Colorado Loses

I put forth this idea for your consideration:

What if we eliminated ALL driving laws:

They are replaced with three simple laws:

1. If you are at fault for an accident - you become responsible for all the damages and you lose your license for 6 months or until all damages to others are paid – whichever is longer.
2. If you are at fault for an accident where a person, any person (including yourself), is injured - you go to jail for one year per person injured and become responsible for their healthcare.
3. If you are involved in an accident where any person is killed, you go to jail for life.

I wonder how that would change our driving habits?

Dave

Does not mean “alternative” energy like wind and solar or corn.
It means drilling our own oil and refining it ourselves.
It means generating electricity by nuclear or hydro.
It means squeezing oil from rocks.
It means using coal.
Solar and wind are many times more expesive.
Corn fuel can’t even be pumped through pipes…it has to be shipped. It uses more energy to make it than it delivers with the additional expense of transporting it.

We cannot spend our way out of debt.  But it’s not just government spending.  It is what government does that causes all of us to need to spend more.  How?

OIL!  Yes, Oil.

We have not built a new refinery in nearly 35 years.

We have not built a new nuclear power plant in 15 years.

Solar and wind energy are not practical and cost several
times more than other gas and nuclear.

We have severely restricted our drilling for oil.  Oil could be cheap and is plentiful.

With these restrictions the price of oil has gone up – thus:
EVERYTHING costs more.

We pay whatever price others set on oil by others, because
there is less competition.

When the price of oil goes up – EVERYTHING costs more.

Manufacturing products made from oil (nearly 6,000 items)
cost more.

Manufacturing ANYTHING cost more due to the increase in
energy costs related to it.

Transporting EVERYTHING costs more.

Heating my house costs more.

Getting to work costs more – whether by car or bus.

Food costs more when corn (which is in most products) is
diverted to energy. (Some of the least effective energy made today.)

Food costs more because of the expenses related to planting
and harvesting and transporting it.

Think of how many items we buy are wrapped in plastic or
carried home in plastic.  Plastic is made
from oil.

Synthetic fabrics are made from oil – so the cost or clothes
will rise.

If you want to see the price of EVERTHING go down – allow drilling,
allow refineries, allow nuclear power.

Dave O.

No Basketball?
While several hundred millionaires bicker over contracts that bring them more millions, just think of those many thousands who are out of work, as a result!
• The guy who sells peanuts and popcorn up and down the isles,
• The lady working behind the beer cart.
• The church that is not making money for their charity at the concession stand.
• The delivery man who brings the food to the stadium.
• The ticker taker and janitors.
• The people who work for the suppliers who may lose their jobs because the company doesn’t have to produce the additional food.
What a perfect example of our economy. Take millionaires out of the picture and everyone suffers.

On Tuesday night the republican candidates went at it again
on CNN.  What an embarrassment. Perry and
Romney bickered like little children over candy. I want, I want – me, me, me!

Newt was the only one who was calming and poignant.
Cain had a strong presence and the others, I can’t remember their names, should just back down and ply for cabinet positions.

1. Global Warming is a natural phenomenon and we have no control over it.
2. Spending money doesn’t get one out of debt.
3. Increasing tax rates will not solve our economic problems.
4. Government only gets in the way.
5. Poor people are just as greedy as rich people.
6. A poor person never gave anyone a job (except government employees).
7. Solar and Wind will not solve our energy problems.
8. The MLK statue was made in China,
   by a Chinese sculptor, using Chinese marble.
9. Unions forced our companies to move manufacturing overseas.
10. If we keep voting in the same people we will continue to have the same problems.

This 99% group that is raging around the contry right now are terribly misled. They declair that the 1% are the filty rich.  So? They are “GREEDY.”  So!  Who is more greedy – those who work hard and earn those millions (or billions) and provide you with jobs, or those who suck off society because they are too lazy to hold their own?

Right now 47% of the population pays no income tax.  Oh, sure, they pay a small percentage in Social Security tax, but that is, also, matched by the employer.  When the 47% grow to over 50% – that is when this country will change.

Please – don’t let that happen!  It is because of our freedom to earn millions that we even still have this country.  Take that away from us and we become a society where the rich will flee, jobs will go away, and the poor will understand what REAL poverty is. They will learn the hard way what it is really like to be under the thumb of opression.

Dave

Republicans?        Democrats?

NO!  The fault belongs to the, so called, Independents. Those toothless fools who can’t make up their minds what they believe.  One election they vote Right.  The next election they
vote Left.

These hapless folks don’t listen, don’t ponder, don’t think…they only emote.  Scores of them wait until the last minute before they press their vote.  They exemplify the lazy attitude so many have developed over the years promoted by politicians who only pontificate in pandering promises to promote their over-spoken pledges.

The republicans and democrats know what they believe and
hold to their convictions.

If you are an independent, if you are one of those who
floats atop the waves and have failed to sink a keel into the water, muster yourself to a side. Study the contents of the ideals held by those with conviction and avoid the passion that wells up devoid of knowledge.  Find a truth you can believe in.  Study history and learn what has worked and
what doesn’t.  Then join a side, believe it, and hold to it.

Don’t let Colorado Lose by your continued, lackadaisical attitude.