Obama Administration Launches Missile Attacks In Pakistan
January 26, 2009 3 Comments
One of the first military actions taken under the new Obama administration is to expand missile strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The result is flattened buildings and homes, dead men, women, and children, and reportedly maybe even some terrorists killed as well.
Coffins of the victims of a US airstrike on a village in Pakistan
Keeping true to his promise to use the military in Pakistan, regardless of how Pakistani people may feel about it, Obama ordered the strikes. While promising to draw down some troops in Iraq (eventually), Obama has ordered a surge of 60,000 troops to Afghanistan (before withdrawing from Iraq). This ever expanding war is sure to cost a pretty penny, but that shouldn’t really be a concern to any of us, because Obama’s advisers think that war is good for the economy. Change indeed.
Just to make sure the economy really gets to rocking, Congress is preparing a “stimulus” package to get as many people holding government jobs as possible. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is hopeful that it will keep 500 million Americans from losing their jobs. Yes, that’s right, 500 million Americans. As if inflating the currency is not bad enough, Pelosi is going to save 300 million Americans their jobs, plus that of 200 million Americans we don’t know about yet! Is this something about a new immigration policy? We shall see.
This gem of a quote came from a Fox News interview. The complete transcript, if you care to read even more drivel, is found, here.
WALLACE: So you agree union card check later rather than sooner, and maybe not taking away the secret ballot?
PELOSI: Well, I believe that — I know that President-elect Obama is a strong supporter of America’s workers. I myself am a strong supporter of that legislation. We passed it with a strong vote in the House in the last Congress, and I continue to be supportive of it.
But in terms of what we have to do in the first 100 days, we must address the needs of this country. Five hundred million people will lose their jobs each month until we have an economic package.
WALLACE: No, 500,000.
PELOSI: What did I say, million?
WALLACE: Yes, 500 million. That would really be a recession.
PELOSI: Oh, no. Excuse me. Thank you for correcting me.
WALLACE: Yes.
PELOSI: It feels like 500 million. Five hundred thousand Americans will lose their jobs each month until we have a recovery package.
Can’t keep all this straight. Thousand, nobody in Congress EVER says thousand! No wonder that didn’t feel right to Ms. Pelosi! With all this talk about trillion being the new billion, who can blame her?
Anyway, back when I was in school, I remember reading about a study done on stressful events that take place in people’s lives. We know many of them. Lose a significant other, lose a job, move to a new location, etc…
For most Americans losing a spouse would be the most significant stress event to cope with. What was noteworthy, was that after studying survivors of World War II in Europe, they found people who lost their family home went through more stress! Incredibly, there was an expectation that the house would survive the person, so when the home was destroyed in battle in generated more stress.
Why do I bring this up? Because when we launch missiles at people’s homes (the alleged terrorists in Pakistan often stay with families in their homes) it tends to upset them. A lot. Did I just say a lot? I mean it really pisses them off. Guess who they get mad at? Yep, America. What Americans are they likely to come into contact with? I know it’s a really hot bed of tourist activity, but no, not tourists. The U.S. military. Maybe that’s why they have so many people over there taking to the streets and protesting us.
With all these new deployments, and the Vice President warning us of increasing casualties to come, I would think recruitment will be through the roof. I bet being a recruiter would be about as much fun as trying to be a car salesman at a Detroit 3 dealership right now. But wait, Obama has an answer to bailout the recruiters too!
Obama’s Chief of Staff is proposing compulsory service as one possible answer. That’s the draft, but said in a different way. This is great. The government has an answer to everything. If only more people would look to the government for solutions to everyday problems, think about what we could accomplish!
On second thought, we could decide to Restore the Republic, and follow the Constitution instead. It talks about what our government SHOULD be doing. We can get rid of the rest, reduce taxes, and stimulate the economy by going without so much government. That would truly be something.
For information on the missile strikes in Pakistan, go here.
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America has lost 4000 troops in Iraq. 4000 more than we wanted to. Unfortunately, if we did not lose the 4000 troops. We may have lost four million citizens here in the United States. Islam wants us incinerated as they do the Israeli population. The war needs to be won on foreign soil.
Now lets look our own problems here at home. We are having all out wars on our streets. Here in Sunnyside, we have had gang killings. But take a look at the big inner cities. These are genuinely gang unrising and wars. In U.S. news it was telling about Detroit, Cleveland, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. The article was stating that 2000 gang members were murdered each and every year in each city. This is not counting our smaller cities or even larger cities. So, overall, how may young kids are we losing to gang violance each year? Could it be 100,000 or 200,000 kids each year. These kids are the nex generation to run America. This is a crime. Why are we not declaring war on these inner gangs? Well, for one reason; politicians today in many of the cities are in there to get what they can get. The taxpayer means little to nothing to them. Look at Jesse Jackson. He ws affiliated to gangs and yet he was viewed in high stature in Black America!
It seems that gangs have sprung up in huge numbers in the last 25 years. Why are gangs becoming such huge criminal, mafia style racketeers? First, we have eliminated the DRAFT ! The draft got the inner city kids off the streets. IT showed these kids that there is another world out there. Not just the drug infested corridors of the city they live in ! There would not be a better way of cleaning up America than to impose the draft upon these young men. Build barracks along the southern border and guard it. Give these kids something to do. And then these kids that have dropped out of school can once again persue their high school diploma under supervision!
There are so many underpriveleged kids in America who are not givin the chance of a meaningful life. Environments tell it all for most underprivileged kids. There could be many Einstein’s out there if just given the chance. Brains do not come in colors. Lets do something for our kids.
I too must have poor math skills. 500,000,000 million jobs saved. 300,000,000 million population in the U.S.A. . Then you take Pelosi’s view on abortion. Then being Pelosi would like to reverse the trend and go back and abort all republicans. Saving 500,000 jobs may be hard to produce. I am assuming she is thinking that every aborted child who is not given a chance to live on earth. That they will not be taking jobs away from the 90 and 100 year olds.