Too Much Information

TMI
It used to just be a silly schoolgirl phrase, or a way to tease your friends when they spilled something personally embarrassing. Now it's a political strategy by to Obama administration.
Despite the fact that we have become a 24/7 Media world, even the media can't keep up with what Obama is pushing down the pipe. Just last week, you had the battle over Gitmo, Heath care, and Cap and Trade. and new CAFE standards. Not to mention the credit card protection act, Obama's speech at Notre Dame and talks of the impending GM bankruptcy. This is all in one week. How is the regular Joe out there supposed to follow all of this? I'm going to let you in on a little secret - they want you overwhelmed.
I heard someone make the analogy of the media pipeline being about 6" in diameter and the administration pushing 18 inches of information through it each day. No wonder the White House felt the need to create their own "media" release when the UCONN Lady Huskies came to visit. Every other reporter was busy with the 40 other stories that day.
When Obama said "CHANGE" he wasn't kidding. Debate has gone right out the window. You are going to get nationalized health care, despite the fact that we have no idea what it will look like. Maybe that's why he can't rally his own party to fund his closing of Gitmo. The plan is short on, well to be honest, a plan.
Just wait because the best is yet to come. Cap and Trade is the largest tax hike on all economic "classes" ever. Once again, a plan is sprinting through the House, but there hasn't been a lot of open debate on this. We really haven't even had the debate over whether we need it. Personally, I'm not a big fan of walking through my house feeling like I'm in a eclectically lit hallway from a fight scene in a Jason Bourne movie, but get used to it. (BTW, just for fun I did install some compact fluorescent bulbs in my basement stairwell, now I bounce off the walls when I go downstairs. It really does feel like I'm in a movie.) Compact fluorescents are just the beginning. I had a discussion with a friend who works for a wind turbine manufacturer the other day. Even he admitted that they couldn't survive if it wasn't for government subsidies, they can't compete with coal. Do you ever hear that though? All you hear is that they are "good", not bad like coal and oil.
I find it terribly ironic that the man who campaigned on "transparency" is giving us the equivalent of a laser show. So many thing are happening on a daily basis that no one can follow all of them and remain sane. And the best part about a laser show is that everyone looks at the pretty colors, while you never know what's happening in darkness on the floor below. Of course, having a few media outlets in your back pocket, NBC and the New York Times to be specific, only helps in this charade.
When you lose even the chance at debate, the days of the republic are limited. Of course, there are quite a few people who don't really care and think politics isn't for them. In this case the TMI means anything relating to politics is just a bother. Ignorance is bliss.
At some point the American people are going to wake up to a country that looks nothing like what the Founding Fathers put together. Since I'm an extremist fear monger, I believe we have already crossed that line.
The next time you watch the news, ask yourself what you aren't hearing about, or what's already happened while everyone was looking somewhere else.
Then again, maybe everything is TMI. It's your choice my friend.
Welcome to "Change".

Bizzaro World Part II

WOW!!!!!
What else can I say? The UAW now has a controlling percentage of Chrysler, plus the ability to select a member of the board of directors.
WOW!!!!
Does this seem odd to anyone else out there? Looking at this from the outside, isn't there a bit of conflict of interest here? So who does the UAW go to when renegotiating their contract??? THEMSELVES???? This is not good, and should scare the crap out of all hard working Americans, union members or not (and since I don't know a lot of government workers, teachers or autoworkers I guess I'm really just speaking to the people who didn't give Obama almost half the money for his campaign).
This is PAYBACK. Good old Chicago style politics and a huge reason that a lot of Americans are turned off by our system. Pay to play, lol sure it is, just legal pay to play.
The Auto companies had a myriad of sins to pay for; arrogance, poor customer service (not making good cars), treating suppliers like crap, and execs making ridiculous amounts of money. The UAW was just as bad, having a jobs program where people got paid over 80% of their salary even when they weren't working, unimaginable retirement plans (almost as good a PERA) and wages that killed the bottom line for Automakers.
SO who pays for those sins???????
We do! Along with anyone like banks and hedge funds who invested money (often for retirement) in Chrysler. See all that Tarp money we dumped into Chrysler back under Bush??? ALL GONE!
What about the last instalment under O?
ALL GONE!
Creditors who held liens on Chrysler were told that they would have to settle for under half their GUARANTEED money. Funny, that means more money problems for the banks - oh what a viscious cycle this is becoming.
The part of this that should FRIGHTEN everyone is that the US Government has just declared null and void legal contracts between a borrower and a lender. This is LOOTING, but on a scale like we've never seen in America before. The people with a legal contract get SCREWED, and the UAW gets ownership. WOW - you to can be part of the American dream.
Coming soon - The Government wants to own you from age 5-22 (plus however long it takes you to pay them back). Anybody remember the "Company Store" scam???