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Re: Capitol Weekly: Grading the governor

websmith — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:06:19 -0000

Someone is going to be targeted to put the blame on and the governor is the most visible candidate. People have a hard time blaming the entire government for the state's oppression, but the entire government is what needs to be replaced. These Wild Bill lawmakers keep track of the number of bills that they manage to pass like some kind of body count to indicate that they are winning. We have over 200,000 pages of legislation in the state that governs business and another complete volume just for construction. Lawmakers-gone-wild managed to give us over 500 new laws this year. Each one of these laws costs money and will require some increase in the size of government to try to enforce them. A few of us will be caught violating laws that we didn't know existed while most of us will struggle along our merry way not knowing that we have been turned into criminals. All of us will pay and all of us will suffer the consequences as doing any kind of business in the state is increasingly prohibited. In the meantime more businesses will close and more people will be put out of work causing a loss of tax revenue. The government will respond by raising taxes or finding more innovative ways to tax those remaining on the employment roles. The best thing that we could do is have a moratorium on legislation until government reform is completed.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Water plan seen as prelude to canal

websmith — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:45:03 -0000

We don't want less for more or even more for more. We want more for less. If you can't give it to us we will find someone who can.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Agreement inching closer in water talks

websmith — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:57:35 -0000

The only way that a government that has brought the state to its economic and political knees can think of to fix a problem is by giving that same government more power. This has gone beyond inept insanity to maniacal delusion. We want and we should have more water for less money. We don't want to continue to pay a collection of incompetents to tell us or try to make us use less. Any 1st grade class could come up with that one.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Thaw between Senate leaders leads to bills’ passage

websmith — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:32:59 -0000

A good government reform measure would be setting a limit to the number of bills that can be passed per year. Also, the government should have to reduce its numbers and budget in direct proportion to the number of citizen job losses per month.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Desalination: Often overlooked in California’s water debate

websmith — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:06:30 -0000

Saudi Arabia does not have water problems. You would think that California with 1,000 miles of coast line and plenty of sunshine and wind along that coast would not have water or energy problems. You could construct the plants so that they only operate when the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow which would be never. Instead we seem to be content to pay people $300,000 per year to tell us to use less water as we listen to the government squabbles in the background.

Re: Obama Speech To School Children: Be Like Founders of Google, Twitter and Facebook

websmith — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:58:30 -0000

While I agree with you in this particular case, you have to learn to put up with the asses until you get to where you want to go. Hopefully, this doesn't represent your attitude in general.

Re: Obama Speech To School Children: Be Like Founders of Google, Twitter and Facebook

websmith — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:53:42 -0000

Drop out of college and hope you get lucky? For every success story there are thousands of people who didn't make it.

Re: Capitol Weekly: State class sizes grow as budget cuts take hold

websmith — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:29:39 -0000

Class sizes are not the only thing that changed. The school across the street in our normally quiet neighborhood has doubled in student enrollment as a result of a forced closing. Mornings now involve a traffic jam, stop signs being run, illegal u-turns, horns blasting, arguments, and near misses as parents rush to work after dropping their kids off. It's only a matter of time until some five years old's brains are splattered on the street.

Re: URL Statistics Reset

websmith — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:34:43 -0000

None of my URLs are showing statistics, but I know that they are being clicked on.

Re: Capitol Weekly: Which is cheaper, contractors or state workers?

websmith — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:20:56 -0000

Contractors should be for temporary jobs and employees should be for permanent jobs. The less you pay for either position, the less qualified individual you will get. Pay for government jobs, taking all benefits into consideration, should be comparable to the public sector. When your pay-scale is competitive, you get more ambitious, more dedicated, more conscientious, and more loyal employees and you will have less waste and fewer mistakes.

Re: Fate of Detroit's Big 3 will trickle down locally

websmith — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:49:22 -0000

Having been through this, what happens is that you put together a bunch of slides and spread sheets targeting your audiences, in this case Congress and the Senate, hot buttons and you give them things so that they can issue press releases and hold news conferences saying that they achieved their goal of forcing the industry to restructure thereby protecting the investors who, in this case, happen to be the taxpayers. Then, as a company not wanting to fail and wanting to make money, you go back and continue working on the plan that you already had in place while proactively assuring your investors that the changes that you implemented are working.

The car companies already had plans in place that were working and they were on the verge of recovery. What caused this meltdown was the banks and they are the ones who need to be restructured and downsized to their proper role in the economy, but they have so much control over our government through the Fed that we continue to supersize them instead. Now, they alone decide what American industries are going to fail and succeed on behalf of their foreign investments. This economy will not be fixed until control is removed from the banks.

People who know nothing about building cars, including the government, need to stop trying to run car companies. All Congress and the Senate need to decide is whether or not they care as much about the country and its people as they do the $32 million the banks gave them to pass the bank bailout bill.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/autobailout.html

Re: Why Does Paulson Want Us to Keep Piling up Debt?

websmith — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:50:47 -0000

Banks have made a concentrated effort to turn this into a nation of consumers so that they could issue more loans and make more money. Now, they want to blame everything on the consumers that they have created. The population that they are calling consumers generates 70% of the economy. When too much of populations' money is used to pay interest on money created out of thin air, the money goes directly to the banks and does not create commerce. The population has to have money, not loans, in order for the economy to be OK.

Now that everything has dropped in price, banks have lost or are about to lose a lot of money on gambles with securities and derivatives. The taxpayer is going to cover their losses. The very last thing that you should do is give someone who is addicted to gambling more money.

This also will not stop the foreclosures or the loss of jobs, which are the only things that the government should be concerned about.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/BankBailOut.html

Re: Democrats Give Detroit One More Shot at Bailout

websmith — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:43:10 -0000

The information being presented by the media and used to evaluate our domestic automakers is outdated and incorrect.

They have a plan and have been working on it in earnest. They have made great strides towards reducing their costs and building superior, more fuel efficient, and environmentally products. Autoworkers have also made substantial concessions to allow domestic car companies to get their labor costs on par with their foreign competitors.

The idea that our legislators would hesitate to help our automakers out with a loan and keep millions of Americans working is bizarre.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/autobailout.html

Re: Should government bail out the US auto industry?

websmith — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:23:05 -0000

There are obviously problems with the American car industry that they, themselves, would like to and have been struggling to fix. Among them and probably the most important is the perception in a large part of the marketplace and media that foreign cars are cheaper and better. Like many of their other problems, their entrenched mentality allowed this sentiment to creep up on them and overtake them. Unfortunately, as any marketer knows, it's easier to give someone an opinion than it is to change the one that they have and they have a lot of lengthy and expensive PR work to do.

If things were normal, we might have the time and the ability to take a major hit to our economy that would verge on being catastrophic in its own right and allow our car companies to bite the bullet. Things are not normal and are growing worse everyday. Our economy, national security, and the existence of our country as we know it is on the brink. Our own banks have abandoned us and are taking the money that we gave them and investing it in themselves and in foreign economies. We do not have time to fix the car companies or the unions and we cannot afford to let them vanish.

Re: Don't Bailout The Big 3 (Guest Voice Interview)

websmith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:33:52 -0000

What Congress, the Senate, and the President are arguing about is whether or not 10 million more Americans will lose their jobs and whether or not this country will maintain any manufacturing capability at all. If we lose 10 million jobs the loss of commerce will cost us 10 million more jobs and affect foreign companies and the ability of people to eat in 3rd world countries.

The unemployment costs to the taxpayers, should they fail to provide our automakers loans, will exceed $200 billion per year. Aside from all of the other issues that these armchair automakers are trying to cloud the issue with, it definitely is a no-brainer so, even these people should not be having this much trouble making a decision.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/autobailout.html

Re: Should government bail out the US auto industry?

websmith — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:58:06 -0000

The issue right now is that, thanks to a regulatory maze that is no longer manageable created by the government under the guidance of special interests, the American population has been stripped of its wealth and no longer has the ability to buy goods and services. 10 million workers have lost their jobs in the U.S. already and less than 10% of our population is now employed in manufacturing. We are now as dependent on foreign manufacturing as we are on foreign oil. If the armchair automakers are allowed to let the car companies fail, another 10 million will lose their jobs. After giving the banks $1 trillion they are still not loaning the money to anyone and more companies are closing up with more jobs being lost everyday.

Foreign automakers, who only assemble their cars here, still have their inventories shipped in from overseas and take advantage of foreign manufacturing. They take advantage of reduced duties on components that were designed to help our own manufacturers in doing so. They raise the prices of the components that they build in their own countries to make sure that their USA assembly plants don't make too much money that would avoiding millions of dollars in corporate taxes. Most of the money involved in making these cars still ends up out of the country. Their cars do not qualify as being manufactured in the USA under government guidelines. Those of us who are not involved in the auto industry only know what we are fed by the corporate media who also are not car makers but seem intent on assisting the banks in their efforts to strip us of our wealth.

If our car manufacturers are allowed to fold, the unemployment, court, and social services costs to the taxpayer will exceed $200 billion and the last vestiges of our manufacturing capability will disappear and only countries who are or could easily be our enemies based on past experience would have the ability to manufacture large quantities of product. We supplied over half of the weapons manufactured during WWII. If we faced another requirement like this, we would no longer be able to do it. It is a matter of national security that we maintain our manufacturing capability.

Whatever is wrong with our car manufacturers, now is not the time for us who don't have the knowledge to try to fix it.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/bellsoffreedom.html

Re: Should government bail out the US auto industry?

websmith — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:16:37 -0000

Should 10 million more people be put out of work causing 10 million more people to be put out of work and people to start starving in 3rd world countries to start starving because of the lost commerce?

Automakers did not bring this $14 trillion economy to its knees. The government and the banks did.

We are facing Armageddon. After being made to look really stupid by the banks, Congress and the Senate are now getting all balled up about whatever they can imagine and missing a chance to stimulate the economy and keep millions of Americans working. You really have to wonder what evil forces are at work in our government and for whom these people are working.

The American auto industry has stood behind the country for a hundred years through two world wars and these people are hesitating to get behind them and doing their very best to make the economy much worse. They are wondering if they should put millions more citizens out of work and incur costs in the hundreds of billions of dollars in the process. Now is not the right time to make things harder.

They can't get the banks to loan money so when they give the automakers their loans, they should also fund Ford Credit, GM Credit, and Chrysler Financial and mandate that these automaker credit companies give out very low cost loans to anyone who can afford to make the payments.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/hiddendemon.html

Re: Obama to be fast out of the gate on Bush reversals?

websmith — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:26:23 -0000

The federal government is not supposed to own land or anything else. Article 8 spells out the powers of the government and the 10th Amendment assigns all other powers to the states and/or the people. The federal government does not have the right to regulate business in any way. The federal government has the right to step in when regulations by the sovereign states become oppressive or abusive to our rights.

The first thing that Obama should do is review the powers given to the office of the President by the Constitution. Clinton, Bush, the Senate and Congress have lived in a state of denial that a Constitution exists for far too long resulting in national disasters that should have been state problems.

The states and the people have the power to solve any problem with business that they run into.

Re: Obama to be fast out of the gate on Bush reversals?

websmith — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:51:20 -0000

The first thing that Obama should review is the power granted to his office by the Constitution. Bush, along with the Senate and Congress, lived in a state of denial that one exists. We have had more than enough of this.

There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the federal government to prevent drilling or mining anywhere or to set emission standards. There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents the states from banning mining and drilling within their borders or to set emission standards.

If you are concerned about drilling, mining, or emissions, contact your state legislature.

http://ewebsmith.com/gov/WrongBusiness.html

Re: I’m Proud To Be a Virginian

websmith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:28:00 -0000

You are responsible.

You are about to elect a President and a legislature who will give you a bigger government and more spending. Your new President will give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, drastically increase the number of H-1B visas, and eliminate E-verify at a time when millions of American Citizens are out of work. Your new Commander in Chief will keep American soldiers in Iraq against your will. Your new Chief Executive will borrow, spend, give away, and waste billions of dollars when the national debt is passing $12 trillion. Against your wishes, your new President helped Bush give $1 trillion to the banks as his parting gift. Your new President and legislature will continue to take your money and give it to someone else. No matter how much you object, neither Public Servant Number One nor the legislature will listen and will continue to implement their own agenda. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican.

You are responsible for what you're going to get so, no whining later.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

Re: GilroyDispatch.com | First-time voters flood the polls

websmith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:52 -0000

Re: Obama: Voting Felt Great, Will Be Sentimental Tonight

websmith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:19:08 -0000

You are responsible.

You are about to elect a President and a legislature who will give you a bigger government and more spending. Your new President will give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, drastically increase the number of H-1B visas, and eliminate E-verify at a time when millions of American Citizens are out of work. Your new Commander in Chief will keep American soldiers in Iraq against your will. Your new Chief Executive will borrow, spend, give away, and waste billions of dollars when the national debt is passing $12 trillion. Against your wishes, your new President helped Bush give $1 trillion to the banks as his parting gift. No matter how much you object, neither Public Servant Number One nor the legislature will listen and will continue to implement their own agenda. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican.

You are responsible for what you're going to get so, no whining later.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

Re: After long fight, it's now up to the voters

websmith — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:55:48 -0000

You are responsible.

You are about to elect a President and a legislature who will give you a bigger government and more spending. Your new President will give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, drastically increase the number of H-1B visas, and eliminate E-verify at a time when millions of American Citizens are out of work. Your new Commander in Chief will keep American soldiers in Iraq against your will. Your new Chief Executive will borrow, spend, give away, and waste billions of dollars when the national debt is passing $12 trillion. Against your wishes, your new President helped Bush give $1 trillion to the banks as his parting gift. No matter how much you object, neither Public Servant Number One nor the legislature will listen and will continue to implement their own agenda. It doesn't matter if it's Democrat or Republican.

You are responsible for what you're going to get so, no whining later.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

Re: Election may usher in new era for US

websmith — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:29:33 -0000

When Obama has voted in the Senate, he has voted with the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party has given you the Bank Bailout Bill against your wishes, which has turned into a bank enrichment bill. The Democratic Party has been trying to attach amnesty for illegal aliens to Iraq war funding. While your soldiers are in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting for their country, the Democratic Congress and Senate have been trying to give the country away. You are against this. The Democratic Congress and Senate have tossed renewable tax credits back and forth until the once booming wind and solar industries have flattened out. The large number of times that Obama hasn't voted have been like watching a crime take place with a cell phone in your hands and not even dialing 911. Obama is cute and young, but do you really know the guy?

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html

Re: Joe the Plumber's Publicist: "Today Was One of the Busiest Days I've Had" - mediabistro.com: PRNewser

websmith — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:39:26 -0000

The bad thing about Joe is that McCain's campaign is going to use him and then toss him aside. His life is over as he knows it. Keep an eye on Joe after the election. See what happens to him. Obama and McCain will do he same to you if you give them the chance. They both have their own set of special interests that they cater to and you are not one of them.

http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/notlistening.html