All That Is Necessary

Contraceptive Mandate Is Not The Real Issue

The big fight over the contraceptive mandate in obamacare is not the real issue.  The real issue is Obamacare itself.  To argue about the contraceptive mandate is to accept the premise of Obamacare in the first place.

I do not accept Obamacare so any argument over the details is a waste of time to me.

The individual mandate is simply unconstitutional.  If the government can FORCE you to buy healthcare simply because you are alive then there is nothing they cannot FORCE you to do.  It is no different than FORCING you to buy a Chevy Volt.  NO DIFFERENCE!

No Common Ground

I have come to the conclusion that I have absolutely no common ground with about 50% of the US population.  If you are a liberal, democrat, socialist, marxist, communist, collectivist (all the same thing, really), then our world views are so contradictory that there is no possible way we can "co-exist".  I believe in freedom and personal responsibility.  You do not.

It is as simple as that.  Your way is winning, I understand that.  If the worst should happen in November, I will "Go Galt" as much as possible until I can find another place to live.  And I will encourage my children to leave the USA in order to build a better life.  I don't know if such a place exists, but I will be looking pretty darn hard.

Wait & See Until November

I keep trying to think about what the next few years will be like.  No matter what I come up with it always depends completely on what happens on Election Day 2012.

The biggest issue is whether we live or die as a country.

If Obama is re-elected and the Senate remains in Democrat hands, we are done.  Finished.  Kaput.  Why?  Because it will mean we have reached the tipping point where the voting majority of the country wants a totalitarian government.  If that happens there is no point to starting a business or trying harder.  It will all just be taken from you "for the common good".

If anyone but Obama is elected and the Republicans take the Senate it will mean we have a slim chance to pull this out as a country.  A slim chance given the stupidity of the Republicans, but still a chance.  Then it might be worth it to build or expand a business and work harder.

But until November it is wait and see.

"Justice" Ruth Ginsburg - Pathetic

Just listen to these comments from Ginsburg in an interview in Egypt(!).  From Fox News:

"I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," Ginsburg said in an interview on Al Hayat television last Wednesday. "I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, have an independent judiciary. It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done."

"Why not take advantage of what is else there in the world? I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others," Ginsburg added.

Indeed, Ginsburg's comments are not foreign to her overall philosophy. The justice has previously stated that she weighs foreign law as well as U.S. law when forming a legal opinion.

Look at that highlighted portions.  Unbelievable!  She is a U.S. Supreme Court justice who is supposed to rule on whether something is constitutional based on OUR Constitution, not South Africa's!!

With justices like Ginsburg we are completely screwed.

What a disgrace to the Supreme Court.

 

OMG! The Ignorance Never Stops With Obama

He actually said the following:

"However many jobs might be generated by a Keystone pipeline," he said, "they're going to be a lot fewer than the jobs that are created by extending the payroll tax cut and extending unemployment insurance."

So, thousand upon thousands of high paying, private sector jobs are insignificant compared to unemployment payments and a couple hundred bucks a year in extra payroll tax money you get to keep.

That is so utterly ridiculous it boggles the mind.  How did the press not call him on tha.....oh, never mind.

The Staggering Stupidity That Is Obama

So, Obama is going to officially kill the Keystone Pipeline project.  Wonderful.  Now all that oil that we can use will go to China.

There is absolutely NO excuse not to allow this project to go full steam ahead.  NONE!

This Obama continues to destroy this country at a pace that is amazing.

It Is My Life, Not Yours

I read too much news.  It is depressing most of the time.  Every day you read about people trying to control other people, mostly through the threat of force.  I realize that has been the way of human life since we appeared on this planet.  Life was short, hard, and brutal.

But a few hundred years ago an incredible collection of men came together and brought forth a new way of existence.  Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Jay, and other giants drew up a document that would create the greatest, most free, most powerful nation to ever exist on this planet.  Perfect?  Of course not.  But the best structure to ever exist to-date.

Why so great?  Because it recognized that people are born with a creator-given right to life, liberty and property.  Not government-given!  Every person born on this planet is an individual with all the rights mentioned above.  It is government that has taken them away over our history. 

As Jefferson warned us, the tendency of government is to grow and freedom diminish.  That has happened to the USA.  We are no longer free.  We may be "more free" than most other countries, by we are definitely not as free as we used to be.

This makes me angry.  (An angry white male!  Uh oh!  Notify the Gestapo, um, I mean Homeland Security.)

What also angers me is that voters have forgotten that the Constitution was written to strictly limit the power of the Federal government.  My, how times have changed.  We have become a nation of freeloaders and babies incapable of standing on our own two feet.  Freedom?  Too scary.  We vote for servitude instead.

I want to live my life based on my natural rights.  As long as my choices do not take away the rights of another person, leave me the hell alone.  It is MY life to live, not yours to govern.

Americans Come in ALL Colors

Just saw this political ad by way of The Jawa Report.  This woman is running for Congress in Utah as a Conservative.  This commercial makes me almost want to move to Utah so I can vote FOR her!

As you can see, she also happens to be black. But guess what? Freedom-loving conservatives don't care about the color of one's skin. It is the content of her character and her beliefs that matter. Go figure.

Real Americans come in ALL colors and persuasions.

Employment Lies

I told you this would happen.  The latest unemployment rate was said to be 8.5%.  Bull.

They do this every time.  They drop hundreds of thousands of people from the labor pool and tell us unemployment went down.  Total lie, and they know it. The labor participation rate is the lowest it has been in decades.  Good time, good times.

The numbers will continue to be manipulated to try and get Obama re-elected.  And, given the stupidity of the average voter today, it will probably work.

 

They Never, Ever Learn

Saw this headline mentioned at AceOfSpades:

Fed says expand Fannie, Freddie role to aid housing

"The Fed, in a paper sent to lawmakers on Wednesday, outlined an array of steps that could be taken to help the housing sector, including allowing Fannie and Freddie to provide cheaper mortgages to a broader pool of homeowners."

Fannie and Freddie, along with the liberals in Congress with the Community Reinvestment Act, CAUSED the housing problem in the first place!  Now they want to do it again.  Amazing.

Just add it to the list of stupid moves that killed the USA.  It truly has been a death by a thousand cuts.