Sitting In Texas

It's Saturday Night and I am watching UFC (Ultimate Fight Club) in San Angelo Texas. It's been fun up to this point. Tonight should go well. Most of the people that put on airs have given up and it's just a bunch of guys left. We will watch the fights and then play guitar again.

The World Falls Apart for the UAW

They worked so hard. They have given so much. The leadership of the UAW was on the cusp of greatness and it looks like it is all tumbling down.

Through fundraising and donations the UAW brought the Congress into the Democratic Party’s fold. Within a very short time the Union’s election machine raised and donated more money to an election than at any time in the worlds history and that bought, I mean brought, our nation an “new” leader. Unlike leaders of the past. The big “O”. A Chicago leaders’ leader. Trained in the womb of Chicago’s best.

Soon Congress would reconvene with a new leader at the helm of the Executive branch. Someone easier to work with, who understands “tit for tat”. Someone that understands that we are all imperfect and that a little scratch under the table is part of doing business.  Congress was on track to pass the Card Check bill bringing the Unions to a level of power never achieved in world history and then something happened. The economy collapsed. The bubble burst. The air escaped. People stopped spending on credit. New cars no longer rolled off the most expensive manufacturing lots in the world. Overnight the lifeblood of the Union was becoming endangered. What will happen if the Big 3 go down? What would happen if they allowed the auto companies to fall into the chasm of bankruptcy?

Contracts would be renegotiated. Wages would drop. Union leaders would again be forced to take care of themselves first and as a result union membership would fall. Bankruptcy and restructuring would only help the company, employees and nation. It would do nothing for the union. Another course of action must be found! BAILOUT! At all costs prevent BANKRUPTCY! The UAW has reached deep in their pockets and started calling in chits. Pelosi, Reid, the list goes on and on. Who have we bought? Who owes us? Then like a second strike of Lightning the ground explodes with the revelation of our, bought and paid for, Governor. So much money. So much time. To have reached the pinnacle of power only to slide back into the gutter from which they crawled.

What Have We Gotten Into?

Obama’s hands are dirty. He is on the edge of being indicted along with Governor Rod Blagojevich, Illinois chief of staff John Harris, George Ryan (jailed Governor from Illinois), Antoin "Tony" Rezko (shared illegal real-estate dealings), Chris Kelly and John Wyma. Obama is has met with Federal Agents on several occasions to provide testimony on his background and associations in an attempt to be seated as the next Commander and Chief. His associations with terrorist like Bill Ayers and social radicals, of the likes of Reverend Wright, have caused severe angst within the Federal Government but the criminal association are beyond pale. It is apparent that our elected officials see the only way for our fragile democracy to survive is to put into place a government that is acceptable by the majority before Obama is forced to resign from “The Office of the President of the United States”.  But Obama isn’t alone.

 

What about his wife Michelle? Has she and Obama partaken in the same undue influential positions like Blagojevich and his wife want too? Michelle was placed on the Board of the University of Chicago Hospital for $273,000 annually, not counting stock options and benefits, while having NO background in business. What was she bringing to the corporate table? How about her position with TreeHouse for over $123,000 annually in pay and benefits at the same time? Just look at it! All Rod did was ask that his wife get the same opportunities that Michelle had.

 So what do we do? It’s a lot like riding a tiger, isn’t it? Where will this pair of tigers take our country?