WHAT IS REAL

ARE WE LOSING OUR ABILITY TO PROTECT OUR FREEDOM?

2011-07-10T11:09:00.000-07:00

We live in a complicated world with too much to do in our own lives and the politicians are making an incredible mess because we trusted them to take care of running our country. Benjamin Franklin warned US that this would happen if we allowed political office to be a paid position. There are dangers in having only those wealthy enough to support themselves have the power as well because that would give them the ability to increase their power. This is not a solution to that issue, but, rather a warning that we are giving up our ability to deal with that DANGER.

Americans became disenchanted with capitalism in the '30s and the outcome of their decision to leave a Free Enterprise America for a better life is recounted in The Foresake-An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia. Why would we allow the power of government with the current technology to increase to the point that it could do whatever the elite wanted to do and the people became powerless?

http://www.amazon.com/Forsaken-American-Tragedy-Stalins-Russia/dp/1594201684

I received an email dated 07/10/2011 which I have not been able to confirm, but it is indicative of the FCC push for control of the internet and the attack rather than debate tactics of this government. It would be far more productive to have open debates about the issues with fact checking to critique the debate at the end, not the opinion of pundants.

There are enough people aware of the Bernay's, Alinsky and Cloward-Piven tactics that the class warfare by an administration with the !HUGIST! political warchest ever funded, Hollywood production campaign, an inaugeral which was beyond imagination requiring an airport be dedicated to PRIVATE JETs for the ?poor? people who supported Obama to attend the inaugeral, the Goldman-Sachs/Fannie Mae/Gore Group joint investment in CCX, a climate gate scandal, GE receiving an EPA exemption to have an advantage over the competition, the intimidation of people investing their money for their retirement (not depending upon the government totally) being intimidated by Obama himself as well as his RAT squad (Rent A Thug)to relinquish their legal priority to name a few things.

Think about the two government recent involvements in private enterprise forcing bad business choices which weaken the business. Does this encourage a business to remain in America and employ American workers or does it clearly state that the goverment doesn't care whether they do well, much less survive, or not. The Great Depression has some examples of this same government imposition of the government mandates putting businesses into the graveyard. Policies allow or deny business to expand and employ American workers. Look at the unemployment rate over history and not that the government is not the solution. Two examples are:

1. NLRB attacking Boeing, a major American employer, to prevent their employing 2,000 workers in South Carolina in a $1,000,000,000 plant which is already built.

2. DOJ settlement with Citizens Republic Bancorp Inc which appears to be enforcement of the lending practices which resulted in the major financial disaster of 2008 by Fannie-Freddie disasterous underwriting and securitizing the loans to push the disaster off onto investors. It is also a way to extort money from private enterprise which could have been used for their expansion or improving their ratios.

Email had the following message and pictures:

Obama Signs
(88 miles south of Seattle)

Northbound on I-5 (88 miles south ofSeattle)...

The federal government is now petitioning to have these signs removed or Washington state will be denied additional monies for interstate highways.

The State of Washington replied, they will secede from the Union rather than be intimidated. These are a matter of free speech paid for by a private citizen.

It seems the Obama government uses intimidation and ignores the first amendment when they want to silence someone.

IS GLENN BECK BEING PLAYED OR HAS HE FOUND A SMOKING GUN?

2011-03-22T08:57:00.000-07:00

The tape linked below is a preview of an attack on the American economy starting with J P Morgan Chase in May of 2011. Has Beck been suckered or is what a lot of us have feared been better documented. One of the principles of propaganda is to deny others the ability to quote the propagandist in a lie and to mix in enough truth that people will lie to themselves. The words of this former SEIU executive fit that if this tape is real. The Pentagon report suggesting that there was a possibility of an economic terrorist attack on the American economy a few years ago might indicate that this is not the first attack on the American economy.

Beck has requested statements from the White House and FBI for his show this evening.

A tape of a meeting in which a May 2011 assault on America’s economy was acquired by Beck and copies were forwarded to Chase, a chosen target, and to the Department of Justice.
Steve Lerner, a high level organizer and former SEIU leader, is one of the speakers on this tape in which a plan to create economic chaos is outlined. One of the participants refers to Cloward – Pivens http://cloward-piven.com/
Quote: Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis. The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants - more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism.

Some of these people are reaching internationally and there is enough awareness that they have come more out in the open in spite of Lerner’s admonition that the union must not be connected to organizing this assault.

Listen to this recording or watch Glenn Beck TV to see what he actually shows and states. Then listen to those who discuss what he shows and states and it will give a clear understanding of who stands where. Note that I did not state my pre-judgement because each of us is obligated to gather information, vette it and share it with each other. By our vetting the information and sharing the results with each other we can test our analysis and tune up how we make our decisions.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-the-lefts-economic-terrorism-playbook-the-chase-campaign-for-a-coalition-of-unions-community-groups-lawmakers-and-students-to-take-down-us-capitalism-and-redistribute-wealth-power/comment-page-5/#comment-836082

I have a good comparison of the two sides by them. One is shown to school children and the other is a description of the benefit of a free enterprise America by an entrepenuer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

OR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

Some Americans rejected capitalism and relocated to Russia during the Great Depression. The better life which they sought is described in, “the book, The Forsake: An American Tragedy In Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tzouliadis is a stark and tragic account of what happened in the 1930’s to thousands of Americans as a result of not knowing what communism was all about.”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2498376/posts

WHO CARES ABOUT AMERICA'S WORKERS?

2010-10-02T08:40:00.000-07:00

How much do we care about our fellow Americans who are out of work? We are all affected by this issue because employment produces collected tax revenue which supports public employees and pays the necessary overhead of government. It affects every one of US from new born to retired right now and in our future. I care enough ot watch both sides and objectively analyze the solutions offered? We have that opportunity with the

10-2-10 RALLY

I will be challenging what I believe as a Conservative who looks at this much manpower and money and wonders why they do not take all of that manpower and the money those groups control and form businesses to compete against the “Rich People” businesses one at a time which, if they are right would snowball. I am a firm believer in Hayek over Keynes and so far believe that history bears out that conclusion as I see Cuba and Russia laying off public employees. I have no idea what the message will be at this rally, but there is a huge rally by the Left which is supported by groups including the Unions and Communist Party USA described by One Nation as, “This movement includes human and civil rights organizations, unions and trade associations, nonprofit organizations, youth and student groups, religious and other faith groups, educational, peace, environmental, and ethnic associations, and any other groups and individuals who are committed to pulling our country back together now.
These are some of the more than 400 organizations, representing tens of thousands of individuals who have endorsed the One Nation Working Together campaign. Join this historic moment:”

We have been warned by several sources from world news to the United Nations which has issued two reports on the employment problem worldwide and the resulting unrest which is predicted. Do we want to choose a way which avoids unrest in America? There is an article with links to the reports at

It starts, “The UN's International Labor Organization issued a report warning of social unrest in the wake of ongoing unemployment worldwide.”

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/298359#ixzz11CvwLNKv

TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE

American workers are still unemployed in incredibly large numbers for a long period of time inflicting:

1. decreased ability to make mortgage payments and keep their home, much less cover their cost of living

2. a lack of access to employer connected health insurance – I favor portable non-employer connected health insurance, but employer connected is immediately available

3. diminishing skills and attitude

4. lower collected tax revenue driving up national debt and jeopardizing the entitlements currently in effect

5. and certain groups are singled out

Delphi workers are shut out as UAW workers are given a Health Care Tax exemption for Cadillac Health Insurance and their pension plans are protected with tax dollars

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/09/22/special-report-the-delphi-disaster-an-economic-horror-story-obama-wont-tell/

Andrew Breitbart questioned an entire group of protestors about their level of knowledge and ended up with a discussion with two protestors at a meeting where he was scheduled to speak. He found two rational people in the group, but this points out the need to be in rational debate rather than emotional, bumper stickers types of labels. Formulating a strategy, monitoring the results and correcting course deviations is basic management and our economic strategy results without addressing things like Fannie – Freddie appear to need some tune ups.

http://www.valuesvoternews.com/2010/09/dude-andrew-breitbart-takes-out.html

What would you do is a fair question and my answer is more involved, but based on the ideas in the following three videos and my faith in the American individual who, unfettered by overwhelming government controls such as the Health Reform requirement for business to 1099 anyone paid over $500.00 which diverts time and money from production to subservience. Seems to me that that requirement increases the need for psychiatric care of American Producers to deal with the frustration inflicted by a clueless or sadistic beauracracy.

This man employs people who have health insurance and makes a very simple suggestion. He is also expanding his foreign operation because China is more predictable than the USA at this time. That is the reason that business people who want to expand and make more money, but cannot forecast with any certainty in a time when Congress fails to create a budget and make a decision on the Bush tax cuts are not expanding and employing people..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrxfFFeMbc

Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive policies created the potential for a depression and we instead ended up with the Roaring 20s, a time of prosperity and invention under a Conservative administration. Coolidge was far from a brilliant orator, but his economic philosophy put America in economic overdrive. Compare this to testimony before a Congressional committee => “I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. ... And an enormous debt to boot!” -- Henry Morgenthau Jr.—pal, lunch companion and loyal secretary of the Treasury to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5puwTrLRhmw

Woodrow Wilson had Edward L. Bernays, a propaganda master admired by Gerbil during WWII. Look at the following video and ask why we have a climate of diminished American business activity with an anti – business attitude by groups which have the talent and money to compete, but choose to be parasitic instead. This is shown to children – are they being taught critical thinking or being programmed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLBE5QAYXp8

Lynn Tilton, CEO of Patriarch Partners DOES PRESERVE JOBS and lays a plan for the government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkwSloggR-g&feature=fvsr

Ask yourself why we would have a moratorium on Gulf oil exploration by Americans as we fund Mexico to do what Aemrican workers are prohibited from doing. We have also backed George Soros/Petrobras for Brazilian oil exploration while American workers are kept down. WHY?

Check out 10-2-10 and then compare it to 8-28 CSPANN at

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/295231-1

which while not political is an indicator of what a lot of US would like to see, honoring the military who protect US and looking for values and character.

We have American workers unable to get employment and there is reason. The two very different philosophies create TWO VERY DIFFERENT RESULTS. Think about American workers, not party as you vote on November 2, 2010. Dr. Thomas Sowell has stated that he thinks that this is the most important election in American history.

THOUGHTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY

2010-05-26T07:48:00.000-07:00

THE THREE QUOTES BY THOMAS PAINE DESCRIBE SOMETHING WHICH WE HAVE BECAUSE BRAVE MEN AND WOMAN HAVE PAID A PERSONAL PRICE TO DEFEND IT AND THE THREAT TO IT IF WE DO NOT MAINTAIN A REAL VIEW OF THE GIFT WHICH IS NOT INDESTRUCTIBLE.

I have included the FOUR PARAGRAPH Gettysburg Address later in this post because it was given to honor those who paid the price and in the fourth paragraph TO CHARGE those who enjoy that which was preserved. These words are very appropriate for US to review and ponder today.

When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me to blunt my feelings) for the honor and happiness of its character, I become irritated at the attempt to govern mankind by force and fraud, as if they were all knaves and fools, and can scarcely avoid disgust at those who are thus imposed upon.—Thomas Paine

“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.” — Tom Paine

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” -- Thomas Paine.

THANKS TO THE SACRIFICES OF THESE PEOPLE - OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN SAFE FROM THE OUTSIDE Posted by littleguyusa on Friday, September 11, 2009 9:00:00 PM

This is a "THANK YOU!!" to our service people for putting their lives on hold and on the line without regard to a discussion of the wars in which they are involved. These people are the reason that we are still Americans without another country's rule and I just wanted to acknowledge them for giving me the opportunity to enjoy my life in America.

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Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me...' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.' His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a rea l sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one.. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.' Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Thank you for enduring the heat, the hard work and the sacrifices. I appreciate more than I will ever be able to show. Ross

THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS COPIED FROM:

http://americancivilwar.com/north/lincoln.html

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

MARCUS LUTTRELL WROTE LONE SURVIVOR
Listen to this interview and note Marcus Luttrel's description of his vote to let the goat herders go rather than to execute them and insure the team's safety. THE LIARS WHO HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR SERVICE PEOPLE AND PROMOTE ANYTHING WHICH THEY CAN FIND TO PROPAGANDIZE THE GULLIBLE work to the destruction of what we have because our military protects it. Perspective is incredibly important.
“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.” -- Thamas Paine
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -- Samuel Adams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irC4K7Q4JCo

Memorial Day Was Born Out Of The Civil War In 1868 and the historian interviewed suggests that we take a moment to read the Gettysburg Address on Memorial Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-l9GvcAm-M&playnext_from=TL&videos=sss7eKhaVns&feature=sub

TWO VIDEOS SHOWING THE EMOTIONS OF THOSE WHO DEFEND AMERICA AND THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM
In the Arms of an Angel - American Soldiers Tribute by Mushafugga at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yklp5Ua_xj4
with Music: Sarah McLachlan - Angel Download This Song: iTunes AmazonMP3
AND
A tribute to all of our troops, and for my good friend SharpLugia!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lScwwGyJJc
with Music: Mark Schultz - Letters from War

LET US STAY CONSCIOUS AND DEDICATED TO OUR DUTY TO PRESERVE THAT WHICH WE HAVE RECEIVED!

I WANT A NATIONALLY TELEVISED DEBATE - TOO MUCH DISPARITY - LET US HEAR THE TRUTH

2010-05-22T16:15:00.000-07:00

There is no excuse for the Arizona situation to go in the direction that it is going. Government should protect US and ease our life, not make it crazy and stir up hate and discontent. If the administration cared about the actual issues they would clearly state the issues and deal with them. There is something else going on because this administration has a lot of bright people and this is a management 101 level problem.

I want to see a nationally televised debate between President Barack Obama and Governor Jan Brewer on the issues that are of concern to the administration. I would be happy with a person with authority to speak for either of them with the understanding that they are speaking absolutely for that person's position.
The way this issue has been handled by the Whitehouse is astounding to me. I would expect a leader of a country to have contacted the Governor and discussed the issues of concern. From my perspective, I, instead, see a FOCUS ON FAILURE:

1. public statements disparaging the Arizona legislature passed and Governor Brewer signed and warning of what MIGHT HAPPEN = sounds like predictions of what did not happen at Tea Party Rallys

2. a threat by the Attorney General to look into challenging Arizona protecting itself with the statute

3. failing to acknowledge Arizona's response to fears of racial profiling with HR2162 which deals with racial profiling and allows the use of a drivers license if there is a legal contact. This makes Arizona law superior to the federal law and California state statute.

4. inviting a leader of a foreign country to speak against Arizona and agreeing with him which indicates an alliance of this administration with an invading nation against a state in what was the UNITED States of America.

5. failing to recognize that the inciting rhetoric and actions adversely affects the wellfare of the Arizona population, 30% of which is of Hispanic heritage. That is discrimination against American Hispanics by their ?fellow? Americans.

The only reasons which I can imagine for keeping Governor Brewer from discussing her situation with President Obama or someone he delegates confirm my fears of this administration's intentions for America.

Governor Brewer and her legislators heard the people voicing their fears of racial profiling (30% of Arizona population is of Hispanic descent) and dealt with it by passing House Bill 2162 prohibiting racial profiling and adding the drivers license as acceptable proof of citizenship. They want to protect their borders and citizens without abusing their citizens. Rather than focus on failure, they dealt with the issue by adding a clarification that is clear and easy to understand. I will post that section here and you may read the entire bill at

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/hb2162c.htm

B. For any lawful contact stop, detention or arrest made by a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of this state or a law enforcement official or a law enforcement agency of a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who and is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person, except if the determination may hinder or obstruct an investigation. Any person who is arrested shall have the person's immigration status determined before the person is released. The person's immigration status shall be verified with the federal government pursuant to 8 United States code section 1373(c). A law enforcement official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may not solely consider race, color or national origin in implementing the requirements of this subsection except to the extent permitted by the United States or Arizona Constitution. A person is presumed to not be an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States if the person provides to the law enforcement officer or agency any of the following:

1. A valid Arizona driver license.

2. A valid Arizona nonoperating identification license.

3. A valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification.

4. If the entity requires proof of legal presence in the United States before issuance, any valid United States federal, state or local government issued identification.

C. If an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States is convicted of a violation of state or local law, on discharge from imprisonment or on the assessment of any monetary obligation that is imposed, the United States immigration and customs enforcement or the United States customs and border protection shall be immediately notified.

D. Notwithstanding any other law, a law enforcement agency may securely transport an alien who the agency has received verification is unlawfully present in the united states and who is in the agency's custody to a federal facility in this state or to any other point of transfer into federal custody that is outside the jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency. A law enforcement agency shall obtain judicial authorization before securely transporting an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States to a point of transfer that is outside of this state.

The entire bill is available at: http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf

There has been a lot of inciting rhetoric over the potential problems of this bill and there has been a video of the effect of racial profiling that this bill causes.
The misinformation counts on people looking at, but not reading the article because:
1. It is the federal government, ICE, demanding a birth certificate
2. The wife states that this has nothing to do with racial profiling and Arizona law
3. The bill does not go into effect until July 28, 2010
4. HB2162 prohibits racial profiling and allows a drivers license to be used as proof of citizenship

This article may be found at http://www.azfamily.com/news/91769419.html

and the last part points out the misrepresentation in using this for a demonstration of Arizona law possibilities with HB 2162. Jackie explains, “I have his social security card as well and mine. He's legit. It's the first time it's ever happened.”

Both were born in the United States and say they are now both infuriated that keeping important documents safely at home is no longer an option.

Jackie says, “It doesn't feel like it's a good way of life, to live with fear, even though we are okay, we are legal…still have to carry documents around.”

A representative at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) returned 3TV’s calls after researching the incident and she said this was standard operating procedure.

The agents needed to verify Abdon was in the country legally and it is not uncommon to ask for someone's birth certificate. She also said this has nothing to do with the proposed bill or racial profiling.

Their problem is with ICE, not with Arizona which offers a solution to a problem that has existed in Federal Law with no remedy for awhile. Arizona implemented their solution in response to people's concerns. That, to my way of thinking, is an example of how our employees in government should handle our issues.

Let us judge not on what might be, but rather on what is and what happens. There are activists who will try very hard to create problems and this is a hardship on Arizona law enforcement. I would like to see an additional part of the statute that makes staging an incident a felony with serious penalties. We need to take America forward and that is best done by keeping America safe and strong. We cannot do the good that we do if we do not sustain our ability to do it.

LET US SEE A DEBATE SO THAT WE MAY KNOW WHAT IS REAL!

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.” Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

WHAT WILL THE DEMOCRAT HEALTHCARE REFORM ACCOMPLISH?

2010-03-13T09:30:00.000-08:00

I have included a link to write your representative and automatically copy 58 Blue Dogs plus my letter to my Representative, Dana Rohrabacher, later in this post. I cannot understand how the legislators can so obviously connive to pass something which the majority of Americans do not want. It seems to me that the awareness and networking of the awakened, previously tolerant and apathetic conservative leaning majority have given notice that if the Progressives do not succeed this time it will not happen for a long time to come. We are reaping the benefit of living the good life and ignoring our responsiblity to hold our government accountable. We are now awake and fighting to preserve the America which we inherited and which the government is trying to delete from the education of the indoctrinee school children. Showing An Inconvenient Truth as if it were gosipel and not showing opposing information and having debates creates lemmings waiting to be served their thoughts at the KoolAide Stand of the Left.

I believe that the supporters of the Progressive movement would rather feel good than be solvent as we go over the financial cliff into an economic abyss. The value of their ideas is measured by the quantity of input and not by the results = intentions not what happens. This is LaLaLand wishful thinking not planning and working hard to do something and it is not a sustainable way to run a country.
I believe that the Cap-and-Trade based on fraudulent data and the Health Care Reform are ways to justify hiring a lot of government employees to deceive the non-thinkers and create the illusion that we are experiencing an economic recovery as well as to gain power over America. It will buy votes by those who get employed after being held under water financially by this conniving administration and the Willfully Ignorant who support it. A certain amount of government employees are necessary overhead and require private employment collected taxes to support them or the overhead will bankrupt the country. Who will bail us out?

The government's track record on running programs is predictably poor. Doing such a monumental program is doing more of what doesn't work at a dangerous to America's fiscal well being level. We should be doing several smaller, less risky corrections to improve our healthcare rather than creating another set of regulations to rival the IRS and requiring a large increase in public employment which is based on unreal projections. This is the same way that we almost had a world committee headed toward governing all countries climate related programs. It was based upon the largest fraud ever perpetrated on humanity.

This administration's total focus on other than employment has prolonged the high unemployment rate and intentionally (or they would have addressed it) kept over 10% of the working population of the US unemployed. It is larger than stated when one considers the quit looking, became self employed, retired early, ran out and other groups like the under employed that are not included. The priorities are obvious and it is to obtain power and wealth rather than do well by the people. There are a lot of co-conspirators such as some upper union and business people who are positioned to gain power and wealth from this legislation which creates the new version of the plantation with the slaves being the producers who are allowed to keep some of what they make by the benevolent elite.

The link which I used to write my Representative and copy 58 Blue Dogs is

http://capitolconnect.com/freeourhealthcarenow/

One of the glaring inconsistancies is that those who promote a bill based on emotional anecdotes and the need to IMMEDIATELY address this crisis have a bill which implements taxation early and then gives care later. How can a thinking person reconcile that? Obama Care = Tax Now Care Later This creates the illusion that the bill is fiscally better than it is because it is based upon more years of income than of the expense. Why would they have to create illusions if this were a good bill? If we truly wanted to address the needs of the people, wouldn't we categorize the areas needing improvement like:
1. uninsured groups by category so that each groups' needs could be addressed providing a real solution for that issue
2. create competition between private sector insurance companies nationwide so that the public can shop for the best value. Companies fighting for market share in an open, competative market seem to me to be obviously more inclined to provide a better solution for their customers than a government beauracracy that does not answer to the customer. We have many examples of this with other government programs.
3. Massachusetts and Tennessee have problems with their government healthcare programs and would provide a good experiment in running this type of program if healthcare were the real purpose rather than the last ditch effort to grab power by the Progressive administration.

Like Cap-and-Trade, Health Care Reform which delays benefits to the people it claims to help is for a different purpose as illustrated in a speech by Ronald Reagan many years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

and the letter which I wrote is as follows:

Dana Rohrabacher

Times and people have changed. We will remember the actions of the people who govern our country and remind each other when the election is at hand. The tolerant, apathetic voting population has awakened and is rallying against the assault on American values. It appears to me that we have an army of Alinsky Warriors in DC implementing the conditions called for by the Cloward – Piven Strategy* and that seems to be contrary to the oath of office in the swearing to uphold the Constitution of the United States of America.

I am proud to have you as my representative who fights to preserve American exceptionalism. I have previously written several legislators and asked for an explanation of their purpose in creating the conditions called for in the Cloward – Piven Strategy. Why would our government IGNORE the needs of the people by focusing on other than the jobs needed by over 10% of our working population? They have focused on their agenda, not jobs, for over a year now.

Increasing employment through historically proven methods would put people to work and increase the number of people with health care insurance. The government would not have to commit money to extending unemployment which is money gone forever rather than providing a return on the funds. The failure to stimulate jobs is intentionally maintaining a high unemployment percentage which is destructive to our country. This is an ANTI AMERICAN CHOICE OF POLICY!

The threat of Health Care Reform or Cap-and-Trade which penalize the private enterprise productive job creators is a major part of the high unemployment. How can a private enterprise make plans to expand and hire when they are under the threat of an administration which wants to suck the blood (capital) out of those who do?

The government’s track record of managing programs is abysmal and to do something of this size would be insane (that word is used with the definition intended, not for effect) as well as put America on the course to financial insolvency. I have heard rhetoric which does not reconcile with the actions regarding the deficit. The deceitful illusion used to promote this bill as decreasing the national debt is a sufficient argument against it. If it were good, it would not require deceit to promote it. This is insulting to the American voter.

Please continue the fight against this atrocity and push real healthcare reform which does not enslave the American people. There are several non destructive things which can be done without creating another IRS level of government.

The Health Care Reform would create a need for increasing public employment which is already at too high a ratio to private enterprise employment needed to generate the collected tax revenue to support the overhead of government. I don’t hear about this and that seems like that is as serious an indicator of our direction of fiscal travel as the ratio of the National Debt to GDP. It is like we have a bunch of college kids in a sociology lab who have no clue how economics works and they are tinkering with our world. I would rather believe this than what I truly believe.

* Cloward – Pivens http://cloward-piven.com/
Quote: Cloward-Piven is a strategy for forcing political change through orchestrated crisis.
The strategy was first proposed in 1966 by Columbia University political scientists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven as a plan to bankrupt the welfare system and produce radical change. Sometimes known as the "crisis strategy" or the the "flood-the-rolls, bankrupt-the-cities strategy," the Cloward-Piven approach called for swamping the welfare rolls with new applicants - more than the system could bear. It was hoped that the resulting economic collapse would lead to political turmoil and ultimately socialism. “

Very Truly and Gratefully yours,
A B Howell

HISTORY IS OUR TEACHER AND THE PRESENT IS OUR TEST

2009-11-15T20:32:00.001-08:00

How will the generations to come look back and judge us?

There are two parts to this post:

1. References to history which may be in the process of repeating

2. References to analysis of how what is happening is being brought about

I received the following from a special, hard working FaceBook friend who keeps many of us up on the political humor.

Steven Laboe November 15 at 2:56pm Reply
A German's View on Islam

A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism. 'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the spectre of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honour-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China 's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japanmurdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda , which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun..

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Lastly, anyone who doubts that the issue is serious and just deletes this email without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand. So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on! Let us hope that thousands, world-wide, read this and think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.

My reply to Steve:

Thank you very much Steve. You are an army of one who feeds many. The above adds to the example I often give with the quote, “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” -- Winston Churchill

About the time that our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."
"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."
"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage"

In addition to my above reply, I want to also remind us of a WORLD WAR II POEM
There is a new importance for a poem describing the perils of apathy and calls to us to be vigilante for an analagous progression in the world in 2010 with Political Correctness and Apathy allowing history to repeat itself once more.

In Germany:
They first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me — and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Is this what the healthcare reform is truly about? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

Should we be doing job creation in another manner following the suggestion of someone who actually does provide jobs and healthcare? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdrxfFFeMbc

Ask yourself if you see the possibility of this happening described in an article at http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/clowardpiven_crisis_care.html

" Cloward-Piven instructed activists that if a crisis did not exist, promote or manufacture one by exaggerating a benign or unthreatening predicament. In doing so, contrived commotion would serve as a tool to convince the masses of their urgent need for rescue. In order to achieve the ultimate goal, students were encouraged to stress the social system to the breaking point, which would quash capitalism and institute socialism through a massive infusion of government intervention
Cloward-Piven repeatedly cited Alinsky's, Rules for Radicals, in all their work. Marxism advocates were taught by Cloward-Piven to, "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." Never failing to remind their apprentices that, "...when pressed...human agencies inevitably fall short...the system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then is used to discredit it altogether." The definitive goal: "... replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one." "

WHY WOULD WE EVEN THINK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS WITH A TRACK RECORD LIKE THIS?

2009-11-02T21:35:00.000-08:00

The Many Failures of Congress

CONGRESS BEWARE; WE THE PEOPLE ARE WATCHING, WE'LL SEE YOU AT THE NEXT ELECTION!
For those who need a picture,To the Congress:

The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 - you have had 234 years to get it right; it is broke.

Social Security was established in 1935 - you have had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.

Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - you have had 71 years to get it right; it is broke.

The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 - you have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked and our entire country is broke.

Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - you've had 44 years to get it right; they are broke.

Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - you have had 39 years to get it right; it is broke.

Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs called TARP, the "Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of working, although ACORN appears to have found a new source: the American taxpayer.And finally, to set a new record:

"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009! It took cars (that were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese. A good percentage of the profits went out of the country And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress' generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed experiments.

So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that "services" you shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?20% of our entire economy?With all due respect,Are you crazy?

Check 0ut Cloward - Pivens overwhelm the system strategy and ask yourself if a Health Reform Bill which requires the repeal of tort reform if it is already implemented in a state before the state qualifies for federal funds is for the benefit of the common person. Tort reform is a much less risky improvement which could enhance healthcare. The Pelosi Bill does away with it. Looks like she cares more about the Plaintiff Bar than us.

Two quotes from a wise man from the 1800s saw this type of claiming to do good for the little people while looting the system.

“When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.” -- Frederick Bastiat

"Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.” -- Frederick Bastiat 1801 - 1850

Old people have

no reason to live.

Give them some pain medicine until we get

rid of them.

AMERICA STANDS IN NEED OF A STATESMAN

2009-10-28T09:16:00.000-07:00

OBAMA DITHERED - HEROES DIED!

There is an additional problem with dithering. Obama has presented an undependable US willingness to support freedom causes and the al Queda/Taliban push to destroy the Afghan election is encouraged by an American president who conveys the image of a coward to the extremists. The left encouraged extremist recruitment with constant Abu Ghraib pictures and discussions. The recruitment power of that pales in comparison to their portrayal of Obama wanting to run like we did in Mogadishu. Bin Laden said that they were dug in for the long haul and American left. Dithering reinforces the image of the gutless America which the Democrats promote.

The Democrats are RESPONSIBLE and they should admit their cowardice and leave or suck it up, close their eyes and let the military succeed. Paying the price in military lives IS A CRIME WHICH SHOULD BE PROSECUTED! 2010 will be partly a verdict in one of the trials. There was once a great stateman who said, "PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH" because he understood that evil does not care about good; only about winning and controlling. History has proved that to think otherwise is delusional and ends loss.

“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.” -- Samuel Adams

“Whoever you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you, to the remnant of the human, to your mind, and I say: There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation." -- Douglas MacArthur

Please think, in your relatively comfortable situation, about our military and contact your legislators

LEMMING TEST - WHO AMONG US ARE THE LEMMINGS?

2009-10-03T08:26:00.000-07:00

Lemming -- Wikipedia definition of useage in this post, "Due to their association with this odd behavior, lemming suicide is a frequently-used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences" at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemming

This post has a clear test for who are being programmed. If we agree that America, the country in which we choose to live, must be preserved above all or not much else will matter and we are willing to take responsibility for that, we must ask ourselves whether our analysis and opinions are real or fantasy.

“Plurima ignoro, sed ignorantiam meam non ignoro--I am ignorant of many things, but not of my own ignorance.” -- Proverbs of Solomen I welcome the challenge that I am the lemming if it is presented rationally. Non of us can be positive that we are right and I would suspect that we are partially right and partially wrong in many of the matters of our analysis. If our goal was to do better by our country rather than hear ourselves speak as experts to the ignorant masses, we could gather the real world facts, analyze them and modify our views so that while we might not agree, we could align and promote the best that we could determine for our country. Being humans, we are stirred up by politicians of both parties and interest groups so that they can do what they want while we distract ourselves by bickering with eachother.

Our country is at a turning point and we can fulfill the prediction of history which was summarized in - "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." -- John Adams letter to John Taylor dated April 15, 1814 Unless we are willing to put America first and question our views and the views of others, we will fulfill this prophecy. Our country's population has history as its teacher and the present as its test. We will be judged by the future when our children inherit a better or worse country than we inherited.

THIS TEST IS IRRELEVANT IF YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT THE COUNTRY YOU LEAVE TO THE NEXT GENERATIONS AND IN WHICH YOU WILL PROBABLY SPEND YOUR LAST YEARS.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
“Man has subjected himself to thousands of self-inflicted bondages. Wisdom comes to a man who lives according to the eternal laws of nature.” -- The Holy Vedas

My fear that emotion trumps logic is put forth in my post - ARE SOME AMERICAN VOTERS SO SELFISH THAT THEY ARE EASILY SOLD BAD IDEAS at http://littleguyusa.blogtownhall.com/2009/09/24/are_some_american_voters_so_selfish_that_they_are_easily_sold_bad_ideas.thtml

We have the power and responsibility as citizens of America to do what is necessary to preserve and improve the country which created, in its short life, more progress than the world had seen in a much longer period. Many of us became complacent and believed that legislators would take care of our country while we enjoyed the good life where many of our poor are obiese with cellphones and TV over cable or satellite.

THE LEMMING TEST:
1. Why do you believe that you know what is right and that you are not a lemming programmed by your choice of input?
2. How much corruption and criminal behavior perpetrated on America do you tolerate if it is from the people you support?
3. Do you feel that you are not a lemming if you do not know about the misdeeds and evil choices made by the people you support?

A case in point and not the purpose of this post is illustrated by someone who wrote the following - "Did intellectual honesty have a moonlight clause? We don't have a shortage of capital or liquidity in this country; we have a shortage of honesty and trust. Where are the Americans who will stop talking about the president or the parties and instead start talking about right and wrong?" and "In March 2008, President George W. Bush told us that Bear Stearns was too big to fail. If we didn't act to save it before the end of the week, very bad things would happen. We acted. Since then, the list of banks that are "too big to fail" has grown in excess of five hundred and taxpayer exposure from government bailouts now exceeds $12,000,000,000,000."

If I were to tell you his name, you would have an immediate reaction and that reaction would make the answer to the lemming test above very clear. The next test, whether you treasure your beliefs and the feeling that you are right more than you value the continued existance of America is whether you look into why you reacted that way and explore the possibility that they who must lie to you and keep you in the dark about reality have your best interest as their primary agenda item.

Remembering that this is an example of "leading the lemmings" and not the purpose of this post, think about ACORN, AmeriCorps and the auto bailouts.

There has been a long history of issues with ACORN varying from $1,000,000 embezzlement, Katrina fraud, the New York Times pulling an investigative piece on possibly illegal campaigning activity, misuse of tax payer funds, being an early contributer to the FannieMae/FreddieMac issues disaster which is a portion of what created our financial disaster.

IG Walpin uncovered corruption with Kevin Johnson and was fired by the Obama administration as reported in the 6/14/9 Washington Examiner - "Top executives at the Corporation, Walpin explained in an hour-long interview Saturday, were unhappy with his investigation into the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California and a prominent supporter of President Obama. Walpin's investigation also sparked conflict with the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento amid fears that the probe -- which could have resulted in Johnson being barred from ever winning another federal grant -- might stand in the way of the city receiving its part of billions of dollars in federal stimulus money. After weeks of standoff, Walpin, whose position as inspector general is supposed to be protected from influence by political appointees and the White House, was fired." at
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Gerald-Walpin-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-AmeriCorps-firing-48030697.html#

The Chrysler and General Motors were infused with taxpayer money under the pretense of keeping them from bankruptcy. They were then put into bankruptcy after President Obama and some of the intimidators under him convinced the pension plan (responsible people investing to provide for their retirement) lenders to take a larger discount instead of enforcing their secured positions under the law which were a portion of their decision to make the relatively safe prior to this event investment. The companies were then acquired by a coventure of the government and the UAW which backed the candidate who won the election. I point out here that there is a small group of union people who are involved, just like there is a small group of politicians who are involved. The union worker and the non union worker live under the same circumstances in a world created by the self interest groups in power who do not appear to care as much about America as they care about their empire.

Because there is a campaign to incite the Politicall Correct Gullible Crusaders with morphed meanings of words and out of context information or outright lies and because we were warned by one of America's founders, Samuel Adams, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”, I propose the following definitions to describe our nation's most dangerous enemy. Definitions which have no relationship to party, belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:
MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.
WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALThose who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources. This definition applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category described below. The three sheeple:
Hear no other point of view
See no other point of view
Discuss no other point of view
I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.

IS MARKETING TO SELFISHNESS AS EFFECTIVE AS IT SEEMS?

2009-09-19T15:08:00.000-07:00

Something is wrong with what is happening in America. There are two very opposite teams which have formed and each is passionate. I typically feel that there would be a little bit of right and a little bit of wrong on both sides. The stakes are very high and I believe that we complicate things more than we need to because we can then go with our feelings rather than a logical analysis.

The YouTube clips at the end of this post present a possible explanation of the purpose of the marketing program for healthcare.

Do we really want to make decisions which give us good feelings without looking at the long term consequences to our nation and let those who follow pay the price for our desires? The question, "Are we so selfish that we don't care enough to analyze where we are going and how we make our decisions?" has a very uncomfortable answer for one of the two teams. The obvious answer to that question is answered by, "Which team is unwilling to discuss it on a factual basis?" There is enough factual basis available for each of us to review our position and determine which team is the target of the marketers with motives different from what they claim.

Is the Constructionist leaning or the Progressive team going to take America where we want to go and give us a country which we are proud of and which has a good impact on the world?

I see a Maslow's Heirarchy for a nation which should be considered on a logical basis to develop a philosophy:

1. Our country's existance - where we put our resources and our nation's attitude toward dangers will determine whether we continue to have a country or not. Take a moment to think about the judgements which just came into your mind and question the basis of those judgements. Look carefully at why you feel that way and what impact your desires would have on our country's continued existance.

2. Our Nation's economy and whether we will continue to or should continue to lead the world in innovation and economic expansion. This is relative to economic growth and stability rather than the manner in how we do it. If we feel we shouldn't do it, the how is irrelevant. If we feel that we should, the how should be contemplated to decide what the best course taking into account what that decision's impact on the world will be.

3. Our educational system - are we teaching our children to question what is presented to them, analyze and verify it or are we indoctrinating them? An educated voter is the best input for a country to make good decisions. Do we question that which is presented to us in light of its validity and the presenter's objectives?

“Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.” -- Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

The above quotes describe uninformed voters resulting in the relegation of power to a small group with the best marketing program. I had a sixth grade teacher who gave us examples and taught us to question whatever we heard, read and saw regardless of whether it came from us or them. It was one of the most valuable times in my schooling. Is that happening now? I hear about "An Inconvenient Truth" and a "Capitalism is bad" cartoon presentation being shown to children. Are the children given the opportunity to analyze and discuss the points made in the film or are the points given as gospel and the child is expected to be programmed? This would be an incredible opportunity to develop their abilities to become an informed and capable voter by presenting an opposing view point, analyzing and discussing the subject. If it is programming and not developing analytical skills, what is the agenda and why do we want people with underdeveloped analytical abilities? An even more important question is, "Why would a parent want to diminish rather than develop their child's mental abilities?"

4. Having taken care of the basic three levels puts the nation in a position to determine priorities and deal with its other programs. Not dealing with the three basic levels will decrease the probability of the nation's existance.

HEALTH CARE REFORM MARKETING:

The biggest question I have is, "If we were in the worst financial crisis since the depression and the unemployment rate is still higher than projected, why would we want to do something which could destabilize the American economy worse than it is before it recovered?" This does not make sense to me when there are so many things which could be done to make progress as we bring the American economy back on a stable footing." This question and why we ignore some basic questions such as where are all of the medical personnel required coming from to make this reform possible from a manpower standpoint is possibly answered in some videos from several years ago.

Some of the available, safe steps are:

1. Portable insurance plans which go with the employee rather than being provided by the employer

2. Competition between insurance companies across state lines.

3. Tort reform

4. Reviewing government regulations for ease of compliance by the affected entity

5. Use the Massachusetts state system which is currently having problems as a model, tune it up, test it and scale it up to a national level once it operates in a fiscally safe manner.

I have some Investor's Business Daily references which provide some insite into the healthcare issues including those of some physicians fed up with the status quo.

1. Should they upon whom we will depend for healthcare have some input? 33% in favor and 65% opposed according to, "The poll contradicts the claims of not only the White House, but also doctors' own lobby — the powerful American Medical Association — both of which suggest the medical profession is behind the proposed overhaul.
It also calls into question whether an overhaul is even doable; 72% of the doctors polled disagree with the administration's claim that the government can cover 47 million more people with better-quality care at lower cost."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199

2. "09/23/2009 07:09 PM ET - Nearly half of doctors say tort reform is key to getting U.S. health care costs under control, according to the IBD/TIPP Poll on which this series is based. Of the 1,376 doctors who responded to our survey, 48% mentioned tort reform as the best way to slow the rise in medical costs."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/SpecialReport.aspx?id=506106

3. We could look at this as, "Just talking points by the people who perform unnecessary procedures for higher income." Do you want to analyze an argument with an outcome you may not be able to LIVE WITH without more thought? If you were contemplating going into medicine and looking at the amount of time, energy and money which you would have to commit to accomplish it, would you be more or less likely to do it under a government program? This is the question which we must ask. There are doctors now who will not deal with government programs because it is not worth it to them. Put yourself in the medical professional's shoes and ask yourself whether we will have enough people to provide the manpower required for our resulting program. IBD - "Litigation: The Founding Fathers envisioned the states as laboratories for ideas and choices. If the administration needs a demonstration project for successful tort reform, it need look no further than Mississippi." The predominantly legal profession legislators appear more concerned with the legal profession's welfare than the medical profession's welfare by maintianing the liability of doctors for the benefit of some attorneys.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506980

This is so obvious - if you increase workload, decrease or limit reward, why would anyone commit to the time, hard work and sacrifice to go into medicine? We need more psychiatric workers to deal with OBLIVION.

2. YOUTUBE VIDEOS REGARDING THE PLAN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdLpem-AAs

Mind blowing speech by Robert Welch in 1958 predicting Insiders plans to destroy America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZU0c8DAIU4

I echo Dennis Prager's query regarding healthcare, "What? Are you crazy? Do you think that I don't want good healthcare?" and ask the question, "If it is so good for America, why does it have to be marketed so deceptively.

Intimidation of a major healthcare company by a congressman and a gag order for a good program?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6rY3rxb60k&feature=player_embedded

AARP behind plan because they will profit from it and are not included in the gag order. Government does not want you to have a complete understanding of the Healthcare Plan. What does that say to you?

http://www.breitbart.tv/is-the-aarp-getting-kickbacks-from-obamacare/

The question which I have is - Is SELFISHNESS the answer? The challenging question of how can smart people not see the corruption and the direction that the Obama administration is taking America? Entities like the fringe media are explainable as business prostitutes, but the American citizens? I believe that the WIIers (Willfully Ignorant Intellectuals) are so selfish that they want the good feeling they get supporting the fantasy so much that they will enslave future generations rather than come out of the fantasy and check out reality. Pitiful excuse for an American citizen if I am correct in why people stay in emotion and refuse to look at facts. Could be that we need analytical thinking presented early in school rather than indoctrination programs.

http://conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm

ARE HUMANS THE EXCEPTION TO NATURES RULE - THE FITTEST SURVIVE?

2009-09-11T09:31:00.000-07:00

The following is something which I hope gives a perspective on my call to check out and discuss where we are and what we are doing. I think I give the wrong impression that it is about my beliefs, which generate my email and blog posts. It is not to convince, but to say here is what I perceive as reality and, if it appears to be inaccurate to someone, be challenged in my perception so that we both travel the road to a clearer understanding of what we are doing. I appreciate the input from several of you in this regard and as you might rightly conclude, this email and blog post is to a very good friend with a very different perception.

The following is an email which I sent to someone who I can count on. I almost never have him not make me think about my beliefs.

Finally slowing down a little bit before I get into 9/11 and getting back through my emails. I have been going 60 miles per hour.

One of my issues pointed out by a similar thinking person on DIGG was that I make too broad a category with my [Big Business/Big Union/Politicians/Soros] grabbing power giving the wrong impression. I can see that that discounts my thinking - broad, general statements are an indication of shallow analysis. It is obvious that not everyone in those categories is in that group. I, in my
I AM CONCERNED ABOUT HOW GULLIBLE SOME PEOPLE ARE - HOW DO WE SELL EACHOTHER ON PROGRAMS?
http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-was-told-by-bright-liberal-friend.html
have three sections -
1. Conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics and entertainment who happen to be black - qualifications for a conservative do not include skin color - question boldly those who would say that opposition to a program based on facts is racist. I am open to question and input, but as of this moment, I feel that they have to be racist to make that claim and I explain why.
2. Quotes which point out that we are not in new times. Humans have recycled different methods of government throughout history and the book, The 5000 Year Leap, makes the point that America is unique and puts forth the authors consclusions as to what caused it. We started out communally in Jamestown and that did not work, even on a small community scale.
3. Definitions and an illustration in simple terms of what conservatives fear. The "liberals are racist point", was not including thinking people like I perceive you to be. This is not to be construed as my thinking that you are pure, but I don't see you as someone who cannot see the racist comment as a propaganda strategy rather than what is real. If I am wrong, disregard the previous sentences of this paragraph. This is an instance of my broad, general categorizatons creating the opposite effect to my intentions. The reason for my blog post at I AM CONCERNED ABOUT HOW GULLIBLE SOME PEOPLE ARE - HOW DO WE SELL EACHOTHER ON PROGRAMS?

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-was-told-by-bright-liberal-friend.html

is that I had heard this and discounted the perception as being of little real consequence until a good friend of mine emphatically said that it was real and that the black people would be nowhere if it were not for the Democrats. I need to check what I have heard from Larry Elder against that because he puts forth a different perspective. I also received a very neat story which Snoped as untrue, but it conveyed a great message about an arrogant white person verses black with the stewardess on the plane providing a great lesson to the bigot. The timing seemed like it might be for an emotional set up prior to the speech before congress regarding healthcare. I have had one fight in my adult life and it was with white trash upset with me for evicting them for disturbing a very desireable black family. Even if I were not strongly opposed to prejudice, I would have done the same thing because it was good business to keep the quality tenant and not let the undesireable tenant drive them out, decreasing the quality of my clientele. It took three people to get me off of him after he cold cocked me because, as I told him, "You are going to die." I don't like to be punched and I despise racists - not opposed to the death penalty even I have to be the executioner. That is where the incredibly strong feelings and not so clear response to what screams at me as manipulation which perpetuates the problem of racism. The two black economists point out their opinion of the harm done by the liberal agenda to blacks and it appears to me that the Democrats use race for political advantage successfully and want to keep the concept alive rather than relegate it to the mistakes we made as our country was on the journey to the present. Be clear that the previous sentence does not say that it exists - only that it will continue to exist a higher level until we adjust our perspective.I am obviously inept at my goal of having everyone discuss what is critical to the life and death of the American way and I am very suspicious of anyone who must deceive in order to accomplish what they want whether it is for the good of our country or not. A benevolent dictator might be good for some countries, but it is precarious and our country was built with rough times along the way on individual initiative, freedom and reward. You have ranted, raved and called me stupid with me having to finish your sentences so that I could respond to the point which I had just made along with you. I think that same way way when I am by myself and challenge my views, because, if I am insecure in them, they are probably not valid.I need some futher discussion with Lee because I have evolved past the point of laughing at the World Order Chicken Littles and have rethought my perception about something like this happening. I have only an inkling that something like it, seems to be hapening but if that is the case, it is better to deal with it early, rather than after it is more well entrenched unless it is a good change. I actually have a blog entry WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HAD OBAMA ELECTED IN THIS LAST ELECTION - WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HAD OBAMA ELECTED IN THIS LAST ELECTION -

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-are-very-fortunate-to-have-had-obama.html

which points this out. There is a link to a discussion group with rules which look a little different than the image conveyed by manipulators who want us to keep fighting with eachother while they loot the bank. Does - [Although we stand opposed to the agenda of Mr. Obama, we welcome honest and constructive debate with those who hold an opposing viewpoint. Everyone here is expected to discuss the issues in an intelligent, respectful manner and avoid mindless groupthink. You just might learn something.However, trolls are not tolerated] sound like the mission statement of mindless, mob lemmings?I apologize for my inability to promote thinking, analysis and discussion in spite of the emotional level created by the marketers of either side. There is a Thom Hartmann debating Michael Medved on healthcare later today which might be a little more informative than listening to either side selling its position. Do we care about the good of our country and what we leave to future generations or do we want our team to win no matter what the cost?I appreciate your input along with that of a lot of other people with whom I interact and I am going to post this letter to, hopefully, tune up their perception of my purpose. As I say on my website in my rough draft of Letters to my Grandchildren, "PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF YOUR COUNTRY. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND JUDGE THOSE WHO CREATED WHAT YOU INHERITED. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS AND CHANGE WHAT DIDN'T WORK SO THAT YOU GIVE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AN EVEN BETTER COUNTRY THAN YOU INHERITED. PROTECT THEM FROM HARM. THAT IS YOUR OBLIGATION WHICH I HOPE YOU MEET. I FEAR THAT WE WILL NOT MEET THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU. I TRULY HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE ME AS A PARANOID OLD FOOL AND ENJOY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH MY GENERATION INHERITED WHICH ALLOWED US TO LIVE IN WHAT I PERCEIVED AS LALALAND. JUNE 30, 2009."

I need to get to work so that I can pay you. Ask yourself why a little guy like me who works hard and should spend more time on my business paperwork so that I can pay my account would spend so much time on something at which he makes no money.

I sincerely fear that the American people have had it way to easy too long and they have lost sight of what ihs at risk if they are not well informed. I am too dumb to know that I cannot make a difference and I very badly need a twelve step program which does not yet exist for my problem as far as I know.

Please also take a moment to check out a non-political blog entry and appreciate why all of us can have this discussion.
http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/09/thanks-to-sacrifices-of-these-people.html

Great things to think about.

Let us all remember the reason that enemies from outside have been unable to change our way of life because our military leaves their family, endures unbearable conditions which would bring most Americans to their knees. Regardles of what each of us thinks about any of the engagements, know that they who would destroy have not because our military teaches them – You bring it on – We will take you down. They pay for the opportunity to teach that lesson with their blood as well as with the other sacrifices which they make and I know it

Time for the littleguy to go to work.

Very truly yours, Ross
A B Ross Howell
"Our vision is more obstructed by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge." -- Kristen Stendahlblog email:
littleguyusa@factsforreality.net

The above is in response to this and a couple of other emails which my friend had written.

On Aug 30, 2009, one of my friends wrote:
read about all the bad socialist, of course it used to be the rich guys who owned everything were bad. now they have convinced a lot of people they are good patriots
and we should support them.
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2009/08/national_health_care_debate_ha.html

THANKS TO THE SACRIFICES OF THESE PEOPLE - OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN SAFE FROM THE OUTSIDE

2009-09-07T09:04:00.001-07:00

This is a "THANK YOU!!" to our service people for putting their lives on hold and on the line without regard to a discussion of the wars in which they are involved. These people are the reason that we are still Americans without another country's rule and I just wanted to acknowledge them for giving me the opportunity to enjoy my life in America.

The One Finger Salute

Today at 7:05am
Read below pic before making judgment on 'The Finger' gesture and you'll understand....

Leading the fight is U S Marine Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as 'Iron Mike' or just 'Gunny'. He is on his third tour in Iraq . He had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US Marines. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. 'You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision,' he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term 'the longest walk', stepping gingerly into a 5 foot deep and 8 foot wide crater. The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his 7 inch knife to probe the ground. 'I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs,' he says. 'That's when I knew I was screwed.' Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet 'A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded,' he recalls. 'As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me...' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down.' His fellow Marines cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there 'My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down,' says Sgt Burghardt. 'I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a rea l sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. 'I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher.' He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. 'I flipped them one.. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week.' Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.

Thank you for enduring the heat, the hard work and the sacrifices. I appreciate more than I will ever be able to show. Ross

PlesiosaurDiamond March 13, 2009

Song: Letters from War Artist: Mark Schultz A tribute to all of our troops, and for my good friend SharpLugia! Enjoy my best work yet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lScwwGyJJc

RESPONSE TO AN ANONYMOUS RESPONDER FROM "THE RANT"

2009-09-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

The following is a response to a response which follows from anonymous and my reference to liberal thinking is keyed to that type of person rather than several liberals in my life who I respectfully disagree.

http://tomdegan.blogspot.com/2009/09/glenn-beck-louse-that-roared.html

If we truly wanted to improve the country, we would prioritize what we want to see such as 1. National defense - without a country, not much else matters
2, Economy - without a good economy we can't afford to do anything - California is proving that to be true - Paradise which would be the 8th, I think, largest economy in the world if it were a separate country and it has had a government which has it in horrible fiscal condition
3. Education - an uneducated voter is a danger to the country - need to be educated in how the economy works and have a background in analytical thinking so that thought, not emotion governs voting decisions
4. Up for grabs because we would then be up the Maslow's heirarchy of needs to start doing good things. We cannot take care of anything as a nation if we do not first take care of ourselves.

I have a rough start to a bi-partisan solution which I believe would fix one of our nation's major defects. Our politicians are the only employees I know of who can totally anialate what they manage and still receive full salary and benefits. I have made my proposal on a separate blog at http://peopleeatingthescraps.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-do-we-choose-to-be-pets-of.html

I posted this on my blog as well as the source of the person to whom I am responding. I will even put intelligent responses on my entries. This is an emotional without facts type of response and it shows what I think too much of the discourse between a lot of liberal and conservative thinking tends toward. I have a very close relationship with several liberal people who are intelligent, but who have very different views of the same situation and solutions to our country's problems. That is why I have the definitions mooreon and WIIer which I challenge people to tell me why I fit one of these definitions rather than the challenger.

The letters on my website are rough drafts with notes on facts and fears of what Obama would do to America. I underestimated his ability to appeal to the whining wooses who don't want to take care of themselves. I acknowledge that that is totally emotional and not necessarily based on an exact percentage of supporters.

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"A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw (1944)

Not a new problem with an inferior class of humans (nothing to do with race or religion - mentality). This has gone on for a long time. Nature has a rule that the fittest survive and it improves the species. Some liberal supporters are the exception to the rule as evidenced by the quality of your anonymous response which follows.

No suprise that your letters to your children and grandchildren have> received no repsonse. Or (more likley) that their response didn't fit with> your "agenda", so you censored them.

My questions are, "Is this therapeutic or productive in some way?" Does this person actually care about the country improving? What value is this person's thinking?

"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of (their) folly is to fill the world with fools." -- Herbert Spencer....... What have we here?

TOO LENGTHY A RESPONSE TO MY GLENN BECK POST TO PUT UNDER COMMENTS

2009-09-06T14:57:00.000-07:00

I received the following comment to my Glenn Beck post

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/09/glenn-becks-week-of-showing-quotes.html

and, because my response was too long, I decided to do a new post including the comment and my response.

Tom Degan's Daily Rant said...
Not since Joe McCarthy shuffled off this mortal coil in 1957 has anyone made a career by accusing people of being communists. Glenn Beck has resurrected the practice. Not only has he found a cabal of secret communists, he has uncovered an entire communist corporation chock full of commies. The name of this company, you may ask?

THE NATIONAL BROADCASTING COMPANY!

You heard me right, boys and girls. The network that gave us Uncle Miltie and Ma Perkins has apparently been secretly sending subliminal messages endorsing Marxist doctrine since it was formed in 1926. This would make perfect sense to me. Every time I watched the Rockford Files I had an unexplainable desire to read Das Kapital. But seriously, folks. Twenty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, red baiting not only seems silly, it's also kind of nuts. It's not-at-all surprising that an organization would give this idiot a forum (after all, he's on FOX Noise). What's really stunning is the fact that his ratings are relatively high and that so many Americans take his word as gospel.

All kidding aside, half-witted ideologues are a dime a dozen. What separates Glenn Beck from his peers is the fact that he is doing some serious damage to the country he professes to love so much. For all of the comparisons to the Nazis he likes to make with regard to Liberals, Beck's program has much in common with Adolf Hitler's 1923 screed, Mein Kampf. Eighty-six years ago, Hitler attempted to arouse the anger of his fellow Germans by spouting half truths and utter nonsense - exactly what Glenn Beck is doing in 2009. So much of the insane dialogue that has been spewed forth at these Town Hall meetings across the country in recent weeks might have been lifted straight from a transcript of any of Beck's programs.

Beck and his twisted ilk have done the seemingly impossible. They have deflected the blame for America's current economic distress toward Barack Obama. An incredible feat when you take into consideration the fact that the President is one of the few people in government today whose guilt in the matter is almost nil. They have also let loose with a vengeance the very worst angels of the American nature. Opening this Pandora's box was relatively easy. Closing it might prove to be a bit of a problem.

Deep in their hearts
They do believe
That they shall undermine someday....

http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
September

Thank you for the comment on my writing. It is important and a pleasure to meet someone who thinks differently and test our ability to rationally discuss what is real. I need to make it very clear that my definitions offered on my website factsforreality.net can apply either way. Unlike some people with whom I discuss politics I am not absolutely sure of my position, but knowledgeable enough to explore what I believe and look for what is real. I also, in my rough drafts of my letters to my grandchildren asking them, How do you like the country which we left you?” suggest that I hope that you find that the other side was right and that I was just a paranoid old fool.

Beck’s presentation started with Obama campaigning and telling us to judge him by the company he keeps. He named respected people of consequence including Warren Buffett who is one of my heroes because in spite of his Democrat affiliation places capital with endeavors which creates jobs which pay taxable wages rather than takes from the productive to give to others. Once the election was over, Obama surrounded himself with a group of czars who are not accountable to anyone. These are the people he truly associates with and employs to assist him in changing America. Beck presented quotes and clips of these people and let us see them describing their views. Van Jones is the one who proclaimed himself a communist. Several of the others hold unconventional views, but did not proclaim themselves communists. I would therefore question your analysis that Beck has uncovered a communist corporation.

What I saw was a group of people with views far different from those which I feel are good for our country. I see a practical side to some of the healthcare proposal and agree that wasting money on old people and the very young is impractical – I just have a problem with my truly liberal compassionate side because it doesn’t feel good. I also agree with Charles Krauthammer’s analysis that the bigger the government, the smaller the citizen. I started out as a dishwasher, federal civil servant at an awesome facility, entrepreneur with tears in my eyes one day when I pulled up to a hamburger stand and found out I couldn’t afford a hamburger. I worked in the low income areas during the Great Society and saw the result which Thomas Sowell describes as a failure. I went broke providing low income housing after being very successful because I was helped by a government Mod 8 Rehab program and the bureaucrat made me provide full time security for 18 buildings when I only had 13 as well as holding back money until I complied with unreasonable demands.

I know how well and how poorly the government can work. Humans sometimes excel and sometimes they are parasites. Private enterprise will sort the non producers out, but the government protects them. Tell me how more government can possibly do better than a reasonably regulated private enterprise system where the percentage of the GDP spent on overhead = government and public programs excluding private contractors is kept low. California had been warned about this forever by McClintock and they didn’t listen. It didn’t happen suddenly with no idea that it was coming. LaLaLand will exist until we run out of time to deny reality.

Unlike some of the competitors, Beck asks his viewers to question what he shows us and does not proclaim that he is right. The difference between rape and making love is salesmanship. His packaging is great because by telling us to question, some of us will not. There is a very active group out there and if there were someone who challenged Beck factually instead of emotionally, that would make for an interesting battle of the intellects. I am open to a link where more than the typical Alinsky strategy is employed to discredit Beck’s information. What I see tells me that the liberals are stumbling because the Alinsky strategy has been picked up by the conservative movement and TRUTH substituted for deceit and deception. The American people are not totally stupid regardless of Michael Moore and Bill Mahr observations.

One example so that I remain fact based to some extent is the Stimulus Bill had to be passed without time to review it because of the impending doom and the Republicans were given hardcopy hours before the vote which makes me wonder how much we are paying scribes on typewriters or was the network down? It was for targeted creation of jobs to prevent unemployment going over 8%. We are in September and less than 10% has been put out. Unemployment has been in the nine percent range. George Soros took $140,000,000.00 of Stimulus money and $35,000,000.00 of his money to produce an article with a headline Back to school spree: Billionaire, feds give out $175M to aid neediest students around the state - casual glance shows what a generous man Soros is – where did the undistributed portion go?

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_billionaire_feds_give_out_175m_to_aid_neediest_students_around_the_state_its_fre.html#ixzz0QMal8ZJV

or

the US is going to lend $2 billion to $10 billion to Petrobas to back Brazilian oil exploration after George Soros invests in Petrobas

Soros Hedge Fund Bought Petrobras Stake Worth $811 Million

The Wall Street Journal reported that the Obama administration will invest $2 billion (or more) in drilling off the shores of Brazil, of all places. The left does all they can to keep us from exploring off our own shores. Yet we’re suddenly investing $2 billion – that we don’t have – in a Brazilian oil company?
Soros-Funded Democratic Idea Factory Becomes Obama Policy Font which is the Center for American Progress headed by John Podesta
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg

The administration will not allow what Sarah Palin suggested in August of 2008 to help America gain energy independence, stimulate the economy and better national security – see http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09

But they will fund an oil venture which has awesome leverage and probably no recourse for Soros because the US is funding money which we don’t have and could use here to do something productive in our country.

Regarding Obama’s lack of participation in the creation of the financial debacle, I would remind you that when Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House in 2006, she proclaimed, “Now that we control congress, watch what we can do.” The house is the creator of the budget and they had an ally in the borrow and spend Bush. Look at what they did! Obama received money from FannieMae/FreddieMac and ACORN pushing for loose lending practices helped create the financial disaster which is not being investigated that I know of and the news media has not publicized the recent deficit that much. A few clips showing the timeline to disaster are at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

What am I missing about these facts that should make me hope that our country keeps going in the direction that the administration wants to take us. It seems to me we are headed for a cliff and no one was putting on the brakes until some complacent, fat, dumb and happy Americans said, “Holy Smokes! We had better do something!!!!”

Show me where my facts are not real or give me something more than the Alinsky style rhetoric. The REAL American Patriot Army has stood up and we don’t want the government taking our money because we are too stupid and incompetent to take care of ourselves.

The SEIU ran a full page ad in a local paper proclaiming Arnold Schwarzenneger broke his promise. Guess what? When Arnie couldn’t get the legislature to do what was right for California and correct its course, he took several referendums to the people and the unions borrowed against pension funds to mount an incredible campaign. They brought the super hero to his knees and kept the liberal legislature in power. Now they are whining that what they created can’t afford to keep them full time and they need to be furloughed. Do liberals require drugs or do they have a natural disconnect with reality?

GLENN BECK'S WEEK OF SHOWING QUOTES, DISCUSSING AND ASKING THE WHITEHOUSE QUESTIONS DID WHAT?

2009-09-05T23:02:00.000-07:00

I did a challenge in a previous blog ALINSKY VERSES BECK - WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET CLOSER TO THE TRUTH WHOSE SIDE IS TRUTH ON?HOW CAN WE DETERMINE IT?

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/08/alinsky-verses-beck-we-have-opportunity.html

Beck presented clips of recordings and quotes and discussed the czars which have existed to a lesser extent since FDR, if my memory serves me. The writings, quotes, and clips from speeches seem questionable for someone in a high position with no accountabilty except to the President. Beck had a list of the czars and a description which can be seen at

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29391/?ck=1

Glenn presents facts, has discussions and lists questions. If there were misinformation, these could be dealt with in a presentation which would discredit him. The attack is an indication of the validity of his program's information and an affirmation of its value. Obama asked us to judge him by those who he associates with and he named people like Warren Buffett during the campaign. He then surrounded himself with czars which several conservative talkers had been warning the American voter about during the campaign. The fact that he would campaign with a list of advisors who make him look like a reasonable choice and then create a group of people with radical views who are only accountable to him should call attention to the need for more scrutiny of what he really wants to do with America.

There are many claims about ACORN and AmeriCorp receiving taxpayer money and using it for promoting the acquisition of power by this administration and its army manned by these organizations. IG Walpin was dismissed when he uncovered corruption at a high level. A lot of people would like a little more transparancy under the pre-Orwellian definition.

The questions which Glenn Beck posed for the Whitehouse are viewable at

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29631/?ck=1

Glenn Beck: Reasonable questions for unreasonable times

August 28, 2009 - 16:28 ET

All this week we are asking questions; I may not have the answers, but power left unchecked can turn very ugly, very rapidly. So it's vital that we all question with boldness, hold to the truth and speak without fear.
You need to start asking questions:

Day 4
- Why do we need a civilian force?
- Who is posing a threat to us?
- Who will this "force" be made up of?
- Who is the real enemy?
- Does the president know of a coming event? If not, who builds an army against an unrecognized enemy?
- Why won't the media get off their butts and look into these radicals in the White House? And into this civilian army?

Day 3
- Why does the FCC have a diversity "czar"?
- Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to "balance" the airwaves?
- Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?
- Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?
- Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?
- Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?
- Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?
If Lloyd has his way, stations who don't comply to the governments definition of the "public interest" will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:
- What will be the definition of "public interest"?
- Who defines "public interest"?
- Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)

Watch Glenn Beck weekdays at 5p and 2a ET on the Fox News Channel...

Day 2 - Who is "surrounding" the President in the White House?
- Do any of the President's advisers have criminal records?
- Are the President's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals?
- Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington?
- What roles do they have in crafting bills?
- What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders, where are they now?
- What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser?
- What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist?
- Do the czars have power?
- Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States?
- What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills?
- Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance?
- How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society?
- What role does George Soros play... CONSTITUTIONALLY?

Day 1 - Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?
- We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?
- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?
- If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?
- Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work?
- Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?
- Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?
- Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?
- How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president?
- Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor?
- The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?
- If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?
- If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?
- If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?
- Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?
- Why would you want to overwhelm the system? - Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about "not letting a crises go to waste"?
- What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

Glenn presents facts which, if false, could be disputed during a discussion of the above questions. With regards to the racist campaign holding Obama back, I would suggest that you check

1. Thomas Sowell

and

2. Walter E. Williams

who the liberals would be hard pressed to claim racism as a defense against their brilliant analysis and prolific writings and speeches dispelling myths of liberalism.

I wrote and thanked Glenn for putting himself at risk to present the picture of the Obama administration to the American voter. He is the only one doing it and it has not been discredited. Big statement about control of the news.

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PUTTING YOUR BUTT ON THE LINE FOR AMERICA
From: littleguyusa@factsforreality.net
Date: Sat, September 5, 2009 10:59 pm
To: me@glennbeck.com
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

It was a huge risk (not your butt), but you were instrumental in giving us
the information and shining the light on the Alinsky Warriors of the AWFUL
Administration who won the battle for the Whitehouse. AWFUL = Alinsky
Warriors Fooling Unknowing Lemmings and they use deception to rally the
mooreons and WIIers.

Without you and your team's hard work, we would not be in as good of a
position to fight the battle which we knew we had to fight. RAPA = REAL
American Patriot Army has started using the Alinsky strategy, but replaced
illusion with TRUTH and the Soros types are not used to that. Deception
and ignorance are their tools and truth trumps it, but it takes someone
like you and your team to arm us.

You truly meet the need described by one of our forefathers - “If ever a
time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest
seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced
patriots to prevent its ruin.” -- Samuel Adams

Thank you for what you must endure and for having made the choices in your
earlier life to look at where you were and where you could go. Your
choices have affected not just your life, but the life of our country and its citizens.

Very sincerely and greatfully yours,
Ross Howell

I AM CONCERNED ABOUT HOW GULLIBLE SOME PEOPLE ARE - HOW DO WE SELL EACHOTHER ON PROGRAMS?

2009-09-03T21:43:00.000-07:00

There are two very different schools of thought about how our country should be managed by our employees in Washington DC.

I have three sections in this post.

1. Conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics and entertainment who happen to be black - qualifications for a conservative do not include skin color - question boldly those who would say that opposition to a program based on facts is racist. I am open to question and input, but as of this moment, I feel that they have to be racist to make that claim and I explain why.

2. Quotes which point out that we are not in new times. Humans have recycled different methods of government throughout history and the book, The 5000 Year Leap, makes the point that America is unique and puts forth the authors consclusions as to what caused it. We started out communally in Jamestown and that did not work, even on a small community scale.

3. Definitions and an illustration in simple terms of what conservatives fear.

ONE:

How could you possibly classify these people as racist? They are conservatives with expertise ranging from law, economics, politics to entertainment and they happen to be black. Thomas, Sowell and Williams are brilliant and expert in their fields. They put forth the reason that liberals are bad for the black people of America. I offer links below to give an idea of what a thinking person with a conservative view and a wealth of knowledge who happens to be black thinks:

1. Justice Clarence Thomas speaking about perspective

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssxz-oND7k

2. Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow of The Hoover Institution of Stanford University at Stanford, California 94305 who has written more than 40 books on a variety of subjects including economics and ethnicity

Economic Facts and Fallacies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYIgdFlnRnc

Home Page with links to different categories including economi

http://www.tsowell.com/

3. Walter E. Williams, Professor of Economics at George Mason University

Home Page

http://economics.gmu.edu/wew/index.html

with links to several subjects such as the unintended consequences of the War on Poverty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1r-r6iLBEI&feature=PlayList&p=8F6669EBA4AD450E&index=0&playnext=1

4. Greg Morton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0

5. Alan Keyes, an American conservative political activist, author, former diplomat and campaigned for public offices

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg

6. AlfonZo Rachel speaking on his views about our country and his conservative view

http://www.youtube.com/user/machosauceproduction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQluy7nymw&NR=1

It seems to me that a group which uses racism to market their program or oppose a proposed program must be racist because they believe racism is still a viable manipulative tool. They would not believe that if they were past racist views unless there was evidence of it among the population. I do not pick up racism in my interactions with people opposed to the massive government programs. I, rather, pick up a concern that this administration is either fiscally incompetent or they have an alterior motive. Maybe FDR was right, but that is not what his Secretary of the Treasury said after they tried stimulating the economy. The Republican Party proposed candidates like Janice Brown and Manuel Estrada who were attacked by Democrats. Was that because the Democratic Party is comprised of racists who divert attention from themselves by calling the opposition racist. I would look at them and say, "I think thou dost protest too much!"

TWO: These thoughts are about humans managing themselves by past thinkers

Frederic Bastiat - (1801 - 1850):

1. When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating.
2. Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
3. People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them.

Ayn Rand - (1905 - 1982) novelist and philosopher who left Russia and settled in America:

1. "It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."

2. "So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?"

3. "The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time."

4. "The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government. "

5. "Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."

Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the Univeristy of Edinburgh, about the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.""A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.""From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.""The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.""During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

C. S. Lewis - (1898 - 1963) born in Belfast, Ireland

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

THREE:

My goal in this blog is to look at how we deal with issues using the healthcare reform issue as an example of our interactions. This is a very important issue which will determine where our country will go and where it will end up. I have people who believe differently than me and I know that they are too intellectually capable to be defined by my first definition listed below. I would, therefore, believe that one of us fits the second definition. There are groups of some Big Business people/some lobbyists/some Big Union people/some politicians and George Soros who is integral in the Democrat Party who work for their good with a disregard for our welfare. They keep us away from looking at them by instigating battles between groups such as the union worker and non union worker who both live in the same world and prosper or suffer as a result of the management of our country. We aren't paid well like a legislator regardless of the damage which we inflict on the system. The following definitions which have no relationship to party or belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:

MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.

WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALThose who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources.

This saying applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category - The three sheeple:

Hear no other point of view

See no other point of view

Discuss no other point of view

I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.

Obama is like the driver of an armored car with the National Economy in it headed at a high rate of speed for a cliff with some mooreons and WIIers yelling, "Just give him a chance!" and some people who studied Aesop's fables saying you will destroy the country doing this large of a program when you can't run smaller programs and keep FannieMae/FreddieMac solvent.

A final thought about a recent development in American politics is the apathetic American standing up and defending what they feel is an assault on the structure of America by using the strategy which allowed the assault to happen. Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has now been adopted to a certain extent by the REAL American Patriot Army which has substituted TRUTH for deceipt and illusion.

As an example:

1. Campaigner Obama instructed the people to judge him by those with whom he associates and he named well respected people in different fields

2. President Obama built a group in excess of 30 czars who are not accountable to anyone but him and who hold radical views. Van Jones was arrested and put in jail, came out an avowed Communist and made statements about giving the wealth to the American people. The videos of his speeches and quotes presented by Glenn Beck who instructs his audiance to be peaceful and rational staying solid to the truth because the left wants an incident. He warns the viewer to carry cameras and record instances such as have happened at some of the rallys. Alinsky Rule #12 does not appear to be working any longer when you look at the ratings of the people attacked by the left. I think that the thinking people understand that the more effort that is dedicated to destroying a person, the more truth that that person represents. If that is true, I would steal a quote from a radical, "Ain't America Great?"

DO THEY THINK THAT THEY CAN KILL THE GOLDEN GOOSE AND KEEP GETTING THE GOLD?

2009-09-01T07:52:00.000-07:00

The SEIU is running a full page ad in todays Long Beach Press Telegram headed "The Final Chapter" Broken Promises with the http://www.seiu1000.org/ website.

Arnold Schwarzenegger came into the governorship because California was headed for fiscal disaster and was obviously mismanaged. Tom McClintock has written a letter dated June 9, 2009 about what we need to do to fix what he had been warning Californians about for years.

Those who blame the recession for California’s budget crisis profoundly misunderstand the nature of that crisis. Even before California’s revenue began to shrink, the state government was running a chronic $10 billion deficit and piling up unprecedented debt. The recession is merely the catalyst; the underlying cause is rampant mismanagement of the state’s resources. California spends $43,000 to house a prisoner while many states spend just half that. California spends over $11,000 per pupil, but only a fraction of that ever reaches the classroom. California has one of the most expensive welfare systems in the country and yet one of the worst records of moving people off welfare. And that’s never seemed to bother California’s governor and legislature.

http://mcclintock.house.gov/2009/06/tough-love-for-california.shtml

This is no surprise to those who paid attention and cared more about the state's welfare than their own because they recognize that all is better by looking out for all rather than taking advantage of short term opportunities. The parasite will eventually kill the host unless the burden is limited.

Schwarzenegger took reform to the people of Califronia and the unions waged a very successful campaign to defeat what was good for California, but would head California in a more fiscally responsible direction. They defeated the super hero and kept California on course. We made good time on the wrong road and now they want an exemption from the consequences of their campaign. I have asked for input to show me why I am the mooreon or WIIer which I define on

http://factsforreality.net/

in my looking at a state which would be one of the largest economies in the world if it were a separate country and has had a real estate and dot com booms. The politicians grew the amount of government and rewarded the groups supporting them with unrealistic pay raises and opposed developing the states natural resources.

Peak Oil News and Message Boards post, "US government to loan Petrobras $10 billion
The U.S. government is prepared to provide up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off Brazil’s coast, a Brazilian official said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, Gen. James Jones, discussed the matter with officials this week during a visit to the South American country, Brazilian Planning Minister Paulo Bernardo da Silva told reporters." at

http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50486

and Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding.
As of June 30, the stake in Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based oil producer is known, made up 22 percent of the $3.68 billion of stocks and American depositary receipts held by Soros Fund Management LLC, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Petrobras has since slumped 28 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

as opposed to Sarah Palin giving money back to state taxpayers and promoting the development of natural resources to help the state economy and create energy independance. Something to think about for a person capable of objective analysis. We might ask ourselves if California had adopted the type of proposal, a portion of which is quoted next,

"I’ve heard it said by some politicians that Alaska doesn’t have enough oil to make a difference. I can tell you honestly that we do have enough. And while consultants and experts debate the current energy crisis, Alaska is already preparing for its next role—providing American consumers with a safe and secure domestic source of crude oil and natural gas. In fact, if energy imports were curtailed completely, Alaska could provide our nation with seven years of crude oil independence and an eight-year supply of natural gas. These are numbers that reflect known and recoverable oil and gas deposits.
To repeat, Prudhoe Bay has produced 15 billion barrels of crude oil, and there’s more where that came from in ANWR, which is home to more than ten billion barrels of oil and nine trillion cubic feet of natural gas. I know this is a controversial issue. But most Americans do not realize that of the 20 million acres that make up ANWR, we are asking for the right to access just 2,000 of them—a mere 1/10,000th of the total area. Opening up just that sliver of ANWR—which would create a footprint smaller than the total area of Los Angeles International Airport—could produce enough oil (an estimated one million barrels per day) to ease America’s fuel crisis and greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil." from

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09

as opposed to our current strategy, would we be better off?

JUST BECAUSE I AM PARANOID DOES NOT MEAN THAT THEY ARE NOT OUT TO GET ME - MOOREON ALERT

2009-08-28T09:05:00.000-07:00

Look at these links and ask yourself if we should think about the direction that our country is going.

August 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT CNET NEWS
Bill would give president emergency control of Internet
by Declan McCullagh

90 comments
cnet_news406:http%3A%2F%2Fnews.cnet.com%2F8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
Yahoo! Buzz

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Check out the new Chairman of Diversity for the FCC chosen by Obama. Look at this and give me a comforting thought because this is out of another world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF2C235fD7o

Do we really think that Jones, the Diversity Czar, who admires Hugo Chavez taking over the media to succeed in his revolution after the first try was defeated. This is no longer a pot of frogs brought to a slow boil. The government agrees with Marr that the American people are stupid and is picking up speed on their program. Look at Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and tell me if you need any coffee to understand the relationship to what is happening. Big Business/Big Union/some Politicians/Soros has a group which is taking over America. We cannot be defeated militarily, but the LaLaLanders are such a internal defense weakspot that we are vulnerable. They who scream about privacy are looking the other way while we let Obama implement China type restrictions. What does it take to wake up the mooreons and WIIers???????

Watch the following clips and then enlighten me or get beside me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJj5rTNrOS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD1X6u9GW-0

"Glenn Beck: Reasonable questions for unreasonable times";

August 27, 2009 - 19:25 ET
All this week we are asking questions; I may not have the answers, but power left unchecked can turn very ugly, very rapidly. So it's vital that we all question with boldness, hold to the truth and speak without fear.
You need to start asking questions:
Day 4
- Why do we need a civilian force?
- Who is posing a threat to us?
- Who will this "force" be made up of?
- Who is the real enemy?
- Does the president know of a coming event? If not, who builds an army against an unrecognized enemy?
- Why won't the media get off their butts and look into these radicals in the White House? And into this civilian army?
Day 3
- Why does the FCC have a diversity "czar"?
- Who is Mark Lloyd and how does he plan to "balance" the airwaves?
- Will he bring back the Fairness Doctrine or worse?
- Cass Sunstein once said he wants to balance the Internet; is that next?
- Will broadcasters who leave the airwaves be allowed to go to satellite or Internet without government regulation?
- Is there any place (that has a mass audience) where the government wont regulate free speech?
- Why does it seem every member of the Obama advisory team hates capitalism, unless those companies (like G.E.) are in bed with the administration?
If Lloyd has his way, stations who don't comply to the governments definition of the "public interest" will have to pay a massive fine — that helps support public broadcasting:
- What will be the definition of "public interest"?
- Who defines "public interest"?
- Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them)
Watch Glenn Beck weekdays at 5p and 2a ET on the Fox News Channel...Day 2 - Who is "surrounding" the President in the White House? - Do any of the President's advisers have criminal records? - Are the President's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals? - Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington? - What roles do they have in crafting bills? - What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders, where are they now? - What qualifications must one have to be a Presidential adviser? - What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist? - Do the czars have power? - Should a communist have the ear of the President of the United States? - What role did the Apollo Alliance play in crafting bills? - Does the President know the co-founder of the Weather Underground is a board member of the Apollo Alliance? - How many people in the administration are connected to the movement for a democratic society? - What role does George Soros play... CONSTITUTIONALLY?
Day 1 - Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America? - We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink? - The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy? - If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later? - Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work? - Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them? - Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them? - Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either? - How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president? - Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor? - The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill? - If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people? - If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan? - If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening? - Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted? - Why would you want to overwhelm the system? - Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about "not letting a crises go to waste"? - What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

The above questions were copied from http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/29631/

WORLD WAR II POEM

There is a new importance for a poem describing the perils of apathy and calls to us to be vigilante for an analagous progression
In Germany:

They first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me — and by that time no one was left to speak up.

1787--
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government.""A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury.""From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.""The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years.""During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

Please have a poster to promote the cause at the rallies -
PAY THE POLITICIANS WHAT THEY ARE WORTH -
http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=1674102050702533183&postID=2248282005329531527
Politicians get paid and receive benefits which are great regardless of how much damage that they do to our country. Our government is a prime example of what happens when you neglect competition and accountability. Why has this not been brought up before this time? Possibly becaue the voters have not paid attention

ALINSKY VERSES BECK - WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GET CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

2009-08-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

WHOSE SIDE IS TRUTH ON?

HOW CAN WE DETERMINE IT?

I have a suggeston. Pick up the brightest, most rational, logical person who you know who holds an opposing political ideology and agree to the following challenge.

The liberal choose the most informative program for liberals which they choose to watch for information and you both watch it and make notes regarding facts, perspective and ideology.

The both of you watch a Glenn Beck program during this week and make notes regarding facts, perspective and ideology.

I expect objective interaction to show that someone is lying and propagandizing and it is time that we recognize what is real. There are good intelligent people on both sides of this political battle and I have what I think is the explanation listed below.

DO WE CARE MORE ABOUT BEING RIGHT THAN WE DO ABOUT THE WELFARE OF THE BEST COUNTRY WHICH HAS EVER EXISTED? MY REQUEST IS A TEST OF THE VALIDITY OF YOUR ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. I AM WILLING TO COME FROM NOT KNOWING BECAUSE I AM CONFIDENT IN MY VERY STRONG OPINIONS. THOSE OPINIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE IF I AM WRONG.

Because there is a campaign to incite the Politicall Correct Gullible Crusaders with morphed meanings of words and out of context information or outright lies and because we were warned by one of America's founders, Samuel Adams, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”, I propose the following definitions to describe our nation's most dangerous enemy.

Thes definitions which have no relationship to party, belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:

MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.

WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALThose who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources.

This saying applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category described below. The three sheeple:
Hear no other point of view
See no other point of view
Discuss no other point of view

I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.

Rossabh
littleguyusa@factsforreality.net
http://factsforreality.blogspot.com
FaceBook Page

Argue for the limitation and it is yours.

My purpose in my website is to have sections with facts

Only facts will be presented; not discussion.
The information displayed may be added to by submission of the fact or a correction and it's source.
This Web site will present facts specific to certain events and organizations such as:

Terrorist attacks on US assets, the president in power, the U.S. response, the perpetrators
Terrorist attacks on non-US assets-Achille Laura, Lockerbee
References to a translation of Osama bin Laden's fatwa
Thwarted terrorist attacks such as multiple planes from Philippines, Milenium LAX from Canadian border
Terrorist Web sites, top 5 or 10 most popular U.S. government officials to quote for anti-American quotes and the message in which the quote is used.
School system statistics such as cost per pupil and the ranking of those pupils
Democracies throughout history, the length of their existence and the cause of their demise.

and other suggested items.
I am a working person who does not yet know how I will do this, but hearing about teachers instructing students that the Iraq war is good or bad rather than teaching them to analyze the information as my 6th grade teacher taught me, scares me. She educated us that we will be exposed to propaganda from all directions and that we should sort out the good information rather than try to indoctrinate us in her beliefs. This paragraph is the result of a conversation several years ago which sounded like our children are indoctrinated rather than taught. Hearing about them being shown An Inconvenient Truth and not hearing about discussions or opposing points of view illustrates the level of indoctrination implemented in America. I would like to see us return to the days where we are taught to question information in any form from the opposition or people with whom we agree.
I had an 11th grade history teacher who said that you cannot get somewhere by being against something. You must have a goal and go for it.
I took a negotiating seminar a long time ago and was put in a role playing exercise. I was the lightweight on a team with a Texas business owner and his three presidents of his companies. We were the tire company and we faced off against the city council. Each side was given secret information and the 15 or 20 sets of business people/city council were instructed to reach a beneficial, negotiated result. A short way into the negotiations, things heated up and the head Texan told the city council that we employed the people who voted for them and if they wanted to maintain their positions, they would give in to our demands. I thought that our set did not succeed because the Texans were used to doing business in that matter. Not one of the sets achieved our goal. These business people, in a lab setting, given the setup to succeed were unsuccessful. Humans are lucky that we do as well as we do if this is a valid sample of human interaction.

OUR PRISON SYSTEM - Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

2009-08-25T08:19:00.000-07:00

Albert Einstein is quoted above and I feel like I am accurate in stating, "Doing more of what works, works." I heard it in a seminar on Life and Career Management and it is amazing how powerful some basic some principles are.

I received an email from a friend of mine that is worth some thought because it gives an alternative to the way most other people are managing the prison system. This is not a comparison of the different systems, but a call to think about what we are being told.

1. There are riots in prison with extensive damage and physical harm.

2. There is a court system which blames overcrowding for the poor quality of the life of the inmates.

3. There is a pending court order that this overcrowding must be solved or the prisoners released.

4. How much thought does it take to muse over the fact that if you play to the media and the court system and create as much chaos as you can to prove that the caring ones are right, you will not have to pay for your crime.

This line of reasoning is, in my opiniion, the same reasoning used to close GITMO. We have the best facility in the best location which operates painfully well (not perfect), but we are concerned about world opinion fed to us by MoveOn.orgers and MSNBC types. al Qaeda uses the information for their recruiting propaganda. The alternative is, "Let's move the detainees to American soil where we can expose our civilians to a spectacular al Qaeda operation made for TV and where these poor abused victims can plead for fair treatment while enjoying their confinement and still presenting al Queda with propanda. I am puzzled, but I did come up with the explanation. There are both gullible fools and intelligent people whom I define at http://factsforreality.net/
as mooreons and WIIers respectively. I have not heard a better explanation and I remain open to a challenge. It just does not make sense to me, but a negotiating class lab enlightened me that humans will work to their own detriment.

I believe that there is a movement playing on Roger Dawson, an Englishman teaching negotiation, talking about the most powerful negotiating gambit to use against an American is, "What do you think is fair?"

The following quote describes an emotional tool which is now used for more than money. "A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money." "A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul." George Bernard Shaw (1944)

Please excuse the unclean formatting - I need to get to work, but I checked my email and felt we need to pay attention to how we analyze and implement what we do in this world. We really can go through life without thinking about anything if we want. We only have to think about and protect that which is important to us, like our country's place in the world and fiscal well being.

SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN! Oh, there's MUCH more to know about Sheriff Joe! Maricopa County was spending approx. $18 million> > dollars a year on stray animals, like cats and dogs. Sheriff Joe> > offered to take the department over, and the County Supervisors said> > okay.�> >> > The animal shelters are now all> > staffed and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for the> > strays. Every animal in his care is taken out and walked twice> > daily. He now has prisoners who are experts in animal nutrition> > and behavior. They give great classes for anyone who'd like to> > adopt an animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the> > street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had them place> > in dog shows.�> >> > The best part? His budget for the> > entire department is now under $3 million. Teresa and I adopted> > a Weimaraner from a Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was neutered,> > and current on all shots, in great health, and even had a> > microchip inserted the day we got him. Cost us> > $78.�> >> > The prisoners get the benefit of> > about $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for free,> > just to be out of their cells for the day. Most of his budget is> > for utilities, building maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners> > out of the fees collected for adopted> > animals.�> >> > I have long wondered when the rest> > of the country would take a look at the way he runs the jail> > system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a huge farm, donated> > to the county years ago, where inmates can work, and they grow> > most of their own fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work> > and harvesting by hand.�> >> > He has a pretty good sized hog farm,> > which provides meat, and fertilizer. It fertilizes the Christmas> > tree nursery, where prisoners work, and you can buy a living> > Christmas tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it later.> > We have six trees in our yard from the> > Prison.�> >> > Yup, he was reelected last year with> > 83% of the vote.�> > Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again. He> > painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural, that has a> > special hotline phone number painted on it, where you can call> > and report suspected illegal aliens. Immigrations and Customs> > Enforcement wasn't doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40> > deputies trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws,> > started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just for hauling> > folks back to the border. He's kind of a 'Git-R Dun' kind of> > Sheriff.�> >> > TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH> > JOE ARPAIO�> >> > HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY> > SHERIFF�> >> > AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER> > AND OVER�> > THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS> > WHY:�> >> > Sheriff Joe Arpaio (In Arizona ) who> > created the ' Tent City Jail':�> > He has jail meals down to 40> > cents a serving and charges the inmates for> > them.�> >> > He stopped smoking and porno> > magazines in the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but> > 'G' movies.�> >> > He started chain gangs so the> > inmates could do free work on county and city> > projects.�> >> > Then He Started Chain Gangs For> > Women So He Wouldn't Get�> > Sued For> > Discrimination.�> >> > He took away cable TV Until he found> > out there was A Federal Court Order that Required Cable TV For> > Jails So He Hooked Up The Cable TV Again Only Let In The Disney> > Channel And The Weather Channel.�> >> > When asked why the> > weather channel He Replied, So They Will Know How Hot It's Gonna> > Be While They Are Working�> > ON My Chain> > Gangs.�> >> > He Cut Off Coffee Since It Has Zero> > Nutritional Value.�> >> > When the inmates complained, he told> > them, 'This Isn't The Ritz/Carlton......If You Don't Like It,> > Don't Come Back.'�> >> >> > More On The Arizona> > Sheriff:�> >> > With Temperatures Being Even Hotter> > Than Usual In Phoenix (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record), the> > Associated Press Reports:�> > About 2,000 Inmates Living In A> > Barbed-Wire-Surrounded Tent Encampment At The Maricopa County> > Jail Have Been Given Permission To Strip Down To Their> > Government-Issued�> > Pink Boxer Shorts.�> >> > On Wednesday, hundreds> > of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds> > or chatted in the tents, which reached�> > 138 Degrees Inside> > The Week Before.�> >> > Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink> > Towels As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down To> > Their PINK SOCKS.�> >> > 'It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,'> > Said James Zanzot, An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1> > year. 'It's Inhumane.'�> >> > Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff> > who created the tent city and long ago started making his> > prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit> > sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates:> > 'It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents> > Too, And They Have To Wear Full Battle Gear,�> > But They Didn't> > Commit Any Crimes,So Shut Your Mouths!'�> >> > Way To Go,> > Sheriff!�> >> > Maybe if all prisons were like this> > one there would be a lot less crime and/or repeat offenders.> > Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in> > luxury until it's time for their parole, only to go out and> > commit another crime so they can get back in to live on> > taxpayers money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to have> > for themselves.�> >> > If you agree, pass this on.. If not,> > just delete> > it.> >

LET US SHARE THE REWARDS AND PENALTIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT'S ACTIONS WITH THOSE WHO MANAGED IT

2009-08-23T16:05:00.000-07:00

This is a non-partisan idea for the betterment of America!!!!

In the business world, a managment level person receives bonuses for good performance and gets fired for bad performance. There is a very basic relationship when a company's survival is tied to performance. A joint venture partner will often receive compensation for operating a venture, but not share in returns until the original investment is returned to the investors and then the profit is shared. The politicians do not appear to have any concept of this structure which works well as long as the business is not on life support from an outside source. The politicians have a POLITICIAN EXEMPTION which allows them to put the country in the toilet and do anything which they can get away with to enrich or empower themselves and they still receive full benefits.

We pay our politicians salaries in excess of $150,000.00 and give them excellent health care plus a good retirement. They receive this compensation package plus a number of other benefits, including connections to increase their power and wealth regardless of the damage which they do to our country. Why in the world would we not make them accountable by having them share in what they create????

I have started a cause on Facebook at

http://apps.facebook.com/causes/339555?m=96aaaf39

REWARD PEFORMANCE - PENALIZE DAMAGE
Reward our government people for success and penalize them for failure - HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE!!!

This cause DOES NOT COLLECT MONEY and has the brief statement of
Positions:
1. At least the president, vice president, senators and representatives, referred to as "the Group" create what we, the people, live with in America
2. Create categories such as fiscal, health, +++ to monitor and parameters to measure performance of the legislature in managing our country
3. Make salaries and retirement a function of a formula using the parameters to reward or punish performance
4. Create a tiered relationship between the health care which the Group receives and the American people receive
5. Create an IRS provision to apply a surtax to assets acquired after taking office at a rate inversely related to the performance from 0% to 50%

I am very preliminary in this and I am a lightweight who does not possess the time, money or expertise to pull this off by myself, but it is so obvious that our country has allowed our politicians to be the EXEMPT CLASS and they distract with their class warfare and partisan bickering while they enjoy their exempt benefits. How many politicians who created this are unemployed? What is the status of the investigations into the FannieMae/FreddieMac debacle that makes Enron look like chump change and help put America on the down slide? Do they know that we are manipulateable fools by the results of their enjoyment of the exemption?

I will better define what and how we measure performance and develop formulas as this proposal evolves.

I just did this today because I have been whining to friends about this concept forever and watching America making good time in the wrong direction. I decided that it is time to quit whining and do something or shut up and go along.

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein

“Whoever you are, you who are hearing me now, I am speaking to whatever living remnant is left uncorrupted within you, to the remnant of the human, to your mind, and I say: There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

"It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." --novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

My into comment on Facebook was: I am tired of listening to me whine about the performance of the managers of our country and watching the Big Business/Big Union/Politicians and people like Soros who profit from economic problems build their money machines while they instigate aurguments between the Left, Right, Illegal Aliens, Space Aliens and whatever other diversion which they come up with to keep us from seeing what they are doing. I have no idea how I am going to do this, but I love my country more than I fear the consequences and it is time for me to do something. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I offered my factsforreality.net website out a long time ago because I didn't have what I needed to do it justice. That is another project with two components: 1. Letters to grandchildren asking them how they like the country which we left them and telling them that there were two schools of thought on how it should be governed - I hope that I was just a paranoid old man.
2. Facts only to define and measure - there is to much obfiscation and Orwellian redefinition to the point that a lot of us distrust our government who no longer views us as their employer. We are not lab rats for experiments. I want define areas which we need to understand and monitor facts, especially data to correct our course should we steer off course from our objective.

WE ARE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE HAD OBAMA ELECTED IN THIS LAST ELECTION - Join us and help to ensure liberty and prosperity for the future of America!

2009-08-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

"It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth -- and listen to the song of that syren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? ... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it might cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it." --Patrick Henry

There are two very different schools of thought on how Amererica is best structured and the responsibility of the citizens. The election of Obama with a congressional majority gives us a chance to measure the value of one school of thought. The fact that there are complaints about the lack of Republican support raises the question of how good do the Democrats feel about something which they can pass without Republican support. Why, if you are really good with what you are doing, would you not say, "This is the great thing which we did for you the people!" instead of trying to make it look like, "The Republicans thought that it was a good idea also."? Do politicians normally share the glory?

I see some reports that the protests are not real and that the protestors are "mean". I can look back at clips of the Democrats, proclaiming that dissent is patriotic and I do agree with them. Bush commented that Cindy Shean protesting him was evidence of America's greatness - kind of a presidential attitude which I appreciate. Progress will only be made if we develop a way to:

1. clearly define the facts

2. define the parameters which measure what we want to discuss

3. agree on a program to accomplish something

4. implement the program and monitor the parameters

We see this type of thing done in marketing the programs which are put into a bill, but no one appears to be using the procedure to create the programs and to read the bills created by ????. Just one example which seems beyond belief obvious to me, but an incredible number of people appear to not recognize it - hence my two definitions of the mentality of some American voters at http://factsforreality.net/ . "You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) We, if it weren't so incredibly serious, would laugh at the way that the governmment runs the MediCare/MediCaid, FannieMae/FreddieMac (where is the investigation into this disaster?), Social Security, the Post Office and on and on. Is our solution to the healthcare program better accomplished by creating a new, massive change or fixing some of the issues with our current healthcare program to create the ability to effectively handle the issues at a more doable level instead of one which could be catastrophic if it is implemented like the other government programs. Global warming was renamed climate change when the forums kept getting frozen out and it started to appear a little ludicrous to be worried about warming. The Health Care Reform become Insurance Reform when public opinion ceased to heavily support it. Does CAP have analysis for how things will work implementation and fiscally or do the do marketing? I have not taken the time yet to find out.

The country is better seved by having clarity and accountability and that is the goal of the group linked below. I have proposed that the salary, benefits including retirement and healthcare of congress people be indexed on the country's performance - this is very complex and I am not with all of the time and expertise which I need to run with it. Reward them for good performance and allow them to truly experience our pain for their bad performance. Allow them to keep complex IRS codes by having a tax rate on assets acquired after they take office which is inversely related to performance of the country. That way, we would have the retirees watching out for us as well as themselves. The one time that you can count on someone to look out for you is when they will benefit or suffer if you do. Let us also have a source for each part of a bill so that we can properly reward them for supporting what we believe or replace them for going against our interests.

Talk is cheap - share the performance results with the people whose life you affect congress people.

WHICH SIDE WOULD YOU EXPECT TO HAVE CREATED THE FOLLOWING SET OF RULES? - THIS INDICATES WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE WELCOME AND WHO IS NOT WELCOME - WE NEED PROGRESS NOT A VENTING OUTLET

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"We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish." F. A. Hayek

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My 11th grade history teacher in 1959 or 1960 told the class that you can never get anywhere by being against something. Let us define what we want more clearly and unite to make America the great country it can be by affirming the good which we do and committing to do more of it.

Let us cease to have the discussion that Bush brought the largest national debt to GDP since WWII as an answer to a complaint that Obama has created the largest national debt to GDP ratio since WWII. Take a breath, step back and ask yourself, "WHAT IN THE HELL AM I THINKING?" Several conservatives applauded the defeat of TARP I and condemned Bush for his fiscal irresponsibility. I have often stated that I feel that borrow and spend is worse than tax and spend and that the Democrats were at least honest when they raised taxes and awakened the people who paid taxes. I have now revised my thinking and, not to be outdone, the Democrats whow that Bush cannot hold a candle to them in the borrow and spend arena. They have backdoored some taxes, but I believe that they look at income tax increases as the desert for their feast. Has our country benefited from this waste of intercourse? Should we do more of what doesn't work and expect different results - Einstein's definition of insanity or should we heed Winston Churchill's admonition that, "They who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."

I do have hope, but if there is not change in how we govern our country, we will end up hopeless. Let us go for what is good for the country so that each of us has an opportunity to enjoy a strong, safe, prosperous, healthy America.

IS THIS A KARL ROVE ISSUE?

2009-08-18T21:07:00.000-07:00

I am copying the complete Hugh Hewitt - Townhall blog entry into my blog because this issue is of major consequence. David Axelrod is one of the main people in the Obama group and we were told that there would be no lobbyist and typical government corruption. We saw Walpin put by the wayside because he uncovered corruption with a friend of Obama's in AmeriCorp. There is a call for ACORN to be investigated as a criminal enterprise. There is a Facebook group called Back to Dollars - Government vs Business which has a paragraph describing the coalition of Politician/Big Business executives/Union management building a very powerful, well entrenched machine - a paragraph points out one of the paradoxes of the candidate who represents the common people - Ever wondered why so many REALLY rich people tend to support the Democrat party? Ever wondered why Goldman Sachs funneled so much money to Obama’s campaign? For the politically well-connected, there comes a point at which there’s more to gain from dealing with Big Government—at their competitors’ and taxpayers’ expense—than from supporting the platform of liberty and limited government that appeals to honest, politically unconnected individuals.

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog/

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
David Axelrod's Very Big ProblemPosted by: Hugh Hewitt at 6:27 PM
The allegations in this Bloomberg story --if true-- pose a huge problem for a senior advisor to the president, David Axelrod. This is the heart of the problem:
Axelrod was president and sole shareholder of AKPD from 1985 until he sold his interest after Obama’s victory, government records show. The firm owes Axelrod $2 million, which it’s due to pay in installments beginning Dec. 31. Axelrod’s son, Michael, still works there. He didn’t return a phone call. The firm’s Web site continues to feature David Axelrod’s work on the Obama campaign. (Emphasis added.)The problem is that Axelrod's former firm is currently receiving huge fees "from Healthy Economy Now, a coalition that includes the Washington-based Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America, known as PhRMA," as well as AARP, the SEIU and other big players in the health care debate. If Axelrod has been negotiating any part of any deal involving any of these players which are funneling money to the firm that owes him money, or if he is advising the president on the deals with any of these groups, that's a conflict of interest. Laundering the money through a "coalition" doesn't remove the conflict much less the appearance of impropriety. The coalition is in effect partially funding David Axelrod's severance package though its members might have done so unknowingly. These forthcoming payments to Axelrod are much more significant than the sort of "retained ties" that Democrats blasted Dick Cheney for vis-a-vis Halliburton even though there was no high level negotiations between the vice president and his former company.David Axelrod has some tough questions to answer, and according to Politico's Mike Allen, Politico's Ken Vogel will be publishing more on matters Axelrodian tomorrow. (Thetranscript of my interview with Allen will be posted here later tonight.) Vogel's story on Axelrod's son from a few days back casts doubt on the Bloomberg story's accuracy as Bloomberg has Axelrod's son still at Axelrod's old firm, but Vogel has him at The Huffington Post. If it was Karl Rove in a similar set of circumstances, the blogs and some in MSM would already be demanding a special prosecutor. There are lots of questions for Mr. Axelrod, the first one being whether the Bloomberg story is accurate. if the answer is "yes," the second will be: "Have you lawyered up?"UPDATE: Ken Vogel just confirmed that his story in tomorrow's Politico delves into this issue and that Axelrod did not respond to Vogel's e-mail on the subject, though he has done so in the past. The transcript of the Vogel interview will also be up later tonight at the transcripts page.Vogel also informed me that Axelrod has two sons, one of whom does indeed continue to work at his dad's old firm which is powered up on health care debate dollars.UPDATE 2: Senator Jon Kyl just expressed surprise when I told him the outline of the story and, without prompting, suggested as I have above that if Karl Rove had been discovered to be in the same situation as David Axelrod, the hounds would be in the hunt already. Of course, this is the Obama-smitten MSM, so it remains to be seen whether any of them start asking the obvious questions. The transcript of my conversation with Senator Kyl will be posted later at the Transcripts page.

IF WE ARE TO BELIEVE THAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION CARES ABOUT TRANSPARENCY AND THE GOOD OF AMERICA, CAN WE EXPECT:

2009-08-14T23:29:00.000-07:00

Announcing AuditTheFed.com!
From Campaign for Liberty
Today at 7:57am
August 13, 2009Dear Friend of Liberty,As you and I both know, Campaign for Liberty is leading the fight to pass Ron Paul's bill to Audit the Fed. With 282 cosponsors in the House and 23 in the Senate, your efforts have so far proven very successful in establishing large, bipartisan support for Federal Reserve transparency. We've come a long way in demonstrating to the nation that monetary policy is a critical issue, and every day more and more people are waking up to the harm that the Fed has caused our economy.But our mission is not yet complete. There are more Americans to educate, more signatures to collect, and more work to be done to combat the "big guns" that have come out against Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill. That's why today I'm proud to announce that we've taken the next step in our efforts by launching AuditTheFed.com, a focused, coalition website with one purpose: to push this historic piece of legislation through Congress, past the President's desk, and into law.AuditTheFed.com includes: contact information for your congressman and senators, petitions, widgets, and banners to promote the website, dynamic graphs of the bill's cosponsors, a detailed summary of the Audit the Fed bill, a list of our growing coalition, a blog to keep you up to date on all the latest Audit the Fed news, a sign up for email updates, and social networks to help get the word out online. This website was designed to put you, the liberty-loving activist, in a position to efficiently and effectively promote Audit the Fed to family, friends, neighbors, and strangers alike.This new website is the latest addition to our efforts to Audit the Fed, but it is by no means the culmination. Stay tuned to CampaignforLiberty.com in the coming days for information on how we plan to mobilize to gain not only more cosponsors for HR 1207 and S 604, but support for a vote in the House and Senate.For Liberty,John TatePresidentP.S. If you are able, please consider donating to Campaign for Liberty today to help ensure Audit the Fed becomes law and we can finally bring transparency and accountability to one of our country's most secretive institutions. https://www.campaignforliberty.com/donate.phpwww.auditthefed.com

ARE SOROS AND THE DEMOCRATS PROMOTING RACISM FOR PROFIT?

2009-08-12T09:18:00.000-07:00

Over the past year, I have read about George Soros, a brilliant investor who appears to profit from economic crises and who has a passion to change America. I have read several articles which raise a question. Is capitalism funding a group comprised of Soros, some big business people, some big union people and some politicians to either do a hostile takeover (business term) of America or to destroy its capitalist system? Soros is an investor who makes huge profits which none of the liberal anti huge salary people protest and funds organizations like CAP, moveon.org and liberal causes with campaigns which appeal to emotion rather than reason - moveon.org did the General Betrayus full page ad when the General came to the Senate hearing and listened to the all knowing Senators before he went back and successfully executed the surge which these organizations had said would fail. Their current "illusion di jour" is to disregard opposition to their programs as being racist and distract from the factual analysis by appealing to emotions. This apparently works with 12% of the people according to a recent poll about the racist issue. The fact that they oppose a lot of things which seem in keeping with the American culture would be, "That's just one of the great reasons to live in America." The problem is it looks like they are taking our country somewhere else and it does not appear, as evidenced by an awakened electorate, that we want to go there. They are currently promoting racism as the reason for opposition to the administration's agenda. Would they tell you that Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas are racists? What are they distracting us from seeing?

SOROS JOINT VENTURE GROUP?
1. Soros is an integral part of the Democratic party - George Soros supports moveon.org and was one of the funders to create CAP, the Center for American Progress headed by John Podesta which is an analysis, strategy generator and implementer for the Democrats. It is described in the November 18, 2008 Bloomberg -- Three blocks from the White House, on the 10th floor of a sleek glass building, young workers pound at computers, with giant flat-screen TVs overhead. It has the look and feel of a high-tech startup.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg&refer=us

2. Soros has made a lot of money from other people's problems - SorosWatch.com - George Soros' War on the Poor - April 21, 2009 - George Soros told The Australian that the world financial crisis was”stimulating” and “in a way, the culmination of my life’s work.” George Soros also told a Hungarian news agency he was “sincerely sorry” about his fund’s last-minute short sale of bank stock and added, “I no longer oversee the running of Soros Fund Management. I withdrew last year and now only direct deals on my own account.” Was that an, "Oops, I slipped?" reason for the problem it created?

http://www.soroswatch.com/tag/george-soros/

3. Soros profits from decline of American Dollar - The April 4 Bloomberg article linked below points out that Soros bets on the decline of the American dollar. "The market disruptions prompted Soros last year to resume a more active role in managing the $17 billion Quantum Endowment Fund, which provides income for his philanthropic projects. He has bet on declines in the dollar and U.S. and European stocks, and expects increases in foreign currencies as well as Chinese and Indian equities. "

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601091&sid=ayFW7vlhFivM&refer=india

4. Soros puts $35 million of his money with $140 million Stimulus money (targeted, immediate job creation?) to give to school children - taxpayers making the Soros-Obama administration team look charitable with taxpayer debt. Notice whose name is prominent. The New York Daily News August 12, 2009 - "Back to school spree: Billionaire, feds give out $175M to aid neediest students around the state. Read more:"

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/08/12/2009-08-12_billionaire_feds_give_out_175m_to_aid_neediest_students_around_the_state_its_fre.html#ixzz0RERRAHJV
5. Soros invests in a Brazilian oil company - August 15, 2009 Bloomberg -- "Billionaire investor George Soros bought an $811 million stake in Petroleo Brasileiro SA in the second quarter, making the Brazilian state-controlled oil company his investment fund's largest holding. "

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

6. Peak Oil News & Message Boards had a post (which was higher than the $2 billion loan which I saw elsewhere) on August 10, 2009 -- The U.S. government is prepared to provide up to $10 billion in loans to finance the development of massive hydrocarbon reserves off Brazil’s coast, a Brazilian official said Wednesday.

http://peakoil.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=50486

This raises two questions:

a. What is the source of the funds from the US?

b. Why would we back oil exploration which George Soros invested in rather than stimulate our economy by backing the proposal in August of 2008 to stimulate the economy and provide energy independence as reported in the September 2008 issue of Imprimus - "Alaska is already preparing for its next role—providing American consumers with a safe and secure domestic source of crude oil and natural gas. In fact, if energy imports were curtailed completely, Alaska could provide our nation with seven years of crude oil independence and an eight-year supply of natural gas. These are numbers that reflect known and recoverable oil and gas deposits." Do Alaskans not need jobs and America not need energy independence?

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09

ADMINISTRATIONS PATH AND ASSOCIATIONS

A. ACORN CONNECTION:
1. The Chicago CBS news for August 2009 - "The City of Chicago is basically closed for business on Aug. 17, a reduced-service day in which most city employees are off without pay. City Hall, public libraries, health clinics and most city offices will be closed. In addition to reduced service days, all non-union employees were asked to take a series of furlough days and unpaid holidays, and most non-sworn union employees agreed to similar unpaid time off. " Management has room for improvement just as California's management has negated the effects of the real estate and dot com booms.

http://digg.com/d310tmL

2. Pittsburg Tribune-Review in an August 22, 2008 article reported, "U.S. Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign paid more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the liberal Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now for services the Democrat's campaign says it mistakenly misrepresented in federal reports. "

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/election/s_584284.html

3. An ACORN associate group? funded for presidential campaign work. New York Times October 10, 2008 - "Even before Friday’s conference call, Republicans had made much of an $832,598 payment made in February by the Obama campaign to Citizens Services Inc., a consulting firm affiliated with Acorn.
“This organization is not just related to but deeply ingrained in the Acorn organization, a front group for Acorn,” Mr. Davis said." This was misrepresented according to the next link.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11acorn.html

4. The September 16, 2009 edition of the Bulletin, Philidelphia's Family Newspaper ran an article on the campaign connection and the fact that the New York Times spiked the story of a whistleblower about the issue - "A lawyer involved with legal action against Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) told a House Judiciary subcommittee on March 19 The New York Times had killed a story in October that would have shown a close link between ACORN, Project Vote and the Obama campaign because it would have been a “a game changer.” "

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/03/30/top_stories/doc49d0a73c7f98e547489394.txt

5. Michelle Malkin, in an August 22, 2008 post, stated, "There’s much more to the story of Obama’s amended campaign finance reports than what Obama and the Obamedia will tell you. I will fill you in on what’s missing in a moment. What we have here, essentially, is Obama using a non-profit group called Citizens Services Inc. as a front to funnel payments to ACORN for campaign advance work. "

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/08/22/acorn-watch-pt-ii-obama-hid-800000-payment-to-acorn-through-citizen-services-inc/

6. Big Government on 9/12/2009 posted an article titled, "Former leftist activist turned FBI informant pulls back the cover on ACORN" - "Though the majority of residents either hadn’t heard of ACORN or simply disagreed with their politics- ACORN insisted that they were THE Black leaders. This was upsetting to me. Sure, the local pastor we worked most closely with was Black; but that didn’t matter to ACORN. "

http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/12/former-leftist-activist-turned-fbi-informant-pulls-back-the-curtain-on-acorn/

7. The New York Post September 16, 2009 ran an article on Pimp and Hooker catch Brooklyn staff with references to the other catches - "As in prior videos released by the filmmaking team of James O'Keefe, 25, and Hannah Giles, 20, employees of the group -- which specializes in housing and voter activism -- were eager to dispense advice on gaming the system and skirting the law."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/pimp_hooker_catch_staff_Js4YPEcsCcxLZhAEehLhmL

8. Michelle Malkin's September 16, 2009 blog post on "What is missing from the New York Time's coverage of ACORN?

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/09/16/whats-missing-from-the-new-york-times-coverage-of-acorn/

OTHER ITEMS:

1. Kevin Johnson investigation by IG Harold Walpin fired by Obama for uncovering his friend's corruption??? The June 19, 2009 Wallstreet Journal reported - "President Obama swept to office on the promise of a new kind of politics, but then how do you explain last week's dismissal of federal Inspector General Gerald Walpin for the crime of trying to protect taxpayer dollars? This is a case that smells of political favoritism and Chicago rules." and "Obama supporter Kevin Johnson. St. HOPE had received an $850,000 AmeriCorps grant, "

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html

2. Michelle Malkin's blog post on June 26, 2009 discussed the suppression of an EPA report which was counter the administratins intentions - "On March 12, Carlin’s director, Al McGartland, forbade him from having “any direct communication” with anyone outside his office about his study. “There should be no meetings, emails, written statements, phone calls, etc.” On March 16, Carlin urged his superiors to forward his work to EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, which runs the agency’s climate change program. A day later, McGartland dismissed Carlin and showed his true, politicized "

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/06/26/epa-plays-hide-and-seek-suppressed-report-revealed/

An interesting point made on another person' blog is "The "Crisis Strategy" can be traced back to the first Communist state under the Russian Bolsheviks. Subsequent refinements developed by the Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci and Saul Alinsky and implemented by the American Left through the Democrat Party, have finally borne fruit with the election of Barack Obama, a radical thoroughly schooled in these methods. This strategy will destroy our country as we know it. Time is short. Time to see the truth. Time to get moving."

http://obamacrisis.blogspot.com/2009/09/america-spoke.html

Capitalism is funding the destruction of capitalism in America. The funding of Brazil holding back nucleur and natural resources on shore.
and it becomes obvious to me that this is the mindless chatter created by the Alinsky strategy used so effectively to gain power and create the problems with our country leading up to the financial debacle. There was a claim that the Republicans did not vote for the first TARP because they were throwing a tantrum about Pelosi's unbelieveable pre vote speech on TARP. The Democrats did not need Republican votes to pass it. They had Bush and the power to pass it, but did not want to own the disaster that they knew it could be and yet the lemmings chanted it is just a tantrum. RACISM too is just mindless chatter because the liberals think that the American people are so stupid that they will overlook the potential devastation this type of program could create for America as well as some links below showing what is going on in the background while we get all Wee Weed up about health care.

THE QUESTION IS, "DO THEY WHO CLAIM RACISM AGAINST THE OPPOSITION THINK THAT THERE ARE THAT MAY GULLIBLE AMERICANS OUT THERE?

“Life's tough......it's even tougher if you're stupid.” -- John Wayne

RESEARCH, VET AND STAY GLUED TO THE TRUTH

IT IS OUR WEAPON AGAINST DECEIPT AND ILLUSION

ttp://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aFHPjfeUvtl8

Testimony to the wisdom of the American voter. Take a politician out of a corrupt machine ruined area and give him more power and influence. This is the Peter Principle to the 10th power. We have seen the liberal philosophy in California and New York and the majority do not listen to those of us who yell out warnings. I was baffled for a long time at the intelligent people who are liberal and vote for more of what doesn't work. I present two definitions of the type of people who support this problem on my factsforreality.net website and point out that I am open to be shown how I am one of them instead of the liberals. We now see a government that thinks running out of money in a give away Cash for Clunkers is a success instead of seeing it as evidence of their inability to analyze and accurately predict how a program will operate. They then want to do a major overhaul instead of fixing existing problems. Insane to think that this is safe during these incredibly dangerous times.

Conservatives see the Obama administration as driving an armored car with the nations wealth in it at a high rate of speed. There are those on the left who are running interference and yelling, "Give him a chance." and "Just listen to him." and those on the right who are called racist by many on the left as they yell, "You might want to check out that cliff ahead." because they see him as making good time down the wrong road.

The Stimulus Bill was passed quickly without review so that we would turn the economy around and not exceed 8% unemployment - Now in the high 9s. Looking at what it has created for employment raises the question, "What if we had not indebted the nation for that amount of money?" I don't see that much in targeted, quickly created jobs and we are doing amazingly well in spite of the lack of them. Where would unemployment be if our priorities had been on small business stimulation? Is it true that the NEA which does Obama Art got more money than small business? I don't know, but it would give us a great insite into this administrations perception of private enterprise, the engine which made America great a long time ago.

Timeline of some of the events which failed to prevent the FannieMae/FreddieMac debacle. Where is our investigation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

I did not come up with the AWFUL administration (AWFUL = Alinsky Warriors Fooling Unknowing Lemmings) to be derogatory. It is meant to convey a very accurate description, if I am correct in my analysis, of the Democracy loving American people having lost a battle and the Whitehouse has been taken over by a group with a totally different philosophy of government. They have assaulted the engine which gave America an incredible advantage over the rest of the world - described in The 5000 Year Leap. I also came up with definitions on my blog to describe the two types of mentallity, mooreon and WIIer which support the enemy in the battle to keep our country. This does not look like just a Democrat thing to me.

http://factsforreality.blogspot.com/2009/08/alinsky-verses-beck-we-have-opportunity.html

Check out the Gross Operating Budget

http://www.blogger.com/www.usdebtclock.org

I have a Letters to my grandchildren section on my website and this was one of the things during the campaigning which terrified me. What we see depends mainly upon what we look for and the people telling me, "Just listen to him." were intelligent and it baffled me how they could hear and not get the warning. I created the definitions of WIIer and mooreon to describe this baffling occurance at such a high rate. "PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF YOUR COUNTRY. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND JUDGE THOSE WHO CREATED WHAT YOU INHERITED. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS AND CHANGE WHAT DIDN'T WORK SO THAT YOU GIVE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AN EVEN BETTER COUNTRY THAN YOU INHERITED. PROTECT THEM FROM HARM. THAT IS YOUR OBLIGATION WHICH I HOPE YOU MEET. I FEAR THAT WE WILL NOT MEET THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU. I TRULY HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE ME AS A PARANOID OLD FOOL AND ENJOY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH MY GENERATION INHERITED WHICH ALLOWED US TO LIVE IN WHAT I PERCEIVED AS LALALAND. JUNE 30, 2009" My letters ramble because they were in rough draft with notes form and not finallized because I work and have other responsibilities which keep me from dedicating the amount of time that I want.

Changing the 911 meaning and significance is beyond belief obvious in mental programming of Americans. I do not understand why we don't have a more public push for the Walpin AmeriCorps corruption investigation put aside, the call for an investigation for ACORN corruption which now appears to be in motion.

I have a cause to tie Congressional pay, retirement healthcare and other benefits to parameters which indicate the health of the country. Politicians get paid incredibly well in spite of the damage which they do to our country. This is a SCREAMING EXAMPLE OF WHY THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT EFFICIENTLY RUN PROGRAMS. There is no incentive to do their job because there is no accountability. Is that as crazy and naive as it appears to me?

DAVID AXELROD HAS ORGANIZED HIS EDUCATORS TO MARKET THE HEALTHCARE PROGRAM

2009-08-10T17:58:00.000-07:00

From:
"David Axelrod, The White House"
Subject:
It's time for a reality check
Date:
Mon, August 10, 2009 6:04 am
To:
littleguyusa@factsforreality.net

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Dear Friend, Anyone that's watched the news in the past few days knows that health insurance reform is a hot topic — and that rumors and scare tactics have only increased as more people engage with the issue. Given a lot of the outrageous claims floating around, it’s time to make sure everyone knows the facts about the security and stability you get with health insurance reform. That’s why we’ve launched a new online resource — WhiteHouse.gov/RealityCheck — to help you separate fact from fiction and share the truth about health insurance reform. Here's a few of the reality check videos you can find on the site:
CEA Chair Christina Romer details how health insurance reform will impact small businesses.
Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes tackles a nasty rumor about euthanasia and clearly describes how reform helps families.
Matt Flavin, the White House's Director of Veterans and Wounded Warrior Policy, clears the air about Veteran's benefits.
Kavita Patel, M.D., a doctor serving in the White House's Office of Public Engagement, explains that health care rationing is happening right now and how reform gives control back to patients and doctors.
Bob Kocher, M.D., a doctor serving on the National Economic Council, debunks the myth that health insurance reform will be financed by cutting Medicare benefits. There's more information and a number of online tools you can use to spread the truth among your family, friends and other social networks. Take a look: We knew going into this effort that accomplishing comprehensive health insurance reform wasn't going to be easy. Achieving real change never is. The entrenched interests that benefit from the status quo always use their influence in Washington to try and keep things just as they are. But don't be misled. We know the status quo is unsustainable. If we do nothing, millions more Americans will be denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions, or see their coverage suddenly dropped if they become seriously ill. Out-of-pocket expenses will continue to soar, and more and more families and businesses will be forced to deal with health insurance costs they can’t afford. That's the reality. Americans deserve better. You deserve a health care system that works as well for you as it does for the status quo; one you can depend on — that won't deny you coverage when you need it most or charge you crippling out-of-pocket co-pays. Health insurance reform means guaranteeing the health care security and stability you deserve. President Barack Obama promised he'd bring change to Washington and fix our broken, unsustainable health insurance system. You can help deliver that change. Visit WhiteHouse.gov/RealityCheck, get the facts and spread the truth. The stakes are just too high to do nothing. Thank you, David David Axelrod Senior Advisor to the President
This email was sent to littleguyusa@factsforreality.net

Factcheck.org has an analysis of the validity of the claims about the healthcare reform

http://www.factcheck.org/politics/obamas_health_care_news_conference.html

A copy of one version of the bill is available for download

The 1017 page PDF is linked at frwebgate.access.gpo.gov

Stanford's Hoover has an essay questioning the image of the current system being promoted to sell the new program

http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

WE SHOULD INCLUDE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW APPROPRIATE OUR FOUNDING FATHER'S THINKING IS TO OUR COUNTRY IN THESE TIMES AS OUR VIEWS EFFECT ON THE USA

2009-08-09T20:10:00.000-07:00

Our decisions should include a review of our our forefather's thoughts including admonitions http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/federalist.html

Four charts follow which allow you to vary some things such as state or other variables depending upon the chart and see our country's parameters which a partial indicator of its fiscal health"

1. Historic Federal Deficit

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1903_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=G0-fed&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=US%20Government%20Spending%20As%20Percent%20Of%20GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s

2. Local Government Spending As Percent Of GDP

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1903_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=F0-local&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=US%20Government%20Spending%20As%20Percent%20Of%20GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s

3. State Spending As Percent Of GDP

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1903_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=F0-state&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=US%20Government%20Spending%20As%20Percent%20Of%20GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s

4. Federal Government Spending As Percent Of GDP

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/downchart_gs.php?year=1903_2010&view=1&expand=&units=p&fy=fy10&chart=F0-fed&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=US%20Government%20Spending%20As%20Percent%20Of%20GDP&state=US&color=c&local=s

If the essay, Ten reasons why America’s health care system is in better condition than you might suppose. By Scott W. Atlas.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/49525427.html

which discusses the following list of points:

1. Americans have better survival rates than Europeans for common cancers.

2. Americans have lower cancer mortality rates than Canadians.
3. Americans have better access to treatment for chronic diseases than patients in other developed countries.
4. Americans have better access to preventive cancer screening than Canadians.
5. Lower-income Americans are in better health than comparable Canadians.
6. Americans spend less time waiting for care than patients in Canada and the United Kingdom. 7. People in countries with more government control of health care are highly dissatisfied and believe reform is needed.
8. Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians.
9. Americans have better access to important new technologies such as medical imaging than do patients in Canada or Britain.
10. Americans are responsible for the vast majority of all health care innovations.
is accurate, a major revamp of the system would be unwise.

There are several less dramatic and potentially disruptive changes that can be implemented in an attempt to improve what we currently have in place.

1. Work with Massachusetts and/or Tennessee who have problems with a government healthcare program to experiment on smaller scale
2. Solve the problems with MediCare/MediCaid to establish a better system which can be scaled up once it is accomplished
3. Implement tort reform to help lower the errors & omissions exposure and unnecessary work to avoid exposure
4. Streamline paperwork requirements to maintain the compliance requirements, but reduce the percentage of a medical professional's time required for compliance instead of patient care
5. Protect medical professional's ability to be rewarded in return for their commitment of time and money to become a medical professional or give them incentives. A heavily regulated medical profession will discourage people from going into the medical profession and lower the ratio of professionals to patients.
6. Allow people to shop for health insurance nationally so that competition creates a better market for the consumer
7. Keep the government out of the competition so that the competative market is not skewed by an entity supported by tax dollars rather than performance.

One of the biggest mistakes which I have seen over the past years is our failure to look at fiscal policies of a state like California which has very good public employee benefits and whose policies are heavily influenced by unions. I concede that there are a lot of variables, but the high percentage of public spending is what the federal government is now increasing and that, along with government spending as a percentage of GDP are two critical indicators of the health of our nation. The nation is not identical to California, but some of the policies affecting those ratios seem like they would be modeled by California.

Tom McClintock warned California long before the current crisis about the impending problems, but no one wanted to do what was necessary at a cost to them. There is a serious issue with private enterprise and government in that they will sacrifice the long term good to look good in the short term and that can create devastating long term results.

http://mcclintock.house.gov/2009/06/tough-love-for-california.shtml

McClintock wrote on June 9, 2009, "Today, California faces a paradox: despite record levels of spending and borrowing, it can no longer produce a decent road system, educate its children, or lock up its prisoners. Those who blame the recession for California’s budget crisis profoundly misunderstand the nature of that crisis. Even before California’s revenue began to shrink, the state government was running a chronic $10 billion deficit and piling up unprecedented debt. The recession is merely the catalyst; the underlying cause is rampant mismanagement of the state’s resources. California spends $43,000 to house a prisoner while many states spend just half that. California spends over $11,000 per pupil, but only a fraction of that ever reaches the classroom. California has one of the most expensive welfare systems in the country and yet one of the worst records of moving people off welfare. "

I like “My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - Encourage private enterprise and competition without tainting the market with to much government interference and reward success. I cannot believe that collected tax revenue would increase dramatically and it would be from non-public burden jobs.

We would do well to move slowly after a clear definition of reality and analysis of the information rather than moving incredibly fast with a huge volume of unread changes to the way our system functions. I suspect the Trilateral Commission comprised of Politicians, Big Business men and Union Management know more about how some of the changes develop than they would like us to know. Our country is in the shape it is in because the attitude has been, "He may be a crook, but he is my crook." That feels good only until we experience what we currently have and we are sliding over the world economic cliff to a lower position on the ranking of economic powers. The parameters above are what determine the price we pay to borrow money in the international market and the effect of paying borrowing with additional borrowing is like paying credit cards with draws on other credit cards.

SANITY CHECK - WE HAVE A CHANCE TO REVIEW OUR BELIEFS

2009-07-31T07:27:00.000-07:00

To determine what is best for America, we need the real world facts. Are the claims about Americorp, ACORN and the other forms of what some people perceive as a group of soldiers to take power for their team from the American people and be paid by American taxpayers to do it - the high income taxpayers are kind of like a new form of slavery without paying the overhead of keeping the slaves - real or are those fears paranoia based on delusion? Will the real WIIer please come forward - the investigation would be a good way to shine a bright light on this and in keeping with the pre Orwellian Doublespeak definition of transparancy.

Byron York said that Jeff Sessions will be requesting an investigation in the termination of IG Gerald Walpin per Beltway Confidental - "The White House's decision to fire AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin came amid politically-charged tensions inside the Corporation for National and Community Service, the organization that runs AmeriCorps. Top executives at the Corporation, Walpin explained in an hour-long interview Saturday, were unhappy with his investigation into the misuse of AmeriCorps funds by Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, California and a prominent supporter of President Obama. Walpin's investigation also sparked conflict with the acting U.S. attorney in Sacramento amid fears that the probe for the corruption charges against"

http://digg.com/d3zDe1

I wrote the following paragraph to Jeff Sessions to thank him for his effort because I think that it is important to all of us. Those of us who truly care about our country should not fear the truth of what is really happening and if the wacko right is just fear mongering, there should be an apology for being so resistant to the truth and an effort to retract the promoted misinformation. If the left is the delusional one, they don't need to apologize - just join in the effort to correct our country's course. Those who protest an investigation which threatens their belief are being given a warning by that attitude that they are probably in error and choosing denial over reality.

I just heard Fridays with Byron and he said that you wanted an investigation into the Walpin firing. Thank you very much for helping us preserve the pre 1984 Doublespeak definition of transparancy. This would give us an opportunity to test whether we are paranoid or whether the administration is truly expanding the Chicago corruption nationally with Americorp, ACORN and its other forms. I believe that the WIIers as defined on my website at factsforreality.net are the biggest threat to America's survival and we must turn the lights high enough that even they will see what is real. The team mentality instead of our great country first is our enemy. I am an Independent who appreciates what you are doing. Thank you rossabh

I would like us to get behind America one issue at a time. None of us will live long enough to accomplish all, but the start is better than keeping us fighting with eachother instead of looking at the real issues. That is why I proposed the following on Barach Obama's FaceBook Wall

It is baffling to me why we allow congress to set their pay and we reward them with great salaries, benefits and retirement, not to mention the profits picked up due to their positions no matter how badly they perform. What this country needs is to index their pay, benefits and retirement to the country's performance and reset it each year. That would put everyone on the same team for the country's good over the long haul. If they like complicated tax plans, let them have it with a stepped tax inversely related to the country's performance on any assets which they acquire after taking office. Why does the government have an exemption from accountability?

The voters at large look more to the government as this unaccountable entity and that is true only if we let it be true.

The Federal Reserve audit demand is being opposed by government and I have not heard of any results from the FannieMae/FreddieMac fiasco regarding an investigation. Enron pales in comparison to the damage done by the FannieMae/FreddieMac with some congressman including Barach Obama receiving funds from them, but the effort by congress was big on the little problem as opposed to little on determining and disclosing the source of the problem on the big one.

On the lighter side -
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A major research institution (MRI) has recently announced the discovery of the heaviest chemical element yet known to science. The new element has been tentatively named Governmentium. Governmentium has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.
This characteristic of moron-promotion leads some scientists to speculate that governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as Critical Morass.
as discussed on http://www.dullmen.com/governmentium.htm

WHAT IS THE HEALTHCARE REFORM REALLY ABOUT?

2009-07-29T09:10:00.000-07:00

Is Obama insane or diabolical? “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. -- Albert Einstein and it is common knowledge that the medicare/medicaid programs are rife with fraud and mismanagement and will not be sustainable. It goes without saying that DOING MORE OF WHAT DOESN'T WORK DOESN'T WORK. What is Obama's real goal?

http://www.factcheck.org/politics/obamas_health_care_news_conference.html

The 1017 page PDF is linked at frwebgate.access.gpo.gov

My question is, after seeing Romney, a normally successful businessman help create a government insurance requirement in his state during his governorship and the problems created with that experiment as well as Tennessee's setup, why wouldn't we slow down and look for ways to improve a great system which is a performer for most people? We could look at tort reform, streamlining paperwork so that doctors can spend a higher percentage of time with patients, tune up medicare/medicaid to prove that the government is capable of providing a bigger system, modify regulations to increase competition, review ways to give individuals portability through incentives to employers to name just a few.

Growing the governmment may increase the lock on power for the current administration, but as Daniel Hannan MEP conservative chastized Gordon Brown PM for having created beuracracies to maintain power but not provide production, the result has become a bankrupt UK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs

or Farage an independent talking about what scares some of us about the Obama administration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDwQEEAZhWM&feature=related

Think about the actual makeup of the people without healthcare and ask yourself whether we should quickly without studying the implications create a major change to a system which satisfies a lot of our citizens.

HOW MUCH TIME DO WE HAVE LEFT TO LIVE IN PARADISE?

2009-07-23T09:20:00.000-07:00

There is a silent submarine shown in this YouTube video which I link below that is in San Diego on a lease and has defeated our military in exercises.

Should we put more money into National Defense which provides highly skilled jobs which feed universities, trade schools and help support communities as well as giving our country a readiness for response to adverse actions. Following is a link for a potential threat that we cannot oppose with the technology and strategies currently in use.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khaa3y0i87s

My feeling is that our priorities should be:

1. National Defense because nothing else matters if we cannot defend our country which is the stated target of several entities who would like to subjugate or destroy us. We are the prize trophy.

2. Economy because we cannot sustain any kind of program or develop anything unless we can pay for it. Our economy supports our national defense, education, social programs and anything else which betters us culturally or supports our standard of living

3. Education because we need people who can analyze and vote in a manner which sustains or improves our country.

4. Programs which provide or improve our standard of living and contribute to the rest of the world. We can not do good for others if we do not take care of ourselves.

The military spending has some benefits which go unrecognized in allocation of funds during budget challenges which will alway exist. Our military working with people in the countries where they are present to help those people better their lives is but a small portion of priority 1 and 4, but it is significant in making the world a better place for everyone except the bad guys.

I think that we can enhance our country's chances for survival if we do more to hold our government accountable. We obviously do not have the time to do that while we do what we need to to make a living and take care of our own responsibilities. I am going to start on a very sketchy rough draft of a suggestion to tie retired and current politician's pay and benefits to the country's performance. It upsets me that these people go out and do their self benefitting deals, enjoy their power and get paid regardless of how badly they damage our country and the little people get held accountable for their actions.

I wasn't paying attention at the time, but I checked on the Contract with America and it seems like another good direction for us to go. The government is growing at a rapid rate and maneuvering in a manner to keep free of restraints. We need to pay attention or we will pay a price for our apathy.

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

It is a start and a decision to kick back and let the politicians do what they have not done in the first place or we would not be in this mess is doing more of what doesn't work and that will not work.

This is for country, not for party.

The healthcare reform is a prime example. In my own experience I have known doctors who came to America from Canada because they were able to earn based on what they did. I know of a lady whose doctor father and nurse mother retired four years ahead of their schedule in the UK because they were so fed up with the UK medical system. Several doctors do not want to work on medicare because it is more trouble than it is worth to them and a good friend of mine who does is often at the office early and late so that he can take good care of his patients and then complete his paperwork requirements. Do we really believe that there will be a large number of people going through all of the time, work and commitment to become medical professionals if some beauracrat or government committee is going to be able to govern what they can do with their position?

I am a hippie capitalist who enjoys doing good things for good people at a good price, but I do believe in a restrained capitalist system.

“I work for nothing but my own profit—which I make by selling a product they need to men who are willing and able to buy it. . . . we deal as equals by mutual consent to mutual advantage and I am proud of every penny I have earned in this manner.” -- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

This does not seem like this is where we are taking our country. It feels more like Penalizing Success to Reward Failure and that does not develop winners which have taken our country where it has gone in the last 200 years. Let us challenge our people and take pride as we improve the country we have and give our following generations a better country than we inherited. I am very greatful for the incredible, but far from perfect country which my Canadian mother came across the border so that I would be born in the USA even though I had citizenship because my father was born in Long Beach, California.

The cartoon on the right is out of the '30s because there was a fear of the runaway spending by Roosevelt

DO WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS DIRECTION IS THE RESULT OF THOUGHTFUL ANALYSIS AND DECISIONS TO SOLVE OUR ECONOMIC PROBLEMS?

2009-07-17T18:05:00.000-07:00

I have a link to a petition at the end of this entry to limit government spending. The current direction in which America is headed economically has to be based on the analysis and conclusion that:

1. the government beauracracies can do a better job than private enterprise which will not survive if they do not provide goods or services for a competative cost which satisfy a customer's needs. Government beauracracies will survive as long as the government funds their budget requirements and the incentive for a beauracrat is to increase the budget which they manage. We see things like Home Depot with a greeter at the door and a more helpful attitude throughout the store when the economy went down because they want to stay in business. I feel that it is ludicrous for me to feel the need to point out that there is a differance between private enterprise employees and a company's survival, and public employees with an incentive to grow the beauracracy so that they have more power. This was evident in the Great Society days where a woman would have another baby so that she could receive increased welfare and the beauracrats enjoyed an expanding empire.

2. the government which said that doing nothing is not an option and hastily, without reading what they were passing, approved a stimulus bill which had to be passed immediately to keep unemployment under 8.0% understands what is going on and what needs to be done to correct our economic problems. They have spent approximately 10% of the Stimulus Package which was a fix for impending doom if it were not immediately passed and the unemployment averages 9.5% with a projection that it will increase.

3. the politicians who received money from and one who had a personal relationship with an executive with FannieMae/FreddieMac and who had reimplemented Mark to Market had nothing to do with the financial disaster we have and that they are competent to determine how to lead us out of this morass. Californians tried this and that doesn't mean that it will always create that result - do you have an exception where government spending has created prosperity?

4. public spending on projects and employees creates a stimulus effect of lasting consequence which justifies the expense. Would you think that the test should be job creation for jobs which:
a. are created very quickly
b. provide long term employment in a job which will create other jobs such as expanding for profit companies endeavors which increase collected income tax revenue. Entities such as states or companies which use stimulus money to correct budget woes may stay viable longer, but they do not create a larger, stable income source. This is like paying a credit card bill with a credit card.

5. we will not be in grave danger when countries holding our debt and increasing their customer base outside of the US such as China with a growing domestic and non-US customer base grows out of their dependance on us to buy their products. My question is, "Should we have financial stability and lower debt to protect our country in the event of an economic war?

6. growing government employment which depends on tax revenue without increasing the private sector, tax producing employment is sustainable. European countries are trying to decrease the public sector spending as a percentage of GDP.

Think about the above questions, read the petition and see if it seems like a better direction for our country.

PETITION TO CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT TO HALT OUT-OF-CONTROL SPENDING
To: Congress of the United States, President of the United States
Whereas, the Constitution of the United States clearly and specifically limits the scope and authority of the federal government under the enumerated powers clause;
Whereas, the encouragement of private and public debt by the federal government has brought America to the brink of financial devastation;
Whereas, history proves government spending has never succeeded in curing an economic downturn, but rather serves only to deepen and prolong it;
Whereas, government takeovers of banks and financial institutions move America ever further from the free-enterprise principles that have brought the nation prosperity for 233 years;
Whereas, bailouts of failing corporations represent a counterproductive response to what is, essentially, a government-induced crisis;
Whereas, the current level of irresponsible government spending will, by all accounts, either bankrupt this country or burden our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with never-ending debt;
Whereas, redistribution of wealth by government for the purpose of achieving "social justice" is immoral and a proven failure:
SIGN THE PETITION
We, the undersigned, assert our rights as citizens of the United States in demanding an end to all further "stimulus" spending, corporate bailouts, "earmarks," pork projects, welfare programs, higher tax rates and attempts to nationalize industries. We reject socialism, no matter how it is packaged. And we pledge to hold accountable any and all elected officials who continue to pursue this course that is rapidly leading America to ruin.

http://www.wnd.com/petition_spending

HAS THE ADMINISTRATION ADOPTED THE MICROSOFT STRATEGY

2009-07-14T07:30:00.000-07:00

They who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it according to Winston Churchill. Do we misunderstand what is really being done to America? Digital Research did very good work and wanted to do it right. A small startup just wanted to do it and fix the problems later. Do you remember DR Dos or Microsoft Windows? I resisted the [Do it as quick as you have to get it out and we'll fix the problems which our customers inherit later] company's system. I have slowly evolved and become a Windows software user. My question is - Does an administration with very smart people in it, regardless of ideology or economic philosophy, do what they are doing thinking that they are going to put America back on a strong capitalist footing with enhanced social programs or do they want to take us to an entirely different model all together. Even some of the WIIers are remembering the promotion of transparancy and time to review all legislation and the Bailout bill which had to be put through on a Friday night with hardcopy (where did that come from - might have been off a printer connected to a computer) and voted on over the weekend because the economy would fail and we would have over 8% unemployment if we didn't hurry. Very little of the money has been spent and it was not for immediate, long term jobs to stimulate private sector growth and we had 9.5% unemployment last report. That might be why they are talking about a third stimulus so that they can do a real one instead of a shopping list for the restrained spending on their pork projects which they had to endure for so many years. Then again, they might think that Americans are not smart enough to understand what is happening to their country and put the real stimulus off to number 4.

I no longer laugh at those whackos who talked about a new world order like I did in the old days. It is starting look like it is happening when you have Soros who profits from country's financial problems supporting CAP, the Democrat Combat Central and moveon.org. GE and Gore will gain major power and money with Cap and Trade. This program has been pushed with a major PR program for several administrations and, just like a frog in a pot brought to a slow boil, we have not jumped to defend our country as early as we needed to because we thought that American voters could look at history and know that these type of systems do not function.

The Health Care Reform is being pushed to go through without enough time to do a decent job and have the debates. Get it in place before the American voter wakes up because if we slow down, we will have questions that even a teleprompter fed by committees who analyze polling can't answer. Check out the comparison of existing public health care systems and ask yourself if this would be better or if we could look at tort reform to drive down the mal practice insurance and doctors having to CYA as well as other ways to improve our system rather than scrap and replace it. It is insulting for me to be told that we can keep a private provider which must make a profit and compete with a government provider which gets paid, like politicians, no matter how bad they screw up the system. Are they really people out there who think that that would work. If so check out the link at the end of this blog and disregard the partisan question because I believe that my terms, mooreon and WIIer apply across party lines.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage"

It seems that there are two appropriate questions to ask in looking at this administration's performance:

1. Why do they have the Destroyer out of Ayn Rand taking out people like Richie in the Sotomayor confirmation hearing, Sarah Palin after she was sent back to Alaska, Joe the Plumber, Ted Stevens with a bogus extended prosecution until after the election, Scooter Libbey when they failed to get Carl Rove, the two great personal story supreme court justices Estrada, a latino, and +++++ , a black judge?

2. Why do they redefine the meaning of words like transparancy - a danger sign about which we have been forewarned by a forefather - “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.” -- Samuel Adams

Then check out Wikipedia for Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.” on Wikipedia and the following link for the rules on how to implement the overthrow.

http://mediasplatters.net/2008/08/13/saul-alinsky-13-rules-for-radicals/

The following like is the You mean like a ?????? which I referenced above

hhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6syRRHTTicttp://

I need to go to work, but I have a little more left to do on the subject of bringing America to its economic knees and taking it socialist or somehere other than capitalist

Socialist couple on how to take capitalist country to ruin and replace it with socialism and

Cap & Trade Europe looks at us and has hope because our change will kill our competitiveness

LET OUR ACTIONS SPEAK FOR US - CAN WE SHARE THE TRUE SPIRIT OF AMERICA INSTEAD OF LIMITING OUR INTERACTION WITH THE WORLD TO APOLOGIES

2009-07-12T17:45:00.000-07:00

This is a little different from my normal rantings and wonderings. This blog entry is the result of my having the good fortune for one of my many great customers to call me to fix a problem they were having at their home. The conversation during the course of my work went to a need for solar energy in a school which this couple's non profit partners in in Ghana, Africa and then to their activities with two orphanages which they partner in in Mexicali, Mexico. The thing which struck me is that they are sharing a part of what made our country great one child at a time and hoping that those children help others and goodness spreads virally throughout the world. Working together so that each one could be self sufficient was a part of the strategy which helped create our country along with some less proud moments, I will grant you. My point is, let us determine our strong suit and play to it.By doing good as Americans in direct contact with the people who they help, they are showing another way of life to people who had no window into the possibilities which we have in our world. She told me about having to teach a little girl who was sold to an organ harvester, rescued by the grandmother with the police and put in one of the orphanages to lick an ice cream cone and to eat french fries. The children gain self sufficiency and education and hopefully learn to analyze and make decisions so that they grow into a better educated group taking their country to a better standard of living. One of the world's hopes in Iran is the young, educated, pro-western population who wants something different from what they have. Reaching the younger people in a country is a powerful way to change the course of that country in a peaceful manner. This couple's non-profit and may other groups are doing this without the inefficiency of our government using tax dollars, paying for administration, distributing goods and money which is partially taken through corruption and some of it reaching the people for whom it is meant. Speaking to the world about these kind of American endeavors as well as similar things done by others, including our military, would promote a better image of America than focusing world attention on negatives.They work with the children and find endeavors such as a taco stand, farming or something which they can teach them all aspects to provide for themselves with a productive endeavor. Providing a safe place, giving support and education to help the children become independent, self sufficient human beings, hopefully with the inclination to continue the mission gives a probability of an exponential increase in the army for good rather than taking care of children until they can go out and exist in their world. The difference from some of my preconceptions was that, while this is a religious endeavor, the religion is not pushed as much as the mission to create self sufficient human beings spreading the ability to create a loving, independent world. My father had sometimes ridiculed me for being a dreamer, but there is no downside which I see to this very economically efficient dream.I was curious how a Christian entity could function in a Muslim city in Ghana. He said that the education and self sufficiency is their main thrust. The Christian teachings and philosophy are gladly shared if there is a request, but not force fed as an integral part of the mission. Some of our good people in our country are doing good things is what we should be talking about to the world, not looking for the small percentage of things relative to the overall good which Americans do for a reason to apologize and focus the world attention on America's deficiencies both real and imaginary. It is not unlike drawing a line. You look at the end point and that guides you to where you need to go. We, too often, look at where we should not be rather than at where we would do well to be.

Their website is
http://yesweserve.com/index.html
and I put it out there because, while I have no knowledge of these endeavors, I would like to see if there is any good which I might contribute by my screaming about it to the universe. "Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."—Thomas Jefferson

I personally feel that there is something out there or in me and the rest of us which I do not understand, but I come from not knowing because I am not comfortable with the definitions of my past and I am reluctant to limit my concept of whatever it is. I treasure our Judeo-Christian principles which have guided our country because they offer us a good way to live with eachother and create a country to be envied. America was an experiment and our forefathers created something special which we risk losing if we do not carefully analyze our changes, proceed slowly and carefully, and test the effect of our changes.
I am not familiar with what I am sure is one of many of this type of program, but it seems to me that, without the inefficiency of government, we have a way to do good and create a safer, happier world while helping specific children in need of someone who cares.My next stage on my website was to be facts for comparison or analysis, but I would welcome suggestions for how we might do more to promote Americans doing good in the world to promote peace and happiness. I have been too involved with a heavy workload for which I am greatful to do the refinement and publishing of my facts section:
1. Global Warming - Climate Change
2. Health Care - the plans in place in other countries and the results
3.economic parameters such as National Debt to GDP by president & congressional percentages, public spending to total spending and other ways for us to have facts to get a better feel for how each philosophy of government has worked4. countries in the same area such as Mexico/USA, Israel/Palestine or however you want to define their neighbor relative to income per capita, educational level, tourist volume, GDP My hope is to compile and present data to make it obvious what country does what best and which parts should be strengthened and which should be discarded

I would like to thank those who offer any helpful ideas and apologize to all for my redundancy on some hot buttons.

LITMUS TEST FOR THIS ADMINISTRATIONS ATTITUDE TOWARD DEMOCRACY AND CAPITALISM

2009-07-10T07:02:00.001-07:00

Honduras give us an excellent insite into this administrations thinking. Check out "The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet' We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:"

http://rabble.ca/news/2009/04/declaration-cuman%C3%A1-capitalism-threatens-life-planet

We have a democratic country protecting itself from lifetime dictators with a constitutional term limit of one and a requirement for congressional approval of a referendum. Chavez, with a low tolerance for disent in Venezuela, printed and shipped the ballots for Zelaya to have an illegal referendum. Zelaya fired the head of the military when he would not implement the referendum. Mona Charen wrote, "There was an attempted coup in Honduras, but it was Zelaya who initiated it, not his opponents." This is not like watching sports teams compete and feeling sad when your team doesn't win. This affects our security and the future of our country which we will bequeath our grandchildren. This is why I have started:

HOW DO YOU LIKE THE COUNTRY WE LEFT FOR YOU? Family Letters

on my website. We owe an explanation to those who follow if this administration takes our country where I fear it will. I have the caveat on my webpage
PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF YOUR COUNTRY. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND JUDGE THOSE WHO CREATED WHAT YOU INHERITED. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS AND CHANGE WHAT DIDN'T WORK SO THAT YOU GIVE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AN EVEN BETTER COUNTRY THAN YOU INHERITED. PROTECT THEM FROM HARM. THAT IS YOUR OBLIGATION WHICH I HOPE YOU MEET. I FEAR THAT WE WILL NOT MEET THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU. I TRULY HOPE THAT YOU WILL SEE ME AS A PARANOID OLD FOOL AND ENJOY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH MY GENERATION INHERITED WHICH ALLOWED US TO LIVE IN WHAT I PERCEIVED AS LALALAND. JUNE 30, 2009
where I propose two ABSOLUTELY GENERAL-NON PARTISAN DEFINITIONS OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL HELP DESTROY THIS COUNTRY
They are the uninformed, apathetic voters who choose a limited source of information. We would do best for our country if we could be informed of what really is happening and rationally define the issues. We do not have to agree, but we must choose the end result for our country and align to fanatically pursue achieving that goal. There are too many people in politics looking out for their self interest as evidenced by the February stimulus bill which satisfied a lot of non-immediate desires of politicians, but did not provide private sector quick, long term employment opportunities. I feel insulted that the politicians who rushed it through without the promised review time or reading the bill and even put it in written form rather than searchable electronic form believe that I cannot see what is happening. Regardless of your party affiliation or political beliefs, we have channels which program us if we do not look for information outside of them. Ziglar took the Republican point of view and did a poll which he documented in Media Malpractice. He challenged his critics to the same poll by the same polster of Republicans and offered to pay for it if the results were the same, but not if they showed better informed voters. This is a nebulous area with a lot of variables, but the underlying problem it displays is what is creating the nation which we have - guided by people with interests other than the best thing for our country. How do we have a majority of the people become better informed and guiding the country for the long term good instead of putting it on the road that California traveled to get where it is?

America quickly, as opposed to our Iranian disident lack of support, went beside those who would spread the anti-capitalist dictator control throughout the south of us. The Honduran constitution is a result of that country not wanting what they have seen in history. Americans are watching our country with a subtle imitation of the Zelaya evolve into a different country. Several of my liberal relations discount the danger which ACORN and Americore present, but I was a real estate investor during the early days and the tactics are the implementation of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals and Cloward Piven Strategy to replace capitalism with socialism. This should be obvious with the bombardment of social reforms being rushed when possible through before the political agenda becomes so obvious that they lose the political power to implement it.
http://romanticpoet.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/obamas-coup-to-destroy-capitalism-and-force-socialism-by-using-the-cloward-piven-strategy/
We are maintaining our dependence on foreign oil by denying drilling and nuclear power expansion at a rate which would minimize the window for our enemies to bring us to our knees as China replaces our consumers with their own people and can then use the power of our debt which they hold to financially cripple us. I am not an economist, but this seems like a very likely possibility.
The Imprimis adaption of Sarah Palin's August speech on a cruise ship gave us a heads up and the plan for protecting our country and stimulating our economy. We could still allow Alaska to do that for our country and Palin is no longer going to be in power. Her suggestion should be considered.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sarah+palin+imprimis&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8

MAYBE NOT THE TOTAL REASON CHINA IS RISING AND US IS FALLING , BUT CAPITALISM HAS BEEN WITH THE RISING ONE IN EACH CASE

2009-07-09T22:41:00.000-07:00

The administration is getting to experiment with their theories and taking us into Marxism according to Pravda and the dollar is about to be replaced as an international currency because the rest of the world can see what CHANGE is doing TO America. Let's HOPE there is enough left to save in 2010. Two very different countries, but it is interesting that the system which propelled the US to economic supremacy is now contributing to the same result of "Communist" China.

US firms featured in Forbes rankings fell to lowest level ever and Chinese firms rose
http://digg.com/politics/US_slips_China_soars_in_Fortune_company_rankings

AUSTRALIAN VIEW THAT CHINA MAY SAVE CAPITALISM "A cartoon on the front page of Australia's national newspaper Thursday neatly illustrates an irony admitted by the government: communist China could save capitalism."
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=0810090816 ...

China bypassed US car market this year. As China has a larger domestic consumer base, they will become less dependent on the US consumers for their products and be in a good position to use our debt to their advantage which could be devastating if we are not prepared.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-passes-US

THANK YOU FOR THE REFERENCE ON HEALTHCARE FROM THE COMMENTOR

2009-07-09T09:20:00.000-07:00

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IS IT BETTER TO DO LESS AND DO IT BETTER THAN TO MAKE GOOD TIME DOWN THE WRONG ROAD

2009-07-09T08:44:00.000-07:00

There is a "for the good of the country" non partisan legislative reform which would require 72 hours for review of proposed legislation. This is a test of our legislators perception of how good that they work for the good of our country. Subject to hearing a rational objection, this is the acid test of who each legislator truly works for instead of what their PR department tells us.

The TARP and the Stimulus were hurried through without a lot of thought because it had to be done or we would have financial disaster with unemployment reaching as high as 8%. It was hurried through and Yahoo Finance reports, " China surpassed the United States as the world's biggest auto market for the first half of 2009 after June sales soared 36.5 percent from a year earlier, according to data reported Thursday".

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/China-passes-US-auto-market-apf-682077388.html?x=0&.v=5

The federal reserve audit is being opposed and the administration is pushing to give the secret organization more control.

The IG reporting corruption with Americore - ACORN is fired without a reason until afterwards which is contrary to an Obama signed 30 day notice requirement.

An EPA senior researcher issuing a report showing the global warning movement as detrimental to our economy.

We need more transparancy and an incentive aside from the voting every 2-4-6 years.

Let's tie the salary, benefits including health and retirement, and have regulations relative to assets acquired after becoming a legislator tied to some indices. This is very complex and I am just putting my idea out right now, but I would like us to do something to congress which they have been doing to us forever. Bonuses for good performance and penalties for poor performance.

LET'S GET SOME CONTROL OVER CONGRESS AND PAY THEM FOR WHAT THEY DO INSTEAD OF REWARD THEM IN SPITE OF THE DAMAGE WHICH THEY HAVE DONE TO OUR COUNTRY.

If this affected retirees as well, this would build in a group of knowlegeable monitors who would have a dog in the fight to look out for America.

WE NEED TO DO OUR JOB BETTER OR WE DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT WHERE OUR COUNTRY GOES

2009-07-07T09:46:00.000-07:00

I do want transparency - there is too much going on that doesn't pass the smell test when an IG turning up corruption in Americore is let go and huge amounts of money on rushed without review bills isn't spent and the effect is worse than they threatened us with if they didn't pass it immediately on a Friday night using hardcopy to defeat scrutiny. The American voter needs to take responsiblity to study and stay aware of what our government is doing because WE ARE THE ONLY REMAINING PART OF THE CHECK AND BALANCE SYSTEM WHICH WE CAN TRUST TO DO THE JOB TO PRESERVE OUR COUNTRY and ITS ECONOMY!!!!

Ross joined the cause:
Support S. 604: Federal Reserve Sunshine Act of 2009 3,090 members

WILL THE REAL CAPITALIST TAKE THE LEAD FROM THE UNITED STATES?

2009-07-07T07:51:00.000-07:00

Who flushed the toilet on our US Dollar? PRAVDA comments that Obama has taken the US Marxist at an incredible rate - US unemployment is beyond projections with more to come. Maybe the Australian newspaper was right, China is the best hope for capitalism and if that is true, this American is greatful that China is smart enough to know and capitalize on a great economic system. Thank you very much for showing the world the SMART WAY to go.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/business/global--markets/2009/07/06/215122/U.S.-dollar.htm#Comments

The great news is that we are no longer yelling at eachother about which system works the best. The Democrat train to socialism or Marxism will allow them to prove whether their system works or not. We need to look at results and analyze our world including what country's like China are doing or what Daniel Hannan MEP is warning the US about as the UK and some European countries are dealing with the problems resulting from having already travelled this road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Pa30Sp_sw

The team mentality is only permitted until you run out of time to deny and reality slaps you in the head. The California study gave us a heads up, but some people are slow learners.

OR

Do some people have another agenda like money and power?

PAY ATTENTION OR ALL OF US WILL LOSE OUR FREEDOM AND OPPORTUNITY

SHOULD WE BE A LITTLE MORE CAREFUL WITH OUR HEALTHCARE - LIKE STUDYING THE REAL WORLD ISSUES AND READING THE BILL THAT IS WRITTEN BEFORE THE VOTE?????

2009-07-06T09:02:00.000-07:00

I understand that even the mooreons are starting to wonder how our country will survive all of this spending as we watch India join several other countries in questioning the value of the dollar as the world reserve currency.

Beijing, which has floated the idea of an alternative to the dollar as world reserve currency, wants the matter -- sensitive in financial markets wary of risks to U.S. asset values -- broached at a July 8-10 summit in Italy, officials say.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Dollar-discomfort-thrust-rb-1788837588.html?x=0&.v=2

Our current administration has PRAVDA commenting on the surprisingly rapid descent of America into Marxism and surprised that we didn't learn from the failed Russian attempt at Marxism and an Australian newspaper commenting on China may save capitalism.

I think that I remember some people voicing their concern about the US image abroad. I suggest a Christmas gift for them if you need a suggestion - a window for their naval so that they can see where they are going and maybe a book like The 5000 Year Leap, The Forgotten Man or Atlas Shrugged. It is time for them to forget their pride and look at what is good for America.

I DO NOT WANT ANYONE SAYING WE TOLD YOU SO REGARDLESS OF HOW VEHEMENT THEIR, "JUST LISTEN TO HIM." COMMENTS WERE. WE NEED TO WELCOME THE ENLIGHTENED ONES AND BRING THEM QUICKLY BESIDE US TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY.

I am still HOPING we can restore America after this CHANGE.

The real source of America's problem is that CAP which is backed by Soros who profits from our problems has very capable methods like Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals for taking over the country, but they either have an agena detrimental to the country or they are the Amateur Hour for running the country. The IG being fired for shedding light on ACORN-AMERICORE corruption and the EPA man was moved out of his position when his report discredited the Global Warming people who are planning to make a fortune.

Something does not smell right here. I look at the bottom up, representing the regular people administration with the richest people and most money people in their pocket. Am I a little paranoid or does a regular guy like me have a valid question? Look at the results which we are reaping from this administration and ask yourself, "Is this the best that they can do for our country?"

IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO CHOOSE WHO TO LAY OFF IF YOU ARE A BUSINESSMAN FORCED TO DOWNSIZE

2009-07-05T14:43:00.000-07:00

During the election, business people were realizing that an Obama administration would be a job killer for private enterprise and someone came up with the fairest way to reward employees for their ability to think about who would do the best job for the employers who provide jobs for employees.

How To Choose Obama-Caused Employee Layoffs 10-30-8

Dear Fellow Business Owners
As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama, will be our next President, and that my Taxes and Fees, will go up in a BIG way.
To compensate for these increases, I figure, that the customer, will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about, 8%. I will also have to lay off six of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family,here and didn't know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did. I strolled thru the parking lot and found, eight Obama bumper stickers on my employees cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off.
I can't think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know. I am sending this letter to all business owners that I know.
CBM

Maybe we could start a new endeavor producing bumper stickers with
- DON'T BLAME ME -
I DIDN'T VOTE FOR THAT ONE
on them.

WE OWE THOSE WHO INHERIT THIS COUNTRY AN EXPLANATION

2009-06-29T08:45:00.000-07:00

I am in the process with my website at

http://factsforreality.net/index.html

of putting together two sources of information for them to look back, analyze and decide how they want to proceed with the country which they inherit from us. One section is letters and articles which are my observations and I point out that I may be incorrect in my interpretation of reality.
TO MY GRANDCHILDREN FOR AFTER THEY INHERIT A COUNTRY WHICH IS IN ACONDITION RESULTING FROM TWO DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES WHO BATTLED EACHOTHER
PLEASE READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN AND LOOK AT THE CONDITION OF YOUR COUNTRY.YOU WILL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND JUDGE THOSE WHO CREATED WHAT YOUINHERITED. PLAY TO THE STRENGTHS AND CHANGE WHAT DIDN'T WORK SO THAT YOUGIVE YOUR GRANDCHILDREN AN EVEN BETTER COUNTRY THAN YOU INHERITED. PROTECT THEM FROM HARM. THAT IS YOUR OBLIGATION WHICH I HOPE YOU MEET. IFEAR THAT WE WILL NOT MEET THAT OBLIGATION TO YOU. I TRULY HOPE THAT YOUWILL SEE ME AS A PARANOID OLD FOOL AND ENJOY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH MYGENERATION INHERITED WHICH ALLOWED US TO LIVE IN WHAT I PERCEIVED AS LALALAND. JUNE 30, 2009
Header for my children:
MY POLITICAL ANALYSIS LETTERS TO MY CHILDREN

and a statement as to my intent to have a fact, including expert opinion analysis where appropriate, but no comments and opinions. Facts or expert analysis may be submitted for addition to the appropriate section.
THIS WEBSITE IS IN DEVELOPEMNT AND WILL BE SPLIT INTO TWO DISTINCT PORTIONS.ONE WILL BE FACTS ONLY WITH ANALYSIS LIMITED TO EXPERTS ON A PARTICULARSUBJECT. CATEGORIES WILL BE SEVERAL, INCLUDING: 1. ECONOMIC WITHINFORMATION TO MAKE IT EASY TO TRACK PARAMETERS AND COMPARE PERFORMANCE TOHISTORY OR OTHER WAY TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON. 2. IMMIGRATIONWITH A REAL LOOK AT THE EFFECT FROM GOOD/HONEST/HARDWORKING ILLEGALIMMIGRANTS TO THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF ILLEGAL CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS WHICHHELP CALIFORNIA GO BROKE. THERE WILL BE NO OPINIONS - ONLY ACTUAL,SUBSTANTIATABLE FACTS SO THAT WE HAVE A PLACE TO KNOW THE TRUTH AND MAKEUP OUR OWN MINDS.THE OTHER WILL BE MY LETTERS AND ARTICLES

This is a mission in process and rather than let historians analyze and report what happened, I want to put together a running account of the evolution of our country so that the next generations may judge us.
history is our teacher, the present is our test and the future our judge. Rossabh

H.R. 450 - SHOULD CONGRESS CARE ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION

2009-06-28T13:19:00.000-07:00

In my attempt to not be a mooreonic WIIer, I wrote my representative, Dana Roherbacher, who was my choice during the last election and asked him why he was not a cosponsor of H.R. 450. On the surface, it looks like a great idea, especially in light of our current situation, but I wanted to have his viewpoint prior to getting excited about it.

A facebook site supports the bill and has links to read it and to support it

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=70402606543

H.R. 450 Enumerated Powers Act

http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h450/text

Because there is a campaign to incite the Politicall Correct Gullible Crusaders with morphed meanings of words and out of context information or outright lies and because we were warned by one of America's founders, Samuel Adams, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”, I propose the following definitions to describe our nation's most dangerous enemy.

Definitions which have no relationship to party, belief system - only describing an intellectual deficiency and an unwillingness to challenge what they want to believe respectively:

MOOREON refers to an intellectual (thought and reason ability - not intelligence) deficiency and has nothing to do with ideology and beliefs. It rather has to do with an inability to determine whether something is true or false. Mooreon, a definition proposed on factsforreality.net, refers to a person who can see information challenging their beliefs, but does not have the intellectual capacity to process it and challenge that which supports the position that they choose even if their position is based on an illusion rather than what is real.

WIIer is a WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUAL
Those who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A WIIer has the intellectual (thought and reason - not intelligence) ability, but is consciously unwilling to look at information which may challenge their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources. This definition applies to all humans who fit the three sheeple category described below. The three sheeple:
hear no other point of view
see no other point of view
discuss no other point of view

I would suggest to anyone upset with the two definitions that you take some time for introspection because, in my opinion, you are dangerous to yourself , others and our country.

MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN RIGHT CANDIDATE, BUT MESSAGE AT END OF VIDEO CLIP IS RIGHT

2009-06-27T11:01:00.000-07:00

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS AND THEIR ADMINISTRATION'S IMPACT ON MUSLIM COUNTRIES

I realize that it is easier to sit on the sidelines after the game has been played, but this is our history and I wish that we could learn from it rather than play to support our team, regardless of how wrong that they are in a given situation. America is a very unique country and, in some cases, we are no longer providing the example to the world. Rather than play to our strong suit, we are heading into a transnational country which discards what made us great so that we can be more like the countries who used to admire what we had achieved regardless of whether they liked us or not.

Jimmy Carter undermined Iranians and Muslims lost freedom to Khomeni. Now, in 2009, they are being attacked for wanting more freedom and looking to theUS for support. It is complex, and once you have stood by and watched a country fall into the hands of a tyrannical regime, there is no easy way back. The decisions made during the Carter administration are being paid for with the blood and tears of the current generation. Maybe we should apologize for this genuine abandonment of the Iranian people.
To make matters worse, Carter supports HAMAS as a victim, ignoring the fact that they create a wasteland in the same area that Israel creates an envied oasis of thought and prosperity. Each gets what they go after and Carter is either still very naive or he has a motive which is not obvious to me. Might have something to do with thePalestinian phonebanks supporting the Obama campaign.

Ronald Reagan retreated from Lebanon

George Bush freed Kuwait after Iraqi invaision
allowed the Shiite to have the impression that the US would back them and, when they rose up, stood by while they were slaughtered. Another genuine apology moment and a missed opportunity.

Bill Clinton Bosnia defending the Muslims from genocide
Created a change of regime policy for Iraq

George W. Bush freed people of Afghanistan and Iraq and stood firm on his mission to help give them the opportunity to provide themselves with a democratic government in the face of incredible odds because he was attacked by Al Qaeda using Iraq as a recruiting ground for new Jihadists and the American government shouting that the people would not be able to create and democracy or vote, the American army was broken and all kinds of political antics. It was a good thing that he was not a poll driven politician or American would have proved Osama bin Laden's observation that Americans do not have the will to fight as correct.
Libya gave up WMDs and the Lockerbye hijackers during the Bush administration, but that is not something that plays well and I doubt the WIIers even know it.

Barack Obama Let us HOPE for CHANGE

The written message at the end of the video linked below after the soldier's testimonial about what Americans should not apologize for is still right on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4fe9GlWS8&feature=PlayList&p=ADC062ED71349337&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=23

DR THOMAS SEWELL ASSIGNS 90% OF HOUSING CRISIS TO BIPARTISAN ACTION

2009-06-23T08:06:00.000-07:00

Thomas Sewell points out that the Canadian banks are in good shape because:

1. They are restricted on borrowing

2. They are not pushed to lend to unqualified borrower as the United States has mandated

Why would our country want to disregard the Canadian model for banking which works, but emulate the Canadian model for healthcare which has had Canadian doctors emigrating to the US for years? Does it take a genius to think that someone who goes through the challenge of becoming a doctor wants to be told how to run their business by the government and spend an inordinate amount of their time reporting to the government? Why do you think that some doctors do not accept medicare?

Our government disregards the fact that not as many people will want to work hard and dedicate a fair portion of their life to become a doctor under government health care, but the number of people on the system will increase. How that can give as good of a healthcare system as we now have is baffling. Are our legislators who come up with these ideas on hallucinigenics???

If the legislators truly cared about healthcare costs, we would see them looking at mal practice lawsuits by their bretheran which drives up the insurance costs for all doctors. Not doing anything to make this area more fair, adversely affects everyone, but allows the parasites (this does not refer to legitimate lawsuits by ethical attorneys) to increase the cost and availability for a large number of people.
http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=132916482208&h=1Y4SS&u=-LrQi

WHY ARE WE IN THIS FINANCIAL DISASTER - SHOULD WE READ AYN RAND???

2009-06-21T14:09:00.000-07:00

1. Two very different points of view relative to Ayn Rand and a Phil Donahue interview with Ayn Rand during the Carter administration
2. Tom McClintock who had warned California for years offers some ideas
3. How much of our problems are our legislators creating???

Stephan Colbert had one point of view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-tIY99QFFk&NR=1

Atlas Shrugged and the Tea Party Revolts had a different point of view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tNheAEHprI

Phil Donahue interviewing Ayn Rand during the Carter administration and discussing her views including President Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzGFytGBDN8

Ayn Rand said, "Morality is the judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price."

I believe that pure capitalism doesn't work because the greedy human capitalist will enslave the workers. Unions were formed by humans for good purpose and they quickly became drunk on power and greed. We need a mix which keeps the union/politician alliance from putting borrowed money which our country does not have into companies, bankrupting the company, shoving aside secured creditors and sharing the spoils with their union joint venture partner who funded and backed their elections and then competing with a successful private company who has to survive against the playmoney backed government companies. The voters need to extract their craniums from their anuses and look at what is happening and insure that free enterprise will produce products and provide services. We cannot take care of others if we do not take care of ourselves. LaLaLand will be destroyed if we start to believe that the government which does not create wealth because it is OVERHEAD EXPENSE can provide employment for everyone.
Tom McClintock warned us several years ago that this would happen in California and now we are teetering on bankruptcy and furlowing public employees. He wrote about tough love for California which includes, "Today, California faces a paradox: despite record levels of spending and borrowing, it can no longer produce a decent road system, educate its children, or lock up its prisoners. Those who blame the recession for California’s budget crisis profoundly misunderstand the nature of that crisis. Even before California’s revenue began to shrink, the state government was running a chronic $10 billion deficit and piling up unprecedented debt. The recession is merely the catalyst; the underlying cause is rampant mismanagement of the state’s resources. California spends $43,000 to house a prisoner while many states spend just half that. California spends over $11,000 per pupil, but only a fraction of that ever reaches the classroom. California has one of the most expensive welfare systems in the country and yet one of the worst records of moving people off welfare. "

http://mcclintock.house.gov/2009/06/tough-love-for-california.shtml

DENIAL WORKS ONLY UNTIL YOU RUN OUT OF TIME TO DENY AND REALITY CRASHES DOWN UPON YOU.

This is nothing new. Margaret Thatcher pointed out that socialism works until you run out of other people's money and that might be why China is expanding with zero capital gains tax and going to short term US debt and they broke into laughter when Tim Geightner spoke to a group of Chinese about America being in good shape.

Ayn Rand also said, "Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking." as well as, "I am, therefore I'll think."

DOING MORE OF WHAT DOESN'T WORK DOESN''T WORK. NON OF US ARE SURE OF WHAT IS, BUT IN MY THINKING, OUR CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS BUILDING A POWERFUL STRUCTURE INSTEAD OF REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE OF OUR COUNTRY.

Just one example is Thirty Billion Dollars to Chrysler to "keep it from going bankrupt" which is approximately $7,000,000.00 per employee if they have 40,000 employees. Would there seem to be a better way or was this a plan which had a different purpose? I acknowledge the ripple effect and cities in need of employment, but this would more than bail out the entire state of Califonia. Maybe we should get some people capable of good business decisions instead of the best politicians money can buy. That is why no major investigation of FannieMae/FreddieMac is going on - it would end up shining light on Barney Frank, Maxine Waters and that group being irate a few years ago when John McCain was pushing a bill for more regulation. The WIIers don't look at the real world and try to get our country back on track. They would rather be spoon fed what they feel good believing. Reality is harsh. The politicians are like a person passing gas and pointing to Wallstreet. They will crucify Enron or Bernie Madoff and then ignore the country's financial problems until a major crash which makes Enron look like pocket change and helps bring the world economy into crisis. The WIIers continue to sing "All is well in LaLaLand" kind of like Ceasar fiddling around until reality crashed in upon him.

My term WIIer = Willfully Ignorant Intellectuals refers to the good, intelligent people whom I respect, but do not understand. I am reading articles from foreign papers and looking at sites which challenge my beliefs, but a lot of the liberals I discuss the Fannie/Mae-FreddieMac debacle and ACORN turn off and don't want to hear what might challenge their desired belief. Dennis Prager in an interview with Justice Thomas pointed out that conservatives think that liberals are good people who are misguided and liberals think that conservatives are bad people. This would explain how a lot of the media presentations are targeted at each group of recipients. The more emotional a persons response (including mine in several cases), the more the person should test their views. It could be that the premise is faulty and not the other side's logic that upsets us.

DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMON SENSE - I DECIDED TO CHECK IT OUT AND SEE IF I COULD LEARN SOMETHING OR CHANGE THE WAY IN WHCIH I VIEW SOMETHING

2009-06-20T16:21:00.000-07:00

Glenn,
I just joined Books A Million because of you. I wanted to do something toward showing that not all Americans are WIIers = Willfully Ignorant Intellectuals who want to only plug their brain into the programming channel at the exclusion of other sources so that they can know what they believe without working to determine what is happening in the real world. I purchased two Common Sense paperbacks to give out and a Common Sense CD for me because I have eye issues which make it a little bit challenging to read. I wanted the government to see that this book is selling very well and the sleeping voters are awakening.
It will be little consolation for me to be able to tell the LaLaLanders, "We warned you that it was happening, but you wouldn't get out of denial." after the fact. Just as Margaret Thatcher pointed out that Socialism works well until you run out of other peoples money, denial works well until you run out of the ability to deny and reality strikes.
Thank you very much for giving us the information and a channel to wake up the United States before Ayan Rand's DESTROYER succeeds.
Ross Howell
“It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.” -- Samuel Adams

MR FORBES SPEAKS TO "WE NO LONGER A JUDEO CHRISTIAN COUNTRY"

2009-06-19T07:39:00.000-07:00

Congressman Forbes asks the questions "Did America ever consider itself a Judeo-Christian nation?" and "If America was once a Judeo-Christian, when did it change?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o

SPIRITUAL HERITAGE RESOLUTION TO HELP REAFFIRM THAT GREAT HISTORY OF FAITH THAT WE HAVE IN THIS NATION

IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER I AM A RELIGIOUS PERSON OR NOT, BUT RATHER WHETHER I SUBSCRIBE TO THE GOOD PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION UPON WHICH OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS . IF I REMAIN APATHETIC AS THE GOVERNMENT TAKES THESE RIGHTS FROM US AND OUR SOCIETY CEASES TO VALUE THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AMERICA WILL SINK INTO MEDIOCRITY AND THE HEIRS TO THIS NATION WILL LOSE THE OPPORTUNITIES GIVEN US BY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH WE INHERITED - ROSSABH

DO WE HAVE A SPONTANEOUS CREATION OF MONEY SOURCE

2009-06-17T21:33:00.000-07:00

I took a metal shop class in the 8th grade which was the beginning of my love affair with the electrical/electronics world. Being young and not yet knowledgeable of the losses in a system, I came home one day and told my father of a brilliant idea which I had, knowing that I had. I would put a generator on a boat with a paddle wheel driving the generator to power the electrical motor propelling the boat. My bubble burst when my father, who was far from technically bright, pointed out that there would be losses which would keep the system from working. The government has some losses built into it at best. It is far more effective to control and distribute the money locally than to send it to Washington DC and have the federal government send what they feel like sending back out of what is left for expenses and payoffs. Apathy and denial work like Margaret Thatcher's description of socialism as a good system until you run out of other people's money. They only work until you run out of the ability to avoid reality.

I look at the government which we have chosen in California and New York, two great economies verses Louisiana under their new governor. The system in California (Tom McClintock warned us for years about pending doom - not enough people cared and paid attention) and New York strikes me as analogous to my perpetual motion transportation idea. A bright, good friend of mine told me, in response to my pointing out the California economy as a demonstration of an incredible opportunity put in the toilet by its government, that California is in trouble because property values have gone down and there is not enough income to support the programs. My several attempts to point out that Intel is moving its plants out of state as have several other businesses including a lot of the movie production were diverted to other topics.

I have finally realized why I have so many intelligent liberal relationships who look at the world differently than I do and I do realize that one of us is right and the other is wrong. I do not hold myself out as the expert - only the inquisitive one who wants to test my ideas of what is happening It seems to me that America's future is threatened by the WIIers

WILLFULLY IGNORANT INTELLECTUALS

Those who will keep to a narrow information channel which feeds them information, accurate and complete or not, to substantiate their desired point of view. A lot of us are going to online versions of foreign newspapers to find out what is happening in our country as well as other online sources.

MY VERY SINCERE QUESTIONS WHICH I WOULD LIKE A LOGICAL NONEMOTIONAL, PREFERRABLY WITH A REFERENCE TO WHERE THIS IDEOLOGY HAS WORKED ANSWER TO IS:

1. Do you sincerely believe that you can do things which make you feel good at other people’s expense without destroying the system?

2. What is the optimum government control and spending for the good of the people of our country and then the world after we have taken care of us so that we may continue to exist to do good? Why would we trail the European Union trend of government spending decreasing from 48% to 47% of GDP over the last 10 years? Ours has increased from 34% to 40% over the same period. I understand the benefits to the people, but wonder if it is sustainable. The entire world is currently testing the individual country systems as well as the economic alliances as well as the world system. I am a hippy capitalist and I have hurt my ability to do good by being unrealistic in my past endeavors. My question comes after learning that lesson, not from what I hope is true, but from what is true.

The “Stimulus Bill?” which had to be put through on a Friday night without time to read it and transferred from electronic to hardcopy for distribution making it inefficient to search for key phrases took away:
1. Tax write offs for charitable contributions which have been a big source of private citizens taking care of each other. There is a study which shows that liberals give less money charitably than conservatives and that is possibly because they want to have the government do it by taking from the higher income earners, charge for administering the programs by a government bureaucracy and distribute to the needy rather than the competing charities with the corrupt ones being discarded by the people who donate.
2. Small business incentives which will hinder the major producer of private sector jobs
3. the school program in Washington DC which allowed some poor kids to go to better schools. This was a savings as well as competition for the public school teachers. Supporting the teacher’s union instead of giving a choice between competing private schools and the public schools allows a “lack of excellence culture” to indoctrinate our children in mediocrity. The low income people are the most adversely affected by the denial of a voucher program for them to choose who can best educate their children. The campaign contributors gain at the children’s expense just as the automotive unions gain at the worker’s expense when it is economically impractical to build the cars which the government mandates through their requirements.

Do we really want a Civilian Defense Corps? I listened to Obama’s speech to the troops and felt good until I heard his sentence about creating a civilian defense corps which will relieve the burden off of the military. I saw a YouTube clip of his speech regarding the equally well armed and trained civilian defense corps. There was another YouTube production which flashed back and forth between Obama’s speech and another very persuasive salesman’s speech as his corp marched by.

I am glad that the new government is so ambitious and confident because we have seen the campaigner go from criticizing Bush on his $500,000,000,000 budget deficit to taking us into another era. Bush made the Democrats look conservative, but Obama has proved that they are still better than Republicans. They have remained the representative of the downtrodden while beginning the let no expense be spared party era. They have brought in the Beverly Hills decorator which they chastised the CEO of a wall street firm from using to do the Whitehouse. Their vetting process has once again proved that they are superior to the Republicans who ineptly without proper vetting chose Sarah Palin in their choice of Geightener for Secretary of the Treasury and head of the IRS in spite of the fact that he failed to pay his income tax, Daschle for Secretary of Health and Human Services in spite of the fact that his wife is lobby level and he failed to pay his income tax, Bill Richardson for Secretary of Commerce in spite of the fact that he is under indictment and a few others. Joe the Plumber got more press for a $1,000.00 tax not paid problem than the smart enough to run our government people who probably evaded taxes. Obama states, “Not because I believe in government. I don’t” as he takes our nation further into debt with a program which increases the size and cost of government. He tells us that these are timely, targeted and temporary programs as he increases the budgets of government bureacracies. We all laugh at the absurdity of a
temporary government program, but does it hit us in the head with a 2x4 that this is a dangerous direction without a stimulus effect?

The above reminds me of the difference between rape and making love. Salesmanship. While I told one of my daughters that I would cease to use this explanation of how people get sold on things, I cannot resist how loudly it screams at me for an explanation of what I see. People who were so committed and told me that, “You must listen to him.” will resist seeing what is happening, but like the frogs in a pot brought too quickly to a boil, I hope that they realize what is being done to our country in time to change the course and defeat our new Crusade Of Liberal Demogogary war enemy of our American system which penalizes the productive and rewards failure.

Charitable giving
Ayan Rand
Rules for Radicals
Civilian defense corp

HOW DO WE GET ANY CONCEPT OF THE AMOUNT OF MONEY WE ARE SPENDING?

2009-06-16T20:26:00.000-07:00

This will be a dynamic post - I amlooking for updates

I have put the numbers in a more easy to, but still mind boggling, get a grasp on the magnitude of the financial numbers we hear. It is appropriate to look at percentages of GDP and other relationships to objectively analyze these numbers, but the magnitude is also very important.
The graph to the right is from z-facts at

http://zfacts.com/p/318.html

We get the government we deserve and those of us who want to keep the America we think is best for the people must earn a better government by helping to educate the rest of the voters who are [vote for my team] people instead of [vote for my country] people. I am a techinical, not a financial person and I want to put together a way to analyze what is real so that we can all help eachother do better by our country. It scares me to see the Russian newspaper commenting on the incredibly quick descent of the US into Marxism in spite of what the Russians learned when they had it.

A BILLION DOLLARS is $1,000,000,000,000.00 which is ONE MILLION, MILLION DOLLARS and assuming a 300 million population of men, women and children = 300,000,000 it would represent

$3,333.33 per man, woman and child in the US population.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Stimulus Package) passed in February of 2009 was for $789 billion dollars which is

$2,623,333.33 per man, woman and child in the United States.

and this does not include the previous, 2008 bailout nor any post inaugeration programs.

The $7 billion dollars in the first part of the Chrysler bailout for 40,000 employees is

$175,000,000.00 per employee

There is a ripple affect which feeds other people, but this is a large enough number that it should be obvious that to give this kind of money to a company and then put it into bankruptcy so that the union and the government can take it over screams so loud about the smoke and mirrors game that even a high single digit IQ shold be able to see some potential issues in the judgement.

The TARP = Troubled Asset Relief Program - Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was for $500 billion dollars and the distribution and explanation of the program at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARP is

$1,666,666.67 per man, woman and child

I would like to remind the mooreons who accused the Republican opposition to the first, defeated, TARP proposal as a tantrum against Pelosi that it appears that there were conservatives who believed this kind of move to be detrimental to the purpose of stabilization in the long run. That is why it was defeated in spite of the fact that Bush with the Democrat majority did not need those Republicans. It might feel good to live in LaLaLand, but Reality is headed our way. Pelosi and her crew knew that they didn't want the credit for that bad of a move.

Our national debt verses GDP for the last 5 years which shows performance prior to Nancy Pelosi proclaiming, "Now that we control congress, watch what we can do.", after the Peolosi Proclamation and post George W. Bush to date.

I STILL NEED TO GET THESE NUMBERS

We have the WIIs making decisions on who runs our country based on emotions instead of logic and reason. WII = willfully ignorant intellectuals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:USDebt.png#filelinks

IS HOLLYWOOD CREATING OUR REALITY?

2009-06-16T08:13:00.000-07:00

The US AAA rating in the financial world is threatened because of how we are dealing with our bailout and we pretend that people like Robert Prechter do not exist while the government continues on the road which some people see as creating a worse situation. Reuters warns that this credit rating downgrade is coming

http://www.reuters.com/article/InvestmentOutlook09/idUSTRE55E6BM20090615

Does government acquisition of banks and private car companies which are in competition with privately held and run banks and car companies enhance or diminsish our chances of improving the national economy and productivity? What is the effect of government competition with private enterprise where one of them has to perform and borrow funds in a marketplace which judges them on performance verses another run by people who are predominately politicians with no real business experience and ability as evidenced by their performance and who have access to what they appear to perceive as an infinite source of funds. They want us to get behind political parties and fight eachother over whose team is right so that we do not see the real problem. While we are scrapping with eachother, the power grabbers are taking over.

If there was a true desire to provide healthcare reform, we would see lawyer politicians looking into limiting their brethern's employment opportunity acts by looking at lawsuits for medical malpractice which hinder doctors practicing medicine because a certain class of the politicians bretheren are sitting in the trees looking for easy pickings.

The same would be true of the legal extortion in development cases where lawsuits are filed blocking developments and the developer can settle in a manner which is legal extortion. This hinders employment and development for the benefit of the vulture class of the politician's bretheren.

Look at their actions rather than listen to their lullabys. A prime example is Obama breaking the 30 day notice requirement in a bill which he sponsored as a senator to get rid of an inspector general who was going to expose some things which would be detrimental to the transparent illusion fed to the Moorons regarding Americore. An organization with a good purpose can go very bad with the wrong people. We have seen that in some great American charitable organizations in the past.

The big bailout bill was the same story. We were told that we would have transparancy and 48 hours to review legislation. I, along with several legislators must have blinked for a long time. I guess that that is no big thing because the rest of them didn't bother to read most of it anyway.

PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS AS MUCH AS YOU PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT IS SAID BECAUSE THE REST OF THE WORLD IS AND WE ARE MAKING THEM NERVOUS

Breitbart reported on June 17, 2009, "Leaders of the so-called BRIC nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- had on Monday called for a "more diversified" currency system. "The BRIC leaders are divided between supporting the US dollar -- as it is the only choice for now -- and advancing the march for an alternative," said Phil McHugh, who heads the corporate foreign exchange desk at currenciesdirect.com."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.5df48ce0851221bad106b502bb21bc48.741&show_article=1

CAN THE GOVERNMENT OUTPERFORM PRIVATE ENTERPRISE

2009-06-15T20:51:00.000-07:00

The government gave General Motors and Chrysler billions of dollars from the taxpayers and then structured a bankruptcy with the government and the union picking up the majority of the tax money infused companies with Obama talking against the three pension fund secured investors to push them into a larger discount. There were three large junior, tarp recipient institutional investors who took discounts, but there is a question as to how the tarp money interaction might play.

The remaining American car manufacturer, Ford, did not receive taxpayer funds and will be competing with General Motors and Chrysler whose major shareholders are the government and the UAW which was a major backer of Obama's presidential campaign.

Is the above competition going to jeopardize American automotive manufacturers and clear the way for the foreign manufacturers with manufacturing in right to work states with lower overhead to take over a larger market share in America.

The school teachers have a similar situation. There was a charter school with very good results in a Washington DC whose grant was eliminated. Why is there such opposition to competition from private schools using the voucher system? The best education per dollar woulld make it very obvious which system is most effective and both systems could continue if they performed similarly. Am I wrong in concluding that the teacher's unions support the politicians who prevent private competition to maintain their members positions and maximize the benefits at the cost of what competition from the private sector would do to benefit the students?

If we were to implement government health care reform, what would it accomplish? I have met several Canadian doctors who moved here from Canada to practice. In July of 2008, I spoke with an English lady whose doctor father and nurse mother in Britain retired four years early to get away from the British medical system. How many of our young people will think that the work and sacrifice to become a doctor is worth paying to be at risk of being limited or controlled by the government? Do we think that good private insurance programs which must make a profit will survive competition with a government run program that can survive without breaking even?

I would have to see something well beyond my imagination to not think that the DESTROYER described in Atlas Shrugged by Ayan Rand is not running our country if they keep putting taxpayer funded/government controlled endeavors in competition with private enterprise. Even a mooreon should be able to see this.

I would be eternally greatful if someone could show me where this has worked before. There is an article in PRAVDA in a previous blog stating, " the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed" in spite of the history of their people who found that it does not work. This is not to have a better functioning, more secure country - it is for power and money.

THE POLITICALLY CORRECT GULLIBLE CRUSADERS MANIPULATED BY THE ALINSKY STATEGY WILL DESTROY AMERICA

2009-06-13T19:09:00.000-07:00

I am referencing input from five people - 1998, 1920s/1930s, 1787, WWII, 1800s - which describe America's direction today

1998--

Lori Borgman wrote an obituary for Common Sense titled The Death of Common Sense© Lori Borgman Sunday, March 15, 1998 because of the politically correct people destroying America

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~armiller/commonsen.htm

1920s/1930s--

“There is a destroyer loose in the country who is cutting down the buttresses one after another to let the structure collapse upon our heads. Some ruthless creature moved by some inconceivable purpose.” Ayan Rand – Atlas Shrugged written in the 1920s or 1930s describing the progressives using the weapon of morality to sap the producers

1787--

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years."

"During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. From bondage to spiritual faith; 2. From spiritual faith to great courage; 3. From courage to liberty; 4. From liberty to abundance; 5. From abundance to complacency; 6. From complacency to apathy; 7. From apathy to dependence; 8. From dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hamline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Gore: 19; Bush: 29
Square miles of land won by: Gore: 580,000; Bush: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Gore: 127 million; Bush: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Gore: 13.2; Bush: 2.1

IHAVE NOT CONFIRMED THE FOLLOWING -- Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Bush won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country.

Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

WORLD WAR II POEM

There is a new importance for a poem describing the perils of apathy and calls to us to be vigilante for an analagous progression

In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me — and by that time no one was left to speak up.

1800s --

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.” -- John Adams US diplomat & politician (1735 - 1826)

The John Adams quote preceeding this paragraph screams at me that

IT MATTERS NOT WHETHER I AM A RELIGIOUS PERSON OR NOT, BUT RATHER WHETHER I SUBSCRIBE TO THE GOOD PRINCIPLES OF RELIGION UPON WHICH OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AS WELL AS THE RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS . IF I REMAIN APATHETIC AS THE GOVERNMENT TAKES THESE RIGHTS FROM US AND OUR SOCIETY CEASES TO VALUE THE PRINCIPLES UPON WHICH OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED AMERICA WILL SINK INTO MEDIOCRITY AND THE HEIRS TO THIS NATION WILL LOSE THE OPPORTUNITIES GIVEN US BY THE GREAT COUNTRY WHICH WE INHERITED - ROSSABH

INTELLECTUAL ATTITUDE, NOT INTELLECTUAL LIMITATION

2009-06-12T21:17:00.000-07:00

Politicaly Correct Gullible Crusaders are the weapon of the DESTROYER

MORON refers to intellectual ability defined in Wikipedia as "Moron" was coined in 1910 by psychologist Henry H. Goddard [3] from the Greek word moros, which meant "dull" (as opposed to "sharp"), and used to describe a person with a mental age located between 8 and 12 on the Binet scale.[4] It was once applied to people with an IQ of 51-70....."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology)

Look at one of the largest economies in the world, California, which had the dot com and real estate booms plus the ports and Hollywood. The mooreonic majority elected a majority of fiscally incompetent legislators who have grown the government and ignored the cost of denying the cost of illegal immigration to the point of putting the state on the brink of bankruptcy. On the other hand, the Alaska economy whose mixed political party, Palin run government gave money back to the taxpayers which was not from taxes instead of figuring out a bearacracy on which to spend it. She also proposed a plan which would, without tax increases, stimulate the economy, create energy independance and enhance security in her August 2, 2008 speech printed in Imprimis at

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09

John Zieglar documented the sheeple effect in Media Malpractice, How Obama Was Elected and Palin Was Targeted

http://howobamagotelected.com/

Maybe Michael Moore's comment in Europe about the American public is stupid was right

MY LOGIC WITH REGARDS TO RELEASING ADDITIONAL PRISONER ABUSE PHOTOS

2009-06-11T06:36:00.000-07:00

I agree that al-Qaida which we supported in Afghanistan and the Wahabi Sharia law is the ultimate in control. Evil alliances have been in all country's history with it often ending up a bite me in the butt later in the relationship. The thing which baffles me is:

1. Guantanamo is held up as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida and I don't know of any pictures from there which show abuse

2. There has been instances of pictures and Koran in the toilet being used to show the evil west and probably used for recruitment if the above statement about Guantanamo is true

3. Therefore, releasing more pictures would help al-Qaida recruit which would enhance their ability to prolong or increase the effectiveness of their war against people who like music, free speech and other affronts to Sharia law. Mark Steyn, awhile ago, was interviewed by a Berkely history professor and a Berkely international studies person. A very logical interaction. I was very pleasantly surprised at the very interesting interaction at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K375rwCgTSs

which points out the demographic shift and the fact that al-Qaida can win without a military victory through the demographic change occuring in the world.

4. For us to diminish the power of recruitment using the pictures, one would need to make assumptions:

a. al-Qaida wants peace, not Sharia law imposed on the world - check bin-Ladens Fatwa in the 90s

b. a group which slices off people's heads, runs drills into a human's head actually wants to let everyone live happily in spite of different beliefs and life styles

That makes as much sense to me as thinking that the Palestinians want peace when their history is that they are committed to the eradication of Israel. They effectively smuggle in weapons and rockets, but not food, medical supplies, educational materials. We can tell what a man is committed to by his actions if we look at them. The best weapon terrorism has against us is our desire to be good people who are seen as good people. The biggest detriment we do to ourselves is act like we know what we are doing and act in a manner which is inconsistent with, "You cannot take care of anyone else if you don't take care of yourself." financally and militarily both here and abroad.

WHY WOULD THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ASSIST AL-QAIDA RECRUITMENT

2009-06-10T21:27:00.000-07:00

The House under Nancy Pelosi has stripped the ban on prisoner abuse release photos. Please express yourself to your representative either way. This does have an effect on our military and al-Qaida's campaign. I wrote the following:

Ms Pelosi,
If I were to believe that Guantanamo is a recruiting tool for al-Qaida, what would your deletion of the Lieberman/Graham ban of the release of abuse photos tell me about your goals for al-Qaida.. It seems that these photos would be incredibly valuable to al-Qaida who are very effective propagandists. A lie about the Koran flushed down a toilet and people die. The release of these photos is aid to terrorists.
Where am I wrong in concluding that you are legistlating in a manner that assists al-Qaida recruitment so that they can maintain their terror campaign?

LET SARAH PALIN STIMULATE THE ECONOMY

2009-06-08T15:32:00.000-07:00

Check out Sarah Palin's 09/2008
September 2008
Sarah PalinGovernor of Alaska
Alaska’s Promise for the Nation

http://www.hillsdale.edu/news/imprimis/archive/issue.asp?year=2008&month=09

in Imprimis. It dealt with America's independence and security during the campaign time. She lays out a proposal which would make America much safer and put downward pressure on gas prices through competition, not to mention the authentic stimulus effect which generates rather than consumes income taxes. The time delay which is used as an excuse would have been over by now if our politicians had wanted to accomplish it for us. This aurgument has been used forever.

I am not the only one who is trying to express my frustration about the oblivious ones manipulated by a very basic, effective strategy.

http://draftpalin2012.blogspot.com/2009/04/palin-beware-obama-alinskys-rules.html

This is why John Ziglar did the polling/documentary on the ignorance of the Obama voters and challenged his critics to pay for the same poll of McCain/Palin voters, saying that he would pay for it if the results showed that the Republican voters were equally ignorant. It is funny for people who really know about the political world which we live in, but serious because it points out the validity of - "The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD

http://howobamagotelected.com/index.asp

The Alinsky Strategy was used against her, but I would think that properly presented, the tactics which were used could be used to expose and ridicule those who want power more than they want what is good for our country. I doubt that there were any Israeli flags hanging in ACORN's offices or the Chicago community organizing centers like there was in Governor Palin's office. She would have done better by Israel.

I would hope that the unorthodox Obama approach to mid-east peace which is based on hope and ignores the history of countries to predict their future actions is not the US being suckered into sacrificing Israel and finding out that we have lost a major ally through incompetent foreign policy decisions. "Nothing ventured, nothing gained." is OK if the stakes are not too great. I just hope that there is a backup plan if the current policies go south.

THERE IS SOME HOPE FOR EUROPE AND THE UK

2009-06-08T09:32:00.001-07:00

There are a lot of Americans who are sorry that we do not have Daniel Hannan MEP in America. California, one of the largest economies in the world if it were a separate country, is ready to go broke and at least one of our cities, Vallejo, has filed bankruptcy. It was very easy to manage the city when there was money to give very liberal retirement benefits and let the people suck their drug of choice from the public teat, but, as I believe Margaret Thatcher said, “Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money.”

The lemmings in America wanted to follow the European model until it gave them a clear picture of the future. Now, as with other people’s money, they want to continue on that path until they run out of their ability to remain in denial.

The Democrat Party is like a magician who creates an illusion using principals set forth in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. They are the party of Destruction and were described in Ayan Rand’s book, Atlas Shrugged , “There is a destroyer loose in the country who is cutting down the buttresses one after another to let the structure collapse upon our heads. Some ruthless creature moved by some inconceivable purpose.” Rand was a Russian Immigrant to the US in the ‘20s and her book describes our business/political world today. It should be used to educate people in how the world works. I would be open to other books of an opposing view used concurrently so that we develop a thinking rather than a lemming/dependent society. The course could be taught by reading the books and analyze our country and the world relative to how we see the story in the real world.

The Party of Destruction is so sure of itself that they ridicule Republicans for saying that Colin Powell does not belong in the Republican Party. Laura Ingram wrote several years ago that he was not good for the Republican Party – this is not new. He dealt a serious blow to the election of John McCain when he strategically endorsed Obama for president. Normally, a person doing that would feel embarrassed to bold facedly say that he was still a member of the party he helped defeat, but the magicians can create enough lemming pressure to make it look like a problem if the Republicans do not allow him to remain. Absurd, but true so far. The one good thing which was not sufficiently pointed out was that the lemming chant, "Bush lied, people died." was denied by Powell in that endorsement interview. It is hard to hold the propagandists accountable.

THEY WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT IT

2009-06-08T07:50:00.000-07:00

European elections are going the other way. Daniel Hannan on YouTube is shown several times admonishing our country to not follow in the UK footsteps and end up like them. The Vallejo city bankruptcy and California's financial problems point to our lack of attention to reality.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/06/08/european_election_2009_labour_is_finished

WHO IS APOLOGIZING NOW?

2009-06-07T22:25:00.000-07:00

I saw this cartoon in the Press Telegram, but it has IBD (Investors Business Daily), which is one of the best newspapers available for productive people on the cartoon.
How hard would it be to give speeches which point out the great accomplishments by Americans to benefit the world. The 5000 Year Leap points out that America has contributed more during its existance to the world than had been accompished in 5000 years.

America has helped to keep the world free including more Muslims than all of the Muslim countries combined. Clinton's US commitment in Bosnia was defending Muslims from Christians. We don't discriminate when it comes to people who need help. I resent the blood and treasure which our people have paid being discounted by someone who wants to play the Great Saviour. I can see that he could benefit our country by playing to his Muslimness, but not by looking weak to a culture that is intolerant of the weak. I hope that what seems obvious to me is not true - that the counties committed to the destruction of Israel will play our country to their benefit.

As a kid, I knew who Audey Murphy, the actual WWII hero who portrayed himself in To Hell and Back was and I was greatful for my country and the soldiers who served it. I wonder how many people know who Curtis Luttrel, the lone survivor of Operation Redwing, or the 19 men who lost their lives trying to rescue the four man seal team were. The four man team let a couple of Afghanis go instead of taking them out to insure their safety and 150 Taliban came afer the team. How many people know about the good deeds and help that our soldiers do for the people in the countries where they are. That is a part of our strategy which doesn't work for the Michael Moore, moveon.org and Code Pink portrayals of our country's fight against TERRORISTS. There are instead grandstanding congress people and moveon.org's, ad "General Betray Us" looking good to the mooreons while they tried to belittle the man who turned the defeat which they had claimed into a victory in Iraq.

“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” -- Samuel Adams

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Who are we and where do we want to take this country?

IS CHANGE MAKING AMERICA UNTRUSTWORTHY

2009-06-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

We have had two major places where change scares me:
1. Business law circumvented through intimidation
2. Dishonored agreements between nations to favor nations with a history of and commitment to violence.

1. Senior Chrysler bondholders were villified by Obama and their representatives were prevented from keeping their identity secret except to the bankruptcy court. This exposed them to intimidation incited by the president's villification. The bond investors are little people as shown in the Associated Press article

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g3iCudvEHr_SFxASOkt7S4vyuzqwD98KPOE03
"On Friday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal from a trio of Indiana state pension and construction funds trying to block Chrysler's deal to sell most of its assets to Italy's Fiat Group SpA. The court, however, kept the deal on hold until Monday to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court.

The Indiana State Police Pension Fund, the Indiana Teacher's Retirement Fund and the state's Major Moves Construction Fund claim the deal unfairly favors the interests of the company's unsecured stakeholders ahead of those of secured debtholders such as themselves."

Effectively changing the priority under the business law retroactively and using intimidation to the detriment of investors creates a third world environment for people who were responsible and made a decision to provide for their future. This cut them out of their position and they were forced into a larger loss than they would have without the "at the President's pleasure" manipulations. The three large unsecured institutional investors are TARP recipients and who knows what their actual outcome is when their relationship with the politicians and their receipt is taken into account. The UAW will receive major payback under the changes.

2. Israel had letters of understanding exchanged with the United States in 2004 and subsequently endorsed by a resolution by congress that a long term understanding that any final peace agreement would allow Israel to retain some of the close in settlements in exchange for land from within the Israeli border.

Can investors judge their risk and invest to provide for their future without fear of the game being changed to favor another group of junior investors or ????
Can America be trusted? Saul Alinsky said that the end justifys the means and this implementation of those ideas is why some of us thought that Sarah Palin would have been better in diplomacy than Obama .

Changing the priority of the bond investors and ignoring an understanding on the OSLO agreement per Krauthamer raises the question. Is the new American mantra,

"Penalize success to reward failure."

Israel has a successful economy with opportunities for the people. They have a good tourist trade. Hamas ruins Gaza and keeps it in chaos. Why would we give aid without conditions?

The parable of the talons
There is a reason for the Road to 911 and Sandy Berger don’t want us to see the falacy

DOES OBAMA REALLY WANT PEACE WITH MUSLIMS?

2009-06-05T07:24:00.000-07:00

We know what a person or country is commited to by its actions and the Muslim extremists in the Palestinian situation don’t seem to work as hard at peace as the Israelis. What is the tourist count, educational level and opportunities, GDP of each side? The political situation in Gaza involves the TORTURE and execution of Abbas FATAH members. Is Obama favoring the Palestinian’s who had phonebanks supporting him during the campaign over the Israelis who provide opportunities to peaceful Muslims as well as all others in Israel? It is bad enough to experiment with US car companies and banks using ideas that have previously failed, but Israel's existance as an example of what can be done in spite of the fact that they don't have huge amounts of oil should be protected and emulated, not put on the executioner's block as part of an experiment in a previously unsolved problem.

If we truly wanted to improve the life of the Muslim people, we would not support HEZBOLLAH and HAMAS over their Israeli neighbor if we were committed to improving the little people's lot. The problem with liberals is that they put everything together so that they can justify their actions. A prime example of this is the California illegal immigration issue. I have been told that illegal immigration is no more serious than a traffic ticket. I work beside illegal aliens on occaision and on more than one occaision I would trade 10 lazy, whining American white boys (not all American white boys fit this description, but we do have some in this country) for one hard working illegal immigrant with a great work ethic and be absolutely sure that I had the best side of the deal. This group is slandered by the fact that California is going broke with a prison population which includes about 33% illegal immigrant criminals and there are illegal immigrants using the public money to the detriment of the host. Our state would not be in the mess it is in with public entities claiming that they are not properly funded if we paid attention to our laws and pared the parasites off of the host. This is far from the only problem, but it would be a very large step in the right direction.

I am listening to Atlas Shrugged and there is a dissertation by Francisco in the last portion of chapter 2 on the true meaning, value and utility of money and the fact that a society's demise is registered by the looters taking it from the productive people. At the end of the dissertation he is challenged by a LaLaLander who he admonishes that, "I had no idea." will not be an excuse after the destruction of the society. We cannot take care of others if we do not properly take care of ourselves and ignoring the Communist Party tables, the frozen liquid in bottles thrown at people, inciting riots and the violent rushing of speakers on immigration talks has prolonged our descent into the morass which we are in now. We need to take each segment of an issue, define it, develop a plan and work the plan, not so we feel better, but so we do better. We need society, not our team to win. The parties will not exist if the country does not survive.

A good friend of mine told me that Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line. I suggest that we develop a viable plan and fall in line so that we can exist to stay in love rather than kill our great country as we stay in denial.

Remember what the Democrats preach, "Dissent is the highest form of patriotism."

Also pay attention to, "The opinion of 10000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 121-180 AD and do more than listen to the sources which reinforce your desired opinion. Doing more of what doesn't work, doesn't work.

Do we, as Americans, want to support the torture and killing of Palestinians by HAMAS and defend them against the Israelis? Check out a Palestinian singer talking about the people America supports:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWPL5V5G528

and then ask yourself how proud we should feel in light of how we talk about values and morals.

Also take a look at the following Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals after our forefather's quotes and judge what you hear in light of its validity and purpose. If you are being manipulated, do you have the wisdom to look at it?

“A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government in a republic. What species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?” George Washington
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” -- Samuel Adams
“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” -- Samuel Adams
The previous three quotes are amazingly appropriate for our current condition after the 2006 presidential election which was heavily influenced by the 1960s creations of people like William Ayers in education and Saul Alinski. Following are Saul Alinski’s rules from Rules for Radicals in creating change. He believed that th end justified the means and his rules were used by the liberal groups such as ACORN.
RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)
RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)
RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)
RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)
RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)
RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)
RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)
RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)
RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)
RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)
RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

Do we have any of this strategy implemented in our current world? Does it maintain our freedom or take it away?

2009-05-31T11:35:00.000-07:00

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES SHOW THAT THE NEW ADMINISTRATION IS DEFINITELY CHANGING THE WORLD VIEW OF AMERICA -- MISSION ACCOMPLISHED?

RUSSIAN VIEW VIA PRAVDA OBSERVES THAT AMERICAN CAPITALISM IS GONE WITH A WHIMPER

The article starts with the following observation:
"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people."

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/107459-0/

SOUTH AMERICAN VIEW PER THE DECLARATION OF CUMANA article starts with

"The Declaration of Cumaná: Capitalism 'threatens life on the planet' We, the Heads of State and Government of Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela, member countries of ALBA, consider that the Draft Declaration of the 5th Summit of the Americas is insufficient and unacceptable for the following reasons:"

http://rabble.ca/news/2009/04/declaration-cuman%C3%A1-capitalism-threatens-life-planet

AUSTRALIAN VIEW THAT CHINA MAY SAVE CAPITALISM "A cartoon on the front page of Australia's national newspaper Thursday neatly illustrates an irony admitted by the government: communist China could save capitalism."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081009081613.i24wpu2h&show_article=1

Saima Shah is a graduate of IBA, Karachi, Pakistan and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada who wrote Hail Obama on November 12, 2008 from her perspective of America as well as OLD CAPITALISM IS DEAD, LONG LIVE NEW CAPITALISM in CHOWK

http://www.chowk.com/articles/14987

http://www.chowk.com/articles/10240

These are just a few of the views of America from the outside

The Alternate Universe - Should we apologize to the British?

2009-05-30T22:06:00.000-07:00

I posted the following BLOG in the Telegraph in Britain after reading a British writer's response to Robert Gibbs berating the English press in the following article in the Telegraph

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/nile_gardiner/blog/2009/05/29/robert_gibbs_should_apologise_to_the_british_press_for_his_sneering_rant?com_num=20&com_pg=5

regarding the leaders of France and the US celebrating the D Day anniversary without inviting the Queen of England.

http://my.telegraph.co.uk/rossabh

A lot of Americans are appalled by our president's attitude toward our British bretheran. While we started out contentiously, we have been side by side through incredible tests of our relationship and, until now, maintained a strong bond in our mission to maintain as safe a world as we could.
I would hope that the Queen hears from the little people of America who love and respect her and the country which she represents. Please do not take the current administration which a lot of us fear will ruin our country as the totallity of American attitude toward our British allies.
Winston Churchill is often quoted as saying that they that do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and there is a lot of evidence that the power grabbing administration is tracking old and previously failed ground. A Russian immigrant to America in the 20s, Ayan Rand, wrote Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead which could have easily been written during our times. It is fiction, but very accurately describes the LaLaLander mentality of the Do Gooders who feel and talk like they are important while they hinder the Doers who create the good in the world.
Daniel Hannan MEP has been able to put in words what a lot of our people feared when Obama was campaigning. We are now seeing it happen. The delusional concept that a power grabbing government will more effectively run an enterprise than a make a profit or die private company challenges human nature programming. The fittest survive weeds out the weak and if our auto companies have been unrealistic in their negotiations between the workers and managment, the previous quality issues and management's poor decision making, they must adjust or go out of business. Their problems were exacerbated by the government's imposition of regulations without consideration of the NON PR consequences.
The government has villified the secured creditors which represent people's investments and pension plans in order to intimidate them into accepting a huge discount. This is contrary to our business law giving priority to lenders so that a lender may judge their risk and make investments under more predictable conditions which encourages investment in business by professional investors and the little people. This intimidation replaces our original system with a "let's pretend that we are not a third world country where your investments are in jeopardy at the whim of the administration." system which tells investors you better HOPE that your original investment analysis is not CHANGED by the administration needing to pay back the unions that helped buy his power.
The unions are not the only ones to benefit from the chaos which has occured. George Soros who supports CAP, the Democrat couterpart to the conservative Heritage Foundation

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&refer=&sid=aF7fB1PF0NPg

and has said that he has had a very good crisis, has made billions of dollars because he foresaw the downturn

patdollard.com/2009/03/soros-im-having-a...

It would raise the question, "Why wouldn't our governments warn us of the impending crisis and try to avoid or diminish its severity if people like Soros could confidently bet on it and be right. America had a Democratic majority with the house run by the infamous Pelosi who said, when she became the Speaker of the House, "Now that we Democrats control congress, watch what we can do." Congress creates the budgets and the president proposes and approves them. It was a totally bipartisan effort to put America in the position which we are in.
We are also hearing Double Speak as described in George Orwell's 1984 where the meaning of words is different than what they now mean. Orwell was a little early in the 1984 bit. The current administration studied books like Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinski and listened to their hero terrorist, William Ayers who was acuitted on a technicality and said Guilty as Hell, free as a bird, ain't America great? The American LaLaLanders dwell in an alternate universe telling those of us who dwell in the real world, "Just listen to him." Our problem is that we not only listen to Obama, but we analyze and check what he tells us against what he does. It is terrifying. Obamanomics penalizes success and rewards failure as evidenced by banks and automobile manufactures.

On a humorous note, which we need during these times, please check

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhhkF3dqXR0&feature=player_embedded

for an in depth analysis which accurately describes our perception of the current administration's policies.
Thanking you British citizens in advance for your understanding.