Friday, March 18, 2011

THE SEVEN YEAR LIE

An oft repeated lie told by those who wish to return the United States to the stoneage is that it will take seven years before any additional oil exploration and drilling can have an impact.  As Americans are truly hurting with the current price of gas, our President says don't worry be happy.  And of course he repeats the lie.  Maybe the lie makes him feel better about doing nothing. 

Gee, Mr. President, if we do nothing how long before it will have an impact?  How about today?  Yes, Mr. President, because of your policies and the continued unrest in the Middle East we are being punished every day.  And you say it will take seven years even if we started today, which of course we are not going to do.

That is a lie.  I am not an expert on drilling for oil, but one thing is for certain.  If the United States had actual leaders instead of puppets we would be making an all out push for oil and natural gas.  If the world knew we were serious about using our own resources there would be a downward pressure on the price of oil.  It would take effect almost immediately.  The world would simply have to be convinced that the United States was willing, at least once, to act in its own interest. 

When you fill up your tank don't curse the big oil companies.  Curse those who refuse to allow the big oil companies to explore and drill.  Think of the thousands of good paying jobs.  There is no reason we cannot move forward on solar and wind and fairy dust if that works.  Of course we should do those things, but to cause harm to those on fixed incomes is criminal.  Yes, criminal.

Enjoy your parties and golf and trips Mr. President.  Please consider those you claim to want to help.  Please consider those who are being hurt daily by your policies.  Someday the world will run on something other than fossil fuels and that is good.  It is not today.  Help the American people and get out of the way of American enterprise.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES

Earlier today I purchased a copy of The Birmingham News while waiting for my meal at IHOP. The following “above the fold” headline in the Local section caught my attention. “Wi-Fi program touted as model.” Cutting to the chase, this is a federally funded program to put free Wi-Fi in four Birmingham housing projects. The cost of the program is a mere $500,000.


The worth or worthlessness of the program is not at issue here. Whether the people who live in a housing project deserve free Wi-Fi any more than I do in my modest abode is also not the issue. The one overriding issue of this blog is that we are broke. The federal government does not have any extra, or for that matter sufficient, funds to operate without substantial borrowing.

To put this on a more personal basis; let's assume that last year you spent $100,000 but earned only $60,000. And this year it looks about the same so you are planning to install Wi-Fi in your house. You justify it by saying that it will help you find a better job or learn more about the world and your kids do their homework. But you don't have the money. Is this something you would do?

Recall that this program is a “model” program. That means that the federal government, though borrowing your kids' and grand kids' money from China, is considering putting in free Wi-Fi in many more housing projects.

In the same paper there is a column by E.J. Dionne who says that we are not broke. To bolster his argument he points out that we are able to borrow money at historically low rates. Well, Mr. Dionne if we have to borrow money to operate we are broke. At least in my part of the country when you are borrowing money to live on you are by definition broke. It is foolish people like you who contribute to the overall ignorance of our population about the seriousness of our monetary problems.

But you liberals can be happy that four housing projects will be getting free Wi-Fi. Not free of course, but free to them. How you destroy this nation's future for projects like this and cowboy poets is beyond my ability to comprehend.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Through The Looking Glass Again


We live in a country where vile and obscene signs can be displayed to cause further harm to those who have lost loved ones in a war. It is so because of our love of freedom of speech. We live in a country where the 10 Commandments are pulled from the lockers of high school students. We do this because our desire to keep any form of Christianity from our children is greater than our love for free speech.

We live in a country that sends a large portion of its treasures every month to people who would like to destroy us. We do this in order to prevent any possible contamination of our own soil. We actively prevent our own quite competent companies from drilling. We fail to create the thousands of jobs and keep billions of dollars in our own nation. No other nation on earth is so foolish.

Someone recently told me that they would like for us to keep our oil. For what? We have enough oil and gas to run this country for several hundred years. Two hundred years ago there were no cars or trucks. The idea that we will not have alternative energy in the next several hundred years is plain silly.

The United States is in self destructive mode. We are systematically destroying this nation by policies that seem to have that intent. The value of the dollar will soon be the value of the country formerly known as Rhodesia. Each time the government prints more money, the money you have becomes less valuable. They are stealing your wealth.

We have a Congress that talks about reducing spending. They talk, and talk and talk. We have a political party that seems quite content to spend this nation into oblivion and another one that is impotent. We have a President who refuses to name our enemy while attacking the TEA Party as racist.

Our nation is upside down and inside out. We are driving off a cliff and slowing down is not an option. If we don't stop, we will die as a nation. On the positive side, this should slow down the illegal immigration problem.