Saturday

First a little humor, and if you haven’t heard this or seen it yet well it’s beyond mere words.

If you haven’t heard about Lemonade-gate then read this: Portland lemonade stand runs afoul of health inspectors.

Now have a look at this: The Government War On Kid-Run Concession Stands

Yes we can’t have children learning how to be entrepreneurs can we?  Not to mention church bake sales: Bye-Bye Miss America Pies and Cakes.  Fortunately free enterprise is fighting back:  Lemonade Freedom Day August 20, 2011

The costs of regulation today amount to $10,000 per employee per year for small businesses in the U.S. That’s why the advert where a little girl borrows her father’s phone to help run her lemonade stand and ends up running a multinational just can’t happen. The bureaucrats just wouldn’t let her do it without jumping through the costly bureaucratic hoops first.

That’s why businesses aren’t hiring. That’s why unemployment is still at 10 percent (except around the bureaucrats’ nirvana of Washington, D.C., where it’s 4 percent). That’s why the president’s revenues have dried up.

If we want to get America back to work, we need to lighten up on the lemonade stands, lighten up on small businesses, and stop the bureaucrats destroying free enterprise.  Iain Murray

Also if you’ve been keeping your head in the sand (owning cats I don’t dare) the Standard and Poor’s downgraded the United States triple A rating to AA+ : S&P Downgrade and then they didn’t: S&P backs off downgrade after White House challenge.

All I know is this I like what Ron Paul said when he heard of the downgrade (that didn’t happen)

We have just learned that for the first time in our history, the United States’ top credit rating has been downgraded by credit rating agency S&P.

We were told by proponents of increasing the debt ceiling that a credit downgrade would come if we didn’t raise the limit, but the opposite was true.

The ratings agencies had been warning us for some time that it is imperative upon the U.S. government to get its fiscal house in order and tackle its debt and deficit problem by taking serious steps.

Unfortunately, the game in Washington has been one of partisan blaming and bipartisan out-of-control spending.

America has been dealing with this severe economic crisis for years because the Washington establishment failed to focus on the true issues at hand: a declining dollar and out-of-control spending.

Last November, millions of frustrated Americans let it be known that they wanted our debt crisis solved and our spending problem to end. They sent a group of new lawmakers to Washington to end business as usual.

But the old crowd of elites still refuses to budge on doing everything it takes to get us out of this hole they’ve dug. Instead of real substantial budget cuts, we get minor or ‘fake’ cuts and budget tricks that may or may not happen far off into the future. We get a Congress that abdicates its responsibility to an unconstitutional ‘Super Congress’ with the power to make things worse than they already are.

The American people realize that our nation can no longer afford to stay on this same path of reckless spending and follow the status quo of Washington. They will not tolerate any further ineffective stimulus schemes that do nothing to help our economy and actually do the opposite to the tune of trillions of dollars in money being spent and printed, and millions of people remaining unemployed and without much economic stability or security.

If Washington refuses to take heed, there is little cause for optimism.

Growing inflation, rising gasoline and food prices, and trillion-dollar budget deficits will all soon seem like minor issues if our nation does not immediately change our monetary and spending policies.

We must take bold actions to reduce out-of-control government spending, and get the federal government out of the way of small business and entrepreneurs so that they can start hiring again.

If elected President, I pledge to veto any unbalanced budget and to balance the federal budget in the first year of my term. I will fight to reduce taxes and remove unconstitutional regulations so that businesses can hire, Americans can get back to work, and our economy can truly recover.

And with that all I can say is Boogity Boogity Amen. 

Be where you hear the Word of God preached and the means of grace rightly administered tomorrow.