Life's Inanities and Ironies

“The two enemies of the people are government and criminals, so let us tie the first one down with the chains of the constitution, so the first will not become the legalized version of the second.” Thomas Jefferson We have not heeded the wise counsel and admonitions of one of our Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and we have allowed the government to become the criminal. It’s not Mr.Obama’s job to provide or find you a job. It’s not Mr.Obama’s job to pay you when you don’t have one. It is not Mr.Obama’s job to hold your hand when you are down. It certainly isn’t Mr.Obama’s job to provide you with health care, Medicare, Medicaid, social security, welfare or student loans, nor is it his job to force you into vaccinations for alleged world pandemics. We are Americans. We are supposed to be able to hold our own heads up. We are supposed to be our own salvation. That’s what separates us from the rest of the people of the world. We are a can do country, or were until we succumbed ...

It is being reported that existing home sales are starting to rebound. Well, duh! After the market price of a home drops 18+% in a single year and the government is paying first time buyers $8,000 to buy a house what would you expect? A $150,000 house is now worth $123,000 minus a $8,000 coupon (on the taxpayer’s dime) = $115,000. Is it a good sign though? The Realtors' association says that based on historical data, the pending sales numbers do closely track future sales. But the correlation is much stronger in the year-over-year data than it is in the month-over-month numbers. The increase over March 2008 was much more modest, just 1.1%. Historical context may mean nothing in this downturn. Despite what big banks are telling Congress, it's very difficult to get a loan these days. Buyers who have been pre-qualified by lenders often find it's a different story when they actually request the money. The down payment or interest rate required could be larger—or the money might...

President Barack Obama claimed during his Wednesday night press conference that there are 47 million Americans without health insurance. A simple check with the U.S. Census Bureau would have told him otherwise. Mr. Obama said: " This is not just about the 47 million Americans who have no health insurance ." That assertion conflicts with data in the Census Bureau report "Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007." The report was issued in August 2008 and contains the most up-to-date official data on the number of uninsured in the U.S. The report discloses that there were 45.65 million people in the U.S. who did not have health insurance in 2007. However, it also reveals that there were 9.73 million foreigners — foreign-born non-citizens who were in the country in 2007 — included in that number. So the number of uninsured Americans was actually 35.92 million. And of those, "there were also 9.1 million people making more than $75,...

I received this in the last couple of days as an email and I have to say it is one of the best plays on an old story that I have read in awhile. The first time I read this was in one of Sir Richard Burton's,(No...NOT the actor...Come on people), translations of an Arabian Nights story. It used as its characters a king and merchant, but in that one the merchant was the "villain" so to speak. Once again it all boils down to perspective. I don't know the author of this version, but I see the dark and foreboding truth in this brilliant adaptation of the parable. "Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There's nothing that the government can do to me if I...

With or without our consent the powers that be in our supposed House of Representatives once again said they don't care what the majority of their constituents want and passed H.R. 2454: The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 Here’s a PDF link to the bill passed by congress today and heading for the Senate. HR 2454 BTW, the vote was 219-212 with enough Republicans crossing the aisle to pass it. I would openly like to thank my own Congressman Joe Donnelly for having the sense and the intestinal fortitude to go against his party. Only 2 Indiana Representatives, Democrats Andre’ Carson from the 7 th district and Baron Hill from the 9 th , voted for HR 2454. Want to see how your Congressman voted on this bill? And here are some highlights of the 300 page amendment tacked on in the wee hours of the morning. It was amazing to listen to Boehner run down the 300+ page amendment to the bill that got dumped on Congress at 3 AM Friday morning. Among th...