Robert A. Hall - Actor, Patriot and Tea Party Friend
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I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs but job-hunting every day, I've worked hard since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.
I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.
I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela.I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.
I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U. S. Senators from Illinois.
I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.
I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.
I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.
I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off?
I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.
I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics.Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military. Those are the citizens we need.
I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves.
I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois, where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.
I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor, speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.
I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.
Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate and is a member of the Tea Party.
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Stephen Eichler - Minuteman Steve
If you think the State of California's budget deficit of around $19 billion dollars is outrageous, wait until you read this report!
California homeowners lead the nation in home mortgage debt and much of that debt is tied up in so-called "underwater mortgages."
The sheer numbers are staggering; giving rise to the question "How can the taxpayers of California be expected to pay higher taxes to offset the government's deficit when they can't even afford to make their home mortgage payments?" What's Really Dragging Down Home Sales?
Elizabeth MacDonald, is the stocks editor for Fox Business Network and she breaks it all down into plain English: "The New York Federal Reserve recently put out a report on consumer credit that shows how underwater taxpayers still are even three years into the bursting of the credit bubble.And in light of the negative news on existing home sales, the report's new findings on home equity lines of credit should be of deep concern to policymakers in Washington, DC.
With HELOC lines of credit still stubbornly high, how can underwater homeowners ever sell?
The report shows that total consumer debt was $11.7 trillion as of June 30, the latest data available. That's 6.5% lower from the third quarter of 2008, when the bubble started to blow up.
Two graphs on pages four and eight in this report may really pop out at you. "That's because they highlight how people used their home equity lines as credit cards," says Fox News analyst James Farrell. They "cannot find buyers to liquidate their primary asset to pay off (these home equity line balances), as well as the existing mortgage except at prices which represent a fraction of what they paid at the top of the market."
Farrell adds: "Investors recognize this," which is why they "continue to represent a significant share of existing home purchases." The New York Fed's report shows home equity lines of credit (HELOC) fell just 4.4% to $700 billion in the first quarter of 2010 from their January 2009 peak. Meanwhile, consumers had $800 billion in credit card balances outstanding, down just 6% from their peak in 2008.HELOCs are revolving lines of credit where borrowers can choose when and how often to borrow up to their lines' credit limit, which is taken out against the equity of their home. What's unclear is how much of the HELOCs outstanding are still on homes that have mortgage debt with negative equity.
A recent briefing by Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Economy.com before Congress, notes the following: There is almost $2.4 trillion in mortgage debt for homes in negative equity, 19% of all households. Total negative equity is $771 billion, $234 billion in California alone.There are more than 4.1 million borrowers with more than 50% negative equity, meaning, they owe 50% more than their homes are worth), 672,000 in California alone.
Couple that with the outstanding HELOC balances and with the existing home sales report just released:* Existing home sales dropped 27.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million units in July 2010 from a downwardly revised 5.26 million in June 2010, and are 25.5% below the 5.14 million-unit level in July 2009;
* Sales are at the lowest level since the total existing-home sales series launched in 1999, and single family sales - accounting for the bulk of transactions - are at the lowest level since May of 1995;
* There is a 12.5 month housing inventory at the current sales rate;
* Speculators ("investors") accounted for 19% of buyers in July (up from 13% in June);
* 32% of the home sales were from distressed sellers;
* In the West (home of the 2007 housing binge), the July 2010 median sale price of an existing home was $224,800 - a mere 33% decline from $335,000 in 2007.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, admitted that "there is not likely to be any measurable change in home prices going forward."The Federal Reserve report notes that "[t]otal consumer indebtedness is highest in California and Nevada, where average per capita debt balances are $78,000 and $73,000, respectively, compared with $49,000 nationally."
Fox News Farrell says: "It is a tremendous comfort to know that their housing prices have fallen like a rock while they lived like kings on their HELOCs and credit cards."
Like the proverbial house of cards, this entire financial nightmare will soon come crashing down. It remains to be seen just how much of the country it will take with it. Source:www.uncoverage.net/2010/08/declining-home-sales-just-the-beginning/ By Dell Hill
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