Its been ten years since the terrorist attack on 9\/11\/01 and we have been pretty fortunate that there has not been a successful WMD event in all that time. If you would have asked me in 2001, I would have told you that I thought that more mass\u00a0casualty attacks were inevitable.<\/p>\n
The reason they have not happened can be credited to our military and our intelligence agencies and the lack of sophistication of the terrorists. If you remember back in those days we were wondering if Russian built suitcase nukes were available to terrorists. Apparently they were not. The Russian general making the suitcase nuke claim was apparently just blowing smoke.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, I would think the next decade will actually see many more terrorist attacks on this nation especially because appeasers are now running America and are enabling the rise of radical Islam all over the world. This administration has also tied the hands of the CIA that protected us from past attacks and might have protected us from future attacks. This administration is no longer fighting a war on Islamic terrorism they mostly are installing a plan for Homeland Security to be our politically correct Big Brother.<\/p>\n
I bet the terrorists would really like to pull something off this weekend as a ten year anniversary present to America but I don’t know if they actually will.<\/p>\n
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Obama came out with his next stimulus plan to create jobs. So what else is new? You probably already heard the definition of insanity even if these socialists have not.<\/p>\n
We might ask how Obama intends for us to pay for his jobs plan? The answer is that the plan to pay for it is like all the rest of the recent defect spending plans. Just bill the next generation. Oh…they forgot, they aborted them! The plan now is to have the Senate gang of 12 to just add this additional half trillion dollars to the 1.5 trillion that they already are required by law to cut by Christmas. Obama apparently still believes in Santa Claus.<\/p>\n
So will Obama’s proposals actually happen? Who knows? Some stimulus might get passed but probably not as proposed. I think Obama is really counting on opposition so that he will have a talking point to blame the Republicans for the high unemployment in his election campaign in 2012.<\/p>\n
If by chance Obama’s plan is passed and the economy does not improve, Obama will just be coming up with new stimulus’ down the line that he knows the Republicans will reject. The strategy is to hope that unemployment drops in 2012. If that happens, then Obama takes all the credit, and if it does not, then the Republicans get all the blame for being obstructionists.<\/p>\n
A stupid question that we might ask, is there any real chance that this new stimulus package will work? It certainly will not work for longer than a year because there is absolutely nothing in Obama’s plan that will create lasting jobs. A third of the money in Obama’s plan is to extend the payroll tax cuts which did nothing to stimulate the economy this year because Obama’s stifling energy policy, suffocating regulations, and destructive foreign policy forced higher prices that more than offset this tax cut.<\/p>\n
Another huge chunk of Obama’s plan will be to extend unemployment benefits beyond two years. Those unemployment benefits might prevent riots in the streets and give reasons why some do not try to find jobs or relocate for jobs but it does not create jobs. I wonder at what point do they call it early retirement?<\/p>\n
Most of the remainder of Obama’s plan will be for schools and infrastructure in the States and is really a subsidy to the States to help them balance their budgets. That sounds like a repeat of the first Obama stimulus that helped balance State budgets but did little to create new jobs.<\/p>\n
In any case, the amount Obama is proposing to modernize schools and repave roads is not going to create millions of jobs and the jobs it does create last just one year. The program runs out of money in 2013 and that is when the big tax hikes also hit us under Obama’s tax plan. So elect him again and this downturn will be nothing compared to the one that is coming in 2013.<\/p>\n
The problem with stimulus plans is that if they do not actually do much to stimulate the economy, when the stimulus runs out things actually get worse. One of the reasons why we are back to no growth is that most of the first stimulus plans have ended. This plan will only have minor impact on our economy and just push more debt down the road.<\/p>\n
The real reason that there has been no recovery is that small businesses are afraid of expanding when they know the country is heading toward more employer paid socialism, higher taxes and expensive regulations. Businesses also cannot get the loans to expand because banks are still holding a lot of bad paper and they do not want to take on more risk. Most everyone in business is waiting out the 2012 election and for good reason. If Obama gets reelected higher taxes and costs of doing business are inevitable and expansion during a downturn is a proven way to go bankrupt.<\/p>\n
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Growth in our economy in the next year or two may not even be in our hands. Europe is an economic basket case that can take everyone down. The real question in the near future is will the people of Europe allow their leaders to force them to live within their means or will the socialists that won these entitlements riot and replace their leaders?<\/p>\n
I think most astute people know the austerity measures in the PIIGS nations are just not going to fly. Everyone knows that piigs do not fly. That means more bailouts will be required in the future or there will be defaults that will crash major banks making the 2008 crash look like a cheap rehearsal.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the whole survival of the EU depends on the Germans continuing to bail out the PIIGS of Europe. So what happens when the Germans get fed up with feeding the PIIGS and overthrow their own leaders? They are very close to doing that right now and if that happens the only way the Germans are going to bail out Europe is if they can take control of Europe.<\/p>\n
What the Germans did not accomplish using tanks in the Second World War they might accomplish using Marks with strings attached. In other words, the EU might morph into the GSSR although the Germans will probably want to come up with a more appropriate title for the German takeover of Europe. They might change the name of the EU to the “Western European Germanic Alliance of States” (WEGAS). \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n
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Its hard to say what happens next in the Middle East. After the Islamists win the election in Egypt I suppose Egypt will become as hostile as it can against Israel without risking the billions in free handouts that America continually sends them.<\/p>\n
Obama says we will veto the bid for the Palestinians to create a State. Even Obama knows that would destroy the “peace process” that has been going on since Jimmy Carter. The game plan remains to get the Palestinians to agree to recognize Israels’ right to exist in exchange for 1967 borders.<\/p>\n
This peace for land process is even tougher to achieve today than it was when President Carter proposed it because nobody really speaks for all the Palestinians today. Israelis are also divided on giving up land for some nebulous peace with the Arabs that most in Israel know will not really happen. If the Israeli government forced the movement of hundreds of thousands of their settlers there would be a civil war in Israel.<\/p>\n
Syria is going to be a real can of worms in the near future. Will Assad of Syria strike at Israel to try to save his own butt? Will NATO go to the aid of the resistance by bombing Syria when Assad does not step down? When that happens what does Syria’s allies Iran and Russia do?<\/p>\n
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Jimmy Hoffa says his 1.4 million Teamsters Union should take out the son of bitches in the Tea Party. Hoffa claims that they are Obama’s army and that the people he is speaking for working men of America that like a good fight. I know some union people that hate Obama so Hoffa does not speak for everyone in the unions. Hoffa might even have a hard time holding on to his own job as Teamsters boss.<\/p>\n
Well I guess one could dismiss what actually sounds like hate speech and actual physical threats to the Tea Party supporters and say that Hoffa was just using political hyperbole but some people believe Hoffa was intending to incite class warfare with his speech. You are hearing more and more hateful and violent statements from the Far Left toward those in the Tea Party lately. Whether these radicals are actually trying to start class warfare in this nation or not, they will indeed create it, if they continue with this hateful rhetoric. By the way, this is the way that the socialist tyrants of history got their power.<\/p>\n
Many think that we should take Hoffa literally. When Hoffa says his union workers like a good fight is Hoffa really talking about a physical fight? Anyone who fights in this country will be jailed and sued and it is the Left that pushed such laws where men cannot settle their differences out of court.<\/p>\n
Certainly Hoffa cannot be implying using weapons to take out the Tea Party? Under the Left in these union cities they generally are not even allowed to own weapons. About the only thing these Tea Party haters can really do is trash their own nest and that they will do sooner or latter. Hoffa is nothing but a paper tiger because he cannot fight the Tea Party people and win on any level at all with his so called “army”. Half of union members are on government payrolls and actually wear skirts and another half ought to be wearing skirts. Real American men would not vote for tyrants, thugs and communists<\/p>\n
Even some of the Teamsters union members support the Tea Party. I think it is time that the Teamsters Union members got rid of their thugs with their thug rhetoric that claim to speak for union members. We that support the Tea Party simply are not frightened by this big wind bag that is blowing around in Detroit. We that identify with the Tea Party are concerned about the survival of America and our Constitution. Threats by Jimmy Hoffa, race baiters, and the propaganda and disinformation whores from the Marxist Far Left will not change that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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