Un-Liberaled Woman

My friend Amritas reminded me from my last post about Bill Cosby and how is Obama really saying anything different now? So I found on Bob Parks’, of Black & Right, YouTube Channel a collect of videos where Mr. Pudding Pop as I knew him when I was a tween (hmmmm….pudding pop) talks it out straight about parenting in today’s society.

One of the best lines

“MTV is not going to be there to co-sign for the car you want.”

Awesome.

Attention, Van Jones, this is what an intellectual sounds like:

I read the President’s speech to school kids today. My verdict – trust me, I already no you don’t care or probably don’t agree – that overall it’s probably what most administrators should be telling students themselves. I don’t think it’s a perfect speech – that’s not possible.

But here are two key passages from the speech that I think are vital:

“And no matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it. You want to be a doctor, or a teacher, or a police officer? You want to be a nurse, or an architect, a lawyer or a member of our military? You’re going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. You can’t drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You’ve got to work for it and train for it and learn for it.”

‘But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life – what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you’ve got going on at homes – that’s no excuse for neglecting your homework or having a bad attitude. That’s no excuse for talking back to your teacher, or cutting class, or dropping out of school. That’s no excuse for not trying.”

To me this is a fine speech to give to kids. There are things I don’t think are necessary – ‘I hope you’ll wash your hands a lot’ – but to me, there are no major issues of the speech. That said, I don’t have kids so if I were in that position I might feel differently. AND, I think the bigger question throughout this entire issue is:

Why do government (public) schools have to rely on the President to relay this message -about working hard and getting your homework done – that they should already be responsible for promoting to our children in the first place?

Answer – because our government school system is broken, broken, broken. But that’s another topic for another day. The silver lining is that at least the message is getting out there – put down the Xbox and pick up the calculator.

And for those who are chastising parents who have opposition to the President’s speech and are electing to not have their kids in school that day. Where was your outcry when this statement was made?

“The Department of Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president, it should be helping us to produce smarter students. And the president should be doing more about education than saying, ‘Lights, camera, action’.”

- Richard Gephardt (Democrat), then the House Majority Leader on George H.W. Bush’s speech to school children in 1991

I’m not putting that up there to get down in the hypocrisy hoe-down. But honestly, people need to quit yammering about parents who have elected their free choice in THEIR kids’ attendance to school today. Most of us who went to college skipped school to nurse binge drinking hangovers and didn’t think twice about it. Now all of a sudden a parent is active in their son/daughter’s education and because we don’t agree with their choice it’s okay to label them as bad parents. Who are WE to judge them in the fucking first place! Most of us aren’t even parents ourselves.

Do I agree with them pulling their children out of school? No because I don’t really have a problem with the speech. But I do respect their choice as parents. Most of the parents I know who are taking their kids out of school are using the time to teach their kids about government and other lesson plans they believe are vital to their kids well being and education. How do I know this? Because I participated in this thing called communicating and asked them.

Most of these parents are some of the most active, involved parents I have ever met. Yet, I keep seeing and hearing others treat these people as if they have the parenting skills of Britney Spears speeding down the LA freeway with her infant child sitting on her lap with no seatbelt. Please, give me a break.  Even Britney thinks it’s humorous in the photo op she provided for this post (FYI – that’s a tongue-in-cheek remark for those who didn’t get it).

SIT DOWN with your cries of chastising these people as intolerant and take the time to inquire about why they are choosing this path, what they plan to do with their children while they are out of school, etc. Today on the radio I even heard The Drex Show state that the actions of these parents might be racially-biased. Parents take kids out of school for much more vapid reasons, yet we’re choosing this to get on parents about??? Come on. (Rolling MAH eyes.)

The President was fulfilling his duties of the office by giving this speech to kids on the first day of school. I wish every President – both Republican and Democrat – would do this more often because kids need all the guidance they can get especially those who don’t have involved parents.

In a world where the likes of Paris Hilton (shudders) is for SOME reason idolized, I think the office of the President (regardless of his policies that I don’t agree with) is still a good role model for children. As long as teachers are not using it as a stepping stone to preach their own politics in the classroom, I don’t really have a problem with it. But I wish that people would be respectful of those who choose and don’t choose to participate in these events. The only thing the negativity brings is fuel to our overbloated egos, making judgments where really we have no business spouting off our mouths.

(as if a girl needed any more proof). Here he is in an interview with LaToya Jackson claiming that the Jackson’s have Papa Joe to thank for their ‘good fortune.’ And he talks about how nobody had been involved in any drugs or scandals. Heh…heh…heh…hahahahahahahahhah.

Remember this interview the next time somebody is even paying attention to anything coming out of good ole Phil’s mouth.

Durbin: Meeting with constituents at townhalls on healthcare reform is not productive. (via Hotair)

Me: Senators refusing to meet with constituents to help explain how radical legislation will work are not productive, and thus not worth re-election. (via my Mouffffffffffff)

Add Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) to the list of Milk Carton Politicians, with a special mention for hubris and arrogance.  Unlike some of his colleagues, who put their mouths into hiding along with the rest of their bodies rather than face angry constituents, Durbin tells the public that meeting with voters is just “not productive.” But do you know what is productive [according to Durbin]?  Meeting with lobbyists.

What a doofus. What is even more of a crime is that this yookle will get re-elected to office, because that’s how Illinois rolls. The more corrupt you are, the more likely your odds at getting elected.  Yeah, let’s elect another dimwit Senator who cares more about how full his back pocket is than the constituents who voted him into office.

Way to go, Illinois! Lincoln is probably rolling in his grave.

To help your mind relax as you’re called all things terrorist related. Because, remember, you should only be speaking out against the govt. policies when it’s a Republican in the office. Daaaab-nabit!

Also, I give my creative inspiration to Jim Treacher. Love his blog….He had a Bingo card up earlier, and since I’m really, really motivated at work on a Friday, well, I thought I’d put my Photoshop talents to good use.

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O….

And BINGO was his name, oh!

I think Economics in One Lesson is literally the best book I’ve read – evah.

The idea that healthcare will be cheaper if the government takes control is absurd. If you look at the House bill for instance – and I’m not making this up, read it for yourself – the insurance exchange is a classic price-fixing schematic. Disagree? Then show me an example of where govt. price fixing actually works? I triple, daaaaaawg dare you. (I know – Oooooooh!)

Instead you have example after example during the 30s, 40s, 70s, etc. where price fixing by the govt. leads to drastically negative results. They start as ‘keeping the costs low’ and end up in raised costs over time with lower supply/quality. This insurance exchange is a very similar setup to the slaughter houses during WWII who were required by the Office of Price Administration to process their meat for less the cost to them of cattle on the hoof and the labor of slaughter and processing.

You cannot hold the price of any commodity below its current market level without in time bringing about two consequences – increase in the demand and/or reduce in the supply. Because of these consequences, production of that commodity is discouraged in order to save at cost to keep hold on the damaging below-market value. Then profits margins are reduced, companies are forced to take losses, and private sector competitors are wiped out. All you are left with is an inefficient, govt. monopoly on the commodity. This is a backhanded way of promoting ‘reform’ when, in fact, it is a backdoor to rationing, cost control, etc.

And before any lefties get on the comment board – this is not a lie, not a smear. It is a fact based in the historical evidence from economists like Henry Hazlitt. If you think I’m smearing with these facts, then tell me an example of when supply was reduced, demand continued to increase and yet somehow the price stayed low, quality high without wiping out any services, companies, or jobs.

I’m willing to listen. What cat got your tongue?

Also, employer-based insurance basically came out of wage-control, private sector regulation from WWII as well. The main burst of it happened in 1942. So if anyone is to blame for our sad state of employer-based insurance, you don’t need to look any further than the beltway. A lot of govt. mandates, like blocking of interstate commerce in insurance coverage which would lead to competition and lower prices, actually add to higher insurance premiums. Insurance is one of the most highly regulated industries out there and MORE regulation is supposed to make it cheaper??? You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see the BS in this concept, folks.

Hey, I’m on the same page when it come to making healthcare more affordable, better access and competitive. But a backdoor way to single payer, I’m not going to support. And I’m not going to support a new exchange system that by LAW says you as a private citizen are not allowed to change your private insurance the year this bill takes affect, and that moving forward you must purchase your private insurance through the exchange that dictates separate regulations between private/public and yet is also where the public option ‘competes.’

The truth is that if a private company rigged a market to be like that, our country would be up in arms about it. Can anyone say Enron? But because it’s govt. it’s called reform and if you disagree you’re labeled as ‘lying’ or being ’simply un-American.’ Paaahlease.

I mean, I get it because I used to think this way – “Companies don’t need this many profits, the govt. is looking out for us.” But over time and just learning about these issues it’s painfully clear to me that this has been a smear perpetuated. Should we go back to the govt. regulating the phone industry? Because profits, free market and less govt. regulation didn’t do jack for the phone industry. All those whipper snappers walking around with their iPhones. Where’s my rotary!!! Oh, that’s right it’s now in that iPhone – Damm you free market, Damm you!

Watch this the next time you hear celebrities talk about how middle America is “messed up,” “bigots,” or “out of touch.”  This is the Teen Choice pre-party out in Hollywood – yes at a club, complete with 9-year olds dancing on stripper poles.

As I watch this I keep playing “We’re the Kids in America! Whoah!” in my head. Shudders.

Oh, and if that wasn’t enough…here are teens in Los Angeles crying over meeting Kim Kardashian. If you’re not sure who Kim is she began her trip down INFAMOUS LANE by a “leaked” amateur porn tape with ex-boyfriend Ray J. Total role model – sweet! (Pssss – I’m being what you would call sarcastic.)

I’m officially Grizzled. AT. 31! Who knew??? Oh, silly me, I’m just ‘out of touch.’

Or it could just be the result of privatized system for healthcare.

Remember this video from Steven Crowder on how the public system works in Canada. On the weekend he went to get a blood test which had him and his friends not getting access from one government/public-plan clinic and at another having to wait in nearly a 3-hour line.

Yeah, well one of my liberal friends couldn’t bring himself to watch the full 10 minute video, but deemed himself educated enough to make a snarky (yet WRONG) evaluation. He said that Crowder’s research was incorrect and that it would be the same if you went to the hospital in the US through the private system.

Errrrrrr…..which brought me to MAH experience (for nearly 10 examples of how wrong that argument is just this year alone). I’ve been having to get a lot of blood tests done this year and I’ve dealt with a variety of setups (all private and paid for through my insurance Cigna). Sometimes it’s through an appointment and other times it is just walking up to the reception and asking to get blood drawn.

But apparently my experiences with this, although true, are not enough evidence to show how much better our private system is. My liberal friend still demanded that our private system doesn’t work and therefore we need a public system like Canada’s. Yes, he said this even though he his reason was that Crowder’s experiences didn’t count because he went through a public system and not by the means of a private system. So, doesn’t that mean our private system is better than a public one…No, according to my liberal friend. Whaaaaaaat? Exactly.  He’s too smart to be this stupid in his arguments, grabbing at straws but oh well.

So imagine my “surprise” when this Sunday – SUNDAY, people, SUNDAY! – when I literally walked up with NO APPOINTMENT to the reception desk at the hospital to take a blood test. I was given one of those beeper machines, it went off within minutes, I registered (and the check in clerk set it up so that I wouldn’t have to register the other times I come in this month – imagine that happening under a public option, yeah right), and then within 20 minutes – no joke 20 minutes – I was walking in the parking lot done with my blood test. Again, a blood test I had no appointment for and went in to get on the weekend, specifically a Sunday, at noon.

Goooooooooooooo,

Obamacare!!!!

Pelosi 2006 – “This is democracy in action. I’m energized by it, frankly.” (via Hotair)

Pelosi 2009 – “Drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” (via USAToday) Yeah, tell me again how the Iraq veteran, who can cite the Constitution from memory is ‘un-American’ ?????  I’d argue he knows the founding principles and Constitution of this nation better than our own Speaker.

But let me guess, the Botox floozie thinks these SEIU thugs ARE acting ‘American’. ????

Here’s a thought, if you don’t like having to answer to angry constituents you can either:

1). Resign from your Congressional office and don’t run for public office in the future.

OR

2). Don’t run Congress like a dictatorship, super-party majority after you promised bi-partisanship in order to score votes on the campaign trail. You reap what you sew and this has never been more apparent than now.

Simple, non?

Personally, I wonder if this new guy I’m seeing on YouTube – LaRouche is Right – has a point. Because honestly, if the silver tongue had worked on people as it did on the campaign trail you wouldn’t have people demanding answers, you’d have people drunk on kool-aid falling into line of support. Just sayin’

Why don’t you remember this the next time your administration starts up a ‘Snitches Program’ for those who have questions and opposition to your partisan policies.

There are not two Americas, there is only one. And you cannot expect to just have everyone hop on the kool-aid train of blind acceptance everytime you pass a policy. There will always be people who oppose policy, who have questions, who ask for answers, but don’t they have the right to – I mean they’re footing the bill.

Are you going to bring a new era of politics where you try to work with both sides as technically promised in exchange for votes last year? My guess is no, but I didn’t believe you the first go around. I had that sixth sense called common sense to look into your historical policy behavior which reeked of partisanship. But to those who you blatantly lied to, are you going to answer their questions or have your rank n’ file brown shirts report them in?

Time to check yourself before you wreck yourself.  Quit acting like a teenage girl who ran up $6,000 in text charges on her parents’ cell bill and demands that her parents don’t have the right to question why she did that. Paaaahleaze!