The Buck Stops Here!

Although I didn't write this piece and don't know who did, I thought it compelling. It's something you want your Children and Grandchildren to read. They won't believe this happened, but it DID.

Harry & Bess Truman
(This seems unreal.)




Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.

The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.

When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."

Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois).

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician.







And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"

To bad we couldn't clone him!

I'm just saying,

Mittster

Our Dollars at Work

"House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr. pictured standing, far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, , play solitaire Monday night as the House convened to vote on a new budget. (AP)

The guy sitting in the row in front of these two....he's on Facebook, and the guy behind Hennessy is checking out the baseball scores.

These are the folks that couldn't get the budget out by Oct. 1, and are about to control your health care, cap and trade, and the list goes on and on..
Should we buy them larger screen computers - or - a ticket home, permanently?

This is one of their 3-DAY WORK WEEKS that we all pay for (salary is about $179,000 per year)."

What part about yesterday's blog didn't you understand?

I'm just saying,

Mittster

Wally World

“Something to consider....

Wal-Mart and The Idiots


1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart every hour
of every day.

2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St.
Patrick's Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger +
Target + Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world's
largest private employer, and most speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and
Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains
sought bankruptcy.

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store
in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of
which 2,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than
it had five years ago.

11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing
experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth's population is
approximately 6.5 Billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of
a Wal-Mart.

13. Wal-Mart has gross sales that total more than the
total revenue of all the countries in the world,
except 6.


You may think that I am complaining, but I am
really laying the ground work for suggesting that
MAYBE we should hire the
guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

This should be read and understood by all Americans,
Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!




To the President and all 535 voting members
of the Legislature, both parties.




It is now official -
you are ALL corrupt morons:




a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775.
You have had 234 years to get it right
and it is broke.

b. Social Security was established in 1935.
You have had 74 years to get it right
and it is broke.

c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938.
You have had 71 years to get it right
and it is broke.

d. War on Poverty started in 1964.
You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion
of our money is confiscated each year
and transferred to "the poor"
and they only want more.

e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965.
You have had 44 years to get it right
and they are broke.

f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970.
You have had 39 years to get it right
and it is broke.

g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to
lessen our dependence on foreign oil.
It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a
budget of $24 billion a year
and we import more oil than ever before.
You had 32 years to get it right
and it is an abysmal failure.


You have FAILED in every "government service" you have shoved
down our throats while overspending our tax dollars!

AND YOU WANT AMERICANS
TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED
WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM?

YOU THINK YOU CAN RUN THE
AUTO INDUSTRY.... THE BANKING SYSTEM?




MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK YOUR EGG-HEAD
BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WALMART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT!




WALMART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS – WHY DON'T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT THAT IT'S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?”




"You can't fix stupid,
but you can vote it out."




I’m just saying,

Mittster

Our Founding Fathers

Our founding fathers are finally turning over in their graves while saying to Capitol Hill, “Kiss our boney asses, you traitors!” There, I have said it and trust me, I mean it. What more can our Congressmen and Representatives say or do that could convey a stronger message to the world that America is a second rate country and in decline?

I am ashamed of our political leaders to say the least. Our government leaders are greedy, career politicians with only one thing on their minds. How can we continue the status quo of special benefits for our members while not having to follow the same rule of law that is applied to the very people who elected us into office?

Unfortunately, all the governments of the world suffer the same corruption we see in our country. Corruption it is, no matter what kind of smoke and mirrors they are flashing us at any given time in history. All the huffing and puffing over issues that are really not that complicated, but are made to seem so for the benefit of the general public, could be resolved easily. The real game being played is posturing for the next elections at the expense, as usual, of the American people.

I for one have a plan concerning the presidential elections in 2012. There are now more political parties that ever in history represented on the ballot. No more crying and sniveling about our leaders on my part. I am voting against the Republicans and Democrats. I’m not sure which party I will go with, but you can set your watch that I won’t be voting as usual. If every American would stand up and be counted concerning the fiasco on Capitol Hill and finally vote the bastards out of office for ever, at least the message would be sent loud and clear, enough is enough!

If we say to ourselves that there is nothing we can do about the state of our political system in America, then there will nothing we can do. But, if “We the People” stand united against career politicians who wipe their feet on us daily, there damn sure is something that can be done. We can clean house on Capitol Hill and sweep the ugly politicians to the curb!

My name is Mitt Winstead and I’m really pissed off!

We The People

The time has come for all Americans to act concerning The Congress of the United States of America. We the People will not and cannot tolerate the blatant abuses of power by our government motivated by greed and self-serving interests.




It is time for all of us to stand and be counted!




The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

I'm asking each reader to forward this blog to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.




Congressional Reform Act of 2011

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. It is time to act.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

Rebate, Rebate!

We deserve a total rebate on our Congress. That’s right, we want every last penny that Congress has wasted in the last fifty years. You would think we should get a rebate for the last hundred years, but, after the calculations, there is only enough money for fifty. It will still make millionaires of every adult male and female in the United States of America.




Yahoo, we are all rich! We wouldn’t have had to implement such drastic measures had Congress given each adult male and female in America the billions of dollars in bailout money that was given to CEOs’ and Wall Street shysters to keep the whole lot of them out of prison. American citizens could have already pulled the economy up by its boot straps and everyone would have jobs and a house to live in. But, no way, the fat cats stayed fat and the middle and lower class took it in the shorts. What else is new?




Well, listen up, my fellow Americans; it’s time to act and act we will. Sedition, you say? Damn right, you plump, thieving, sheep pluckers. There are 300 million of us and only a handful of you and your cronies. Someday soon we are going to rise up and take our government and country back. We are going to start with the presidential election in 2012 and if that doesn’t satisfy us, we are going to start protesting in every street in the good old U.S. of A.







One parting thought for all you lifetime politicians living the good life while the rest of us work our asses to the bone trying to make ends meet paying your fat-cat salaries. History proves time and time again that corrupt governments always fail and that the masses prevail. Chew on that for a while.

Write on,

Mittster