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Monday, February 28, 2011
Rest in Peace Corporal Frank Buckles
The last surviving American World War I veteran, Frank Buckles, passed away Sunday, February 27 at his home in Charles Town, West Virginia.
He was 110 years old.
He was 110 years old.
RIP Corporal Frank Buckles
February 1, 1901 – February 27, 2011
Thank You for Your Service to our Country
Texas College Scholarship Targets Only White Male Students
Hooray! Somebody finally has the guts to say this. It is impossible to find a scholarship if you are a White boy. It's also tough to get business loans and all kinds of other advantages everyone else gets.
I have said for years that if I ever strike it rich I would start the United White Boy College Fund. And it has NOTHING to do with racism. It has to do with exactly what Colby Bohannnan found out. Good luck with any kind of school loan if you are white and male. Not gonna happen.
Of course, these guys will be called racists. al sharpton will probably show up. jesse jackson will start preaching about injustices that occured 300 years ago.
I wish these guys the very best with this, and if they happen to read this, tell me how people can donate and I will post it.
And Colby, thanks for serving this Country...
From FoxNews
Only white men with a 3.0 grade-point average can apply for a new scholarship being offered by a Texas nonprofit group, the Austin American-Statesman reports.
Colby Bohannan, a Texas State University student, said he founded the Former Majority Association for Equality group after fighting in the Iraq war and returning home to find no college scholarships available for white males like himself -- only women and minorities.
"I felt excluded," Bohannon, a student at Texas State University, told the newspaper. "If everyone else can find scholarships, why are we left out?"
Bohannon went on to say that he and his friends will begin handing out $500 scholarships this summer, arguing that white male students now make up a minority group in Texas.
School officials have so far not taken issue with the group's objective, saying the scholarship is no different from one offered to students from different ethnic groups.
"From the university's standpoint, we can't take issue with a scholarship offered to a certain group," Joanne Smith, Texas State University's vice president of student affairs, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
What's up with Charlie Sheen?
I like Charlie Sheen as an actor. He has been in some movies I really enjoy. I've never seen Two and a half Men, but people I know like the show a lot.
But I have about had it with seeing him talking crazy shit on TV every half hour. I don't know if it is possible for me to care any less about Charlie Sheen's personal life. I don't consider him a rock star. I'm not jealous that he hangs out with high dollar hookers and porn stars. I don't give a damn about any of his ex wives. And I don't care if he is or isn't addicted to drugs.
Funny thing about actors, new ones are popping up all the time. If Sheen wants to kill himself with drugs or a sexually transmitted disease from a nasty porn star, then so be it.
As far as him filing a lawsuit against a major network over his show... hmm, maybe it should be the other way around. His bad habits and erratic behavior cost him and several other people their jobs. Every person put out of work by this walking train wreck should be talking to an attorney.
Charlie, dude, get your shit together and seek some help for the mental illness you seem to be suffering. Not that many people really care about the whacked out Charlie Sheen, and we are sick of hearing about it so take the appropriate actions for those that do care about you and more importantly, yourself...
I'm 63 and I'm Tired
A lot of these things you get in email turn out to be attributed to people who didn't write them to trump up the importance of the words or meaning. This, as it turns out, was actually written by Robert A. Hall. Even if it wasn't, this portrays the sentiments of a good many Americans, probably the majority. Give this a read. Pass it on to anyone you think would be interested...
"I'm 63 and I'm Tired"
By Robert A. Hall
I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am.. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.
I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America and Canada , while no American nor Canadian group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off?
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Firearm of the week
BillyBob got tired of my political commentary and wanted me to do something fun. Here goes.
The firearm of the week is one of the greatest battlefield rifles ever. The M1 Garand!
The Garand was developed in the mid-1930's by John C. Garand. Garand was a Canadian by birth and moved to the US early in his life. He worked in the textile industry early in his career. He was a tinkerer and a target shooter which led him to designing firearms. The US army tasked him to develop a semi-automatic firearm. The .30 M1 was the first ever semi-automatic rifle to be issued to any infantry. It replaced the M1903 bolt action. However, the M1903 saw use in WW II, Korea and Vietnam.
The Garand was called "the greatest battle implement ever devised", by General George S. Patton.
What made it the greatest battle implement ever devised? Early in WW II the Germans were using K98 bolts and the Japanese, Arasaka bolts. The German K98, developed in 1935, is an awesome rifle, very well made and had 30 to 40 years of solid technology behind it. However, being a bolt action with 5 rounds, a great marksman might get 10 - 12 shots down range a minute.
Enter the .30 M1. It has an 8 round en bloc internal clip. In the hands of a well trained soldier, it could produce 40 to 50 rounds accurately. So, 10 rounds out of a K98 or Arasaka or 40 rounds from the ass kicking .30-06.
Garands were produced up until the mid-1950's. These rifles are still available. Visit http://www.odcmp.com/. This is the site for the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Depending on inventory and grading you can purchase directly from the CMP once your application is approved. .30-06 military surplus ammo is readily available too.
The above picture is my rifle. It is a great shooter, easy to field strip and darn accurate out to 400 yards.
Big Mullet
Did you see the NASCAR race yesterday?
Congratulations to Jeff Gordon. I'm not a big fan, but I would rather see him win than one of the Busch brothers. Gordon was due, it had been 60 something races since his last win.
It was good to see Jr. overcome some difficulties and finish in the top 10.
From the practice sessions and the race this week, it's looking like Trevor Bayne's win at Daytona may have been a fluke. I'm not sure yet though. He will be running at Las Vegas, maybe he will have better luck there.
From the practice sessions and the race this week, it's looking like Trevor Bayne's win at Daytona may have been a fluke. I'm not sure yet though. He will be running at Las Vegas, maybe he will have better luck there.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Obama Was Against Forcing Americans to Buy Health Insurance Before He Was For It
Be sure to watch the video.
Currently, his administration is taking to federal court 27 states that are challenging the constitutionality of the federal government forcing people to buy health insurance.
As a candidate for president he argued against the individual mandate, using it as a focal point to separate his health care plan from opponent Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal.
“Senator Clinton has a different approach. She believes that we have to force people who don’t have health insurance to buy it. Otherwise there will be a lot of people who don’t get it. “ Obama said during a January 31st 2008 debate on CNN. “I don’t see those folks, and I think it is important for us to recognize that if in fact you’re going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable then there’s going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses and they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks and that I don’t think is helping those without health insurance, that is a genuine difference. “
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, who ruled Obamacare unconstitutional this week, noted a statement that Obama had made in a February 5th, 2008 interview with CNN. In his ruling Vinson wrote, “I note that in 2008, then-Senator Obama supported a health care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that ‘if a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house.’”
In a February 26, 2008 MSNBC Democratic debate Obama criticized the concept of a mandate again. “If, as we’ve heard tonight, we still don’t know how Senator Clinton intends to enforce a mandate and if we don’t know the level of subsidies that she’s going to provide, then you could have a situation which were seeing right now in the state of Massachusetts, where people are being fined for not having purchased health care - but choose to accept the fine because they still can’t afford it even with the subsidies and they are then worse off. They then have no health care and are paying a fine above and beyond that. That is a genuine difference between myself and Senator Clinton,” Obama said.
CBO: Jobs Created and Saved By Stimulus Cost At Minimum An Average of $228,055 Each
In a report released Wednesday—“Estimated Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Employment and Economic Output from October Through December 2010”—the CBO said it now estimates the stimulus law cost a total of $821 billion, up from CBO’s original estimate that the stimulus would cost $787 billion.
In the same report, the CBO estimated that in the fourth quarter of 2010 there were somewhere between 1.3 million and 3.5 million people who were then employed who would not have been had the stimulus not been enacted. “CBO estimates,” says the report, “that ARRA’s policies had the following effects in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2010: … Increased the number of people employed by between 1.3 million and 3.5 million.”
This estimate seeks to state the net impact the stimulus had on the number of people employed in the United States as a result of the stimulus, taking into account not only the new jobs believed to be created and the existing jobs believed to be killed by the stimulus, but also the existing jobs that were saved that otherwise would have been lost.
The CBO’s estimate that there were 1.3 million to 3.5 million people employed in the fourth quarter of 2010 who would not have been were it not for the stimulus represents a decline from the 1.4 million to 3.6 million people CBO estimated were employed as a result the stimulus during the third quarter of 2010. (See Table 1 in the report.) In fact, CBO now estimates that the apogee of the stimulus’s net job-creating-and-saving power occurred in the third quarter of 2010 when it believes somewhere between 1.4 million and 3.6 million people had jobs they would not have had except for the stimulus.
Thus, the $821 billion cost of the stimulus divided by the maximum of 3.6 million jobs the CBO believes the stimulus may have saved or created equals an average of $228,055 per job.
At the lower end of the CBO’s top job-creating-and-saving estimate for the stimulus—1.4 million jobs—the jobs would cost an average of $586,428 a piece.
In February 2009, when President Obama signed the stimulus law the national unemployment rate was 8.2 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January 2011, the national unemployment rate was 9.0 percent.
1,500 Teachers Paid to Do Union Business While Missing Class
Does this seem right to anyone? I mean, anyone who isn't in a union. Even to union people this should be wrong. Why does a teacher make their entire salary to do only a small portion of their duties? And another teacher has to be paid their full salary to do those duties? Holy crap, what a mess. And it can all be laid at the feet of unions and democrats.
The State of New York is in dire straits financially. The State could be facing $50 billion in budget deficits in 2012. The $9 million that paying teachers not teach is only a drop in that bucket, but damn, you have to start somewhere. If the government of New York took all of these $9 and $10 million dollar wastes of tax dollars and added them up, they would probably be surprised what the total is.
It's the same on a National level. Our Country wastes more money on stupid bullshit every year than they can even count. Matter of fact, I doubt they do count it. There is no accountability at all, none, zip, nada. Of course, when you jump past the BILLIONS and into the TRILLIONS, it's a little more difficult to close that gap, but still, you have to start somewhere...
New York Post
In New York City's funny math, you get only one teacher for the price of two.
The Department of Education pays about 1,500 teachers for time they spend on union activities -- and pays other teachers to replace them in the classroom.
It's a sweetheart deal that costs taxpayers an extra $9 million a year to pay fill-ins for instructors who are sprung -- at full pay -- to carry out responsibilities for the United Federation of Teachers.
With Mayor Bloomberg calling for thousands of teacher layoffs to balance the 2012 budget, critics say it's time to halt the extravagant benefit.
"In these tight fiscal times, it defies common sense to pay two different people to do one job," said Dick Dadey, executive director of Citizens Union, a government watchdog. "It's a waste of money."
That $9 million would cover the salaries of 198 new teachers at the current annual $45,530 starting pay.
The DOE lets 40 experienced teachers collect top pay and fringe benefits, but work just one class period a day.
Under a contract agreement since 2003, the DOE excuses these veterans to work for the UFT -- currently 38 as district representatives and two as union vice presidents. The UFT pays them another salary, plus expenses.
English teacher Tom Dromgoole, for instance, collects top teacher pay, $100,049 a year, from the DOE for his slot at Leadership and Public Service HS in downtown Manhattan. But he is relieved for most of the day to serve as a UFT high school rep. The UFT supplements his salary by $50,461, records show.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Pigford vs. Glickman - An interesting tale...
I got this in an email a couple of days. I thought it was worth sharing. There is more than one way to buy an election...
In 1997, 400 African-American farmers sued the United States Department of Agriculture, alleging that they had been unfairly denied USDA loans due to racial discrimination during the period 1983 to 1997." The case was entitled "Pigford v. Glickman" and in 1999, the black farmers won their case. The government agreed to pay each of them as much as $50,000 to settle their claims.
But then on February 23, 2010, something shocking happened in relation to that original judgment: In total silence, the USDA agreed to release more funds to "Pigford". The amount was a staggering......$1.25 billion. This was because the original number of plaintiffs - 400 black farmers - had now.. swollen in a class action suit to include a total of 86,000 black farmers throughout America. There was only one teensy problem: The United States of America doesn't have 86,000 black farmers!!!!
According to accurate and totally verifiable Official USDA 2007 Census census data, the total number of black farmers throughout America is only 39,697. Hmmm... by the Official USDA 1992 Census data the US had only 18,816 black farmers!!
Oops!! Well, gosh - how on earth did 39,697 explode into the fraudulent 86,000 claims?? And how did $50,000 explode into $1.25 billion??
Well, folks, you'll just have to ask the woman who not only spearheaded this case because of her position in 1997 at the "Rural Development Leadership Network" but whose family received the highest single payout (approximately $13 million) from that action - Shirley Sherrod.
Oops again !!
Yes, folks. It appears that Ms. Sherrod had just unwittingly exposed herself as the perpetrator of one of the biggest fraud claims in the history of the United States - - a fraud enabled solely because she screamed racism at the government and cowed them into submission.
And it gets even more interesting. Ms. Sherrod has also exposed the person who aided and abetted her in this race fraud. As it turns out, the original judgment of "Pigford v. Glickman" in 1999 only applied to a total of about 16,000 black farmers. But...in 2008, a junior US Senator got a law passed to reopen the case and allow more black farmers to sue for funds. The Senator was Barack Hussein Obama.
Because this law was passed in dead silence, and because the woman responsible for spearheading it was an obscure USDA official, American taxpayers did not realize that they had just been forced in the midst of a worldwide recession to pay out more than $1.25 billion to settle a race claim.
But Andy Breitbart knew. And July 22, 2010, he cleverly laid a trap which Sherrod - - and Obama + his cronies - - stumbled headfirst into which has now resulted in the entire world discovering the existence of this corrupt financial judgment.
As for Ms. Sherrod?? Well, she's discovering too late that her cry of 'racism' to the media which was intended to throw the spotlight on Breitbart has instead thrown that spotlight on herself - and the huge corruption. Sherrod has vanished from public view.
But the perpetrator of that law passed in dead silence leading to unlawful claims & corruption..... is still trying to fool all of US. Go to Google and read for yourself "Pigford vs. Glickman", or "Pigford Obama".
As some have said, "The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their President."
http://frontpagemag.com/2011/01/10/obama-carries-on-the-pigford-fraud/
http://biggovernment.com/ghewson/2010/12/06/pigford-obamas-down-payment-on-the-2012-rural-south-vote/
There are many more ...Why haven't we heard more about this??
homeland security department plans dna screening?
The department of homeland security is planning to use a portable dna scanner to really check you out. Tel me, seriously, wtf does a persons dna have to do with getting on an airplane?
You can bet your ass they won't be running the dna of middle eastern men between the ages of 18 and 50. Instead the wil pester the hell out of elderly white ladies and young children. This is complete bullshit and a huge invasion of privacy.
Profiling is the surest, fastest, most effective way to determin if someone should be allowed to get on a plane. Not feeling them up or taking a saliva sample.
We are headed for a major revolt in this Country. I'm just not sure if it will be caused by all the offenses this government has already committed or a brand new one to come.
One thing you can count on, the offenses will keep on coming. With each new affront to our liberties, this gang of incompetents and thugs become further emboldened. Until we have that revolt and say enough is enough we will continue to lose the freedoms our Founding Fathers fought so hard to secure for us...
Dems Galvanized By Union Issue at DNC Meeting
Let's look at this piece by piece...
by Trish Turner - FoxNews
by Trish Turner - FoxNews
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis fired up Democrats at the party's national winter meeting in Washington on Saturday, as the feisty former California congresswoman chastised Republican governors in Wisconsin, Ohio, and across the country for not sitting down with union workers to negotiate a compromise on state budget crises.
Unions are always willing to negotiate themselves better benefits and wages, if you can call it a negotiation. Usually it is give in or we will go on strike. It's almost impossible to get unions to negotiate a DECREASE in their salary or benefits, even it means driving their employer out of business.
"We know many states are facing tough budget decisions. We know there is room for shared sacrifice. Shared," Solis stressed, adding, "We've seen our brothers and sisters in public employee unions willing, willing to give up their fair share...The governors in Wisconsin and Ohio aren't just asking workers to tighten their belts, they're demanding they give up their uniquely American rights as workers."
Once again, unions aren't usually, hardly ever in fact, willing to share a sacrifice. Any claims otherwise is a lie. In this case, the unions saw that Governor Walker had the votes to pass laws that will help him in his quest to fix the budget of his State, forcing a sacrifice. "Uniquely American rights as workers", they left out a word, UNION. Most of us in the real world don't have the backing of a bunch of union thugs who will hold our employer prisoner unless we get raises and benefits that make our companies unprofitable or worse.
It was the issue that moved attendees most at their annual gathering, with many sporting bright red "Stand Up for Worker's Rights" badges and toting supportive signs. As members cheered and shouted their support, it was clear this issue could be one that galvanizes the party base in the future should the state budget wars continue deeper into the 2012 election season.
It will only help the Republicans further if the democrats decide to make a bigger issue out of this. The vast majority of Americans are non-union and from the polls lately, most people don't have much sympathy for union workers in general and government union workers specifically. It's hard to sympathize with people who make almost twice as much as you for less work and at your expense.
One senior Democratic official told Fox, "Regardless of how Wisconsin plays out, what's clear from the display today is that (Wisconsin Governor) Scott Walker has handed us a gift. He took a deflated, fractured party coming out of 2010 and as evidenced by what we saw in this room, given us a unified, energized and motivated base."
"The fight is on!" Solis cheered, as the formal speeches wrapped and the low-key gathering devolved into something more closely resembling a pep rally, and the microphones were opened up to audience members. First up, Gerald McEntee, head of the American Federation of State, Country, and Municipal Employees union, the third largest union in the country.
"This battle in Wisconsin is not just for public sector workers," McEntee cried, "It's really a battle for human rights!" The longtime union president chided Wisconsin's governor, as he invited a willing audience's "boo's" and asked for support picketing the Republican during an appearance he is scheduled to make on a Sunday morning political talk show.
This is just stupid. It is a battle about unions and the fact that they are driving States into bankruptcy. It's not the fault of the unions though. democrats are so dependant on the union vote that they are willing to sacrifice the very budgets of their States to keep that vote. The unions have taken full advantage of the relationship. It has nothing to do with human rights...
"This is where we go when we elect Republicans to these powerful offices," McEntee warned a rapt crowd, as a parade of union officials, as well as, current and retired union workers from Michigan to Florida to New Mexico followed him at the mics, all with one focus: protect the right to collectively bargain. Some even compared the current union fight to the democratic struggles in the Middle East. The crowd cheered for each, as they approved a resolution of solidarity with union workers in Wisconsin and beyond.
This IS what you get when Republicans are in charge, a reality check. State budgets are based on real dollars, revenue that the State takes in. When you exceed that income, there is a problem. Some States are spending their entire budgets on union salaries, union pensions and entitlement programs. When you are a democrat in charge that is easy to get around, you just run a deficit and wait for the next Republican to come in and clean up your mess.
For these pompous, spoiled democrats and union thugs to compare what they are doing to what is going on in the middle east is just crazy. It's playing politics with the lives of real people. There are citizens of Libya laying dead in the street. They have been murdered by mercenaries and thugs. These democrats and union people have absolutely NO CLUE what the people of the Middle East are facing. When these smug assholes are experiencing a hardship other than sleeping on the hard floor in the Wisconsin Capitol building maybe they can talk, when they face being mowed down by machine gun fire they can compare themselves to unarmed civilians in Cairo or Tripoli. Until that time comes, it is an insult for them to compare themselves to people who face life and death every day.
Walker and a number of other GOP governors across the U.S. are moving to end this long-time union mainstay, as these officials contend that the practice shoots up the cost of doing business in their cash-strapped states. Walker, who was elected in 2010 in the GOP wave that swept the country, has refused to negotiate, saying the state is broke and that the voters chose him and other governors like him to get their states' fiscal houses back in order.
Back at the winter meeting, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, himself a former governor, praised the union workers, but it was Solis, the first Latina Cabinet secretary in U.S. history who hails from "a union household," who really marshaled the rank and file.
"These are our neighbors, our friends and family. They teach our kids...risk their lives to protect our friends and families, and all they're asking for is to be treated with dignity. All they're really asking for is an opportunity to sit down at the table. And that's what collective bargaining is all about." Through a standing ovation, Solis shouted again, "The fight is on!"
In the State of Wisconsin, the Department of Education says that two thirds of children read at a below average level. Hmmm, maybe "They teach or kids..." is a stretch...
Friday, February 25, 2011
felipe calderón talks a lot of shit...
calderon says United States cooperation in the mexican drug war is "notoriously insufficient".
If we were allowed to do this by ourselves it would be more than sufficient, but currently our enforcement agencies can't even carry guns in mexico.
calderon's government seems to be pretty insufficient themselves. He has supposedly been fighting this war since 2006 and doesn't appear to have done anything but make it worse. Since calderon took office in 2006, there have been more than 34,000 violent murders in his country. And in that period of time we have given mexico in excess of $1.5 BILLION DOLLARS to help fight the drug war.
It seems we have done more than our fair share.
I have a better idea. Why don't we use the next BILLION dollars to seal our border. Put a man about every 50 yards with authorization to shoot anything that moves. In a matter of weeks, we no longer have a problem. mexico will still be screwed, but until they fix the massive corruption in their country, they will always be screwed...
Our Combat Troops to get gay sensitivity training...
Our Combat troops are about to get trained in gay sensitivity. And it appears that this isn't something that can wait until they rotate back to the comforts of home. They will be receiving this training in the field.
You have to understand what exactly these men are being prepared for.
When I was in the Marine Corps in the early '80s there were gay men in the Military then as there are now. Don't ask, don't tell was in full swing, but we knew some of those serving with us were gay. While they were gay, they joined the Marine Corps for the same reason I did. They knew they would be required to keep their personal life to themselves and they joined anyway, because they are proud Americans and felt a need to serve their Country.
What our Military is going to be prepared for isn't that type of gay man. They are going to be prepared for those who are joining because they have been denied. They are going to be prepared for the guys you see in the gay pride parades with assless chaps and feather boas. These men will not join because they are proud Americans and feel a need to serve their Country. They will join because now they haven't been able to in the past.
What do you think this is going to do to our Military? Initially it will affect morale. Eventually it will lead to a drop in enlistment and finally it will lead to the end of our Military as we know it.
I fear for the future of our Country...
Taxes and Debt
Millions of honest hard working Americans are preparing their 2010 taxes. I started my taxes last weekend. I have always prepared my own taxes. I have this crazy notion that the average person should be able to prepare their own taxes. Crazy.
Anyway, I don't mind paying federal income taxes. We need good government services, mail, protection, strong defense, schools, etc. I do, however, hate paying taxes on my savings account. If you're lucky you might get 2 - 2.5% interest? I don't have a lot of money. I try to have no debt and believe planning for the future financially is important. Even the government wants us to have less debt and save more. It seems to me there is a disincentive to save. We get pitifully low interest rates and then they take 20 to 25% of the earnings. Why save?
Change gears: the federal debt on February 25, 2011 was $14,133,170,464,255.33. If you divide approximately 310,000,000 citizen's into this number it's about $45,576 for every man, women and child. I'm guessing illegal aliens aren't part of this number. The government adds about $4.11 billion per day in debt.
Since I can't wrap my mind around at number like $14 trillion, another way to look at it is the government borrows 40 cents on every dollar it spends. When you mail your taxes, 40% of the postal workers salary is borrowed, 40% of the clerk who processes passport applications is borrowed, 40% of your congressman and senator salaries is borrowed, 40% of the money to fund the war in Afghanistan is borrowed. Hey, I'm not picking on postal workers or clerks. That's not my point.
In my opinion this is not just obscene it is immoral. Where is the accountability? I freaking don't get it! What does the government do when it goes bankrupt? China? I'm curious of the 40% we borrow on every dollar spent, how much of that is loaned by China? I think Mandarin is the most spoken dialect. Maybe I will take a class or two. Just in case.
Enough of the whining. Next week I will have a profile on the firearm of the week. It will be cool.
Blessings yall, Big Mullet
Anyway, I don't mind paying federal income taxes. We need good government services, mail, protection, strong defense, schools, etc. I do, however, hate paying taxes on my savings account. If you're lucky you might get 2 - 2.5% interest? I don't have a lot of money. I try to have no debt and believe planning for the future financially is important. Even the government wants us to have less debt and save more. It seems to me there is a disincentive to save. We get pitifully low interest rates and then they take 20 to 25% of the earnings. Why save?
Change gears: the federal debt on February 25, 2011 was $14,133,170,464,255.33. If you divide approximately 310,000,000 citizen's into this number it's about $45,576 for every man, women and child. I'm guessing illegal aliens aren't part of this number. The government adds about $4.11 billion per day in debt.
Since I can't wrap my mind around at number like $14 trillion, another way to look at it is the government borrows 40 cents on every dollar it spends. When you mail your taxes, 40% of the postal workers salary is borrowed, 40% of the clerk who processes passport applications is borrowed, 40% of your congressman and senator salaries is borrowed, 40% of the money to fund the war in Afghanistan is borrowed. Hey, I'm not picking on postal workers or clerks. That's not my point.
In my opinion this is not just obscene it is immoral. Where is the accountability? I freaking don't get it! What does the government do when it goes bankrupt? China? I'm curious of the 40% we borrow on every dollar spent, how much of that is loaned by China? I think Mandarin is the most spoken dialect. Maybe I will take a class or two. Just in case.
Enough of the whining. Next week I will have a profile on the firearm of the week. It will be cool.
Blessings yall, Big Mullet
