Beans & Franks

At a recent Townhall meeting held by the President, a woman in the audience spoke up:

"I am a chief financial officer for a veteran service organization here in Washington. I'm also a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran and I'm one of your so-known middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for and am deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I've been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I'm one of those people and I'm waiting, sir. I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet. And I thought I would feel it in some small measure. I have two children in private school and the financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family. My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives but quite frankly, it's starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we're headed again. Quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly. Is this my new reality?"

 

Looking at the way Obama has administrated things this year and 9 months, everything is exactly as planned.  Meanwhile, the Obamas are living high on the hog, are they not, traveling all over the world?  A vacation every other month?  Here's what Obama's answer was.

 

OBAMA:  The life you described, one of responsibility, looking after your family, contributing back to your community, that's what we want to reward.  Now, as I said before, times are tough for everybody right now.  So I understand your frustration.  There are a whole host of things that we've put in place that do make your life better, so my goal here is not to try to convince you that everything's where it needs to be.  It's not.  That's why I ran for president, but what I am saying is is that we're moving in the right direction.

 

I say, that's his answer?  That's why he ran for president, to put everything where it's not supposed to be?  So we middle class Americans are the ones with the responsibility of working and paying the tax load of the country so Obama's programs will have the cash to "spread the wealth around"?

 

Well i say, Obama studied Marx, and now he are one................

Biker Steals Lion's Lunch

A Harley biker is riding by the zoo in Washington , DC when he sees a little girl leaning into the lion's cage.

Suddenly, the lion grabs her by the cuff of her jacket and tries to pull her inside to slaughter her, under the eyes of her screaming parents. The biker jumps off his Harley, runs to the cage and hits the lion square on the nose with a powerful punch.

Whimpering from the pain the lion jumps back letting go of the girl, and the biker brings her to her terrified parents, who thank him endlessly.

A reporter has watched the whole event. The reporter addressing the Harley rider says, 'Sir, this was the most gallant and brave thing I've seen a man do in my whole life.' The Harley rider replies, 'Why, it was nothing, really, the lion was behind bars. I just saw this little kid in danger and acted as I felt right.'

The reporter says, 'Well, I'll make sure this won't go unnoticed. I'm a journalist, and tomorrow's paper will have this story on the front page...So, what do you do for a living and what political affiliation do you have?'

The biker replies, 'I'm a U.S. Marine and a Republican.' The journalist leaves.

The following morning the biker buys the paper to see news of his actions, and reads, on the front page:

U.S. MARINE
ASSAULTS AFRICAN IMMIGRANT
AND STEALS HIS LUNCH

That pretty much sums up the media's approach to the news these days.

Warrior Home to Rest

Had to go in to the hospital this am for a couple cases. Passed by the church of one of the Seal Team 6's funeral. U shld have seen, flags allover the intersection by the church. Huge biker gathering showing honor. Law enforcement cars from long distance towns & cities crowded the curbs.Local fire, police, and many other govt agencies' vehicles lined the closed streets around the church, forming the cavalcade that would process in the long drive to the cemetary. It invoked pride, sadness, & honor as i took note. Very bittersweet it was. My hometown, home to an ST6 warrior. A bin Laden killer. Now home for final rest.

Federal Budget 101

Federal Budget 101
The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:

 *   U.S. income: $2,170,000,000,000
 *   Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
 *   New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
 *   National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
 *   Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)

It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to. Let's remove eight zeros from these numbers and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family, shall we?

 *   Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
 *   Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
 *   Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500
 *   Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
 *   Amount cut from the budget: $385

So in effect last month Congress, or in this example the Jones family, sat down at the kitchen table and agreed to cut $385 from its annual budget. 


What family would cut $385 of spending in order to solve $16,500 in deficit spending?

It is a start, although hardly a solution..

Now after years of this, the Jones family has $142,710 of debt on its credit card (which is the equivalent of the national debt).

You would think the Jones family would recognize and address this situation, but it does not. 


Neither does Congress.

The root of the debt problem is that the voters typically do not send people to Congress to save money. They are sent there to bring home the bacon to their own home state.

To effect budget change, we need to change the job description and give Congress new marching orders.

It is awfully hard (but not impossible) to reverse course and tell the government to stop borrowing money from our children and spending it now.

In effect, what we have is a reverse mortgage on the country. The problem is that the voters have become addicted to the money. Moreover, the American voters are still in the denial stage, and do not want to face the possibility of going into rehab.

Same old pill bottle of lies deceit and control

We accept double-dealng at govt levels, & we've lost our capacity to get angry when decisions arent based on moral truth, but political expediency.  Modern political dialogue concerns itself largely with false image-making, rather than with legitimate debate over differing viewpoints.  i.e. the Vice Plagiarist naming Tea Party free men "terrorists". Wonder if we haven't reached one of those moments in time when the stakes are much too high for this kind of middle-aged juvenile delinquency. It's the same old bargain-basement politics--"We'll do everything the other fellow's been doing, only we'll do it cheaper and better." From your liberal sales department. Public officials are elected primarily for one purpose--to solve public problems. Liberal/Communists take office to create problems and tax us to solve those problems.  You and I have the capacity for self-government.  You and I have the dignity and the ability and the God-given freedom to make our own decisions.  You and I have the capacity and the God-given freedom to plan our own lives and to control our own destiny. Should we unquestioningly follow others who pass problems along to the Federal government, abdicating their personal and local responsibility?  If so, then we should close our eyes, bend over, and welcome the tax and spend reaming that is due a people who abdicate their freedom to those who wish to strip every last shirt from every last back of every last citizen. Because he who strips the shirt, knows those who are hungry and cold will always come back to be fed and clothed by the ones who are the very ones who strip the shirts & freedoms from the blind.
The present administration's approach to our deteriorating business climate is always another pill out of the same old bottle.  Build another bureau, add another tax, and put the unemployed on the public payroll.  Control of edcation should remain,as possible, at the level of the local school boards and unwanted unification should not be imposed from above.  The only choice we have: up or down-up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent w/law&order, or down, to the deadly dullness of totalitarianism.

Uncle Joe Stalin

Story goes that Joseph Stalin, past tyrant, socialist, Soviet King, etc..etc.., was meeting with his henchmen (aka Czars) one day.  Stalin was holding a chicken, and began plucking feathers from the chicken.  Of course the chicken screamed, cackled, and revolted against this pain of having its feather coat plucked.  Stalin held on tightly, continued plucking, and when every last feather was plucked, Stalin let the chicken down on the ground.  

The chicken ran around the yard yelling and cackling more and more from having endured this horrifically painful happening.  Stalin reached into his pants pocket and pulled out some grain.  Stalin then knelt down and held out his hand with the grain.  The chicken noticed the grain in Stalin's hand, walked over and began to eat the grain from Stalin's hand.

Stalin stood looking at his henchmen saying, "You see, you can take the very clothes off the back of people, but, if you feed them, they'll come eating out of your hand."

Original post Aug 2010 while Nancy Peloosi still had the balls by the….

THIS JUST IN...................BREAKING!!! Washington, D.C. has always been known as the crime capitol of America........(among other capitol labels).

The capitol area has been segmented to show areas of statistically higher crime in D.C. The neighborhood with the highest crime rate: . . . . . . . THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

That's right ladies and gentlemen. One of the "neighborhoods" while entrusted with making law for our country, it remains above the law so that by percentage, it's members carry the immaculate distinction of having the overall highest crime rate.

If you wish, you may also interpret this finding as evidence of the highest crime riddled neighborhood per capita in the entire country!!

Source of this report: the public record

This message may just self-destruct if things remain status quo

Are you considering electing a conservative candidate with an unwavering commitment to the conservative principles upon which this nation was founded?  A limited government message is resonating with voters.  Americans are tired of the overspending, the excessive taxation, the government takeovers of private industry, the bailouts, and the use of earmarks to bribe politicians... and they are ready to let their voices be heard on Election Day. Are you concerned casually or severely, that your way of living may just all but disappear in just 4 months?  


Have you any money saved away, literally, when the bank czar says all federal banks have to send in their stashes so Washington can spend it on whatever?  It could be that money of yours in the bank could just be called in by Washington and you wouldn't have anything to say about it.  Because it would be by "executive order." 


Have you stopped long enough to listen between the lies and rhetoric spewed by liberals in Washington?........ just asking....... After all, it's their money that you send them every payday.  


According to liberal Washington, you should just send in your tax money and shut up about it; don't ask where it is being spent......... just saying..........

Townhall Meeting Sept 2010: Franks & Beans

Original date Sept 2010:

At a recent Townhall meeting held by the President, a woman in the audience spoke up:

"I am a chief financial officer for a veteran service organization here in Washington. I'm also a mother. I'm a wife. I'm an American veteran and I'm one of your so-known middle class Americans. And quite frankly, I'm exhausted. Exhausted of defending you, defending your administration, defending the mantle of change that I voted for and am deeply disappointed with where we are right now. I've been told that I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class. I'm one of those people and I'm waiting, sir. I'm waiting. I don't feel it yet. And I thought I would feel it in some small measure. I have two children in private school and the financial recession has taken an enormous toll on my family. My husband and I have joked for years that we thought we were well beyond the hot dogs and beans era of our lives but quite frankly, it's starting to knock on our door and ring true that that might be where we're headed again. Quite frankly, Mr. President, I need you to answer this honestly. Is this my new reality?"

Looking at the way Obama has administrated things this year and 9 months, everything is exactly as planned.  Meanwhile, the Obamas are living high on the hog, are they not, traveling all over the world?  A vacation every other month?  Here's what Obama's answer was.

OBAMA:  The life you described, one of responsibility, looking after your family, contributing back to your community, that's what we want to reward.  Now, as I said before, times are tough for everybody right now.  So I understand your frustration.  There are a whole host of things that we've put in place that do make your life better, so my goal here is not to try to convince you that everything's where it needs to be.  It's not.  That's why I ran for president, but what I am saying is is that we're moving in the right direction.

I say, that's his answer?  That's why he ran for president, to put everything where it's not supposed to be?  So we middle class Americans are the ones with the responsibility of working and paying the tax load of the country so Obama's programs will have the cash to "spread the wealth around"?

Well i say, Obama studied Marx, and now he are one................

Gov funded abortions

Oh and abortions; government funded abortions will be so easy to get.  

Your mom and dad aren't abortionists, otherwise you'd be nowhere.

Normalcy Bias

If you hear the term normalcy bias in the next year or two, remember what you read here. Normalcy bias is the mindset that since a disaster never has occurred that it never will occur. It also results in the inability of people to cope with a disaster once it occurs. People with a normalcy bias downplay a serious event and have difficulties reacting to something they have not experienced before. People also tend to interpret warnings in the most optimistic way possible, seizing on ambiguities to infer a less serious situation. In other words, folks blow off warnings of something bad is about to happen, and say "that won't happen here, or it's not that bad". Thousands of people refused to evacuate in New Orleans ahead of Katrina. We now see the fate of that choice in hindsight. 

Ok, you're saying "why this now, tonight?" 

A financial disaster is heading our way.  Countries that historically use the US dollar for guaranteeing debt, and monetary exchange, are dropping the dollar from their currency reserves.  Example: country A holds printed US currency in their mattress at home when we borrow their money to produce our goods here in the US.  The US dollar is so weak in value that countries like country A are sending back their mattress held US currency and asking for their money back.  The US dollar being weak, isn't equaling the trade value back to country A whose currency is worth more than a US dollar bill.

That's what's known as US foreign debt.  The US foreign debt is more than our country can afford to pay in interest alone, notwithstanding our dollar not being worth enough to buy even a pack of gum.  

That only means that inflation will hit here like nothing ever seen.  How do you like $6/gallon gas, $5/loaf bread, and on.  

Why you ask will those kinds of prices happen?  Because your dear Uncle in Washington will print more and more dollars to stimulate the economy. We print more because our neighbors in Europe and Asia don't want our worthless money.

When more dollars are put in peoples' pockets, there's more to spend, when there's more to spend, more and more products, goods, and services are purchased.  And of course you pay taxes on purchases, so the more dollars in the stream with which to buy stuff, more tax revenue makes it up to Washington.

When more and more is purchased, the entrepreneurs, shop owners, gas station owners, grocery stores, clothing stores, will see the increase in purchases/demand and begin to raise prices; call it greed or opportunistic profit seeking.

This will drive down supply levels, less bread on the shelves, less gasoline in the ground tanks at the pump, less toilet paper on the shelves; all of this means the guy in the boss' chair will raise his prices because there is more of you out there with more of that printed money.  That's what inflation is.  High demand, less supply, big profits for the boss (at the store and in Washington).

It's not the store owner/gas station guy/bread bakers' collective fault.  It's our dear Uncle Sam's fault, he just prints more and more money, and that gives more and more people the opportunity to beat a path to the store shelf/gas pump etc.. etc…

One big thing these days: cell phones.  Why do you think the prices of cell phones haven't come down that much?  There's more money in the stream with which to buy a new cell phone.  Even on ebay, a used 10 year old piece of hardware/cell phone, will bid up to nearly $100 because people have the money to spend. More money has been printed, it's out there.  The technology of a 10 year old cell phone isn't worth the plastic holding it together, but, a pack of dudes with enough money will bid-war that phone up to what you can go to the retail corner cell phone store and buy a 2010 model.  A new cell phone without a contract: $400 at the store.  Why?  Cause people have the money, it has been printed and ready to spend.  Market pressure will send that $400 phone up to $500 'cause there's more printed money in the stream.  Folks will pay it because the money was printed.  Where did they get that new printed money?  From their new boss at their new job, 'cause their boss can borrow that new printed money to open a new business and hire folks to pay a wage to sell that high priced/inflated thing that he sells.  You never saw so many shoe stores, dress shops, baby stores, burger joints, restaurants, car lots, gadget stores and on and on.  

The wheels on the bus go round and round; and folks on the bus are poppin' bubbles, chompin' burger meals, suckin' down them sodas and shakes, and textin' and talkin' on them cell phones!  Ah life is good as so many of you post in fb so much!!

The bus is headed for the cliff, but, that's ok, life is good, good times, kid's got toys in his burger meal, text messages firing a million a minute, everybody is strapped in their bus seat rockin' along!  We're havin' too good a time to notice the road runs right off the cliff!….. oh yeah, who's drivin' anyway? 

But you knew all of this from college finance and economics classes didn't you?  Remember those classes you took that told you all of this?  

More people have college degrees in the last 30 years than the last generation as a whole.  BS and Master's degrees are commonplace.  Yet with that many people who took finance and econ classes, you would think that these educated ones, that's you and me, would know this was coming over the horizon.  

So, when these debtor countries demand their currency back from US (us) and send our dollars back home to us, we're left with a bunch of one dollar bills that won't even buy a pack of gum; it'll take probably $3 for a pack of gum and the prices of the rest of our goods will increase as explained above.  

So then what happens?  The US government will "call in" a whole bunch of one dollar bills from the banks, like billions.  Why?  Because the government has created so many bureaucratic services run by/for/and of the government.  Like a spider that mutates in growing hundreds of arms and legs.  

Uncle Sam can't write IOU's to it's employees in all of those bureaucracies, so Uncle Sam comes and gets your money from yours/my savings and checking accounts.  There will literally be less money in your local bank holding your paycheck funds, and then you can't buy as much stuff as you did last month.

Then what you say?  Well with less money for us to spend on stuff, the store shelves will stay full, the gas in ground tanks will stay full, cell phones will stay on the shelves; nobody will be buying anything because Uncle Sam just raided our bank accounts.  How you say?  It's the government's money anyway, says so right there on the front of the $1/$5/$10/$20 and so on.  Federal Reserve Note; not Horn's reserve note, Smith's reserve note, Gonzalez' reserve note, Williams'/Jones/ and on and on.  Uncle Sam has bills to pay too, since it's his anyway, whatcha gonna do when they come for you?

Then what you say?  We skip a recession and go straight to a depression.  Depression: depressed state of value on goods and services to the point of nobody making any profits. (my connotation) 

Then what you say?  Those stores up there, they're gonna close.  Nobody's buying anything cause their money was taken away by Uncle Sam, so the store owners' can't feed their families. We can't get bread and milk for cereal and toast.  We can't buy those new shoes for the kids.  Cell phone broken?  Store's closed.  Pull in to your favorite gas pump: "OUT OF SERVICE".  

Folks will get mad then, there's a whole lot more folks to get mad today than in 1930; and a whole lot more folks own big guns too nowadays.  What then?  Folks will take matters into their own hands; Bubba and Cletus gonna head to the "closed" gas station to get some bread and milk, gonna be carrying their big guns. This little scene will repeat all over the country.

What then you say?  Guess who will be coming for you??  Right, dear old Uncle Sam!!  The government will have us right where they want us.  The government in office today that is.  President Obama will declare martial law.  Your neighbor National Guardsman will go to work riding around in military trucks arresting your other neighbors for, "toting their big guns to the closed gas station for bread and milk."  

Don't think so, why?  You studied all of this in high school and college where other countries had this happen with a dictator in the big chair.  

It's coming here to a soon closed gas station near you.  

You see, President Obama is a Marxist socialist, aka Democrat.  I didn't make it up, he studied these subjects in school.  Said so in his book.  Oh and by the way, the birth certificate records guy in Kenya told someone who told someone, that Barack H. Obama was born in a Kenyan hospital and this records guy certified Obama's birth certificate at work one day after Barack was born.

Back to US (us).  Totalitarian control is what the current government wants for US.  He is hoping you've been distracted enough by China, North Korea, India, Britain, France, Germany, and now Egypt so that you don't hear the economics reports coming out of conservative think tanks, that have exposed the real economic situation of the US.

Sorry to ruin your 2011 start up, but, I didn't do it.  If we see the elections of 2012 without much of the pictures explained above, I will be very surprised.

Better think long about keeping your payday in your mattress instead of down the street, by the end of this year or so.  But hey, what do I know, I'm just a college grad.  You probably have enough normalcy bias to convince yourself it's all gonna be okay anyway!!

                                                                              I'm just sayin'………………….

21 Economic Models Explained

SOCIALISM You have 2 cows. You give one to your neighbour. 
COMMUNISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and gives you some milk. FASCISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and sells you some milk. NAZISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both and shoots you. BUREAUCRATISM You have 2 cows. The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away. 

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income. 
SURREALISM You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons. 
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyze why the cow has dropped dead. 

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND VENTURE CAPITALISM You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows. The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company. The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows. No balance sheet provided with the release. The public then buys your bull. 

A FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike, organize a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows. 
A JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called ‘Cowkimon’ and market it worldwide. A GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves. 

AN ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows, but you don’t know where they are. You decide to have lunch. A RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You count them and learn you have five cows. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. You count them again and learn you have 2 cows. You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka. 
A SWISS CORPORATION You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you. You charge the owners for storing them. 

A CHINESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity. You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation. 
AN INDIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You worship them. 
A BRITISH CORPORATION You have two cows. Both are mad. 

AN IRAQI CORPORATION Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No-one believes you, so they bomb the crap out of you and invade your country. You still have no cows, but at least you are now a Democracy. 
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. Business seems pretty good. You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate. 
A NEW ZEALAND CORPORATION You have two cows. The one on the left looks very attractive.

$50 lesson

via chain email:

I recently asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up. S he said she wanted to be President some day.  Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there.  I asked her, 'If you were President, what would be the first thing you would do?'

She replied, 'I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people.'

Her parents beamed with pride.

'Wow... what a worthy goal.' I told her,  'But you don't have to wait until you're President to do that.  You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull weeds, and sweep my yard, and I'll pay you $50.  Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the

$50 to use toward food and a new house.'

She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in the eye and asked, 'Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'

I said, 'Welcome to the Republican Party.'

Her parents still aren't speaking to me.