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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Mexican President Calderon,.....He has a Problem with the Truth

Just when you think you're becoming immune to the daily toll of Cartel related murders in Mexico, we learned about Cartels killers invading a Casino in Monterrey, dousing it with gasoline and setting a fire that killed at least 52 people, reported mostly older women.

A day later, Mexican National Ass Clown Felipe Calderon tells the U.S., in a speech directed at U.S. Citizens that we are partly responsible. Then he calls on us to quit selling high powered weapons and assault rifles to criminals that operate in Mexico. Since the casino murderers used gasoline, should we quit letting Mexicans buy gasoline as well? Maybe a bar on sales of Zippos to Mexico will do the trick?

And this clown addresses U.S. Citizens? Maybe he would have a point addressing the U.S. Government, specifically Eric Holder's Justice Department and the ATF who, under notorious Operation Fast and Furious, allowed thousands of guns to go to the Cartels, and nobody responsible in the Adminstration down to the ATF Director has yet to be held responsible.

And of course there is the four Mexican Nationals in Las Vegas, Nevada who bought and smuggled AK-47's, M-16's, and even some .50 caliber semi-automatic rifles directly to the Zetas....perhaps the most brutal cartel there is.......but that's like saying Joe Biden is perhaps the least Liberal idiot in Obama Administration.

Here's a message for Felipe Calderon: The problem ain't us. It's you,... your lack of a national ethic that allows the police departments, the government, and military to be infiltrated by Cartel members or for the Cartels to buy cooperation. Take the damn gloves off you idiot. Institute capital punishment. Develop real prisons rather than prisoner run institutions you have now. Ask the U.S. to target the Cartel leadership. And quit blaming us you incredibly stupid buffoonery.

Saturday, August 27, 2011

No Respect? No Respect Due

This came across to me with the title "The Honeymoon is Over!" saying that the extended grace period where President Obama could do no wrong and get away with blaming George Bush for everything, has ended, as anybody could tell from when the comedians start.


The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree...and think 25 to life would be appropriate.
--Jay Leno

America needs Obama-care like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno

Q: Have you heard about McDonald's' new Obama Value Meal?
A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien

Q: What does Barack Obama call lunch with a convicted felon?
A: A fund raiser.
--Jay Leno

Q: What's the difference between Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?
A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers, and threats to society. The other is for housing prisoners.
--David Letterman

Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were on a boat in the middle of the ocean and it started to sink, who would be saved?
A: America!
--Jimmy Fallon

Q: What's the difference between Obama and his dog, Bo?
A: Bo has papers.
--Jimmy Kimmel

Q: What was the most positive result of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?
A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper
stickers off the road.
--David Letterman

Solution to the problem in Libya:
They want a new Muslim leader, Give them ours.


Friday, August 26, 2011

Social Security Disability Near Insolvent

From an Associated Press article by Stephen Ohlemacher, 21 August 2011.

Laid-off workers and aging baby boomers are flooding Social Security's disability program with benefit claims, pushing the financially strapped system toward the brink of insolvency. Applications are up nearly 50 percent over a decade ago as people with disabilities lose their jobs and can't find new ones in an economy that has shed nearly 7 million jobs.

The stampede for benefits is adding to a growing backlog of applicants — many wait two years or more before their cases are resolved — and worsening the financial problems of a program that's been running in the red for years.

New congressional estimates say the trust fund that supports Social Security disability will run out of money by 2017, leaving the program unable to pay full benefits, unless Congress acts. About two decades later, Social Security's much larger retirement fund is projected to run dry as well.

Much of the focus in Washington has been on fixing Social Security's retirement system. Proposals range from raising the retirement age to means-testing benefits for wealthy retirees. But the disability system is in much worse shape and its problems defy easy solutions.

The trustees who oversee Social Security are urging Congress to shore up the disability system by reallocating money from the retirement program, just as lawmakers did in 1994. That would provide only short-term relief at the expense of weakening the retirement program.

Claims for disability benefits typically increase in a bad economy because many disabled people get laid off and can't find a new job. This year, about 3.3 million people are expected to apply for federal disability benefits. That's 700,000 more than in 2008 and 1 million more than a decade ago.

"It's primarily economic desperation," Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue said in an interview. "People on the margins who get bad news in terms of a layoff and have no other place to go and they take a shot at disability,"

The disability program is also being hit by an aging population — disability rates rise as people get older — as well as a system that encourages people to apply for more generous disability benefits rather than waiting until they qualify for retirement.

Retirees can get full Social Security benefits at age 66, a threshold gradually rising to 67. Early retirees can get reduced benefits at 62. However, if you qualify for disability, you can get full benefits, based on your work history, even before 62.

Also, people who qualify for Social Security disability automatically get Medicare after two years, even if they are younger than 65, the age when other retirees qualify for the government-run health insurance program.

Congress tried to rein in the disability program in the late 1970s by making it tougher to qualify. The number of people receiving benefits declined for a few years, even during a recession in the early 1980s. Congress, however, reversed course and loosened the criteria, and the rolls were growing again by 1984.

Cowboy's comment: We are going to "Entitle" ourselves into bankruptcy. Obama and the Democrats want to give another Social Security payroll tax deduction to seem like they support the middle class, making the Republicans look like tax hikers, when in fact the problem is that the current government spends too much and brings in too little by emplaces too much big government regulation to include high taxes on business. We'll either learn and correct this or wither into a economically despondent country like Greece.