Now, Bob... look at all the women leaders in other countries, and all the famous women throughout history. Mother Teresa comes to my mind first, then St. Joan of Arc then, Cookie, then, the Queen,
Sarah Palin doesn't even come close to any of the above...
Not in anybody's wildest dreams...
We had old n ornery John McCain...
A perennial retread in presidential elections...
Passed over for the favorite son too many times...
Running out of time...
When all of a sudden the Democratic Nominee announces not Hillary Clinton but Joe Biden will be his pick for Vice President...
Ole John McCain seizes the opportunity to capture the female vote...
And Sarah Palin leaves the mooseburgers behind and steps into the world of Champaign & Caviar...
All was well until she opened her mouth...
All too soon it was realized that the lights were on and nodody was home...
We had a not ready for prime time player that in a heartbeat could be holding the nations highest office.
All this on the revelation that way back when...
An almost shut out independent candidate was right about a sucking sound...
Made out to be a joke by the other candidates and the media...
No independent candidate since has been allowed to enter the presidential debates...
Elections for many years now have not been won and lost on substantial issues...
We are fed sound bites, clips that pick up on insignificant details and are used to portray the other candidate in an unfavorable manner...
We are fed this inceasant drivel none of which is relevent to the candidate and what they will do in office.
How many elections has it been now where most people are "Voting for the lessor of two evils?"
Who said, "Washington has become a town filled with sound bites, shell games, handlers, media stuntmen who posture, create images, talk, shoot off Roman candles, but don't ever accomplish anything. We need deeds, not words, in this city."
The downturn of this country steepened in 1981 when Ronald Reagan became president and had convinced the masses that "Trickle Down Economics" was a good thing.
The idea was that when all the richest people got their pockets filled with money....
Some of it would fall out and the starving mob could fight for the crumbs...
Oh, Okay...
That's not quite what he said but it kinda worked out that way ...
Didn't it?
Both parties have pursued this agenda although it has never been an issue...
In the years since the true meaning of this has been revealed...
Rather than trickling down they had bigger pockets tailored...
Then zippers put on those pockets...
They endlessly seeked new methods to aquire additional weath and hold on to as much as possible...
Major corporations moved to offshore islands with favored tax status...
Manufacturing plants shut down as manufacturing operations moved to the third world to lessen wages and increase the profit margin.
Trade treaties were enacted allowing this to occur without tariffs...
Environmental, Human Rights, & Safety concerns were ignored in these treaties...
The end result is that there will one day be a very small number of ultra rich individuals and a whole bunch of very poor third world status citizens that work their whole life keeping the ultra rich getting richer...
Before this can happen the masses need to be put in check....
If they can't do that the end result will be a bunch of politicians and ultra rich class people swinging on the end of ropes...
It's happened before in history a few times...
"Let them eat cake."
One thing for sure...
The last issue they are interested in is keeping the criminals under control...
Prisons cost money!
Programs that could end the cycle of the poor in our inner cities and crime cost money!
We are now entering into the 4th and 5th generation of disfunctional families living on wefare in our inner cities.
Teenage mothers whose gang banger baby daddy is incarcerated...
Becoming grandmothers in their 30's...
Great-Grandmothers in their late 40's...
Watching their daughters and granddaughters become teenage mothers on welfare...
Watching sons and grandsons lured by the money and the bling, selling drugs, and becoming gang bangers...
Becoming baby daddies...
Spending time incarcerated...
Not knowing their children....
Interestingly enough one of the key players of the Gun Control Act of 1968 was Connecticut Sen. Thomas Dodd (D) who
as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, Dodd worked to restrict the purchase of mail order handguns, and later shotguns and rifles. These efforts culminated in the Gun Control Act of 1968, which Dodd introduced.
Recently, with the discovery and publication of a letter from the Library of Congress to Senator Dodd from July 1968 confirming his request to have a series of Nazi laws translated from documents provided by Senator Dodd, controversy has arisen as to how much of the Gun Control Act of 1968 was taken directly from gun registration laws enacted and enforced by the Nazis in Germany and areas under Nazi control. It is believed that Senator Dodd obtained copies of the Nazi laws while serving as a prosecutor at Nuremberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Dodd
I guess he had no answers on juvenile delinquency
These days his son Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd (D) is currently serving as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee and was a central figure in the Country Wide Financial Scandel where he refinanced his homes in Washington D.C. and East Haddam, CT. through them recieving preferential treatment in their "Friends of Angelo" program and also taking $21,000 in campaign contributions from them. He also recieved $70,000 in contributions from Bank Of America who bought out Country Wide Financial...
Since apples don't fall far from the tree we can be pretty sure that he has no answers on the banking crisis...
Read more here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dodd
Yea we are heading for some ugly times....
If I didn't have weapons I'd sure be thinking about getting some and learning how to use them...
If I had them I'd sure be thinking about ways to keep them...
One thing for sure...
We can count on Big Brother to have our best interests in mind and know that he will take care of us...