Epiphany

Yeah, that's an awfully big word for such a small mind but it does seem appropriate. While driving home from work yesterday I heard something on the radio that made the light bulb glow brightly.

A caller was saying that he was voting for the chosen one because he couldn't afford health insurance and had to take his daughter into a walk up clinic. Said he was working two jobs and barely making ends meet. After further talking it comes out he's an ex con working two part time jobs. So I'm thinking poor guy we can't let his daughter suffer, after all he's trying. Well not exactly. Turns out he's driving a brand new tricked out Chevy to deliver pizzas. That's when it happened!

EPIPHANY

They aren't the idiots, WE are.

Why do we continue to pay for the bad decisions of others? When is enough finally enough? Have we finally reached the point that Benjamin Franklin was talking about when he said “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”

I'm Just Saying - perhaps we have.

It's not who you know, or is it?

Here's a great column from Melanie Philips, The Spectator ( UK ) from 10/14/08 titled Pinch Yourself. In it she points out the significance of the chosen one's association with radicals.

You have to pinch yourself – a Marxisant radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshipped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.

I'm Just Saying - is Ms Philips part of the right-wing conspiracy too?

Idiots

Yesterday my son and I were discussing politics and both came to the conclusion that Obama will win because his supporters are fricking idiots. But don't take my word for it here's the proof.

A couple of weeks ago I heard clips from a Howard Stern (yeah, I'm not a fan either) radio show where they interviewed voters (listen here) in Harlem. Considering the chosen one has the support of 99.9% (not Thomas Sowell) of the blacks I really wasn't too surprised that they didn't have a clue about the position of their candidate.

But John Stossel interviewed a variety of young people and came to the conclusion that some people have A Duty Not To Vote?

I'm not saying that the government should impose a litmus test. God forbid. I just want clueless people to find something else to do on Nov. 4.

Watch the video here

When asked questions about Roe vs Wade, the number of senators, or even the number of states in the US many could not answer. He showed others pictures of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that they didn't know, yet almost everyone recognized television's Judge Judy.

I'm Just Saying - these are the people electing our president!

Gun Control

A great column from John Stossel;

England's ban didn't magically cause all British handguns to disappear. Officials estimate that more than 250,000 illegal weapons are still in circulation in the country. Without the fear of retaliation from victims who might be packing heat, criminals in possession of these weapons now have a much easier job, and the incidence of gun-related crime has risen. (nearly doubled)

Read the rest of it here Gun Control Isn't Crime Control

I'm Just Saying - Gun Control means double tap center mass.

Reading Assignment

Today you need to read two guys who get paid to do this. They've each done a great job trying to enlighten the masses. I'm afraid the people that need this won't read it though.

First Neal Boortz has some great comments on some Democrats plan to take over your 401k in HOLD ON TO YOUR PENSIONS WHILE YOU'RE AT IT (PART 2);

....lawmakers like George Miller are in an "increasingly privileged category" because they are guaranteed retirement benefits thanks to you, the tax payers.......George Miller, for example, if he were to retire tomorrow would take away an annual pension of about $122,000. In other words, "lawmakers' retirement benefits are out of step with most ordinary Americans." And at a time when Joe Biden wants to take away the pensions of CEOs, Congress has made no effort to revisit its own retirement plan.

Then from Thomas Sowell Obama and "The Left" He tells us the importance of Obama's associations.

Some people who see the fraud in what Obama is saying are amazed that others do not. But Obama knows what con men have long known, that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well.

I'm Just Saying -

Up Your Poll

Which poll do I believe? None!

It was announced yesterday that;
(A) either the presidential race was a dead heat
OR
(B) Obama leads by 12%.

So I looked up the main pollsters and found the following;
Obama 44, McCain 43 (AP)
McCain 50, Obama 48 (Rasmussen)
Obama 51, McCain 44 (Gallup)
Obama 48, McCain 34 (Riley)
Obama 51, McCain 39 (CBS)

Then with further searching I found the following list of various polls showing Obama winning by 2-13% or McCain winning by 1-12%;
Obama McCain
49%..........40%
45%..........46%
50%..........46%
51%..........47%
48%..........46%
54%..........44%
47%..........45%
42%..........54%
51%..........38%
52%..........41%
44%..........52%
51%..........46%
53%..........44%
51%..........39%
42%..........53%

Who's going to win?

I'm Just Saying - you sure can't tell by the polls.

It Can't Happen Here?

I read a piece online that pointed out that Argentine president, Cristina Kirchner, has just announced that she is going to nationalize all private pensions in Argentina. According to a story in the Wall Street Journal -

"Since then (2001) it has imposed price controls, defaulted on its debt, seized dollar bank accounts, devalued the currency, nationalized businesses and tried to set confiscatory tax rates with the aim of making society more 'fair."

So I'm thinking - well that's South America, that can't happen here. Then today I read this headline - House Democrats Contemplate Abolishing 401(k) Tax Breaks. It states that there is a plan where -

"all workers would receive a $600 annual inflation-adjusted subsidy from the U.S. government but would be required to invest 5 percent of their pay into a guaranteed retirement account administered by the Social Security Administration. The money in turn would be invested in special government bonds that would pay 3 percent a year, adjusted for inflation.
The current system of providing tax breaks on 401(k) contributions and earnings would be eliminated."

It would amount to a tax increase on workers making more than $75,000--considerably less than the $250,000 Barack Obama has said would be his tax-hike cutoff. Also you would only be able to pass along to your heirs half of your 401(k), with the other half going to the government one would assume.

And you thought your 401(k) was doing bad now.

I'm Just Saying - Wait until the government takes it over!