Interesting that incumbent Maxine Waters picks October 19th to announce nearly $7 million in pork barrel projects for the homefolk.
It certainly can't be a coincidence that the release of details of the 12 projects, ranging from $350,000 for a Lawndale Community Center to $500,00 for a 405 Freeway widening project, comes less than 12 days before the mid-term election. Good ideas, actually, if our country wasn't drowning in a sea of red ink.
It would be silly for us residents of River City to think there was a "Music Man" in our midst. Why, there is no 'Con' in the word Congress these days, is there?
After all, what rational voter would be influenced by the timing of this announcement,fresh off Water's national call to have federal legislation passed to create a new level of bureaucy to lord over the home mortgage industry.
Golly darn, what a cost-effective way to campaign! This stuff makes the news. The voters won't connect the dots, would they?
Silly us, why would we think that in our capitalist system, maybe private enterprise might take a stab at solving its own probems, you know like that tiny little auto company - Ford - did when it refused federal bailout money. Good for Ford and the profits it acheived the old fashioned way. FOMO earned it with good, reliable products.
Don't you think private industry might want to at least try to sort out its own challenges without the D.C. Let's Pass a Bill Brigade storming in?
Fifty years ago, it was common for a legislator from anywhere in Norman Rockwell America to solve a problem by calling for "legislation" to get a quick fix in the local news headlines for a few days when the local press scambled to get some reaction from somewhere -- their grandmothers or bowling buddies, for example.
It certainly worked here this week with a local newspaper hammering out reaction to the incumbent's mortgage moratorium call. Excuse me, how about a summary of the main issues of concern to both candidates and of interest to the local voters now that we are so close to the election? (Let's see how the newspaper does this time around -- last week it did an article about Water's Ethics Trial, 1,100 words about her, 126 from me, as a local resident. And in the four comments that were attributed to me, only two were wrong. But I digress.)
Pork-barrel funds, when there is money to provide for them in the federal till, are a traditional part of American legislative action -- from both Democrats and Republicans. But in this deep lingering stuck-in-the-mud recession, you should have measured twice and cut once Maxine Waters.
Let's be blunt about the economy in Los Angeles. In the early 1990s, the recession then was more severe here than in any other area of the country. Even the L.A. Times called it a "pocket depression".
So with unemployment now at 12.5% locally and challenges factoring in underemployment and people either giving up looking for work or taken off the unemployment roster taking the "financially screwed-up factor" to at least 25%, we are in a pocket depression.
So for those of you entering a thought about voting for the incumbent, and carring over the percentage theme -- are you shooting for 100% hopelessness?
Maxine Waters, in her recent mailing to voters in the district, proclaimed proudly how she voted for over one trillion in new federal spending. Of course she is doing well financially, very well when you consider she is moving to a West L.A. mansion priced at $1.8 millon on a salary of $178,000 per year with allegations of financial gain from other sources swirling like the breeze at the onset of a twister.
Nice gig!
But now the quote dujour is "It is what it is" and I guess nothing will change for her until she is defeated November 2nd and do everything she and the liberal legislative legionnaires can do to cram a bunch of bills down our throats in the Fall session without Republican opposition since the Dems have the majoity votes.
Card checks anyone?
But come on now, fiscally conservative Republicans like Bruce Brown know that the biggest single nuke blast to the successful continuation of the America we all know and love is a debt debacle that will send us financially off a cliff.
That means America will be bankrupt, the leader of the Free World.
As Conservative Thought Leader Newt Gringrich puts it in his DVD now on sale, America is being attacked from within. The economic plague must be cured, beginning now,now,now.
When Bruce Brown sends announcements back home as a Congressman, sure, important things will be funded, if absolutely necessary in tight times. But he would rather report back that we are climbing up and out of the federal debt dumpster and getting emergency incentives to businesses to take away the Obama-Democrat Congress cloud of socialist uncertainty.
I say socialist because that card is on the table for all to see. But there's a smoking gun in the 35th CD. Check out the Internet to see whose name appears concerning a 2007 convention of another far, far, far left group I will leave unnamed.
This one is where you do the research (it's easy actually) and call 50 of your best friends quickly before the election, and they tell 50, who then tell 50 - you know the drill.
Oh, by the way, since we are talking about the debt. If your family just added a little baby to the household, he or she is now in debt to the tune of about $35,000, and that is in today's dollars.
Way to go B.O., Reid, Pelosi, Waters, Dodd, Franks and the rest of you spending money like drunken sailors during the first three hours on furlough after being at sea for a few months! We will pay, our babies will pay, our teens will pay, our young adults will pay, on and on and on and on.
So start the stop with a vote for Bruce November 2nd. Again, this is the most important Congressional election we will see in our lifetime.
Glenn Beck says we are all a part of a very important time in American History and we should all write down our thoughts, our concerns and our actions to tell future generations.
Vote for what is right this time around. Others in other districts around the country have the power to move our country in the bst direction so you are not alone in your thoughts.
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