BEAUTIFUL DAY IN TEXAS

Spring seems to be coming to central Texas. We have a couple days in the 70s, thunderstorms and warm sun. I continue to check off boxes to complete my in-processing. By this time, next week will have everything done. Once my new orders come in, they will be ready to start my out-processing into the Orlando CBWTU. They are telling me that then once Orlando accepts me; I will go there, spend about a week in-processing then go home for surgery and recovery. Anything I have said sound redundant, overkill?

They put another Soldier in my housing area yesterday. There are three sleeping rooms with a common area with bathroom, vanity and kitchen. Seems like a nice person, will see how it goes.

Washington DC continues to ignore the people and march to their own drum. Here are the latest Rasmussen polls.

• Daily presidential tracking -21, 22% strongly approve, 42% strongly disapprove Of his job performance
• 53% oppose to health care plan
• 57% predict the health care plan will hurt the economy

The health care bill continues to be a huge government takes over of our country. They continue to use the same over 2000 page albatross, adding a little vague language to try to show they included the Republicans. The Democrats want to run every part of our lives; this is one case showing that. Of my three representatives in Washington, two are Republican Rep. Mica, Senator LeMieux and one Democrat Senator Nelson. Rep. Mica is committed to not letting this bill go through; Senator LeMieux at this point is committed also. Senator Nelson continues to spew the Democratic talking points. I do not believe he is listening to his constituents, that he is hearing to vote for it.

I have sent numerous emails to all three about the health care bill, jobs bill, climate change bill, and the stimulus bill. Rep. Mica and Senator LeMieux continue to give me responses stating they do not support these bills and why, and vote that way. Senator Nelson replies with bragging on what he is doing and the Democratic talking points, never giving straight answers to my questions and requests. He continues to vote party lines.

All I request is to stop deficit spending, pay for what you spend, decrease government, and stop earmarks (pork, bribes). Senator Nelson has a bribe in the health care bill. I am really watching the jobs bill today; it is reported to add over 100 billion to the debt. I want to help the jobless and do not mind, but just pay for it! I will support any of my representatives 110% if they would just be responsible, stop debt spending and listen to us! In addition, I have told them that.

I believe we have let Washington take control of us. We have let them concentrate on their re-elections and not represent us. They, both parties, put earmarks in bills to put money in their states, which is good, but only goes to buy votes. They hide unpopular bills in bigger bills to get their way against the people’s wishes.

Two things we could do to stop most of this, term limits and line item veto for the President. However, both of these will be hard to do because it upsets their gravy train. We have too many lawyers, attorneys and others that have never run a business where they have to operate under the laws we do or make a profit. The President keeps attacking the Health Insurance Companies about making record profits, raising their rates just to make money. According to Yahoo Finance August of 2009 hospitals have a profit margin of 3.6% and healthcare plans 3.3% ranking them in the 80 of the top 100 industries. Brewers make 25.9%, software companies 22.7% and Cigarettes 17.4% just to name a few of the top industries. So do those terrible criminal Insurance companies sound so bad? This shows that Washington knows nothing about running a business and distorts facts to push their agenda. In addition, the worst part, the main news media does not report the distorted facts because they are in bed with the Democrats.

Lets look at some more facts, what did the President promise to do when he became President.

• He would not sign any bills with earmarks. That did not last.
• He would not have lobbyist in his White House again that did not last.
• The health care bill debate would be on C-Span.
• He would reach across the isle to the Republicans that has not happened. The President and Democrats kept the Republicans out of any development of bills until they lost the super majority with Brown elected to the Massachusetts Senate seat when Kennedy died. Then all of a sudden, President wants to meet and talk with Republicans.
• He would not raise any kind of tax on the middle class, what are Cap and Trade and Health Care going to do. Any taxes raised on corporations will be passed onto the consumer, middle, the lower class and us.

These are facts, the promises can be viewed in his own words on you tube. Now for a little opinion, if ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, AP, and the other news media had not been in bed with President Obama’s campaign and reported his background, beliefs and history as a state and federal representative he may not have been elected president. Those main street media just let him say anything he wanted, did no fact checking or research like they do for other candidates. They forced Senator McCain to verify his citizenship, but not Obama. He was probably born in Hawaii, but we do not know because he has never released his original birth certificate and has spent millions of dollars to keep it hidden. If there is nothing to hide, why not release it, it may not be that he was born elsewhere, but something is not right and he wants hidden. Where is the transparency, another thing he promised?

Let me know what you think.

Randy