Creating Jobs Obama Style

The 1.1 million dollar bus that President Obama bought to do his “grass roots” traveling to be close to the real people like “Joe the Plumber” actually got a costly security rebuild to the tune of another million or so which is not like any ordinary bus. It even has the capability of allowing the Prez to nuke someone’s hindquarters right off the face of the earth if the need arises. President Obama plans to use this bus to tour through the countryside to promote his “Jobs Plan” for getting America back to work.

Ironically this luxury bus was built in Canada which doesn’t seem to me to do much for promoting American jobs.  It's time to throw Obama under the bus and elect a new president.

Read this sad fairytale over at the New York Post here

Record Number of Food Stamp Users, Is This Really Something to Celebrate?

Recently in an interview with MSNBC, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, announced that more people are using food stamps in the U.S. than ever before. He attributed this success to the administration's efforts to "get the word out." How nice, Obama's plan for the overall economic health of the nation is to hand out more food stamps? Certainly not, right? Not so fast. The Secretary and former Governor of Iowa, goes on to call the food stamp program the most "direct stimulus" maybe even more stimulative than unemployment benefits. Is this really something we should be celebrating? We think not.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as it is called now certainly serves its purpose which when created some 72 years ago was meant to curb the hunger woes facing the U.S. during the recovery of the Great Depression. When it first started in 1939 as many as 20 million people in the U.S. used the program to the tune of $262 million. The program has grown to serve nearly 46 million people in the U.S. at a cost of nearly $6 billion at last count.

In May, Republican Presidential candidate and former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich came under fire for what was widely quoted as his naming President Obama as the "food stamp President" on NBC's "Meet the Press." Gingrich was criticiszed for suggesting that Obama's overall plan for our economy was the people should just sign up for food stamps, asking if we want to be in a country that creates food stamps as opposed to paychecks. While somewhat crass is this not the same question we should be asking ourselves as we prepare for the upcoming elections? We think it should. Afterall what was wrong with that statement of reasonable opinion? Indeed a blogger on the Huffington Post blogged the same sentiments by claiming Obama's plan for job creation is to hand out food stamps.

It is these exact Keynesian theories that has us trapped in this quagmire of flat GDP growth which leads to further unemployment and thus more users of food stamps, clearly not rocket science. Obviously Vilsack drinks the same tainted Kool-Aid that Obama drinks thinking these things actually work. Only inside the Beltway or between the ears of elitist liberal theorists can the touting of programs such as these solve our economic woes. We should be working to find ways to put more people back to work and get people off food stamps than "getting the word out" Mr. Secretary, we will all be better off.

God help us as we approach the 2012 elections.

President Obama takes the Bus

Poor President Obama has gotten a fair share of flack for jetting around the world on Air Force One costing the taxpayers billions of dollars. Now that the election cycle is upon us the president has decided to cut back a bit and try to appeal to the grass roots folks by doing a little campaign traveling via a bus. That’s right – a bus. Now this is not your ordinary old school bus but rather a special purchase thanks to the taxpayers that just paid 1.1 million dollars for this latest whim of our president. At least this purchase can be used to haul all the President’s buddies off to one of those infamous golfing trips the next time disaster should strike our country and they all need to go golfing to contemplate how they are going to respond. And as a side note this bus is nearly big enough to haul Michelle and her court of hand-maidens on some of her many excursions so maybe we will save a few shekels in the long run.

January 20, 2013 is the next Presidential Inauguration. Let’s make sure it is not this guy again.

MATL Line Hits another Big Snag

Thanks to a fellow blogger over at the 2nd Grade Bike Rack we were pointed to a story over at KRTV that announced that Tonbridge Power Inc has requested its stock stop trading on the Canadian market due to “pending news”. Tonbridge Power is the parent company of MATL (Montana-Alberta Tie Line) which has garnered so much attention the past year because of eminent domain issue. You may recall that the Montana Legislature reviewed several proposed eminent domain legislative actions designed to allow the construction of this line. Tonbridge stock was selling for $2.33 a share a year ago and as of the stop trading request it was at $0.25 a share.

How is all this going to shake out for the completion of this line?

Here are some news sources for what is happening with Tonbridge Power and the MATL line:

Thanks to 2nd Grade Bike Rack for pointing us to this story

KRTV News story here
Another Informative article at the Choteau Acantha
Tonbridgepower.com

Systematic Indoctrination

School Indocrination - another reason to vote no to increased education levys

Note the source of this brain washing –  MoveOn.org  -- The one and same outfit that worked tirelessly to help get Senator “No Earmarks Ever” Tester elected.

Debt Ceiling BS

I haven’t even been able to watch the “talking heads” the last few days because they are all trying to tell us how great it is that congress finally came to some “compromise” to keep our government from shutting down. What they are failing to mention is the fact that this compromise does virtually nothing to correct the problem and just extends our debt ceiling which is already past bankruptcy stage for any normal business. Why can’t these congressmen comprehend that we must not spend more than our income if we ever hope to survive? The following video of Harry Reid recorded during the budget debate basically shows what the problem is……….. They don’t give one hoot about anything but partisan politics. That goes for Democrats as well as Republicans. Poor Harry is more concerned with getting off for summer break on time so he can see his trees bloom than he is in coming up with a solution. Lest I need remind you, our own Senator Tester spent many hours in Nevada prior to the November election campaigning for his good buddy Harry Reid. Take a look at the video and tell me what you think.

Also the following comparison between government financial affairs and a comparable American family really put this financial mess into perspective for me

All this budget talk running into the trillion is really confusing for the average American. Let’s do a simple math exercise consisting of just removing 8 zeros from the budget numbers to make the dollar amounts something we can compare to an average Americans debt to income ratio.

• Annual Income: $21,700
• Yearly Expenses: $38,200
• Yearly New Debt: $16,500
• Outstanding Credit Card Balance: $142,710
• Budget Cut as just passed by Congress: $385

So now with this new “compromise” we are only adding yearly new debt to our credit card balance of $16,115 instead of $16,500. Yea, I can see how this will really solve the problem. The real solution is to match the spending to the income plus a little to go to reduce the huge credit debt. If my income / loss statement looked like this the bank would have foreclosed long ago. What makes you think the government won’t face the same fate? I hate to admit it but the teabaggers are dead on right on this debt issue.

CUT SPENDING

 

BREAKING NEWS: Standard & Poors Downgrades U.S. Debt from AAA to AA+

After all the patting on the back from our Dear Leader Mr. Obama this week and "No Earmarks Ever" Tester about the hard work they've done on behalf of the American people to, as Obama said "solve the debt crisis," Standard & Poors (S&P) has downgraded U.S. debt for the first time in American History. How's that Hope and Change working out for ya folks? Unbelieveable.

Bottom Line? The deal of earlier this week is nothing but a kick the can down the road move that mattered little to the threat from the credit ratings agencies about lowering our credit rating.

After the roller coaster ride on the Dow this week, this nation's economy is teetering on the brink of total failure. Greece, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Zimbabwe, move over. Here comes the U.S.

Note to Congress. . .Cut Up The Credit Card Now!

Spendoholics Promise to “do better” next Time

Was the debt “crisis” really averted? Or did it just prolong the upcoming agony we must all face when we live beyond our means? Why is it so hard for Congress to understand that we must start spending only what revenue we have and no more?

That goes for over-spending program happy Republicans as well as liberal free spending Democrats

Recovery Woes

This is exactly on target

Havre Water -- Good Enough for Thee but not for ME

It appears that Murphy’s Pub is putting up a mighty fine fight against the recent boycott hex placed upon them for daring speak out about Havre’s dirty (looking) water. What could be better than a pint of Pale Ale to wash away your troubles? I didn’t have time to pop in tonight to see if there was a place to actually sit as I was late for dinner and my belly takes precedent over idle curiosity about the negative effects of another failed boycott by a local democrat leader.

Interestingly these complaints to the public works department came to public light 6-7 weeks ago and as far as we know nothing has been changed in the water treatment process. People calling the water department to complain have told us that the voice on the phone from public works tells them nothing is wrong with the water and it is perfectly safe to drink. Those of us at the Corrector take them at their word for this and continue to make our coffee and cook with this water.


Good Enough for Thee but Not For Me


However we are confused about something. If the water is so great why is it that the public works department themselves have a Culligan water cooler and have bottled water delivered to City Hall for their own use? It would seem to me that the expense of bottled water shouldn’t be shouldered by us city peasants who don’t have the luxury of a never ending source of tax money to fund clean water delivered for our own consumption like they do down at the palace. Furthermore, a council that just voted to make using cell phone use illegal while driving also shouldn’t be furnishing city paid cell phones for city employee use.  Wouldn't you say?


What is the matter with this picture?