Barack Obama is stuck on his failed jobs bill. Today, he came out and tried to sell his method for “paying” for the jobs bill’s costs. The centerpiece of the method to pay for the cost is a “millionaire’s tax”. This tax will be a minimum tax put on people who earn a million dollars or more per year. Obama has either forgotten or never known that these are the people who run our small businesses. These people employ most of the people in this country. They are the people we will have to rely on if we are going to get out of this recession and lack of jobs. Putting another tax on them will do nothing to improve the jobs situation and will undoubtedly make things worse.

Obama thinks that the government creates jobs. To him, every government job created is a true job. Every private sector job is one that needs to be changed to a public sector job. If he does not believe that, his actions are those of someone who does believe that. In other words, if he wanted to turn all the jobs in the country to government jobs, he would do nothing different than what he has already done to turn all jobs into government jobs.

On KFYI this morning, Barry Young interviewed Ann Coulter. Ann Coulter is my favorite blonde bombshell. She tells it like it is and does not care if you like it or not. Her response to Obama’s talk was to ask the question, “What happened to the last trillion dollars we gave you to create jobs?” That is a great question. The last trillion dollar stimulus bill was to create “shovel-ready” jobs. Since the stimulus was passed, we have lost about a million jobs. So much for the stimulus money creating the jobs it was supposed to do. We are worse off today because of the stimulus than we were before the stimulus was passed. This bill is nearly identical to the last stimulus bill, except for the numbers. The last one was primarily spent to prop up state governments and other union jobs. This bill is designed to do exactly the same thing. The last bill did not solve any problems. The bill just kicked the problems down the road a bit. This bill will not solve any problems. It will just kick those problems down the road a year or so.

Obama and his economic advisors have admitted at various times that they have no idea why the economy is acting like it is. They have been wrong every time they have made a prediction. With a track record like that it sure makes it difficult to believe that these same economists got it right this time. I would rather trust economists that predicted what would happen if we passed the stimulus bill and got it right. They are saying that if we pass this stimulus bill that the same thing will happen this time as happened last time. In other words, unions will get pensions and benefits covered for about another year or so and no jobs will get created. In fact, the likelihood is that there will be less American jobs after one year than there are today. Translating that into English, if we pass this jobs bill like Obama wants, we can expect to be in a deeper recession/depression in a year. Now, that would help the Republican running for President, but I am for helping the average American, not the Republican Party. I want America to win, even if it means that more people will vote for Obama. Passing this “non-jobs bill” would be a disaster for America and so it should be defeated. There might be something in the bill that could be gleaned off and passed, but I have not heard it yet.

Right now, the best thing for America is to oppose everything that Obama wants. This will insure that Americans get jobs and the economy recovers. Unfortunately for America, nothing that Obama opposes will see the light of day, due to the veto pen. So, we suffer in silence and vocally until November 2012. Then, we get to voice our opinion in an unmistakable fashion. I can hardly wait.

Yesterday, Michelle Obama had one of her events that are targeting what people eat. She held the event at a Darden Restaurant in Washington, D.C. At the event, Darden Restaurants announced that they will no longer provide French Fries with children’s meals. They will also reduce sodium levels in the food over the next 10 years. Some Darden Restaurants are on my favorite lists, most notably, Red Lobster and Olive Garden. These announcements will have the effect that I will go to these restaurants less than I have in the past.

One has to ask the question, why is Darden Restaurant making this change that will undoubtedly have an impact on how many people bring children to their restaurant chain? Recently, Darden Restaurants were granted an Obamacare waiver. That will save Darden Restaurants a ton of money. The amount of money saved by the Obamacare waiver will far outstrip the loss in business due to not providing things their customers want. My question is, when Obamacare is determined to be unconstitutional, will Darden Restaurant's follow-through with their commitment? I would think that they will not, as they would then be in for a financial bath. They would not want a financial bath during these tough financial times.

One has to also ask the question, why are French Fries on the menu in the first place? The answer is that kids like French Fries. Parents want their kids to eat the meals they order. So, with French Fries on the menu, parents know that the probability of the kids eating the meal goes up. With Darden’s new vegetable policy, the probability of the kids eating the meal goes way down. If my kids are not going to eat a meal at a particular restaurant, I am less likely to go there. Now, they may still not eat the meal provided, but at least the probability is there that they will eat the meal provided. We are raising 3 and 4 year old grandsons. What they will and will not eat determines a big part of where we go to eat. Sometimes our grown kids will watch them, so we get to go where we want. But that does not happen very often.

The Obama administration knows that Obamacare is a killer financially for any company. They hold out the carrot of an Obamacare waiver to get companies to do things that are not in the best interests of the company. The example of Darden Restaurants is a perfect example of that in action. Unions were all in favor of Obamacare, yet unions were first in line to get the Obamacare waivers. That makes non-union businesses less viable because of the huge financial burden of Obamacare.

Government intrusion into all aspects of our lives has to stop. We used to be the “Land of the Free”. We still sing about being the “Land of the Free”. We still believe we are the “Land of the Free”. Yet, we are no longer the “Land of the Free”. We are living in a socialist state that monitors every aspect of our lives from cradle to grave. The socialist state that monitors all aspects of our lives is killing our economy. We need to rid ourselves of the intrusions into our freedoms. We need to elect people who value freedom and liberty. The two special elections this week is a big step in the right direction. Electing just any Republican is not the answer. The Republican governor of Michigan just announced that all children will be weighed when they go to the doctor. That weight information will be sent to the state. That is not someone who values freedom. That Republican governor is really a RINO governor. Be careful who you vote for that the person truly believes in freedom and our Republic. If they believe we live in a Democracy, steer clear of them. They are really a socialist in a Republican coat.

The Cherokee Nation decided last week that they were no longer going to carry blacks on their books. So, they sent out a letter to all black members that they will be terminated from the Cherokee Nation rolls. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) heard of this action and sent a stern message to the Cherokee Nation telling them that their upcoming election will not be recognized by the BIA if they do not reinstate the black members. That is where things stand right now.

First a little history to give some perspective to this incident: The Cherokee Nation was located in North Carolina and Georgia originally. When the colonists came here, the Cherokee Nation originally tried to fight. Finding that fighting was not a good idea, the Cherokee Nation decided to adopt the ways of the white settlers. Many Cherokee Indians became wealthy landowners and had large plantations. With the large plantations came black slaves, just like the large plantations owned by whites in the area. Yes, Indians owned black slaves in pre-Civil War days. When the Civil War occurred, the Cherokee Nation aligned itself with the South. Since by that time most of the tribe was in Oklahoma, due to Andrew Jackson and the Trail of Tears, the Cherokee soldiers that fought for the South usually fought in the west.

After the Civil War, the tribe was forced to sign an agreement to assimilate the freed blacks as members. According to the treaty, the freed blacks became citizens through the tribe. That is the way it has been since the treaty was signed in 1866. Right now there are only about 2800 of the “freed blacks” as members of the Cherokee Nation. Removing the blacks from the rolls of the Cherokee Nation will also make the 2800 blacks non-citizens. The Cherokee Nation is one of, if not the, largest Indian tribes in the country. This fight is over an extremely small portion of the tribal population.

The tribe is supposed to be a “sovereign nation” within the United States. As a sovereign nation, it should be able to make the rules it wishes to live under. The reality of the situation is that this sovereign nation business is just window dressing. The tribe is really just a ward of the federal government. The BIA is really the ruling entity in tribal affairs. If the BIA agrees with the activities of the tribe, the tribe can do what it wants. If the BIA objects, the tribe is expected to bow down and make the changes necessary to keep the BIA happy. At least that is how it appeared when I worked with the Apache and Gila tribes here in Arizona.

What I expect to happen is for the tribe to bow down to the power of the BIA and readmit the blacks into full membership with the tribe. They might make some special provision so that the freed blacks are not equal to the actual Cherokee members, but that remains to be seen. As things stand, the blacks are not citizens of the country as they are not members of the tribe. The citizenship of the blacks will need to be resolved before the situation can end. Either the federal government will have to pass legislation to make the blacks citizens or the tribe will have to have them on the rolls as members. These blacks were born in the country and many have even served in the military. They deserve citizenship one way or the other. You cannot leave the situation as it currently stands, where they are in limbo.

Not being close to the situation, I am not sure the motivation behind the Cherokee’s move. Something must have started this situation, because it would not have happened out of the blue. Not knowing that bit of information puts me at a loss to determine how the situation will eventually play out. The federal government wants them on the rolls of the tribe as they have been since 1866. The tribe wants them off for some reason. I suspect that the reason has to do with money from the casinos. My guess is that the power of the federal government will be too much for the tribe to resist. The tribe will bow to political pressure and readmit the blacks. At least that is my guess without having all the facts.

Yesterday there was a referendum on the Obama administration. Two special elections were held to fill House seats that were vacant. They were in NY-09 and NV-02. NY-09 became vacant when Anthony Weiner resigned over his sexting scandal. NV-02 became vacant when the person occupying that seat was appointed to fill the Senate seat from Nevada after John Ensign resigned.

To say that NY-09 was a “safe” Democrat seat is an understatement. The district had not elected a Republican since 1922. About 40% of the district is Jewish and most of the rest is heavily Democrat. The district’s voter registration is 3-1 Democrat. But, Obama only carried the district in 2008 by 11%. The Jewish voters in the district are becoming distressed over Obama’s stance on Israel. The Democrat candidate was an Orthodox Jew who had tons of political experience in other levels of government. The Republican candidate was a political newcomer and businessman. The Democrats were anxious to secure this victory so they put lots of money into the race. They sent in the big artillery, like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to secure all the votes possible. The Republican was outspent, but kept up the drum beat that Barack Obama was running us into the sewer. In the end, the message defeated the money and prestige. The Republican won with approximately a 53-46% lead. That is significant considering how many obstacles he had to overcome.

In Nevada, the job to secure the victory was much easier, though not without its difficulty. The district had been trending Democrat over the last couple elections. Harry Reid saw it as an opportunity to pick up a House seat, so he poured lots of his money and time into the race. Harry Reid is a big power broker in Nevada, so that counts for a lot. The district covers a lot of territory, but not many people. It touches both Las Vegas and Reno, in order to pick up the number of people necessary to get enough voters. But, it basically covers the northeast corner of Nevada, encompassing about 80%+ of the state. The district had been represented by a Republican. In the end, the Democrat money and effort failed and the Republican won by a 58-36% margin.

Both campaigns from the Republican standpoint were very similar. They both targeted Barack Obama as their main target. They made the Democrat candidate defend the record that Obama is racking up in Washington. In the end, the Democrat could not defend the record to the satisfaction of the voters in those two districts.

Today, Democrat leaders are saying that the votes in these two districts are not representative of the mood of the country. I beg to differ. I believe that the voters in these two districts perfectly match the mood of the country. Democrat office holders better learn their lesson from these elections. You cannot defend Barack Obama or his policies. If you voted for his policies, you are going to be road kill in the next election. Voters are upset with the direction this country is going and no amount of storytelling is going to get them to believe that a pig is a horse. Voters are more informed on the issues of the day than at any time in my life. That is a good thing because it will be difficult for any politician to lie to the public and get away with it. You Tube has been great in informing the public when politicians are telling stories.

Are these two special elections a harbinger of what is to come in November 2012? Maybe they are. The reason I cannot be definitive is that a week is a lifetime in politics. Events can change things on a dime. If the November 2012 election were held today, there would be little chance that Obama would be re-elected. The problem is that the election is about 14 months away. A lot can happen in that time to change things. One thing is clear from these two special elections, the Democrat smear machine is less effective than at any time in my life. That is a great development. That is because an informed public is less likely to believe the lies spread by the Democrat smear machine.

Last week, our Fearless Leader feted us to a talk about “Jobs”. In the talk, he told us that the bill had to be passed about 17 times. At that time, there was no bill. The bill has now been introduced and the details are coming out. First and foremost, this is not a “Jobs” bill. At least, it is not a “Jobs” bill for the United States. It is a “Jobs” bill for unions. The bill should be renamed Union Jobs Bill. Then we would really know what is in the bill.

The bill is $447 Billion. None of the money goes to help the people that create jobs in this country. All of it goes to government union contracts. That will boost employment for the government sector for a few months, but not the overall economy at all, ever. The stock market took one look at the “Jobs“  bill and went down about 300 points. They are the people that actually create jobs, so their interpretation is pretty important. If the people buying and selling on the stock market think it is a bad idea, it is a bad idea.

Liberal economists, who are always wrong when it comes to the economy, are saying that this is a great bill that will increase employment in the country. Given their track record, I would tend to bet against their analysis, rather than with it. If I bet against liberal economists, I would be money ahead almost every time. That is, if I had the money to invest. Sadly, the great Obama economy has sucked away most of my investing capacity as it has everyone else’s as well.

Conservative economists like Thomas Sowell have looked at this bill and say that it does nothing for the economy. It will spend $447 Billion and have nothing to show for it when you are done. This is really a redo of all the previous stimulus bills. They all ended in massive failure. This bill is doomed for failure, if it should ever see the light of day.

In the out years (those after the November 2012 elections) Obama proposes raising taxes on the “rich”. The rich are those that have a job and actually make money. Since the “rich” are evil, they have not been paying their “fair share” of the tax burden. The top 10% pays about 75% of the taxes right now. How much is their “fair share”? Over half of the people in the country do not pay any taxes at all. That is unsustainable. If you do not have a “stake” in the country by paying some taxes, you have no interest in saving the country. You will then vote to get more “goodies” from the Treasury. That cannot last. When it comes crashing down, everyone will be blamed except those who actually did the damage. The people who did the damage are the Democrat politicians, and the Republican politicians who went along, who voted to remove people from the tax rolls. Democrats did it to win votes. Republicans did it to appear “fair”. Both are wrong.

The stimulus bill that cannot be called a stimulus bill is a disaster in the making. If Congress is stupid enough to pass the bill, we deserve whatever evil comes from it. Congress knows that the bill will do no good. Democrats are for the bill because it pays off their main contributors, the unions. Republicans are generally against the bill because of politics, not what is right and wrong. Ethics is seemingly a thing of the past in politicians.

The best thing that could happen to this bill is for it to come crashing to earth. It deserves to fail. It spends too much money and plans to reap so little. The best plan would be to reduce government and get out of the way. That would bring the economy roaring back. But, it will never happen with a Democrat in the White House and a Democrat controlled Senate.

Yesterday was the 10^th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. Most of the activities over the weekend were politically correct. They were politically correct because they were run by Democrats. Democrats are afraid of offending anyone, so they offend everyone. They kept repeating that we should never forget, but they never got around to saying what we should never forget. From what was said, we should never forget we lost about 3,000 of our fellow Americans on September 11, 2001. That is about all they say we should not forget. They say absolutely nothing about who caused the events of September 11. We should never forget that as well.

I watched a video from MRC this morning with my 3 and 4 year old grandsons. It gave news reports from September 11 and 12, 2001 when we were all united. The events shown were riveting. My grandsons are just old enough to understand that people died in the Twin Towers that day. They saw the planes hit the towers and said, “Somebody died in there, didn’t they, Papa?” That was quite a bit of understanding for someone so young. My twelve year old granddaughter just remembers the commotion of that day. She was only 2 and so does not remember much about what happened.

I will never forget that morning. I was working on the computer like usual. My son Mike was watching TV in the living room before school. He shouted to me to turn on the TV in my room. I asked him why and he said an airplane hit a building. I turned on the TV in time to see the second plane hit the Tower. From then on the TV or radio was on all day. The news reports were riveting and scary. I had to teach a class that night at my community college. I went to class and all anyone wanted to talk about was the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. So, we talked about that instead of having our regular Biology class. That was probably better for their psyche than any instruction in Biology would have been. We did not solve anything, but I think it made some of them feel better.

I was amazed at the outpouring of patriotism that occurred after 9/11. Flags were everywhere. You could not drive down a street without seeing a flag on almost every house. Now, you hardly see a flag flying on any house. Flags were on every car. Now flags are rarely seen on any car. Politics was forgotten for about a month after 9/11. Then petty squabbles started up again. Now, the political divide between left and right is bigger than I ever remember.

The selfless acts of heroism that occurred on 9/11 are inspiring. The people on flight 93 who gave their lives to stop the terrorists from using that plane as an additional weapon was particularly inspiring. I would like to think that I would have been one of those fighting to take back the plane from the hijackers, but I will never know. I do know that my ability to fight back now is much less than it was on 9/11/01. The firefighters who went up the Twin Towers to save people when the towers were in danger spoke of unimaginable bravery. How can someone be so brave when they know that time is just about up? That is a question I have asked myself over and over again throughout my life. You never know what you will do until you are faced with something similar. I know because of my police training that when the situation gets particularly dangerous, time seems to slow down. The same thing probably was happening to those brave individuals as well. It does enable you to do fantastic things that you cannot imagine possible.

We should never forget what happened on 9/11. We should never forget who caused the events of 9/11. Until the situation is resolved like Pearl Harbor is resolved, we should never forget who caused the problem. I don’t mean hate them, I just mean remember who it was and hunt them down until they cease to be any danger to the world. Then, the situation would be resolved and the memorials that were held yesterday would be appropriate. Until then, hang the political correctness that will kill us. Remember the truth and it will make you free.

Last night Barack Obama gave his all-important speech on jobs. It can be summed up in just four words, “more of the same”. There was nothing in the talk that he has not said before. It was packaged slightly differently, but overall it was the same. He claimed that it would all be paid for. All of the spending comes right now and all of the paying for it happens after 2012. Translating that into English, all of the spending will happen, raising the deficit. All of the paying for it will not happen because it will be after the election and he will not need to pay for it any longer. But, that is typical for any Democrat. They promise that if you do something now, they will do something later. You do the something now and they never seem to get around to what they promised. As a result, you are left holding a bag of excrement and the Democrats get re-elected calling you names.

Getting the economy moving would not take much effort from our elected Representatives or from the White House. What they all need to do can be summed up with the statement, “get out of the way”. The problem we have in this country is that we have too much government and too much government intrusion into our daily lives. If the government pulled back the economy would take off proportional to how far the government pulled back. If government pulled back to where they are supposed to be, the US economy would be on fire and everyone would have a job. The only ones out of work would be those unable to work due to illness and injury. Everyone else would be employed. The government income from taxes would be much higher than it is today because everyone would be a taxpayer instead of a leech. Anything less than a full pullback would mean less growth in the economy.

In a seemingly non-related story, the solar company that Barack Obama picked as the example of what he has been talking about for “Green Energy” went belly up yesterday. They received $500 million a short time ago and are now declaring bankruptcy. They were raided by the FBI yesterday and had their books and computers confiscated. This sounds like someone saw an opportunity to get a huge sum of “free” money and they took it. I expect indictments to come out in a couple of weeks for the owners/managers of the company.

The stock market in its ever reliable response to speeches by Barack Obama started 150 points lower this morning. Every time Barack Obama talks, the stock market tanks. That is a reliable indicator lately. If anyone had confidence in Obama, the stock market would react favorably when Obama made one of his speeches. Since he has lost the confidence of the American people, this is the kind of response you would expect. The problem Obama has is that nobody believes that he can do anything he says he can or will do. Congress is balking at everything he proposes. The American people are balking at everything he proposes. Everyone is still upset over the implementation of Obamacare. There is a crisis of confidence that will be difficult, if not impossible, for Obama to regain. His problem is that he talks big and proposes solutions that everyone knows will not work. His only hope to regain some lost confidence is to renounce the failed policies of the past and start on the free-market ideas that would insure success. The problem is that Obama is a dedicated socialist and cannot renounce socialism. His only solution to any problem is to introduce more socialism. Since almost every American knows that more socialism will only aggravate the situation, we don’t believe anything he says. I don’t think he can recover between now and the election. I could be wrong, but I see no signs of him recovering any time soon.

This evening, Barack Obama will go to Congress and propose more of the same to get us out of the mess that the original same got us into. If that is confusing you are not alone. Albert Einstein defined mental illness as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Barack Obama has a mental illness using Albert Einstein’s definition. The original stimulus did not work. The follow-up stimulus did not work and this stimulus will not work. We are more in debt that ever and the economy is basically stopped. What about that scenario does Obama not understand?

What he does not understand is how to get us out of the trouble our economy is in right now. He can only see the situation as a committed socialist. Using the socialist model, all of the stimulus programs should have been wildly successful. That they have been abject failures is a complete bewilderment to Obama. So, he figures that one more time will do the trick.

Fixing the economy is really rather simple. But, to fix the economy you have to give up some government power. That is extremely hard for a committed socialist like Obama. It is also difficult for the Democrat socialist party and even most in the Republican Party. For a Congressman to give up power means that they are less important to society.

Congress has a role to play in our Constitutional Republic. When they play within the boundary that the Constitution has set out, the economy runs on steroids. When the Congress decides that they want to be more important than the Constitution, the economy tanks and people are unemployed. The further outside the box the Congress goes determines the number of unemployed in this country.

The simple solution to our complex problem is to simplify the tax code. Everyone should pay some taxes in order to have a stake in the country. Right now about half of the people in the country do not pay taxes. They can vote to tax the living daylights out of the people who pay taxes and we cannot stop them. That means higher unemployment and a total disaster for the country.

The next thing that the government needs to do is to reduce the regulations that govern business. Too much of a company’s current time is spent meeting government regulations and not earning income. Some regulation is necessary to insure safety. A lot of regulation is not necessary. Most businesses will end up self-regulating because the market will determine what works and what does not.

The third thing is for Congress to repeal any law that is obviously unconstitutional. The first unconstitutional law that is destroying job growth right now is Obamacare. Get rid of Obamacare and you will see job growth skyrocket, even with all the other onerous regulations that are in place. Congress should go through the laws and repeal any law that is not specifically authorized by the Constitution.

The chances of any of my proposals making it into law are next to zero. Republicans and Democrats love power too much to relinquish it in order to save the country. That is a shame, because we would all be better off if they did. By all, I also mean Congress.

Tonight’s speech by Barack Obama will be one to miss. He will not say anything he has not said before. His stimulus plan is a loser from the start. It will not work and it costs too much. People would be much better served by tuning in the pre-game programs for the NFL game between the Packers and the Saints.

According to the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, Barack Obama did not hear the remarks by Jimmy Hoffa at the event on Monday. Since he did not hear the remarks, he feels like he does not need to disavow them. That is like saying that if I did not hear it, the event did not happen.

The remarks were made. Every news show in the country on TV and Radio has played the Jimmy Hoffa remarks endlessly. There is no getting away from the fact that the remarks were made. The idea that the union thugs are going to “take out” the conservatives in this country is chilling. In slang terms, to “take out” means to kill or get rid of. That is not the same as defeating in elections. Defeating someone in an election is not “taking out” someone. That is defeating them. To take someone out means to destroy them.

Barack Obama is trying to hide behind semantics in order to not anger the unions. He has been in their back pocket since he was elected. He knows that if he is going to be re-elected he has to have the unions support him at least at the 100% level or higher. If he says anything that the unions do not like, they might not support him 100% and he will lose. He probably will still lose, even with the union support. But without the union support he has no chance of being re-elected. That is why he will not condemn Jimmy Hoffa for obviously offensive remarks.

The worst thing about the Jimmy Hoffa remarks is that he means them. He also has the ability to carry them out. The Teamsters Union, led by Jimmy Hoffa, is probably the worst or one of the worst at provoking union violence. That means if he is talking violence against conservatives, he probably will institute programs designed to intimidate or harm conservatives. It wouldn’t take too many beatings before people would be afraid to be a conservative and the unions would control the ballot box.

The other thing that the unions are trying to do is get the Middle Class and the conservatives to overreact to their over-the-top rhetoric. If we react in kind, they can point to us and claim that we are the bad guys. If it continues to only be union thugs that use violent rhetoric, they will be exposed as the thugs they are.

During the Weimar Republic, conditions were very similar to what they are in the United States today. One thing that happened to the Weimar Republic is that the communists and national socialists formed their thug groups and started street fights. People did not understand what was happening and wanted these thug fights to stop. The public called for more order and voted in politicians who promised more order. They ended up voting in the very people that were inciting the violence in the first place. The national socialists (NAZI’s) won the election and the Weimar Republic in Germany came to an end. The thugs are hoping for a similar reaction from the public in this situation. They want us to call for more order from all the violence that is taking place. They hope that they have enough communist/national socialist politicians in office to control the inevitable instability when you try and control the mobs. If they have enough communist/national socialists in office the Republic in the United States could fall. If we keep informed and do not overreact like the Germans did, we will be just fine. We just have to keep clear thinking in the face of thugs and violence. It calls for bravery from the public like we have not seen in this country for more than a generation. Let us hope that there is enough bravery to face down this onslaught of thuggery.

Yesterday at a Presidential speech, Jimmy Hoffa made reference to the Tea Party and those that support any Tea Party ideas in terms that are unacceptable in this medium. He said that we were at war and that the “workers” were going to win that war. This was all in an introduction of Barack Obama to give a speech in regard to Labor Day.

When Barack Obama took the podium, he acknowledged Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks and did not disavow their vitriolic nature. On the Today Show this morning, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz also did not disavow the vitriolic nature of Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks. In fact, as of this writing, the White House and the Democrat Party have not remarked at all on Jimmy Hoffa’s comments. Their silence is considered approval of the intent and the nature of the comments.

After the shooting in January of Gabrielle Giffords, the left was beside themselves on how people need to be more civil in their remarks in public. If people use bad language or explosive talk, you might get a crazy person to act on those words and cause more killings. Within a few days of the shootings, the left was back using very bad language to describe the conservatives in this country. The reason for that is that the left views the right as “evil”. Anything you say against “evil” is acceptable and in keeping with civility. The right views the left as wrong and uses terms to try and persuade the left to change their mind. That is why talk from the right is never as vitriolic as from the left, because we are dealing with people that are incorrect. They are dealing with “evil”.

If you listen to the unions, Democrats or anyone in the current administration, you would think that the only people that do any work in this country are union workers. According to them, non-union people do not do any work or if they work it is stealing it from a union worker. That accounts for a large part of Jimmy Hoffa’s remarks. Also, unions are in a real bind right now. The amount of union workers in the private sector is going down each year. Union workers in the public sector are growing, for now. Many states, counties and cities are putting restrictions on union contracts that will make it less attractive to give to a union. That will cut into the power of the unions. They see that coming and are trying to put the day of reckoning off as long as possible.

In a related note, the Post Office is in severe financial trouble. If drastic action is not taken right now, the Post Office might have to close its doors as soon as this winter or spring. If you look at their finances, you can see the problem staring you in the face. The problem is the union contract they have. If you put the Post Office on a level playing field with private companies that do not have union contracts, they would be able to compete. The union contract is destroying the Post Office. You can go to any company or government agency and see the same scenario playing out over and over. Union contracts are destroying the thing that is paying their wages. Unions cannot see this problem because they are the cause. Governments are just now waking up to the problem. Companies woke up to that problem about 20-25 years ago. Union representation has been going down for at least that long in private business. If you look at any so-called private company with a union contract and I will show you a company on a one way path to destruction.

None of this is excusing Jimmy Hoffa for what he said. That the White House and the Democrat Party want to stand behind such rhetoric is reprehensible. It tells us a lot about who is running the show in the White House and the Democrat Party when such boorish behavior goes unpunished. If the White House or the Democrat Party condemned Jimmy Hoffa for his comments, they could kiss the 2012 elections good-bye. They need union money to get re-elected. So, the unions basically have a blank check with the White House and the Democrats through at least 2012.

To sum up the opinion that the Obama administration has for private business, we need go no further than the raid last week by the Fish and Wildlife Service on the Gibson Guitar company. The Gibson Guitar Company was accused of using wood from an illegal source in their guitars. So, the government raided the company and took many guitars and basically closed the place down.

What is completely ironic about this entire affair is that the greenest company in the country is the Gibson Guitar Company. They belong to a large number far left leaning environmental wacko groups. They get all their foreign wood from approved vendors. They go out of their way to comply with every federal law on the books. So why were they raided? That is a great question.

On Michael Savage last night, he proposed one possible scenario that does make a lot of sense. He suggested that the reason is that a competitor of Gibson Guitars complained and paid off the Obama administration to have them shut down Gibson. With the level of corruption in the Obama administration, such a scenario is perfectly plausible. We would now have to find out who has been giving money to Obama that also makes Guitars. If we find a guitar maker that is giving money to Obama, we have our culprit.

One other scenario is that the Gibson Guitar Company is not unionized. The Obama administration wants all companies to be unionized. Since the Gibson Guitar Company refuses to unionize, and the employees refuse to vote in a union, the Obama administration decided to pull a strong arm and force things. This would be similar to the protection racket run by Al Capone in Chicago. He would raid your place and offer to protect you from further raids if you paid him off. That appears to be what is going on here.

As a result of the Obama administration interfering with the Gibson Guitar Company in Memphis, TN, they are now exporting some of those jobs overseas to protect themselves. People are now losing their jobs in Tennessee because of the actions of the federal government. That sounds astounding to me, but it is true.

Then, today a jobs report came out for the past month and it reports that zero jobs were created. That has not happened since January 1945. Couple that with the report that the economy has a 54.5% rating and it shows we are in real trouble. An economic rating much less than 90% and we have big problems. President’s generally don’t get re-elected with economic ratings below 90%. All of this points to the fact that Obama is in big trouble for 2012. Most Presidents get re-elected based on the economy, not world affairs, the economy stinks. If the economy stinks, then the chances of Obama being re-elected stink as well. That is good news for America because he would bring down a large number of other Socialist/Democrats as well. Any time we can reduce that number, the country comes out ahead.

English is the language of the United States. That is, the language you use if you want to get ahead. If all you want to do is survive, you can speak just about anything. But, you have to pay the consequences of not speaking English and take the low wages and poor living conditions. That is how it has been since the United States was founded in 1776.

Now, you may criticize and say that my family has spoken English our entire lives and we do not understand. That is partially true. My father’s family has spoken the most current version of English for as long as there has been English. My mother’s family on the other hand had to deal with the decision to speak their native tongue in America or English. They chose English.

My mother’s mother came here from Norway when she was about 12 or 13. My mother’s father came here from Sweden when he was 17 or 18. Both spoke their native tongues fluently and English poorly when they got married. So, at home they spoke Norwegian. Norwegian and Swedish are so similar that if you speak one the other can understand. The difference is primarily in how they are written. My mother was the oldest child. Her parents used Norwegian as their language to use when they did not want her to know what they were saying. That worked until one day my mother responded in Norwegian. From that day forward, not a single word of Norwegian was used in the house. As a result, my mother spoke English. Now, I regret the loss of Norwegian as a family language, but I understand their reasoning. They wanted their daughter to have the greatest opportunity possible in the United States. They did not want language to be a barrier.

I teach at a community college with a lot of Hispanic students from various countries. Many times I have talked to them about how they are raising their children. I use my grandparents as an example of one way to do it. I also say that they should not lose the Spanish. Some are teaching their children Spanish exclusively at home. They say that they can learn English when they reach school. Others speak both English and Spanish in the home. My personal opinion is that speaking both languages helps the child learn both languages. One family had the father who was trying to learn Spanish and the mother trying to learn English. They decided that in the home, he would only speak Spanish and she would only speak English. That way they practiced their weak language and taught their child both. I thought that was a great solution to the problem. I had another friend that knew Japanese. They had Japanese day once each week where they only language spoken in the house that day was Japanese.

I think that when we make excuses for students and say they need to speak fractured English or another language instead of English, we are dooming them to a lower class life. If I was an employer and three people were coming in to interview for a position. One could speak only fractured English. One could only speak Spanish and one could speak proper English. I would hire the one that could speak proper English. That person would have shown that they had a good education and would be more likely to succeed in the position.

There is some controversy over who should be teaching English to our students. One group says that the teachers should be completely proficient in English with no fractured context. The other group says that the requirement for proper English is racially discriminatory. There is nothing racial about it. Anyone can learn to speak proper English. It is just a matter of being taught proper English by someone who knows what they are doing. One of the best English speakers on the planet is James Earl Jones. He is a black man. If he can speak proper English, any black person can speak proper English. The same goes for Hispanics. I had a great friend, Richard Lara, who spoke better English than I do. He was Hispanic and spoke only Spanish until he started school. People who make excuses for poor learning and teaching are just trying to lower the bar so everyone passes. We should raise the bar so only the best are rewarded.

Barack Obama says he is focused on creating jobs. To show how focused he is, he appointed a new Czar to help. The person he selected is from Academics, with no background in actually creating jobs in the private sector. In fact, this person is the one who thought up the cash for clunkers fiasco.

To pile on the idiocy of the appointment, Obama is set to announce more stimulus money in an attempt to get the economy going. Obama operates on the premise that if it fails the first time, do it again with more money and hope it works the second time. If it did not work last time, it is not going to work this time. Last time we wasted $800 Billion. This time we will waste more money and achieve absolutely nothing, if we are lucky. The last time unemployment increased. That would probably happen this time and we cannot afford more unemployment.

Barack Obama has no idea how to create a job that will stay around. Private sector jobs are the ones that get the economy rolling and stay around. Stimulus money might create government jobs in the short term, but not long term. Sooner or later, government money runs out. Private sector jobs can last many lifetimes before they need to be replaced, if they are done right.

The way to create jobs is really quite simple. What is holding back job creation right now is the uncertainty of future costs to the economy. Nobody knows how much Obamacare is going to cost. If you make more money, the government will just come in and take it. Both are incentives to sit on your money and not invest in growth.

To get the economy humming along at full capacity we have to get rid of the uncertainty in the market. First, get rid of Obamacare. That will insure that companies can plan for health care costs. Second, to lower health care costs nationwide, make health insurance portable across state lines. That will increase competition and lower costs. Third, lower taxes on the people that create the jobs. In fact, restructuring the entire tax code would help everyone. People that have a stake in this country want to see it succeed. People that just get handouts don’t care who leads as long as the handouts keep coming. The tax code should be restructured so that almost everyone pays some taxes. It does not have to be much, just enough to get their attention. Then, people will care about the kind of government that we have again. I promise you this, if these measures are done, the economy will be booming within two years. There will be no way unemployment will be anywhere near even 7%. Unemployment will most likely be close to 5 or even 4% after this plan is implemented. Democrats would never vote for this because they finally got socialized medicine through Congress and if they started taxing everyone, they would not be re-elected.

While those steps would be ideal, we can start moving in that direction. The closer we get to that ideal, the faster our economy will move. The closer we stay to the socialist model we are using now; we will continue to have a depression or most likely a depression.

Anyone who knows history can develop a plan to get our economy moving again. Once our economy is moving again, we can start working on the debt. If we keep the cost of government below the amount we take in, eventually we will pay off the debt. It can be done, even with Democrat opposition. But you have to have the right people running the show. That is why the 2012 election is so critical. If we elect someone who can put us on the right path we can salvage our credit rating and have a rosy future. If we re-elect Barack Obama there will not be enough of America left to salvage in 2016.

What global warming hoax believers won’t do to make themselves feel important? Yesterday, two pseudo-scientists released a report that said that one in five people are disconnected from society because of the effects of global warming. I have heard a lot of poppycock in my time, but this ranks among the best. First, global warming is a hoax. Second, if people are feeling disconnected because of global warming, it has nothing to do with science.

Global warming is more of a religion than anything. Is there anything in science that asks if you believe it? The only things are evolution and global warming. Global warming is the obvious hoax. Evolution has many questions about it. People who believe in global warming and evolution are so insecure in their belief that they have to ask if people believe it. You don’t go around and ask if people believe in gravity. Gravity is a fact, like everything that is really science. Things in science are or are not. You don’t believe in them or not. You have to believe in them because they are real and demonstrated. Evolution and global warming come in as pseudo-science at best.

Evolution is something that is definitely true in the short term. It has been documented and observed. Evolution over the long-term is something that is questionable. That a single species changes over time is unquestioned. But, no-one has ever observed one species become another species. Even the finches of the Galapagos Islands are still finches, even if they do not act like them any longer. So, there is some science to back up evolution. The problem comes in trying to take what we know and applying it to the history of the world. We do not have enough evidence to prove that evolution is true.

Evolution breaks down the most when you try and explain how life began. There are scientific laws that say that life can only create life. In other words, something has to be alive to create life. If you put two rocks in a room and give them all the food, water and nutrients they need, after one year you still have two rocks. Put two rabbits of the opposite sex in that room with the same criteria and you have lots of rabbits after one year. That is what I mean by life creating life. Evolution tries to say that one time something not alive created something alive. That breaks too many hard scientific laws to be credible.

If you confine evolution to explaining how life changed over time, you can make a pretty good case that would be hard to defeat. When you take that case and try and explain how life began, your arguments for evolution get thrown out.

Global warming does not have even that bit of scientific background. There is absolutely no scientific evidence to show that global warming is occurring. The climate is always changing. The temperature is always going up or down. You cannot say that man caused it to do one or the other because it has always done that. The temperature has been higher than today. The temperature has been lower than today. Every part of the atmosphere has been higher or lower than it is today. If you had scientific data collected for a few thousand years, you might be able to build a case. We have only scientific data for the last 150 years that is anywhere near reliable and only the last 60 years could be considered reliable. That is too small of a data source to determine scientific validity.

In case anyone questions my analysis, I am a biologist. I worked for USDA for 20 years and have taught biology for the past 11 years. I do know what I am talking about. No, I am not some top level scientist with lots of research experience. I am just one of those that has to apply all the knowledge that those research scientists put out. I am the boots on the ground type of scientist, not some pointy headed think tank type. I have to put all their knowledge into a framework that makes sense in the real world. They only have to make sense in their isolated ivory tower. If it does not work on the ground, I am not credible. For the pointy-headed intellectual, it does not matter if what they say works or even makes sense. Just that they said it is all that counts.

We are raising a nation of wimps. Hurricane Irene was not as big as advertised. That has been the case for about the last 10 years with hurricanes. But, ever since Katrina, the news media builds up hurricanes as if they will be worse than Katrina. Then, when it is far less than Katrina, they don’t say anything.

To hear the news media and the government, you would have thought that there was at least one category 5 hurricane coming, if not two. No, Irene was only a category 1 hurricane. A category 1 hurricane is still nothing to play around with, but it is nothing compared to a category 5. The damage it caused was extensive, but less than it could have been. Everybody made sure that nobody could accuse the news media or any level of government for not being ready this time. In the aftermath, we are left with the question as to why the frenzy?

When you add the overreaction to Irene with the overreaction to the moderate earthquake that hit Virginia, you wonder what is going on in Washington and New York. California and the west shrugs off earthquakes like the one that hit Virginia like they were almost nothing. The east acts as if they have never heard of an earthquake before. Florida shrugs off category one hurricanes as if they were nothing. Washington and New York get hysterical.

We need some leadership in Washington and various other locations that are willing to stand up and be counted. We cannot have a government that overreacts to every “potential disaster” that comes along. If they do that, when a real disaster is imminent, people will tend to disregard the warning. You can only overreact to things so many times before people figure out that you overreact to everything. Then, when a real disaster stares you in the face they will disregard your warning as nothing. You have to be careful how you deal with things like that. One time or even two, people will still believe you. But if the trend continues we will have a potential disaster on our hands that will dwarf Katrina by a large margin. People will disregard the warnings because of all these false alarms.

I realize that there was the potential that Irene could have grown in strength to a category 2 or even 3 storm; but what were the real odds of that? It was thought better to overreact to the potential so that there was no Katrina moment on everyone’s mind going into 2012. But, this is just another in a seeming long line of overreactions to potential disasters. Sooner or later people are going to stop believing the warnings and stay put. Then, when the real disaster hits the “experts” can say they warned us. That might be true, but they would have had this long series of overreactions leading up to the “correct” prediction.

For example, the hurricane experts predicted that the last three seasons would be worse than average for hurricanes. No hurricanes hit the United States during the last three years. With that kind of batting average, I did not believe the early predictions on Irene, either. We need experts that actually believe in science instead of this hoax called global warming. Global warming has clouded their ability to make accurate predictions over the past few years. Anyone with knowledge of real science would have made more accurate predictions than the so called “experts”.