General Chat (Non-Music-Related)

Time is like a river You cannot touch the water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Franklin Graham was speaking at the First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida in January, 2015, when he said America will not come back. He wrote:

The American dream ended on November 6th, 2012 in Ohio. The second term of Barack Obama has been the final nail in the coffin for the legacy of the white Christian males who discovered, explored, pioneered, settled and developed the greatest republic in the history of mankind. A coalition of blacks, Latinos, feminists, gays, government workers, union members, environmental extremists, the media, Hollywood, uninformed young people, the "forever needy," the chronically unemployed, illegal aliens and other "fellow travelers" have ended Norman Rockwell's America.

You will never again out-vote these people. It will take individual acts of defiance and massive displays of civil disobedience to get back the rights we have allowed them to take away. It will take zealots, not moderates and shy, not reach-across-the-aisle RINOs to right this ship and restore our beloved country to its former status. People like me are completely politically irrelevant, and I will probably never again be able to legally comment on or concern myself with the aforementioned coalition which has surrendered our culture, our heritage and our traditions without a shot being fired.

The cocker spaniel is off the front porch, the pit bull is in the back yard The American Constitution has been replaced with Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" and the likes of Chicago shyster David Axelrod along with international socialist George Soros have been pulling the strings on their beige puppet have brought us Act 2 of the New World Order. The curtain will come down but the damage has been done, the story has been told.

Those who come after us will once again have to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to bring back the Republic that this generation has timidly frittered away due to white guilt and political correctness.

It actually is really simple... If we convince the Federal Reserve to print million dollar bills for a year or two, we can completely wipe out that pesky 19 trillion dollar national debt. Just imagine... Free beer for everyone and anytime you need some extra cash, just ask the Federal Reserve to give you some.

What this really means is we won't need any government anymore, no personal debt, no economic differences, and everyone won't have to worry about the I.R.S. anymore. No one will ever need to rob or steal ever again.

So remember, a vote for Bernie, is a vote for free beer and finally true equality among all people.

I think Bernie Sanders might actually be worse than Hillary. She wants to raise taxes of course, how else can she pay for all that free stuff she's promising? Sanders has already openly said he wants to raise the upper tax brackets to 52%. At first he said 90%, then he had to back down.

Problem is they don't think this through. Who are the "wealthy" they claim should shell out more than half their income in taxes? The owners of the small businesses that create probably 80% of the jobs in this country. Remember they figure $200,000 a year to be wealthy.

So if a business has to shell out that much money just in taxes, before you figure in regulations that force huge investments in upgrades and rebuilds, how much is left to create jobs, expand, hire new people or give existing employees raises? Not much, which is why the unemployment rate is still much higher than govt figures indicate, nobody has been getting raises in more than 10 years, and due to increased cost of living, usable income has actually gone down the past few years.

Then figure in the number of businesses shutting down entirely. That has increased greatly the past few years, and in 2015, more businesses failed than started up. First time for that since 1977, when Carter was in office. Another Democrat, imagine that...

Bernie the socialist will most likely destroy the economy faster than Hillary will. Socialism always kills the economy, that's why the Greek economy failed last year for the 3rd time. More people on government assistance than people paying taxes to cover the bill. And unless I really miss my guess, many businesses that otherwise would have created jobs have left the country same as they're doing here, to escape business killing taxes and regulations. Most of Europe is close behind.

I have to admit I haven't watched much of the Democrat debates and speeches, I've despised Hillary since the first time I ever saw her picture, and can't stand to listen to Bernie for more than a couple of minutes. His voice and mannerisms are very annoying. He waves his hands around the exact same way so much it's like watching one of those rear window bobble dolls...Hillary is just annoying period, I can't listen to her more than a couple of minutes either.

But from what I've heard so far, both are going to make things even worse than they are now. All that free stuff has to be paid for, and your taxes are the government's only source of income to pay for it. "Free" college tuition, "free" health care, everything else they say the government will hand you while you sit on your useless ass and stare at the TV still has a price tag. The $15 minimum wage they push has already caused half the restaurants in Seattle to close, and they only raised it to $11.30 or $11.50 so far. Hello automation. Hardees is already using a prototype kiosk, not a human in sight. Guess who lost that job? That's right, the same minimum wage high school kid who was protesting for $15 an hour.

And regulations...we already know Obama has implemented more govt regulations than any other president, with the one exception of Bush the year after 9-11, and just the EPA regulations he pushed have already shut down over half the coal mining operations in Kentucky. Coal is 80% of their economy. Most of nearly a million coal employees are still out of work after more than 2 years. Same is happening all over. Carrier just announced they are closing down in the US and putting together a facility in Mexico. Taxes and regulations. Auto manufacturers have been setting up in Mexico for years, Ford building a $2 billion plant in Mexico right now, and how many Mexican strats have you seen? and remember what Hillary promised when she first announced, she would go further than Obama has. Bernie can't avoid it either, he has to pay for all that free stuff. He's also all about government control, that's what socialism is. Don't worry, the govt will take care of everything...shut up and take your hand outs.

Bernie wants us to believe he's a political outsider. HUH??? Around 25 years I think as a senator and he's an outsider? Right... 'scuse me while I flap my arms and fly across the room for a cup of coffee...he's controlled by the same group of cash in hand lobby groups as everyone else in DC, no matter what he says. Not taking money from big donors and PACs is not everything.

That's why neither is acceptable. Both have been in politics for most of their adult lives, both tell you whatever lies they can think up to get your vote then go to work for special interest groups, and both don't have a clue what actually needs to happen to get jobs back and the economy back on its feet. Only one candidate on both sides is truly an outsider. And that's why he's been constantly under attack from all sides since day one, even his own party.

Don't be fooled. Vote for Bernie only if you want to live in a country just like Greece. Better yet move there, it's already Greece. And bankrupt...

Wake up folks...

Sorry Billy... I did not mean to get you involved with writing such a time consuming, eloquent, letter of the truth.

I was just poking fun at the ridiculosity of all this nonsense.

Sorry Billy... [snip] ...I was just poking fun at the ridiculosity of all this nonsense.

I suspected a bit of sarcasm...