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Tuesday, 04 November 2008

  • Screwed

    Now I am preparing to pay more in taxes because my husband and I work harder. I am preparing to watch as the world around us builds its nuclear arms and defenses while we cut back on our own military protection. I am preparing to see my business regulated to the point that the goverment should just run it on its own. I am preparing to watch my husband buy a gun before his constitutional rights are restricted.

    Thanks a lot sheeple.

  • I voted.

    I voted and so should you.  Unless you're voting Obama, then just stay home.

Sunday, 02 November 2008

  • Maria Bartiromo: Money Honey and McCain

    If you watch any CNBC at all you know about the Money Honeys, the first and most awesome of all, Maria Bartiromo.  Here is a recent interview by Bartiromo, for Businessweek my favorite business publication, with McCain alongside Palin.

    McCain and Palin Take Their Last, Best Shots

    "I'm disappointed that Paulson has not put first emphasis on buying these mortgages and keeping people in their homes"

    By Maria Bartiromo


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    Candidates John McCain and Sarah Palin in Hershey, PA in October Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

    With just days to go before the end of the most historic and electrifying Presidential election in generations, I caught up with Senator John McCain and running mate Governor Sarah Palin in Pennsylvania, a fiercely contested battleground state. McCain was in good spirits as we met in Hershey for an interview for CNBC and BusinessWeek. He was early, and while we waited for Palin, he quipped: "Do we have a GPS on Sarah?"

    MARIA BARTIROMO

    Why should the American people believe the two of you can get us out of this crisis?

    SENATOR JOHN McCAIN

    Frankly, the Administration is not doing what I think they should do, and that's buy up these bad mortgages, give people mortgages they can afford, stabilize home values. They did that during the Depression. It was called the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.

    With oil around $60 a barrel, is it still as important to become energy independent?

    GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN

    Now is our opportunity to seize this [moment] and invest in domestic solutions. We cannot lull ourselves into a false sense of security just because oil today is 64 bucks.

    SENATOR McCAIN

    Look who we're dependent on. It's a matter of national security. And by the way, nuclear power, which I'm a big proponent of, reduces greenhouse gas emissions dramatically. It's not the only answer, but building 45 nuclear power plants would create 700,000 jobs.

    You want to keep taxes low, but we're spending $10 billion a month on the war in Iraq. Why not raise taxes to pay for it?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    Because we study history. If you practice protectionism and isolationism at the same time you raise taxes, you send an economy from a recession into a depression. That's history. The guy's name was Herbert Hoover. This is the worst time to raise anyone's taxes. [But Senator Obama] wants to, quote, "spread the wealth around."

    What is wrong with the redistribution of wealth, which Obama talked about as far back as a 2001 interview?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    That is a bold, left-wing view of how you help people that's been tried in other countries. In America, you don't take money from one group and give it to another. You create jobs, create opportunities, and give people the ability to accumulate wealth. We have Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance. But to somehow say that when "Joe the Plumber" reaches a certain income level, we're going to take money from him and give it to somebody else, that's a fundamental contradiction of what made this country the strongest and greatest nation in the world.

    GOVERNOR PALIN

    We can be compassionate and generous with others without government mandating where our dollars go.

    What about a minimum wage increase?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    As long as we take care of small business, too. Small business owners say: You increase the minimum wage, I lay off workers. Is that what we want to do right now? Of course not.

    Why isn't labor's drive to abolish the secret ballot in union elections a major issue on your agenda?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    Unfortunately, there are [only] three or four issues you can get out strongly. But this is a threat to the fundamentals of labor-management relations…and democracy. The union organizer goes to your house and says: "Hey, Joe, can I sign you up for the union?" We all know what that opens the door to. It's dangerous for America…and small business.

    Would you veto such a bill?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    In a New York minute.

    Would you ask Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to stay on, at least temporarily?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    I'm disappointed that Secretary Paulson has not put first emphasis on buying these home mortgages and keeping people in their homes. I certainly would have somebody who'd give that our highest priority.

    The Treasury is investing in banks and now owns 80% of AIG. How worried are you about this path toward nationalization?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    I'm very worried about it. I know these are extraordinary times, but I want us out of the banking business as quickly as possible.

    Don't the American people have the right to know who will be in your Cabinet? Who's going to be Treasury Secretary? Commerce Secretary? Secretary of Defense?

    SENATOR McCAIN

    Well, [Defense Secretary Robert] Gates has done a fabulous job. [Former eBay (EBAY) CEO] Meg Whitman is one of my most trusted advisers. Jack Welch is a great guy. I have the utmost trust and confidence in [Senator] Joe Lieberman. There are a lot of really smart people I'm proud to have around me—the kind of people you appoint who inspire trust and confidence. That's our first priority.

    Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of CNBC's Closing Bell.

    Something about an economically sound outlaid plan really gets my VOTE.

Friday, 31 October 2008

  • Thought Provoking YouTube videos?!

    Hello ya'll from the newly married (ok, it's been almost a month) Mrs. N!  We got married on October 4, 2008.  It was awesome.  Maybe you'll see videos later.  Went to Oahu for our honeymoon.  It was dope. I've started marathon training again.  Hubby's ACL surgery is scheduled for December. We're going as Steve Zissou (him) and Alistair Hennessey (me) for Halloween.  Now we're looking for a way to do some last minute volunteering for the McCain/Palin campaign.  That's my update. 

    Here are some through provoking videos I found on YouTube.  The first is American Contrarian, a two part series:




    Next is a show of increased support in my generation over voters recently for the McCain/Palin campaign as a result of more information coming out about Obama.


    I'm curious to know, where does everyone fall?
    1. Liberal/Conservative?
    2. How you rate yourself in terms of Patriotism and Nationalism. Scale of 1-5. 5 being most, 1 being least.
    3. Who are you voting for? What are the 3 main reasons?

    1. I consider myself a fiscal conservative but a moderate social liberal.  I support Gay Marriage, Stem Cell Research, Pro-Choice legislation.  But I also support the idea that the only way to stimulate the economy is to allow small businesses and corporations to grow, provide jobs and benefits to their employees and put more money on the street.  I believe that above all of our rights, we should be worried for our safety as a nation.  I believe that the US has an obligations to its citizens to make its national and international decisions based on what is best miltiarily and economically for the preservation of the nation. 

    2. The difference between patriotism and nationalist is that the Patriot is proud of the country for what it does and the Nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does.  I am a 5 on the Patriot scale.  I am a 3 on the Nationalist scale.

    3.  I am voting for the McCain/Palin ticket. My first reason is the Lexington Project that will lower energy costs and provide over 700,000 nationwide. My second reason is lower taxes.  For Mr. N and I, we'll save under McCain's tax plan.  Also, lower estate taxes (who wants to have to pay money to the government for their inheritance when the people leaving it to us ALREADY paid income and capital gains tax on it?), fixed capital gains and dividends tax at 15% and an income tax rate not to exceed 35% on the highest income bracket. My last and most important reason is that McCain understands we need to export more in order to stimulate the economy and as a result supports lowering barriers to trade through increase free trade agreements. 

Thursday, 04 September 2008

  • They're Picking Sides

    Yesterday my friend and I were having a talk about Palin.  She's a Hilary supporter who doesn't much care for Obama but thinks the Republican party shot themselves in the foot by picking up Palin.  (More on this later).  She told me that Palin is going to alienate the moderate vote because she's so socially conservative and that the moderate vote is where the election is really decided.

    I disagreed.  I believe that the Moderates don't usually even get out there too vote, almost too apathetic about the big ticket issues to make a decision on the lesser of two evils.  Though Palin probably seemed like she would alienate moderates, however, moderates like McCain.  He had to pick up Palin because he had alienated most of the far Right with his socially leaning liberal views. Moderates also like minorities and women being elected.  I digress.

    Though I don't believe Moderates hold the vote, Independents do.  Independents like Libertarians and those who just don't want to pick a major party, like most of the State of Alaska.  Oh wait, Palin got elected there.  Interesting.

    So where are the Libertarians going to check in the polls?  Larry "The Libertarian" Elder came out on CNN today and stated quite clearly he's backing McCain.  Oh, what's that sound I hear?  Is it the independent swing vote headed towards the Right?  It might just be.

    Elder went on to state that he made his decision based on the fact that he's an American.  Standing as a Libertarian you might just consider him bipartisan, like me, he calls himself a Fiscal Conservative and a Social Liberal.  We're part of the group that wants the best of both worlds and just has to decide who is going to do the overall best job for the country.  He stated that he supports McCain on a number of issues and thinks it's ridiculous to want to tax the Class that provides the jobs and opportunities to all the other classes.  Senor Elder, I couldn't agree more.

    Plus, I caught up on @sleepyguy007 post on who would be taxes more under what candidate and Obama's administration would cost FI and I more in taxes than McCain's.  And we're not even balling out of control!

    Anyway, the current debate on whether or not independents are going to pick Conservative with Palin on the ticket remains to be seen.  I'll leave you with a poll result from after Palin's speech yesterday though (yes, that is post babygate)

    "Among Independents who watched Palin’s speech, respondents who reported they will “probably” or “definitely” vote for McCain increased by 10 percent across both genders -- around 38 percent for females and 36 percent for males."