Just a short tidbit today.  School is killing me, so just keep checking in, Ill try my best to put some substance up here and there and when I get out for the semester Ill put some good stuff up.

Obama has recently had his minions out telling everyone to lower their standards!  Don't let it phase you!  Hold him responsible for each and every lie he has promised!  Drill him on his tax cuts first and foremost!  We all knew that he would backtrack on the tax cuts, so now we must MUST hold him accountable for that!  Tax cuts is something that every person paying taxes will see and will pay attention to if brought up.  Some of his other issues may slip under the radar because people won't care about them, but taxes, everyone cares.  Tell everyone to take note of how much they paid under the Bush tax cuts.  Keep track of all different types of taxes you are paying!  From gas, to sales, to income, to capital gains, to property, etc etc.  Tell some liberals to keep track themselves so you can tell them "I told you so" later. hehe

Taxes will do damage to him beyond what he thinks.  Hold him to the 250k mark.  His campaign surrounded him giving those making less than 250k a tax break! 

There are many other issues that can be found at GunnyG's blog.  He will probably do a better job at explaining than myself.  Check it out here:

http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2008/11/21/team_obama_stacks_the_bullsqueeze_higher_and_higher!.thtml

We know that our conservative news sources are going to be holding his feet to the flame, so we must help them by turning up the torch.  They can only help us so much, and then we must pave our own path!  Time for hardball folks!

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke

I think everyone should at least watch this trailer of 'Obsession'.  We should all watch this movie and spread it to our friends!  It is a movie about Islam and the "holy war" we are in.  Take a gander and buy it or something if you like.



http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/clips-jihad.php

Ok, some idiot on GunnyG's blog has no idea why the fairness doctrine would hurt conservative radio.  Thought I would throw something up about it. 

First off, I would like to say I think the fairness doctrine is unconstitutional.  Unless I am mistaken, the radio is not owned or funded by the government, besides NPR.  So being it is a private business, why should the government be able to give a regulation without a valid reason?  They stop swearing for children listening...etc.  There is no valid reason for the fairness doctrine unless something of a harmful nature can be proven about the current state of things.  Is that posisble?  Hardly.  They would also have to prove that liberals do not have ample opportunity to getting themselves heard on the radio.  They have tried their hand at radio and failed, so clearly they cannot prove they didn't have a chance.  In conclusion, is there any reason at all that this is constitutional?  I believe that laws should have to prove their constitutionality rather than the other way around.  In fact, after the revolution that is bound to happen down the road not too far, I believe that should be part of the new constitution.  Put them on the defense right away, instead of proving in the negative. 

Next I have a bone to pick about it being about radio only.  Why is it not for TV? or Magazines?  Newspapers?  Of course....liberals need their outlets of information to remain untouched.  I forgot.  Other than that reason there is none other for the fairness doctrine to be bounded to the radio.  The radio is no different than television.  Radio station =  channel.  I think we need about 5 more Fox News channels to even the playing field.

Ok, so to the point.  How does the fairness doctrine hurt conservative radio?  This is a conceptual answer, just fyi.  I was a bit lazy to research facts, but this is basically common sense, so I felt it was ok for this subject.

Ex:

A conservative host makes $1000 per hour on the radio, for the radio station
A liberal host makes $50 per hour on the radio, for the station.

I am using those numbers because clearly conservative hosts attract many more viewers.  Liberals have had radio stations and they have failed miserably.  Conservative radio stations flourish and we have guys like Rush making $400 million.  Point proven?  I think so.

So you have a total of 50 prime time hours.

Pre-doctrine:
1000*50=$50,000

Post-doctrine:
1000*25 + 50*25 = $26,100 (I believe, did that in my head, so don't beat me up if its wrong)

Can anyone see why this would be a problem for conservative radio?  Many just choose to play music because Im betting they can make somewhere in the middle of those two. 

Conclusion?  One less conservative radio station.  Liberals get their views funded by conservatives.

Any questions? 

If you are a liberal and don't understand, perhaps you should go back and get your GED, this is pretty basic common sense.

Ok, so I know this is a political site, but as the elections just passed, I haven't a specific issue to write on.  When I have more time I plan to start a series on the Federalist Papers, but I am a bit busy for that.  I am a techy guy and as such, I get popular science each month.  I saw an article regarding this issue a few months back and found it a major breakthrough.  Then it was in this current months issue and thought it had to be much closer to being ready for humans.  This will also be good news for all you retired folks here at TH. ;)





Meet your new heart!  If you are needing a new one that is. 

So the summary is that, tested and perfected on rats, if you need a new heart they can take a heart from a dead donor body, strip it of cells and bring it back to life using your cells.  Pretty cool huh?  Think of the possibilities of what this could do.  People with failing hearts could get a new one at the end of the week instead of year.  This will also increase the average time a person lives after a heart transplant as the heart essentially is made for them, since it came back to life with their cells.  The body will then have a better chance of accepting the new organ. 

The entire story can be found here: http://www.popsci.com/bown/2008/product/recellularized-heart

Oh, and did I mention that it was invented at my home base U of Minnesota?  hehe

I have found the single thing about Obama that is a positive!

Backstory:  My sister is sitting in her AP Gov class and a friend of hers is talking to the teacher.  The teacher is very liberal btw, and kicked the kid out after the comment.

Anyways, so this is not my own, but I felt it needed to be put up.

We have George Washington on the $1 bill.

Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill.

Alexander Hamilton on the $10 bill

Now we have a new guy for the food stamps!  Obama can be the face of the food stamps! haha

I know what your thinking...food stamps are on credit cards now, but that doesn't matter.  That is funny! haha

Well, Im a bit busy so I decided to put up something a little lighter.


http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/11/9/1573364/Timbaland (remix) - Its Too Late to apologize.mp3
I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground
And I'm hearing what you say
But I just can't make a sound
You tell me that you need me
Then you go and cut me down
But wait...
You tell me that you're sorry
Didn't think I'd turn around and say...
That it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you
And I need you like a heart needs a beat
(But that's nothing new)
Yeah yeah
I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue
And you say
"Sorry" like the angel, heaven let me think was you
But I'm afraid...
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
Woahooo woah
It's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late
I said it's too late to apologize, yeahah
I said it's too late to apologize, yeahah
I'm holding on your rope
Got me ten feet off the ground...

Last night went as many conservatives could have hoped for and against what many others were praying for.  In my opinion, if you have not read BrianR's blog, check it out.  http://viewfromtheisland.blogtownhall.com/

His sentiment can be echoed around the conservative chamber to give us hope.  We need to regroup now and come back strong and loud.  The most important thing of all, we need to come back informed and ready to challenge.  Many/some conservatives do not know the underlying reasons for all they believe.  For that reason their arguments are very shallow and there are counters that until further research cannot be defied.  Getting a well rounded understanding on why the trickle down effect works, instead of just knowing it does or understanding how affirmative action hurt blacks instead of hearing it from another, will do wonders for the conservative base.  Right now, the liberals are louder than we and that is why they won the election.  They shouted from every mountain top lie after lie until over 50% of Americans believed it to be true.  We must now research the issues that they have to fervently twisted so we can battle them with facts onhand.  It is important to know that Bush's policies did not cause this crisis and why they did not for example.  On affirmative action one must know that blacks had a higher rate of employment before it was put into place, and they made more money.  Knowing the ins and outs of each policy is essential for conservatives to resurge with a force never seen before.  We need to make 1980 look like childs play.

Some things to assume:

Obama will falter. 

A conservative party will arise.

Liberals are uninformed.

There is no doubt in my mind that Obama will send us back to the Carter years.  We MUST take advantage of this!  Sitting idly by while he fails is the worst thing we could do.  The liberal media did not sit by and watch Bush make "mistakes".  They jumped on him at every chance they could and even when he did the right thing.  We are going to get more than our fair share of chances to bring his failures to light.  Conservatives are not known for playing hardball, but I believe for the good of the country, we must play ball here.  Liberals shout loud, so we must not only shout back, but destory their shouting with facts.  This goes back to why we must be informed.  If we shout, but we are not informed, we will not gain momentum.  We will have dropped to their level, however getting a conservative base requires more than shouting as we are much more skeptical and logical.  We must gain our troops by completely demolishing liberal attacks with facts.  If we make our voices heard, a conservative party will arise, whether it be the GOP or an "American Tradition Party".  We now have 2-4 years to inform our neighbors of the truth.  If each conservative can find one democrat and convert them, we win.  To convert anyone all issues are on the table and some are tougher than others.  Having a deep understanding on conservative values will make this like pie.  The liberal base is largely uninformed and we need to attack them for it.  Once Obama makes his first mistake, attack attack attack.  After it is clear he has failed as President, ask as many Obama voters why they voted for him.  That is the perfect time to convert someone.  They see their vote didn't work and are willing to "shop around". 

I cannot honestly sit here and say that I am well informed on all issues.  I know that everyone reading is not informed on ALL issues.  I believe I have a fairly well rounded set that I know a good deal about.  Constantly research the issues of the day.  Read about why the great depression was extended due to FDR.  Read about why we lost Vietnam.  Know why Jimmy Carter was a horrible president instead of taking our word for it.  Research this housing bubble and the Savings and Loan problems.  Keep a mental list on the failed democrat policies.  Social security, affirmative action, welfare(especially know why on this one, traps them in the lower class) etc...

If anyone has any sites that list conservative principles with reasons, let me know.  The best I have so far is
Conservatism 101
Courtesy of BrianR: http://joeolivaforpresident.org/
Avalon Project

The Avalon Project is from Yale law and has lots of documents to choose from.  The Federalist Papers and the Constitution are a must.  I have read the Articles of Confederation as well, to get what we have before the constitution.  The Declaration of Independence is also a must.  Good reading!

Have strength!  Tirelessly inform yourself and others!  Know that your information is accurate!  Know your enemy!  Find their possible counter arguments so you can counter it before they even make the suggestion!  Have faith!

Ok, so I play an online game(I know, Im a nerd) that Ive played for years.  I don't really play for the game anymore, but the people in the forums.  They are all about my age and have done the same as me, so its lots of fun.  People from around the world connecting there and just messing around basically.  Lots of fun.  Anyways, I usually try to avoid political conversations, but I just had to go and get involved.  So, its kind of like shooting fish in a barrel.  I wanted some opinions on how I am going about this.  Am I too aggressive?  Should I take a different approach?  Perhaps....that is what I want to know from you.

Here is the conversation.  I am only including the posts which actually include something.  I might end up adding to this as I go as well. 

GoS:
"obama

i want the iraq war to be over with within 16 months like he said. Mccain wants to send more additional troops over their which might make me go back to the army because i'm in the army reserve. i probally won't go back but i don't want it to go on even longer. if Mccain continues the war and passes down to another republican president next election or in 8 years, that person might make even more people go. also i might not have to do as much annual training like i did back in the spring if obama is elected. With the war over their would be less taxes hopefully. i also would rather have democrats be in power because the stock market crashing was because of george bush and a democrat could fix it.

note: i'm not that educated about the election so i might be wrong so i'm not voteing but i want barrock obama to win, plus rhode island got only 3 electoral vote so it doesn't really matter"

ME(CK):
GoS...do you know when he said the 16 months comment? Over 16 months ago. You would rather we leave and they die in vain, than to get the job done right now.

"With the war over their would be less taxes hopefully. i also would rather have democrats be in power because the stock market crashing was because of george bush and a democrat could fix it."

Ok...I think you should educate yourself before voting. Every vote counts

Lower taxes? If you can name me that last democrat president that lowered taxes, lets hear it. Notice the 250k number keeps dropping. The other day Biden mentioned 200k. 200k for a business is not very much and they will pass the extra tax expenses onto the consumer. You will pay more for every product you buy when Obama raises business taxes and taxes on the rich. He will let the Bush tax cuts expire. He plans on raising the capital gains tax which will discourage investors and cause the stock market to really crash. The stock market crashed because of the housing crisis. The housing crisis was caused by the CRA bill that Clinton signed into effect in 95 before Republicans took control of congress. That CRA bill caused the housing bubble which burst a while back.

Obama wants to send 800 billion over to the UN for the "Global Poverty Act". Is your money worth that? We are trillions in debt, yet Obama wants to send taxpayer money over to the most corrupt organization on the planet.

The cap and trade that both McCain and Obama are for could really send us into another depression like that of the great depression. The hawley-smoot tariff that Hoover signed into effect raised tariffs and lost millions of American jobs since we couldn't sell our stuff overseas anymore. That will happen again. Other countries will not send their stuff here for lower prices anymore because of the tariffs, so you will be paying higher prices at the stores as well. Lower jobs and higher prices. Before the hawley-smoot tariff...unemployment was 9%, after it was 25%.

He talks about redistributing wealth. How has that turned out in any other country? Socialism is not working. Our country has risen to the top because of capitalism and competition. Our education system is faltering because there is no competition anymore. Teachers don't have to worry about losing their jobs. Schools don't have to worry about losing students if the school under performs. Give families a tax credit if they choose to go to private schools. That will give parents choices. Some say it will create a two tier system. I say I would rather have one higher class and one lower, than all lower class in on tier.

Healthcare: I look around the world at all the socialist healthcare programs. Sweden is rationing it because the costs were too high. It takes like 11 months for an MRI. Canadian patients looking for surgery come to America now since they wouldn't have to wait upwards of 6 months for a brain surgery when it is needed tomorrow. Fidel Castro came to America for his medical care, even though the top notch Cuban care was right there. Where is Michael Moore now? Germany is looking at the costs of healthcare and thinking about rationing healthcare as well.

Iraq: The war is on the upswing. I have a friend that just returned and he said the iraqis are taking care of most everything now. Why leave and have that all for not? All those deaths in vain? The time to leave will be soon no doubt, but why force it? Are you so concerned about leaving that you don't care what you leave behind? During Vietnam the general of their army wrote in his journal after the tet offensive that they were defeated as the tet did not get enough done. Then he said our media portraying doomsday on the US and it gave his troops hope. They knew that the media would drive us away and they just had to hold out. Would you like that to happen again in Iraq? We are about to bring them back to a stable country that would at the very least be neutral to us, and you would waste that? For what? Putting a time limit on leaving?

Obama followers are very deluded on what he wants to do with our economy. His policies will bring us into the next great depression.

Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg98BvqUvCc

Can you believe what she is saying?

As for McCain, I do not like him either. The illegal immigration plan by both of them is ridiculous. 13 million of the 47 or so not on healthcare in this country are illegals. They are putting hospitals out of business in the south because the ER must help anyone no matter what. The costs were too high when they weren't being paid though. They flood our education system with kids that do not know english and then it costs our schools time and money to teach them english, which drags down the other kids in the class. They have no alliegence to the American Flag, which you can find numerous videos of illegals waving it upside down, a sign of disgrace. They flood job markets, forcing people to either lose their jobs, or work for lower wages. They bring their kids here and get on the welfare system, which costs the taxpayers millions and billions of dollars.

You know that on Welfare and medicaid alone the US spent 1.3 trillion or something last year? The SS retirement is also botched as it never should have went into the general fund for our irresponsible corrupt politicians to spend. Now it has a bunch of IOU's in there and we are trillions in debt.

Gosh...I could go on...but educate yourself people!


I would also like to add, for the people thinking that the war is taking too long in rebuilding. Are we out of Germany yet? WW2 must be going on still. Or Japan? Or South Korea?

We have troops everywhere. I don't agree with that, but we do. Our troops are a stabilizing force in many places around the world. We will keep a presence in Iraq for years to come, but not at current levels. Petraeus has said that the time to leave with the majority of our forces is approaching anyways. Putting a time limit only gives hope to our enemies over there. As soon as we packed up, they would strike and Iraq would be in disarray. Get it done right or Vietnam killing fields will happening in 2009.

OGT:
lmao at everyone who is scared about where america is going, if you were that scared you shoulda voted in al gore not Bush, but to say a down to earth person like obama would ruin your country is just rediculous, if you want the next 4 years to be like the last 8, then go and vote in mccain, and odds are he will just make things worse for you all.. if you want things to be somewhat like they were in the 90's, you know when clinton was president, where he was actually making a surplus then vote obama in, because the fact of the matter is that the Democrates are there for the people where the republics are only there for the rich.

To say obama will do a bad job and ruin your country even worse is just sad to hear from americans, your right when you say he lacks experience, but his senate would make up for that with his VP biden, and clinton and the rest of the democrates there to help him.. this post is just sad reading your responses.

It seems to me the rest of the world knows who should be voted in except for the american people.. wheres the ring wing american who is going to say obama is a terrorist? If I was american I would be more prone to let someone like obama try rather then puting lipstick on a pig by voting in mccain.

ME(CK):
OGT, I notice you went through that whole post and didn't mention one policy. Not one that Bush did wrong. Not one. Yet you claim he caused our economic crisis? Please bud...just name some. I have, you haven't.

Obama down to earth? makes me laugh. So you are saying that we should vote on feelings? Not on policy? I can see your using lots of logic there.

I personally feel this election will be a landslide win for McCain. The bradley effect will speak on Nov 4th. The hillary supporters will make their voices heard. The biased MSM will get theirs handed to them and will lose all credibility. I can't wait.

GoS:

i just don't want to go back to iraq but i like going back to training camp once a year and re uniteing with my army buddies and getting food for a month and that stuff. i'm not voteing but i want obama to win.

as a former corporal i can tell you that war is not fun. people get hurt or killed i have some friends who were wounded and have seen people die. i have seen people close to meget hurt. i have been with out food for 1 whole day then eating 2 meals a die for a week. its not fun. its miserable. their isn't alot of entertainment. your pretty much play cards 50 times a day for years. also at times we didn't know who was shooting at us and were to shoot back at. the army scars you and haunts you it is not fun. a vote for mccain is a vote for what i just described for many more people and many years of pain.

any more questions about the army just ask me.

i have been persauded to vote for obama now after reading these posts relizing that as a u.s citezen i have 1 vote every 4 years and im going to use it. also i see now that some of u want obama to win even though u not american so i am voteing for him for all of the people who cannot vote

Me(CK): This is to OGT:
"because the fact of the matter is that the Democrates are there for the people where the republics are only there for the rich. "

Its hard to say how false that is.

If you can name some policies the democrats have put into place that have improved life for the poor, lets hear of them as well. Welfare sure hasn't, neither has social security. You can try to prove they do, but every single policy the democrats put into place hurts the poor and middle classes. Instead Bush gives the middle class tax cuts.

ME(CK):
GoS, and really Obama will not pull out immediately. Its a great campaign slogan that he will, but he won't. When he becomes president (if he does) he will be informed by different intelligence on what is going on around the world. He will then have to drop into reality and use common sense. Common sense is not to repeat Vietnam again which would result in people losing faith in the American word around the world.

I thank you for your service, but why would you want your friends sacrifices to be in vain? The iraqis are taking over the brunt of the fighting and my marine friend said he didn't even encounter hostiles on his last tour over. The time to leave in large numbers will be soon anyways.

I also find it kinda funny that you are voting for the international voice. I wonder if any Roman citizens voted on the voices from Carthage? Or if English ever voted on the voice of the French? Or Japanese on the voice of the Chinese. Vote for the candidate that you think will help America the most. Choosing to vote based on what our enemies want (Hamas endorsing Obama) is foolish. If you really feel yourself that Obama is best, then by all means, but don't do it for the international voice.

Terror:
You wear me out CK. I just can't wade through all that you post, but in the sampling I chose, it is quite evident that you assume that every weakness that Obama has is God's honest truth and every strength is a lie. If you can't make an argument against him, you make an argument against his party.

If you used all the energy to dismantle McCain/Palin, I'm sure you could do an out standing job. I know it is against conservative policy to maintain a positive attitude, but you should try it some time. it's kinda nice.

Like so many conservatives, you have no vision for anything that hasn't been done before. Conservatism has a place when effective strategies still work, but the world changes. It takes a progressive to find new strategies to solve new problems.

My biggest issue at this point is the war. It is bleeding us dry. Do I want all those soldiers to die for naught? No. Builld me a time machine and I would do what I could to keep us out of Iraq. We'd be better off with Sadam Hussein in power doing God knows what to people that, for the most part, are not our concern.

Since you probably don't have a time machine, I will select the lesser of evils. I choose for every soldier who has already died to have done so for naught. This is to safeguard an unknown number of soldiers that are still alive and well. End the war. It was never a winning proposition.

No one is perfect, and believe me, living in North Carolina which is a battleground, I get a mailbox full of crap on Obama. I get stuff for Obama and stuff against Obama. I don't think I ever got anything on the positive attributes of McCain. I guess he doesn't have much to brag about.

John McCain is a negative and mean SOB. Obama is far from perfect, but I can live with his flaws and while he will make mistakes, he is not a stupid man and he will learn very quickly on the job. His growth during this campaign has shown me that.

Obama for president. That is all.

GoS:

they may have died in vain but it's george bush and the republicans who sent our troops to iraq and got them injured. it is the republicans fault that the troops in iraq are being killed and injured. it is george bush's fault for the scars on my legs and side and every time i look at the scars i think of all those people in iraq getting killed because of george bush.

for some reason when i look at the scars i can feel the pain of the thousands of troops that were killed

ME(CK):
Hehe Terror...conservative policy against positive attitude? Against trying things that haven't been tried...such as...socialism? Its been tried. Everything Obama says, has been tried actually. Name some that haven't. The only thing I can think of is his energy policy, which the republicans encompass his anyways.


I notice you didn't mention one policy of Obamas that was good. Figures. Tell me I must do it for McCain and then fail to do it yourself.

I don't like McCain. I have done enough against him on other blogs.

Im actually thinking: would I rather like McCain or Obama?

McCain will slowly bleed us dry and we will continue on to socialism. Each passing election will slowly move left.

Obama will put it on us full thrust and the people will reject him for it. We will have a major conservative movement, much like Reagan brought and we will be more conservative in the end. Remember Jimmy Carter. Remember his policies? Carbon copy of Obama. Notice how they failed us.

I labeled things in my post about McCain that I do not like. Perhaps you could take off your blinders and do some logical thinking.

I also love how you liberals attribute a good campaign to running a country. If that is all it takes, I think my dog could be a better president than Obama. You know...I was a good captain on my hockey team, perhaps I would make a good president? I would bet that my dog would get 40% vote if he ran democrat. The amount of uninformed voters voting democrat astounds me.

I was doing some math the other day. 38% of people do not pay taxes in the form of income. That is a fact and you can look it up. I am willing to bet that 90% of welfare recipients vote democrat. All for taking from me and giving to them for sitting on their lazy asses. Averaging 50% for each democrat and republican. If say 80% of those non-taxpayers vote democrat, and Im willing to be its higher, then that would leave about 30% voting for democrats. Making 60% of the democrat vote people who don't pay taxes. Only looking for the handout.

And we wonder why our country is going bankrupt.

The politicians have begun to find if they just promise free money to the people, they will get elected. The democrats are gaining power by doing so. Our country will go bankrupt as this happens.

ME(CK): To GoS:
"they may have died in vain but it's george bush and the republicans who sent our troops to iraq and got them injured. it is the republicans fault that the troops in iraq are being killed and injured. it is george bush's fault for the scars on my legs and side and every time i look at the scars i think of all those people in iraq getting killed because of george bush."

have you ever stopped to look at the vote to go into Iraq? 77-23 passing through the senate. He did not get us into this war alone. No matter how much MSM has tried to prove otherwise. The senate had the same intel as Bush and voted FOR the bill to pass.

Are all the democrats in the senate idiots? Bush duped them all? I thought you liberals always call him stupid? Did Hillary really vote on the Iraq bill not knowing what it was? How often can they claim ignorance? It gets old that you liberals keep using the same argument, though it has been disproven on many accounts.

You cannot go back in time GoS, as terror pointed out for us. What happened in the past is exactly that, the past and hindsight is 20/20. You have two options.

Vote to finish the war and your friends don't sacrifice in vain, or you can vote to have their sacrifices in vain. Voting for not going into the war in the first place will not remove anything. It will only pave the way for us to set things right later with thousands of more deaths.

I wonder why military enlistments are at an all time high? We have brave men and women who WANT to finish this war. No person is forcing anyone to enlist. Our army is 100% volunteer and I am greatly thankful that we have people in this country willing to sacrifice. Why is the military supporting McCain over Obama? Or Bush over Kerry?

Snarf:
Look at our current deficit. We didn't have that when Clinton was in office. Bush must have been doing something wrong. Oh yeah, cutting taxes and giving away money to raise his popularity above 30% even though we can't afford it. And if a 250k a year business is only netting 20k a year you are not going to get your taxes raised. It is 250k a year NET. If your business is making a 250k+ profit a year you should pay more taxes than some poor schmuck working for minimum wage. And considering all the loop holes and deductions and tax credits available 250k net a year means you are probably pulling down at least twice that or have a really bad accountant.

Palin annoys me to no end. She is everything that is wrong with the Republican party. Even her voice makes my head hurt. Alaska is a completely different world from the lower 48. It makes Texas look liberal. You've sent a guy to the senate for 40 years that was corrupt from day 1 and I really would not be surprised if he gets reelected on Tuesday even after getting convicted of 7 felonies last week.

On top of all of this McCain doesn't deserve to win. He has run such a bad campaign that it's made Kerry's look respectable. He has screwed up so badly that Palin is now trying to pull a Cheney and take over the lead role.


Everyone screaming that the sky is falling can stop worrying though. If the last 8 years has proven anything to me it's that no matter who wins this election we'll all survive.

ME(CK): To Snarf:
Snarf...on spending, yes Bush went over the top...a liberal trait about him that I do not like, but you forget congress sets budgets. Clinton had a very conservative congress. Plus, the no deficit under Clinton is a lie. He hide costs to make it look like we weren't running a deficit. How do you think the total debt went up? Our republican congress was kicked out by conservatives, not by your liberal votes. We kicked them out by not voting for them because they were spending too much.

Did you know that the Bush tax cuts increased the IRS revenue? Bet you didn't. Reagan's tax cuts did as well. Liberals never know those types of things. Instead its all about feeling. You don't like Palin. Oh boy...you don't like someone. I think you should start educating yourself on how things affect the economy, or how government has caused this current crisis with BAD regulations, not NO regulations. Voting on feelings is the stupidest strategy of voting I have ever heard of. That is the reason we are in the mess we are. We vote on feelings and we get stupid politicians for it. Who has the slicker tongue? Who can "connect" with me on a personal level. Its never who has the best policies. Its never HOW they are going to fix it, as long as they say they will fix it.

McCain corrupt? Like Biden with his 30+ years? Please. Then if you want corrupt, lets bring in Obama's group of friends. Thats corrupt. Im not even going to begin to name them, the list is too long. OR how about his illegal campaign contributions from foreigners? Or his failure to list all donors? Or how about the liberal senators that do have felons? What about killer Kennedy? Or cash Jefferson? They actually DID get reelected! Yet you accuse Republicans of being corrupt. Makes me laugh.

Tell me snarf, have you ever owned a business? Have you ever had your house on the line if your business failed? I know my dad had our house on the line when he started his business. Did the poor schmuck put his house on the line? Doubt it. Instead he decided not to go to college and benefit himself. He decided that the government can take care of him. He decided that he was going to be irresponsible and not work hard to get promoted. I made more than minimum wage in my first job. I already make $20 because I work hard to improve myself. Should I have to give that up because some moron won't try? Why succeed? Why try hard at all? You know what ruined the USSR? Everyone got paid the same. No incentive to work harder. Their efficiency dropped because of that. I see that coming with this "redistribution of wealth" crap. Ive already thought about moving out of the US because of our ridiculous tax codes. Ireland looks better than the US right now. Hong Kong looks even better. That is what every business is thinking. If they can get out, they are getting out. It will cost us millions of US jobs. If Im the owner of GM, Im already building a plant in China, or India. Plan ahead for the worst.

Unfortunately for you liberals, your "solutions" have already been tried and failed. All you can offer is a feel good attitude, much like Terror saying conservatives are only negative. See, we live in the real world where real choices have to be made. There are no leprechauns or unicorns. We take facts and stats, analyze them and make a logical decision.

Redistribution of wealth does not work
Socialized healthcare doesn't work
higher taxes slow down an economy
higher tariffs cost us jobs
welfare creates the lower class where they cannot escape
Social security cost the American taxpayers millions and billions

the list goes on about the failed policies the liberals offer. Using stats, not feel.

UPDATE!!!!
continuing on.

OGT:
universal health care doesn't work?

my god CK why bother argueing any policies with you if you can't accept the fact that every human on earth deserves Health care no matter their situation.

all i will say is stay the h*ll outa canada with a mind set like that.

and do you not realize that the war is costing hundreds of thousands a day just to have troops sitting in Iraq? you know what CK, your obviously from a wealthy family and your obviously a republican, and you obviously will not listen to reason as long as your a republican.

Liberals are not bad, infact they do more good for normal blue collard people then your party will ever do.

I honestly am not gonna argue anything with you since I am not american and in the end its not my choice to make, but don't complain when your living in a hut because mccain somehow got voted in.

I see america often, often enough to know that my canadian government does much more for the average person then any republican will ever do.

Its sad too that your country was supposibly founded on freedoms that every human deserves, but I have a feeling the colour of his skin helps you bias against his party and his amazing leadership, obama isn't where he is because hes an idiot or incompetant, infact if you were to look at his biography he had to surpass and many more obsticles then mccain ever had to and alot of the hardships obama endured and overcame were because of his background and where he came from.

Mccain is sooo senile that when asked "if you were in a plane over the pacific and something terrible was to happen, would you be ok with having Palin step up to do your job"

and his answer was something like his "I am not gonna die, why would you even say that?" yea good sh*t CK, real down to earth.

don't you find it even worse that mccain was all against bush and his policies up untill he found out he was running for president? then suddenly hes bushs royal *ss kisser? you don't find that weird? mccain is two faced and a liar, and he has no touch on todays world.

I feel your making a terrible choice just like alot of republicans, at this point in your life you should look at whats better for USA's global influence rather then your parties success which is obviously raining #1 on your list.

you want to talk policies? we can talk policies when mccain is ready to talk policies rather them scream terrorist at a black guy with a muslim background with a name that is sounds like osama.


thats all I have to say, goodluck on voting day.

and god I hope your country makes a good choice for once.

ME(CK):
haha!!! OGT...are you serious!!!

You just rambled on again, without one policy!!!! I cannot believe you actually took the time to write that whole thing in dismissal of my posts, without mentioning anything but rhetoric! And to add to that you called me a racist!!!

So because I disagree with Obama, I am a racist. Touching.

every human deserves healthcare? really? My gosh, no wonder Canada is a suburb of the US.

Then you say I care more about the republicans, than I do America. Im not even sure Im voting for McCain! Im probably going to vote Baldwin actually.

"we can talk policies when mccain is ready to talk policies rather them scream terrorist at a black guy with a muslim background with a name that is sounds like osama."

Can you name a time McCain has done that? Sorry, next.

From a wealthy family? My mom had to make all my clothes until I was in high school! She still works part-time! I am paying myself through college, without help from my parents. Same with my sister. My dad risked everything to start a business about 13 years ago. Because he actually succeeded, we should take money from him?

"infact if you were to look at his biography he had to surpass and many more obsticles then mccain ever had to and alot of the hardships obama endured and overcame were because of his background and where he came from."

Name some. Maybe how he got into Harvard. Can you tell us that story?

"you obviously will not listen to reason as long as your a republican."

what reasoning? I haven't seen any reasoning from any of the posts on the liberal side here. Not one policy. Not one reason to vote FOR Obama, other than he ran a good campaign.

"I see america often, often enough to know that my canadian government does much more for the average person then any republican will ever do."

Name some. Lets hear policies!!!


"Its sad too that your country was supposibly founded on freedoms that every human deserves"

Life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Funny I don't see healthcare listed. Nor welfare. Perhaps you could find them for me.

Perhaps you could show us where McCain is a Bush *ss kisser now? Or not?

Again, you liberals cannot refute a single thing that I have said thus far. Not a single thing. Its all about rhetoric with you guys. Are you guys that uneducated in politics and economics? I haven't even had to look anything up yet. That video I added above, I had on a different blog of mine. This isn't even a challenge! Will someone step forward and actually give me something to think about? Terror did the best job when we talked about Abortion on the sanct site. That is a moral argument though and hence will not have a correct answer in the eyes of some. Each and every policy we have discussed here though has a logical choice.

Healthcare cannot be given to all! Maybe I should find the stats of all the people who die waiting for surgery in Canada. Around Europe they are rationing it because it is bankrupting their country. Soon, instead of national healthcare, it will be no healthcare as the countries will be bankrupt and won't be able to help anyone.

With all the smart math people playing this game, I woulda thought some of you would use logic in your arguments instead of feelings. I guess I was wrong.

(Outside the conversation here.  I am getting a bit insulting, but he started to reach too far.  Calling me a racist?  I don't think so.)

OGT:
i never called you a racist, i said your probably bias due to that.

like i said I will talk policies when i hear one single policy from mccain, I've watched all the damn debates where mccain doesn't tell anything about policies, so why should I use my time to search up policies? one policy I heard barrack and bill clinton talk about was universal health care, your full of sh*t if you say all these people in canada die waiting for surgery, hell my mom went for surgery 6 months ago with 0 problems and no wait... in odd instances someone may die, I never said canada's health care system was perfect you misinterperting man, I said every person in your country SHOULD deserve to be able to go to the hospital, or clinic and get seen regardless of having benefits or not, thats a liberty we have in canada, and your country was founded on so much more then 3 f*cking words so stop being a dipsh*t about that.

the fact that you say noone deserves health care is adsurbed, people can do much more healthy then they will ever do sick. do you not see how much sense that makes? the profit that they can make from having a healthy population rather then a bunch of sick, whiney lazy sacks of sh*t because they can't afford to see a doctor about their back issues or whatever it may be?

like just sad that your saying people don't deserve that, I hope to god that you never get a disease like cancer or HIV where your forking out hundreds of thousands of dollars for kemo or meds that help you feel a bit normal.

the benefits out weigh the costs anyday of the week imo..

theres a policy, and theres me disputing its worth.

I am not saying for US to mimic Englands health care system or canada's, whom I must say is not in financial crisis and will never be in financial crisis, infact we have a shortage of doctors in this country, oh and did I add that canada has been making a 12 million surplus with univeral health care untill steven harper and his bush values came into office.

you want numbers goto an accountant, you want an arguement about something then here I am, I can't wait to see how you twist my every sentence this time around.

ME(CK):
Ok, this is the last time I will reply here. Your argument simply takes no stats or analyzing of any kind. I do not want this to get too heated either. Im a bit intense for a non-political site since I do educate myself on many of these issues on a daily basis.

Saying Im biased against a black is not calling me a racist? Thats a new one. *rolls eyes*


I talked policies!!! I did!!! And you cannot refute even one. The only one you have tried is healthcare. So why argue at all if you have nothing? McCain is not here talking policies, or not talking policies. I am here and I am owning this thread.

Healthcare:

First I will show you wait times in Canada:

http://www.cihi.ca/cihiweb/dispPage.jsp?cw_page=media_07mar2006_e

"Waiting to see a specialist

In 2005, 2.8 million Canadian adults said that they had visited a specialist for a new illness or condition. Half reported waiting four weeks or less, but some had much longer or shorter waits. Eighty-eight percent said that their visit took place within three months.

Following a specialist visit, some patients need further care. For example, new data from CIHI on hip and knee replacements tracked waits between the referral to a specialist and surgery for patients in 2005. On average, 30% of the total wait was spent waiting for an initial appointment with the orthopedic surgeon. Another 10% of the time went by before the decision was made to have surgery. The wait for surgery itself, sometimes several months, constituted on average about 60% of the total waiting time. Data reflect submissions from selected orthopedic surgeons in eight provinces."

http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/82-575-XIE/82-575-XIE2006002.htm

" Waiting for care remains the number one barrier to access

While most individuals who accessed a specialized service did not experience any difficulties – some did. (Table 2) Approximately 11% of those 15 years of age or older (2.8 million Canadians) visited a medical specialist in 2005 - among them, 19% reported that they faced difficulties accessing care. Approximately 6% (1.6 million) reported that they had non-emergency surgery - among them, 13% reported that they had difficulty accessing care. Similarly, 9% of the population 15 years and older (2.2 million Canadians) accessed selected diagnostic tests – among them, 13% reported difficulties accessing care.

Those who reported difficulties were asked about the types of barriers they faced. As in previous surveys, waiting too long for care was cited as the number one barrier among those who experienced difficulties. (Table 3) Among those who experienced difficulties accessing a specialist consultation, 68% indicated that waiting was the problem followed by 32% who indicated that they had difficulties getting an appointment.

Among those who had difficulties accessing non-emergency surgery, 66% indicated that it was because they had to wait too long. Over one in five individuals reporting difficulties indicated that they experienced difficulties getting an appointment, a rate similar to 2003 results.

Similarly, among those with difficulties accessing diagnostic tests such as an MRI or CT scan, 59% reported that they waited too long to get an appointment and 36% reported that they waited too long to get the test. The results are similar to those reported in 2003."

I will cease on that argument. As why should I over prove it? You haven't shown any stats yourself, only complain about McCain not talking policies. As if he was here.

"and your country was founded on so much more then 3 f*cking words so stop being a dipsh*t about that. "

umm...can you find healthcare in the constitution? Thought so.

"like just sad that your saying people don't deserve that, I hope to god that you never get a disease like cancer or HIV where your forking out hundreds of thousands of dollars for kemo or meds that help you feel a bit normal."

I will have healthcare. I am working hard to improve myself. I won't get HIV due to the choices I am making in my life. I make personal choices that benefit myself, instead of making choices to run myself into the ground. If I get cancer, I will have healthcare. Work hard and you will be rewarded.

"the profit that they can make from having a healthy population rather then a bunch of sick, whiney lazy sacks of sh*t because they can't afford to see a doctor about their back issues or whatever it may be?"

See this is where human nature blows socialism out of the water. If you don't have to work for anything and it is all given to you...what will you do? Not work of course. If you don't work and nothing is given to you...what will you do? Work of course. Again, read up on the USSR collapse. It should help you understanding human nature a bit more. If humans ran like robots, then yes, socialism would work. Unfortunately we do not. Human nature must be taken into account and all forms of "greater good" government, such as socialism and communism, fail to take that into account. Capitalism takes advantage of human nature and that is why the United States is the most wealthy nation on the planet. Rewarding hard work and success is the only way for anyone to succeed and work hard. To deny that is really...insane.

"infact we have a shortage of doctors in this country,"

ever wonder why you have a shortage of doctors? Perhaps the good doctors are coming to America where they can make more money? Competition works wonders my friend. All the best doctors in the world come to America because they can charge whatever price they like! If they charge too high though, they won't get any customers. Do you even have a clinic close to the MAYO clinic up there? Didn't think so. And you never will either, not with national healthcare. So long as our healthcare remains privatized, we will have the best doctors in the world in the United States.

Rationing of Healthcare and financial problems with healthcare:
http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/cif-econ-insight.pag?docid=77082735

"Germany is heading towards a major healthcare financing reform to trim its healthcare expenditure. The healthcare insurance premium is schedule to increase by 0.5 percent from 2007. The premium hike is expected to generate $6.26 billion for the government. The current reforms are expected to exert additional burden on the employers thus forcing them to cut their workforce and increase unemployment in the long run."

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/327/7412/414-g

"A few weeks ago, the German government presented a new health reform with the aim of rationalising health care and saving unnecessary costs (2 August, p 250) The reform might temporarily prevent the financial collapse of the health insurance companies, but experts and politicians agree that a major reconstruction of the entire German social security system is also needed. This would prevent a cost explosion in the closely linked areas of health care, special care for sick elderly people, and pension funds, which have to be shouldered by the younger generation. "

http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA555_Sweden_Health_Care.html

"In the 1990s, Sweden set about reforming its health care system by introducing aspects of privatization. These reforms were limited, however, and the old problems with waiting lists and rising costs had re-emerged by the beginning of this decade."

Seems privatizing it helped a bit.


If you want to talk about how to solve this healthcare costs problem. Reduce frivolous lawsuits. The insurance for doctors, just because of crazy lawsuits, is very high. Lower their insurance costs and they will be able to lower their prices. Make the prosecutor pay for the lawsuit if they lose. It would make the patient rethink a frivolous lawsuit where they only want to scam the doctor.

Do not allow illegals to use the ER room like they do. Only citizens of the United States or those on a traveling visa/passport should have use of taxpayer dollars. I know this would be hard, but this would help solve the crisis as well. Preferably we would just work on getting rid of illegals in this country and we wouldn't have to enact this in any way. It would be nearly impossible to enact this in all reality.

You really gave only rhetoric in your response, yet again. Unless you can use a logical approach on HOW socialised healthcare is better both in accessibility and costs, your argument falls short.

OGT:
CK you don't understand, show me what you want but what I believe I believe, and your right people are greedy and thats just too bad I guess because they still make over 100 dollars an hour here..

our health care will not collaspe like those countries.. regardless vote for whoever not my country..


the only way to not have universal health care is to have companys mandatory health care plans that employees can buy into, thats the only other way.


even then that will not help poor families making minimum wage.


come to canada, I'll break your face and we'll see what you think of our system after that. lol

So, that last line was a poke at fun, not a threat.  I guess he believes what he believes, but IM the one unwilling to listen to reasoning. lol.  Its too bad that he doesn't understand economics in the slightest though.  Ah well, it was a losing battle to begin with.  I won the argument, but he will not concede.  I finally brought out the big guns with proof of universal healthcare failing, so he couldn't refute what I said.  At least he was able to make a joke at the end. hehe

Now, you may be thinking.  AOL poll?  Or, its a selective poll, the people have to choose to vote.  Well, thinking this over, none of that actually matters in this poll.  This poll is only open to people with AOL accounts.  People cannot vote more than once as you must login to vote and unless you have hundreds of AOL accounts, a single person cannot do more than possibly their internet account and AIM account.  That rules out fraud for this poll. 

Sampling selectivity:  Well, unless someone can prove that AOL users are more conservative than the average American, how can anyone possibly put biased as a possible reason?

Selective Poll:  They all are.  To tell a pollster you are for either candidate requires you making a choice.  On this poll, it sits right on their homepage, so I would think the average AOL user would see it.  If anyone has any level of commitment to vote this election, they can easily vote on it without more than 2 mouse clicks...probably one even.  So unless you can claim that Obama supporters are less gungho(yea right) this point is also moot.

Sampling size:  Well, seeing as this one averages over 350,000 a week, I can't imagine anyone arguing this point.

Any other possibilities?  Ill try to think of some more and add them.

Im having trouble finding previous weeks actual voting tallies as it runs off a java looking program and it sends me to the current week poll when I try.  I have found that last week McCain won with 56-44 over Obama at the end and there was 210,000 on day 5 of 7 of the voting.  That means that there was probably about 300,000 voters last week with McCain getting 56% of them. 

This link will be the link to the current poll, which started Oct 31st.  There is already over 40,000 votes at the time of this post. 

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/10/31/aol-straw-poll-oct-31-nov-4/

Myself, I feel McCain is going to win in a landslide.  I could be way off, but I feel he will.  I wonder if this poll is a good sample of the average American?

So, I've been saying all along that liberals have no idea what they are voting for.  Take a gander at this audio piece and tell me that they do know what they are voting for.  His skin color perhaps? 



http://www.bpmdeejays.com/upload/hs_sal_in_Harlem_100108.mp3

So I attend the College Republicans meetings at the University of Minnesota every Wednesday with my sister.  About 40 people are there each meeting with about 20-30 regulars.  I started going a month ago because I thought it would be fun to get involved a bit, even if I don't REALLY support McCain.  So once in awhile they pop up phone banking on us for the last 10 minutes.  Ive gone with my sister to phone banking before and personally I think its a waste of time since we aren't convincing anyone of anything, but only asking questions.  Anyways one of the 20 people I called was this guy who must have been itching for a debate.  I first ask him if he is voting McCain, then Coleman.  He then asks me if I'M voting for McCain.  So I tell him Im not 100% sure, but probably (Im still waiting for his 1 term only announcement).  Anyways, we get into this 20 minute debate.  He was somewhat independent, but more liberal.  First he started on Palin's experience, but I derailed him with Obama and he had to change the subject.  Next he brought up the economy and how Bush's policies got us here.  Which led to the Trickle down effect and how he thinks it doesn't work.  I was appalled at his reasoning as he was saying things like, "You can tax businesses because they can hide the money" and stuff like that.  I figured that it wouldn't be easy to try and prove the trickle down effect works on the phone.  So I decided I would throw in a short description here.

So now that you have the backstory....

The trickle down effect basically says that cutting taxes for everyone, including high income earners, will help the job market and the economy.  Liberals will say that taxing the rich will not harm the economy.  Polar opposites, so I feel this is a major subject to discuss.

What happens when you cut taxes on everyone?

-middle class people suddenly have more money
-business owners suddenly have more money
-basically everyone has more money, lets face it, you cannot deny that with everyone getting their taxes cut.

What will the middle class do with more money? 
-Suddenly they have enough money for that new TV.
-Maybe they will go on more vacations?
-In short, they will spend the extra money they have.

What will the business owners do with more money?
-Buy more inventory
-Buy new machinery to increase production, which creates jobs
-Lower prices to undercut competitors(Ill admit this is probably least likely, but a possibility nonetheless)

What happens with middle class spending more?
-Businesses make more money by selling more products
-tourist areas make more money as well
-GDP will rise due to higher spending


What happens when businesses have more money?
-Jobs created

Is there any possible way to actually deny any of that logic?  A business owner will try to make more money in every possible way.  Producing more will allow them to sell more and make them more money, so they will try to do that.  Buying more inventory will mean that the business they bought from will have more money and they will buy from another business who will buy from another etc etc.  The middle class will then have more jobs available to them and they will be more competitive since there will be more available jobs to take.  Their wages will increase due to competition.  A business owner knows its worth paying $15 for a reliable worker instead of paying $11 for an unreliable one.

What happens to government income?
-If GDP does not change, it will be lower, however with all the extra spending by businesses and consumers the GDP will be higher.  There is a breaking point, but at our current rates the last tax cut raised the IRS revenues.

So.....in short.

Middle class has more money
Businesses have more money
Government takes in more taxes, due to higher GDP
More jobs are created
Jobs make more money

Can anything be a drawback of this trickle down effect?

Conversely, what happens when taxes are raised on the rich only.  Obama claims that, and even though I know he will raise taxes on all, I will compare that.

Businesses have less money

What does a business do when they have higher taxes?

Raise prices?
Lay off workers?
Lower wages?

There aren't many options to make up the loss.

So the economy has fewer jobs, at lower wages with higher priced goods. 

So basically the middle class will not be affected if...

you do not buy goods from a company.
You do not work for a company.

Does anyone reading do both of those things?  I think it would be tough not to buy goods from a company, since everything is made by a business.  And before you liberals argue the 250k cutoff, that is very low for a business.  Many business that are small clear well over 250k for the year.  Nearly every business will be affected.

So today I was watching some political ads on TV and for the umpteenth time I got to hear about how the Bush economic policies caused this crisis.  Oh wait.....no I didn't.  I only heard that it DID cause the crisis.  I didn't hear how it did.  In fact I have yet to hear HOW it has yet.  Its always Bush's economic policies this, or Bush's doctrine that, but never do they name policies.  Never do I hear of one possible thing that Bush did that caused this crisis.  Well...ok, the one I have heard is the Iraq war, but that hasn't been the cause of this banking crisis or the home bubble.  To say that is beyond ignorance and into lies.  So liberals...if any of you are reading, lets hear of a policy of Bush's that has caused this crisis.  I mean...it must be better than the CRA bill right?

So today I was thinking about all the parasites to society that are going to have their vote worth just as much as mine and thought of a great way to fix our country.  This will work on many levels since it starts in the grassroots and spreads upward, quickly.  I started thinking on why should a person who does nothing but suck life from society be able to have a voice?  If you were in a small tribe and you decided as a group on what to do, would you allow the person who slept all day to vote on what the group does?  Why would we allow people that have no idea on what the real world is all about, because you supplied their needs through welfare, to vote?  Wouldn't that lead to exactly the type of politics we have now?

I am constantly hearing Obama and McCain shouting all the things they will give me.  As if I need or trust the government to give me anything worthwhile without taking more from me the next day.  Today the winning politician is usually the one who sounds best when promising the parasites their gifts.  I seem to remember that the only rights our founders thought were given to us were life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.  Now, I had no idea that they thought the happiness would come directly FROM the government.  I'd imagine that they thought freedom FROM government would be that pursuit of happiness. 

So to my idea. 

First off I would raise the voting age to 21, unless you have a military card.  If you are old enough to serve, you can vote right?  Well I see it that if you do serve you can vote, otherwise, why should an indoctrinated 19 year old be able to vote if they haven't even been given responsibility at a job yet?  In most cases they haven't had to pay rent, car insurance, car payments, cell phone bills etc etc.  Now some have, but I feel they are in an enough of the minority that their group shouldn't be allowed in the decision making process for this country.  If you served in the military you have fought to protect our rights and deserve a seat at the table. 

Next I would like to limit the voters to only people that pay in positive taxes for that election year.  I think this could also extend to people that have paid positive taxes for X amount of years, say 25 years.  That way people who have contributed to society are the only ones voting.  My aunt has never known what its like to have to work for anything because she has been on welfare since she was a teenager.  Why should her vote count just as much as mine?  Again, would you allow the person in your tribe to vote if they had been lazy and sleeping all day every day?  Probably not.  The people that should be making the decisions should be the people that are helping make this country a better place.  They are the ones who are getting jobs and helping keep our roads smooth, or bridges up.  They are the ones keeping our military well kept and trained.  The parasites are draining society and shouldn't be allowed a seat at the table. 

Now, I don't feel this is elitist in any way.  It's incredibly easy to make enough money to pay in positive taxes.  For it to be elitist, I think the prerequisite would have to be tougher than getting a job.

Now some may be thinking this could be difficult.  I do not think voter registration cards would get it done.  However, we are in the information age with computers and databases bringing everything to you in the blink of an eye.  The government has the central databases that could do this.  When the IRS takes in your filed taxes, it marks your SS number as yes or no for voting possibility.  Then you go to your voting building or whatever and you slide your license through the machine like a credit card.  The machine reads your SS number and finds it in the database.  It then says if you can vote or not.  I think its pretty simple.  If you do not have a license then you must get an identification card from the government.  This also eliminates voter registration since you will already be in the database.  This also eliminates lots of fraud obviously since it doesn't rely on registration but up to date taxes.  Deaths are already run through the government and they could just mark the voting possibility no when you die.  That way your social security number is no longer valid to vote.

Any thoughts or questions?

So, my sister is in an AP Government class as an 11th grader and she has come to me with questions about their readings.  I found the recent reading incredibly liberal.  And hence begins my story of indoctrination, first hand. 

Here are some quotes from the crazy reading which was authored by David Brooks( a journalist for the NYT).  Let alone that she is required to read a piece by a writer of the laughable NYT, this piece is propaganda.

"Everything that people in my neighborhood do without motors, the people in Red America do with motors. We sail; they powerboat. We cross-country ski; they snowmobile. We hike; they drive ATVs. We have vineyard tours; they have tractor pulls."

And there he goes about them saving the planet eh?  His neighborhood he talks of is blue America, or democrats.

"All we know, or all we think we know, about Red America is that millions and millions of its people live quietly underneath flight patterns, many of them are racist and homophobic, and when you see them at highway rest stops, they're often really fat and their clothes are too tight."

Umm...can you wrongly stereotype anymore than this excuse of a human being?

Im not going to quote through the entire thing as you get the point.  Read it for yourself if you like.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/12/brooks.htm

So I was sitting around ideating the other day(jk, its from an IBM commercial) and came across this idea while talking with my dad. 

Couple of assumptions/truths before I give out my priceless invention

1.  Mortgage banks are the ones failing because people are not able to pay their mortgages.  Pretty much a given.

2.  Prices of houses are, and have been, falling.  So people don't own enough of the house to sell it and that is killing the market.

My solution!!!  And you may want to sit down folks! 

Remove Property Taxes!!!  TADA!! 





I know where my parents live, they pay around 8k property taxes a year.  In many places the property tax is higher than it should be since house prices have fallen.  They never lowered property taxes!  Remove the couple hundred each month that these folks have to pay to the almighty government, and let them use it for their house payment.  Now this will also help house pricing as people would start to gain some equity in their homes as they pay for them.  It would at least help stabilize the market, instead of a continuing free-fall.

Now, of course this alone will not solve this crisis.  There are many things the government could do to help solve this.  Cut taxes to start.  Stop wasteful spending would also help us lower our debt and increase the worth of the dollar.  But, when did the almighty government do anything that was good for the economy? 

But, if we can get the American people to be able to pay their mortgages, then the banks will be taking in the necessary money.  I also think that banks could be smarter and lower interest rates on existing loans.  That would lower house payments and people would be able to pay, instead of leaving and the bank getting nothing.  But hey, thats just me thinking out of the box right?