Day: April 21, 2011

Will They Take The Hint?

Whataya think?  Will the GOP take the hint from numerous polls?  The people keep dropping subtle hints, especially to the pollsters…..

The people want government to cut spending…..but not with Social Security or Medicare or Medicaid a recent poll showed…I believe it was a WSJ poll…..Defense seems to be the target for most people…end wars and adventurism around the world…..more closely control government contracts…..etc……and of course, the middle class is asking why the rich cannot pay more in taxes…..

Rep. Paul Ryan has given the country his ideas on the budget (actually they are just rehashes of the thinking of the Heritage Foundation) and there has been a lot of back and forth…….not among the people but rather from the self-serving little pills in Congress……he has been called bold and courageous and visionary…….but what do the people, I am talking about real people….average people….think of “his” Path To Prosperity?

It seems that at a recent townhall in his home state of Wisconsin….Ryan was met with an unexpected response to his saying that the wealthy need to pay less in taxes…….

Watch it http://t.co/0EkokIb

Of course this was a townhall meeting in Wisconsin and it may be a reaction to the policies of their new Repub governor….it may not be Ryan’s fault at all…..no one believes that so why would I say it?  Dunno….I guess I was just trying to be “fair and balanced”……

The GOP might want to watch this closely….it could be a harbinger of things to come…..as the people become more knowledgeable on his proposals to basically eliminate SS, Medicare and Medicaid the people will NOT allow this to continue and there is an election coming up…..let us see how many start running away from these proposals……

Will they (GOP) take the hint?

He Makes It All So Easy

He cannot help himself…he will say or do whatever it takes to stay in the limelight……

We on the so-called Left have been all over Trump for his mis-speaks…his birther crap….his stealing of Iraqi oil…..his…well pick a subject…….I think that the rest of the GOP non-field field is waiting patiently for him to announce and to get him in a wrestling match of speeches…..there is a wealth of stuff that will crap all over his candidacy……but my fav is when he attacks what most on the Right call “Obamacare”……I would bet that he is squirming in his shorts thinking about facing some Repubs in debates, especially when the subject comes around to health care and he gets on his high horse in opposition to Obamacare….

“We must have universal healthcare. I’m a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses.”

Trump added that the goal of health care reform should be a system that looks a lot like Canada. “Doctors might be paid less than they are now, as is the case in Canada, but they would be able to treat more patients because of the reduction in their paperwork.”

So, we have another…..”I was for it before I was against it” Republican….we can say a lot about the Donald….but he is never boring……a bit of an egocentric prick….but never boring…..the scary part is that he leads in a lot of the straw polls taken around the country (only God knows why this Barnum-esque showman is so popular)…..the American voter cannot be that stupid…..can they?

May16th will tell us if he is a serious candidate or just a con man…….

What Is Needed Is A Plan!

Meanwhile ….back at the debt…….

You are damn right!  We need a deficit plan…..a energy plan….an environment plan….and sorry a week of 30 second ads and 3 minute stories is NOT the way to formulate a plan…..and a 2 year cycle of elections is NOT the way to come up with a viable plan……WE NEED A PLAN!

It is that simple!  Instead of all the wrangling back and forth between the two cowardly parties, that have nothing to offer but their personal agendas……the whole time the US is sucking tit when it comes to the economy and most notably our industrial base (actually there is not much left of a once dominate sector)….all we have now are a couple of people that spend all their time sniping at the other side or throwing slogans around like confetti or worse yet, arguing about the fate of NPR….NONE of this will return the US to prominence on the world economic stage…….blame China or India or anywhere else all you want….but the truth is that our politicians have pull the trigger on the execution of the American industrial sector…..blame NO one but politicians….both Dems and Repubs…they are ALL to blame and no amount of finger pointing will stop the demise……

The Washington Times, which you would expect a slashing editorial against the prez, has said the following:

President Obama’s “policies have secured America’s status as part of the declining world.” The Times further wrote: “[T]he president’s answer to economic crisis is to heap on more debt. It’s this crippling tax-and-spend Obama creed that’s bringing America to the brink of Third World inferiority.”

To be honest…there has been a plan for the last couple of decades….the conservs are just as guilty as the dems for the downward spiral of the US……and that plan entailed……

fiscal discipline…..control public expenditures…..tax reform……liberalize the financial sector…..liberalize the trade sector…….promote foreign investment……privatization o0f state enterprises…..Deregulate the economy……there you have it…the plans down over the last couple of decades……and finally, how has that worked out for you?

Yes, Irene….WE NEED A PLAN!  Not some half ass reform that last two years at best….we need to develop a short term, mid term and long term plan and make it law so that it cannot be f*cked with by some elected official to win an election…..we need politicians that are serious about making this country strong again…not one sector over another…..WE NEED A PLAN!