Carly Fiorina...CAN WE SAY LOSER?

The Face of a Angry Woman

Carly Fiorina at best is a brash pushy broad who likes to be dictatorial in her actions, and like Nixon probably has an enemies list that she tucks under her pillow every night as she falls off to sleep.  If you look at the bell weather moments of her life, one word comes to mind...FAILURE...yes, all in caps.

Law School...she was a drop out.

Her first marriage...ended in divorce.

Her Tenure as CEO of Hewlett Packard...ended with destroyed stock prices, and broken company morale.

Her first involvement in politics working for John McCain...John McCain lost the election.

Her second involvement in politics...she was trounced in her efforts to get elected to Congress.

Motherhood...her daughter killed herself with a drug overdose.

Now she wants to become the next president of the United States of American, wants us to allow her and her venomous just under the surface temper to be the one that has the codes for our nuclear arsenal.    Surely she cannot be serious.  Perhaps America would be much better served if Carly Fiorina took her temper, the $100 Million she earned in running a company into the ground and went off into the sunset with her husband and his yacht...if he really wants her company, which is questionable.

By the way Carly....for a woman that ran a computer company, your website is very rudimentary...is that the best you and your team can do?

Some Questions For Presidential Candidates

THEY ALL LOOK AND SOUND THE SAME!

The biggest problem with "Presidential Elections"...everything is scripted, who has access to the people running for the office controlled (except in Iowa and New Hampshire) and scripted.  Real access only granted to the rich, elite and power of our nation.   That is not democracy that our forefathers envisioned over 200 years ago.    Though the questions will not get answered (politicians are very adept at answering questions with answers full emptiness), going to pose a few here that I would like to receive straight forward answers to.

On Immigration

America has some of the most liberal immigration laws in the entire world.   For those who follow the rules, there is always a warm welcome, and a helping hand up the ladder as they begin their quest of living the American Dream.  Those who support illegal aliens want us to believe the costs of deporting illegal aliens is far too costly, choosing to ignore the facts...illegal aliens and their children cost America over $200 Billion dollars a year in assorted costs such as schooling, food stamps, and incarcerations, they depreciate American wages by over $200 Billion dollars a year, and starve America's economic engine by hundreds of billions a year through remittances sent back to their countries of origin.  Despite those who would have us believe otherwise, history tells us we can deport 11 million illegal aliens...simply look back to the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower and you will see America shut down the jobs magnet, orchestrated neighborhood and work place enforcement raids, and in 24 months deported over six million illegal aliens.

1.  Do you understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration, and why is it that you keep trying to treat/present these two diverse groups as one and the same?  

2.  Illegal aliens and their supporters claim illegal aliens pay taxes, using the fact that they pay sales tax on items they purchase as proof.  What percentage of those here illegally do not pay FEDERAL INCOME TAXES (underground economy), and shouldn't they have to pay all those back taxes with penalties and interest (as all law abiding citizens would have to do), as a part of making restitution for their breaking our laws in coming to and remaining in America Illegally?   Almost every proposed law would waive penalties/interest on these unpaid taxes, and would only require a illegal alien to pay back three years worth of unpaid Federal Taxes to GET RIGHT WITH THE LAW...how do you justify such a "Tax Amnesty" for these people when an American citizen who failed to pay his Federal taxes for 10-20 years could face prison time.

3.   Do you support E-Verify which is over 98 percent effective in telling employers (including families hiring household workers), and would you support it becoming the law of the land, making it mandatory for any one/any company employing people?   Would you support under E-Verify stiff penalties (including jail time) for employers caught hiring illegal aliens?

4.   Under a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment, over six million people born to illegal aliens have gained birthright citizenship.  If you are elected president will you introduce legislation to end this flawed and costly program that gives instant citizenship to any one born in America?

5.    With the global migration crisis (caused by the unrest in the Middle East) other countries such as Croatia and Hungary are successfully locking down their borders...yet politicians here in America would have us believe that the most powerful country in the world cannot build a wall and secure our southern border with Mexico.  If elected president, what steps are you prepared to take on your first day in office to secure our Southern border and stem the flow of illegal immigration into America?

On Jobs and a Living Wage

There is a lot of push back on raising the minimum wage.   Additionally, those who support raising the minimum wage seem to have a benchmark bottom wage base of $15 per hour.   The average employee working a 40 hour work week at $15 per hour would have a gross yearly income of $31,200.   However; gross pay is not take home pay...Social Security Taxes, Federal Taxes, Workers Comp, and State Taxes quickly see that gross pay scaled down to in hand dollars of $24,960.   A quick look at the average monthly expenses (rent, utilities, car payment/insurance, phone/cable/internet) and you quickly total up fixed mandatory expenses of $22,800 per year, and that does not include food, or health insurance.   You cannot purchase health insurance and feed yourself on that remaining $2,160 a year.   Which means you have to start looking at what you can cut out of your budget, what you can survive without.   A large contingent of those who are running for office would have us believe that America's wealthy and elite create jobs, while ignoring the other half of the equation which is the fact that all those hard working Americans who are working for slave wages are the ones creating that wealth through their efforts and hard labor.

1.   Would you support raising the minimum wage to $25 per hour, which would provide the average American family with what amounts to a living wage.

2.   Would you support limiting how much money is paid to executives and owners of companies big and small, so that fairness and equity is returned to they system, so that all workers share in the success of a business?

Equal Rights and Gay Marriage

Let us start with SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE.    A marriage license is issued by an agency of the government, not by the church.   A church blesses a couple's marriage vowels, while an agency of government issues a legal document that authorizes and recognizes the legal joining/binding of two lives into one union.  Equal rights under the law...why have we even been having this argument.  One person or groups religious beliefs should not dictate what rights will or will not be bestowed on others.

1.   As a litmus test to hold political office, do you support "Equal Rights" for all citizens, and will you abide by the law of the land when it comes to granting gay couples the legal right to be married under the law with all the rights and responsibilities that come with that legalized union.

Pro-Choice verse Pro-Life

For the record, I support a woman's "freedom of choice"...even God grants us this "freedom of choice". My question...with all the far more important social and world issues on the agenda, why is this on the list of things to do any way?  It was settled with Roe VS Wade, so can we move on to the far more pressing issues facing America and its working class?  For those wondering, yes this is a bit of a Rhetorical Question...the fringe right wing of the Republican Party derives far to much pleasure from beating this dead horse every four years to rally their base...sad really.

There are a lot more questions that average Americans would like to ask, but sadly, there is not one of the current crop of candidates that will actually give us STRAIGHT answers to the questions posed in this article...that said, my comments page is open.   Fiorina, Trump, Hillary, Jeb....any takers that are up to this task?

Last Night's Political Circus...The Debate

The Face of a Shrew?

Sometimes I listen to the pundits, wonder how they watched and saw a completely different debate than the one I watched.   The first glaring difference between the pundits and I revolves around Carly Fiorina.   Almost unanimously the pundits are calling her the overall winner of the debate, saying she hit it out of the park.  I completely disagree...Trump may not have made a politically correct and astute remark, but Trumps summation when he said to look at her face is pretty well on target.  It would not be inaccurate to define Carly Fiorina using the word Shrew.  If the lady smiled, think her face might crack.   She strikes me as a very angry woman with a very large chip on her shoulder despite the fact that she has been blessed in life with a lot of advantages.

However; something handled with kid gloves, but the reason why her political career should be over occurred when she spoke about losing her step-daughter to drugs. Curious here Carly, did you provide your daughter with a kind, nurturing love filled home as she grew up, or instead were you and your husband so busy being Titans of the business/jet set world that you found it easier to leave her in the hands of a Nanny, or  did you pack her off to boarding schools in the name of giving her a better education. Did you bake cookies with/for her, or have the nanny pick some up at the bakery?  If you knew she had addiction problems, should you and your husband have made her the one and only priority instead of worrying about your careers?  How much time was dedicated over to making sure "SHE WAS SAFE", and if you could not keep your step daughter safe, how can you keep America and her citizens safe?  You last night wanted to blame your daughter's untimely and tragic death on drugs, but willing to bet here that a big portion of the blame can be laid at the feet of both you and your husband.  OWN THAT LADY!

Trump is Trump...a loud, brash, brawler with no real clue.   That said, lets be honest.  A) If he should get the Republican nod to be the Torch Bearer, the very next day he will get a briefing paper that will bring him up to speed, and from that day forward he will know more about what is going on and who the major players are that far surpasses the knowledge base of every one on stage last night.   B)  He has a point...a president of America, or a major corporation is to a great degree only as good as the people he or she surrounds themselves with.  

Which brings us to Jeb Bush...Think every other candidate on stage missed a great opportunity to put

Jeb seems more a toad than turtle.

the final nail in his coffin when they failed to capitalize when he tried to wrap illegal immigration and legal immigration all into one identical package.   Americans are generous of heart, but there is a world of difference between legal immigrants who followed the rules, and those who entered America illegally...Illegal Aliens.  However, the most telling reason to kick this turtle to the curb is his own admission that most of his close confidants  are from the same swimming hole that gave us Rumsfield and appropriately named Dick Cheney.   Are we really ignorant enough as a nation to go back to another four more years of the Bush Clan and all that entails?  By the way Jeb...your brother kept us safe? Maybe if he had paid more attention to that August briefing paper 9/11 would have never happened.

Carson... he needs to go back to being a surgeon and corporate insider.  Bush may have no energy he may resemble a "Nilla Wafer", but Carson has zero personality...none, zippo, nano, zilch, a personality zero that could put the most attentive listener to sleep.  I have no doubt the man is brilliant, but when it comes to personality, God short changed him, and he is never going to be in the White House unless there as a guest.

Cruz and Huckabee...PLEASE.   In two words, "Religious Zealots" that need to go find a pulpit from which to spew forth their rhetoric to their faithful four percent...the rest of us are not going to be drinking their Kool-Aid.

Chris Christie...The man (much like Trump) is a raging bull.   That said, he had two brilliant moments last night.   His telling Trump and Fiorina that middle/lower class Americans are sick of hearing these two narcissistic egos talking about their own records and successes is spot on.   His second brilliant touching moment was sharing the story of his wife on 911...all of us in the New York Metro area have stories, and his sharing of his own story was a touching moment.  That said, not going to vote for a man who's attitudes about marijuana are so antiquated...the medical benefits of marijuana at this point are well documented, and it is time we legalize marijuana nation wide.  The war on drugs has never worked, just as Prohibition back in the day did not work.   Lets put and end to the Latin American Drug Cartels by legalizing marijuana here in America and letting our own farmers add another crop to their revenue streams.   Stay in New Jersey Chris...you are a failure when it comes to the National Stage.

The rest of the folks should be labeled the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" and be sent packing. Sorry folks, but it is time to cull the herd, and all of you NEED TO GO.  You just do not have the chops to be president, and it is time for the dreams to be put away.