[Rhodes22-list] The way things are ... (Political)

[Rik Sandberg]

Brad,

Wait ..... didn't he share his peanut butter and jelly samich with a 
fellow 6th grader??? Seems like a big step toward eliminating world 
hunger to me. :-) :-)

Rik

Will Rogers often said, "There's nothing quite like money in the bank." He went on to say, "I'm not so concerned about the return on my money as I am about the return of my money."



Brad Haslett wrote:
> Rik,
>
> You are correct, and the only candidate to address that issue in
> plain, blunt-spoken language was Sarah Palin, who said in her
> convention speech, "we need to live within our means".
>
> I'm attaching the latest from Dr. Sowell who echos my sentiments and
> repeats my challenge on this forum for months.  What has this "Chosen
> One" accomplished?  Something, anything - ran a small business, wrote
> a major piece of legislation, helped his own extended family -
> something, anything? Instead, we see a long, long string of
> questionable alignments and friendships with dubious and corrupt
> characters. Almost every (if not every) project he was heavily
> involved with in Chicago was an abject failure.  His one claim for
> success is running a campaign, albeit one on funded by illegal
> financing sources and managed by David Axlerod, master of illusion.
>
> What we are witnessing is truly "the triumph of hope over experience".
>
> Brad
>
> --------------------------
>
> Ego and Mouth
> Thomas Sowell
> Friday, October 31, 2008
>
> After the big gamble on subprime mortgages that led to the current
> financial crisis, is there going to be an even bigger gamble, by
> putting the fate of a nation in the hands of a man whose only
> qualifications are ego and mouth?
>
> Barack Obama has the kind of cocksure confidence that can only be
> achieved by not achieving anything else.
>
> Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by
> running any kind of enterprise-- whether economic or academic, or even
> just managing a sports team-- is likely at some point to be chastened
> by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his
> successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.
>
> The kind of self-righteous self-confidence that has become Obama's
> trademark is usually found in sophomores in Ivy League colleges-- very
> bright and articulate students, utterly untempered by experience in
> real world.
>
> The signs of Barack Obama's self-centered immaturity are painfully
> obvious, though ignored by true believers who have poured their hopes
> into him, and by the media who just want the symbolism and the
> ideology that Obama represents.
>
> The triumphal tour of world capitals and photo-op meetings with world
> leaders by someone who, after all, was still merely a candidate, is
> just one sign of this self-centered immaturity.
>
> "This is our time!" he proclaimed. And "I will change the world." But
> ultimately this election is not about him, but about the fate of this
> nation, at a time of both domestic and international peril, with a
> major financial crisis still unresolved and a nuclear Iran looming on
> the horizon.
>
> For someone who has actually accomplished nothing to blithely talk
> about taking away what has been earned by those who have accomplished
> something, and give it to whomever he chooses in the name of
> "spreading the wealth," is the kind of casual arrogance that has led
> to many economic catastrophes in many countries.
>
> The equally casual ease with which Barack Obama has talked about
> appointing judges on the basis of their empathies with various
> segments of the population makes a mockery of the very concept of law.
>
> After this man has wrecked the economy and destroyed constitutional
> law with his judicial appointments, what can he do for an encore? He
> can cripple the military and gamble America's future on his ability to
> sit down with enemy nations and talk them out of causing trouble.
>
> Senator Obama's running mate, Senator Joe Biden, has for years shown
> the same easy-way-out mindset. Senator Biden has for decades opposed
> strengthening our military forces. In 1991, Biden urged relying on
> sanctions to get Saddam Hussein's troops out of Kuwait, instead of
> military force, despite the demonstrated futility of sanctions as a
> means of undoing an invasion.
>
> People who think Governor Sarah Palin didn't handle some "gotcha"
> questions well in a couple of interviews show no interest in how she
> compares to the Democrats' Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Biden.
>
> Joe Biden is much more of the kind of politician the mainstream media
> like. Not only is he a liberal's liberal, he answers questions far
> more glibly than Governor Palin-- grossly inaccurately in many cases,
> but glibly.
>
> Moreover, this is a long-standing pattern with Biden. When he was
> running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination back in
> 1987, someone in the audience asked him what law school he attended
> and how well he did.
>
> Flashing his special phony smile, Biden said, "I think I have a much
> higher IQ than you do." He added, "I went to law school on a full
> academic scholarship" and "ended up in the top half" of the class.
>
> But Biden did not have a full academic scholarship. Newsweek reported:
> "He went on a half scholarship based on need. He didn't finish in the
> 'top half' of his class. He was 76th out of 85."
>
> Add to Obama and Biden House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority
> Leader Harry Reid, and you have all the ingredients for a historic
> meltdown. Let us not forget that the Roman Empire did decline and
> fall, blighting the lives of millions for centuries.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Ed,
>>
>> Here's a link to the Obamaphoric black woman.
>>
>> http://video.nbc6.net/player/?id=797441
>>
>> While I agree with most of what you are saying in your post, let's keep
>> in mind that it is not only the gov't or the bankers, etc., etc. that
>> have brought on the problems we are about to endure. WE must shoulder a
>> good deal of the responsibility ourselves. This standard of living we
>> have created and will now begin to pay for was never sustainable. Why?
>> Because it was not built on equity, but rather on leverage. Simply put,
>> Americans have been buying things they didn't really need with money
>> they didn't really have and the weight of the pile of debt is finally
>> overcoming the ability to create more leverage.
>>
>> As reprehensible as I feel the actions of the big bank's and mortgage
>> company's, etc. actions have been leading up to all of this, it does not
>> absolve the average American consumer of the responsibility for living
>> within his means.
>>
>> Rik
>>
>> Will Rogers often said, "There's nothing quite like money in the bank." He went on to say, "I'm not so concerned about the return on my money as I am about the return of my money."
>>
>>
>>
>> Tootle wrote:
>>     
>>> The other day I posted that I thought the members of this forum were in my
>>> opinion equal to or of greater intellect than Obama.
>>>
>>> Then yesterday I caught a news video of an interview with a Black Lady in
>>> Florida after an Obama rally.  She said to the reporter, "I am voting for
>>> Obama because I will not have to buy gas or pay mortgage payments."
>>>
>>> I do not have a Utube reference, I leave that to the experts among us.  But,
>>> to willingly accept this ladies reasoning … , I now have to question others…
>>>
>>> I guess many believe in the efficacy of government provided medical care
>>> too.  I understand that the truth just ain't as sheep believe.  Fema, Fannie
>>> Mae, etc. just being illustrations of real results.
>>>
>>> Why do the most of the best doctors from socialized countries come to the
>>> USA?  The truth speaks in two answers.  First is why the USA is the first
>>> choice of any seeking emigration.  The second is that professional medical
>>> practice under Socialism (call it any name that makes you comfortable) is
>>> not professionally satisfying.
>>>
>>> For those who seek to call government control of medical care anything but
>>> Socialism which is otherwise Marxism and claiming it is not, is just lying
>>> to either yourself or others.
>>>
>>> Such self deception is no different from what that lady believes.
>>>
>>> Obama has admitted that he is a Progressive, Socialist or what ever you may
>>> tag him.  Yes he may have other attributes such as Charisma, but then so did
>>> Hitler, Lenin, Mao, Castro, etc.
>>>
>>> Are there any who lost relatives under the above and still support Obama?
>>> I never knew the relatives I lost.  However, I understand Socialism, Marxism
>>> was at the cause.
>>>
>>> Is not having lost relatives to Marxism a justification to support Obama?
>>> Then you must have the same reasoning ability of that lady in the news.
>>>
>>> The American Capitalists system has created the highest standard of living
>>> ever achieved for mankind.  And Obama and socialist programs will destroy
>>> it.  And then what will your grandkids have?  Will they even understand what
>>> was lost?
>>>
>>> Why is understanding human behavior and wealth important?  Reread the post
>>> about Ronald Reagan and the Red Hen (see below).  For those like Obama who
>>> believe in using government power to distribute wealth, they forget the most
>>> import fact.  That is people's work or efforts create wealth.  When they
>>> lose control of their work product, then their output ceases.
>>>
>>> Ed K
>>> Addendum:
>>> Red Hen
>>>
>>> A modern day little red hen may not sound like or appear to be a quotable
>>> authority on economics but then some authorities aren't worth quoting.
>>>
>>> About a year ago I imposed a little poetry on you. It was called "The
>>> Incredible Bread Machine" and made a lot of sense with reference to matters
>>> economic. You didn't object too much so having gotten away with it once I'm
>>> going to try again. This is a little treatise on basic economics called "The
>>> Modern little Red Hen."
>>>
>>> Once upon a time there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard
>>> until she uncovered some grains of wheat. She called her neighbors and said
>>> 'If we plant this wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant
>>> it?'
>>>
>>> "Not I, " said the cow.
>>>
>>> "Not I," said the duck.
>>>
>>> "Not I," said the pig.
>>>
>>> "Not I," said the goose.
>>>
>>> "Then I will," said the little red hen. And she did. The wheat grew tall and
>>> ripened into golden grain. "Who will help me reap my wheat?" asked the
>>> little red hen.
>>>
>>> "Not I," said the duck.
>>>
>>> "Out of my classification," said the pig.
>>>
>>> "I'd lose my seniority," said the cow.
>>>
>>> "I'd lose my unemployment compensation," said the goose.
>>>
>>> "Then I will," said the little red hen, and she did.
>>>
>>> At last the time came to bake the bread. "Who will help me bake bread?"
>>> asked the little red hen.
>>>
>>> "That would be overtime for me," said the cow.
>>>
>>> "I'd lose my welfare benefits," said the duck.
>>>
>>> "I'm a dropout and never learned how," said the pig.
>>>
>>> "If I'm to be the only helper, that's discrimination," said the goose.
>>>
>>> "Then I will," said the little red hen.
>>>
>>> She baked five loaves and held them up for the neighbors to see.
>>>
>>> They all wanted some and, in fact, demanded a share. But the little red hen
>>> said, "No, I can eat the five loaves myself."
>>>
>>> "Excess profits," cried the cow.
>>>
>>> "Capitalist leech," screamed the duck.
>>>
>>> "I demand equal rights," yelled the goose.
>>>
>>> And the pig just grunted.
>>>
>>> And they painted "unfair" picket signs and marched round and around the
>>> little red hen shouting obscenities.
>>>
>>> When the government agent came, he said to the little red hen, "You must not
>>> be greedy."
>>>
>>> "But I earned the bread," said the little red hen.
>>>
>>> "Exactly," said the agent. "That's the wonderful free enterprise system.
>>> Anyone in the barnyard can earn as much as he wants. But under our modern
>>> government regulations productive workers must divide their products with
>>> the idle."
>>>
>>> And they lived happily ever after, including the little red hen, who smiled
>>> and clucked, "I am grateful, I am grateful." But her neighbors wondered why
>>> she never again baked any more bread.
>>>
>>> From Ronald Reagan...  Reagan In His Own Voice (Audio book/download) ^ |
>>> November 1976 | Ronald Reagan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
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