We Need Politicians Like Daniel Hannan

This is how I expected my representatives to act when we (Americans) feel our leaders are going in the wrong direction. I applaud Mr. Hannan for speaking the truth and not sugar coding it. We need people in our government who can represent us like Mr. Hannan just did at the European Parliament.

Political Food For The Mind

At what point do our representatives start to listen to us? Who is supporting our government’s decisions? You tell me because this clearly shows people are not for what's going on.

Below is the President's Approval Index. The reason I’m showing this is not because I’m trying to bash on Obama. I’m simply showing this to show that as soon as the newness of this president wares off you will see the true opinions of the American people. The more this government speeds, keeps making foolish mistakes, and continues to not listen to the American people, you are going to see his numbers fall through the floor. At what point will the government start listen to the US people?

Here are a few other important numbers I looked at from Rasmussen.

Taxes Will Go Down
18%

Gov't Spending Will Go Up
72%

Congress: Excellent/Good
18%

The US is on the Wrong Track
59%

America's Best Days in Future
44%

Tax Increases Hurt Economy?
Yes - 51%
No - 23%

Tax Cuts Help Economy?
Yes - 63%
No - 13%

Pay More than Fair Share of Taxes?
Yes - 52%
No - 30%

Here is the link to the entire report. After looking at this I finally don't feel alone.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/scoreboards/by_the_numbers2/by_the_numbers

This Headline Say's It All

In the latest fallout over AIG's massive bonuses which the government failed to regulate, the house voted to use the tax code as a weapon.

Back on January 13th I went on a vent session and this is exactly what I said would happen. It's sad to see people approving our government’s mistakes. These guys (government) passed a bill that Chris Dodd added language about AIG and allowing their bonuses. Let me say that again….our government pass the stimulus bill and ALLOWED AIG to give out the bonuses. Why is this AIG’s fault? They should have never received the money in the first place and failed if it was over compensated and wrong. Back to Chris Dodd….he first lies and said he didn’t add any language to the stimulus package and 24 hours later says he did add the language. Now they (government) are feeling the heat so they once again point the finger at someone else and destroy innocent peoples lives. Literally, letting people put death threats on people and allowing it to happen? If they (government) would have never gotten involved in the private sector we wouldn't be talking about this. AIG would have filed chapter 11, restructured, and would probably be on their way out of their own mess by now. If not they would have failed and some other company would have bought them. This is exactly why the government should never get involved in any type of business. They (government) cannot manage themselves, how do you expect them to manage a business? You want these guys in charge of our health care, schools, and retirement…..??????

Watch the video below. At what point do you think AIG is responsible and should have the American people sending them death threats? Look at who's the real threat here. AIG or our government? I know the answer to this one, and I hope you do too. This is so black and white and easy to see what's going on. They (government) lied and act like it's nothing and will now pass bills to rob from people who had nothing to do with this bill. This is leading down a very bad road for all of us.

Now they have passed a bill to tax these bonuses, and again without thinking and in a hurry (just like every stimulus bill passed). Your liberty has just been knocked down another notch. I hope the government doesn’t think you make to much money because I guess they can pass a bill whenever they want and take all your money. No matter what mistakes they (government) have made they will never fall… they will only take you down.

Hold Your Elected Officials Accountable

I haven’t blogged in a while due to my extremely busy schedule and working hard to try and insure a future for my kids. At this point most of you are saying….here’s where he goes off on his little soap box. That’s not the case today. I have, as I’m sure you have, witnessed enough destruction to our country with our government thinking they know everything about business, and never having to be held responsible for any of their actions. We have all seen how our government can make deals WE THE PEOPLE don’t want, break contracts whenever they want, decided which laws they should and should not enforce, and so on. I have decided I’m going to continue to call my State and Federal officials but I’m going to tone down the blog. I ask all of you to please hold your representatives accountable for their decisions and actions. Do not just sit back and complain, but make a phone call, send an e-mail, or even write a letter.

I want to share with you a video. I ask you to please not alienate our country. This is an awesome place to live and a place where dreams can come true if you’re willing to work hard and make sacrifices. This country is ours not the governments. WE THE PEOPLE make this country what it is not the government. Good luck and God Bless America.

Just some photos of the family

Paige Finger Painting

Paige decided to do some finger painting the other day.

Flood Gate Has Been Opened

Our government can preach to you, me, and the private sector about how we all need to make cuts. But...they (government) do whatever they want, when ever they want. I don't understand all of this. These people think they are high and mighty. Laws, economic down turns, and ethical values I guess do not mean much to our government. This is absolutely absurd. You be the judge and decided if they deserve this. Remember it’s a $93,000 increase to their already large petty cash allowance.

Joaquin Phoenix Is So Out Of It!!!!!

Here is something to make you laugh today.

Skating The Blue Ridge Parkway

What a beautiful weekend for the outdoors. We had some snow and ice during the beginning of the week which closed down the parkway. Saturday and Sunday gave us 60+ degree weather and the parkway was still closed. What does that mean? It's skate time. I made 4 runs this weekend on the Parkway. I got Lyn to shuttle me up the dirt road that goes underneath the parkway and drop me off for my last run which was a lot less hiking. The only part I was a little concerned about was the tunnels. I used me light in motion helmet light and I was off. It was fantastic! Tons of fun. If the parkway is still closed this week I'll have to get Lyn to shuttle me up 151 to the back side of Mt. Pisgah. That should lend to a great ride down.

Claire Feeding The Cat A Dinner

Good Job America

Did you see the paper this morning? If not I have put a link below of an article from CNN this morning. You can make a difference if you voice your opinion. Thanks for helping keep our politicians in line. Good job Obama, but you need to keep moving forward and holding people accountable. Americans you deserve the pat on the back. Enough people felt this was wrong of our politicians and put the proper pressure on our leaders. Way to go! Keep up the good work. Obama, Timothy needs to go as well.


Obama: 'I screwed up' on Daschle appointment
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/04/obama.daschle/index.html

Hope And Change Is On It's Way?

Someone please help me understand all of this. Tom Daschle didn’t pay over $100,000 in taxes and also shorted taxes on health. This is the hope and change that was voted into the White House? If Obama was true to his word, he would ask for Tom and Timothy to step down. Remember…these are the people who want to raise your taxes, expect you to tighten your belt, be a true American patriot and work hard to get us through the recession. So why don’t these guys have to follow the laws and do as they preach? Why do we let this go? I was listening to a liberal radio show yesterday and they never mentioned any of this. All they where talking about was how bad Bush was. I know Bush made some big mistakes but this is hope and change? You cannot change if you always look backwards and blame things out of your control. What has happen ahs happen and Obama needs to stick to his word. These guys do not need any power in our government. They have cheated, stolen, and have been unfaithful to our country and us. If they don’t hold these people accountable they will continue to live above the law. This in my mind is a true picture of who our government (left or right) really is.

Another one of Obama’s nominees bits the dust. From the WSJ “Nancy Killefer, nominated by President Barack Obama to be the federal government's first chief performance officer, is withdrawing from the post, the White House said Tuesday.” She did not pay Unemployment taxes for over a 1 ½ years. If our politicians cannot figure out what taxes they need to pay (these are the people making the laws) don’t you think we need to be doing something different? Please don’t let these people live above the law.

Paige's First Time On Ice Skates

Lyn took Piage ice skating for the first time last Saturday. Paige had a lot of fun and talked about it all day.

The New Carveboard Rocked the Parkway

I hit the Parkway early last Sunday. It was awesome! All by myself hiking up some of the high elevation sections towards Mt. Pisgah. It was like surfing. It was so much different vs. the long board. I’ll be doing this again this coming weekend. The only down fall is the Carveboard is about 10lbs heavier.

Enough hiking...time to go down.
The view my board has on the way down.

Way To Go

Hot off the press. Citi has canceled their order to purchase the 50 million dollar jet. You can make a difference. They have plenty of jets in their fleet they can still use.

Our New Secretary of the Treasury

Congratulations Timothy and Obama. You have proven to Americans everywhere you can lie and cheat, and still get what you want. What roll models for Americans. You can cheat on your taxes, get caught, say it was an honest mistake, pay the bill, and become the Secretary of the Treasury who will over see the IRS. Even after the American people flooded the phone lines and e-mails to our representative saying don't hire this guy. I wonder if a pharmacist could get involved in giving controlled drugs out for free without prescriptions to friends and themselves, then get caught, say they are sorry, maybe pay a small fine, and become the head of the FDA? I guess according to our Gov. you can. Anything is possible no matter what you do.

What's Another $50M?

Remember my rant a few post ago about bailouts. Let me throw more frustration your way. So we (that's right you and me the beloved tax payers) have given Citi 45 Billion dollars over the last year to "help them out". So one year ago the company was valued at something in the neighborhood of 260 billion dollars and now (1 year later) is valued around 19 billion dollars. Let me do the quick math....so without our money Citi would be worth around -26 billion dollars. Yes, that's a negative number in front of the number 26. Does anyone in government understand when something is crashing as hard as Citi was and is, you cannot stop it? It has to hit the bottom first before you know what you’re dealing with. You need to invest money in companies that are getting ready to do well not failing. There is not enough money in the system to help companies like this. We have blown $45 billion dollars. Our kids are going to have to pay for this. Check this it. Just when you think the Wall Street folks have dropped to a new low the below article is released. Are you ready for this.... brand-new $50 million corporate jet. Go ahead ready the below article. http://www.nypost.com/seven/01262009/news/nationalnews/just_plane_despicable_152033.htm

If this doesn't throw you over the edge I have no idea what well. So once again who is to blame? The Gov. will probably blame the banks. As for myself I blame the Gov. (supposedly the smarts minds we have), for giving Citi the money. Once again remember the words, must act now, hurry....no time, if we don't do something now who knows what might happen? Remember all these things our Gov. was telling us?

Now they want to do another $825 billion dollars stimulus package. Why do they think speeding money will work? It does not work. Watch the below video of Nancy Pelosi. Family planning service is going to stimulate the economy? There is no mention of creating jobs to help stimulate the economy. Let's give more money to food stamps and unemployment? She should just say, you cannot do anything without the government, so don't worry about being successful or prosper to a higher livelihood, you should be happy you’re getting food on your table through food stamps.

I encourge you to watch the entire video on ABC

So Nancy thinks increasing funds for food stamps and unemployment is the answer. One other quick note. According to Nancy spending more money will "reduce cost"? What are you talking about? That's our Gov. at it's finest. Spend to save money. How about getting rid of programs that don't work and maybe you could fund ones that do. She also mentions she is not getting rid of the tax cuts. What? I thought tax cuts were bad? So what does this mean? A. Our Gov. is so proud they cannot admit when something works if it's not from their party or their plan. B. Our Gov. is so lame that when they know something isn’t working they won't do anything about it? C. Our Gov. has absolutely no financial responsibility and doesn't know what works and what doesn't.

I ask you who read my blog (all 5 of you) please do not let these people get a hold of our health care. They have almost taken over the banks and are making thing even worse. The Gov. doesn't have the answers, only hard working Americans like you do. Only through hard work will we keep this country afloat. There is no easy way out and I can guarantee you throwing money at everything will not work.

One more thing....if your looking into buying a house you will want to do it really soon. If you own a house make sure your on a good fixed rate mortgage, because rates in a few years will be at 10% or higher the way this is going.

Carve Board & Long Board

I have completed my arsenal of weapons for the parkway. These two boards are completely different from one another. The Carve is a slow moving board with inflatable wheels. It’s all about carving. It emulates surfing and a little like snowboarding.

The long board on the other hand is full of speed and pucker factors. Both have their spot in my collection, and both have their spot on the parkway.

More Photos Of The Kids