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Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
-Alexis de Tocqueville

Found this article today in the Drudge report

It was nearly two weeks ago that the House of Representatives, acting in a
near-frenzy after the disclosure of bonuses paid to executives of AIG, passed a
bill that would impose a 90 percent retroactive tax on those bonuses. Despite
the overwhelming 328-93 vote, support for the measure began to collapse almost
immediately. Within days, the Obama White House backed away from it, as did the
Senate Democratic leadership. The bill stalled, and the populist storm that
spawned it seemed to pass.
But now, in a little-noticed move, the House
Financial Services Committee, led by chairman Barney Frank, has approved a
measure that would, in some key ways, go beyond the most draconian features of
the original AIG bill. The new legislation, the "Pay for Performance Act of
2009," would impose government controls on the pay of all employees -- not just
top executives -- of companies that have received a capital investment from the
U.S. government. It would, like the tax measure, be retroactive, changing the
terms of compensation agreements already in place. And it would give Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner extraordinary power to determine the pay of thousands of employees of American companies.

When will those in Congress drop the Lynch mob mentality and start doing something for the GOOD our nation instead of grandstanding that will only lead us down a road we don't want to go.

They had the chance to regulate these companies when they started to use our 401k's and Wall Street as a slot machine. They then had another chance to regulate the use of OUR tax dollars that were used to prop up companies deemed "too big" to fail.

In all accounts they failed to act in the best interest of the republic. Instead they turned a blind eye to the Mortgage Markets that were running amok with fraud.

Rep. Alan Grayson, the Florida Democrat who wrote the bill, told me its
basic message is "you should not get rich off public money, and you should not
get rich off of abject failure."

Yeah Dude, there are 535 Congress Critters who need to look in the mirror on that one.

Very cool and very scary at the same time

Sunday funny

This is a good one...submariners and the Air Force...


After 9/11 an old Submarine Chief asked the CNO to return him to

active duty and send him to the middle east. Of course the CNO

refused, and told the old submariner he had served his time on

patrol and should relax and enjoy his golden years. The 'ole Chief wasn't

at all pleased, so he wrote the Secretary of the Navy with the same

request. Back came the reply for him to enjoy his golden years,

because this war was a young man's war and there was no place for

him.

That really pissed him off, so he wrote his congressman a long,

heart wrenching letter explaining in great detail just why he felt he

should be returned to active duty. Back came the reply almost word for

word, the same as the SecNav response....... The 'ole Chief was livid.

He went down to the beach in Norfolk Virginia, bought a rowboat, and

vowing to get to the Persian Gulf one way or the other, he set out

rowing his boat and singing the Anchors away my boys, Anchors away

"........... and off he rowed for the gulf.

Saint Peter had been watching this grizzled 'ole CPO all the while,

and was at first amused by it all but had grown increasingly

concerned as the Chief displayed his commitment to his objective. Saint

Peter finally turned to God for advice on how to deal with this unwavering

old salt. After hearing the saga unfold, God advised Saint Peter to be

merciful and take the Chief's brain, since that was the center of

thought, and he would simply abandon the idea about getting to the

Persian Gulf. Now, having taken God's advice and removing the

Chief's brain, St. Peter observed little if any change in the CPO's

behavior. He continued to row his boat and sing at the top of his voice

"Anchors away my boys, anchors away ".......

A little frustrated at the lack of results of his efforts, St.

Peter turned again to his God and asked, "Now what?" God said,

"Well OK, take his heart, because not even an old sewer pipe sailor can

function without a heart. So, that should end it." But when St. Peter had

completed his task, and removed the Chief's heart, he was again

amazed that little if any change could be observed in the Chief's behavior

as he continued to row his boat and sing "Anchors away my boys,

anchors away "....... at-the-top-of-his-voice.

Once again, St. Peter asked God for assistance with this unusual

situation for which there seemed to be no solution.

This time God responded by suggesting that St. Peter should remove

the old boat sailor's testicles, since it's a well known fact that

steely eyed killers of the deep can't function without their testicles.

Otherwise, what would be the reason for submariners having the

worldwide reputation of having the balls to do the impossible?

Convinced this was the answer, St. Peter went to work and removed

the 'ole Chief's balls. Again, St. Peter observed the submariner, this

time with his balls, brains and heart removed, rowing in a never

ending circle singing, "Off we go, into the wild blue yonder."

Yeah Right...

After the Inauguration, I took a break from blogging and even the news in general for the sake of my dentist and blood pressure. The buffoons, swindlers, and elitist crooks that have managed to pass themselves as American citizens holding office in the congress and executive branch of our government were causing me to grit my teeth so bad that I had to take a break from the breathless and enthusiastic reporting of the evisceration of our republic.

Just today on CNN, Peter Orszag, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, was quoted saying: “This president will bring a halt to pork-laden bills.
He says it is too late to cut earmarks from the spending bill inherited from the Bush administration.
"[Such bills] will not happen when the president has the full legislative and appropriations process in place,"


He argued that the White House had little choice but to support the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, which it inherited from the previous administration. The bill would keep the government running through 2009.

"This is like your relief pitcher coming into the ninth inning and wanting to redo the whole game," Orszag said. "Next year we're going to be the starting pitcher, and the game's going to be completely different."


But House Minority Whip Eric Cantor rejected the argument and noted that President Obama had vowed to take action against earmarks during the presidential campaign.
"If you make a promise, people expect that you live up to it. And that's why this administration's refusal to go in and change this bill, I think, is a false position," Cantor told "State of the Union."
"There is no way anyone could take what Mr. Orszag has said with any credibility," Cantor said
Both Parties have Completely lost credibility. Mainly due to the following:
The spending bill contains nearly $8 billion in earmarks, which are pet projects of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The Senate postponed a planned vote on the bill Thursday after Democratic leaders came up short of the support they needed to pass it.
While many lawmakers consider at least some of the pet projects worthy, most openly reject the system of slipping earmarks into the bill to try to bring home as much "pork" as possible. But many of those who have complained about earmarks also have earmarks in the bill. They argue that until everyone is prevented from taking part in the process, their states or districts should not lose out

In a debate last September against Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, Obama discussed earmarks and vowed to go "line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."

Obama has vowed to sign the spending bill.

"Would we have written this thing differently? Absolutely," Orszag told King. "But we face a basic choice here. ... Is it uglier than we'd like? Yes. But again, this was negotiated last year. We think we should just move on. When we are engaged in the fiscal year 2010 appropriations process, it's going to look a lot different."

But Cantor, R-Virginia, said "people are expecting this administration to live up to the promises made."

Asked whether his argument is undermined by the earmarks from Republicans, Cantor responded that he and House Minority Leader John Boehner had asked their party to adopt a moratorium on the practice. Indeed, some lawmakers from both parties have
called for a moratorium.

"There is no question that we've got to change this entire process. It is a system gone bad," Cantor said.


Here's a news flash.

We don't have an economic problem. We don't have a Social Security insolvency problem, either.
Nor do we have a world image problem, a taxation problem, a national debt problem, or spending, policy, infrastructure, housing, banking, farming, poverty, unemployment, trade, fuel, commerce, or energy problems.

What we do have is a parochial, childish, corrupt, partisan, egotistical, tenure-driven, "me-based," out-of-touch, deceitful, reactive-versus-proactive, pork-laden, elitist Congress problem.

Any 535 randomly selected American citizens can do as good as or as bad as the current House and Senate.

Frankly, they can probably do better. These elected so-called "leaders" bathe in their own high self-image, mindless of what real America thinks of them.

Fix Congress and we can then start getting down to repairing the issues and challenges of our society.

Comms Check

I have tried to post the past few days and the blogger posting page has had errors that have prevented posting.