Joyanna Adams

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Nobody’s Perfect: Congress VS Billy Joe

Nobody’s Perfect
Today we have the United States Congress VS Billy Joe Madden, the father from Mississippi, who passed out in Mississippi, and let his eight-year-old son drive his pickup truck to Texas.
Let’s consider a few facts before we start comparing the two.

Remember, the father was drunk.

This week, we were told that our Congress and the President, reached a deal to “save” the country from default. Currently, if you can believe the stats: we have a $14 trillion dollar debt, and this deal will cut expenses by $21 billion in 2012, and $42 billion in 2013.

Wow.

They all did Obama a favor, they said, by letting it all slide till AFTER the elections. This was…more Washington as usual..smoke your mirrors and get out that flask of whiskey.

According to Ron Paul:
“This deal will reportedly cut spending by only slightly over $900 billion over 10 years. But we will have a $1.6 trillion deficit after this year alone, meaning those meager cuts will do nothing to solve our unsustainable spending problem. By denying members the ability to offer amendments and only allowing an up-or-down vote that will take place in the hectic time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, this Commission essentially disenfranchises the vast majority of members from meaningfully participating in the debate over reducing spending and balancing the budget.”

“Furthermore, despite the claims of the bill’s proponents, there is nothing to stop the commission from recommending tax increases. What should bother Americans most is that under cover of this debt ceiling circus, we learned from a recent GAO one-time, limited audit that the Federal Reserve secretly pumped $16 trillion into American and foreign banks over three years. All of the Fed’s fat cat cronies were taken care of at the expense of the American public.”

So, what was this whole big, “The sky is falling and we will never get up!” facade that went on for weeks? It was all about…what? What really happened, it seems to this nobody, is that they are just getting a few more trillion to spend. An eight-year-old with half an education could have done a better deal.

And speaking of eight-year-olds…Billy Joe Madden was so drunk, he let his eight- year- old son drive to Texas from Mississippi, with his four- year -old sister in the back seat. Billy Joe was sent to prison, as well he should have been.

But…consider this: It was just reported that Washington D.C. has the highest alcohol rate of any city in the country among adults, at 8.1 percent. Another nifty statistic is that D.C. is among the top contenders when it comes to cocaine and marijuana use. Are we surprised? This explains why Marion Berry kept getting elected right next door to the White house…with the White House silent. The Mayor was caught on tape selling cocaine, and yet he was re-elected?

Doesn’t that tell you something?

Could it be, the reason the country is going off the road, is we are letting men and women with the experience of a stoned and drunk eight- year- old kid run the country?

Are they all drunk? High? Freaking out on coke? Shouldn’t they all be in prison with Billy Joe Madden with the crimes they have committed?

You have to hand it to that eight-year-old kid. Somehow he managed, despite having a drunk father sitting beside him, to get that pickup truck quite a few miles without hurting anyone.
If Congress was driving that car, it would have caused more than a few major fatalities and would be out of gas, engine on fire, framework all bent to hell, and it would still be in a ditch by the side of the road. With Congress in the driver’s seat, it would have never made it out of Biloxi.

And on that note…I think I’ll go have a drink.

August 1, 2011 Posted by | budget, disasters, economy, politics | , , | 1 Comment

Raise the Debt Limit: But Read the Fine Print

Nobody’s Opinion

When it comes to having optimism about anything that the government does, I’m usually the last in line. The fight over the last week, between Obama wanting to raise taxes, and the damnation of the tea party, got us all so tired of listening to it, most of us tuned it out. Why spoil our weekend?
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While we were being warned that our lives would be drastically hurt if the debt limit was not raised, at this point in time..it just seemed like another day at the Congress Cabana Casino. BUT…out of the murky MORDOR of corporate moppets, came a wonderful sight to behold…EVERYBODY was attacking the Tea Party. How dare those little pion people fight back!
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My favorite was from Fareed Zakaria—Obama’s best new friend.
Instead of accepting some compromise that can get through the democratic process, what they‘re saying is we’ll blow up the country if you don’t listen to us,” Zakaria said. “We’ll hold hostage the credit of the United States, the good standing of the United States and we’ll blow it up….it’s an extraordinary act of hostage-taking.”
Tea party terrorist…blowing up the country. Mmmmmm….Somebody should take Fareed hostage and raffle him off on E-Bay. I feel like summoning up good old Sam Adams and asking him if he thinks we should dress up as Arabs and throw American Dollars into the Potomac. It’s pretty much what they do there anyway. Give Fareed front row tickets.
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Nobody Thinks we do have reason to hope a bit…the tea party won a small, but important victory, and they don’t like it. Still, here’s my question: We were told all kinds of lies about Obamacare, and are still finding out about all the terrible things it included. Is this new “compromise” going on in Congress going to have stuff in it we don’t even know about?
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The agreement would slice at least $2.2 trillion from federal spending over a decade, a steep price for many Democrats, too little for many Republicans. The Treasury’s authority to borrow would be extended beyond the 2012 elections, a key objective for Obama, though the president had to give up his insistence on raising taxes on wealthy Americans to reduce deficits.
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What “hidden” taxes will be slipped into this bill at the last minute of the last hour? Whenever they don’t raise your taxes, you get slapped somewhere else. It’s always been that way.
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Besides Marco Rubio making his excellent impassioned speech on the Senate floor, nobody is still being cautious. We are so far in debt, and more than half the people in the United States WORK for the government, If you cut all those jobs (as well half of them should be cut) the whole country would revolt, and that would mean Washington would have to let the little guy prosper again. They don’t want that. It took them many years to get to this point of control.
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We need jobs, we need to get OUT of the service sector and back to making things again. As Trump says: We need manufacturing to survive.
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The President Fernandez of Brazil said this:
The Americans “thought that money just reproduces by itself, and only in the financial sector, without having to produce any goods or services,” Fernandez said . These days, Latin America’s economy as a whole is expected to expand about 4.7 percent in 2011 — almost twice the expected rate in the United States — thanks to strong demand for the region’s commodities and a decade of mostly prudent fiscal management, itself the product of many hard-learned lessons of the past.
 Nobody Wonders if what happened today will make a bit of difference tomorrow. I have to agree with Fernandez: When only the financial sector (Wall Street) is the basis of your economy..then the rest of the country will be doomed. Only the rich will get richer. If Bernanke prints more money, we will default anyway.
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This weekend, over $150,000 people in Israel protested about the state of their economy.
The protests over housing costs have tapped into wider discontent among Israelis over the high cost of living and the growing gaps between rich and poor. Other protests include doctors striking over working conditions and pay, parents demonstrating against expensive child rearing costs and similar outpourings over increasing gas prices.
You mean, even the Jews are suffering? Wow.
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The elites tied us all together with their globalization: and now they are bringing the rest of the world down with them, making money off the crashes, and then making movies rewritting historical facts about how they did it.
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And they all look like heros…..untill you read the fine print.

August 1, 2011 Posted by | budget, economy, Global Government | , , , , , | 1 Comment