Football and Politics

Ok, here we are, the Monday after the playoffs and all people are talking about is how the Falcons pulled it out in the last seconds of the game. Or they are talking about the tweet Tebow's brother sent out about "am I the only one happy that Denver lost?" big whoop.
In the mean time, gas is still above $3.25 a gallon, a lot more in some places and the national debt is growing faster than ever. The president is on the radio and tv today trying to blame the republicans again for all the problems wrong in the world. Never mind the fact, the democrats have had the White house and the Senate for the past four years.
The politicians continue with the same ole stuff, blame each other for everything. They never stand up and just say, "I'm sorry we miscalculated, we are going to do what ever we can to fix it." There is just to many people in Washington trying to protect the paycheck that is four times the median wage in the US. Football players at least go out and give 100% for their money, and we get to see what they do in the light of day. Where the politician hides in the back room making deals, runs to blame the other guy and refuses to answer a question honestly. Remember this, "we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it'." How well would that work anywhere else?
How did we ever get to the point where $3.00 a gallon a gas seems normal. When Blame it on Bush left office, the gas price was down to $1.85 in most places. Obama promised to do something to curb the US taste for oil, go green, well all he did was take more spending money from the working class to survive. We have grown so use to this, that when the gas comes down to $3.10 or $3.05 people rush to the station like this is incredible, buy it now before it goes back up. It all a matter of conditioning. Just like a town expects a team to loose or win, if something happens out of the ordinary, there is an excitement or let down. People have seem to lost this excitement with things that matter.
Were I am going with this? This is the new world, the world where no one cares anymore about Washington is doing, political talk radio is dying and people are throwing up there hands and saying you win, we will do what we have to do to get by. They turn to sports, to TV, to whatever to keep from thinking about the things that really matter. For that point, don't think most people don't even know what really matters anymore. They know that gas prices are way to high, they don't know why, but they see the price. They know it cost more at the grocery store and at the pharmacy, but they don't know why, but they pay the price, because that is just what it cost.
The press is quick to cover the school shootings and people are outraged that a bunch of kids they don't know were killed. But these same people are just as outraged when an official at the stadium makes a bad call and it their team looses. The sad part about this is, they will stay more pissed off at the ref, than the fact the same government that promises to do something about the school shooting is the same government that failed to protect it's own people at the embassy in Benghazi. They don't see the same outrage when, our dollar gets weaker and weaker around the world and that China and Russia arn't scared to stand up to our president, just like Baltimore wasn't scared to stand up to Peyton Manning. We keep playing this way and it will probably come down to overtime and sudden death takes on an entire new meaning.
So here we are, Football playoff season, the tax season is coming and the the people will want their refunds. Fans of the ball games of the ones that lost, walk around depressed saying maybe next year, in the mean time we all loose at the tax office and never look for a better season next year.
Think things will ever change? Not unless we fire the head coach (Obama) his assistants (Biden, Reid and Pelosi) and get rid of the entire staff (senate and congress) and go for better picks in the upcoming draft.
Good luck to us all on a better season next year.

Obama will Win White House in 2012

The Republican establishment is making sure that Obama stays in office for another four years. With the promotion of Mitt Romney and the denigration of any of the contenders, especially Newt Gingrich, they have all but guaranteed Obama a victory. The Democrat machine is already planning the new inauguration party and laughing at Mitt Romney out loud.
The general public has no say in the process anymore, as soon as their voices are heard, they are squashed by million of dollars of negative advertising against their choice. Almost in unison, the press chimes in with the party leaders to increase the attacks on the candidate, which in turn, the candidate would have to spend money, time and effort to defend themselves. This has been evident through out this campaign season; when Herman Cain made it to the top of the polls, accusations of infidelity surfaced that was never substantiated and seem to disappear when he dropped out of the race, then when Newt Gingrich started making headlines the same thing, even though he won South Carolina the negative ads ran in Florida elimanated any chance of a repeat. Newt was out spent nearly 16 to 1 or more, and even with the fact that Newt actually won more counties, that was never highlited, Mitt won the more populated counties where the money for negative ads were spent.
Now, fast forward to this summer and fall, Romney gets nomination and has to debate Obama for White House. The democrats will ads running constantly about Romney not paying his fair share of Taxes, Mitt only paid 15% tax while he hid millions in Swiss and Camen bank accounts. They will have ads using his own words, "I'm not worried about the poor", or "I like firing people" even if it taken out of context, it won't matter. The democrats will have nearly a billion dollars to spend and when the advertising barage starts it will be relentless and ruthless.
The republican establishment looks to have thrown in the towel against Obama by selecting Mitt to be their man. They seem to be looking past this election and they think that there is no one that can beat Obama, any negative ads will be called racist and with Mitt as a sacrifical lamb this year, they will be able to look for another canidate for 2016, if the United States can last that long under the rule of the democrats and Leader of the Czars, Obama the Great.
The conservatives and general republican public need stand up to the machine if they expect to have any chance of beating Obama in the upcoming election. There may be hope, but unless people with like minds stand together, you get what they want you to have.

President out of Ideas for jobs

I guess you have seen all the reports now, the President is due to announce his lastest economic recovery plan next week. The majority of the reports I have seen today is more about the conflict with the NFL season start, than Obama's next anouncement. It's pretty sad really, when people have lost so much faith in the leadership of the President, that his adivisors have to even consider this. More so, that Obama himself, is saying that he will wrap it up before the game starts, sad, so sad.
Could you image football pre empting Richard Nixon or Ronald Regan, how about Bill Clinton? People had respect for the office back then, now days it seems the president is treated more like a celeberty than the leader of the free world. A president that has lost touch with the working class and lost respect among the same folks, that makes for a sad situation.
Is it really a policy that can change the current economic condition or is it something a lot deeper in the American philosophy. Maybe President Obama can't do anything and never could, the the fact is that people look to him for leadership, which is hard to find. He can't even members of his own party to go along with most of what he suggest.
I think that what we will get next week will be more of the same that we have heard, only this time he promises it will work, if only the GOP will get out of the way.
I think that he even has a hard time really believing that he really has an answer at this point. It's job protection time and he knows that he is running out of chances to make a difference.
The best thing he could do is announce that the government is going to get out of the way in the eviromental and permits department and allow business to move forward and tax cuts for any new employee added. We will see?

The Time for Action is Now

Some one has to step forward and put an end to the political warfare. The left argues with the right, the right argues with the left and the people are left somewhere in between. Spending is out of control and there is no end in sight. The political class will never do what is necessary to curb this. They are dependent on special interest to meet their desires of life long political power.
What we need is some independent thinkers that are not subjected to the whims of the political parties, left or right. We need business men and women that know what a true budget is, how to control one and willing to make the cuts no matter who it pisses off. People that have no interest in being in politics for the rest of their lives and go to DC to serve the people.
We need people that can say to the IRS, "Your time is done." Get rid of the 8000plus pages of tax codes, take the power from the IRS that only they have; your guilty until proven innocent. The IRS has the right to seize your bank account, put you in prison and deprive you of liberty and justice. If the IRS is proven wrong, they have no legal obligation to reimburse you for the time and money spent to prove it. It is a powerful system that is way to over due to be disbanded and free the American people from it's grip on society.
I don't care what we go to, the FairTax would be the best alternative, at least everyone pays, drug dealers, illegals and those out there that hide income. I would even go along with a FlatTax if I thought it could be done without still having to file papers with IRS. At least the FairTax would eliminate that part. No April the 15th to worry about anymore.
I am a small businessman that averages 8hrs a month dealing with the paperwork, and another 40hrs at the end of the year filing papers with my CPA. I have to pay a CPA to tell me how much I have to pay the IRS. What sense on any level does that make?
The only way we are going to get rid of the IRS is to get rid of the life long political class in Washington and replace them with people that have a brain and a heart. People truly dedicated to fixing the government, not just following the parties desires to keep the special interest satisfied.
Your opinions are welcome.

Do we need a New Health Care Bill

With all the talk of the Democrat's Health Care Reform bill and the Obama signature making it law, do we another health care bill.

In a word, yes. The health care bill in its present form is a terrible bill. The implications of this bill will not even be felt until after President Obama is out of office. The economical disaster that awaits us will be so wide spread that the Great Depression will look like a walk in the park.
The latest news to come out in the press is that the government is looking at value added Tax. This is a true economic killing Tax. This will hit the working class with a vengeance. The tax will be added on top of the already high taxes we pay at our local stores. We already pay, states sales tax, gasoline taxes and many local splost taxes (special local option sale tax).
If the government was truly serious about getting the economy back on track there is two things that they should do immediately.
1. Scrap the current health care reform bill
We need a bill that encourages competition from insurance companies, go to a looser pays lawsuit system (this would eliminate thousands of frivolous lawsuits each year helping to reduce insurance cost. We also need a system that allows a patient to get a second pinon on a medical issue, paid by insurance companies, that if both doctors are in agreement to the diagnoses, the insurance would be required to pay. We need to be able to purchase the type of insurance we need, without a one size fits all policy, if you don't pregnancy insurance because you don't need it, then why have to pay for it, the same for mental illness and other things are mandated.
 2. Replace the current income tax system with the fair tax. This is not a value added tax, but a replacement for the federal income tax, social security tax and each person would be paid their entire paycheck on payday. If you want more information on the fair tax click here.
The only way to dig ourselves out of the financial hole the country is in is to make the politician quit spending money the country doesn't have. As for creating revenue for the country, the fair tax is simple the best economic vehicle to jump start all aspects of the economic engine that runs this country.
Please let your congress people know that we can't afford this health care bill and that more taxes are not the answer.