Only In America---Great Commentary On The State Of The Country

“Top Ten List of America's Stupidity”

Unknown - freerepublic.com,  October 5th, 2013

10) Only in America … could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.

9) Only in America … could people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black. 41% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans – 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

 Only in America … could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

7) Only in America … can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

6) Only in America … would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens.

5) Only in America … could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be thought of as “extremists.”

4) Only in America … could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check, buy alcohol, get served in a bar, ship by UPS, buy an airline ticket, but not to vote.

3) Only in America … could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

2) Only in America … could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year – for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

1) Only in America … could the rich people – who pay 86% of all income taxes – be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.

Charlie Rangel and Conservative Tom Agree!

When Charlie Rangel, Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz and Conservative Tom agree on something, you know that the subject is very unpopular.  So goes it with Syria. These three gentlemen and yours truly  who are from different parties, with differing governing opinions and significantly different attitudes toward the President all agree that Syria should not be attacked.  

In recent polls (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/03/polls-should-u-s-launch-strikes-against-syria/) Americans are strongly against any attack on Syria and it is not related to being Republican, Democrat or Independent.  It crosses political lines so for once our representatives seem to be following the citizenry.

This mis-adventure is wrong. Yes, we should find out who did the gassing of the Syrians and yes, that group or groups should be punished. However,  it is NOT the responsibility of America to do this alone.  It should be an international effort to correct the wrongs.  We can participate but we should not be judge, jury and prosecutor.

Conservative Tom

Charlie Rangel: Obama's Handling of Syria 'Embarrassing'

Tuesday, 03 Sep 2013 12:13 PM

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President Barack Obama’s handling of the Syria crisis has proved “embarrassing,” Rep. Charles Rangel, a staunch Democratic supporter of Obama, told MSNBC Monday.

The president's declaration last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Damascus regime would cross a "red line" was "unheard of" the veteran New York Democrat said.

“I love Obama and you’ll never find a truer Democrat than me," Rangel said. "But this whole idea of any president of the United States drawing lines saying that if any country does something that he considers wrong, that the nation is going to war, it’s unheard of, drawing a red line,” Rangel said.

“So, of course, it’s embarrassing.”

Rangel said he was glad the president reviewed the situation and that broader discussions will occur. Obama submitted a resolution to Congress Saturday to use force in Syria, and the House will take that up the issue after returning from break Sept. 9.

On CNN, Rangel, who has served in the House for 42 years, vehemently opposed the idea of going to war with Syria when so many questions are unanswered.

“There’s absolutely no question I would vote no because there’s so many questions,” he said. “One of them is, is this a war? And if it’s not a war, if it’s a limited war, I never heard of anything in my entire life. If you’re going to fire shells and bomb a community, that’s war, and you have to have a declaration of war, and the Congress should legally, constitutionally approve it and I haven’t seen that evidence.”

In a separate MSNBC interview, Rangel expanded his views to Alex Witt, pointing out that it’s unclear how the “gross violation of international law” affects U.S. citizens. This, he said, is an international issue that should be addressed by the international community."

Rangel said Syrian President Bashar Assad didn’t strike against the U.S., but "he did it to humankind to the world."

“This idea that the president’s credibility’s on the line or the United States’ credibility on the line, merely because he said he would not stand for it, well the constitution means that Americans won’t stand for it, and that’s what the vote’s going to be about."

Despite his stated support of the current administration, it is not the first time Rangel has called Obama's actions "embarrassing." In January, he used the same word to describe the lack of racial diversity among the president's cabinet.

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And Rangel on CNN