Back in action....

Well it sure has been a while since I have blogged last. But it feels good to start it up again. There have been some interesting things coming across my way as of late, take a look at some:

If President Obama were a baseball player, his stats certainly wouldn’t be anything to champion. Under Obama, 1 in 7 Americans are now on food stamps; 14 million unemployed and looking for work; Average length of unemployment: six months and two weeks; gasoline prices have more than doubled; and the federal debt is up more than 3 trillion dollars.

There is one statistic that is very depressing though that isn’t getting much news coverage. Right now in America over 51% of people end up not paying income taxes because of the built in tax credits and rebates found in the tax code. The IRS has now become the biggest provider of welfare in the country. We are relying more and more on the “rich” to provide for the necessary revenue stream to fund the sacred programs nobody wants to cut. This is fundamentally and morally wrong. We continually are fed the lie that the middle class in this country is disappearing. They are not! The middle class is in bad shape mainly because the middle class doesn’t want to live and save like they are in the middle class. I say if you are going to receive assistance from the government in the form of TANF, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc…you need to be paying into the system. To me it doesn’t seem justified to come out ahead and actually receive money from the government for really not producing anything. That’s why the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan is a good one. They say get rid of all the deductions and credits that people get in the tax code and instead dramatically lower rates across the board.

As many of us know, gas prices are up again to nearly $4.00 a gallon. Yet instead of holding the Obama administration accountable for basically destroying the dollar through debt explosion, Democrats and the media target that nasty thing called, “Big Oil.” Have you ever heard them refer to “Big Farm”, “Big Plastic”, “Big Gold”, “Big Corn”? No, why? Because it’s ridiculous. Oil companies deal with a commodity that’s price is going way up for a number of reasons. I laugh every time people attack Big Oil for controlling the price of oil and gasoline. Nobody gave a crap about oil profits when it tanked and prices were 99 cents a gallon when I was growing up. If Oil companies controlled the price of oil why would it ever go down? And as far as the price of gasoline goes, Exxon mobile reported that it receives 2 CENTS out of every gallon sold.

I really feel in this country that divorced men always get a bad rap. The North Dakota Legislature increased that bad rap this session by passing a law that allows the public to view a data base online that shows all those who are behind on their child support and how much they owe. What in the world is the point of this? We already take people’s drivers licenses away, we throw people in jail, and now we are going to shame them online. It just makes no sense. And I think next session the legislature should seriously consider adding some regulations for child support payments. I know plenty of people who receive monthly child support payments that are used to support their lifestyle rather than providing the money mostly for their children. Why can’t the system be like a Health Savings Account? The person would receive a monthly deposit in an account and they can spend that money as they see fit. However, every year the State Department of Human Services will conduct a series of random audits to see how the money was being spent. If we are going to force people, mostly men, to pay a large sum of money each month to their ex then their needs to be some sort of accountability for the funds. Why on earth does having a kid entitle you to basically have the ability to rip people off for many years under the guise of “helping the children?”