Flyover Country

This morning, President Obama was announced as the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. At least now there is concrete proof that, to paraphrase Dennis Green, the Nobel Peace Prize is what we thought it was: a mere tool of the extreme left to promote extreme liberal views. The President has done nothing to deserve this “honor”, yet there it is.

To put it in perspective, though, the only other US presidents to win the Nobel were Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jimmy Carter. Adding President Obama’s name to that list only proves that the only “peace” the Nobel committee acknowledges is peace through a progressive agenda, even when nothing has been accomplished.

Other US presidents that should have been considered:

Ronald Reagan: Ended the Cold War

George W. Bush: Brought most the of world together after 9/11

Of course, liberals/progressives don’t see those as positive things, so that will never happen.

Would you give up your home to live in public housing?

I’m assuming, of course, that you don’t now live in public housing.  If you do, let me turn the question around.  Would you prefer to stay in public housing or own your own home?

Myself, I’ve never lived in any sort of government provided housing.  At least I don’t think I have.  My family certainly was not wealthy when I was growing up.  I’m sure we would not have been considered middle class, but I’m digressing here and getting off the point..

I have been around public housing.  I worked at a landscaping company in Dallas, TX and some of the work we did was at public housing facilities.  Let me tell you, most of them were scary places.  My dad (who owned part of the company) still makes fun of my reaction to being at some of those places.

I’ve also known people who have lived in subsidized housing, that is government doesn’t provide everything but just makes up the difference between what the tenant can pay in rent and what the landlord wants (or actually what the government says the landlord deserves.)  I’ve also known property owners who provide such housing.  Some owners I’ve known LOVES to provide the subsidize housing because they don’t have to maintain their property at a very high level because where else are the tenants going to go?  Now, the ethics of that aside, that is part of the problem with abandoning a free market economy in any industry.  See, property owners who rent property to the general public must provide a certain quality of dwelling or those general public people won’t rent the property, or at least won’t rent the property for a decent amount of money.  By providing tenants and a guaranteed amount of rent, the owners have no incentive to keep their property properly maintained, and vice versa. the renters have less of an incentive to maintain the property.

So.. here’s some Flyover Country homework for you.  Drive by some public housing this week.  No matter where you live it is there.  If you don’t know where it is, call your local HUD office and ask them where to find it.  Drive by and take a hard look at it.  Find more than one if you can.

The next step in our homework is to contrast and compare your current housing arrangements with what you see.  (Again, think in reverse if you currently live in public housing.  Compare with your desired housing arrangements.)  What is the quality differences between the two?  What are the visual differences?  Which looks safer to you?  What is the neighborhood like?  What are the schools like?

Now, having looked at public housing in person, are you SURE you want public health care?

Let’s not let the best health care system in the world turn into the equivalent of public housing!

Has ABC now ditched all pretense of being unbiased?  If this doesn’t frighten every freedom loving American, nothing will:

From the Drudge Report:

ABC TURNS PROGRAMMING OVER TO OBAMA; NEWS TO BE ANCHORED FROM INSIDE WHITE HOUSE
Tue Jun 16 2009 08:45:10 ET

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care — a move that has ignited an ethical firestorm!

Highlights on the agenda:

ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

The media has been biased for a long time, but if this is true as reported then the media has stepped over the line from bias to complete alliance with the left.  This is insane!  Every American should be outraged that our free press has so completely turned their collective backs on ethical journalism.

From Yahoo.com news:

Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few providers of late-term abortions despite decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in a church where he was serving as an usher.

The gunman fled, but a 51-year-old suspect was detained some 170 miles away in suburban Kansas City three hours after the shooting, Wichita Deputy Police Chief Tom Stolz said.

I firmly believe Dr. Tiller was an evil man.  What he did to children was just pure evil through and through, however killing him in this manor is just as wrong.  This doesn’t help the cause, nor does it right the wrongs this man did.  I’m speculating here, but the person who shot him probably sees it as justified because he sees that his actions will save the lives of many children.  I disagree.  Murder is wrong.

What do you all out there in Flyover Country think?

Please leave comments below.

Time for a Flyover Country history lesson.

When the Founding Fathers were forming our still young country, they wanted a system of government that would provide a method of what are called “checks and balances”.  They didn’t want a leader who would be like a king and could reign over his people with an iron fist.  They also didn’t want a legislative body that could just run amok and pass laws that would not be in the country’s best interest.  The system they chose was a representative republic with three branches of government that were equal in power and had a system in which each could watch over the others and keep tyranny from occurring.

The three branches are as follows:

Executive: Enforces laws

Legislative: Creates laws

Judicial: Interpret laws

This balance of power is very important.  Over the course of history, the balance of power has shifted between the branches in various ways.  Currently, however, I believe the balance of power is shifting in ways that are unprecedented and frightening.  When the judicial branch, the courts, flee from their job of interpreting laws into the arena of “making policy” as Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s Supreme Court Justice pick, accidentally mentioned in the above video, the balance of power shifts dramatically from the legislative branch (the people) to the handful of judges who sit on our nations benches.

That video should send chills down the spine of very freedom-loving American.

I want to say a special thank you to all the men and women of the US Armed Forces. Our country is the greatest in the world because of what you do. Thank you for your sacrifice, your honor, and for doing those things which make us proud.

Check this out, FOCers:

http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/capitalism/comment-page-1/

Take a look at some of the other links as well.   Some good reads there.

From CNSNews.com:

The congressional Democrats’ cap-and-trade plan  to tax carbon emissions could cost every American family as much as $3,100 a year and is equivalent to a “declaration of war on the Midwest,”  Republican lawmakers told CNSNews.com this week.

But Democrats disputed the Republicans’ cost figure and said the plan can be accomplished without imposing a net cost on the American people.

In general, under cap and trade, the amount of carbon that energy producers emit is capped. They can exceed that cap through the purchase, i.e., “trade,” of carbon permits. The money for those permits would be collected by the government and presumably redistributed under a system still being crafted.

“The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill,” Chairman of the House Republican Conference Mike Pence (R-Ind.) told CNSNews.com.

Congressman Pence is one of the few leaders we have in Washington who is willing to stick his neck out there and actually lead.  Congressman Pence never wavers from his principles and is a true conservative.  If we were to ever run for President, I can’t think of anyone who I would vote for over him.  He is a true Fly Over Country hero!

One thing they probably didn’t think of:

Now that there’s a pandemic, the public will be leary of using mass transportation.  Who wants to ride in a train/bus/subway packed in like sardines when there’s the danger of the swine flu?

It took a catastrophy to nationalize the auto industry and the banks.  Next in line is national health care.  A crisis is needed to help push it along.

From the Syndey Morning Herald:

A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.

Vivienne Allan, from WHO’s patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease.

I don’t understand this at all, but maybe I’m missing something.  Would some either comment or email me and let me know what I’m not getting here?  According to the CDC, approximately 36,000 people in the US die from the flu every year in the US.  7 confirmed dead from this swine flu and the world is in a tizzy.  Until someone explains this to me in a way that even those of us in Fly Over Country can understand, I can only assume that there’s some other reason the media is reporting this so heavily; such as the desire for nationalize health care.

Anyone want to clue me in?