Today, let's read a little political fable together. Once upon a time President George W. Bush was approached by his oil buddies. They wanted more money from the government, and he wanted to push big oil as his agenda. So the little oil companies bundled together their campaign contributions during his election cycle and got him into the White House. After he got there, they visited him more than 20 times and asked for hundreds of millions of dollars in kickbacks to their companies. Government accountants and agences advised him against it, but Bush did it anyway. He gave away more than $500 million to one company alone that knew it was about to go bankrupt. It was being mismanaged by leadership, but it provided a really nice series of photo opportunities. Besides, Bush had his own agenda for energy in this nation and nothing was going to stand in the way. Bush didn't do this once. He worked more than 40 companies in this same manner. Dirty Texas politics. Right? WRONG!
The story is actually true, but the dirty politics come from Illinois. The President is Obama, the energy agenda is green and solar, and the details are revealed in the excellent work Michelle Malkin is doing (and the discoveries the conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives are making). If the news media decides to reluctantly cover this "little story," this in itself could be an impeachable offense. Let's see. Socialized medicine, choosing to avoid deporting illegals, no birth certificate, kickbacks to business friends. Is this a conservative? No, it's a socialist liberal in office. Impeach him!
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Green jobs company Solyndra squandered $535 million in stimulus money
Bobby J,
An interesting read, if not extreme. I agree with the "pillars" from education on down to the illusion of choice, but think the earlier concepts are a bit far-fetched. We do need law enforcement, because as of yet we do not live in a utopian society. There are criminals among us (that's why I have a gun). As much as I complain about over-taxation, I do believe that some taxation is required to defend our borders and maintain a minimal level of infrastructure.
I would offer that American enslavement has more to do with entitlements, than law enforcement and taxation.
Posted by: Dennis | September 19, 2011 at 07:30 PM
http://www.strike-the-root.com/we-are-all-slaves
Read it and weep.
Posted by: BobbyJ. | September 16, 2011 at 07:46 PM
There is a problem here!
One cannot be impeached because of the "flavor" of his politics. He can be impeached for breaking a law, but not for what he believes in. If you don't like his policies, vote him out of office. Obama was elected by a majority -of people who liked his message and got off their duffs and voted. What happened on election day of 2008 wasn't a lack of enthusiasm for Obama, but was a lack of enthusiasm for McCain. People didn't see a reason to expend any energy to vote for him. What they failed to see was that complacent attitude put a man in power that could potentially erase your right to vote ever again if America and our democracy goes down. Had voters thought it through in '08 they maybe would have voted for McCain. But I don't think, and many others will say the same, voting for McCain would have made much difference anyway.
People for too long have managed their lives like a little micro-beehive. Let it thunder, rain, hail, and flood. As long as home is filled with honey, to hell with the rest of the world. But along comes a little ruffian with a stick, poking it at the hive, they get upset. The financial crisis has been like that stick, the bees have been aroused. They come out of their hive and find a guy on the ground syphoning off their honey! But it's worse than that, he is moving the hive to a pasture where -THERE AREN'T ANY FLOWERS. They buzz around and begin to realize it is miles and miles to the nearest flower patch.
Some of the bees say, " Don't worry, it's not so bad. The bee-keeper will provide for us, just wait and see." But older bees know there isn't enough honey left to feed the incubating grubs and they will die. They also know if they fly away to build a new hive the grubs will die anyway. They wonder why this has happened to them. Are they disposable, simply being thrown away? Why would the bee-keeper treat them so?
The truth of the matter is no keeper would treat good productive bees that way. There must be another problem. Has the bee-keeper found he has too many bees and can't manage all of them anymore and needs to down-size his hives? Has he found other bees that are more productive and won't cost him so much in "housing"? Or is the guy on the ground not really their keeper at all, but a neighboring bee-keeper in competition doing mischief?
The bees will never find the answer, but their questions are ones we should be asking ourselves. Americans are in two differing camps today. The haves and the have-nots. In that I don't necessarily mean the rich and the poor. I do mean their are some who are on the government dole. Some with ever so little to gain, but they're there just the same; they can't afford to lose an inch. They, like the complacent bees, think the government will provid for them. But they aren't asking themselves the question of if that theory is correct, why are we in the mess we're in. They don't see that there are other bees out there who thought just like they do, that the government will provide, but who have woken-up to the fact that for one reason or another they are in a hive, dumped in a desolate weed patch with no chance of survival. They too were good productive bees doing just what had been asked of them.
And so Obama calls for a Joint Session of Congress (maybe he had other ideas of what a "joint-session" was) anyway, and flys that lovely plane all over the amber waves of grain campaigning, beating with the heel of his shoe on the podium like Nikita Khrushchev, with tongue in cheek, to pass his jobs bill knowing well that he gave $535 million in "taxpayer" loan guarantee to a company days away from bankruptcy while many of us bees are facing the desolate field of foreclosure.
But hey, I still have a little honey stuck away, right!
Posted by: Powerball | September 16, 2011 at 09:53 AM