rant on, ronnie, rant on

so they froze the "teaser" rates at current levels for up to 5 years to help, and here is the question, the stupid homebuyers who had bad credit to start with but bought hoping that they could sell before the rates went up or the greedy banks and mortgage companies that mislead people into these horrible contracts and are now afraid of having to foreclose on homes that are worth less than the purchase price? hmmmm, bet it is to save the banks. why do i believe this? because the government doesn't give a shit about the people but does owe its soul to the banks.

the dei comes out with report that says that iran has not had a nuclear bomb program for the last 4 years. bush continues to beat the drums of war. alice has fallen down the rabbit hole.

huckabee is gaining on rommney and rudy is falling as well. why? is it that republicans want a baptist preacher who doesn't believe in evolution and does not know that man is a primate or is it because rudy the 9-11 guy, mitt the corporate raider or grumpy fred are just so fucking bad that even huckabee looks good in comparison. actually, the more i learn about huckabee and the more i see him (me, being one of the few from either party who actually listens to what BOTH parties are saying) the more i am less afraid of him than i am of the other bozos running as elephants in 08. johnny mac ain't gonna make, hell he may die of old age before the election. if elected he would be older than ronnie r. was when he came into office and ronnie went senile in his first term.

number of american deaths in iraq and afghanastan since 2001, apprx. 4,000
number of american deaths from hand guns in the united states since 2001, apprx. 80,000.

we are disarming the iraqis and arming the americans. good plan there. actually, we are arming the iraqis as well. we have armed sunni militias to fight against al kayda (i have always spelled al's last name as kayda while the rest of world changes their spellings every 6 months or so) but dollars to doughnuts those arms will be used against the shiites later on. wanna bet?

back to looming home forclosure crisis. two years ago i wrote a blog called "last fool in line." it went like this: you go to buy a home and they tell you it costs 200k; you say, but the house is only worth 150k and the real estate guy tells you, "yes, of course, but if you buy this home for 200k you can keep it several months or a year at the most and sell it to a bigger fool than you for 250k who will then sell it to a bigger fool than he for 350k and everyone will get rich." now we have a nation filled with "THE LAST FOOL IN LINE." but hey, what does a drug-addled comic know?

lou dobbs and the republicans have found their new "GREATEST THREAT TO AMERICA" and it turns out to be brown people from south of the border who are here without papers. THEY ARE TAKING JOBS AWAY FROM AMERICAN WORKERS!!!! yeah, yeah. i see the line of lily white people applying for jobs as maids in casinos and hotels. and dishwashers. and people who mow the lawns and pick up the horse shit at mitt romney's mansion. (how did mitt explain that?) turns out that dobbs, the great crusader, had illegals working on his house as well.

i know some people who are here illegally and they are hard-working, honest, sincere people who are only trying to make a living for themselves and their families. once again, if you were a person living in squalor in a central american country with no hope of ever getting a job that would bring you out of that crushing poverty, wouldn't you also try to get to the united states? of course you would. it is either that or become a bandit in your home country to put food on the table.

if we opened the door for citizenship for the millions of undocumented workers here we would add billions and billions of dollars to our tax base because these workers would then be paying taxes and social security. they are here and they are not going home. this is home to them. if we deport them, they will come back. they have no other choice. why can't we, as a nation, see that. and remember, unless you are a "native american", you are from somewhere else. the blacks, for the most part, were brought here against their will but there is no great movement by american blacks to move back to africa. why would they want to do that? africa is a dangerous place full of war and disease and corruption. poverty is the norm and dictators rule most of the countries. the rest of us came from europe or asia. my family was russian. we were serfs. if you look up the word, serf, in the dictionary it says "slave." we were slaves in russia and freemen in america. i am willing to give that same opportunity to anyone who wishes to come here, work, pay taxes, learn the language and all in all become a good citizen. we have plenty of room and plenty of opportunity.

outsourcing our jobs to india and china is a greater threat to our prosperity than the so-called illegals working on our roofs.

besides if we legalize these people they will be able to bring their families here which would stop the flow of BILLIONS of dollars that are sent back to the home countries. see, not only do they not pay taxes, they send a good portion of their pay back home so it is a double whammy.

i am for securing our borders and trying our utmost to stop illegals from getting in but those who are here should not be sent back. we must pressure mexico and the other countries south of our border to fix their own fucking house. however, mexico is in a quiet civil war pitting drug cartels against each other and against the government and certain mexican states wanting independence. it is a fucking mess. the worse it becomes down there the more people who will want to come up here. we cannot demonize people for wanting to better themselves. that is insane and against the morals and ideals of our country. so, fuck lou dobbs and his racist screed.