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The “Fairness Doctrin” redo

8:31 am in Demoncrats, Opinion, Politics by skyzot63

I have sent this to my Reps in the House and Senate, I encourage all to do the same. Sponsored in the Senate (S. 333) by Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat, and in the House (H.R. 1985) by Bill Hefner, the North Carolina Democrat. Since my representative is Zoe Lofgren, very tear jerking liberal and my Senators are Boxer, arguably the dumbest person on the planet, Demoncrat. And Feinstein, gun grabbing gun toting Demoncrat. I don’t expect much support or that they will even read it. They have made up their minds.

18 February 2009
Congressman XXXXXX  XXXXXXXX
United States House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
Congressman XXXXXXXX:
Currently there is legislation before Congress that would reinstate a federal communications policy known as the “fairness doctrine.”  The doctrine’s supporters seem not to appreciate just how much the broadcast world has changed since 1949. With the proliferation of informational resources and technology, the number of broadcast outlets available to the public has increased steadily. In such an environment, it is hard to understand why the federal government must police the airwaves to ensure that differing views are heard. The result of a reinstituted fairness doctrine would not be fair at all. In practice, much controversial speech heard today would be stifled as the threat of random investigations and warnings discouraged broadcasters from airing what FCC bureaucrats might refer to as “unbalanced” views.
The fallacy upon which the doctrine rests concerns the idea of “fairness” itself. As defined by proponents of the doctrine, “fairness” apparently means that each broadcaster must offer air time to anyone with a controversial view. Since it is impossible for every station to be monitored constantly, FCC regulators would arbitrarily determine what “fair access” is, and who is entitled to it, through selective enforcement. This, of course, puts immense power into the hands of federal regulators.
I do not feel the freedom of our country should include the restriction of what I can or cannot listen to. Additionally, I especially do not need a specific organization restricting the very freedom  nor the freedom of speech.
While I fully expect you to support this legislation, I ask you not to climb onto this particular bandwagon.
Sincerely,
XXXX X XXXX

Testing BlogJet

12:41 pm in Politics, Site news by skyzot63

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet. It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” — Albert Einstein

 

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Testing from Blogdesk

11:42 am in Site news by skyzot63

If this works well, it will e very cool.

I have tried other desktop publishers, and I have not been happy with any of them. So here goes nothing.

A coupla ditties from when I was a lad.

5:16 pm in Humor, Opinion by skyzot63

I learned these two drinking songs when I was a lad in construction. If you are easily offended, you might want to skip these.
Please excuse my voice, I have not sung since I was a very wee lad in the church choir. They stuck me in the back row and told me it was because I was tall.
My first girl friend was named Sandy, so I changed the name to fit. The second is just for fun.

sandy

bussle

The stimulus just gets better!!

2:59 pm in Demoncrats, Economy, National, Obama, Politics, Stimulus by skyzot63

Today, the Senate with the help of three turncoat pubbies passed the pork filled sham of a bullshit stimulus bill. There is not one single good thing in this bill, not one. It is about time for a peaceful revolution in this country. Every county every district in every state should be starting recall petitions for every elected official in their voting district. Start an impeachment petition for the Governors and the president.
Toss them all out. They all take an oath to follow and protect the Constitution of The United States. They get elected, take the oath and it’s hang on to your hats. It is every man for him self. Grab as much power and cash as possible.
According to Bloomberg U.S. Taxpayers Risk $9.7 Trillion on Bailout Programs.

By Mark Pittman and Bob Ivry

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) — The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.

The Federal Reserve, Treasury Department and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have lent or spent almost $3 trillion over the past two years and pledged up to $5.7 trillion more. The Senate is to vote this week on an economic-stimulus measure of at least $780 billion. It would need to be reconciled with an $819 billion plan the House approved last month.

Only the stimulus bill to be approved this week, the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program passed four months ago and $168 billion in tax cuts and rebates enacted in 2008 have been voted on by lawmakers. The remaining $8 trillion is in lending programs and guarantees, almost all under the Fed and FDIC. Recipients’ names have not been disclosed.

“We’ve seen money go out the back door of this government unlike any time in the history of our country,” Senator Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, said on the Senate floor Feb. 3. “Nobody knows what went out of the Federal Reserve Board, to whom and for what purpose. How much from the FDIC? How much from TARP? When? Why?”

It just keeps getting better.

Financial Rescue

The pledges, amounting to almost two-thirds of the value of everything produced in the U.S. last year, are intended to rescue the financial system after the credit markets seized up about 18 months ago. The promises are composed of about $1 trillion in stimulus packages, around $3 trillion in lending and spending and $5.7 trillion in agreements to provide aid. The total already tapped has decreased about 1 percent since November, mostly because foreign central banks are using fewer dollars in currency-exchange agreements called swaps.

We are going to “swap” ourselves out of sovereignty.

Federal Reserve lending to banks peaked at a record $2.3 trillion in December, dropping to $1.83 trillion by last week. The Fed balance sheet is still more than double the $880 billion it was in the week before Sept. 17 when it agreed to accept lower-quality collateral.

What happens when the Federal Reserve runs out of cash? The administration will stick greedy, dirty hands into your and my pockets.

The worst financial crisis in two generations has erased $14.5 trillion, or 33 percent, of the value of the world’s companies since Sept. 15; brought down Bear Stearns Cos. and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.; and led to the takeover of Merrill Lynch & Co. by Bank of America Corp.

Thank you so very much Nancy and Harry, so Very Fuckin’ Much!!!

The $9.7 trillion in pledges would be enough to send a $1,430 check to every man, woman and child alive in the world. It’s 13 times what the U.S. has spent so far on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Congressional Budget Office data, and is almost enough to pay off every home mortgage loan in the U.S., calculated at $10.5 trillion by the Federal Reserve.

I will not be holding my breath for that Fuckin’ check. If anyone who happens (except spammers) to stumble on my humble blog, you can easily see that I am Fucking pissed off as much as I was when my first wife took my son and ran off with her fucking lawyer. Maybe that’s why I hate lawyers.

The AP going after Obama?

10:36 am in Demoncrats, Media, National, Obama, Opinion, Politics, Stimulus by skyzot63

It’s hard to imagine, but this AP article via Yahoo News FACT CHECK: Examining Obama’s job, pork claims , By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – Tue Feb 10, is not very kind to Pres. Erkle.

WASHINGTON – At least Route 31 is a road to somewhere. President Barack Obama had it both ways when he promoted his stimulus plan in Indiana and later at a prime-time news conference. He bragged in Indiana about getting Congress to produce a package with no pork, yet boasted it will do good things for a Hoosier highway and a downtown overpass, just the kind of local projects lawmakers lard into big spending bills.

No Pork, that is joke #1. The Stimulus Bill is one big Pork Package. Bridge To Nowhere qnyone?

Obama’s sales pitch on the enormous package he wants Congress to make law has sizzle as well as steak. He’s projecting job creation numbers that may be impossible to verify and glossing over some ethical problems that bedeviled his team.

They expect us to believe that they put this thing together since November 4th, that is joke n#2. This piece of crap has every pork meal that the liberal demoncrats have been putting together for years. The Messiah has not added anything to this bill, he only knows what parts of it contain.
This thing was put together by Pelosi and Reid and their mignions. They are using The Chosen One to pass all of the crap they have wanted to impose on us for years, if not decades. All he cares about is that it is spending, a lot of spending. The only way he can get what he wants is to have the printing presses on steroids printing new money. He has to drive the worth of the dollar as far down as possible. He is sliding Socialism into America under a stelth blanket.

OBAMA: “Not a single pet project,” he told the news conference. “Not a single earmark.”

THE FACTS: There are no “earmarks,” as they are usually defined, inserted by lawmakers in the bill. Still, some of the projects bear the prime characteristics of pork — tailored to benefit specific interests or to have thinly disguised links to local projects.

Erkle either flat out lied, or he is truly one of the dombest people on the planet.

OBAMA: “My bottom line is, are we creating 4 million jobs?” he told the news conference.

He said in Indiana, “The plan that we’ve put forward will save or create 3 million to 4 million jobs over the next two years.”

THE FACTS: Job creation projections are uncertain even in stable times, and some of the economists relied on by Obama in making his forecast acknowledge a great deal of uncertainty in their numbers.

The president’s own economists, in a report prepared last month, stated, “It should be understood that that all of the estimates presented in this memo are subject to significant margins of error.”

Beyond that, it’s unlikely the nation will ever know how many jobs are saved as a result of the stimulus. While it’s clear when jobs are abolished, there’s no economic gauge that tracks job preservation.

There is no stipulation in this bill to have any jobs they are lucky enough to create or save will go to citizens. Plus the US govenment is forcing GM to cut ten thousand non union jobs. That is a cute pay back to the union support.. If you perform and move up through the ladder of advancement, they are saying “Screw You!”

OBAMA: “We also inherited the most profound economic emergency since the Great Depression.”

That is joke #3. The reason we are in this mess is because of the Demoncrats, Frank and Dodd lying and pushing Freddie and Fannie down our throats with the help of lamestream hype. They managed to sucker Bush into signing the bank bailout, which never should have happened, shame on Bush.

THE FACTS: This could turn out to be the case. But as bad as the economic numbers are, the unemployment figures have not reached the levels of the early 1980s, let alone the 1930s — yet. A total of 598,000 payroll jobs vanished in January — the most in nearly 35 years — and the unemployment rate jumped to 7.6 from 7.2 percent the month before. The most recent high was 7.8 percent in June 1992.

And the jobless rate was 10.8 percent in November and December 1982. Unemployment in the Great Depression ranged for several years from 25 percent to close to 30 percent.

Give Erkle and the Demoncrats a little time qnd those numbers could be small potatoes.

I just heard that the Senate passed this piece of crap with the help of three Rino’s Specter, Snowe and Collins, a pox on them for bucklling under to the pressure. I’m a little surprised that Rino McCain did not vote for it.

We are now under Socialized Medicine, now this new huge burocrocy they have created will now decide who gets treatment and what kind. At my age and health issues in the past, they will deny me treatment because my treatments have gone over 2 million so far.
It is vital to Erkle and the Dems, for this recession to turn into a full blown depression. What the free market would most likely have fixed is now up to massive money printing that will cause inflation like we have never seen. I thought Carter was bad, this bunch of fools make Carter look like a conservative.
I’m going to clean my guns and stuff some money in the mattress.

Media Ignoring CBO Report

12:38 pm in Demoncrats, Media, National, Obama, Politics, Stimulus by skyzot63

From the Congressional Budget Office

The Media is flat assed hiding this information from the general public. The more people learn about this piece of garbage called a Stimulus, the more they don’t like it. The problem is, there is very little to be found about it in the NYT, Wapo or on ABC, NBC, CBS or MSNBC. Anything they do report in nitpicked from the text. They completely ignore the negative side of the report.

This evening, CBO released its Monthly Budget Review, reflecting an analysis of budget data through the end of January. CBO estimates that the Treasury Department will report a deficit of $563 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2009, $474 billion higher than the deficit incurred through January 2008. This year’s deficit to date includes estimated outlays of $284 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Although the Treasury is recording most spending for the TARP on a cash basis, CBO believes that the budget should record all of the program’s activities, including equity investments, on a net present-value basis adjusted for market risk, as specified in the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Using that approach, CBO estimates that outlays of $76 billion should be recorded for the TARP through January, which would yield an estimated deficit of $355 billion through January.

Folks, that is money that will come out of our pockets and the pockets of our children and grandchildren.

Receipts for the first four months of fiscal year 2009 were about $88 billion (or 10 percent) lower than receipts during the comparable period last year. Almost half of the decline, or $43 billion, resulted from lower net corporate receipts, which fell by 43 percent. Declines in those receipts reflect the continued weakness in corporate profits stemming from the recession.

if i remember correctly, that would be when Reid and Pelosi got their hands around our throats.
Sadly, Bush got suckers into signing that piece of crap TARP. That started the slide. what was possibly a moderate recession, which the market could have recovered from, was turned into a much worse situation by the harping and chicken little antics of the Media and the Demoncrats. They scared the American public, mostly the extreme left, Socialist Communist leaning among us into sliding Obama (The Chosen One) into the Whitehouse.

Outlays through January totaled $1,337 billion, CBO estimates—$387 billion more than in the same period last year. That amount includes expenditures of $284 billion for activities by the TARP (under the cash treatment used by the Treasury) and $14 billion of equity injections for Freddie Mac. Spending for other federal programs was $123 billion higher than in the first four months of 2008; adjusted for calendar-related shifts in the timing of certain payments, program outlays rose by 12 percent (about $101 billion). In contrast, outlays for net interest on the public debt fell by 39 percent, or $35 billion, over that period because of lower costs for inflation-indexed securities and a decline in short-term interest rates.

They just keep spending more and more. For eight years the Demoncrats were always critical of Bush for the cost of everything and the deficit. Even though he had to deal with 9/11 and two wars.

The longer Obama is in office, the more his Marxist, Socialist views come out. We are being forced to follow a path where I can see our Constitution being tossed in the trash or being modified and weakened to the point of being useless.
I tell you the truth when I say I am very afraid for this country. Americans have to stand up to these Marxists that have moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They must be stopped.

More on the Stimulus Sham!!!

2:03 pm in Obama, Opinion, Politics, Stimulus by skyzot63

Got this from Nostimulus facts What’s Wrong with the Stimulus Bill?

I don’t think Mr. Obama was paying attention during history class. Oh wait, I doubt if the communist school he went to in Hawaii taught the same history that most of us over 50 studied.
If he had the best interest of this country in mind he would not be following in the footsteps of FDR.
He is attempting to take us down a path to the total destruction of our economy and possibly our nation.

The so-called “Stimulus Package” is being sold to taxpayers as an investment in useful infrastructure like roads and bridges. But the facts prove otherwise.

Only 3.6% of the scheme’s $825 billion price tag would actually go to real, practical infrastructure projects–roads and bridges.

Most of the other 96.4% would go to special interest pet projects, and to cramming years’ worth of radical policy changes into the single largest spending and debt scheme in history.

Even the Congressional Budget Office, the official scorekeeper of the economic impact of legislation, has said that it would, on balance, hurt the economy.

Why are our nation’s leaders doing this? Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel was strikingly honest when he said “Never let a serious crisis go to waste…it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” Exactly what fringe policies are big-government politicians attempting to ram through with this colossal bill?

Under the auspices of a “Comparative Effectiveness Review,” the package heavily funds the first steps towards the socialization and government-mandated rationing of health care. And this is just one of many government power grabs being shoehorned into the so-called “Stimulus Package.”

In fact, even by the most charitable estimates, the bill would force taxpayers to foot the bill for at least 600,000 new government bureaucrats. That’s six tenths of a million more people on the government payroll — adding little or no value to our economy and being paid with billions upon billions of your hard-earned tax dollars.

And just what sort of special interest giveaways and wasteful government spending are included in the so-called “Stimulus Package”? To name just a few.

- $4.19 billion in slush funds for ACORN, the left-wing advocacy group best known for allegations of voter fraud during the 2008 presidential campaign
- $600 million to buy brand new cars for government bureaucrats
- $335 million for adult sex workshops (one of the few line items which could conceivably deliver “stimulus” )
- $150 million for honeybee insurance
- $2.8 billion for the US Department of Agriculture in a misdirected program more likely be spent to build unnecessary broadband internet services in urban areas than in the rural areas that lack service.

First off, Acorn should not ever get one dime of tax payer money. In my opinion every person associated with them including those in Congress, in government employ, the officers and supervisors of Acorn should be rounded up, prosecuted and jailed for voter fraud and other crimes. Investigate the entire organization and the financials involved with them. Let’s get the crooks out of politics (and yes, I understand that Washington and most of the state capitols and government offices would be vacant wastelands)

I could live with that.

These are just a few examples of the shameless feeding frenzy taking place in halls of Congress today with this so-called “Stimulus Package.”

This trillion-dollar debt and spending scheme will provide little or no stimulus, but will put each and every American household in at least $6,700 of new debt, to be paid by our children and grandchildren.

Spending Stimulus Can’t Work

1. Every dollar the government spends comes from the private sector.

Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman famously said: “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” Government spending is either financed through higher taxes, higher federal borrowing, or by printing money. Those are the only possibilities. They all create greater economic damage than any stimulus effect of new spending.

● Tax increases lower the incentive to work, save, and invest. There is a strong association between tax increases and reduced economic growth. In an economic crisis, tax hikes should be unthinkable. The Revenue Act of 1932 was one of the major reasons an economic crisis deepened into the Great Depression.

He is hell bent on following in the footsteps of the despicable failure of FDR.

● Government borrowing also takes money out of the private economy—the money that bond purchasers hand over to the government in exchange for the bonds. That money could otherwise be used for business investment that would expand the economy’s productive capacity. If the funds are borrowed from abroad, our exports are lowered because U.S. dollars are being used to buy bonds instead of goods. Borrowed funds also have to be paid back, placing a burden on future taxpayers. Excessive borrowing also may increase interest rates, deepening the credit crisis.

● Inflation may be most damaging financing mechanism of all. If government spends money that it has’t taxed or borrowed, then it is literally creating money out of thin air. More dollars being created means that the dollars in our pockets and bank accounts are worth less than they were before. Inflation is a stealth tax that erodes the value of everything and destroys real economic growth.

2. History shows spending stimulus fails.

America experimented with large-scale expansions of government spending in the 1930s with the New Deal and again in the 1960s and 70s with the Great Society. These dramatic expansions of government spending coincided with economic failure. The long-boom that started under Reagan and continued until now with only a couple of brief, mild recessions coincided with a significant decline in federal spending as a percentage of the economy.

FDR, Johnson and Carter have to stand out as the most destructive presidents in our history. I lived through the Johnson and Carter era’s, and they were not fun, unless you didn’t mind not having enough money to pay for the gas that you had to sit in line for, for hours on end.

3. Infrastructure projects should be judged on their merits, but not as stimulus.

There is a role for government in providing certain public goods that the market cannot efficiently provide. If financing is available at favorable rates it may make sense to take a long-term view and begin projects that are legitimately justified on their merits. We should be under no misconception, however, that public works spending is stimulative, because borrowed dollars are taken out of the private sector.

These should be few and very far between, I would not mind going back to the part time congress. Pay them only for the time they are there. Make them all get real jobs. Not provide them with cars, healthcare fully funded and when an administration leaves, the entrenched bureaucrats and staffers go with them.

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