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Omnibus Gripes

Friday, October 17th, 2008

When congress passes a bill that covers many things they call it an omnibus bill.  I saved this document before I put a title on it and was afraid I had lost it.  Fortunately the software gave it a title, post # 298.  That wasn’t very descriptive so I changed it to something else undescriptive.

Palin envy – Katie Couric wore her hair in the Governor Palin style last night at the annual Afred E. Smith dinner.  Do you think Palin is influencing American women.

Agent provocateur – 20 people including secret service agents at the McCain speeches were interview to get more information about the hecklers shouting kill him pertaining to Obama.  No one saw or heard them.  It was made up by Obama and he said it on national TV.  I believe even the hecklers at the Obama speeches were setups by Obama to make McCain look bad.  Would someone who steals votes and pads voter roles do something like that?

I also think the person at McCain’s rallies shouting take the gloves off may be an Obama plant.  McCain has maintained a calm, polite manner when talking about Obama even in the debates.  Obama calls attention to McCain’s negative ads when there aren’t any.  An ad referring to something a person has done in his past is not negative if factual.  An ad pointing out that a senator has voted present instead of yes or no 99% of the time is not negative.

The voter registration workers in Ohio have identified 200,000 registrations they believe are fraudulent and want access to the drivers license database and social security number database to verify their suspicions (they are permitted to look at the last 4 digits only).  The Secretary of State in Ohio has refused to allow them to do that.  Federal law requires that the registration people check each new registrant against those databases.  The Secretary of State has been taken to court to force her to obey the law.  She is still refusing.  Her defense, “it would take too long”.  The registration people have already identified the suspicious cards.  Well, after going through 2 lower courts the case is now in an emergency session with the US Supreme Court.  Talk about audacity and determination to commit fraud.  I contend that a group of people could look up 200,000 social security numbers manually within 3 weeks.  My conclusion:  Obama must be desperate.

Students from Palestra, a college group, have done independent investigation on those questionable voter registration cards and have established that they are fraudulent.  One person who lives in England flew in to Ohio, registered, voted early and returned to England.  The students have identified that although he is a US citizen he has no connection to Ohio.  They have hard proof of all 200,000 being fraudulent.  The problem now is that the Supreme Court Justice, Stevens, is a liberal and may enact a new law overriding the law congress passed.  This of  course is unconstitutional but it is nothing new.  It is called judicial activism.  Ignore the actions of congress, the representatives of the people who sent them there, and do what you want to generate the outcome you want.  Supreme court judges are not elected to represent the people.  They are usually lawyers appointed by the president and congress to determine if laws are within the constitution and have been applied correctly.  What the law profession calls judge-made law is actually not law. BTW why isn’t our representative doing something about it?  What’s her name again?

McCain said the other night that nuclear power is the only way to go for the immediate future along with more offshore drilling.  Those who for whatever reason oppose nuclear power point to the 3 Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania as an example of what can go wrong.  I lived in Pennsylvania and had spent a few months in Harrisburg at the time so I had an above average interest in the event.  No one was harmed and the safety features of the plant operated according to design.  That big concrete dome that you see in pictures of nuclear power plants is called the containment facility.  Its job is to prevent the escape of the super heated (non-radio active water) should something burst. The radioactive material is in rods deep in the ground.  The water flows through those rods and creates steam.  The steam rises and turns blades like a fan (in reverse).  The turning mechanism is attached to a generator.  The steam is then cooled and flows into cooling ponds as purified water and after reaching air temperature flows back into a river or stream.  No water escaped the plant.  When the gauges on the control panels indicated a problem, the operators shut down the plant.  Nothing was harmed.  No one was killed.  It was all media hype.  We have about a dozen nuclear power plants in this country that have been in operation since the 1960s.  Nuclear power is the main source of energy for many European countries and China.  They have hundreds.  The opposition to nuclear power has to be radical politics.

Obama also talked about farm subsidies by the taxpayers.  Small family farms today are rare.  They cannot compete.  It is not immoral.  It is a problem for those who wish to be farmers but  it is just like the Mom and Pop grocery stores.  The large grocery chains as the large agribusinesses can buy in large quantities and get better prices.  They can also hire experts to research technology, fertilizers, pesticides. etc.  Family farms were essential years ago but today they are functionally obsolete.  So if Obama subsidizes farmers with  your tax dollars, he is in fact making you pay more for your groceries.  This is occurring today already and should be stopped.  But those large agribusinesses make campaign donations that congress just can’t resist.  The answer to who is our representative today above is “Sheila jackson Lee”.

“One criticism of subsidy comes from proponents of free market economics, stating that subsidies are against the principles of free trade. Prices are the signals by which farmers, and other entrepreneurs, find out what people want.”  Go here for pro’s and con’s

More information here and more here

Agribusinesses don’t need subsidies.  It reminds me of Wall St.  Let the inefficient and mismanaged businesses go out of business or hire better management.

Let’s work together to put John Faulk in office. We need to elect members of Congress with strong financial backgrounds.

Tags: Barack Obama, economy, Energy Policy, Environmental Issues, farm subsidies, hecklers at rallies, John McCain, National Security, nuclear power, Ohio, Palin setting style, Sarah Palin, Sheila Jackson Lee, Supreme Court, Taxes, voter fraud
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