The next BIG political idea.

I watched Fox News Sunday this week where Juan Williams, a political talking head, was talking about political strategy. He stated essentially that Obama had a better economic plan than the Bush economic plan. He continued to assert that the GOP wanted to hold on to old ideas of the past and had no new ideas for the future. The first thought that came to me was the question, “do people not see through this flawed line of thinking? Why do people follow certain assertions as true ideas and drink the coolaid of popular thought? Then I ask, “why can’t I look through the political noise and find the next big idea that will solve our nations problems? The truth is that Juan’s statement is an attempt of a political red herring to avert the focus on Obama’s failure as an agent of change. Obama’s mantra of “spreading the wealth around” is nothing “new” at all and his strategy of raising taxes is something that we Americans have heard from democrats before. Both parties have failed to bring genuine or original ideas that can bring real solutions to our economical dilemma. No the answer is not Glen Beck. I’m not offering any answers, but the answer will come only if we emerge from the cave of distraction and begin to regain clear thinking and critical thought. How can you tell if a politician is lying? His/Her lips are moving.

Article by Joshua Cook
http://www.theoryintopraxis.com

Greenspan's "taxes is borrowed money" comment.

Funniest thing I heard this week is Greenspan stating that "tax cuts shouldn't be paid for with borrowed money" referring to the Bush tax cuts. Unbelievable double speak from one of the people who got us in to this mess. My money is my certificate of working hard everyday. Real leaders need to stand up and say wasteful... Government programs shouldn't be paid with borrowed money!

The critic

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

T Roosevelt