Jobs, Jobs, We Don't Need No Stinkin Jobs

The Obama administration spent a whole lot a "Change", more than ONE TRILLION DOLLARS, in the "Hope" that pouring unfathomable amounts of money (taken from our grand children's future well being) into the US economy would create millions of new private sector jobs. This exercise of Keynesian stimulus on steroids argues that by expanding aggregate demand for goods and services, employers will expand their businesses (hire new workers) to meet the increased demand created by all this newly circulated money.

Regrettably, this 1930s British economic theory is no match for 2010 American real world economic realities. Two federal legislative intrusions into the private sector marketplace in the last six months - Health Care Reform and Financial Wall Street Reform weigh in at a muscular four thousand six hundred pages of impenetrable legalize that Princess Pelosi tells us can not be understood until AFTER these laws have been implemented by the adoption of the more than 1900 new federal regulations called for in these two statutes.

Talk about a business investment environment beset by uncertainty. Because of Obamacare and Dodd's takeover of our financial markets, venture capital prudently is frozen until the billions of dollars in new business costs are made known over the next five years of rule making by hundreds of new boards, commissions, agencies, and on and on infinnitum. Nonetheless, the Pols in DC who have never made a private sector budget in their lives tell us that "prosperity is just around the corner".

What part of the total inability of employers to make accurate business financial plans for the next five years does this White House not understand? Rather than fostering certainty, BIG BROTHER is hiring thousands of lawyers and bureaucrats to write thousands of new regulations imposing substantially higher costs on businesses for each new (and existing) employee for health care benefits and borrowing for expansion. How much higher regulatory compliance costs are confronting our private sector investors? Obviously, these massive new obligations on businesses can not be calculated, until the only growth sector in this economy finishes its work over the next half decade - the bureaucrats must speak before the private sector can adopt new business growth budgets.

Fortunately, one viable solutions presents itself for both this lag in new job hires and the long lead time for rule promulgations. Congress should authorize the President to immediately hire two to three million more lawyers and bureaucrats to finalize all these regulations by Labor Day Weekend, so the private sector can start making new budgets with accurate cost decisions for business growth in the Spring, as predicted by Chauncey Gardener. Just saying...

More Sliders: Some Might Say "Cheap Shots"

(1) Generallissimo Francisco Franco is still dead, as is George Patton Steinbrenner, no longer the Boss of anyone.

(2) Professor David Francko, Inventor of the Wonder Product, FreezePruf, remains very much alive, as he denies that FreezePruf has any applications in preserving the viability of human tissues.

(3) Federal Court Judge yesterday declared "The Stolen Valor Act" to be unconstitutional, finding it violative of First Amendment protection of free speech. This ruling was rendered despite the amicus brief filed by State of Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal in support of its penal sanctions for publicly pronounced war record falsehoods.

(4) In responding to my prior Blog Posting about Senator Byrd's KKK membership, the current spokesperson for former President Clinton proclaimed that "Bubba unequivocally condemns racially based lynchings whenever employed to improve electability to federal office, even state offices."

(5) Senator Byrd himself remains dead, so he has released no statements regarding the release of his Home Depot credit purchase records - $350.00 per annum for rope, knotting instructions included.

(6) Enuff already about the nearly departed. Jake Cohen, Davidson College Sophomore, is currently leading the Israel National U20 bb team in summer league play in Jerusalem.

More Sliders, Just Right Down the Middle

Let me preface this Posting by acknowledging that I have been truly humbled by the outpouring of extravagant praise heaped upon Your Now, Truly Humble Blogger by the Indiana contingent of Manly Men - collectively known as 'TheBori", against whom all resistance is futile.

So, in this context of sincere appreciation for the ten (10) comments posted on July 6th, I offer up the following:

(1) Lebron James can not be faulted for abandoning Cleveland, have you ever been there for more than three days in a row? We are the land of opportunity, after all.

(2) Lebron James can be faulted for the tactless way he abandoned Cleveland.

(3) Bubba Clinton at the Senator Bird's Wake defamed every single adult resident of West Virginia, saying that a WVa. political good old boy could not be assured of election to a federal office w/o. joining the KKK. Membership required, lynchings optional.

(4) Barry Hussein Obama told an interviewer that the people of Israel have found disfavor with him because his middle name is "Hussein", not his policies which have riled

them to fits of fear for his ending 63 years of commitment to the jewish national home.

At least the Anointed One didn't defame them by calling the Israeli people mind numbingly stupid for questioning him based upon something he had no control over whatsoever -

what his parents put on his birth certificate. Oh wait, Barry could have changed his name.

(5) While it all may just come out in the wash, Your Humble Blogger is tentatively scheduled to be in Columbus, Ohio on November 27, 2010 (without Lebron's company) in order to witness "that University Up North" receive another polite spankin, i.e., lesson in football etiquette. Just saying ...

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

Today, we celebrate the 234th Anniversary of the Greatest Secular Idea in Human History:

"AMERICA"

So, let us examine this Universally Acclaimed Truth - America is uniquely benevolent (not nearly perfect) but, in the great affairs of nations, always the leading empowerment of human rights, peace and individual prosperity:

"For we shall be a Shining City on a Hill." John Winthrop, 1630; Ronald Reagan, 1980;

"And for the support of this Declaration, ... we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor." Thomas Jefferson, and 56 other Signers, July 4, 1776;

"A New Nation conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that All Men are

Created Equal. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that

this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of Freedom." Abraham Lincoln, 1863;

Regrettably, this universal acclimation has one notable exception - "I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British Exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism." Barry Hussein Obama (full given name by parents). By universal consensus, the most recent contribution by the nation of Greece to the advancement of the human condition was prior to 332 B.C. when its last real leader died at 32 years of age.

For me, I will keep counsel instead with Jefferson/Lincoln/Winthrop:

America is and always shall be the The One Shining City, a Beacon of Light

to the whole World, having malice toward none and charity for all, so

we shall as one unique people strive on to finish the work we do to

achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and w/.

all nations. May it ever be true, because all peoples strive to be embraced

by the shining light of liberty and justice that is uniquely American.

Some say "Sliders", as a Straight Shooter, I say "Small Bites"

(1) Who banned black caddies from televised PGA golf tournaments?

(2) What international sports governing body allows its referees to call secret penalties?

(3) Didn't anyone inform Dustin Johnson that the United States Open is a four round tourney?

(4) Did I mention how bad soccer sucks?

(5) When was the last time a White House physician told a sitting President to knock off hitting the sauce?

(6) This time, the President got it exactly right: General Stanley Dufoos McChrystal had to go quickly, if not at least quietly. (See, this blog is not just another anti-Obama screed).

(7) Lebron "King" James will leave Cleveland and sign w/. the Golden State Warriors next week, thereby teaming up with his idol, Stephen Curry.

(8) At the Alumni golf outing two weeks ago, the Bucknell bb coach told me that the University could not afford to travel all the way to North Carolina to play Davidson College. Do you smell the aroma of spoiled chicken? Just saying. . .

Our Constitutional Republic is in Jeopardy

First, in the interest of full disclosure, I am a big BP stockholder. Other winners in my portfolio include Lucent Technologies, GE and Westinghouse Air Brakes. Ok, now that you have a deeper understanding of my long term commitment to the crucially important profitability of this Blog, today's Post examines the Constitution's Guarantee to Due Process Protections every person (including a corporate individual) is afforded prior to the federal government depriving that individual of his/her freedom or private property.

President Obama, a former Con Law professor, is well schooled on this fundamental principle of the Rule of Law. Indeed, he designated the Christmas Day Undie bomber to be merely an alleged criminal, because no court trial has adjudicated his guilt of having set his own pants on fire. Nonetheless, last night the President told the nation that in meeting with BP executives today, he would be directing them to set aside up to $20,000,000,000.00 for payment of Gulf of Mexico oil leak claims.

Wow; no charges, no trial, no jury verdict, just the ex parte imposition of a potential corporate death sentence on nothing more than the say so of the Big Guy. The President has cited no federal statute that empowers him to reach into the BP pocket and seize its private funds. The reason for this absence of Speech citation is obvious - there is no lawful authority for Presidential confiscation millions of BP stockholders (mostly widows and orphans) retirement investments.

The road to dictatorship always starts with small extra-legal acts that go almost unnoticed and unprotested by the nation's lawmakers. In this presidency, our slide toward abject servitude began with one phone call. In February 2009, Mr. Obama fired the CEO of General Motors Corporation. Author Ben Stein wrote, that upon calling the White House to ascertain the specific federal law the President utilized in depriving this individual of his livelihood, he was told by the Press Office: "None Needed." Gentlemen, ladies and Georgette, that act of Chicago style thuggery is the very antithesis of the Rule of Law. So, be afraid, be very afraid.

John Wooden, Wizard of Westwood; R.I.P.

A Life well lived, indeed. Coach Wooden of Tinseltown, U.S.A. may have lived most of his years in Hollywood, but he never went all L.A. Cool. For all of Mr. Wooden's ninety-nine years, he never changed his fundamental values, stating whenever asked: "A life spent devoted to others is a meaningful life." and "One's success is best measured by achieving the maximum effort you have to give, whereas victory is merely an incidental outcome." Eternal words for sure.