The Mid East is in flames, as some unknown person managed to do a You-Tube spiel on the Prophet Muhammad. I haven’t seen it and don’t want to view it. It is not the product of Hollywood, and I understand that You Tube has even removed it from their web site. An amateur 5 minute (?) film by someone, which has caused arson, killing, and outrage in Libya, Egypt, and now Yemen. The point of this is not the film, but what something like this can do to adherents of a religion. That amateur film acted like a spark, which set off a truckload of dynamite. There have been thousands of anti-Christ, anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, films made in the last hundred years, and they caused no pillaging, arson, and murder.
Why then, does the United States of America, send even a farthing of foreign aid to anyone, and Muslim nations in particular? Egypt gets a billion and a half US dollars every year in foreign aid, and they burned our embassy. Why should Egypt get a penny from us? Libya gets a bundle, and they just killed Chris Stevens, our ambassador, plus several others, and burned the embassy. Obama participated in the overthrow of Libya, and it now has no government at all, with the various factions are fighting each other. Why? Why did we spend hundreds of millions helping to overthrow a nation?
South and central Asia gets over $3.3 billion in foreign aid, and what for? Bangladesh gets $84 million, and Russia gets $69 million, or probably a lot more. Kenya gets $437 million, but of course, that’s the birthplace of a famous person, so that’s OK, I am supposed to believe. Indonesia gets $159 million, and Columbia, the birthplace of most of the cocaine smuggled into the US, gets $561 million. Get rid of all foreign aid!
We’re broke and threatened with a second credit downgrade, while the Federal Reserve readies the presses for another dollar printing spree. (The stupid stock market thinks this is wonderful, which totally mystifies me!) All the while, we give away hundreds of billions a year to everyone it seems, and for what? For nothing. The Obamas spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on vast, lush vacations, while the President never misses a golf possibility, and campaigns on Air Force One at hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour of flight time… on our nickel. Mitt has to pay for his own planes, while we pay for Obama’s?
I’m just so damned angry at what’s happened to once glorious America, since FDR, LBJ, George Bush, and now Obama. Is there no end of this rotten mess which emulates from D.C. All the welfare, food stamps, Medicare, Social Security, and myriads of handouts, all emanated from Congress and a President who signed off on them, or maybe he didn’t sign, and some worm of a bureaucrat did it on his own. Maybe I should stop reading expose’ books, except they’re true. All we can do is protect ourselves, and like I said in the last column, 99% are so stupid that they won’t even do that. Can’t fix stupid, but now we have a hope in the Tea Party Express (8795 Folsom Blvd, Suite 103, Sacramento, CA 95828). Send them a hundred bucks. It may help to save us. You spend thousands on gold and silver protection, why not a hundred bucks to control the Senate and keep the House? I just sent them another $100.
Chicago teachers get $400 a day, and strike because they don’t want their ability and success, or lack of it discovered. That’s six times the amount per day a McDonald’s worker gets, and his or her work is examined by a supervisor, to be sure they perform well. A teacher can’t be expected to perform well, or they strike? Teachers’ unions have virtually destroyed public education, which shouldn’t be ’public’ at all. It’s no wonder that home schooling is booming, plus ’charter schools’ being built by the hundreds. Sidwell Friends private school in Washington D.C., with a tuition I hear, of $28,000 a year, is not unionized, and teachers are not ’certified;’ at least they weren’t when I went there, but boy could they teach, and did we learn! Nothing ’public’ is worth the powder to blow it there, including education, rest rooms, and transportation, to name a couple.
Looks like gold is building a firm base at $1700, and silver at $33, from which to move up. If interest rates continue to be at virtual zero, it is pointless to keep money in a bank, and Money Markets are not insured by anyone or anything. Gold and silver need no insurance or guarantees, as anything with intrinsic value needs no guarantees of its worth. Gold and silver have been actual money for thousands of years, and in all civilizations. When paper currencies die, as they always have and will, governments will invent a new one, but gold and silver will always be redeemable in any paper currency. If times get bad enough, and paper money continues to fizzle, gold and silver will be so much in demand, that you’ll be able to sell them on street corners. I wouldn’t sell mine, because it’s true value, and can’t be printed.