Category Archives: Politics

I’ve always loved this quote from Eleanor Roosevelt (check my quotes page): Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. I’m watching the Republican Debate right now on Fox News — yet all I hear is “Obama this” and “Obama that”, along with pointless bickering back and forth between Perry and Romney. I’m not really hearing any ideas actually discussed. You can make your own conclusions…

I absolutely love this quote from Fred Wilson on the jobs issue… We can sit around arguing about how to solve the jobs issue in this country or we can do something about it.

When the hell will politicians make decisions based on the issue at hand rather than “politics”? Bottom line to politicians: You are not elected to keep your party in office. You’re elected to govern and improve this country. Go do that and quit this pointless back and forth bickering that serves no purpose.

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again What are you smoking Michele? Seriously, who says something like that? I guess the fact that a Presidential candidate made an absurd promise they can not keep shouldn’t surprise me anymore. Is it just me, or could the political system in the US use a massive influx of non-salesmen/women? I’m tired of hearing candidates sell crap they can’t deliver to the American people. On a list of dumbest quotes politicians have ever muttered publicly, this has got to be near the top of the list.

Interest owed on the federal debt is 1,000,000,000 (billion) every 46 hours Really? Pardon my French, but are you fucking kidding me? Sorry, the national debt is one of the things that just makes me sick to my stomach every time I think about it. Why does no one bat an eye when they think about this? I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t sit well with me that we’re going to be leaving future generations with a monstrous debt — that’s getting worse, NOT better, by the day — they have to deal with. And that’s most certainly going to happen unless people start voting for politicians who will act in the long … Continue reading →

I really don’t understand why we’re spending another $59 billion on our wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. No amount of money is going to win those wars. The government should just realize what we’ve spent already is a sunk cost that can’t be recovered rather than continuing to throw money at the problem. Why not put that $59 billion towards green energy, poverty alleviation, health care, infrastructure projects in the US, or even paying off some of our massive massive debt? But that’s just my 2 cents

We all know the United States is beyond addicted to oil; that’s a known fact. However, who benefits the most from that addiction? BusinessPundit has an article I wanted to highlight here (The Unquenchable Thirst: Taxing America’s Oil Addiction) that says: The government profits even more from our oil addiction than the super-rich oil companies do. Here’s the visual: Honestly, we need to SOMEHOW cut this addiction. The world’s oil supply won’t last forever.