Should I be Worried...Whats Obama going to do next
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The answer is no, we, meaning the U.S., was never in the black.
It was all on paper and I do not mean those little pieces of green paper with pictures of presidents on them that we all hold so near and dear.
There is a great deal of confusion about the Clinton years. They were in no way as they have been portrayed by the liberal mainstream media and revisionist historians.
President Clinton did ask Congress for the ‘Pay-Go’ system where it could be said there were balanced budgets.
The thing is that each budget increased in size.
It was also misrepresented to the public to appear that it meant that the federal government did not spend more than it collected in federal revenues.
That was untrue.
Government bonds were being sold to China and the Saudis like hotcakes and that is borrowing and the price of those bonds are added to the national debt.
Ok I mentioned national debt. That is something that is totally misunderstood by most.
Most believe it is one figure and one ledger sheet when it is actually broken down into various groups.
Public debt, also called national debt, does not for example include intragovernmental debt obligations or debts that are held in the Social Insecurity Trust Fund, which in reality no longer exists and only a massive stack of IOU’s can be found there, thus the debt.
What President Clinton did was to pay down the public debt, using governmental/taxpayer dollars thus accruing more governmental debt.
The problem with that is regardless of how debt is titled/named it is all in fact public debt since it is the public that funds the government/foots the bills/pays the debts.
It is like if you owed $10,000.00 on a home equity line of credit and another $10,000.00 on credit cards totalling $20,000.00 in debt and you then paid off your credit cards using your home equity line of credit.
Did you just erase half of your total debt?
Save yourself the time doing all the ‘gozintas’ and let me give you the answer. The answer is no.
You only transferred the $10,000.00 debt of your credit cards by adding it to the $10,00.00 you already owed on your home equity line of credit making that amount now $20,000.00 in debt owed.
Now what would happen if at the same time you were writing home equity line of credit checks to pay for other things? You would end up with more than just the $20,000.00 debt and that is what President Clinton did, explained in a very simplistic form of course.
Because most people do not have a clue about the total debt of the nation and how it is categorized President Clinton was able to show all of us accurate numbers of how debt had been ‘paid down.’
He simply failed to tell us exactly how the debt we were show had been paid down. He only showed us half of the numbers and carefully hid the rest of the numbers from the light of day thus fooling the uninformed masses.
President Clinton was a master of deception. As soon as he was elected he decided that nothing was going to stand in the way of him leaving behind a shiny stellar legacy.
One of the very first things that he did after taking office was to have the formula that was used to calculate the rate of inflation changed. He looked at it and saw volatile products included and knowing that they might likely increase in cost he had them removed from the formula so when they went up in price and inflation hit the nation it would not be reflected in the inflation rate.
Likely the most important product to be removed from the formula was the price of gasoline. To many the price of gasoline during the Clinton years now seems to be dirt-cheap when compared to today’s prices, and even more so when compared to the prices of late last year.
To me gasoline prices during the Clinton years were not low but that is because I can remember the price of gasoline being 17 cents per gallon when I was a child and 32 cents per gallon when I purchased my first car.
But if you remember the price of gasoline roughly doubled during the Clinton years. It was roughly around 75 cents per gallon and then jumped to roughly $1.50 per gallon.
If you remember that you may also remember that in that same period of time the inflation rate did not increase.
How could that be when the price of gasoline roughly doubled you ask?
It is because President Clinton had it and several other things removed from the formula that was used to calculate the rate of inflation.
Now as much as President Clinton wanted to leave behind a shiny stellar legacy he was not going to let mere reality stand in his way so he had things shaped and changed so regardless of things turning sour during his presidency things would still appear to be rosy on the surface and the surface is all that mattered to President Clinton.
Of course he still managed to greatly tarnish that shiny stellar legacy and stain his reputation when he stained that blue dress.
He made it worse by using that hairy humidor to moisten his cigars and by having phone sex while in the Oval Office and by getting his knob polished by, as he called her, "that woman," when later he went before the nation on nationwide TV and claimed that he did not have sex with her.
I don’t know about any of you but when I tickle a woman’s tonsils with my weasel I consider that to be sex.
Later he heaped more tarnish on his legacy when under questioning he attempted to stonewall by asking what exactly is the meaning of "is.?"
The icing on the cake was to be caught lying under oath, so that was the nail in his coffin.
But thanks to the liberal media and revisionist historians a totally different portrayal of President Clinton was broadcast across the land and he was heralded as being a magnificent munificent magnanimous president right up there with President Washington and President Lincoln when in fact he should have been seen as being lower than President Nixon.
At least President Nixon had the honor and dignity to fall on his own sword and resign his presidency.
I lived between Emmet Arkansas and Hope Arkansas when President Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas. I shopped in Hope and did most of my business in Hope and I would go to the barber shop and listen to the old men talk about how then Governor Clinton was as crooked as a barrel full of snakes but that he was to slick to ever get caught. Then they would call him Slick Willie and laugh.
So the title Slick Willie was well earned by President Clinton himself years before he ran for the presidency and it was not given to him by Rush Limbaugh or anyone else after he became the president.
When he was elected I knew what most Americans did not know, and that was that the nation had just elected a very skilled highly polished snakeoil salesman.
And just like déjà vu all over again the nation has elected another very skilled highly polished snakeoil salesman.
Some claim that the new president might very well be the most intelligent man to ever become president.
I find that to be far beyond just being laughable.
The new president began his political career in the down and dirty world of Illinois/Chicago politics. I lived 17 miles due West of the center of Chicago for 32 years and I am very familiar with the political snake-pit that Illinois/Chicago politics is.
I watched the Daley political machine in action and the liberal Democratic political machine in action and now we have a man that some claim to likely be the most intelligent man to ever become president and who cut his political teeth in the dirty back-stabbing political environment and was surrounded by all those jackals and yet he somehow seems to have never noticed anything even slightly unusual or unacceptable going on around him.
Come on now Barack, raise your antenna a little higher, you’re missing the signal.
At the worst he is oblivious and at the very worst he is disingenuous.
He is the son that President Clinton always wished for but never had.
As I said some claim the new president to possibly be the most intelligent man to ever be elected President of the United States.
Well I ain’t no rocket scientist but when compared to the new president I look like Steven Hawking on a ginkgo biloba drip.
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No, my fingers are fine. That was a short piece compared to many I write daily in political forums.
As for a book, well I do not believe I could actually write a book. I have no interest in doing so and lacking motivation I would never complete a book.
I did write two movie scripts and while I could not convince anyone to read them.
Most simply said they did not accept unsolicited material though Kenneth Branagh said he would read them but since he had already committed himself to two years of projects, one of which he was working on at the time, his four hour epic "Hamlet," and he felt it was unfair to me to tie up my scripts for so long and make me wait until he could then work on them and then it could possibly taking several years each to bring them to the big screen so I would be better off finding someone who could start on them sooner.
In the end one story, not the actual script but the story, made it to the big screen in 2004.
I had given up on interesting anyone in my writing and tucked away my scripts and believed I had hit a dead end.
Later I began dating a woman whose ex-brother in law is a Hollywood writer and has been part of teams that have written several movies and also written for several comedy series. One day I mentioned to her that I had written two scripts and that is when she told me about her ex-brother in law and said she would get me in contact with him and that she felt sure if he liked my scripts that he would help to polish them and to get me in contact with industry insiders.
She asked me what they were about and I had never told anyone other than those I had tried to convince them to read them because I was concerned about them being stolen, and had taken no steps to be able to protect them legally, but I felt that she was my one last best hope so I told her one story, the one I felt was second best, and said I would tell the other story to her ex-brother in law if and when we came to an arrangement.
As we all know bitches be crazy and because I did not want to go with her to a ballet she dumped my skinny butt.
A few weeks or so later I called her to ask about something I had left at her home and there was no answer, for days there was no answer.
Even though she dumped me for the silliest reason I had ever been dumped for I still liked her and was worried that she had been in an accident or something so I called her best friend to ask about her.
I was told that she took a leave of absence and headed West to visit her ex-brother in law. That seemed odd and made me begin to wonder.
Well a little over a year later what to my wondering eyes did appear on the big screen but my story with a different title and script and low and behold my ex-girlfriend’s ex-brother in law was credited as being one of the writers.
W. C. Fields said; "No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree." Certainly he was spot on when he said that.
When William Congreve said; "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" he also had it right and what happened to me was a fucking I got for the fucking I had gotten.
One last thing, please do not bother to ask me what the title of the movie was because the one time I did manage to talk to my ex-girlfriend about what happened she became ultra-defensive and exploded at me saying that if I ever said anything about what happened and or claimed any rights to the movie/script/intellectual property that a team of lawyers had already been alerted to that possibility and they were ready willing and able to sue me back to the stone age and even take away my birthday so I never risk telling the name of the movie in a public forum.
I do not want my life’s savings drifting off as if on the wings of a butterfly and then suffering the effects.
Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
I thought everybody read them. I loved the "Steven Hawking on a ginkgo biloba drip" bit - Priceless !
Ignore the detractors & press on.
Ignore the detractors & press on.
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we are in $48,000,000,000,000+ of total debt. ...yeah thats alot of fucking zeros
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Frankly I don't care. I enjoy writing them so that is all that matters to me.
But based on the number of +reps I get and PM's I would say a fair number of people do read my messages.
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If you like the line by all means feel free to use it.
Oh, for whoever it was that sent me the +rep and said I could not smoke pot and retain the information I retain and be human.
Well I do smoke pot, I began in the winter of 68/69, and I do retain information, I retain it very well, but when did I claim to be human?