Lord knows Obama can’t, however, after Clackamas all I want for christmas is gun control.

Lord knows President Obama could never take on gun control.

The gun crazies would just love to put all that paramilitary training they do out in the woods to “good use”.

The nuts would freak out and stream into the streets screaming “I told you he was a muslum” (that’s muslim to you and I) Of this I have no doubt.

I live in Tennessee in an upper middle class town.  My republican, respectable, educated,  middle class neighbors are getting their 12-year-old a gun for christmas. That’s all he wants and  that’s all he’s getting because it’s a $1200.00 gun.

Jeez louis. These people are crazy and clueless to the fact.

Last summer while lounging on our  pool side deck with this family, we refer to them simply as “the republicans”, the father and son discovered our trees housed multiple squirrel families. The husband sent the son to get his gun. As we sat sipping our wine the son left and returned with said gun then  father and  son shared together time stalking the squirrels for the remainder of their visit. 

I’m from here and I’m still amazed at the casual attitude towards firearms. It never crossed their minds that this might not be perfectly acceptable behavior. 

I wonder if the young man who took over the Clackamas Oregon mall yesterday ever got a gun for christmas?

My son did.

It was a BB gun at age eight. BB guns are ok right? Our favorite christmas movie is A Christmas Story (the movie is based on a little boy’s desire for a red ryder BB gun) so I let my son have a BB gun.

At age ten he was given a 22 caliber.  At my command that gun disappeared one day .

My son was a good shot and very upset.

He’s 24 now and no longer interested in guns.

I believe it is because I made that gun disappear. Call it gun control. Mom style.

 I am tired of watching distant camera angles of flashing emergency lights while holding my breath and praying it’s not where one of my children live.

A strip mall. A movie theater. A shopping mall at christmas time with babies waiting in line for Santa. As a woman, mother, and grandmother it sickens me.

It is part of our male culture to own and handle guns.

Only a woman and mother will have the guts to take on gun control.

It must get done.

We need a female president. 

Hilary Clinton or Elizabeth Warren? I don’t care which.

I am asking for gun control for Christmas 2016.

It’s simple arithmetic, kinda.

To understand what the heck is going on in the financial world you must understand the two main schools of thought in economics.

Keynesian vs Friedman

Keynesian economics.

Keynesian economics were implemented late in the Great Depression, pulled us out of the Great Depression, created a boom that lasted thru World War II, and led us to the economic expansion that followed thru pretty much 1973.

Basically Keynesians believe capitalism is good but must have rules to prevent abuse. Keynesians believe that the laws of supply and demand alone are not enough to run such a complex system.

Keynesian argue that the private sector’s decisions sometimes lead to inefficient macroeconomic outcomes. ( GREED ) which require active rules, otherwise know as regulation policies, by the government and the central bank . Keynesian noted that the central bank should lean towards private sector, but again, with rules and regulations in place to prevent abuses.

Opposition to Keynesian economics began in the late 60s and the main advocate against Keynesian was Milton Friedman, or as I refer to him, the devil.

Friedman economics.

 Milton Friedman (July 31, 1912 – November 16, 2006) was an American economics teacher in Chicago for three decades. He won a nobel prize in economics and exerted his consumption agenda with great influence over the profession of economics. He is the father of consumption economics along with the “free market” theory.The Economist described him as “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.”

Friedman economics took over in the mid 70s.

Now you may ask yourself isn’t that about the time wages became stagnant and the middle class started its steady decline? Why yes it is! You can check the figures thru the US Census Bureau. Since the introduction of Friedman economics we have seen a steady decline of the middle class . In 2008 we all witnessed the abuses Keynesian economics warned us against.

Friedman introduced the  “voucher” system for education along with the theory of privatization and deregulation in his book Capitalism and Freedom.

His monetary theory was  the major influence on how the federal reserve handled the global financial crisis  in 2008.

hmmm

Jesus Hates Obama

Watching a reel of the Republican convention I saw something that made me sick to my stomach.

A sign.

A sign that said “Jesus Hate Obama”.

It also makes me very angry.

That sign goes against everything that Jesus stood for!

These people call themselves christians?

Let me say this. That sign may very well prove there is no Jesus.

If there was the person holding that sign would have been struck dead by lighting!

To the people bearing such signs and others stating such things as “Buck Obama”.

Pray. Pray very hard that there is no such thing as hell.

If there is you are most certainly going there!

Bridge collapse anniversary.

Today is the 5th anniversary of the collapse of the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. 

Thirteen people were killed and more than 100 others were injured.

There are over 600,000 bridges in the United States.

72,000 are rated D. F is a collapse.

6980 are structurally deficient.

The average for each state is 160.

That includes your state.

http://saveourbridges.com/

Why do the republicans continue to pledge “no new taxes” when our population is in such danger?

Are you aware that the marginal tax rate for those making over $200k in 1953 was 91%?

Makes me ill.