GIVE TAKE Act

The recently announced Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act, known as the GIVE Act, is anything but. It turns out the Volunteerism part was just a joke. It would have been more appropriately name the Taking Away Kids Emancipation Act. Quoting from Fox News

...the bill creates a "Congressional Commission on Civic Service."
The bipartisan commission will be tasked with exploring a number of topics, including "whether a workable, fair and reasonable mandatory service requirement for all able young people could be developed and how such a requirement could be implemented in a manner that would strengthen the social fabric of the nation."

I believe this has been done before and everyone got to wear those cute little matching brown shirts and they were called the Hitler Jugend Bund der deutschen Arbeiterjugend, (Hitler Youth League of German Worker Youth)!

As Yogi Berra once said, "This is like deja vu all over again."
No one should be surprised by this since the chosen one said during a Colorado Springs rally,

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded,"

I'm Just Saying - repeat after me Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil!

Shot Heard Around....

Well it may not be heard around the world but I think the unions got the message loud and clear. Wal-Mart fired about 2 billion rounds across the bow of the union's Employee Free Choice Act.

"...incentives for hourly workers include $933.6 million in bonuses that the retailer is handing out Thursday. There is another $788.8 million in profit sharing and 401(k) contributions, and hundreds of millions of dollars in merchandise discounts and contributions to the employees' stock purchase plan."

Only union thugs could name something that takes away the rights of employees the Employee Free Choice Act.

This insidious act requires the National Labor Relations Board to certify a union after a mere 51% of the employees have been coerced into signing union cards without further elections. Then the company would be forced into finding arbitration lasting 2 years for any unsettled employee disagreements. That along with stiffer penalties for unfair labor practices committed by employers but not unions should pretty much guarantee the failing labor unions a revitalized strong hold on employers. In other words unions would be Free to harass the holdouts since they know who has not signed up.

I hope Wal-Mart's employees can see this union shake down for what it is.

I'm Just Saying - sometimes Free isn't!

Are you happy?

If so, you haven't read the news lately. Here are a couple of items that should get the blood boiling this morning.

On AIG;

“People are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses,” Obama said. “But just as outrageous is the culture that these bonuses are a symptom of that have existed for far too long.” (source)

My outrage is directed at the bozos that gave AIG the money in the first place, not the company living up to it's contractual obligations. However, the second half of his quote is even more disturbing. The chosen one thinks the government should step in and prevent companies from rewarding it's employees at ANY time. Apparently in his world everyone makes the same amount of money regardless of their job performance. That sounds a lot more like socialism than capitalism!

Next on the piss you off for today agenda;
Obama May Use Legislative Ploy to Jam Through Health, Tax Bills

The administration and congressional Democrats are debating whether to use a parliamentary procedure called reconciliation to advance some of the biggest items on the president’s agenda. The move would allow Democrats to approve plans to raise taxes by $1 trillion, create a cap-and-trade system to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions, and overhaul health care without a single Republican vote.

Don't worry about a constitutional system of checks and balances that has been in place for over 200 years. Screw everyone that doesn't agree, we'll enact this into law and fund it whether you like it or not.

I'm Just Saying - you still happy?

Third ...Pick Withdraws

In honor of;

Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration.

It's the third withdrawal of a top Treasury Department staff pick in less than a week.

I proudly present;



I'm Just Saying - yep, another one bites the dust!

Embryonic Stem Cell Research

The economy is going to hell in a hand basket and the chosen one decides it's time to give more money that we don't have to embryonic stem cell research. Brilliant! Boy that should get the economy going.

His advisers say the "move is a clear signal that science — not political ideology — will guide the administration." Exactly what part of science would that be? There have been NO instances of embryonic stem cell research achieving ANYTHING other than spending money. We are told that the "long-promised move will allow a rush of research aimed at one day better treating, if not curing, ailments from diabetes to paralysis." What, they can't cure global warming or my craving for chocolate chip cookies?

There was never a ban on the research only a restriction using taxpayer money. If these yahoos believed so strongly that this is the answer why didn't they put their own money into this scientific boondoggle? Even if this should be a topic for debate you would think the administration would be trying to figure out why their policies have driven the Dow Jones below 6700 for the first time since 1997 instead of pulling us out of the recession.

I'm Just Saying - looks like he's just paying off his supporters here.

StickItToUs Plan Pork

The Heritage Foundation has identified 9,287 earmarks in the chosen one's new StickItToUs Plan Pork. There is so much pork in this package that some Muslim countries are not even allowing their citizens to read about it!

Looking through the sample listing you will find Senator Hutchison listed once for the $2 million handout for the LBJ library. Senator Cornyn is not listed in this sample. Former presidential wannabe John Kerry is well represented in the sample with $29 million worth of porcine demands. But they are such good causes like the GoGirlGo Women's Sports Foundation in Boston. Here's his sample swine serving;

$5,813,000 Edward Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston
$22,000,000 JFK Presidential Library
$300,000 GoGirlGo! Boston, MA
$190,000 Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, MA
$238,000 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
$300,000 Shakespeare and Company

I'm Just Saying - if it smells like a pig - it's PORK.

Barney

No, not that one. I'm talking about the fagot one that put Fannie May and Freddie Mac into bankruptcy by insisting they loan money to people that could not afford to pay it back. Then he feigned indignity when the Bush administration asked for oversight. It was announced today that this twit has the audacity to "seek criminal and civil penalties on financial actors that helped cause the current crisis". This is some what akin to the Menendez Brothers seeking justice for their parents murderers!

I'm Just Saying - better get used to this kind of Audacity!

Roller Coaster?

Harry Smith told us this morning that the stock market has been "like a roller coaster" lately. Maybe he's never been on a roller coaster because the the ones I've ridden had to go UP before they went DOWN!

Since the chosen one has "fixed" all of our problems the market has been more like an anchor thrown into the Mariana Trench.

I'm Just Saying - try as they might, there's some things you can't spin.

It goes without saying

If "it goes without saying" long enough, eventually no one will hear it. I think that we should speak up more about our beliefs instead of just assuming everyone else understands. You know the old saying about what the word assume does - it makes an ass out of u and me! The silent majority has been silent far too long with the idea that if someone wants our opinion they will ask for it. Well it's time to share you opinion whether it's asked for or not. It seems that opinions of the majority no longer matter and the vocal minority is busy making sure that it never will.

This mini rant was brought on by Thomas Sowell's excellent column today - Is Talk Cheap? He actually mentions Hitler and Obama in the same column - of my the sky is falling! Of course I guess it helps that he is a black man otherwise cries of RACISM would be heard through out the land. As it is, he's simply dismissed by the left as a crazy old Uncle Tom!

I'm Just Saying - speak out, before it's too late!

More?

"Please sir, may I have more?" Who says life doesn't imitate the arts? But instead of saying "More! You want more?", the chosen one's administration is saying "Sure, just pull up to the trough and help yourself to someone else's money!"

Not satisfied with pissing away $150,000,000,000 on AIG they are now ready to give them another $30,000,000,000 that doesn't exist.

"It grew too vast to be supported by its institutions, communications, education, resources and legal structure." Sound familar? No, it's not a quote about the USA, it was made in reference to the Roman Empire. But at the current rate of disintegration it's only a matter of time.

I'm Just Saying - at least Oliver knew there were limitations!