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OldRelayer on Monday, February 02, 2009 3:04:20 PM
I am starting to wonder if there is anyone in the administration that actually pays taxes. Tom Dashell is the latest slime that decided that he is better than the rest of us and ignores his tax burden. Where is the outrage, why is the MSM just ignoring all of this, this is just unbelievable to me. I can't see how they won't confirm him, after confirming the Treasury Secretary, the person ultimately respondsible for all of us paying our taxes. It is no wonder they want to spend tax payer dollars in an irresponsible way, they don't pay any.
The latest thing from the White house is that FDR's boondoggles didn't work because they didn't spend enough, and of course Obama isn't going to make that mistake. I don't understand why people don't see this for what it is, power grabbing. He wants to control every aspect of your life, because he is obviously smarter than the rest of us. It could be argued that George Bush wasn't a great communicator but Obama one on one has more Ahs they Carolyn Kennedy had "you knows", GW was actually quite good when interviewed. Take Obama off his talking points and he just doesn't appear very smart. Of course they are backing off from Social Security as a great thing that FDR did. In my opinion SS was one of the few things FDR did right. It did include more and even unemployment insurance at first. The only thing wrong with SS is that in the 60's to pay for the Great Society Johnson decided it was a shame to leave all that money there collecting interest when he could use it and make it look like things cost less than they actually did. Even today it is not a pay as you go, it has been made a pay as you go because the government takes your money after all payments and calls it surplus and takes it. I have a hard time understanding why help for people that actually paid into this for 40 to 50 years are considered a drain on society and those that never worked a day in their life and are a drain on society are catered to with increases. This is bafling.
We will have to see what happens with HR-1 as it makes it ways through the Senate. I bounce back and forth on how I think the Republicans should act. There is no way that any real tax relief in the form of Capital Gains reduction is going to happen, which would be the prime way to get the economy moving. In this the Obama adminstration and FDR are much a like and for the same reason we are about to go deep into a depression that will last until we change our thinking of business. Business is our friend not our enemy. If you give money to people that don't have any and no future, how is that going to stimulate the economy? A smart general manager I worked for use to say, if you took all the money and you split up between all the people taking from the rich and giving to the poor that in a very short time it would be back in the hands of the people that had it in the first place. Of course that is providing you don't change to a socialistic society, we are talking a free market economy.
This probably has gone un noticed but Obama asked that the switch to digital TV be delayed because people were not ready and coupons were not available. BTW the Porkulus package includes 600 million for coupons, originally it was only $150 million. By the time the money is available people won't needed them, so I guess they will just have to find another place to spend that money. I have a very big interest in this, I don't pay for tv. The Congress lead by the Republicans turned down the bill to extend the date. They didn't want the people that were waiting for those frequencies to be inconvinienced, I find it very inconvinient. The Congress doesn't have a clue about this and the local stations switched to UHF because available frequencies, some of which won't be avaiable until the summer. You think those smart law makers would have realized this. This means when they switch over, I will get exactly one station, PBS. Even if I can talk a friend into installing a UHF antennae(at great expense) on my rotor, they are not going to do it on an icey roof. Dont' believe the hype on how easy this conversion will be. That only gets me TV, if I want to record a show, that is a whole different deal that I am still trying to figure out. Replay TV will do it, but it isn't documented anywhere, I have been working of this for several months, we shall see what happens Febuary 17. Thanks all you jerks in Congress.
There will be more to write about as things heat up in the Senate.