Posted by
William D. Dannenmaier on Friday, January 22, 2010 12:17:36 PM
I continue to like Sarah Palin: many don’t. For me, in ideal ticket for the Republican Party in 2012 would be Dr. Walter E. Williams for President and Sarah Palin for Vice President. I have great respect for Dr. Williams as an economist, and we greatly need someone in charge who knows something about economics and I just plain like Palin. This would cause considerable turmoil in liberal minds: the Republicans nominating a Black for President and a woman for Vice President!
My son Stephen says he would accept Dr. Williams, but would prefer Dr. Thomas Sowell also a nationally known economist. I could accept that. I just wish one of those two would run for the Presidency. Think of the uniqueness of having someone with intelligence, knowledge and integrity for President! Of course the Liberals (Socialists? Statists?) would argue that neither Williams nor Sowell was a true Black. After all, they grew up in poor Black neighborhoods during the depression and earned their doctorates before the advent of affirmative action. What do they know about American Blacks? Obama spent his early years in a Muslim school in Indonesia and, when deserted by his mother as well as his father and step-father, he retreated to live with wealthy grandparents in Hawaii, attend an expensive private school and claim affirmative action credentials as an Indonesian in college. That is why he understands American Blacks.
This repudiation by our socialist liberals of Williams or Sowell would fit their current argument that Palin was not a real woman. After all she has five children, a husband who loves her and has worked her way up in politics beginning as a member of the school board. Real Women have an abortion or two and become successful in government jobs or business, based at least partly on marrying wealthy men or, if I can judge from their pictures, on their looks.
I received notice today that my Social Security retirement this year would not be increased because of the lack of growth in the economy this year – Bush’s fault I suppose. I expected this from news articles, but if the economy doesn’t support a 2% increase in my retirement benefits, how does it support the 2% increase in wages for federal workers? Not to mention, of course, the reported millions of dollars in bonuses being given out to federal employees. Putting this together with the Obama Care plan to take several billion dollars away from Medicare, which I and all other retirees have paid for over the years and continue to pay for, I can only think of one answer. Obama really does want to dispose of the elderly, counting everyone who is retired, other than the automobile union workers, as elderly.
Bubble, bubble, still more trouble! President Obama is urging banks to relax requirements and give more loans. Not long ago, while Bush was President, a Democratic congress passed legislation to force banks to give easier loans and the Bush administration supported it. It worked. Under threat of punishment banks gave easier loans. An economic bubble was created that led to the housing bust. Now, having given banks millions of tax dollars to save them from the “Bush” bust, Obama is urging banks to give easier loans. Do I see another bubble coming?
When the price of gasoline hit 4$ a gallon, people were crying to harvest the oil in Alaska, the United States western states and off shore. The political, Democratic, response was that it would take ten years to get that oil, we should have drilled for it ten years earlier (when Carter was President). Now, watching the price of oil edge upward, I’m really glad our Democratic Congress supported drilling two years ago when gas was 4$ a gallon. Or did they? Sometimes I wonder if those who call Obama a Muslim are right. We spend hundreds of millions of dollars on oil from the Muslim nations, keeping their people employed and wealthy. If we would drill in our own nation it would reduce our unemployment problem, make our nation wealthier and lower the price of gasoline, which would give people more money to spend on other things. For whom are Obama and our elected Democrats working?
I confess to being amused by the general in charge of troops in Iraq. Complaining that he is losing too many female soldiers to pregnancy, he has made pregnancy a court martial offense with prison time threatened. What did the military expect when they put boys and girls in their twenties together in distant places? When Sheila and I worked at Fort Devens, the women soldiers were very open in saying that if they were assigned to someplace dangerous, or even one the they didn’t want, they would simply get pregnant. Perhaps we should only allow women who are lesbians in the military.