I'm with stupid!

http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/news/economy/obama_cabinet_costcutting/?postversion=2009042016

So the President is trying to cut 100 million dollars from the federal budget. Wow don’t hurt yourself considering how small that is compared to the Federal Budget. The problem is that people actually think that matters. Well you got to start some where right? Well when you are competing against 100 million dollars in interest every 2 hours cutting 100 million a year is a joke.

http://www.uwsa.com/us-national-debt.html

Look at the counter. amazing how fast its going up. look how much each of us owe other countries individually. People for some reason don’t understand that we actually have to pay these debts back or we are F*CKED! The Great Depression will be happy fun time. It will be national Katrina. Currently both parties think they can punt this down the road. That has to stop. Republicans and Democrats have to stop this or we need to boot them out of office. They are stealing from us and our children to study frogs in California or refurbish museums.

They are taking wealth from the people of the US to get reelected. Just because people don’t pay income tax under a certain income level doesn’t mean they are not being fleeced in cell phone taxes, gasoline taxes, and many others. These are not just local taxes. They are also federal. The Federal Government has got to get out of local issues. They need to stop taxing and spending so much and let the states and local governments do that. Then people have a real voice on what they want and how its used. If you use my tax money for crap in another state than I had no true representation on that money’s use.

But we need police and fireman so stop complaining about taxes. Hogwash! Most of that money is local taxes. The federal government uses a lot of money to overpay for crap we don’t want or need. Hell the money we send to other countries is mind boggling. People need to stop allowing the media to force them into their partisan box. We have to stop thinking the other side is stupid and work together to get the country back. Get the country to stop seizing your prosperity from you and your children.

Only the rich care about taxes and spending. I know this is not true, but anyone who believes this is cursed to stay a slave to their government and  their station in life. I am not rich and almost 50% of my money is seized from me every year. It is my money. I worked for it. Why should anyone else have claim to it? The answer is usually that I get services for it. Unfortunately most of that money goes to waste and not services. No dice on that argument.

From Dictionary.com:

–adjective
1. appealing to one’s prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one’s intellect or reason.
2. attacking an opponent’s character rather than answering his argument.

I guess it is a part of human nature to engage in ad hominem attacks. It seems to be so easy to argue a point by just discrediting the other debater. it takes the focus off your position and on the messenger of the other argument. It truly is small minded though.

If you are trying to persuade someone then persuade them. Appealing to their prejudices is juvenile at best. It is obvious that your argument can not stand up on its own. Usually ad hominem attacks are caused because people are insecure about their ability to make a valid point.

Next time you find yourself focusing on the person’s past problems or appearance remember that you are not judging the merits of the discussion, which an intelligent person should do, but rather just being led away from the topic.

This girl was put into a box early.

I am tired of being put into a box. If you vote this way or agree with this policy you are then categorized and labeled. It has been really bad for the last 10 years. Are you liberal or conservative? Democrat or Republican? How about I am me? I feel a certain way about things that are unique. I don’t have to be identified by a marketed list of beliefs I should agree with.

I have been guilty of doing the same thing. It is easy to want to push back at people that try and marginalize you by marginalizing them in return. It doesn’t do anything but alienating the other person.

So what makes us do that? The puppet masters do. The ones that want you to be apart of their group or base. The more they can make you see the other side of an argument as a stupid and bad idea, the more you will be persuaded to think that way. It is brainwashing plain and simple. It is making you stop reasoning and forcing you to use your emotions.

I hope that people take time to reflect on their beliefs. That they don’t let something upset them and not look at the truth of the idea. We are all unique, and have unique backgrounds that we pull from to generate our views. If we don’t consider what other people think we won’t be able to solve problems that effect us. It doesn’t mean you have to compromise your beliefs, but it does mean you can incorporate good ideas instead of just dismissing everything based off the perceived ideas you have been marketed about people.

It always amazes me that Democrats try and hide their ambition for raising taxes. This year Obama is trying to tell us he is going to cut taxes.

It is amazing. How can anyone believe this? He has dropped the amount made to make you rich from 250,000 to 200,000 to now Joe Biden saying if you make less than 150,000 you don’t have anything to worry about. My father who is a Democrat makes no bones that Obama is going to raise taxes. He will tell you that it’s going to happen and that it’s just how you get elected.

So the Bush tax cuts were very large. I remember very well getting a large cut and a bigger pay check. I made less than 50,000 at the time. It made my life a lot easier. Obama has stated he will be letting the Bush tax cuts run out. This will affect everyone who pays taxes. So to believe that only people making more than 150,000 a year will not be taxed is absurd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAEE1_IUycs

I live where the cost of living is relatively low. 150k a year is not rich at all. You have 2 kids and that goes fast. Class warfare is a very bad thing. It only causes jealousy and envy. It never has a good outcome. It raises no one up. It only brings others down.

For some reason everyone thinks that we need to get this extra revenue for the government. Why? Government sucks. They need to stop spending so much money and only pay for necessities. Not having an overbearing government is what makes America so great.

**UPDATE 4/2/2008**

They raised taxes on cigerettes yesterday. This breaks the promise not to raise taxes of any kind on people making less than 250,000 a year. Obamatons say that it doesn’t count. It counts and hurts mostly poor people. They are the ones who are most likely to smoke. So not even 100 days in and he breaks his taxes pledge. Shame to milk the poor to raise money for SCHIP.

Police: McCain volunteer made up robbery story

I think it is always sad when people make up being victims of crimes. It happens a lot and the people accused have to deal with it sometimes the rest of their lives. Luckily here no one was actually blamed for doing it. The media was able to kill the story in less than 24 hours since it was something that could have hurt the Obama campaign. I doubt the same would be done for Mccain, but a lie is a lie and I am happy that it was revealed.

The problem I have about this though was I hear people at work saying that all the cars being keyed and signs being destroyed or taken are also manufactured. They use this as a way to blow off other bad behavior that Obama backers are doing.

We all know that for the last 8 years the media and the educational system has demonized the Bush Administration and Republicans in general. They have not been responsible about how they are influencing our youth who are extremely impressionable. Hormones make young adults very passionate as well as brash.

The media and the educational system has created an enemy out of fellow Americans because they have differing beliefs. They either don’t understand or don’t care that they are not telling the youth to not act out in harmful and even violent ways. I am all for passion but for some reason we are not helping kids channel this passion. Protest is not always they best way to do so. Confrontation is sometimes valid but it should be restrained.

The arts have always been good ways for people to express their beliefs without harming other people. Music, writing, painting, and other creative outlets are much better ways to express yourself over screaming at a stranger who has a bumper sticker of an opposing party on their car. Everyone in America has the right to freedom of speech.

I was a Boy Scout growing up. I never got to Eagle but I was in scouts for several years. Scout taught me a lot about respecting others, restraint, and service to the community and the country. One of my disappointments with the country is we don’t try and get more kids in scouting. It seems that organizations like scouting are dwindling and kids don’t have guidance on how they can be good citizens and responsible adults.

I hope we can move back towards guiding kids instead of just getting them upset and just letting them run amok. I don’t want anyone to be censored. If you disagree with me then by all means express it. Just don’t think keying my car is going to help your point of view.

I don’t know if this is him or not but damn its funny. Who ever this is, they are drunk as hell.