You Know It’s Coming

You know the financial collapse is inevitable, you just cannot predict what will be the lynch pin. One hit after another followed by more borrowing and spending. We are living an economic fantasy. Some of us have very little and worse more of us have given our lives over to credit card companies and banks.

This is an opportunity to return to a real life where people matter more than things. Do not rely on the government, rely on each other. Be willing to give up everything and rely on God for your daily bread. Love your neighbor and love God with all your heart. America’s obesity problem is almost over and if we do not panic we will be healthier than ever when we come out on the other side!

America Is Spent

We are spending trillions we do not have, how can this end well? The president, liberal democrats and liberal republicans solution you may ask? Take more money from the American who have been responsible enough to have real wealth while spending even more. This is a blindingly disastrous course. Is it to late or is America ready to get serious and start living within our means no matter what we have to give up? The alternative is the end of the United States as a free country.

Why have a debt limit?

The president says the reason they must raise it is to pay for the last debt limit they have already exceeded.

The same theme, Tax and spend. The president and the democrats want to raise taxes on the “rich”, raise the limit on the debt to as he says have funds for money government has already spend that they did not have and still spend trillions more on top of that.

As John Boehner stated “ The bigger the government the smaller the people.” The president is essentially saying he will make no cuts without the being given more of the people's money and if he does not get what he wants social security checks will not go out. This is a ridiculous demand combined with a blatant lie. None of these are actual cut but proposals to spend less in the future, “spending cuts”. In other word they are cuts in increased spending and will only increase our debt.

The economy will only rebound when we are left with more of our money to spend as we see fit which will keep the government from having it to waste. This is shaping up to be a real stand and an excellent example of just how government is meant to function. A future truly decided by the electorate rather than the impotent compromises that have left us limping in circles.

May we have a return government of the people, by the people, for the people. The current government has developed into deceitful bunch of professional politicians whose life's blood is the free flow of citizens money.

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Thank you Rick Scott

Thank you for doing what I voted for you to do. You are the first leader in a long time that has stood your ground and continued to do what you said you would do. You put confidence back in our Representative Republic form of government. Keep on cutting the fat and thwarting the efforts of those who seek to take more and more from those who produce to enslave those who are willing to take without contributing anything to our community. You are a bright ray of light in an otherwise gloomy realm of self-centered political leaders. May a taxpayer funded high speed rail never be found on Florida soil. I am looking forward to the day when we do not have to hear about it for a while.

Down The Road

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution by Angelo M. Codevilla. This is a very plausible scenario which is already well under way. 

You Know Your Countries Doomed

When there are 0ver 400,000 people with nothing better to do than collect a government check to be a census worker. Obama and his administration have generously pledged $2.2 billion of the $14 billion tax payer dollars  to send folks to your door to ask for your phone number, number of folks living with you, age,  sex, and your race (with an emphasis on Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin), and  To top it all off the president is proud of it.

If the media says it’s good news you can be sure they are lying.

Just Can’t Keep Up The Facade

Reality always returns despite speculation and manipulation. The Market today opens over 200 down and the players are disappointed not to be able to hold the magic 10,000.

The good economic news is a fabrication and whatever short lived physiological effects it has always quickly falters and give way to these erratic swings. We would be better served as a nation to deal in the now and honestly assess where we are financially. Truth is the government and it’s sympathetic media are uneasy about the consequences of revealing the true nature of our financial state to a free loading public soon to have their entitlement drastically reduced.

The governments top priority is to feed and sustain itself no matter the cost. While most suffer loss the government grows and grows. While we begin to have less resources the government continues tax and spend. It cannot continue. 

Could This Be It?

It’s Friday and 30 minutes  until the markets open. Yesterday the market took a very slow and thoughtful 376 point drop and is down over 900 for the month. Has the economy finally reached the stage that prevents all of our speculators and manipulators from keeping up the facade.

It will be exciting to see what today will bring. When the system finally does seize we must be willing to suffer great hardships. To compromise or principles for a crust of bread would mean  total enslavement to a socialist totalitarian regime.

Privacy…What Privacy

 

The Plunge Is On!

 

It appears that the blinders are off and nobody likes what they are seeing. The Dow is on a free fall despite Obama’s economic recovery!

This could be one of the fastest sell offs ever and we still have 2 hours to go before the market closes! What a ride!!!!

Freddie Mac Needs More Money

10 Billion ,and where are they trying to get it….. from the taxpayer.

Here are a few screen shots there web site from today and they have so much to say about all the good they are doing.

Look at all they have accomplish in the first quarter of 2010! Now it is time to actually pay for all this wonderful work they are doing on our behalf. They have not helped you? To bad fork over the money this is not about you it is about getting people into homes who cannot afford to own homes.

Here is more help if you would really like a home without paying for it!

The President is making homes more affordable for anyone who does not have the means to own one or anyone who has already taken the government up on their offers and now finds themselves with the rug pulled out from under them. How can the president help? He can tax working people out of the money they earn to live their lives and slowly and painfully spoon feed  it to you after you relinquish any freedom you once had to prosper for yourself.

10 billion is this month request but you can be sure the requests will just keep on coming.

My Talkative Heroes

Born and raised on the fine continent of America I am very happy with the Representative Republic as it was meticulously assembled by our God fearing founding father. I am not for creating dependency on a massive central government and I detest the socialist direction our current admiration is quickly developing in our nation. I do not want the “Fundamental Change” Obama is actively  pursuing as you read this post. America will cease to be who we are if we compromise our constitution and our bill of rights.

There are two heroes who are in agreement with my principle and values. Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are amazing. They are so right so much of the time I am inspired by their programs.

One of the most compelling aspects of what they do with conviction, humor and optimism is the singular fact that none of our opponents ever directly challenge their carefully researched facts. Make no mistake, if these two champions were not being as honest and factual as they are their many enemies would have long ago been able to discredit them. The truth is they are so breathtakingly aware of what is happening in this country and so versed in the universal common sense that made this country the leader of the free world that the cowardly liberal progressive never dare debate them on the facts. They simply label them arrogant, racist, hate mongers and are attempting to criminalize their dissent in order to one day silence them. A true leader is one who welcomes debate and dissent with the knowledge that if his principles are right they will prosper.

If you do not already listen to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck you should. Your eyes will be opened to what is really happening in this country. I have listened long enough to find that they have been right on. Listen for a while and decide for yourself.

Thank you Rush and Glenn for your willingness to speak out no matter the cost.

Thousands of Teachers Sick In Florida

Either 6,300 teachers in Miami-Dade county are sick or Florida has a bunch of lying educators.

Governor Crist sign the bill already. Tenure is a disaster for education and has been for decades. If you are not performing well as a teacher there should not be a system that guarantees you a teaching job for life.

What is wrong with getting paid based on the success of your student to learn? The answer is nothing.

I do know that the system is so corrupt that teacher are often times hampered in their genuine efforts to educate children ,but that is no reason to guarantee teachers who are not effective their job with tenure, or pay them as much, or more than other teachers who are excelling.

Update:

I talked to a friend of mine who is a little more invested in this planet as he has  a family. Although in principle my mind is the same on the matter I do think maybe I was a little harsh on the teachers regardless of their bad behavior. It is true that between the union pressures and the local and federal government they are in a very tedious position. The whole system needs to change and this is a start no matter how painful. The problem is the same as always. You cannot have pseudo-socialists systems in a democracy without the slow destruction of both approaches. you have got to choose and with a socialist administration, a democratic majority of citizens and a bankrupt nation the time to choose is fast approaching.

Pending Severance

I am learning. This is a slow process for me as I am a firm believer in the ignorance is bliss approach to life. Unfortunately the bliss of ignorance is always short lived when tyrants are about.

He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:10-13

Be it at your place of work, your school, your church even your own family there are those that seek to use you. In my own life I have struggled to curb my own sinful predisposition to use other people. The temptation is to see everyone around me as a resource to be exploited. This is a relationship killer. When people become pawns in a game I create to please myself and profit my schemes, I have lost the essence of what it is to be a disciple of Christ. How do you combat this in a world which promotes this very idea as a path to success and a behavior to be encouraged? Simply do not participate in the practice of eating those around you.

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Galatians 5:14-18

Too many folks treat business like charity and charity like a business. The constant awareness of every task completed in expectation of compensation. This is even more troublesome in the world of the “not for profit”. There are many folks who are quite adept at creating strategic dependencies within a group. They do something they misrepresent as delegation but is in reality parasitism. They convince their hosts they are quite necessary to the survival of the organism and stealthily entwine themselves around all the vital organs. Everyone does as they are told and despite the fact that organism continues to become more and more anemic everyone is artfully kept in the dark while the parasite profits.

Here is the trick. A parasite can never be removed without some measure of harm to the host. This is not a good reason to sit by and allow the relationship to continue. If the parasite is left entangled it will reproduce itself exponentially and the host will starve to death under the strain made by the legion of individuals and their ever increasing demands for resources. The parasite must be removed and the cost must be mitigated.

My challenge and yours is to be vigilant always not to be a parasite ourselves and to speak up when we are aware that others are behaving in this way. We need to be directly accountable to God our Father and seek His counsel first and foremost in all circumstances. We are all guilty and must therefore react firmly and always with Love. We must be the lowliest of servants.

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

Matthew 23:8-12

Be a brother or sister who encourages everyone around you to excellence. Discourage unhealthy dependencies and gently point everyone to Jesus. Do all of this for nothing and you will be free and have a joy filled life.

Nissan LEAF

The GOOD:

• It has no gas tank and no emissions.

The BAD:

• It has toxic batteries that will likely not last the life of the car and need to be replaced at who knows what cost.
• It is not zero emissions when you factor in the power plants needed to generate the electricity to charge the thing.
• It cost about $3.00 to charge multiply that by a week and your paying about $21.00
• It is about the size of a roller skate.
• And here is the real insanity……………It cost $32,000 MSRP.

Should have call it the  Nissan Hype. There are no real solutions here only a new way to fleece the people of money by riding the wave of environmental sentiment. Pretty much a failure from the start if you ask me :)

One giant leap towards socialism.

I guess it had to happen. This country needs to see that we are no longer government by the people and for the people.

Obama and the liberals in government have now made it official. They hate insurance companies yet they have just started the process of becoming the one and only insurance company in the nation. They will be the only insurance company with the power to tax you for your premiums and penalize you for access to medical care. If something is not done doctors will no longer in private practice they will be government employees.

This affords the American people a real good opportunity to stand up for the constitution and the freedom only it’s principles bring us. Sure the the congress will be cleaned out this next election but if the states are able to take the legal action to show just how corrupt and unconstitutional this whole scheme is it will render the liberals powerless to fundamentally change America by scrapping everything our country is built on. it will make it evident where the power really lies and that is the hands of every last citizen of this great country.

It is not going to come without sacrifice and these new progressive social schemes will create massive financial hardships but it is nothing we do not deserve for our laziness and ignorance.

Why A Census

 

I know what they say. You need to fill out the census to get your fair share of  tax money when our benevolent leaders begin to redistribute (tax and spend even more money we do not have) it throughout the United States.  It might just be that we will need it more than ever considering their policies will have us keeping less and less of the money we work every day to earn.

What I really do not understand is how they already do not know every last thing about us. The IRS certainly knows every intimate detail of our lives. Again why is it necessary and what is they purpose when the local, state and federal government already know where everyone lives, goes to school, works and votes.

One of the many really disgusting results of this whole useless process is the taxpayer money spent to gather this information on the taxpayer.  Forget whatever the total cost will be after the entire effort is over it cost over $50,000,000 just to send out the letters to inform you the census would soon be mailed. Then there is this report that after buying tens of thousands of little handheld computers for out of work defuses to wander you neighborhood and bother you about your personal information are pretty much useless now and cannot be used. What's another 3,000,000,000 when you are collecting information to be used to make the case for where next 1,000,000,000,000 will be spent. Folks we are going to go over the cliff very soon now. We have a government full of genuine fools and we have no one to blame but ourselves.

Title 13, Section 221

(a) Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100. (b) Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection (a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not more than $500. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.

Another Step Closer To Bankruptcy

I had the pleasure of Photographing some folks at the Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park in downtown Tampa. It is a lovely place unfortunately these projects are part of what is brining our country to ruin. Here are some images of all the lovely buildings we can’t afford but they build anyway.

Toyota

The liberal media reported last night that there have been 2,500 reports of accelerator issues with Toyota cars sold in the U.S. Toyota sells over a million cars a year in this country. As for actual accident related to sticking accelerators search as I might I could only find two news stories with this claim. What is the crisis? All this furor is very suspicious to me.

Why does the government need to be involved at all? Are we so helpless and ignorant that we would continue to buy cars that are going to speed us uncontrollably to our deaths? Does Toyota really think it is good business to sell cars that kill their customers. Nonsense This whole mess is about a government out of control and a media that is in continuing to campaign for the current administration.

 

Winner “The government”

1. The federal government get to trash it’s biggest competitor in the auto industry. Remember who hold the largest stake in GM and Chrysler.
2. The federal government can now take this opportunity to grow any bureaucracy connected with highway safety and automobiles and continue to “create jobs”.
3. The government will soon begin assessing huge penalties after accusing Toyota of criminal negligence allowing them to add new revenue to their hopelessly bankrupt bureaucracy.  

 

Loser “The American people”

1. Arguably one of the highest quality automobile makes on the planet is being strong armed out of business by the federal government.
2. The American citizen will yet again have fewer choices and with less competition causing an inevitable rise prices.
3. The free market itself is under threat when the government can without compunction engage in one of our countries most stunning conflicts of interest to date.

Why has the media not given us even approximate numbers on all the horrific accidents caused by sticking accelerators all over the country? They either do not exits or the media is not reporting on them.