jefferson, adams, biden and obama.

just some thoughts while i am waiting for the "stimulus plan" to create some real NEW jobs for unemployed americans and, at the same time, watch our government grow and our debt increase:

"government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. the course of history shows that as government grows, liberty decreases."

thomas jefferson.

and

"there are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. one is by the sword. the other is by debt."

john adams

this is not to say that i think that what obama is doing is wrong, it is to say that we, the people, need, for once, to pay really close attention to what is going on. as a nation, we were asleep at the wheel when gwb was getting us into wars and deregulating the financial institutions. now we are still in those wars, both of which should which should not have been started in the first place. and YES, i mean BOTH of them, afghanastan is bogus as well, though we did have to try to capture or kill bin laden (and still do) but we did not need to occupy a country to do so. we could have worked with the taliban (everyone and every nation will do what is in their own best self interest and the taliban would have gotten out of the way if we had a. declared not a "war on terror" but a MAN HUNT FOR A COMMON CRIMINAL and b. offered them some face-saving way to co-operate in his capture.) at the same time we are putting trillions of dollars into the greedy little hands of greedy little bankers and the corrupt financial institutions that got us into this mess instead of taking back our own banking system by nationalizing it and letting the "bad" banks go under.

on to something else: the republicans are having conniptions over specter's defection saying that we should be afraid of what a one party control can do to a country. THEY SHOULD FUCKING KNOW! LOOK WHAT THEY DID WITH THAT POWER. (see above) i don't think the administration should have promised specter anything. the demos would have won pennsylvania without him and would have then had a new, young go getter in place instead of an old political hack.

i used to really like joe biden but apparently i just didn't know enough about him. hey joe. PUT YOUR MIND IN GEAR BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR MOUTH IN MOTION. jesusfuckingchrist, this guy is a moron at times.

obama talks a great "green" talk but consider this: he went to des moines for EARTH DAY and to give yet another speech on how we must reduce our carbon footprint (as the current popular fad calls it). well, that is all well and good...BUT when he went he flew on air force One and along with it came a C-17 which is a HUGE cargo plane and out of that plane came his limo and a helicopter and many, many black suburbans for his security detail. JUST HOW MUCH GAS WAS USED FOR THIS POLITICAL TRIP TO PROMOTE USING LESS GAS?????? an armored limo must get all of 2 mpg and the suburbans which are also armored must get 5. not counting the planes and copter.
hypocrisy is saying one thing and doing another. at least that is what the dictionary says.

i read where there is a movement afoot to make the presidential election decided by the popular vote and to do away with the electoral college. hmmm. i don't know whether i like that or not. i just don't know. i do know that if it were in place in 2000 we would not be in the mess we are now so that is a good argument for it but i have reservations about letting the big states control the election. california, new york, texas, florida, pennsylvannia and ohio would really be in the drivers seat. but, then on the other hand, it would be DEMOCRACY which we claim to be a big supporter of..........

anyway, off to texas next week, come on out and see me if you can.

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the swine flu is panicking america and we have had only one death from it. are we a nation of scaridy kats or what? so, come out and see me anyway, chances are all you will catch is a good time.