Politicians, need I say more

Obamacare

I've read much of the Obama care plan. It will cost small businesses thousands of dollars per year for each employee, full time or part time. Most of the small businesses I work with have from 50 to 400 employees and their profits generally run under the 10% range. With labor costs running more than 60% of their business, it will bankrupt them. As a result we will have thousands of small businesses, who used to employ hundreds of people, out of business. It will be a lose/lose situation. More people will be unemployed, and more businesses will be out of business. Their only alternative will be to pass these costs on to the consumers.

Right or wrong, the program doesn't work financially. The government hasn't done anything to lower the costs, only redistribute the costs to others who will pay for it. Many industries and especially small businesses will suffer greatly, adding to unemployment.

US debt

You and the government, are a little like a husband wife team. Every week, you give your wife your pay envelop (your taxes). At the end of the year she's saved up fifty-two envelopes! Her response? I'm being green!

Or, it's a little like your wife (our President) wanting to see your paycheck go farther, so she took it to Paris with entourage!

$57 Trillion and counting... UP

Last I checked our national debt was $57 trillion dollars! Good grief! Check the debt clock here for the latest. Notice it is not going in the right direction. Not exactly "hope" if I do say so.

If you ask me, our current President is trying to destroy our country.

Flying saucers

I found out that Initiative 300 in Denver was voted down. The Initiative would have demanded the legitimization of flying saucers in Denver and required the city to post information on sightings and recent research on their web site. It also required the city to get a group of scientists together to form a committee to do more research on first contact preparedness.

You see, there are flying saucers over us all the time. Their occupants want to talk to our responsible leaders, but they're having trouble finding one!

Deficit

It was Everett Dirksen who commented about the spending getting out of hand. On the Senate floor he said, "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money." Now we're talking a trillion here, and a trillion there! So now, you have to tax people more, but they're unemployed! And Uncle Sam can't tax unemployment benefits. And since unemployment benefits have been extended, it really isn't all that bad. When you get up in the morning, you're already at work!

Congressmen and cows

A Colorado congressman, returned to Western Colorado to his constituents for the first time since he'd been sent to Washington. He was trying to explain all the unpopular things he'd been voting for and the lack of results. His audience, irate farmers who'd been promised much weren't pleased with his explanations and pressed him. He tried a final explanation:

"You men ought to know the facts of life. You can put a bull in the pasture one evening, but you can't expect a herd of newborn calves by morning."

One farmer from Fruita, CO jumped up and said, "No, but I'd expect to see a heap of smiling from a heap of cows!"

Top Secret

They just added a new classification to secret papers in Washington. "Top Secret" used to be the ultimate. Then later you got, "Destroy Before Reading." Now you have, "don't bother reading it because it's too long." Did anybody ever worry about what the initials of the Senate Office Building were?

Voting

Some late-breaking news - with six cemeteries still to heard from, the election is too close to call! And, if Acorn is in charge of things the new motto will be, "Vote early, and vote often."

So, I thought I would impart a few words of "wisdom." Such as it is these days. I found voting for judges to be the most difficult thing. You have to go on-line and read all the reports about each one of them. Because I remember the Memphis judge who gave a hillbilly a divorce from his fourteen-year-old bride because she'd acted like a kid. Then there was a judge who had mirror in his chambers. Every time he passed it, he asked, "Who's the fairest of them all?" You just can't be too careful. After all, they were appointed by politicians.

As it relates to the rest of the candidates, I am reminded of the words of Woodrow Wilson, "If you think too much about being reelected, it is very difficult to be worth reelecting." And we've certainly seen a lot of that this year. It was former House Speaker Tip O'Neill who said, "As we all know, the truth is a frequent casualty in the heat of an election campaign." House Speakers say the strangest things, don't they! Maybe they should stop speaking!

Health Care "Reform"

In the words of John Lennon, "Imagine all the people, living for today." Yea, but what if I get sick tomorrow? Don't worry, tranquilizers let you go around with your head held... high. And WOW, have we got some good dispensaries now. But the new health care plan really is okay because we'll all be in poverty after this. Poverty is helpful in medicine. If you have it, the doctor cures you faster!

Blue Dogs

Just change parties John. You wanted compromise but where did it get you? Now look what every Colorado citizen is facing:

Currently, the U.S. Debt is estimated at:

$13,050,588,009,652.62

Every Coloradan shares in this debt to the tune of:

$42,350.18

Government Motors

Turns out the new "GM" volt isn't turning out to be the plug-in electric as promised. Read Here. I guess I'll put my money in Ford. At least they deliver what they say they will.

How to balance the budget? - tilt the country!

A constituent called his congressman and asked, "How long does it take the government to spend a hundred billion?" The congressman, busy for the moment on another phone said, "Just a minute."
The constituent said, "I figured," and hung up.

I know one congressman left Washington for good, and many more are on the way out. There's nothing left to steal!

Taxes

Back to Will Rogers for more words of wisdom uttered in 1934: "Finding things to tax is becoming quite a problem. You see when taxes first started, (who started 'em anyhow?) Noah must have taken into the ark two taxes, one male and one female, and did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been most prolific of animals."

Well as it turned out, 76 years later there is plenty more to tax. Why, in Denver we have a head tax! For crying out loud! Now that Congress has left with no tax bill we get the old one Bush tossed out. Guess what? The tax bracket going up the most is the lowest bracket! It goes up 5%. Who is hitting the poor people on the head now?

Drilling off shore again

In the words of Will Rogers, "If you ever injected truth into politics, you'd have no politics." He also said, "If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

U.S. Health Care Plan

Let me get this straight. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't. It's written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, to be signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!

The Senate has but one rule, which is that the Senate will do whatever it wants whenever it wants to. The good news is, the public has but one rule, which is that it will elect whoever it wants every couple of years.

Adlai Stevenson said...

According to Adlai Stevenson, "An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics." Good luck. Stevenson also said, "Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job." So get busy people!

Unemployment

Unemployment isn't all that bad. When you get up in the morning, you're already at work. Unemployment is due to a shortage of money to pay people who work because these people have no money to buy things that could be made if they got paid to make things. And these people look forward to the yawn of a new day! So, let's extend their unemployment benefits another year!

Economy

An economist is a guy who'd send you a homing pigeon for your birthday. So, who do you listen to? Maybe there is a better place to start...

Banks, Credit scores, and balance

There was a time when a drive-in bank was designed so that people could show their cars who really owned them. Not any more. They're either paid for, or re-possessed. Who are the bank robbers now? The FDIC. Just change the rules and you own them. A bank used to be a dignified institution that was established for people to have a place to keep the government's money until tax time. Now it's a government institution established to keep the government's money until tax time. I think the Feds must have some sort of inner ear problem. They went into banking and lost their balance! They really shouldn't run anything.