the cost of doing anything

January 14th, 2010

hfire

If your house were flooding would you burn it down? Of course not, yet that seems to be the exact nonsensical mindset of the current Democratic establishment. Instead of addressing the issues at hand, the Democratic Party enjoys redefining the problem then “solving” it in the most convoluted way possible.

Sure, burning the house down would dry up the water and resolve the immediate issue of the flood, however, at what cost? Imagine if you suggested not burning the house down and being labeled an obstructionist who enjoys the status quo of a flooded house.

Sometimes doing nothing is not ideal or even advisable (as is the case when your basement is filling up with water), however, sometimes the “solution” can be worse than the problem.

The Democrats would have us believe that doing anything is always preferential to doing nothing. It is true that inaction rarely leads to solutions, yet it is also true that inaction never leads to compounding the problem.

This desire of doing something for the sake of doing something frequently leads to a calamitous outcome, and almost always stems from fear and a lack of understanding. Bloodletting, mercury pills, the Salem witch trials, New Coke, the Jay Leno Show and even Hitler, all bungles of varying degree, yet all borne from a desire to act in the face of uncertainty.

So tell me, does tearing up the Constitution while seizing 1/6th of the economy, raising taxes in a recession, spending trillions of dollars that we simply don’t have, mandating by force the purchasing of insurance and forcefully changing the insurance of millions of those who are currently satisfied, all in the name of covering an additional 12% of the population for 10 years make sense, or are we about to burn our house down to fix the flood in the basement?

All I am saying is that sometimes doing nothing is better than doing anything.

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spend spend spend

October 9th, 2009

gw

What is the biggest most immediate threat that America faces, our growing debt (specifically to China), lack of health insurance, or global warming?  This is the question that should be posed to all our politicians.

What is more likely to cause the downfall of America as we know it, rising tides or rising debt? If you listen to Washington and the media their is no question. But as everyone jumps on the green bandwagon and the insurance farce our balance sheet continues to go deep into the red. The dollar continues to lose its value as our so called allies quietly celebrate, and China steadily buys up our debt and owns our government.

There is no doubt in my mind that this is the most immediate and real threat to America’s world status and our future as a country. So when your congressman or senator tries to cram debt contributing legislation down your throat (be it cap and trade or Obamacare) ask him what he thinks our biggest threat is.

Washington needs to wake up. Congress needs to start worrying more about our future than their own. The treasury needs to stop printing money, and American voters need to demand more.

The average American household’s share of federal obligations is a staggering $550,000. This is the amount of money (not covered by taxes) that the federal government would need to put aside (per household) to cover all outstanding obligations. $64 trillion. What could your family do with half a million dollars? I bet it could afford some kick ass health insurance and a nice shiny hybrid car.

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whoops

October 1st, 2009

whoops

Can someone make a comment so ignorant and off the wall that it automatically invalidates everything they have ever said pertaining to any topic?

You know a really moment. As in, really??? Really, that’s what you really think? Wow.

Kind of like,

“I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”

~ Whoopi Golberg on Roman Polanski

I guess in Whoopi’s world, a 44-year-old man getting a 13-year-old drunk , drugging her and performing oral, vaginal, and anal sex on her after repeated pleas of “no, stop, please stop, please take me home”, is not rape-rape, but the lesser act of something else.

The world must really be rosier through those tinted circle lenses, because in Whoopi’s world when a 44-year-old man photographs a 13-year-old girl nude, drugs her, forcefully molests and has sex with her (despite repeated pleas to stop), then asks if she would want him to “go in through [her] back” then proceeds to sodomize her while she cries, “no, please stop”, that’s not rape-rape.

Nope, not rape. I mean he has an Oscar just like her, he’s just kooky old Roman, always fooling around good-natured-ly sticking his penis in 13-year-olds. The prosecutor has it all wrong. He’s no real criminal, not like those Wall Street bankers.

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read my lips…

September 30th, 2009

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obama hates black blind people

September 23rd, 2009

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It is clear that President Barack Obama is a racist. Clearly, in his not supporting David Paterson for governor of New York, the first black governor of the state, Obama is engaging in racism. Michelle Paterson, the governor’s wife agrees.

David’s the first African-American governor in the state of New York and he’s being asked to get out of the race. It’s very unusual and it seems very unfair.

Unusual indeed Michelle, unusual indeed. It would be odd if Paterson is being judged on his record and not his skin color, I mean he has a 17% approval rating and a $3B deficit, but he is black, so technically he is completely unaccountable. Since results are a nonissue the only possible motivation for not supporting the governor is race. The governor himself has admitted that the reason his approval ratings are so low is because he is black, he has also suggested they are low because Obama’s approval is so low, and that Obama’s approval is low because Obama is black. Therefore, if Obama disapproves of the governor, he himself must be a racist. QED.

But clearly Obama is not a racist because black people can’t be racist, therefore, he must be anti-disabled. Obama simply wants to support someone with more vision. I figured it out Michelle.

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