Rick Santorum, does he ever listen to himself talk

Rick Santorum , may be surging once again in some of the southren states, but he really doesn't have a chance at getting the nomination. We would be better off with Obama as President than to elect Romney, sure now he is once again trying to back peddle on something he said that he did believe in when he said it. Take away health care for millions of poor and disadvantaged American children , just because he wants to make some talking points on the trail. Do as I say , is he really the one to be handing out the directions as to how we are supposed to be living . Hatered,quick to judge others, sure if you're not like me . What Rick Santorum needs to think about , is what would Jesus do ? and that's what he should ask himself each morning as he starts his day. What would Jesus Do????

Something to be proud of

With the Super Tuesday primary taking place tomorrow, a good many of you may be going to the polls in your state to select your candidate for the nations highest office. This years election season,which for some has been going on for over five years, is nothing to write home about. Have we learned anything about what these individuals will do to enhance America. Some American's are getting rather tired of all of the name calling and finger pointing, the endless bashing of the "other candidate" without any regard as to one's party just as long as they achieve the desired outcome. And one can hardly wait until the general election too see just how low we have gone as a people and the never ending quest for greed. Back in the day , as they say, American's would never stoop to telling outright lies. Once upon a time, there was something called honor, a principal that would govern how one would act and be judged accordingly. Today we have four candidates in the Republican party, each one of them telling America that they should be the choice for the partys nominee. Lets take a look at these individuals. The front runner Willard "Mit" Romney has earned a fortune with what some would call unethical practices. While being totally legal some would question as to the morality in his decision making process, putting the dollar (and the never ending quest for it )above of all other concerns. It's just business. There are winners and there are losers. Next we have Rick Santorum. Rick spent some time in Senate before being subject to a loss, sending him into the private sector. His religious views are strong and heart felt as is his commitment to family, and his desire to bring something that was lost back, to the American way of life. His desire although is not grounded in the reality of today. Sure it would be wonderful if both parents did not need to go to work each day, leaving the children to raise themselves, once they come home from school. But once again the quest for the almighty dollar , has made it a necessity for any family to be able to make it in todays world. Then you throw in a lay off or plant closing , due to the business practices of todays world and the destruction of the family is now complete. Home losses and stress due to the practices of those in charge have left very little room for the Ozzy and Harriet leave it to Beaver days of yore. Government in your bedroom, Please don't. In the third spot, Newt Gingrich fills this spot loosely. Sure he was the Speaker of the House back, before being asked to resign in the wake of unethical and unsound practices. He never accepted any guilt for any of his wrong doings , although he did pay sanctions of $300,000.00 dollars as a result.In leaving he did leave his fellow House member with a speech about how self important this man really thinks he is. "I'm willing to lead but I am not willing to preside over people who are cannibals. My only fear would be that if I tried to stay, it would just overshadow whoever my sucessor is" Lastly Ron Paul What can you say about him . The main stream press won't give him the time of day , but do they really owe him anything. End the fed , end the wars bring home all troops,quit giving aid to countries that hate us take care of your own, not really bad ideas but sadly they are not things that Washington wants to talk about. Good luck

Whats wrong with this picture

For years our elected representives have been taking money ( the surplus, 2.6 trillion since 1983, above the amount needed to pay current beneficiarys )that was paid in to the Social Security Administration, without any idea as to when or if it could ever be paid back.The social security surplus was invested in treasuries, enabling the government to borrow less money from other sources.The government borrows these funds to pay for other spending , but is obligated to pay intrest on these borrowings, and are to pay the funds back when needed by Social Security for benefit payments. The money is gone and the system is broke: These funds are guaranteed, but are only as strong as the federal Government and taxes will have to be raised to cover the costs of the borrowings when they are called for. Now they are back again ; this time to try to "overhaul" the system, to cut back on the benefits that are owed to millions of Americans , who have paid into this fund for a lifetime. Most of these Americans paid into this fund , with the understanding that when they reached retirement age they would at least be able to count on something each month as most of these Americans did not have any kind of retirement plans offered to them through their employer nor could they afford them if they were. Cuts need to be made : this is very true however cutting the benefits of Americans who have next to nothing is not really going to help much in the overall picture. It would be too easy to fix this by saying that we could divert some of the savings from the ending of the two wars and applying that money to cover the "borrowed" funds. This sadly can not happen, as the wars were and are funded with borrowed funds. More revenue needs to be coming in : Adding more revenue to the fund, if in fact there really was one , would be the quickest way to solve the problem of funding. But with the outsourcing of jobs there are fewer and fewer Americans working and paying taxes, at a time when we need more workers. Raising the retirement age; once again there is talk about raising the retirement age,but this would only be a quick fix and would not really offer much relief. Cutting the benefits to those who are receiving benefits but having never paid anything into the system, would be a good place to start. Taxes need to be raised to fund the Social Security system, but there is not much desire in doing so in an election year. The House Republicans just passed an extension on the payroll tax holiday,prolonging the cuts in funding to Social Security,in an effort to save face in an election year futher complicating the problem. We can't dig our way out of the hole that we now find ourselves in . If you keep digging you will find that the hole just keeps getting deeper.

Is anyone else embarrassed?

I'm sorry to say , but I feel that this Republican election cycle has got to be one of the most embarrassing moments in American history. Surely you would think that in all of America that there would be a few American's that don't come off as just plain stupid each time that they open their mouths. On the one hand we have as the front runner, a completely out of touch millionaire, who doesn't really have a clue as to how the rest of America lives,and in his past has been on every side of every issue and on the other hand we have this lying cheating short fuse has been,that has never taken any responsibility for anything unless someone else did it, that is just about ready to blow. There are a couple of other American's running who come across as somewhat intelligent, but they don't get the time of day by our we select who we want American media. I have been watching with great intrest all of the debates and all I have seen so far , is just more finger pointing and name calling. The President did this or my opponent did that, never saying that this is what I WILL do. I want to hear a plan I want to be told that as President I WILL WORK with all members of the American pollitical process. All of the members of the House and all of the members of the Senate I will go to them as the leader of the free world and say this is what I want to do , and your job is to make it happen, and if they give the same kinds of results that we have been getting, I will hold them up to the media saying that the reason we have failed to get anything done is because of this..These people need to get over their larger than life personas and get busy fixing America. Afterwards they can tell the story of how THEY did it anyway they want, but it does need to happen and it needs to happen NOW.

Family values, maybe not

For the past thirty years the GOP has sold it self as the party of family values. High morality,integrity and family values the shining example of the American way, used to be the benchmark of the Republican party. After the past few months of Presidential debates , I'm beginning to wonder if this is really what it means to be a Republican in America. It would appear that I have been wrong for all of these years, believing that the Republican party stands for anything more than get it while you can at the expense of all others. Lying cheating and whatever it takes , in both their personal lives and their business lives apparently are the norm just as long as they achieve the prize. Lies and personal attacks seem to be a time honored tradition within the Republican party, say it enough times and it becomes true. My pride in the American way swells with each day as we move forward in selecting a President. This is nothing near what our forefathers had in mind when they envisioned this country when they started it so many years ago. Please put someone who has some morals ,integrity, values and ethics up in the next state primary, give us someone worthy of governing the most powerful nation on earth. In God we trust .

Super PACs and other topics

Super PACs: Last week after losing the Iowa Caucus Newt Gingrich was crying like a baby over the use of Super PACs by some of his Republican rivals vowing to have the practice abolished. This week however after being given five million dollars by a billionaire to his own Super PAC he is all for the use of such institutions. Political Campaign contributions have always been a problem, and after several attempts at solving the issue of trying to remove big money from the game, they came up with this method which is by far the worst way of financing an election. Now there is a way to inject massive amounts of money , unchecked into any campaign, simply by routing it through a super PAC. Never going to change. This big money issue is never going to go away so you had better just get used to the idea of who ever has the most money is going to be the nominee and or the winner of any election. Term limits: Term limits have been talked about for years , but has it's time finally come? Now that the main stream Republican candidates are talking about it , perhaps we can move forward to a higher level. Iran: This week several of the candidates for the Republican nomination for President have come forward, saying that they would go to war with Iran , to stop their perceived nuclear program, stating that the current President is not doing enough to stop this threat. Russia , has expressed regret and concern calling for more six way talks after Iran has announced that they are able to refine their uranium futher, but not to the level required for making nuclear weapons but for the production of civilian power and radioactive isotopes, used for medical purposes.Is this really what we want at this time, another war fought with borrowed funding? Why don't we just take care of America for a change, and see how things go,and if futher information is gathered concerning the attempts by Iran in obtaining a nuclear device, then we can act on it in a responsible manner. Gold: Do you own gold? are you planning on obtaining more. Just a thought, let me ask you , if you had many untold pounds of gold in your possession as apparently many of the gold and silver exchanges now on TV do , and after making the claim that gold is now ready to triple again as it already has in the past , why would you be wanting to sell it now . Gold , you can't eat it.

Can you believe this

Five days to go before the Iowa Republican Caucus, and there have been more swings than in the schoolyard playground. Michele Bachman has gone from polling first after winning the straw poll six months ago to running last. I guess once you get to know someone you can make informed choices.Tim Pawlenty left back then, as he failed to gain any support. Then came herman Cain and his 9 9 9 plan , and with it all of his infidelities real or otherwise and he was also a memory.Rick Perry was a late entrant and he shot to the top, only before losing traction and sliding back down into the also ran group. Newt Gingrich, was riding the wave to the top ,polling with a lead in the double digits even announcing that he would indeed be the nominee. Only that was before the rest of the group ran ads reminding America of Newts past. Mr. Gingrich started crying foul , saying that it was negative advertising, and that he was going to stay positive and stay on message and that he was above that kind of campaign. Only after seeing his lead evaporate did his vow of superiority go out the window, saying on a nation wide news show that he would indeed remain with his positive message and not resort to the negative campaign practices employed by his competition, even while bashing each and every one of them on the show. All along, while all of the others have gone from just an also ran to having their turn at the top, Mitt Romney has clung to his twenty something percent polling numbers . He can't get any support outside of his small group. Jon Huntsman decided not to spend any time in Iowa and may be the best candidate in the bunch , but he doesn't have a chance of gaining any support after not playing by the rules by bypassing Iowa. And that leaves Rick Santorum he is making gains everyday in the polling numbers, as each of the other front runners crash and burn although he is still lagging behind the other front runners Romney and Paul. Ron Paul, has been gaining in strength each day in Iowa , but he still is being dismissed as a serious candidate by all the others in the campaign and by all of the network news. Gary Johnson never was given any chance of competing, and has left the group and went on to the libertarian party, to run as a spoiler. Getting good? depends on you idea of good. The clock is tickng