NebraskaPatriot

Ben Nelson STILL In Denial

he is either in a dream world or just so arrogant not to realize what he did . . .

Our fine U.S. Senator Ben Nelson has continued to insult the intelligence of Nebraskans with these complete idiotic television ads he is running that defend his vote for Obamacare and the sale of Nebraska. Nelson has only increased the level of ire with additional recent "explanations" on his vote which hold absolutely no credibility at all.

Now, the Senator has decided that pro-life supporters are just as stupid as Nebraska voters. Yesterday, Mr. Nelson showed up UN-invited to a meeting of pro-life activist in Washington D.C. And according to LifeSiteNews.com, it was tense to say the least. 

It's amazing how history repeats itself. How many times have we seen a politician blame the people instead of looking in the mirror for the cause of his/her problems?

I'm might suggest that Mr. Nelson read John Fund's latest piece in the Wall Street Journal entitled, Scott Brown: People Aren't Stupid.

And so it goes for Mr. Nelson . . .

A Couple Items You May Not Have Seen

The State of Nebraska has once again received the highest rating from the Standard & Poor Credit Rating service of AA+.

• The service cited "little debt and good budgeting practices" and pointed out that Nebraska has been very fortunate in the stewardship members of the Legislature and recent Governors have provided in maintaining a healthy cash reserve and "making budgetary adjustments where needed". The tortoise and hare approach to life has once again proven out during these tough times as we manage conditions while states like Florida, California, Arizona, etc are going through major financial crisis.

That same Standard & Poor Credit Rating Service also reports that state's leading employers:

• State of Nebraska - 18,653
• U.S. Government - 15, 403
• Offutt Air Force Base - 11,137
• Tyson Foods - 11,000
• University of Nebraska, including the Med Center - 10,547
• Wal Mart Stores - 9,755
• Omaha Public Schools - 8.073
• Union Pacific - 7,200
• Alegent Healthcare(largest not-for-profit, faith based healthcare system in Nebraska) - 6,675
• First Data Corp - 6,300

I'm not surprised that 4 out of the top 5 are Govt related. I certainly am not criticizing anyone who works for those entities. This is just a trend that we are seeing across the country where public sector is playing a larger and larger role in providing jobs to our society.

Speaking of jobs, it appears that Grand Island may be adding some in the future in President Obama's "Green jobs" sector.

• The White House announced that TPI Composites has received $5-million in federal funds(translated your tax dollars) to build a plant in Grand Island that will produce next generation wind turbine blades.

 I have no idea what difference "next generation" makes but my real question is whether there is that much of a market for wind energy and if there is such a demand then why is Obama having to use tax payer money to fund a business. Wouldn't you think that a private company would be willing to invest in that business IF it was such a gold mine? Hmmmmmm

Strap On Those Seat Belts

it's tomfoolery . . .

The President can give it his best stern-I'm-pissed-at-the-world tough guy look but the words coming out of his mouth tell us it's the same old liberal, government is the answer to all ills.

On foreign affairs, I don't have enough time to go there because these guys are so far over their heads that it's just best to say that world events are going to carry the day and they will do nothing but react. Proactive is not in their genetics when it comes to fighting terrorism and all those gosh-darn bad old man-made disasters (!), Obama and crew do not want to offend anyone so let's just leave these terribly misunderstood folks alone and bury our heads in the sand.

Domestically, it's spend and spend and spend. It's just in Obama's DNA. The man has never run a business or even really worked in a business whose goal was to MAKE MONEY. His speech should only solidify his place as the most Liberal President in our country's history.

And here, my friends is the tomfoolery. Yes, tomfoolery, which is defined as "foolish behavior, utter nonsense, rubbish"

Yep, that pretty much describes this President's BIG Plan on reducing the exploding deficit. You see President Obama is proposing freezing spending . . . well, ok, freezing spending on domestic spending . . . well, ok, so not really. Here's his plan:

• Mr. Obama raised the baseline of discretionary domestic spending by $115-BILLION since he was sworn into office just one year ago.
• Mr. Obama then increased that spending midway through the '09 fiscal year during the reconciliation-pork laden bill he signed.
• Mr. Obama then increased it again with his 2010 budget.
• Mr. Obama is now calling for a freeze that will save $15-billion for fiscal year 2011

Wow, that's attacking all that out of control spending you folks are doing in Washington. President Obama's so-called freeze will leave in place:

• 24% INCREASE in discretionary, non-security domestic spending AND will exempt from the freeze the $512-BILLION that has yet to be spent from last year's wonderful "Stimulus" bill.
• To present this as some serious attack on out of control spending is an insult to the American people.
• One final figure, the Congressional Budget Office shows that over the first three years of his presidency, Obama will borrow an estimated $3.7 TRILLION and that my friends is more than the entire accumulated national debt for the first 225 years of U.S. history!

So yes, strap on those seat belts because the turbulence in this economy is going to continue to be very bumpy with Mr. Obama as our pilot . . .

Obama Being Obama

arrogance and stupidity on display . . .

If last night didn't finally convince the folks in this country that Obama is a true-blue LIBERAL than I'm not sure what will.

It's very simple. He believes that only Government can create jobs and jobs can only be created if we throw more tax money out to the minions, tax dollars that we don't have.

Bottom line. It was more of the same and after the initial afterglow wears off, it's business as usual in Washington. Greattttttt

Man I feel better. I'm heading downtown to the bank and gettin' me some of that free money that Obama thinks is out there.