"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

Each day I receive a number of emails with everything from comments, products people are selling, to people who think that I should be tarred and feathered for my blogs, a lot of the latter; I must be doing something right.

I received the below email from a very unusual outlaw country/rock group who feels that some of you out there would appreciate their music.  To me there are a number of sounds in their music that remind me of numerous artist from the seventies, you be the judge.

Enjoy,

Redneck

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

I have never believed that Eric Holder should have been nominated for Attorney General of the United States, much less confirmed by Congress.  Many of you have become aware of the failed DEA operation Fast & Furious; it matches well the Fast & Loose approach Holder takes with the truth and the law.  If you want to know Eric Holder and just how Fast & Loose he plays with the law and the truth, please read the following very carefully and tell me, should Holder be prosecuted?

Like many other Obama appointments, Holder is no stranger to controversy; his career has been spotted with questionable moves and decisions, Fast & Furious just happens to be the latest and if we are lucky it will be the last for Mr. Holder, it is time for him to go.

That is the same sentiment that was echoed Saturday at a Phoenix, AZ news conference by ten Arizona elected County Sheriffs.  Sheriff Paul Babeu, President of the Arizona Sheriffs Association, noted that the association is equally represented with five Democrats and five Republicans.  “This is not a partisan issue, but a serious public safety issue that threatens the safety of our citizens and our deputies. Our own federal government has armed the very cartels that our law enforcement are fighting with on a daily basis.”

Sheriff Scott Mascher of Yavapal County added, “The Attorney General can’t be trusted to fairly self investigate these possible criminal charges of gun running which has resulted in murders of both individuals from the U.S. and Mexico. A Special Counsel must be appointed.”

Navajo County Sheriff KC Clark said: “I’m outraged that our own federal government has betrayed local law enforcement by arming violent foreign criminals and it now appears evident that Attorney General Holder may have lied under oath.”

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu said the sting operation, which allowed an estimated 2,000 firearms to reach narcotics cartels in Mexico, was a betrayal that should lead to the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder and possible criminal charges against those responsible.

"I believe that this is a much larger scandal than what took place in Watergate," said Babeu, who has also launched a petition aimed at holding President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano accountable for the program.

As I stated earlier, the Fast & Loose approach Mr. Holder takes with the truth and the law is not new, this was more than true concerning the scandalous Marc Rich pardon he engineered when he was with the DOJ under Clinton. Rich, an international commodities trader was indicted in the US on federal charges of illegally making oil deals with Iran and tax evasion.

However, with Holder guiding a presidential pardon for Rich, at the behest of Rich’s legal team, which was led by former Clinton White House Counsel Jack Quinn, (picture left) just hours before leaving office Clinton, granted Rich the presidential pardon sought by Holder and Quinn and based on Holders pardon recommendation.  The pardon was granted in part on the fact that Rich’s ex-wife had made large donations to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Library during Clinton’s time as president.

One of the fast and loose plays by Holder was to circumvent standard DOJ procedures for a pardon which would have required input from the U.S. attorney’s office handling Rich’s criminal case.  Instead, Holder interceded and with Rich’s attorneys help, appealed directly to President Clinton for the Rich pardon.  Had standard pardon procedures been followed, the U.S. attorney’s office handling the Rich case would have informed Clinton of all of Rich’s criminal activity and there would have been too much information for the pardon to proceed.

Now this is where you have to have a score card to keep up with all the players, you see, Jack Quinn, former Clinton White House Counsel and Rich’s attorney that was pushing the pardon was a supporter and close confidant of Vice President Al Gore. What Holder was hoping for while helping Rich and Quinn in 1999 and 2000, was that with their support, he would be made attorney general in an Al Gore administration.

Now we come to the part where you as an American citizen need to come to a conclusion that will bring you to the truth about your Attorney General.  How does the Deputy Attorney General, which Holder was, not do his normal fiduciary duty and check with the prosecutors in the Southern District to find out who he was dealing with or did he already know?

How could Holder as Deputy Attorney General and Rich led attorney Jack Quinn, former Clinton White House Counsel, not know the seriousness of the criminal charges against Rich?  After all, Rich had been on the FBI’s top-ten list of wanted fugitives, do you think that would have been a red flag that as the Deputy Attorney General you should look deeper into the case or did he already know?

Now for the strangest part of this Fast & Loose saga, is that of the entire combined houses of Congress, only one person had the Tony the Tiger hormones to ask the key question.  At the nomination hearing, Arlen Specter, R-PA, then the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pointedly asked, “Were you aware of the kind of record this man [Rich] had?”

Holder’s response was vague and rambling, “No I was not. And that was one of the mistakes that I made. I did not really acquaint myself with his record. I knew that the matter involved — it was a tax-fraud case; it was a substantial tax-fraud case. I knew that he was a fugitive. I did not know a lot of the underlying facts that you have described.”

Specter pressed Holder even further about what he knew about Rich in a written follow-up question, “Did you receive information about the facts of the Rich case from anyone other than Mr. Rich’s attorney, Jack Quinn?” Holder only response was one word, “No.”

Now all of the above should be more than enough to convince anyone that Holder is either a liar or incompetent to be Attorney General.  However, there is one more tidbit of information that you should have before you pass judgment on Mr. Holder.  As U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Holder’s office had been conducting an investigation into Rich and his business interests for tax evasion and other criminal activity.  This investigation was in 1995, years before he begin the push with Rich’s attorney Jack Quinn for a presidential pardon for Rich.

Now before I bid you adieu, please allow me to put before you three names that might help you decide what the faith of Mr. Holder should be, Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart, and Roger Clemens. All three of these people were indicted on criminal charges for making false statements to federal investigators or to congress.  How many passes does Mr. Holder get before he has to pay the piper?

Of course this is just one Rednecks’ opinion, stay strong and God Bless America.

RedNeck

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

I receive a large number of emails per week; most have articles attached for my review.  The problem is that many of the articles have half truths, miss quotes, innuendos or just out and out lies.  I have never asked anyone to take my word for anything; in fact, I have always openly stated that you should check every blog.

If you send out an email that was passed on to you, do some checking to make sure that what you are passing on is the truth.  It is not hard to verify most all the information that you receive in emails; I have listed three sites where you can check information for free.  If you do pass on an email that you later find to be flawed, do the right thing and send an email to everyone you sent the original email to with the correct information.

We live in very strange times, a time where half truths, miss quotes, innuendos or just out and out lies can be spread around the world in a matter of a couple of hours.  I cannot stress the importance of doing a simple fact check by using the three links listed below.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/b/ben-stein-christmas.htm http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_ben_stein_christmas.htm http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/confessions.asp

When I was a kid growing up old people could be just as scary then as they are now to kids.  Strange smells, strange clothes, strange stories, but they always had the best candy and if you were nice, they always handed it out. However, no matter what you felt about them, you were always respectful to your elders as they were called. I can no more imagine being disrespectful to one the elderly people in the area where I lived than being disrespectful to my parents.

So I have some advice for the younger generation, you never know who you are talking to when you run your mouth.  Case in point, there are only four living people (and 16 in all history) who have earned a tenth-degree black belt, which is the highest rank in the martial art Judo.

The fourth is not only the first woman to earn the title … she also did it at the age of 98.  So before you run your mouth and be disrespectful to an elderly person, keep  in mind.  At age 98, she became the first woman to earn Judo's highest-degree black belt, and she still teaches the martial art three times a week!

The reason for this portion of the blog was what I saw from a young man who went on an Anti-Semitic rant and berated an elderly Jewish man.  Watch the video, Click Here!  Can you imagine what the mainstream media would be saying if that rant had occurred at a Tea Party rally?

As you know I very seldom try and tell the Democratic Party what they should do, however, I am going to make an exception.  If the Democratic Party feels that backing the demonstrators will endear the American people to their party, by all means, continue to support the Wall Street Demonstrators.  The President made statements giving support and understanding to the demonstrators cause and yesterday House Minority Leader, Ms. Nancy Pelosi, did the same only.

During a press conference yesterday afternoon, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi praised those participating in the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. ”God bless them,” Pelosi said, “for their spontaneity. It’s independent … it’s young, it’s spontaneous, and it’s focused. And it’s going to be effective.”   View the press conference video, Click Here!

I can get two NYC sewer rats and fight them in the same park these protesters are encamped on any given week-end and draw as many people as this protest has.  Do not forget that these people have the support of Michael Francis Moore, MoveOn.org, George Soros, Van Jones, various Unions, not to forget Ms. Pelosi, and the exquisite uttering’s of Ms. Roseanne Barr, who can ever forget her beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, yet the best they can do is 2 thousand people?

I have yet to find what the protesters really want; I know that redistribution of wealth is the theme overall, the question is how?  I have heard that everyone should have a minimum wage of $20.00 per hour whether you work or not. I know that the protesters have a Manifesto that has been placed on the internet.  After reading it I am just as confused as I was before reading it, I still did not find any answers. 

I found that the money changers (banks) are responsible for all that is wrong in the world.  At the same time there were not answers to the problems that they were outlining. However, read it for yourself and see what you think. Read the Manifesto, Click Here!

It just all seems strange this socialist movement that is going on in America today when every one of the countries that these people would like to see America emulate have started the move to shift too capitalism.  Even Cuba has made the move to once again try and lure the rich North Americans to come and partake of some of the sins of prostitution and gambling in their country.  Sins by the way, the general population of Cuba would not be allowed to partake of, even if they could afford it.

Of course this is just one Rednecks’ opinion, stay strong and God Bless America.

RedNeck

Do You Know Any Radicals?  Not all radicals are bad, our founding fathers were radicals. However, we are now faced with radicals that want to kill what the radical founding fathers started.  Saul Alinsky, the original Community Organizer, in his book Rules for Radicals reveals that his core value is to, "use power for a more equitable distribution of the means of life for all people."

Obama and most of his people as well as the socialist progressive left in general follow Saul Alinsky as if his book Rules for Radicals was an epiphany that was received from God in much the same way as the ten commandments.  When do you think the current Class Warfare and spread the wealth came from?

I do not think that I have to set the record straight, I am a capitalist and a firm believer in capitalism.  This good old USA is built on capitalism and capitalism is a very intricate part of the success of America for the past 200 plus years.  That is why I think it is time to remind you of some of the important things you might have forgotten over the years.

There are a number of people in this world that want to see capitalism fail.  Most of these people believe that their way of thinking is right.  Mr. Obama and the socialist progressive democrats believe that the direction they are trying to take the country is the way the country should go.  Never mind that everything they have done has failed, their ideas would have worked IF. 

If there had been more stimulus money spent than what was spent then the stimulus would have worked.  If you listen close you will find that all the ideas of the socialist progressive democrats will tell you everything would have been OK if it were not for the Arab Spring, the international debt crisis, the Japan earth quake, the price of oil, or George Bush.

They will also tell you that had it not been for their ideas, we would have been worse off than what we are.  That lingering and pesky 9.1 percent unemployment number would be much higher had it not been for Mr. Obama and the socialist progressive democrats.  Never mind that they promised that if they had the stimulus money to spend the unemployment rate would never go above 8.0 percent.  

Now that nothing is working it is time to take the game up a notch.  It is now time to start the modern day Class Warfare of Saul Alinsky.  The tension and divide they are trying to insert into American society is not new, it has been tried all over the world many times and has always failed.  The best example of this is just 90 miles off the cost of Florida, Cuba.  If you have ever been to Cuba you will see you will see poverty and you will see the political elite living large.

The people who have tried this type of “redistribution of wealth” and making everyone equal have been known by many different names over the years.  From socialists, communists, unions, anarchists, or Marxists, the name of the game is always the same, take from the have’s and give to the have not’s and make everyone equal.  That is all except the political elite and those in power, they live the good life while taking from those further down the ladder.

Never mind that the bible teaches us that the poor will always be among us.  Never mind that we are not all created equal, we all have equal protection under the Constitution and Bill of Rights, however, we are not all equal.  Should you happen to hold to the socialist progressive democrat’s view of the future, take a look around at the people who are preaching it and what do you see?

Do you see any of the people who push this change, this class warfare of the poor wanting to have what the rich have and not work for it giving up what they have?  Do you see Michael Moore want to give up his millions and his private jet to move to communist Cuba?  As the champion of the working and the poor have you seen Moore open up his home and allow the poor to take his personal things and become equal.

One of the things that really sets me off is the FACT that America has given more and done more to help people around the world that any other nation in history.  As Americans we give until it hurts to try and help anyone anywhere in the world.  We have given to others until we are now broke and over 14 Trillion Dollars in debt.  In 2006, three-quarters of American families give to charity and those who did, give an average of $1,800.

Now for the big surprise, according to Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks on who gives more, conservatives or liberals found, "conservatives give about 30 percent more. And incidentally, conservative-headed families make slightly less money." 

While Professor Brooks was researching his book, “Who Really Cares ", Brooks found that the conservative/liberal difference goes beyond money.”The people who give one thing tend to be the people who give everything in America. You find that people, who believe it's the government's job to make incomes more equal, are far less likely to give their money away."

For almost fifty years we have tried to implement LBJ’s great society and spent TRILLIONS of dollars to get people out of poverty only to make matters worse.  Any headway the poor have made over the past fifty years has been wiped out with the misguided economic policies of Obama and socialist progressive democrats, especially poor blacks.

Strange Facts about America’s Poor!  First, these are hard times; everyone I know is having a hard time keeping up, nearly one in six Americans are living in poverty. However, we really should take a look at how poor we are, below are facts on the poor in America:

Four out of Five assert they were never hungry during the prior year due to lack of money or food

75% have a car or truck, 31% have two or more cars or trucks
More than 50% with children have a video game system
50% have a computer
43% have Internet access
66% have at least on DVD player, 70% have a VCR
66% have cable or satellite television

The real problem in America is not poverty, it is entitlements.  We have 51% of Americans on some type of entitlement, these are the people that the socialist progressive democrats are counting on to get mad and take to the streets to demand that the rich in America give them more of the money the rich has made.

If we simply cut the waste and pork out of the budget, required common sense to take control instead of political correctness, get a fair tax for everyone across the board and get control of spending, we could get control of the country again.  It is a dangerous path Obama is trying to take us down with class warfare and it can only turn into a warfare that will split this country apart.

God bless you if you make a million dollars next year, I hope you do.  Only in America is that possible, only in America can you go from poor to having everything you want and all you have to do is work to get it.  And only in America do you have the peace of mind knowing that no one can come and take it away from you, you earned it, and it is yours. 

This will only be true in the future if we put a stop to the people that want to divide this country with spread the wealth, redistribution of wealth, equitable distribution, class warfare, or any other name you want to call it.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

Don’t know if you have been keeping up with what is going on in Massachusetts, NO, I am not talking about the fact that you can be an illegal alien, be arrested numerous times for DUI, be deported two or three times and still come back into the good old USA and kill an American citizen in an DUI accident.  Simply because Governor Deval Patrick (D) believes illegal aliens should be made to feel welcome in the state of Massachusetts.

While the illegal alien Massachusetts welcome mat is deplorable on its own, I am speaking of something even more dangerous to the American people; I am speaking of the highly educated and highly misinformed Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren.  You see Ms. Warren is running for the senate seat of Scott Brown, who won the senate seat that had been warmed by Ted Kennedy for so many years.

Ms. Warren has the same “spread the wealth” ideas that Mr. Obama has, along with big government can and should do everything for you.  Here is one of latest explanations on wealth and taxation. "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate.”

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

Tomorrow it the tenth anniversary of 911 and I have probably spent more time on this blog than any blog that I have ever written. You see, I am one of those people that remember where I was when President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. I remember where I was when almost 3000 people lost their lives, many true heroes.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

During the Great Depression, they were called Hoovervilles because of President Hoover, should they be called Obamavilles because of President Obama.  What are you talking about RedNeck you might ask; well I am glad you ask.

I am talking about the little known story that is not being shown on national TV to any extent about the number of Tent Cities that are popping up all across America.  Oh you did not know that there are Tent Cities for the homeless? 

Well, from the reported birthplace of Mr. Obama, Hawaii, to Baltimore, MD, about an hour outside of Washing D.C. where Mr. Obama now lives, Tent Cities are becoming a way of life for a growing number of Americans.

Bad things happen to good people.  If you lost your job tomorrow, how long would it be before you could lose your home?  There but for the grace of God, I go or you go, these are not just people who like to camp out, these are people that not too long ago were successful middle class Americans with a home, a job, and kids to take care of.

One of the best examples of this is a sixty year old lady, Marilyn Berenzweig and her husband Michael.  They have been living for 17 months in a Tent City in Lakewood, NJ which is located about 70 miles from New York City.  In a Fox News interview, Marilyn gave some insight into her life and life in Lakewood Tent City 2-acre public-owned campsite.

Marilyn and Michael previously lived in Queens, New Your where she worked as a textile designer.  “That’s an industry that has almost completely vanished in the last few years,” Marilyn said. “Survival is very hard without the modern conveniences,” she said. When both of them lost their jobs, they had to move to Lakewood.

The amenities are sparse, they do have a community shower room, and there are even some outhouses.  Church groups and concern citizens help with portable generators which provide just enough juice to charge a cell phone or provide enough juice to listen to a ball game on the radio.

Berenzweig, an avid reader who doesn't watch television, studies survivalist skills, particularly how early American housewives maintained a fire, chopped wood and heated water for cooking and cleaning. "We manage to adapt and make the environment adapt to us, too," Marilyn said.

Life is not tough enough for these people, now the wise and forward looking politicians are locked in a legal action to demolish the camp which has now reached New Jersey Superior Court with a hearing set for a conference on September 13^th.

There does not seem to be any good news for the homeless on the horizon, in a 2008 report, the U.S. Conference of Mayors cited a major increase in the number of homeless in 19 out of the 25 cities surveyed. On average, cities reported a 12 percent increase of homelessness since 2007.

The states with the highest rate of homelessness are Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington State, and Washington, D.C, according to a study released in 2007 by The National Alliance to End Homelessness.

An article in Der Spiegel did a profile on an American couple that has hit hard times and the shock they are facing. 

Chanelle Sabedra is already on that road. She and her husband have been sleeping in their car for almost three weeks now. “We never saw this coming, never ever,” says Sabedra. She starts to cry. “I’m an adult, I can take care of myself one way or another, and same with my husband, but (my kids are) too little to go through these things.” She has three children; they are nine, five and three years old.

“We had a house further south, in San Bernardino,” says Sabedra. Her husband lost his job building prefab houses in July 2009. The utility company turned off the gas. “We were boiling water on the barbeque to bathe our kids,” she says. No longer able to pay the rent, the Sabedras were evicted from their house in August.

Friends and relatives had few resources to help them. Now they live in a room at the Salvation Army homeless shelter in downtown Ventura, CA.  Chanelle Sabedra's husband has found another job, this time as a warehouse worker for a company that makes aircraft turbines. But he doesn't earn enough to get the family out of the homeless shelter. "I haven't got a new job yet," says Sabedra.

Her husband's job doesn't pay enough, and the couple has now joined the growing ranks of the working poor, for whom even two low-wage jobs are insufficient to feed their families. "We need the second income," says Sabedra. "Just the baby alone is $600 a month for half-day care."

And to think, I thought I had a problem because I had to drive an 11 year old vehicle with the check engine light on.  It never fails to amaze me how smart Granny Beeks was, one of her favorite sayings was, “I thought I had a problem because I had not shoes until I meet a man who had no feet”.

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

My socialist progressive democrat liberal friends are always telling me that I don’t understand, and you know they are right, I DON’T UNDERSTAND liberal logic.

Let’s take a look at the occurrences of the past two days.  Obama opened his mouth and called out the Governor of Texas, Rick Perry on political etiquette, what was his reward, he got his ears pinned back in the exchange.   So outcome the talking heads for the president to attack Perry so the president can look presidential and go on a ten day vacation.

One of the talking heads sent out to take Perry to task was the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.  Now you would think that any person who was Secretary of Education of a country who was ranked 24^st in Math and 21^st in science in the world would not throw stones, however, here was Arne stating that he felt sorry for the school children of Texas for the education they were receiving under Gov. Perry.

Over the past thirty years America has doubled the amount of money spend on each student in our public school systems, a system which is now broke. We spend more money per student than any other country in the world, other than Finland, who by the way is ranked number one in the world in all three groups, reading, math, and science.

Yet, thirty years, even twenty years ago, American high school student’s ranked number one in the world. Today, American high school students are ranked 15^th in reading, 24^th in math, and 21^st in science. Yet it is amazing that Canada just to our north is ranked 2^nd in reading, 5^th in math, and 2^nd science.

My socialist progressive democrat liberal friends are right; I DON’T UNDERSTAND this type of logic! 

Then Mr. Obama has announced that no matter what congress has said, TWICE, and no matter what the American people want, his Hispanic approval ratings have slipped 36 point and are now below 50%.  So no matter what he has said over the past year about he does not have the power, or using an executive order would not be the right thing, he signed an executive order to give 300,000 illegal aliens a free shot at American citizenship.

Oh yes, I remember, I wrote about him doing that two days before he did it and my liberal friends gave me a lot of grief about it.  So please allow me to take this time to upset my socialist progressive democrat liberal friends one more time.  You will see Obama over the next few months do whatever his puppet masters tell him to do in order to get re-elected.  And folks, if you have never been in the middle of a union backed Chicago mobster style election, you have never seen dirty.

Let me give you another example of liberal logic that makes no sense to me at all.  The socialist progressive democrats and the unions spent over $35 million dollars in Wisconsin to try and get control of one house of the Wisconsin legislature, and LOST.  How far would that $35 million have gone to helping keep the pensions up that they want the people of Wisconsin to pay for them?  I guess my question is where did the unions get $35 million to spend?  It is that logic thing again.

Then of course we have the ever loving rich curmudgeon Warren Buffett.  You see Mr. Buffett is one of the richest men in the world, yet, he can’t seem not to have this urge to tell other people how they should spend their money.  Warren wants the Obama “spread the wealth” program to be extended to everyone that is rich, including him.  The only problem is that Warren talks a good game; however, you do not see Warren giving his billions to the poor.

See my logic tells me if you feel the government should have more of your money and that of other rich people then give it to them and shut up.  There is no law that says that you can’t write a ten million dollar check to Uncle Sam.  After all those people in Washington have proven they are so good at spending it.  Now me, I feel that I give Uncle as much as I want to and sometimes more than I want, so I think that I will keep my money an try and feed my family this month.

Come to think of it Mr. Buffett, if you have an extra, oh let’s say, half million or maybe an extra million or so, please send me an email and tell me where and when we could meet.  If it will make you feel any better, I am also up for adoption and I would be proud to carry the Buffett name.  The only thing is you will need to stop saying some of your off the wall quotes.  Take these examples below;

"I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board."
Warren Buffett

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln  

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

If you will remember, last week I reminded you that the federal government took control of the oldest and most profitable whore house in the State of Nevada and could not make money with it.  I mean come on, they can’t sell sex and whiskey, they can’t run the Post Office, and they can’t run a railroad.  Yet, here comes Obama again with something the federal government can’t do, create jobs “The Department of Jobs”

For those of you who do not understand Washington double speak JOBS is (Just Obama BS).  Don’t you get it; if Obama had a jobs program do you not think that he would have put it on the table long before now.  I mean come on, Americans can’t be buying into this Harry Truman tactic that it is all Congress fault, the President had nothing to do with this. 

If it is all the fault of Congress that means that the Democrats are stupid and are not capable of governing, after all the Democrats had control of the Congress for two years where they could pass anything they wanted and passed nothing but Obama Health Care.

You do remember the Obama Health Care bill where the only way you could find out what was in it was to pass it, thanks Nancy.  Well, the Democrats passed the bill and now you are finding out what is in it and it is billions more that anyone thought.  If JOBS were so important, why were the Democrats not working on JOBS instead of working on the Obama Health Care bill, why not the Obama JOBS Bill?

Now let’s talk about “Getting Along in Congress”.  I find it very strange that when the Democrats were in control of both houses and the white house, you did not hear any of the main stream media calling for the Democrats to get along with the Republicans. 

You remember when the Democrats were holding meetings behind locked doors and would not allow the Republicans in the meetings.  You do remember Wisconsin, where the Democrats left the state and refused to vote rather than “Get Along”.  Then spent 35 Million Dollars on recall elections for two Senate Seats.

Obama and members of Congress have shown they really wants to get along with the speech they have used in the past, just in case you have forgotten I have listed just some of them below:

Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) talking about the Tea Party and Republicans: “We have negotiated with terrorists,”

Obama Campaigning in Philadelphia: "When they bring a knife, we bring a gun,"

Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) “the Tea Partiers and the GOP have made their slash and burn lunacy clear,”

Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA):  “Everything to these people is un-constitutional.”  Wonder how Sanchez would react to me call her one of those people?

Joe Biden, VP, Called the Tea Party Terrorist: “They have acted like terrorists.”  Biden later said he did not say it, however, his spokeswoman says, “The vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse,”

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
                                                                                             — Abraham Lincoln  

If you ever wanted to know what is wrong with Washington all you have to do is take a look at Albert Arnold “Al” Gore, Jr.  You see, Al Gore, Jr. is true definition of dichotomy.  Big Al was born in Washington, DC but likes for people to believe that he is from Tennessee; after all he was a Senator from Tennessee. Is that like Hillary Clinton who lived in Arkansas for most of her adult life but could become a Senator from New York just by moving to New York?

Gore went to the elite and prestigious all boys’ schools that would prepare him for the Ivy League and a life that would allow him to follow in Al, Sr. role in life, politics. Al lived with his family in The Fairfax Hotel in Washington, D.C. during the school year.The closest Gore got to being from Tennessee was the summers he spent on his family’s farm, a farm by the way that grew tobacco; you know that stuff that cigarettes are made of, another one of those contradictions about Gore.

You see, Big Al is a pseudo-intellectual and a pseudo-redneck.  If you want to know what the good people of Tennessee thought of Gore, look at the way Tennessee voted when he ran for President, he did not carry Tennessee. Gore is now a resident of the California beautiful people where he lives in his large mansion which has a carbon footprint the size of a football stadium.  

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

On March 20, 3006, Barack Obama took to the floor of the United States Senate and for once in his cloaked life told the unabashed truth.  Now if what Obama said on the floor of the Senate was true, and it was, then his actions and everything he said concerning the debt limit in the past months was a lie and a sign of leadership failure.

The oligarchy that we have allowed these handfuls of untruthful, self-serving, egotistical, megalomaniacs to create is unbelievable.  While Obama is speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, trying to push the country further into a class divide, the average working middle class American is seeing their homes continue to lose value.

Below is the truth as Obama said it on March 20, 2006;

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.

It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally.  Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.  Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren.

America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.  Americans deserve better."

Obama was correct, we Americans deserve better, we deserve better than the lack of leadership he has shown concerning the debt limit.  With the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, spending binge that has saddled every person in the country with a debt of roughly $50,000.00, we need leadership not political posturing, by the way do you have you part of the debt?

Where do you find leadership?  I can tell you where you can’t find leadership; you can’t find it in a socialist progressive community organizer, a lawyer, or career politicians!  If you need an example, take a look at your President and Vice President, when it comes to leadership they are a joke.  We need a strong business person to lead the world’s largest business, the U.S. Government.  Joe Biden can’t open his mouth without sticking his foot in his mouth and Barack Obama can only look good if he has a teleprompter.

The lack of leadership is the reason that no matter what is done by Congress and the White House about the debt limit there is a good possibility that for the first time in history, Americas rating will be lowered.  You are right Mr. Obama; we need leadership, the only bright light that I see coming from your leadership is that this country had to suffer through four years of Jimmy Carter before we really understood how much we needed a Ronald Reagan.

The problem that I have with all that has happened is the fact we have gone so far off the track, with what allowed this country to be great, that we just might not be able to bring it back. Funny thing about a Republic, it is not a Democracy and we are still a Republic.  In a Democracy, the majority is unlimited, in a Republic; we still have safeguards that protect the rights of the individual and the minority.

Or have we gone so far to protect the rights of minorities and individuals that we have placed the Republic in jeopardy?   Have we allowed people who are in the minority who have nothing more than a desire to see the Republic fail, to use the rights they have under the Republic to bring the Republic to an end? 

Have we allowed people who have only one desire, that being to have minorities have more power in the Republic than that of the majority?  Have we gone so far that we have allowed minority religious groups to obtain power that prohibits the rights of the majority to freedom to practice their religion?

Have we given so much to people who do nothing to work for or have any value in what was given them that they have come to expect that they have a right to government handouts?  Enough is never enough when you are addicted, as an example the games at the Coliseum, the rulers and politicians realized the value of the games and shows at the Coliseum as a political tool, not to mention, that it kept the minds of the citizens off the problems of the times.

However, once the populous was addicted, the games and the shows had to be bigger and better in order to keep their attention.  Keep in mind that everything was free, so the crowd would make a complete day of it, the morning show would break and the crowd would have their free lunch with wine and then watch the afternoon show.  There were days when 10,000 animals would be slaughtered in a day, not to mention the death of the Gladiators.

Have we allowed enough people to become addicted to the free programs from the government that they will become the majority and those of us that must work to pay for their free lunch become the minority?  If this has happened, then Barack Obama will be your President once again in 2012 and the Republic as we know it will cease to exist and will collapse. 

A recent poll shows that almost 50% of American people want the government to assist them with some type of assistance, who do you think they will vote for, the political party that promises assistance or the party that promises to cut assistance? 

Should you feel that I have been smoking toxic industrial waste by thinking this, you should read the Cloward–Piven strategy.  What you might ask is the Cloward–Piven strategy?  Glad you ask the question, it is a strategy that was read by most of the Obama Administration.  The Cloward–Piven strategy was the brain child of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, a married couple, sociologists and political activists, who in 1966 called for the overloading of the U.S. welfare system to create a crisis that would collapse the system.

Cloward-Piven felt that if the system was collapsed, the Democratic Party would push to wipe out poverty by establishing a guaranteed annual income.  This strategy would help the Democratic Party by having more poor people dependent on the government who would vote for the party; at the same time, it was the solution to poverty.  You must remember, when Cloward-Piven can up with this strategy in 1966, the Democratic Party had control of both houses of Congress and the Presidency.

Now you know why we have no leadership in Congress and the Presidency.  It is more important to find votes for their party, even if it means in collapse of the Republic, than it is to do the right thing for America.  You know that the right thing for America is to have a balanced budget; if we do not have the money you can’t spend it.  The system most Americans are forced to live on each month.

However, if we have a balanced budget, that means you can’t buy votes for the party and you can’t give money you don’t have for programs that would help collapse the Republic.  Leadership would mean a balance budged, which would mean that the government would have to live like most Americans.

Of course, these observations are just one RedNeck’s opinion.

God Bless America, FIGHT TO REMAIN FREE!

RedNeck

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

It is always nice to see sanity coming back into style. If anyone ever needed a reminder that Keynesian Economics of active government intervention in the marketplace and monetary policy is the best method of ensuring economic growth and stability does not and will not work, they need only look to the Obama years.

Do not take my word for it; I would like to introduce billionaire casino mogul Steve Wynn.  Now Mr. Wynn is a very big democratic supporter and contributor and Mr. Wynn can and did raise a lot of money to help elect Barack Obama President, even with these comments, Mr. Wynn still considers himself a democrat.  What the Democratic Party considers Mr. Wynn might be a whole different thing after these comments.

Under Mr. Wynn’s guidance his company’s profits are up in 2011 despite the sluggish recovery of the economy found in other areas.  Did I say Wynn’s company’s profits were up?  What I meant to say was that the Wynn Resorts were up 32 percent over the same time last year.

The $1.36 billion up swing intake was driven by revenue at the companies Las Vegas casinos and a luxury hotel casino in Macau, China.  Overall, Wynn’s company has had a steady growth through the recession, reporting net revenues in 2010 of $4.18 billion dollars.

Then why in the world would this very successful business man, who is making all this money during a recession, say that the Obama administration is, “the greatest web blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime.”

He went on to say the businesses by and large are feeling stifled by the Obama administration and that his customers and other firms in the hospitality sector are “frightened” of the administration.

Wynn went on to say, “It makes you slow down and not invest your money.  It’s Obama that’s responsible for the fear in America.  The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution, and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don’t invest or holding too much money.  You know, you haven’t heard that kind of talk except from pure socialist.”  Wynn added, businesses will be “sitting on their thumbs” until Obama is out of office.

However, Wynn was only getting started; on Wednesday morning Wynn spoke with Neil Cavuto of Fox Business Network and had some more not so kind things to say about President Obama.  Wynn told Cavuto, “You guys on television use the term ‘disingenuous’ when the president talks about- says something that isn’t true.  That’s a fancy word for lying.”

“Everything is more expensive. So the living standard of the working people — of the middle class of America — is being materially deteriorating because of the fiscal policies of our government.  It’s a very misleading thing that is happening,” Wynn said.

Just so happens that I agree with Mr. Wynn, he is right, there are a large number of CEO’s in this country that feel the same way, however, they do not have the stones to say it in public.  From the day President Obama came into office and announced his economic policies, I knew that this country was in for some very tough times. 

If anyone ever needed a reminder that Keynesian Economics of active government intervention in the marketplace and monetary policy is the best method of ensuring economic growth and stability does not and will not work, they need only look to the Obama years.

I have said from day Obama with his wealth redistribution and Keynesian Economics he is either a socialist or the man does not have a clue and is incompetent.  I have changed my, I honestly believe that he is both, an incompetent socialist.

Want to know how I know this, there is one simple rule you need to use, ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW, OR WERE YOU BETTER OFF THREE YEARS AGO? I have lost 25% of my home value in the past three years, if you had a $200,000 home three years ago; it is now worth $150,000. 

That gas you are putting your car making you feel the pain at the pump?  It should, the price of a gallon of regular gas was around $1.79 when Obama took office.  Today that same gallon of gas is around $3.69, which is over a 100% increase.

When Obama took office the unemployment rate was 7.6%, it is currently at 9.2% and I dare you to find anyone that knows anything about the unemployment numbers that will not tell you that the unemployment rate is much higher.  This after Obama has spent almost a trillion dollars on economic stimulus plans.  Is anyone up for a shovel ready job?

How about the old feed bag bill, I have two teenage boys; I need a cow or a loan to purchase milk at over $3.00 a gallon.  Get ready, food prices are on the rise all over the world and the consequences are potentially devastating.  Wheat prices have doubled since last summer and the price of corn is up over 75 percent. 

According to the World Bank, food prices are reaching an all time high and the spiraling food costs worldwide have driven 44 million people into extreme poverty since June 2010.

Now let’s talk about what your dollar buying power is today with the Obama dollar.  If you purchased and item in 2005 for $100.00, today in 2011 that same item would cost you $115.58.  Now unless my math is off, that means that the rate of inflation over the past six years has been 15.6%.  These numbers were calculated using the latest available Consumer Price Index (CPI).

So I will ask the question again, ARE YOU BETTER OF NOW OR BEFORE OBAMA TOOK OFFICE? I happen to agree with Mr. Wynn, until Obama is out of office, you will continue to see more of the same of what you are seeing now.  To quote a very famous democrat phrase, IT IS ABOUT THE ECONOMY STUPID!

If you voted for Obama in O8 to prove you were liberal and not a racist, in 12 vote for someone else to prove that you love your country want your country back.

Of course, these observations are just one RedNeck’s opinion.

God Bless America, FIGHT TO REMAIN FREE!

RedNeck

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

— Abraham Lincoln

Here is a riddle for you, where were the following women, Reps. Gwen Moore (Wis.), Lois Capps (Calif.), Jackie Speier (Calif.), Donna F. Edwards (Md.) and Carolyn B. Maloney (N.Y.) that are currently playing the sexism card over the West - Wasserman Schultz spat, when Bill Clinton had Monica Samille Lewinsky under his desk in the Oval Office?

Do you think that any of these women were out in public calling for Bill Clinton to openly apologize for the sexist manner in which he had treated Lewinsky, publicly embarrassing her, and then lying about her to the American public?  How about the manner in which he treated their friend Hillary, were they playing the sexism card for her after the way Bill did her?

I am sure that all of these women have given their support over the years to the many women who have been treated in a sexist manner by numerous members of Congress.  I can’t ever remember one single woman in Congress calling out any of the Kennedy’s for their sexist treatment of women.

If you have not heard about this little spat, here are the players, Rep. Allen B. West (R-Fla.) an African-American male and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) a Jewish-American female.  Now I have pointed out the minority status and gender status because these are relevant in this whole thing.

You see, Wasserman Schultz is the female counter part of Anthony David Weiner, the former U.S. Representative who served New York's 9th congressional district; she is a bomb thrower that works off of personal attacks and then plays the sexism or race card when she is challenged.  When she took on West, an African-American man who would not take her personal attacks and strikes back, the only card she could play was the sexism card.

These types of magic political tricks by Wasserman Schultz and the DNC is old hat to take the general public’s mind off the real problem, the fact that Wasserman Schultz and the Nancy Pelosi team had all the power and four years to clean up the mess in Washington, instead you have the head of the DNC wanting to pick fights with other congress people to create a smoke screen while the country is going bankrupt from all their spending.

Of course, these observations are just one RedNeck’s opinion.

God Bless America, REMAIN FREE!

RedNeck