ObamaSense vs CommonSense: Sandy Hook Elementary The Real Debate

ObamaSense vs CommonSense: Sandy Hook Elementary The Real Debate: The Real Commonsense Debate   Do you really know the story?   The facts: A 20 year old man Adam Lanza broke into an elementary sch...

Sandy Hook Elementary The Real Debate

The Real Commonsense Debate   Do you really know the story?   The facts: A 20 year old man Adam Lanza broke into an elementary school and killed 20 children and 7 adults. Before that, he shot his mother at her home and took weapons that were kept in their home. The elementary school was Sandy Hook Elementary. He used an AR-15 semi-automatic assault rifle. This rifle uses up to 30 round clips. He also carried a Glock and Sig Sauer semi-automatic pistols both of which could carry 9 to 30 plus round clips.   He broke into a secure school which had recently installed a new security system that required you to be buzzed in after 9:30am. He broke in by shooting his way through the door.   We know he had Aspergers syndrome a form of Autism. But this is not a reason for the shootings according to most medical experts. He did have a mental illness not divulged so far, but one that was revealed when his mother and father divorced.   So what do we do to prevent this from ever happening again? What does commonsense really tell us?   1) This massacre came without a known motive. 2) The guns were accessed from a relative, his mother. 3) Whether locked up or not, the fact is he was able to access those guns. 4) The site he chose was a gun free zone. 5) The targets he chose had no way to fight back.   Possible Logical Solutions:The Debate Should Be Protecting The Schools   1) Build schools with security monitoring systems for all areas. This could be retrofitted to all schools. 2) Build schools with lockdown capabilities for all classrooms similar to the doors we put on aircraft. 3) Place armed security at every school. This is done in many high schools around the country with great success (Police trained or military trained.) 4) Screen all people who enter school grounds before, during, and after classes. 5) Train quick response police teams like SWAT for just this type of situation in all areas of the country.   Illogical Solutions:   1) Debating the legalization of the weapon used in the crime. What if the weapon was a 12gauge sawed off shotgun you can carry under your coat. 2) Using the term assault weapon to elicit America's resolve to fix a problem by banning its use for law abiding citizens. 3) Imposing your will on other citizens because you don't personally see the reason for ownership of a rifle with a 30 round clip. 4) Using a massacre as a political reason for controlling the legal ownership of weapons when the criminals will still have access and will probably start a gun running operation just as they did with alcohol when it was made illegal.
5) Attacking the weapon the inanimate object rather than addressing the issue of the person who would commit such an a crime.    Prevention:   1) Mental Illness - Evidence of Violent Behavior - Treat It. 2) Terrorist - Identify - Close Borders To Illegal Entry - Neutralize. 3) Criminal - Without Remorse - Wants Notoriety - Identify and Lock Up or Neutralize. 4) Foreign Power - Identify Agents - Lock Up or Neutralize. 5) Protect Our Schools - Video Surveillance - Armed Security - Secure Compartmented Classrooms - Use Technology To Instruct Our Kids At Home In A Virtual Classroom - Screen All People Who Access School Grounds. 6) Allow Teachers and Administrators To Carry Concealed Weapons If They So Desire.  7) Quit making our schools and cities gun free zones where they become sitting ducks.   Chicago has one of the stiffest gun control statutes in the country and also the single highest murder rate in the country and almost the world. Just under 500 people murdered in 2012 alone.   We don't become safer by abdicating our rights to firearms. We become safer by identifying and treating the problem. The problem is criminal minds. The solution is protect our children from a position of strength not weakness. I never met a bully in school who ran away from me when I said, "Go ahead and hit me, I won't hit you back." He ran away or avoided me because he knew he would be hurt if he hurt me. The knowledge that a perpetrator might die without being able to hurt anyone might prevent them from ever attacking a school.    

Sources:

http://www.cnn.com/search/?query=sandy+hook+elementary&primaryType=mixed&sortBy=relevance&intl=false

     

Obama Jobs Proposal

Well it has been almost 3 years of letting the government spend without restraint to bring us out of the abyss of recession/Great Depression. Has it worked? Obama himself admitted that shovel ready jobs were hard to come by. Environmental issues slowed implementation. Well some would say we've saved teacher, police and fire department jobs that were on the auction block. Tell me. is that where you would cut first? If you had to trim your personal budget by 10 to 25%, would you start with the kids food, water, and shelter? No. You look at the total budget for the Federal Government and you look for areas that are not necessities for life. Keynesian economics, the economic philosophy that the government can spend and create permanent jobs is not working. The idea that the government may plan for growth and the future could work if it involved freeing the private sector to compete internationally. That means creating an environment that makes the United States the place every company wants to locate and create products to sell. Right now, that country is China, India, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, almost anywhere but here. For every $70,000 average government job, how many private sector jobs does it take to create the cash for that one government worker? Government jobs do not produce a marketable product. Private jobs do. Government jobs cannot exist without private sector jobs to pay for them. Therefore, we need a budget for the Federal Government just as is required at the state level. We cannot continue to lose private sector jobs and protect government jobs from being cut. Want to create jobs? 1) Make the United States energy independent, and produce that energy here at home. 2) Make the United States the place all companies want to locate for tax, convenience, quality of life, and freedom to produce morally, ethically, and environmentally sound products. Ireland has proven that lowering the tax burden to 10% jump started a failing economy. 3) Reward innovation and let the companies that should fail, fail. Out of failure arises new opportunity. Propping up companies simply rewards bad decisions and bad companies. 4) Competition breeds excellence. Let schools compete, let teachers compete, and let parents reward the best by choosing to have their child schooled at the best schools. 5) Lower the corporate tax rate for national, international, and small businesses. Make it a flat tax of 10% that all companies must pay. Let those companies compete here instead of moving to China where costs are lower. Let the jobs be built here and let Amercian workers invest in their companies and reap the benefits when their companies excel. There is more. But this is a good start.

ObamaSense vs CommonSense: President Obama Goes To India

ObamaSense vs CommonSense: President Obama Goes To India: "I ask myself, now why would the president pick now to go to India? Perhaps its the weather? 93.2 degrees fahrenheit 34 degrees celsius, aver..."

President Obama Goes To India

I ask myself, now why would the president pick now to go to India? Perhaps its the weather? 93.2 degrees fahrenheit 34 degrees celsius, average rainfall 3 inches in Delhi?

No, there are a lot of places with 93 degree temperatures this time of year.

How bout a chance to meet the people of India. At 333 people per square kilometer versus the United States at 31 per square kilometer he could shake 10 times the number of hands within the same geographic space.

No, he could go to Macau China and shake 18,534 hands in the same square kilometer.

Perhaps it is to solve the current Social Security System problem. In India the average life expectancy is 63 years. If that were the case in America, the Social Security Administration would actually have a surplus by now.

Maybe it is to learn how the people of India manage to live on $458 dollars per capita (per population member). Think of the additional tax monies that could be funneled to Washington when the average American barely manages to survive on $41751 per capita.

India also sports Call Centers, Software Development and Pharmaceutical Research. At an average of $458 dollars per person per capita, we could hire the expertise of 100 Indian workers to every one American worker and leverage our work output to 50 to 100times our current GDP. All of this can be done remotely from the United States using one American worker for every 100 Indian workers. This effectively keeps every American worker employed, employs 100 Indian workers, and drives our GDP to 50 times its current level.

In India we may learn how to eat green. They are the no. 1 producers of tea, banannas, chickpeas, lentils, mangoes, beans, cauliflower, green peas, and millet. They are the number 2 producer of rice, wheat, sugar cane, and wood. Finally they are the number 3 producer of cereals, cotton, potatoes and oranges. All this time I thought they drank tea, wove sisel rope, and rode Indian elephants through the streets. I thought they burnt down all the firewood.

They are the number one producers of oxen, but do they eat them? No. according to one article it takes 10 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat. The Indians would starve. They consider the cow sacred. Perhaps this is Obamas way of making America become vegetarian.

What about mineral resources you say? Well India does have coal, iron, bauxite, uranium, brown coal, zinc, and lead. Perhaps they could build all the coal plants, steel producing plants and nuclear power plants and we could sell them carbon credits to offset their obscene pollution of the planet. No, that does not sound like a green plan to me. Moving the carbon footprint from one side of the planet to another doesn't make sense either.

What could it be? What could it be? Oh, I've got it. A chance to see the "taj mahal", or Ghandi's footsteps forever memorialized in stone, or the "Humayun Tomb". No, it has to be bigger than that. How bout the Jama Masjid mosque. It is the largest mosque in India and has the capacity to hold 25000 people or more in the courtyard. Perhaps it is a chance to show how the mosque could be incorporated into the setting in New York around the site of 9/11.

Seriously, why do we need our President Obama to make a trip to India at this time and spend the millions of dollars in resources to protect him in an area where he feels vulnerable. Did he get the message of jobs, small government, lower taxes, reduced healthcare costs, and energy independence. Show me the commonsense.

Resource links:
http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/pageinfo_pays.php3?Pays=IND&Opt=economy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territories_by_population_density
http://www.mothercow.org/oxen/sacred-cow.html

ObamaSense vs CommonSense: Is Glenn Beck Poisoned or Blessed?

ObamaSense vs CommonSense: Is Glenn Beck Poisoned or Blessed?: "Hi Glenn, I watched the “being poisoned” episode tonight on television. We do dvr you everyday. Perhaps we all need to be lifted up occasio..."

Is Glenn Beck Poisoned or Blessed?

Hi Glenn,

I watched the “being poisoned” episode tonight on television. We do dvr you everyday. Perhaps we all need to be lifted up occasionally.

1) You do a great job of informing those people who want to listen and some who listen to figure out just what you are up to.
2) You encourage all of us to think and do research before we vote for any candidate.
3) You plant seeds as when you challenged seniors to home school grandkids. (I believe the bible also talks about planting seeds.)
4) You make us realize that our kids do not have the same terrible memories we grew up with (Bonhoffer).
5) You make us think about peaceful ways to overcome tyranny as Ghandi did( Jesus Christ also set this example in the bible).
6) You make us believe that God really had a hand in forming this nation, when even my generation grew up thinking church and state was separated at creation.
7) You give me a channel and outlet for commonsense that I thought was lost.
8) You make me think it might really be possible to help kids learn genuine critical thinking skills, rather than succumbing to propaganda and indoctrination.
9) You make me think God reveals his purpose to some of us. You have been blessed. Take strength from that knowledge.

We need to change two other clichés in the American family. I grew up discussing 1) religion and 2) politics within my family and with the neighbors, and yet everyone tries to tell me that this is not acceptable in todays generations. I remember my Grandfather and his acquaintances discussing politics and the price of corn and beef at the local feedstore. I remember my Dad getting into hot debates at the truckstop. Is everyone afraid to debate their views now? Perhaps our government doesn’t want us to develop critical thinking skills.

That would mean simple political ideas like “Hope and Change” might be questioned. Perhaps future generations might ask, what kind of hope or what kind of change? I remember history having been repeated from the Carter administration. Here is another Presidential candidate that came from nowhere, offered “change” and a “break from career politicians”. Guess what. That generation voted for a sorry bill of goods as well. We got high price gqs, lines at the gas pump, and shortages, 21% interest on mortgages, and credit cards broke the 12% ceiling that had been leveled on them at the time. Thank God Carter was a 1 term president.

Commonsense 2010