Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 170: “Follow the Leader”

Everclear is dumped into the wine sometimes
Then you add nachos and tacos, burritos you know
Here is how it usually goes, it goes

Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine
Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine

All that's left to do is drink the wine
Just lay back and watch the time go by
Old friends tell the truth when mixed with the wine
That's why I blend in all the lemons and limes

Yeah I love that Sangria wine
When I'm drink'n with old friends of mine
Yeah I love that Sangria wine
When I'm drink'n with old friends of mine

Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine
Whoa oh oh Woah oh oh I love Sangria wine                                                                                                                         
Jerry Jeff Walker, Sangria Wine

Companies, government entities, and almost any organization’s staff and employees reflect the values, work ethic, and business practices of their leadership. Examples of this natural and well documented pattern of behavior abound.

Several examples of such behavior include the following:

• Apple’s Steve Jobbs who by his example established a cool, hip, culture of innovation that spread thru the company faster than kudzu
• Jack Welch, former CEO at GE, was a tough, cost cutting, visionary executive who created the most efficient, productive, highest valued company in the world. His implementation of Six SIGMA and Lean practices created fanatical disciples within GE
• Bill Gates has created a brilliant geek techie culture at Microsoft with great success, profits, and breakthroughs in innovation
• Health South CEO, Richard Scrushy is a greedy, arrogant, thief who surrounded himself with likeminded folks who are all guest of the Feds these days at various prison camps around the country
• New Orleans Saints head coach, Sean Patton, condoned bounties on opposing team players and illegally bugged the visiting team locker rooms. With a few notable exceptions he has a current roster of low life, criminal, thugs who would make great hockey players, drug runners, and/or Democrat members of Congress.

Our Country’s current CEO, or Trend Setter-in-Chief, is sure as hell not immune from the impact of this tried and true rule of leadership. Once the smoke clears from all the empty rhetoric and demagoguery Mr. Obama’s actual deeds, actions and behavior have a profound impact on the Executive branch and even his Socialist comrades in Congress.

Sadly, following our Loser-in-Chief’s pathetic lead of humongous government; massive wealth distribution; criminal levels of spending; hidden agendas; corruption; deferment of responsibility; no accountability; gross incompetence; and arrogance towards we the people seemingly the entire Federal government is acting like a bunch of sophomoric yahoos. Truth be told the GSA and Secret Service are only following Barack and Michele’s lead when it comes to the inappropriate use of tax payer dollars and partying on our dime.

Examples of their arrogant elitist conduct are more abundant than white on rice. Since infesting the White House only 170 weeks ago the first couple have hosted at least 30 big name entertainers for band parties including:

• Justin Beiver – twice
• Stevie Wonder
• Patty LaBelle
• Brad Praisly
• Beyoncé - twice
• BB King
• Sir Paul McCartney
• 20 or so hip hop gangsta rapper thugs

In addition to all this home entertainment the Obama’s love road trips as much as the Grizzwalds. Exotic and highbrow vacation destinations, so far, include the following:

• 3 trips to Martha’s Vineyard
• 3 trips home for holidays in Hawaii – no home or relatives still there, but what the hell, we’re talking paradise here
• Spain
• New York City
• Wally World

Other abuses of power, reckless spending, and just plain ole boneheaded waste of time and money include:

• Friday date nights
• Over100 golf outings, not one with daughters or wife, interesting for a man who claims the GOP has declared a war on woman
• Multiple campaign trips paid for by our hard earned tax dollars
• A secretary of Defense that has piled up almost a million dollars in expenses flying home because he refused to move his family to DC

Our First Couple has created an atmosphere and tone of reckless spending of other people’s money and having a good ole time at our expense. The GSA, Secret Service and most likely a mess of other government agencies are just following the Obama’s lead of irresponsible spending and conduct.

Besides, the Secret Service boys deserve a little diversion and down time. We certainly would never question the actions of anyone who is willing to take a bullet for someone else, especially the likes of the Obamas.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 169: “Unmitigated Disaster”

I've got a question for you, please grant me an interview
Don't want to read it in a magazine
Don't want to see it on the silver screen
Don't let the craziness tear us apart

I'm down on the knees of my heart
Down here on the knees of my heart

This comes from deep in my soul, your sweet love has taken control
I'll swim across the ocean if you tell me so
I'll take you to the jump up if you want to go
It's never too late to make a brand new start

I'm down here on the knees of my heart
Down here on the knees of my heart Knees of My Heart, Jimmy Buffett

Ain’t no never mind about it former Vice President Dick Cheney described the train wreck known as the Obama Administration backwards and forwards in two concise and profound words, “Unmitigated Disaster“. For a man who just received a heart transplant about a month ago he obviously hasn’t lost his combative spirit or ability to accurately evaluate a crisis situation.

He couldn’t have chosen two more applicable words to describe the Obama regime. Both are right as rain and truly capture the abject failure of the most incompetent and leftist Administration in the history of this great nation.

A brief review of the actual definition of these two words highlights the brilliance of Mr. Cheney’s sure enough most astute observation:

• Unmitigated – complete, unalloyed, utter, sheer, pure, total, unadulterated, absolute
• Disaster – tragedy, ruin, catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, misfortune, debacle, fiasco, farce, mess, shambles

Any combination of these words nails the Change Gang spot on. They also roll off the tongue like a melody and are just downright fun to say.

Go ahead and shout out a few of the following openly and without shame and we can guarantee you’ll be feeling finer than frog hair in no time:

• Complete ruin
• Utter calamity
• Total debacle
• Unadulterated fiasco
• Absolute mess

As much fun as it is following VP Cheney’s lead defining the true nature of these boneheads the actual human carnage inflicted upon us by this president is truly staggering. Any poor dumb pilgrims seriously considering giving our Marxist/Socialist-in-Chief another four years must be crazier than an outhouse rat.

Any serious, independent, unbiased examination of this Administration’s record reveals a trail of heartache of historic proportions. Just consider the following:

• 4 unprecedented years of trillion dollar plus annual deficits
• 5 trillion in new debt in less than four years
• An over 80 percent increase in government spending
• 8 percent plus unemployment for over 150 weeks straight
• Record number of folks on unemployment
• Record number of folks on food stamps
• Record number of folks on some form of government assistance
• Worst housing market since the Great Depression
• Slowest and most anemic recovery since the Great Depression
• Passage of unconstitutional budget breaking socialized medicine law
• Nationalization of US auto industry
• Historically high energy prices
• Worst relationship with Israel and other traditional allies ever
• Weakest foreign policy and standing in the world since Peanut’s Administration
• Most massive redistribution of wealth in the history of the civilized world

The last three and half years have sure enough been an “Unmitigated Disaster” that we sure as hell can’t afford to repeat for another four years. Thanks to VP Cheney for speaking out and best wishes on the new heart.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 168: “The Buffett Rule”

You gotta play by kinja rules Forget about that civics course you learned in school God watches out for drunks and fools But forget the ten commandments here

Kinja rules, Kinja rules, Kinja rules, Kinja rules Kinja Rules, Jimmy Buffett

Our Fair Share, Fair Shake, Fair Enough, Fair to Midland, No Fair-in-Chief is out on his tax payer funded reelection campaign, standing right on up behind his presidential podium just as if he had good sense, promoting his boneheaded policy known as the Buffett Rule again. An absolutely joke and sham of a tax policy named after seriously misguided left wing head case multi-billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

Obama’s Socialist regime is renewing their call for Congress to raise taxes on millionaires, a cornerstone of the class warfare campaign strategy the Change Gang is unleashing on the American people. A flim flam shell game diversion whining about the false assumption that wealthy investors pay lower taxes rates than middle-class wage earners highlighted by the President’s misleading and technically inaccurate claim that Mr. Buffett’s secretary pays at a higher rate than her infamous Yankee rich boss.

Obama's team has made the Buffett rule a key part of its message, saying it shows clear differences with the GOP who rightly point out the plan would raise taxes on small businesses greatly hindering the engine for sustained job growth and economic recovery. Republicans have also correctly noted that Obama's proposal would only generate $47 billion in additional revenues through 2022, a mere 4.7 billion a year. Hardly enough to cover the president’s annual golf expenses and the GSA’s Vegas conventions.

President Obama is specifically proposing that people earning at least $1 million annually, whether in salary or investments should pay at least 30 percent of their income in tax. Investment income is currently taxed at 15 percent allowing many wealthy investors to pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes. The top rate for taxpayers with high incomes derived from wages in comparison is 35%.

White House propagandist said in a report released ahead of Obama's speech in Florida this week that the tax proposal would restore fairness to the system, pointing to 22,000 households earning more than $1 million annually that paid less than 15 percent of their income in income taxes in 2009. What they fail to mention:

1. Income from investments has already been taxed at least once at higher rates
2. The Fed could confiscate every last dime of these poor pilgrim’s annual income and it wouldn’t even make a frog’s hair worth of a dent in our wildly out of control deficits and debt
3. Mr. Buffett’s secretary pulls in about a half million a year in wages including what she gets paid from her part time job with the GSA
4. This is a classic Marxist/Socialist political tactic that would make the likes of Chavez, Mao and Castro proud
5. With all due respect Mr. Buffett he is more than welcome to take his happy ass down to DC anytime and drop off a check made out to the US Treasury for as many billions he finds fittin with his good friend Barack anytime he’s feeling froggy

Now, truth be told, we’d be tickled pink if the president got a Buffett Rule passed, but one based on Jimmy and not Warren. A rule based on the positions of the greatest and most astute philosopher, poet and escapism advocate of our time would sure enough enhance each and every one of our Constitutional mandate to pursue happiness with the passion of a son of sailor, a man gone to Paris and/or a simple cheeseburger in paradise.

Our Buffett Rule is simple, easy to stay on message and has multiple options to choose from that won’t require anyone to pay Uncle Sammy one cent more in taxes. Following is a list of options that unlike Warren’s are all abundantly more fair, based on true American values and predicated on free market principles:

• Anything, Anytime, Anywhere

• A Lot To Drink About

• A Pirate Looks At 40

• Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On

• Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

• Fruitcakes

• Grapefruit-juicy Fruit

• Growing Older But Not up

Havana Daydreamin'

• He Went To Paris

• If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

• It's Five O'clock Somewhere

• I Don't Know And I Don't Care

• Manana

• Margaritaville

• Off To See The Lizard

• Stars Fell On Alabama

• Tampico Trauma

• The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

• The Wino and i know

• What If The Hokey-pokey Is All It Really Is About?

• Why Don't We Get Drunk And Screw

President Obama’s Warren Buffett Rule won’t create one job, enhance economic growth or pay down a penny of the national debt. Mr. Romney needs to propose a Jimmy Buffett Rule, proclaim its five o’clock somewhere, invite us all to Margaritaville to see the lizard and watch a few stars fall on Alabama.

A bold and aggressive move that would certainly give the Obama campaign a lot to drink about as they contemplate a loss of historic proportions in November.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes

Thoughts On Obama From Bama

Week 167: “Obama’s All of the Above Energy Strategy”

I pulled into the regular pump I was feelin' quite at ease
rolled down my window and told the man, ;fifty cents worth please
Then out jumped my partner with his trusty pellet gun
He said boy this is a holdup, keep 'a pumpin' and don't run

We got fifteen dollars and a can of stp
A big ol' jar of cashew nuts and a Japanese TV
Feelin' we had pulled the biggest heist of our career
We're wanted men, we'll strike again But first let's have a beer

We were sittin' in the Krystal About as drunk as we could be
In walks the deputy sheriff And he's holdin' our TV

Roughed us then he cuffed us
And he took us off to jail No pictures on a poster, no reward and no bail

And now I wish I was somewhere other than here
Down in some honky tonk, sippin' on a beer
Yes I wish I was somewhere other than here'
cause that great fillin' station holdup Cost me two good years

Yes that great fillin' station holdupIt cost me two good years Great Fillin Station Holdupt, Jimmy Buffett

Any poor dumb pilgrim that believes our Roughneck-in-Chief is genuinely advocating an All of the Above energy strategy is sure enough crazier than an outhouse rat. No sir, no way, no how. The man is a green energy; save the flat speckled bellied flat land lizard; eco-Nazi; radical tree humping extremist who equates fossil fuels with free market capitalism and despises both with Marxist/Socialist fanaticism.

Truth be told American coal and oil industries are pillars of this country’s global economic dominance representing the best of U.S. ingenuity, innovation, perseverance and successful free market capitalism. Even with all the negative aspects of these industries, pollution; greed; environmental adversity; and exploitation, the positive benefits derived are more abundant than white on rice.

For a president of this country to demonize, lie about and criminalize these industries is shameful, anti-business, totally misleading and detrimental to establishing U.S. energy independence and our economic vitality. Consider the following stats about the U.S. oil and gas industry:

• Ownership - 9%, corporate management and institutional. 91% pensions, mutual funds, IRA’S AND 401K’s
• Profit margins – 6.7% compared to 9.2% for overall manufacturing industry
• 2 Trillion in US capital investment since 2000
• Effective tax rate – 41% compared to 26% for overall manufacturing
• 85 Million a day paid in taxes, fees and royalties
• 500 Billion in profits, 400 Billion paid in income taxes last 5 years
• Over 9 Million jobs industry wide

President Obama’s bad mouthing of such a vital US industry is downright un-American. His proposal to end their tax subsidies, the same subsidies all manufacturing companies currently receive, is nothing more than sanctimonious class warfare.

Such a boneheaded move would also adversely impact a lot of good folks 401K’s and actually raise the price to fill up our tanks even more. Which, unbelievably, is precisely what the Obama Administration’s energy policy is designed to do.

In hindsight none of this should come as a surprise or world shaking great new revolation. Prior to his media elite supported myths and lies got him elected to the highest office in the land our future president repeatedly proclaimed openly and without shame his advocacy for raising energy prices to European levels.

According to our Tree Humper-in-Chief this is the only way to cure our global warming addiction to those Satan fossil fuels. Don’t seem to matter to these green energy extremist that their ecofriendly alternatives won’t be ready for primetime for at least another 30-50 years.

Now that we know his real agenda it’s right easy to extrapolate Obama’s true, not for public consumption, All of the Above, radical extremist, stop manmade global warming, energy strategy. Following is a brief listing of this economic train wreck in waiting and fiscal calamity of Koranic proportions:

• Raise the price at the pump to 9-10 dollars a gallon
• Kill U.S Coal industry with implementation of oppressive EPA regulations
• Backdoor Cap and Tax/Trade with oppressive EPA intrusions
• Tax oil, coal and gas industries out of business
• Force mass transit down U.S. traveling public collective throats
• Outlaw gas guzzling nonconforming vehicles
• Subsidize foreign exploration and drilling while drastically cutting domestic production

Mr. Obama has gained a pretty strong toe hold on All of the Above during his first term of office. Given a second he’s more likely than not to keep at least one of his promises to fundamentally transform America as we know it.

Totally energy dependent on foreign sources and a second rate fiscally unstable Marxist/Socialist nanny state. Sure enough would be a truly amazing dismantling of the world’s greatest free market capitalist economy in 8 short years.

I am American by birth and Southern by the grace of God.

Ron W Garikes