Current Events: White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy

Current Events: White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy:    Amazed by the unending outpouring of bad ideas from the White House, I have come to the realization that we have and continue to be the ...

White House Group Think Is Driving Us Crazy

   Amazed by the unending outpouring of bad ideas from the White House, I have come to the realization that we have and continue to be the victims of Groupthink.
   Wikipedia's definition: Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome. Group members try to minimize conflict and reach a consensus decision without critical evaluation of alternative ideas or viewpoints, and by isolating themselves from outside influences.
   So, as long as his "People" are satisfied with decisions, he's ok with them, too. And we let him get away with them because he is a victim and must be defended.
   The Democrats passed the ACA without a single Republican vote, based on poor assumptions and absent logic. Pie in the Sky thinking. Pie in the Sky because it is going to be an entitlement that makes SS and Medicare look like game of marbles. The Gorilla in the china shop is the cost, of course. Coming to bear, it will be shocking. One answer has already been floated. Single Payer System (U.S. Government) Take all retirement  savings to pay for government entitlements in return for shares in banks...or something. 
   I can see those twenty something liberals in the GROUP endorsing that idea.
   It's so preposterous it may not ever come up, but something huge and breathtakingly negative will happen when our credit rating is not only downsized but drops into a black hole. No country, not even the USA, can borrow it's way to solvency. Well, in the minds of Obama's neophyte Group of naive children, but not in the real world. Never.
   Meanwhile, Obama's Group keeps on Groupthinking it's way to amazement with itself, and we keep running around in circles, responding to crazy ideas coming in machine gun fashion.
  
  

Influence Media Sponsors

    The thing that keeps a President with a friendly Senate from going wild is the media.  The Supremes seem to be sleeping.    Current media being deaf, dumb and blind about Obama's and Hillary's mistakes,  mistruths and  outright lies,  our options to push conservative issues seems limited to complaining and being vilified by his minions.  Most of the people,  if they are real people, that run into us on Twitter and such, are probably still in secondary school years,  but their presence and passion is a force that carries credibility. If not fighting with good information,  at least they are pervasive.
     Complaints might be better applied to those who have the power to influence,  ie.  Sponsors of ABC NEWS,  NBC NEWS,  CBS NEWS,  CNN,  etc.  Sponsors need to be made to feel the responsibility for fair and balanced reporting. Our energy and passion for preserving this country for our grandchildren is a mountain.  Their energy and passion to push socially destructive liberal themes is a molehill in comparison. But they are loud and in our faces. And I am betting they have a lot of help. So much help that conservative voices are simply being drowned out.
     As crazy as it sounds,  I believe that control of our government may have fallen to sponsors of media outlets and big business. It would not be a new thing, just so absolutely powerful now that the liberal government can do ANYTHING and not suffer critical analysis in the media.The notion does make a certain amount of sense.
     Who else stands to gain the most from artificially supporting our economy through self destructive inflows of borrowed money?  Our economy will teeter on a double dip recession until it is able to establish a reasonable GDP for the fundamentals. Big business sits on vast sums waiting for real growth to be reestablished. The problem is that we have lost what kept us so strong since WW2.  Industrial production. Those jobs that moved overseas may not come back.  They certainly won't come back without an intelligent treatment of our tax structure, including reducing corporate taxes... something our liberal leaders are loathe to allow. So big business is holding and doing whatever it can to maintain the GDP.  Liberal money printing is all they can see.  Influencing the media to tilt the balance in favor of liberals makes alot of sense. It would explain alot of the clear liberal media prejudice that has left us scratching our heads in wonder.
    It is something to think about. I want to see this country improve. Universal health care is a wonderful goal but we cannot afford to do it through Obamacare. The ACA has not been well considered.  We really should step back and take another look at it before taking the leap.
   Unfortunately it looks like we are going to have to learn the hard way. I think I am seeing high deductibles pretty much over all of the classes of policies. What that means is that the insurance companies are protecting themselves at our expense.  Competition among companies isn't as strong a factor under ACA.  People HAVE TO BUY through the exchanges. Where's the competition? The folks who are buying will not be able to use the insurance without high out of pocket expenses. Once they realize that they are legally forced to buy something that won't be much help to them the country will see a huge backlash.
   Being able to say I told you so isn't going to be worth very much.  Hopefully the medical industry won't suffer to the point that we  lose our quality of health.care. Assuming my suggestion is correct, when will big money interests allow  their media to shift us back toward sane, conservative solutions?
   One thing is for sure.  It will not happen while the present administration is in power,  and the ACA backlash may be the force that starts the pendulum swinging to the conservative side. The Republicans,  though drawing a lot of criticism now,  will be seen as having the correct view.  Obama probably would not win an election now.  The Democratic Senators will be left holding his baggage in 2014. We cannot win any argument while the media is compromised. How the ACA effects peoples' bank accounts will have an enormous and immediate effect. Will it be enough? I believe it will. What is coming is coming. At least we have tried to do the right thing. Focusing on big business's control of the media may help. Arguing with adolescents on Twitter is certainly folly and a waste of time.
 

Shutdown the Government?

   The framers of the constitution knew what they were doing when they placed funding in the hands of congress. It is not terrorism or anarchy for congress to withhold funding for the ACA. It is within their,  our,  power.
   This could not happen if the ACA had been a bipartisan,  transparent effort. This was Obama all the way.  Arrogantly,  in our faces,  Obama produced 100% liberal trash.
   Don't forget Mama Pelosi's famous words: WE have to pass it so we can see what's in it. Do we REALLY consider that attitude acceptable among our leaders?  Our leadership has devolved.  That's the opposite of evolved.  Democratic leadership is standing at the feed trough of public money shoveling good money after bad down the mouths of themselves and the least producing members of our society.
   Bernanke prints 85 billion dollars a month. A trillion a year,  denying it will be inflationary. Anyone with a mind knows this cannot stand for long.
   It is time for the thinking,  working people of America to stop at least some of this insanity.  We absolutely need to back the Republican efforts including the shutdown.  Don't believe the doomsday nonsense from the Democrats and their media puppets.  This isn't rocket science.  It's simple,  common sense.  Think about it,  believe it,  do something about it.  Go John,  go!

They Will Follow His Lead

Obama/Democrats Say Don’t Worry, They Will Follow His Lead

    On the evening when our quasi-embassy in Libya was sustaining an eight hour attack in which three American foreign service agents and our Libyan Ambassador were mutilated and murdered, the President and the Secretary of State of the United States of America constructed a distracting story which would minimize the significance of the attack, and went to bed.

    Barack Obama was the President. In that time of crisis at least some of us expected him to do everything that he could do to protect our people. We were being attacked. All help was withheld. The “Stand down” order was given.  The attack went on for eight more hours. He let it go

    The failure of the President of the United States and his Secretary of State to act in defense of our personnel and their crumbling defenses is the charge. They have admitted to these charges. “What does it matter?”, Clinton exclaimed in the Benghazi hearing to the Government, the media, to the people, to the world.  The President and Hillary are hey are not worried about these charges because their constituency will follow their lead.    

   The lie that he and Hillary Clinton constructed about a You-Tube video was designed to imply that Al-Qaeda was not responsible for the attack…because our war with Al-Qaeda had been won by him as he had recently claimed and must remain true.  Courage, it doesn’t demonstrate. Overwhelming concern? No. Concern about continuing his agenda and his need to be re-elected? Yes. Clearly. That is what he was worried about.  

   He passed control of our non-response to Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense in the administration. No further communication between Panetta and the President took place that night. Panetta would handle it. Obama knew that he could defend Panetta easier than he could defend himself should things turn ugly. The next day he flew to a fund raising event out of town, the building was finished burning and the smoke finally cleared a few days later. Not to worry. His people would follow his lead.

   The expected uproar from the media never materialized. Attention was placed on the You-Tube video. No explanation was offered as to where the President went or what he did during the hours of the attack. He couldn’t say he went to bed, but he did attend the fund raiser the next day so he did get enough sleep to look good and raise money. By his lack of explanation he suggests that he did nothing. But he doesn’t worry. His people will follow his lead.

   His followers fill the internet and the Mass Media praises him beyond reproach. Anyone who dares criticize him risks his followers’ attacks, vilifying them as evil doers who would wreak destruction on mankind and especially the poor and weak, challenging the powerless to do what he has failed to do, following his lead.

   Leon Panetta’s memoirs will no doubt reflect that the President’s failure to assume control of this non-response was the worse night of his life and that he wouldn’t have bet a nickel that Obama wouldn’t suffer politically fatal damage from it. His surprise and amazement of Obama’s success following this failure of leadership will always be boundless, I am certain.

   That night he had no idea that no matter what Barack Obama does, no matter how crazy his ideas are, they will follow his lead. No matter how many trillions of dollars he spends, they will follow his lead. While ignoring  the oncoming train wreck of entitlement spending, they will follow his lead. As he flaunts the numbers of new jobs he ignores the numbers of those who have fruitlessly stopped trying to find a job and the numbers that reflect part time jobs instead of full time jobs, this country gets weaker each day. It doesn’t matter. The Democrats, the Media, and  his supporters who have no idea of what all of this means…They will follow his lead.

   There is a clear and present danger that his leadership is leading to our country’s economic destruction. He isn’t worried. They will follow his lead.

Thoughts on this day, Easter

   Bob Schieffer said today that hate is strengthened by ignorance and love is strengthened by knowledge. I'd like to add that hate and love are choices we make. Something to think about.
   I reviewed SC law and found that abortions are legal on demand up to 24 weeks. To me, a 12 week abortion is a procedure. A 24 week abortion is akin to murder. Why did we have to allow this to happen? I imagine pro life people refused to accept any law legalizing abortions thereby marginalizing their positions as left wing extremism and when doing so the longer term slid through. It was everything or nothing. It's a shame. To use Bill Clinton's words, abortion on demand should be legal, and rare. And I add, no longer than 12 weeks in gestation.  
   I vote conservatively. Always have. Women should have control of their bodies. So should newborn babies who, though their lungs are not developed enough to sustain them,  are far enough along to be able to move and show signs of stress. Women who stop having periods while sexually active know  that they may be pregnant in plenty of time to have a test and have it terminated within the first 12 weeks if they decide to do that. Further, I hope that clinics have the option of refusing to do the procedure if it has gone too long. It may not be perfect but it is a positive move in an area where change is desperately needed.
   

Return of the Dark Ages May be Inevitable

   I am not a politician. I may be a low information voter. If I am missing the information that I need to rationalize insane policies that will certainly wreck this country then I can live with it. If you don't want to read the ideas of a regular working guy then go somewhere else.
   In my fifty eight years I have never seen a politician who showed so much emotion and so little logic than our President. Our country has one major crisis right now. It's not the need to control guns, through universal background checks is not a give away of the 2nd amendment. It's not abortion or women's rights. It's not Afganistan. It's not the Violence Against Women Act. It's not gays in the Boy Scouts of America and it's not health care. It's not the need for universal daycare. It's the debt. It's our spending problem...the fact that we are spending so much more than we are taking in. If we don't fix the debt problem nothing else will matter.
   Daily, it seems, the White House is pronouncing a new initiative to fix something important. Every day! President Obama must have a group working day and night to come up with new ideas to announce the next day.
   And the conservative party takes  the bait every time he does it. Then we get hit by the vitriolic hate of those who would "benefit" from fixing the new problem. And the liberal media announces that we hate those people. I don't have to say that is no way to run a country.
   Presently we are spending some 320 billion dollars a year servicing the debt. To give some comparison, the US annual military payroll is 150 billion dollars. We are experiencing  huge stress over 85 billion in sequester cuts. Listen. Interest rates will be rising shortly. They cannot stay down. It is beyond our control. When that happens our annual interest on the debt will increase something like  200 billion more dollars bringing the debt expense to over 500 Billion dollars a year. If we can't settle on cutting 85 billion now what do you think will happen when we are faced with 200 billion more? The answer...more borrowing to pay the interest. Then...all the taxes on the rich  that they can cough up and then heavy taxation of the Middle Class. In terms of recession causing taxes...you ain't seen nothing yet. It's going to be really ugly. It's going to be scary. And it's going to reflect the loss of America's wealth. It will have already happened and we will be dealing with the tragic consequences. Inconceivable changes are coming if we don't fix the problem and it may already be too late.
   We need a balanced budget and we won't get it unless we pass an amendment to the constitution calling for it. Neither will happen, more than likely. We have an utter failure of leadership of our government.
   What we need is a government that is responsible enough to meet the call and make the necessary changes to avoid the return of the dark ages. What we've got, well, I'm sorry to say, it is what it is. Interest rates will go up. When? As soon as the world realizes that we have a spending/borrowing problem. Acting on those realizations will force interest rates up in all countries so they will put it off as long as they can, but it is inevitable.
   Leadership begins at home. Leadership is born from our acts and attitudes. Changes  must be made. The coming Congressional elections could make this change and force the present administration to act in our behalf. This may be the last chance we have to turn this country around. Until then pressure can be brought to bear on Obama's supporters in Congress to do what this country and the world desperately needs for them to do.
  This story is already written. Interest rates will rise. We will shortly be struggling with interest payments which will sharply curtail anything our government wants to do for us. Huge tax increases are right around the corner for the wealthy as well as for the Middle Class. Politicians are laughing about the fact that America doesn't see it coming. None of them feel accountable. Our grandchildren will be paying for these excesses for which we have little to show. They will have to fix it.  Good luck, America.