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Congressional Law versus Economic Law

Congress and democratic presidential candidates seem to be discussing a minimum gas mileage law quite a bit.  We need to conserve gas and cut down on global warming causing emissions. 

I know I'm more laid back than most but I don't see the need to pass such a law.  It has seemed to me to be quite obvious that the problem will solve itself.  Oil is on the decline which means prices are on an incline.  Americans have put themselves into debt to such a point that no matter how much money they make, they are living from paycheck to paycheck.

That means that when gas prices hit $4 a gallon, $5 a gallon, and on upward, people are going to start voluntarily ditching gas guzzling vehicles.  If Congress wants to speed up the process, don't tell people what kind of cars they are allowed to make or buy, just add a sin tax onto gas.  Raise the price of gas and you will see fuel economic car sales go through the roof.

I know, we want our cake, our frosting, a scoop of Neapolitan ice cream, on fine china, with a glass of milk, and be able to eat it too.  Like your mom always said though, if you keep touching it, you're going to go blind.  The more we try to make laws to force people to do what someone has deemed is "right" the more we have to make laws enforcement agencies and even more rules and regulations and in the end, the whole thing just backfires anyway.

Not that this is good for the employees but GM is laying off 3,500 people who were making trucks and SUVs.  Sales are decreasing as gas prices increase.  People are switching to cross-overs.  Maybe those people can get jobs building cool cross-overs or maybe they'll have to switch industries to what ever market will rise with the decline of car sales.

Walking shoes?

Unfortunately, our monkey-spanking government has created tax incentives for companies to move out of the country and preferred free trade agreements that benefit workers in foreign countries.

We could stop the whole thing if we would buy American but we want our companies to pay American taxes and high salaries to people so they can buy the cheapest crap on the planet that was built in Taiwan from Wal-Mart. 

To conserve gas and cut down on deadly emissions, we should pass a law that people aren't allowed to buy stuff that has to travel more than 1,000 miles to get to the retailer.

Ron Paul, Nevada, and the Country

I've tried to block out the treatment of Ron Paul and the American people by the corporations and the media companies as best I could.  This whole Nevada delegate election thing has brought it all back home for me.  We have lost control of our country.  The whole system is just a big hoax to make people think that they have some say in what happens but they don't.

Hillary, McCain, Obama.  Who cares?  The outcome will be the same.  If that weren't the case, they wouldn't be in the news.  Only the the candidates who have been bought and paid for make the Old Stream Media and most Americans still get there news in that fashion.

They can't be bothered to actually learn anything.  Part of the equation is the fact that they have to work longer and harder to make ends meet and so they have little time for actual learning.  Part of it is just laziness. 

Ron Paul doesn't take money from lobbyists so it's impossible for him to become president.  That is incredibly sad to me.  Having Ron Paul as president might not have changed much anyway.  After all, Congress has been bought and so there is little that he could have done but he could have educated America.  The media ignores him now even though he's still running to get the Republican nomination but if he was president, they would be expected to be there with cameras and microphones to broadcast what he said.

Now they can ignore him and instead we get to watch the pseudo-election process for the next president picked by world corporations and the CFR.

I'm still voting for Ron Paul if I have to write his name on the Diebold machine with white-out.  I still believe that you don't earn the right to complain about the idiot in office unless you vote.  When the country collapses into violent chaos, I'll have earned the right to blog about it.

What is Plan B if Ron Paul wins?

Nevada was supposed to pick it's state delegates last Saturday.  They were *supposed to* but they didn't because it was apparent that Ron Paul was going to win.

Yes, for those of you that get your news from the 3 letter boys, Ron Paul is still running to get the Republican nomination and he's going to win Nevada unless the Republican party can find a way to keep Ron Paul people out of the election process.

Saturday, in Reno, they started the process of electing state delegates.  In the first Congressional District voting, Ron Paul won 7 of 9 delegates.  Seeing this as a sign of how the rest of the voting would go for the day, the Republican party put the process into recess and said they would start over in a few days in Las Vegas (500-600 miles away to make it more inconvenient).

So, the people in charge of the Republican party (because it's obviously not the people in the part) have stalled to see what they can come up with to somehow keep the people from voting for who they want. 

You have to love democracy.

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PS - Don't you love that for an article about Ron Paul, they used a picture of Mitt Romney with a caption about McCain? 

Celebrating Being a Billionaire

Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian multi-billionaire (in the neighborhood of $22 billion), has decided to create a magazine aimed at billionaires and people who want to be billionaires.  The title of the magazine will be "Snob".

There's nothing wrong with being a billionaire.  In fact, I may give it a try sometime just to see what it's like.  The magazine name seems to give it a negative connotation though.

The timing of which could be very poor or maybe the timing is right, depending on who you are.  We are entering a time when many people may have less than they had a couple years ago.  This might be the best time to be a billionaire.

"It's not pleasant to boast about your wealth when you have inherited it but when you have made it yourself, well it is still not very nice, but it is justified," Shmarov said [who will be running Snob].

When you've got it, flaunt it?

Midweek Filler: Money Makes the World Go 'Round

I have never seen the movie that this week's video comes from but my dad must have had the soundtrack because I've heard the songs.

They Just Don't Get It

This news team is interviewing this guy because he's an expert.  He knows what he talking about.  They admit that he's been right in the past.  And yet . . .

Listen to them argue with him.  Smacktards.

Stocks are on their way up. Woo hoo!

Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist and chairman of the investment policy committee at Standard & Poor's, has declared that the worst is over for stocks for the year.  It's upward and onward from here.

The Federal Reserve's rate cuts and King George's generous tax rebates have saved the day.

If you pulled your money out trying to play it safe, now is the time to throw it all back in so that you can come out a winner at the end of the year. 

Whadya wanna bet that another investment firm goes under in May when no one believes the crap that Sam is shoveling?

No Worries. King George is all over it.

Nothing to worry about.  The good king has declared that he has everything under control.

"We saw this coming ... and so we took some action. And I do want to thank members of the Congress, members of the Chamber, for working on what I believe is going to be a very effective pro-growth stimulus package," Bush said.

Problem solve.

They saw this coming.  They didn't do anything about it at the time but they saw it coming.

"Dude, these people are going to be so screwed," Bush said.

"Yes, Mr. President, ha ha, they are," Cheney answered.

"Should we do something about it?" Bush asked.

"Like what?" Cheney asked.

"I don't know.  Don't I have advisors or sumpin' to deal with these things?" Bush asked.

"No, you don't.  Now, take your pills and go to your office.  We'll be there soon," Cheney said.

"What am I supposed to do?" Bush asked.

"We put a new game in the PS3 for you," Cheney said.

"Cool!"

So, it's all under control.  Continue on with your lives.  Nothing to see here.

Sunday Start - April 20

I've missed a few of these because my schedule seemed to be all over the place.  I'm working on that.  I used to be the most spontaneous person I knew.  I would still lean in that direction but I strive now to find some kind of balance between order and chaos.  There are things that I like to do every day, like exercise and blogging.

I usually pick three things that I want to get done in a week but this week I'm only going to pick one.  I need to update my blog index.  It's becoming a bigger and bigger job the longer that I put it off. 

I especially need to update my P90X index because of the popularity of that search for finding this blog.

On my wish list for the week is writing an episode for the August 6th series which just kind of got dropped.  I don't know how many people are interested in the aftermath but I feel that it's something that I need to write for me regardless of what other people want to read.  Maybe I needed the break in writing the story before tackling the harder part.  Shooting someone is easy.  Living with the aftermath is harder.

A goal but not a new goal is to continue with my new exercise cycle.  This week is my recovery week.  I'm hitting the weights hard for two weeks and then increasing my calorie intake while doing yoga and cardio for a week to let my muscles have a break.  I was doing three weeks of weights before the recovery week but I found that I was suffering from symptoms of over training during that third week: fatigue, irritability, sleep problems, and lack of motivation.  I have no desire to live life like that so I shortened it down, increased my calories a tad, and then increased my calories a tad more for recovery.  I'm looking long term for my fitness so I need something that I can do for the rest of the year.

I have ideas for what I'll be doing after the first week of June.  It's probably going to be 12 week cycles and I'll explain more later.

What are your plans for the week?

For now, blog index.  Focus.  Blog index.  I have Tuesday off from work.  Maybe I'll be caught up by then.

Sword Point Saturday - Who's at the Helm?

The country is headed for an economic dead end.  Even knowing the teeny bit about national economics that I know, I think I could have done a better job of keeping things going.

What this leads me to believe is that what's happening is not an accident.  There is a reason why we are being steered toward a depression while being told that there's going to be a bit of slow-down in the economy for a few months.

We all know that King George isn't smart enough to tie his own shoes, let alone run a country.  He's obviously part of the whole disaster and probably being paid very well.  How much is a legacy worth?  I don't know if you could pay me enough money to be the worst president ever.

Anyway, this leads to my question for today?

Who's driving this wreck?

5 Sword Points.