The Bread Box, come enjoy a slice of my mind

Dear Senator,

HR2454, no matter how well intentioned, has become an out of control monster threatening to ravage the United States of America in it's path worse than any natural disaster or act of terrorism could.

Nevermind the jobs lost, businesses forced out of our country and the extra taxes that I will be forced to make at the expense of my family.  The 3:00am amendment of 309 pages added to this bill on the day of the Congressional vote shows the reprehensible and cowardly ways that your parties leadership chooses to operate.  Do you condone this way operating our Government?  Will I see you posting a memo on your website stating your disgust at such an end run on Americans?

Please consider us, the Americans who voted you into office, the Americans who work hard everyday just to make ends meet, the Americans with young children who have to one day explain how we mortgaged their future for the inflated ego of the party in power who thought they were better than the constituents that put them there.

We need green jobs, we need alternative energy and we need to leave fossil fuels behind in the past with poodle skirts and five cent candy bars.  But Senator, this is not the bill to do it with right now.  Lets get our country back on it's feet first and then we can tackle this massive job of changing the face of America the right way.

Sincerely,

John Elkin

I have been trying to put together this huge entry about all the things that are going on right now in our country, but the speed at which the Obama administration travels and events are revealed makes for constant editing and changes.  I want to get something posted so in the age of Facebook and Twitter I thought I would bullet point thoughts, ideas and accusations as they come to me during the course of today, April 2nd, 2009.  It’s cheesy I know, but if I don’t get things down quickly I will never be able to update my sorely out of date blog.

• When was the last documented case of organized Protesters actually changing the mind of a government, the G20, the Iraq War direction (or lack thereof) or anything?
• Exactly how many Obama nominees have unpaid taxes now?
• Obama campaign promise broken alert!  He and Joe Biden promised no new taxes for people making under $250,000 a year.  This new cigarette tax (six times larger than any in history) would be aimed at people most likely to smoke, lower income people.
• Really, if we’re going to Nationalize Banks, why not just take over Bank of America?  You’d save millions not having to change signs or marketing materials.
• With all the Government intervention into General Motors, should we just start calling it “The People’s Car” now?  Or should we wait until their product gets crappier than it is right now?
• 500 staffers are traveling with Obama for the G20 conferences?  Really? I would love to see one’s each job description, you kind of like going line by line through a budget to eliminate wasteful government spending… doesn’t that sounds familiar?
• Remember the name Harold Koh.  He is the nominee for the State Department Legal Advisor position.  This man would be the one making treaties and handling International legal negotiations.  Koh once wrote that the U.S. was part of an "axis of disobedience" with North Korea and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Koh also has long held that the U.S. should accept international law when deliberating cases at home.  Remember the name Harold Koh, he will be one of the people responsible for dismantling the Constitution.

That’s it for now, but stay tuned, this blog is getting revitalized.

In these first few days of the Obama Presidency I have a few things rambling around in my head that I want to get down while they are fresh in my mind.  I may expand on any or all of these later.

1.  If you look back on history this economy has to go into inflation sooner or later.  This isn’t a slam against Obama, the mold was set for this long before he took office, but it’s his problem now.

2.  Stimulus packages do not work, it’s another vehicle for government pork.  $4.19 Billion is going to his ACORN under the guise of “neighborhood stabilization programs” (this civilian army he wants to build).  Less than 12 cents per dollar is going to anything even close to stimulus for the economy.

3.  Afghanistan is where Obama wants to take the war on terror.  A place custom made for guerilla warfare.  Afghanistan has been the downfall of several large Nations and when Obama realizes this and cuts and runs the effect on the innocent Afghan people will be the same or worse than that of the south Vietnamese.

4.  If Obama can pass his Stimulus Package without a single Republican vote why did he reach out to them for a vote of confidence?  Because he needs to spread the blame when it fails to both sides of the aisle. 

5.  The media says that Obama’s Inauguration broke all the records.  Then why does the ratings show that they were beaten by American Idol?  Why didn’t any look back at past Inaugurations and see that Ronald Reagan’s first Inauguration got a higher rating?  It was the most expensive by far ($150 Million versus Bush’s $40 Million which was criticized by the media at the time as wasteful spending) and I will admit there were probably more people there than for any before it.

6.  At www.ideapalooza.com some genius made a Barack Obama Promise Tracker!  He outlines all 895 campaign promises he made culled from reading every single campaign speech (over 2000 pages) and setting up the mother of all spreadsheets.  It is free and downloadable but you have register for the site. 

7.  So far the Obama cabinet, that he promised would have people of good character on and will be Lobbyist free has a tax cheat and three Lobbyists on it.

I am sure more will follow soon…

Everywhere you look the media has declared this election over with Barack Hussein Obama's commanding 9 point lead in the polls.  I hate to tell the media this, but at this point four years ago John "Honey, buy me a Presidency" Kerry had a ten point lead and Bush came back to Washington to completely screw up everything he missed the first four years.  So I'm choosing to not listen to the media and the polls because, clearly, whoever wins this mess; and let me state that the term "win" isn't necessarily correct for the man who inherits the country from the previous Dictator; is in for a lot of problems and unpopularity.  I know that no matter who wins  and we, as Americans have to just get used to that fact.

Now, should we sit idly by and just take it?  I don't think so.  After the election no matter which of these sorry excuses for the ideals that originally founded this country we the people will have to be vigilant, expressive, communicative about the fact that we don't want the same old Washington D.C.  We don't want more bailouts, we don't want Lobbyists and the power brokers at Goldman-Sachs and Citibank to continue to run the country!  Because make no mistake about it my friends, these are the people that own the Presidents, buy your elected representatives and tweak the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to their liking.

John McCain is a Maverick!    Um, I don't think so.  He's more like a Maverick He wants to take away the rights of women and gay people and he wants to stay in Iraq for as long as it takes, 50 years, 100 years!  Newsflash!  The violence in Iraq is because WE ARE THERE!  We leave, the terrorists leave.  Sunni's and Shiite's will fight and argue until the end of time, it's worse than the Hatfield's and the McCoy's, and we will never stabilize that region to that degree. 

Barack Hussein Obama wants to tax the rich!  I don't think so because HE IS RICH, Nancy Pelosi is RICH and you think they want to tax themselves?  Barack Hussein Obama made $4.2 Million last year, which is just a tad above the magic $250,000 number he banters about.  It looks like he may not even be a US Citizen, but that won't stop the political machine.  You should see what they do to keep third party candidates off ballots in some states even though they abide by every rule and the Democraps and Republican'ts who are late filing their papers get to make the rules.

No matter what, get used to this

I can talk and write and scream from the mountain tops about Bob Barr , our Libertarian Presidential candidate and how unfairly he has been treated in this election, but it won't matter.  What will matter is you, as you survive these next two years before the big elections, maybe thinks about electing people who cherish Liberty and don't want to pervert it.  Start small, city councils, school boards, mayors and maybe even a state representative.  Let these people show how they can work for YOU, not THEM, and maybe in a few election cycles we won't have a power-hungry two party system but a balanced system of several parties keeping each other in check.

This is not an impossible task just as, unchecked this is not an impossibility either.