Monday, August 5, 2013

BloggeRhythms 8/5/2013

Reading, compiling and digesting information is an extremely interesting beneficial aspect of writing these daily entries. Helping comprehend events and happenings in the nation and world, it forces pursuit of information otherwise possibly missed, ignored or forgotten about altogether.
 
It also provides opportunity to present views, thoughts opinions and predictions, pleasing when correct, yet not so great when off the mark or totally wrong altogether. But, what’s the very best is when things really do come together, proving theorems, and today’s one of those times.
 
For a very long while now, I’ve often mentioned the whole green energy farce as not only merely a political ploy, but disastrous to the economy in many ways as well. So much so that it underlies many of the nation’s fiscal problems including outrageous costs for imported oil, while greatly curbing the growth of employment.
 
And then, this morning in an interview on Fox News, a writer for the Wall Street Journal stated that the administration spent $501 million on “green jobs” that didn’t even exist. Wrong guesses on company’s like the now bankrupt Solyndra, Fisker and Abound Solar, all complete failures, created only 11,000 jobs in total, costing $45,545 each, if my math is correct.
 
Not only that, there were so few real jobs established at such outrageous costs that category definitions were stretched to prevent the statistics from appearing considerably worse. A few examples include, pouring cement for a wind turbine, picking up trash, and laying floors with “sustainable’ materials.”
 
Mark Muro, Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings put it best when he told foxnews.com/politics that: “The moral of the story is that you need to know in some detail the nature of the economy you’re serving when you fund job training efforts.”
 
While the overall economy still struggles, and the entire green energy charade continues to collapse, other businesses are doing quite well nonetheless. Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., for example, which owns the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad just reported a profit margin of 22%, highest of all the company’s subsidiaries.
 
But, what was most interesting to me was remembering the several entry's I wrote last year about Buffett's touting of the incumbent’s fiscal policies, leading to a sweetheart deal helping to bail out a major bank in trouble. So, I just wonder if the fact that Burlington Northern is among the railroads that would transport oil produced in western Canada if the Keystone pipeline isn’t opened isn’t connected in some way to the Buffett/incumbent tie-in.
 
Especially since I also clearly recall typing the following back then : ‘Whatever people bring to us, we’re ready to haul,” Krista York-Wooley, a spokeswoman for Burlington Northern, a unit of Buffett’s Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc., told Bloomberg News. If Keystone XL “doesn’t happen, we’re here to haul.”
 
And then, since politics, favoritism, cronyism and personal gain far outweigh consideration of the public need or maintaining honesty in governance for this administration, another instance of truth distortion occurred this weekend.   
 
According to Fox News, National Security Adviser, Susan Rice, “is playing a driving role in the decision to shutter U.S. embassies and consulates over a major terror threat. And the “the former diplomat is trying to avoid a repeat of the deadly Benghazi terror attack nearly a year ago.” 
 
In total “Twenty-two U.S. posts were closed over the weekend, and the State Department announced it will keep 19 embassies and consulates closed through Saturday "out of an abundance of caution.[While] lawmakers are describing the threat as among the most serious they've seen in years.”
 
So, here we have the woman who appeared on all the weekend talk-shows when the Benghazi terrorist attack took place, claiming that it was just a random act of violence. The incumbent himself declared that terrorism was over, he’d taken care of the problem and that critics should move on to something else.
 
But now today, not only is almost the whole Middle-East in turmoil because he’s made the U.S. a paper tiger none respect or fear, he’s sent a proven fabricator with no credibility or credential others esteem to handle a situation she denied existed in the first place. 
 
Consequently, as noted at the start today, the administration not only bats a thousand in incorrect decision-making most often, as time goes by damage from those errors tends to increase. And, at the moment, there’s very little going in the right direction for the incumbent or the nation itself anywhere you look. 
 
So, maybe the time’s come for him to stop all the politicking and hourly speeches and realize that since he was already elected, its time to get off the stump, look at the morass he’s created and do something to try to fix it. Instead of continually selling a bill of goods proven again this weekend, that can never work as touted for the common good.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios
 

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