PRESIDENTIAL JOBS PLAN DEFEATED IN US SENATE

President Obama’s jobs plan has died an ignominious death today when the Democratic Senate refused to even vote to bring this bill up for debate. All of the Republicans and two blue dog democrats did not even vote for discussion of this bill that’s so key to the success of the US economy. Mitch Mc Conell is living up to his promise to insure that President Obama fails. The senate is the easier of the two bodies since the house is full of tea party Republicans. But in the Senate you need a two thirds vote to even start debate, which I find unbelievable! It could be said that from this point onward we in the US have undergone a Silent Coup. It’s uncertain whether the democratic process will even still work in this land. Writers have feared about this happening and now it may be here. Of course you and I know that the Republicans only control one half of one third of Government, but this is enough. But the other problems we have is this “Red Shift” thing we have seen in electronic voting machines, and this is particularly notable in Ohio in 2004 because it may well have determined who won the presidential race. We know the Democrats won the popular vote in 2000 but doesn’t count. That election was decided in a ruling without legal precedent (and it was also decreed that THIS ruling could not be USED as legal precedent) by five anointed Kings who have not derived their power from the Constitution. Of course there are specific cases of malfeasance. Donald Siegelman went to bed thinking he’d won an election but the next morning thousands of Republican votes had suddenly “appeared”. Also Siegelman learned he was under indictment. Now the Republicans are systematically disallowing the Black and the poor and the urban and the elderly from voting. Of course all these groups vote democratic. We could pray for a turn around but if you want my “Theological position” on the matter, I don’t believe prayer will do any good one way or the other. Something is either going to happen or it isn’t. In my own life I have faced extraordinary hostility and opposition from certain key people. Some of the people who say to me “Why haven’t you been more successful" were themselves part of the problem - - and they know it. The government has all the tanks and guns and if they want to revert to killing a lot of protestors like they do in other countries there is really not much we can do to stop them. We really are, especially in this time, “living by the grace of God”.

Not everything observed about last night’s Republican economics debate was written down. For instance did you know that the Republicans are for repealing the payroll tax discount which is now 4.2% and raising it back up to 6.2% Romney was actually asked a question on this. After rambling for the longest time about “No stimulus plan of the President’s has worked” he finally got to the bottom of line saying that the cut was a temporary artificial creation of government and that employers don’t hire people based on the next two years. Since when? They rig their profit and loss figures by the quarter and try to manipulate those each time and are incapable of thinking much past the next six months or a year. Of course some say that that Solar energy company was one example of Presidential waste of an investment. Dr. Levy was more than happy to camp out on this example. But the thing is this President never personally drove five thriving companies into bankruptsy and profit from each one. First Romney would fire a bunch of employees to increase the quarterly figures I was just talking about. Then he would fire more as sales dropped and the corporation is clearly in trouble. Then the corporation would go into bankruptsey and Romney would escape in his Golden Parachute. Romney drove five companies and profited from each one, and 23% of his entire wealth comes from making innocent employees suffer. I imagine a lot of his money comes from lobbyists and some he inherited, and some probably actually came from companies that didn’t go belly up. But even in those companies he shipped a lot of US jobs over-seas. The idea of having this man as President should make anybody’s skin crawl. But back to energy- - Randy Rhodes refuted the idea that “none of these alternative fuels has panned out”. Randy is a personal friend of Willy Nelson and has written in his car powered by bio-diesel. And Willy drives his truck fueled by bio-diesel all over the land and is able to find a place to fill up. Solar is such a hot item now China and Germany are working overtime to invest in and develop it, and the US is finding itself lagging way behind. In all there are 2.7 million new Green energy jobs in the US. So these are ideas whose time has come. The electric car industry has really taken off in the United States this past year or so. Many think Herman Kane was speaking German with his “nine, nine, nine” plan. This debt commission or whatever ordered by congress said that corporate tax rates should fall to 26% but not 9%. At that rate and if we close all the tax loopholes we will be doing all right. I would like finally to take on this notion, this repeated Lie that the Presidential stimulus plan of 2009 “did no good” or even “made things worse. None of the bozos who say this will cite you any figures. Check the day the stimulus was passed. Compare how many jobs were gained or lost that month. What was the stock market doing that month? Are corporate profits up or down since then? What were the GNP figures doing that month? What was the investor confidence index that month verses now? Somebody out there believes these repeated Lies the republicans keep repeating. I would like to know who these brainwashed, uneducated idiots are anyhow. Some may ask me why I don’t fight harder to get MY views on politics out more. Well it’s like a military situation where an army Colonel knows he’s out-flanked on all sides and the smartest thing he can do right now is just to bide his time and wait for reinforcements.