Twas the night before Christmas and all through the White House not a lobbyist was stirring, not even a member of the House. The bags of the Liberals were packed with care because they had taken a beat down by the voters this year. The Republicans were snug in their beds with visions of repealing Obama-Care dancing in their heads.
Mamma Gibbs in her kerchief and Robert in his cap. They had settled their brains for a long winters nap, praying that they wouldn’t see Santa this year. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter. He jumped from his bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window, he flew like a flash, tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash.
Roberts eyes filled with terror at the appearance of a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer. With a little old driver so lively and quick. As he feared, it was St Nick. Then he heard him yell out his name; Robert Gibbs you are still completely insane.
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet an obstacle and take to the sky. So up to the roof top the coursers they flew. With an empty sleigh and St Nickolas too.
And then in a twinkling. He heard on the roof, the prancing, and pawing of each little hoof. As he drew his head in and braced for the worst as he turned around down the chimney came St Nickolas with abound.
Santa was dressed in fur from head to his foot. His clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot. No bag of toys flung over his back. Robert knew once again that he was going to be sacked.
You still speak for our leaders on Capitol Hill and you’re still telling the voters to TAKE THE BLUE PILL. Don’t you see America is ill. There are no stockings hung on the sills. Americans have lost all hope. The bureaucrats in Washington are all dopes.
Santa looked at Gibbs with an evil stare. Gibbs ducked behind his favorite chair. Then Santa said; Robert you have been very bad this year remember I warned you what would happen last year and this administration doesn’t really care.
Santa said, with a scowl on his face I didn’t think things could get worst. I fear that the Republic that stood all these years will soon be taken away in a hearse. The administration is tearing this Land I love apart and I’m beginning to think Washington doesn’t have a heart. Even as we speak, our President is doing the Ali Rope-A-Dope; even his supporters have lost all hope.
You said the people across this land are stupid and dumb you have called the conservatives terrorists and bums. The voters have sent Washington a message you don’t understand. Now the Democrats are trying to spin it to keep the power in their hands.
As Gibbs peeked around the chair; Santa spoke not a word, but went straight to his work. He grabbed all the present and replaced them with coal then grabbing the tree he disappeared as if he were swallowed up by a black hole.
@The room went silent Gibbs hung his head He decided it was time for him to go back to bed, in the hush of the night Robert Gibbs realized Rush is right.
Santa sprang to his sleigh, saying “away from this wretched place” he gave his team a whistle, and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. The Secret Service heard him exclaim, as he flew out of sight, "Merry Christmas to all, and to the Liberals that were kicked out of office good-night!"
Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas
Monday, December 13, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Dem’s still pushing Health Care
President Obama will not put health care on the back burner even though the majority of states are fighting back with state constitutional amendments to ban health insurance mandates. Surprisingly the biggest supporters of the free market health care system in the US, seem to be the Canadian officials.
February 03, 2010 The Courthouse News reported, "President Obama encouraged Democrats on Wednesday to finish the job on health care, and chastised Republicans for gumming up the legislative system. We said we were gonna change it, he said. Well here we are, with a chance to change it."
Speaker Pelosi vowed she would pass Obamacare regardless of the obstacles "We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed..."
The Huffington Post reported, "Schwarzenegger told Meet the Press host David Gregory this was tantamount to saying I'm holding out my vote, unless I get some extra kind of benefits here. The governor went on: I mean if you do that in Sacramento, you know, you'll be sued. It is illegal to do that, to buy votes,” referring to government mandated health care.
The Wichita Eagle reported, "Although President Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states — including Kansas — are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance."
The Washington Post reported that Danny Williams, "ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- The premier of Canada's east coast province is undergoing heart surgery in the United States this week because the treatment he is seeking was not available in his home province." The news director of CTV Ottawa referring to Premier Danny Williams, "If he stayed, he'd have to wait, he'd be under tremendous pressure to continue to do the job that he's doing. He'd also be under tremendous pressure if he jumped the line, which he obviously couldn't do." Province's deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale said, ''Ultimately we have to be the gatekeepers of our own health.''
President Obama has made it clear he has not given up the health care fight and along with Speaker Pelosi; it will not be over until they ram Obamacare down our throats. Although the Democratic armada is starting to sink, Harry Reid is becoming critical of the Presidents statements on Las Vegas, "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college." Reid fired back, "Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further."
In the past year since Obama became President he has demonized the banks, Wall Street, the aircraft and tourism industries just to name a few. The unemployment rate is at ten percent. The only two cards he has in his deck are the class warfare and the Bush did it card.
Senator Reid, the President is not just bringing down Las Vegas he has brought down the entire country. Vegas was not the first casualty of the Obama administration. It started with the aircraft industry when President Obama demonized the auto executives for flying to Washington in their corporate jets. The President’s remarks caused companies across America to cancel their orders for private jets thus ten thousand workers in Wichita are jobless and you, sir were in on it.
Senator Reid on behalf of the 10,000 frustrated laid off aircraft workers in Wichita, Kansas I want to welcome you to Obamaland. Land of the destitute and home of the impoverished.
Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas, formally known as the Air Capital of the World
February 03, 2010 The Courthouse News reported, "President Obama encouraged Democrats on Wednesday to finish the job on health care, and chastised Republicans for gumming up the legislative system. We said we were gonna change it, he said. Well here we are, with a chance to change it."
Speaker Pelosi vowed she would pass Obamacare regardless of the obstacles "We will go through the gate. If the gate is closed, we will go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we will pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we will parachute in. But we are going to get health care reform passed..."
The Huffington Post reported, "Schwarzenegger told Meet the Press host David Gregory this was tantamount to saying I'm holding out my vote, unless I get some extra kind of benefits here. The governor went on: I mean if you do that in Sacramento, you know, you'll be sued. It is illegal to do that, to buy votes,” referring to government mandated health care.
The Wichita Eagle reported, "Although President Obama's push for a health care overhaul has stalled, conservative lawmakers in more than two-thirds of the states — including Kansas — are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates. The proposals would assert a state-based right for people to pay medical bills from their own pocketbooks and prohibit penalties against those who refuse to carry health insurance."
The Washington Post reported that Danny Williams, "ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland -- The premier of Canada's east coast province is undergoing heart surgery in the United States this week because the treatment he is seeking was not available in his home province." The news director of CTV Ottawa referring to Premier Danny Williams, "If he stayed, he'd have to wait, he'd be under tremendous pressure to continue to do the job that he's doing. He'd also be under tremendous pressure if he jumped the line, which he obviously couldn't do." Province's deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale said, ''Ultimately we have to be the gatekeepers of our own health.''
President Obama has made it clear he has not given up the health care fight and along with Speaker Pelosi; it will not be over until they ram Obamacare down our throats. Although the Democratic armada is starting to sink, Harry Reid is becoming critical of the Presidents statements on Las Vegas, "When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don't go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don't blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you're trying to save for college." Reid fired back, "Las Vegas is suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, and we cannot afford for the President to bring us down any further."
In the past year since Obama became President he has demonized the banks, Wall Street, the aircraft and tourism industries just to name a few. The unemployment rate is at ten percent. The only two cards he has in his deck are the class warfare and the Bush did it card.
Senator Reid, the President is not just bringing down Las Vegas he has brought down the entire country. Vegas was not the first casualty of the Obama administration. It started with the aircraft industry when President Obama demonized the auto executives for flying to Washington in their corporate jets. The President’s remarks caused companies across America to cancel their orders for private jets thus ten thousand workers in Wichita are jobless and you, sir were in on it.
Senator Reid on behalf of the 10,000 frustrated laid off aircraft workers in Wichita, Kansas I want to welcome you to Obamaland. Land of the destitute and home of the impoverished.
Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas, formally known as the Air Capital of the World
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Democratic Strategy
In the wake of President Obama’s unprecedented, attack on the Supreme Court ruling on campaign financing during the State of the Union address, the far left is screaming foul while the far right is touting it as reaffirmation of the Constitution and free speech. The democratic strategy is and has always been to demonize or destroy anyone or thing that obstructs their agenda.
When President Obama criticized the Supreme Court by saying, "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said. "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong." (1)@Politico reported, that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true."
The New York Times reported, "The ruling represented a sharp doctrinal shift, and it will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections were conducted."
Business Week reported on the Supreme Court’s decision, “Corporate campaign-spending restrictions is a disaster." said Andy Stern president of SEIU. He went on to say, “This is a moral disaster, it is a policy disaster and it is a practical disaster. This is going to bring an onslaught, if nothing changes, of an unlimited corporatization of our economy.”
The Huffington Post reported, "Depending on the details, such a ruling could lay the groundwork for wealthy interests to press their rights further in future cases and argue they should be able to give money directly to presidential and congressional campaigns."
Frum Forum reported, "Franklin Roosevelt at the 1938 State of the Union address blasted the Supreme Court on its ruling on the steel seizure case saying, The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful. The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government."
David Frum wrote, "The Supreme Court delivered a stinging rejection to the Truman administration in the steel seizure case of 1952. Truman had nothing to say about it in his 1953 SOTU. It looks like here’s another first for Obama: the first president to criticize a specific court decision in a State of the Union address – and certainly to do so in terms that, if not outright untruthful, were certainly misleading."
Rush Limbaugh said, “It’s nothing short of revolutionary. Here's how I add up the possible consequences: It adds to Republican chances of pickups in red states with small, cheap media markets. It turns the cottage industry of campaign consulting into a Hollywood-lucrative major media sector. It reduces candidates and political parties to mere appendages in their own campaigns."
With the far left at odds with the far right over Supreme Court ruling, the facts are that the left fear that big corporations will outspend the unions and the special interest groups. The far right is praising it as a victory since the big corporations can put the country back on track.
The latest Polls show the Tea Party is viewed more favorable than either the Democratic or the Republican Parties. If the left gets their way and the ruling is over turned, it will not matter. SEIU found out in Massachusetts when they threw away $900,000 on the Coakley campaign. If the Supreme Court ruling stands who will police the cooperate bureaucrats on Capitol Hill and keep them in line? The Tea Party of course.
We are winning the war but the evolution of the Tea Party is just beginning. Our grassroots organization can become the most powerful Lobbyist group Washington has ever seen but unlike the others, our power will be used for the good of the country and not self-serving organizations catering to a small segment of the population.
Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Using my powers for good and not evil
When President Obama criticized the Supreme Court by saying, "Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections," Obama said. "Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong." (1)@Politico reported, that Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the words "not true."
The New York Times reported, "The ruling represented a sharp doctrinal shift, and it will have major political and practical consequences. Specialists in campaign finance law said they expected the decision to reshape the way elections were conducted."
Business Week reported on the Supreme Court’s decision, “Corporate campaign-spending restrictions is a disaster." said Andy Stern president of SEIU. He went on to say, “This is a moral disaster, it is a policy disaster and it is a practical disaster. This is going to bring an onslaught, if nothing changes, of an unlimited corporatization of our economy.”
The Huffington Post reported, "Depending on the details, such a ruling could lay the groundwork for wealthy interests to press their rights further in future cases and argue they should be able to give money directly to presidential and congressional campaigns."
Frum Forum reported, "Franklin Roosevelt at the 1938 State of the Union address blasted the Supreme Court on its ruling on the steel seizure case saying, The judicial branch also is asked by the people to do its part in making democracy successful. The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government."
David Frum wrote, "The Supreme Court delivered a stinging rejection to the Truman administration in the steel seizure case of 1952. Truman had nothing to say about it in his 1953 SOTU. It looks like here’s another first for Obama: the first president to criticize a specific court decision in a State of the Union address – and certainly to do so in terms that, if not outright untruthful, were certainly misleading."
Rush Limbaugh said, “It’s nothing short of revolutionary. Here's how I add up the possible consequences: It adds to Republican chances of pickups in red states with small, cheap media markets. It turns the cottage industry of campaign consulting into a Hollywood-lucrative major media sector. It reduces candidates and political parties to mere appendages in their own campaigns."
With the far left at odds with the far right over Supreme Court ruling, the facts are that the left fear that big corporations will outspend the unions and the special interest groups. The far right is praising it as a victory since the big corporations can put the country back on track.
The latest Polls show the Tea Party is viewed more favorable than either the Democratic or the Republican Parties. If the left gets their way and the ruling is over turned, it will not matter. SEIU found out in Massachusetts when they threw away $900,000 on the Coakley campaign. If the Supreme Court ruling stands who will police the cooperate bureaucrats on Capitol Hill and keep them in line? The Tea Party of course.
We are winning the war but the evolution of the Tea Party is just beginning. Our grassroots organization can become the most powerful Lobbyist group Washington has ever seen but unlike the others, our power will be used for the good of the country and not self-serving organizations catering to a small segment of the population.
Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Using my powers for good and not evil
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Reply to the State of the Union
With thirty million unemployed workers in America, President Obama in his speech gave little reassurance that relief is on the horizon. Over the past year, the Obama administration has pushed health care as the fix all for the economy. On the other hand, there were some bright spots in his speech last night. Overall, it appears that the President is still in campaign mode and pushing his agenda with a no holds barred attitude.
Feb 26, 2009 Charles Krauthammer wrote “The Obamaist Manifesto,” He laid out the three top priorities President Obama wanted to achieve on his watch, (1) "Obama wants to be to universal health care what Lyndon Johnson was to Medicare. (2) Beyond cradle-to-grave health care, Obama wants cradle-to-cubicle education. (3) Obama wants to be to green energy what John Kennedy was to the moon shot, its visionary and creator."
He gave us a sneak peek at his agenda with Joe the plumber. Candidate Obama said, "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
In the Washington Post the President stated, “But this recession is different. This recession was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.” In his speech last night he bashed the Bush administration for cutting taxes and causing the mess we are in. "The problem is, that's what we did for eight years. That's what helped lead us into this crisis. It's what helped lead to these deficits. And we cannot do it again."
Where did it start? In Jimmy Carter's State of the Union Address 1979 he stated, "No American family should be forced to choose among food, warmth, health care, or decent housing because the cost of any of these basic necessities has climbed out of reach." In other words people have a God given right to own a home. These started the government low-income loan program and with further deregulation, today are known as sub-prime loans. No President since has stopped the deregulation. Last year these loans blew up wrecking havoc on the worldwide economy.
President Obama said, "steps taken by the Administration over the past year have saved or created about 2 million jobs so far.” Robert Gibbs said, “saved or created 1.5-million jobs." Later on he said "[a]s of the fourth quarter of 2009, the (Act) has raised employment relative to what it otherwise would have been by 1 ½ to 2 million." and David Axelrod commented that they "created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs."
The Washington Examiner reported, "Give the mainstream news media some credit: They have diligently dug into President Obama's fanciful boasts of job creation. When Obama claimed earlier this month that his $787 billion economic stimulus package had "saved or created” 640,000 jobs, a dozen news organizations pounced. They soon highlighted some of the most egregious cases of sketchy job creation in about 20 states."
The president outlined job growth by tax cuts incentives and increasing exports but he wants to combine green jobs/cap and trade. Maybe they will cancel each other out and be job neutral. He justified health care as the fix all for the economy. Being that I am one of the thirty million unemployed, given the choice between a job and insurance, it’s a no brainer. With a good paying job, you get health care.
In the State of the Union Address, President Obama echoed Capital Hill's incompetence over the past year once again blaming the Bush administration. The Bureaucrats have wasted the past year on a socialist agenda rather than fixing their past mistakes.
The Washington Post reported in an interview with Diane Sawyer that President Obama said, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” In other words “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.”
President Obama is hell-bent on pushing his own personal agenda at any cost even if it means one term in office. His legacy is his agenda. Last night he said, "I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan." Mr. President you are no John F. Kennedy and you could never be a Reagan conservative.
Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Sighing out from the Heartland
Feb 26, 2009 Charles Krauthammer wrote “The Obamaist Manifesto,” He laid out the three top priorities President Obama wanted to achieve on his watch, (1) "Obama wants to be to universal health care what Lyndon Johnson was to Medicare. (2) Beyond cradle-to-grave health care, Obama wants cradle-to-cubicle education. (3) Obama wants to be to green energy what John Kennedy was to the moon shot, its visionary and creator."
He gave us a sneak peek at his agenda with Joe the plumber. Candidate Obama said, "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
In the Washington Post the President stated, “But this recession is different. This recession was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.” In his speech last night he bashed the Bush administration for cutting taxes and causing the mess we are in. "The problem is, that's what we did for eight years. That's what helped lead us into this crisis. It's what helped lead to these deficits. And we cannot do it again."
Where did it start? In Jimmy Carter's State of the Union Address 1979 he stated, "No American family should be forced to choose among food, warmth, health care, or decent housing because the cost of any of these basic necessities has climbed out of reach." In other words people have a God given right to own a home. These started the government low-income loan program and with further deregulation, today are known as sub-prime loans. No President since has stopped the deregulation. Last year these loans blew up wrecking havoc on the worldwide economy.
President Obama said, "steps taken by the Administration over the past year have saved or created about 2 million jobs so far.” Robert Gibbs said, “saved or created 1.5-million jobs." Later on he said "[a]s of the fourth quarter of 2009, the (Act) has raised employment relative to what it otherwise would have been by 1 ½ to 2 million." and David Axelrod commented that they "created more than – or saved more than 2 million jobs."
The Washington Examiner reported, "Give the mainstream news media some credit: They have diligently dug into President Obama's fanciful boasts of job creation. When Obama claimed earlier this month that his $787 billion economic stimulus package had "saved or created” 640,000 jobs, a dozen news organizations pounced. They soon highlighted some of the most egregious cases of sketchy job creation in about 20 states."
The president outlined job growth by tax cuts incentives and increasing exports but he wants to combine green jobs/cap and trade. Maybe they will cancel each other out and be job neutral. He justified health care as the fix all for the economy. Being that I am one of the thirty million unemployed, given the choice between a job and insurance, it’s a no brainer. With a good paying job, you get health care.
In the State of the Union Address, President Obama echoed Capital Hill's incompetence over the past year once again blaming the Bush administration. The Bureaucrats have wasted the past year on a socialist agenda rather than fixing their past mistakes.
The Washington Post reported in an interview with Diane Sawyer that President Obama said, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” In other words “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed ahead.”
President Obama is hell-bent on pushing his own personal agenda at any cost even if it means one term in office. His legacy is his agenda. Last night he said, "I have embraced the vision of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan." Mr. President you are no John F. Kennedy and you could never be a Reagan conservative.
Bill Thresher; Wichita Kansas: Sighing out from the Heartland
Monday, January 25, 2010
Democrats New Plan
In the wake of the Massachusetts, election Washington is in a tailspin. Every liberal on Capitol Hill is backpedaling. The elitist are running around like a chicken with its head cut off. The Progressives are in a panic running for their political lives. The Democrats have not formulated a new plan yet but they are working overtime on one.
The New Republic article: “Dear Nervous & Frustrated House Democrat...” it said, You’re depressed: Brown inherits the seat that once belonged to Ted Kennedy, who had made health care reform a lifelong crusade. You’re angry, either for taking politically difficult votes or compromising your ideals in order to move the process along. Let’s face it, you’re scared. If a Democrat can lose in Massachusetts, any Democrat can lose anywhere. That includes you. The temptation will be to drop health care, change the subject, and hope for the best.”
Politics and Poppycock reported that, “Bill Moyers was quoted. How is it that the people who are responsible for the mess that Obama inherited are getting away with demonizing him when he’s only had less than a year to clean it up. Let me show you just a sample of commentators railing against the President. RUSH LIMBAUGH: President Obama and the Democrats are destroying the US economy. They are purposefully doing it, I believe.”
The Democratic Strategist gave its advice, “The president must also decide how to proceed with health care legislation. Here I find myself in a paradoxical position. In this publication and elsewhere, I have argued since October of 2008 against beginning the new administration with an ambitious agenda that included comprehensive health reform. Nonetheless, I believe that the president and congressional Democrats would be ill advised to shelve the effort at this point.”
CNN News reported, “In Ohio, President Obama said, “folks in Washington are in a little bit of a frenzy over Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts.”
Arianna Huffington throw in her two cents, “What we need is Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” My favorite union elitist Andy Stern President of SEIU said, “Why should anyone believe that knocking on doors, making calls, or donating another dollar changes anything if with 60 votes they cannot deliver real reforms?"
Broward Politics reported that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is planning to switch parties. She issued a statement saying, “I am a lifelong Democrat, as was my father and grandfather. I am leaving the Democratic Party because my Democratic party has left me. I will soon be a member of the Republican Party.”
As of this weekend, the Tea Party is celebrating. The liberal Media is consoling depressed Democrats and defining President Obama. Arianna Huffington wrote, “We need Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” President Obama says Massachusetts, is no big deal. Andy Stern is asking why we helped the Democrat’s in the first place. The stunner for the week is Robert Gibbs was on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” and the Obama White House says Fox is not a ligament news network.
Seventy-seven percent of U.S. Investors, view President Obama as having an Anti-Business administration. The White House has been complaining about negative press for the past year. Maybe they should have a Media subsidy, pay us not to criticize the Obama administration, since they like to throw taxpayers money away anyway. The plan would require each journalist to sign a nonaggression treaty and then swear allegiants to the White House. Would I do it? Yes, being the capitalist I am. Then I would take the money and move to Massachusetts, change my name to Beck Limbaugh and start writing again. Why do Democrats always accuse conservatives’ of not having a plan?
Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas,
Soon to be: Beck Limbaugh: Salem, Massachusetts
The New Republic article: “Dear Nervous & Frustrated House Democrat...” it said, You’re depressed: Brown inherits the seat that once belonged to Ted Kennedy, who had made health care reform a lifelong crusade. You’re angry, either for taking politically difficult votes or compromising your ideals in order to move the process along. Let’s face it, you’re scared. If a Democrat can lose in Massachusetts, any Democrat can lose anywhere. That includes you. The temptation will be to drop health care, change the subject, and hope for the best.”
Politics and Poppycock reported that, “Bill Moyers was quoted. How is it that the people who are responsible for the mess that Obama inherited are getting away with demonizing him when he’s only had less than a year to clean it up. Let me show you just a sample of commentators railing against the President. RUSH LIMBAUGH: President Obama and the Democrats are destroying the US economy. They are purposefully doing it, I believe.”
The Democratic Strategist gave its advice, “The president must also decide how to proceed with health care legislation. Here I find myself in a paradoxical position. In this publication and elsewhere, I have argued since October of 2008 against beginning the new administration with an ambitious agenda that included comprehensive health reform. Nonetheless, I believe that the president and congressional Democrats would be ill advised to shelve the effort at this point.”
CNN News reported, “In Ohio, President Obama said, “folks in Washington are in a little bit of a frenzy over Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts.”
Arianna Huffington throw in her two cents, “What we need is Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” My favorite union elitist Andy Stern President of SEIU said, “Why should anyone believe that knocking on doors, making calls, or donating another dollar changes anything if with 60 votes they cannot deliver real reforms?"
Broward Politics reported that U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is planning to switch parties. She issued a statement saying, “I am a lifelong Democrat, as was my father and grandfather. I am leaving the Democratic Party because my Democratic party has left me. I will soon be a member of the Republican Party.”
As of this weekend, the Tea Party is celebrating. The liberal Media is consoling depressed Democrats and defining President Obama. Arianna Huffington wrote, “We need Hope 2.0. If the votes aren't there, the people need to create them.” President Obama says Massachusetts, is no big deal. Andy Stern is asking why we helped the Democrat’s in the first place. The stunner for the week is Robert Gibbs was on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace” and the Obama White House says Fox is not a ligament news network.
Seventy-seven percent of U.S. Investors, view President Obama as having an Anti-Business administration. The White House has been complaining about negative press for the past year. Maybe they should have a Media subsidy, pay us not to criticize the Obama administration, since they like to throw taxpayers money away anyway. The plan would require each journalist to sign a nonaggression treaty and then swear allegiants to the White House. Would I do it? Yes, being the capitalist I am. Then I would take the money and move to Massachusetts, change my name to Beck Limbaugh and start writing again. Why do Democrats always accuse conservatives’ of not having a plan?
Bill Thresher: Wichita Kansas,
Soon to be: Beck Limbaugh: Salem, Massachusetts
Friday, January 22, 2010
HEY WASHINGTON: PULL YOUR HEAD OUT!
Washington; pull your head out of the sand, before this great nation becomes a third world banana republic. I have realized that Washington is in a parallel universe where you leave all reason and intelligent thoughts behind. You are not in The Twilight Zone. Our leaders should run the government like a business so let’s go back to school.
BUSINESS 101: Your main concerns should be to turn a profit, encourage growth, make the stockholders happy, and protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers. Instead our county/company has an unemployment rate of 10%, the national debt is $12 trillion, the taxpayers are not happy and the terrorists are trying to destroy the USA and our way of life.
How do you encourage growth? Quit taxing our companies, they are moving overseas. Cut their taxes, give incentives, and make America the cheapest place in the world to produce their products. When they come back home the 10% unemployment rate will magically disappear. The US has the best workforce in the world. Any leader with business sense knows the bottom line is money; it is why our country has survived and prospered for over 200 years. My parents told me when I was growing up work hard and the sky is the limit, you can do whatever you set your sights on.
How do you make the stockholders happy? Quit spending money and cut taxes. Do not spend more then you make. A joke I always tell people; “I used to make $20,000 a day but then the government took my printing press”. If you keep printing money, the Dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Washington: do we need to take your printing press away from you? Remember who gave you the power you enjoy so much. The voters put you in office and we can vote you out.
How do you protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers? Let’s take a lesson from history. In the late seventies, no self-respecting Hijacker in His right mind would take an Israeli hostage. Why, because if the Hijacker took an Israeli hostage: they would hunt him down then kill him, his family, and his pets, then burn his village to the ground. The Hijackers learned do not mess with Israel. The price was too high. This brings up the question; as the most powerful nation in the world, do we want to be feared or respected? I say; I want to be feared by my enemies and respected by my allies.
When the terrorist attacked New York on 9/11 we became one nation, one voice, we set aside our differences, and that sleeping giant awoke. We went to war, avenging the 6000, Americans that died that day and to defend our freedoms we cherish. We sent a message to the world; DO NOT MESS WITH THE USA! I have been fortunate in my working life to travel overseas. As Americans, we enjoy more freedoms and have the best standard of living in the world. Washington, do not blow it, we are awake and watching you.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas
BUSINESS 101: Your main concerns should be to turn a profit, encourage growth, make the stockholders happy, and protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers. Instead our county/company has an unemployment rate of 10%, the national debt is $12 trillion, the taxpayers are not happy and the terrorists are trying to destroy the USA and our way of life.
How do you encourage growth? Quit taxing our companies, they are moving overseas. Cut their taxes, give incentives, and make America the cheapest place in the world to produce their products. When they come back home the 10% unemployment rate will magically disappear. The US has the best workforce in the world. Any leader with business sense knows the bottom line is money; it is why our country has survived and prospered for over 200 years. My parents told me when I was growing up work hard and the sky is the limit, you can do whatever you set your sights on.
How do you make the stockholders happy? Quit spending money and cut taxes. Do not spend more then you make. A joke I always tell people; “I used to make $20,000 a day but then the government took my printing press”. If you keep printing money, the Dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Washington: do we need to take your printing press away from you? Remember who gave you the power you enjoy so much. The voters put you in office and we can vote you out.
How do you protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers? Let’s take a lesson from history. In the late seventies, no self-respecting Hijacker in His right mind would take an Israeli hostage. Why, because if the Hijacker took an Israeli hostage: they would hunt him down then kill him, his family, and his pets, then burn his village to the ground. The Hijackers learned do not mess with Israel. The price was too high. This brings up the question; as the most powerful nation in the world, do we want to be feared or respected? I say; I want to be feared by my enemies and respected by my allies.
When the terrorist attacked New York on 9/11 we became one nation, one voice, we set aside our differences, and that sleeping giant awoke. We went to war, avenging the 6000, Americans that died that day and to defend our freedoms we cherish. We sent a message to the world; DO NOT MESS WITH THE USA! I have been fortunate in my working life to travel overseas. As Americans, we enjoy more freedoms and have the best standard of living in the world. Washington, do not blow it, we are awake and watching you.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas
The unemployment rate rises, D’oh
January 21, 2010 Fox News reported, “The Labor Department said Thursday that initial claims for unemployment insurance rose by 36,000 to a seasonally adjusted 482,000. Wall Street economists had expected a small drop.” This left economic analyst that predicted the economy had hit bottom with a Homer Simpson moment D’oh.
@November 18, 2008 President Obama said at Global Climate Summit, “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.”
On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
@President Obama in a press conference called for tougher regulations on the banks to combat economic collapse. Minutes after his announcement the Wall Street reacted with a 200 point drop in the market.
There are 31 million unemployed in America and being one myself, I can honestly say the economy shows little improvement over last year. None of the companies that I have been in contact with says things are getting better. The most frustrating thing for the unemployed is to watch the news and hear the economic analyst say, the economy is picking up. At least the experts have a comfortable job that aloes them to pull number out of thin air them report them.
My Way News reported, “China shook off the global crisis as growth surged to 10.7 percent in the final quarter of 2009 but inflation picked up, adding to pressure on Beijing to cool rising prices without disrupting the recovery.” Maybe this is where millions of green jobs are going that the Obama promised during the campaign.
The average worker in China makes 200 dollars a month. Washington must wake up. We are losing jobs overseas on a daily bases. The Obama administration must create a corporate friendly environment in our country so companies will thieve thus turning the US economy around. Washington must cut taxes immediately in order to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, if not the US will become a third world banana republic.
Bill Thresher; wondering if China is hiring
@November 18, 2008 President Obama said at Global Climate Summit, “My presidency will mark a new chapter in America's leadership on climate change that will strengthen our security and create millions of new jobs in the process.”
On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
@President Obama in a press conference called for tougher regulations on the banks to combat economic collapse. Minutes after his announcement the Wall Street reacted with a 200 point drop in the market.
There are 31 million unemployed in America and being one myself, I can honestly say the economy shows little improvement over last year. None of the companies that I have been in contact with says things are getting better. The most frustrating thing for the unemployed is to watch the news and hear the economic analyst say, the economy is picking up. At least the experts have a comfortable job that aloes them to pull number out of thin air them report them.
My Way News reported, “China shook off the global crisis as growth surged to 10.7 percent in the final quarter of 2009 but inflation picked up, adding to pressure on Beijing to cool rising prices without disrupting the recovery.” Maybe this is where millions of green jobs are going that the Obama promised during the campaign.
The average worker in China makes 200 dollars a month. Washington must wake up. We are losing jobs overseas on a daily bases. The Obama administration must create a corporate friendly environment in our country so companies will thieve thus turning the US economy around. Washington must cut taxes immediately in order to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, if not the US will become a third world banana republic.
Bill Thresher; wondering if China is hiring
Thursday, January 21, 2010
SEIU spends $900,000 on Coakley campaign
The Tea Party has won its first battle. In Massachusetts, Scott Brown beat out Martha Coakley for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy. Yahoo News reported that Senator Robert Menendez, the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said, “I have no interest in sugarcoating what happened in Massachusetts. There is a lot of anxiety in the country right now. Americans are understandably impatient.” The Democrats are in disarray and running for cover. One point no one has made is the ineffectiveness of SEIU in affecting the outcome of the race.
On January 12, 2010, Michelle Malkin reported on the “$214,000 [that SEIU] sent her for radio ad buys last fall…. and [SEIU] is preparing to burn through another $685,000 in rank-and-file union members’ dues for the attorney general." That comes to $899,000 that SEIU’s leadership threw out the window.
Washington, do not depend on the union vote. You do not understand the mindset of the union members. The average union member only cares about his or her bottom line. The leadership has little or no influence over its members when it comes to politics. Massachusetts is a ‘Closed Shop State,’ meaning you have to be in the union to work in a union shop. (If you do not join, you do not work, period.) Most of the membership is far more conservative than their left wing leaders. The unions rank-and-file do not vote for the national union leaders. The members vote the district representatives in office. In turn, they vote the national union leaders into power.
The Tea Party has attracted a broad-spectrum of people from every occupation. Americans are truly waking up across our great country. I myself am a thirty-year union member.
The Massachusetts Senate race should be a wakeup call to the union leadership. The union’s revolution is on the horizon. The rank-and-file is beginning to wake up and see the egotistical arrogance of its own leadership. If the unions elitist at the top do not change, they will fall and the unions will become nonexistent America.
Bill Thresher: a union member that has awakened
On January 12, 2010, Michelle Malkin reported on the “$214,000 [that SEIU] sent her for radio ad buys last fall…. and [SEIU] is preparing to burn through another $685,000 in rank-and-file union members’ dues for the attorney general." That comes to $899,000 that SEIU’s leadership threw out the window.
Washington, do not depend on the union vote. You do not understand the mindset of the union members. The average union member only cares about his or her bottom line. The leadership has little or no influence over its members when it comes to politics. Massachusetts is a ‘Closed Shop State,’ meaning you have to be in the union to work in a union shop. (If you do not join, you do not work, period.) Most of the membership is far more conservative than their left wing leaders. The unions rank-and-file do not vote for the national union leaders. The members vote the district representatives in office. In turn, they vote the national union leaders into power.
The Tea Party has attracted a broad-spectrum of people from every occupation. Americans are truly waking up across our great country. I myself am a thirty-year union member.
The Massachusetts Senate race should be a wakeup call to the union leadership. The union’s revolution is on the horizon. The rank-and-file is beginning to wake up and see the egotistical arrogance of its own leadership. If the unions elitist at the top do not change, they will fall and the unions will become nonexistent America.
Bill Thresher: a union member that has awakened
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Unionizing the unemployed worker in America
A recent letter sent to its out-of-work members by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers attempts to unionize its unemployed workers.
The gist of the letter was to encourage the laid-off members to become jobs activist and to form a union the IAM has named “Ur Union of the Unemployed, nicknamed Ucubed”. By going to (www.unionofunemployed.com) and signing up, you will be connected by zip code with six other people who are unemployed thus making a cube. That cube will organize into neighborhoods of nine cubes. “Power blocks that politicians cannot ignore, purchasing blocks merchants cannot avoid. UCube offers you a way to use your skills and talents to help others through hard times even as you help yourself.”
The letter states, “First and foremost, you’ll help each other get through these next few years. Each activist has a unique set of skills, Talents, and experiences that can be shared or bartered.” It goes on to say, “You can pressure the federal government to respond faster, more effectively to this job crisis.” By going to their website and linking to “Jobs Now” to urge Congress to act on issues such as, “The new jobs bill, expansion of unemployment compensation, extension of the COBRA subsidy, food stamp appropriations, tax relief-all are issues that demand immediate action.” They hope to add a barter/jobs site opening up soon.
The numbers of unemployed workers the International Association of Machinists reports are 15.7 million lost their jobs and another 16 million have given up or over 31 million are out of work in America today. These numbers are higher than the Whitehouse has reported in recent months.
For the past decade, American companies have outsourced work to Mexico and now Mexicans are losing their jobs to China. Anyone who owns a business will tell you the bottom line is money, they will go where they can get more for their dollars. We are living in a global economy. The working class does not need an expansion of government. America needs fewer taxes and less government regulations on companies operating in the US. The Obama administration must create a corporate friendly environment in our country so companies will thieve thus turning the US economy around.
Three of the top small aircraft manufacturing facilities are located in Wichita Kansas, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, and Lear Jet. The IAM reports the average union contract is less than eight percent of the company’s overall overhead. The union’s message to the Whitehouse should be promoting job growth thru tax breaks and incentives that would entice companies to move their manufacturing facilities to the US.
The IAM has good intensions trying to help the unemployed workers. On the other hand, the IAM does not need to use the jobless in America to form a new lobbyist group to expand the federal government and put our children further in debt.
There are over 10,000 laid-off workers in Wichita. The union’s effort to help them is a worthwhile cause. Knowing firsthand the pain and frustrations of being unemployed. I can say, “We do not need another government hand out, we need a hand-up”.
Bill Thresher: One of the 10,000 laid-off workers in Wichita Kansas
The gist of the letter was to encourage the laid-off members to become jobs activist and to form a union the IAM has named “Ur Union of the Unemployed, nicknamed Ucubed”. By going to (www.unionofunemployed.com) and signing up, you will be connected by zip code with six other people who are unemployed thus making a cube. That cube will organize into neighborhoods of nine cubes. “Power blocks that politicians cannot ignore, purchasing blocks merchants cannot avoid. UCube offers you a way to use your skills and talents to help others through hard times even as you help yourself.”
The letter states, “First and foremost, you’ll help each other get through these next few years. Each activist has a unique set of skills, Talents, and experiences that can be shared or bartered.” It goes on to say, “You can pressure the federal government to respond faster, more effectively to this job crisis.” By going to their website and linking to “Jobs Now” to urge Congress to act on issues such as, “The new jobs bill, expansion of unemployment compensation, extension of the COBRA subsidy, food stamp appropriations, tax relief-all are issues that demand immediate action.” They hope to add a barter/jobs site opening up soon.
The numbers of unemployed workers the International Association of Machinists reports are 15.7 million lost their jobs and another 16 million have given up or over 31 million are out of work in America today. These numbers are higher than the Whitehouse has reported in recent months.
For the past decade, American companies have outsourced work to Mexico and now Mexicans are losing their jobs to China. Anyone who owns a business will tell you the bottom line is money, they will go where they can get more for their dollars. We are living in a global economy. The working class does not need an expansion of government. America needs fewer taxes and less government regulations on companies operating in the US. The Obama administration must create a corporate friendly environment in our country so companies will thieve thus turning the US economy around.
Three of the top small aircraft manufacturing facilities are located in Wichita Kansas, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, and Lear Jet. The IAM reports the average union contract is less than eight percent of the company’s overall overhead. The union’s message to the Whitehouse should be promoting job growth thru tax breaks and incentives that would entice companies to move their manufacturing facilities to the US.
The IAM has good intensions trying to help the unemployed workers. On the other hand, the IAM does not need to use the jobless in America to form a new lobbyist group to expand the federal government and put our children further in debt.
There are over 10,000 laid-off workers in Wichita. The union’s effort to help them is a worthwhile cause. Knowing firsthand the pain and frustrations of being unemployed. I can say, “We do not need another government hand out, we need a hand-up”.
Bill Thresher: One of the 10,000 laid-off workers in Wichita Kansas
Monday, January 18, 2010
Union Leaderships Negotiates Health Care with Washington: Making Deals with the Devil!
Thursday January 14, 2010 Investor.com reported union leaders negotiated a tax exemption for the membership on their health care plans. The article went on to say, “Call it what it is: a bribe to cronies in an increasingly corrupt overhaul. With Nebraska winning "free" coverage of its Medicare costs in the Senate version of the bill, and Louisiana getting a tax exemption of its own, what's one more bone to a favored political group on a bill Democrats are determined to pass no matter what?”
Richard Trumka President of The AFL-CIO in a speech Monday said; “This is a policy designed to benefit elites, like the ones that the executives at Goldman Sachs have, the $40,000 policies.” Well at least my Union Leadership knows how to play the class warfare card even better than Washington does.
The Union Leadership should know you can’t make a deal with the Devil. Back in January 2009, Washington came after my job by, demonizing corporate jets. I went to work every day and said, “The powers that be put another nail in the coffin”. Even the Union Leaders said, “We voted for Obama. Why is he killing our industry”? The private aircraft industry will not recover for years from the Obama administration playing the class warfare card.
When will the Union Leadership realize if you sleep with dogs, you are going to get fleas? Washington has never kept its word on anything. Why should they keep it with the Unions?
Bill Thresher: Union Member, Going out to buy a flea collar
Richard Trumka President of The AFL-CIO in a speech Monday said; “This is a policy designed to benefit elites, like the ones that the executives at Goldman Sachs have, the $40,000 policies.” Well at least my Union Leadership knows how to play the class warfare card even better than Washington does.
The Union Leadership should know you can’t make a deal with the Devil. Back in January 2009, Washington came after my job by, demonizing corporate jets. I went to work every day and said, “The powers that be put another nail in the coffin”. Even the Union Leaders said, “We voted for Obama. Why is he killing our industry”? The private aircraft industry will not recover for years from the Obama administration playing the class warfare card.
When will the Union Leadership realize if you sleep with dogs, you are going to get fleas? Washington has never kept its word on anything. Why should they keep it with the Unions?
Bill Thresher: Union Member, Going out to buy a flea collar
Friday, January 15, 2010
The Unions involvement in the Massachusetts Senate race: paying the protestors
January 15, 2010 Hotair.com headline was “Video: Dems paying union workers to hold signs for Coakley?” The blogger went on to say; “The question mark’s there in an abundance of caution because there’s always a chance with short clips that some key context has been bowdlerized, but it’s hard to see how this one isn’t exactly what it looks like. Bonus points here for the fact that our hero admits he’s actually voting for Brown. If only he were SEIU, this would have been pure, 24-karat gold.”
In the video the Union members where wearing yellow shirts saying sheet metal workers for Martha. One of the supporters said; “If they want their fifty bucks they have to do what they are told.” Then one of the union members said; “I’m voting for Brown”. Most people who have never worked in a union shop would find this video shocking. I have been a Union member all my working life and for me that is business as usual.
In most if not all union contracts there is the union business clause that states if a member is on union business that person will be excused from work for said amount of time that is lost. It is without pay but the member turns a lost-pay card to the union and they pay you for your time. That is how the Union gets busloads of people at the rallies. In other words, hold a sign get check. It is a get out of work free card.
The Unions learned a long time ago if the News Media sees two hundred people at a rally, they must all be supporters, not so with union members. The membership have a running joke: I found part time work at the medical research facility. PETA would not let them use lab rats anymore but they have found out they like experimenting on union workers better because there are some things rats will not do.
Bill Thresher: Wichita, Kansas: Union Member
Pay me enough and I will go to an Obama rally. Probably not, but I would think-about-it
In the video the Union members where wearing yellow shirts saying sheet metal workers for Martha. One of the supporters said; “If they want their fifty bucks they have to do what they are told.” Then one of the union members said; “I’m voting for Brown”. Most people who have never worked in a union shop would find this video shocking. I have been a Union member all my working life and for me that is business as usual.
In most if not all union contracts there is the union business clause that states if a member is on union business that person will be excused from work for said amount of time that is lost. It is without pay but the member turns a lost-pay card to the union and they pay you for your time. That is how the Union gets busloads of people at the rallies. In other words, hold a sign get check. It is a get out of work free card.
The Unions learned a long time ago if the News Media sees two hundred people at a rally, they must all be supporters, not so with union members. The membership have a running joke: I found part time work at the medical research facility. PETA would not let them use lab rats anymore but they have found out they like experimenting on union workers better because there are some things rats will not do.
Bill Thresher: Wichita, Kansas: Union Member
Pay me enough and I will go to an Obama rally. Probably not, but I would think-about-it
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The Recession is over so where are the jobs
The Whitehouse estimates 7.8 million workers are unemployed but some estimates go as high as 25 million Americans are out of work. When President Obama took office the job loss was 700,000 a month and in December, we only lost 11,000 jobs. Washington is not gaining jobs; they are just slowing the bleeding.
September 4, 2009 The New York Times referred to a “Jobless Recovery” the article stated; “Many experts envision a jobless recovery, in which the economy grows but job losses persist”. It went on to say, “Such an outcome would confront the Obama administration with a potentially nettlesome political problem heading into next year’s midterm elections. After the government unleashed $787 billion to stimulate economic growth, and after it bailed out financial institutions and the auto industry, the unemployment rate exceeds worst-case projections envisioned by the administration early this year”.
December 13, 2009 on ABC’s “This Week” President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, said; “Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over, and the question is what the pace of the expansion is going to be”. On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
January 11, 2010 the Pro Publica reported that the Whitehouse was scrambling to meet deadline for this month, the new guidelines could change what the public sees. For example when Chrysler received a 53 million dollar contract last fall, it listed zero jobs created. Under the new rules, the workers are counted as saved or created jobs. The Associated Press uncovered that the administration is using pay raises as stimulus jobs. The California state auditor ripped the state corrections department for reporting 18,000 jobs instead of just 5,000 officers who had received layoff notices. All these numbers are permitted under the new federal guidelines.
Now for our so-called Leaders on Capitol Hill, you are not there to cook the books and then try to convince us everything is hunky-dory. There is an old saying that goes don’t spit on me and tell me it is raining. I’ll let you in on a little joke the unemployed workers across the country have. We do not call it unemployment benefits; we refer to it as the “Obama Gravy Train”. I am one of the7.8 million people in our nation looking for work. When you cut off my money and it looks like I will lose everything because of your incompetence and reckless spending. I will be one of the 7.8 million that heads for Washington with pitchforks to run you out of office.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas, Riding the Obama Gravy Train
September 4, 2009 The New York Times referred to a “Jobless Recovery” the article stated; “Many experts envision a jobless recovery, in which the economy grows but job losses persist”. It went on to say, “Such an outcome would confront the Obama administration with a potentially nettlesome political problem heading into next year’s midterm elections. After the government unleashed $787 billion to stimulate economic growth, and after it bailed out financial institutions and the auto industry, the unemployment rate exceeds worst-case projections envisioned by the administration early this year”.
December 13, 2009 on ABC’s “This Week” President Obama’s director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers, said; “Today, everybody agrees that the recession is over, and the question is what the pace of the expansion is going to be”. On December 14, 2009 on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Christina Romer, “The president has always said, and what I firmly believe, is you’re not recovered until all those people that want to work are back to work”.
January 11, 2010 the Pro Publica reported that the Whitehouse was scrambling to meet deadline for this month, the new guidelines could change what the public sees. For example when Chrysler received a 53 million dollar contract last fall, it listed zero jobs created. Under the new rules, the workers are counted as saved or created jobs. The Associated Press uncovered that the administration is using pay raises as stimulus jobs. The California state auditor ripped the state corrections department for reporting 18,000 jobs instead of just 5,000 officers who had received layoff notices. All these numbers are permitted under the new federal guidelines.
Now for our so-called Leaders on Capitol Hill, you are not there to cook the books and then try to convince us everything is hunky-dory. There is an old saying that goes don’t spit on me and tell me it is raining. I’ll let you in on a little joke the unemployed workers across the country have. We do not call it unemployment benefits; we refer to it as the “Obama Gravy Train”. I am one of the7.8 million people in our nation looking for work. When you cut off my money and it looks like I will lose everything because of your incompetence and reckless spending. I will be one of the 7.8 million that heads for Washington with pitchforks to run you out of office.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas, Riding the Obama Gravy Train
Saturday, January 9, 2010
An Open Letter to the Membership of SEIU in Massachusetts
I have been a member of the AFL-CIO for over 30 years. I am writing this in the hope that you do not have to suffer my fate. In the special election in Massachusetts to replace Ted Kennedy’s seat in the Senate why in the world is SEIU backing Martha Coakley? Your Leadership is selling you out.
Martha Coakley had a “read my lips” moment: During the campaign she promised not to support the Heath Care Bill, if it contained restriction on abortion then she backed down so not to anger the left-wing base. Now she supports the Heath Care Bill and that in its self would send me running for cover. If our government gets it passed and it becomes Law how long before Washington decides to tax our Heath Care Plans. Have you known of Washington to keep its word on anything? Not No, but Hell NO, somewhere down the road our elected officials will decide to tax us!
Have you read your own Blogs at SEIU.org? Andy is going to screw you over big-time. On the SEIU Blog it reads; “On the other hand, a mass deportation would cost the U.S. a whopping $2.6 trillion in lost GDP over 10 years! It would also reduce wages for higher skilled native workers and only provide a slight increase in wages for a small group of less-skilled native-born workers. And the estimated $2.6 trillion loss in GDP doesn't include the more than $200 billion it is estimated to cost to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants.” The study came from UCLA in California and by Professor Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda. First off, they are illegal aliens. Companies hire illegal aliens because they work for a-lot-less than we would. With over fifteen million Americans out of work, do we add to the problem or do you put your Brothers and Sisters back to work.
Your leader Andy Stern has said; “What we’re working towards is building a global organization because workers of the world unite, it’s not just a slogan anymore”. How does Andy intend to put workers of the world on an even playing field? Hold on, I know. American wages have to go down while in other countries the wages go up, then everyone is equal. Is this what you want?
The Media and the People on Capitol Hill that were supposed to look out for the Unions demonized the evil corporate executives. Almost every corporation in America pulled their orders for private jets. When they did, hundreds of thousands of your Brothers and Sisters in the Machinist and UAW Union lost their jobs. Our so-called Leaders in Washington threw us under the bus.
I have been a Proud Union Member for over thirty years and I have never crossed a picket line. I have been on Unemployment for over nine months and when it runs out. I might have to work in a non-union shop and my wages will be cut in half. Whom do I blame? Washington for selling my Union out and if they did it to us what will stop them when your number comes up. Please don’t let Washington turn America into a third world banana republic.
Your Leadership will say I am lying and this is propaganda. It is not propaganda and I am not lying. I write for The New Patriot Journal and if you have any doubts Call District 70 Lodge and ask if I am a member in good standing.
Bill Thresher, Wichita Kansas; Machinists Union Member, District 70, LL 774
Martha Coakley had a “read my lips” moment: During the campaign she promised not to support the Heath Care Bill, if it contained restriction on abortion then she backed down so not to anger the left-wing base. Now she supports the Heath Care Bill and that in its self would send me running for cover. If our government gets it passed and it becomes Law how long before Washington decides to tax our Heath Care Plans. Have you known of Washington to keep its word on anything? Not No, but Hell NO, somewhere down the road our elected officials will decide to tax us!
Have you read your own Blogs at SEIU.org? Andy is going to screw you over big-time. On the SEIU Blog it reads; “On the other hand, a mass deportation would cost the U.S. a whopping $2.6 trillion in lost GDP over 10 years! It would also reduce wages for higher skilled native workers and only provide a slight increase in wages for a small group of less-skilled native-born workers. And the estimated $2.6 trillion loss in GDP doesn't include the more than $200 billion it is estimated to cost to deport 12 million undocumented immigrants.” The study came from UCLA in California and by Professor Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda. First off, they are illegal aliens. Companies hire illegal aliens because they work for a-lot-less than we would. With over fifteen million Americans out of work, do we add to the problem or do you put your Brothers and Sisters back to work.
Your leader Andy Stern has said; “What we’re working towards is building a global organization because workers of the world unite, it’s not just a slogan anymore”. How does Andy intend to put workers of the world on an even playing field? Hold on, I know. American wages have to go down while in other countries the wages go up, then everyone is equal. Is this what you want?
The Media and the People on Capitol Hill that were supposed to look out for the Unions demonized the evil corporate executives. Almost every corporation in America pulled their orders for private jets. When they did, hundreds of thousands of your Brothers and Sisters in the Machinist and UAW Union lost their jobs. Our so-called Leaders in Washington threw us under the bus.
I have been a Proud Union Member for over thirty years and I have never crossed a picket line. I have been on Unemployment for over nine months and when it runs out. I might have to work in a non-union shop and my wages will be cut in half. Whom do I blame? Washington for selling my Union out and if they did it to us what will stop them when your number comes up. Please don’t let Washington turn America into a third world banana republic.
Your Leadership will say I am lying and this is propaganda. It is not propaganda and I am not lying. I write for The New Patriot Journal and if you have any doubts Call District 70 Lodge and ask if I am a member in good standing.
Bill Thresher, Wichita Kansas; Machinists Union Member, District 70, LL 774
Friday, January 8, 2010
Did the Democrats sabotage the intelligence gathering capabilities of the CIA
It all started shortly after President Obama’s inauguration. The Democrats went after the Bush administration for everything from waterboarding to being guilty of war crimes.
Pelosi dropped the big one in May when she was quoted in a press conference; “In that or any other briefing ... we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used," Pelosi said at a news conference in April. “What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used, but not that they would." With that statement, Pelosi tied the hands of the CIA.
In the Los Angeles Times on August 9, they reported that a criminal investigation was underway on CIA treatment of detainees. “A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws”. Way-to-go U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.
The next in line was our military. Maybe you remember Fallujah way back in 2004; four Blackwater security guards were murdered and hung off a bridge in broad-daylight. In November: three Navy Seals captured the mastermind of that brutal attack. In the process of his capture, the Seals roughed-up the suspect, just a bit. Now these heroes are facing criminal charges. What is wrong with this picture?
Does the CIA and the Police in our country have something in common? Since the suicide bomber killed eight people on the U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, the CIA has launched an all-out Predator attack on Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan. The CIA and the Police avenge their own.
Now on the News all the so-called experts are debating where the system failed while Washington vows to find the underlying cause of the failure. It is business as usual in America.
Hey Washington, not all Americans have Alzheimer’s or short-term memory loss, even though you do have the News Media in your back pocket or maybe they can’t see the forest for the trees. You have bullied, brow beat and threaten the intelligence community and the military to the point that they are like an old abused dog. When you yell at him, he will look for the club in your hand before he comes, even then he may not come at all.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas: and No I don’t have Alzheimer’s or short-term memory loss!!!
Pelosi dropped the big one in May when she was quoted in a press conference; “In that or any other briefing ... we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used," Pelosi said at a news conference in April. “What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used, but not that they would." With that statement, Pelosi tied the hands of the CIA.
In the Los Angeles Times on August 9, they reported that a criminal investigation was underway on CIA treatment of detainees. “A senior Justice Department official said that Holder envisioned an inquiry that would be narrow in scope, focusing on "whether people went beyond the techniques that were authorized" in Bush administration memos that liberally interpreted anti-torture laws”. Way-to-go U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr.
The next in line was our military. Maybe you remember Fallujah way back in 2004; four Blackwater security guards were murdered and hung off a bridge in broad-daylight. In November: three Navy Seals captured the mastermind of that brutal attack. In the process of his capture, the Seals roughed-up the suspect, just a bit. Now these heroes are facing criminal charges. What is wrong with this picture?
Does the CIA and the Police in our country have something in common? Since the suicide bomber killed eight people on the U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, the CIA has launched an all-out Predator attack on Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan. The CIA and the Police avenge their own.
Now on the News all the so-called experts are debating where the system failed while Washington vows to find the underlying cause of the failure. It is business as usual in America.
Hey Washington, not all Americans have Alzheimer’s or short-term memory loss, even though you do have the News Media in your back pocket or maybe they can’t see the forest for the trees. You have bullied, brow beat and threaten the intelligence community and the military to the point that they are like an old abused dog. When you yell at him, he will look for the club in your hand before he comes, even then he may not come at all.
Bill Thresher Wichita Kansas: and No I don’t have Alzheimer’s or short-term memory loss!!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Is the Democratic Party Imploding?
In a press conference Tuesday, on the failed terrorist attack on Delta flight 253, President Obama said; “This was a screw up that could have been disastrous”. For the first time in office, President Obama did not blame the Bush administration for his screw up. This is a new direction the Obama camp is taking, personal reasonability. Now Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan have announced they are retiring from the Senate. Could this mark the downfall of the Democratic Party?
When asked about transparency on health-care Pelosi said; “There has never been a more open process for any legislation”. According to the Rasmussen, fifty-eight percent of U.S. voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That is the highest negative finding since Rasmussen has started polling in November 2006. Dodd and Dorgan are retiring from the Senate. Could the real reason be they have read the writing on the wall? How many more Democrats will take one for the team and fall on their swords?
According to the Rasmussen poll in the past year President Obama approval rating has dropped also and they are:
Dates:---------------------------01/21/2009-------------01/06/2010
Presidential Approval Index----------+28-------------------- -10
Strongly Approve-----------------------44%-------------------29%
Strongly Disapprove-------------------16%--------------------39%
Total Approve---------------------------65%-------------------49%
Total Disapprove-----------------------30%--------------------51%
New Rasmussen poll finds that Republicans bet out Democrat’s 48% to 36% on the issues of fixing the economy. Is the Democratic Party imploding? We will find out election night 2010.
Bill Thresher: Wichita, Kansas: Witnessing the downfall of the Democratic Party in 2010
When asked about transparency on health-care Pelosi said; “There has never been a more open process for any legislation”. According to the Rasmussen, fifty-eight percent of U.S. voters now say Congress is doing a poor job. That is the highest negative finding since Rasmussen has started polling in November 2006. Dodd and Dorgan are retiring from the Senate. Could the real reason be they have read the writing on the wall? How many more Democrats will take one for the team and fall on their swords?
According to the Rasmussen poll in the past year President Obama approval rating has dropped also and they are:
Dates:---------------------------01/21/2009-------------01/06/2010
Presidential Approval Index----------+28-------------------- -10
Strongly Approve-----------------------44%-------------------29%
Strongly Disapprove-------------------16%--------------------39%
Total Approve---------------------------65%-------------------49%
Total Disapprove-----------------------30%--------------------51%
New Rasmussen poll finds that Republicans bet out Democrat’s 48% to 36% on the issues of fixing the economy. Is the Democratic Party imploding? We will find out election night 2010.
Bill Thresher: Wichita, Kansas: Witnessing the downfall of the Democratic Party in 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
HEY WASHINGTON: PULL YOUR HEAD OUT!
Washington; pull your head out of the sand, before this great nation becomes a third world banana republic. I have realized that Washington is in a parallel universe where you leave all reason and intelligent thoughts behind. You are not in The Twilight Zone. Our leaders should run the government like a business so let’s go back to school.
BUSINESS 101: Your main concerns should be to turn a profit, encourage growth, make the stockholders happy, and protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers. Instead our county/company has an unemployment rate of 10%, the national debt is $12 trillion, the taxpayers are not happy and the terrorists are trying to destroy the USA and our way of life.
How do you encourage growth? Quit taxing our companies, they are moving overseas. Cut their taxes, give incentives, and make America the cheapest place in the world to produce their products. When they come back home the 10% unemployment rate will magically disappear. The US has the best workforce in the world. Any leader with business sense knows the bottom line is money; it is why our country has survived and prospered for over 200 years. My parents told me when I was growing up work hard and the sky is the limit, you can do whatever you set your sights on.
How do you make the stockholders happy? Quit spending money and cut taxes. Do not spend more then you make. A joke I always tell people; “I used to make $20,000 a day but then the government took my printing press”. If you keep printing money, the Dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Washington: do we need to take your printing press away from you? Remember who gave you the power you enjoy so much. The voters put you in office and we can vote you out.
How do you protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers? Let’s take a lesson from history. In the late seventies, no self-respecting Hijacker in His right mind would take an Israeli hostage. Why, because if the Hijacker took an Israeli hostage: they would hunt him down then kill him, his family, and his pets, then burn his village to the ground. The Hijackers learned do not mess with Israel. The price was too high. This brings up the question; as the most powerful nation in the world, do we want to be feared or respected? I say; I want to be feared by my enemies and respected by my allies.
When the terrorist attacked New York on 9/11 we became one nation, one voice, we set aside our differences, and that sleeping giant awoke. We went to war, avenging the 6000, Americans that died that day and to defend our freedoms we cherish. We sent a message to the world; DO NOT MESS WITH THE USA! I have been fortunate in my working life to travel overseas. As Americans, we enjoy more freedoms and have the best standard of living in the world. Washington, do not blow it, we are awake and watching you.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas
BUSINESS 101: Your main concerns should be to turn a profit, encourage growth, make the stockholders happy, and protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers. Instead our county/company has an unemployment rate of 10%, the national debt is $12 trillion, the taxpayers are not happy and the terrorists are trying to destroy the USA and our way of life.
How do you encourage growth? Quit taxing our companies, they are moving overseas. Cut their taxes, give incentives, and make America the cheapest place in the world to produce their products. When they come back home the 10% unemployment rate will magically disappear. The US has the best workforce in the world. Any leader with business sense knows the bottom line is money; it is why our country has survived and prospered for over 200 years. My parents told me when I was growing up work hard and the sky is the limit, you can do whatever you set your sights on.
How do you make the stockholders happy? Quit spending money and cut taxes. Do not spend more then you make. A joke I always tell people; “I used to make $20,000 a day but then the government took my printing press”. If you keep printing money, the Dollar will not be worth the paper it is printed on. Washington: do we need to take your printing press away from you? Remember who gave you the power you enjoy so much. The voters put you in office and we can vote you out.
How do you protect the company from corporate raiders and hostile takeovers? Let’s take a lesson from history. In the late seventies, no self-respecting Hijacker in His right mind would take an Israeli hostage. Why, because if the Hijacker took an Israeli hostage: they would hunt him down then kill him, his family, and his pets, then burn his village to the ground. The Hijackers learned do not mess with Israel. The price was too high. This brings up the question; as the most powerful nation in the world, do we want to be feared or respected? I say; I want to be feared by my enemies and respected by my allies.
When the terrorist attacked New York on 9/11 we became one nation, one voice, we set aside our differences, and that sleeping giant awoke. We went to war, avenging the 6000, Americans that died that day and to defend our freedoms we cherish. We sent a message to the world; DO NOT MESS WITH THE USA! I have been fortunate in my working life to travel overseas. As Americans, we enjoy more freedoms and have the best standard of living in the world. Washington, do not blow it, we are awake and watching you.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas
Sunday, January 3, 2010
How long can Liberals ride a dead horse?
For the past year, the Liberals in this country have been playing (The Bush Did-It Card) and it is starting to get old. Ask a Liberal about the deficits, the war on terrorism, unemployment, global warming, 911, and why the Cowboys did not win the Super Bowl for the past ten years? The answer is; Bush started it, Bush did-it and it is all Bush’s fault!
President Obama is the most proficient dead horse rider I have seen in years. From day one in office, he has been blaming the Bush administration for this or that and any problem that arose. Any criticism of the Obama regime, the pat-answer is always Bush did-it or we inherited it from the previous administration. I will bet you I can find it on the internet within ten minutes.
The panty bomber on Delta flight 253 was trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda. There are a hundred Yemeni detainees in Gitmo and the Obama administration wants to release them back to their country for retaining and reeducation. When criticized by the media, the reply is; the Bush camp released two detainees to Yemeni and now they are head of Al-Qaeda. Yes, that is true; Bush sent two detainees back to Yemeni and now Obama wants to send a hundred back. What is wrong with this picture?
I myself, being an expert at riding dead horses, have realized that after three or four days in the sun, the horse will blot. Then you can drag it to the nearest body of water and it will float for a long, long, long time.
The Obama administration has been riding the dead horse for a year but come spring the carcass will thaw-out and stink to high heaven. As the old saying goes, if you ride a dead horse you will smell like a dead horse.
President Obama, as a fellow dead horse equestrian myself I beseech you, get off of the dead horse, it is beneath your station as Leader of The Free World to continue to ride that dead horse any longer.
Bill Thresher: Founding member and President of The Wichita Dead Horse-Equestrian Society
President Obama is the most proficient dead horse rider I have seen in years. From day one in office, he has been blaming the Bush administration for this or that and any problem that arose. Any criticism of the Obama regime, the pat-answer is always Bush did-it or we inherited it from the previous administration. I will bet you I can find it on the internet within ten minutes.
The panty bomber on Delta flight 253 was trained in Yemen by Al-Qaeda. There are a hundred Yemeni detainees in Gitmo and the Obama administration wants to release them back to their country for retaining and reeducation. When criticized by the media, the reply is; the Bush camp released two detainees to Yemeni and now they are head of Al-Qaeda. Yes, that is true; Bush sent two detainees back to Yemeni and now Obama wants to send a hundred back. What is wrong with this picture?
I myself, being an expert at riding dead horses, have realized that after three or four days in the sun, the horse will blot. Then you can drag it to the nearest body of water and it will float for a long, long, long time.
The Obama administration has been riding the dead horse for a year but come spring the carcass will thaw-out and stink to high heaven. As the old saying goes, if you ride a dead horse you will smell like a dead horse.
President Obama, as a fellow dead horse equestrian myself I beseech you, get off of the dead horse, it is beneath your station as Leader of The Free World to continue to ride that dead horse any longer.
Bill Thresher: Founding member and President of The Wichita Dead Horse-Equestrian Society
The Tea Party Nation: the numbers are in, over four million strong and growing.
January of 2009, the first Tea Party rallies began the number count was only 568 nationwide. Our numbers have grown expeditiously throughout the past eleven months. So far, this year over four million have attended the rallies throughout the US and the numbers are still growing. By the election in November 2010, we will be unstoppable.
The attendance numbers for the past eleven months are as follows:
January - 568
February - 18,578
March - 59,655
April - 1,349,921
on April 15, the attendance numbers were 1,207,251
May - 11,181
June - 110,962
July - 557,945
on July 1 to the 4, the attendance numbers were 448,451
August - 411,888
September - 1,822,038
on September 11, the attendance numbers were 1,822,038
October - 128,766
November - 143,816
Overall attendance for the year was 4,146,311.
Now I ask you the question, are we, or are we not, a force to be reckoned with? What are the liberals going to say about this one? I think we know.
To our so-called representatives in Washington: The Tea Party in growing faster than, the plague of Locus that swarmed Egypt in the Bible. Your party on Capitol Hill is over! Americans across this great country have awakened, and went to the open window and yelled with one resounding voice. “WE’RE MAD AS HELL AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE”. Our train is coming and if you are not on board, than you’re on the tracks. Remember when you go back to work in January, this will be the last year that you serve as our elected officials. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear, on your way out of Washington. Need I say more?
I would like to thank Frank Ross for the time he put in researching and compiling the data on the attendance of The Tea Party rallies. Frank has spent the last 9 months locating organizers for each, and every Tea Party that he could find. One by one, he emailed and called each one of them to get firsthand accounts of the attendee at the rallies. As of now, Frank still has over 2000 events that he has not been able to get actual numbers on. The four million count is actually much lower than it should be. If Frank Ross has not contacted your organization on your Tea Party rally, please contact us at robert.grassroots@gmail.com and we will put you in contact with him so he can get your information. Without Franks diligent work, this article would not have possible, Hats off to Frank.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas: One of the millions of Locus headed for Washington!
NOTE: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”. Quite from the 1976 movie Network
The attendance numbers for the past eleven months are as follows:
January - 568
February - 18,578
March - 59,655
April - 1,349,921
on April 15, the attendance numbers were 1,207,251
May - 11,181
June - 110,962
July - 557,945
on July 1 to the 4, the attendance numbers were 448,451
August - 411,888
September - 1,822,038
on September 11, the attendance numbers were 1,822,038
October - 128,766
November - 143,816
Overall attendance for the year was 4,146,311.
Now I ask you the question, are we, or are we not, a force to be reckoned with? What are the liberals going to say about this one? I think we know.
To our so-called representatives in Washington: The Tea Party in growing faster than, the plague of Locus that swarmed Egypt in the Bible. Your party on Capitol Hill is over! Americans across this great country have awakened, and went to the open window and yelled with one resounding voice. “WE’RE MAD AS HELL AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE”. Our train is coming and if you are not on board, than you’re on the tracks. Remember when you go back to work in January, this will be the last year that you serve as our elected officials. Don’t let the door hit you in the rear, on your way out of Washington. Need I say more?
I would like to thank Frank Ross for the time he put in researching and compiling the data on the attendance of The Tea Party rallies. Frank has spent the last 9 months locating organizers for each, and every Tea Party that he could find. One by one, he emailed and called each one of them to get firsthand accounts of the attendee at the rallies. As of now, Frank still has over 2000 events that he has not been able to get actual numbers on. The four million count is actually much lower than it should be. If Frank Ross has not contacted your organization on your Tea Party rally, please contact us at robert.grassroots@gmail.com and we will put you in contact with him so he can get your information. Without Franks diligent work, this article would not have possible, Hats off to Frank.
Bill Thresher Wichita, Kansas: One of the millions of Locus headed for Washington!
NOTE: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore”. Quite from the 1976 movie Network
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