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This is one of the best explanations of why Obama won the elections that I’ve heard yet.

From a teacher in the Nashville area

We are worried about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream”

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year. The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president.

We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.

The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids. I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.

I had never seen Olivia’s mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better place. He ended by promising to do his very best. Every one applauded.

He sat down and Olivia came to the podium.

Her speech was concise. She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.” She sat down.

The class went wild. “Yes! Yes! We want ice cream.”

She surely would say more. She did not have to.

A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn’t sure.

Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it. She didn’t know.

The class really didn’t care. All they were thinking about was the ice cream.

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a land slide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and fifty-two percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream. The other forty-eight percent know they’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.

I am getting pretty tired of the “Stimulus” plan that we are getting shoved down our throat.

See this here:

$335,000,000 FOR STD PREVENTION IN ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILL — can you tell me how that is going to help our economy?

$1 billion for Amtrak, — the federal railroad that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years ;

$2 billion for child-care subsidies — What? Where’s mine? ;

$50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts — more urine art;

$400 million for global-warming research — Give me a break. How presumptious of us to believe that we can figure it out, and make a difference. What next, turn down the sun? ;

$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects — I guess we’ll all be walking around with filters.

There’s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons — I guess we have to watch TV, have to keep the subjects sedated.

Some $30 billion, or less than 5% of the spending in the bill, is for fixing bridges or other highway projects. There’s another $40 billion for broadband and electric grid development, airports and clean water projects that are arguably worthwhile priorities. But when will this actually happen? So much for “Ready Now” projects. Maybe 2011…

Add the roughly $20 billion for business tax cuts, and by our estimate only $90 billion out of $825 billion, or about 12 cents of every $1, is for something that can plausibly be considered a growth stimulus. And even many of these projects aren’t likely to help the economy immediately.

How do you help the economy NOW?? TAX CUTS. And the Obamanation won’t even talk about that.

Most of the rest of this project spending will go to such things as renewable energy funding ($8 billion) or mass transit ($6 billion) that have a low or negative return on investment. Most urban transit systems are so badly managed that their fares cover less than half of their costs. However, the people who operate these systems belong to public-employee unions that are campaign contributors to . . . guess which party?

Here’s another lu-lu: Congress wants to spend $600 million more for the federal government to buy new cars. Uncle Sam already spends $3 billion a year on its fleet of 600,000 vehicles. Congress also wants to spend $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities. The Smithsonian is targeted to receive $150 million; we love the Smithsonian, too, but this is a job creator?

Another “stimulus” secret is that some $252 billion is for income-transfer payments — that is, not investments that arguably help everyone, but cash or benefits to individuals for doing nothing at all. There’s $81 billion for Medicaid, $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits, $20 billion for food stamps, and $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don’t pay income tax. While some of that may be justified to help poorer Americans ride out the recession, they aren’t job creators.

As for the promise of accountability, some $54 billion will go to federal programs that the Office of Management and Budget or the Government Accountability Office have already criticized as “ineffective” or unable to pass basic financial audits. These include the Economic Development Administration, the Small Business Administration, the 10 federal job training programs, and many more.

Oh, and don’t forget education, which would get $66 billion more. That’s more than the entire Education Department spent a mere 10 years ago and is on top of the doubling under President Bush. Some $6 billion of this will subsidize university building projects. If you think the intention here is to help kids learn, the House declares on page 257 that “No recipient . . . shall use such funds to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary or secondary schools.” Horrors: Some money might go to nonunion teachers.

So here’s my deal. Who is working for who? I thought these people were public servants. They are acting like masters of the working slaves. There is a tremendous disconnect. How much more can we take? I’ve heard of spending money like a drunken sailor, but I don’t think a drunken sailor could even begin to measure up.

The economy is in the toilet. FDR economics only prolonged the problem, and here we are dong the same thing again? WHAT IS WRONG HERE? STOP SPENDING MONEY! STOP BAILING OUT BUSINESSES.

START LISTENING TO your constituents.

And they wonder why the approval rating is so low?

The elitism displayed by our politicians is making me ill.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran said on Wednesday it would welcome President Barack Obama’s offer of a change in U.S. policy provided it involved a withdrawal of U.S. troops from abroad and an apology for past “crimes” against Tehran.

I have their apology. It involves hot lead injected into the cranium.

“crimes” against Tehran? I guess his leading the rabble that took our embassy hostage was justified?

I am always opposed to waging war against another sovereign nation. But Amadinnerjacket makes me want to make an exception, just so I won’t have to hear the braying of another donkey. We have enough “home-grown” donkeys making enough noise.

This is well said:

LONDON DAILY MAIL editorial: On Obama’s victory

The Daily Mail (UK) wrote this editorial about Obama on 1/6/2009. (confirmation, Google “London Daily Mail Obama’s Victory”)

Obama’s Victory–A British view
A victory for the hysterical Oprah Winfrey, the mad racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, the US mainstream media who abandoned any sense of objectivity long ago, Europeans who despise America largely because they depend on her, comics who claim to be dangerous and fearless but would not dare attack genuinely powerful special interest groups. A victory for Obama-worshippers everywhere. A victory for the cult of the cult. A man who has done little with his life but has written about his achievements as if he had found the cure for cancer in between winning a marathon and building a nuclear reactor with his teeth. Victory for style o ver substance, hyperbole over history, rabble-raising over reality.

A victory for Hollywood , the most dysfunctional community in the world. Victory for Streisand, Spielberg, Soros, Moore, and Sarandon. Victory for those who prefer welfare to will and interference to independence. For those who settle for group think and herd mentality rather than those who fight for individual initiative and the right to be out of step with meager political fashion.

Victory for a man who is no friend of freedom. He and his people have already stated that media has to be controlled so as to be balanced, without realizing the extraordinary irony within that statement. Like most liberal zealots, the Obama worshippers constantly speak of Fox and Limbaugh, when the vast bulk of television stations and newspapers are drastically liberal and anti-conservative. Senior Democrat Chuck Schumer said that just as pornography should be censored, so should talk radio. In other words, one of the few free and open means of popular expression may well be cornered and b eaten by bullies who even in triumph cannot tolerate any criticism and opposition. A victory for those who believe the state is better qualified to raise children than the family, for those who prefer teachers’ unions to teaching and for those who are naively convinced that if the West is sufficiently weak towards its enemies, war and terror will dissolve as quickly as the tears on the face of a leftist celebrity. A victory for social democracy even after most of Europe has come to the painful conclusion that social democracy leads to mediocrity, failure, unemployment, inflation, higher taxes and economic stagnation. A victory for intrusive lawyers, banal sentimentalists, social extremists and urban snobs.

Congratulations America !

Pelosi said one of her favorite moments from Inauguration Day was when Marine One lifted off the Capitol grounds, signifying former President George W. Bush’s exit from Washington. “It felt like a 10-pound anvil was lifted off my head,” she said.

Just wait for the other shoe to drop you ungrateful, socialist, unlearned, #@$^#$%^&(*&#^%$.

I’d like to load up Pelosi, Reid, Feinstein, Waxman, Frank, and at least 450 more of “Our Legislators” and gift them with anvils, permanently attached, and then introduce them into the Hudson river.

But I guess that would be cruel to the fish.

May God have mercy on our souls. This is going to get real interesting.

So, where to begin……

Pelosi Erases Gingrich’s Long-Standing Fairness Rules

What happened to “bi-partisanship”? Just another lie.

EPA ‘Cow Tax’ Could
Charge $175 per Dairy Cow to Curb Greenhouse Gases

You think beef and milk prices are high now, wait until they do this. And watch beef and milk become scarce. Idiocy.

Illinois Politics….. from the same people who brought us Al Capone….. enough said.

Minnesota — Al Franken steals the election….

I think it’s time for Texas to secede from this “union”. This thing is going downhill in a big hurry.

Former television star Roseanne Barr has denounced Israel’s military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, labeling Israel a “Nazi state.”

To start with, I don’t care what she says. I really don’t care what 99.99% of hollywierd actors and actresses, and rock stars and hotel heiresses say. They don’t live in the same world with most decent folk. And what experience and education has she had to make us want to listen to her ? “She dropped out of high school when she was 17 years old. After a car accident, she was admitted to a mental institution, claiming she was having nightmares and memory loss. She left the institute less than a year later.” (from http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001683/bio ). I imagine if I was taking random shots at her house every day and night, she’d want something to be done about it, like me being sent away forever. It’s the same thing with Israel and Gaza. But you can’t imprison another country for something like that, you have to go to war. Nazis? What an idiot.

If it wasn’t for my faith in God, I’d be depressed.