Always Mr President!

Daily Mail: The respected reporter Mark Halperin has got in to trouble States side for using undiplomatically words to describe the Obama economic plan. Well folks what ever your opinions of the Obama record as President you have to remember he is POTUS. This blog has called him the wises fool, this is of course is from the insult thrown at King James 1 of England. Thus it is critical of the policy not the man, on the other hand the elite press have to careful, its mild insult on policy folks, not the man. If the main stream media start to say that you cant be critical of Obama at all they lose big time, if you don’t keep the feet of politicians to the fire they start to believe their own press, that was a flaw of Tony Blair. If the US economy is in the toilet next year, Obama will be called the worse thing in politics, its Carter Mark 2. So the elite media get a life, its was a mistake, if you try to protect Obama from all critical opinion you will have a right wing Republican in the Oval.

In Praise of Justified

Guardian: Excellent article on the great US series Justified. The characters are complex, its part cop show, part family soap opera from hell. It has the great Timothy Olyphant as US Marshal Raylan Givens, a hero or anti hero depending on the episode, as his boss says, a great lawman but a lousy Marshal. His hot and Ex Wife, that’s a woman you would help to do what she wants!! That Marshal Givens is d-m lucky SOB. Then there is Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder, must admit had not seen his work before, but will watch him in the future, he has such calm charisma, even if he is on the wrong side of the law most of the time, and can be well nasty, but has something makes you watch. The writers have to find a way for Boyd Crowder to join the US Marshals and become the partner of Raylan, that would really drive Givens up the wall. More years to come from Justified please!

Who WON Today ? = Strike Day

Telegraph: Reports that 10 Downing Street is essence declaring victory over the Unions, the effect of the strike was very limited. Thus in the first round folks the Coalition Government won, but also Ed Miliband, he can move to ditch that “ Red ” Ed label. The losers in this round were the Unions, this was not 1926, the 70s or the 80s, the public can see the riots in Greece over a Government that does not deal with the public finances, thus on the whole it can be argued that they support the Coalition. Government 1 - 0 Unions.

Ed Miliband = A Disgrace over Strikes

BBC News: Reports that Mary Bousted a leader of one of the Teaching Unions on strike today has called the position of Ed Miliband on the strikes a disgrace, the Labour leader has stated the strike is wrong. Thus far a good day for Ed Miliband, he has attacked the Unions, but what is interesting is WHY, it can be postulated that the Labour leadership has taken soundings with the public and found that teachers and civil servants whining about having to pay more for their pension and work longer does not get much sympathy from private sector workers. As an ex supply teacher this blog has no sympathy for teachers, of what this blog has seen they create unruly students, who cant read, write or do maths, the modern teaching theory is opposed to any strict control of students in the class, thus modern teaching is more riot control in the class room, and being a social care worker, the teachers should be ashamed of their actions, they should offer to give up their pensions, they have done more damage to students than the 11 plus. Stop whining and grow up Teachers, the teaching profession is a calling, stop throwing the students under the bus so you can retire early and get that extra pint.

“ Red ” Ed Miliband and the Thursday Strikes

BBC News: Reports that the UK Coalition PM David Cameron has been critical of Labour leader Ed Miliband for keeping quite on the public sector strikes on Thursday. Lets be honest if it was not for the Unions Ed Miliband would not have beaten his brother to become Labour Leader. But the lack of questions by Mr Milliband at Prime Minister Questions shows that he is double backstabber, he stabbed his own brother in the back and now he stabs the very same people that got him the job. The strikes tomorrow could be the start of rolling strikes, one has to wonder how Tony Blair would have dealt with the issue, its fair to say there was mutual loathing between Blair and the Unions, he could not stand them as they represented old Labour, while Blair was seen by many Unions as a Tory, but he won elections, thus the Unions had little power during the Blair regime. But this is today folks, the Labour Party is broke, the only thing keeping them going is the Unions, thus Miliband can be critical but not to critical of the Unions, if the Unions go for rolling strikes this will play in to the hand of the Coalition, expect even tougher Unions laws, public sector workers in sensitive areas should not be allowed to strike, Teachers should not strike, if they strike they should get the sack and lose their pensions, that will bring them to heel fast, no money for the pub, nightmare.

The US Debt Ceiling and POTUS

The Hill: Reports that President Obama has called for a balance between spending cuts and tax hikes. This is the same old song folks, the US is in the red, it owes fourteen trillion, and what does President Obama want to do, raise taxes, the usual argument from tax and spend liberals, just raise taxes, that will solve the problem, well its about time someone called Obama on his rash spending in the first two years of his presidency, the economic stimulus that was meant to keep the US unemployment rate at below 8%, its now 9.1. The stimulus has not created jobs in the private sector, ObamaCare was meant to lower medical costs, they are going up, in fact the private sector finds it to cheaper to quit giving medical cover and pay the penalty. Lets be honest, Obama for a very smart man is dud when it comes to economics, a Harvard seminar is no lesson for the real world folks.

Greek Violence and Austerity

Guardian Live: Reports on the violent protests outside the Greek Parliament. This blog is clear when it comes to violent protests, the Greek Police have to come down hard on those that break the law, peaceful protests is one thing, but mindless violence can not be tolerated in a Democracy, the Police from the 24 hour news channels have had a horrible time over the past two days, thus the Police should not give an inch, the brave police officers need the support of the Greeks that believe in Democracy, the Greek people can vote out the Government at the next election at the ballot box, any other non democracy action has to be suppressed by the Greek Authorities.