Free-Free-Free..Gimmee-Gimmee

Recently a well known Democrat, James Carville, who was Bill Clinton's campaign manager, made some very astute observations regarding Democrat voters. I can't believe I'm writing this, but it's one of the very few times I am in complete and total agreement with a high rankingand respected Democrat icon.

I'm sure my beloved critics are going to attack me, and many will believe I fabricated the information in this blog. Let me assure my critics these quotes from Mr. Carville are just too good to make up. Besides, the sources of his quotes are The Word Press, and Amazon.com.

Hard to believe that Mr. Carville's beliefs and what I've been writing in my blogs for a long time go hand in hand, so I'm really expecting, and I'm ready, for a deluge of attacks. Bring it on. This is going to be fun.

Mr. Carville started his presentation stating "80% of people who call themselves Democrats are completely clueless". Right after that Mr. Carville stated, "Ideologies aren't all that important. What's important is psychology".  Right on Mr. Carville, I couldn't agree more.

Another quote from Mr. Carville: "the Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running."  Want some more? From Mr. Carville again: "That's why I became an operative working with Democrats......all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the old cattle prod when a few bolt from the herd".

I love you Mr. Carville. I can't get enough of this. How about you? The reason I'm highlighting Mr. Carville's message is that the main stream media will not report this because Mr. Carville is a Democrat, so I thought I'd give his comments as much attention as possible. Especially when I agree, and they're so right on.   Now, if he were a Republican the media and Mr. Obama would be out to ruin him.

Some more juicy tid-bits from Mr. Carville: "another reason I became a Democrat operative is there were more Democrats that didn't have a clue than there were Republicans....the Democrat voter is basically dumb and lazy, and I can make them think whatever I want them to".

Many conservatives, including yours truly, do not agree with a lot of Mr. Carville's political views, and have a lot of "love-hate" feelings toward him. He is truly a Democrat icon, which makes his observations of his own Democrat party all the more appealing to Republicans. 

If I may interpret Mr. Carville's message, simply put 75% of welfare recipients cast their votes for Mr. Obama. Again, simply put, they were led to believe that their freebie/welfare state would not only continue, but would continue with growth.  Most of theses voters that Mr. Carville referred to don't really care, and can't relate to job growth, national debt, GDP, or most of other issues plaguing America today. They want their freebies to continue, and that's why they are so easy to manipulate, as Mr. Carville so correctly alluded to. 

The welfare/freebie mantra is clearly, "gimmee the free stuff, and tax that rich guy over there, so I can continue getting it...start with my Obamaphone".

A very much deserved thank you to Mr. Carville. You just made a lot of friends from the Republicans, starting with yours truly.

Tomorrow we'll discuss the definition of "INEPTOCRACY". 

And that's Politics with Pete for today.....God bless our country....and our troops 




 

Walmart?? Really unions?

Walmart has 1.2 million employees in a non-union environment, and with the exception of 47 employees have decided to stay within the non-union environment.  So what did the big union bosses do? They bussed in protesters in several key Walmart locations to scream stupid rhyming words as they paraded around Walmart parking lots carrying hand-made picket signs.

Walmart has reported that this "Black Friday" was the most profitable they've ever had, meaning the union protesting failed.  I'm a little amused with the thinking and reasoning of the unions at this point. What did they think they were going to accomplish with their singing and rhyming protests in Walmart parking lots?

The unions were just  recently successful in shutting down Hostess Products and forcing 18,000 workers out of jobs. To add insult to injury, there are several firms that want to buy the Hostess product names and restart, so consumers can still enjoy their Twinkies, Ho-Ho's, and Wonder Bread. I can see the irony now. A new owner takes over Hostess, rehires the 18,000 workers with the stipulation there will be no union. Aren't unions supposed to help workers KEEP their jobs? Not lose them.

I will venture to say the 18,000 now out of work will be happy to get their jobs back without the unions.  I think Americans are beginning to realize that unions really have outdated themselves, and really serve no purpose. Union leaders and protesters are really showing they want "members" so they can receive revenue through dues. What other purpose does a union serve in today's economy? 

There aren't too many available jobs for the unions to "protect", or "bargain" for raises. Americans just want jobs, not some union to "represent" or "bargain".  Now if unions can create some jobs for the 23 million Americans out of work, well that might help.  But if unions are going around the country forcing strikes, protests, walk-outs when Americans are out there looking for work, well really, who has any use for a union? 

Recently a cake decorator at Walmart, who makes $12.00 per hour told the interviewer that yes, she'd like like to make more money. She further said, "who wouldn't want more money, but right now I'm just glad I have a job, and I want to hold on to it".

The only unions that are stable right now are public sector unions, and Mr. Obama will do all he can to assure that, so these particular unions will continue to do his bidding. Private sector union membership is the lowest it has ever been in modern times. I think it's pretty safe to write that we're witnessing the downfalls of private sector unions.

On another matter, have you noticed that for four consecutive years during his Thanksgiving presidential message Mr. Obama has never mentioned the word God? Along with this Mr. Obama will not comment on the Muslim Brotherhood leader of Egypt, Morsi,  that has arbitrarily expanded his powers just recently. But Mr. Obama is certainly assuring Egypt they will recieve their $1.6.Billion aid from America this year.   You think maybe Mr. Obama is truly a Muslim sympathizer? Nah...

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country...and our troops. 

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL

No Politics with Pete today. I'm pretty sure God isn't a Democrat or Republican or Independent. He just wants us all to live in peace.

So, love and God bless to all of mankind today, especially our troops who sacrifice every day for the freedoms we enjoy. We owe them so many thanks. If you happen to see one be sure to thank them in person. It means a lot to them. I'm 77, and wear my old baseball cap that says Air Force Veteran, and still get thanks for my service. I always reply, "it was an honor to serve".


Even a Happy Thanksgiving for my critics, and don't worry I'll be back tomorrow.

And that's (not) Politics with Pete for today....God Bless our country.....and our troops

Way to go unions

Will someone please tell the unions that their job is to protect jobs for the working class. It's not to shut down private businesses that do not want unions in their work places.Unions are acting like a boyfriend that got dumped by his girlfriend, and then walks in her front yard with a sign that said she was unfair for dumping him, and had no right to dump him.

I find it so puzzling that we have 23 million Americans out of work, we have a true unemployment of over 12%, we have over 47 millions on welfare, and yet the union leaders are joyous that they shut down Hostess Products, which left 18,000 workers without jobs. Can't see the logic in that. Why are union leaders pleased with that? What did they prove?

The company that supplies the Los Angeles International airport with workers decided to end their relations with the Service Employees International Union (S.E.I.U.) and with the workers approval I might add. The workers were more than satisified to have a job in this critical economy. And what does the union do? They actually block entrances into the airport so Americans can't fly to their destinations to celebrate this holiday with their families. Finally unions are showing Americans what they are really all about.

Of course the unions have a right to collective bargaining. People have a First Amendment right to assemble. However, and this is a gigantic however, when the workers and private owners of a company do not wish to bargain with a union any longer then the union must fold up their tents and  go home.

Yes, the word "collectively" is very key here.  When the workers want jobs, and are satisified with the job and conditions that the private owner is supplying them, and do not want a union to represent them, then why would the union want to stage unruly and threatening protests?

In many cases, in many companies, unions don't seem to get it that they are not wanted. Go ahead, stand outside with your picket signs. Sure, you may do a little disruption, but with the economy in dire straits, do you think standing in front of a company with a sign is going to help Americans get jobs? Don't think so.

Everyone knows Walmart is the world's largest retailer, and employs thousands all over the world. Also, everyone knows Walmart is a non-union company.  This Friday is being called "Black Friday" at Walmart to kick off the Christmas shopping season with huge price bargains. Guess what the unions are doing? Yep, you guessed it. The unions actually plan to stage large disturbing mob-like protests. Why? Walmart is a private company and has no plans to allow a union to operate within their stores.  

Union enrollment is down to the lowest it has ever been. There just aren't enough jobs for the unions to protect. Unions have outlived their usefullnes. Somone please get the message to the unions that they aren't needed as they once were to help middle class workers in the work place.

And that's Politics with Pete for today....God bless our country....and our troops.

Thanks all

I wanted to take time to give a humble "thank you" and shout-out for the positive feedback I've received on my three latest blogs; "Mish-Mash", "Still Complaining", and "Taxes, taxes, more taxes".  Also, a big thank you to the News-Herald, starting with Ms. Cheryl Sadler for allowing me the forum to offer a daily blog to present my conservative views.  Kind of give a special thanks from me on this Thanksgiving week.

Hey, I even want to acknowledge my critics for their views on disagreeing with my blogs. While I strongly disagree with their blasphemy, lies, and personal attacks, I do respect their 1st. Amendment rights. I have written before that I accept all points of view concerning my blogs, but will not acknowledge unwarranted personal attacks.

At times, I even find my critics amusing. One of my critics obviously doesn't understand the Social Security system. It's probably because this particular critic is on Mr. Obama's freebie welfare program and has no job to pay into the Social Security benefits program. As I've written before, I am 77 years young, and since my teen-age years paid into Social Security. Of course I do not approach this as a monthly welfare check. A welfare check is given to individuals who do not have a job to pay into the program, like my critic.

The critic who claimed my monthly Social Security check is a welfare check should have met my late father. Dad was an immigrant who came here from Italy at the age of seventeen, worked in the steel mills for forty-eight years, paying into the Social Security program. Dad made sure my two sisters and I went to college. Dad's gone now, but if this critic were to approach Dad and call him a welfare recipient after paying taxes for forty-eight years I would suggest he "stand back".

Another of my critics is probably one of the 93% African-Americans who voted for Mr. Obama. I can only assume this because he/she always refers to me as "whitey",  or calls me a  "white supremicist", and other names I can't print here.  I've never heard one caucasian calling another caucasian "whitey", so I can only presume he's one of the 93% African-Americans mentioned above. Now, this is not a slam on African-Americans. Growing up in an urban area, and serving in the military I strongly believe in Martin Luther King's philosophy of "not color of skin, but content of character".

Another name-calling critic of mine clearly shows they are a Mr. Obama Kool-Aid drinker, and only believes what the left-wing media tells them. This is particularly true as this critic believes the economy is "doing fine". I wanted to pass on to this critic a few FACTS that the main stream media would not discuss this past year.  These are areas that occured in the past two years under Mr. Obama's watch: family earnings falling by $5,300 a year,  poverty rising by 38%, food stamp enrollment increase to 47.9 million, jobless claims rising to average 400,00 per week, 200 coal plants closing, closing of small banks, GDP lowest it's been since the '30's. I could go on, but that's enough for now. Mr. critic, don't tell me the economy is fine.

In the two weeks since Mr. Obama has been reelected there have been too many companies to name here that have layed off employees, cut back hours of employees, and raised prices solely because of Obamacare. What if these areas were under a Republican? Do you think the media would have ignored this news? No, I think not.

And I can't go any further without writing about the "comical" view of union leader Trumka bragging how the union shut down Hostess Products, and then blamed it all on Governor Romney and Bain Capital. I guess the "blame Bush" mantra has run its course. 

How come the media is not reporting at all that Mr. Obama has sent $1.5.Billion of taxpayer money to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? It's been speculated that some of this money is used for arms for terrorists, but you won't hear that from the main stream media.

Why won't the media report that Mr. Obama also sent $147.Million of taxpayer money to the Gaza strip, while claiming Israel is our ally? Again, is there any way to track how much of this money is used for arms? You'll never know watching the main stream media.

Just a final question to Mr. Obama's Kool-Aid drinkers. What are you going to do in two years when unemployment is around 12%, and there's no more freebies and/or welfare money? God help you poor souls.

Stay tuned folks. Tomorrow we'll talk about immigration.

And that's Politics with Pete for today...God bless our country and our troops. 

Why are you still complaining?

Will someone please tell Mr. Obama's freebie welfare people that the election is over, and they will continue to get all their freebies; welfare checks, 99 weeks of unemployment, food stamps, subsidized housing, etc., etc., etc. Wake up Dems, you won.

Everyone knows the only way Mr. Obama was reelected is because 75% of all welfare recipients cast their votes for him.  It makes me believe that hard-working Americans that go to work every day are fast becoming a minority.

However, what is more alarming is that it seems Democrat leaders are still trying to justify the way the election went. It's over Dems. You won, so why are you still attacking Governor Romney and the rest of the Republicans? Why are you continuing with the blasphemy and lies?

It wasn't tragic enough that union leaders claimed a "victory" when Hostess Products closed down and 18,000 workers are now out of work. One union boss even said their union planned it that way. Did the union ever figure how they were going to continue to receive union dues from these jobless workers? Hmm...never figured that huh?

I guess the mantra of "it's all Bush's fault" will be replaced by "it's Romney's fault". You had to figure that eventually the Democrats would need to blame someone for what's going to happen to our economy in the upcoming four years. Union leader Trumka is now bloviating that the main reason that Hostess Products shut down operations is because of Bain. Well, of course it's Romney's fault that Hostess shut down, not  Trumpka's unions.

Recently I read a Viewpoint article in the News-Herald where the writer proudly wrote that he was not a 'maker' or a 'taker', and was glad he voted for Obama.  The Viewpoint writer feels that it's better to tax people to continue to help the welfare base, giving no thought that people with money to invest, small businesses, and corporations are the bases that create jobs. 

I never seem to get an answer when I ask that age-old question; "when is the last time someone on welfare created a job"? I guess the Viewpoint writer never heard of President Ronald Reagan, who immediatly lowered taxes after he took over from Carter to encourage investment people, small businesses, and corporations to create jobs. Then when unemployment became drastically lowered, and jobs were monumentally created,  President Reagan increased certain taxes to create more revenue. Is that successful policy so backward? Think not.

Is this Viewpoint writer aware of the latest two broken promises by Mr. Obama? First, Mr. Obama is now ceasing any direction to close Gitmo. Remember the first bill he ever signed in January, 2009?  The Viewpoint writer claims one major reason he voted for Mr. Obama was because Mr. Obama was a strong support of Gay-Lesbian-Same Sex Marriage rights.  Well, in just two weeks after he garnered many Gay and Lesbian votes for his reelection Mr. Obama has decided to cease any support of same-sex marriage, along with non-support of Gay and Lesbian rights. He just keep breaking his campaign promises, and so soon after election. Hmm.

Our enemployment is growing, our GDP to debt is in shambles, our welfare costs are growing, Americans on welfare are at an all-time high, and there is no clear truths emerging regarding the Benghazi massacre, and yet Mr. Obama and the Democrats are still throwing stones at the Republican Party.  Why? 

Dems, you won. You get to sit back and watch what the White House resident is planning for the next four years.  Oh wait, he doesn't have a plan, except to raise taxes by $514.Billion a year.  Is this a great country or what?

And that's Politics with Pete for today....God Bless our country....and our troops

 

 

Just a mish-mash

When a chef threw a lot of ingredients into their cooking presentation they usually said it was a "mish-mash" of stuff. Or a journalist writing an article might throw a "mish-mash" of ideas or thoughts in their article.

Well, today's blog is a mish-mash of different items, rather than sticking to one topic for the entire blog. Hope that's OK.

First of all, on taxes again. Right after Mr. Obama was reelected he stood, and stared into his teleprompter and extended his hand with a writing pen, and said, "I have the pen right here ready to raise taxes".  Yes, Mr. Obama is going to raise taxes on just about everyone starting in January, 2013.  Well, there are still two groups who will not have to abide by his new tax increase.

One group is the 49.7 million Americans on welfare that do not have a job to pay any taxes. Any wonder over 75% of them voted to reelect Mr. O.  And there's another group we shouldn't forget about. It's the 36 aides that work for Mr. Obama. Collectively they owe nearly $850,000. in back taxes, and have no desire to pay their back taxes.  Nice to get a job as a Mr. Obama aid huh?

Another item on my mish-mash blog today is the election is less than two weeks old, and already we've got some lies uncovered from promises made by Mr. Obama.  While campaigning Mr. Obama promised that he would support same-sex marriage. Now that he's reelected he has backed away and there are very strong indications he  will not support same-sex marriage.  

Mr. Obama also promised while campaigning that he would recognize and honor veterans from the Cold War, including Viet Nam veterans. He has now completely backed away from that promise. When he was challenged about these items he just smirked with his  condescending smile and remarked, "well, uh, um, uh, all candidates promise a lot when campaigning". Stand by folks. I got a feeling we're in for a lot more broken promises from Mr. Obama in the next four years.

I've tried to stay away from the voter fraud allegations, as I don't want to be tagged as a Republican whiner.  However, it's pretty difficult to ignore some very startling bits of valid information that is beginning to emerge. Governor Romney was leading in the pols in Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Colorado. On election day Mr. Obama won these four states by a total of   400,000 votes for all four states. These four states have a total of sixty-nine electoral college votes.

In Florida, the county of St. Lucie with a population of 175,000 registered voters, there were 250,000 votes cast which means a voter turn-out of 141%. By the way Mr. Obama won this county. In Philadelphia over 50 wards cast 19,605 votes for Mr. Obama and zero, nada for Governor Romney. In Ohio thirteen counties showed 100% of their votes were cast for Mr. Obama and again none for Governor Romney.

So, I did some more research and this is certainly worth mentioning. In 1982 the Democrat and Republican parties entered into agreement that there would be no challenging of voter fraud. The source for this is the Judicial Review based on 1981 case #09-4615. Yes, three Republicans were investigated, so both parties agreed to avoid any controversy to hamper upcoming elections there would be no voter fraud challenges.  

The interesting issue here is that this Consent Decree must be renewed every year. Judge D.R. Debevoise revisits every year to renew the decree. A provision is made whereby the Republican party can appeal and have the decree vacated, which RNC chairman Reince Prebus did this year. However the appeal was denied by Judge J. Greenway, an African-American liberal Judge. Now do you get the picture? 

Don't think for a second that the Democrat Party were not aware of this "Consent Decree", and knew that it would not be vacated. Therefore if, by chance, the Democratic Party decided to commit voter fraud they knew the Republican Party could not challenge them.

Did you know the states that required voter I.D., with the exception of Michigan,  were won by Governor Romney? Did you know a county in the state of Maine, with a very low African-American population, had literally dozens, yes dozens of African-Americans showing up to vote? Did I mention that Maine is one of the states that do not require voter I.D.

With the Consent Decree law in effect, and many states not requiring voter I.D., is it any wonder that Mr. Obama received 93% of the African-American vote?  Just sayin'.

Now we know that the Republican Party is in favor of voter I.D., and the Democratic Party is against it. Not having any form of identification certainly favors the Democratic Party.

And that's Politics with Pete for today....God bless our country...and our troops.