Day: December 15, 2009

Cash For Caulkers

Another brilliant idea…..it accomplishes very little…..A rather ingenuous label……trying to tie it in to the semi-successful program of Cash for Clunkers….cute……But what is this program all about?

The program contains two parts: money for homeowners for efficiency projects, and money for companies in the renewable energy and efficiency space.

The plan will likely create a new program where private contractors conduct home energy audits, buy the necessary gear and install it, according to a staffer on the Senate Energy Committee and Nadel at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Big-ticket items like air conditioners, heating systems, washing machines, refrigerators, windows and insulation would likely be covered, Nadel said.

Consumers might be eligible for a 50% rebate on both the price of the equipment and the installation, up to $12,000, said Nadel. So far, there is no income restriction on who is eligible. That would mean a household could spend as much as $24,000 on upgrades and get half back.

A good idea?  IMO….HELL NO!  Why?  This will only help a small percentage of Americans…..think about it…..let us say you are a home owner who is finding it difficult to keep up with the mortgage payments….where will you find the money to spend on this?  Or better yet, 1 in 6 Americans is unemployed…that alone would not make it feasible to spend much needed money on home improvements….and then there is the tight credit for individuals….need I say more along that line?

Just where is the jobs creation?  At best, it is a band-aid for a gunshot wound……

So far the Obama Admin is doing NOTHING substantial to create jobs or to help Main Street……is this the change we voted for?  Not my idea of change but then I am sarcastic SOB……

Open Letter To Congress #2

As anyone who visits Info Ink will testify that I am an opinionated SOB and have NO problem tell it like it is, or at least as it looks to me….this will be the second open letter that I will have sent to Congress…it is just my small attempt to let the guys and gals in Washington know how frustrated most Americans are at this point in time…..I am an equal opportunity trasher…it will go to Dems as well as Repubs….for both are equally as guilty as the other for the situation we Americans are facing…..

To The “Honorable” Members Of Congress:

We, the people, have been subjected to a political theater of the absurd and it is beyond time for this turkey to give a final curtain call.  Dear Members you are NOT acting in the best interest of the country and its people.  You are not acting as the good faith representatives that you were elected to be…..you were elected to serve the country, I repeat, serve the country not to play political games.

With each new issue the rhetoric and the antics and theatrics become more and more absurd….it is beyond time for you people to start behaving like the statesmen that you pretend to be.

End the emotional detachment from the plight of the American people; you are making the institution of government a un-amusing joke……Apparently the people and the Constitution mean NOTHING to you clowns except when they can serve a purpose in your silly little game.  The whole process that you people engage in has become disgusting and your attitude even more disgusting.  The very idea that you people would rather play  party politics than trying to find real answers to America’s problems is in itself a disgust idea.

The Congress was elected by the people in good faith and in return all we get is pathetic political games…..almost to the person, you told the voters that you would go to Washington and make it a place where the people would make a difference….so far that is a total lie and the games are the games of cowards not statesmen.

Americans are losing homes…….going hungry……losing jobs……dying for lack of health care…..losing retirement funds and the best you people can do is argue over the words in a bill or make up some vague concept that has NO foot in reality…..that is what cowards do when they have NO idea on what to do.  Lobbyists money is WELL sspent!

Have you experienced what the people have to experience everyday?  Have you lost your home?  Do you go to bed hungry?  Do your kids?  Do you have to choose between food or rent?  NO!  Then how can you possibly know what Americans are going through?

I am not choosing one party over the other……I am calling ALL OF YOU….COWARDS!  This silly theatrics has been going on for decades…..a theater of the absurd and all of you deserve the best actor award for your part in the play……maybe your approval rating among the people would be better than 23% if you actually did something other than play this game…..the truly sad part of this whole play is that the American people will be duped time and time again and return you people to Washington on the lies you feed them every re-election campaign……

If the participants in our government cannot act in the best interests of the people….maybe we as voters should rethink renewing your contract with us….for as it stands now you people are nothing but a waste of time and money…..and you have had enough time to waste both those precious resources……I can only pray that I meet you in the unemployment line….wait!….that cannot be……why?….most of your are already millionaires thanks to the American people…..so yet another hope gets drowned in the toilet of government…..thank you for absolutely NOTHING!