Who Would Have Believed The Singularity Would Be So Stupid?: Funny, I thought they were non kinetic domestic contingency operations

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Funny, I thought they were non kinetic domestic contingency operations

The president also called for undoing the Bush tax cuts for upper-income taxpayers, and for canceling other tax cuts many of them receive such as the mortgage interest deduction — items that instead of labeling “tax increases” he called “spending reductions in the tax code.”

READ IT ALL

Ryan on these ideas:

‘Dramatically Inaccurate, and Hopelessly Inadequate’
“When the President reached out to ask us to attend his speech, we were expecting an olive branch. Instead, his speech was excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate, and hopelessly inadequate to address our fiscal crisis. What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our commander-in-chief; we heard a political broadside from our campaigner-in-chief.

“Last year, in the absence of a serious budget, the President created a Fiscal Commission. He then ignored its recommendations and omitted any of its major proposals from his budget, and now he wants to delegate leadership to yet another commission to solve a problem he refuses to confront.

“We need leadership, not a doubling down on the politics of the past. “

If this is about winning votes it is the destruction of america.

The president’s faux ‘kindness’ over not touching Medicare is a prescription for no Medicare for anyone while efforting the benefit of not scaring seniors. The president’s plan is for a panic in health care because he REALLY believes that there will be less heartlessness, and more savings in govt admin than in the seeking of profit by insurance companies. Have you ever heard anything so stupid as a theory such as this? Medicare as we know it CANNOT SURVIVE. The attempt to make it so guarantees no health care for anyone.

On defense while REAL adversaries grow in capability and grow in their unknown and inimical intentions, Obama, who wants another 400 billion in defense cuts, famously began in 2008 with a video promise to CUT missile defense (a weapon which cannot harm a single person, and is useless except against missiles already launched against you). He then presided over the decision to reduce the Air Force’s air supremacy fighters from 751 to 187 (186 left now). The F-16 replacement (3000 F-35’s to replace 5500 F-16’s) has not yet even BEGUN manufacturing.

And on the sea…

The Decline of U.S. Naval Power
Sixty ships were commonly underway in America’s seaward approaches in 1998, but today there are only 20. We are abdicating our role on the oceans.
By MARK HELPRIN
Last week, pirates attacked and executed four Americans in the Indian Ocean. We and the Europeans have endured literally thousands of attacks by the Somali pirates without taking the initiative against their vulnerable boats and bases even once. Such paralysis is but a symptom of a sickness that started some time ago.
The 1968 film, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” suggested that in another 30 years commercial flights to the moon, extraterrestrial mining, and interplanetary voyages would be routine. Soon the United States would send multiple missions to the lunar surface, across which astronauts would speed in vehicles. If someone born before Kitty Hawk’s first flight would shortly after retirement see men riding around the moon in an automobile, it was reasonable to assume that half again as much time would bring progress at a similarly dazzling rate.
It didn’t work out that way. In his 1962 speech at Rice University, perhaps the high-water mark of both the American Century and recorded presidential eloquence, President Kennedy framed the challenge not only of going to the moon but of sustaining American exceptionalism and this country’s leading position in the world. He was assassinated a little more than a year later, and in subsequent decades American confidence went south.
Not only have we lost our enthusiasm for the exploration of space, we have retreated on the seas. Up to 30 ships, the largest ever constructed, each capable of carrying 18,000 containers, will soon come off the ways in South Korea. Not only will we neither build, own, nor man them, they won’t even call at our ports, which are not large enough to receive them. We are no longer exactly the gem of the ocean. Next in line for gratuitous abdication is our naval position.

READ IT ALL AT WSJ. What can one imagine is going on the minds of those in Teheran, Moscow, Peking, Tel Aviv, Paris, Berlin, London, Gaza, Beirut? Confused friends, hungry wolves, some aimless, some questing, all wondering….

Yesterday Amity Shlaes outlined how even people like Ryan eventually suggest, nominate and vote for ideas they, like Secretary Mellon feel will make things worse because the nation has simply gone too far down the road to horror, and no other alternatives remain, but to hope against hope.

We have reached a point where serious people need to step up with HONEST BLACK TEA AND COFFEE SOLUTIONS and to enunciate them for the American people, who are not only ready to listen, but have their own individual problems to solve.

We don’t want anyone to starve, be homeless, or be left wanting for what is needed in America. Be we NEED to avoid having that desire be the cause of our END, in which case all those left wanting get trampled to death.