I saw where in a soccer match over the weekend, the USA lost to Mexico 4 to 2. No big surprise there.
In the stadium, there were reportedly about 20,000 USA fans and 80,000 Mexico fans. Again, no big surprise. The surprising part, according to the article I read, was that the event was at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Mexican team, in essence, played in front of a home crowd in a foreign country. (That IS making the assumption that Southern California is still part of the US.)
I’m not sure which is the real story here? Is it that more fans showed up for a foreign team than for the home country, or is it that thanks to our lax, some might say non-existent, border enforcement, we have ceded control of portion of our country?
Various groups and persons in this country have been trying to make soccer a major sport for over 30 years. I remember when the New York Cosmos brought Pele to America (1975) in order to boost American soccer into the big time. This trend has continued right up to and through David Beckham coming to Los Angeles in 2007. And still, soccer in America is on par with the WNBA. Something of a curiosity for most of the country with a few diehard fans.
Those who are in favor of the gentrification of America have been pushing hard for 30 plus years to have soccer replace football as the preeminent sport in the country. They’ve sponsored youth soccer programs all over the country and ramped up the “football is dangerous” rhetoric in order to push moms to enroll their kids in soccer. And yet, after all this time, it’s still a backwater curiosity in this country. The majority of folks don’t give a damn about soccer. For most the surprise isn’t that ONLY 20,000 fans showed up to root for the US, the big surprise is that they found 20,000 folks who were interested enough to show up and root for them at all.
I’m firmly convinced that most folks who show up to soccer games and pay good money to walk through the gates are either relatives or they just want to go watch some sports outside and the soccer game is the cheapest option. I am willing to bet you dollars to donuts that if you charged the same price to go to a soccer game that you do to go to a football game, you’d see about one third as many native born Americans sitting in the stands. That coupled with the fact that there isn’t any REAL football to watch at this time explains most of the folks from the US who are there.
Which brings us to the other possible story here. I wonder just how many of those Mexican fans could have produced a Green card or legitimate citizenship documentation. If ICE had been at the gates to the Rose Bowl, those 20,000 US fans may have been an overwhelming majority of those present.
With the past several presidents being unwilling to defend our borders, the southwestern United States has become a no-mans-land. No real overarching authority attempting to maintain our national sovereignty. And when a state steps up to fill the void, our current occupant of the Oval Office sides with a foreign country in bringing suit against them. They have created an open door policy so every criminal, drug dealer, etc. etc. that would like to try their hand in this country can just walk right in. And while southern California is a beautiful place, I actually lived there for a short while in the early 70’s, the flight out of there is starting to reach epidemic proportions. It’s starting to remind me of a bumper sticker I once saw which read “Would the last US citizen out of Miami please bring the flag?”
Monday, June 27, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Barack Obama, Pesident of ????
One really has to ask the question, just what effin’ country does our current Oval Office resident think he’s the president of? I mean really! Does he realize that he is the President of the United States of America?
I say this after looking at several of his recent actions. He and his minions, in secret, designed a socialistic medical plan for US citizens, then forced it down the county’s throat despite overwhelming protests by the citizenry. He took over two thirds of America’s auto production and proceeded to close hundreds of factory dealerships, despite the fact that many of them were profitable. (I don’t suppose the fact that nearly all of the closed dealerships had supported McCain/Palin had anything to do with the decision.) He has “apologized” for our past actions to every country he has come in contact with, never mind the fact that virtually the entire world would be speaking either German or Japanese if it weren’t for us. Never mind that we have shed American blood all over the globe for the past 100 years to help oppressed peoples, without colonizing one of them.
Within the last month he has, in essence, called for Israel (a country that has been one of our staunchest allies ever) to commit suicide by calling for them to return to their boarders that existed prior to the 1967 war. This war gave control of the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula to the Israelis. These are essential to Israel’s ability to protect itself and its citizens. Without these lands, Israel’s sworn enemies have a HUGE tactical advantage over them. An advantage they wouldn’t hesitate to use.
Now I read that he has sided with such notables as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua against our other great ally, Great Britain. To put it simply, he’s telling Great Britain they need to give up the Falklands Islands. Islands that they re-captured in 1982 after Argentina invaded and occupied them. The residents of the Falklands are British citizens and want to remain so. But our President feels it’s necessary to join these anti-American luminaries against our true allies. He and his have gone so far as to even refer to the Falklands as the “Malvinas” as Argentina calls them. A clear sign that he feels the British should give the islands up to the Argentinians.
It makes one wonder what he would do if Angela Merkel demanded that we give back New Mexico and California, which we won from Mexico during the Mexican American War of 1846-48. Most Americans would tell her to go pound sand and mind her own business. President Obiewan, I’m not so sure. (Actually, the whole California thing might not be that bad a plan. Let them deal with all those liberal weenies and all the debt they’ve incurred. It would also solve a significant percentage of the illegal immigration problem. It would repatriate them without moving a soul. Of course then we’d have to fence off Cali so they wouldn’t run away from Mexico again.)
I say this after looking at several of his recent actions. He and his minions, in secret, designed a socialistic medical plan for US citizens, then forced it down the county’s throat despite overwhelming protests by the citizenry. He took over two thirds of America’s auto production and proceeded to close hundreds of factory dealerships, despite the fact that many of them were profitable. (I don’t suppose the fact that nearly all of the closed dealerships had supported McCain/Palin had anything to do with the decision.) He has “apologized” for our past actions to every country he has come in contact with, never mind the fact that virtually the entire world would be speaking either German or Japanese if it weren’t for us. Never mind that we have shed American blood all over the globe for the past 100 years to help oppressed peoples, without colonizing one of them.
Within the last month he has, in essence, called for Israel (a country that has been one of our staunchest allies ever) to commit suicide by calling for them to return to their boarders that existed prior to the 1967 war. This war gave control of the Golan Heights, West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula to the Israelis. These are essential to Israel’s ability to protect itself and its citizens. Without these lands, Israel’s sworn enemies have a HUGE tactical advantage over them. An advantage they wouldn’t hesitate to use.
Now I read that he has sided with such notables as Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua against our other great ally, Great Britain. To put it simply, he’s telling Great Britain they need to give up the Falklands Islands. Islands that they re-captured in 1982 after Argentina invaded and occupied them. The residents of the Falklands are British citizens and want to remain so. But our President feels it’s necessary to join these anti-American luminaries against our true allies. He and his have gone so far as to even refer to the Falklands as the “Malvinas” as Argentina calls them. A clear sign that he feels the British should give the islands up to the Argentinians.
It makes one wonder what he would do if Angela Merkel demanded that we give back New Mexico and California, which we won from Mexico during the Mexican American War of 1846-48. Most Americans would tell her to go pound sand and mind her own business. President Obiewan, I’m not so sure. (Actually, the whole California thing might not be that bad a plan. Let them deal with all those liberal weenies and all the debt they’ve incurred. It would also solve a significant percentage of the illegal immigration problem. It would repatriate them without moving a soul. Of course then we’d have to fence off Cali so they wouldn’t run away from Mexico again.)
Saturday, June 4, 2011
How A Progressive Thinks
And you were just saying to yourself, “Jeez, that Obama Administration hasn’t given any thought to how much I’m going to have to pay for my mandated health insurance!”
Well you couldn’t be any further from the truth, you uncaring money grubber you.
Why just the other day, President Obama’s Solicitor General, Neal Kumar Katyal, while responding to a Fourth Circuit Court judge’s query about what people who were concerned about how much they were going to have to pay, said if they didn’t like what they had to pay they could “just earn less”.
This was his actual response! You can just earn less!
And people wonder why this crowd can’t get our economy back on track.
But Hey, according to Gallup, 71% of Democrats are in favor of redistributing wealth. And as we all know, wealth is a zero sum game. For one person to gain in wealth, another must lose it. So if you just earn less, somebody else will get more. Right?..... No, wait a minute. That doesn’t seem right.
Wealth is created. Just because I make a dollar more doesn’t mean 100 people must make a penny less. The whole concept of limited wealth and one person’s collection of wealth keeps another from acquiring wealth is fallacious. And yet those who manipulate the masses through pandering to wealth envy continually sell that soap to those who are unwilling to accept the consequences of their choices and actions.
Our current administration has operated from that position from day one. They have pandered to their 71% and have tried to put more people into a position where they will envy those who are not believers in wealth redistribution. That they will want to take from those who have made the right decisions, who have chosen the correct path, who have been willing to risk the wealth they have in an effort to create more.
So Neal Katyal’s suggestion of “just earn less” is completely consistent with the belief system of those who wish to “level” the playing field. Code language for stealing from those who produce in order to reward those who don’t. “Just earn less” and we will reward you by taking care of that pesky insurance for you. Thus making you even more dependent on Big Brother.
These are the same people who want to raise the taxes on the producers. Not because they think it will raise more money, during the Obama campaign he even admitted that he knew it wouldn’t raise more money, but because it would allow for the leveling of income.
The real trouble with that whole concept seems to be that when you take the incentive from the producers (by taxing them into submission), everyone is hurt. Why, because it’s the producers who create the jobs for others to fill, thus creating wealth for more people. When they don’t have the incentive to create more wealth because it’s just going to be taken from them anyway, they stop. Then all those down stream from them are negatively affected. Those who work for them no longer have jobs, those who supply them no longer have a customer, those who sell their product no longer have a product to sell, those who would like to buy what they sell have to go elsewhere. And in our global economy, that usually means going to an off shore supplier, which then takes even more money out of the system.
Well you couldn’t be any further from the truth, you uncaring money grubber you.
Why just the other day, President Obama’s Solicitor General, Neal Kumar Katyal, while responding to a Fourth Circuit Court judge’s query about what people who were concerned about how much they were going to have to pay, said if they didn’t like what they had to pay they could “just earn less”.
This was his actual response! You can just earn less!
And people wonder why this crowd can’t get our economy back on track.
But Hey, according to Gallup, 71% of Democrats are in favor of redistributing wealth. And as we all know, wealth is a zero sum game. For one person to gain in wealth, another must lose it. So if you just earn less, somebody else will get more. Right?..... No, wait a minute. That doesn’t seem right.
Wealth is created. Just because I make a dollar more doesn’t mean 100 people must make a penny less. The whole concept of limited wealth and one person’s collection of wealth keeps another from acquiring wealth is fallacious. And yet those who manipulate the masses through pandering to wealth envy continually sell that soap to those who are unwilling to accept the consequences of their choices and actions.
Our current administration has operated from that position from day one. They have pandered to their 71% and have tried to put more people into a position where they will envy those who are not believers in wealth redistribution. That they will want to take from those who have made the right decisions, who have chosen the correct path, who have been willing to risk the wealth they have in an effort to create more.
So Neal Katyal’s suggestion of “just earn less” is completely consistent with the belief system of those who wish to “level” the playing field. Code language for stealing from those who produce in order to reward those who don’t. “Just earn less” and we will reward you by taking care of that pesky insurance for you. Thus making you even more dependent on Big Brother.
These are the same people who want to raise the taxes on the producers. Not because they think it will raise more money, during the Obama campaign he even admitted that he knew it wouldn’t raise more money, but because it would allow for the leveling of income.
The real trouble with that whole concept seems to be that when you take the incentive from the producers (by taxing them into submission), everyone is hurt. Why, because it’s the producers who create the jobs for others to fill, thus creating wealth for more people. When they don’t have the incentive to create more wealth because it’s just going to be taken from them anyway, they stop. Then all those down stream from them are negatively affected. Those who work for them no longer have jobs, those who supply them no longer have a customer, those who sell their product no longer have a product to sell, those who would like to buy what they sell have to go elsewhere. And in our global economy, that usually means going to an off shore supplier, which then takes even more money out of the system.
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