Debt Clock

I just added the National Debt Clock to journal today. Debt became a major project of mine in the last 5 years as I determined to completely eliminate all my personal debt and do the best I can to remain debt free or if I do use credit to use it as sparing and wisely as possible.

I am within 3 months of seeing that goal accomplished. Having gone through this it made me realize more than I had before the differences between serious discussions of policy to adders our nation's debt and political ones. If you look at the National Debt Clock I have a few things to keep in mind. It has been going up rapidly for my entire lifetime. I have never known a period in my life when it wasn't going up. Every President in my life time has contributed to the problem.

Every president in modern times has taken money form the so-called "social security trust fund" to pay interest on the national debt. In 2005 the "trust fund" was exhausted. In 8 years of President Bush we saw the debt go up around $10,000,000,000,000.00. In just over two years of Obama it has going up by nearly 5,000,000,000,000 with trillions going to "stimulus" that we were told we had to have to keep unemployment below 8%. Since the fistulous unemployment has been over 9% for well over a year and at times was over 10%. the actual unemployment in the country is far higher than the official rate.

If we raised taxes on everyone in this nation to 100% of income we could not solve the debt problem with revenue increases. It stands to reason therefore that anyone constantly insisting that in an increase in revenue, which is code for raising taxes, on only some Americans is a serious fix to the problem is either delusional or lying. I know which I think it is...

Our nation has a terminal spending disease where we cannot seem to convince our leaders to act responsibly. current crops of leaders in both parties refuse to address the problem due to fear of political repercussions due to the pain it will have to cause to turn things around. our leaders are scared to do what needs to be done since it will require the country to face some realities as to what we can afford to continue spending on.

If we as a nation fail to address these issues I belie it is possible we will see the demise of our republic in my lifetime. Our current path is simply unsustainable.

The coming elections may demonstrate how many Americans really do understand what we are facing. The times dictate that it is no longer sufficient to argue over whether D or An R is better. What we need is to elect leaders who understand the reality we face and are willing to do what is necessary to start correcting it.

To continue to pretend that just having a D or an R is the basis for choosing leaders is folly. It is high time we start evaluating if those seeking higher office are qualified, serious, and honest enough to admit the situation at hand and bold enough to do what will be necessary to confront it.

YouTube NetKook Kill File

I have created rules on my mail servers where I can set certain criteria to kill file anything I no longer have interest n receiving. Sometimes this comes in handy for a person who posts content on the internet. As anyone who has spent any amount of time online knows there are a number of kooks out there. In the old days on the newsgroup sci.skeptic we called these people net kooks and they included people like Earl Gordon Curley a self proclaimed psychic and total net kook who's website I now have archived on one of my servers. By the way I was one of the people lucky enough to be threatened with law suites by this wing nut when he could not answer my challenges to his bogus claims.

I used the system of kill-filing things off and on in those days when someone was no longer fun to mess with or if they seemed as if they may be a legitimate threat and I no longer wanted to even see any correspondence mentioning their name. I have not used it in some time but recently re-instated a kill file rule on my server to weed out a particularly vial person on YouTube.

The reason I re-instated it was because I attempted to have a conversation, the other person was content to curse and twist facts to make political points. He was totally incapable of understanding I could care less about his political views and I was not going got play my party good your party bad with him. He was also incapable of being rational and posted disparaging remarks about Trig Palin who if you do not know has downs syndrome and is only a few years old. He saw nothing wrong with publicly making fun of a child with a disability to him it was political points to score.

People of this low character are the reason I used to have a kill file and if I am to be more public online again I thought it was high time to set one up again.

So this is a notice to raving lunatics, net kooks, vulgarians and degenerates that if you email me, my server deletes it. If you reply to me here, on YouTube or several other places I won't list and the forum or site emails me, the server deletes it.

Let me repeat how this works just so you wing nuts get it. You email me, the server deletes it. I will never see it.

Now, how does it know to delete it you may wonder? That's the question isn't it? Well I am not about to tell anyone. Just know that you email me, the sever deletes it.

Thanks for reading.

Updates

If you wandered over here from my youtube channel I will explain briefly why it has been so long since I have posted anything new there.

First off this stuff is a hobby for me, I am not a film maker or a political activist or a former ACLU lawyer with no life who never does anything but watch Fox News looking for things to pretend to be outraged over.

In fact I work full time and for many years that meant around 90 hours a week, no kidding. I recently changed jobs to a position where I work half the hours for pretty much the same pay. I gave up a raise that I had just been granted, yes I got a raise in a recession, to move to a job that did not demand all my waking hours. I think the slight drop in pay was worth it but being a workaholic I am not adjusting to more free time as well as I expected.

I had fully expected to be back to making videos by now but I am not.

Another reason I am not doing more right now is that I lack motivation. Politics as it is often done on you tube bores the hell out of me after a few minutes. The thing I notice however is that political topics get more attention than my non political topics. I like to take on paranormal claims, I like to be critical of con-artists and Charlestons a lot more than I like to do politics but politics is what the number of views suggest people want for the most part.

I will get motivated again to do something, I have some ideas and I am pretty sure the format of what I do will change. I intend to do audio commentary with some visual presentation and less of the type of video I have done in the past. I also think it is likely I can get some video of candidates on the campaign trail and if by some miracle some of that is interesting I may post it.