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“We have to pass the (health care) bill so you can find out what is in it.”

“Nancy Pelosi, speech to National Association of Counties, March 9. 2010 – Speaker of the House and third in line to be President in the event Obama were removed from office.  This statement is pure 100% dumbness.  And you ask yourself how do these people of such little intellect get elected?  Can’t we do better.

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“When we start talking about the debt, the first thing people do is run to Social Security. Social Security is a program that works and it’s going to be fully funded for the next 40 years…No, it’s not a crisis. This is something that’s perpetuated by people who don’t like government. Social Security’s fine.”

Harry Reid on the Senate floor discussing Republican efforts to block increase in debt ceiling.  If the man has ever read the Social Security Annual Report, he would know that Social Security has an IOU from the Treasury to be paid out over the next 75 years for 90+ trillion or 43 trillion present value.  These monies owed Social Security and Medicare are affectionately called “unfunded liabilities”.  Please!!!  It is debt so stop lying about the actual term.  Oh sure from an accounting standpoint it is a liability that the Treasury owes, not a debt the public owes as in the 17 trillion we now have thanks to so-called President Obama.  Of course, the difference between debt and unfunded liabilities is only important to those who hope to someday get Social Security.  And after all isn’t the Treasury pretty much we citizens who pay taxes?  If not the citizens who else?  So you see unfunded, funded, wasted, or printed, all mean the same thing… it’s money we don’t have and have no real idea how to find it from our citizens.    Put that aside for now, the actual debt of this Country at this very moment… if we were to have to cough up every dollar of debt we would have: (43 trillion unfunded Social Security) + (17 trillion general obligation debt) for a total of $60,000,000,000,000,000.  That works out to $190,470 per every man. woman and child currently residing and being a citizen of the United States.  Notice I say “citizen of the United States”… illegals would not be on this list of debtors.  While my stats are factual admittedly they are far-fetched as this Country simply could not now or nor ever pay this amount given the current anemic GDP growth rate of 2% or less under Obama.  Fast forward 20 years when some of these bills come due in a landslide as baby boomers peak out retirement, I would ask you to give me a single plausible rationale as to how we deal with this debt.  Grandma’s Social Security check depends on us coming up with the money.  Borrow the money you say… from who?  And at what interest rate?  And for how long?  A single cell amoeba could figure out the United States is headed towards bankruptcy or worse anarchy… and Obama, while not solely responsible, is the accelerant or gasoline that poured 7 trillion onto the debt fire, and then you have hare-brained Harry Reid making statements like above.  Total political hackery.  He can’t be this dumb, I am a mere mortal citizen and have just read documents readily available from the government and figured out we are mortally fucked in 20 years or less.  How come this guy with access to every piece of information the government owns, doesn’t know what I know.  Well it’s because he is dumber than Nancy Pelosi.

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Reid talking about Obamacare on Senate floor Feb 2014

“Despite all that good news, there’s plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they’re being told all over America,” said Reid.

Another gem by hare-brained Harry.  The guy is so dumb he didn’t even hedge his statement by saying something like: “Many of the claims are untrue”. No not Harry, true to his dumbbell out of touch career politician roots, he goes all in and says:  “All of them are untrue”  Few things in life are perfectly true or untrue, but Harry knows something the rest of us don’t know.  There are indeed things that are 100% untrue… there’s no room whatsoever for the possibility just maybe a single person experienced a catastrophic medical emergency at the same time they lost their insurance.  NOPE… I consider this statement by Reid a notch higher on the dumbbell scale.

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And finally the dumbest statement that has been repeated more often than “President Bush left me the worst recession since the Great Depression”…. tada:

“ I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and they value their relationship with their doctor. And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what. My view is that health care reform should be guided by a simple principle: “fix what’s broken and build on what works”.”

This is the most brazen, factually incorrect, and knowingly dumbest,  yet most significant and impactful statement made by a President in the past 50 years.  This was the exact verbiage of a speech to the AMA in May 2011 in Chicago Illinois.

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UPDATE 2016:  Pelosi is no longer in line to be President.  Her dumb statements finally caught up with  her and she was tossed out of the majority in the House.  Scary Harry Reid looking like he is knocking on deaths door is finally… yes finally retiring.  He like Pelosi were traded in for smarter dumbells known as Republicans.  And the biggest dumbbell is Obama.  It has finally become common knowledge he lied through his teeth on the Affordable Care Act.  God help us… we need brighter and less political hacks in Washington.

UPDATE 2018: Surprise! Nitwit Nancy is back as the Speaker. And has she really gotten dumber.

UPDATE 2020: Nancy Numb-nuts Pelosi lead an impeachment effort against Trump in 2019 and it backfired right in her face. Then to show just how dumb she really was… in front of 34MM people at the State of the Union in 2020, she tore up Trumps speech. Pure histrionics, but dumb nonetheless. She looked like a pure and simple “little baby throwing a tantrum”. Her colleagues should have yanked her aside and told her “that shit won’t fly”. “The public was offended by your antics.” But she is such a brick-brain she wouldn’t have listened anyway. My sincere hope is that as I write once again how dumb she is, that karma will deal her a hand of cards with the top card being the “devil” card signifying she is now done FOR GOOD! And that her lasting legacy was a pitiful example of what not to do, and along with that legacy, the House changes order back to Republican. If it does, her legacy will be sealed as one of the worst Speakers dead or alive. And Trump will likely be considered one of the greatest Presidents dead or alive. Him having both houses will electrify this Country like no other event in the last 60 years. The man is sometimes tone deaf as to his comments, but make no mistake he is a man of his word, and he gets stuff done despite all the boat anchors like Pelosi holding him back. He was the right man for our time. We suffered through 8 years… we were due for a Trump kinda President. If you read this say a single prayer that Trump is re-elected and that the House is Republican. You will not be sorry for having done so. Call me if you are 630-327-9389.

Obama handed out 800 billion in cash to this Country in the form of government projects or in his words shovel ready jobs. We all know that was a joke that even he admitted, i.e. shovel ready jobs. But all that money didn’t stiimulate the economy because it went into bureaucrat hands and not the publics hands. YOU WANT TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY???  Simple!!!  There are 315 million Americans.  We spent 800 billion.  That 800 billion equates to $2540 for every man, women and child in this Country.  Imagine a family of 4 getting $10,000.   Can you imagine the economic stimulus that would have on our economy.  Most people  would buy stuff with the money which is exactly what we need.  We are a consumption driven economy and if you want to increase consumption give people money, don’t tax them.  I know this sounds far fetched, but compared to the results Obama got using his stimulus, I would rather have taken the risk my plan would have turned this Country around as opposed to Obama’s plan.  Of course now we know Obama’s plan was a gigantic catastrophe that created meaningless debt.  My plan would create meaningful debt as the debt I create, has a multimplier effect and not only flows throughout our economy, but the world economy.  Don’t forget we are the largest consumer in the world.  800 billion in the hands of consuming people would stimulate the world economoy too which again has a multiplier effect on the money given out.  I think my plan has more merit than any plan I have heard so far… that’s why it will never happen.  

I cannot recall a period in my life or in the history I’ve read where the United States has had such low caliber dim-wits in Congress.  It starts with the poorly informed leadership of Congress.  Pelosi and Reed simply have no idea what they are doing.  They are not leaders… they are embarrassments.  They are not citizen legislators, they are career politicians who represent less than 0.01% of the population of the United States, but yet they impact each and every American.  Our founding fathers never dreamed that politicians would become life-long legislators.  My hunch is that they presumed most citizens would do their civic duty and then step down.   So if someone like Pelosi came along within a relatively short-period of time, they would leave office.  New blood would replace the old blood and in the process the status quo would be challenged.  Sadly, we have career politicians who have never held a “real job”, never driven their own car, never even shop for their own groceries.  Term limits must become the battle cry of all Americans.  Without term limits, the country is going to become more and more polarized… not to mention over-run by illegal immigrants.  Congress has 535 voting members: 435 Representatives and 100 Senators.  Look at the seniority of some of these members.  Do you believe someone who became a Congressman in the 1960’s really represent the people of America.  Presuming they had college, they would have graduated in the 50’s as you must be 25 to be a Congressman.  Think about this?  With all the technological change, the demographic change, the complicated global trade/interrelations/currency swaps, the complex health care situation facing this country, the complexity of balancing all of the above changes in the United States and the world, the uneducated masses who are shockingly unprepared for the jobs of the future… I ask how someone who has been in power for 40 years have the intellectual capacity as well as the understanding of the issues to create the single thing that would solve many of the above crises facing the United States and that is economic growth.  Since late in Bush’s term economic growth was slowing from 4-5% throughout much of Bush’s term to 2% or below for nearly the entire term of Obama.  I can cede Obama 2 years to turn things around… Why? .  Reagan inherited Carter’s malaise with 12% unemployment, slow growth, prime interest rates peaking at 19% and within 2 year… yes within 2 years, growth had jumped to 8%, interest dropped to near 10%, and unemployment fell dramatically.  Tax revenues to the Federal government increased dramatically as well.  With this said, it is not necessary to spend 30 years in Congress to deal with these complex problems, Reagan did a remarkable job of turning the United States around at all levels.  The masses would not consider Reagan particular smart or remarkably well versed in all the issues facing any world power, but he led by simple principles that apply to every situation whether it be today or the future.  And he did it with 8 years.  But somehow we think Congress is different.  Congressmen for some reason are consider wiser with re-election.  For example Robert Bird… considered to be the most learned man in the Senate before his death.  He spent 50+ years, and most Senators looked to him for guidance on how to use the Senate to impose Democrat solutions to the Country’s problems.  Bird has no idea of the gravity nor the magnitude of his efforts would have on generations to come.  Do we believe Byrd had a cell phone, a computer, an idea of the crushing burden on business his policies had on business, any idea of the cost of education and how to deal with it, healthcare, education… there is no reason to believe someone who has been sequestered in Congress for 50 years, with an arrogance fitting of a King, who could not meaningfully communicate with the working poor, let alone the middle class, could possibly come up with innovative, imaginative, logical solutions to problems that are becoming insurmountable all because of inept inexperienced politicians.  Granted Byrd has passed, but he is a perfect example of someone who can continue to take a Country down a path of no return, and not have the intellectual capacity to even comprehend their actions.  So if you understand that out of touch admittedly intelligent men, get caught in the trappings of Washington and decide to make a career out of Congress, they cannot possibly provide solutions to the daunting challenges facing the world and in particular the United States.  Term limits would ensure that new blood with new ideas would be replace those who had good intentions, but could not solve our problems.  WE MUST FIND THE BRIGHTEST AND THOSE WHO MERELY WISH TO SERVE TO ASCEND TO THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR COUNTRY.  NOTHING LESS IS GOING TO SAVE US FROM BEING A FINANCIALLY BANKRUPT COUNTRY.  You doubt my assertion of bankruptcy?   Well mull these numbers around.  The debt that has been compounded largely over the last 20 years is $17 trillion.  This is debt that we borrow money from our citizens, other Countries, and in particular China which is allegedly financing 40% of our debt.  This debt rolls over as the bonds mature… so we will no doubt kick this debt bomb down the road until Obama is gone.  But what should worry all of us in our 50’s is what is called unfunded liabilities.  Estimates are available in the Social Security Annual Report are $90 trillion.  You ask what unfunded means.  It is debt by another name.  During the last 30 years Congress withdrew 90 trillion in surpluses from Social Security to pay current bills… bills similar to the 17 trillion.  But in this case the Treasury Department wrote an IOU to Social Security for trillions, and Social Security expects when the Baby Boomers eventually retire in large part that the Treasury will write checks to cover the Social Security payments.   Ask yourself: “We are running annual trillion-dollar deficits under Obama unrelated to Social Security… that said, can you fathom any possible way the Treasury is going to cough up 90 trillion?  It’s just not possible, we don’t have the growth needed to raise revenues.  As I noted above Obama has not exceeded 2% growth since he took office, and there have been years where growth was 1.5%.  I have written a lot to digest, but I will sum it up by saying the people in Congress today, the President, the Supreme Court, the State governments, have so many career politicians, that we will never solve our problems without term limits.  The career politicians cannot make tough decisions because they are more concerned about getting re-elected than doing what’s right.  If you are limited in term, then I have to believe our leaders will no longer make decisions and policies to benefit their re-election, but what is needed by this Country to solve problems… even if the solution isn’t popular.  If anything I wrote rubbed off, you should understand that career politicians don’t have the solutions, if they did they would have solved the problems and more than likely been voted out of office for doing the right thing.

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Every day I feel the continual creep of advertisers and marketers into my personal space. Every thing you watch, read, listen to or shop for has a blizzard of advertising and commercials associated with it. And I find the commercials increasingly more and more disgusting. There suddenly are no bounds as to what advertisers are willing to expose us to. Television is out of control. Every disgusting or embarassing subject has now officially been advertised. And not only are the commercials increasingly more disgusting and embarrassing, but the amount of commercials in a given hour on television seems to have gone up. I should not have to pay to watch commercials about rectal or bladder rash. I believe some things should be discussed privately, but nowadays anything is open. I was sitting down at dinner the other day at 6pm and two commercials came on right in the middle of my dinner… one was about rectal/bladder rash and the other was about diahrea. UNBELIEVABLE… I am eating dinner you fucking jack ass marketing goons. I don’t want to hear about disgusthing stuff like diahrea while I am eating. And what burns my ass is that I have to pay Comcast a small fortune to give them access to my home to advertise everything from prostate pills to catheters to adult diapers to stool softners to incontenence to leaks to constipation to every female product or ED pill. I find absolutely nothing of any value in the commercials I must endure… and even the commercials that are not disgusting are insultingly stupid. All kinds of phony financial experts, doctors, phone scams, automobile hype… it’s just pathetic how stupid the advertisers must think the public is in the US. And the radio is no different… endless make believe stories about silly useless products. And then the mailbox is stuffed full of bullshit advertisements about how great this product or that product is… we all know most products have become nothing more than commodities. The marketers come up with crazy harebrained pricing scheme to confuse the public into thinking they are getting a better deal when in reality most products boil down to the same cost. Comcast and Disk and Direct TV are out there annoying you with this crazy special and that crazy insane package. Each has chicanery involved as the pricing is only good for so long or you get trapped in endless automatic renewals. And then the damn pharmacies and groceries want you to carry their absurd rewards card so they can badger you later was they dissect your purchasing patterns. Every way I turn I am being barragged with companies wanting to sell me stuff I don’t want or need. It’s insane… leave me the fuck alone. I don’t want what you are selling. Oh sure, I sound like an old hermit like individual, but I would ask you to take note of the constant drum beat of advertising you are exposed to each day. It’s maddening and I am sick and tired of it. It’s seems to me that this commercialization of everything from adult diaper rash to dingle berries is out of control and is part of a much larger issue of privacy. In the news these days there is story after story about the IRS and other government agencies acquiring information about all of us for supposedly national security. Examining the confluence of groups wanting to acquire information about us, you start to get the idea we no longer have any privacy whatsoever. Google singlehandedly has made sure somewhere in the bowels of some companies offices there are servers with information about you that you probably don’t want public. Couple that with the government’s desire and marketer’s desire to extract information about every bodily function or activity you undertake each day and suddenly your sense of privacy completely vaporizes. We no longer own our own lives. Everything we do is in some fashion compiled into video or data that tracks your life practically on a real-time basis. Meanwhile we all merrily go about our lives thinking we are the masters of our destiny. Baloney… total baloney. Between the government controlling your activities and marketers influencing your habits, we no longer are masters of anything. We are slowly becoming almost android like. We rely on Google to answer all our questions, we allow the government to confiscate our wealth and we let marketers shape our activities. And what’s alarming to me is that with the Internet, and email, forevermore you are on the “grid” and getting off the “grid” is nearly impossible if you have spent 1 hour on the Internet or sent a single email. And this race between those who want privacy and those who want to steal your privacy is accelerating at an accelerating pace. Do rotary phones still work if connected to the labyrinth of copper and fiber criss crossing every inch of this Country, if so those phones provided a level of privacy that does not exist in the digital world. No caller ID on a rotary phone… and back in the day cable was commercial free. Those days were primitive, but at least you had the option of tuning out advertising about erectile dysfunction…. hell we probably didn’t have ED back then. All these commercials seem to have caused people to imagine things that match whatever symptoms the drug or salve cures and presto we all need adult diapers and ass rash balm. God help us…