Some say the world will end with fire.

Others say with ice.

From what I've tasted of desire

I hold with those that favor fire.

But if I had to perish twice,

I think I know enough of hate,

To say that for destruction ice,

Is also great and would suffice.

Robert Frost



"YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID" - Ron White



"Good things come to those who wait, but, only the things LEFT by those who hustle." - Unknown (at least by me)



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"Don't worry about those people in your past---there is a reason they are not in your present." - Unknown



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I am married and have seven children and twenty grandchildren. I retired January 1, 2010 after working 39+ years for the Forest Service...NEW CHAPTER IN MY LIFE HAS BEGUN!

Thursday, February 10, 2011

WASTE OF TIME

Night before last I spent an hour on the phone on Congressman Jason Chaffetz community phone call. What a waste of time that was---he spent the first fifteen minutes saying they were going to repeal the health care law (done in the house but the Senate won't do it), eliminate the No Child Left Behind Law, Eliminate the Federal Department of Transportation, and eliminate the Federal Department of Education. The reason---Utah can do it better---yeah that is probably true but there ain't NO money in Utah.

He was going to personally see to it that rules limiting access and restrictions to minerals got changed, see to it that the US sells it's excess property ($19 billion in 50,000 excess buildings---this might be a good thing---where are they located?), change and enforce the laws dealing with illegal immigration and that allow illegal aliens to get medicaid, school, and food stamps, get the Federal Regulations out of the way so the economy can turn around, assure that the big fee increase (to $200/month) for Forest Service recreation residences gets reduced (so much for fixing the income), change the EPA rules to allow more development of our Natural Resources, fix it so we are oil independant and ethanol (using food for fuel) is not the answer, and rein in the EPA regarding use of coal for generating electricity,

I'm not saying that some or all of these aren't good things to do---but they ain't gonna happen. WHY---because everyone representing us in Congress and the Senate are set on making themselves look good for the next election. YUP---Republicans control the House and Democrats control the Senate so no bill is going to get approved without a lot of compromise. COMPROMISE---CAN'T DO THAT---I WOULD LOOK BAD TO MY CONSTITUENTS AND THE NEXT ELECTION IS ONLY TWO YEARS AWAY.

SSSSOOOOO----for the next two years you can expect---GRIDLOCK---nothing passing no one getting anything done---BEEN THERE DONE THAT. They can't even pass a budget for the Federal Government and are again running the Nation on a continuing resolution where you never really know if you have any money to manage your job or not so no single politician has to own up to where the cuts in budget are coming from.

So where are the leaders going to come from that will actually try to led us out of the mess we are in financially in this country. It won't come from all the LONE WOLVES out there that are going to make all these changes. It is gonna take good negotiations and superb understanding to get anything done---as long as both sides are running for the next election in two years we are in deep S#!*.

WE ARE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE AS A NATION---I DON'T HAVE THE ANSWERS---BUT CHEST POUNDING LEADERS TELLING US THEY WILL FIX EVERYTHING ISN'T IT---HOPE WE GET IT FIGURED OUT PRETTY SOON!!!! And unfortunately that is my $0.02.

6 comments:

MJ said...

Honestly, I think we need to change the system. We need to make it so everyone gets one term. That's it. You get in, do the absolute best you can for your country, and get out. Back when the terms were established, that might have worked, but in today's world we have career politicians. We need people to have one shot to do their best. That's my two cents. :)

Nene said...

I worry about where our country is headed, and I especially worry about the next 2 years. Yikes. I just wish somebody could come up with some better ideas....

Dee Ice Hole said...

Any workable idea would be OK with me.

Looney said...

It seems to me that it is a bit late to vote in a new crew for the Titanic!

Dee Ice Hole said...

Looney---you are probably right but I don't want to go down into the icy waters ;-)

Paige Ballard said...

Who is Jason Chaffetz? Didn't he like play high school basketball or was he a kicker for BYU? I've heard that name somewhere in my past, but can't place it! Obviously, he is a congressman now, but where did he come from?