This was sent to me by a friend that thought I might like it. I do, as there is a lot of truth to it.
by John Hawkins During the 2008 presidential campaign, people speculated whether someone like Barack Obama, who has never really run anything or had any major achievements other than winning political office, could handle a three AM crisis call. Well, Obama has been such a bumbling incompetent that he probably couldn't handle a trip through a Wendy's drive-in window without a teleprompter telling him what to order. Even though Obama has been in office less than two months, he has already made more boneheaded errors than most Presidents do in an entire term. 10) After doing the "We've got to have this stimulus package passed right this second or the economy is going to explode" routine so convincin gly that not one single soul in Congress actually had time to read the entire bill before it was signed, Barack Obama then promptly went on a three day vacation to celebrate before he signed it.. If the bill was so important that no one could even have time to read it before it was passed, then why wasn't it important enough for Obama to skip dinner at Table Fifty-Two in Chicago to immediately make it a law? 9) In a juvenile stunt, reminiscent of something a third grader might come up with, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a button that was supposed to say "reset." However, incredibly, the word on the button translated to "overcharge," not "reset." Apparently, despite the enormous deficit the government is going to run up this year, Team Obama forgot to budget enough money to hire someone who speaks Russian for the State Department. If only America could just press a button and reset the entire Obama presidency so far and start over. 8) When Barack Obama was trying to sell America his stimulus bill that will put the country more than a trillion dollars in debt, he alerted America that, "Caterpillar's chief executive...told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes." But, when he was asked about Obama's statement, Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said, "I think realistically no. The truth is we're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again." 7) A large part of Barack Obama's appeal was the idea of racial reconciliation. The implicit deal was that by putting our first black President in office, America would prove once and for all that it wasn't racist, and we could put all this silly squabbling about race in the rear view mirror once and for all. However, not only has it failed to work out that way, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder issued an an insulting challenge on the topic to the American people,
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always b een and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."
Maybe someone should ask the poor guy who did an innocent cartoon for the New York Post that made fun of the stimulus bill and the rampaging monkey that was in the news why people might be afraid to get dragged into a debate about race. 6) Typically, Presidents don't pick fights with pundits and talk radio hosts for obvious reasons. It draws more attention to their criticisms, elevates their status, and comes across as thin skinned and a little creepy, much like Richard Nixon's "Enemies list." But, the Obama Administration hasn't figured this out -- yet. They've launched attacks at Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer, and most prominently, Rush Limbaugh. Ratcheting up the creepiness factor a couple of notches in Limbaugh's case, the President of the United States, members of the mainstream media, and liberal interest groups are all coordinating an attack on a private individual for daring to criticize Barack Obama. That sounds more like something that would happen in the old Soviet Uni on than in the United States . But happily, if you look at the results of the White House campaign, it has backfired in every instance. Rush Limbaugh is on pace to make more revenue by the end of March than he made all last year, there are Santelli inspired "Tea Parties" popping up all across the country, and every criticism of Obama that Jim Cramer utters is now linked by the Drudge Report. 5) The first task a new President engages in is bringing a staff on board. After choosing Joe Biden, who has behaved like he was kicked in the head by a horse as a child, things have really gone down hill from there. Bill Richardson quit as Commerce Secretary after coming under investigation. Republican Senator Judd Gregg accepted, then declined Obama's offer to be his Commerce Secretary over irreconcilable differences. Tom Daschle quit after having tax problems. So did Nancy Killefer. Ron Kirk also has tax problems, but he's trying to hang in there like Hilda Solis and another cabinet member who gets his own special entry -- and keep in mind, Obama has a considerable number of positions left to fill. Hey Barry, the word of the day is "vetting." You should look into it. 4) George Bush spent a lot of time strengthening our ties to Eastern European nations like Poland and the Czech Republic during his two terms in the White House. Yet, it took Barack Obama less than two months to undo much of Bush's good work with those nations. Obama wrote a "secret" letter to Dmitri Medvedev offering to leave Poland and the Czech Republic twisting in the wind on missile defense in return for Russia 's help in stopping Iran from getting nukes. The problem was that the letter went public even as Russia turned down the deal. So, in other words, our friends in Eastern Europe were publicly alerted that we were willing to sell them down the river to the Russians, who they were already afraid of, and yet we got nothing out of the deal. That's a real "welcome to the Big Leagues" maneuver from the Russians for our naive, rookie President. 3) After making a stink by sending back a Winston Churchill bust, Barack Obama blew off a press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- but, the real kicker was the gifts.
After Brown presented Obama with a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk), Obama offered up ... 25 DVDs of American movie classics.
The Brits offered Obama a thoughtful, priceless gift and he handed them back a bad Netflix queue that was probably picked up at Wal-mart earlier that day. 2) Choosing tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary was such an incredible screw up that it deserves it own entry.. It's mind boggling that any Administration would choose a tax cheat to run the department that's in charge of the IRS. Moreover, in Obama's case, he has already announced plans for the largest tax hike in American history, nearly a trillion dollars, and the man in charge of that effort doesn't pay his taxes? Prediction: a few years from n ow, if the New York Times isn't out of business by then, they'll write an article telling you that they're baffled, baffled I tell you, by the massive increase in the number of people cheating on their taxes. 1) Barack Obama may be a liberal thriller, but he's also a stock market killer. Since he came into office, his Bunyanesque new spending proposals, his plans for a trillion dollar tax hike, his regular badmouthing of the economy, and his incessant tinkering with banks and the housing market have caused the stock market to go into a freefall. Granted, stocks would have likely dropped anyway because of the economic crunch we're in, but the market wouldn't have already reached the lowest level since 1997 without lots of help from Obama. As Democratic financial wiz, Jim Cramer, has said of Obama's performance, "it's amateur hour at our darkest moment" and it's "crushing nest eggs around the nation." (latest) hatred of Bush overides all other considerations pertaining to CIA methods of informat ion gathering. Agents and foreign countries now afraid to confer or work with the US. Didn't we have the same type deal going on during the Clinton administration????
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Thank you.
The public got what they wanted, they all knew his lack of experience and background.
2010 will be here soon.
Bullshit.
Republicans had time to appear on all of the Sunday morning talk shows, genuflect before the altar of the big druggie, and posture to their people at home. They've got staffs that have the sole reponsibility of reading legislation. Instead, they just made stuff up (like trains from Disneyland to Las Vegas, Nancy Pelosi's wetlands rumour, etc).
"In a juvenile stunt, reminiscent of something a third grader might come up with, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton handed Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov a button that was supposed to say "reset." However, incredibly, the word on the button translated to "overcharge," not "reset." Apparently, despite the enormous deficit the government is going to run up this year, Team Obama forgot to budget enough money to hire someone who speaks Russian for the State Department. "
A mistake, but one that everyone laughed off. And the last line is utter bullshit.
"When Barack Obama was trying to sell America his stimulus bill that will put the country more than a trillion dollars in debt, he alerted America that, "Caterpillar's chief executive...told him the company will rehire some laid-off workers if the stimulus bill passes." But, when he was asked about Obama's statement, Caterpillar CEO Jim Owens said, "I think realistically no. The truth is we're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again.""
Yep, a mistake, but not a "mission accomplished" level mistake, just a misstatement.
A large part of Barack Obama's appeal was the idea of racial reconciliation. The implicit deal was that by putting our first black President in office, America would prove once and for all that it wasn't racist, and we could put all this silly squabbling about race in the rear view mirror once and for all. However, not only has it failed to work out that way, Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder issued an an insulting challenge on the topic to the American people,
"Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always b een and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards."
A black man's perspective on the state of race relations in the US. Not a surprise. Not something that I agree with, but understandable.
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Maybe someone should ask the poor guy who did an innocent cartoon for the New York Post that made fun of the stimulus bill and the rampaging monkey that was in the news why people might be afraid to get dragged into a debate about race. "
A racist cartoon that not only equated the president with a monkey, but also highlighted the NYPD's unfortunate predilection for using black men as target practice.
"Typically, Presidents don't pick fights with pundits and talk radio hosts for obvious reasons. It draws more attention to their criticisms, elevates their status, and comes across as thin skinned and a little creepy, much like Richard Nixon's "Enemies list." But, the Obama Administration hasn't figured this out -- yet. They've launched attacks at Rick Santelli, Jim Cramer, and most prominently, Rush Limbaugh. Ratcheting up the creepiness factor a couple of notches in Limbaugh's case, the President of the United States, members of the mainstream media, and liberal interest groups are all coordinating an attack on a private individual for daring to criticize Barack Obama. That sounds more like something that would happen in the old Soviet Uni on than in the United States . But happily, if you look at the results of the White House campaign, it has backfired in every instance. Rush Limbaugh is on pace to make more revenue by the end of March than he made all last year, there are Santelli inspired "Tea Parties" popping up all across the country, and every criticism of Obama that Jim Cramer utters is now linked by the Drudge Report. "
The president didn't pick on Limbaugh, he was actually trying to encourage a bunch of brain dead Republicans to do something OTHER THAN listen to the big druggie for their direction, like actually listening to their constituents. There are no "coordinated attacks". There are a bunch of people who have decided that the message of people like Santelli and financial pimp Cramer is just bullshit, and revealed it as such, USING THEIR OWN WORDS! The whole teabag movement is just astroturf: fake grass roots sponsored by Republican millionaires, the further devolution of the Republican party into the last gasp of angry white people. And who cares about how much money Limbaugh makes except Oxycotin manufacturers and dittoheads ?
"The first task a new President engages in is bringing a staff on board. After choosing Joe Biden, who has behaved like he was kicked in the head by a horse as a child, things have really gone down hill from there. Bill Richardson quit as Commerce Secretary after coming under investigation. Republican Senator Judd Gregg accepted, then declined Obama's offer to be his Commerce Secretary over irreconcilable differences. Tom Daschle quit after having tax problems. So did Nancy Killefer. Ron Kirk also has tax problems, but he's trying to hang in there like Hilda Solis and another cabinet member who gets his own special entry -- and keep in mind, Obama has a considerable number of positions left to fill. Hey Barry, the word of the day is "vetting." You should look into it."
Mistakes were made here. But Joe Biden is a much better pick for the Democrats than Sarah Palin was for the Republicans. Judd Greg BEGGED for the job, and was on board until he woke up one morning with a moose's head in his bed. Richardson was a mistake, Daschele was a mistake. The primary problem is that the Republican minority has been intentionally slow in approving the presiden't appointees.
"George Bush spent a lot of time strengthening our ties to Eastern European nations like Poland and the Czech Republic during his two terms in the White House. Yet, it took Barack Obama less than two months to undo much of Bush's good work with those nations. Obama wrote a "secret" letter to Dmitri Medvedev offering to leave Poland and the Czech Republic twisting in the wind on missile defense in return for Russia 's help in stopping Iran from getting nukes. The problem was that the letter went public even as Russia turned down the deal. So, in other words, our friends in Eastern Europe were publicly alerted that we were willing to sell them down the river to the Russians, who they were already afraid of, and yet we got nothing out of the deal. That's a real "welcome to the Big Leagues" maneuver from the Russians for our naive, rookie President. "
Right. George Bush was so busy looking in Putin's eyes that he was totally surprised when the Russians invaded Georgia. And what did we do? NOTHING, except give Georgia money. Give me a frakking break.
"After making a stink by sending back a Winston Churchill bust, Barack Obama blew off a press conference with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown -- but, the real kicker was the gifts.
After Brown presented Obama with a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk), Obama offered up ... 25 DVDs of American movie classics.
The Brits offered Obama a thoughtful, priceless gift and he handed them back a bad Netflix queue that was probably picked up at Wal-mart earlier that day."
This is one of those things that the British press and the fright wing blew up into a tempest in a teapot. President Obama saved Gordon Brown's bacon at the G8 summit.
Choosing tax cheat Timothy Geithner to be his Treasury Secretary was such an incredible screw up that it deserves it own entry.. It's mind boggling that any Administration would choose a tax cheat to run the department that's in charge of the IRS. Moreover, in Obama's case, he has already announced plans for the largest tax hike in American history, nearly a trillion dollars, and the man in charge of that effort doesn't pay his taxes? Prediction: a few years from n ow, if the New York Times isn't out of business by then, they'll write an article telling you that they're baffled, baffled I tell you, by the massive increase in the number of people cheating on their taxes. "
How incredibly stupid. Geithner paid the back taxes. And I'll bet on the future of the New York Times against's your buddy's probability of rapidly running out of functioning synapses.
" Barack Obama may be a liberal thriller, but he's also a stock market killer. Since he came into office, his Bunyanesque new spending proposals, his plans for a trillion dollar tax hike, his regular badmouthing of the economy, and his incessant tinkering with banks and the housing market have caused the stock market to go into a freefall. Granted, stocks would have likely dropped anyway because of the economic crunch we're in, but the market wouldn't have already reached the lowest level since 1997 without lots of help from Obama."
Actually, the biggest loss in the market valuation occured from 2007 - 2008, during the reign of error.
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President Obama has made mistakes, and I certainly don't agree with everything he's done so far. But considering the debacle that he inherited, I think he's doing the best he can.
By the way, I gave you a one, only because I couldn't give you a negative number. I'm sure the usual fright wing toadies will be around to boost your points.
Conservatives, angry at the abject failure of their once golden boy George W. Bush, angry that liberals called a spade a spade and got the bums thrown out of office, angry that their leaders broke the country in half, are looking to to jump on Obama as early and often as they can in the hopes that the new kid on the block can replace W. as the worst president in history bar none.
It's a feeble effort at best. Obama's approval ratings are high because thinking Americans can see: a) It will be some time before he can dig himself and the rest of the world out of the cesspool the Bush Criminal Cartel left behind and; b) he is wasting no time trying to dig us all out.
The real funny thing above is reading from a conservative that liberals wanted a free ride! That's rich. You guys have the biggest debt in your history and the lowest taxes in the industrialized world and you want more tax cuts. Talk about a free ride. You don't even want to pay your bills!
To make matters worse... the democratic whip came out FIVE DAYS after the stimulus package and said that it wouldnt work and would need more money to make a dent.
That was politics at its finest... lol. Broken after only 5 whole days. Nice job guys. Like you didnt know that a week before you passed it.
~M
That certainly sounds extreme and unbelievable, Dan R. Can you provide some kind of proof?
Some people are losing their minds !!!
You were a community "activist" leader of a Marxist anti- American leftist group, ACORN.
At this rate Obama, soon there will be a reality show named for you- O'S amateur hour.
Mr. Obama, you will not be allowed to kill the American dream, by taxation, nationalize private industry-Chavez-Castro style, and we the free people will not allow you to spend this great nation of free people and free markets out of existence.
Barack, 300,000 proud Americans hit the streets- tea party-. 62 million people did not vote for you and yiou will be hearing from them again. Stop your apologizing for America-ayers tour.
I'm afraid micky d is a mentally retarded bigot if he really believed that.
And that is just one.
It seems that lying makes you feel better!!!
I'll have a double cheese, fries and a large coke please.
To those that actually pay attention to history and facts, we are in for a long ride to hell and back with our Marxist President.
it is sooooo obvious that this man doesnt have a clue.....
I really don't care about what these dumbasses say, I am more concerned about the new listings on "Suspected Terrorists" which includes anyone that honestly defends their country, not like these dumb assed left.
It has been a long 100 days, and it can only get worse. Is Obamah going to spend anytime doing anything for our country, or will he continue to try to make the rest of the world like him? So far I haven't seen anything worthwhile come out of Washington. He has given big business their bailout money so that executives who should have been fired, could get their bonuses, told Chrysler that they MUST merge with Fiat if they expect to get anymore money, and pressed to have a stimuls package passed that every Senator and Congressman that I heard speak said they didn't read the whole thing. How do you vote to pass a bill that you don't know what's in it? To me that would be like taking a test for a class you never attended...either way you are in the dark.
I look forward to 2013 and having a new president in office, as I don't forsee Obamah being re-elected.
I can see you've drawn the usual host of frightwing stooges. You should all use your collective brain to see if you can get a clue.
Erik, you just love showing everyone how limited your world is. BTW, you really need to learn to think for yourself. Letting others think for you is not always the best way to exist.
It is not hard to learn to do, just takes more responciblity.... Ohhh yeah, your a Lib. That means you don't like having any responcibility.
Marxist !!!! You really are willfully stupid !!! Oh MY GOD !!!!
Being a Conservative seems to be the most irresponsible anti-civilization, anti-Earth, thing I can think of now.
I have to agree with you, our quality of life goes down day-by-day. Change? Yea, but not for the better.
Marilyn
I agree we are seeing everything go down day by day.
And did Peter just show us just how "willfully stupid" he is with his comments.
Ohhh wait I might not say that about him, Libns can call any non-lib anything they want here, but we cannot rfeturn it....
Obama has a degree in Constitutional Law, so we're told, but as of yet, he has shown no real knowledge of the Constitution, and little of the law.
I think we are setting at a dangerous time, and Obama is moving to push us over that edge, well Obama, Pelosi, and the other Anti-American pro Communism groups in our Government.
President of the "WORLD"--Barack Hussein Oops-o- bama, is at it again. President-oops bama,is again touring the world to convey his regrets to such great world "leeches"-oops, leaders, great men like Fidel-Hugo- Sheiks- that marry 8 year old girls. Yes, Hussein OOPS Bama, tells all these louses who hate America of how sorry he is for all the mistakes America has made, before of course America had the "wisdom" to elect----HIM!!
I'll have the parfait from the dollar menu please.
As usual, you ape the drug-addled talking points of your fright wing masters. We survived the last eight years of the worst president in modern history, the worst president imaginable.
When Bush was screwing up the country, you were silent. Now all you can do is piss and moan.
Limited world view? Coming from you?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
No wonder you people lost.
Take heart. The name calling and obfuscations should be revelations in and of themselves. Of course I don't know how highly my opinion should be valued . . . I marked Bush as the third worst president ever, not the first.
I value yours, but then again I'm not closed minded.
Matthew Murphy; you are so correct. And what makes it even worse, is that those that fell for it the most, don't even realize how bad they were dupped by the press and their masters.
M C ; It is always good to see someone that has enough intelligence to be able to understand what is going on. So much we cannot see, but from the actions and put the hidden pieces together. Even though many of these pieces are not even hidden. If some of these people knew their history, they could see the truth as blantent as it is.
Any time this person comments on my posts, she will be deleted, something I have tried not to do in the past, but thanks to Gather's views that it is ok for Liberals to cuss out, attack, and stalk non-liberals, this view is changing.
I just wish more would pay attention to what is going on. It is not that hard to see, and not even being hid from our eyes. So many just do not want to face the truth of what is and has been goiong on in this country via our politicians.
There is a lot of truth in this like you stated Dan. Thanks so much for this post!
I wish I had said this, but I do agree with what this person said in their article. He does state a lot of obvious truth.
The pinhead who belched out that article would certainly entertain you frightwing clowns, but it's primarily just his opinion.
Why not try again?
We did not have the local Racest thugs "Protecting" the voting polls. Nor did we use the Rigging system, "ACORN" like you people did.
Nor did we have the media supporting lies about "our" Cadadates being so experienced. In fact the Candadate I supported, was highly restricted by the Media, and did not even get Slaunder time like McCain did from the Media.
Erik, your just a foolish joke. Not even worthy of being looked at, as a real person.
Again, your opinions.
Racest? Cadadates? Candadate? Slaunder?
And learn to spell, would you?
You're looking more and more like the typical teabagger.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Obama having no experience in any real job, is showing seriously here.
He's been far from perfect, but considering the absolute disaster he inherited, and the assault on his presidency from the grimy obstructionist party, aka the party of no ideas, and their media stooges, he's doing ok.
I dare say the economy will get worse before it gets better but we have only to thank Bush and its failure in oversight, deficit spending on the war and coziness with the big banks.Let the market adjust itself the GOP said, well it did, it collapsed under the rampant corruption of greedy oligarchies who were allowed to be too big to fail as AIG...guess what deregulation is? a wonder for those companies.
If you have the ability to see where the problem began it will point you directly to the republican party, now in exile for failure to earn the salaries we pay them but not knowing what the hell was happening to the economy for the last 8 years.
Apparently their warmongering attitude has evolved in enhanced torture technique right out of the communist Chinese book .This Chinese are really taking over the world, including manufacturing your hat , not to mention your underwear.
the GOP is a fake, the biggest fraud ever in this here US of A and they prey on people like you, who read little , think even less but are always too ready to fight for a lost cause.
No response required, save your breath.
Last election I opposed both Obama and McCain, because as I said numerous times, they were both bad for the country.
You have to take a stand Dan. Easy to say both are bad for the country...who's country?
I happen to think he is the best man for the job at this time.
Because of his open mind and analytical abilities.
He may not be the perfect one but he sure needs support not tearing down.
I accept well though out and researched issue where one takes a different stance and explains why.
Even opinions have to be supported by some substantive and factual premise based on experience.
Yes they do, just as many others in Congress are also major parts of the problem.
I am also for some regulation . . . for example if you can't afford a house you shouldn't be able to demand that banks give you a loan . . . there problem solved. Oh yes here is some other regulation I am also in favor of: the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Our government has overstepped its duty, and needs put back into its place, not given more freedoms.
Having a huge trade deficit, going global with financial oligarchies we are taking over the world. Building a military industrial complex using money better spent for infrastructures.
Deregulated and caused the failure of saving and loans to the tune of 500 billions of our tax money. Deregulating again allowing the banks to buy insurance and investment companies...and also crooks to fake applications to make a commission on loans and more crooks to sell them with no insurance backing it.
You know who failed this country? Bad governing, but mostly the people who when given the opportunity become greedy thieves and took advantage of the lack of oversight.
A trillion spent by the past president and we have nothing to show for it except maimed and dead soldiers, billions more will be spent on disability and related health problems, not to mention family disruption and for what? Safety?
I think we need more able bodies to be drafted and learn some discipline.
Even freedom has to be earned.
You all are so far from the truth with your bantering, I think it is too late to worry to contain government...What holds the country together is a good government and we had a bad one for too long.
Time to bring back the constitution alright but do you know what that means?
Pitiful to see so many so ignorant of the facts and frightened by a president who by all accounts has improved our relationship with the world.
Listen to the king of Jordan at meet the press .
Maybe we are all bunch of credulous creature , but hope is last to die and really that is all we have left.
Yeah I was against that. Obama has been in office for 100 days now, so why are we still there?
"Borrowing from China a communist country."
So how is Obama going to fund his porkulas package again?
"A trillion spent by the past president and we have nothing to show for it except maimed and dead soldiers, billions more will be spent on disability and related health problems, not to mention family disruption and for what? Safety?"
Don't forget the 84 billion Obama just requested to continue with those "failed policies of the past" in Iraq.
"Deregulated and caused the failure of saving and loans to the tune of 500 billions of our tax money. Deregulating again allowing the banks to buy insurance and investment companies...and also crooks to fake applications to make a commission on loans and more crooks to sell them with no insurance backing it."
Ok I don't know if you're talking about SNL there or the Subprime crisis . . . it got a bit Faulkner there . . . as far as insurance backing that's what properties became. They were mortgaged backed securities. They became hedges against exotic investments. This was done as an offset for having to be forced to make loans to loans to persons who could not seriously be expected to pay the loans back. It was the wrong thing to do, and I am in favor of letting these lenders lose their companies and their jobs while the fraudulent borrowers lose their homes. But the culprit here is the government. And their dream of the egalitarian is quickly tuning into the reality of a kleptocracy.
"You know who failed this country? Bad governing, but mostly the people who when given the opportunity become greedy thieves and took advantage of the lack of oversight."
So why do we give them the opportunity to become greedy? Especially when they live in Washington . . . and unlike the baddies in business . . . have the actual power to take our money and rule our lives?
"I think we need more able bodies to be drafted and learn some discipline."
This is another area in which I am a big fan of regulation. Especially this one: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
"Even freedom has to be earned."
If freedom has to be earned then if follows that freedom has to be given. Who gives me this freedom? You? The government? The church? Obama? No, none of these create freedom, none of them can take freedom away. You may subvert my abilities to practice it, you may not recognize my right to engage in it but freedom is my divine right and it is not your divine right nor the right of institutions built by men to delegate it to me.
"Time to bring back the constitution alright but do you know what that means?"
Yes.