Wednesday, January 20, 2010

NEW AMERICAN SPENDING HABITS - A SUGGESTION

Our money - that which is still left after our government chops off what it wants - is our money, the tangible reward for our life energy expenditures. We get to decide how to spend it. Your Ostrich Killer, disgusted with what he's seen transpire over the last year or so, has decided to take action by voting with his slim wallet. The contents of his wallet will go to those businesses which operate without any government 'investment'.

Take the examples of Government Motors (formerly General Motors) and Chrysler. The Federal Government owns substantial part of each of those companies. The Poser in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, personally fired the CEO of GM. Where in hell was the Constitutional uproar over that? The Federal Government has Board of Directors presence and tight oversight of both those companies, all in the name of protecting taxpayer money (spent to buy those companies so they wouldn't fail and thereby throw thousands of UAW workers out into the street where they belong.)

So using just the examples of GM and Chrysler, your Ostrich Killer will buy neither GM nor Chrysler products. As he does his research, he will find out whether other companies are owned in part by the Federal Government. And he won't buy.

The goal here is to help bring about the demise of any company in which the Federal Government takes any ownership or directorship authority. The touch of the Federal Government should eventually become an automatic kiss of death. Business belongs in the hands of entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats. They need to operate from cash reserves, not taxpayer dollars. They need to produce products that do well in the market place, not products that the government wants to force us to use.

For a broader approach to accomplishing the same thing, your Ostrich Killer will spend no money with any business that voluntarily took TARP money. Period. Real simple. For an outdated but representative discussion of TARP and a list of some recipients, you can check Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARP

THE 2010 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS

Incumbent Democrats in Congress who are running for re-election this year have to be wondering about the answer to this question: if a Republican can win handily in a state where the history and conventional wisdom says the Democrat should win in a landslide, what does that imply about Congressional elections in states where those races are generally closer?

Since the answer is pretty obvious, that means a second question is necessary: how do incumbent Democrats improve their chances of re-election?

Here are some possible answers to that one:
1. Change parties in both name, rhetoric and voting habits, or
2. just change their voting on spending, taxing and social re-engineering issues, or
3. lie loudly and often enough to do what Obama did - fool the electorate.
4. Recognize that their rhetoric and voting record are irrefutable and unescapable, and not run for re-election.

The electorate can be fooled. One can point to any number of examples of that, only the latest and most egregious of which is the poser Barack Hussein Obama. So your Ostrich Killer will make a prediction: we, the American electorate, will see all four choices attempted. But being once burned, we will be twice shy of anyone with a 'Democrat' or 'Liberal' label.

The new Congress will have a new agenda: how to get started dismantling all the harm that was done by the outgoing Congress. I'd suggest using a sledge hammer would be a good beginning.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

VOTER FRAUD - WHAT'S THE PENALTY?

Something has sat at the back of your friendly Ostrich Killer's brain for years, eating away, and finally it came out and made itself known. It's the question: what is the penalty for a person voting illegally? That means voting when not a citizen, when not registered, or more than once. The operative word is illegal, right?

Near as I've been able to find out, although there are laws against fraud, there is no penalty in practice. State elections committees rarely, if ever, prosecute. Courts are busy with real crimes, we're told, such as marijuana possession and child support cases.

Fraud of the above sort should be prosecuted and punished. Breaking that law when casting votes for federal office would be a federal felony, complete with a federal conviction if found guilty. We're talking prison here, not just a piddling fine that the local Democratic campaign committee will happily pay. What is more precious to an American citizen than their right to vote? Yet that right receives almost no legal protection.

Anyone who thinks as your Ostrich Killer does on this matter might consider passing along their thoughts to their representatives in Congress.