Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Morning Coffee with Jim Self: Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On
Morning Coffee with Jim Self: Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On: 3/22/2017 From the desk of Jim Self South Carolina is considering a gas tax...and a sales tax increase on automobiles. Our new Governor...
Just Pass a 12 cent Gas Tax and Let's Move On
3/22/2017 From the desk of Jim Self
South Carolina is considering a gas tax...and a sales tax increase on automobiles. Our new Governor, Henry McMaster, suggested last week that the present gas tax, which is the lowest in the country, supposedly, is not entirely going to road maintenance, which, to me, suggests that part of it is being hijacked to use in other areas. The target of 12 cents a gallon is set to take about 60 dollars a year from each of us SC drivers.
Now I am going to tell you what I think.
The sales tax is already $300. That's enough. Period. Don't bugger with that.
If the 12 cents a gallon will do it, that's ok with me. About 30% will be paid by out of state drivers. BUT, make sure that money goes toward road maintenance. All of it.
And if the present gas tax revenue isn't all going toward road maintenance, correct that issue.
According to the DOT and the Post and Courier;
29% of urban roadways are in poor condition
35% are in mediocre condition
19% are in fair condiition
17% are in good condition
The TRIP Report...a national transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. is used by the Post and Courier unnecessarily back up their claims of this need and most probably to supply filler material. There is no way a bunch of suited college grads living off of lobbying salaries in DC can estimate my auto maintenance costs by $1850 a year (per auto) and not be transparently and completely wrong. I wish we wouldn't use information like that. It's got to be nonsense.
We South Carolinians do need to improve our roads. 12 cents a gallon is not going to break us. Now I wish they would just do it and move on.
South Carolina is considering a gas tax...and a sales tax increase on automobiles. Our new Governor, Henry McMaster, suggested last week that the present gas tax, which is the lowest in the country, supposedly, is not entirely going to road maintenance, which, to me, suggests that part of it is being hijacked to use in other areas. The target of 12 cents a gallon is set to take about 60 dollars a year from each of us SC drivers.
Now I am going to tell you what I think.
The sales tax is already $300. That's enough. Period. Don't bugger with that.
If the 12 cents a gallon will do it, that's ok with me. About 30% will be paid by out of state drivers. BUT, make sure that money goes toward road maintenance. All of it.
And if the present gas tax revenue isn't all going toward road maintenance, correct that issue.
According to the DOT and the Post and Courier;
29% of urban roadways are in poor condition
35% are in mediocre condition
19% are in fair condiition
17% are in good condition
The TRIP Report...a national transportation research group based in Washington, D.C. is used by the Post and Courier unnecessarily back up their claims of this need and most probably to supply filler material. There is no way a bunch of suited college grads living off of lobbying salaries in DC can estimate my auto maintenance costs by $1850 a year (per auto) and not be transparently and completely wrong. I wish we wouldn't use information like that. It's got to be nonsense.
We South Carolinians do need to improve our roads. 12 cents a gallon is not going to break us. Now I wish they would just do it and move on.
Friday, March 17, 2017
Things That Are Important and that WE Cannot Afford To Forget About
As weeks turn to months, things tend to be replaced in our day to day minds. Politically, somehow we need to remember what is important and to contribute to guiding this country as much as possible. Otherwise we allow other people to do it and that is definitely unwise. So, I am contributing a list of some things that I think are important and we conservative voters...sane people...ought to consider ongoing.
Balance the federal budget. No person, no country, no entity can continue to live on credit indefinitely. The credit will eventually run out. THEN WHAT HAPPENS? For a person the result is bankruptcy. For a country the result is a depression. It could take 20 years and 50 million deaths to restart a viable economy in the United States. We MUST get control of our spending and bring the revenue/expenditure picture back to balance. The cost of not doing this is destruction, and remember, when the U.S. coughs, the entire world catches a cold. It will be world wide.
Use Yucca mountain. We invested 12 billion dollars there. We have nuclear waste all over the country and it needs to be taken better care of. The process needs to be as cheap as possible and security must be unquestionable. Imagine the cost of maintaining all of these places. Incredible.
Jam phones in prisons. The FCC has not allowed this and it has to happen. We are hamstringing prison security our own security by being soft on this issue.
We must have Health Insurance with low premiums and low deductibles...affordable. I should not have to pay for health insurance for others. On the other hand, health insurance should be affordable and deductibles should be reasonable. If we make it affordable then everyone can afford it. My insurance costs me $230 a month with a 2000 dollar deductice. I like it. More than $2000 for deductibe is too high. Policies should be choices for coverage. Remember this. If the government can't get beyond the politics of entitlement it absolutely will not be able to contain costs health insurance for anyone. If it can't then, it needs to get out of the Health Insurance business.
We must change our immigration laws AND control our Southern border. Across this open border we have allowed:
millions of unskilled, welfare dependent and many being criminally inclined people,
millions of pounds of drugs and thousands of drug dealers who are armed and dangerous thugs fueling gang (Chicago murder type) activity and the like in our communities everywhere in our country,
a significant amount of human trafficking which brings lost female souls here to be used by the most evil of men.
Many American stolen cars are taken across the border...if they can move a stolen car across the border do not think for a second that they are not taking our young American girls South to be sexually used and then destroyed there, too.
That wall needs to be built as soon as possible and the border must be sealed.
Our Politicians are for sale to one way thinkers for votes and money. American must take a fresh look at how we finance our political campaigns and possibly at term limits...some way to take control back from big and dark and ill gotten (Clinton pay to play type) money, leveling the playing field because, as we have seen with the 2007 credit bubble, big money interests do not necessarily have America's best interests at heart.
One way thinkers fight for what they want and do not consider the costs. Many are angry and ignorant...perfect tools for big money interests like Soros. From what I have seen, protesters are in low numbers and angry. That pretty much means organized by someone or some organization from a splinter group. They really don't matter, except to the Media. We cannot allow one way thinkers to steer this country. We must realize when we are being played and avoid it. Turn it off. Then we can to all get involved in a mature, effective way and control direction we are headed.
Write to Congressional leaders and to POTUS. Pass things along that make sense to you. Be calm. Be effective. Be parental. Remember, an actual letter seems to get the most attention. Please feel free to forward this letter anywhere you like. God love you, and God Bless America.
Jim Self jimself1954@gmail.com
Balance the federal budget. No person, no country, no entity can continue to live on credit indefinitely. The credit will eventually run out. THEN WHAT HAPPENS? For a person the result is bankruptcy. For a country the result is a depression. It could take 20 years and 50 million deaths to restart a viable economy in the United States. We MUST get control of our spending and bring the revenue/expenditure picture back to balance. The cost of not doing this is destruction, and remember, when the U.S. coughs, the entire world catches a cold. It will be world wide.
Use Yucca mountain. We invested 12 billion dollars there. We have nuclear waste all over the country and it needs to be taken better care of. The process needs to be as cheap as possible and security must be unquestionable. Imagine the cost of maintaining all of these places. Incredible.
Jam phones in prisons. The FCC has not allowed this and it has to happen. We are hamstringing prison security our own security by being soft on this issue.
We must have Health Insurance with low premiums and low deductibles...affordable. I should not have to pay for health insurance for others. On the other hand, health insurance should be affordable and deductibles should be reasonable. If we make it affordable then everyone can afford it. My insurance costs me $230 a month with a 2000 dollar deductice. I like it. More than $2000 for deductibe is too high. Policies should be choices for coverage. Remember this. If the government can't get beyond the politics of entitlement it absolutely will not be able to contain costs health insurance for anyone. If it can't then, it needs to get out of the Health Insurance business.
We must change our immigration laws AND control our Southern border. Across this open border we have allowed:
millions of unskilled, welfare dependent and many being criminally inclined people,
millions of pounds of drugs and thousands of drug dealers who are armed and dangerous thugs fueling gang (Chicago murder type) activity and the like in our communities everywhere in our country,
a significant amount of human trafficking which brings lost female souls here to be used by the most evil of men.
Many American stolen cars are taken across the border...if they can move a stolen car across the border do not think for a second that they are not taking our young American girls South to be sexually used and then destroyed there, too.
That wall needs to be built as soon as possible and the border must be sealed.
Our Politicians are for sale to one way thinkers for votes and money. American must take a fresh look at how we finance our political campaigns and possibly at term limits...some way to take control back from big and dark and ill gotten (Clinton pay to play type) money, leveling the playing field because, as we have seen with the 2007 credit bubble, big money interests do not necessarily have America's best interests at heart.
One way thinkers fight for what they want and do not consider the costs. Many are angry and ignorant...perfect tools for big money interests like Soros. From what I have seen, protesters are in low numbers and angry. That pretty much means organized by someone or some organization from a splinter group. They really don't matter, except to the Media. We cannot allow one way thinkers to steer this country. We must realize when we are being played and avoid it. Turn it off. Then we can to all get involved in a mature, effective way and control direction we are headed.
Write to Congressional leaders and to POTUS. Pass things along that make sense to you. Be calm. Be effective. Be parental. Remember, an actual letter seems to get the most attention. Please feel free to forward this letter anywhere you like. God love you, and God Bless America.
Jim Self jimself1954@gmail.com
Saturday, March 11, 2017
One Way Thinkers vs. Two Way Thinkers
3/11/2017 Let me begin with a notion that, I believe, has a lot of merit and may explain much of what we are seeing. "One way thinkers".. for me, means people who are mostly single issue voters, what we call liberals and progressives...which are fancy, political credibility applying words for people who demand the authority to make everyone happy...where the end is the only thing that is important...Alinsky said that...without considering the responsibility for the means. Two way thinkers want many of the same things, but they are responsible people who also consider the costs.
One way thinkers demand "the authority to make everyone happy" and ignore those who get hurt. In abortion, who is happy and who gets hurt? In welfare, who is happy and who gets hurt? The "means", are the cost in terms of lives lost in riots and assassinations, money cost of permanent entitlements, traditions and value systems like having a family, getting married, raising children, teaching them to get an education and be responsible and independent are assaulted and damaged, cars burned, windows broken, policemen shot, stores looted, laws ignored by common people, powerful people, government leaders, presidential candidates. These "means" as a way to make everyone happy amount to attacking the things that make us strong and different from European and third world countries. One way thinkers.
I think that the number of one way thinkers may not be increasing as they desperately want us to believe. They, a general percentage of our population, have been there all the time. That number could be and probably is fairly steady. Our PERCEPTION of the group has been changed by a couple of things...notably, fake internet news, low information, agenda driven bloggers and commentators now having a microphone to the world, development of the art of argument to the point of terrorism, and the tendency of the main stream media to follow the internet and getting lost in the "giggle", taking us down the drain with them.
The power of one way thinkers comes from the fear they create in two way thinkers...so much so that the two wayers will retreat, not vote, not speak...and allow the one wayers to have their way. THAT is what all of this protesting and violence and terrorizing arguments are all about. They are trying to terrorize us two way thinkers from standing up for what we believe in. If you are pro life you are "at war" with feminism. If you have a problem with men in your little girl's bathroom then you are at war with LGBT crowd. If you like your gun in your pocket then you are paranoid and at war with all innocents of the world. Ya get it? Who are you at war with?
Free day care for every mother in the country would be a wonderful thing! But who is going to pay for it? One way thinkers don't care about that, but they still want it. One way thinkers have been fighting for government support forever. It has always, is now, and will always be there. In this Socialistic non-thinking, the consequences are truly terrible. But one way thinkers don't think about the consequences. They are not programmed to think that way. Read "The Liberal Mind" by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., MD. "The Psychological Causes of Political Madness".
These one way thinkers keep pushing and pushing, making their small presence appear to be quite large and making politicians uncomfortable while gaining ground by electing leaders who turn out to be boneheads. In Europe, these boneheaded politicians have allowed millions on refugees to flood into their cities, draining their treasuries, refusing to assimilate and clamoring to change the laws that made their cultures what they are. These boneheads will take some time to change out through elections and all the time the two way thinkers will have to deal with the protests and riots by one wayers who will claim that two wayers are at war with innocent immigrant families, ignoring the wholesale rape and murder of citizens.
Europe has a tough way to go and it will take a long time to fix. Two way thinkers in America see the issue and want to head it off. Two way thinkers almost lost the last election by allowing the one wayers to scare them off from voting. Only 50% of the voters actually voted. The one wayers want us to think that the other non-voting 50% are like them...fuel for their arguments for their own credibility. But don't believe them. There are far more thinking, responsible people in the country than there are boneheads.
Now, one way thinkers try every day to vilify President Trump any way they can. The main stream media is still on the Dump Trump Train, solidly...overreacting, making every flaw, every slight misstep and mistake evidence of lies, cover up, and crime. It's as bad for Trump as it was for Hillary, except that for Hillary there was evidence and most of it was probably true. For Trump, it's just anything and everything the one way thinkers can conjure up with their internet tools and sick imaginations.
So, I like the idea that the terms Liberal and Progressive give political credibility to common one way thinkers who are distinguished only for their "low information" and their ability to ignore and deny responsibility for the negative consequences of there demands. And that they use violence and terrorizing arguments to silence their opponents and victims...and to make their make their modest numbers appear to be much larger and therefore more politically significant.
Jim Self jimself1954@gmail.com
One way thinkers demand "the authority to make everyone happy" and ignore those who get hurt. In abortion, who is happy and who gets hurt? In welfare, who is happy and who gets hurt? The "means", are the cost in terms of lives lost in riots and assassinations, money cost of permanent entitlements, traditions and value systems like having a family, getting married, raising children, teaching them to get an education and be responsible and independent are assaulted and damaged, cars burned, windows broken, policemen shot, stores looted, laws ignored by common people, powerful people, government leaders, presidential candidates. These "means" as a way to make everyone happy amount to attacking the things that make us strong and different from European and third world countries. One way thinkers.
I think that the number of one way thinkers may not be increasing as they desperately want us to believe. They, a general percentage of our population, have been there all the time. That number could be and probably is fairly steady. Our PERCEPTION of the group has been changed by a couple of things...notably, fake internet news, low information, agenda driven bloggers and commentators now having a microphone to the world, development of the art of argument to the point of terrorism, and the tendency of the main stream media to follow the internet and getting lost in the "giggle", taking us down the drain with them.
The power of one way thinkers comes from the fear they create in two way thinkers...so much so that the two wayers will retreat, not vote, not speak...and allow the one wayers to have their way. THAT is what all of this protesting and violence and terrorizing arguments are all about. They are trying to terrorize us two way thinkers from standing up for what we believe in. If you are pro life you are "at war" with feminism. If you have a problem with men in your little girl's bathroom then you are at war with LGBT crowd. If you like your gun in your pocket then you are paranoid and at war with all innocents of the world. Ya get it? Who are you at war with?
Free day care for every mother in the country would be a wonderful thing! But who is going to pay for it? One way thinkers don't care about that, but they still want it. One way thinkers have been fighting for government support forever. It has always, is now, and will always be there. In this Socialistic non-thinking, the consequences are truly terrible. But one way thinkers don't think about the consequences. They are not programmed to think that way. Read "The Liberal Mind" by Lyle H. Rossiter, Jr., MD. "The Psychological Causes of Political Madness".
These one way thinkers keep pushing and pushing, making their small presence appear to be quite large and making politicians uncomfortable while gaining ground by electing leaders who turn out to be boneheads. In Europe, these boneheaded politicians have allowed millions on refugees to flood into their cities, draining their treasuries, refusing to assimilate and clamoring to change the laws that made their cultures what they are. These boneheads will take some time to change out through elections and all the time the two way thinkers will have to deal with the protests and riots by one wayers who will claim that two wayers are at war with innocent immigrant families, ignoring the wholesale rape and murder of citizens.
Europe has a tough way to go and it will take a long time to fix. Two way thinkers in America see the issue and want to head it off. Two way thinkers almost lost the last election by allowing the one wayers to scare them off from voting. Only 50% of the voters actually voted. The one wayers want us to think that the other non-voting 50% are like them...fuel for their arguments for their own credibility. But don't believe them. There are far more thinking, responsible people in the country than there are boneheads.
Now, one way thinkers try every day to vilify President Trump any way they can. The main stream media is still on the Dump Trump Train, solidly...overreacting, making every flaw, every slight misstep and mistake evidence of lies, cover up, and crime. It's as bad for Trump as it was for Hillary, except that for Hillary there was evidence and most of it was probably true. For Trump, it's just anything and everything the one way thinkers can conjure up with their internet tools and sick imaginations.
So, I like the idea that the terms Liberal and Progressive give political credibility to common one way thinkers who are distinguished only for their "low information" and their ability to ignore and deny responsibility for the negative consequences of there demands. And that they use violence and terrorizing arguments to silence their opponents and victims...and to make their make their modest numbers appear to be much larger and therefore more politically significant.
Jim Self jimself1954@gmail.com
Friday, March 3, 2017
Boneheads, Idiots, Sexists, People I Wouldn't Let In My House, , etc.
3/3/2017 Representative Cedric Richmond, a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana's 2nd district which includes New Orleans, since 2011, is my sexist and bonehead pick of the day today for his sexist "joke" about Kellyanne Conway. No reason to rehash that immaturity here. Does he think that his constituents are amused by his clearly and undeniably sexist comment? Does he think that his constituents are trash minded and that they will be amazed and amused by his off color joke about Kellyanne Conway, for whom we Republicans of all colors have enormous respect? Being that "Comfortable" ...as he says he meant, which just made the comment worse... can bring a congressman to commit stupid acts like spending money illegally and lending support for issues for bribes. If he does that he can wind up in jail...on his own knees...the same place those of those without character end up. I wouldn't wish that on anyone...neither should he...and there is not a damn thing funny about it. And the people of New Orleans deserve to have serious representation. Who takes this guy seriously? Pool hall buddies, maybe.
3/5/2017 Today it came out that the Obama administration may have tapped Trumps' phones prior to the election. It would have required a court order. It's getting a lot of mileage.
3/5/2017 MSM still seeking far right...neo-nazi, misogynist, anti-semite...propaganda to present as if it is Republican dogma. This activity supplies MSM with plenty of ammunition when their other propaganda loses steam.
Jim Self
jimself1954@gmail.com
3/5/2017 Today it came out that the Obama administration may have tapped Trumps' phones prior to the election. It would have required a court order. It's getting a lot of mileage.
3/5/2017 MSM still seeking far right...neo-nazi, misogynist, anti-semite...propaganda to present as if it is Republican dogma. This activity supplies MSM with plenty of ammunition when their other propaganda loses steam.
Jim Self
jimself1954@gmail.com
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Associated Press Dump Trump Train is Out of Gas
David A. Lieb from the Associated Press is giving a foot up for ex-Attorney General Eric Holder in the Post and Courier today, He describes a path to regain Democratic power by re-drawing voter district lines and winning Governor seats and such in swing states. This doesn't mean much to us "regular" folks who work for a living and yearn for a day or two a week when we can do what we love, with those we love, and maybe complete a chore before going back to the grind on Monday. Holder demonizes us Republicans who "rigged the local elections"...look...he has to say something. Holder says Democrats failed to focus on local elections. Yeah. While Obama led them over the cliff. Eric Holder wants money in order to do this. Lieb is trying to help him get it. And some will contribute. But most big money supporters will move to the side who has the power. Wealthy people didn't get that way being stupid. Meanwhile the AP will continue running it's "Dump Trump Train" until it runs out of gas. They probably won't go away completely, but they will fade into the background for the foreseeable future. People quickly get tired of the constant whining of spoiled children and news agencies with transparent agendas.
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