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What’s Been Going On in the World?

1/7/2015

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Oil prices are down to about $47 a barrel and the stock market is plunging. Rich people are worried, and poor people are more resentful. The wealth gap widens and the dogs of war are barking. In 2015 we might be able to hold the flood tides back, which could be a bad thing – just like in 1928, things might not hit the fan until after the election, and that means we’ll have four years of incompetence before Populist ideals sweep the crooks out.

What’s been going on in the world is a shame, but there’s nothing you can do about it…except follow the lead of your kids, and become minimalist and anti-consumer and just like your parents – Depression-era folks that knew how to squeeze shards of soap together and make a loaf of bread last ten days.

If you haven’t tightened your belt already, you will be. I’ve got no retirement and most of my generation is the same, so we’re not concerned. Buy you, well, you’re lying in bed awake at night.

I’m assuming you have your retirement in some index funds, for I’m assuming you’re smart enough not to pay the extra 2% or so in fees for mutual funds. But either way, your retirement is pegged to the market, and if the market does badly, so do your golden years. What a pity.

Of course you have no plan to get that market up, mainly because you have no plan to get oil up. For you’re not one of the yahoos that’s stupid enough to believe that falling oil prices are good for you, that paying 1/3 less for gas over the past year helps America. Sure, it might give you a few more cheap, plastic objects to put in your home, but isn’t that just adding one more straw to the camel’s back? How much do you owe in credit cards these days?

But it’s not the credit cards that are giving you grief, it’s that mortgage debt. Why on earth you feel paying something off over twenty or thirty years is better than two or three years, but it’s probably because of your sense of entitlement. Mommy and daddy always said you’d have a better life than them, after all, though you haven’t quite found the nerve to say that to your own kids in awhile. You also haven’t found the ability to quit shopping.

Maybe Putin has something to do with that. If the bastard just never would have invaded Ukraine, and perhaps Georgia back in 2008 as well, then maybe we never would have had to sic the Saudis on his ass. So let’s take stock for a moment and see what that’s accomplished:

The complete wrecking of Putin’s massive energy deal with Europe;

The reduction of Russia’s GDP from a positive to a negative;

Alienation of the Russian middle and working classes as we cause their prices to rise;

The dusting off and strengthening of the Russian/Chinese relationship, effectively doing away with whatever remnants of the Sino-Soviet split still remain;

The mothballing of Montana’s and much of America’s burgeoning oil boom, causing wells to be capped, new drilling to stop, and mergers & acquisitions to become the golden child of the new industry.

What a mess. And yet the market will rebound, and when it does, complacency can set in once again. If we’re “lucky” we might even make it through February unscathed, and then it’ll be pretty obvious that the GOP will just run with it and get their boys out front.

Hillary will of course continue giving speeches until her hand is forced. National Democrats have made it clear they’ll tar and feather anyone that forces her hand, which is an empty threat if there ever was one. National Democrats have no power.

Two times Obama has used his veto in six years, not necessarily the kind of stuff that inspires fear, dread, or even a second thought when it comes to putting forth bad legislation. Obama is a loser, and only got into office because of the color of his skin…and how easy he is for the overseers to push around.

Alas, what’s left of the middle class has had to suffer because of that, although thankfully we’re ending the drug war and actually lowering the number of people in prison in California for the first time in decades. So there are some successes, it’s just that these are the kind of successes you dig for when talking about these types of presidents, our Buchanans and Hoovers.

The financial controllers – the remnants of the Medicis and Fuggers and Rothschilds – might be able to steer us to the 2016 Election, but then we’ll be screwed until 2021. The good news is that when Americans are forced to live like Iraqis – with rolling blackouts, no internet, and food shortages – political winds will change fast.

Already we’re cutting more people off the food rolls this fall, at the same time fewer people are working. On the one hand we have seniors dropping out of the work force, and on the other we have younger people doing the same. There are no jobs for either, unless we want to send them to Asia where those jobs went. And mechanization and robotics? Say goodbye to another 10% of the workforce over the next decade…at least.

We’ve got $18 trillion in federal debt, so there will be no way to take care of those people. The last few Congresses before the 2020 elections will try as best they can to get as much money off the sinking ship, but with markets all over the world in the dumps and offshore accounts now virtually useless, what’s the point?

Rich men in suits on the side of the road selling a car for 2% of its value. We’ll be seeing that again here real soon, and I honestly think it’s part of the plan. A plan, however, that might have already gotten away from them, like a virus in a lab that’s in the air, its creators its first victims.

So if you’re feeling down that you’re not there in the Capitol, Helena or Washington, just realize you won’t go down in the history books as one that brought the whole circus down. You don’t hear much about the legislators and congressmen that were serving in the mid- to late-1920s, and there’s a reason for that – they were bad Americans.

I’ve no doubt we’ll consider our current crop in the same breath when the wheels roll around once again. And they always do.

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I Think it’s Time

1/3/2015

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I think it’s time we get serious about 2016 and get behind a candidate we can all believe in.

I think it’s time that we stop bickering and stop throwing tantrums and stop using tirades as an excuse to not govern.

It’s time we got behind a candidate with a proven track record, one the country can be proud of.

We need someone with vision going ahead into the next election cycle, someone that’s not afraid to say what needs to be said to get that vision across.

I think it’s time we had a candidate that excites the electorate and actually makes people want to vote again.

America is ready to have someone new in the White House, someone that isn’t going to pander to the establishment, the media hounds waiting in the wings, and the political has-beens looking on still from backstage.

I think it’s time we elect someone president not because of their gender, but because of the job they can do for us.

I think it’s time politics was energized again, something that got people excited and got people to the polls, even if the weather was bad, and especially because it was bad.

I think it’s time we begin to move this country forward instead of pushing it back.

And that’s why I think it’s time we get behind Brian Schweitzer and encourage him to run for president in 2016.

Brian Schweitzer 2016

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10 Ways the Federal Government Wastes Money

12/11/2014

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I’m sick of Congress not doing its job. If you or I didn’t do our job, we’d be fired. Congress, well, Congress doesn’t do their job and they just vote themselves a raise.

I see the “Cromnibus” fuck-fest $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by the despicable vote of 219 to 206. Great – rich people can keep making money while I take it up the ass. Or did this mean something else? Please, enlighten me in the comments with your wisdom.

I’ve said it before on this site – those idiots in Congress need to go. I don’t need anymore old men and women telling me how to live my life, or making laws, or telling me what’s best for my life.

So how could we take the power out of their hands? It’s simple – give them so much money that they don’t have to squabble over it like chickens in the yard after the feed’s grown sparse.

Here are 10 simple ways to avoid government shutdowns by eliminating wasteful spending, and thus allowing those clowns to argue over something instead of nothing:

Legalize Marijuana: Just legalize it across the country and tax it at 8%. That’s adding $16 to a $200 ounce…an amount people will be willing to pay, allowing the black market to collapse. Since we know 10% of Montanans smoke each month, that’s a $127.2 million a year industry and that means we can get $10.1 million a year in taxes, times 50, which is $508.8 million in extra taxes each year, just on the consumer side of the industry.

Document Illegals: If we’re going to turn our back on illegal aliens being in the country and working, then let’s not turn our back on their earnings. Let’s actually turn and face them and stick out our hand and say, “give me your fucking money, asshole – welcome to America.” I’m sick and tired of illegal immigrants not paying taxes on their illegal earnings, and then getting earned income tax credits on top of it. That’s $4 billion a year right there.

Stop Paying “Disabled:” Why are we paying disability benefits to people that aren’t disabled? Hey, I’d love to get sick or get hurt and then get better, and still get the fucking check in the mail each month. Even better is if I get it for life. Where do I sign-up for that? Because if others can do that with no reason, why can’t I? Close this shit up, save $1.3 billion a year, and kick those “disabled” folks out to the job line.

Start Funding Fraud Investigation: If we want to be serious about cleaning up fraud, we’ve got to fund fraud investigation. Yeah, what a concept. All these Republican businessmen don’t understand that you have to spend money to make money. Start getting some hard-ass fraud investigators, perhaps former veterans with PTSD. I have a feeling the amount of fraud and abuse of the system will go down real quick, and the amount of veterans killing themselves as well. It’s amazing what kicking in the teeth of someone hurting America can do to you, isn’t it? And we can save $128.9 billion a year on top of it.

End Oil Tax Breaks: Why are we holding the oil companies’ hand? Why can’t they do business on their own, like grownups would? Do we need to put them back at the kiddie table, like where they were a hundred years ago? Never forget it was those assholes that started the Teapot Dome scandal, which Montana Senator Thomas J. Walsh had a large part in cleaning up. I’m talking about corruption, and you should read my book Hustlers and Homesteaders to learn more on that. Until then, just know that oil companies don’t care about you; the $2.4 billion a year we give them in subsidies and tax breaks proves that.

Pull Troops from Japan: We won WWII back in 1945, and it’s time to bring the boys home. The base in Japan costs the American taxpayers $4 billion each year, and honestly, what do we have to show for that? A more secure Pacific? Don’t feed me bullshit and tell me it’s caviar! Pull those troops out, close the base, and let the Asians handle their own sphere of influence!

Let the Koreans Fend for Themselves: We call it the Forgotten War for a reason – no one wants to remember it. What have the South Koreans done for us lately, besides drain our treasury? And if they’re so important, why can’t they fend for themselves, why can’t other countries in the region help them do that? I’m tired of paying $1.1 billion a year just in administrative costs. (The Koreans pay $920 billion for 5 years!) That war ended in ’53 – bring those troops home.

Propping up the Rich: Why do we keep propping up rich assholes and businesses to the tune of $80 billion a year? Stop that! If they can’t take care of themselves or they can’t stay in business by themselves, they have what happens to me or any other small business person – their ass winds up on the street, in the cold, and without a pot to piss in. Why is this so hard to understand?

Quarter the DoD Base Budget: Cut a quarter of the yearly $496 billion Department of Defense base budget and you’re saving $124 billion a year. We can do this. We don’t need more aircraft carriers, fancy troop armor, or brass-chested generals. And I’d rather do that now than cut three-quarters in another decade. Let’s not end up like Rome did in the late 4th-century.

Tackle the National Debt: The biggest problem we see, and the problem that will join the two fringe wings of the Democratic and Republican parties, is the national debt. Right now we pay $222.75 billion a year in interest on the national debt…although it’s probably higher by now. That’s just pissing money right down the drain. And this is why we need people that know a household budget to get into power – the government cannot run its finances.

The federal government is a joke, and we all saw that tonight in Washington. Let’s hope these idiots finally get voted out of office and responsible people, people willing to do the difficult tasks needed to get this country back on track, get into office.

America is a mess, but we poor assholes in basements can still find ways to save $568.9 billion – there’s hope.

10 Ways for Federal Government to Save Money

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Republicans are Organized and Democrats are Screwed

12/1/2014

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You want me to have a plan?

I’ve said it before, right after the election in fact, and that’s the fact that Republicans are organized.

You don’t see that a lot with Democrats. I dunno, maybe they just don’t have the money or the funding. Maybe they don’t kiss ass enough. Maybe they’re kissing the wrong ass.

I can’t help but think they’ve decided they’ve been kissing the wrong asses (working people) and now are doing a classic switcheroo to kiss the ass of the same asses that are being kissed.

Confused? Me too, but I’ve gotten better at wading through the mass hypocrisy and hysteria that is political confusion by being hyper-vigilant for the past few months (AKA, a pain in the ass).

There’s no message, and the Democrats have no national leader. Everyone’s waiting around to ride the coattails of Hillary into office in 2016, and I’ve got news for you…the emperor has no clothes.

That’s it, that’s all there is to it – the person waving the flag nationally for the Democratic Party has no plan, has no message, and has no idea how to get elected.

Or am I the only one who remembers her getting steamrolled in 2008? Oh, that’s right – those wounds haven’t healed yet, so let’s not talk about that.

See, there’s a lot of skeletons in the closet and let’s not even get into the dirty laundry. Do you really want to be riding those coattails?

It’s incredibly frustrating, laughable almost.

I think you can see why the Republicans are winning so early in the game, and that’s because all the leading Democrats in business and entertainment have realized that we’re looking forward to a losing investment.

It’s a shame, it’s a damn shame, to just give up the country like that. But that’s what Democrats have done…mainly by their insistence upon doing nothing at all.

What a ramshackle and rickety affair we’ve got here, and I wouldn’t expect it go to away anytime soon.

Message, folks – we need a message. And for that we need a messenger. Waiting for Iowa for that is much too late.

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