The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government can not pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buckstops here.'
Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.
Americans deserve better.
-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Speaking up cuz I'm fed up.
I've told my children all of their lives that if you don't speak up about issues, then you have no right to speak up about the outcome. I've written a letter of my own advice. feel free to cut n paste and send it yourself to your representatives?
it's got some "outrage" in it. and a bit of grammar that is less than polite?
July 14, 2011
US rep Nancy Pelosi
US rep John Boehner
US rep Mac Thornberry
US senator Kay Hutchinson
US senator John Cornyn
All of You in Washington:
We have a nation that is about to completely fall apart in the next two weeks if something positive isn't done. I cannot sit by quietly any longer.
I won't endear this letter by addressing you as Dear Sir or Madam, and certainly not Honorable. You and all of your son-of-a-b%&ch comrades up there are the most dishonorable people I can think of. For the female members, the term madam might apply because you do work in a whore house with the rest.. The male members should all probably be called pimps.
This bul#$*it that you all . . .of both parties . . .and both whorehouses of congress have gotten this country into is inexcusable. If I had a election recommendation for anyone, or any party, for the next election, I would tell them to vote for anyone except an incumbent. The whole lot of you are not worth the bacterial breeding value of a used tampon.
This country is facing so many problems that demand attention and you all sit around just staring at the less urgent problems, holding hearings on steroids and seat belts, and you blame the other party for the federal budget problems not being solved. Or, you blame the president for everything. Or the president blames congress. Or both of you blame the unions, or liberals, or conservatives, or anyone else you can think of. (And by the way, I do know correct grammar and capitalization. Except, in the present era, neither congress or the office of the presidency are worthy today of having their official names get a capital C or capital P. The only capital letters any of you deserve is to get letters addressed to you in ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS ON POINTING OUT YOUR IGNORANCE, GREED, AND CORRUPTION.)
No longer do you represent the people who elected you. You really don't even represent special interest groups. You represent only your own self-interest. You are the sorriest excuse for human beings I can think of. You are lower in the life cycle than the hair on the wart on the chin of the parasite that grows on the plant that feeds on the whale-poop at the bottom of the ocean. ALL OF YOU! I have come to see that there is not a dime’s worth of difference in the two parties and their members. You just differ a bit in your approach to corruption and theft of the public’s future.
I hope someday that your own spouse and children look at you each night and spit at you in disgust of the miserable person you are, and have been. I hope you go to bed at night wondering what the tallest building is in Washington that has windows that open so you can plan how and when to take your own leap.
A few years ago the term Moral Hazard became wildly popular to describe events on Wall Street. Today that term can only be applied to you and every other washington politician. You and your cronies on both sides of the isle and in the white house are THE greatest moral hazards facing America today. You should all be sent to prison to be bent over as someone's bi#%h for the next 20 years. You all are the cancer that is killing us. You are the ones primarily responsible for the decline of morals and the work ethic and values in America today. If we were allowed to tar-and-feather in today’s society, I’d have the biggest brush in my hand and ask for the pleasure of applying yours.
Now we have a debt ceiling stalemate in this country. And if not solved in the next week, I understand it could throw the entire economic system of this country into a meltdown and our entire economy and way of life as we know it would be lost. It will be Biblical in its scale of catastrophe and suffering. And yet, you are all sitting on your stubborn asses and failing to give an inch to get the problem solved? What in the hell are you thinking? Where is the moral outrage in the halls of congress? It’s absent. Because you yourselves have lost the moral highground.
And now I hear, to solve the problem, some of you want to cut future social security or medicare payments and benefits? Or change the age of eligibility? You sorry piece of afterbirth! Let me tell you something butthole. I'm 61 years old and have paid into that bottomless pit now for about 43 years. And now, you're going to change the rules? How about this fecesface? I will lay down on this issue and say "fine". Cut them. And raise the age to 67 if that's what it takes to balance the budget. But you cut your own damn benefits there too. Raise my taxes, and raise yours too at the same time. You crooks cut your retirement and raise the age for your own benefits too, and I'll go along with it. Or better yet, get rid of congressional retirement altogether. Where on earth did the idea come from in the first place that being a politician should be a career? You're supposed to be a servant for gosh sakes. But you’ve taken advantage of your office to become like the senators of ancient Rome. . . aristocratic thieves.
I'll go along with about anything that you do that affects us all the same. But stop coming up with the excrement that just singles out one group or another and puts the expense on my back while turning your head to another group (like yourselves) and not slapping them too.
For starters though, before you start trying to take away from me, or tax me more in the remaining years of my earning ability, how about saving a few hundred billion from these money-saving ideas:
1. Stop funding immediately anything to do with bombing Libya. I personally don't care what those people do to each other. They have raped us for a long time on oil prices, and so now, if they decided they are going to be miffedat each other, let them slap each other silly. Ditto and double dittos for Sudan, Angola, Uganda, Micronesia, etc. Let them kill themselves off if they want to. Our money and your committee meetings are not going to stop tribal jealousies that have existed for hundreds of years.
2. Don't send another dime to a single other country that doesn't think the United States is an ally and a wonderful country. Here's the way to tell. Ask each foreign ambassador if they would feel uncomfortable if the Marine Corp guards took the day off from guarding the door to the Embassy. Any that were afraid . . . then no more foreign aid to that country?
3. Get us the hell out of the United Nations. We are their whipping post. Most of the countries there hate us. They take our money and then turn around and either a. Support terrorist to attack us, or b. Take our money and then split it up among their rulers and leaders and give very little for the intended recipients. This is the time for the dawning of a new age of isolationism, and a time for Society Protectionism. Except in this era, the protection is to save our very society and way of life, and the futures of our children and grandchildren.
4. Start random drug testing of welfare recipients? Anyone with a positive drug test is immediately dropped from the roles. FOREVER.
5. Offer a lump sum payment of $5,000.00 to any chronic welfare recipient, male or female, to be sterilized. The future savings would be tremendous.
6. Offer an immediate early discharge from prison to any prisoner who is there for any crime except murder, under the one condition that “if” they are convicted, EVER again of a felony, they would lose any right of appeal and would receive an immediate lethal injection on the evening of their conviction by a jury of their peers. Those in prison for sex crimes would also have to agree to immediate neutering before discharge.
7. Give aid to needy moms with a limit per child. Of course I understand that mothers with children now would have to be exempt for their present number. But for instance, you get $200.00 for one child, and $400.00 for two. But then if you have a 3rd, you drop back to $200.00. If you have a 4th, you lose it all.
8. Identify dead-beat dads who have been dead-beats for one year or more, and neuter them. Same night they are picked up. No trial. Just positive identification and cut their gonads off.
9. Open the border. Get off the backs of the immigrants. I don’t like the idea of rewarding illegal behavior anymore than the next person. But we’ve lost the battle. So let them come on in, get a social security card and start paying taxes. In fact, how about charging a non-citizen an income-tax-premium of say 10% and no deductions? Let’s make some money off them and rescue America. Then amend the constitution to disallow citizenship to children born on American soil of any parent without a verifiable social security number?
10. Stop sending any more money around the globe for any disaster relief. We've got the greatest disaster imaginable right here in our own country. Use taxpayer money to fix America. I don’t care who it is. Tell them, we won’t ask you for your money in our disasters and we don’t have any to send you. Key phrase here egghead, is WE DON’T HAVE ANY TO SEND! I’d love to send a bunch of money to a lot of different needs around the world. But I can’t, because I don’t have the money. Get the message? If you don’t have it, you don’t spend it.
11. Stop selling flood insurance from the government. And don't pay a dime to replace/rebuild/repair any property that is located in the flood zone or below sea level. If people are stupid enough to build homes in areas that are prone to flooding then they need to be stupid enough to pay for the repairs themselves. Next time New Orleans goes under, send the Saints to Omaha. The mid-western states need some pro sports. And bus ½ of the displaced residents to every major city that has lost population in the past ten years, like Detroit and Cleveland. Those cities must already have a lot of empty homes and apartments? Send the other ½ to your back yard there in washington, d.c.
12. Put an additional 5.00 a gallon tax on all gasoline sold in America and use it to begin immediately building mass transit systems in every area of 100,000 persons or more. Europe has lived with 8.00 a gallon gas for years. It won't destroy us. And we will be healthier in the future if we have some alternative to driving so many cars. Learn from Europe and Japan and now China. Get some 220 mph train systems crossing this country and move 1,000 people at a time. Build it elevated in the median of the present interstate highway system where we already own the right-of-way.
13. Tell Detroit and Japan that in 2015, no automobile can be sold in the United States that does not get 25 miles per gallon in the city and 40 on the highway. Give each person a “stimulus” check of a thousand or two if they buy a car that gets 40 or more in the city. Or waive the sales tax on the most efficient? And raise the requirement 1 mpg per year for 10 years. Pickups and SUV's could be 20 and 35. In fact, tell Japan that no more ships of vehicles will be accepted from Japan unless the ship loads back out with an equivalent $$$ amount of US made goods. Same for Germany and any other country sending autos here. Give people a tax credit each year on their tax return of $1,000.00 if they, or no family member even own a car?
14. Raise, over the next 20 years, the retirement age to 67 for ANY benefits. And give companies tax credits to hire people above the age of 60. Example: A company hires a 62 year old employee and pays them 40,000.00 a year? The company not only gets to deduct the payroll costs, but also gets a $2000.00 credit toward their corporate tax. Perhaps 68 year old would get a 600.00 extra credit, and so on. The bonus given to the company would be much cheaper than benefits for a year? Meanwhile, give any adult person in the United States the age of 40 or younger the immediate option to opt out of social security all together and go with a private program. The opt out decision would be irreversible.
15. Here's a BIG SAVER for you. Rogers Clemens is going on trial right now because you damn cry babies in washington think he lied to you about steroids. Guess what asshole. I don't care if he lied to you. Maybe Bryan Gumbo and HBO do? But most Americans don’t. What people care about right now is eating and having a job. So it’s hard for me to believe you spent taxpayer time and money in the first place even investigating our countries second-most overpaid prima donnas (you being the most overpaid). But since you did, and now you think he lied to you because a lying trainer said he did, so you're going to try and spend more money to hang him? Your investigation involved 103 law enforcement officers, five attorneys, 229 investigation reports, from 72 locations across the United States, Germany, and Puerto Rico. WHAT? Do you morons up there have oatmeal for brains. Who gives a flip? The country is about to go down in financial flames and you're spending money trying to prosecute this fellow. And yet, today, 3 years after the wall street debacle began with the collapse of Bear Sterns, not one single prosecution and conviction has taken place of a wall street trading firm that almost brought the country down? Stop spending money on all these committee and subcommittee investigations of steroids, AIDS in Africa, seat belts, global warming and can-Johnnie-read? Spend your time, our money, and your attention on keeping the country safe from enemies invading our shores, rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure, and promoting the common welfare of the citizens. Those marching orders by the way are from the constitution. EMPHASIS ON THE WORD COMMON. You do things that are good for all of us. Not just your particular warm-n-fuzzy-tree-hugger-of-the-day group. Forget about exploring Mars too. I don't give a rats ass about living on other planets and anyone without a job could care less too.
16. Do not under any circumstances be a part of letting the United States declare war on any other situation. We spend more money fighting the war on drugs than we do on teachers, and . . . as everyone can see. . . we've lost that war. We declared war on illiteracy and our children are getting dumber. We declared war on poverty and 100's of thousands more today are poor. We declared war on terrorism and lost 100's more American fighting men than we have killed who are terrorists. We declared war on foreign energy dependency and today we're more dependent than ever. We declared war on immigration and today have more illegals here than ever with 1,000's more arriving weekly. We lost! So at the very least, make some money from it, and tax them. Here's a GREAT idea for congress. Please get with the president as soon as possible and declare war on Good Government. We'll have the best and greatest government in the world in 20 years.
17. Stop flying around the country first class and in private Air Force jets. Your time as government parasitic officials is no more valuable than my time as a meaningful contributor to society. Today any federal government employee flying over 1,000 miles is automatically allowed a first class seat. WTH? Let them fly coach and maybe they'll take fewer flights. And for goodness sakes . . . Nancy Pelosi using a jumbo jet to fly back and forth to San Francisco? What are you thinking numbnuts? If you all weren't the bunch of leaches that you are, you'd know that money doesn't grow on trees. Someone, somewhere had to actually work and do or make something to send the money to Washington in the first place. Even though you are just money-suckers and drains on our economic society, you should at least respect the value of money. But you spend it like it's yours? You all remind me of Ann Richard's quote about George W. Bush. She said "he was born on 3rd base, and told everyone he hit a triple". You son-of-a-bitches up there are NOT America's aristocracy. You are servants. Act like it.
18. Here’s a novel idea for profit. Each year, when and if you actually file a tax return showing that you paid income tax in, you get your membership card renewed for another year. We’ll call it Uncle Sam’s Club. That card is good for free admission for you and one immediate family member to a variety of places. Married couples filing jointly get two memberships and two guests. Your free admission is to national parks and monuments and museums and such? Also, if you are a retired person who is drawing social security you get automatically renewed each year, because you were a taxpayer. All others pay cash for an entrance fee. Maybe even add some rewards features too? Such as a “at the pump” discount off of the federal tax paid on gasoline? Or special seating on public transportation versus “steerage” for non-taxpayers? Begin attaching a social premium to being a wage earner and contributor and make it “unpopular” to be a welfare recipient.
19. Repeal of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution which allows the direct election of senators by the people in general election. Prior to the 17th Amendment, senators were chosen by the various state legislators and served at their please, subject to their recall. Let’s go back to that and let our representatives in the state capital send individuals who are truly public servants there for a season to represent their states? And bring them back home if they aren’t doing their jobs.
20. Passage of the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. It would be: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.
21. And finally, the best for last. You should lower congressional pay after 6 years by 10% a year. You go there and serve 6 years for a pay check. No retirement. No lifetime benefits. Just a paycheck. And in the 7th year, your pay starts going down 10% a year. If you are still there in 16 years, you get nothing. That will clear the place out from time to time.
So there you have it stupid. 21 ideas from a layman like myself. A layman, who . . unlike yourselves . . .works for a living and tries to make money to take care of myself, my family, and pay my employees. I’m a contributor, whereas you are all parasites. I’m also someone that is over taxed and over worked to keep up with the piles of paperwork that you and your cronies have designed to keep me busy. I’m tired. Very tired, of doing more and more, for less and less, so you can have more and more money to spend on silliness, wastefulness, and welfare, and steroid investigation.
I do hope that you are ashamed of yourselves. But I doubt that you are. You are a disgrace, and pathetic. And as my grandchildren grow up you can be assured that I will speak your name over and over to them as being one of the crooks responsible for stealing their future happiness. You can be assured that in generations to come, your name will be remembered and spoken of in the same vein as Benedict Arnold and Lee Oswald and Bernie Madoff and Joseph Stalin and Son-of-Sam. You are this society's dregs.
If you let this country and it’s economy go down in flames in two weeks, I hope there is a mass uprising of the population that comes to Washington and runs you and your pals all out of town on a rail. It’s time, I think, to just clear the plate and start over. You, like a used tampon, have lost your value.
Very, very truly
Bud McElhaney
West Texas Oilfields
BMcElhaney2350@aol.com
it's got some "outrage" in it. and a bit of grammar that is less than polite?
July 14, 2011
US rep Nancy Pelosi
US rep John Boehner
US rep Mac Thornberry
US senator Kay Hutchinson
US senator John Cornyn
All of You in Washington:
We have a nation that is about to completely fall apart in the next two weeks if something positive isn't done. I cannot sit by quietly any longer.
I won't endear this letter by addressing you as Dear Sir or Madam, and certainly not Honorable. You and all of your son-of-a-b%&ch comrades up there are the most dishonorable people I can think of. For the female members, the term madam might apply because you do work in a whore house with the rest.. The male members should all probably be called pimps.
This bul#$*it that you all . . .of both parties . . .and both whorehouses of congress have gotten this country into is inexcusable. If I had a election recommendation for anyone, or any party, for the next election, I would tell them to vote for anyone except an incumbent. The whole lot of you are not worth the bacterial breeding value of a used tampon.
This country is facing so many problems that demand attention and you all sit around just staring at the less urgent problems, holding hearings on steroids and seat belts, and you blame the other party for the federal budget problems not being solved. Or, you blame the president for everything. Or the president blames congress. Or both of you blame the unions, or liberals, or conservatives, or anyone else you can think of. (And by the way, I do know correct grammar and capitalization. Except, in the present era, neither congress or the office of the presidency are worthy today of having their official names get a capital C or capital P. The only capital letters any of you deserve is to get letters addressed to you in ALL CAPS FOR EMPHASIS ON POINTING OUT YOUR IGNORANCE, GREED, AND CORRUPTION.)
No longer do you represent the people who elected you. You really don't even represent special interest groups. You represent only your own self-interest. You are the sorriest excuse for human beings I can think of. You are lower in the life cycle than the hair on the wart on the chin of the parasite that grows on the plant that feeds on the whale-poop at the bottom of the ocean. ALL OF YOU! I have come to see that there is not a dime’s worth of difference in the two parties and their members. You just differ a bit in your approach to corruption and theft of the public’s future.
I hope someday that your own spouse and children look at you each night and spit at you in disgust of the miserable person you are, and have been. I hope you go to bed at night wondering what the tallest building is in Washington that has windows that open so you can plan how and when to take your own leap.
A few years ago the term Moral Hazard became wildly popular to describe events on Wall Street. Today that term can only be applied to you and every other washington politician. You and your cronies on both sides of the isle and in the white house are THE greatest moral hazards facing America today. You should all be sent to prison to be bent over as someone's bi#%h for the next 20 years. You all are the cancer that is killing us. You are the ones primarily responsible for the decline of morals and the work ethic and values in America today. If we were allowed to tar-and-feather in today’s society, I’d have the biggest brush in my hand and ask for the pleasure of applying yours.
Now we have a debt ceiling stalemate in this country. And if not solved in the next week, I understand it could throw the entire economic system of this country into a meltdown and our entire economy and way of life as we know it would be lost. It will be Biblical in its scale of catastrophe and suffering. And yet, you are all sitting on your stubborn asses and failing to give an inch to get the problem solved? What in the hell are you thinking? Where is the moral outrage in the halls of congress? It’s absent. Because you yourselves have lost the moral highground.
And now I hear, to solve the problem, some of you want to cut future social security or medicare payments and benefits? Or change the age of eligibility? You sorry piece of afterbirth! Let me tell you something butthole. I'm 61 years old and have paid into that bottomless pit now for about 43 years. And now, you're going to change the rules? How about this fecesface? I will lay down on this issue and say "fine". Cut them. And raise the age to 67 if that's what it takes to balance the budget. But you cut your own damn benefits there too. Raise my taxes, and raise yours too at the same time. You crooks cut your retirement and raise the age for your own benefits too, and I'll go along with it. Or better yet, get rid of congressional retirement altogether. Where on earth did the idea come from in the first place that being a politician should be a career? You're supposed to be a servant for gosh sakes. But you’ve taken advantage of your office to become like the senators of ancient Rome. . . aristocratic thieves.
I'll go along with about anything that you do that affects us all the same. But stop coming up with the excrement that just singles out one group or another and puts the expense on my back while turning your head to another group (like yourselves) and not slapping them too.
For starters though, before you start trying to take away from me, or tax me more in the remaining years of my earning ability, how about saving a few hundred billion from these money-saving ideas:
1. Stop funding immediately anything to do with bombing Libya. I personally don't care what those people do to each other. They have raped us for a long time on oil prices, and so now, if they decided they are going to be miffedat each other, let them slap each other silly. Ditto and double dittos for Sudan, Angola, Uganda, Micronesia, etc. Let them kill themselves off if they want to. Our money and your committee meetings are not going to stop tribal jealousies that have existed for hundreds of years.
2. Don't send another dime to a single other country that doesn't think the United States is an ally and a wonderful country. Here's the way to tell. Ask each foreign ambassador if they would feel uncomfortable if the Marine Corp guards took the day off from guarding the door to the Embassy. Any that were afraid . . . then no more foreign aid to that country?
3. Get us the hell out of the United Nations. We are their whipping post. Most of the countries there hate us. They take our money and then turn around and either a. Support terrorist to attack us, or b. Take our money and then split it up among their rulers and leaders and give very little for the intended recipients. This is the time for the dawning of a new age of isolationism, and a time for Society Protectionism. Except in this era, the protection is to save our very society and way of life, and the futures of our children and grandchildren.
4. Start random drug testing of welfare recipients? Anyone with a positive drug test is immediately dropped from the roles. FOREVER.
5. Offer a lump sum payment of $5,000.00 to any chronic welfare recipient, male or female, to be sterilized. The future savings would be tremendous.
6. Offer an immediate early discharge from prison to any prisoner who is there for any crime except murder, under the one condition that “if” they are convicted, EVER again of a felony, they would lose any right of appeal and would receive an immediate lethal injection on the evening of their conviction by a jury of their peers. Those in prison for sex crimes would also have to agree to immediate neutering before discharge.
7. Give aid to needy moms with a limit per child. Of course I understand that mothers with children now would have to be exempt for their present number. But for instance, you get $200.00 for one child, and $400.00 for two. But then if you have a 3rd, you drop back to $200.00. If you have a 4th, you lose it all.
8. Identify dead-beat dads who have been dead-beats for one year or more, and neuter them. Same night they are picked up. No trial. Just positive identification and cut their gonads off.
9. Open the border. Get off the backs of the immigrants. I don’t like the idea of rewarding illegal behavior anymore than the next person. But we’ve lost the battle. So let them come on in, get a social security card and start paying taxes. In fact, how about charging a non-citizen an income-tax-premium of say 10% and no deductions? Let’s make some money off them and rescue America. Then amend the constitution to disallow citizenship to children born on American soil of any parent without a verifiable social security number?
10. Stop sending any more money around the globe for any disaster relief. We've got the greatest disaster imaginable right here in our own country. Use taxpayer money to fix America. I don’t care who it is. Tell them, we won’t ask you for your money in our disasters and we don’t have any to send you. Key phrase here egghead, is WE DON’T HAVE ANY TO SEND! I’d love to send a bunch of money to a lot of different needs around the world. But I can’t, because I don’t have the money. Get the message? If you don’t have it, you don’t spend it.
11. Stop selling flood insurance from the government. And don't pay a dime to replace/rebuild/repair any property that is located in the flood zone or below sea level. If people are stupid enough to build homes in areas that are prone to flooding then they need to be stupid enough to pay for the repairs themselves. Next time New Orleans goes under, send the Saints to Omaha. The mid-western states need some pro sports. And bus ½ of the displaced residents to every major city that has lost population in the past ten years, like Detroit and Cleveland. Those cities must already have a lot of empty homes and apartments? Send the other ½ to your back yard there in washington, d.c.
12. Put an additional 5.00 a gallon tax on all gasoline sold in America and use it to begin immediately building mass transit systems in every area of 100,000 persons or more. Europe has lived with 8.00 a gallon gas for years. It won't destroy us. And we will be healthier in the future if we have some alternative to driving so many cars. Learn from Europe and Japan and now China. Get some 220 mph train systems crossing this country and move 1,000 people at a time. Build it elevated in the median of the present interstate highway system where we already own the right-of-way.
13. Tell Detroit and Japan that in 2015, no automobile can be sold in the United States that does not get 25 miles per gallon in the city and 40 on the highway. Give each person a “stimulus” check of a thousand or two if they buy a car that gets 40 or more in the city. Or waive the sales tax on the most efficient? And raise the requirement 1 mpg per year for 10 years. Pickups and SUV's could be 20 and 35. In fact, tell Japan that no more ships of vehicles will be accepted from Japan unless the ship loads back out with an equivalent $$$ amount of US made goods. Same for Germany and any other country sending autos here. Give people a tax credit each year on their tax return of $1,000.00 if they, or no family member even own a car?
14. Raise, over the next 20 years, the retirement age to 67 for ANY benefits. And give companies tax credits to hire people above the age of 60. Example: A company hires a 62 year old employee and pays them 40,000.00 a year? The company not only gets to deduct the payroll costs, but also gets a $2000.00 credit toward their corporate tax. Perhaps 68 year old would get a 600.00 extra credit, and so on. The bonus given to the company would be much cheaper than benefits for a year? Meanwhile, give any adult person in the United States the age of 40 or younger the immediate option to opt out of social security all together and go with a private program. The opt out decision would be irreversible.
15. Here's a BIG SAVER for you. Rogers Clemens is going on trial right now because you damn cry babies in washington think he lied to you about steroids. Guess what asshole. I don't care if he lied to you. Maybe Bryan Gumbo and HBO do? But most Americans don’t. What people care about right now is eating and having a job. So it’s hard for me to believe you spent taxpayer time and money in the first place even investigating our countries second-most overpaid prima donnas (you being the most overpaid). But since you did, and now you think he lied to you because a lying trainer said he did, so you're going to try and spend more money to hang him? Your investigation involved 103 law enforcement officers, five attorneys, 229 investigation reports, from 72 locations across the United States, Germany, and Puerto Rico. WHAT? Do you morons up there have oatmeal for brains. Who gives a flip? The country is about to go down in financial flames and you're spending money trying to prosecute this fellow. And yet, today, 3 years after the wall street debacle began with the collapse of Bear Sterns, not one single prosecution and conviction has taken place of a wall street trading firm that almost brought the country down? Stop spending money on all these committee and subcommittee investigations of steroids, AIDS in Africa, seat belts, global warming and can-Johnnie-read? Spend your time, our money, and your attention on keeping the country safe from enemies invading our shores, rebuilding our deteriorating infrastructure, and promoting the common welfare of the citizens. Those marching orders by the way are from the constitution. EMPHASIS ON THE WORD COMMON. You do things that are good for all of us. Not just your particular warm-n-fuzzy-tree-hugger-of-the-day group. Forget about exploring Mars too. I don't give a rats ass about living on other planets and anyone without a job could care less too.
16. Do not under any circumstances be a part of letting the United States declare war on any other situation. We spend more money fighting the war on drugs than we do on teachers, and . . . as everyone can see. . . we've lost that war. We declared war on illiteracy and our children are getting dumber. We declared war on poverty and 100's of thousands more today are poor. We declared war on terrorism and lost 100's more American fighting men than we have killed who are terrorists. We declared war on foreign energy dependency and today we're more dependent than ever. We declared war on immigration and today have more illegals here than ever with 1,000's more arriving weekly. We lost! So at the very least, make some money from it, and tax them. Here's a GREAT idea for congress. Please get with the president as soon as possible and declare war on Good Government. We'll have the best and greatest government in the world in 20 years.
17. Stop flying around the country first class and in private Air Force jets. Your time as government parasitic officials is no more valuable than my time as a meaningful contributor to society. Today any federal government employee flying over 1,000 miles is automatically allowed a first class seat. WTH? Let them fly coach and maybe they'll take fewer flights. And for goodness sakes . . . Nancy Pelosi using a jumbo jet to fly back and forth to San Francisco? What are you thinking numbnuts? If you all weren't the bunch of leaches that you are, you'd know that money doesn't grow on trees. Someone, somewhere had to actually work and do or make something to send the money to Washington in the first place. Even though you are just money-suckers and drains on our economic society, you should at least respect the value of money. But you spend it like it's yours? You all remind me of Ann Richard's quote about George W. Bush. She said "he was born on 3rd base, and told everyone he hit a triple". You son-of-a-bitches up there are NOT America's aristocracy. You are servants. Act like it.
18. Here’s a novel idea for profit. Each year, when and if you actually file a tax return showing that you paid income tax in, you get your membership card renewed for another year. We’ll call it Uncle Sam’s Club. That card is good for free admission for you and one immediate family member to a variety of places. Married couples filing jointly get two memberships and two guests. Your free admission is to national parks and monuments and museums and such? Also, if you are a retired person who is drawing social security you get automatically renewed each year, because you were a taxpayer. All others pay cash for an entrance fee. Maybe even add some rewards features too? Such as a “at the pump” discount off of the federal tax paid on gasoline? Or special seating on public transportation versus “steerage” for non-taxpayers? Begin attaching a social premium to being a wage earner and contributor and make it “unpopular” to be a welfare recipient.
19. Repeal of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution which allows the direct election of senators by the people in general election. Prior to the 17th Amendment, senators were chosen by the various state legislators and served at their please, subject to their recall. Let’s go back to that and let our representatives in the state capital send individuals who are truly public servants there for a season to represent their states? And bring them back home if they aren’t doing their jobs.
20. Passage of the 28th Amendment to the Constitution. It would be: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and Representatives; and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.
21. And finally, the best for last. You should lower congressional pay after 6 years by 10% a year. You go there and serve 6 years for a pay check. No retirement. No lifetime benefits. Just a paycheck. And in the 7th year, your pay starts going down 10% a year. If you are still there in 16 years, you get nothing. That will clear the place out from time to time.
So there you have it stupid. 21 ideas from a layman like myself. A layman, who . . unlike yourselves . . .works for a living and tries to make money to take care of myself, my family, and pay my employees. I’m a contributor, whereas you are all parasites. I’m also someone that is over taxed and over worked to keep up with the piles of paperwork that you and your cronies have designed to keep me busy. I’m tired. Very tired, of doing more and more, for less and less, so you can have more and more money to spend on silliness, wastefulness, and welfare, and steroid investigation.
I do hope that you are ashamed of yourselves. But I doubt that you are. You are a disgrace, and pathetic. And as my grandchildren grow up you can be assured that I will speak your name over and over to them as being one of the crooks responsible for stealing their future happiness. You can be assured that in generations to come, your name will be remembered and spoken of in the same vein as Benedict Arnold and Lee Oswald and Bernie Madoff and Joseph Stalin and Son-of-Sam. You are this society's dregs.
If you let this country and it’s economy go down in flames in two weeks, I hope there is a mass uprising of the population that comes to Washington and runs you and your pals all out of town on a rail. It’s time, I think, to just clear the plate and start over. You, like a used tampon, have lost your value.
Very, very truly
Bud McElhaney
West Texas Oilfields
BMcElhaney2350@aol.com
Friday, July 15, 2011
A few great truths
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.-- John Adams
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.-- Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.-- Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.-- Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on thesupport of Paul.-- George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.-- G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.-- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.-- Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.-- Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.-- Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!-- P.J. O'Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.-- Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!-- Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.-- Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.-- Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.-- Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.-- Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.-- Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.-- Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.-- Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.-- Aesop
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.-- Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.-- Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.-- Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on thesupport of Paul.-- George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.-- G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.-- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.-- Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.-- Ronald Reagan (1986)
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.-- Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!-- P.J. O'Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.-- Voltaire (1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!-- Pericles (430 B.C.)
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.-- Mark Twain (1866)
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.-- Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.-- Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.-- Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.-- Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.-- Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.-- Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.-- Aesop
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Politicians say the darnest things?
This is a fun quiz. Listed below are 10 direct quotes.
You have to guess which American politician said it.
Your four choices are:
Former Alaska Governor Sarah PalinFormer
VP Dan QuaylePresident
Barack Obama
Former President George W. Bush
Ready? Here we go!
1) "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
2) "I've now been in 57 states I think one left to go."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
3) "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken
line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience
here today."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
4) "What they'll say is, 'Well it costs too much money,' but you
know what? It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same
as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would
cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay..
We're going to.. It. It would cost us about the same as it would
cost for about hold on one second. I can't hear myself.
But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
5) "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice,
savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
6) "I bowled a 129. It's like - it was like the
Special Olympics, or something."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah PalinD.
George W. Bush
7) "Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by
our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential
than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our
highest court are granted life tenure, often serving
long after the presidents who appointed them.
And they are charged with the vital task of applying
principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to
some of the most difficult questions of our time."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
8) "Everybody knows that it makes no sense that
you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable
illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital
bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave
them treatment early and they got some treatment,
and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer.
I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
9) "It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
10) "I have made good judgments in the past. I have
made good judgments in the future."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
All of the correct answers are the same person. And
the media is still after Sarah Palin for her remarks.
Each of these quotes are directly from President Barack Obama.
And now you know why he brings his teleprompter with
him everywhere he goes ....even when talking to a
6th grade class.
And some members of the media continue to insist he is
"The smartest man ever elected to the Presidency.."
Right.
You have to guess which American politician said it.
Your four choices are:
Former Alaska Governor Sarah PalinFormer
VP Dan QuaylePresident
Barack Obama
Former President George W. Bush
Ready? Here we go!
1) "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
2) "I've now been in 57 states I think one left to go."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
3) "On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken
line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience
here today."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
4) "What they'll say is, 'Well it costs too much money,' but you
know what? It would cost, about. It it it would cost about the same
as what we would spend. It. Over the course of 10 years it would
cost what it would costs us. (nervous laugh) All right. Okay..
We're going to.. It. It would cost us about the same as it would
cost for about hold on one second. I can't hear myself.
But I'm glad you're fired up, though. I'm glad."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
5) "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice,
savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
6) "I bowled a 129. It's like - it was like the
Special Olympics, or something."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah PalinD.
George W. Bush
7) "Of the many responsibilities granted to a president by
our Constitution, few are more serious or more consequential
than selecting a Supreme Court justice. The members of our
highest court are granted life tenure, often serving
long after the presidents who appointed them.
And they are charged with the vital task of applying
principles put to paper more than 20 centuries ago to
some of the most difficult questions of our time."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
8) "Everybody knows that it makes no sense that
you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable
illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital
bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave
them treatment early and they got some treatment,
and a, a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer.
I haven't had much sleep in the last 48 hours."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
9) "It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of I don’t know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
10) "I have made good judgments in the past. I have
made good judgments in the future."
A. Barack Obama
B. Dan Quayle
C. Sarah Palin
D. George W. Bush
All of the correct answers are the same person. And
the media is still after Sarah Palin for her remarks.
Each of these quotes are directly from President Barack Obama.
And now you know why he brings his teleprompter with
him everywhere he goes ....even when talking to a
6th grade class.
And some members of the media continue to insist he is
"The smartest man ever elected to the Presidency.."
Right.
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