tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post4076561598596916254..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: While Rome Burns …Always On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-35808988127735827542012-07-15T04:33:27.762-05:002012-07-15T04:33:27.762-05:00If we had to cut a check, the prespective would re...If we had to cut a check, the prespective would reason changeblogginatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-82087696116571612732012-07-14T06:30:28.925-05:002012-07-14T06:30:28.925-05:00I think that most people don't care that much ...I think that most people don't care that much because they don't see their pay checks decreasing month on month, when someone points out that they're working almost half the year for the government, suddenly they're perspective changes.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-941491559829749642012-07-13T17:55:20.414-05:002012-07-13T17:55:20.414-05:00I am a little weary of comparing Reagan's rais...I am a little weary of comparing Reagan's raising the debt 13 times to what Obama has done. Historical and economic context folks. We had borrowing power back in Reagan's day. Our debt to income level was low compared to today. Our annual debt did not exceed GDP..in other words for the simple minded we had more income and less debt and the cost to service that debt (interest payments) were less. CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT.<br /><br />Dont believe me, the credit rating of the US has been downgraded under how many President oh yeah 1--Obama the only man ever to occupy the WH with zero experience doing anything other than smoke weed and listen to communists speeches....<br /><br />So are we done with the nonsensical comparison to Reagan policies?blogginatornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-76661838602643974242012-07-13T05:29:45.630-05:002012-07-13T05:29:45.630-05:00Louis said:
The news today compared the cost of ...Louis said: <br /><br /><i>The news today compared the cost of national debt between Spain and the USA. In Spain, the average citizen owes $18,045. In the United States, the average citizen owes $50,050 and the average voter owes $139,288.</i><br /><br />Ye, gods!<br /><br />A day of reckoning has to be coming!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45339613661149821422012-07-13T05:28:13.143-05:002012-07-13T05:28:13.143-05:00Debbie,
As to letters to our politicians, I'm ...Debbie,<br /><i>As to letters to our politicians, I'm not sure they even read them any more. That's one reason the voters are so frustrated.</i><br /><br />As I indicated above, I know my representative in Congress has cut me off.<br /><br />The two U.S. senators do respond. However, Senator Webb isn't running for a second term; I've heard that he's fed up with politics after only one term. The other senator, Marker Warner, responds but sends somewhat condescending replies as he is an Obama-ite.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87288195381662724372012-07-12T21:35:43.694-05:002012-07-12T21:35:43.694-05:00I believe you have described our situation perfect...I believe you have described our situation perfectly, Miss Debbie. This would lead us toward one of two possibilities: either we reconcile to a communist state, or we rebel. I am not the first to undertake the opinion that we are heading once more to civil war.<br /><br />~LouieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-51596303708170711332012-07-12T19:08:52.051-05:002012-07-12T19:08:52.051-05:00What seems logical and sane to most of us is a for...What seems logical and sane to most of us is a foreign concept to those who support Obama. <br /><br />Yes there are certain things that government must do, but those are limited, very limited.<br /><br />Obama is using "roads" as some scam.<br /><br />As to letters to our politicians, I'm not sure they even read them any more. That's one reason the voters are so frustrated. During the previous immigration controversy, we mailed bricks, shoes, all kinds of stuff to Washington and it did make a difference. But most of those same people are busy, they are trying to support their families without food stamps, without welfare, without all the government handouts and they don't have much time to spend on the street corner picketing Congress.<br /><br />Debbie<br />Right Truth<br />http://www.righttruth.typepad.comRight Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18274108313586611205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60446024132444821962012-07-12T15:34:48.315-05:002012-07-12T15:34:48.315-05:00Change the narrative somewhere else, Ducky.Change the narrative somewhere else, Ducky.Sam Huntingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14780557316548397352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45244612302968708552012-07-12T14:34:54.952-05:002012-07-12T14:34:54.952-05:00Z,
BESEIGING THE GOV"T WITH EMAILS
My repres...Z,<br /><i>BESEIGING THE GOV"T WITH EMAILS</i><br /><br />My representative in Congress has cut off email access from me. He didn't like my questions, I guess.<br /><br />I was polite. Doesn't matter.<br /><br />These scummy politicians are doing what they want to do -- and we peons can go pound sand.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-33282702263204340122012-07-12T14:31:26.849-05:002012-07-12T14:31:26.849-05:00This essay may be worth considering but you have t...This essay may be worth considering but you have to play the averages.<br /><br />When you are dealing with a tyro who doesn't know the difference between debt and the cost of debt service it's just time to ignore the silliness.<br /><br />Speaking of Americans who don't think, Sam ...Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-21527372976201315322012-07-12T14:30:41.058-05:002012-07-12T14:30:41.058-05:00Dated today:
The national debt has now increased ...<a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/64000-question-how-much-has-debt-increased-taxpayer-under-obama" rel="nofollow">Dated today</a>:<br /><br /><i>The national debt has now increased by more than $64,000 per federal taxpayer since Barack Obama was inaugurated president....</i><br /><br />More at the above link.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-10256247518783753082012-07-12T14:08:20.568-05:002012-07-12T14:08:20.568-05:00Americans don't think things can get tougher; ...Americans don't think things can get tougher; And they ain't seen nothin' yet, I fear.<br /><br />Sam, I'm with you; I watch what's happening and think WHERE IS EVERYBODY? WHY AREN"T THEY MARCHING ON WASHINGTON, BESEIGING THE GOV"T WITH EMAILS... The left's made Americans used to entitlements and that's the beginning of the end.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-8291702487472154642012-07-12T13:45:02.895-05:002012-07-12T13:45:02.895-05:00I don't think many people are able to comprehe...I don't think many people are able to comprehend or wrap around the harsh reality of the $15 trillion dollar debt.<br /><br />Or believe it is not going to effect them, but it has and it will continue to effect the next generation.<br /><br />The Tea Party and Americans for Prosperity are in the fight to enlighten and wake up America that we are in serious trouble. <br /><br />I make the calls, I e-mail letters and I go to the rallies when they are in my town.<br /><br />We don't want to wind up a socialist nation, and it must be stopped now.Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-57523397601392251052012-07-12T12:22:44.269-05:002012-07-12T12:22:44.269-05:00Mr. Reagan and Mr. Obama share two important thing...Mr. Reagan and Mr. Obama share two important things: both were born white, and both inherited serious economic recession. Jimmy Carter nearly destroyed this country with stagflation, double-digit contraction, double-digit inflation, and double-digit interest rates. <br /><br />Reagan lowered taxes and implemented supply-side economics, an argument that tax cuts encourage economic expansion. Tax cuts will eventually produce a stronger economy that will offset the tax cuts. At this time, taxes under Carter were so high as to be prohibitive: the tax rate on wealthy Americans was as high as 70%, which is utterly ridiculous. At the same time, Reagan increased spending. We literally outspent and outpaced the Soviet Union. American technology and industrial production defeated the Soviet Union, which is preferable to having to defeat them with bullets. We cannot trivialize this too much, no matter what the neo-communists tell you today. <br /><br />How shall we remember these men? Reagan was far from perfect, but he turned the economy around. Obama only made it worse.Mustanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18230521475066981429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-64215830015823883412012-07-12T10:56:57.441-05:002012-07-12T10:56:57.441-05:00I have no disagreements whatsoever with the diagno...I have no disagreements whatsoever with the diagnosis, but have little idea how to effect a cure.<br /><br />The cancer of liberalism has metastasized to such an extent as to be impossible. OR so it seems to me.<br /><br /><i>"What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."</i><br /><br />~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)<br /><br />The time for some significant bloodletting appears to be drawing nigh once again.<br /><br />"When will they ever learn?"<br /><br />Apparently, NEVER.<br /><br />So sad!<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-56581437322124779952012-07-12T10:36:54.388-05:002012-07-12T10:36:54.388-05:00Our monstrocity of a federal government is broken ...Our monstrocity of a federal government is broken and I don't believe it can be fixed without dismantling it and that is a political impossibility today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-52952797976124666072012-07-12T09:34:57.357-05:002012-07-12T09:34:57.357-05:00"President Reagan once observed that governme..."President Reagan once observed that government has never seen a tax it didn’t like"<br />--------<br /><br />And Reagan borrowed heavily from China and raised taxes 13 times.Liberalmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04612454539046863752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-52799035836587728032012-07-12T09:33:14.969-05:002012-07-12T09:33:14.969-05:00Bunkerville,
This comment is off point perhaps, bu...Bunkerville,<br /><i>This comment is off point perhaps, but why did Romney go to the NAACP and trash obamacare? </i><br /><br />Yes, Romney made a very foolish move by even using the term "Obamacare." Sheesh.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-32633435774504281972012-07-12T09:32:10.739-05:002012-07-12T09:32:10.739-05:00Silverfiddle,
I'm not sure when the Californic...Silverfiddle,<br />I'm not sure when the <i>Californication</i> really took hold here. I got whomped with if over zoning violations, which are changing all the time.<br /><br />In 2007, I went to the county zoning official about this property. The restrictions were strangling! To top it all off, to get a hearing at the zoning board, I had to pay a fee of some $10,000 -- a fee "to be heard" and zero guarantee of approval, which cost more money, I'm sure.<br /><br />I'd love to build another shed to store some of the material under the carport (on the side and neatly stacked so that a car can still get inside the single-car structure). <br /><br />At one point, the county told me that storing in that manner was a-okay ("in compliance"). Lo and behold! Less than 2 years later , zoning ordinances changed <b>AGAIN</b> and made that storage illegal. I balked. Big time. Called a litigation attorney, a scum-sucking bottom feeder that never loses a case); I keep him on retainer at all times. Once the county officials heard that attorney's name, they backed off.<br /><br />They won't even let me build a fence without a permit and approval ($$$). Exact words ring over and over again in my auditory memory: "We will tell you exactly where you can build that fence and how high"! <br /><br />BTW, there is an already an existing fence as of my uncle's fencing efforts <b>IN 1948</b> (chain link, but it is not a privacy fence and "screening," to use the county's terminology).<br /><br />The county doesn't come after me now for any of the so-called zoning violations (Added on a nearly a monthly basis!) for one reason: the handicapped ramp out front. The ramp was built in November 2009.<br /><br />BTW, I am a lifelong resident of this county -- as my father was before me.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-4170854048412375792012-07-12T09:21:01.928-05:002012-07-12T09:21:01.928-05:00The news today compared the cost of national debt ...The news today compared the cost of national debt between Spain and the USA. In Spain, the average citizen owes $18,045. In the United States, the average citizen owes $50,050 and the average voter owes $139,288. This data tells us we’ve already arrived in socialist Europe.Louis H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18301694575991500936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-54740360920253749602012-07-12T09:06:04.655-05:002012-07-12T09:06:04.655-05:00This comment is off point perhaps, but why did Rom...This comment is off point perhaps, but why did Romney go to the NAACP and trash obamacare? That is the only headline. My point is does he want to lose? His he interested in saving our country really or just another plant.Bunkervillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14427978686579892380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-31008725127476039962012-07-12T08:30:08.683-05:002012-07-12T08:30:08.683-05:00What people seem not to understand is the cumulati...What people seem not to understand is the cumulative effect of taxes after factoring in all federal, state, and local government revenues. It is nowhere close to what it is in Europe, but have yet to realize the burden associated with Obama Care. The Supreme Court recently told us that government has the unquestionable right to tax us into oblivion. Obama and Democrats in Congress intend to do exactly that, which is additive to federal excise taxes, school and property taxes, and the penalties assessed by police officers who ticket you for not wearing a seatbelt —and which has nothing whatever to do with public safety. Now let’s see if Americans think these outlays, which detract from a family’s ability to spend money in the economy (you know, fueling employment), intend to go meekly into the night.<br /><br />~LouieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-33636387089996639232012-07-12T08:16:06.354-05:002012-07-12T08:16:06.354-05:00Well said, Sam. If government could even do its b...Well said, Sam. If government could even do its basic tasks efficiently then maybe we could talk, but they've even screwed that up.<br /><br />And AOW, it is so depressing to hear what is going on in the state of Virginia. I thought they had their heads screwed on straight there?<br /><br />Unfortunately, the Californication is marching on here in Colorado as well.<br /><br />We still have a taxpayers bill of rights and a balanced budget amendment that keeps the state politicians pretty much in line, but the progressive rats and cockroaches are busy eroding the foundations...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-84689642148510386112012-07-12T07:55:04.503-05:002012-07-12T07:55:04.503-05:00Okay, THIS is weird:
Caloplaca obamae is a specie...Okay, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caloplaca_obamae" rel="nofollow">THIS</a> is weird:<br /><br /><i>Caloplaca obamae is a species of lichen in the fungus genus Caloplaca. It is the first species to be named in honor of United States President Barack Obama.</i>Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-88686209853899555632012-07-12T07:03:00.528-05:002012-07-12T07:03:00.528-05:00I wish Romeny would tak ehis message to California...I wish Romeny would tak ehis message to California. I know it is a lost cause on the surface. But their must be a bunch of folks like your relatives and surely they would grasp as something that would help their situation as simple as voting instead of moving cross country. There are tens of thousands of other like them. Maybe Romeny cant win California but the strategy would be brilliant. Obama would be flyiong to California and in defense mode spenging money in California. And if the polling starts moving toward ROmeny...you can bet the rest of the Nation goes in a landslide toward Romeny. Already the gap in places like NH down from 11.5% to 2.7%, and Wisonsin, Ohio, Minnesota all tettering toward Romeny and the conventions have not even started. Of course ROmeny can screw it all up with a bad VP pick or a bad debate against the teleprompterblogginatornoreply@blogger.com