Senator Harry Reid and the Train to No Where. June 9, 2009

Again Senator Harry Reid (D Nevada) shows just how stupid he really is.  First of all his boss, the brilliant Barack Obama has told businesses that they better not be wasting their money going to Las Vegas.

Here is a news story from KTNV Las Vegas explaining just what Barack Obama said to damage the Economy in Las Vegas.

Now Senator Harry Reid want to “derail” a maglev project that would run from Anaheim, CA with one stop in Downtown Los Angeles and then continue to Las Vegas.

Here is the reason I am writing about this. I live in Los Angeles and I used to live in Las Vegas.  I was always amazed that Amtrak Train service was terminated on May 10, 1997. Now the only way to get to Las Vegas is by Amtrack bus.  Ok did you ever ride for 6 hours in a bus. Not a the most elegant way to travel. All it would take would be two trains a day going each way in the morning and the evening.  Not a lot to asks.

http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/lasvegasnv.htm

I have seen this project on the board since the 80’s. There was always a model of it in the lobby of the old Las Vegas Convention Center. The plan was to have a high speed train that would take maybe 2 to 3 hours to go from Anaheim to Las Vegas.  If this was in place then a family could go to the Anaheim resorts for a few days making that home base and then take a short train ride to Las Vegas for a few days and then return to Anaheim. or do this the opposite way making Las Vegas home base.

But now Harry Reid wants the train to start in Las Vegas and terminate in Victorville, CA

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/06/senate-majority-leader-no-longer-aboard-plan-for-maglev-train-to-vegas.html

This where the train would stop instead of going to the where the second map will show.

This is where the train should be routed. This map represents a direct route not stopping in Los Angeles.

Here is what the route would look like if it stopped in Las Angeles.

The traffic on I15 is just horrible on the weekends. Both California and Nevada continue on make improvements on I15 but it just takes one high speed accident on I15 to close it for hours. Usually due to lack of sleep, overloaded vehicles and alcohol the accidents on I15 are unusually violent. A lot of very unsafe charter busses run this route and are prone to very deadly accidents.

Sen Harry Reid (D Nevada) will continue to build a train to nowhere. My apologies to the people of  Victorville, CA but the majority of traffic to Las Vegas goes from Los Angeles and Orange Counties to Las Vegas. It would slow the train down but maybe it could stop in Victorville and Barstow. That would have to be investigated.

ST Marie

Barack Obama’s Disrespect for American Citzens April 5, 2009

I haven’t been posting lately as everyday Barack Obama, Timothy Franz Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Franks, Harry Reid or Chris Dodd say something utterly stupid or even contrary to what each other is saying.

However now Barack Obama is dissing the People of the United States.  This man has no conscience to even think about what is on the TelePrompTer in front of him.. He just reads and reads and has no idea what he is really saying.

He insulted me and called me arrogant.  That really really pisses me off. He is by far the dumbest hammer in the box.

I can’t believe that people actually voted for him and sleep well at night knowing what they did.  I am just so disgusted in the man. So far Barack Obama has done only a few things right.

1. Not raising the federal gas tax,

2. Not reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.

3. Recognizing that we have a very severe problem at the southern border.  Although he has yes to take any action to help control the problems down there.

The number of things that he has done wrong to splinter the country are far to numerous to even begin listing here. However there is one.  Now that GM has changed the name from General Motors to Government Motors and Barack Obama has fired Rick Wagoner, I can hardly wait to hear what kind of cars Barack Obama is going to mandate that Government Motors produces. I see a very very sad ending to this saga. If we had just let GM go into chapter 11, In 24 months, after the courts are finished, GM would be a leaner meaner machine and it would be strong again. But instead Barack Obama is giving GM a cane, a wheel chair and a gurney to Limp forward in to the coming years. I personally don’t see GM surviving under government control.  If you question this at all, Just let me know about all the pleasant experiences you ever had at the DMV.

If he is smart and I know he isn’t, he should decline appearing at Notre Dame and call it a day.

The Tea Party is about to begin on April 15th and it doesn’t look good for the socialists.

Waiting for April 15th.

STMarie

A Question For You The Tax Payer 2/26/09 February 26, 2009

I hope I can make this a short question.

Why is it that you and I the taxpayer do not have enough money or credit to go to the GM , Ford, Chrysler, Honda or Toyota dealer to buy a new car? Or go out and buy furniture, Go out to eat dinner,  Go to Best Buy and buy a new flat screen, buy new stoves or refrigerators, pay the mortgage, or just pay monthly bills?

Why is it then that Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Franks, Harry Reid and the other democrats can spend Trillions of dollars that they do even have to spend, Nor do they have the credit with other countries to borrow from?   Oh Yeah I forget, We the taxpayers have involuntarily extended credit to the democrats with out uncollected tax payments.

Please leave a comment on how you would like to answer this question. I really would like to get this thread going.

Thanks,

ST

What the Dysfunctional Socialist (Democratic) Party is Doing For/To The Citizens of the United States. February 20, 2009

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barney Franks et al  are the new political criminals in our society. As they bask in the sun of jamming the largest spending bill down the throats of the US citizens without even giving the citizens a chance to vote or comment on it, we begin to see the damages that are now occurring especially on Wall Street. For years people have been self sufficient in their savings for the future. Now all of that has been wiped out and the new Socialist Party (the Democrats) have now made us totally dependent on the US Government with threats of government controlled national banking system. Just think, Barack Obama and his fellow thieves will be able to go into your account at any time and demand fees, taxes, assessments, surcharges or anything else they decide to take from your account.  Just think of your phone bill with all those government unjustified mandated charges.  Your bank account will look just like that.

Just like his predecessor, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama has sent a mandate to spend 75 Million dollars to force lending institutions to write loans to people that should have never had a loan to begin with. Again Barack Obama is creating a land of “Entitlement” rewarding non-responsible  people with tax money provided by hard working Tax Payers that make their home loans on time.

Again I have to keep going back to what Bill Clinton did in 1997.

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10024.pdf

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10025.pdf

This is where Bill Clinton made a similar mandate for lending institutions to write loans bases on quantity instead of quality.

There is one huge difference between what Barack Obama is doing and what Bill Clinton did.

Bill Clinton mandated the law gambling with investors money i.e. people that had stocks and other savings in various institutions.

Barack Obama is gambling with every tax payer’s money and the huge taxes that will need to be collected in the future from the children that are now growing up. Barack Obama has made it very difficult for the children in the future to be self sufficient in savings and investments as they will be paying back a very high rate in taxes back to not only the US Government but to local State Governments also.

So now lets look at what is happening here in California where I live. Yesterday the California government finally created a budget for the future and besides spending cuts (Which I give Kudos to the Socialist Party for doing) it also levied $12 Billion Dollars in tax hikes. We now have the highest sales tax in all of the states, DMV taxes have doubled, and there is an undetermined increase in State Income Taxes that the Socialist Party forced upon the citizens in California.

So what does that mean to us here in California. Well, because any TAX CUTS the Federal Socialists gave us in California, the State Socialists are taking back.  So in a nut shell Californians gained nothing.  Even though California is in line for millions of federal tax payers money in the “State Bailouts.” I imagine this will happen in a lot of other states as California usually sets a lot of precedents  for what other states do.

The Socialists are just making it worse and worse every day.  Today we are experiencing a 6 year low in all the markets and what is worse banks are on the point of collapse from fears of being nationalized. This my friends would be the end of the Free Market that we here in the United States have enjoyed for over 200 years.

ST

William J. “Bubba” Clinton and the Economic Democratic Disaster of 2007 through 2012 January 18, 2009

Hello again,

I has been a while since I have posted any thoughts as I wanted to let time take it’s toll. In the past few months our country has deteriorated to almost the same level as the Great Economic Crash of 1929.  The collapse of our economy is a well orchestrated plan by the Democratic Party to completely destroy any other party representing the American people in modern day politics, Thus making the United States a one party Socialist country.  I also want to make it perfectly clear that if this was happening with the Republican Party the events would be just as detrimental to the well being and the freedoms and privileges that we as Americans have enjoyed up until now. This is a multiple party Democracy. I hope it remains that way to keep checks and balances in order.

The American people have voted and they have chosen a person to be president of the United States based mostly on the color of his skin.  The American people have thrown aside any questions about qualifications or ulterior motives of the person they have put into office.  The country is so caught up in Obama merchandising of commemorative pins, coins, songs, banners, comic books, bobbles, SWAG, buttons, banners and other items that are so insignificant to the problems that lay ahead of us in the near and long term future.

My own story is in the past three days I have found out that I have to come up with $25,000.00 in order to save my house.  I am able to do it but it comes at a huge price and that is not spending any money to help grow the economy.  This is exactly what I have not wanted to do all my life. I always felt that it was my patriotic duty is to spend money and keep the economy going. I can no longer do that.

Finally the damage that Bill Clinton inflicted on the United States of American by expanding the CRA of 1977 http://files.ots.treas.gov/65203.pdf finally has had a personal effect on me.

In a nut shell, Just as Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Barney Franks are creating a country of “entitlement without responsibility” today, so did the creators of the expansion of the CRA in 1995 and put into law by Bill Clinton in 1997.

I have been on leave for awhile just sitting back and watching the new administration being formed for Barack Obama”s “New Way to do business in Washington.”

I have been watching him put a great number of former Clintonistas back into power including Hillary herself. Now Appointing Hillary is a pretty crafty way for Barack to achieve job security.  The best way for Barack Obama to keep Hillary from running against him in 2012 was to put her in his cabinet. Hillary is not qualified at all to be Secretary of of State. but Hillary’s appointment is a monkey off of Barack Obama’s back. By re-appointing a lot of the same people that contributed to the melt down of the economy during the Clinton era back into power  just shows how unqualified Barack Obama really is.  If Barack was really going to bring a “New Way of Doing Business In Washington” he would have never brought back anyone that only knows how to run Washington the “OLD WAY.”

Barack Obama has one huge problem on his hands…. no not the economy.. Nancy Pelosi.  Out of the “DUMB BOX OF HAMMERS” ( Harry Reid, Barney Franks, Nancy Pelosi et al.) Nancy Pelosi seems to be the dumbest and the most incendiary dumb hammer in the box.

Here is why I say that.  Barack Obama says he wants to “Reach across the aisle” to the Republican Party to work with them. In the meantime Nancy Pelosi is starting her own private Nuclear War with the Republicans. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/18/pelosi-open-prosecution-bush-administration-officials/

Now Nancy Pelosi is butting heads with Barack Obama… or will Barack Obama turn against the Republicans like a rabid junk yard dog and then absolutely nothing will get done for the next 4 years.

I find it so odd that Nancy Pelosi would attempt to bring criminal charges against the Republican party and not her own Democratic Party Members that were in office in 1997 when the mandates to systematically destroy the economy were put into place.

On this page you will find what exactly Bill Clinton Mandated. He put for that institutions shall be examined and rated.  “and institute more effective sanctions against institutions with consistently poor performance.” This means that if loan organizations did not write enough loans to low income and unqualified people, the institutions would be penalized.

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10024.pdf

POINTS ASSIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE UNDER LENDING, INVESTMENT AND SERVICE TESTS  http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10025.pdf

Lending Service Investment

Outstanding …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 6 6

High Satisfactory ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 9 4 4

Low Satisfactory ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 3 3

Needs to Improve ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 3 1 1

Substantial Noncompliance ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 0 0 0

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10024.pdf

“Community and consumer groups also have criticized the agencies for failing aggressively to penalize banks and thrifts for poor performance.

Noting that the CRA examination process could be improved, President Clinton requested in July 1993 that the Federal financial supervisory agencies reform the CRA regulatory system. The President asked the agencies to consult with the banking and thrift industries, Congressional leaders, and leaders of community-based organizations across the country to develop new CRA regulations and examination procedures that ‘‘replace paperwork and uncertainty with greater performance, clarity, and objectivity.’’ Specifically, the President asked the agencies to refocus the CRA examination system on more objective, performance-based assessment standards that minimize compliance burden while stimulating improved performance. He also asked the agencies to develop a well-trained corps of examiners who would specialize in CRA examinations. The President requested that the agencies promote consistency and evenhandedness, improve CRA performance evaluations, and institute more effective sanctions against institutions with consistently poor performance.”

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10026.pdf

http://bulk.resource.org/gpo.gov/register/2005/2005_10027.pdf

OK so now you are asking why I will not let this go. Here is the reason.  I believe that Bill Clinton instituted  the biggest crime against the economy by mandating the 1997 CRA reform act. He pitted the performance of the number of loans serviced in this country against the quality of the loans thus mandating that the institutions write a huge number of loans whether the loans had proper documentation or using creative, often corrupt loan instruments to people that could not qualify or ever pay back the monies owed on the mortgage, credit card or what ever type of credit program that the loan applicant had applied for.

I find it very offensive that the public view George W. Bush as the worst president ever.  Ok so he was not the best.  But he was not the cornerstone of our now failed economy.

To me, I would have thought that giving todays state of the economy that the following video (not from Fox News Network) would have been the death nail of the Democratic Party representitives that are in office now and at least for the next two years until elections in 2010. This shows the total disregard for the wishes of the American People as these legislators have put their own agenda ahead of what was really necessary for the good of the people of the United States of America.

The award of worst president ever would go to Bill Clinton’s and his adminstration (Barney Franks et al.) for setting up the mandates for greed that eventually took a toll on the stability and the currant collapse of the US Economy that we have today.  And when the Bush adminstration called to light the impending disaster in 1993 the Clinton Adminstration (Yes the same people that are in office now.) repeatedly argued that there was no problem with Freddie Mac or Fannie Mae. I will never forget or forgive Bill Clinton and his adminstration for this disastrous decision. And what makes matters worse is that this fact was completely pushed under the carpet by everyone and the story has not been revealed to the public in any depth except by one or two stories on Fox New Network.

My point is that the people of this country have elected the political party of entitlement.  We are seeing this in the way that Barack Obama is spending money.  In addition instead of telling people that things will get better he is telling people things are going to get a lot worse.  We know that is true.  But why be so pessimistic and drive people to be so dependent on big government.

If this is any indicator of what we have in store for the future it will never get better again for a long time.  In one of my earlier blogs I mentioned Rod Blagojevich who is in Barack Obama’s posse of corrupt Chicago politics. What I see in the future is that Barack Obama may…I stress may get involved with “Pay to Play” for the huge government contracts for infrastructure improvement. Maybe that will be Barack Obama’s Achilles heel.  Time will tell.

OK on to my next topic.  Jobs.   Barack Obama says he is going to create 3 million new jobs.  My question is jobs for who?  If Barack Obama had said I’m going to create 3 millions jobs for American Citizens and not for illegal immigrants, I would be happy.  But Barack Obama is not making any provisions like that. So now Barack Obama has turned the green light back on for an explosion of Illegal Immigrants from all over the world especially from south of the border.

OK so we all know that the Unions of this country by and large helped put Barack Obama into power.  If Barack Obama empowers unions to get established in more occupations, thus increasing costs of business operation, we will see even more jobs go overseas.

Finally, I want to ask Barack Obama how he is going to pay for the trillions of dollars of entitlement bestowed on the citizens of the United States.  He is spending money that does not exist so it has to be printed.  Ok so now my dollar will be worth .. oh say .. $0.20. Wow just like any other third world nation. How about that?

Who is going to pay back the trillions of dollars you are spending Barack Obama?  The only real source there is are the Baby Boomers.  And they will be fading to black soon.  So who will pay that back and at what rate?  60% Income tax for what is left of the middle class and 80% for 1% of the wealthy that are left in the US?

Thank you Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Franks and Harry Reid for bringing us the next 8 years (Barack Obama will rig it so he gets elected to a second term) of economic and social hell.

STMARIE