My T.O. list... rapid fire!

Oh my, where to begin with all of the stuff going on. I was stumped, so I decided I would make a list of the stuff this week that was just outrageous to me (politically) and give you a quick hits list.

- Our newly appointed Attorney General, who had issues during confirmation because of his involvement in the Clinton pardon scandals, said that we are a "nation of COWARDS" when it comes to race. Hello? I thought the election of Barack Obama was deemed as the beginning of post-racial America. This irritates me to know end! Personally I don’t care if a person it black, white, Hispanic, oriental, Asian, or anything else; if the person is fun to hang out with and can have a decent conversation then we’re cool. It seems to me that 90% of the country is OVER race. They just don’t care! The other 10% is racist, not because they despise or prefer any certain race, but because they CAN’T STOP OBSESSING ABOUT IT!!

- President Obama talking DOWN our economy. This is not the Great Depression! 8% unemployment is nothing like 30%. This is not the worst economy since the 1930s, although if you keep beating it down it WILL BE. I thought America voted for HOPE over FEAR? There is only ONE reason I can think of that a leader would use the bully pulpit to BEAT THE HOPE out of our economy and that is to advance his own agenda. That is pathetic and it makes me mad.

- The non-stimulating stimulus. Just a mental check here. If legislation passes that is going to help our economy, what happens? The indicators for the future of our economy suddenly go up, right? What is the greatest indicator/predictor of where our economy is going? THE STOCK MARKET. Investors not only PREDICT what will happen with our economy, they actually BET on it. They put their MONEY where their HOPE is and guess what? They have no hope in the future off our economy right now because the course our government is on has been historically proven to be WRONG for the economy.

- Inflation. I’ve mentioned it before and here it comes, you keep interest rates too low for too long and throw money into the system like it’s a bottomless pit, and in an economy where we import most things, you are going to have inflation. So now it’s coming. Add onto that the recent implementation of the new anti-lead bill that just took effect on kids’ toys and the budget for a family with four kids just took a kick in the groin. By the way, this same legislation just killed a whole industry that produced dirt bikes for kids… because the MOTORS have lead in them! WHAT?! And every toy that is made for kids will soon have to have EVERY COMPONENT of the toy tested for lead by an independent company. Just think of how expensive NEXT Christmas is going to be! Hope the circuit board in your Xbox didn’t contain tin-lead solder. That’s dangerous, because after all a kid could open that up and LICK the printed circuit boards. COME ON PEOPLE!!!

- Our freedoms eroding. The EPA is now actually considering a 2 year old court ruling that says it should evaluate whether or not CO2 should be regulated. Hmm… I wonder how the Lib’s investigation of that will go? Soon they will be regulating how much you can drive, how many kids you can have, how much you can exercise, and whether or not you can even go to a certain city, because after all there are too many CO2 producing people there already. You might have to get on a waiting list. They have already talked about new taxes on COWS, taxing you for every MILE you drive, regulating how often you can take an airplane… at this point we should all go out and buy horses… but they would probably slap a tax on that too.

- Members of Congress and leadership that don’t follow the STINKING TAX LAWS THAT THEY WROTE AND ARE IN CHARGE OF ADMINISTERING!!! Hello? If President Obama really wanted to boost the revenues to the Treasury and make a move that would send his popularity through the roof, he would request that the IRS perform an audit of all members of Congress. Just in appointing cabinet members he was able to collect on almost a quarter of a million in back taxes. Just think how much we could get auditing all 535 members of Congress?

I feel better now… okay not really, because all of these things have the potential to get worse before they get better. Buckle your seatbelts people, this could be a rough four years. Let just hope we can get some real conservatives (not R.I.N.O.s but CONSERVATIVES) in the Congress in 2010.