New Year, New Look, New Blog, Same ole Beliefs (Even worse tax system)

Finally, I have taken the time to write a new blog.  It has been about six months since I rambled on about my political beliefs and the state of our current political situation.  Of all the times to take a sabbatical, I chose the second half of Obama’s first year of being President.  Man the things that I have missed and could have ranted on.  However, for those of you that are my friends on Facebook, you know that I haven’t stopped trying to change the minds of people I know.  I have been in many back and forth debates with some friendly and some not so friendly people.  Two that stick out the most would be James Johnson and Jeff Geurin.  One of the hottest debated topics would be healthcare.  I have even had a friend or two remove me from their friend list.

A couple of days ago I put out a call to all my Facebook friends inquiring on what they would like for me to write about to kickoff my blog for 2010.  As you can imagine I received a ton of ideas via my status update as well as email.  I should have topics to last me for a few weeks.  One last thing before I get going on the main message of this blog, I have put out the call for guest writers.  I had guest writer and have a new one, whom usually has opposing views, lined up.  I would like to see more.  Many of you disagree with me and want a place to voice your opinion.  Here you go.  There are many more of you who agree with me but have a different idea of how to reach the same outcome.  Here you go.  All of you are invited, just send me an email, keith@lequalsc.com, and we can talk.

I was ready to start out this blog writing about the FairTax and had all of my points laid out when I ran across this story yesterday.  The headline reads “Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor.” I laid out this challenge to my Facebook friends, “Will this story get the coverage of Bush and Halliburton?”  So far, this can only be found in one location, FoxNews.  You know that channel the left love to demonize.  As I sit here and write I can not imagine the reasons behind not covering a story that was so prevalent during the time Bush was President.

The time of open and honest government was supposed to arrive in Washington D.C. on January 20, 2009.  However, as each day goes by we know that is an obvious lie.  This is one of those situations.  The situation is $25 million will be given out to a company of a Democratic donor.  In this time of billion dollar bailouts and trillion dollar deficits, $25 million sounds like chump change. Let me think of a few ways I could use that money….

• I could make a salary of $100,000 for 250 years or $1 million for 25 years.
• I could send 208 kids to a $10,000 a year private school for all 12 years or 2,500 kids for one year.
• I could pay for 480 people to attend Harvard for one year or 120 for four years.  That’s at $52,000 a year.  Imagine the amount of people who could go to a community college or a state university.

I wonder how much money they could have saved if they would have just bid out the job.

I am not going to beat a dead horse on why the other cable news channels as well as the network news channels won’t cover these types of stories.  It is been fairly obvious for a while now.  I just see it as another in a long line of lies and broken pledges.  Obama made the pledge of “no more no-bid contracts” in his speech to Congress on Feb. 24, 2009 but less than a year after that speech he has already gone the other direction.  I know his handlers and the other people of the left will try and say he “misspoke” or that he meant something different.  A common tactic of any politician and a reason we need to replace all of them.

Until next time.