Hello friends,
A new example of trickle down economic theory: A $4.4 million pet hotel just opened in Ft. Worth, Tx. $200 a night to board your pet in his/her very own luxury room with maid service.
Here's how the trickle down works: Mr. oil company executive rips off every American, indeed the country, since one reason we are in these economic straights is the high price of energy. (Exxon Mobil: $32 billion PROFIT in 1 quarter) Doctor so and so rips you off so he can make $250 to $400 thousand a year. Mr. car dealer really shoves it to you so he can make $500 thousand a year. Mr. hardware store owner charges you $4.00 for a 30 cent part so he can make $200 grand a year. And on and on. So they can throw away $200 a night to board Rover.
Oh well, they gave 25 construction workers jobs for a year. And a dozen minimum wage workers (probably illegal immigrants) permanent jobs. And I'm sure they have a groomer ($20,000 a year) on staff and a veterinarian on call.
What's wrong with this picture? Outright GREED! What has happened to ethics in this country? Oh, that's right, we kicked Him out of our government, schools, town square, and now they're trying to kick Him out of our private lives too. What happened to business owners who measured their success not by how much money they made, but by how many families they supported through the jobs they created?
Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against making money, but how much is enough? How big a house do you really need for you, your wife, and your one child? How big a boat is big enough?
Pray for our country,
Dumb Farmer
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
MY BOOTS AREN'T HIGH ENOUGH
You'd have to be wearing fisherman's waders to stay above the political B.S. today. First, Obama addresses the U.N. general assembly. Over half his speech concerned American domestic problems. What in the h*** makes him think that the representatives of Uganda or Indonesia, or Bolivia, or anywhere else give one hoot about our problems??? The other half addressed the Islamic terrorism problem and the Mideast peace process.
A wonderful speech, but with the typical idealists problem. They don't live in the real world.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the things the idealists espouse are where the human race needs to go if we are to survive the next thousand years without annihilating ourselves or poisoning our planet to where no life can live on it. The problem at this point in time is that humanity as a whole is not advanced beyond the point of individual self - interest. Granted, if the race is to survive long term, it will take visionary leaders to push the agenda. Unfortunately, Obama is about 20 generations ahead of his time, and he doesn't understand that or the raw savagery humans still embrace in many parts of the world. He needs to watch the videos of the terrorists beheading their captives. These people aren't even in the 20th century, let alone the 21st.
And then, the Republicans big press conference about their "Promise to America". What a typical farce. Orchestrated to make them appear like ordinary middle class citizens, dressed in casual clothes, no ties etc. Half the speech was spent blaming the Democrats for everything, the rest general promises with not many details about how they plan on accomplishing their agenda. Example: We promise to fix the unemployment situation. OK, wonderful. But HOW??? Cut government spending. But WHERE??? They did promise to repeal the health care bill if they get control of Congress, but most of the stuff was sorely lacking any concrete solutions.
As usual, their real agenda is just to stay in power. No current mainstream politicians are putting forward a true plan to save America. It would cost them campaign contributions from the special interests that now pull the strings and therefore have the real power and control.
Lord, help us all,
Dumb Farmer
A wonderful speech, but with the typical idealists problem. They don't live in the real world.
Don't get me wrong, a lot of the things the idealists espouse are where the human race needs to go if we are to survive the next thousand years without annihilating ourselves or poisoning our planet to where no life can live on it. The problem at this point in time is that humanity as a whole is not advanced beyond the point of individual self - interest. Granted, if the race is to survive long term, it will take visionary leaders to push the agenda. Unfortunately, Obama is about 20 generations ahead of his time, and he doesn't understand that or the raw savagery humans still embrace in many parts of the world. He needs to watch the videos of the terrorists beheading their captives. These people aren't even in the 20th century, let alone the 21st.
And then, the Republicans big press conference about their "Promise to America". What a typical farce. Orchestrated to make them appear like ordinary middle class citizens, dressed in casual clothes, no ties etc. Half the speech was spent blaming the Democrats for everything, the rest general promises with not many details about how they plan on accomplishing their agenda. Example: We promise to fix the unemployment situation. OK, wonderful. But HOW??? Cut government spending. But WHERE??? They did promise to repeal the health care bill if they get control of Congress, but most of the stuff was sorely lacking any concrete solutions.
As usual, their real agenda is just to stay in power. No current mainstream politicians are putting forward a true plan to save America. It would cost them campaign contributions from the special interests that now pull the strings and therefore have the real power and control.
Lord, help us all,
Dumb Farmer
Thursday, September 16, 2010
BUSH TAX CUTS - KEEP OR NOT?
Howdy folks,
The big debate in DC now is whether to let the Bush tax cuts expire, keep the ones for the middle class and let the ones for earners over 250k per year expire, or let them all expire.
What a perfect example of just how out of touch they are. I don't even KNOW personally anyone who makes over 250k per year, do you? They think that's the poverty level.
Of course the real solution is the "Fair Tax" first proposed by Mike Huckabee. In case you're not familiar with this, basically it's a federal sales tax. ALL other federal income taxes will be done away with. The IRS and all the expense that entails is eliminated. It's perfectly progressive in that the more you earn, the more you spend, therefore the more tax you pay. Simple, perfect, no loopholes for the rich. Of course that last is why our current politicians will never implement it. There is a fair tax petition you can sign, just google "fair tax".
Don't give up the ship, keep fighting.
Dumb Farmer
The big debate in DC now is whether to let the Bush tax cuts expire, keep the ones for the middle class and let the ones for earners over 250k per year expire, or let them all expire.
What a perfect example of just how out of touch they are. I don't even KNOW personally anyone who makes over 250k per year, do you? They think that's the poverty level.
Of course the real solution is the "Fair Tax" first proposed by Mike Huckabee. In case you're not familiar with this, basically it's a federal sales tax. ALL other federal income taxes will be done away with. The IRS and all the expense that entails is eliminated. It's perfectly progressive in that the more you earn, the more you spend, therefore the more tax you pay. Simple, perfect, no loopholes for the rich. Of course that last is why our current politicians will never implement it. There is a fair tax petition you can sign, just google "fair tax".
Don't give up the ship, keep fighting.
Dumb Farmer
OPEN LETTER TO KARL ROVE
Hello Karl,
Amazing. Seems like more Democrats are getting the message (they KNOW they're not getting reelected on Osama and Pigosi's platform) and starting to see the light than you establishment Republicans. Witness your beating up on the Tea Party backed woman who won Delaware's GOP primary. You refuse to understand that we're sick of ALL of your self-serving BS and ALL career politicians. You sir, have a tremendous amount of power within the Republican Party. If you don't want to see you and your party become irrelevant in the near future, you'd better start to understand where we're coming from. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE. We're sick of career crooks running our government. We're sick of Republicans cutting taxes but not cutting SPENDING because your afraid you'll lose the votes of those who suck at the government teat.
Learn now, Mr. Rove, because if things continue the way they're going, you will see the USA collapse upon itself IN YOUR LIFETIME.
Sincerely,
Dumb Farmer
Amazing. Seems like more Democrats are getting the message (they KNOW they're not getting reelected on Osama and Pigosi's platform) and starting to see the light than you establishment Republicans. Witness your beating up on the Tea Party backed woman who won Delaware's GOP primary. You refuse to understand that we're sick of ALL of your self-serving BS and ALL career politicians. You sir, have a tremendous amount of power within the Republican Party. If you don't want to see you and your party become irrelevant in the near future, you'd better start to understand where we're coming from. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN HOUSE. We're sick of career crooks running our government. We're sick of Republicans cutting taxes but not cutting SPENDING because your afraid you'll lose the votes of those who suck at the government teat.
Learn now, Mr. Rove, because if things continue the way they're going, you will see the USA collapse upon itself IN YOUR LIFETIME.
Sincerely,
Dumb Farmer
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