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We need a timeline!

Posted by lambeypie on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:57:45 AM
It is time to urge Congress to get us on a timeline for the government to get out of its positions in business. They need to set up measurable goals and get out in a timely specified manner. This state of crisis will not last, and we should act like we know it! We cannot expect to enjoy the blessings of living in a capitalist country if we let these instrusions by government into business as normal and healthy. It would be wise to plan the getting out now.
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ILLEGAL Immigration

Posted by lambeypie on Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:36:19 AM

Perhaps it is time to look at ILLEGAL immigration.

What are the drawbacks?

1) Misuse and excessive cost of our prison systems, health systems, schools
2) Undermining of our labor force.
3) Condoning breaking the law
4) Inviting drug traffic and violence into our country
5) Failing to stop dangerous ILLEGAL immigration by enemies from terrorist nations

To what end?

1) more votes
2) if they can stay and earn, maybe a way to get out of our social security problem
3) don't have to make any effort to enforce laws

Since two out of three benefits could be gotten by legal practices, the ends do not justify the means.

It is time to enforce our borders. It is time to stop the drain on national resources (schools, health care, law enforcement, prison costs, loss of jobs for American workers)
It is time to stop the bleeding in our border states.

What are the facts?

1) $30 Million a year is spent on health care for illegals who do not put money into the system.
2) 35% of jail populations are illegal and we pay their room and board.
3) Schools are overcrowded and must try to meet the demands of two- or more language classrooms.
4) We have unemployment of about 7% and climbing.

Can you justify letting ILLEGAL immigrants take the jobs of citizens?
Can you justify Americans paying the health care, education, jail, and work costs of ILLEGAL immigrants?
Can you take the risk of letting in terrorists because of your laissez-faire attitude about the law?
Can you excuse the drug traffic, violence, and  kidnapping that accompanies ILLEGAL immigration?
You have too great a tolerance for these wrongs.

Please consider these facts and change enough to stop the flood over our borders, and help Americans to
have work, pay taxes, and abide by laws.
There is a reason that the ILLEGAL immigration is ILLEGAL. This was done, not to keep us from enjoying life, but to ensure that we enjoy life.
It would be refreshing for Congress and the Senate to get votes because of doing the right thing, for a change!

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rights of abortion conscientious objectors

Posted by lambeypie on Friday, February 27, 2009 5:20:43 PM
Abortion is an issue of religion. When I hear that doctors and nurses who have religious beliefs concerning abortion can no longer refuse to perform them, I know that government is meddling and mixing religion and state. This must stop!
The President is acting out of bounds, and Congress must act to stop this now.
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vote no on health nationalization

Posted by lambeypie on Monday, February 23, 2009 5:57:45 AM

health-care reform. At best, the title tries to make it sound like this could be a good idea. It is not a good idea.

1) The cost is much higher than expected. (Brtian's cost was double what they thought it would be. Remember who pays for it!)
2) Medical service becomes much slower and less effective.
3) People receive a very low level of service for a much higher cost ( in taxes instead of in medical cost, per se).
4) A nationalized product brings medical innovation to a standstill.

These assertions can be verified with numerous examples from European and Canadian systems.
My friend's husband got a hernia. Hehad a type of laproscopic surgery within a week of the injury and was back at work in a couple of weeks. Her son-in=law's father, in England, needed the same surgery. He waited eight months, and they did not have the laproscopic technology, so they had to cut open his abdomen and his recovery time was months. Is this what you want?

In addition, a new level of (costly) government administration comes into being, beyond what exists now.

Is anyone looking at how many people are being completely supported by the government ( actually, the taxpayer, since the government has nothing of its own)?

It is against all doctrine of American freedom to obligate me to pay a premium for worse service, poorer care, and greater cost. I do not agree to be obligated to pay for programs with which I do not agree!

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Off the track AGAIN courtesy of the prez

Posted by lambeypie on Monday, January 26, 2009 1:56:20 AM

Once again, BO has gotten us completely off track. Are we not trying to fix the mess caused by subprime mortgages and the making of derivatives based on them?

we need to:

1) revisit mark-to-market accounting
2) make the laws for lending more stringent
3) investigate congressional and senate oversight of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac

Pushing 850 billion dollars in bribes to citizens will not fix the problem, nor will it provide stimulus. I am expecting this administration to counter the previous one by changing the actions it criticized: namely, to spend less money.

After hearing for days that the only solution to our mess is spending even more than we were spending, one is tempted to believe that government spending will somehow get us out of debt and fix the problems. Rather than fixing the actual problems, the administration is attempting to do what it wants to, but call it fixing the problem.

We don't have the money to pay what we owe now. How will it help to add $850 billion to the debt? Does somebody have a screw loose?  This is using a hammer to fix a screw.

 

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Bailout activities

Posted by lambeypie on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:51:39 PM
 1) public disclosure of the persons and companies receiving bailout money - when and how much
 2) timeline for withdrawal (sale) of securities purchased with bailout funds
 3) no more bailouts
 4) public running list and value of securities purchased with bailout funds
 5) investigation of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd (and Jamie Gorelik and Janet Reno) regarding Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac
 6) fine of all Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae executives equal to the amount of all bonuses for the last 8 to 10 years
 7) change of mark-to market rules to avoid this situation in the future
 8) repeal of all changes to the 1930's rules that define/delineate banks and investment institutions
 9) return of all profits from the bailout to American citizens (in the form of a check) by a date certain
10) repeal changes to lending laws that permit uncreditworthy borrowers to get home loans.
11) repeal Sarbanes-Oxley, while you're at it.
 
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What about the babies?

Posted by lambeypie on Thursday, October 30, 2008 7:26:34 AM
I guess I have been living under a rock by not being in on the abortion
debate. Planned parenthood always seemed like the best way to do things -
you only have as many kids as you can afford and you want each one.
So now, when I read about partial birth abortion, supported by some
political candidates and some feminists, I have been giving it a lot of
thought.

Why, when there are so many birth control methods, and most of them very
effective, would abortion be such a big deal? Wouldn't it make sense to
apply one's choice to preventing a pregnancy rather than commit a murder?

Then, I hear that 1500 black babies a day are aborted, and that certain
political candidates support that, I think to myself, This is racist, if I
ever heard it! This sounds like a way to get rid of or, at least, severely
limit the black population.

Then, I think about the movies I've seen where there was an unwanted
pregnancy. Usually, the father was more interested in having the abortion
than the mother. I don't know if that is a true depiction; probably some
fathers would like to keep the baby and the mother doesn't want to mess with
it, but, most of the time, the father wants to get rid of it and not have to
get married. I say to myself, Gosh, whatever the feminists believe about
abortion, this seems like it is very sexist against women and their right to
choose.

I am having a hard time seeing what could be good about abortion, unless
there is a case of danger to the life of the mother or the mother and the
baby.

With the amount of psychological and physical suffering that people endure
to have abortions, it seems like it would be easier to talk people into
birth control than into abortions. Seems like it might be less expensive.

When it comes to paying for a lot of abortions of a lot of people all over
the world, then it becomes an issue for me. That is against my religion. I
was thinking that there was a separation of church and state in this
country. How about that now? Is anybody paying attention to this? Does
anybody care enough to do something about it?
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Let's get the union off our back

Posted by lambeypie on Saturday, September 20, 2008 12:07:09 PM
There are several ballot issues on the Colorado ballot this time, many of them about unions.
 
Senator Salazar is meeting with union and business leaders ( per the Saturday Denver Post) to take four union proposals off the table in exchange for some business leaders putting $5 million into stopping three business proposals.
 
It looks like the union thinks their four won't pass, so they are trying to get union dues proposals off, as if it would be a fair exchange. The three they want to emasculate are: non-union employees not paying union dues; governments not deducting union dues and other special interest payments from employee paychecks; prohibiting government only contractors from giving campaign contributions.
 
It is about time to get those rules passed, don't you think? Why should we give up our lunch so we won't be beaten up?
 
 
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like pouring molasses in the engine

Posted by lambeypie on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:34:37 AM
government unions! We are having an election now in the state of Colorado to put unions in the government.
 
All I can say is: look how well it worked for auto workers in Michigan. As long as they had a fancy, big, profitable corporation paying the bills, some workers benefitted. When the auto industry took a dive, then there was no help for those workers. The unions made them unable to fend for themselves, and there has been a depression there for a lot of years.
 
Let's see if we can hold off from doing something. It seems like doing something for no reason now, with very bad consequences in the future.
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Taking offense or being offended?

Posted by lambeypie on Friday, February 09, 2007 7:44:06 AM
In the old days, people remembered the word that it is an honor to overlook an offense by another person. Only slowly did people become able to express that someone had offended them. 

Being offended has become the rage: now we look for things at which to be offended. It doesn't matter how shallow or how thin the premise, let's get in there and be offended!  

I say, get a job! get a life! If you want to rob yourself of all the fun and enjoyment in life, focus on how much you are being offended. That will take all the joy right out of life for you.

I am an auditor. If I took everything that people say seriously, I would damage my ability to go to work, to love life, to consider myself a whole person. I can't go on what others say. People say things - sometimes to joke, sometimes from fear. How much better we both are if I respond in love and life. Their fear is lessened and I can do my job.

We have moved from thinking that we are taking offense at what someone said (active), to thinking that we have been offended (passive) and can't do anything about it. You would be amazed what happens when you let these things go. How lovely life can be when we don't let ourselves be under the foot of what others say.

Come to think of it, isn't it mostly liberals who spend their time being offended?
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Islam is Politics

Posted by lambeypie on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:23:10 PM
Most American politicians are afraid of losing any votes or vote blocks by saying something politically incorrect. They will not call Islam what it is. They choose to refer to terrorists as Islamo-fascists or radical Islamists or some other misnomer. Actually, Islam is Islam, and America is its enemy.

Therefore, I am proposing that we view Islam as a political, rather than a religious, organization. It has political goals; it uses political means; war is within its purview. This may allow some politicians to tell it straight and focus on the right things to win the war and defeat our enemies.
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