10 lbs of baby boy and a mother’s love…

I remember back when I was in Army basic training I was listening to one of my drill sergeants rail about some task that we as a squad did not complete in a timely enough fashion and how it was curtains for the free world because of our sluggardness, when he said something rather profound.  In a loud commanding voice, that reached a decibel that seems reserved only for drill sergeants, he bellowed out “there are only two people who love you in this world, God and your mama…neither which are here at the moment!” At which point we were introduced to the front leaning rest (push-ups) where I could have the time to reflect on what he said.

And he spoke the truth (well not about God…He’s with me always).  But mom wasn’t there to take care of me that day, I was my own man and the point was we were on or own.  I’ve often joked with my mom that God gave me to her to humble her. What I mean by that is very simply how night and day my sister and I are in personality. My sister was the quiet type of baby, always soaking in her surroundings…very content on being quiet and doing her own little thing or just watching the world. She was the type of baby that would fuss for a minute or two, uttering a few cries to let mom know she was hungry, or needed to be changed, or was disturbed by something. Had she done something wrong a simple dissatisfied glare  was enough to put an end to any shenanigans. Which is where I like to tease my mom. God saw my mom’s pride since my sister was the perfect child and decided to test her. Thus, He gave her a son. A loud, boisterous, rambunctious little ball of energy. Oh, and by little ball of energy I mean 10 lbs of baby boy.

I have wondered before if my mom would have known the challenge God was about to present her that stormy night some 30 odd years ago  in the form of a son if she would have thought twice about expanding the family.

In various discussions with people I’ve had conversations with in life about God, inevitably I get asked two questions about Him: how do you know God exists and how do you know He loves you?  The first question is easy to answer in my book…I think Billy Graham summed it up best when he said “Can you see God? Have you ever seen Him? I’ve never seen the wind. I’ve seen the effects of the wind, but I’ve never seen the wind. There’s a mystery to it!” That’s a statement about faith.  If you seek the wind you will feel the effects and you realize what it is. Similar concept to God when you think about realizing that He does exist. He will and does reveal Himself to those who seek Him. The second question I’ve thought hard about. I could say things such as He sent His only Son to die for my sins and offer the gift of salvation. I could say He provides my daily needs such as a surprise reimbursement check when money is tight and the bills are due. These things are all true.  But here is a little way that I think everyone can understand…He gave us mothers. The characteristics of God show up in His construction of a mother’s love. Just a few of the very traits of God that He instilled in moms:

Patience = Love – Oh how I tested my mom’s patience growing up. A battle of wills.  My sister related a story about me not wanting to take a bath as a child. I fought with mom all the way…I didn’t see her rational thinking of needing to be clean if I was just going to go outside the next day and play in the dirt again. After much fussing, fidgeting and argument (and the threat of backup…dad) I finally took my bath. Other times I just didn’t want to do something and mom would “out-wait” me.  I mean, we’ve all been there staring at a plate of brussel spouts or some other green vegetable right? Mom knows it is something healthy that will build our bodies. We look at it and say it is green. Amazing what a little cheese will do for it though, yeah? We all do this (and I’m one of the chief offenders) with God. We do things our own ways, justify why we should or should not do something and go about our merry way. Ecclesiasties 7:8 says “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” God has patience in His dealings with us. He is slow to anger and bears much. He allows us to just act out sometimes, waiting for us to wear ourselves out, or vent our frustrations, and gently envelops us in His arms. That patience equals love. Your mother leads you with patience…that patience comes from love and ultimately leads to the greater matter of life. Exodus 15:13 tells us “In your unfailing love you will lead the people you have redeemed. In your strength you will guide them to your holy dwelling.” God leads us with patience, and that patience comes from an unfailing love.

Care – I had two years of my childhood robbed from me by a disease. I was bedridden for a little over 6 months and very restricted on activities after I was back on my feet. The thing is, I didn’t present with any symptoms. It was my mother’s knowledge of her child that pushed us off to the doctor. As a little one I enjoyed playing soccer. One season my mom noticed that I wasn’t as aggressive at running and active in the game. She also noticed that I tended to push up on pieces of furniture instead of just bouncing up the way children  often do. Although she asked if I was in pain and I would answer “no”, her mom sense went into overtime. For her, the care for her son came before friends, daily distractions, work or career. Mom knew her child. She had a connection that others can’t explain, and something that is reserved by God for the connection between mother and child. Because of my mom’s attention to her child and her actions, what could have crippled me for life was caught in time and I was able to grow up and be a healthy man. Just like a mother knows her child, God knows you. Pslam 139:13 says “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” Moving over to a smaller book that is often overlooked, Nahum 1:7 says  “The LORD is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him…” God’s got your back and best interest. As a child I couldn’t understand the full extent of what was happening to me. All I knew was I couldn’t walk. I had to trust in my mom that what she was doing was going to make me better. We have to trust God for our care.

Preparation – Let’s face it. A father loves his child, and he has a very serious role to play in the preparation of a child’s life (especially a boy’s). But a mother is a constant center of the child’s life. She guides and prepares them for success as well as failures by equipping them with the tools necessary to meet life’s challenges. My mom made me learn how to type. Oh I hated it at first. Especially when she would hold a piece of paper over my hands where I could no longer see the keys. I’d grumble, I’d moan. Never really understood how a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog would bring about the time for all good men to come to the aid of their county. But she kept after me. Today I almost take it for granted being able to type 75 words per minute, but often I am thankful for that preparation. I can do good work at the office because I have been taught. God prepares us by His instruction book the Bible. Scripture tells us in 2nd Timothy 3:16-17 “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.” God put moms in charge of building their babies in the womb, of developing them as a child and preparing them for life. People ask how does a mom do it? My mom did it with God’s Word. Best little instruction book ever.

Forgiveness – I’ve done many stupid things in my life. And I’ve been and disciplined. But I’ve also been forgiven time and time again by her love.  I got caught once throwing dirt clods at cars driving by. Something stupid and dangerous. I realized what I had done was dumb even by little boy standards. I still remember sitting on my bed thinking all that mom would do. The wrath of mom fussing and spanking the son that continually tried her patience. You know what, she surprised me. She calmly sat down and talked to me, explained what I did was wrong…accepted my apology and  forgave me. And it was topped off with a hug. God does that…from the smallest little infraction to the most heinous and horrible of evils. God is love and has not only the power but the sole authority to offer forgiveness. What makes it grand, is He’s already extended his forgiveness by sending His one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die for our sins. And what makes it best is it is FREE. Romans 6:23 tells us “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” and Ephesians 2:8 says “For it is by grace that you are saved through faith, it is the gift of God.” We  understand when our mother, who loves us, forgives us for doing things…why then are we surprised that God, whose love surpasses human understanding, is willing to forgive us if we just ask?

Discipline – Who likes to be disciplined? No one really enjoys it. But as you grow up 85% of your correction in your life up to age 18 most likely comes from your mother. Whether it is a stern no, a swift smack to the hand, pop on the derrière, or being grounded…as you grow you quickly realize the discipline comes and stems from love. It is there to provide correction out of care (whoah! a previous mentioned trait!) because she loves you and wants the best for you. She does not want harm to befall you and provides the “rod of correction” to ultimately keep you safe. One of my most favorite memories occurred in the family kitchen. I was frustrating my mom  (trying her patience perhaps?) and she remarked “you still aren’t too big to spank”. I quipped “oh can you reach that high?” We both fell about laughing because I tower over my mother a full foot and some change. But the point was although she used her patience, care and forgiveness more than her discipline it was still a part of the love she had for me. It just so happens that my discipline happened to be a paddle that she cut the little string and red bouncy ball off. Side note…I think there are millions of little red balls all over America that have an elastic string attached to them and are missing their paddle home. I think I’ll market just the paddle and save moms all over the world from having to cut the string and make millions on the act of spanking. The Father loves you enough to discipline you as well when you begin to step too far out of line. I know, I’ve been there. But Scripture is clear about God’s love for us through discipline. Proverbs 29:15 says “The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother”. And Job 5:17 tells me “Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty”. God’s correction arises from His patience, care, preparation and forgiveness for us.

I couldn’t begin to fathom the thoughts that went through Mary’s head as she watched Christ freely give His life on that rugged cross. But take a moment to look at her love for her baby boy. While almost all others had forsaken Him, denied Him, cursed Him, spat at and on Him, beaten Him and mocked Him and deserted Him…she stood at the cross…I can only imagine doing her best to comfort Him just by being there. I can only imagine as the tears flowed from her eyes watching Christ die she wanted Him to know she loved him with all that a human mother’s heart could offer.

Now magnify that by eternity and you just begin to taste the love God the Father and Jesus Christ have for you. When people ask me to prove God exists in some way, I just say look at our moms. It’s about as close to a physical example of His love as we will get. When you are a child and you cry out your mother’s ears draw her to you to provide comfort, protection, and the warmth of her loving arms wrapped around you. God stands ready and His ears are always attentive and ready for you to call out to Him. Call out to Jesus. Cry out to Him. And He will draw nigh. Just as with your mother, the bottom line of your actions, your mistakes, your misdeeds, your faults, your failures, God the Father and Jesus Christ still love you and will not forsake you. Just as with your mother, your joys, your successes, your accomplishments are things that God takes pleasure in providing you and equipping you to achieve. God has unfathomable patience  and love for you, unsurpassed care for your well-being, forgiveness is always freely offered, and the guiding rod to shepherd you to success bringing glory to His name.

So on this mother’s day take a moment to reflect all the things our mother’s do for us. But more importantly take time to think about what God has done for you. If you have questions please feel free to contact me on the “about” page. I am always willing to talk to anyone about what I believe and why I believe.

I love you mom. Thanks for showing me God’s love in physical form, for the patience you’ve shown me. The care you’ve always given. The forgiveness even when not deserved. And the corrective rod…err paddle…when needed. You gave me the building blocks to become the man I have today. But most importantly, thank you for taking the time to introduce me to Jesus. He saved my life.

Love from your 10lbs baby boy.

~Kryptikos

Isaiah 66:13  “As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”

P.S.  Sorry mom, couldn’t resist and thought these little cartoons were appropriate…they made me chuckle. Especially the first one. Does it sound familiar? 

Mourning The Loss Of A Dear Friend…

I came across this obituary of a dear friend. I miss him. But watching our Federal government operate…the deficits increasing, companies and people demanding to be bailed out from what their greed and bad financial decisions caused them (”Hey! I make 50,000 a year I can afford a Cadillac Escalade and a $350,000 mortgage!”). Oh, and now I hear that the Department of Homeland Security now considers people with conservative values (specifically those against abortion) as threats to the United States! By golly, Islam is a religion of peace and therefore pro-life Christians are the evil radicals! Those against illegal immigration? Terrorists! Those coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan? Terrorists! I’m going to post something more about the DHS report once I’ve had a chance to fully read it (I’ve downloaded my copy). Wake up America…we are letting a faction of elitists and the lazy burn this great nation. ~Kryptikos

Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:

Knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird gets the worm; Life isn’t always fair; and maybe it was my fault.

Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don’t spend more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.

Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.

Common Sense declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.

Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses; and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn’t defend yourself from a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.

Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.

Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, Truth and Trust, his wife, Discretion, his daughter, Responsibility and his son, Reason.

He is survived by his 4 stepbrothers;

I Know My Rights

I Want It Now

Someone Else Is To Blame

I’m A Victim

Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing.

From The ‘That’s Messed Up’ Tax Category…

Taxes are due on Wednesday. This is the first time in a long time that I did not wait till the last possible second to send in my taxes to Uncle Pork. As I was surfing I stumbled across this:

What the?? You can claim your kidnapped child as a tax deduction? There is just all sorts of something wrong with that.

~Kryptikos

No Internet? Meet…Google Classic

I read today about how our fabulous government will neither confirm nor deny whether our country’s power grid has been hacked and compromised by the Republic of “Who? What? Us? Never!” China and The Federation of “We know exactly where all of our nuclear materials are” Russian States. The government doesn’t inspire much confidence these days…and I got to thinking about what would happen if the power grid did go down to to war, or if the Chinese government just got tired of the US paying its bills with IOUs that they just up and turned the lights off until we paid up? How would I be able to surf the inter-web! I would miss out on all those millions of uploaded you-tube video clips! How would I search for anything?!

Then I came across this picture…and I thought to myself…boy, American ingenuity at work! Yeah! We may not have electricity in that moment of crisis, but with good ol’ American know how and elbow grease our and we can still avoid having to go to the library! We have Google, Google Video, Google Images, iGoogle, Gmail, Google News and a host of other Googlebits….but now we have *key introductory music* Google Classic! Tah Da!

Made me chuckle. Hope it does you as well.

Google Classic

~Kryptikos

2 Peter 1:5  “For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;”

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

Interesting title to my post. What’s more interesting is who said it. It wasn’t a gun-toting NRA member, or some famous American general…it was Vladmir Lenin. For those of you who may not recognize that name, Lenin was the leader of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and founder of the Russian Communist Party. It is safe to say that Lenin, Marx, Stalin and other passionate socialists believed in a large government that controlled every facet of the citizenry lives. Question the government and you ultimately were punished in some fashion or simply disappeared. A government that does not fear the people is a government that rules with impunity, by corruption and by the rules enacted by the select “elites” that decide what said rules will be.

Since the post-Obama election I’ve noticed a very scary trend in America. The Federal government is getting larger and larger right along with growing more powerful…and more so at an alarming rate. It is beginning to dictate to the people what will be allowed (remember the 90% tax on corporate bonuses?) and those in power are using the circumstances of the day to consolidate their power and push an alarming social agenda…the exact opposite of what the founding fathers of this great nation intended. I’ve noticed if you disagree you are ridiculed and mocked as one who is not “progressive” or suddenly you are labeled a racist, or bigot or some other derogatory and evil term. Since when did it become a gross infraction to question the government and our leaders?  The Obama administration and the other elitists in Congress have begun to use the circumstances of the day to push their large and controlling socialist agendas. They are pushing so much so fast it has essentially become a shell game. Which coconut do you watch as they rapidly move them all around? It has become near impossible to focus on which one has the ball. And that’s what they are counting on as they ram-rod their power consolidation plays through the government.

Recently the coconut shell to advocate more gun control is being moved as quickly as possible. The biggest proponents of this are the usual uber-liberal “progressive”  power establishment, such as Senator Kerry, President Obama, Senator Boxer, Congresswoman Feinstein, Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd. The latest rallying claim is that 90% of the guns used in the drug violence on the Mexico/United States border orginated in the United States! These are not just normal handguns or sporting rifles they are talking about, rather the weapons being used by the drug cartels are military grade guns. So this accomplishes two things for these liberal Democrats. One, it blames America…and if America is to blame, then it is up to the government to find the solution and correct it. Two, it allows them to present the claim that America has too many guns and therefore more legislation controlling guns must be enacted as to who may have a weapon with government approval (or taxation)…and rest assured you won’t have government approval as an ordinary citizen.

90% is a pretty significant number. But then again, I have never trusted the Mexican government to be fully forthcoming let alone accurate with the amount of corruption that lives and breathes there. So the large media conglomerates pick up and report these “facts” in a method that helps their darling chosen ones to give the appearance that more gun control is what’s needed.  As usual, a large government will spin and distort the facts to give credence to their claims and action towards the people. But I’m suspect of the 90%. So doing some research you quickly find how they came up with 90% of the guns used by the drug cartels arrived from America:

“In 2007-2008, according to ATF Special Agent William Newell, Mexico submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing. Close to 6,000 were successfully traced — and of those, 90 percent — 5,114 to be exact, according to testimony in Congress by William Hoover — were found to have come from the U.S.”

Interesting. So while the liberals scream 90%, you have to pare that down and look at the real statistics. That’s 11,000 guns submitted by Mexico. And the 90% represent the number that were actually successfully traced to the United States. The journalists who reported the ATF facts went on further to delve and find that:

But in those same two years, according to the Mexican government, 29,000 guns were recovered at crime scenes.

In other words, 68 percent of the guns that were recovered were never submitted for tracing. And when you weed out the roughly 6,000 guns that could not be traced from the remaining 32 percent, it means 83 percent of the guns found at crime scenes in Mexico could not be traced to the U.S.

So, if not from the U.S., where do they come from? There are a variety of sources:

– The Black Market. Mexico is a virtual arms bazaar, with fragmentation grenades from South Korea, AK-47s from China, and shoulder-fired rocket launchers from Spain, Israel and former Soviet bloc manufacturers.

– Russian crime organizations. Interpol says Russian Mafia groups such as Poldolskaya and Moscow-based Solntsevskaya are actively trafficking drugs and arms in Mexico.

- South America. During the late 1990s, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) established a clandestine arms smuggling and drug trafficking partnership with the Tijuana cartel, according to the Federal Research Division report from the Library of Congress.

– Asia. According to a 2006 Amnesty International Report, China has provided arms to countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Chinese assault weapons and Korean explosives have been recovered in Mexico.

– The Mexican Army. More than 150,000 soldiers deserted in the last six years, according to Mexican Congressman Robert Badillo. Many took their weapons with them, including the standard issue M-16 assault rifle made in Belgium.

– Guatemala. U.S. intelligence agencies say traffickers move immigrants, stolen cars, guns and drugs, including most of America’s cocaine, along the porous Mexican-Guatemalan border. On March 27, La Hora, a Guatemalan newspaper, reported that police seized 500 grenades and a load of AK-47s on the border. Police say the cache was transported by a Mexican drug cartel operating out of Ixcan, a border town.

So 83% could not be traced to the United States. But 90% sounds and gives a greater voice impact when presenting it to the American public that this is why the government needs to act.

The point I have here is that too many people are just letting the government and those with a large socialist agenda get by with their statements. It’s like William James said, “There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.” These individuals (elitists), who believe they know what’s best for you and will decide for you, believe that big government is the answer and not personal responsibility. To do that they need to control the population. Ultimately the only way to control a population is to tell a lie often enough that the people begin to believe it, and remove all methods of resistance. Their thought is “why do you need a firearm? The government will take care of everything and is the only entity that needs firearms to protect the public”. But just as my blog says…who watches the watchers? Who will protect the public from the government?

There are more gun control agendas on the prowl things such as bullet serialization, taxation and record keeping of who has firearms and bullets. Rest assured the liberal Democrats will push these agendas hard as long as they have complete power. Which goes to my point that there are three types of people in America these days…wolves, sheep, and sheepdogs. Unfortunately the wolves are in power, the sheep are too afraid (or dumb) to notice the impending and forthcoming danger, and there just aren’t enough of us sheepdogs organized to do anything. I’ll leave you with a few quotes from the founding fathers and other prominent leaders their clear intention on “gun control”:

‘‘Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficial … the greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding’’

— Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928‘‘…for it is a truth, which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger when the means of insuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion.’’

— Alexander Hamilton‘‘To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them…’’

— Richard Henry Lee, 1787‘‘[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation (where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.’’

— James Madison, Federalist, No. 46.‘‘Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? … If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?’’

— Patrick Henry‘‘The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. … and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.’’

— St. George Tucker, Judge of the Virginia Supreme Court 1803‘‘Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States’’

— Noah Webster, 1888

I recognize there are moderate Democrats out there who do not fall in line with Obama and his administration and other liberal Democrats. And there are Republicans I disagree with on many issues as well. However, the bottom line is this…the larger your government gets, and the more power it consolidates, ultimately the fewer freedoms you will be left with…oh and you can bank on it that this will all be done under the guise of “societal benefit”. Write your Congressional representatives and make your voice heard. Put pressure on both parties. Don’t be sheeple.

~Kryptikos

Revelation 17:17 “For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God’s words are fulfilled.”

Why I’m Voting For The Democrats…

This year, after watching the campaigns closely I have decided to vote Democratic. I have developed a list of reasons why I am choosing to vote for Barack Obama and the Democrats and thought I would share it with everyone, especially those who are undecided. Here they are in no particular order:

WHY I’VE DECIDED TO VOTE DEMOCRAT

I’m voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.

I’m voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

I’m voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they’re doing because they now think we’re good people.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that people who can’t tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don’t start driving a Prius.

I’m voting Democrat because I know they’ll enact legislation to stop all the Republicans from taking their vacations at the polar ice caps to melt the ice with their flame throwers.

I’m voting Democrat because I’m not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to the government for redistribution as THEY see fit.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe three or four elitist liberals need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit some fringe kooks who would NEVER get their agendas past the voters.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that when the terrorists don’t have to hide from us over there, they’ll come over here, and I don’t want to have any guns in the house to shoot them with..

I’m voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I’ve decided to marry my horse this time.

I’m voting Democrat because I believe that any large company which is failing should immediately have the government buy ownership in it and commit billions of the citizens taxes to prop it up…because socialism just works, yeah?

I’m voting Democrat because I believe oil companies’ profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn’t.

Makes you wonder why anyone would EVER vote Republican, now doesn’t it? Poor people have been voting for the Democrats for 50 years on the promise that the government would take care of them and give them everything they want from the public coffers. And yet, they are still poor.

So yeah, I believe in taking away hope from the people to become successful as any success you have the government will deem it your patriotic duty to give up your success to those who are more lazy and unmotivated to do their own hard work.

That’s why I am choosing to now vote for the Democrats.

Treasury Department Issues New Dollar Bill

For Immediate Release – October 08, 2008

The Treasury Department released the first picture of the newly redesigned dollar bill today in Washington D.C.

Department spokesman Fanny May Banchruppt stated, “We believe the dollar needed an updated and modern look. Something to truly reflect the nature and condition of the economic traits and personality characteristics of the United States”.

After much late night debate between the Congress and the Treasury Department, as well as review of several artist renditions, the new design was determined to be the best representation of the financial mindset of America. Although there has been much jostling and claims as to who was the driving factor behind the new dollar bill, both the Bush administation and Congressional leadership are publicly stating that this redesign will reach the American consumer. They feel that all Americans will be able to identify and proudly display the new currency when making purchases, paying taxes or redistributing their money for patriotic duties.

Speaker Pelosi responded to the design by issuing the statement: ”We feel that the American taxpayer is the bottom line. We are constantly on the look out for ways to spend and push the use of our great American currency. We felt that with all the current economic decisions going on, it was the right thing to do. We want to show the American public that we want them to enjoy and identify with how well we do our work in the Congress. There is no country that has a more accurate strong redesign on the table. America is safe”.

Representative Barney Frank , Chairman of the House Financial Services committee, was unavailable for comment, but the clerk at the Motel 6 assured us that note would be delivered as soon as the Representative checked out. 

When pressed for a comment, the Bush administration stated, “We welcome the redesign of the Chinese currency. It is a good idea and to focus on a common strategery of economic monetary design that promotes freedom and democracy for Iraq”. They also assured this reporter that the reaction of the redesign was being closely monitored from within the Vice President’s office, but they felt that it was an accurate design that most American citizens would identify with.

The Treasury Department assured reporters that this new design would be most difficult to counterfit. Strict new counter-counterfiting techniques were deployed to ensure that the realism and raw emotion of the image could not be duplicated without the express consent and in-action of Congress. Fred E. Mack, a private securities analyst stated that Congress is usually not aware and quite readily and does duplicate things. It was the only negative comment this reporter heard about.

Fresh from the debates, the two Presidential campaigns were quick to weigh in as well on the new greenback. John McCain’s team immediately spoke about how little Barack Obama was involved in the redesign and that he reached across party lines to work with the Treasury, the Bush administration and the Congress to bring something more appealing to big business. Senator Obama’s campaign made the comment about how strinkingly similar the center poitrait was to how they imagine the American tax payer will look when his new government tax programs go into effect.

Treasurey Department New Dollar Bill – 2008 Redesign Final

 

Chinese Olympic Women’s Gymnasitc Team – Congratulations!

My personal favorite is the sonogram. Too classic. So true.

It’s About Time – McCain Goes For Obama’s Jugular

John McCain has not been running an effective campaign. He has failed to capitalize on mistakes of facts spouted by Barack Obama and his campaign. He has failed to turn the anger that Americans have at the current economic crisis and the “Washington insider status quo” to his side. Why was he not forcefully objecting to the American public about the pork that was added to the bailout…oh I’m sorry…I mean the “resuce” bill that gave tax breaks to wooden arrow manufactures?

If you are honest with yourself, regardless of who you are going to vote for, you have to admit that the media has pretty much given a pass to Barack Obama. They have not reported the interesting things in his background like they have John McCain’s. The only person who can turn the tide of the election to him is himself. McCain has to get aggressive and let the American public know why he thinks he is the better candidate and prove it. This was a good start.

McCain goes for Obama jugular

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ALBUQUERQUE, NM — In an unbridled attack Monday, John McCain struck Obama on a number of fronts as he sought to characterize his rival as a risky, unqualified candidate who has been deceptive about his experience and background.

The GOP nominee summarized the theme with one question. “Who is the real Barack Obama?” he asked supporters before attempting to answer the question himself.

“I didn’t just show up out of nowhere, after all America knows me,” McCain said to a rowdy crowd of about 500 attendees on a college campus here. “Even at this late hour in the campaign, there are essential things we don’t know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign.”

McCain went on to raise doubts about Obama’s candor and ability–attacking potentially shady sources of campaign dollars, the Democrat’s lack of action in response to the recent finance crisis and what McCain says is Obama’s partial blame for the mortgage mess, among other issues.

“Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms that I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician,” McCain said to cheers, noting that when one asks questions about Obama’s record, “all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults.”

“My opponent’s touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned. For a guy who’s already authored two memoirs, he’s not exactly an open book. It’s as if somehow the usual rules don’t apply, and where other candidates have to explain themselves and their records, Senator Obama seems to think he is above all that. Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Senator Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government?” McCain asked as a number of supporters shouted “nothing!”

Attendees often responded to McCain’s rhetorical questions with answers and sometimes even insults like “criminal” and even “terrorist” when he asked “who the real Barack Obama” was.

The GOP nominee also attempted to raise questions about Obama’s economic record.

“Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” he said. “Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, ‘a good idea’ … to hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. Nothing, zero, zippo, nada.”

The Obama campaign called the speech an “angry tirade.”

“On a day when the markets are plunging and the credit crisis is putting millions of jobs at risk, the only truly angry candidate in this race kept up his strategy of ‘turning the page’ on the economy by unleashin another frustrated tirade against Barack Obama,” said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor.
The full prepared remarks after the jump:

In less than a month, the American people will make a choice on where they want this country to go, and who they trust to lead us in a time of war and economic crisis. The time for debating and electioneering is drawing to a close. Soon it will be the time for choosing.

Today we have seen a reminder of the importance of that choice. The action Congress took last week to address our financial crisis was a tourniquet, but not a permanent solution. Today we are seeing the stock market fall, and the credit crisis spread to other parts of the world. Our economy is still hurting — working families are worried about the price of groceries, the price of gas, keeping their jobs and paying their mortgage — further action is needed. We need to restore confidence in our economy and in our government.

Washington is still on the wrong track and we still need change. The status quo is not on the ballot. We are going to see change in Washington. The question is: in what direction will we go? Will our country be a better place under the leadership of the next president — a more secure, prosperous, and just society? Will you be better off, in the jobs you hold now and in the opportunities you hope for? Will your sons and daughters grow up in the kind of country you wish for them, rising in the world and finding in their own lives the best of America? And which candidate’s experience — in government and in life — makes him a more reliable leader for our country and commander in chief for our troops? Who is ready to lead? In a time of trouble and danger for our country, who will put our country first?

I set out on my own campaign for president many months ago. I promised at the beginning to be straight with the American people, knowing that even those who don’t agree with me on everything would expect at least that much. I didn’t just show up out of nowhere, after all — America knows me. You know my strengths and my faults. You know my story and my convictions. And though familiarity in politics can be both helpful to a candidate, or not so helpful, it does at least fill out the picture and answer the essential questions. You need to know who you’re putting in the White House — where the candidate came from and what he or she believes. And you need to know now, before it is time to choose.

In 21 months, during hundreds of speeches, town halls and debates, I have kept my promise to level with you about my plans to reform Washington and get this country moving again. As a senator, I’ve seen the corrupt ways of Washington in wasteful spending and other abuses of power, and as president I’m going to end them — whatever it takes. I will propose and sign into law reforms to bring tax relief to the middle class and help to businesses so they can create jobs. I will get the rising cost of food and gas under control. I will help families keep their home, and help students struggling to pay for college. I will make health care more accessible and affordable. I will impose a spending freeze on all but the most vital functions of government. I will review every agency of the federal government, improve those that need to be improved and eliminate those that aren’t working for the American people. I will confront th e ten trillion-dollar debt that the federal government has run up, and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in office.

This is the agenda I have set before my fellow citizens. And the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent. Even at this late hour in the campaign, there are essential things we don’t know about Senator Obama or the record that he brings to this campaign.

We have all heard what he has said, but it is less clear what he has done or what he will do. What Senator Obama says today and what he has done in the past are often two different things. He has often changed his positions in this campaign, and the best way to determine where he would really take this country is to examine where he has tried to take it in the past.

My opponent has invited serious questioning by announcing a few weeks ago that he would quote — “take off the gloves.” Since then, whenever I have questioned his policies or his record, he has called me a liar.

Rather than answer his critics, Senator Obama will try to distract you from noticing that he never answers the serious and legitimate questions he has been asked. But let me reply in the plainest terms I know. I don’t need lessons about telling the truth to American people. And were I ever to need any improvement in that regard, I probably wouldn’t seek advice from a Chicago politician.

My opponent’s touchiness every time he is questioned about his record should make us only more concerned. For a guy who’s already authored two memoirs, he’s not exactly an open book. It’s as if somehow the usual rules don’t apply, and where other candidates have to explain themselves and their records, Senator Obama seems to think he is above all that. Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there’s always a back story with Senator Obama. All people want to know is: What has this man ever actually accomplished in government? What does he plan for America? In short: Who is the real Barack Obama? But ask such questions and all you get in response is another barrage of angry insults.

Our current economic crisis is a good case in point. What was his actual record in the years before the great economic crisis of our lifetimes?

This crisis started in our housing market in the form of subprime loans that were pushed on people who could not afford them. Bad mortgages were being backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and it was only a matter of time before a contagion of unsustainable debt began to spread. This corruption was encouraged by Democrats in Congress, and abetted by Senator Obama.

Senator Obama has accused me of opposing regulation to avert this crisis. I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough it will be believed. But the truth is I was the one who called at the time for tighter restrictions on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that could have helped prevent this crisis from happening in the first place.

Senator Obama was silent on the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and his Democratic allies in Congress opposed every effort to rein them in. As recently as September of last year he said that subprime loans had been, quote, “a good idea.” Well, Senator Obama, that “good idea” has now plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

To hear him talk now, you’d think he’d always opposed the dangerous practices at these institutions. But there is absolutely nothing in his record to suggest he did. He was surely familiar with the people who were creating this problem. The executives of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have advised him, and he has taken their money for his campaign.

He has received more money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac than any other senator in history, with the exception of the chairman of the committee overseeing them. Did he ever talk to the executives at Fannie and Freddie about these reckless loans? Did he ever discuss with them the stronger oversight I proposed? If Senator Obama is such a champion of financial regulation, why didn’t he support these regulations that could have prevented this crisis in the first place? He won’t tell you, but you deserve an answer.

Even after he refused to lift a finger to prevent this crisis, when the crisis hit, he was missing in action. He didn’t start making calls to round up votes until after the rescue bill failed in the House and the markets crashed. We continue to see the price of delay today as the markets continue to fall. Today the DOW has fallen below 10,000. And yet, members of his own party said they felt no pressure to vote for the bill. Why didn’t Senator Obama work to pass this bill from the start? Why did he let it fail and drag out this crisis for a full week before doing a thing to help pass it?

Again on taxes, we see a difference between what Senator Obama says today, what he said yesterday and what he has actually done. Over the course of this campaign, he has had many different plans to raise your taxes. During the Democratic primary, he promised to double taxes on every American with a dividend or an investment. He promised to raise payroll taxes. He promised higher taxes on electricity. Now, Senator Obama claims he will give 95 percent of Americans tax relief. He actually promised the same thing when he was running for Senate in Illinois, but once elected he never introduced legislation to do so. Instead, he voted for the Democratic budget resolution that promised to raise taxes on people making just 42,000 dollars a year. At the time, he even said his vote was intended to get “our nation’s priorities back on track.” If he’s such a defender of the middle class, why did he vote to raise their taxes? Whatever ha ppened to the tax relief he promised them when he was a candidate for the Senate? And why should middle class Americans trust him to keep promises he has already broken?

Senator Obama and I both have differences with how President Bush has handled the economy. But he thinks taxes are too low, and I think spending is too high. The government’s out of control spending has resulted in a weaker dollar, raising the cost of groceries and gasoline, and killing jobs.

I will veto pork barrel legislation and cut wasteful government spending. Senator Obama has a different plan. According to third party estimates, he will increase government spending by over 860 billion dollars. He has denied it, but he has refused to tell you how much he does plan to spend. What is the total of his increased spending? Americans deserve to know just how much more of their money Senator Obama intends to spend, and how much more debt he plans to burden them with.

Senator Obama has also criticized earmark spending, those wasteful pork barrel projects stuck in spending bills behind closed doors. And yet, despite his talk on the campaign trail, his actual record is full of requests for earmark projects. In his three short years in the Senate, he has requested nearly a billion dollars in pork projects for his state — a million dollars for every day he’s been in office. Far from fighting earmarks in Congress, Senator Obama has been an eager participant in this corrupt system. In one instance, he sought more than 3 million dollars for a new projector at a planetarium in his hometown. Coincidentally, the chairman of that planetarium pledged to raise more than $200,000 for Senator Obama’s campaign. We don’t know if they ever discussed the money for the planetarium, and no one has asked Senator Obama. But even the appearance of this kind of insider-dealing disgusts Americans. I’m going to put a stop to that, my friends, if I’m President.

I have made every single donor to my campaign publicly available, while Senator Obama has taken in over 200 million dollars from undisclosed sources. We have already seen the potential for fraud because of his refusal to disclose his donors. His campaign had to return $33,000 in illegal foreign funds from Palestinian donors, and this weekend, we found out about another $28,000 in illegal donations. Why has Senator Obama refused to disclose the people who are funding his campaign? Again, the American people deserve answers.

On health care, Senator Obama has been misleading you about my plan to give you more money for health care, and he has been equally misleading about his own plans. He has said his goal is a single payer system where government is in charge of health care and bureaucrats stand between you and your doctor. Under the plan he has proposed, he will fine families that don’t have the kind of health insurance that Senator Obama tells them to purchase. He will fine employers who do not offer the health insurance that he thinks they should offer.

What he doesn’t say, and what nobody has asked, is how big his fines will be. What he doesn’t want you to know is that with a small fine, his plan will encourage companies to just pay the fine, drop existing health care coverage for their employees and leave them with only one real option: government run health care.

Who is the real Senator Obama? Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle class taxes? Is he the candidate who talks about regulation or the politician who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and turned a blind eye as they ran our economy into a ditch?

Is he the candidate who promises change, or is he the politician who has bought into everything that is wrong with Washington? We can’t change the system with someone who’s never fought the system.

Washington is on the wrong track and I’m going to set it right. The American people know my record. They know I am going to change Washington, because I’ve done it before. They know I’m going to reform our broken institutions in Washington and on Wall Street because I’ve done it before. They know I’m going to deliver relief to the middle class, because that’s what I’ve done.

You don’t have to hope that things will change when you vote for me. You know things will change, because I have been fighting for change in Washington my whole career. I’ve been fighting for you my whole life. That’s what I’m going to do as President of the United States. Fight for you and put the government back on the side of the people.

~Kryptikos

Economic Crisis – The Hypocrisy Of The Democrats Part III

Part III? Where was part I and part II (here and here respectively)? You’d think I was a reporter writing an article for Time or Newsweek writing a three part series on a particular subject. It just seems appropriate to keep the same title as the hypocrisy of the Democrats keeps pouring forth…especially as the nation appears to just be fawning over Barack Obama because he mentions some magical words of “change”. It is interesting though that I have yet to hear what he wishes to define change as. I challenge everyone to put down the kool-aid for a moment and dip into a drink of reality. Every 2nd and 4th year we all hear the politicians come scrambling to us that they will change the way things are. They all, read that as ALL…Democrats and Republicans….have been promising us affordable health care, a strong economy, a worthwhile peace, more jobs, lower taxes and retirement protection, and they have delivered nothing. Barack Obama shows up on the scene with limited experience and no functional real record on the issues and people fall all over him. I will say he has charisma and charm, but let’s be honest, you can get by on charm for about 15 minutes and then you had best be able to back up what you are saying. Unfortunately I do not see the “backing up” by Senator Obama or his campaign. I just keep hearing words. There is no action on his part.

Dipping into the reality bucket again…right now the democrats are railing and fuming about George Bush and the evil Republican empire. I’m so tired of the blame game. I’m a conservative person by nature and philosophy. I believe in the free market, personal responsibility and the right to improve oneself; to achieve the American dream. What I hear from Democrats now is that it is your patriotic duty to redistribute your wealth that you worked hard to earn. What I hear from the Democrats is that George Bush has failed the country (which I agree with in several ways) and the Republicans have trashed the economy (which I disagree with). What I hear is how Obama and the Democrats can save us all through bigger government bloat (read that as socialism).

Why is it that when you talk to your neighbor or families most are frustrated by the bloat of government and its ineffectiveness, and yet when things begin to falter in the free market suddenly say we need more government? You are kidding and fooling yourself if you think the Democrats are so true to the American citizen and will propel us to prosperity.

The very fact is the Democrats are one of the largest hypocritical groups out there. Here is what I mean…take a look at this news report. It is about one Massachusetts Representative Barney Frank. The king of all blow hards who has been blaming EVERYONE else, in particular the “evil” Republicans and George Bush, but his complete ineptness as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. For those Americans who love to gripe and moan about everything but do not understand how the government works and is organized, the House Financial Services Committee is directly responsible for the oversight of the entire financial services industry. Wait…what is the financial services industry? The very environment that just failed…securities, insurance, banking, and HOUSING.

WASHINGTON —  Unqualified home buyers were not the only ones who benefitted from Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank’s efforts to deregulate Fannie Mae throughout the 1990s.

So did Frank’s partner, a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions.

Now that Fannie Mae is at the epicenter of a financial meltdown that threatens the U.S. economy, some are raising new questions about Frank’s relationship with Herb Moses, who was Fannie’s assistant director for product initiatives. Moses worked at the government-sponsored enterprise from 1991 to 1998, while Frank was on the House Banking Committee, which had jurisdiction over Fannie.

Both Frank and Moses assured the Wall Street Journal in 1992 that they took pains to avoid any conflicts of interest. Critics, however, remain skeptical.

“It’s absolutely a conflict,” said Dan Gainor, vice president of the Business & Media Institute. “He was voting on Fannie Mae at a time when he was involved with a Fannie Mae executive. How is that not germane?

Something I keep pointing out to colleagues who get very political with each other is this: while Democrats and Republicans are pointing fingers and accusations about why this is or is not acceptable I like to dumb it down - Would you accept this type of situation at your work? A co-worker gets a promotion because he is on the community baseball team with the boss? If anything but nothing it is the appearance of impropriety and I suspect most hard working Americans would frown at this type of going-on at their place of work.

“If this had been his ex-wife and he was Republican, I would bet every penny I have – or at least what’s not in the stock market – that this would be considered germane,” added Gainor, a T. Boone Pickens Fellow. “But everybody wants to avoid it because he’s gay. It’s the quintessential double standard.”

I agree with that completely. The Democrats crucified Tom Delay and his lobbyest connections and money he was taking…but it is ok for Pelosi’s husband to take PAC funds?

A top GOP House aide agreed.

“C’mon, he writes housing and banking laws and his boyfriend is a top exec at a firm that stands to gain from those laws?” the aide told FOX News. “No media ever takes note? Imagine what would happen if Frank’s political affiliation was R instead of D? Imagine what the media would say if [GOP former] Chairman [Mike] Oxley’s wife or [GOP presidential nominee John] McCain’s wife was a top exec at Fannie for a decade while they wrote the nation’s housing and banking laws.”

That’s the point. The liberal media which believes in the Democratic platform of “people are victims”, “everyone else is responsible for your predicament”, and big socialism, would never report this. Or, if they did it would be on page 24A in small print underneath the bra ads that only 11 year old boys are going to look. It is the same thing in the Presidential race. Right now McCain is fair game for everything, however Barack Obama? The liberal media is by-passing all of his questionable relationships he has had. I do think that is an issue for the voter. We all make stupid mistakes, but if it is a pattern of relationships that someone allows themselves to build then that shows you something about their character and decision making skills.

Frank’s office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

And this surprises us why? Frank has to find someway to spin this. I’m sure it will become something about being a victim and homophobia.

Frank met Moses in 1987, the same year he became the first openly gay member of Congress.

“I am the only member of the congressional gay spouse caucus,” Moses wrote in the Washington Post in 1991. “On Capitol Hill, Barney always introduces me as his lover.”

I have a problem with that. If Mr. Moses is responsible for influencing policies at Fannie Mae, and Barney Frank is impacting on laws that favor Fannie Mae and Mr. Moses, then you’d think you’d be smart enough to keep it in the closet. Frank is openly gay and proud…he loves to rub it in people’s faces.

The two lived together in a Washington home until they broke up in 1998, a few months after Moses ended his seven-year tenure at Fannie Mae, where he was the assistant director of product initiatives. According to National Mortgage News, Moses “helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs.”

Wow…the very “affordable housing and home improvement lending programs” (read poor financial lending decisions) were developed by the man Barney Frank was all hot and heavy for. Honestly, how many of you have done special things for that someone you had a romantic interest in? I’d imagine all of us, so let’s not kid ourselves and say that the coward Barney Frank was not working to assist Mr. Moses.

Critics say such programs led to the mortgage meltdown that prompted last month’s government takeover of Fannie Mae and its financial cousin, Freddie Mac. The giant firms are blamed for spreading bad mortgages throughout the private financial sector.

Wait! I thought according to the Democrats and Barny Frank it is George Bush’s fault? That is was the greed of the Republicans that did this?

Although Frank now blames Republicans for the failure of Fannie and Freddie, he spent years blocking GOP lawmakers from imposing tougher regulations on the mortgage giants. In 1991, the year Moses was hired by Fannie, the Boston Globe reported that Frank pushed the agency to loosen regulations on mortgages for two- and three-family homes, even though they were defaulting at twice and five times the rate of single homes, respectively.

And the facts come out to dispute the record. Why are Americans not recognizing that the Democrats are the ones who love big government and perform social engineering. Social engineering does not work. The Soviets proved that 18 years ago.

Three years later, President Clinton’s Department of Housing and Urban Development tried to impose a new regulation on Fannie, but was thwarted by Frank. Clinton now blames such Democrats for planting the seeds of today’s economic crisis.

Hmmm…even the Clinton administration tried to reign in the policies and create some regulation and who blocked it? That is right Representative Barney Frank, the Commander in Chief of the Democratic Party tried to put in controls at one point.

“I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was president, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,” Clinton said recently.

Bill Sammon is FOX News’ Washington Deputy Managing Editor.

So for all the Americans who are busy frothing at George Bush and the Republicans about this financial meltdown, sit and be honest. The Democrats are not smelling like roses. In fact if anything as more and more information pours out about this economic crisis, it appears that their very own were the ones who were benefiting (Dodd, Obama, Kerry) and actively working to block any regulation and control (Frank).

The hypocrisy is simply astounding. But never you worry. Obama is here with words to smooth over your 401k and job.

Take the time to read The Hypocrisy of the Democrats Part I and Part II for more information. If you are interested in finding out who and what caused this economic meltdown watch this video. It is very informative and pulled facts that you can easily find in your own Google search.

 

~Kryptikos