Shelter for the homeless?

Setting aside "substantial" money for homeless people is a waste of money. Where will these cities and counties get the resources to fund these homeless camps and shelters? From tax dollars. The problem with having local governments support these people is all the legislation and bureaucracy that comes along with it. Most cities can't keep up with standard maintenance on their roads much less the people begging on each corner. Do all homeless people deserve to be homeless? No. Has some unfortunate event caused them this unfair situation? Sometimes. But giving these people a government handout to continue on the way they are, gives these people no reason to change. There is no carrot to aim for. It's only to go without, to really know that you don't want to be that way. People in jail respect freedom. Homeless people accustomed to being cared after will never want to change and be a contributing member of society, to maybe one day BE the person paying property taxes. Only then will that person understand what it means to support someone who is essentially a parasite. I don't mean for that to be a derogatory term, only a succinct one. Homeless people prey on the goodwill of others, tug at their heartstrings, seek sympathy. This is why you'll see plenty of wheelchairs and pets in your larger cities. It saddens me to see them but at the same time, there are also scammers who pose as the homeless because it's easier than a real job and it's tax free. (Google shows 669 stories matching "homeless scams") Cities should be aware of their homeless rate. They should care. They should do what they can to address the situation but they should not feel forced to promote it with such things as tent cities and other sponsored endorsements. It's time to let people be people and live their own lives, not have Big Brother take care of them.

I was there, Senator Doggett wasn't...

So the more I read, and react to this class, the more political I've started to feel. My parents are hardcore conservatives. When I mean hardcore, my father calls his senator weekly, and they send me e-mail links with interesting movements that the government is either trying to push through to a vote, or things our government has done in the past. So when they decided to come up to Austin from their house in Columbus to listen to our Senator Lloyd Doggett speak about health care reform, I thought it best to hear what he has to say. I was told that this was a probably about the health care reform, and went with an open mind. I personally think that the government will opt to kill the weak and sick given the option of paying money to extend life, but I'm open to the opinions of our elected officials.
I get to the rally at 11:05, five minutes later than it should have started. As I walk up to our capital I start hearing the chants of about three hundred people, still too distance, we walk closer to where the speech is going to be held. Pro-rally? LOL! There were 4 people there that were pro-rallyers, and the rest were against the healthcare reform. So as I'm sitting there looking around at all these people that care enough to come to this speech, right in the middle of the day, during church service, chanting and expressing their beliefs in this bill nowhere in sight is our Senator... 11:30 rolls around, thinking that he's a busy man, and has a lot on plate, I continue to wait. At this point I'm sitting in the shade due to the 95 degree weather. The more I sit there, the more disappointed I am in our elected official. I hear the word coward thrown around with his name attached to it more than I wanted to count. And for all purposes, I can't disagree. Rather than be unfavorable with his views on a bill that will impact us all, our Senator Lloyd Doggett decided to not show up. It seems that he's not too popular these days with the voters

Keep it classy Doggett, show up regardless of the outcome

clunkard to your mother

So I drive what the government would consider a “clunker”. I have a I've whored out to what I want it to be. It was a ten second car, and now it’s a moderate twelve second car on the dragstrip; yet, the government would consider it a clunker car worthy only of a trade in value of $4,500. Is my car only worth that much because it selfishly gets 12 miles to the gallon? Or because that government wants to look good in the public eye towards the whole U.N. China could give a rice paddie about greenhouse gases. Why does our government care about my car? Or your car? Now could I understand about Uncle Jethro's 84 Astro van, that is on its last leg? My car runs well, and gets me from point A to point B in the Texas heat with A/C. What if his van was the first car he ever made love in, voted in, met his wife in, carried his kids in…Is there a sentimental value involved? Will the government ever attribute a value to what its constituency thinks? Why does our government care so much when other countries (larger countries?) care so little about greenhouse gases. Is this about emissions, or the planet ,or just trying to keep up with the world’s status quo? This under-funded government program lacks a purpose and is just another piece of paperwork designed to get the public excited and then try to back out towards the restroom when it comes check time. It’s a pity, the things that might help the US out are bogged down by administration that will kill the planet for re-election.

President in cheif, or sitcom host?

It amazes me the time that our President spends on the leisurely things that happen in the U.S on everyday matters. As I'm reading about the "racist" Massachusetts cop that arrested a black Harvard professor earlier this week. As I read the article with the target audience of 32-40 average intelligence white angry male that believes there are better things to be focusing if you’re the President, I could only ask myself one question. Has it become fair game to pull out the race card for any matter now? I think the officer did exactly what he should have done in this matter. The police get a call of a possible break in, they respond; find a black male trying to push open a door and ask him to identify himself. The man refuses to I.D himself in anyway, and them starts giving the police a difficult time? WTF! I would have thought a professor of Harvard to be a smarter man, but I guess they don't teach how to speak to authorities with loaded guns in Harvard anymore... Or how the highest office in America to STFO a local matter, after 9/11 there are two things that I know you never mess with, one being the fire department, and the other officers of the law. So for the president of the United States to make a comment about an entire cities law enforcement to have "acted stupidly" throws himself under the bus on this one. I would have hoped that our President would have more important things to be concerned with, maybe the Middle East? Korea? Economy? Sad days loom for the U.S if our president can't focus on the bigger picture.

Mr. President, you dress like a girl...and throw like one.

So I don't know how many of you watched the MLB All Star game last week, but our commander in chief was set to throw out the first pitch, sadly, I think he showed up to the wrong game as US men’s ASA slow pitch team was playing Canada this weekend. But more interesting than the state of the economy, or the high rate of unemployment that is sweeping over the country, Obamas' choice of clothing is more important to questionable new agencies. His mommy jeans were almost as interesting as him bouncing the first pitch. I guess he's apparently good at picking out the winner of the NCAA basketball tournament, but terrible at Americas' favorite pastime. Growing up, there was little doubt that I would have been the subject of many a swirly or lost my lunch most days of the week if I had thrown like Obama did last week to Albert Pujols, but hey; in this day in age in the government we live in, what does it matter who votes for what, or who throws like a girl wearing his mommies jeans. While I'm not an expert on fashion, as I'm a jeans and a t-shirt kind of guy, I wonder at the audacity of some "news" agency making his choice of clothing to be a major item. Why wasn't the author wondering why he had time for a ballgame when the Democrats were rushing a Trillion dollar bill to his desk before the August recess? Why wasn't there any clamoring over his nose-dive in the public polls? Apparently the public seems more in-tune with something so trivial, and not with major issues. Hey America, they're just jeans!

Y'Obama health care! WTF!?

So the more I read about this unitied health care package, ABC health care , the more I realize we're going towards the state of mind of a solicalized country. I pay my taxes, I play by the rules, and yet I still get hosed by the government with every bill they pass. The stimilus bill? WTF!?!? I'm trying to start a small business and they are allotting 7.8 billion dollars for me that was supposed to be released starting last May. And have they? Simple answer, no. They're still busy printing the trillion dollar package. Maybe just before the next election they'll have enough money to buy a few more votes with tax dollars that I'll never be able to repay; ergo, our polictians can have a health plan that will be better funded and easier to access than someone that acutally pays their taxes and doesn't sit on their asses four months outta every year. As it sits now... a month till they take a "holiday" they're getting ready to vote on a bill that Obama is pushing down the senate's throat a bill that will take away from the American ecomony 16% of what was an american right of passage. Healthcare. With the government taking that much of a failing ecomony, they'll own; our banks, our automobile industry, our insurance companies, and (wow!) our healthcare? If I were a regilious man, I'd pray to God to never get sick, otherwise I'm better off in Mexico where I might just lose a kidney rather than my life. At least the beer is much cheaper!