Pie in the sky. Why?

We don’t have time and money for expensive science projects. It may be fun and interesting for a few science mongers but the money is badly needed elsewhere. Robotic rovers to Mars does not lend itself to basic human needs.

And the question still exists, why is the federal government still paying for such obscenely expensive ventures. This should be privatized. Perhaps the extremely profitable energy companies could fund these Exploratorium’s. But not the government that is in poor financial shape.

If you want an outer space project to involve humankind, try to figure out how to expand space between seats on a jetliner. More leg room is needed as well. Not high dollar voyages to Mars. Perhaps even surface transportation could be engineered and resolved.

Trains, planes, and bridges need our country’s attention. It would most likely put more out of work citizens back on the job. Working and circulating money down at the grass roots level. More money is needed on the terrestrial level than the celestial. Let us all build high speed transportation between cities. Forget warp speed to the outer limits. A good job on earth is worth a thousand photos of Mars desert surface posted on Facebook. Incidentally, is all this Mars rover presentation done in a studio at Disney’s Burbank studios? Maybe perhaps?

Don't give me that crap! Tell me a lie.

I guess the conventional wisdom in political campaign is if you lie enough it will become the truth. “Obama is bad for America.” At least this is the Republican model for the Romney campaign. Distort and slander your opponent enough and people will believe anything you say. And the more campaign money from unknown sources you have the more vagaries and generalities you can put out there in TV and Radio land.

Where is the proverbial “Buzzer” that goes off each time a person blathers a falsehood. “BUZZ!” Well, fantasies like that only exist on game shows and late night TV. However, we depend on the mainstream media to be the so-called “Whistle Blower.” But, these days, the media is asleep at the wheel. Maybe comatose is a better description. Where is the electronic and print media when a buzzer moment occurs? Hands in their pockets? Outdo lunch maybe?

Well, more like hiding in a closet afraid to speak or print the truth in fear of being labeled liberal. Telling the truth is liberal? Since when? Since George W Bush and Fox news.

Since September 11, 2001 anybody and everybody questioning the president or his administration was labeled unpatriotic and liberal. This was pounded on over and over again that it became accepted as the so-called truth.

The truth? Yes, exaggeration and prevarication is the accepted norm. Accepted norm? Are you lying to me? Am I lying? Why you freaking liberal! You can kiss my buzzer! You unpatriotic elitist

Rules are for fools and not for me.

What Mit Romney is guilty of, is wanting to make up his own rules. Which also seems to be the trend of the entire Republican party. Rules and regulations often get in the way of just wanting to be president. Just as Romney does. “I deserve to be president, don’t I? So go away with those silly rules.”

But anyway, Mit just makes it up as he goes along. “There no rule that wasn’t meant to be broken. But only by the Republicans. Democrats must play by the rules or suffer distortion and lie. If you know what I mean.

When it come to asking by the press about Romney’s missing tax returns, such questions are off limit. But if Obama does the same, he will be chicken fried before night fall. The rule is, all rules only apply to democrats. When a Republican walks in a room, all rules are suspended. No gets away with asking embarrassing questions. “How dare you!” But it is interesting when Harry Reed mentioned Romney had not paid his taxes for ten years, it all came back to Sen. Reed. As if Reed was the one in question. Never mind Romney has never showed any substantiating proof of paying taxes. “Put up or shut up,” Romney tossed back at Reed. Blustering as if Senator Reed was the one in question. Sure, rules do not apply to Romney. Only to his detractors.

If Romney had nothing to hide, then I’m sure he would reveal his tax returns. But me being a practicing amateur psychologist, I know as well as millions know, Romney is a flat out liar and has something to hide. So Romney! Shut up or put up. Show us your hand or fold ‘em and back out and away from the game.

Okay bud, show me your papers or get out.

Mit Romney’s private and professional life is a closed book. Not ever to be revealed. Shut tight. Sealed and very much a dark secret.

Would a smart human resource officer accept an employment application from an applicant without work and education detail? The applicant couldn’t even get his or her foot in the door without a comprehensive resume. Where did you attend college? What previous business experience do you have? What professional organizations do you now belong to or have belonged to in the past. What honors or civic office have you held? Etc, etc.

All normal questions a HR man would ask. However, Mit Romney wants to change the rules. “Don’t ask me personal questions.” Romney does not want to give detail about his experience as Olympic organizer. He does not want to talk about his term as governor of Massachusetts. Romney doesn’t even want to reveal much about his dealings and experiences with Bain Capital. Especially revealing his past tax returns. “Nope! It’s none of your business!”

If President Obama had taken the same course of non-revelation, he would have been crucified. He would have never been elected president. So, what’s so top secret about Mit? Why does he think he is entitled to a free pass? Just slip on in and take over the presidency. No questions asked. More or less acting like Fidel Castro and his take over coup of the Cuban government. Fidel had no resume but strong armed his way into power.

Is this what America stands for? Toss out democracy and the constitution so a man can slip into office without any regard to his past? If I were a profane man, I would say Hell no! But I’m not so I won’t say that. God forgive me.

Never the less, Romney wants the highest office in the land but without qualifications. “Just make me president with no questions asked.” “Just give me the honorary degree and I’ll take over.”

No Sir!! Not on a bet. Mit! You can’t buy your way in. The presidency is not for sale. The American electorate wants to see all your personal and professional records and past tax returns. The voters want to know all about what you have done to earn this highly regarded job. Put up! Or, shut up!

It's just like magic. Now you see it. Now you don't.

The rich say they earned their money and deserve to keep it. Well, where do you think they got their money from? From a money elf? Chasing a rainbow? Selling lemonade?

Here is the unknown truth. Surprise! They got their money from you and me. From investments that went bad. We lost. The rich won.

Have you ever heard of the “transfer of wealth?” The middle class once had most of the wealth. But the cunning Wall Street bankers took it from us while we were innocently cutting taxes for the rich. They play a mean bait and switch game. Now you see it. Now you don’t. Putting hard earned money into risky investments. We were Playing games without knowing the real rules. Rules that keep on changing.

So now, the wealth has been transferred to offshore accounts. Never more to be seen. Never more to be used for the American good. Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Zip! Pop! Shazaam! Gone. Vaporized. Middle class money quickly becoming a faded memory.

Goodbye good paying jobs. Goodbye higher education for the kids. Goodbye affordable health care. And, goodbye the way we were.

Never mind the fine print and the lawyer speak. That doesn’t matter anymore. Once Wall Street got our money. Their contractual responsibilities disappeared. Poof. Gone up in smoke.

So, Ladies and Gentlemen, you have been “Transferred!” Some might call it “screwed.” We’ve been had. Tricked. Robbed. And, laid to waste.

Once again, it use to be our money but now it gone. Never more to come back. All because we trusted smiling politicians with hidden agendas. Politicians who make more money from special interests than they make from being a hired congressman. In Mexico they call that bribery or being on the take. But in America, the bribe money comes from the business cartels. Evil men with evil intent. Disgusting people known as Lobbyists.

I just thought you might want to know where your money is.

Keep Mit's mits off our economy

Why would America want a president to do exactly what George W Bush had already done. Repeating the same economic disaster. Deliberately wrecking the already fragile economy. Going back to the same old “make the rich richer and the poor poorer routine. The reverse Robin Hood model of economics. More tax cuts for the rich and no job prospects for the poor.

Yes. That’s what Mit Romney wants to do. It’s what he does best. “Bain Capital” the American economy. Buy it out, sell the assets, and move the remaining economy offshore. All the while, what would be left of America would be left in depression era ruin. Just a hollowed out hulk run aground.

Don’t let Mit do this. Say no to Mit. Mit is not Fit to even run a circus. Let alone a government.

The people we hire to help, often hurt and get in the way.

OP-ED COLUMNIST. Debt, Depression, DeMarco. By PAUL KRUGMAN. There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama's handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr. Obama's mistakes but the scorched-earth opposition of Republicans, who have done everything they can to get in his way -- and who now, having blocked the president's policies, hope to win the White House by claiming that his policies have failed. And this week's shocking refusal to implement debt relief by the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency -- a Bush-era holdover the president hasn't been able to replace -- illustrates perfectly what's going on. Some background: many economists believe that the overhang of excess household debt, a legacy of the bubble years, is the biggest factor holding back economic recovery. Loosely speaking, excess debt has created a situation in which everyone is trying to spend less than their income. Since this is collectively impossible -- my spending is your income, and your spending is my income -- the result is a persistently depressed economy. How should policy respond? One answer is government spending to support the economy while the private sector repairs its balance sheets; now is not the time for austerity, and cuts in government purchases have been a major economic drag. Another answer is aggressive monetary policy, which is why the Federal Reserve's refusal to act in the face of high unemployment and below-target inflation is a scandal. But fiscal and monetary policy could, and should, be coupled with debt relief. Reducing the burden on Americans in financial trouble would mean more jobs and improved opportunities for everyone. Unfortunately, the administration's initial debt relief efforts were ineffectual: Officials imposed so many restrictions to avoid giving relief to 'undeserving' debtors that the program went nowhere. More recently, however, the administration has gotten a lot more serious about the issue. And the obvious place to provide debt relief is on mortgages owned by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored lenders that were effectively nationalized in the waning days of the George W. Bush administration. The idea of using Fannie and Freddie has bipartisan support. Indeed, Columbia's Glenn Hubbard, a top Romney adviser, has called on Fannie and Freddie to let homeowners with little or no equity refinance their mortgages, which could sharply cut their interest payments and provide a major boost to the economy. The Obama administration supports this idea and has also proposed a special program of relief for deeply troubled borrowers. But Edward DeMarco, the acting director of the agency that oversees Fannie and Freddie, refuses to move on refinancing. And, this week, he rejected the administration's relief plan. Who is Ed DeMarco? He's a civil servant who became acting director of the housing finance agency after the Bush-appointed director resigned in 2009. He is still there, in the fourth year of the Obama administration, because Senate Republicans have blocked attempts to install a permanent director. And he evidently just hates the idea of providing debt relief. Mr. DeMarco's letter rejecting the relief plan made remarkably weak arguments. He claimed that the plan, while improving his agency's financial position thanks to subsidies from the Treasury Department, would be a net loss to taxpayers -- a conclusion not supported by his own staff's analysis, which showed a net gain. And it's worth pointing out that many private lenders have offered the very kinds of principal reductions Mr. DeMarco rejects -- even though these lenders, unlike the government, have no incentive to take into account the way debt relief would strengthen the economy. The main point, however, is that Mr. DeMarco seems to misunderstand his job. He's supposed to run his agency and secure its finances -- not make national economic policy. If the Treasury secretary, acting for the president, seeks to subsidize debt relief in a way that actually strengthens the finance agency, the agency's chief has no business blocking that policy. Doing so should be a firing offense. Can Mr. DeMarco be fired right away? I've been seeing conflicting analyses on that point, although one thing is clear: President Obama, if re-elected, can, and should, replace him through a recess appointment. In fact, he should have done that years ago. As I said, Mr. Obama has made plenty of mistakes. But the DeMarco affair nonetheless demonstrates, once again, the extent to which U.S. economic policy has been crippled by unyielding, irresponsible political opposition. If our economy is still deeply depressed, much -- and I would say most -- of the blame rests not with Mr. Obama but with the very people seeking to use that depressed economy for political advantage.

It was a tax problem then and is still a tax problem today.

Will Rogers says. Staff Reports. The whole trouble with the Republicans is their fear of an increase in income tax, especially on higher incomes . - Feb. 27, 1931 Quote provided by the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore. Quote excerpted from Will Rogers' published works. Read more about Will Rogers, Oklahoma's favorite son, at tulsaworld.com/willrogers.

The bottomline is, Mit is not fit.

Mit Romney has had and still has an identity crisis. The crisis is that more than 90-percent of Americans are not like him. He is in the elite and privilege class. Wealthy, well monied, and knows no financial crisis. He is far removed from having to work for a living. Doesn’t punch a clock. Doesn’t carry a paper sack lunch to work. Never sent his kids to public school. He has never ridden a bus to work. Romney has never had to choose between paying a cable bill or buying braces for his children. He has no clue what hard decisions have to be made just to make ends meet.

Romney is not your “hand to mouth” kind of person. He certainly would not be caught carrying a union card. Plus he despises unionization and in turn probably wouldn’t like you or your union working friends. However, Romney would rather send any union job overseas to China or India. Proving he just is out of touch with the average blue collar worker. Especially since he wears only Brooks Brothers.

Romney doesn’t even identify with lower or middle management. A class struggling to send their children to college. A struggle because even the lower management jobs are at risk. At risk of being outsourced and sent to wherever away from America.

Never the less, to say Mit Romney is clueless is an understatement. Out of touch is getting close. Oblivious to the average American’s struggles is hitting the nail on the head. Yes, Romney is completely and totally oblivious to the average American’s economic difficulties. He knows no such struggle. He never had to decide what creditor gets paid first. And he doesn’t have to decide which creditor is put on hold. Often resulting in collection calls to worker’s homes on a regular basis. Romney thinks Americas have access to CPAs that take care of such things. Well, Duhhhh!

But anyway, I am sure he is a nice man to his kids and a good husband but he lives in a air tight bubble. He is millions of dollars removed from what we all experience. Experiencing debt, foreclosure, bankruptcy, medical hardship, and just having a hard time keeping a minimal paying job.

Do you have access to a limo and driver on a daily basis? Do you own a dozen homes around the world. Do you have millions of dollars in off shore bank accounts? Have all your children been educated at prestigious expensive colleges or universities? Do you have a full time chef on staff? Do you have a fleet of small corporate jets? Are you tied in financially with large corporate donors? Is your interest focused on sending still more jobs overseas. Are you really sympathetic to letting the wealthy escape taxes while the rest of pay up. Are you interested in repealing the affordable healthcare act while the Romney privilege class have the best care in the world? Are you interested in reducing your salary or minimum wage? Do you want health benefits taken away from women? Are you interested in reversing consumer protections as Romney would prefer to do?

And I can list almost hundreds of differences between you, me and Mit Romney. We have no identity with Mit Romney and his corporate cronies. Are you with me here? See the difference between him and us. This is not class struggle. This is just a fact of life. A fact Romney has no clue how to would govern our great nation. He would send us in to reverse and bankrupt the American economy. Just as George W Bush tried to do and almost succeeded. He absolutely knows not what is needed to make America prosperous. His policies would reduce America to a Plantation society. Leaving a huge divide between the haves and the have nots. Do you see?

Mit is not fit! He is not fit for the job. His interests are only to take of the very wealthy and trash the working middle class. That’s his style. It’s his corporate model. Buy out America, sell the assets, and send jobs overseas. It’s the Bain Capital way of doing things. Do you see it now?

Well anyway, he will never make it to the Whitehouse. Americans are too smart to allow such a thing. God bless America. Let’s get back to work. Mit will take good care of himself and his family.

You mean it's all about money? What about the truth?

It’s all about advertising. Sponsorship. Ad sells. Big bucks. Money to be made from being insanely bazaar. The more outrageous, the better.

What is it? Why, it’s Talk Radio. Blasting, bashing, and bloviating. It’s radio’s version of reality TV. Survivor on “Speed.” Hyperbolic rhetoric. Hyperbolizing. Hysteria and Hellishness all wrapped up in one media freak show called, Talk Radio.

And to be perfectly clear, we are talking about talk radio from both sides of the partisan civil war. From the right. From the left. Yes, both Rush and Big Ed. All pontificate Dogma. Barking, biting, and besmirching the other’s conspiracy theories.

However, most listeners to either doctrinaire, actually believe the talk show hosts prattling rants. Rants certainly expanded beyond reason and rationality. Rants going over the top. Over the top only to sell advertising. But, the listener is not aware of This media trick. A trick only, and let me repeat, only to sell advertising. Sponsorship. Bla bla bla sold only for money. And again, bla bla only selling to big time national advertising accounts.

And to repeat again, advertising is key. Speaking the truth is not. Stirring the pot and poking fingers in the eyes of the opposition is the means to the end. And once again, the end is to sell baby sell. And the ONLY way to sell is to create an enormous boiling caldron of lies, exaggerations, misrepresentations, distortions, innuendos, embarrassments, black eyes, and on and on. All stewing in one big witches brew called, Talk Radio.

Now, here is the saddest fact of all. Many gullible and shallow people really believe this crap. Yes. It’s true. Many naïve ignoramuses hang on every word of the garrulous show host’s hypertensive blabbering. The unsuspecting listener believe it to the point that they cover their cars with insulting bumper stickers. Front yards awash in a sea of ranting yard signs. And wearing T-shirt exposing anybody they and the talk show host absolutely disdain. Finally Sending the radio recruit off to a battle armed with smoke and rubber bullets. Completely misguided and bound to get hurt in the process. All to defend some talk show host’s convoluted demagoguery.

In the mean time, as mentioned before, the talk show host walks away with tens of millions of dollars from advertisements. Probably snickering how stupid the listener is. Just one more day of potty talk and a walk to the bank.

So we can conclude, Disparaging the opposition with humiliating rhetoric sells ads. Being Mr. Nice Guy is the kiss of death for any talk show host. Bullying and blowing hard is key to talk showary. Sick’em Rush!