Should America look to Cuba for energy plan?

Should America look to Cuba when it comes to facing energy issues? Cuba is about to enter yet another “Special Period.” These “Special Periods” have been a way of life ever since the early 1990’s and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Seems the collapse of the Soviet Union sent Cuba into a, cap & trade experiment. As they do not have enough energy to meet their needs, they force businesses to disconnect their air conditioners, and disable some lighting. Black outs will become the norm for the day, though not at normal cooking times. Many workers will be required to stay home from their jobs, without pay. Cuba produces about half of the oil they consume; the rest comes from Venezuela, cheap. They no doubt have limitations on what they burn.

Lets look at this from a different angle. Barack Obama want us to use less oil, and move to “renewable energy”, there really is no such thing. That’s another blog. He is pushing a “Cap and Trade” policy that will limit the amount of energy used by all companies in the country. If a company needs to use more energy, they will have to buy credits to do so. This will cause all companies that use energy in the production of their products to raise prices to cover the cost of the needed energy.

So here’s the good news. We will all have more time on our hands by staying home from jobs we don’t really want to be at anyway. Our air conditioners will be turned off, and the TV stations will shut down during the day, so we will all be going to the beach for the day. Assuming we can afford the gas to drive there, or a car to do it in.

Is Chavez smarter than Obama?

Hugo Chavez is learning that it’s hard to buy friends, when you don’t have the money to do so. It seems that a drop in oil prices has him placing all of the countries he would eventually like to own, on a diet. Obama on the other hand just prints more money to pass along to those that voted for him, a sort of “quid pro quo” if you will.

In recent years, Chavez has used his nations oil wealth to drive his social-inspired agenda at home and to draw other countries in the region into his sphere of influence, helping to consolidate a leftward political shift in Latin America. At present, more than a dozen projects intended to broaden his nations reach are on hold. These projects include a gas pipeline across the continent and at least eight refineries from Jamaica to Uruguay.

While Chavez has placed his country in a sort of cruise mode, Obama seems content to push America right off a cliff into the largest debt ever seen by any country in the history of the world. He is enslaving not only the current population, as well as all future generations till the end of time, just to promote his socialist agenda. He is printing so much money, that soon, China won’t touch our bonds, or invest any more money, into a country it practically already owns.

While Obama, an amateur socialist, continues to spend money that we do not have, Chavez, a professional socialist, seems to know better. He seems to understand that you can’t spend what you don’t have.

So my questions are these. If we are going to have a socialist president, would we not be better off with a professional socialist? Would we not be better off with a president that knows when to stop spending? Would we not be better off with a president that would lead us down a more energy independent path, and “Drill baby drill”

In closing, may I suggest we run Chavez for president in 2012? It would certainly be a step towards a more finically responsible government.

After all, it’s not like you need a birth certificate to run for president of the United States.

Leave our rights alone!

There is a lot to love about this country. Even though we seem to be set on a course toward Socialism, we still have rights, for the moment.

I have noticed everyone seems to love their First Amendment right to “Free Speech” and take every effort to, not only use it, but proclaim it’s virtue. It seems that too many Americans these days want to pick and choose which Amendments they think we should and should not keep. It seems that some are obsolete in today’s world, to some.

The following letter to the editor appeared in the Sun Sentinel on 4/30/09. It was submitted by: Lester Weinberg, Tamarac, FL.

Time to amend the Constitution.
“With your paper and the airwaves full of gun stories and happenings full of indiscriminate killings, thievery and pure meanness, I feel that it is time that the “right to bear arms” segment in the Constitution is amended.”

“After all, social conditions in 2009 are far different that those the founders encountered in 1776”

Now while I agree that Mr. Weinberg has every right to express his opinion, he does NOT have the right to pick and choose which amendments of the Constitution we should just toss out because HE disagrees with them. I would think that Mr. Weinberg would remember what happened to millions of unarmed people in Europe that were unable to defend themselves from Hitler and his diabolical scheme to rid the world of Jews and others he considered unworthy of life. Mr. Weinberg seems unaware of how deadly gun control can be for those whose guns are taken from them. In most cases it is merely the first step taken by a leader with genocide in mind.

Anyone that wants to see a list of countries that implemented gun control, and the genocide that followed, please read my post from 2/17/09 on “Gun Control”.

As we all know, the second amendment was placed right after the first, not just for numerical reasons, but also to protect the first. We as Americans are obligated to dispose of our government, should it become tyrannical. We would NOT be able to achieve that goal without arms. While we all know there is no way of keeping government honest, at least we can give them something to think about.

So Lester, please consider this for a moment. I would die fighting for, not only your right to free speech, but ALL of your rights. Why would you deny me the tools to do so?

Balancing the budget on the backs of the poor.

It seems that Barack Hussein Obama has seen fit to reward his base with one of his first tax increases. Seems fit, break your promises to those that have the least ability to publicly complain. Would he have done this if these people had DSL service and were active bloggers? More than likely yes, looking at what he has already done to the rest of us. The only bright spot here is he is indiscriminately going to fuck all of us.

A 2008 Gallup pool found that 34% of respondents earning between $6,000 and $12,000 a year were smokers. And the smoking rate consistently declined among people of higher income. Only 13% of people earning $90,000 or more were smokers. I used to be poor and I used to smoke. I well remember the days when I smoked a cigarette instead of eating a meal because it was cheaper than food.

He says the extra money is going to fund a major expansion of children’s health care. Keep in mind that these higher taxes will encourage more people to quit smoking reducing this funding. While this may be better for the health of these people, rest assured that these programs will become part of the “Baseline Budgeting” process and will never expire, unlike the current people funding them.

These low-income citizens will bear a disproportionate burden of this tax. This tells me that he intends to balance his budget on the backs of the poor, a condition he seems content to inflict on us all in due course.

Obama takes the 5th, again.

It looks like at least one amendment is safe, at least for now. It seems that Barack Hussein Obama has an affinity for the 5th. He must, he uses it every day.

Why does he get the benefit of the doubt when you or I would not? It seems that if you or I were on the hot seat we would be fried. He is allowed to answer some of the questions without being compelled to answer subsequent ones. If you or I do not invoke our right of protection from self-incrimination from question one and refuse to answer any questions at all, we give up the right to that protection for all subsequent questions. Obama on the other hand can answer all the questions he wants, and in mid interview decide that he is done, until he get asked a question he feels like answering. If we did that we would be held in contempt of court and immediately jailed.

Jake Tapper of ABC asked a very simple question the other night. He asked Obama if he would sign a bill if, among other things, lacked the cap and trade component he so wanted. And what was the answer you ask? I’m still asking the same question myself. What ensued was one of his rambling dodging of the honest question from a reporter with a network that previously was completely in the tank for Obama.

Other than give us real answers, he pleads for our patience. The same patience, that still has us waiting for a peek at his birth certificate. The same patience that we are finding in short supply these days. He speaks about how this economy is not a speedboat, but rather an “Ocean Liner” that takes a long time to correct course. And how to correct our course we need to spend, and spend, and spend.

Interesting analogy, but lets see if it holds water. Carnival Cruise Chairman Micky Arison has taken a somewhat different approach to changing the course of not just one ship, but a fleet of them. Seems that he has found that you can renegotiate contracts with vendors for one. And on top of that he cut his pricing structure to cope with a depressed cruise market to entice more people to travel. Guess what, Carnival’s profits are up 10% over the same period from last year.

If we want to save an “Ocean Liner” we should hire a competent skipper. Not a group of people intent on running us aground on the raged rocks of Socialism.

Where has to true leadership run off to?

Where are we headed as a country? What are our leaders doing to this great country? Are we no longer a country of “American Exceptionalism”?

Lets look at what that means. The United States held a special place among all nations because we freely accepted immigrants. And it was with those immigrants that we became the first democracy of the modern era. Economic and political opportunities have always been higher than all other countries. Such situations along with a great degree of social mobility have attracted the best and brightest from around the world to our shores. No longer were people trapped in the political and social structure of the homelands they had fled leaving behind not only family in some cases, but also the masses of people that did not believe in themselves. It was with the help of these people that we expanded west with the pioneering grit and determination that no longer seems to exist today. Those are the people that helped to create our “American way of life”.

It seems that all anyone wants to do these days is have other people dictate how they will live, work, and get paid. We are fast becoming a cradle to grave society with respect to healthcare, earnings, and retirement. We no longer seem to care about doing anything to improve our own situations, and are more and more relying on the government to implement along with unions and others we not only don’t know, but also shouldn’t trust, every aspect of our lives. When will food become an entitlement too?

It’s time for us to toss out every politician that only wants to play the blame game. We need people that will be responsible for not only their own actions, but also call to task those that refuse to be. We don’t need to be, nor should we try to be like any other country. We would be better off too not only understand, but also embrace our “American Exceptionalism”, as that is what made America the great country that she is.

We don’t need a “New World Order”, we just need a few politicians with the balls to stand up for what is right and stop tearing this great country apart. When will we once again be blessed with a real statesman, and not cursed with the likes of Pelosi’s puppet?

Is President Obama really just Pelosi's whipping boy?

Does anyone remember voting for Pelosi for president? Was her name on the ballot? NO. So please help me understand something. Why does it seem that Obama is her personal whipping boy, and why is she allowed to get away with it? If you whipped your child the way she whips Obama, the state would take that child away, much in the way she wants too take our country away from us.

Does it not seem like she is the one behind all these policies? She beams like a proud parent every time one of these silly bills gets passed. At his State of the Union Address, she was jumping up and down as if her own child had scored every touchdown in the game.

Did Obama make a deal with the Devil the day he got Pelosi in his corner? You bet he did. It’s like he doesn’t even conceive these bills. He has become the most inane president in history, while causing the most damage ever. He seems to leave the crafting of all these bills to someone he trusts to do the right thing, sorry, proper thing. Pelosi wouldn’t even let her chauffer make a right turn unless it was the only way he could get her to a government owned G-5.

We are talking about a woman that has the audacity to reserve these G-5’s on a regular basis, only to cancel these planed flights like it was her private airline. I thought Obama was the commander in chief? Isn’t that something that only he should be able to do? And don’t worry about all the money she is throwing to the wind as she uses her “Woman’s Prerogative” to change her mind as we will cover those costs for her.

When we vote for the “Leader of the Free World”, that’s what we should get. Not a whipping boy for the “Most Arrogant Woman” ever conceived. It’s really too bad that the woman’s right too choose was not an option for her parents back in 1940. If it was, do you think her parents would have let her go full term? Now that’s a stimulating idea.