EARTH HOUR

So Saturday is the big "turn off all your lights for one hour to show you care about global warming, saving the planet, blah blah blah. Well here is what I'm going to do. during this one hour anti capitalist protest I will turn on every one of my lights, my TV, my stereo, I'll leave the fridge door open, run my heat with a door open and let my car idle for that hour in the driveway. I think I will also go in my shop turn all of those lights on and fire up my welder at its 230 v and weld for a full hour straight.
Why, you ask? Well as I said earlier this global initiative is a bunch of America hating capitalist despising control movements. It's an assault on freedom. Don't think so? First I'm not going to debate the idiocy of the global warming theory. But what I will contend is that someone telling you what to do in the name of the Environment is fear mongering manipulation at its core. They say the whole world will participate, lets say 2/3 because the other 1/3 is so primitive they don't even have electricity! they have never felt the comfort and joy of central air conditioning on a 95 degree day. They have never reached into the freezer on that same day retrieve some ice cubes, drop them in a glass and pull the ice cold filtered water from the refrigerator and drink it down. They don't stay up past sundown and enjoy a good book or cook some Cornish hens on the gas grill with its built in light and rotisserie. They can't open a bottle of 1978 Chateau Margeaux and sip it with that fine meal because it would have to be shipped by plane, truck and car to get to their table.(not to mention the cork screw to open it)
They can't order a pizza. They don't have phones or batteries or pizza ovens running at 500 degrees all day long to bring them one of the finest dishes in the world. yes I'm still talking about pizza, not to mention how well that bottle of '78 would go with it. Shall we talk about flush toilets? In India over half the population just "goes outside" do I need to be any more graphic then that? Lets hope they don't shut the runway lights off when you are about to land coming home from that business trip that took you to Rome, Frankfort, London then back to Chicago so you can earn that six figure income you've grown so accustom to. All this (and so much more) brought to you by that little thing called Energy. You know that evil thing they want you to shut off for one hour in protest.
Think about this for one moment, What has energy, in all its forms, given to the world? I have named just a few. The list would consume volumes. Look at every thing around you from a pencil, your food, your car, everything, it all is derived from the use of energy. I drove by an 18 wheeler today and just started looking at all the parts that went into creating that beautiful truck. I mean from the lug nuts to the lights on top of the cab not to mention what it was carrying. Instead of turning off your lights Saturday night and sitting in the dark contemplating how greedy and wasteful we are "compared to others" keep them on and look at all that, Energy, has created, How it has bettered the lives of all who have contact with it. Energy and the resources it takes to produce it are all a gift from God for us to use, flourish and enrich our lives. Those who want you to "turn off" to save the Planet have just come up with another method of punishing the successful. Remember when people believe every one should be equal they mean equally miserable. As Tom Bodett says at Motel 6, "We'll leave the light on for ya".

Health care is the future of our economy?

I'm going to keep this brief. In President Obamas press conference last night one thing stuck with me. He said that creating a national health care system is the way to correct the economy. I know I'm paraphrasing, But please tell me how giving away health care create jobs and revenues? I'm no economist but I can see that statement is inept. There is but one way to stimulate the economy. Last night Obama said his critics have no suggestions or solutions. Well I've got some. That one way to stimulate the economy is by eliminating the capital gains tax permanently and eliminating the corporate tax for 3 to 5 years at least (permanently would be better) This would spur immediate business growth and investment in this country. I am talking about a turn around tomorrow not in two years or three years I mean tomorrow!
The reason it does not happen is the politicians want to take credit for fixing the same thing they broke. It's disgraceful. Think about if you gave any business a 37% increase in their bottom line. What do you think they would do with it? I'm sure the ill informed will think they will stick it all in their own bank account but the semi conscious would understand they would reinvest that money to grow more and make more. What does it take to grow? Employees, materials, buildings, vehicles and on and on.
If you eliminated capital gains taxes people would reap more rewards from their investments and that too would get spent thus boosting the economy also. It is so simple.

Societies weak link; People

Does this title sound obvious to you? Well if it does'nt you are whom I'm talking about. The people who think the company they work for is there to serve them. The people who don't understand that if I pay you in cash your full hourly wage you come out ahead. (I will not waste my time with a tax lecture). You are the people who cannot have enough breaks in the day from work because to you work is so demanding! I mean it is way to much to ask to put in a full eight hour day. You are the people that will never ask "what else can I do" when you have finished your current work. You might get noticed and actually have a difficult task given to you which in turn you might actually complete successfully then get promoted to more responsibility and a pay raise. But you would not want that because you would really have to put in some thought and energy to your job and all you really want to do is get home to watch reality TV because those people are interesting.
You are the people who arrive to work one minute prior to your start time or you are three minutes late everyday. You are not going to give the company one extra minute of your time without being compensated for it! You are the people who will not innovate your own occupation, create efficiencies, increase productivity, implement cost saving strategies, etc. You are the ones who moan and groan every night about how miserable things are while you sit in your recliner with a beer in your hand again watching re-runs of happy days. You don't realize that you are home by 5:00pm and don't go to bed until 10 or 11:00pm so that gives you 5 or 6 hours to start a new carreer or business every day plus weekends. No, that would be work to you and if no one is paying you then forget it. You are the people who just keep drivng or walking when someone is in trouble, "let the other guy help them" that's your motto. You are the ones clammoring for free health care not understanding that you will actually pay even more for it when it is free and get half the service.
I think you may now begin to see my point. If you are not one of these slugs then Thank You from the bottom of my heart. We used to have a country full of people like you and I but where have they all gone? As usual the few will be carrying the many. We've got broad shoulders and strong backs but eventually your weight will kill us. So do yourself and us a favor, light a fire under yourself and make something happen to improve your life and those around you, please.

It's a FAT, FAT world arter all

It's just a matter of observing, I mean really look around you and tell me what you see. I see FAT. Now, just for full dis closer I am/was one of those fat folk. I was fit then got fat then I was fit then got fat, you know the drill. But I guess in all honesty I never realized how serious and debilitating it can be. I look around when I am in public and It has to be 85 - 90% of people I see are over weight. Now I know there are a million reasons why people are over weight, hold on, let me cast out the PC police and call them FAT! That is one of the contributing problems to Fatness (PC term=obesity) Giving it a euphanism like obese, large boned or has a thyroid problem or whatever ridiculous thing you want to call it. You are FAT! It comes down to that pesky little thing called personal responsibility. Now I know in this entitlement society we are living in people don't like that term either. I've got news for you it is the only way towards improvement and success. Is there someone who pulls you out of bed in the morning to exercise and does the exercise for you? I didn't think so. Does someone go to work for you, do your work and give you the paycheck? I didn't think so. Does someone force bad food into your mouth then make you chew it, swallow it and then stuff more in your face? I didn't think so. When you got sick was it the doctors fault? I didn't think so. So why do expect someone else or the doctor for that matter to pay for it? Why does your employer have to give you health bennefits? Is it your employers responsibility to take care of you physically? And please don't say "well if I am healthy it only benefits my employer because I'm more productive". How about being productive for the sake of being productive? How about the joy of working, using your mind for something other then watching TV, producing something other then what you leave in the toilet every day. This is the joy of personal responsibility it is about freedom at its very core. If you produce, you earn, you earn, you purchase and aquire, with these aquasitions you grow and prosper, you give to others of your own free will not government mandates. The government is not going to make you thin, healthy, wealthy, generous or any thing except miserable. Freedom means you are free not to be FAT! Put that candy bar down that you just had to have because it was next to the register at the hardware store where you were just at picking up some picture hangers. Go home, hang the pictures of your FAT self, then get on your face and do some push ups! (is this where I should say check with your doctor first to see if your FAT self can even handle one lousy push up?) Well screw that. Give me twenty right now! When you are finished turn off that TV and get into the kitchen, open the cabinets and throw out any proccesed food you have. Basically anything in the ingreidients that ends in OSE (sucrose, fructose, etc.) Any white sugar or white flower any hydrogenated oils or partially hydrogenated oils. Whole, live foods are what you need. And you thought you needed more cabinet space. I guarantee when you are done throwing that garbage out you will have 2/3 more space. Prepare your own food you lazy, FAT, unhealthy individual. Stop poisoning your kids with this trash. No more drive thrus! You might even teach your kids how to cook, now there is a novel idea, now they won't need to go to the drive thru to eat! You might even be able to muster the intestinal fortitude to have a conversation with them. That is if you don't have the TV on in the kitchen watching something important like Dancing with the Stars or some "when is something going to happen" baseball game. Get your priorities straight...God, health, family, work, is that so difficult?

So Obama is going on the Jay Leno show tonight, the first stting president ever to do so. See and everyone thought the economy was is severe crisis, the banking industry in a shambles and we are struggling in Afganistan. How can it be when the great one Obama is going to yuck it up with Jay Leno? He just needs a break from all this exhausting running the country stuff. Michelle has probably always wanted to get tickets for the show but couldn't so she's going to use the bully pulpit now. His next stop will be Oprah of course so she can lick his boots ( and quietly apologize for backing off on the public support when her ratings were suffering from it) But it's all ok now she can scream publicly again and no one is the wiser.
My favorite today is Chris Dodd saying that Gheitner made him take out the no bonuses for bail out recipients. Even though he recieved over $100,000 in campaign donations from AIG alone. They figure since Timmy can't get anyone to work for him they'll just make him their whipping boy.

Give us our money back!

So Nancy Pelosi wants our money back! Funny how she and the other political goofs just voted to give AIG those bonuses. Funny how public outrage can change things on a dime. Imagine if people were this upset about our tax codes. You know those taxes that we pay as corporations etc. that are the highest in the world! But it's ok you get a REFUND each year. It is so generous of the government to give you back SOME of your own money. If you think it is a good idea that the gov. takes money from your paycheck each week then why don't you give me a percentage and I will hold it for one year (and make the interest off of it) then return it to you, I promise. I do have the solution to the tax problem... Make every one write their check on April 15th and don't take anything out during the year. We'll have a 10% tax rate by April 16th!

What is the government thinking?

What is going on with the government? If you are going to allow a bill to pass allowing AIG to give out bonuses you cant tax them the full amount to recover it because of public outrage. If that was the case why not just tell the UAW that you are going to slice their contracts to pieces so you can save the auto industry? Obama could have vetoed that bill but he didn't. He is no different then the rest of those sleazy politicians in D. C. Change we can believe in? I'm so sure. What an empty suit. All you fools who thought he was going to change the world with words are getting a look at what deeds do over words and it ain't pretty. He is robbing our children's wealth with all of this out of control spending. You must give this hard thought and follow it to its logical conclusion, Socialism. This is not what built this country to the greatness is is today. Just look at the rest of the world, they have finally given up the silly notion of everyone being equal (equally miserable) Ireland out of sheer desperation adopted our capitalistic system and lowered te tzx rate to 12% and guess what, they are flourishing economically. This was done by the left of all people. Please get a clue! People know what to do with freedom and money they dont need government to tell them what , where and how to spend and live.