America's Problems

Introduction

Below is a discussion on Facebook today about America and its problems, including extensive comments by the blog author.

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[Picture of Obama seated at a desk with this text overlaying it:]

Mr. President, please get out your veto pen. 

Tell the Republicans loudly and clearly that you will veto any and all efforts to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, nutrition programs or anything else that hurts low-income and working families.

If you do that, the American people will stand behind you.

     -- Senator Bernie Sanders (I –Vermont)

 

Edward Binns:  Insincere pablum as usual from the far left. Where were they when we went broke on August 2, 2011? "Posturing." Now the middle class is melting down, and, exclusively in liberal ideology, that is somehow someone else's fault. Junk eructed from Sanders' mouth.

Kenneth Chin:  Don't care at this point Ed, I'm getting reeeeeal tired of people thinking that the fat cats should get bailed out; while everyone else should pay for their sins .......

Edward Binns ;  The gumment ain't helping the middle class. CHeap energy will. Yeah, that will make SOME rich people even richer -- but at least they're not politically connected bankers or incompetent insurance execs as BOTH parties helped in October of 2008......

Angela Carina Barry:  Please, let us know your solution, Edward.

Edward Binns:  Tell the American people we're broke. Sunset Social Security (It's bankrupt). Sunset Medicare (it's REALLY broke). Sunset food stamps in 19 years (one more generation of funny money and that is it). Approve the keystone pipeline (we owe it to our Canadian friends). Do everything possible to drive down energy prices and keep them down. Start closing Federal departments (especially Energy and Homeland Security). Re-impose Glass-Steagall. Forbid derivatives that aren't publically traded. Audit the Fed. Raise federal gas taxes to pay for bridge repairs. Limit student loans to STEM majors. Stop paying for social "scientists" to study federal programs. Sunset all executive orders as of six months from now. Take away the Presidential power to pardon. Take away the subpoena power of Congress. Re-establish English Common Law as part of American federal law (reverse a 1938 Supreme Court decision). Privately develop electronic voice stress and tremulato detectors so that we can 99% determine when our politicians are lying to us. Automate the teaching of the 3Rs by computer and then close the Department of Education. Stop subsdizing corn and wind power, they are white elephants. Stop subsidizing passenger trains (every passenger train in the world loses money). Make the PRIMARY purpose of the FBI and DoJ the prosecution of white collar crime. OK? For starters?

Edward Binns:  Two more things --you idealogues are gonna hate this. New federal law prohibiting the federal government from bailout out cities and counties (that's a state fiduciary responsibility). And disallowing the federal government from bailing out a state UNLESS that "state" agrees to retrocede itself to territorial status for a minimum of 50 years before re-applying for statehood; this means that broke states, when they get $1 of federal bailout money, lose their senators and congress respresentation for at least two generations. They also get a federally appointed territorial governor instead of the crook who bankrupted them. Last thing: GMOs -- we absolutely HAVE TO HAVE GMO plants in the Mississippi/Ohio/Red/Missouri river system such that those plants don';t require fertilizer or pesticides. The chemical pollution of water tables in the world's largest temperate river valley system consti utconstitute, by a far margin, the biggest environmental problem in the USA. You can't see it so you're not sentimental about it, but there it is. There is no known way to get those chemicals out of the water table.

Edward Binns:  I can't resist a final comment, and this is urgent. Don't quarrel about this unless you are a CPA with several years of outside auditing experience. Shut up and take your medicine. Remember 2008 and the financial meltdown? I have a huge file of documents on this fiasco. The world's "G7" suffered tremendously, especially the banks. Here's what I found out. One nation, Canada, did not have a banking crisis at all! The other six members did have near-panics. In Europe, banks had $1 in cash deposits for every $61 in assets. In America it was $1 for every $26 in assets. In Canada, it was $1 for every $18 in assets. We need to get that ditzy woman who is now running the Fed to require member financial institutions to match the Canadian level of liquidity immediately and maintain that level. As of this date. Now. Or she gets charged with criminal malfeasance. No compromise and no delays on this mandatory safety measure.