Did Thomas Jefferson actually say this?: "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
Cowboys and the Tea Party political movement have a lot on common. Both believe in individual responsibility; judging a man by his actions not words; and, both are disgusted with government intrusions into our lives and particularly our God given rights.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Gotta Love the U.S. Marine Corps
Since the Liberals have been pissing me off all week, I thought I would return the favor,…..
Did Thomas Jefferson actually say this?: "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
Did Thomas Jefferson actually say this?: "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading".
Sunday, April 8, 2012
The Truth Versus the Spin on Job Growth
If you could stand it, you may have heard President Obama trying to justify a second term by saying the economy is looking better with a recent number of 230,000 jobs created. Some of the quotes from back and forth on-line comments shows that many people aren't fooled.
Ahhh,...those statistics and damned lies again......! I mean really, 230,000 jobs is a bubble? Hardly makes a dent in the 7,500,000 jobs lost!
You missed the point. The government isn't supposed to make up the jobs, the problem is that there are 7,500,000 fewer people helping to pay for 230,000 more government positions.
So at an average salary of $67,691 with say a 70% overhead (benefits, office space, equipment, etc - probably low), so about $115K per employee. 203,000 means 13,741,273,000 spread out among the 106,000,000 that have to pay for those employees means each of the remaining workers makes $129 less per year.
Now since taxes are spread really unevenly and 50% of the population doesn't pay any, it means those of us that do have to support yet larger government bureaucracies which generally provide nothing and make doing actual work harder.
Most Americans are insulated from the rest of the world, this whole anti government thing I see on this site really is a US phenomenon. Nobody likes their government, but no other nation hates government like the US!
Let's see - out of control spending, bad foreign policy, imperialism, manipulation of the worlds currency, ........not to mention job killing over regulation, and sky rocketing gas prices without any strategy to produce more domestic oil.........we have alot of like about the Government!
"The States can best govern our home concerns andn the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore,...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President, letter to Judge WIlliam Johnson in 1823."
Ahhh,...those statistics and damned lies again......! I mean really, 230,000 jobs is a bubble? Hardly makes a dent in the 7,500,000 jobs lost!
You missed the point. The government isn't supposed to make up the jobs, the problem is that there are 7,500,000 fewer people helping to pay for 230,000 more government positions.
So at an average salary of $67,691 with say a 70% overhead (benefits, office space, equipment, etc - probably low), so about $115K per employee. 203,000 means 13,741,273,000 spread out among the 106,000,000 that have to pay for those employees means each of the remaining workers makes $129 less per year.
Now since taxes are spread really unevenly and 50% of the population doesn't pay any, it means those of us that do have to support yet larger government bureaucracies which generally provide nothing and make doing actual work harder.
Most Americans are insulated from the rest of the world, this whole anti government thing I see on this site really is a US phenomenon. Nobody likes their government, but no other nation hates government like the US!
Let's see - out of control spending, bad foreign policy, imperialism, manipulation of the worlds currency, ........not to mention job killing over regulation, and sky rocketing gas prices without any strategy to produce more domestic oil.........we have alot of like about the Government!
"The States can best govern our home concerns andn the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore,...never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President, letter to Judge WIlliam Johnson in 1823."
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Current Status of the Republican Presidential Candidate
With 1144 delegates needed to lock up the Republican Nomination to run against Barack Obama this November, former Governor Mitt Romney has 658, former Senator Rick Santorum has 281, with Newt at 135 and Ron Paul at 51.
There have been approximately fourteen national polls, if you give polls any credence, since the beginning of March 2012,....from Gallup, CNN, McClatchy, Ramussen, Fox News, etc. Romney came out ahead in 13 of these polls by margins ranging from 4 to 13 points, while Santorum was tops in one poll by a margin of 4 percent.
Santorum's slight to moderate slide since Feb and Romney's upswing in the same time period, combined with the curent delegate count would lead one to believe that in the interests of getting ready for the bigger and far more importance contest with Brack Obama, that Santorum, as well as Gingrich and Paul would concede, suspending their campaigns for the greater good. Yet attacks on Romney continue, mostly from Santorum, this is NOT in the best interest of the Republican party nor this Country.
I get it that Santorum is the more conservative candidate. He is largely more experienced in foreign policy and is certainly more conservative on the family values and morals - which incidentally does not make him more so that Romney, it's just that these issues are more important to Santorum. In fact, this is also Santorum's weakness as the Liberals deceive and outright lie about Santorum's and the Republican's platform,...and example is Obama's speeches about the "Republican War on Women". How the President can lay down to sleep at night when he spent the day lying, is beyond me.
Up until about three weeks ago I was a Santorum supporter. No more. We have to unite as a party in order to unite as a Nation. So now I am not only comfortable supporting Mitt Romney, I am excited about our chances of wining the White House and not only bringing a screeching halt to the collective socialism and anti-constitutional direction of the Obama Administration, but moving forward as a conservative nation with personal freedoms and market based capitalism as the focal point to restore the promise of this Country and our status as the beacon to the world.
There have been approximately fourteen national polls, if you give polls any credence, since the beginning of March 2012,....from Gallup, CNN, McClatchy, Ramussen, Fox News, etc. Romney came out ahead in 13 of these polls by margins ranging from 4 to 13 points, while Santorum was tops in one poll by a margin of 4 percent.
Santorum's slight to moderate slide since Feb and Romney's upswing in the same time period, combined with the curent delegate count would lead one to believe that in the interests of getting ready for the bigger and far more importance contest with Brack Obama, that Santorum, as well as Gingrich and Paul would concede, suspending their campaigns for the greater good. Yet attacks on Romney continue, mostly from Santorum, this is NOT in the best interest of the Republican party nor this Country.
I get it that Santorum is the more conservative candidate. He is largely more experienced in foreign policy and is certainly more conservative on the family values and morals - which incidentally does not make him more so that Romney, it's just that these issues are more important to Santorum. In fact, this is also Santorum's weakness as the Liberals deceive and outright lie about Santorum's and the Republican's platform,...and example is Obama's speeches about the "Republican War on Women". How the President can lay down to sleep at night when he spent the day lying, is beyond me.
Up until about three weeks ago I was a Santorum supporter. No more. We have to unite as a party in order to unite as a Nation. So now I am not only comfortable supporting Mitt Romney, I am excited about our chances of wining the White House and not only bringing a screeching halt to the collective socialism and anti-constitutional direction of the Obama Administration, but moving forward as a conservative nation with personal freedoms and market based capitalism as the focal point to restore the promise of this Country and our status as the beacon to the world.
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