Quick Action (NOT!)

Well, THAT didn't take long.

USA not pulling back on its involvement in Libya.  Herm...O-man keeping his promises or at least doing what he says?  Noooooooooooooo...that's for common folk, and after all, he's important!  He's the most talented orator since FDR!

Wired's assessment?   "As they stand up, we sit down [to stay a long while]."  It's just the current doctrine of intervention by force is more like a bad game of musical chairs.  Would someone finally shut off the music, permanently? 

USA Screwed & FedGov Budget

Next time you debate someone on military spending versus entitlement programs and how the former instead of the latter is bankrupting us, make sure they see this chart.

Yep, that's right, 58% of all Tax Revenue AND federal borrowings go to fund social security, medicare/medicaid, and unemployment insurance / other entitlements.  Defense, a mere 20% of the total budget (or roughly $700 billion) amounts to only 32% of total tax revenues.  This shows that defense spending, though large and impressive and still as much or more than all other countries' combined spending, is NOT a large number when compared to social programs.  Defense budget moaners and code pink members please take note that building planes, manning ships, and fighting foreign wars of aggression would be fully funded and met without sending us further into debt all by itself.  Unfortunately propping up failing social programs that rely upon an ever growing society just can't make that argument.  Further, this graphic shows just how large and damaging Obama's budget deficits truly are.

Once the morons whom get this education via these pie charts, I urge them to take the full crash course found here (or here).

Last, just for the record to all those enviro-wackos out there...please realize that since you champion reduced populations the world over, you need to make a sacrifice of a reduction in people or a reduction in welfare.  Returning to a popular theme around the globe, It's ALL ABOUT Demo(graphic)s!  The USA currently produces about 2.1 children per adult, which is the bare minimum for population growth.  (Actually, it is the threshold for population maintenance / growth).  Since most of the social programs are funded via taking revenues from working and young people (those paying into the system), an aging and or stagnant population trend turns the traditional pyramid scheme upside down (since the tax base will be the same at best or declining at worst).  

Obama has gotten one thing of his presidency right, he has certainly brought us change.

Spanish Festival Obama Effegy

When other countries start to make Cinderella effigies of you (which they then torch at their annual festival), something tells me the bloom is off the rose.

Pres That Would Restore Standing, Reinforces More World Sitting

Gibbs already jumped ship, and now that Hillary-Girl is set to do the same, it would seem that the greatest president to form a coalition of the willing since President Lincoln, might be loosing a little bit of polish on the turd. 

In recent weeks we have seen the President's ability to be a fluid and dynamic decision maker in the face of the chaotic world simply be, well, simple, ineffective, and uninformed.  Therefore, it comes as no surprise that the foreign media is really taking him to task on his lack of leadership.  (Perhaps they can take him to task on his golf habit, or his success and failure at picking the NCAA B-Ball Champs).

Something tells me that the geopolitical-economic crises will continue to degrade over the next 2 years as we wait for the worst president ever to finally leave office.  Let us just hope that someone on the other side of the political isle isn't completely stupid and wants to push the non-crisis solving issues of right-wing social issues (you know like gay marriage, abortion, and God in schools).  Serious reforms are needed now as our republic hangs on the debt cliff before we can worry about spending political capital on the outlier issues.

I know what the response will be "but Reagan didn't compromise on his principles!"  Ahhh, yeah he kinda did at times, and further, no one is saying that we should abandon those principles, we just shouldn't die on our own swords at this time.  Retreat in war, while sometimes construed as cowardice, is in fact a smart (and or) diversionary tactic.  The namesake of this blog has a famous quote:

A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week. 

As General Patton explains, we have good plans now to fix the major issue, and we should NOT wait to execute them to perfectly execute one with the social issues. 

"Miss Me Yet?" Bush vs. Obama Opinion Poll

And the opinion is a statistical tie!  Meaning, that the current President enjoys a 47% to 45% "approval" advantage over his predecessor according to a CNN / Opinion Research Corporation survey released earlier today.  That two point margin is down from one that was 23% roughly one year earlier. 

I suppose it is safe to say that the bloom is finally off the rose?