Jesse has been out of the spotlight too long to suit… Jesse.  Go back into your little world and keep paying off your baby momma to keep her mouth shut.

Wonder why GM is in such financial trouble?  Contracts like this:

Thousands of workers could be laid off but would still get most of their pay because their United Auto Workers union contract requires the company to make up much of the difference between state unemployment benefits and their wages.

Even when they stop production and have to lay people off to save themselves from bankruptcy, they still have to pay employees and of course, the union.  Every GM employee that agreed to that contract should be held accountable for it.

Brian Reidl, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, said all the spending may lead a Democratic-controlled Congress to “overreach and create expensive, unworkable new programs that will not be easy to fix or cut later.”

“There are significant economic risks to rapidly expanding the size of government,” Reidl said. “Countries with large governments produce less wealth and create fewer jobs than countries with minimal government.”

Like any spending the government initiates, it never goes down, always up.

President Reagan came into office believing that government was more the problem than the answer and his policies brought us into a long period of growth.  President Obama believes that government is the answer and only history yet to be made will determine who made the better call.  I know who my money is on.

Imagine what would have happened had the Dems had 60 in the Senate.  They are trying to push through a health care bill that would add the government to your management plan in healthcare.  How crazy is that?

Writers who are not pro-Barack Obama are suffering character assassination as well. George Will of the Washington Post, the nation’s senior conservative columnist, has been so assaulted by bloggers that his editor, Fred Hiatt, recently wrote, “I would think folks would be eager to engage in the debate, given how sure they are of their case, rather than trying to shut him down.”

Frightening trend, but it’s really not new.  Obama has seen to this since he’s hit the national spotlight.  He has someone really powerful keeping him above the fray, but very much in the limelight.

So, Senator Kerry.  You think that the government investing in newspapers much like they have in the auto industry is a good idea…  And, you say, they won’t interfere in operations much like in the auto and banking industry.  But haven’t you guys been essentially running the banks since investment in them even going so far as to refuse repayment in order to keep some level of control over them?

You won’t see that question from the MSM.  This is a DANGEROUS move especially considering the alleged interference from the Obamanation and alleged threats against lawyers and investment firms for not going along with Obama’s planned rescue.  Newspapers are already part of the Obamanation, so it’s not like this will make very much difference if they do have control, but from a fiscal standpoint where does it end?

You are getting this money from a shrinking group.  Taxpayers.  As unemployment goes up, revenue for the government goes down, yet they are spending at an unprecedented rate.  I don’t know about you, but I can’t afford to fund any more takeovers and bailouts and neither can my children.  I would like for my children to be able to keep more of what they earn than any generation since the spending spree by government began.  The Obamanation Socialist Movement is not only going to bankrupt this generation, but generations to come and taking away freedoms by the minute.  It’s up to us to stop it before it’s too late.  VOTE THEM OUT.  Email them.  Call them.   Make it known that if they want reelection, they must answer to you.  It’s our only hope.

The Republican Party keeps making such a mess trying to remake itself when all it has to do is get back to it’s core values minus the extreme social conservatism and we’re back in business.  People don’t like either extreme.  Fiscal conservatism is actually popular amongst working Americans, but the far right loudmouths are getting most of the press right now because of the OSM in the media.  That’s not what the Republican Party is about, but the OSM media always seeks out the nutjobs to put on CNN and the 3 major OSM outlets plus MSNBC.

VOTE.  THEM.  OUT.

This book is dedicated to the memory of Murph, Axe, and Danny Boy, Kristensen, Shane, James, Senior, Jeff, Jacques, Taylor, and Mac. These were the eleven men of Alfa and Echo Platoons who fought and died in the mountains of Afghanistan trying to save my life, and with whom I was honored to serve my country. There is no waking hour when I do not remember them all with the deepest affection and the most profound, heartbreaking sadness.

Now here’s another very interesting quote from the book on page 36:

Looking back, during our long journey in the C-130 to Afghanistan, I was more acutely aware of a growing problem which faces U.S. forces on active duty in theaters of war all over the world.  For me, it began in Iraq, the first murmurings from the liberal part of the U.S.A. that we were somehow in the wrong, brutal killers, bullying other countries; that we who put our lives on the line for our nation at the behest of our government should be somehow charged with murder for shooting our enemy.
It’s been an insiduous progression, the criticisms of the U.S. Armed Forces from politicians and from the liberal media, which knows nothing of combat, nothing of our training, and nothing of the mortal dangers we face out there on the front line.  Each of the six of us in that aircraft en route to Afghanistan had constantly in the back of our minds, the ever-intrusive rules of engagement….
…I can say from firsthand experience that those rules of engagement cost the lives of three of the finest U.S. Navy SEALs who have ever served.

These are our defenders.  These are our fathers, brothers, and sons.  Yet we stand by and let the liberal media and liberal politicians cost their lives needlessly in the name of political correctness.  I ask you this… Why?

Read the book.  It’s really awesome and inspiring.

If you look outside LA and San Fran, the state is really fairly conservative (when you’re only talking about those here legally that is).  I’ve been here for about 24 hours now and haven’t talked to a liberal yet.  On the plane ride into Sacramento, I talked with a retired woman who didn’t like living here because of the “liberals taking over the government here”.  In talking with people at the plant where I’m doing some work, same story about LA and San Fran giving the state a liberal slant because the population is so high there that they essentially over ride the rest of the state.

I also hadn’t considered how much of the state is rural and agricultural.  As I arrived in Sacramento, the nice lady sitting next to me pointed out the rice fields.  I didn’t know they grew so much rice here either.  You learn something new every day, if you listen more than you talk.