Why do we care about politics?

I'd say because we expect to see maximum representation with minimum government interference in our personal matters and at the lowest possible cost. A politician would try to earn our votes by acting on our behalf to achieve these three objectives. Of the three, the latter, which translates in 'taxes' is the one that's the easiest to quantify.

Then... what's wrong with THIS picture of what's going on in Pennsylvania's legislature these days?

It may be wishful thinking to expect meaningful property tax reform this year because the Republicans who control the House and Senate don’t want Democrat Ed Rendell to campaign for re-election having delivered on his No. 1 promise -- cut property taxes. Instead of working hard to reduce our taxes they are blocking the tax-reduction effort.

Are these people sick? No, they are PARTISAN Republicans.

They are no longer our representatives. They are Republicans or Democrats and they are playing with our lives and with our children's future so that they can obtain some future political advantage.

I am glad that Ms. Mercer is slowly coming closer to my views on how political parties need to be handled if the human race is to survive.

In Ms. Mercer's words: If anything, antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.

Let's all agree that what we need is not MORE parties but ZERO parties. Or we will continue to be betrayed, only by another political party with many of the old con men now performing for a new label.

Since most of us would call ourselves 'people', our political aim is to achieve true PEOPLE representation, not party representation.

The 100% Solution

The US Congress is currently composed of Representatives and Senators who are either Republicans or Democrats - except for one Socialist (D) Rep. and one Independent (R) Senator.

The current polls show that only 15% of all Americans approve of the service these Republicans and Democrats provide the nation. 85% are not happy.

My prediction: these people of the United States, of whom 85% disapprove the job that the Republicans and Democrats are doing in Congress are going to elect a new Congress in 2006 that is going to be made of about 100% Republicans and Democrats.

Something MUST be wrong either with the people who vote or with the electoral system.

The Price Illegals Must Pay or... THE PERMANENT PUNISHMENT OF LIVING IN THE USA (LOL)

Bush says that the illegals should PAY A PRICE if they are going to get
citizenship. So it's not 'amnesty' because they'll be paying the price.

And the PRICE they pay, or the PUNISHMENT they get is like this:

The illegals will have to:

- PAY TAXES
- LEARN ENGLISH
- WORK ON A JOB FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS

In other words... the life that WE live is nothing but an endless punishment?
Think about it!!!

Now, as a legal person who's performed these three punishing activities for all these years, it's probably time for me to stop paying taxes, to begin speaking in tongues and... forget about a job. We got Welfare, don't we?

I hope that the illegals won't be punished for a long time because we need them so that we can party a lot.

Party like it's 2000 99?

It costs a company $600 to build a new server (big computer) in the US. The cost of doing the exact same thing in Latin America is under $50. And yet, most US company continue to have most of their servers in the US. Should this change?

It costs a US company probably one order of magnitude more to hire and employ a human in the US than it would take it to do the same in China or India or parts of Latin America. Why should any US company employ anyone in the US?

Building or renting an office building or a production facility in Asia or Latin America would cost a US company a lot less than doing the same in the US.

Given all of the above, for any US company continuing to stay in the US does not seem to make sense. The logical outcome and the probable outcome of the current globalistic and 'free trade' arrangements is for all the US companies to leave the US as their only incentive left for them to continue to stay in the US - the US consumer market - is likely to fade away while the US-based consumers become increasingly unable to continue to consume.

The above (the US companies leaving the US) could only be prevented by: world war, catastrophic social unrest in the Third World, catastrophic and world-wide economic collapse. Reversing the current globalistic policies may no longer reverse the trend as the US share of the world’s economy continues to decrease.

It is interesting to note that, regardless of a peaceful fading away of the US as a nation or as a consumer market or some world-wide catastrophe, the eventual outcome for the US 'consumer' is bad all-over. I am aware of no forecast of an actual 'improvement' in the US standard of living or for a US economy revival.

Can anyone picture the US and the world in 2100?

Boycott's Impact - No Lids For My Coffee Cup

Let's share our boycott experiences so that we could all assess the tremendous impact our illegal aliens have on our lives.

Morning commute was as usual. Lots of slowdowns. I wish more people stayed home.

Arrived at the office. The Chica who normally locks herself inside men’s' room under the pretext of cleaning it and puts a 'closed' sign on the door stayed home, apparently, so I didn't have to climb down the stairs to pee. This probably added to my productivity.

The cafeteria looked as usual.

I had a meeting in the afternoon. The pantry was well supplied with Styrofoam cups but... HORRORS!!!! THERE WERE NO LIDS!!!! Suddenly I felt that all illegal aliens should be legalized immediately so that lids were available and plentiful again.

On the way back home, I saw 4 or 5 muchachos by the roadside, looking stoopid - normal, that is. I showed them my middle finger but I'm not sure they noticed it. I moved on. Stopped at Wal-Mart to buy a tree and pool chemicals. I ended up spending over $140, presumably to the great delight of our Chinese trading partners or... I'm not sure. Most of the stuff I bought wasn't really made in China. At the cash register, 2 Chicanos actually buying stuff - paying cash, of course. The cashier girl, an overweight Chica, nice girl - she smiled at me.

I stopped for gas. The price was 1 penny per gallon less than last Friday. I must be because of the reduced demand from the aliens.

I am home now and there are no illegal aliens within a mile all around. It feels good and, interestingly, I never missed a lid over my coffe cup when drinking coffee at home.