jeremy

Stop the bailouts !!!!!!

2008-11-26T15:39:18Z

Man, everyone needs to wake up from this Obama-euphoria and revolt against these damn bailouts!! Do all of you know he is pushing for more and more and more of these??? Do you realize how horrific of a bad deal that is for all of us at the bottom???

his week the bailout of the Big Three automakers was under heavy consideration in Congress’s lame duck session. I have always opposed government bailouts of private organizations. Back in 1979 Congress had hearings about bailing out Chrysler and I was on record pointing out that these types of policies are foolish and very damaging to the long term economic health of our country. They still are.

There was also renewed pressure this week to bailout homeowners and send another round of stimulus checks to “Main Street” to balance out all the handouts to big business. It seems that eventually the entire economy is going to be blanketed over with Federal Reserve notes. Most in Washington are completely oblivious as to why this model of money creation and spending is so dangerous.

We must remember that governments do not produce anything. Their only resources come from producers in the economy through such means as inflation and taxation. The government has an obligation to be good stewards of these resources. In bailing out failing companies, they are confiscating money from productive members of the economy and giving it to failing ones. By sustaining companies with obsolete or unsustainable business models, the government prevents their resources from being liquidated and made available to other companies that can put them to better, more productive use. An essential element of a healthy free market, is that both success and failure must be permitted to happen when they are earned. But instead with a bailout, the rewards are reversed – the proceeds from successful entities are given to failing ones. How this is supposed to be good for our economy is beyond me.

Written by Ron Paul, Nov. 24-

With each bailout we hear rhetoric that this is the mother of all bailouts. This will fix the problem once and for all, and that this is absolutely necessary to avert disaster. This sense of panic squeezes astonishing amounts of dollars out of reluctant but hopeful legislators, who hate the position they are being put in, but are relieved that it will be the last time. It is never the last time, and again and again we are faced with the same scenarios and the same fears. We are already in the bailout business for such a staggering amount that admitting it was wrong in the first place would be too embarrassing. So the commitment to this course of action is only irrationally escalated, in the hopes that somehow, someway eventually it will work and those in power won’t have to admit they were wrong.

It won’t work. It can’t work. We need to cut our losses and get back on course. There is too much at stake for too many people to continue down this road. The bailouts thus far to AIG, Bear Stearns, Fannie and Freddie, and TARP funds amount to around $1.5 trillion. Considering our GDP is $14 trillion, and our Federal budget is already $3 trillion, this additional amount will significantly eat into our future lifestyles. That amounts to an extra $5,000 that every person in the country needs to somehow produce just to keep up. It is obvious to most Americans that we need to reject corporate cronyism, and allow the natural regulations and incentives of the free market to pick the winners and losers in our economy, not the whims of bureaucrats and politicians.

From one Republican to another

2008-11-05T17:38:04Z

I wrote this yesterday for Opednews.com, here is the url

Please send it to anyone you know that voted for mccain. parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, etc. Tell them your friend jeremy is a die hard republican and he would love share this with them.

My fellow Republicans,

Thank you. Thank you George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Mccain, and everyone who has supported this new liberal, out of control spending version of the Republican platform for causing the complete implosion of our party. Bravo. I think those of you that chose to support Bush regardless of his horrific policies bare a lot of the blame for the current surge of liberalism in this country. Those spineless liberals can't stop the flow of BS coming from the white house even now with their majority in both houses of congress, and they showed they couldn't filibuster their way out of a paper bag when Republicans had the majority for 12 of the last 14 years, and the white house for the last 8, and yet we somehow can credit them with getting us to this terrible place in our nation's history?? They bare the blame for our country being run into the ground in this epic fashion?? You can not be serious. Going around blaming the liberals for this incredible, unimaginable 11 trillion dollar debt that your president and Republican controlled congress has bestowed upon us is ridiculous. We are the party of self accountability, are we not?? It is people like minority leader Mitch Mcconnell, John Mccain, and other fake republicans who have completely disenfranchised the nation from our party's platform. Mitch Mcconnell, in his desperate ads running in Kentucky to keep his seat in the senate, stated that he was able to bring millions of dollars in federal money back to Kentucky last year while they only paid in (i forget the figure) an amount far far lower. What in the hell is Republican about that?? To be proud that you siphoned tax money out of other hurting states plagued with job loss and foreclosure to your undeserving state? That is supposed to be commendable??

I think we really need to open our eyes to what in the hell our party is supposed to stand for. Aren't we to stand for balanced budgets, peace, small limited government and no special privileges for anyone? (THIS INCLUDES HETEROSEXUALS. GAYS ARE NO LESS ENTITLED TO THE RIGHT TO MARRY JUST BECAUSE YOUR BIBLE SAYS OTHERWISE. RELIGION DOESN'T DICTATE LAWS HERE. THIS IS AMERICA, NOT IRAN. ) Did George Bush not stand there and tell us in 2000 we are for a HUMBLE foreign policy, NO nation building and no policing of the world? No social programs at the cost of working folks and no out of control spending? Wake up Republicans, your party has accomplished NONE OF THIS and they had 6 solid years of complete legislative and congressional control to do it. Was it just not enough time? What other excuses are you going to make for these people?? This election season, they deserve to have their worthless lying asses handed to them, after passing a $3.2 Trillion dollar budget for 2008. $3.2 Trillion?!? What effing planet did these "Republicans" come from???

We need to face the facts and admit this war was a beyond disastrous choice that was totally unnecessary, completely unorganized, planned more poorly than any operation in our country's history and it was orchestrated by people that never even bothered to measure the economic consequences (oh yeah, you were real spot on with that whole "it'll take 6 months, cost a billion dollars and it will all be paid for by Iraqi Oil." Nice prediction Ms. Cleo). Taking on a nation that every intelligence agency deemed not even remotely threatening to our country at the cost of the collapse of our economy is somehow conservative?? What are we saying to the rest of the country? The Republican way to remove a splinter is to use a chainsaw?? This idiot president's absurd deficit spending and horrific foreign and domestic policies are what caused this liberal avalanche. Everyone thinks these past 8 years represent a Republican run country, and why wouldnt they?? They had a vast majority in congress and a Republican president, what else could they possibly be led to believe?? They are led to believe that the housing collapse is a consequence of the free market, and why wouldn't they?? Idiot republicans de-regulated everything like they were supposed to EXCEPT FOR THE CREATION OF CREDIT, which is the very thing that should have been regulated!!! It's not a free market when banks have license to create money on a computer, take huge risks with it and get a handout from the government when it blows up in their face! Again I ask- WHAT IS REPUBLICAN ABOUT THAT?? Now we have a nation filled with people looking for government coddling in the housing market! Thanks Republicans! Rolling back environmental laws while corporations destroy the planet, and we expect no fallout from voters when it is linked to rises in retardation, disease and illness?? What planet are we living on??? It's people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who have worked tirelessly to keep any accountability off of this president and current crop of Republicans and somehow have the gall to blame these impotent liberals who have controlled congress not even the past 2 years. WE ARE THE PARTY OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND WE SHOULD ACT LIKE IT.

We need to tell John Mccain and Sarah Palin to shove it. Why? Because they don't represent us, and they don't represent our party. The $850 billion taxpayer funded bailout?? Raising taxes so they can hand it off to irresponsible banks, just so they can loan it back to us to "keep the economy going"?? Are we a nation of 6 year olds with no comprehension of deductive logic? Am I in the twilight zone and it's the conservative candidate pushing for this?? Of course I'd expect it from the liberal candidate, but the conservative?? What the hell country is this?? We can then move on to both McCain and Obama supporting the recording of innocent Americans' phone calls without a judge's consent, as well as sifting through their emails with no probable cause! WHAT THE HELL. Has no one read the 4th amendment?? The founding father's would be vomitting in public after learning of this! Are we so arrogant to say the founding fathers and Colonial Americans all the way down to 8 years old spilled their blood to fight off the British Liberals just to have their own government monitoring it's own citizens and thumbing their nose at the simple principles they outlined for this country?? WHAT THE HELL. The NSA has even been caught recording intimate phone calls from our soldiers' to their wives and girlfriends back home using this program! And you dare to drive around with a "support the troops" sticker on your car?! Again i ask- what the hell!! Choosing Mccain over Obama? If our nation were a toddler and we were choosing a babysitter, voting Mccain would be like choosing a child molestor just because the alternative was a convicted child murderer- far worse! Would you use your same stupid lesser of 2 evils argument there, too?

I don't like these associations Obama has to Ayers, or his "muslim" ties, whatever that means, but so what! They've also tried to say Christian preacher Jeremiah Wright somehow shaped Obama's mind with 20 years of spiritual counseling. So which is it? The guy is a Christian for 20 years and a secret Muslim at the same time? This is all so ridiculous! These stupid accusations cheapen the whole political process because they are purely inflamatory and play to only the most ignorant of voters. The founding fathers specifically said no man's religion should ever be called into question when running for public office and should be of no consideration whatsoever in your decision on who to vote for. Maybe the Bush's and Cheney's of the world no longer care about what the founders had to say, but I sure as hell do. Shame on every Republican who irresponsibly handed off their vote to this man without performing their ONE crucial role as an American- TO KEEP OUR ELECTED LEADERS ACCOUNTABLE WITH THE POWER OF OUR VOTE. Giving it away in mindless fashion to a man who said the Constitution was "just a damn piece of paper"?? He has tied for the lowest approval rating of all president's in our nation's history with A- bomb dropping Harry Truman! Congratulations Bush Republicans, you have succeeded in alienating the vast majority of the American electorate who now decide our fate on Tuesday. Good one. Next time you're in court why don't you chastise the jury for thinking differently than you, I hear it's a great strategy.

Allow me to close this angry letter with a plea. From one Republican to another PLEASE don't vote for John Mccain. Your vote is not going to matter anyway, the dam has already broken and our party is nothing but the trees standing in the path of the Obama tsunami. He will win in landslide fashion, and you have yourselves and George Bush to blame. You should do what you should have done 4 years ago and vote with a clear conscience tomorrow for someone who deserves it. An actual conservative, be it Bob Barr, pastor Chuck Baldwin, or whoever. All of the blame for this huge Obama surge lies solely on the shoulders of congressional Republicans, media figures like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Fox News and the like, George Bush, and all of you who irresponsibly laid down for this idiot president. If we would have just kept them to what they promised- balanced budgets, constitutional government and a reduction in government size- we would not be in this predicament. Republicans deserve to be handed crushing defeats this election season and I hope they get what is coming to them, regardless of what these backstabbing socialist Democrats have in store for us. WE are supposed to be the party of principle- act like it! DON'T VOTE MCCAIN PALIN. Show the establishment we actually give a damn about candidates who follow through on what they promise.

Or helplessly vote for McCain while crying "pretty please do the right thing! But if you don't I'll still vote for you in 4 years anyway."

Yeah. That'll show em.

signed,
one disenfranchised, disgusted Republican

jeremylynn @ 2007-04-08T03:03:00

2007-04-08T08:09:57Z

it is truly amazing how many times you can let the same person do nothing but disappoint you.

i am very, very annoyed.

jeremylynn @ 2007-03-12T19:39:00

2007-03-13T00:40:54Z

guitar hero I has cowboys from hell !!!!!!

the set list on this game is a trillion times better than guitar hero II. fuck guitar hero II, you heard it here first

jeremylynn @ 2007-02-16T22:34:00

2007-02-17T04:36:37Z

i used to feel unimportant or uncool if my phone didnt ring 50 times on friday night, but now i find i actually kind of like it.

jeremylynn @ 2007-02-13T10:56:00

2007-02-13T16:58:35Z

i watched the shining 2 nights ago. i've never really sat and watched that before. and now when i go to bed i'm totally creeped out. thank god i never attempted to watch that when i was a kid.

i hate horror movies.

jeremylynn @ 2007-02-05T00:22:00

2007-02-05T06:23:44Z

= -9 Fahrenheit. fyi

jeremylynn @ 2007-01-09T09:34:00

2007-01-09T15:35:57Z

"i'm sorry i've been strange lately, but really- you have nothing to worry about. i'm not going anywhere."

sure.

a little bored lately

2006-02-22T15:57:54Z

i thought once i lived in a house with no cable tv i would just find other stuff to do. this is difficult to do when it is in the 20s outside. i havent been able to go back to the gym yet either between bruising my arm and now fucking up neck from that spill i took. maybe that's partly why i've been so bored. other than the boredom everything else is pretty okay. i might quit my job for this courier job if it's as good as my friend made it sound. i saw the bmw manager yesterday trying to sell him some more adspace and he said to come back once i've "grown a set" (meaning he wants me to sell cars at their new audi store) which i passed on. it's all in jest though. i think. oh well. being a pussy is fine too.

spring please come soon.

jeremylynn @ 2006-02-18T16:37:00

2006-02-18T22:40:47Z

i fell on the ice yesterday at work. that ruled. i landed %100 on my elbow, which luckily i hardly even have a bruise? i have no idea how that happened, and my right shoulder caught the rest of the impact, but today that shoulder isnt even sore, but the left is, right where it meets my neck. i don't get it. so i have to see the doctor again in a few days. awesome.
it's literally 2 degrees outside today, who knows what the temp is with windchill. this is awesome factor #2.i stayed home and slept last night, although i still feel unrested. this week has really turned up the suck. hopefully tonight will be something fun, although i highly doubt it due to this god damn weather.

jeremylynn @ 2006-02-16T22:01:00

2006-02-17T04:02:24Z

fuuuuck this fuckin weather. this shit needs to go.

jeremylynn @ 2006-02-13T21:43:00

2006-02-14T03:43:37Z

ryan started the fire !!!

jeremylynn @ 2006-02-11T11:08:00

2006-02-11T17:09:22Z

Radiojoga: Aha!
yeahhhcollege: hahjahah
yeahhhcollege: you're upstairs!!! come down here!

i think...

2006-02-05T21:57:26Z

i am at the happiest point in my life that i've ever experienced.

yes. now that i think about it, that sounds just about right.

oh my god

2006-02-04T17:44:55Z

there is seriously no amount of money you could offer me right now to ever go through that again. they stuck both of my arms, i broke into a cold sweat and almost fucking passed out.

horrible. absolutely horrible.

jeremylynn @ 2006-02-01T23:11:00

2006-02-02T05:11:58Z

oh my god i took my last ambien half pill tonight i don't have a problem i'm not addicted I JUST NEED THEM OKAY

oh

2006-01-30T14:24:41Z

and kendra moved out :(

jeremylynn @ 2006-01-29T21:42:00

2006-01-30T03:47:39Z

90s cover band! totally a go. practiced with our bass player today, we rule so hard.

yesterday was spent in its entirety in my underwear, on the internet. i still feel pretty tired today. i went out for this kid's birthday last night. 21st might i add! what a fuckin champ, this kid had at least 11 shots of whiskey and tequila by 11, and when we left at ONE he was still up for more. still talking and coherent even! have to tip my hat to that guy.

i'm beat.

jeremylynn @ 2006-01-23T10:06:00

2006-01-23T16:12:24Z

not a bad weekend at all. yesterday was really nice and lazy. saturday night! i don' tknow what the fuck happened, we expected like, maybe 20 people, all kinds of people showed up! these electronic noise bands played in our basement, i didnt think many people would come. here's some pictures just from hanging out in the kitchen:

TAYLOR O SWEET!!!!!

between the 5 of us we killed an entire bottle of knob creek. score!!!!

i hate snow

2006-01-21T16:35:39Z

but it does look pretty. here's my neighborhood-

jeremylynn @ 2006-01-19T12:21:00

2006-01-19T18:32:56Z

so i tried to sleep last night, the natural way. i thought i was tired enough. fuuuuck that. i went to sleep at around 1130, i woke up at 130, and again at 330, and i was awake until 415 until i said fuck this, where's the ambien. then i fell asleep at about 430, slept until 830. i had the most go dawful dreams that were so twisted and fucked up that involved spiders and cars that were like airboats but it was like, a moving mattress. i don't konw what the fuck i'm even talking about. it was a fucking weird dream. all i know is, i'm worn out today and my sleep last night fucking sucked. baaaack to the pills.

jeremylynn @ 2006-01-18T08:52:00

2006-01-18T14:54:35Z

oh my god i love ambien more than anything in the world. i have never felt so good in my fucking life. AAAAAND... it's sunny today!!!!!!!!!

jeremylynn @ 2006-01-15T16:47:00

2006-01-15T22:50:56Z

okay! it ends up paul took my camera just to be a douche and freak me out. thanks paul!! but... a stack of burned cd's is gone, which baffles me, and my jacket. someone took my f'n peacoat. what the hell is that? fuuuuckin gheyee.

good god

2006-01-15T15:50:58Z

that party definitely got a lot more out of hand than i thought. good job missing it sarah!

my stack of burned cd's are gone. i'd love to know what that's all about. who steals burned cd's? and... i think someone jacked my camera... which is not mine, but property of my employer. well, was.

excellent.

:(

2006-01-15T01:49:20Z

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