Do Not Raise the Debt Limit!

The Unites States will soon reach the debt limit set
by the Congress. Only 218 of the 241 Republican
Congressmen need to vote NO for the debt limit to stay
the same. This will require spending to match revenues.
Liberals/progressives who want no limits on spending
will warn that the Unites States will default on the debt.
The cash flow for the Federal government is about
$200B/month. This is adequate to service the debt and
have enough left to pay for essential services – like our
military.
If our credit card is denied because we have spent the
limit, then the solution is NOT to get the spending limit
raised. It is to spend less.
The proposed $100B cut in spending is far too small.
If the deficit is $1500B each year and Congress cuts
spending by only $100B each year, the the United States
debt increases $1400B each year.
If you are spending $1010/month more than you earn and
you cut that to $1000/month more than you earn, then you
will soon be bankrupt.
The United States will reach its debt limit about 15
April. Our creditors are closely watching our actions. We
will hit the wall sooner if they sell our current debt and
permanently cease buying our debt.
Substantially cutting the Departments of Education, Energy
and Agriculture and phasing them out completely will achieve
the required spending cuts.
Jeff Duncan has pledged to vote NO unless both the House
and Senate pass a Balanced Budget Amendment. A Balanced
Budget Amendment is not likely! It will require a 2/3 vote
and then ratification by 3/4 of the states.

Anti-War Lyrics

Consider this anti-war song by Pete Seeger from the 1960s:
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone? Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone? Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Where have all the young men gone? Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone? Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone? Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone? Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn?

It is a beautiful song, but it is false!:
All the flowers were not picked.
All the young girls did not marry.
All the young men did not become soldiers.
All the soldiers did not die.
The absurd, futile cycle portrayed is false.

A Progressive Utopia

Unionized public-sector employment is the distilled essence
of the left's moral ideal. No one has to worry about making
a profit. Generous health-care and retirement benefits are
provided to everyone by the government. Comfortable pay is
mandated by legislative fiat. The work rules are militantly
egalitarian: pay, promotion, and job security are almost
totally independent of actual job performance. And because
everyone works for the government, they never have to worry
that their employer will go out of business.

In short, public employment is an idealized socialist economy
in miniature, including its political aspect: the grateful
recipients of government largesse provide money and
organizational support to re-elect the politicians who shower
them with all of these benefits.

Know America's Founding Principles

As a nation, we have lost our understanding of America's
founding principles and, as a result, have become increasingly
ill-prepared to defend the superiority of those principles.
This puts us at a distinct disadvantage in being able to
identify, let alone understand and confront, hostile
doctrines - both foreign and domestic.
The United States of America is an idea embodied in our
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. We need to
re-read on a regular basis - at least every 4th of July -
and remember these founding principles.

Loss of Manufacturing Jobs

Assume that Z, Inc builds a new factory to manufacture widgets.
There are many construction jobs created in order to build the
factory. When the construction is complete, those jobs are
“lost.”
With input from the workers, innovative ideas are used to make
the manufacturing process more safe and efficient. Dangerous
and repetitive work is automated. Productivity increases.
Some of this increase is due to workers becoming more skilled
in their assigned functions. Most of the increase is due to
automation. The workers should be paid more for the
productivity increases due to their increased skill. The
investors should be paid more for the productivity increases
due to their investment in automation. With continued
productivity increases the number of widgets required to meet
demand can be manufactured with fewer workers. Jobs are “lost.”
If workers demand higher wages than justified by their share of
the productivity increases, then management may decide to
increase automation or rebuild the factory where wages are lower.
Either way, jobs are “lost.”
This is a simplified description of how manufacturing matures
and how jobs are lost. I have known this since I read Future
Shock four decades ago. Those who have a vested interest in
wages would deny it and say that management and investors are
greedy. It is a simplified description because it ignores tax
policy, the effect of government regulation, competition from X
and Y, Inc and foreign companies and many other variables.
It is not a catastrophe to lose jobs in labor-intensive
industries – except to low-skilled workers – while higher-paying
jobs are created in high-tech, high-touch industries like
computers and medicine. The jobs are not “shipped overseas,”
but the manufacturing matured. China and India, with billions
more workers have lower wages because of the much greater
supply of available, skilled labor.

The Roots of Obama's Rage - D'Souza

Barack Obama, Sr grew up in the British colony of Kenya.
Barry's (Jr) stepdad, Lolo Soetoro grew up in the Dutch
colony of Indonesia. Both father and stepfather were
anti-colonialists. They believed that nations have become
rich on the backs of their colonies; i.e. the “rich” have
become rich at the expense of the poor.
Barry is multiracial and multicultural. He is mulatto,
the son of a black father and a white mother. He grew
up in Hawaii and Indonesia. Barry only met has father once.
He was 10 years old and living in Hawaii. His first book is
Dreams From My Father published in 1995 and again 2005.
To illustrate how his ideology governs policy, Barry
used the BP oil spill to prohibit drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico. At the same time, the U.S. Export-Import Bank offered
$2 billion in loans and guarantees to Brazil's state-controlled
oil country Petrobras for offshore drilling.

Notice to School Boards

You are responsible for the education of children in Aiken
County. Part of that responsibility is to protect them
from error. We have seen a lack of integrity among
scientists involved in “Climategate” where data was selected
to prove a premise. There are great rewards such as grants
– and even Oscars and Nobel Prizes for politicians who sell
the false premise.
I received my Master of Science degree in 1969
(U. of Missouri), so I have decades of experience in the
scientific world. The recent lack of integrity among
scientists is not isolated to the global warming scam.
Those scientists who believe in the evolution idea have
actively suppressed data which questions the idea. I do
not call the evolution idea a theory because it is not
science. No “theory” of origins may be science, because
science is about observations, hypotheses and repeatable
experiments by peers.
John Dewey signed the first Humanist Manifesto in
1933. It states that “The universe is self-existing and
not created.” He was at Columbia University training
teachers. Humanist ideas have become embedded in both
teachers and textbooks that they have written.
My Bible tells me that Jesus Christ created
everything. To teach otherwise is to deny Him. My Bible
also tells me that those who deny Him will spend eternity
in the lake of fire. You may be a born-again believer,
but, if you even passively allow error to be taught by
those under your control, you will soon answer to God for
that failure. To whom much is given, much is expected.