Huckabee Forum. Not Fair and Balanced!!

Just finished watching Mike Huckabee's forum with the three Republican Candidates who have won, and have any chance of winning the office of President. ( Sorry Pauleestas I ticked you off again.) Of course I watched on my DVR, since I missed the original airing Saturday Night.

DVRs are a wonderful thing. They allow you to access content, and make sure you heard something right.

A couple of the questions, raised questions with me, that I would like to have answered. Keep in mind, I have been a Huckabee supporter for a long time, and think the world of him. But many of us have been Fox News people for years, and have seen the changes in what is going on there. They have foresaken the Fair and Balanced agenda in an out, and out pursuit to make the choices for President next fall, between Romney and Obama.

The first question that raised a flag was the question from David MacArthur. The topic of the Forum was JOBS. Let me make this clear. I think Mr McArthur is a Great American, and may not have done this on purpose. But Mitt Romney was asked a question by a sobbing Mr McArthur, about Veterans Benefits. The crux of which was about Veterans Health Care. Gov. Romney gave a very compassionate response to the question. Mr McArthur's son has Post Dramatic Stress Syndrome, having served in Iraq. The main focus of the question was, are you going to cut veterans benefits? Question: How can a question such as this, which makes no reference to retraining of veterans, since the Topic of the Forum was Jobs, be considered as nothing more than an attempt to give Gov. Romney a sympathy moment on national tv? Was it designed to create emotional attachment to Romney, since it is obvious Obama's personal likability numbers are still solid? Further complicating the situation. At the start of the show Mr McArthur a small business owner from St Louis told Mike that he has told his son who has returned from Iraq that there is no future for the son in the Family Business. That he needs to look elswhere for work. But at the start of his questioning to Gov Romney, Mr McArthur says that his son is not employable because of his PDSS. So there can be no doubt the question had nothing to do with the TOPIC of the forum which was JOBS.Furthur making the situation worse for the Huckabee forum was when the next panel of three people after Mr McArthur's panel, had a Gold Star Parent on it, who when he was questioning Newt Gingerich, it was rather obvious the fellow did not like Newt. Asked Gov. Romney again about veterans benefits, and the line of the questioning had nothing to do with veteran job training again.

Raising furthur questions about this, was the opportunity for Gingerich and Santorum to show their abilities to be a compassionate Comander in Chief, never materialized since they were never asked any questions about Veterans at all.

But the culmination of the night came at the end with the panel of David Mc Arthur, Elaine Chao ( married to Mitch McConnell a big Romney supporter), Charlie Gasparino, and Mike. They were discussing what they had just seen and Mike asked if anything had stuck out about the candidates. Which resulted in Elaine Chao hitting a massive Home Run that only a Major League Star on Steroids could hit. Chao's praised Mitt's handling of Mr McArthur's question. It looked like Ralphie's dream of getting an A+ on his theme from Christmas Story. It was a side of Mitt she had never seen before,it was powerful she said, and Mike agreed. Mike said Mitt blew it out of the water. One problem Mike. The question was off topic.

On the whole I thought it was a good forum. But the veteran's questions were asked in such a way that leads one to believe that they were there for the intent of helping Romney's likability problem, rather than about veterans themselves. They stuck out so much and was commented on so much that Charlie Gasparino's disaproval was rather eminent at the end of the show. If the questions were about veterans. The question should have been specifically about educational, and training benefits for veterans to stay on topic. But you can't create emotional responses, out of people for candidates you are trying to push on the American Public on those issues. Veteran's Heathcare? Yes.

The fact that Newt and Santorum were not asked any veterans questions at all. Makes this an even more noticable attempt to use this as an opportunity to bolster Romney's image. Hardly Fair and Balanced.

Profit or Greed?

I have listened to the media call me a socialist-liberal because I happen to agree with Newt Gingerich, and Rick Perry's view on capitalism. Both Limbaugh, and Beck, have come out defending Bain Capital's form of Capitalism, along with the rest of the media.

Less than a month from a Christmas Season, where we all watched George Bailey fight the greedy Mr Potter, and we don't seem to have learned the lesson.

In the Alistair Sim version of a Christmas Carol, Jacob Marley comes to Fizziwig, and tells him about new methods to increase profit, and productivity. Fizzwig responds. Jacob, those things may all be true, but there is more to business than just profit. It is also a way of life, and if that way of life is to become outdated and die, then let it die with me.

There hasn't been a town, or pension fund touched by the type of capitalism Bain Capitol represents. Have they closed down factories and sent those jobs to China? I don't know. How come we aren't discussing this? Instead all we hear is that Newt and Perry are anti Capitalists. Did Bain raid companies just to shut them down, and grab the companies largest asset, its pension plan? I don't know. How come we aren't discussing this?

Sixty six percent of this countries GDP is sitting in one of the banks on Wall Street. Are we comfortable with that? Is that what we want? There are all kinds of questions that come up from this, and all we are getting for answers from the Bain side of this is that Newt, and Perry are Anti-Capitalist.

In Luke 12:15 greed is described as such:

And He said to them, “Take heed and beware of covetousness, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of the things he possesses.”

One thing that finally came out this weekend, was the fact that many of the college endowment,and peoples 401k, ( including IPERS) are invested in these funds. People's retirements are underfunded, and tuition keeps going up. Is this a result of Bain's form of Capitalism? I don't know. How come the media isn't talking about it?

My favorite economist is Dr Walter E. Williams. He describes how our economic system works. He says we earn our profits by serving our fellow man. Let's say you need your lawn mowed. A person knocks on your door, and asks if they can mow your yard. They mow your yard and you give them $10. That person takes that $10 to the grocery store to buy meat. The butcher asks. "How do I know you have served your fellow man today?" The person says " I have this $10 for mowing this guys yard."

I think if we ask most Americans, that is how they look at capitalism. I don't know about you but that doesn't sound very socialist to me. That is the Gold Standard of wealth. Under Dr Williams economic model the person who mowed your yard would make $10 a day and save one dollar of it. Saving a dollar a day would add up overtime, and make one wealthy.

Now under Bain's form of Capitalism. Your yard tech would take that dollar, send it to them, and they would invest it to make more money than the Tech is capable of making,and saving in a day. Now if they are making an honest effort to serve their fellow man, I guess this would be ok. But all of us know that these funds, on occasion, attack companies for the hostile act of taking them over. This happened to Casey's General Store last year. How much profit did the stock holders lose, because the Casey's management had to take measures to fend off that attack? Has Bain owned companies that competed in the same industry,at the same time, as companies that Bain took over and closed? I don't know. All I hear is Newt and Perry and I are Anti-Capitalist.

Another thing we are not discussing is the ethics of making money. Prostitution is legal and profitable in Nevada. I guess that is ethical to make your money that way. Many people got rich in the South from Slavery. It was legal and profitable. I guess that was ethical. Through out the history of this country we have had standards of what is an ethical way to make profits. Have we thrown those standards away?

In 2008 40% of the Evangelical Vote went to Obama. Are we going to get the vote back by promoting profit at all cost? Are we going to get that vote back by rejecting a tradition of profits built on the foundation of serving your fellow man?

Yes Bain's form of capitalism is a new modern method of increasing productivity, and of course taxable income for an out of control government that needs more and more taxes. But is it attacking a way of life, that is really the most unique and prosperous in the history of man?

I am a Rush 24/7 and GBTV member and I am really offended that all I have been hearing this last week is that Newt, Perry, and I are socialists when we all agree with the economic model that one of Rush's guest host espouses,and the Biblical World View Beck is trying to bring back to this country. Too bad they got off course this last week. Too bad I have to come up with questions about this that I have relied on them to come up with. Maybe like Romney I will need to fire a business that gives me bad service.