:02:00.014-05:00

The author of this article is Ann Coulter, whose credentials include, writing six bestselling books, graduating with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences, and receiving a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School. Her intended audience is the right wing public, as she is smashing Senator Joe Biden throughout this article.

She is talking about the Vice Presidential debate and Sen. Biden’s many mistakes. Those mistakes weren’t small ones either, they were quite large. For example, Biden said, “we—along with France—we kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon.” Hezbollah was never kicked out of Lebanon.

She later gives more examples of some of Biden’s mistakes that include him saying that we should move NATO forces into Lebanon. Lebanon isn’t a NATO country, and has never attacked a NATO country, in fact, the nearest NATO country is Turkey, which is about 700 miles away.

Another of Biden’s mistakes was him saying that, “… We spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan rebuilding that country.” Coulter refers to the Congressional Research Service, saying, since 9-11, we have spent $172 billion in Afghanistan, and $653 billion in Iraq. The most we have spent comes out to be about $3 billion a week, so, by Biden’s calculations, we have only spent about $9 billion in Afghanistan.

One of his biggest mistakes, in my opinion, was him citing Article I of the Constitution, saying that the vice president is part of the executive branch, not the legislative. The vice president is a part of both branches. Article I says that the vice president presides over the senate every day of the week and has a purpose besides just breaking ties.

For someone who has been in the US Senate for 36 years you would think that he would be more knowledgeable about the constitution. Also, for someone that has been in the Senate Foreign policy committee since 1975, you would think that he would know a little more about foreign policy.

We’ve heard little in the media about Sen. Biden’s mistakes, but if Governor Sarah Palin had uttered even one of these mistakes, the media would be all over it for weeks, maybe even months. Such is the state of the present day media, a bunch of left wing reporters and anchors, bloviating constantly about everything.

The Bailout Sacrifices Freedom for Dependency

2008-10-01T14:09:00.007-05:00

The author of this editorial is Jeff Sandefer, a special contributor to the Austin American Statesman. He seems quite credible as evidenced by some of his credentials; he founded or co-founded five successful companies, currently he manages Sandefer Capital, an energy investment firm. He was named by BusinessWeek as one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in the United States and earned a MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS from University of Texas. His intended audience for this editorial is the general public based on his use of easy to understand language.

He starts his editorial with a statement that is scary, but true, “Throughout our nation's history, the size and scope of government has grown by leaps and bounds during times of crisis, financial or otherwise.“ He later goes on to quote Margaret Thatcher as saying; “You cannot justify your freedom based on today’s Dow Jones Industrial Average”. Those words ring true today.

The author also states that the political class likes to let the government “bail them out” if there is even a tiny crisis, especially when an election is near. One of his other statements is that people think free markets are “better” because “they work”, and not because they are free.

The author later says letting the politicians and the Federal Reserve “fix” this problem is like telling an arsonist to put out a fire. He also says that, “if the government backs off, the markets will clean themselves up.” Many of the economists agree with him. That statement is supported by Washington Mutual and Wachovia being absorbed by larger banks as opposed to waiting for the government to bail them out.

He closes his editorial with a quote from the great political mind, Benjamin Franklin, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Jeff Sandefer’s logic and evidence is good, his claims are sound and are backed up by the current state of this monetary crisis. In all, this editorial is direct and to the point. I agree with everything he says. A link to the full editorial is below.

Bailout Sacrificing Freedom

THE Campaign Ad of the Century

2008-09-17T19:35:00.004-05:00

This video is THE campaign ad of the century. It is titled simply "Dear Mr. Obama".
It gives you a sense of what would happen to the countries of Iraq and Afghanistan if Barack Obama became president.

Best and Worst of the RNC

2008-09-10T12:52:00.010-05:00

This article tells you about the highs and lows of the Republican National Convention. It also tells you what wasn't put on the television coverage. The highs include Sarah Palin's speech, Fred Thompson's speech and some kind words toward Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton. The lows were Jesse Ventura's arithmetic problems, Rudy Giuliani's overly long speech and the fact that after Palin's speech, Obama gained around $8 million in contributions.
This article is quite interesting and sums up the Republican National Convention, in a nutshell, very well. Any readers of this post should definitely read the full article along with some of the related articles.