Liberals...or misguided conservatives?

As you know I have been trying to ignore the stupidity in Washington but it is so compelling that it is very hard to turn away...the train wreck that is our President keeps showing us that he has no clue. The Democratic leadership keeps lying to us and stupid stuff keeps being repeated ad nauseum in the media. The Republicans are under pressure to make a deal....that pressure being applied by....the train-wreck President and the lying democrats.

Give me a break! Enough already!

When I listened to the utter garbage that Pelosi spewed yesterday in a speech to union members in Washington, I have to simply cringe.

Gems like this.

"They don’t just want to make cuts, they want to destroy. They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, the department of education."


Really? Really?


how about this one....

“They do not like the government. They’re riding an engine of popular support for, ok we have to reduce the deficit. And they’re using that to destroy.”

It got me thinking about a number of things.

Firstly, I find it hard to believe that the progressives today actually believe this stuff. I find it hard to believe that they actually think the motivation behind conservatives is to destroy our air, destroy our water, reign death and destruction over all the lands....crazy stuff. And if they do believe it? Then they have all climbed aboard the crazy train with their chief engineers Pelosi and Reid.

I will come back to this point later in this post...as that is what I am really wanting to examine today.

Before that, I want to spend a few minutes looking at how such blatant stupidity and lies get to be applauded by the followers.

It is clear to me that for lies to work, they must have some degree of believability. They must have a base truth that is either perceived by the listener to be true (even though it is not) or an actual truth.

If we look at Pelosi's statements above, there is the use of an ACTUAL truth to give validity to her claims.

That actual truth is: 

“They do not like the government. They’re riding an engine of popular support for, ok we have to reduce the deficit."


Damn right Pelosi! We DO NOT like Government. We want the government to get the hell out of our lives. We do have an engine of popular support for reducing the deficit...every poll taken shows that. You, ma'am are about to find yourself on the wrong side of history at the next election...and you know it. You have already stated the truth!


And then she goes and spoils it all by saying something stupid like:
"They don’t just want to make cuts, they want to destroy. They want to destroy food safety, clean air, clean water, the department of education."


Oh well...I guess I have to ask this question....if it looks like a clown, and talks like a clown, and acts like a clown , what is it? It is a member of Obama's sycophant clown posse. You don't have to be scared of clowns to be alarmed at this group....led by the Deceiver-in-Chief, they are nothing but a joke in their big shoes and sloppy pants. They are sure not big enough to fill those britches!!


Enough of Pelosi and her stupidity....


Although I have to thank her because she got me thinking in a different direction...and that is always an interesting experience.


When I think of the stupidity that sprouts from her mouth, and the mouth of her co-clown captain, Harry Reid, I have to wonder....


When you all were sitting in the mud and rain, enjoying Woodstock (and now regretful that you left early and missed one of the greatest renditions of the National Anthem EVER, played before a mere couple of thousand hangers-on on the Monday morning...by the late great Jimmi Hendrix)..do you really think your idea of the great progressive movement, destined to solve the world's problems, was in fact Pelosi and Reid? Is that what you envisaged? Are they the picture of liberalism that you would have embraced so fully had they been around then? Is that really what you aspired to?


I can't quite reconcile my knowledge of the Woodstock, summer of love, so-called hippy freedom movement, with the likes of Pelosi and Reid. If I am right, why are they there? Can someone tell me that?


So, it got me to thinking.


Are liberals today really liberals or are they simply misguided, uneducated conservatives?


I could throw in intellectually lazy as well...but I don't want to offend anybody here....lol.


So, to make it easy, I have designed a short quiz to test whether you are a liberal/progressive or a misguided conservative.


1. Do you regularly, or occasionally, give gifts to charitable organisations such as faith based institutions (churches) or organisations such as Save the Children?


If you said yes, you are likely to be a conservative, as liberals rely on government to provide charitable giving.


2. Do you believe that natural resources should be protected, managed and utilized carefully so that they will be available to future generations? Do you believe you have a responsibility to ensure that?


If you said yes, you could be conservative, because that is what they believe. Liberals believe it is the government who must control and protect natural resources by passing legislation to prevent people enjoying them!


3. Do you believe somebody should be able to walk into your home, sit down, eat your food and stay as long as they like, without your approval?


If you said no, you are likely a conservative. Liberals believe that anyone should be able to live wherever they want.


4. Do you believe you should be able to choose what car you drive, what food you eat, what you read, what you do and what you believe?


If you said yes, you are likely a conservative. Liberals believe that the government should determine what is best for you to drive, eat read and believe. Liberals believe the individual is incapable of making the best decisions for their own lives.


5. Do you try to balance your home budget, trying to spend no more than you receive? Do you try to pay your bills on time out of the money you earn from your own blood, sweat and tears?


If you said yes, you are likely to be a conservative. Liberals believe that what you earn should be spread around so that other people can pay their bills using YOUR blood, sweat and tears to provide the money.


6. Do you believe that two people doing the same job should get the same pay, the same opportunities for advancement and the same recognition, regardless of sexual orientation, skin color, ethnicity or religion?

If you said yes, you are likely a conservative.Liberals believe that members of a minority group should have extra opportunities and have legislated exactly that. It is called affirmative action and bestows more rights on certain classes of people than others. This is the equality you believe in, right?

7. Do you believe that everybody should pay a fair share of the costs of government?

If you said yes, you are likely a conservative. Liberals believe that some people should pay more and others none of the costs of Government. This is their idea of equality.

8. Do you believe that the money you earn is your money, not your neighbors?

If you said yes, you are likely a conservative. Liberals believe the money you earn is community property to be used by whoever needs it.

9. Do you believe that when you buy a car, you can put whatever you want on it to make it work better. You can chose who can drive it and who will wash it. Do you believe your mechanic should be paid more for keeping it safe than the car washer who keeps it clean?

If you said yes, you are likely a conservative. Liberals believe they must control what you do with your own property in order to keep others safe. They tell you who you MUST employ (affirmative action) and how much you must pay them (minimum wage).

And finally...
10) Do you believe in certain God given rights that the Government is required to protect as demanded by the Constitution?

If so, you are a conservative. Liberals rarely believe in God, cannot distinguish between God given rights and man-made rules, and have no concern for the Constitution.

So...are you really a liberal, or simply just a misguided and confused conservative?

The liberal/progressive movement has been so good at creating new meanings for words, that many democrats of old do not realize that their party has abandoned them. They do not yet realize that they are really conservatives but follow the likes of Pelosi and Reid simply because they are democrats.

If we all practice intellectual honesty, question and understand not only what we believe but WHY we believe it, the conservative groundswell will be so powerful that all the left-wing marxists, the socialists, the communists, the liars in office and the clowns that support them will be forced to retreat in the face of insurmountable odds. They will be finished!

So, I implore you to challenge the thinking of your liberal friends and families. Do not try to win the battle of ideology. That is NOT where your weapons are strongest. Fight the battle of belief, the battle of what they truly deep down know is right. From there, you can guide them to the understanding that MOST Americans are conservative, and that the liberal/progressive movement has hijacked the democrat party and made a mockery of the Constitution we all love.

.....devereaux





















 

I'm mad as hell!

Today is Friday....I thought this week would drag on forever...but finally Friday has arrived and we can all look forward to a weekend filled with sunshine, fluffy clouds, rainbows and puppy dogs. We can climb mountain, surf breaks, smell flowers and eat delicious food at fine restaurants. We have no concerns, and no problems....life is good. Life is fun and on the weekend we can all enjoy the finer things....restaurants, boutiques, fine wines and cigars.

Oooops...I forgot....I suspect none of my readers are actually senators...and therefore do not have the option to enjoy their weekends that way. I noticed that once again Harry lied when he stated that the Senate will work through the weekend until the debt deal is done....he rushed the vote on "cut, cap and balance" today so that the Senators could all rush to their waiting limo's to be whisked away to the airport for the flights home for the weekend. Where, no doubt they will enjoy all the finer things in life that you and I are PAYING for!

Well, I for one, am not a happy camper today.

The Senate has done nothing about this so-called debt crisis. They have not produced a budget in over 800 days...and now the crisis is so deep that they can simply go home early for the weekend. There opinion that the GOP controlled House should do all the work is really starting to wear thin.

And so, today, we hear good news. We hear that Boehner and the White House are in deep negotiations over the debt ceiling. We hear that the figure the administration is now talking about is $3 trillion in cuts. Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel here?

You must be joking if you think that!

Before I get to my thoughts, I have to ask....does anybody else get concerned when all these negotiations are being conducted behind closed doors? Does anyone else get the impression that when that door closes, the discussions turn to how the parties can spin something so that you and I will never know just how badly we are being screwed? Does anybody else see the GOP and White House getting into bed together to hammer out a deal that is good for them....but for us? Not so good?

What happend to the transparent Government Obama promised? Clearly just another lie....and yet he expects us to believe his nonsense.

I am sick of it. I am sick of the mealy mouthed lilly-livered politicians on both sides who have sold their soul to the devil in the white house because they are too damned scared to do what is right. I am sick of the power hungry pathetic politicians who are happy to fund special projects with my money for the sole purpose of re-election.

I am thrilled that America is waking up and more and more people are taking a cue from the 1976 movie Network.

You surely remember Howard Beale's rant...if not I include it here....

“I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" 

35 years ago and while the problems were slightly different nothing has changed. I guess nobody was mad as hell!

But now we are...and it is time to do something.

OK..so let's look at what the liars leading our country have to say about the debt ceiling.

The latest word is that there is now a deal being discussed that provides for savings of about $3 trillion. I point at the start that this over a ten year period...and that is just crap. $300 billon savings per year does NOTHING to cut spending. It is simply a reduction in the RATE of increase. It is not a cut at all.

And this is how our leaders treat us. They think we are fool and idiots. They think we do not know what shell games they play with us. They think we believe we can win a game of three card Monty...they think their magician skills can keep us confused and trick us.

Well, not while I am here.

Let's look at these "cuts" that are proposed:_

1. Savings from the end of the wars in Iran and Afghanistan - $1 trillion

What? According to Obama we were leaving there anyway. This so called cut assumes we would have continued the war for another 10 years, even though he has made it clear that we will be out i the next year or so. This is just BS and is nothing more than smoke and mirrors designed to make us think the GOP bargained well for cuts before passing the increased debt ceiling.

2. Savings from interest reductions due to spending cuts and reduced borrowings - $250 billion

Are these idiots insane? Sorry, stupid question. Of course they are. Let's see...we have imaginary spending cuts of $1 trillion that will save us an imaginary interest cost of $250 billion...so lets call that a spending cut!

Maybe they are talking about interest savings on the entire $3 trillion dollar in proposed cuts?

Lets look at that possibility. $250 billion over ten year is about $25 billion a year which represents about a 10% per year cut in interest expense. That makes sense. To cut interest expense next year by 10% would require a retirement of debt of ...oh...about $1.43 trillion. And then, to reach the $250 billion mark over ten years...NO MORE borrowing would happen AT ALL.

SO, yes, it is possible...but wait...isn't the trade-off to this spending cut based on increasing the debt ceiling by around $2.5 trillion over the next 18 months? So where are these interest savings?

There are NONE! This claim is just more lies from the White House. The Budget Office has not calculated these numbers, they are White House estimates designed solely to fool you!

3. Reduction in SS payments of $300 billion over 10 years.

They propose to make this saving by recalculating how SS increases are aligned with inflation. 

Now, this is a tricky one. The government calculated inflation numbers are already designed to understate inflation. (This will be the subject of another post). It is designed to understate inflation so that SS payments do not increase as much as they would if the calculations were real. This reduces government outflows while allowing them to feel good because SS is inflation adjusted. For all you folks on SS, you have been getting screwed for 30 years already and under this plan it is going to get worse.

Can the Government save $30 billion a year this way? Possibly, but given that government calculated inflation is in the low single digits right now, I doubt there is room for reduction so I suspect the White House has assumed an inflation rate much higher than what is currently stated, and worked backwards from that fictitious, imaginary number. (I expect inflation is really in the 10% - 15% range right now, not the 3% range the government touts. Take an honest look at your expenses and see what you think!)

4. Reduction in fraud and waste. - $250 billion

Now this one takes the cake. Since when has an effort to reduce fraud and waste been seen as a cut in spending? 

Mr. President, if you can so easily identify savings as a result of fraud and waste, why have you not done something about it? Why does it become a spending cut to bump up your numbers? You are nothing but a lying deceitful jerk, and are conspiring with politicians of all flavors to destroy this economy!

OK...I have had enough of this...you get the picture.

What I am most angry about is that NO politician is standing up and saying these proposed spending cuts are just BS. Nobody is calling them what they are. Nobody has a pair big enough to state the truth.

Here's an idea. If you want to make a difference, Mr Congressman, demand that the balanced budget begin now. That means we need to see spending cuts of $1.6 trillion in the coming year. And that does not even get to the effort of reducing our borrowing...it simply stops the need for more.

Mr. President, we do not need $400 million programs to solve the problem of "food deserts"..a problem that does not exist. We do not need the food pyramid to be redesigned - ooops. too late, it already has been.

We do not need studies into how gay's penis size impacts their happiness...we do not need studies on teaching Chinese prostitutes to swallow....

We do not need government to tell us what light bulbs to use, what toilets to flush or how much salt to eat..

We need you to do your job, not play golf.

In the immortal words of Edgar Friendly (Demolition Man, 1993)....

" I'm the enemy, 'cause I like to think; I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who likes to sit in a greasy spoon and wonder, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I WANT high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon and butter and BUCKETS of cheese, okay? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinnati in the non-smoking section. I want to run through the streets naked with green Jell-o all over my body reading Playboy magazine. Why? Because I suddenly might feel the need to, okay, pal? I've SEEN the future. Do you know what it is? It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener". ....

If you want a glimpse at the future the progressives offer, take a look at Demolition Man...you will soon open your eyes! The progressive future sucks.

Do not let the progressives, the liberals or the GOP spend YOUR money taking us down this path.

Be the enemy, fight every chance you have. Show their stupidity to everyone you know.

Get mad as hell.

.....devereaux