Flush

This is the undisputed king of the rat bastards.  I put him at more rotten than butt juice, McConnell and Kantor on the heartless rotten scale.   This idiot tries to make the point that the young lady in question must be having a lot of sex since she uses so many birth control pills.  My understanding is that a woman may have sex only once a month but must take the pill every day since that is how the regiment works.  This rat bastard (Flush) has been married 4 times since 1977 and has no children.  So, either he is impotent or, all of his wives have been unable to bear children or they have been total whores if they took birth control pills and were reimbursed by insurance.  I only hope this fat rat bastard finally has gone too far.

Education

So the right wing whack job approach to education is to get the Fed and State out and leave it up to local communities.  I guess this includes funding i.e. the elimination of Fed and State funding will leave the responsibility to pay the bills to the collection of local property taxes.  How many low income communities are there?  How many of these low income communities have minimal property tax income?  How can these low income communities afford education?  The answer is they can't.  That is why the Fed and State have been involved.  Ok, so vote these right wing whack jobs into power and you can count on spending more tax dollars on prisons and, by the way....what will you do with all of the children that the poor parents cannot afford to feed?  There will be more of these children since another of your right wing whack job plans is to eliminate funding for female contraceptives and abortions.  Come on, even you whack jobs have to be able to see the hole in your game plan.

Willard's economic plan

Willard says he will fix the economy by cutting taxes 20% as well as implementing a bunch of other tired old right wing crap ideas.  I watched a discussion with Michael Steele who defended the plan by pointing out that the 20% did not apply only to the wealthy and that in fact it will be a tax cut for all income levels and therefore is a good idea.   As usual, BS!!!!.   The advantage to the low end of the income scale is that they will save $76 per year where as the top .02% (which Willard is among) income earners will save $240,000.00 per year.  So what's wrong with this picture?  I mean it is fare since all income groups get the same cut...  The problem is the impact on the debt.  We do not need the $76 to balance the budget.  I would rather the low income group keep the money because they will spend it in ways that will help the economy.  We do however need the $240,000.00 because the rich will not spend it like the poor.  They will simply invest in oversees opportunities or fatten their off shore bank accounts. 

Your 2012 Republican presidential candidates

More oil BS

Gas prices rise and the GOP blames the Democratic president.  Here is why this is BS:

1.  Oil prices are rising primarily due to speculation in the oil futures market that currently reflects increased risk represented by Iran's threat to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

2.  Oil prices are set by the world market, not by a president.

3.  Newt and brain donor Palin blame Obama saying he needs to drill baby drill.  The US has 3% of the world's known oil reserves which is approximately 21 billion barrels of oil.  The US consumes approximately 20 million barrels per day.  If we drained all of our known reserves and used only our oil then we would be out of oil completely in less than 3 years....then where would we be with the middle east?  Think they may try to bend us over....hmm? 

 

4.  If we did drill baby drill and flood the market with our oil in order to lower the world price it would only last a few days or weeks before OPEC simply cut their production thereby causing the price to go back up again and we will have spent our own reserves.

5. Did you ever think it may be our strategy to use the oil from the rest of the world before we use our own?   I'm just saying.

FIX IT BRAINSTORM

This post is to be used to put forth out of the box ideas that can/will fix the economy.  It has been my experience that when teams are stuck with no clear correct way forward they engage in a team activity called brainstorming to fire up the creative juices.   Though I am a progressive I don't see the President's economic plans as adequate to address the entitlement mess we have in front of us.   However, the President's plan is light years better than ANY republican plan.  I guess the word ANY does not apply since all republican plans are the same i.e. cut taxes on the rich and eliminate all regulations.  Obama's plan racks another 10 trillion in debt in 10 years and the Ryan budget adds about 8 trillion in 10 years even with extreme cuts in medical benefits for the elderly and poor. 

I welcome you to post your thoughts and ideas in the comments section of this post.  To post a comment you need to click on the posting heading FIX IT BRAINSTORM (blue font) then type your thoughts and ideas in the comments box.

I'll get things started with my out of the box brainstorm idea to fix the economy.

IDEA - - - Capitalize the United States of America.

** Come  up with a value for everything owned by the USA....for example - all military assets (guns, missiles, tanks, bases, embassies, ships, aircraft carriers, aircraft), the interstate hi-way system, Hoover Dam, National Parks, Electrical grid backbone, Internet backbone, Government Buildings etc. etc. etc.  My WAG (wild ass guess) is the total value would be say.... 125 trillion dollars.

** Issue common shares (IPO) for say $10 per share

** Only US citizens and US companies can buy the shares

** Elect a board of directors that will pick officers - Chairman, Treasurer etc.

** Open bank accounts and deposit 18 trillion to pay off the existing debt

** Pay dividends

** Eliminate all taxes....yes all taxes

** Act as angel capitalists on new ventures creating earnings

** Subsidize industries that compete on the world market...the hell with China and the rest of the cheap labor markets.

That' it for now, more to come.

Ewwwww....something is burning down below

Newt getting ready for tonight's debate

DADDY........ IS THAT YOU DADDY???

Funding our Veteran's Health Care

Why is it that the GOP consistently tries to cut Veterans Administration budgets?   After all, it is usually the GOP chicken hawks that get us into unneeded wars in the first place.  Look at Iraq.  Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Richard Perl bullied dubya into war in Iraq by reminding him that they all felt his daddy was a pussy for not invading Iraq in the first Gulf war.  Cheney never served in the military....got himself 5 deferments.   Cheney and the other clowns were just interested in advancing their Neo Con ambitions to control the middle east with Cheney having the added incentive to make a boat load of money via Halliburton on no bid contracts.  Even a dummy like me could see there was no reason to go into Iraq.  I mean the nuclear inspectors were allowed back into the country and said there were no nukes and the claim of Saddam's affiliation with al-Qaida was absurd.  When I saw those planes flying into the Trade Centers I knew there was a powerful motivation behind such action.  The motivation was a deep religious belief that they were doing the right thing and would be rewarded with 72 virgins for ever for their trouble.   Look, Saddam had erected statues of himself and placed them on every street corner in Baghdad.  He saw himself as lord.  The last thing he wanted to do was to promote competition (Ala, Bin Laden) for the worship he believed he was getting from his subjects.  So, for these very weak and greedy reasons, the country lost thousands of heroes to death and life changing injury.   Now the most pathetic thing to observe is how the GOP chicken hawks want to squeeze pennies when it comes to supporting the needs of our wounded veterans and the voting GOP masses continue to say they honor the troops and continue voting for representatives that constantly vote against supporting the needs of the wounded troops.