Posted by
Bill Pyatt on Monday, August 15, 2011 12:00:00 AM
"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”----Cicero - 55 BC
I received an email from President Barack Obama, and in it he talked about the things his Administration has done to help the economy. First of all I have no idea why he sent it to me, because any email I sent to him was very critical of the way he runs his office and the country. He is the most inexperienced, inept, and clueless person to ever occupy the Oval Office. Why he is running for a second term is beyond me and why anyone would support him is also beyond me.
Last Monday I sat and watched the Stock Market take a dive, this was the Monday after XX plus rating came out. Obama got on the TV and talked about……….hell I don’t know more of his empty BS and soon as he was finished the market dropped another 300 plus points. He should know that we are getting tired of his TV appearances and his empty promises. He blamed everything on the Bush Administration and in the opinion of this writer; he will not admit to who was running Congress for the last four years of the Bush Administration. Well he probably knows but will not put the blame where it belongs, Reid and Pelosi. They passed resolution that ran this country into the ground and our current President blamed Bush for it.
We can thank Dodd, Franks, Reid and Pelosi for where we are now and Obama for not having any kind of a plan to get the economy back up to where it should be. He doesn’t have a plan because he wants a Socialist Government and in my opinion I think Obama and Soros have this great plan to ruin the economy of the United States. Soros ruined the economy in several European countries and is now working on us.
A twelve person committee has been appointed by House and Senate Leaders to find ways to cut the government costs. Personally I think they will come in with their own agenda and we will get nothing out of them. The House came up with a ten (10) year plan to cut spending by $2.5 Trillion, will that be considered? I doubt it, because it was a Republican House Plan and there are a lot of social programs involved.
I think there are things that can be done now to cut spending, they are, abolish the Department of Education, most States already have one. Turn the education of our children back to the local level. Abolish the Department of Energy most Utility Companies are looking at ways to conserve and we don’t need a bunch of left wing liberals to run that. Put the responsibility on the States to bird dog those companies. Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) here again most States have a department within their government to take care of this. Abolish OSHA; most States also have a division to protect workers safety. Turn Amtrak over to the Union Pacific railroad and let them run it. Abolish the Post Office and let private companies like UPS, FedEx or a company like that to run it. Put a four year freeze on all government salary’s including the President, members of Congress and the Supreme Court.
Abolish the IRS, now there is a novel idea! Once they go away you and I will pay no income tax because we can put into effect a 1.5% national sales tax on everything except food. Beside the State tax of whatever you are paying add 1.5% to that. It will come out in the long run as less than the income tax you are currently paying. Drop the Business Tax to 20 to 25 % and they will probably return to the States and do business here.
Foreign Aid, why are we paying China money in foreign aid? Why are we paying money to countries who vote against us in the UN? Why do we pay monies to countries that hate us? That includes a lot of Arab and Islamic countries. They would just assume to cut your head off than look at you.
Why does the President and the Attorney General side with Mexico when a State tries to control illegal aliens, Arizona as an example. Both are not listening to the people, and then when the illegals get here our government will put them on Social Security and Medicare. Stop payment to illegals and we will not be short of funds in those area.
Abolish Obama Care, put Social Security and Medicare into their own funds and take it out of the general funds, because the Democrats will spend it like they have been since the Johnson Administration.
A lot of common sense plans that I have come up with???? Maybe but there are those out there who would call me crazy and they would probably be Bleeding Left Wing Socialist Democrats who are in for a ride in this upcoming election. There is a candidate on the Republican ticket who is female and I have listened to her over the past several months and she is up on the issues and has answers to correct Obama’s mistakes. Michele Bachmann has impressed me as someone who really cares about the future of this country and has plans to correct what the Democrats have screwed up.
The Democrats do not know how to handle the Republican Candidates who are supported by the Tea Party. My guess they will counter with name calling and scare tactics. If the Liberals don’t make a showing with Obama and get him re-elected, in my opinion liberalism is a dying breed in this country.
Just sitting on the Edge waiting to see what happens next.