Despite all the problems we have today, we still live in the best country in the world. The next time you see someone in uniform, take a minute to shake their hand and say thank you for serving your country. Or better yet, buy their breakfast, lunch, or dinner.
"Greater love hath no man than he lay down his life for his friends".
Jesus Christ
Dumb Farmer
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE AID
I know I'm probably going to take a lot of flack for this, but please read the whole post before you rush to judgement. Pres. Osama (oops, Obama) just pledged $100 million of our taxpayer $ to Haiti. I wonder if that's in addition to the costs of sending the 82nd Airborne, the USS Carl Vincent, etc.?
Actually, I have no problem with the military help, but I do have a problem with the $100 mil of taxpayer money. Americans are the most caring and generous people on the planet. The way this should be done is the government creates a fund for any American to DONATE to for Haitian relief. It is not the governments job to TAKE MONEY OUT OF OUR KIDS POCKETS to give to other countries. WE JUST CANNOT AFFORD IT!!!
We don't have it, it will just add to the already incredible deficit.
You do understand one reason everything is so expensive today is that the government keeps printing more money without anything to back it up, making each dollar you have worth less and less, right? When the Euro first came out, 1 dollar equaled 1 Euro. I believe the latest exchange rate is it takes $1.50 to equal 1 Euro. This is called inflation, and our government has been fudging the figures for the last 3 or 4years or so. They report an artificially low inflation rate because they factor in the drop in the price of homes. So that reported rate is only true for someone who purchases a home in that year. Lets say they report the cost of living only went up 2.5%. But the price of energy (gas, home heating oil, electricity, etc.) went up 10%, the price of groceries went up 10%, etc. So what is YOUR true inflation rate? Right, 10%. Now the great majority of peoples annual raises are based on the governments inflation rate. So you've been losing 5 to 15% of your actual purchasing power every year for the last several years.
Again I say, make sure you thank your congress for their out of control spending.
Dumb Farmer
Actually, I have no problem with the military help, but I do have a problem with the $100 mil of taxpayer money. Americans are the most caring and generous people on the planet. The way this should be done is the government creates a fund for any American to DONATE to for Haitian relief. It is not the governments job to TAKE MONEY OUT OF OUR KIDS POCKETS to give to other countries. WE JUST CANNOT AFFORD IT!!!
We don't have it, it will just add to the already incredible deficit.
You do understand one reason everything is so expensive today is that the government keeps printing more money without anything to back it up, making each dollar you have worth less and less, right? When the Euro first came out, 1 dollar equaled 1 Euro. I believe the latest exchange rate is it takes $1.50 to equal 1 Euro. This is called inflation, and our government has been fudging the figures for the last 3 or 4years or so. They report an artificially low inflation rate because they factor in the drop in the price of homes. So that reported rate is only true for someone who purchases a home in that year. Lets say they report the cost of living only went up 2.5%. But the price of energy (gas, home heating oil, electricity, etc.) went up 10%, the price of groceries went up 10%, etc. So what is YOUR true inflation rate? Right, 10%. Now the great majority of peoples annual raises are based on the governments inflation rate. So you've been losing 5 to 15% of your actual purchasing power every year for the last several years.
Again I say, make sure you thank your congress for their out of control spending.
Dumb Farmer
Thursday, January 14, 2010
NOTE TO THE AMERICAN AUTO INDUSTRY
Dear Mr. CEO of GM, Chrysler, Ford,
The bottom line of your current situation is this: If you had been building vehicles with comparable quality to those of Honda, Toyota, and Nissan you wouldn't be having the problems you are. GM, your last CEO's ad about quality says it all. "If you don't like your new GM car you can return it within the first 90 days".
Yeah right, the first 3 months is a real quality indicator. What about 2,3,4,5 years down the road when the imported stuff hasn't required anything but oil changes and your junk needed thousands of dollars worth of repairs?????
You are getting exactly what you deserve for your build it cheaper - planned obsolescence engineering.
So, now that we, the American taxpayer, own a large part of you, we want you to focus on real quality instead of how much your bonus is going to be this year!!!
Here is a quote from me, your blogger, back around 2000 or 01: "When a corporation or company starts running their business based on this quarter's profit or loss, this year's profit or loss, and their stock price, they make short sighted decisions that may help the current bottom line, but hurts them in the long run". My bosses answer? "When you're the CEO you can run this company however you want to."
Imagine the satisfaction I got when this was repeated almost word for word several months later by Alan Greenspan, who was the head of the Federal Reserve at the time.
Strive to make a difference in our country, and therefore your life,
Dumb Farmer (Who drives an American made vehicle)
The bottom line of your current situation is this: If you had been building vehicles with comparable quality to those of Honda, Toyota, and Nissan you wouldn't be having the problems you are. GM, your last CEO's ad about quality says it all. "If you don't like your new GM car you can return it within the first 90 days".
Yeah right, the first 3 months is a real quality indicator. What about 2,3,4,5 years down the road when the imported stuff hasn't required anything but oil changes and your junk needed thousands of dollars worth of repairs?????
You are getting exactly what you deserve for your build it cheaper - planned obsolescence engineering.
So, now that we, the American taxpayer, own a large part of you, we want you to focus on real quality instead of how much your bonus is going to be this year!!!
Here is a quote from me, your blogger, back around 2000 or 01: "When a corporation or company starts running their business based on this quarter's profit or loss, this year's profit or loss, and their stock price, they make short sighted decisions that may help the current bottom line, but hurts them in the long run". My bosses answer? "When you're the CEO you can run this company however you want to."
Imagine the satisfaction I got when this was repeated almost word for word several months later by Alan Greenspan, who was the head of the Federal Reserve at the time.
Strive to make a difference in our country, and therefore your life,
Dumb Farmer (Who drives an American made vehicle)
Monday, January 11, 2010
ANNOUNCING THE NEW NACSP BANK!
Good news friends!
I am announcing the opening of the New American Common Sense Party Bank and Trust Co. Even if I succeed in just about collapsing the entire world economy, I promise I will limit my salary and bonus pay to less than $1 million per annum, unlike Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citigroup, Bank of America, et al.
Hurry and join this ground floor opportunity to receive more than 1/2% interest on your savings. Just mail me your paychecks, I'll take care of the rest.
Thanking you in advance,
Dumb Farmer
I am announcing the opening of the New American Common Sense Party Bank and Trust Co. Even if I succeed in just about collapsing the entire world economy, I promise I will limit my salary and bonus pay to less than $1 million per annum, unlike Goldman Sachs, AIG, Citigroup, Bank of America, et al.
Hurry and join this ground floor opportunity to receive more than 1/2% interest on your savings. Just mail me your paychecks, I'll take care of the rest.
Thanking you in advance,
Dumb Farmer
THANKS AND NO THANKS FORD MOTOR CO.
Thank you Ford for not taking government bailout money. And thanks for sticking it to the American worker again for building your new diesel engine in Mexico. As I said before, who do they think will be able to afford their 50/60 thousand $ trucks when we're standing in the unemployment line or flipping burgers and salting fries????
Sunday, January 10, 2010
10TH GRADE ECONOMICS : JOBS
Hello friends,
Why don't any of the politicians or economists talk about the real fundamental causes of our current economic malaise? The bottom line truth is it is GREED. Greed of the CEO's, board members, stock holders (that's us folks), politicians, doctors, lawyers, unions, et al.
When the outsourcing of our jobs to low wage countries first started back in the 80's, I said "Who do they think is going to be able to afford their products when everyone here who used to have a decent paying job is now flipping burgers at Mickey D's???" The truth is you CAN NOT have a viable, sustainable economy based on service. YOU MUST PRODUCE REAL GOODS IN ORDER TO PRODUCE REAL WEALTH. This is 10th grade economics, but nobody wants to admit it. If you don't believe this, ask yourself why China's ecomony is booming and ours is in the tank.
If we are EVER going to fix our economy more than temporarily, we need to bring manufacturing back to this country. There are several ways the government can encourage this to happen.
1. Enact enormous tax increases on corporations who have become no more than importers.
2. Give enormous tax breaks to corporations producing their products in this country.
3. Enact import duties and excise taxes on all imported goods.
Yes, I realize this is the opposite of a free world market. What do you want, an ideal world or a job??? Drastic problems call for drastic fixes.
Frozen in Florida Dumb Farmer
Why don't any of the politicians or economists talk about the real fundamental causes of our current economic malaise? The bottom line truth is it is GREED. Greed of the CEO's, board members, stock holders (that's us folks), politicians, doctors, lawyers, unions, et al.
When the outsourcing of our jobs to low wage countries first started back in the 80's, I said "Who do they think is going to be able to afford their products when everyone here who used to have a decent paying job is now flipping burgers at Mickey D's???" The truth is you CAN NOT have a viable, sustainable economy based on service. YOU MUST PRODUCE REAL GOODS IN ORDER TO PRODUCE REAL WEALTH. This is 10th grade economics, but nobody wants to admit it. If you don't believe this, ask yourself why China's ecomony is booming and ours is in the tank.
If we are EVER going to fix our economy more than temporarily, we need to bring manufacturing back to this country. There are several ways the government can encourage this to happen.
1. Enact enormous tax increases on corporations who have become no more than importers.
2. Give enormous tax breaks to corporations producing their products in this country.
3. Enact import duties and excise taxes on all imported goods.
Yes, I realize this is the opposite of a free world market. What do you want, an ideal world or a job??? Drastic problems call for drastic fixes.
Frozen in Florida Dumb Farmer
Friday, January 8, 2010
THE EPA
Good morning friends,
The EPA is a perfect example of the lack of COMMON SENSE in our bureaucracies. What is an acceptable amount of emissions from an internal combustion engine? Their goal is 0, none, nada, zip. That would be cool in an ideal world, no doubt. But what do we have today? Diesel pickups that should be getting 22/24 mpg getting 11 to 13, doubling the amount of oil consumed. Like gas and diesel fuel is free, right? Can't we have some kind of real world compromise?
They have put emissions regs on every small engine sold in America. That's why your lawnmower, air compressor, pressure washer, etc. have to run with the choke on for at least 5 solid minutes till they even start to run right, and half the time they never run right because they're so lean. But the best part is now a lot of small engines are coming without oil drain plugs. So you've either got to buy a vacuum pump or, as I suspect a great many do, turn it on it's side and dump gas and oil all over the ground. Why no law about that?
And my favorite EPA boondoggle: Last year they came up with new regs on the allowable lead content of children's toys. Which included dirt bikes and ATV's.
Result? Every dealer in this country had to remove every bike or ATV 90cc and under from the showroom floor, and were not allowed to sell them. Yeah, they have lead in the batteries. Now I've been involved in motorcycle racing for 40 years, and I have NEVER seen a kid licking his battery, chewing on his fenders, or sucking on his handlebars. I know I'm just a dumb farmer but I seriously doubt a child old enough to ride a motorcycle or ATV is doing any of that stuff with ANY of his toys. Manufacturers, dealers, and individuals contacting the EPA got exactly nowhere. ONLY AFTER MONTHS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTERS DELUGING THEIR CONGRESSMEN WITH PHONE CALLS AND EMAILS WAS THIS INSANITY CORRECTED.
Remember folks, you have got to get involved in our political process or these idiots will legislate and regulate US out of existence!
Dumb Farmer
The EPA is a perfect example of the lack of COMMON SENSE in our bureaucracies. What is an acceptable amount of emissions from an internal combustion engine? Their goal is 0, none, nada, zip. That would be cool in an ideal world, no doubt. But what do we have today? Diesel pickups that should be getting 22/24 mpg getting 11 to 13, doubling the amount of oil consumed. Like gas and diesel fuel is free, right? Can't we have some kind of real world compromise?
They have put emissions regs on every small engine sold in America. That's why your lawnmower, air compressor, pressure washer, etc. have to run with the choke on for at least 5 solid minutes till they even start to run right, and half the time they never run right because they're so lean. But the best part is now a lot of small engines are coming without oil drain plugs. So you've either got to buy a vacuum pump or, as I suspect a great many do, turn it on it's side and dump gas and oil all over the ground. Why no law about that?
And my favorite EPA boondoggle: Last year they came up with new regs on the allowable lead content of children's toys. Which included dirt bikes and ATV's.
Result? Every dealer in this country had to remove every bike or ATV 90cc and under from the showroom floor, and were not allowed to sell them. Yeah, they have lead in the batteries. Now I've been involved in motorcycle racing for 40 years, and I have NEVER seen a kid licking his battery, chewing on his fenders, or sucking on his handlebars. I know I'm just a dumb farmer but I seriously doubt a child old enough to ride a motorcycle or ATV is doing any of that stuff with ANY of his toys. Manufacturers, dealers, and individuals contacting the EPA got exactly nowhere. ONLY AFTER MONTHS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTERS DELUGING THEIR CONGRESSMEN WITH PHONE CALLS AND EMAILS WAS THIS INSANITY CORRECTED.
Remember folks, you have got to get involved in our political process or these idiots will legislate and regulate US out of existence!
Dumb Farmer
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