Saturday - May 15, 2004

Oils Well That Ends Well

In 1911, the US Government broke up the Standard Oil monopoly that the Rockefeller family founded in the mid-1800's. Standard Oil had a complete monopoly over oil and gas distribution in the US and the government broke the company up to help promote competition.

By a curious amount of mergers and changing names over the last century, somehow the splintered pieces of Standard Oil have now reached a point where the vast majority of the oil and gasoline products sold in the US are controlled by three companies - remnants of Standard Oil.

The largest of those companies, Exxon is at the top of the Fortune 100 list, with revenues in excess of $250 billion anually. How much money is $250 billion? If you made a promise on the day Christ died that you would donate $100 million to charity, in his name, every year - you would still have another five hundred years or so to go before you donated all the money. Provided you were a 2000-year-old charitable donor. Kinda puts the money in perspective, don't it?

Here's an interesting site with the "evolution" of Standard Oil - including the growth of Standard Oil Of New Jersey, which changed its name to Esso, then changed it's name to Enco, then finally changed its name to Exxon before buying Mobil to become ExxonMobil. Or how about Standard Oil Of California which changed its name to Chevron and later bought Gulf and Texaco.

Remember that the next time you're at the pump paying $3.00 per gallon for gas.

Now you know.

   Friday - May 07, 2004

The Economy For Dummies

OK, I want all you DemocRATs out there to listen up and pay attention. Repeat after me: "IT'S THE ECONOMY, STOOPID".

Here are the facts on jobs and payrolls ----

- 867,000 new jobs have been created this year
- 288,000 new jobs were created in April alone and 337,000 in March
- Unemployment has dropped to 5.6%, the lowest since 1998
- The Federal Reserve is holding interest rates at 1%, meaning buying homes and cars is cheaper
- Payrolls have now risen for eight straight months
- The economy grew at a rate of 4.2% in the first quarter of this year
- New building construction is at an all-time high of $944.1 billion for the year

Finally, smaller-than-expected tax refunds and rising individual tax receipts will pare back federal borrowing significantly for the first half of this year and could reduce the $521 billion deficit projected for the fiscal year by as much as $100 billion, Treasury and congressional budget officials said yesterday. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already issued revised figures based on the revenue increase.

All thanks to President George W. Bush and an economic "stragety" that is working and putting America back to work.

In the meantime, on the other side, John "F'ing" Kerry (a.k.a. Senator Waffles) promises to raise taxes by $900 billion as soon as he is elected.

Class dismissed ....

   Thursday - April 15, 2004

Day Of Evil

Today is April 15th. Memo to America: you are under legal obligation to file and pay income tax (The 16th Amendment) and the government has thousands of special agents with guns and arrest warrants to make sure you comply.

The government has been borrowing money directly out of your paycheck for the past year .... and you had absolutely no choice in the matter. Now, it's time to fill out the asinine forms that make absolutely no sense and require a trained expert to understand .... just so the government can steal a little more of your hard-earned pay. For what?

Remember, you are under no obligation, legal or otherwise to pay one cent more than you have to. Go for every deduction or loophole you can find ... as long as it is legal.

"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s."
-- Luke 20:25

...... and not one red cent more.

P.S. The deadline is midnight tonight. Caesar is waiting ..........

   Friday - April 09, 2004

Outsourcing Or Insourcing?

The whole argument against outsourcing just got really weird.

Now India is outsourcing to .... the US. That means we are "insourcing" from India. Which means more jobs for Americans. The Left has howled about losing jobs overseas. Let's see what they have to say about overseas companies coming here and hiring Americans. How much do you want to bet all you will hear is "The Sounds Of Silence".

Is it just me or does it seem like a marvelous idea to have every country outsource the things they either cannot or will not do to other countries that can? I seem to remember President Bush proposing this idea recently. Do you think the Looney Left will give Bush credit for a great idea now that it is demonstrated to work? Nah! Never happen.

The Moonbats (and John Kerry in particular) have already overlooked the millions of Americans who already have jobs thanks to foreign companies building plants in America and hiring Americans. Why should they change their idiotarian tune now?

Insourcing to America has been going on for ages. It's no surprise to most of us. The outsourcing bogeyman is just another lying trick from the Left.

Update: Take a look at what the Looney Left thinks about outsourcing. These people are absolutely insane. Memo To Moonbats: whether it's goods or jobs we are swapping with other countries, it's still called the same thing .... TRADE!

   Saturday - April 03, 2004

Outsourcing Gets Weird

C|Net is reporting that since companies in the US started outsourcing technology jobs to India, pay rates in that country have increased by double digits, driving up salaries by as much as 14 percent. Indian technology workers are still being paid significantly less than American technology workers but in terms of average salaries in India it is creating a wage bubble similar to that seen in the US technology industry in the 1990's.

The irony of the situation is that now technology companies in India are beginning to outsource jobs to China where wages are cheaper. Global outsourcing will eventually level the playing field everywhere .... except for the Middle East, which persists in living the the Dark Ages.

   Tuesday - March 16, 2004

Is it “the economy,” stupid?

Or is it that the public is stupid and can't pay attention to the real numbers dealing with the economy?

Donald Luskin takes Paul Krugman to task on unemployment in the US in this well written piece.

However, I have a couple/three things to add: back in the late 90s when unemployment was 5.6%, CNN crowed that these were good numbers (remember, Clinton was in office) Now, though, they are bad (Bush is in office. WOW! what a surprise!)

The compilation of unemployment numbers rarely takes into consideration people who are either self-employed (and under the radar screens) or those with small businesses hiring less than 10 employees. How often have we heard of people working at home, or people making livings off the Internet (blogs, Ebay, etc.) or people who start lawn services, home repairs, home cleaning services, etc. Yep, they may have quit LOOKING for work but they CREATED their own.

One last thing: what would you rather have? An unemployment number that ARTIFICIALLY appears low (in the mid to high 4s during Clinton) but supported by fraudulent, corrupt and illegal activities (Enron, Worldcom, Big Six accounting companies, Tyco, Global Crossing, etc.) or a legitimate, but higher number scrubbed clean of same? Sure, our numbers looked great but they were false in that the companies concerned were nothing more than a house of cards waiting to collapse and collapse they did. When they came down, they brought the economy down with them. It HAD to happen. Of course, though, it is now Bush's fault, right?

   Saturday - March 13, 2004

The Evil Rich

Evidently, I'm not Bill Gates but I am number 36,007,565 on the list of the world's richest people. That means there are 36,007,564 greedy bastards in my way on the path to world domination. Unfortunately, that also means I am in the top 0.6% of the world's wage earners. Don't tell the IRS. Please.

See where you stand in the World's Rich List here.

   Tuesday - February 24, 2004

Welfare Society Gone Wild

Britain's Laziest Woman?

You have to read it (and see her) to believe it. This is what a socialist society creates.

Any questions?

   Saturday - February 07, 2004

Tax ME more!

Yes, sir, tax ME more and more and more and more.

OK, who's going around saying that? I dare, no, DEFY anyone reading this to tell me anyone they know anyone going around advocating that the government tax just them for more money. Any takers? I did not think so.

OK, let's try this one.

How many people reading this are against Bush's tax cuts? Come on. Raise your hands. It's OK, I can't see you in the comfort of your home. I'll bet I caught a few on that one. You do not like Bush's tax cuts. You think it favors the rich. You want many of the tax cuts scaled back. You want tax cuts for the poor.

How many of you are aware of the numbers of people in the US who pay NO taxes? That's right! No taxes. It is approaching 50% of ALL taxpayers. I'll bet you even live next to some of them or have some in your family or have friends that do not pay. Does that mean you are friendly with the evil rich? No. It means many families with incomes less than around $45,000 pay NO TAXES WHATSOEVER. A very large percentage of taxpayers owe Uncle Sam nothing every year due to the increases in deductions and child tax credits passed by this administration.

Yet if I had a penny for every time I hear DUMMYcrats braying like the jackasses they are about how it is not fair and that we have to give tax cuts to the poor, I'd be very well off.

So listen up dimwits. Al "The Bore" Gore and other cronies in the Clinton administration , when pressed on the issue, admitted that people making more than $50,000 per year were considered "rich." HMMMMMM--- what was he truly advocating, eh?

Do you realize how many people with kids not only pay NO TAXES but get TAX CREDITS to boot? Which means I work to pay these people to have kids. Last I checked that was called welfare. And don't start that bullshit about families not able to get by on minimum wage and that we need a "living" wage. They should have kept their dicks in their pants or their legs crossed if they couldn't afford a kid. Sorry, I draw the line at that one.

But I digress as I often do.

Check out Neil Cavuto's article about taxes. It sure sounds like a proposal made a couple of years back when Dummycrats were beating the drum about how tax cuts only benefited the "evil" rich. (see definition above) The proposal was that the government set up a "tax me more" fund. This allowed those who disagreed with the President on this issue to take the money they were getting back during the year and return it to the treasury. Last I heard only a few thousand dollars was received---out of hundreds of millions given back to the tax payers.

So where were these bleaters and whiners and moaners who were complaining about how it was so unfair? As Neil points out, did Kerry return his? Did Edwards? Lieberman, Sharpton? Clinton? Gore? Soros? Michael "the asshole" Moore? Any of the Baldwins? Jane Fonda? Barbra Streisand?

It sure sounds like some serious hypocrisy from the party that is so full of shit and in complete denial about the realities of economics they can not even practice what they preach. You know why? Because they are SOCIALISTS!!!!! What's the definition of a socialist? Loosely defined, doesn't it have something to do with the fact that what they do others have to do, too? It does, after all, have as its root word, "social." That they are incapable of acting on their own and depend on knowing what others do before they do it? (Hmm, the Clinton administration and its reliance on polling data seems to back that up.)

Doesn't that definition go a long way towards explaining why they will NEVER return any of the money they so vehemently protest about because if others aren't going to return it unless they are forced to, then neither will they?

What a bunch of sorry-ass moonbats.

   Wednesday - January 28, 2004

Time for an economics lesson

Listen up, you maggots! What is about to be provided to you is a free lesson in economics.

I get sick and damned tired of listening to moonbat dummycrats decrying how "poverty" needs to be stopped in the US, how unfair it is that our evil corporations are using unfair labor practices in poor countries and then further demanding (through the UN, of course, the most useless piece of shit organization on the face of the planet--next to the ACLU and the NAACP) that we establish a worldwide minimum wage.

What a bunch of ass monkeys. These idiot must have never paid attention to their economics professors while in school. More than likely they were either protesting with the bra burners, smoking dope, hugging a tree or throwing "their" medals over the White House fence while cozying up to that traitorous and treasonous slut, Jane Fonda (fonda what, I wonder?)

Granted, if you fit into the above category or idolize social misfits that fit into it, then you are probably too lazy to read or too stupid to be able to comprehend the lessons within. I can only assume you belong to that class of miscreants populating the United States who would rather make a decision based on emotion rather than let facts change your mind (what little you still possess that hasn't been brainwashed by the loony Dems repeating the same lies over and over.)

However, if you are still your own man and don't have your testicles in the Democrat lockbox (I use "man" in the above paragraph to represent all of humanity. If you are a feminist and offended---blow me! I'm tired of you and your pitiful attempts to politicize this issue.)

---

---

DISCLAIMER

THE SERVICES AND MATERIALS ON THIS WEBSITE ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE HOSTS OF THIS SITE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF SATISFACTORY QUALITY, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE SERVICE OR ANY MATERIALS.

Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

THE INFORMATION AND OTHER CONTENTS OF THIS WEBSITE ARE DESIGNED TO COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THIS WEBSITE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND ALL PARTIES IRREVOCABLY SUBMIT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE AMERICAN COURTS. IF ANYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE IS CONSTRUED AS BEING CONTRARY TO THE LAWS APPLICABLE IN ANY OTHER COUNTRY, THEN THIS WEBSITE IS NOT INTENDED TO BE ACCESSED BY PERSONS FROM THAT COUNTRY AND ANY PERSONS WHO ARE SUBJECT TO SUCH LAWS SHALL NOT BE ENTITLED TO USE OUR SERVICES UNLESS THEY CAN SATISFY US THAT SUCH USE WOULD BE LAWFUL.

Copyright © 2004-2008 Domain Owner