Oh yea, this says it all…
I’m not sure who originally said this was an A-10 doing the shooting, but I doubt it. If it is, it isn’t from its famous front gun as the blast radius is far too big. I’ve seen them shoot and they are pretty damn precise. It looks more like a cluster bomb or maybe it came from an AC-130 Spectre. Who knows.
Either way, it is great.
Can you believe this? Gregory Craig is going to be the lead council for Obama. So who is this guy? Well of all things he presented and won the insanity defense that allows Ronald Reagan’s would-be assassin to spend weekends with his family.
Yea everyone has a right to a good defense and all that good stuff, but would you as a President want an attorney that would possibly defend the very guy that tried to kill you? Probably not.
I guess it just goes to show that jump ship from one political power house (the Clintons) to another you get a good reward for it.
A Rasmussen poll of 1000 adults says that 73% of them don’t want the government to bailout the auto makers. I don’t think it will make much difference as congress and the democrats in particular really don’t care what the majority of Americans want.
So much for democracy.
The Democrats really love to harp on how great the Clinton years were. The budget surplus. The prosperity. Ahh the good life.
In seeking to duplicate those great times, Obama is hiring most of Clinton’s old staff. As usual though, they seem to forget history or just choose to ignore the facts. So let’s look at how Clinton’s two terms really went.
Before Clinton took office, several innovations were in the works that were prepping the economy for lift off. For the most part, personal computing was really starting to come into its own. That lead to an enormous internet boom.
But let us back up just a minute. For the first three years of his office, the economy pretty much went nowhere. It wasn’t until the GOP took office, combined with Hillary’s failure to get her health care plan through and Greenspan’s loosening of monetary policy did the economy take off. The chart below says it all.
Source IBD.
What about that budget surplus?
As for the budget surpluses, they came as a complete surprise to Clinton economic forecasters, whose static models only predicted their tax hikes on the rich would narrow the budget gap, not get it into the black.
Their “deficit-reduction plan” didn’t create the surpluses at all. They were a direct result of a tidal wave of capital-gains revenues generated by the GOP-led stock boom.
Relieved that Washington would no longer threaten to take over 14% of the economy by socializing medicine or raise taxes even higher, the market took off like a shot at that point. And capital gains tax receipts exploded, flooding federal coffers.
Clinton’s own long-term budgets predicted no surpluses of any kind during his administration and beyond.
In 1993, Clinton made his first five-year budget projections based on the new tax and spending programs he was proposing. He forecast a budget deficit of $202 billion in fiscal year 2000. In fact, the Treasury produced a record surplus that year of $236 billion.
That’s a swing of more than $400 billion. So much for central planning.
Clinton either must admit to some of the worst forecasting in history or acknowledge that some other factors besides his record tax hike closed the budget gap. But he’s copped to neither.
So, if Obama wants to duplicate the “success” of Bill Clinton, he needs to wait until 2010 and pray that the GOP takes over congress and gets things straightened out.
Of course this means closing all U.S. plants in the process. However, instead of just putting hundreds of thousands of people out on the street, I would offer to relocate them to their country of choice and continue building cars for us. Naturally that means no unions and no viagra, but hey, you won’t lose your job. Look at the bright side, you may not make as much but the standard of living will be far less as well.
It is far better than letting the government take control of my company and run it into the ground, as the British did in the 60’s, I would be free of the gestapo unions and might actually turn the company around. Sure I would have to build some great cars in the process that people really want to buy, but that should be the easy part.
Isn’t it amazing how the left is allowed to hate so viciously, and then claim that we are now “united” after Obama’s election?
Take this example of a school experiment where a girl wore a McCain t-shirt and was verbally attacked for it. She said that many kids told her to “die” and that she was a “filthy republican”.
Oh yea, that is the group of people that I want to be “united” with.
Apparently Putin told Nicolas Sarkozy that he wanted to hang the Georgian President by the balls after Sarkozy told Putin that the world would not accept the overthrow of Georgia. Here is part of the exchange:
“I am going to hang Saakashvilli by the balls,” Putin replied (to Sarkozy regarding the overthrow statement)
Sarkozy responded: “Hang him?”
“Why not? The American hanged Saddam Hussein,” Putin said.
Sarkozy replied, using the familiar “tu”: “Yes but do you want to end up like (President) Bush?”
Putin was briefly lost for words, then said: “Ah, you have scored a point there.”
Two things are interesting there. First, Bush didn’t hang Saddam, the Iraqi’s did. The U.S. doesn’t allow hanging anymore (although we should…). Second, Saddam was brutal dictator that not only defied the world, but murdered his own people. Saakashvilli is nether.
Seen on FoxNews.com
I’ve been think about starting a series on this blog about what I would do about any given situation. In most cases it would be if I were the President, but not always.
Given that I figured I would start off with this new auto bailout that is being talked about in congress and elsewhere. As many people have mentioned, this is going to be a big mess no matter how you look at it.
To start with we have three companies that are failing in U.S. sales. Some are saying let them fail. If they can’t manage their business then the company should fail like any other company. In principal I agree with that. However in GM’s case they are doing quite well overseas and are profitable, especially in the Asian markets. So they are doing something right, just not here.
Either way, I would give them two choices.
First if we are to bail you out, then I would require what Neil Cavuto said, the CEO and the Chairman must resign. Then I would bring in the top 20 or so non-employee stock holders (which means basically mutual fund companies) and have them search for a new board. The stock holders then vote in new management.
At the same time I would require the UAW to renegotiate their contracts and cut labor costs. They are out of control and it is killing these companies. The only problem with that of course is that the UAW has already said they won’t budge.
The government does nothing and lets the companies fail. As bad as that sounds it doesn’t necessarily mean they shut their doors and all is lost. It means they file chapter 11 bankruptcy and the courts can reduce their debt. Possibly even force the unions to the negotiating table.
Yes, some jobs will be lost and that is the sad fact. However you cannot keep a person employed just for the sake of that person. Labor is almost always the largest expenditure of any company and why it is usually the first to go when the company needs to stay a float. Some must sacrifice so that other may go on.
So that is my view. However with a democrat congress and a democrat president there will be neither. They will hand them billions of dollars of our money and they will probably fail anyway. All the while the unions will keep their strangle hold on the companies.
First and foremost, I am a veteran myself. I spent 5 1/2 years in the Air Force and while technically I spent time in a combat zone I never fired a shot or was fired up myself. It is also worth mentioning that my dad spent 17 or so years in the Army, and many years in civil service before retiring a couple years ago. My wife’s dad served in Vietnam. An old friend of the family also served in Vietnam before becoming a police officer and later a police chief.
This past weekend my wife and I went to the Aviation Nation air show here at Nellis Air Force base. When I was a kid I wanted to be a fighter pilot and so every chance I get to see these men and women fly is always something special. The thing I love seeing the most is when they fly the P-51, F-15 and F-22 together in tight formation. For those that don’t know, each of these fighters represent the best the Air Force had in their era. Last year they had a F-4 in the mix, from the vietnam era. It was a sight to see.
This year was a treat as they had an E-3 Sentry, better known as the AWACS, and it was open for the public. I used to work on these things and it was the first time my wife got to see the inside of it. It was a real treat to be able to share that part of my past with her.
Beyond myself and my family though, I have high regard for anybody that wears the uniform. I don’t care if you are a clerk at a dentist office, pushing pencils in accounting or holding a rifle all day long looking for terrorists. There is no greater honor than to wear the uniform and serve your country. It takes enormous commitment and for those in harms way, courage. Every single soldier, air man, sailor and grunt out there is under paid and damn sure are under appreciated.
The news only cares about telling about the bad things that happen, focusing on people like Phil Donahue who portray them as these poor victims of an unjust war. Whether you think the war was unjust or not, that is besides the point. The vast majority of people overseas know what they are doing and are proud to be there making a difference. I’ve spent 12 weeks in both Turkey and Saudi Arabia and while I was not there during any active fighting I know what it is like to be so far away, stuck in a foreign land. I was lucky that my tours were short, but not everyone has that luxury.
The most memorable time I’ve had was coming home from my second Saudi trip and I sat next to a nice old couple. I was in uniform and the lady next to me asked if I was coming back from the middle east. I smiled and said I was. Her husband then looked at me and said “Son, thank you very much for all you are doing”. I was kind of taken aback. After all, I wasn’t a marine or soldier hiking his ass through the desert, I was a aircraft technician far behind any line. I could see the look in his eye though and I knew that it didn’t matter. I managed a smile and a thank you. I will never forget that day.
So if you see a member of the armed services be sure to just say thank you. You will be surprised how good it will make them feel. It is for them that we raise our flags each day and pledge our allegiance to this country.
For all those out there that are haters of all things military (I’m talking to you San Francisco) or those who wish to demoralize our troops (MSM…), well, that soldier will still fight for your right to be a fucking idiot and hater.
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