“The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.”

–James Madison, Federalist No. 63, 1788

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There’s a problem with the last line – “dissimilar bodies” – all three branches are now in collusion with one another, and they all share the same goal – the destruction of the United States from within.

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(as always, click on the image to embigify – credit to the ARRA News Service for the cartoon)

Did you hear the news? Obama(THHO) has shortened the time frame before forgiving the balance on your student loan! Yay! HE’S GIVING AWAY MORE OF YOUR HARD EARNED DOLLARS THAT YOU PAID IN TAXES. Wake the hell up, people! He’s giving away MORE MONEY that the GOVERNMENT DOES NOT HAVE. Student loans that have been GUARANTEED by the government – using TAX DOLLARS collected BY THE GOVERNMENT – are going to be FORGIVEN. That means that you and I, the TAX PAYING CITIZENS of this country, are footing the bill for hundreds of millions of dollars in student loans.

And you know the sneakiest part? He’s using this as an obvious play for student votes in the next election. Yes, he’s BUYING VOTES using MONEY HE DOES NOT HAVE to BUY THE VOTE of the impressionable young students.

This country cannot take another four years of being spent into oblivion.

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You might remember my conversation with a certain Texas Mayor (who, by the way, never did answer the question) that got his knickers in a twist. Seems Texas is having an outbreak of some type, what with the Mayor of Rowlett, Texas getting his knickers in a twist when he was called on a procedural issue that led to a nasty little public face off. Head over there to Fred’s place and read all about it. I’m not going to get directly involved in this one, but I would like to ask all you voters out there to do at least as much research on your own local politicos as needed, before just rubber-stamping them back into office.

Remember, political office was envisioned as a duty to be shared by all, not a career path to be taken by a few.

In other news – the City of Phoenix is experiencing more fiscal overages, as their recent citing of my Pastor for having a Bible study at his house attests. No, not the original citing two or three years ago – this is a fresh, brand new one. Won’t the city be surprised to find out that they are going to be sued in Federal Court for violating the First Amendment rights of a private citizen? I’ll bet they suddenly plead fiscal inability to defend themselves, what with the rotten economy right now, in spite of being able to pursue a vendetta against a private citizen …

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Before heading out this morning, I thought I would take a quick peek at the ol’ blogroll, and my first stop was over at BlackFive. Down the page a bit was a link to a NewYorkSlimes piece whining about the common sense that prevailed over the king’s ransom being handed out to failures. Story here.

This part of the story is what caught my eye, and is triggering a bit of a common sense rant:

Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., appearing at the White House late Monday afternoon, warned that the failure of the rescue plan could dry up credit for businesses big and small, making them unable to make payrolls or buy inventory.

Maybe I’ve been going about this “business owner” thing all wrong – I thought you bought inventory and paid wages out of the money you made from the service and/or product you provided? You know, collect on the invoice, turn around and pay your employees, buy more inventory, pay the utilities, and the leftover goes in the owner’s pocket or, if he’s smart, into a CONTINGENCY FUND for when someone doesn’t pay the invoice right away…

Obviously, I need to rethink my business model. I need to start “leveraging” my “receivables” and “monetizing” my “books” so I, too, can show false profits and qualify for a government handout.

It is obvious that I am involved in the wrong end of the business world. I need to get into the money supplying end of it, instead of the money using end of it.

Then again, what do I know? I’m just a red necked, bog dwelling hick with no formal ed-uh-muh-cay-shun. The fact that my business runs without a debt probably disqualifies me from belonging to the great herd at the public trough, anyway.

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Well, maybe not that fine. Texas Fred has a post up concerning the big, fat line that was crossed by the El Lago Apartments in McKinney, Texas.

Seems a couple of Texas National Guard folk had to vacate their premises due to being called up to active duty. Their apartments (controlled, by the way, by a trust located in California to run a trust to run a company that owns the company that owns the apartments…) do not “participate” in the Texas Apartment Association and therefore do not have a TAA specific clause concerning military personnel and the possibility of being moved on orders prior to the end of a lease.

The specifics are in the article here. From a legal standpoint, the apartments are within their rights to penalize tenants who terminate their lease early, but this is no way to treat the men and women of the American Armed Forces.

I’m gonna have to throw a big BS flag on this play, no matter how strong the apartments’ legal ground.

On a side note: Our thoughts and prayers are with Chris and Chessa Horvath as they leave on their second deployment to Iraq.

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