BY ROBERT OLSON
Pequot Lakes
I am very upset from the election results – both national and Minnesota.
Our president is either a habitual liar or someone very misinformed and not on top of the national situations. I will give him the benefit by only calling him stupid and incompetent.
Obama told the nation he approved more drilling permits than any other president. That is a bold faced lie! The number of drilling permits on public land was reduced by 36 percent while Bill Clinton increased permits by 59 perecent and George W. Bush increased drilling permits by 116 percent.
Obama also put a stop on the pipe line from Canada. Instead he favors importing oil from the Middle East.
Average unemployment rates for the Bill Clinton years were 5.21 percent while the George W. Bush unemployment rate was 5.27 percent. The Obama rates rose to an average of 9.36 percent — almost double of the two former presidents.
Today, only 58.1 percent citizens are employed, the lowest rate since the incompetent Carter days.
The national debt under Obama has risen more than any other president in history. Today our debt is more than $16 trillion and expected to hit $20 trillion, and soon. The federal debt at 67 percent of GDP is the highest since just after world War II.
Our world credit rating was hit with a downgrade — the first ever in our history.
Obama stepped into the job without ever managing even a lemonade stand! His inexperience is very evident in the manner he tries to lead our country!
I have heard some people in federal government and even some Minnesotans have joined the propaganda of “tax the rich corporations.”
That statement shows the stupidity of some people. If you increase the tax on General Mills, the consumer pays the price increase of cereals. If you increase the tax on “rich oil corporations,” who really pays for that increase? The consumers pay at the gas pump. It is impossible to tax corporations — period. When taxes are increased on corporations the product they produce carries the tax increases on the commodities we buy.
So next time someone has an idea of reducing the debt by increased tax on corporations you can conclude they are just plain stupid or on a propaganda campaign.
If we took all the profit from corporations and small businesses over $250,000, we could fund the federal government less than one month. Then who would be left to create jobs? I haven’t seen many poor people hire new workers.
I did see where Obama hired 10,000 IRS agents to monitor people’s compliance to get health insurance. All that is overhead but I guess if you never had experience even running a lemonade stand you cannot understand some of the basics of economics. This overhead should not be counted as new employment — it is a killer of jobs.
South Dakota, only 200 miles away from here, has zero corporate tax and zero personal income tax and has an unemployment rate half of Minnesota. Brookings County, S.D., had to curtail some building because they couldn’t get enough carpenters, plumbers and electricians.
In our own district we elected two politicians who are pimps for the unions. They take some money from our hard working people and send the money to big union bosses who live high on the hog and filter some of the membership money to politicians who vote nonsense.
Recently, the Brainerd School District lost $200,000 of state funding because the teacher’s union didn’t settle with the school board offer within the time limit. I have asked our local politicians if they would go after the union for half of the $200,000 to be returned for our kids education. The local politicians run from such a thought.
We certainly need to become more informed before we vote or stay home on Election Day.
Robert Olson is a resident of Ideal Township.
Comments (17)
Add commentMr. Robert Olson, some reading perhaps...
Name calling of the overall voters and electorate is a right in the First Amendment...
However, with this, comes responsibility and ownership of one's words...
May I offer an Economic Link for reading...
http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/14/15171606-ceos-offer-obama-...
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Abraham Lincoln had failures, however over time, he overcame them and became a great leader of this United States of America...
http://www.school-for-champions.com/history/lincoln_failures.htm
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Look at a Penny or a Five Dollar Bill...
He's there for a reason...
Bob, your Ideal Township
went for Romney. Be happy for that. Your neighbors feel like you do.
Most people don't.
Now his fellow Republicans are telling why he lost. Listen to them.
If Keith Hansen ever needs someone to fill in while he's on
vacation, looks like Mr. Olson could seamlessly keep the "old, white, male" (OWM) view of the world on life support. There is a contingent (maybe "Ideal" Township is appropriate nomenclature for it) that is desperately clinging to a worldview that is antiquated and slipping away, despite protestations of the OWM.
Republican senior stateman, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS) recently said of the GOP "we've got to give our political organizational activity a very serious proctology exam, we need to look everywhere moving forward to explore the White House election loss”. Bold imagery, indeed, and point taken.
Mr. Olson's letter reveals that he is in a different stage of grief over the recent Republican losses, and feels more secure in his cozy little "Ideal" Township, along Denial Blvd.
phew
One of the comments on why Romney lost was the base of the GOP was angry older white men and that is not enough to keep the party going. Guessing this is one of them??
Voter ignorance? I decided I did not want to return to the failed policies of GWB's two terms.
Name calling
Name calling such as seen in Mr. Olson's letter is part of our disease. It bears no fruit. It proves nothing - except that the person doing the name calling has no other evidence to back up an opinion.
Where did this name calling habit come from? I believe it is from the bigmouth media folk who get their jollies (and their money) by being rude and obnoxious.... in that list is Limbaugh, Beck, Maddow and Olberman, to name a few.
We need to eliminate such nonsense.
But yet snowda
remains loyal to "Hope and Change" of the last four years and joins in the chant of "Moving Forward 2012" without really knowing what "Moving Forward" details until after the election and the plan is revealed.
Bob
If you want to get the lib's going just tell them that they can't buy a twinkie anymore & that will make them go nuts!!!
I wonder who will be the first to call ward & complain???
Conservative Entertainment Complex deals in $ NOT FACTS......
Maybe GM will bring back the Corvair for all those who dream of their return to 1960s.
SCUS and the Fairness Doctrine
Can look to both for origins of how bad it has become lately. From the republican leaning, more overtly political than ever SCUS's decision that any campaign spending--even by faceless corporations--was as protected as free speech by an individual--to the dramatic reversal and gutting of the FCC's fairness doctrine (by a former high ranking Reagan campaign staffer assigned to head up the FCC at the time), whether you are an OWM or not, you aren't just imagining things, it HAS gotten worse.
People with a clear and even sinister interest in directly expecting a succesfull candidate to do their bidding after being elected are free to toss money at candidates at will, and they can hide their involvement too.
Fox News--pretty much all their programming--the clearly politically motivated "audience development" that Keith Hansen has darkened the BDD with--to some of the more recent [filtered word]-for-tat responses like some of MSNBC's programming--none of them would EVER have been able to do what they do before Reagan's FCC trashed the fairness doctrine.
My recollection is that the fairness doctrine action wasn't motivated by political greed as one might think, but the irony is still thick for that and the SCUS decision--foisted on us by republicans, but seemingly helping democrats beat republicans these days!
Wow Bob
You are right, there are plenty of ignorant people out there, I am just amazed that some choose to publicize it in the newspaper.
Obama said he would NOT raise corporate income tax rates, he ran on raising personal income tax rates for the very wealthy...Big difference and makes half your letter irrelevant.
Between ND and Utah the US has discovered more oil than is currently owned in all OPEC reserves, 3 trillion barrels. Since we have begun to use oil in the US we have used a total of 1 trillion barrels....where is this need for additional drilling, we have enough work getting out the oil we have already found?
There comes a time when old the old way of thinking needs to turn off the Limbaugh and ride off in to the sunset, perhaps SD Bob??
Bob, the Star Tribune has a message for you today.
"Among the party faithful in Minnesota, some are saying out loud what they previously only whispered: Their fiscal message was muddied by the now-failed constitutional amendments; their long-sacrosanct party endorsement system has become harmful; and the tendency to boot members who stray from party orthodoxy has to end.
Minnesota Republicans were emboldened when they took control of the Legislature for the first time in more than 40 years during the 2010 mid-term elections. But that triumph aside, party leaders must deal with a hard fact: Republicans have not won a statewide race since 2006 and even their last two gubernatorial victories were by pluralities, not majorities.
The new reality is this: Democrats control both bodies of the Legislature, the governor's office, every other constitutional office, both U.S. Senate seats and a majority of Minnesota's U.S. House seats."
Continuing:
"Some Republicans fear that without an overhaul, they could be out of power for years.
"There is no question that if we present the exact same product in 2014 that we did in 2012, we are going to lose again," said Andy Brehm, a former press secretary for U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman and a Republican activist."
For All You Right-Wing Crackpots!
Southie , that Star Trib article was pretty good, really liked
The all telling comment and suggestion for the Republicon Party.
Ooops ! You just missed the last exit to relevance !!
We knew those amendments mobilized youth for sure!
"Some Republicans now believe that by putting two constitutional amendments on the ballot, a ban on same-sex marriage and an attempt to change the state's voting system, the GOP-controlled Legislature may have mobilized the Democratic base.
Stanley Hubbard, the chairman of Hubbard Broadcasting who with his family gave at least $100,000 to Minnesota Republicans this year, said of putting the marriage amendment on the ballot: "When you do stupid things like that, you invite yourself to get beaten."
Southie.....
"Stanley Hubbard, the chairman of Hubbard Broadcasting who with his family gave at least $100,000 to Minnesota Republicans this year, said of putting the marriage amendment on the ballot: "When you do stupid things like that, you invite yourself to get beaten."
Yes, Hubbard knows that republicons like to do things in secret!
Think Tom Hauser of KSTP CH 5 " At Issue " Show
Located in the Midway area of St Paul is one of Stanley Hubbards boys.
Stanley certainly does have a nifty yacht on the St Croix.
Lots of bright brass railings to polish. Large crew !
Not to mention a job provider.
Alas...the Limmer and Gazelka Show Goes On...
In the Minority this go round...
If folks have forgot, Warren and Paul were the Amendment Pushers...