Ladies, gentlemen I believe it’s time for the American people to hear the truth.

The President who is responsible for running up trillion dollar deficits every year he has been in office; the President who is responsible for spending over three-and-a-half trillion dollars just this year; this president is telling the American people that the world will end if the growth of government spending is slowed down just this much (makes sign with thumb and forefinger).

This is a scene we have seen played many, many times before. There is even a name for it: the Washington Monument ploy. In the past, if the ruling class in the Washington establishment did not get its way, they threatened to shut down the Washington Monument because that’s where the budget ax would fall. President Obama has taken the Washington Monument ploy, dusted it off and Supersized it. He’s telling us that if this minuscule reduction, not an actual cut, but a reduction in the rate of growth occurs we would lose our police, our firefighters, our air traffic controllers, our teachers and our baby sitters. He has sent his surrogates out to tell us that we would be waiting for hours to board planes. He and his Defense Secretary have told us that this would destroy our military. He has delayed the deployment of an aircraft carrier scaring the people of Virginia to death. Between now and March first I expect that there will be predictions of water turning to blood, fiery hail, the sun blotted out and plagues of locusts if he does not get his way.

And the ladies and gentlemen of the press have lapped up every prediction of doom and even expanded on them. Well, I’m tired of it. I refuse the play the game any longer. Let’s make something very clear. If the President does not believe he’s up to running the government on a mere $3.5 trillion dollars a year, he should resign and let’s find someone who can. If the members of the Senate and the House don’t believe that they can find a way to fund the essential duties of the government without borrowing twenty trillions from generations yet unborn, they should leave and let someone else do it. If the members of the media will not do their duty to report honestly instead of fanning the flames of fear, they should find another line of work.

The sequester is a baby step in the direction of fiscal responsibility. The one bad part about it was that it does not distinguish between programs that are essential and programs that are a waste. In that respect, it was deliberately designed to be a bad idea. It was designed by the White House, but it was passed by the Congress so we are all to blame. But here we must stop because the horrible results that the President has predicted will not come to pass … unless he deliberately creates them. His is the responsibility actually fulfill the oath of office he took. If instead, he prefers to give speeches, stumble from crisis to crisis and conduct a perpetual campaign, please step aside Mr. President and let’s find someone who can do the job.

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v108/i12/e125001

The Dems could have, with equal “honesty”, advocated massive investments in cold fusion as an answer to public power needs.

Cold fusion would work, and I wonder if that’s been causing all these problems with lithium batteries. Fleischman and Pons also had these rather unpredictable explosions. I wondered if that could explain some of the explosions of lithium ion batteries. Maybe it is hard to get a controlled reaction but cvareful studying of this might find a way.

Yes, cold fusion might be true after all, according to an article in last November’s Discover magazine, only it takes place in a different way than Fleschman and Pons said.

It seems like maybe that when a lot of electricity is concentrated around hydrogen, some of the electrons merge with the protons and become neutrons.

That would normally not have much of an effect – the neutrons decay soon – they have a half life of 20 minutes.

But if there are lithium atoms nearby they can enter the lithium.

The lithium quickly decays to beryllium which splits fissions into two helium atoms.

Normally to get nuclear fusion going you need a temperature of 2.4 million degrees. That’s when two protons hit each other. But here you are using neutrons.

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/nov/27-big-idea-bring-back-the-cold-fusion-dream

Hey, Police, Fire, and Teachers are NOT federal employees, yet.

But the federal government makes grants to state and local governments. That’s the argument.

Who, of course, are watching Kimmy.

And guess what, had the Senate or the President delivered a budget, they would have had these cuts baked in already. The reason it’s “scary” is because they sat on their collective asses and figured someone would blink first. Hadthey initiated cuts from the beginning of this fiscal year, they’d be 5 months into the cuts already (or ~half) and wouldn’t have to cram 12 months of reduction into the last 7 months of the fiscal year. If this doesn’t show that Washington will never, ever cut anything, then nothing will.

Simply put: Get a graph that shows spending during the last 10 years, with the correspondig “response” to the credit crash in 2008, which has been on auto-pilot, quote Rahm’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” and say, Mr. President, what’s your plan? We agreed on cuts in 2011 for 2013, you had 2 years to come up with a plan for alternative cuts. Where TF is it?

Start passing other house bills and business and move forward. This ship has left the port.