Let's Read The Omnibus Bill Before We Vote On It

   Let's take some time and read the Omnibus Appropriations Bill before we vote on it. Then let's have discussions with both sides...debate the bill's pieces and parts.  And then let's cut the inevitable pork out. In other words, let's get back to reasonable, responsible governance.
   It is difficult to see how our Congress can expect us to agree to accept laws that were written in secrecy and brought to the floor two days before a vote... before anyone has time to examine the thing. With our government's recent track record voters cannot be expected to trust and accept. Bad things happen that way.
   The Democrats have had their way in Congress and they blew it. 2014 is going to be a year for cleaning house. If only the ACA had been brought up for debate where all of it's pieces could have been examined we might have something that is working for everyone. But it was developed in secrecy and pushed through by a Democratic Congress. That is not the way the system was designed to work.
   As for the Omnibus Appropriations Bill, let's please just take a breath and slow down and examine it. 

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.