Unemployment Benefits...

In a recent article in the Houston Chronicle, Andrew Taylor wrote about the extension of unemployment benefits that is being pushed by the Democrats. His intended audience is probably a Democratic reader and people who are currently unemployed. His argues that that the Democrats are scoring political points because the Republicans have opposed this bill so many times. President Obama and his Democratic allies are blaming Republicans for this mess and stated that “The same people who didn't have any problem spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans are now saying we shouldn't offer relief to middle-class Americans". In the article,Taylor notes that “2.5 million people will receive jobless benefits retroactively, injecting almost $3 billion into the economy once they're paid out”. I am not sure how factual this statement actually is because it seems very far-fetched for this to actually happen.
On the defense for why Republicans are opposing this bills, Republican Senator Orrin Hatch stated that, "What the president isn't telling the American people is that many of us in the Senate are fighting to make sure our children and grandchildren aren't buried under a mountain of debt". Although many people can’t help that they are unemployed or that they were laid off, but at the same time, why should the government be spending money on supporting these people when our economy is already in a deep enough hole? Shouldn’t we try and fix our debt before we start handing out cash to people?

Dennis Prager, a nationally syndicated radio talk sow host and columnist, writes in a recent blog about why the Leftists hate Conservatives. Prager argues that there are three possible reasons for why the Left has always hated people of the right. His first reason is that the “Left thinks the Right is evil”, basically saying that Democrats think Conservatives don’t have a conscious. His second reason is that “when you don’t confront real evil, you hate those who do”, and uses the example of the liberal world being enraged at President Ronald Regan when he declared that the Soviet Union was an “evil empire”. And finally his third reason is that the “Left’s utopian vision is prevented only by the Right”.

I find this article to be very true, because it seems as though in our society today, even the media leans to the Left. How is there justice in that? To be fair, there is hatred on both sides, but it seems like there is a much more obvious hatred on the Left side.

In conclusion, Prager leaves his reader with this statement… “Hatred of conservatives is so much a part of the Left that the day the Left stops hating conservatives will mark the beginning of the end of the Left as we know it.”

Doing the right thing?

In a recent article in the Houston Chronicle, written by an unknown author, the argument being made is that Obama’s approval rating is taking a beating because he is doing the right thing and the Republican party has been saying no to everything he has tried to do. In a recent Gallup poll, only 44% of the American public approve of our president’s performance. Republicans oppose this new $34 million dollar unemployment benefits extension because they say that we cannot afford it, but President Obama came back saying that Republicans policies turned, "a record surplus into a massive deficit, including a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans," and that Republicans have "finally decided to make their stand on the backs of the unemployed."

As far as the approval ratings go, I think in this article runs very thin on logic. He or she hasn’t given any evidence to show why Obama’s approval rating is going down, all he or she says is that the Republicans are opposing him at every turn, but this doesn’t tell us why his approval rating is going down. What’s the connection to the Republicans saying no and his approval ratings going down? Logic would say that his approval ratings should be going up, but there no logic given as to why they are going down… just conclusions are drawn.

This unknown author tells us to give President Obama a break and cut him some slack because he is doing this for the good of America, not for the approval ratings. Personally, I think that the reason the Republicans are constantly saying no is because they are trying to save the future of this country from a mountain of debt.

Just another nail in the coffin

In a recent article on Rand Paul’s website for his campaign in the 2010 US Senate election, he talks about the proposed “Death Tax” and how his opponent Jack Conway joins President Obama’s quest for implementing this new tax. Paul makes it very clear that he thinks this type of tax is ridiculous and that states that this death tax will unequally hurt famers and small businesses. Personally, I think that this is a HUGE mistake on Jack Conway’s part, because who wants to be taxed for dying… NOBODY! Currently, there is no estate tax in place in our government and that is how it should remain. In the words of Rand Paul himself, “President Obama and Jack Conway are just wrong. We should not be raising taxes on anyone, especially during a recession. And, we shouldn’t be trying to decide what rate the Death Tax should be, we should instead be keeping it where it is – zero.”

First Blog.. EVER!

So this is my first blog.. ever! I have never blogged before, so this is a new and exciting experience for me!

Talk to ya'll soon!