The War on Poverty

The irony of the Government declaring war on inanimate objects, or a group of people’s current fiscal state has always baffled me. It is almost like the government is writing its own epitaph without knowing it. You cannot win a war against nothing. The wars on Drugs, Poverty, wealthy, etc. are all losing battles.
You think prohibition would have taught us that if you want to make something popular, make it illegal. Even when the Government hinted at banning FourLoko it made sales go through the roof. I didn’t even know what FourLoko was until they tried getting rid of it.
But i digress, we as a people spend a lot of energy and time trying to control the choices and lives of other people. I could talk a lot about legalization of drugs but I will save it for later.
What I want to talk about is the recent report from the Senate Budget Committee; they compiled data from the Census, the office of Management and Budget, and the CRS (Congressional Research Service).
In my most humble opinion, this single report should be the main focus for the rest of the election. It is only evidence that we need to support the smaller government argument. It is major proof that the government cannot solve our issues for us and truly, TRULY does not work.
To my conservative friends this will not be anything new. To all the others, it might just change your vote!

In 2011, according to the census the number of households below the poverty line was 16,807,795. That is a family of four in one house with a total income of $22,350 per year or less. Now for the mind bottling part.
One thousand and twenty-five billion dollars was spent on programs meant to fight poverty. Sure that is a lot of money, but that is not the mind numbing paradox that is our government. It is the fact that when divided by the number of poverty stricken households, it turns out we spend $61,194 per impoverished household doing it!!!
Or put another way, we spend sixty thousand dollars per year per poor household fighting poverty!!!
The republicans on the Senate Budget committee released a note:

A congressional report from CRS recently revealed that the United States now spends more on means-tested welfare than any other item in the federal budget—including Social Security, Medicare, or national defense. Including state contributions to the roughly 80 federal poverty programs, the total amount spent in 2011 was approximately $1 trillion. Federal spending alone on these programs was up 32 percent since 2008.

If this doesn’t change your vote then congratulations you are the 47%, there is nothing anyone can do for you, and have a wonderful day. Read More

Obamas the Bullsh!&er

After CNN of all news networks challenged Obama's new shiny booklet claiming to be a plan. The Obama camp was not particularly happy with the holes they poked in it. So they responded with the presidents budget. Thus damming them even more because Obama is lying. HE IS LYING!! He will not reduce the deficit he will add to it and his own budget proves it. It must be very embarrasing to be a Obama supporter who uses the word math to attck us. Apparently they have failed to look at the presidents plan first.

Did Somebody Say…Inflation?

With every stimulus, Obama has been redistributing Federal Tax Dollars without goods or services being returned, thus lowering the value of each dollar spent by someone who didn’t “earn” it.
What does that mean in a stagnant economy? Well, if you don’t get a raise, or make more money, you actually made less. Inflation is the biggest hidden tax that no one understands. Wait. Strike that. A lot of conservatives understand it.

So how does the almighty government solve this problem? Raise the minimum wage, of course. Or tax all of the evil, greedy rich people since they have all of our money. (Right??)
This sounds okay in theory (to a liberal), except that when you sweep a floor for $8 an hour (or whatever fair market value for a good floor sweeper is) and all of the sudden the government deems that job to be worth $10 an hour, that further inflates the actual value of the job or task being performed.

It’s all in an effort to get votes. The left gets votes because they are better at making up hypothetical lies. You can’t prove them true or false.  Example: “Romney hates poor people.” (WHAT THE F***?!)
To put it in perspective, a gallon of gas is worth the exact same as it was 50 years ago. (I said “is worth,” not “costs.”) I could even speculate with modern technology that the price should have dropped. That is mind boggling to think of so I will use a more mind-friendly example. Computers. They are 100 times more powerful and 10,000 times less costly than they used to be. Think about it. In 1951, the UNIVAC I was sold by Remington Rand. They sold 46 machines at roughly $800,000 apiece. Here are the stats on that machine.

Speed: 1,905 operations per second
Input/output: magnetic tape, unityper, printer
Memory type: delay lines, magnetic tape
Technology: serial vacuum tubes, delay lines, magnetic tape
Size: 943 cubic feet
Shorter nerd translation: Slow, big, and expensive.

Now fast forward to today. You can buy an Android Netbook for about $100.
800×480 7-inch LCD, 128 MB DDR2 (up to 256 MB Optional)
1 GB SSD (up to 4 GB Optional)
ARM11 533 MHz 32bit CPU
Touchscreen
Shorter nerd translation: Fast, small, in-expensive

In 60 years, innovation has taken the cost of a computer from $800,000 to $100 while expanding the processing power, shrinking the size from a warehouse to your pocket, and enabling them to communicate (literally) through air to one another. So why do commodities cost more? The simple answer is Regulation, taxation, and inflation in an attempt to control the market to favor one or more people in a certain way.
$1.00 in 1913 would require $21.60 in 2007 in order to match value. That’s a 96% devaluation of our currency in 94 years.

Gas has not changed much, our engines have become better at burning it, our technology can get at it easier and cheaper than ever before. Other energy sources like Nat Gas are coming to light which will lower demand for oil. Yet the cost continues to rise.
Romney has hit the nail on the head when he preached, “Fair regulation in a free market with limited government intervention is best for Americas growth.”
Competition is a good thing! If I make a plunger and you open a company that makes a better one, I have to make an even better one at the same price (or cheaper) or risk going away into the ether. In the end, the guy buying the plunger wins. Our current tax code has been gifted an addition 13,000 pages of new regulations from Obamacare alone. How will taxing companies that compete to make cheaper more affordable healthcare, help patients get more affordable coverage? How about reasonable tort reform?
 

Romney’s plan is simple. (Which is probably why people don’t understand it.) Our economy, and the wealth in it, is not a finite number. Wealth can be created out of thin air. If I have something in abundance that you do not have and that you want, and you have something in abundance that I do not have and that I want, couldn’t we trade each other those things and BOTH be better off?
Take apart your iPhone (not literally). All of its components are not worth very much to you and me. Yet when Apple puts them together and writes software for it, I decide I’d rather have the phone than some money and Apple decides they’d rather have my money than another phone in stock. We are both richer in the transaction and therefore wealth is created.

This is how you can lower taxes and create more wealth, which in turn creates more tax revenue.
In short, you cannot entice growth and innovation by penalizing those who innovate and grow. Obama has effectively made becoming independently wealthy a bad thing.
I want to be rich. And I want to become rich the way Mitt Romney did. He should be on a freaking trading card. On the back it would say, “In America, hard work and determination can get you anything.”

With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends?

With the election only days away, it’s crucial to try and wipe out and ignore the blur of political commercials. I am from Wisconsin, which is a swing state. The only commercials I see during prime time TV are political.

Needless to say, I have to hear the BS from both sides. I call it all BS because, unfortunately, that is what the majority of Americans base their vote on. They appeal to people who watch and like the show “Honey Boo Boo.” (I am sooooo glad I can say that I have never seen that show.)
I spend almost every minute I have available outside of my job (and four kids) attempting to open the minds of those people. The ones who vote because of an advertisement on TV, whether it’s a vote for Romney or Obama, I challenge that they dig deeper. When you take a closer look at these politicians, it’s not hard to see that there are many similarities. However, there are huge fundamental differences when it comes to vision. So I challenge all of you to look at both of these men. Research for yourself what they have both done with their lives. You will see two very different visions on what America should be.

All we hear from the left are issues that lack substance in the real world. Big Bird, binders, war on women, bayonets. What do we hear from the right? Economy, jobs and economy. Did I mention jobs?
I really don’t care what they say. I care more about what they do, have done, or, more importantly, have not done in their lives. I also could give a crap about Romney. I don’t worship him the way people worship Obama. I would even fathom to say no conservative worships any conservative leader that way. We worship the idea of a free America, and we wholeheartedly back the candidate who can best move us in that direction.

Obama followers are so far up his ass that he could set an orphan on fire and they would get eccentric over his “Heat for the Homeless” initiative. Romney could shake the hand of a homeless person and the media would report that they cannot believe he is touching a homeless person.
I will be the first one to critique Romney when he is president, even more so than Obama. If I vote for someone, it’s for a purpose, not because of popularity. If Romney does not live up to the expectations I have, or cuts short of the promises that he has made, I will be pissed. Obama has been getting killed, in debates and public appearances, because his toughest questions from the last four years have been from “The View.” Will Romney be the best president ever? I don’t know. I’m not as good at telling the future as Chris Matthews is. We do know that he HAS been very successful and HAS met promises he has made in the past. He HAS balanced budgets, and saved jobs. So logically we know he probably can do it again.

However, in my lifetime at least, Obama has been the worst. It’s why he fell apart in the first debate. He couldn’t successfully debate his record with a four-year-old. Yet his cult covers his ass. The very people he has betrayed have come to his rescue. It’s like watching “Mean Girls.” They all love Regina even though she is a horrible person to them.  (I wonder what character  Matthews would be??)

What really, really makes me lose my marbles, are the people who hate Bush for the exact  same reason they love Obama. YOU ARE THE 47% ROMNEY IS TALKING ABOUT!! “He has doubled down on the Bush term as far as the deficit goes.” “He is Bush 2.0.” “No, 4.0.” All democrats can do is blame and point the same fingers they have been for the last eight years. Forget about the democratic majority for the end of Bush’s term, or the full control of the federal government for the first two years of the Obama term.

The 2010 Tea Party congressional sweep would have been a wake-up call for any normal person. But for a liberal it just means that we are all dumb, bitter clingers who hate Obama because he is black. They don’t get that we elected a congress to stop Obama not because of the color of his skin, but the content of his character. Who knows where we would be without them?
Mitt Romney has been a successful businessman for over 25 years. That sentence alone holds more water than anything Obama claims to have done or has done. He saved many jobs and businesses with private money (and I bet women worked at some of those businesses). He donated his entire inheritance to charity so he could pursue his own wealth. He has worked as a public servant for many years for zero pay! He is the shining example of an American: serving his country that has been so good to him in for nothing in return. So what does “The View” hit him on? “Well, he never served in the military.” So… Neither has Obama!!!

In contrast, Obama has taken and been handed everything. He has lost billions of public money in businesses. His friends were literally terrorists that loathe our country. Obama’s answer to fixing the economy is hiring 100,000 more teachers. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!
He truly believes it will work because that is all he knows. In Obamaland, apparently the only types of employees are super wealthy people who do no work and steal money, teachers, road workers, the poor, and politicians.

If we let Romney run the government like he has run his businesses and the state of Massachusetts, we can get back on the right path. The tax plan and path to prosperity that they are pushing, was from a joint commission of both Republicans and Democrats, put forth by Obama. They came out with their report and Obama didn’t like it so he said, “Screw you guys. Let’s do another stimulus.”
There is a lot to be said about the statement: “Obama supporters are people who think I should be more upset about what Mitt Romney does with his own money, than what Obama has done with mine.”

I work. Romney believes I should keep more of what I earn from my labor. Obama thinks he has the right to take more of it away in order to be fair.

What do you think?

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Talking To A Wall Of Stupidity and Hate

So on Facebook i was trying to have a civil debate with a liberal about why government should not be involved in healthcare. Here is yet another example of the tolerant left. (Notice i am even compromising against my religious beliefs)

Who won?

Basic Perspective

After my post yesterday about CEO's. I thought it might be good to back everything up with a little perspective. As I stated yesterday, people BELIEVE it is the wealthy CEO's that are greedy and that the rest of us are being bled to feed their need. REALITY CHECK!!!!!

Exhibit A
Mitt Romney's 2011 Taxes

Adjusted Gross Income: $13,696,951
Charitable Giving:          $  2,250,772
Total Federal Taxes:       $  1,935,708 (That's Million with an M)

So his his percentages paid in taxes were 14%
His percentage paid in Charitable donations were 16%


Now lets compare that to the average American family who make up the (give or take) 50% who are not super rich and also pay taxes.

Average Income:                  $45.000
Average Taxes Paid:            $5,060
Average Charitable Giving: $900

Average Percent Paid to federal taxes: 11%
Average percent of charitable donations: 2%

Romney has an income of roughly 304 times that of an average American, yet he is taxes at 382 times what the average American pays in taxes. Not to mention he gave roughly 2,500 times what the average American gives to charity.
If Romney paid .5% he would have paid $68,484 in taxes which compared is still 13 TIMES what an average American pays.

Are you getting the picture. the percentage doesn't matter, the number behind it does. If you do not understand percentages well enough to know that 1% for me is nowhere near 1% for Romney than shut your mouth.

SO you must be asking yourself, "Ok Joe, if Romney's is not the problem than who or what is?" I am glad you asked that fake voice in my head that mimics every liberal conversation i have ever had ever.

Time for the perspective

Get it?

On the scale that our federal gov. spends, Mitt Romney, with all of his wealth and taxes are all but a spec in the register.

The federal government spends about $6,750,00 a MINUTE!!!!! or even worse sounding $112,500 a SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That means Romney's taxes would cover about 3 seconds of one day.

If they took everything Romney made it would cover about 2.03 minutes of one day. However since you took everything from him, you wouldn't get any taxes out of him next year.

Conservatives have been on the brink of going crazy trying to explain to the close minded liberals that there simply are not enough people in this country who pay taxes to cover these costs. NO MATTER WHAT THE RATE IS!!!!

We have said it a thousand times before and I am going to say it again.

We do not ahve a tax problem, or a percentage problem, hell we dont even have a loophole problem*, as much as we have a spending problem.




*I am against most if not all subsidies and corporate loopholes, I am in favor of a flat tax, I just recognize that the crack in the damn should not be fixed before the gaping hole.

Evil, Greedy, and Heartless CEO's

I have decided to get upset about this now. I have always thought the topic Malarkey. For some reason, the traction is gaining on the topic, so I figured I would vent about it. What I am upset about, is the notion that the "CEO's" or other private businessmen and women are responsible for why our country is failing, and we need to reclaim what they have taken from us.

It was hard for me to even write that last sentence because of how utterly absurd it was. All I am hearing from my Lib friends is how evil and greedy these private business people are. All they do is take and take and the rest of us are screwed, they say. So it is time for me to post the one question that without fail unravels anything a lib ever has to say, ever.....Why? and How?
Why is it their fault? Why is it their responsibility now? Why are you so affected by someone who.....doesn't affect you?  How do you know they are greedy? How do you know they do not contribute? How do you know what they do with their money?
You should see heads spin when I ask that series of questions after I the evil greedy statement.

What is hitting me hard is not the fact that people actually believe this stuff, it is the realization of how judgmental people can be. How easily people can be led astray with very limited information if not outright lies. I have long said, "Opinions are high where facts are scarce." This could not be more true about the way Obama and Co. has twisted the countries view on our job creators. YES THEY ARE!!!!! JOB CREATORS. They take risks, build companies, and organizations that employ hundreds to thousands of people.

What really brought this to light was a recent conversation I have had with a friend. We were discussing Steve Wynn. For those who live in a cave. Steve is the CEO of Wynn Resorts. He said on Monday that he was sitting on his thumbs with over a billion dollars tied up because he was unsure what government program the Obama administration would unveil next, and stressed that he was “afraid of the president.”
Steve is very wealthy net worth is around 2.5 billion. He would fall under that evil greedy category, however, one thing we learned during his interview is the type of person Steve is. Here are some snippets from the sit down.

"I've created about 250,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to the State of Nevada's measurement. If the number is 250,000, that's exactly 250,000 more than this president [has created.]... I'll be damned if I want to have [President Obama] lecture me about small business and jobs. I'm a job creator. Guys like me [and Mitt Romney] are job creators, and we don't like having a bulls-eye painted on our back[s].

"The president has tried to put himself between me and my employees [through] class warfare, by deprecating and calling [us, the] group that makes money, "Billionaires and millionaires who don't pay their share." I gave 120% of my salary and bonus away last year to charities, as I do most years.

"I can't stand the idea of being demagogued; that is, put down, by a president who's never created any jobs and who doesn't even understand how the economy works."I'm afraid of [another term for] President Obama. I have no idea what goofy idea, what crazy anti-business program [his] administration will come up with. I have no idea. And, I have to tell you John, that every business guy around the country is frightened of [President] Barack Obama and the way he thinks."

You would be hard pressed to believe this guy voted for Barack Obama in 08 and is a registered Democrat, but he did and is.
So when I pressed my friend about Steve, his response blew me away, and made me realize the real issue exploited by the left.
My friend said to me, "Well if all CEO's were like Steve, we would be a lot better off."
Re-read that response.....
So what I asked him next is what made him really think. How do you know other CEO's are not like this?

Where facts are scarce, opinions are high! Obama has been trashing the "faceless" CEO. He has been attacking someone who theoretically does not exist! When you attack an enemy that doesn't exist they cannot defend themselves.
All of the sudden, and rightfully so, these "evil" CEO's are starting to speak out. They have reached a point where they fear our president more than the potential backlash form the public.

A REGISTERED DEM WHO VOTED FOR OBAMA IN 08 AND CREATES THOUSANDS OF JOBS JUST SAID "I AM AFRAID OF THIS PRESIDENT."

I have had the wonderful opportunity in my position to meet many very wealthy CEO's. I have yet to meet the one they like to show in the movies. The guy who would throw anyone under the bus to make a buck. In most cases, I am told stories about giving up paychecks so they could make payroll for the rest of the employees. Not taking a vacation for 5 years! Not being able to turn it off at night. Stress induced medical conditions. Don't get me wrong, I don't think we need to "give" them anything. However, when you hear what it takes to become successful and wealthy. I also do not believe we should be discouraging them from continuing by taking more away.

I do typically ask these people why. I ask why they push themselves so hard. The answer is very rarely just for money. Most want to revolutionize an industry. Make life easier for people. REDUCE THE COST OF HEALTHCARE!!! They also want to get to a point financially where they can checkout, and live off of the fruits of THEIR labor.

Maybe it is me just being a conservative, but the last thing I thought before or after meeting these people was. You owe ME. I know you had 5 to 10 years of sleepless worrying and stress but now you owe me. Someone who never worked for you, or bought any product you made. What it made me realize is that very few people would think that either. So WHY do they?

My conclusion is that they have never met the people they are trained to hate. I hope more CEO's come out, tell their stories, and we can bury this failure of a president.

BEWITCHED!

Bill Whittle does it again, exposing what some of us already know. That the majority of media and people who's perception of things manipulate what other people think are very liberal.
Bill is typically a little more laid back in my opinion. However he really lays into them in this one!

Medical Records: Sealed
Travel Records: Sealed
Academic Records: Sealed
These are not the stories you are looking for. Move Along.

Must See Video!

Typically, I don't publish videos other than ones from the great Bill Whittle. However this one is pretty darn good.

Would The REAL Mitt Romney Please Stand Up

After being told by the tolerant left who the real Mitt Romney is, I decided to look on my own. They typically do not hold the same standards for both sides. Especially after the infamous 47% comment (which is true and accurate by the way). They really were out to dig up dirt on one of the cleaner politicians out there. Here is a great summary on the type of guy Mitt is.


Here is the question that was asked that generated the Romney "47%" statement plus the ENTIRE Romney response.

Question: “For the past three years, all everybody’s been told is, “Don’t worry. We’ll take care of you.” How are you going to do it, in two months before the elections to convince everybody, you’ve got to take care of yourself?”

Romney: “Uh, well there are 47% of the people who will VOTE for the President no matter what. All right, there are 47% who are with him, who are dependent upon the government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will VOTE for this President no matter what. And the, the President starts off with 48,49, 4--, he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. 47 percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our MESSAGE of low taxes doesn’t connect. He’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean, that’s what they sell every, every 4 years. And, uh, so my job is not to worry about those few. I’ll never CONVINCE them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives. What I have to do is to CONVINCE the 5 to 10 percent in the center that are independents, that are thoughtful, that look at VOTING one way or the other depending upon in some cases emotion, whether they like the guy or not…...”

Romney is not saying he doesn't care about those people. He is being truthful, he will not win those people's votes no matter what he says. Libs are so blindly supportive of Obama that he could set an orphan on fire and they would champion his heat for the homeless initiative.

Example/Case/and Point

Said the 47%....... regardless of if it is true or not.


If anyone actually thinks that our economy, and our position in the world is better now than even 1 year ago. There is no hope within the next 30 days for them to see the light. It is NOT Romney's job to go for them and preach to them now. He need to get votes,  focus on the independents, and moderate dems who will be the voice of reason.


Lets look at jut some of the things that define Mitt Romney... keep in mind this is all HIS money.
Obama doesn't have this kind of record with YOUR money.







ROMNEY’S ALTRUISM / CHARITY

- Gave away his inheritance in 1998 to start / help fund the “George W. Romney Institute of Public Management” at BYU (his father, George Romney, died in 1995).

- Donated his entire Olympics salary and severance package ($1.4M) to charity.

- While governor of Massachusetts, at HIS request, served the people of MA at the salary of $1/year (that’s right, ONE DOLLAR).

- Voluntarily served, without pay or re-compensation of funds, as a Mormon missionary for 30 months in his late teens/early twenties (you may not agree with what he taught but the fact is he did it on a volunteer basis with the belief that he was helping to bring people closer to Jesus).

- Volunteer service to community as a church head pastor for 13 years all with ZERO pay (that's right, none); 5 years as a “bishop” and 8 years as a “stake president”.

- Would give ALL his Presidential salary ($1.6 Million total) back to the American taxpayers if elected (yes, he's on record as committing to this).

- Based on a net worth of $200-250M and his constant activity/involvement in his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the ‘Mormons’), has given at least $20-25 MILLION to his church. (LDS church members pay tithing; one-tenth of what a person earns. The LDS church uses tithing donations to build and maintain churches and temples, print literature about Jesus Christ, etc. Can anyone dispute this is not “charitable” giving?) BTW, that is NOT including other charitable contributions to the LDS church in the form of “fast offerings”. Go look it up.

- He also chose to NOT receive any Social Security payments upon turning 65 because, again, he knows he can take care of himself and therefore should not rely on our tax dollars to help fund his daily living. (BTW, that’s HIS money that he’s leaving in government accounts.)

- Shut down most of his company, Bain Capital, and, at Romney’s expense, moved most of his employees to New York City to help find an employee’s missing daughter; set up a base of operations in a hotel room, posted thousands of flyers, talked to hundreds of shop owners, talked to thousands of people on the street, coordinated efforts with the police, worked with the media to air their search on TV. And…..when they finally did find her, a doctor said she was in such poor condition from a drug overdose she may not have survived another day.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/pressed-for-anecdote-romney-recounts-tale-of-missing-girl/

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/19/mitt_romneys_core_113526-2.html (see pg 2)

- Built a neighborhood playground & later did maintenance / upkeep on it for 5 years

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/313631/mitt-nobody-sees-katrina-trinko

- Loaned money for someone to buy a home

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/us/politics/in-real-estate-deal-romney-made-his-loss-a-couples-gain.html?pagewanted=all

- Helped write a will for a terminally ill teenager at the teenaged boy’s request

http://orleanscountyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=7&SubSectionID=39&ArticleID=28883

- Cares about his fellow man: gave $3,000,000 to charity in 2010 and $4,000,000 to charity in 2011; that’s $7 MILLION in just 2 years. Would you have done that? Romney did.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/romney_the_giver_7nLMOZGuIo2zq1LmrNInjN

Never Hit A Man While He Is Down... Unless??

 Never hit a man while he is down...unless its with words, and the man is a socialist. ~Me

WOW! That is all I have to say about last night. That makes me the one millionth conservative blogger with no followers to comment that way :-). However right after I felt extreme joy, i felt extreme disappointment. Not in Romney, or in the conservative message, but with half of our country.

My disappointment comes from the fact that this was truly the first challenge Obama has had on his presidency. The people who brought us minute to minute critiques of President Bush have been purposefully, and blatantly ignoring Obama's failures and coverups. It disappoints me most, because it is so prevalent, we just expect them to cover and lie for the President, and in a way we are... ok with that. Last night was not Romney just beating Obama at a debate. Last night Romney shed light on the lies that Mainstream media bestow upon us every day.
I have been hearing that Romney flipped on all of his opinions and views last night. At first I was all like, "That's preposterous! His views are the same since he started". Then I realized that they ARE the opposite of what he has been saying. Check that! His opinions and views are the exact opposite of what Chris Matthews, Bill Mahr, Hollywood, and other Lib lapdogs have been telling you he has been saying. I know we say people are brainwashed by the main stream media, but it has never been sooo evident.

What we also learned last night, is that Obama has no idea how the world works outside of government programs. His one answer to the economy and jobs was to hire more teachers, and give more money to the schools. It was almost like he took on the likeness of Trumpka right on stage. Mr. President how will we pay for them? We spend more on education than any other country and education is slipping. More money does not = better anything unless there is a solid foundation for growth.

Romney won the debate by telling hard truth. Free people with fair regulation produce more, and better goods and services than a monopolized government (I still don't know why that is the hard truth..but it is apparently). If private companies had a monopoly on a service with seemingly endless funding, they too would produce crap at a slow pace. In a free fairly regulated economy those "companies" go away at the hands of the consumer.

Last night proved that socialism in the face of a Constitutional Republic does not stand a chance.

Government run entities, that brings me to my next important topic. Government failure at almost everything. One of my favorite critics of big government is John Stossel. He doesn't pander to the ridiculous, he looks at what works and what doesn't. Then he finds out why what is working is working, and why what isn't working isn't working. Then he compares the two. Just like the media, it is sad that he is a pioneer in this way of reporting, should be common sense. I was reading an article of his on RealClearPolitics.com. The title was ' We Fund Dependency' it is an "expose" on government programs that are out there to help people find jobs.
Places like the Manhattan Job's Center and New York's Workforce1. What he and his intern found is that The "Job's" centers run by the government do not actually help people find jobs.

"They told me they don't do that. 'We sign people up for food stamps.' I tried another jobs center. They told me to enroll for unemployment benefits."

 This is after he went around the neighborhood and found nearly 40 entry level job openings. One restaurant owner told him he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply.

He then sent his intern into the lions den...

"I explained that I didn't want handouts; I wanted a job. I was told to go to 'WorkForce1,' a New York City program. At WorkForce1, the receptionist told me that she couldn't help me since I didn't have a college degree. She directed me to another center in Harlem. In Harlem, I was told that before I could get help, I had to come back for an 8:30 a.m. 'training session.'"

Our government helps you apply for handouts immediately, but forces you through a maze if you want to work.

"WorkForce1's website says to arrive 30 minutes early, so I did," Zoelle said. "A security guard told me the building was closed. At 9:15, Workforce1 directed 30 of us into a room where we were told that WorkForce1 directs candidates to jobs and provides a resource room with 'free' phone, fax and job listings and helps people apply for unemployment insurance and disability handouts. This seemed like the only part of the presentation when people took notes.

"One lady told me that she comes to WorkForce1 because it helps her collect unemployment. One asked another, 'What do you want to do?' The second laughed, 'I want to collect!' One told me, 'I've been coming here 17 months; this place is a waste of time.'

"Finally, I met with an 'adviser.' She told me I lacked experience. I know this. I asked for any job she thought I was qualified for, and she scheduled an interview at Pret, a food chain that trains employees. At Pret, I learned that my 'interview' was just a weekly open house, publicized on the company's website. Anyone could walk in and apply. Workforce1 offered no advantage. Despite my 'scheduled interview,' I waited 90 minutes before meeting a manager. He told me that WorkForce1 had 'wasted my time, as they always do.' He said, 'They never call, never ask questions.' He prefers to hire people who seek out jobs on their own, like those who see Pret ads on Craigslist.'"

Sad but true reality for some people

This is how the government works at almost every level. We do not need more funding for these programs, we need to re-examine the use of the programs we have. Like the free market, the gov. should have the programs compete and get rid of the ones that are wasteful.

Here is a link to the full story, please read it all.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/10/03/we_fund_dependency_115648.html

The Beauty of the World (Political Time Out)

I have watched and followed these videos since the first one was made. If you ever need a pick me up, this does it.
Just raw people, in there environments, enjoying a moment in life.
I implore you to watch all of Matt's videos. They are all truly beautiful.