It's been a busy week, both here at home and around the nation. Here are a few of the things I followed.
The Obama administration is pushing banks to give more home
loans to people with weaker credit. In a
move similar to that started by Jimmy Carter, and broadened under Bill Clinton,
Obama is urging banks to make more high risk home loans, which is exactly what
led to the housing crash in the first place.
If you can’t make the payments of a loan you should not be given the
loan. And I don’t know why the President
doesn’t understand this.
Or maybe he does.
There are those who believe President Obama is deliberately undermining
the economy in order to force his “fundamental changes” on America. What better way to continue that course than
to start giving more high risk loans during an already faltering economy? Time will tell.
In other news, Dr. Benjamin Carson has risen to the top of
public discourse recently after he made a speech at the National Prayer
Breakfast that criticized President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Part of the reason it made the news was
because President Obama was sitting two chairs away from the podium at the
time. The other reason is because Dr.
Carson is a conservative African-American.
Dr. Benjamin Carson was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was
raised by his single mother, Sonya Carson. He struggled academically throughout
elementary school, but after his mother reduced his television time and
required him to read two books a week and produce written reviews for her, he
started to excel in middle school and throughout high school. After graduating
with honors from Southwestern High School, he attended Yale University, where
he earned a degree in psychology. From
Yale, he attended the University of Michigan Medical School.
Ben Carson went on to become a neurosurgeon and is now the
head of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. He is a professor of Neurosurgery, Oncology,
Plastic Surgery and Pediatrics. He is a soft-spoken, articulate conservative who is not afraid or ashamed to voice his concerns and he is now being vilified by the
left, particularly African-Americans on the left, for his conservative
views. Black liberals call him names and
say he is not really a black man. They
call him the conservative token of the week (because they’re incapable of
understanding that conservatives don’t base everything on race like liberals do.)
Now, I realize that not being black myself I am incapable of
understanding (I’ve been told that several times) but I recognize hatred and
intolerance when I see it. Regardless of
what Chris Matthews might say it’s not exclusive to whites. To smear, decry and vilify a man in the name
of race because of his political views is pathetic, regardless of who is doing
it.
Finally, the report you’ve all been waiting for has been
published. Over the last several years
the federal government has spent about $423,000 to study possible barriers to
the correct usage of condoms. That’s
right – barriers to the correct usage of condoms. (Does anyone but me see the humor in “barriers
to the usage of condoms”?)
Nearly half a million dollars of stimulus money was spent
trying to figure out why grown men cannot or will not use condoms
properly. I haven’t read the report and
I don’t really see a need to. I’m sure
this is necessary research but as far as I’m concerned I agree with Tucker
Carlson who said of adult men: “If you don’t know how to use a condom
correctly, there’s nothing the federal government can do to help you. You are
beyond help.”
In the words of Dennis Miller… “That’s just my opinion. I could be wrong.”
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