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Will fans of "Bad Santa" enjoy "Team America World Police"?
My friend is a *huge* fan of Bad Santa. Do you think he will enjoy Team America World Police?
(I'm thinking about swapping a few DVDs and what-have-you!)
I like them both! ^^
Paying For The Bailout â Why Both Parties Are Wrong
I can care less about republican or democrat, conservative or liberal, right or left wings. In my opinion, to choose only one side is to only exercise half your mind. So who has it right when it comes to the bailouts and how to pay for them? Neither.
BIG GOVERNMENT SPENDING - The republicans argue that increased government spending increases the national debt. That is correct but it isn't the issues. Sure, the fed is always willing to print and loan more money to Uncle Sam - with interest of course. Many nations, which are competing
against us, are willing to do the same. The thing is, we don't need more money, we need to manage what we have - I'll come back to this.
TAXES - The democrats argue that tax cuts now for the middle class will result in more spending. This spending will in turn help the economy rebound and generate more jobs. They are also partially correct. It will generate more spending. Only a few hundred more dollars in the hands of millions of people will do a lot to boost spending. I would not be so sure that this spending will generate jobs though. I will submit that Obama is not so sure either. When he and his team discus the spending and jobs, he and they are ALWAYS sure to use the OR word. "This package will generate OR save x number of jobs". Just saving jobs is doing us no good. We need to replace the millions of lost jobs to recover. How does increased spending do this? I'm not sure that it does. I say this because a great many of the products we buy - in fact the majority - are not Made in America. While this increased spending may bring back employees to handle customer service and order processing, I do not see it increasing jobs in other sectors. You will notice I said bring back jobs not create them. These are positions that were filled when times were good. They are not new jobs.
So what is the answer? The answer is controlling how we use the money already in the budget and finding out what happened to the money from prior years. During the Bush administration, both internal and external auditors uncovered missing funds over two trillion dollars in the DOD alone. There is the national debt. We, the public, are holding a current debt of five trillion dollars. We have to keep in mind that this is based on interest rates and expected payment schedules. The two plus trillion dollars would have gone a long way to fixing this issue. We also have to keep in mind that this is certainly not the first nor will it be the last case of massive missing money and waste. I remember doing an inventory audit while serving in the Navy. With a little determination and effort, I managed to recoup $350k. This was stock that was thought to be lost, some of it for years. This was only one command out of many. Proper management of the monies in the budget is the first step to fixing the debt.
The next step is holding those responsible for public funds accountable. We are all aware that investors put enormous pressure on companies to perform. We are also aware that people, for the most part, are greedy. Those "old pros" in the financial sector obviously knew what they were doing. Fluffing up bogus packages is not done by accident. These are the economic aces of our times. They are well educated and well practiced in finance. So then - why the collapse. I will use their term - ROI and risk. An investor does not personally manage the business dealings and take the actions that could land someone in jail. Instead, they use the wait of their influence and capital to force CEOs and other executives to execute their wishes. The return on their investment is huge and their risk is nil. When you know what bogus decisions are being made and you know the true value, you also know when to pull the plug and dump the stock. At the same time, the executives face little risk either. They take home millions of dollars in bonuses while knowingly committing fraud.
We know of all the companies that are tanking and we know that this number is far far greater than the number of people facing jail time. Then we are blasted with fear monger media and politics that lead us to believe that if we don't prop these companies up, that the US as a whole will tank. This simply is not true. Poorly managed companies fail and that is the natural cycle of business. Nonetheless, we dump billions on top of billions into these companies. This is all paid with public money. We pay no attention to the profits made by those that caused this. We don't prosecute them, we don't freeze their bank accounts and we don't seize their assets. But wait - it gets worse. The legislation will not change. Some "show" bills may be passed to give the illusion that someone is doing something but we have seen this before. So, down the road, the dollars that YOU and I are forced to invest in these companies will fuel this same activity again. Now it will be public funds that they consume and piss away. Will there be consequences? Of course not. All we will do is debate over whether we should blame the republicans or the democrats. Watch for mergers and name changes of those companies we are bailing out. Track their movements and don't let them hide and when they do this again - and they will - remember that they wasted PUBLIC funds.
Another area of wasteful spending is what I will label BUTINSKY. WE pour enormous amounts of money into projects and operations around the globe to influence other governments to behave the way we think they should. In such a time of financial crisis like we face now, it is time to take time off from butting into other people's business. The Palestinians chose to elect Hamas - an admitted terror group to lead them. They have been attacking and bombing Israel for decades. In most cases, we held Israel back for the sake of our relationship with Arab countries. Well this time Israel hit back and good for them. Don't get me wrong, I don't wish to see any person on earth suffer and I do understand that some that did not support Hamas or their actions are suffering. At the same time, these attacks on Israel have been going on for a very long time. It is not our position or responsibility to fix the entire world's problems. Just like in this country, if and when the people have had enough, THEY will do something about it.
This leads me to my final point and area of budgeting. America has a long history of being the ones to bail out everyone else. We have financed the rebuilding and aid of countless countries. We also fund, solely, the world police force. We can take some pride in the fact that, without us, many nations around the world would be overrun by their neighbors. We know this and they know this. Yet we still have to listen to their bashing of our policies and actions. We are continually denied assistance when we help other nations. Our flag is burned and our people ridiculed. Meanwhile, these nations spend zero dollars on their defense. Defense is almost certainly the biggest single budget item for any country. Rather than spending these funds for their own protection, they spend them to compete against us for business. They are able to better fund research, education and programs for their people and quickly boast it against American standards. I say it is time to pay. I say either defend yourself or PAY us to do it for you. We have flipped this bill solo for way too long.
Now let us imagine that we are not dishing out the cash to pay for world defense and that we are not allowing trillions of dollars to disappear from our budget. Let us also imagine that we are not sticking our nose where it doesn't belong for a while. Let us imagine that we are not allowing corrupt investors and executives to keep what is essentially stolen money and that we are no longer bailing out companies that drove themselves into the ground. If we could do all this, we would not only not be in debt, but we wouldn't also not being faced with such collapses. Millions of dollars may look great but not when the risk is 20 years in prison. We could fund better schools and education so that we have smarter people making decisions. We could make doing business and manufacturing in America attractive again. But we won't do this will we.
We will instead do the same things we have always done and we will continue to see the same result. It is insanity to expect a different outcome. We will decide, with the help of our media, whether we want to blame the republicans, the democrats, the rich or the poor or maybe the great pink elephant. We do this to help us sleep at night. If we were to face the truth - the truth that it is OUR fault, then we would be uncomfortable. It is far easier to just go with the flow, do nothing and tell ourselves that we wish we could do something.
Whether you agree with all of this or not, you must agree with a lot of it. Will you at least take the time and put forth the effort to pass this on to others? Will you instead, close it and no give it another thought?
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