It is important to remember, in the USA, that there is no law that requires a office holder to concede an election to their opponent. Public offices are held for specific lengths of time. If the incumbent looses their bid for reelection, they serve out their term,  and then the newly elected office holder is sworn in. 

In the USA presidential elections are recounted once, candidates can request recounts but they must pay for them. Once the States certify the election, the electors of the electoral college cast their votes, and a winner is declared.  The transition between presidential administrations has zero to do with conceding. That is just ho it is.

Egor

 As we come up to the Presidential election, please remember that it is nobody's business who you voted for, it is not ok to vilify people that voted differently than you, and there is always a looser. 

Take care, and VOTE.

Egor

 The US Constitution lists, and explicitly defines the roles and responsibilities, of the President of the USA. For a person elected to congress to state that the president cannot act upon his responsibly is ludicrous. While the president can, and should, put up another person to fill a vacant Supreme Court justice position. It is not something congress has the power to forbid. 

That's how I see it.

Egor

 It is a matter of public record that Oregon's governor spent over 2 million in salary raises to members of Oregon's government officials. It is also a matter of record that the Governor limited fire fighting monies to less than 14 million. I am not sure why a commissioner head, Oregon has at least 36 commissions, deservers 10 grand or more a month. It would seem to me that the people taking the risks should get paid more, and there should be more of them, rather than someone that has zero expertise in the commission that they oversee. Perhaps just me. Egor

Riot for any reason, and show just how really stupid you are.

The only stake holders in the Zimmerman trial were Zimmerman and the sadly deceased.
When a criminal trial in Florida causes riots in LA we can only think one thing . . . California is full of really stupid people and they all live in LA.

Just the way  we see it.

Egor

US Senate Is Obstructing, Again

The House of Representatives passes a good tax measure/funding bill. The Senate passes a bad tax/funding bill. It would appear that the Senate is not going to do the will of the people, which is a shame.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45715200/ns/politics-white_house/#.Tu6TFTW0zpU

We wonder what the Senate has against the people they are supposed to represent, but wait, they represent special interests, and the unions - not us.

That is how we see it.

Egor

A Christmas Gif For Liberals

Send your favorite liberal a nice little Christmas gift, see link below. Nice to remind them, others share this country with them.

http://patriotupdate.com/14038/ows-not-a-political-movement-a-crime-wave

Crime With A Political Mask

Look at the chart at the link below, then ask this question. What does a purely political movement, that allegedly represents 99% of the 300 million of us, have to gain by proving just how bad they can be:


http://chicksontheright.com/2011/11/17/handy-crime-chart-for-ows/

It seems to us that they are really the 25% criminals, thugs for the lack of a better word, that scream 1st Amendment, when all they really are is evil.

Notice the lack of coverage around other political groups and crime? Perhaps if the Occupy movement was a real political movement they would quit the crime spree that they are on, and be more constructive instead, For instance, they should embrace the 21st century, and leave the 18th century where it is.

That is how we see it.

Egor

Should Government Get A Raise When Others Go Without?c

The headline reads:

"Portland Public Schools out of step in share of employees earning $75,000 to $95,000"

Read the full story here:

http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2011/11/portland_public_schools_out_of.html

Our comments are thus:

Government needs to reduce spending,by capping costs. That may mean that the Public Employee Unions will have 6to settle for a bit less for their members.

Question what would the Portland Public school district expenses, and deficit, look like if the most an employee would make were $50,000.00 dollars a year?  Would taxes have 6to be raised, or schools closed, in order to meet the payroll?

Just asking.

Egor

Forty Years Ago . . .

Forty years ago some students were killed in an protest when things just got, well, out of hand. Has anyone ever thought what would have happened if the protesters had disbanded when the National Guard arrived, or if they would have done what authorities asked, and just left, or taken the protest elsewhere?

While the loss of life is lamented, loud and often by the liberal press pushing liberal causes, the loss of life is only lamented if the people are students, shot on campus (note the decided lack of being in class or studying for exams) for a liberal cause.

No one much laments the loss of life, student or other wise in previous protests, and there were some, or the loss of life of some five or six billion dead children (ripped from the womb and tossed in the trash). Their violation of civil liberties, apparently, is not press worthy nor liberal enough a cause..

Make no mistake about it, the student dearths forty years ago at Kent State University was (and remains) a tragic thing, preventable, just like abortion.

That is how we see it.

Egor   

Shall We Enforce Our laws?

Always a little confusing to me, when the local powers that be decide to be ultra lax in law enforcement.

* Erect a cross, and put a note on it that on GOD we trust - Town hall will take it down same day.
* March in a cause for a free society, unhampered by government over regulation - not going to get a permit, and if you don't have one, then its to jail you will go.
* Occupy public property, deification on everything in site, insight riots, stay all week (or longer).

Look, those of you in public office, either enforce the laws on your books or remove them all together.

That is how I see it from here.

Egor

Proposed 2012 Budget - Or What To Cut

The link below is to the proposed 2012 budget for the United States Of America.  Pretend that you are in charge, and you want to balance the budget without raising personal income taxes or other fees.

What would you cut,and why. Keep in mind that we only spend 2% GDP on the military. While using NASA to create a moon base, while at the same time devolving a heavy lift space vehicle to get there and back in 10 years would create around 500 thousand jobs directly and a million more (given how money is spread around, so we are talking UPS drivers, computer makers, support teams grocery store workers and such).


http://www.bing.com/start/discoverFrame?nUrl=%2fstart%2fdiscoverNotification%3fdUrl%3d%252fstart%252fdiscover%253fmId%253ddaily&cUrl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.bing.com

What would you cut?

Egor

Balancing The Local government Budget


Here is a rather novel thought, what if governmental employees could make no more than 3 (three) times the median wage for the area that you live in?  If, for instance, the median wage for your town was $28 000.00 (twenty eight thousand) per year then the most that any government employee (for that town) could make is $84,000.00 (eighty four thousand) per year.

How much money would your town save?

Just saying . . ..

Egor

Here is a little something to think about:

A little "stimulus money might have keep people working, paying bills and paying taxes, but nooooo stimulus money went to companies which are now bankrupt. I would rather have had the stimulus money spent on something like this, to provide jobs.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2011/11/park_avenue_west_tower_to_be_m.html

Park Avenue West Tower to be mothballed for two years; developer sets 2013 restart date

www.oregonlive.com

The company secured financing for the project, but elected to wait in anticipation of possible anchor tenants ending existing leases in 2015.

The bigger question is this, why do we let the people in power waste our money? I , and my master think that the mantra should be:

1. Control spending.

2. Cut costs (not the same as the above).

3. Live on what ya make.

4. Do not raise taxes, in order to have more money to spend.

Later, 

Egor

Hello Again

Why hello,

I have been absent for a while, but I promise to resatart the madness.

The Man From Nantucket

An orginial poem, by Sherman Lackey.

The Man From Nantucket

There was once a man from Nantucket,
Who kept his brains in a bucket.
He lost his mind, they say,
When, one fine day,
Someone the bucket, done tuckit.

Egor

Mr. Dodd’s Lament

We offer an orginial poem, with an orginail thought.

Mr. Dodd’s Lament
By Sherman Lackey

Oh here is to Mr. Dodd, A legislative man.
On his involvement in a governmental plan.
To take over a company with a great to,
But instead the created a great hullabaloo!

Chorus
They had plans to seize the company,
But they wanted to keep the plan a governmental secret.
Oh what should they do?
Good old Mr. Dodd created a nice big loophole!

Investors became quite nervous, don’t you see.
They were afraid of loosing all of their hard earned money.
Mr. Dodd was asked by the treasury secretary.
To sweeten the pot, so the plot go the governments way.

Chorus
They had plans to seize the company,
But they wanted to keep the plan a governmental secret.
Oh what should they do?
Good old Mr. Dodd created a nice big loophole!

Poor old Mr. Dodd did as her was asked.
Gobs of money to the private company were passed.
With government ownership all most at ninety percent.
People started wondering where the money went.

Chorus
They had plans to seize the company,
But they wanted to keep the plan a governmental secret.
Oh what should they do?
Good old Mr. Dodd created a nice big loophole!

The money, as it turns out.
Went to bonuses and Mr. Dodd began to shout.
Give the money back and don’t be lax.
Or we will confiscate it with a special payroll tax.

Chorus
They had plans to seize the company,
But they wanted to keep the plan a governmental secret.
Oh what should they do?
Good old Mr. Dodd created a nice big loophole!
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And that is our second Admendment rights for this week - Egor

Governing Like A Dictator

It is possible for the president of the United States to govern like a dictator. These are called Executive Orders and they are not debated in the public forum. All presidents have used them, to some degree, though Democrat presidents seem to make more of them than Republican presidents.

Members of congress are not consulted, indeed, the only thing needed is the signature of a sitting president. This is how Al Gore got so many Executive Orders passed in the last months in the final year of the Clinton administration.

Obama promised us a change in how government is conducts business. After viewing his first Executive Orders it looks like governance as usual. No change from the status quoe, as is evidenced from his first Executive Orders found at the link below.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/executive_orders/

A Better Way to Stimulate the Economy

We have a better way to stimulate the economy with information that the government already has on file. Use their information from the IRS to give all taxpayers, who made less than forty thousand dollars last year, a check for three hundred thousand dollars.

This makes more sense than a first read will grant. The median wage in the US is now forty thousand dollars. People that make More do not need more because they can already afford what they need. People that earn less need the money for the basics, some of which need replacing.

With three hindered thousand dollars they can:

1. pay off the house.
2. Pay off the car and buy a new one.
3. pay off their credit cards.
4. put a third of the money in the bank, giving the bank money to lend.

This makes way more sense than the current idea, which will fail.

That is what we think.

Egor

Will the US Constitution Surrive The Oregon Govenor

With new policies and tax generation ideas proposed by the current Oregon state Governor, we have just one question:

Will the US Constitution Survive The Oregon Governor!?

We think not, read the following, before the loss of the 2ed Amendment to the US Constitution becomes a fact. Which it might, given that the current Speaker of the House has limited a 100 years old tradition of debate prior to bills passing in the US House of Representatives, to no debate.

This leaves 200 million American citizens without any representation at all. Bringing to light our observations that elected Democrats lie.

http://inthetrenches-egor.blogspot.com/

Egor.