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Stimulus Package

Posted by Flatlanders on Monday, January 21, 2008 2:42:02 PM
Below is my five minute list to help get the Economy moving forward…
  • Open up drilling in ANWAR and other verbotten sites around the nation. It’s time to realize that a lot of our economic malaise is related to how the US is importing more and more energy and pumping less and less of our own. This will spark all sorts of NEW economic activity that will spin off many benefits through out the economy. Steel for pipes and machinery, drilling technology, etc, etc.
  • Nuclear Power — let’s start building some more plants.
  • Propose a new realistic set of EPA rules to promote Oil companies to build new gasoline refineries.
  • Make Bush Tax Cuts permanent.
  • Eliminate Capital Gains taxes.  Promotes stuff to move to most productive and appropriate leadership.
  • Offer a simple one page alternative to the existing IRS code that would work for businesses and individuals. Don’t scrap the existing code — allow people to choose. Works in other countries.

Basically, do what you can do to promote more long term productive behavior. Don’t just spend money to buy votes in the short term. Moving money around with handouts doesn't really make for a more productive and successful economy.

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The Deep Green Frontier

Posted by Flatlanders on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:22:50 PM
Report from the Flatland Future
The Dimension beyond the Flatland Horizon
Back in 2007, the Canadian dollar passed the US dollar in value. This largely ignored event signaled the world had entered a new growth phase, without the US in lead. Not to worry, in the following years, the Flatland Demogreen politicians continued to entertain the world by digging a deeper and deeper hole for the US to try to crawl out of…
  • While the Demogreenies had the US economy digging madly away to a deep green future, more and more US high tech manufacturing and marketing technologies took refuge and hold elsewhere around the world.
  • Freed from excessive Demogreen regulations, taxes and out of control socialist entitlement programs, they continued to prosper and spread wealth around an ever grateful world.

Meanwhile, the Demogreenies took their unholy war against all things (except green) energy to new heights…. After all, they had try something to get noticed from down inside the deep green hole they were digging for themselves and the rest of the US. They continued pushing billions of dollars and barrels of oil to make Cornahol.

  • Go figure how anyone ever thought that was supposed to work?
  • All it did was increase the cost of gasoline and produce almost twice as much C02 for the sake of making politically favored Cornahol.
  • Meanwhile, all sorts of pollution and other Cornahol problems continued to flare up. Taking a page from the tobacco industry’s play book — the Demogreenies were in a constant state of denial there was anything wrong with their boondoggle of a program.
  • Worse yet, it didn’t take long for the Cornaholic Congress to figure out they had all sorts of the power to dig the US into a deeper and deeper hole — all for the sake of their own Deep Green power.

Sure, all of this ‘busy work’ heated up the economy within the US borders. Only problem, not much of this Deep Green effort was of significant value beyond the US borders, at not least when compared to the rising value of oil energy, which the US was produced less and less of. Busy work doesn’t run people’s cars, or industry.

  • Let’s see — Busy work or oil, your choice — Go figure why anyone would chose busy work, but such is the nature of Flatland Demo Green? politics…
  • Keep on digging boys and girls, and pretty soon you’ll see daylight…. and it will be a bright green light… Or so the green story goes…

Anyway, that’s the way it looks out here in Deep Green Flatland Future Frontier… You may now return to your contemporary Flatland reality..

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We're Sorry, So Sorry

Posted by Flatlanders on Saturday, October 20, 2007 11:22:47 PM
We are sorry!, So Sorry...
Be it resolved....
  • We are sorry that so many Southern Democrats in the 60s voted against Civil Rights.
  • We are sorry that there's a past KKK clan member in the Democrat Congress.  
  • We are sorry there's no public record of the fate of illegal campaign contributions for Hilllary. 
  • We are sorry that gas prices are so high because the Democrats in Congress have opposed drilling in ANWAR and elsewhere for over a decade  -- long enough to get this stuff to market to help lower prices. 
  • We are sorry the Democrats oppose making your health care costs tax deductible.  (BTW, even those with insurance would find this reasonable, since it would apply to copays, as well as those without insurance).
  • We are sorry that the your electric bills are getting higher and higher because the Green Democrats oppose building more clean running nuclear power plants.  Or Coal, or gas... 
---- In conclusion ----
We're so sorry that the GOP leadership don't get it.  It's way past time for the opposition party to take the offensive against the inept Democrat Congress.  It's time for the GOP to get off it's serious straight face pity pot.  Make some noise and have some fun by pointing out why so many things in our nation are going in the wrong direction...
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Good enough SCHIP for Congress?

Posted by Flatlanders on Sunday, October 14, 2007 11:38:36 AM
If the SCHIP program is such good insurance for middle class kids, the Congresscritters and the staff of those who vote for it ought to be required to sign their children up for it.

FYI, the SCHIP program is basically the same as Medicaid -- full of red tape and restrictions on providing quality care.  There's lots of clinics that don't take it, or severely limit access to care by one means or another.  This is likely to get worse if SCHIP passes in it's current format.

Putting more folks into the Medicaid treadmill is only going to make it harder for the truly needy on Medicaid to get timely care as the middle class starts cutting in line for their care. 

Making it harder for needy kids to get care isn’t compassionate, it’s nuts...

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Cap and Trade BS

Posted by Flatlanders on Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:39:29 AM
Cap and Trade BS

It seems to me that all this BS (Bureaucratic Scatology) about Cap and Trade is about taking something (CO2) that was everyone's right to use, declaring it to be theirs and selling it. Under the 5th Takings Clause, anyone who has their property taken needs to be compensated --  including their right to use their CO2 as they wish.  

Another way to look at this is extension of common trespassing laws.  If you have some property and continue to allow other's to use it without restriction, it becomes public property -- however, this doesn't mean that the public can then take that property and sell it to someone while prohibiting others to use it as they always have.  Common law is things in the public domain, such as C02, remain in public domain and isn't open for sale.

What's next?  Cap and trade H20, 02, gravity?   

In other words, any way one logically and legally looks at it, the whole idea of cap and trading C02 is just full of BS.
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Get a Clue!

Posted by Flatlanders on Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:30:03 AM

This isn't a Grand Ole Party, It's a Fiasco!

Copy of an email sent to the RNC in August 2007


A decade or so ago, I used to contribute over $1000 to the RNC. This was in the days of the PROACTIVE Contract for America.  The reason I’ve dropped contributing to the RNC is the RNC and GOP are totally reactive with an almost total lack of anything Proactive.

A Deer in headlights has more of a clue
about what to do that the GOP leadership!

* Take the issue of the Dems Senate holding another Bush judicial appointee hostage. The Dems do this because they KNOW the RNC won’t do anything about it until it becomes a crisis — REACTIVE, not PROACTIVE.

  • * The Dems are making all sorts of noise about socializing our health care system — the RNC well who knows? — it’s REACTIVE, not PROACTIVE. Worse, the RNC/GOP reaction is we’ll support the Democrats push for socialized health care, only not as fast!  WHAT A CROCK!

  • * Ditto about the Iraq War (there’s more teens volunteerly killed each year driving than are volunteerly killed serving in WHOLE Iraq War — who’s getting that info out there!!!???)

  • * Ditto about energy (Corn diverts millions of gallons of oil to make corn, adding to global warming and making gasoline more scarce, hence more EXPENSIVE — who’s getting that info out there!!??),

  • * Ditto about taxes (the Dems are all about raising taxes — they don’t even need to do anything, just let the Bush taxes lapse — hell they don’t even need to be PROACTIVE on taxes, just do nothing because the RNC and GOP are so PROACTIVELY inept, they’ll never get anything done to fight it. WOW — tax cuts that expire while you’ve got a majority — what an incredibly STUPID idea!

  • * Ditto about most everything….


GET A CLUE RNC!

Many of the GOP faithful are PROACTIVE, not REACTIVE people… The typical GOP are:

  • * Small business folks and their employees,
  • * Parents of kids who do parenting BEFORE not AFTER problems erupt,
  • * People who are PROACTIVELY investing in their pensions, health care.
  • * Etc, etc, etc..

GET A CLUE RNC!

The GOP faithful expect PROACTIVE leadership, not REACTIVE fools who determine what to do by the latest poll.

Oh, by the way, the RNC web site is incredibly lame. It’s all about giving you money? Money to do what? More of the same old same old REACTIVE EARMARK NOTHING — NO WAY…. A quality website should be all about providing a means for GOP folks to interact and develop ideas about how to move the GOP forward. The money will come when you provide leadership of quality proactive ideas that folks can get behind.

Yes, I did get a response. They were supposedly going to review my letter at a leadership meeting…

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Z Bomb

Posted by Flatlanders on Friday, June 15, 2007 6:58:09 PM

The Z Bomb

End of the USA as we know it

Coming around the corner if Congress and the President pass the Immigration Bill wandering through the Senate.

  • The day that millions get their Z visas, the ACLU will file a move to declare the Z visa’s illegal second class citizen who deserve full citizenship and the right to vote. This will be filed in the 9th Circus Court of Appeals.
  • The Court will rule in the ACLUs favor and millions will run down to register to vote in the upcoming 2008 elections.

From this point, there are two similar disastrous scenarios.

  1. The Supreme Court will intervene before any Zs are able to register to vote. The Democrats will roll out there “Bush is stealing the Election” again. This will resonate with voters who will turn out in droves for the general 2008 election.
  2. The Voter roles will be filled with Z voters. They’ll never be able to sort out who is eligible or not for the 2008 elections so the courts will rule to allow everyone to vote.
Either way, the Democrats will take control of everything in 2008 and pass legislation to grant the Zs full citizenship and take it out of the Courts hands.
Basically, get ready to
bend over and kiss
the good old USA good bye…
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Welcome to the Flatlanders Blog

Posted by Flatlanders on Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:16:09 PM
What is a Flatlander?  A typical Flatlander cannot see beyond their own limited experience to envision how things work beyond the horizon of their own limited realm. Flatlanders have little useful understanding or appreciation of how things fit together to create a functional moral and prosperous society. For one reason or another, there appears to be many flatlanders in our world.  If this is you, the Flatlanders Blog just might be for you.  Here you will find perspectives that might just allow you to exit Flatland into the real world beyond.

   Flatlander politics are based upon the practice of organizing groups of Flatlanders into little pens with fences high enough so those in one pen cannot see (and ideally have no desire to see) from their little pen into their neighbors pen.  The PRESSident (aka liberal PRESS) teaches these groups to live happily within their little 'pen'.

  The Flatlander Politician retains their power by tossing a few tidbits of fairness into each pen as they make their political rounds.  When Flatlander problems arise, everyone is trained to quickly point blame at the self reliant freedom loving folks living outside the pens as the cause of all Flatlander problems -- Haleluhayh and Amen...   Pitting one or more penned up group of Flatlanders against the self reliant in our society is what passes for Flatlander "leadership".  


Flatlander Sermon of Fear

 'If you sail out of the Bay of Compassion across the ocean of public debt in search of self reliance and fiscal responsibility, you, your family, friends and country will fall off the edge of the earth before reaching the mythical realm of freedom and personal responsibility.

  It's better to stay in your comfortable little Flatlander pen where I, the almighty Flatlander politician, will take care of you.'    

   

     Until our nation (and civilization) drops its flatlander fears and sets sail towards the mythical realm of personal responsibility and self relion the other side of the civilized world, we will continue to live in a society and civilization more and more dominated by flatlander political thought and its resulting fiscally and morally bankrupt society.

Oh boy...  Can't hardly wait to move on?
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