My Opinion on the US AA+ Grade for an Oz. of Gold (My 2 cents is Worthless)

The United States has lost its sterling credit rating.

Credit rating agency Standard & Poor's on Friday lowered the nation's AAA rating for the first time since granting it in 1917.The move came less than a week after a gridlocked Congress finally agreed to spending cuts that would reduce the debt by more than $2 trillion --"

too little; too late..

So why didn't anyone see this coming....Well, let's see...

To begin, I remember when the stock market lost over 500 points in 2008 and all 3 Credit Agencies: Moody's Investor Service Fitch, and Standard and Poor's were in bed with Wall Street and the Government. The Credit Agencies looked the other way while spending was clearly out of control and unlawful. They lost their own creditability that year. 
The Federal government prosecuted no one responsible for losing American citizen's life savings and homes due to corruptive practices. Some of the bedfellows, such as the credit agencies, got out of bed with their co-conspirtors, to do their job. 
S & P's maybe, trying to do the right thing by correcting a financially irresponsible government  who is still sleeping with the same ones who created the financially mess.

I don't think it takes an Einstein to figure out 2.4 trillion in cuts in 10 years with 7 trillion added to the debt, in the making, is fuzzy math gone wild.
The first American president in history to have a AAA credit rating downgraded to a AA+. Although with a little help from the Congress and past presidents who helped get us there; and most recently, the Obama Administration and Congress who helped KEEP us here.

Although, this over spending has been going on for years, the Federal government has only once used a balance budget agenda to get spending under control.  It was during the Clinton Administration with a Republican Congress. http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6107 
Some historians give the credit for balancing the budget during the Clinton years to the Reagan era, for ending the Cold War with Russia, when it fell during the 80's.  This action alone cut the deficit in the 90's because of less Defense spending; and the Clinton Administration with a Republican congress did nothing to jeopardize the economy, creating a surplus. They managed the balancing of the budget and they increased taxes by 40 percent. YIKES!!! 

That's probably when major loopholes were created. What do you think?

I, vividly, remember cursing the IRS every April during the Clinton years, although I voted for him.  I must like, shooting myself in the foot.

The Federal government has never allowed itself to be controlled by a "balanced budget amendment," although all the States have to balance their budget by law.  Now it's time to control the Federal government for they can't control themselves.  A higher authority has to step in to stop the bleeding.

Just this week I heard everyone complaining that the Tea party voters were holding Congress and the President hostage until they got what they wanted. The Left was blaming the Tea party and spinning their story to the media creating a negative public opinion of the Tea party who wanted a balanced budget amendment. 
Then S & P's report stated in it's downgrade, just that remedy:  A balanced budget amendment with more than 4 trillion in cuts to the deficit to bring up the credit score of the United States. 

I was shocked that our government felt it could pass a bill with only 2.4 trillion cuts in 10 years while adding another 7 trillion to the deficit at the same time, while raising the debt ceiling. 

Right now Obama is leading the country into socialistic debt. Debt that has accumulated under his watch. A debt that exceeds the total of all previous presidential debts. 

I heard the former Mexican president say that the debt growth during "the Bush years, was in the 'billions'
..now it's in the "trillions!"...within the last 2 years.

I believe one real reason S & P's downgraded America's credit rating was because of President Obama repeating, from his weekly pulpit, that the deficit is so bad there will be no checks for granny, no checks for the military...we will default... as President of the United States...have no control over who gets paid first or second....the sky is falling ...

I think S & P's took Obama at his word... the sky is falling.

"Thank you, Mr. President. So tell me. Do you think that your comments, as leader of the country, will give America Confidence and a feeling of Security, especially when you are mimicking "Chicken Little?"

Of course, we expect the Obama administration to attack Standard and Poor's for their rating because that is what they do best: blame and attack those with ideas, instead of fixing the problems. Why? Because they are clueless as to how to fix the problem. The next time you listen to the president, remember it's not a "chicken in every pot" speech because he doesn't know how to raise chickens, much less, kill them and put them in your pot. 
Remember his "shovel ready jobs?" He said a year later that he didn't know what he was talking about when the "shovel ready jobs did not materialize after the big stimulus payout went no where. 

In fact, the best thing he could have done for the country would have been to give every household the stimulus money in Cold cash so they could stimulate the economy directly.
 What would that be per household:  311,929,898 million people in the USA as of August 6, 2010 dividing a $800,000,000,000 billion ( 2010) stimulus package among themselves. http://projects.propublica.org/tables/stimulus-spending-progress  

A family could start several hundred companies on their own with that kind of stimulus money; when Obama was still holding up the shovels. 

When we call the President of the United States a  "Leader"; what does that mean to Obama?  

As one Washington Post viewer notes:

Washington Post Politcs 

righthook38

7/26/2011 6:26:09 AM PDT

 "Obama is not a reasonable, fair and rational man. That's just how he appears. He tries to act cool, calm and collected, and acts like he's above the political fray. However, the fact is that he is as partisan as the rest of them, and maybe even more so. He purposely stays out of these"... (Legislative decisions).... but.... "if they're not resolved....., then he "steps in to fix the problem", acting like they can't do it without him. He's caused the nation to be more divided than ever..." with his partisan accusations when he doesn't get his way "...Pay attention to what's really going on here...."

 The Emperor has no clothes ...  and there is no money in the national coffer. 

Going into Combat

So it's a tiny war, but war is war and someone has to die. 

I have tried to understand the ant life's habits, if you can call it a life.

I see that ants are good for cleaning up dead things when I see them swarming around a "dead thing."

I have been observing them, much like an anthropologist; except, I haven't been to their colony.

But once I am dead, I am sure they will find a way to get me there.  

I don't mind seeing them around the perimeter of the yard, but I draw their last scented path when they come 

through the drain pipes and under the floor boards. 

I wonder if the ants get their tracking skills from the Indians since they, also, send out scouts. 

Obviously they didn't, since the Indians scout for danger and the ants follow the same scented trail as the first dead ant.

They are expendable, on a suicide mission, unbeknownst to them.

Didn't their mother tell them that when they find a dead relative on the path, it's a warning: Danger in the area? 

How can ants survive through evolution if they haven't learned a thing from their ancestors?

Or maybe, they don't have ancestors. They are all reincarnated humans. 

I generally kill the scout, first, and erase the scented path, knowing that if I don't; another ant who never learned his

lesson, from his previous life, will be coming along any minute.

I can see the ant's tiny brain at work when they come across a dead ant or sense danger.

They start running in different directions; hesitating, retreating every second. 

Probably screaming, " Get Off the trail... get Off the trail.. get Off the trail...

I'm off the trail...

I'm safe..I'm safe...Yippee! 

Splat! 

My husband has vacuumed them up, but that didn't last long.

I have tried using deterrents such as cinnamon, flour, pepper, soap, citrus oils to get rid of ants. 

Unfortunately, these organic substances create a lasting mess until I clean them up.

That's another good thing about ants. I tend to clean more, in places that I

didn't know were places. 

I ,also, start to scout, looking for the path of invasion along the perimeter of my house. 

I usual find some paths and put out Grant stakes. 

Grant stakes placed in the house, tend to freak out people, because it "attracts" ants. 

The flavored arsenic in the stakes brings out the entire colony to feast. So don't be

surprised if your one ant turns into a few hundred ants in minutes. The arsenic doesn't kill 

the ant immediately and gives the ant time to travel back to the colony to spread the poison.

The next day all the ants are gone and so is that 'one' colony among the hundreds 

of colonies around my house.

Every time I pick up a Grant stake or spray poison around an area, I can feel the poison 

contaminating my own body too; if not then, later, because it lingers.

We once had an exterminator, but I was tired of saturating the yard with poisons. The other day,

I saw our neighbor's exterminator spraying their yard when the dogs were outside. I saw the fine

mist of poison balloon into a large cloud in the air and I thought, "We are all going to die."

In the end, I think the ant will out live us all. Maybe, they are reincarnations of us and that is why they still

exist because I have yet to see any evolutionary improvement in their survival skills.

And then again, they are not smart enough to create poisons or weapons of mass destruction, to kill themselves, like we are. 

Personal Health- Mutating into A National Debt

It's time to blog about something other than the National Debt. I am sure everyone is sick of watching the political news. I only watch the fluctuating delusional stock market because that is the REAL indicator of how well off I will be in the future; never mind, the Political party policies that trumps reality. Reality being that they are spending beyond their credit limit; and their policy of wanting to tax the rich so all of their spending problems will go away.
Hey, isn't that what our generation is doing for our children.
We are so afraid that our children will suffer and obviously, our government, if we don't give them the money.

We want our children and our country to prosper. Our children to have a better life than we had financially.
Where am I going with this line of thought? Must be my guardian angel writing through me as I have no clue where it will lead.
I am always going off about life being a "paradox." Here comes another one.
My generation of baby boomers, saved and seldom spent more than we made. 

We didn't start out with credit cards. We paid cash. I mean paper currency.
We could not qualify for a credit card unless we could show we were in debt and making regular payments on a mortgage or car loan.
Paying cash for everything and being debt free was no indicator of how reliable we would be in paying our creditors.

Now flash forward to the future where financial debt trumps the health of our children and the planet.
Financially speaking, never mind the health of our children, with all the processed fast food restaurants, abundance
of available drugs and alcohol; and all the manufactured toxins we generate to kill anything flying in the air or crawling on the ground.
Why stop with the health of our children, let's kill the planet too.
Don't forget the genetically engineered seeds that strip mankind of nature's original food source.
Do you think we will, one day, be genetically engineered to eat plastic apples?

Since the credit card revolution, everyone has learned that being in debt is O.K. Lets raise the Credit Limit to show just how reliable we are and show those Europeans. Not only can we show them how much debt we can accumulate as a nation, but we can show them just  how reliable  we are becoming by making sure that not only the entire country is in debt, but every household, by stifling job creation in America through bad governmental policies.
 

Anything Bad, is possible, if you don't put a STOP to it.
No jobs, No revenue: More Debt.
Our children and grandchildren will be in too much debt due to the mismanagement of government.
They will have to "outsource" themselves to Dubai, so they can afford to live in America.

Do you think our children will be genetically engineered to be in two places at once?  Coloning?
Will the government have to resort to a Matrix world when the last tax dollar is spent, squeezing out that last drop of energy from our children's body?

I don't want you getting depress listening to my guardian angel's vision of America.  I don't want to think about it either, but the livelihood of our children just went down today.  August 2, 2011.
...."The Dow closed down about 266 points..... 'Now that we have solved the debt ceiling issue,...."
(so tell me, which one is delusional: the stock market or the government's debt solution?)
".....the market has moved on to the other data,...."
(obviously, the real data) ...."which has taken a significant turn for the worse,' said Ryan Detrick, senior technical strategist with Schaeffer's Investment Research......
The Dow also finished below the psychologically important 12,000-point mark.

Did I say I wasn't going to talk about the National Debt?
It just seems, as if, I was talking about it.  I was really talking about the health and well being of our children by how well they will mutate into the financial structure of the government.
 

Life would be full of paradoxes, if it existed.