Who's In Charge America?

"If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions."

James Madison

James Madison is widely recognized as the author of the U.S. Constitution. We can only assume he would have a pretty good idea of what type of government he and the other founders hoped to establish. The situation he describes in the quote above is exactly where we find ourselves today. Government, on the federal, state, and local levels now assumes the authority to do whatever is in their discretion, and it is done with our money. Government has crept into so many areas of our lives, it's hardly noticed by most people, who just assume it's always been this way. County officials in Ohio just took an eight year old boy out of his mother's care because he's too fat and case workers decided it's his mother's fault. Earlier this year, the federal government told Boeing it could not relocate one of it's plants from a union state to a right to work state. A couple of months ago, Houston, Texas Mayor Annise Parker and the Houston City Council, declared several neighborhoods "historical districts", which subsequently places severe restrictions on future uses or modifications to the properties. This was done despite the opposition of at least half of the residents of one neighborhood. Parker the declared that the will of the residents was not a sufficient reason to halt the designation; it was city government's decision. The Declaration of Independence state that "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed".  How did we go from that to allowing the government to tell us what to eat, and taking away our kids if we refuse to comply? R. Allen Stanford is a former investment broker who was arrested in 2009 by federal regulators for, allegedly running a $ 7 billion Ponzi scheme; he has been held in a Texas prison without bail since. The federal government seized everything Stanford and his immediate family owned; money, homes, cars, property, everything, and he has yet to go to trial. He was denied the right to use his money to hire a lawyer. From what I've heard about the case, I'm pretty sure he's guilty. The problem is, to this point, that's all we have; a bunch of people that are pretty sure he's guilty. Is that now enough to take everything a man owns without proving that he's done a damn thing? No matter how you or I would answer that question, the legal answer is yes; it happens all the time. Government has grown and grown like a fat tick, and we've fed it with our money. But, we're at the tipping point now, the parasite is killing the host. We have the means to prevent it, but if we don't act, that may not be the case in a few years. In a dramatic effort last year, voters returned control of the house to Republicans. This was seen as a backlash against the runaway deficit spending. The house controls the purse strings, but the Republican leadership has refused to use that control. In fact, all of congress and the president have refused to address any spending cuts, despite the concerns of the majority of Americans. Unfortunately, I don't see enough Americans with the courage to do anything about it. They may wake up one day with the government they deserve. Sadly, so will the rest of us.

Forget Penn State, Let's Crack Down On Fat People!

There is a rampant, horrific epidemic of child abuse attacking America and I'm not talking about the serial sexual assault that was allowed to continue unreported by the administrations and police departments at Penn State and Syracuse. While those cases are undoubtedly deplorable, there is something of unprecedented evil happening in Ohio, and possibly all over the country: criminal fatness. That's right! Dirt bag parents, all over this country are feeding their kids too much and they must be stopped! Thankfully, heroic Cuyahoga County officials have done just that and removed an 8 year old boy from his mother and placed him in foster care. According to a story from The Blaze, even though the county does not have an official policy on dealing with obese kids, case workers removed the boy because they considered his mother's inability to control his weight a form of medical neglect. The mother has not been charged, much less convicted of a crime, but if the geniuses at Cuyahoga County consider her to be an unfit mother, that should justify any action they deem necessary. Hell, maybe we should just execute her! Let's not forget that all levels of government are authorized by the constitution to use any means necessary to insure the health and well being of the people. Okay, they actually have no such constitutional authority, but they're smarter than us, so they're going to do it anyway. I think we need to take a serious look at some of the other sadistic abuses that are being committed against kids by their parents. Keep in mind, the child does not actually have to be suffering the effects of the abuse, so long as there is the potential that he might at a later date. After all, the fat kid in Ohio, currently suffers from only sleep apnea. As you can see, this leaves a lot of opportunity to remove kids from the care of their idiot parents, who allow them to indulge in life threatening activities. For example:

• Driving-According to the CDC, eight people, between the ages of 15-19, die in driving accidents every day. However, roughly 35 million teens continue to drive, with new licenses being issued every day. Damn, this is going to take a lot of foster homes.
• Swimming-Yeah, it's fun and everything, but we all know it's a death factory. According to the lifeguard site Poseidon, 9 people die in unintentional drownings every day, drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death among children ages 1-14, and a swimming pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child aged 1-4. Clearly, the number of swimming pools in this country borders on genocide.
• Cell Phones-First, there is the whole issue of talking or texting while driving, then you have the issue of the whole radiation/cancer thing. No I don't really believe that one, but I'm sure that at least a few people who have used a cell phone, have then also had cancer. So let's take away their kids, just to be safe.

I could have kept going, but I'm sure that these few examples, along with all the fat kids still out there will lead to every adult in America having to take in 5 or 6 foster kids, while losing at least one of their own. Let's be serious for a minute. Who really believes the government, at any level, is smarter than we are? It's been my experience that, whether you're dealing with the I.R.S., H.U.D., the state DMV, or your local tax collector, most govt. employees shouldn't be trusted to go to the bathroom alone. With few exceptions, they are lazy, stupid, and arrogant. They screw up everything they touch and they need to keep their intrusive noses out of our damn business.

Occupy This! Capitalism and Greed Are Not the Problem

As bums and losers have camped out in parks across the country for the last couple of months; dealing drugs, attacking women, and vandalizing public property, I've heard a lot of people, many of whom I usually agree with, come to their defense. The reasoning is; that these are just frustrated people who can't find job and they really have a point because these Wall Street firms and banks are corrupt and they prey on the poor working class people. This so called 1% are just greedy, only interested in profits, and unconcerned with creating jobs. Capitalism is just an unfair system that rewards those at the top and prevents everyone else from moving up. Well, excuse me, but that's a huge load of bullshit. Capitalism, free enterprise, and profits and greed are not the problem. They didn't cause the financial collapse or the high unemployment; and the vast majority of Americans don't believe they did. This weekend proves my point. When you see overflow crowds and waiting lines in the middle of the night on Thanksgiving Day, and full parking lots at various retailers; there's something at work here, at it's not a hate of capitalism or corporate greed. It's an embracing of it, even if those doing the embracing don't realize it. Merriam-Webster defines greed as: "a selfish and excessive desire for more of something than is needed". Now, at first glance, that does sound like a character trait that you wouldn't be proud of. My question is: How do you determine what qualifies as greed, and is it harmful to anyone, other than the greedy person? How much is "more of something than is needed"? Who decides?  Does a someone "need" a forty thousand square foot mansion? Probably not, even if they have a lot of kids, they could live comfortably in a much smaller home. The reality is that even those of us with much more moderate lifestyles could survive with much less. None of us actually "need" houses or apartments, or indoor plumbing and electricity; we could survive living in tents. We don't need restaurants, we could grow or kill our own food. No one needs a cell phone, but most Americans, regardless of income, have one. It seems to me that, by definition, we're all greedy. Guess what; that's a good thing. People were fighting crowds at Best Buy, Toys R Us, and Walmart last night because there were sales and they saw a chance to get more stuff in exchange for their money; they're greedy. The result of that greed is that a cop friend of mine, along with five of his fellow officers, worked an extra job at the local Walmart; jobs were created at a time of year when everyone needs more money. Retailers changed up their schedules this year and opened earlier, or never closed at all. They did it in an effort to gain an advantage over their competitors, to boost sales and make more money; greed. As a result of this "corporate greed", millions of part times jobs were created; some of which will become permanent. The greed will lead to a little extra food on millions of tables, and Christmas presents for a lot of kids that, otherwise, wouldn't have gotten them. A lot of people think it's ridiculous that people are camping out to buy TV's, and that people are having to work on holidays. I agree, so I don't do Black Friday shopping, and I don't work at Walmart. America is awesome! I have a buddy who has a business that specializes in the sales and installation of equipment for converting and fueling vehicles with compressed natural gas instead of diesel and gasoline. National companies are beginning to convert their fleets because CNG is cheaper; GREED. This is going to be huge and hundreds of thousands of jobs will be created, and that's a conservative estimate. As companies see increased profits from the fuel savings, they'll expand and create more jobs, because they're greedy. Some of the savings will be passed on to the consumers of their products, in order to take sales away from competitors. Their greed will lead to increased buying power for their customers. Skeptics will tell you that the corporate fat cats will never pass this savings along to their customers. Really? The first DVD player I ever saw cost about $400, you can buy a better one today for $29. Five years ago, I payed about $100 a month for my home phone; today, I pay $19.95 a year for Magic Jack, which we don't even use because the price of cell plans is so low. Capitalism and greed have given Americans the highest standard of living in the world, and has raised the standards of the rest of the world as well. How many jobs have been created in the Middle East, Russia, Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico due to methods of extracting and refining oil, that were developed by Americans? How many tech jobs have been created in India and China by greedy American capitalists? How many life saving drugs and medical procedures have been developed by greedy pharmaceutical companies and medical equipment manufacturers? You may have noticed, none of this is the result of government funding, intervention, or regulation. In fact, our current over-reaching, oppressive government would have stalled or prevented many of the life changing innovations of the last 150 years. One of the most hilarious and, at the same time, disgusting developments to come out of this anti-capitalism movement is the re-emergence of self proclaimed communists. Communism, are you freaking kidding me? No other economic system in the history of the world has produced more poverty, human suffering, starvation, and murder than Communism; yet it just keeps coming back like a case of crabs in a whore house. Thank you Karl Marx, you ignorant bastard. Attempting to revive it, is like suggesting that Chevy Chase should get another shot at hosting a talk show. A disaster of that scale should be scrubbed from the pages of history and never be revisited. Like it or not, the key to economic recovery is good old fashioned Capitalist Greed. Get government out of the way and let it work.

Beware of Fraudulent Conservatives

I received a City of Houston 2011 Voters Guide in the mail this week from "Texas Conservative Review". The editor of the publication is former Harris County Republican Chairman Gary Polland. After browsing through Mr. Polland's editorial, candidate grades, and endorsements; I now understand the sorry state of the Republican Party in Harris County and Greater Houston. Despite a bio that portrays him as the ultimate conservative advocate, Polland's commentary on the local elections indicate that he's closer to a Clinton Democrat than a Reagan Republican.

• In grading the Mayoral Candidates on the "conservatism", Polland gives Deputy Fire Chief Fernando Herrera a "B" and current Mayor Annise Parker (caution you might want to sit down for this) an "A-". Mr. Polland, how long have you been smoking crack? Annise Parker's name should not even be mentioned when grading conservatives. 
• Parker is praised as a fiscal conservative for "balancing the budget in hard economic times"; and the mayor has cut spending, but where? Of the $ 71 million in departmental spending cuts for the proposed 2012 budget, $ 60 million were to public safety; the Police and Fire Departments, while continuing to fund liberal/progressive social programs.
• $ 12 million is appropriated for The Recreation and Wellness and Community Center programs which, as the city website boasts, "Enhance the quality of life and wellness of Houstonians" In reality, these programs provide child and senior daycare to a select few citizens, who happen to form the base of the Democratic Party.
• $ 1 million dollars went to "Historic Preservation" which has imposed drastic restrictions of private property rights against the wishes of property owners, such as the residents of Glenbrook Valley.
• $ 7.3 million of taxpayer money will be spent on Planning and Development, which is Parkers attempt to force "environmental justice" down the throats of Houstonians. This includes $ 1.9 million for her newly formed "Community Sustainability Commission". To lead the effort, Parker hired Laura Spanjian, an environmental activist from San Francisco, as the "Director of Sustainability", at a reported salary of $ 100,000. Parker and Spanjian are strong proponents of the types of "open space" "restricted land use" policies that lead to the skyrocketing housing prices and cost of living in California.
• Parker has repeatedly defied the will of the voters on the red light camera issue; turning the off most recently when it appeared that her plummeting approval rating my endanger her re-election. If she wins, you can bet they're coming back on. This despite the fact that all statistics show an increase in accidents when the cameras were on.
• Just last week Parker and city council voted to reimburse Kroger $ 2.5 million plus interest for infrastructure improvements needed for a new store they want to build in the Heights; which Kroger would have almost certainly paid for themselves.
• Parker and City Councilman Stephen Costello deliberately mislead voters in supporting last years "Drainage Tax" claiming it would cost residents about $5 a month and would only be spent on drainage and flood control. When the bills started arriving, the actual cost was almost double ($9) and, just last week we learned that $ 857,000 from the "lock boxed" fund would be spent on bike trails.

This is a record that would make Barack Obama truly proud. I don't know anything about Gary Polland, but to assert that Annise Parker is in any way conservative, leads me to believe he is either a complete fraud and liar, an idiot, or that he's been bought and paid for. He also gives his endorsement to Councilman Costello in "At Large Position 1". Costello has been a rubber stamp for Parker on everyone of the issues mentioned here and lead the effort to pass the drainage tax. Fraudulent conservatives like Gary Polland are the reason for the sorry state of the Republican Party. They are the reason we end up with candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney. I would advise anyone who receives a copy of his propaganda to burn it. I wouldn't use it for toilet paper. As for Fernando Herrera, he opposes Parker on all of the above. He's an A+ conservative and he's got my vote.

Biden Should Take Cain's Advice: Blame Yourself

Yesterday, Vice President Joe Biden told a crowd of union groupies that rapes and murders were up across the country because of the Wall Street Ponzi schemes that were allowed by the Bush administration, and that they would continue to rise if the Republicans didn't pass the president's jobs bill.Holy crap! I thought the Clinton administration was the most deceitful, immoral, corrupt bunch of scumbags we ever allowed in the Whitehouse. These guys make them look like choirboys.Evidently, telling the voters that Republicans wanted bridges to collapse while they were crossing didn't frighten them enough to take to the streets in protest. Now we'll just have to ramp it up and tell them that George Bush and friends are going to rape their wives and daughters; hell, they might even rape grandma before they push her over that cliff in the wheel chair. Last week, Nancy Pelosi said Republicans wanted women to die on the floor, rather than have a life saving abortion. I'm pretty sure that a lot of Americans do feel as if they've been raped by the government. I'm usually against blaming the victims of crime; that's a Democrat thing to do. But, to paraphrase Herman Cain: If you feel you've been raped by the government, don't blame the Republicans; blame yourself! You live in a liberal city like Flint, Michigan and the Democrats you've elected have squandered your tax money and run up huge deficits; blame yourself! I live in Texas, it's not my responsibility to hire your cops, firemen, and teachers. You're a lifetime union worker, who's allowed your representatives to donate billions of your hard earned money to Democrats, and your  state unemployment is now 25%; blame yourself! Cain may have actually written the perfect new motto for the United States; BLAME YOURSELF! If you're the President of the United States and you have a Democratic majority in the senate that wouldn't pass your latest jobs bill, don't blame the Republicans: blame yourself! If you increased spending by a trillion dollars a year, wasted the money paying off your cronies like Solyndra, and now you don't have any left to buy votes, don't blame the Republicans; blame yourself! Everyone in this country needs to accept responsibility for the mess that we've let it become. We can fix it, but, if you don't vote to throw these lying dirt bags out of office next year; then look in the mirror and BLAME YOURSELF when it all falls apart and your living in Mexico North.

Which Candidate Will Create the Most Jobs? Wrong Question

Last night, President Obama presented his new plan to create jobs and it sounded eerily similar to his old plan. Aw what the hell, he only needs half a trillion dollars to pay for it; just send Biden by the house tomorrow and I'll write him a check. But hey, we're only spending half as much as we did last year. Does that mean we're only going to get half as many jobs? Uh, maybe we need to think about this a little more. We have sort of an important election coming up next year and we, as voters, need to give some serious thought as to which candidate can create the most jobs. First, we need to separate jobs into public sector versus private sector. Let's start with public and as Gomer Pyle would say: "  Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!"; Obama wins in a landslide! I have no doubt that, if he gets another four years, he will have created more government jobs than all previous presidents combined. Only one problem; the last thing we need is more govt. jobs. See, private sector jobs produce wealth, govt. jobs absorb it. So, which candidate will create more private jobs? Is it Obama again? Yeah, probably not; I hired a guy to mow my lawn today so, officially, I created more private sector jobs in one day than Obama has in his entire life. So, is it Romney, Perry, Ron Paul, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain? The answer is: none of the above. No one in government has ever created a private sector job. But, Democrat or Republican, they've destroyed a hell of a lot of them. The only thing they can do to help the situation is: get their dumb asses out of the way of business owners and investors, right now! We'll take the blame for letting you try it your way for this long, but, I think we can all agree that you've screwed it up royally. I'm not going to request that you sit in the back of the car, as the president did of Republicans. No, I'm asking you to get as far away from the damn car as you can. I don't even want to be able to see you in the rear view mirror. You people have done for the economy, what Bill Clinton did for morality. Please step away before something else explodes. We don't need a little tweaking of regulations and the tax code; we need a massive downsizing of, well uh, YOU! Let me provide a few possible starting points:

• Abolish the Tax Code-Not tax cuts or credits, not eliminating a few deductions, not adding eight more dollars a week to my check. We need to throw the whole damn thing out and start over. No country, anywhere on earth needs a 70,000 page tax code. The only reason for that monstrosity is so politicians can hide things from the people, things like pay backs for campaign contributors and subsidies for industries that may employ you after you leave office. It also comes in useful as a tool with which you can arbitrarily punish your enemies. Get rid of it and replace it with a consumption tax that everyone contributes to and can see what their contribution is.
• Stop Telling Businesses What to Do-We don't give a rats ass who you think we should hire or how much you think we should pay them. Most of you have never even had a private sector job. What gave you the idea that you know anything about it? Employees at my company could be working extra hours every week, earning an extra $ 150-$ 200. But we can't let them because, by law, we'd have to pay time and a half, and we'd lose money. Do you have any idea what an extra 25%-30% in pay would mean to those families. No, but you make decisions like this on their behalf every day. Mind your own damn business!
• Abolish the Department of Labor-OSHA, in particular is a worthless disaster that destroys jobs and wealth. We can thank Richard Nixon for this bureaucratic pile of turds. It should be illegal to ever mention his name as a Republican again.
• Abolish the EPA-Congress can write laws to protect the environment and the DOJ can enforce them.The EPA is a leftist wacko, govt. sponsored version of Greenpeace. It's done far more harm to the economy than subprime mortgages. Get rid of it; and I'll donate a year of free civil service, if I can be the one who gets to go in there and fire everyone.
• Restore Private Property Rights-Why in the hell do we need govt. telling business owners what size bathrooms they need in buildings they paid for with their hard earned money? Why can't a restaurant owner allow smoking in his own building? Why do strippers have to stay three feet away from the perverts that patronize their establishments?(I'm pretty certain Bill Clinton had nothing to do with that one.) Stop pandering to do-gooder losers that want to mind everyone else's business. It's not creating jobs.
• Cut Out the Green Crap-There are no green jobs, no green economy, no environmental justice. Govt. officials should be banned from ever using the word green again. It's raising the price of energy, which raises the price of everything else, and it's accomplishing nothing! You're making America look stupid and your pissing me off. When other forms of energy are more efficient than fossil fuels, you won't have to force or pay people to use them. If George W. Bush hadn't outlawed incandescent light bulbs, then maybe L.E.D. bulbs wouldn't cost fifty freaking dollars each!
• Put A Moratorium on Reality TV-I'm not sure if it will create jobs, but, I'm certain that crap is making Americans incredibly stupid at a rapid pace. What's so entertaining about cramming a bunch of losers into a house together and watching them fight. Stop the madness now!

So, there you have it. I've got a lot more, but I'm sleepy right now! No need to debate it because I'm 100% right. Just pass it now, now, now!

Democrats Take Emergency Measures to Battle Deadly Heat

Warning!!!, EXTREME HEAT ADVISORY, It's going to be really, really hot today. The National Weather Service says temperatures could reach about the same levels they do every year around this time. In response to this extreme "Weather Crisis", President Obama and congressional Democrats have vowed to take bold steps to protect Americans...who vote for Democrats. Temperatures in some parts of the country are expected to exceed 100 degrees, but according to the new, "super-secret heat index", developed by former Vice President Al Gore, it will feel like it's 700-800 degrees. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said she has heard rumors of some people "just spontaneously bursting into flames". All of the leaders of the Democratic party agree that this heat wave is a lingering result of the Bush Tax Cuts. Speaking from a Washington country club, just prior to teeing off, President Obama said, "As you know, I inherited this weather and reversing it has been an even bigger challenge than we expected. This is just one of the things that happens when you allow people to keep too much of the money they earn." The President then said he was calling on congress to send him legislation that would confiscate the air conditioners of millionaires and billionaires, who make over $ 250 thousand a year; along with anyone else who has a job. "As President, I can't just sit back and allow corporate jet owners and hedge fund managers to keep sipping their Slurpees and relaxing in the cool indoors , while seniors, babies, pregnant mothers, cancer patients, illegal immigrants, and other potential Democratic voters sweat like pigs in this heat. It's just not fair." Even former President Bill Clinton joined the effort to relieve the devastating effects of the soaring temperatures. Speaking to a group of college coeds at Brown University, Clinton urged the young women to be proactive in battling the heat, while working to conserve energy. "Turn your thermostats up to 80 and shed some of those excess clothes. When I was a kid in Arkansas, during the summer, we would wear nothing but thin white tee shirts, then pour pitchers of ice water over each others heads. You have no idea how refreshing that is. In fact, I have couple of tee shirts right here, if I can get some volunteers." Senate majority leader Harry Reid said he plans to introduce a bill that would appropriate $500 billion to provide Gatorade, snow cones, and slip-n-slides to America's most vulnerable...Democrats. "We believe that refreshing snacks and backyard water toys are a basic human right." Reid added that additional "weather stimulus" could be necessary in the winter; as the Democrats are expecting some cold weather, especially up north.