November 11, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Politics aside for this topic.  Regardless of who you voted for I would like to say thank you to all our brave veterans who have helped and continue to help preserve our freedoms everyday.

God Bless

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October 17, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Now this is one hell of a way to kick off a weekend Folks.  I just received a call from some chick who claims to be with the elections office in York County and was told that my children Brenden age 6, Jacob age 3, and Rachael age 1 are registered to vote.  It turns out my wife Marci Heckman registered them through a voter registration form provided by ACORN.

As most of you know my wife and I are seperated as she left me for another man, and the fact that she gave those ACORN assholes my kids social security numbers really pisses me off folks.  Keep in mind Marci is a member of the Stephan family who are big fatcat under the table doners to The Berks Democrat Party, so her claiming ignorance on this makes me laugh so hard I could piss myself.  Alledgidly she only gave their social security numbers out with the form to domestic relations, as she “thought” it was a form associated with me paying child support (while I have custody of them 75% of the time).

Now here’s the kicker.  This chick at the elections office was not going to erase their names from the roll until I disclosed to them that I’m THE MATT HECKMAN THE CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER who plans to vote for JOHN MCCAIN, and I planned on taking my kids to the polls with me on election day and if I find their names in the book I would be damned If their names would be used to illegally vote for Barack Obama and If they refused to remove them, I would make sure that there were 4 votes for John McCain including myself on election day to trump the millions of illegal votes for Barack Obama.  God Damn that chick assured me so fast that their names would be removed “right now”.  Shame she did not tell me her name, because she had a pretty damn sexy voice.  If she looks as hot as she sounds, then we got to do dinner sometime and I can make her see the light that right is might in many different ways

Bottom line is I plan on taking my kids to the polls, and I will have my trusty camera phone with me, as well as a video camera crew and if I see my kids names in that book I will take a snapshot, and put it right here on this site.

Oh and I’m putting you local ACORN assholes on notice right now you fucked with the wrong guy, and I’m going to find out how my kids names ended up on your stupid piece of toilet paper you call a voter registration form and when I do I’m going to put my legal foot in your asses.  I have proud family members that died for this country, and I have good friends that are going to be risking their lives overseas right now for this country, and how dare you little two legged jackasses try to pervert the basic freedom of the right to vote.  You make me so sick I just want to puke.

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October 3, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Here is the roll call on who voted against this bill.

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October 3, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Thomas Jefferson had a reason for writing the Declaration Of Independence in the way he did.  Jefferson made it clear that we have a duty to overthrow our government if it becomes too tyrannical.

This bailout today proved that we as Americans were sold down the river by a bunch of Benedict Arnolds in the house and senate.  Quite frankly they should take the wooden arrows that were included in this bailout and shove them up thier asses.

This is not a victory for Republicans today, nor is it a victory for Democrats, as the failure of our two party system is on full display for everybody to see.

That being said I would like to welcome you to The United Socialist/Communist States Of Amercia where if you are a stupid moron who failed in life, who bought a house you knew you could not afford, who cooked your books to steal money from your shareholders, and who hates Jesus Christ you are a true American Hero who will always be bailed out by your government, and if you are one of those people who go to church, pray, work hard, pay your bills ontime, believe in people to do great things, learn from your mistake, and don’t ask to be bailed out for them, then you are a traitor who needs to be hung at the tallest tree as long as the EPA does not consider to charge you with a hate crime for hurting the tree.

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October 2, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Allard (R)

Barasso  (R)

Brownback  (R)
Bunning (R)
Cantwell (D)
Cochran (R)
Crapo (R)
DeMint (R)
Dole (R)
Dorgan (D)
Enzi (R)
Feingold (D)
Inhofe (R)
Johnson (D)
Landrieu (D)
Nelson (FL) (D)
Roberts (R)
Sanders (I)
Sessions (R)
Shelby (R)
Stabenow (D)
Tester (D)
Vitter (R)
Wicker (R)
Wyden (D)

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September 30, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

“We are now in the golden age of thieves. And where I come from we put thieves in jail, we don’t bail them out.” — Rep. Pete Visclosky, Democrat.

“I am bothered that Secretary Paulson offered an immediate government solution rather than taking the time to explore effective private sector and market based solutions. The Paulson plan was an unprecedented infusion of government power into the private financial sector.” — Rep. Steve Buyer, Republican.

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September 29, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

It’s good to see we have people in congress willing to stand up for what is right as this bailout was defeated and rightfully so.

As for the stock market I hope it crashes and crashes good.  I already cleaned out my 401K months ago, so I won’t be hurting.  Who are these assclowns to say that they are the only ones that can fix our economy?

We are not seeing a crash, but simply seeing a market correction.  Just like when known professional athletes go off the juice and slim down, the principle is the same in this case.  In other words if we had to use a little Kate Gosselin lingo we are now on an organic economy

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September 29, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

The irony of Citigroup which is run by former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin taking over Wachovia that continues to prove that this government bailout is nothing but massive welfare for mainly Democrat Party hacks in the Clinton Administration.

The main issue that the story fails to mention is that this is the first bank that has fallen without any connections to subprime lending.  Wachovia was strickly a prime lender that required a credit score of at least 650, but perfered 675 to 700 before they would even talk to you.  This is hardly the credit scores of subprime borrowers that ranged from the 500 credit score range which we hear so much about in the media.

Simply put is that this government bailout is only going to be a tear in the bucket, as all fingers of blame have been pointed to stupid people with bad credit, but now news of this takeover indicates that we need to include stupid people with good credit into that mix as well.

Let’s face reality right here and now.  Regardless of what Democrats and Republicans did to mandate banks to lend money to people, it still does not excuse the ignorance and stupidity of the people that signed on the dotted line when they knew they could not afford it.  In my former county of residenance Berks County, I saw this stupidity constantly everywhere I went.  I did several I.T. consulting jobs for real estate companies, and know many realtors, and the kicker is that on average 60% of the mortgages that were being made were prime lenders like Wachovia, Soverign, etc.  The problem was that their underwriting critera did not take into account the risk associated with interest only, or Adustable Rate Mortgages (a.k.a. ARMs) and were using the critera as if these people were taking a standard 30 year fixed mortgage.  Another intersting point was that these people applying for a mortgage demanding the ARM’s and interest only loans, because they wanted to buy more house than what they could afford.

Bottom line is we have a bigger problem than what people are willing to admit.  We are basically admitting that our credit reporting system is now broken.  It is now been proven that it was not just people with bad credit that caused this problem, but people with good credit that got greedy risking the fact that property values would continue to increase.  That is why banks are so afraid to lend money even with people who have perfect credit.  Your credit score can be 800, but there is no way of knowing if you are going to be one of those morons who try to live beyond your means.  If you really want to fix the problem, then overhaul the concept of credit reporting, because it now has been proven to be flawed for all the world to see.  The best way to underwrite is to judge you for what you did and do, and a reformed system would blacklist these stupid people from taking loans for several years rather than determine what kind of person you are by simply reading a 3 digit number on a credit report from a system that is now been proven to be a joke.  Mark my words we are far from seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900760.html

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September 22, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

Here is the answer to the (economic) problem. Instead of bailing out the rich let’s take the 700 billion dollars and divide it equally among the 200 million American citizens. This money must be used to pay off debt. The bankers get back in the black and the American people actually benefit!

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September 17, 2008 by Matt Heckman.

I challenge all of you today to go get your wallet, go to the bathroom, put your money in the toilet and flush it, because that is what the dollar is going to be worth if the federal reserve is not stopped in light of the announced bailout of AIG today in a $85 billion dollar bailout.

Now for all you people who are running around today saying how beautiful this is, then I will tell you not to put money in the toilet, but to stick your head into it, because that toilet will give you a better education than our pathetic public school system.

Why should our tax dollars go to bailout companies and reward their executives for their failure in a free market with dollar amounts that you or me would never see in our lifetimes?  I say let them all fall flat on their face!  That’s the way a free market works!  In time the market will correct itself, and it always does.  Government interference only delays the inevidable downfall and slows the market correction that is desperatly needed to avoid a deeper recession or possibly a depression if the government does not get out of the way.

What makes me mad especially is that I paid over $15,000 in federal taxes last year and quite honestly I would perfer to use some of that money to invest into a small business that would create jobs for other people, but instead that money has to go toward Joe CEO who is a proven screwup that gets rewarded for failure at the expense of you and me.

Bottom line is that we are on a slippery slope when we as nation reward failure.  We as a country, and as a civilized society can’t exist if we set the standard for our children that they don’t have to fear failure, because their government will bail them out.  If it takes a recession or a depression for the market to correct itself, than so be it.  Time heals all wounds, and other businesses will be there to pick up the slack, and people like Joe CEO will be wearing an orange jumpsuit for a very long time.  People simply have to understand that you can’t have success without failure.  Simply put our federal government is trying to erase the concept of failure.  If you do not learn from your mistakes in life, you will never be successful, because you will be bound to repeat the failures you continue to ignore.  Success and failure are facts of life, just as left and right, right, and wrong, etc.  Our government simply thinks they are never wrong and that they’re only capable of success.

As for the sheeple that fear the world of hurt here is some tough love.  Go vote, keep yourself updated on what your elected officials do on record, because the biggest failure we as a citizenry have is reelecting the same people that put you through a world of hurt in the first place.

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