..And In Second Place..The USA

..And in Second Place..The USA!



There is a disapointing, short sighted trend within the Obama Administration that is focused on all the wrong decisions. In order to pay for the wave of Socialism that remains unabated major infrastructure projects are getting cancelled that will set America into a second place standing against global competitors.

Paying for the huge corporate bailouts requires this be done. This was the first example of shortsighted and wrong decision making. Using the Bush Administration's failures as a crutch to excuse further bad decisions is petty and lacks in leadership.

Nothing exposed this more than the State of Union address; Congress was lectured, same old topics raised over and over, Bush was blamed and more emphasis was put, still, on failed policy. Quietly, behind the scenes, there was wholesale slaughter at NASA. Late last year the ribbon cutting ceremony at Yucca Mt. was, also, quietly cancelled. The layoffs will begin shortly and the lies of "saving jobs" will make Liberal media headlines.

While tacit mention was made of our children's educational future; SEIU and the teacher's unions will continue to dictate educational policy instead of parents. Nothing was mentioned of Southern California and the plight of the farmers there. The unemployment and destruction of families continues.

The promised shovel ready projects are still not moving shovels. High speed rail proposals will only go to those Senators who vote for Healthcare and Cap and Trade. Nothing was mentioned on actually creating jobs for everyday Americans who need to get to work now even if it means pumping gas or bagging groceries. Lots of talk on training for the "jobs of tomorrow" and the "green" economy: but this takes months, even years. What does an unemployed (or underemployed) parent do in the meantime? Hope for extensions in benefits from DOR?
That is exactly what the President said. That was his great solution. Extend UI benefits!

Tax credits to small business is not the answer either. A tax credit is a voucher to be cashed in on a later date. It does nothing in the immediate to help hire, pay bills, manage costs. The President was eager to claim not "one dime" was raised on American incomes. Nothing was done to lower them either at a time when we need every "dime" we can get.
The spending freeze doesn't take effect until 2011 (actually June of 2011). That gives sixteen months of largesse still to come; but in the words of the President, "thats how budgets work"..What? Thats not how mine works!

Well, at least there has been "headway" made on earmarks. Like a ship heading for the rocks, but at least, it has slowed down a bit. We are still making smoke filled room deals, taxpayer funded junkets (Copenhagen) and amendments buried in bills that are not even related to one another.(Case in point: the time line of Cobra benefits for recently layed off workers has been increased from nine months to fifteen months. It was an amendment buried in the Defense Appropriations Bill for fundng Iraq and Afghanistan).

Nothing has changed. Washington continues to ignore and nibble around the edges and call it "sweeping reform!" It is not. Barak Hussien Obama said what ever he had to say (or, what he was told to say by Andy Stern and Roger Emult) in order to get elected. This Administration took the least educated and poorest among us and used them as a catalyst for "Hope and Change".
Oh, but, their lives are going to change alright, for the worse.

....And That Is The Diatribe....