The American Jobs Act, post 1

I watched the President address a joint session of Congress last night.  After that I watched the NFL season kick off.

I thought the President made a good speech.  It was not a great speech because he could not keep his normal class warfare rhetoric completely in check; however, it was a good speech.

I think the major points of his re-election speech were:

  1. This is a plan with a lot of Republican ideas in it (True)
  2. If Congress does not pass this plan he is going to try to use this against Republicans in Congress in his 2012 campaign (True)
  3. The plan needs to be passed right away (His opinion)
The biggest problem with his plan is its cost.  This plan will add even more to the deficit and the National debt.  In fact he claims this “jobs plan” will cost the Federal Government 447 billion dollars.   He further claims that future Congresses will agree to cuts in future spending to “pay for” all of this spending…
Mike Sylvester

Karen Goldner, 2nd District City Council

POST UPDATED AT 5:25 PM on Tuesday September 6th, 2011.

As I said in the initial post I have not been able to confirm the post over at AWB.  I am sure Dan saw the Facebook post he reported on his blog; however, no one else who has seen it has verified that comment on Facebook…

Karen Goldner is currently my representative on City Council.  I voted for her in the last election because she was running against an incumbent who did a good job; however, held elected office for FAR too long.

Angry White Boy has a very disturbing post that you should read.  I do not use Facebook and I was unable to confirm Dan’s post.

Did anyone on this blog read Karen’s Facebook post?

Democrat Andre Carson is an absolute moron and his comments were absurd.  I hope that he is defeated in the next Democratic Primary because his comments are extremely out of line.

If Karena Goldner in fact does support Andre Carson and his racist comments I will personally contribute $100 to Mr. Jehl’s campaign if he contacts me and convinces me his is the better choice for City Council.

Mike Sylvester

Sarah Palin

There is no doubt that the main stream media in the United States did everything in their power to attack Sarah Palin once she was selected as the Vice Presidential nominee during the last Presidential election. In my entire life I have never seen the media attack someone in that fashion.  It was absurd…

Sarah Palin stepped down as Governor of Alaska two years into her first four year term.  She stepped down because she quickly realized that she could make A LOT of money as a speaker and “pundit.”

I in no way begrudge her the money.  That being said the day she resigned half way through her first term she became a person I could not support for political office.  Period.

For some reason she keeps “teasing” her supporters and she keeps acting like she may get into the Presidential race.  I do not understand why she is doing this.  I think her actions have hurt her “brand” and make her look like a fool.

There is no way that Sarah Palin could join the race this late and win the Republican nomination.  In fact, I do not think she could beat Michelle Bachman at this point.

Mike

The mortgage problems are worse than you think

I have a client who talked to me about their mortgage.  Last year they fell behind 3 months on their mortgage payments.  Obviously the bank holding the mortgage (and in this case it was a LARGE bank) was angry and threatened him with legal actions; as one would expect.

So after missing three mortgage payments he was able to pull together enough money to pay two of those three mortgage payments soon after the 3rd payment was due.  So he sent the bank a check.

The big bank holding the mortgage did not cash his check and sent his check back to him.  In writing they told him he could only settle the problem by sending a check that would pay all three mortgage payments…

Wow.

Is it any wonder the big banks are losing money hand over fist…

Mike

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