I just drove out east to Buffalo and back; the whole trip was about 2000 miles and took 34 hours. I spent most of that time listening to conservative talk radio. I found it to be a real disappointment. Almost everything was about Anthony Weiner. Conservatives are not going to win back this country by talking about the sex life of a democratic House member that represents a liberal New York district. They better start talking about important issues and real solutions if they expect conservatives to take back this country in 2013.<\/p>\n
One example of good conservative programing was an interview with Ann Coulter. She was talking about her new book “Demonic”<\/em> The theme of her book is that the Left has a “group think” mob mentality and most internal mass violence in the world can be traced back to the actions of an irrational mob. It makes sense to me. Throughout history mobs of people were moved to violence by demonically controlled people. The mob is always emotion driven, where as, the conservative Right is driven by rational thinking. Ann Coulter made a good case in that interview that internal violence almost always comes from the Left. She spent a lot of time in the interview contrasting the American Revolution with the French Revolution but you will have to read the book to get the details.<\/p>\n As I have implied in my other writings, if conservatives actually take over this country the Left in the cities will start to riot (all big cities are leftist). The majority living in the big cities will resort to mob rule if they cannot get their way through our republican form of government. We had a small sample of that in the 60’s but that will be nothing compared to what is coming. When or if the mob actually gains control of the country then everyone must conform to the “group think” of the mob. When that happens you will find yourself in a place much like either Nazi Germany or Mao’s China.<\/p>\n I noticed while driving all those miles that the Interstate system in America is in pretty bad shape. I think many of our unemployed should be paid to work on our crumbling infrastructure until they can obtain other employment. We now are paying the unemployed to just sit at home, lose their self-worth as a productive member of society, and get fat. Why not pay this huge surplus labor force to do something more useful like rebuilding our infrastructure or helping with other local and national needs? I really do not want to hear about how everything is controlled by politicians, contractors and labor unions because the sane people in this nation should be dealing with that issue as well.<\/p>\n While traveling the interstates my observation was that almost all the primary roads in this nation need to be rebuilt and all the Interstates need to be expanded to at least three lanes. I also think an even better idea would be to build separate expressways for cross-country interstate trucking. Back in the days when most of the interstates were built, almost all freight was being shipped by rail. It is becoming increasingly dangerous to have these big trucks and small cars traveling the same crowded roads. We need leadership with new ideas on how to use our surplus manpower to improve our country.<\/p>\n I don’t know how many homes and buildings I have seen in the cities that are going downhill fast simply because the buildings needs a new roof and the wood needs a coat of paint to keep out the moisture. What is wiser, paying people to do minor repairs now when people are unemployed, and saving the buildings in the cities, or expecting to build a new city in the future by once again creating unsustainable debt after the depression?<\/p>\n Half the people in Buffalo are not working, or are not making a living wage; so they live in substandard housing and collect food stamps and Medicaid. Many are disabled but somehow most manage to carry around twice the weight that they should. Most of the healthy looking people in Buffalo are the old and the young. I am just using Buffalo as an example ; almost all the old eastern big cities have these issues.<\/p>\n From my observations and conversations I do not think most in Buffalo understand the political issues. They blame the rich (anyone that has more money than they have) and corrupt politicians\u00a0 for everything.\u00a0 They do not seem to have a clue that those in small business (“the rich”) are the ones that create jobs and that the corrupt politicians that they whine about are the very same people that they keep electing to office.<\/p>\n I have talked with conservative women both here in Missouri and in New York and there seems to be a common thread. They do not like Sarah Palin. Whenever I ask the reason they do not like her, the response always is that “there is just something about her”. That is not a rational argument. Try it on a conservative woman near you and note their response. The truth is that many women just do not like successful good-looking outspoken women even if they have the very same views. I wonder if Michele Bachmann<\/em> will get the same “there is something about Michele” reception?<\/p>\n If Buffalo is a representative sample of northeastern American cities the depression is not going to end in this generation. Buffalo has no answer for their own problems. The city has been going downhill for decades. New York State has no answers for their problems either. There are too many people on the government payroll or on the dole and taxes are nuts. People are leaving the state when they can but family ties often keeps them living there in jobs far below their potential. At least housing has not fallen in value much in the Buffalo area because it has been in a depression for decades; there was no housing bubble in Western New York.<\/p>\n In contrast, in Arizona and Nevada where I spent decades of my life, housing prices have now dropped to about half of what they were just five years ago. Those that sell their home owe more than they can get for them and they can forget about ever recovering the money that they put down to purchase it. Many in the Southwest worked in construction so they will not have a job anytime soon either. The southwest will be in a depression at least until the surplus housing is gone.<\/p>\n Since the fires in the southwest are big news, as a side note, I will also add the following observation. Some of the most beautiful lands in this nation are now burning in Western Arizona and Eastern New Mexico. These fires will not be out until after the summer monsoons start in a few weeks. There will be about 1000 sq miles burned to a crisp. I have to wonder why our land managers cannot seem to get these fires put out while they are still small. It seems the government just puts the least amount of resources they can on fires and then the fires too often get out of control. Only when it is already too late do they bring in the resources that could have put out the fire.<\/p>\n They do not learn. They never learned anything from Yellowstone or the big fire in South Oregon a few years ago or the fires in California and elsewhere. I have news for them. It costs a heck of a lot less to put out a wildfire when it is small than when it is burning square miles of timber. For some reason government continually under-reacts to fires. They should know better by now.<\/p>\n I figure the two big fires in Arizona that are ongoing will cost the taxpayer billions and destroy two great American wilderness areas. The government idiots managing our lands should have learned by now that they need to spend a few million dollars on planes and smoke jumpers. They need to spend the money to put fire fighting resources in place in order to save billions of dollars in lost timber, homes and huge firefighting costs. I think what we need, is a special forces of smoke jumpers that are just standing by in the critical fire months to put out these fires as soon as they appear. Hot spots can be automatically spotted by thermal remote sensing satellites long before they get out of control.<\/p>\n Maybe I am being too hard on the federal land managers, they probably cannot get the money from Congress until it is already a Federal natural disaster. By the way, the big fire in the Coronado National Forest in Southeast Arizona was started by illegals just like they start fires in Arizona just about every year. Our President apparently must think that illegals provide many jobs for American fire fighters or he would police our borders adequately as the U.S. Constitution requires him to do. No, it does not take moats with alligators, all it takes is the will to enforce the existing immigration laws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just drove out east to Buffalo and back; the whole trip was about 2000 miles and took 34 hours. I spent most of that time listening to conservative talk radio. I found it to be a real disappointment. Almost everything was about Anthony Weiner. 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