Today, Joe Biden was confronted by a citizen at Kopp's Custard Shop in Milwaukee who dared . . . express an opinion on the fiscal state of the country by asking the Veep to lower our taxes. Biden's reply was a testy "Say something nice for a change instead of being such as smartass . . ."
What a jerk. Seems like any time a citizen says anything real, they get marginalized or discounted by our elected officials. When citizens express an opinion that is other than adulation for our elected officials, they are turned into ogres. This happened with last Summer's Town Hall meetings, when our Congressmen stopped having Town Hall meetings because they did not want to hear from us. And, it is happening to the Tea Party activists. They are labeled as racists or zenophobes by our leaders instead of taken seriously, and listened to, as any citizen should be. Our politicians simply do not want any lip from us.
This is the height of arrogance. And, again, it exhibits the tin ears that this Administration has for feedback from the populace. Whenever there is something said that they don't want to hear, they ignore it, they discount it and they seek a way to try to de-legitimize it. Same pattern, over and over again. (This is especially true with our President, but that's another blog post altogether.)
Once again . . . please vote for the challenger, whatever the party. In practice, this will mean voting GOP a lot of the time, but so be it. We need to remove from office as many incumbents as possible. And, send a very strong message that these people cocooned in Washington work for us . . . not the other way around.
Woldy
Monday, June 28, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Thank you Barney Frank and Chris Dodd
The two legislators who are most culpable for NOT regulating Fannie and Freddie more closely are Barney and Chris. Thankfully, Chris is retiring. Please, citizens of Massachusetts, its time for Barney to retire, too.
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history.
For more on this depressing story, click and paste the whole story.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=an_hcY9YaJas&pos=10
June 14 (Bloomberg) -- The cost of fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the mortgage companies that last year bought or guaranteed three-quarters of all U.S. home loans, will be at least $160 billion and could grow to as much as $1 trillion after the biggest bailout in American history.
For more on this depressing story, click and paste the whole story.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=an_hcY9YaJas&pos=10
Friday, June 11, 2010
Quote on Obama Oil Spill Response
From an article on politico.com . . .
"Every other business doing business in the U.S. has to say: What happens when the government decides to come after me? They expect with Chavez in Venezuela, they have to account for that risk, but if the U.S. does it, that just reduces the incentive to invest in the United States,” Frank said. “The damage the administration is doing to the U.S. economy by playing these kinds of games is just appalling.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38406_Page2.html#ixzz0qa9FS9Io
"Every other business doing business in the U.S. has to say: What happens when the government decides to come after me? They expect with Chavez in Venezuela, they have to account for that risk, but if the U.S. does it, that just reduces the incentive to invest in the United States,” Frank said. “The damage the administration is doing to the U.S. economy by playing these kinds of games is just appalling.”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38406_Page2.html#ixzz0qa9FS9Io
We Live in Pelosi-Land
If you are still on the fence about whether or not to vote against the incumbent dimwits running our national government, here are a couple quotes from this week's news:
1. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Today she decided that the U.S. court system is not capable of handling matters related to the inevitable onslaught of lawsuits coming BP's way. It is Speaker Pelosi's studied opinion that BP must . . . MUST . . . stop paying dividends to its shareholders immediately. Until such time that . . . well, until Speaker Pelosi thinks it is okay. When she gives the thumbs-up (and Hell actually does freeze over, due to the inevitable global cooling wave that is coming our way - - just wait, you’ll see), then BP can pay dividends. Or was it, until those individuals hurt by the oil spill in the Gulf start getting some dollars from BP . . . either way, Speaker Pelosi will let us know and then BP can start paying dividends. Because our court system is obviously not up to the task of sorting out legal rights and issues.
2. President Obama (only reason I didn't put this one first is out of respect for the President) stating that he is looking for some "ass to kick" about this whole oil spill thing going on down there in the Gulf. Man, is he pissed off. And, he is going to kick some "ass". I think it is really cool for the President to be talking about kicking some ass. When was the last time we had a President who would say such things? I mean, it is clear that somebody has to pay and Obama is the Chief Asskicker, or the Asskicker in Chief (whichever) so he is going to administer the kicking.
My only question is . . . how is he going to reach his butt with his own foot? Because clearly he should start with his own ass. For his instinctive desire to point fingers, assign blame and acting (as in performing for an audience), rather than actually doing the job we elected him for. Today’s show includes a berating of the Chairman of BP . . . as if that is going to solve anything. But, it looks oh so good to his audience to be chewing out some greedy corporate type. Obama really did learn a lot from fellow Chicagoan Oprah. He puts on a heck of a show.
1. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Today she decided that the U.S. court system is not capable of handling matters related to the inevitable onslaught of lawsuits coming BP's way. It is Speaker Pelosi's studied opinion that BP must . . . MUST . . . stop paying dividends to its shareholders immediately. Until such time that . . . well, until Speaker Pelosi thinks it is okay. When she gives the thumbs-up (and Hell actually does freeze over, due to the inevitable global cooling wave that is coming our way - - just wait, you’ll see), then BP can pay dividends. Or was it, until those individuals hurt by the oil spill in the Gulf start getting some dollars from BP . . . either way, Speaker Pelosi will let us know and then BP can start paying dividends. Because our court system is obviously not up to the task of sorting out legal rights and issues.
2. President Obama (only reason I didn't put this one first is out of respect for the President) stating that he is looking for some "ass to kick" about this whole oil spill thing going on down there in the Gulf. Man, is he pissed off. And, he is going to kick some "ass". I think it is really cool for the President to be talking about kicking some ass. When was the last time we had a President who would say such things? I mean, it is clear that somebody has to pay and Obama is the Chief Asskicker, or the Asskicker in Chief (whichever) so he is going to administer the kicking.
My only question is . . . how is he going to reach his butt with his own foot? Because clearly he should start with his own ass. For his instinctive desire to point fingers, assign blame and acting (as in performing for an audience), rather than actually doing the job we elected him for. Today’s show includes a berating of the Chairman of BP . . . as if that is going to solve anything. But, it looks oh so good to his audience to be chewing out some greedy corporate type. Obama really did learn a lot from fellow Chicagoan Oprah. He puts on a heck of a show.
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