Double-Dip Recession

I keep hearing about this "Double-Dip Recession." Here are my thoughts on it. If there is actual growth going on in America right now, we will go back into another recession starting in January. I don't believe the "growth" we have seen over the last few months is so much true growth as much as the wealthy and corporations trying to spend money now before oppressive taxes return next year. Couple that with an economy that has lost millions of jobs over the past two years, a stock market that was cut by 40% (I'll admit that the stock market was probably a little overinflated before the crash) and runaway spending from an Administration and Congress that was so infuriated by the last Administration's spending spree.

The Democrats who control the White House and Congress are so worried about what George Bush did, that they are not leading. The reason why many moderates and independents voted for President Obama is that they saw someone whom they believed to be a leader. They were wrong. President Obama has failed to lead our nation in anything except apologizing for our former greatness.

If President Obama truly wants to help Americans, here is what he'll do. Extend the Bush tax cuts for ten more years. If he does this alone, it will bolster the economy because corporations and the wealthy will feel that they can safely invest their money without being raped by the IRS. This will lead to job growth on it's own. If he TRULY wants to bring us out of this recession (or depression) he will add more cuts in addition to those cuts and couple that with a real commitment to reducing Federal spending. Here's a tip; cutting Federal spending does not mean cutting the military, police or firefighters. It does mean not funding abortion in foreign countries and funding things like pickle research and other immoral and wasteful spending.

He also needs to secure the border. Mr. President, the overwhelming majority of Americans, and a significant number of Hispanics, like me, stand with Arizona in its attempt to enforce Federal Immigration Law. Arizona is trying to protect its citizens, and since you won't do your job, Jan Brewer has to do it for you.

I'll close with this. Support our troops. Not with words, but with action. End the insane rules of engagement. Allow our military to use its full might to quickly end the wars and bring our troops home victorious. Neither President Bush nor yourself have had the guts to fight the wars the way we should be fighting them. If you change that, you'll earn the respect of the troops and the American people.

There are many more things you SHOULD do, but if you did these, America would make a turn for the better and the people would love you. But you're too much of an ideologue for that aren't you? Please Mr. President, stop reacting and lead.

I just found this guy, and he's like an Alfonzo Rachel/Steven Crowder hybrid, but his videos are actually better.

Random Thoughts

I've been thinking about the oil "spill", and I'm really frustrated. You have BP, which was one of the largest contributors to the Obama campaign, who is proving themselves to be brutally inept. Then you have Obama, who was supposed to be a leader, who is even more inept. Unless of course he's intentionally allowing the spill to continue going. With the revelations of the Dutch company which offered to help clean the spill days after the accident being denied, Louisiana's attempts to build barrier islands to protect the wetlands being denied and a total breakdown in leadership, I wonder if Obama is actually inept or if there is more. Perhaps he wants this to be a disaster so that he can call for the nationalization of the energy sector in the United States. He would understand that you need a disaster to do something like that in America. Americans won't stand for a government takeover of an industry unless there is a perception that the industry is corrupt. This is interesting because most Americans believe government is corrupt, yet we'll allow the corrupt government to take over a sector of the economy that is perceived to be corrupt.

Keyes on Immigration

I like his statement concerning Mexico's stance on people entering Mexico illegally: "They are really very perimitery when it comes to this question."

Puerto Rico, el Estado Cincuenta y Uno?

So I haven't been listening to the radio for a long time, and I just caught a piece of Glenn Beck talking today about a push by the "regime" as I heard Rush calling the Obama administration today to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. The way it would be done is by imposing a vote that would take the current status of the island (territory) off of the table. This would lead to independence or statehood. Consistently, the people of Puerto Rico have voted against both options. But, if the current status is off of the table, it will essentially push Puerto Rico into becoming a state, and very likely adding two Democrat Senators and 4-5 Democrat Representatives. If that happens, I think Texas seriously should consider splitting into 5 states, which it can do, adding 7-8 more Republican Senators.

What are your thoughts on this?