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Take a look. Follow the link.

• Cap and Trade, which will make energy much more expensive, make Al Gore rich, and function as a tax across our entire economy.
• ObamaCare, which could have a down payment of $1.6 trillion, and still will not provide universal coverage, but it will lead to a government system competing against insurance companies, the intent of which is to put private companies out of business in a matter of a few years. Smaller, smarter changes to the existing system will serve better. Please see the links a few posts down to a Wall Street Journal piece by Karl Rove.
• Stimulus spending. This puts us in the hole for decades, for generations to come. Borrowing is so high that the Fed has to buy its own debt. The rise in interests is now stifling the housing market. The economy is still sick, but it’s not getting much worse, and that’s without all Obama’s spending. We don’t need to spend all that money.
• Seizure of private industry and private wealth. GM and Chrysler are trapped. Who’s next on the list to be run down and destroyed?
• Trillion-dollar deals made with General Electric on medical equipment and windmills. Is this open, fair and honest?

It’s not change I can believe in.

Even the Obama Pimps on CNBC are talking about the market faltering and heading into a second dip. I ask you, how would the economy be doing if we’d followed the We The People Stimulus Plan? We’d be getting ready to pull out of this economic mess, that’s what. Here it is again. with some comment added. In short, give us our money back. Tell your sorry Obama-bot welfare supporters to get off their lazy butts and work. REMOVE government regulations that CASTRATE our industries. And leave us the hell alone so we can work and make ourselves richer as a nation. Of course, Hussein has never run ANYTHING in his whole life, so what would he know about paying the bills and creating jobs for others? Jug-eared Kenyan Jackass.

BEGINS:

Once again, the Sons of Liberty deliver their stimulus plan. To which we only have these two additions:

Suspend all  Stimulus Plan spending, give us all tax cuts, and let the economy heal itself.

And also, drop government-run healthcare, and adopt the Sons of Liberty Healthcare Plan.

Now, on with the proposal we made many months ago.

1. Capital gains tax holiday for 3-4 years to rev up the stock market. If you hate people who are rich or at the least prosperous, they’re going to hide their money. You, Hussein, are scaring the money out of the stock market. 6-09 UPDATE: People stepped in and swept up some bargains, but now the market is topped out. So, we had it right, you skinny-ass Kenyan tyrant.

2. Slash top income tax to less than 25 percent, preferably 20 percent. Give me my money back. Let ME decide how to spend or invent it. 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, we were right. Give people back their money and let them spend it on what they want. Then the whole Ferris wheel starts spinning again. That’s what makes the economy go round, you arrogant Kenyan jerk. Handing out parasitic government jobs doesn’t work.

3. Reduce middle-class taxation to 12-15 percent, maybe even 10 percent for a period of 3-4 years. Yeah, now won’t that rev up the business at Applebee’s? 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, this works. Pay off that credit card, get yourself ready to prosper. Take the kids out for dinner once in awhile. Start to feel positive again.

4. Reduce the lowest rate to 5 percent. And make them pay. No more Obama Welfare checks (we all know that’s what Obama’s supposed “tax cuts” really are). You call it a tax cut, but you’re providing a few welfare dollars to the losers who won’t work. 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, haven’t changed on this one. Make those slack-ass loser Obama-bots pay a little bit of tax. Let them suffer a bit. And throw their sorry asses off welfare.

5. Income tax cuts immediately put money into people’s pockets, as of this April. Heck, people will go out and buy their own prophylactics. They sure won’t need free ones from gov’t clinics. 6-09 UPDATE: Yeah, this line still works. Funny, huh? You let a man or woman keep more of the money EARNED through hard work and they start to feel better about the country and the future.

6. Expand availability of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) that allow people to save pre-tax money for current and future medical needs, and carry-over that savings indefinitely until the day they kick the bucket. And, when the individual dies, that account can be turned over, tax-free to a surviving spouse or to surviving children. Talk about a way to encourage family values. 6-09 UPDATE: You can scroll back a few posts to read the We The People healthcare Proposal. I sure don’t think it would be laughed at by the American Medical Association, the way Obama was laughed at today.

7. Cuts in capital gains rates will boost the stock market, which will boost our sagging 401(k)s, Keoghs and IRAs. We don’t need you seizing our private wealth and rolling it into Social Security, a Ponzi scheme we all want to avoid. 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, same principal. Let hardworking folks keep their money and build their wealth. Don’t steal money from useful people to provide Soviet-style bennies to Obama-bots.

8. Dramatically slash the size of the federal government, excluding defense spending, which stimulates both the economy and my sense of patriotism. Start by laying off everyone at the Departments of Energy and Education, then closing them. Cut pay for Senators by 50 percent, and maybe 20 percent for Representatives. 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, this holds true. And maybe slash or eliminate the Department of Health and Human Services, or whatever the hell it’s called. That’s three departments eliminated. Let those sorry government workers find another job. They’re parasites.

9. Sue the state of California to close down the California Air Resources Board. Remove that burden from the auto industry and you’re on your way. 6-09 UPDATE: Oh, Hussein the Tyrant of Kenya DID NOT take our advice. What a shock. Instead, he allowed California to impose its twisted, Sierra Club/Greenpeace views on the entire nation. And while Hussein cynically props up the United Auto Workers Union, he cuts the legs out from under any potential free market rvival of Detroit by imposing insanely high CAFE standards on OUR companies. Yup, that’s right OUR companies cannot count the many small cars they sell overseas, but the German and Japanese companies CAN count THEIR little cars sold overseas. Hmmmmm. Doesn’t that seem punitive? And you wonder WHY Detroit has struggled so much? It’s because the government has kicked them in the legs for 25 years, cut off their gonads, and left them for dead. Why don’t you UNLEASH Detroit and drill for oil and see how quickly that city starts spinning money. Americans LOVE big vehicles. Let detroit succeed on its own, WITHOUT bailouts. But the Kenyan wants to destroy them. He’s a Marxist.

10. Further, drop the CAFE standard for cars and trucks in the US, and let Detroit build what people want. Gas is cheap again and boy, do I see a lot of Chevy Tahoes coming out of the garage now. Electric cars are full of shit. A mix of gasoline engines, clean diesel and some applications of CNG. 6-09 UPDATE: Just covered this above.

11. Begin offshore drilling immediately to stabilize oil prices at a low level and give the US leverage to combat OPEC price manipulations. Cheap energy means growth without inflation. Obama can stick his plans for Unicorn Power. And maybe let’s take down Hugo Chavez and control his oil. And sabotage any attempts by the Chinamen to drill in the Caribe. 6-09 UPDATE: Yup, this is still good. And what a shock. Hugo Chavez thinks HusseinbObama is farther to the left then he is. Drill offshore, tap natural gas, build nuclear plants, and ensure abundant, cheap energy. But you must see by now that Hussein wants to CASTRATE America and make us pay through the nose for energy, which will drive down our incredible standard of living.

12. Instead of pushing for wind and solar power, which are dead ends for the foreseeable future, promote adoption of natural gas for private vehicles, and build nuclear plants for cheap power. 6-09 UPDATE: See above.

13. And lucky number 13? Don’t loan billions to GM. Put GM and Chrysler into structured bankruptcies, deal with the unions (we know you won’t, Hussein, but it’s nice to hope), relax CAFE and EPA regulations on the industry, pull together the energy companies and car companies to lay out a strategy to tap our abundant natural gas reserves, grandfather in European clean diesel cars and vans that GM and Ford sell in Europe, consider chopping Chrysler up and giving Jeep to Ford, minivans to GM, and either sell Ram trucks to Nissan or carry it as a brand within GM. 6-09 UPDATE: See above.

Mr. Red sent this in. Disgusting. Obama is dumping only Republican-owned dealerships in the Chapter 11 reorg of Chrysler. Strip away wealth, destroy those who oppose you. The Kenyan Tyrant is a piece of filth. I’d expect this in Zimbabwe or Kenya or some other African hellhole. But not in America. This is the formation of a dictatorship.

Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
http://www.jim.com/econ/chap01p1.html

Take a close look at the language used to describe the gross waste of OUR money. Remember, it’s OUR money, NOT HUSSEIN’S. This came in from Mr. Red, our most ardent fiscal conservative.

Here’s the link.

Here’s a cartoon from Mr. Da Vinci. Below it we’ll comment on Hussein’s record thus far. I know I’ve missed any number of points, and yes, I’ve probably blathered on too long. But watch the videos, click the links, and look to the summary. Can this guy be considered a good America? Let alone a good president? He’s a disgrace. Impeach Hussein in 2010. That must be our battle cry.

Now, let’s look at Hussein’s record to date, and how the broad conspiracy is working and moving forward. I’m sure I’ll miss a few points, but I hope you enjoy the Hussein Obama highlights reel.

George Bush got the ball rolling with TARP. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson started bailing out the banks. Now, the banks were screwed by Barney Frank and Senator Chris Dodd, who forced banks to make bad loans, then the financial industry had to find a way to stash them. So the seeds of disaster start with Twinkle Toes, Barney Frank.

Hussein can’t find cabinet members who are not tax cheats or crooked on some level. Here’s Daschle, who now consults to General Electric, which wants to sell billions of dollars in equipment to  government-run healthcare system. No conspiracy here. Oh, no. Perhaps this is why NBC, CNBC and MSNBC are all pushing so hard to support Hussein and his idiotic plans. GE will make billions.

Hussein gets Geithner in at treasury, in spite of the fact the little shit is a tax cheat. Geithner gets laughed off the stage several times by the financial industry.

Then Geithner steps in and says the banks CANNOT return the TARP money. Sorry, the government now owns you.

Hussein wants to tell bankers how much money they can make. That’s Marxism.

Attorney General Eric Holder calls America a nation of cowards. Sorry, Holder, you piece of shit. This is a land of brave people, or at least it was until recently.

At least this guy borrowed some of our lines and branding statements and delivered a strong pitch.

Hussein wanted to negotiate with the Somali pirates. Jesus wept. Your idiot Secretary of State, the Hildebeest, made a joke about the pirates. Uh huh. Thank God for the US Navy and the Navy SEALs, people we can respect and admire. I tell you, I’ve put plenty of rounds through rifles, and I have NOTHIING but respect for those SEALs. Man, they took those pirates down. Three cheers for the US Navy and the SEALs!

Hussein talked down the economy as hard as he could to worsen the situation. He WANTS the economy to tank so he can run us all into the toilet. He calls that social justice. Over and over, you crapped on the economy, rather than speaking to the greatness of the American people and our resilience in difficult times. Here’s how Ronald Reagan dealt with it. You might want to take some pointers, Hussein.

The press is serving as Pravda, NBC in particular. They lie for Hussein at every turn. Could Chris Matthews do a better job licking Hussein’s shoes? And please, would SOMEONE give Keith Obermann at MSNBC a prescription for anti-psychotic drugs? Maybe the same ones Nancy Pelosi needs.

Hussein and Barney Frank and others agree to the AIG bonuses, but that was all a set-up for a bit of Marxist theater. Sorry, Hussein, but if not for Sarbanes-Oxley, AIG would have remained solvent, if troubled. You did your best to make it worse.

Now you want Barney “Twinkle Toes” Frank, the guy who screwed up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to dictate how much bankers can make? Barney Frank, whose boyfriend was running a male prostitution ring out of Frank’s DC apartment? Huh?

And let’s not forget that Raum Emanuel made millions from his time at Fannie Mae. And has been tax dodging himself. He looks more and more like Leon Trotsky with every passing day. Just what we need.

What else? You insulted your own country on a tour of Europe. You said we’re arrogant, and said that Europe is the world leader. Huh? What kind of America-hating scum are you, Hussein? For this, you got the single-finger Sons of Liberty salute.

Your first address as president was given on Al Arabiya, a Muslim TV station. You didn’t address the American people. You chatted up the enemy. Some might argue that this was a “smart bomb” sent straight into the heart of the Muslim world. I’ll be broad-minded and give you that, though this your first interview should NOT have been with Al Arabiya. It tells us that you are a Muslim like so many of us have suspected. Well, then you converted to Black Liberation Theology, which is black racism mixed with Marxism, isn’t it, Hussein? Yeah, and your charming wife dished that up. And then Hussein bows to the king of Saudi Arabia and kisses ass at the G20. You’re a disgrace, Hussein.

Hussein flip-flops on Gitmo, repeatedly. First you close it, then you say the detainees should be put in the US prison system. Then you try to fob them off to the whiny Europeans, then to the Saudis. Now you want to revive the military tribunals. You know, sounds to me like Bush and Cheney had it right all along. Bush screwed up plenty, but he got a lot more things right than he got wrong.

Then, to cover up your numerous blunders, you release “torture” photos and videos and your co-conspirators at the NY Times and MSNBC go on the attack. The only good? Well, you crafty little Kenyan Tyrant, you at least snared Nancy Pelosi in the trap and will be able to get rid of her. Let’s face it: she’s a bigger problem for you than she is for America–and that’s saying something.

Oh, and then you ram through a bill to “stimulate” the economy, and the total is greater than all the money that every previous president has spent, from George Washington to George Bush. Except that most of the money won’t hit until election year, 2010. So you shackle us with debt, and then ask us to stumble along for 18 months. Damn, Hussein, you must have taken lessons from the Japanese who organized the Bataan Death March. You truly want to kill the US economy and drive us into the toilet.

And if that’s not enough, now you want to castrate the most efficient, productive economy on earth with cap-and-trade, which is an energy tax. You have openly stated that energy bills for Americans will shoot through the roof, and the rise in energy cost will make everything much more expensive.

Ah, but YOU get to funnel all that money first through Al Gore’s bankers, so Al Gore gets his unfair share of the money, and then you will funnel the rest through your bullshit health care plan.

Oh, and lest we forget, you have seized control of two of the three US car makers. You screwed the bondholders out of their money, and gave big chunks of GM and Chrysler to the unions as payback for voting for you. And of course, your “car Czar,” schmuck banker Steve Rattner and all his NYC schmuck banker buddies, turned up in Detroit and started bossing people around. They demanded immediate production of a 75-mpg car. Are they insane? Yes, I think they are, just like anyone else who considers Thomas “Schmuckface” Friedman of the NY Times is a deep thinker. You will destroy our largest industrial concerns, which made plenty of money when energy was cheap, delivering Americans products that they really wanted. But you hate America, Hussein, and you want to destroy us from within, as best I can tell. Weern’t you the guy who said the United States is teh greatest nation on earth, and you are going to fundamentally change it? Yeah, I think that was you.

Hussein stood in front of Caterpillar and told a bald-faced lie, that Caterpillar would be hiring more people right away thanks to your stimulus bill. Um, no, the CEO came out and said they would likely be laying people off. You are a lying sack of shit, Hussein.

You are trying to ram through hate crimes legislation that will protect child rapers (also called pedophiles).

Eric Holder is already forwarding gun confiscation legislation.

You blame American guns for the problems in Northern Mexico. Uh huh. Maybe the blame lies with your drugged-out supporters and the Mexican mafia that delivers the drugs? Maybe we should clean out both of those rat’s nests.

Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, sent out a memo that said our returning vets should be considered potential domestic terrorists. AND, she thinks blog sites like We The People should be monitored.

You kissed ass to a bunch of Marxist thug dictators like Hugo Chavez and Daniel Ortega. I know folks who suffered greatly under Ortega. He’s a thug and a criminal, yet you kiss his ass and chat with him. Screw you, Hussein.

You stood by while the homo-sexual attack dogs in the press insulted those of us who attended tea parties (they kept talking about “tea bagging,” a homo-sexual term). You even mocked those of us who attended tea parties. You dismiss us as if we are not worthy of a place in this country.

So, let me get this straight, Hussein. Here’s the short list. You have done or will do the following:

• Seized control of the banks
• Seized two major auto industries nd given big chunks of ownership to the unions, who are the biggest problem the car companies face (they’d be profitable without the union burdens)
• Plan to seize the energy industry
• Plan to to seize the healthcare industry
• Started dictating the salaries bankers can earn
• Told AIG execs they can have their bonuses, then turned that into a big media frenzy to embarrass the execs and let your ACORN brown shirts hold protests
• Considered negotiating with the pirates, even though the SEALs knew the proper answer
• Kissed ass to Muslims left and right on Al Arabiya TV
• Stated that the United States is NOT a Christian nation
• Bowed to a foreign tin horn dictator, the Saudi king
• Talked down the economy in hopes of extending the misery
• Apologized for America and told the world we’re arrogant
• Burdened us with more debt than all previous presidents combined
• Plan to spend MORE money in the coming 100 days

Why would anyone consider Hussein a great president?

Hussein likes to make hismelf look very well-reasoned and smart. The press helps orchestrate this. You remember some weeks ago when Hussein suggested that GM would need to enter a ’structured bankruptcy?” What a lie. He never had any intention of letting the bondholders (meaning the folks who put up the money to run GM and who are owed about $29 billion) get their money back.

Instead, Hussein seized the company, made the government a 50 percent owner of GM, and GAVE 37+ percent of the company to the group of people most responsible for the problems at GM: the UAW.

Now, GM has been saddled with countless decades of idiot MBA’s who knew nothing about cars but alot about finance. Same at Chrysler and Ford. The Harvard Business School has done more to destroy US industry than any other institution in America.

But Hussein wanted to make us think he was reasoning his way through. He never had any intention of letting GM declare bankruptcy, give the unions their just desserts, get labor rates in line with the rest of the auto manufacturers assembling in thie country, or deal with the slack-ass dealers.

Admittedly, much of the management needed to go. The Northrop-Grumman guy coming in, Kresa, will take care of that. Oh, yeah, that’s right. They’re gonna bring in a guy like Mullaly at Ford, who is ex-Boeing.

But the thing is, most of the money in the auto industry does NOT come from the assembly. It’s the design, engineering, administration and finance. Some argue that we don’t need a domestic industry–a couple of Southerners involved here think that, and I disagree with them. If all you do is employ assembly workers, you are playing the role of East Indians under the British Raj. You are slaves. The money is in all the good jobs for engineers, designers, highly skilled workers who help develop prototypes, finance and the like. If you throw that away, you set America on the road to slavery.

But then, I’m starting to think that’s what Hussein wants. The man is waterboarding the economy, something we’ve stated in the past. He went out and crapped all over the economy even before he was inaugurated. He WANTS to drive us into the toilet, the better to make us accept his radical, un-American economic and social theories. See, Marxists WANT to beat the population into the ground because it’s easier to control them.

And all the while we have images of Hussein and husky, big-ass, ugly wife and kids frolicking on the White House grounds. Ahhhhh, they’re adapting so well. And I really give a shit.

This man and his administration are pure poison to the American soul. He WANTS to drive us into the ground. Everything this man is doing is meant to prolong our economic hard times. he’s taken what would have been a midling recession and turned it into a major catastrophe. I have nothing but scorn for this sack of shit in the White House.

If Michael Steel wants to keep his fancy-ass job as the head of the RNC, he better grow a spine, stand up and fight, and start recruiting grassroots Americans at these tea parties.

At every Tea Party, there is bound to be at elast one man or woman, a doctor, lawyer, teacher, fireman, everyman, who is ready to stand up and carry the fight. We need hundreds of potential candidates for the House of Representatives. And no, you don’t have to be a stinking lawyer. Davy Crockett would be a better fit for America.

The Tea Parties are the roar of the people, the people who are going to take this country back and make it America again. In every crowd, there is a potential leader. You, Michael Steele, had better get off your ass and find those people. We need several hundred candidates to vet, at least two in every district. And these Tea Parties will be the perfect venue to get them standing up and speaking, delivering the message of a new Contract With America. We have our ideas about what that means, and we’ve posted it. We’ve updated and modified as our thinking has grown clearer. But you damn well better get it together, Mikey. Or we will run right over your chest.

The following is our current take on a platform to save America from the evils of Marxism, as articulated by Hussein on behalf of all those Marxists who are behind him. Please provide your input via this blog and we will modify this document in hopes that it can win the allegiance of all the true Sons of Liberty living in the United States. Not quite a wiki, but we want to engage the minds of all Sons of Liberty as we forge our declaration of freedom.

America First!

Retake the Republican Party

• Make the GOP serve true conservatism again.
• Invite members of all races, creeds and colors to join with us to restore America to its rightful path and rightful place: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We do not apologize for America and all she stands for.
• Help the broadest swath of our population understand the true meaning of liberty, self-reliance, and independence.
• Welcome all citizens who embrace the philosophy of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and live within the norms of traditional human civilization. We are by far the majority.

Fight The Marxist Agenda

• Do we really need to add anything else here? No, you understand.

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

• Repeal the Stimulus bill. Save the future for our children, do not cast them into financial slavery.
• Cut our taxes and give us our money back.
• Make the bottom 50 percent pay SOMETHING so they have skin in the game. EVERYONE needs to pay something.
• Ensure and enforce the liberties of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
• Repeal Supreme Court changes to Eminent Domain.
• Protect and promote private property laws.
• Refuse to accept any attempt to seize private wealth by taking over complete control of 401(k)s, Keoghs, and other private pre-tax retirement accounts.
• Stimulate economic growth and the ingenuity of the American people by cutting taxes, cutting the government, and freeing our people to pursue their creativity and their dreams.

Second Amendment

• The Second Amendment IS every honest citizen’s CCW!
• CCW for all law-abiding citizens who can pass a criminal background test!
• All 50 states must allow private ownership of small arms, including CCW.
• And that includes the Peoples Communist Republics of California, Massachusetts, Manhattan, and other misguided and benighted corners of our Republic
• No regulation of gun purchases and ownership beyond a 10-day waiting period and criminal background check.
• A man with a rifle is a citizen. A man without a rifle is a subject and a slave.
• Compulsory riflery training for all high school juniors and seniors. No more metrosexual wimps. You’ll learn to shoot and be a man. Stand up straight, damn it. You’re an American.

Defend the Unborn

• Maintain the ban on partial birth abortion.
• Abortion only in instances of rape and incest.
• Promote safe and rational adoption laws.

English Only

• English as the official language of the United States.
• No more ballots or other government documents issued in multiple languages.
• You’re in America: Speak English. Practice your mother tongue in the comfort of your own home., just like every other group of immigrants before you.
• If your native culture has a particularly great cuisine, come on down! And bring the old ladies who really know how to cook it up! But learn how to speak English, OK?

Defense

• Maintain a strong, well-equipped military capable of fighting two major wars simultaneously.
• Maintain and develop the ability to fight multiple “small wars” simultaneously, with greatly expanded special forces.
• Maintain supremacy over the seas and guarantee safe travel to all.
• Defeat Islamic terrorists whenever they hide and organize.
• Let the Chinese know we will counter all their practice cyber attacks.
• Contain Russian expansion into countries that once lived under their thumb.
• Expand NATO to include eastern European countries, including Ukraine.
• Move major US military bases in German and western Europe into Czech, Poland, Hungary and other countries that still revel at the new taste of freedom. Let them know that the might of the United States stands behind them and we embrace them as true Sons of Liberty!
• Turn loose the dogs of war on the Somali pirates and kill them all. Their existence on this earth will not be tolerated.
• Deploy Special Forces into northern Mexico to annihilate the narco cartels. Kill them all, hunt them like dogs, destroy them, wipe them from the face of the earth.

Intelligence Community

• Continue to develop our intelligence-gathering capabilities in foreign and hostile lands.
• Promote cooperation between major intelligence agencies within the US, and with our key allies.
• Facilitate the overthrow of unfriendly leftist/Marxist regimes, such as Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, and Nicaragua, among others.
• Complete the installation of US military outposts within Iraq as a means of guaranteeing long-term stability.
• DO NOT allow Raum Emanuel to establish a KGB within America, whose aim would be the control and subjugation of American citizens.

Tyranny of Homosexuality

• Defense of traditional marriage, the basis of all human civilization.
• Defeat all attempts to force homosexual marriage on America.
• Restore the rights of the Boy Scouts and other persecuted groups who have suffered under the growing tyranny of the Homosexual agenda.
• Ban Homosexual adoption.
• Homosexual attempts to “pro-create” via artificial insemination will be banned nationwide.
• Our words to this group: Go live your lives, but stop forcing your views and agenda on the rest of us. We REALLY don’t want to hear about it.

Energy & Transportation

• Ensure that America has abundant and cheap energy.
• Abundant and cheap energy will remove inflationary pressures, allow for banks to loan money at low rates, and ensure our economic growth.
• Drill, Baby, Drill! By expanding production of US oil and natural gas, the US can influence the price of crude oil and other forms of energy around the world. We will not be held hostage by OPEC, or by Eco-pagans who want to lead the US into a disastrous energy policy that will, in fact, strangle the US economy, diminish our power, and make us a eaker nation.
• Expand offshore drilling.
• Drill in ANWR, a fly-infested marsh.
• Development of Clean Coal technologies to produce electric power. This is a ten-year program.
• Construction of at least 100 new and safe nuclear plants across America. This is also a ten-year horizon. Let the US Navy participate, as they know more about nuclear than almost any other group on earth. They can also ensure security.
• Convert buses and taxis to run on compressed natural gas (CNG)
• Encourage investment in CNG infrastructure by oil companies.
• Complete the Palin Pipeline to bring CNG to the Lower 48!
• Drill for CNG in Utah and adjoining Rocky Mountain states. The technology exists to tap this energy source and it can power America for a half-century or more. There is more energy under the Rocky Mountains in Utah than there ever was in Saudi Arabia.
• In partnership with US-owned automobile manufacturers, promote development of CNG-powered passenger vehicles and for the long-term explore the development of full-electric and hybrid-electric passenger vehicles, which will only be feasible once we have nuclear plants online and also we make a scientific breakthrough in battery technology.
• Promote the new generation of high-mileage, quiet and clean New Diesel engines in the national fleet.
• Resist all efforts by the nutty Obama fringe to strangle America’s access to cheap energy, and thereby force us to embrace their insanely premature belief in the potential of solar, wind and tidal power.
• Topple Hugo Chavez and gain unfettered access to Caribbean oil.
• Blunt Chinese efforts to steal our Caribbean oil. Smack down this Cuban-Chinese partnership. Sabotage their efforts if necessary.

Immigration Reform

• Enforce the US southern border.
• Enforce the US northern border against incursions from radical Islamists living off the Canadian welfare state.
• Reinstitution of the Bracero System for seasonal labor.
• Execute illegal alien violent offenders clogging our prisons. Mexico won’t do it, so we will. Some people have not proven worthy of the gift of life.
• No illegal alien amnesty.
• Freeze legal immigration until immigrants of the past 25 years can be assimilated and made into Americans. No more immigrants until every person in the US is a Son of Liberty!
• Work to place more honest politicians in Mexico and develop their economy so Mexicans can stay in their native country and prosper.
• Consider US joint administration of Mexico as a territory.
• Develop comprehensive means of allowing illegal aliens to reapply for entry to the US under controlled conditions and begin the process of becoming true Sons of Liberty and real Americans.
• This includes citizenship for those who provide service of 25 years in the US Armed Forces.
• Round up known Islamic agitators so we can enjoy freedom of movement in our airports once again.

Domestic Policy

• Bolster the SEC and provide proper financial oversight.
• No more bailouts for crooked bankers.
• Suspend all capital gains taxes for at least three years to encourage a return of capital to the US stock market.
• Dramatically lower income taxes for the small portion of Americans who are still forced to pay them.
• Ask the top 75-80 percent of US citizens to pay SOMETHING in taxes. We CANNOT have half the population riding for free. No matter how small the contribution, all but the poorest mut pay something in a graduated tax.
• Permanently rescind the Death Tax up to a value of $15 million. Above that amount, encourage philanthropic donations, but DO NOT confiscate more than 30 percent.
• Vigorously enforce the death penalty.
• Release prisoners who have clearly paid for their crime and are unlikely to ever repeat rather than sustaining the growing tyranny of the prison guard unions.
• Enforce common decency laws throughout the US, and vigorously attack the porno industry, with the intention of ending it within a period of two years.
• Reestablish decency reviews of all motion pictures.
• Prohibit NEA grants to artists who are not striving to beautify the world. No more federal money for sick, twisted so-called art.

Religious Freedom

• Religious freedom will be promoted for all loyal citizens of the United States who practice any form of Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and other major and peace-loving religions.

Appropriate quotes for the day, and you can see more under “Wisdom of Our Fathers.”

Obama Zombies contend that the little tyrant from Kenya is the smartest guy to ever be president? Not by a long shot. Jefferson didn’t need Raumie Emanuel scripting a teleprompter.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Funny, but this is exactly what Obama wants, as do all Marxists. Force us to drive around in Smart cars or peddle around on bikes in crowded cities where it’s easy to control us, and kill off large numbers when it’s convenient.)

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Hey, man, you gotta share the wealth. Some people are just too rich and successful, and too willing to work hard. Let’s drive them into the ground and give all their money to lazy trash.)

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Oh come on, Jefferson. Why not print a few trillion more? Surely you know the best way to get out of debt is to get more into debt. Besides, can you imagine the war China will launch when they lose another 20 million jobs? It’s gonna be a duesie.)
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Ah, come on, Tom. I WANT Obama to pay my mortgage and put gas in my car. Can he pay for all the abortions, too? And give me free condoms? We gotta share the wealth, baby. Gimme some for free.)

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Well, Mr. Jefferson, clearly you’re not as smart as Hussein Obama. Chris Matthews says that Obama is the smartest president in history because he knows how to work the Tweet deck.)

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “Hillary Clinton says the reason why violent Mexican drug gangs exist is that we have too many guns in America. If we get rid of all the guns in America, why, no criminals in America or Mexico will have guns and the bad people will go away…and if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d love to sell you.)

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “You nailed this one, Tom. A man with a rifle is a citizen. Without it, he is a subject. Stalin and Hitler were great advocates of gun control.)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.     — Thomas Jefferson

(Mr. Black says, “And I can think of a few tyrants who need to be sent into exile at the very least. Maybe exiled to hell. Problem is, there are so many mindless idiots in America, and freeloaders, that we might not ever get our country back.)

And, in light of the present financial crisis, it’s interesting to read what Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.”

The big talk show guys have been pounding away, supporting Wagoner. Well, we disagree here. And we know the business.

Where we do agree? The Tyrant of Kenya should NOT be pushing executives out of jobs. Hitler did that when he seized control of German industry. It’s wrong, and totally un-American. But then, what do you expect from Hussein? He’s not an American.

Rick Wagoner has blown it over and over. GM was in a relative position of strength when he took over, loaded with profits from Chevy Tahoes and Cadillac Escalades. Wagoner should NOT have been assassinated by Hussein, but instead should have stepped down quietly sometime during the next few months. But then, Hussein is beginning to act like Adolph Hitler, so what do you expect?

Wagoner forged numerous overseas alliances, trying to expand the concept of General Motors to a greater international level. He bought into Subaru, Isuzu, and Fiat. GM grossly overpaid to take over Saab, a company that frankly has little reason to exist.

Wagoner also made the worst possible deal with the unions. That was his doing. So, Rick, adios. You’ve been treated shabbily by the little Marxist, but you also blundered quite a bit. Your gamble on big trucks and SUVs would have paid off if we had a rational energy policy in this country, with plenty of cheap gas and diesel–and natural gas being phased into the national fleet.

Ford And Mullaly

Also, compare and contrast. Mullaly at Ford? That guy is the real deal, an engineer’s engineer and a smart leader who is focused on getting the job done. No surprise that he led Boeing back to the top with the finest civilian airliners ever created. I wish he could be put in charge of GM, and then be assigned to rationalize all global regulations on the auto industry.

In a short period of time, Mullaly has rationalized Ford’s manufacturing, engineering, and design–no small accomplishment considering the GROSS inefficiency that had plagued Ford since the 1960s when various fiefdoms were established around the world.

Mullaly has cleared out many of the twit MBAs who screwed things up at Ford. He still needs better marketing and PR guys, but in time that can be fixed.

When Toyota turned down Mullaly’s overtures for collaboration, he poached several quality engineers from Toyota. Their first assignment? Make sure the Ford Edge goes out the door with high quality. They delayed launch, fixed the errors, and the Edge has fairly good quality.

Now? Ford quality has gone up considerably. Cars are not approved for production unless they meet significantly high standards. Ford has developed a new V6, and added turbos to make it a high-performance engine. They’ve developed new four-cylinder engines that are not all bad, though are not yet matching the standards of Toyota. They DO meet the standards for Honda’s big four-cylinders, which are remarkably rough these days.

Ford is NOW FINALLY making cars in Europe that also meet US regulations, and thus all those cool Fords we used to see on trips to Europe can be imported here and/or built here. Mullaly has done all this in about two years.

How has this happened? Mullaly put a fellow named Kuzak in charge of product development. A former colleague, who I call my chief engineer because I once worked with him, said this: “You tell Kuzak to move a mountain, he’ll move a mountain. But he won’t think to do it himself.” In other words, Kuzak is the perfect Number Two engineer, working under a genius like Mullaly. Remember, Mullaly’s work turned around Boeing’s civilian aviation.

Kuzak sets the standards, and the engineering managers must meet the standards.

Also, the amazing team of designers Ford assembled in the late Nineties is FINALLY delivering.

Mullaly is developing new transmissions and engines for the trucks and SUVs, and they will answer the major deficiency that Ford trucks and SUVs have had. Ford is exploring using dual-clutch transmissions in trucks. Without going into an engineering treatise to explain what a dual-clutch transmission is, it’s highly efficient and these gearboxes can greatly improve fuel efficiency.

You see, you let the engineering corps make decisions. Not crooked politicians. And certainly not the Tyrant of Kenya.

GM And Wagoner

Wagoner? Paired with the great “car guy” blowhard, Bob Lutz? Seven years on, after considerable blundering around, Lutz and Wagoner are finally making real progress. Sure, sure, Lutz has turned GM design into something, thanks to Ed Welburn, a gifted design leader. But these guys made far too many mistakes along the way. Mullaly shows up Wagoner and Lutz for the bumblers they are. Mullaly is the real deal. Wagoner and Lutz, sorry, you didn’t cut it.

• Cadillacs are now the best they’ve been since the 1960s, and some models deserve comparison with German and Japanese rivals. And I know, because I own a classic Cadillac and know the company’s history. The CTS and STS are based on a remarkably good platform. Given proper engineering support and evolution, they could become no-excuses rivals to Lexus and Mercedes. They are getting very close, and the difference is not what most people would recognize.
• Pontiac? Yeah, that G8 is one killer sedan. It’s on my recommend list. Handsome, a great rear-wheel drive platform, with available Corvette V8. It’s a strong piece, engineered in part in Australia, and it shares many bits with the new Camaro.
• The cars built by Daweoo? The Chevy Aveo? Sure, not bad. They need major work to stay relevant.
• Buick? Buick has turned around considerably. If we had cheaper energy, the Buick Enclave would be a real hit. It’s a nicely made SUV that I would pick over any of the overpriced Mercedes or Audi SUVs. But then I like the baleen whale Buicks of the Forties and Fifties, Buick’s heyday, and this vehicle is influenced by those early designs. It is proudly and unashamedly American. I suspect that over the long haul, it would prove a far better vehicle than a BMW x5 or any of the other German SUVs. The Buick sedans are nice, but they need a big rear-wheel drive sedan, perhaps based on the Pontiac platform. Buick will survive because the Chinese love Buicks. The last emperor loved Buicks.
• The Chevy Silverado pickup? Excellent, in a dead tie for best truck with the Toyota Tundra. Same goes for the SUVs related to the Silverado: Tahoe, Yukon, and Escalade. Excellent pieces of equipment. If we had a sane president who could forward a rational energy policy, these vehicles would thrive.
• The Chevy Malibu? Very nice car to drive–decent fit and finish. I think it’s better than a Honda Accord in most measures, and is at least within spitting distance of a Toyota Camry. It needs one more giant leap to become as good as a Camry.
• The new Camaro? It’s huge, yet it is more fuel efficient than Japanese and Korean coupes that cost more and deliver less. If you like the looks, get it. If the build quality is there, the Camaro deserves to be a winner. It uses the fine V6 that one finds in the Cadillac CTS. It is an excellent engine.

Do I think any of the US companies can match Toyota or Honda? Not quite, but Ford is getting fairly close, and GM can do it if they decide to really start kicking some ass. And several of us here at We The People know transportation and energy. We’d also point out that Americans have to start believing in America. Mr.Red owns a fairly old Ford F-150 V6 pickup. It has run and run and run, without fault, without failure, for years. Ford should let consumers know how good many of its products are. Stand up and defend your products.