DC Weather Wimps

Wow! I agree with Obama 100% on something. He referred to DC Residents as "weather wimps" and I must say that I agree with his statement.

The fact that DC schools, and Offices close at the slightest bit of snow is absurd. As a former Chicago Resident myself I understand where Obama is coming from. Chicago is quite possibly one of the coldest places I have ever been. I know that EVERYONE says that about their state, and town, but unless you have gone trough an average Chicago winter you don't even know. A bad one would literally kill many people who are not from there.

in my 5 five year tenure there as a school attending resident I never once saw my school get canceled on account of weather. People here say it is because we are not equipped to handle the snow. Well that is not the reason at all. Chicago deals with it just the same as we do here, the people just know how to drive in it, and they are not wimps.

Picture 10 degree with a windchill that pushes it to -10 or more. (if you have never experience a -10 degree windchill, it is worse that 30 below) 3 feet of show with ice below it, and me standing at the bus stop to wait on the bus along with every other resident of Chicago. And yes, we still go out during recess when it is that cold. You just wear a coat. (and a good coat I might add)

Now picture this. 23 degrees and windchill at 19 degrees, 1/4 inch of ice with 1 inch of snow. and everyone is sitting at home and the whole city shuts down. by 10 am the roads are fine, and people still don't go anywhere.

well I knew that Obama and I had to agree on something, and here it is. DC residents are wimps compared to a Chicago one. (referring to winter)

bailout FACTS (not opinions)

Stimulus Quick Facts

 

  "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

 

 Total Cost of Stimulus Legislation: $825 billion

•   How does this compare?

                  - In 1993, the unemployment was virtually the same as the rate today (around 7%). Yet, President Clinton’s proposed stimulus legislation *only* contained $16 billion in spending

 

                  - The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

 

                  - This legislation nears a trillion dollars. President Reagan said the best way to understand a trillion dollars is to imagine a crisp, new stack of $1000 bills. If you had a stack four inches high, you’d be a millionaire. A trillion-dollar stack of $1000 bills would measure just over 63 miles high.

 

                   - In $20 bills, a trillion dollar stack would be 3150 miles high. That’s about the distance between DC and Trujillo, Peru.  

• President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save 3 million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $42,000 a year.

• This bill provides enough spending to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

• This bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

• Although this legislation has been billed and described as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, but only three percent ($30 billion) of this package is for road and highway spending.

• Much of the funding within the proposed stimulus package will go to programs which already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the draft bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already has $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used. 

• Deficit spending will not expand the economy. If that were true, then the current $1.2 trillion deficit -- the largest in history -- would already be rescuing the economy. $800 billion more will not change that.

• Trade groups state that every $1 billion in highway “stimulus” can be spent creating 34,779 new construction jobs. But Congress must first borrow that $1 billion out of the private sector. The private sector then loses or forgoes roughly the same number of jobs.

• Japan responded to a 1990 recession by passing 10 “stimulus” bills over 8 years (building the largest national debt in the industrialized world). Their economy remained stagnant and their per capita income went from the second highest in the world to the tenth highest.

Don't worry Obama, it is ok for yooouuuuu

So there were countless organizations that got all over G.W. Bushes case for wire tapping without a warrant.  In fact it ranged over the entire board.  Law makers, Journalist, columnist, average people, and on & on & on.  

So I am hearing now that our BELOVED and glorious Barrack Obama is going to be keeping this law and NO ONE IS SAYING A FREAKIN THING!!!  Classic undermining of a conservative president.  Even at the expense of national security.  Makes me sick that I can see this and it is happening so fast.  I want to give our glorious Barrack a chance, I do, I really do.  It us just getting harder and harder to do so.  I fear what he is going to do to our country.  We will lose what we are built on.  What our founding forefathers really wanted for our country.  

More Barrack hypocrisy coming later (I am sure it will never end)

Thanks Obama

I don't have much time so I will be brief.  

Thanks Obama!!  Lets spend our way out of Debt and economic woe with 850 Billion Dollars!!  I have debt myself, so I think that I am going to spend my way out of it too!  I just want to make sure that if I try that and it doesn't work that you will bail me out.  I am all about a free handout I don't deserve.  Please give it too me!  It will make me feel better if you do.  

Also what else do you plan to do for me?! you know I could go for some food stamps so I don't have to spend my hard earned money on things like food.  I would much rather spend that money on things like move tickets, DVD's, That new Blue Ray player to go with my 52 inch 1080p HD TV I just got.  Oh Obama, you are the answer to my prayers!  I can do what I want and have no worries about it.  I won't even have to worry about how I am going to pay my mortgage payment now!