Message To President OBama

I would tell you President OBama, “Do not back down on the bullying being done by the Right-wing Conservatives.” The fact that the Catholic Church has declared war against you publicly, only indicates just how desperate the Conservatives have gotten this week. Catholics usually keep that information close to their vests, unless they are feeling desperate. Women and children of incest and rape are depending on you not to back down.

Women, gays and minorities, as well as, the working poor and middle class are behind you and backing you. The low turn outs in all of the States in both of their caucuses and primaries all show that. Mitt Romney only won 8% of the total vote in Florida while winning 16,900 votes out of a population of 2,900,000 in Nevada. The lower than normal turn out also happened in Iowa.

Rick Santorum’s sweep also is equally weak even in highly Catholic Districts. Out of a population in Mo. of 6,010,688 in a pretend race he did his best in a highly Evangelical State. There he won 138,957 votes out of a population of 6,010,688.

In a military State and heavily populated Catholic State he only won 26,372 votes in Colorado out of a population of 5,024,748. Going to war without using Diplomacy first and the Ryan Plan are both very unpopular in the State.

In an older population of Protestant descent, as Minnesota is, he only won 21,436 votes out of a population of 5,344,868. These are like all the other turn outs in all the other States where turnout is less than 2008 results, when the Republicans lost badly to the Democrats.

Clearly the voters understand and know that Rick Santorum has not yet shown his millions gained from office and lobbying in his tax forms. The fact that he voted twice for increased gifts from lobbyists and piled on ear marks has taken from the clean image and lack of character, the Evangelicals would like to hide. Being a lobbyist himself, at a time when the top ten Corporations pay more for lobbyists than they do in taxes, will follow him on the campaign trail no differently from what Mitt’s millions will him. Rick Santorum has to talk about social issues because economically his record is a disaster, until it comes to his own gains.

He voted against discrimination towards gays as being a hate crime and is against women’s rights to their own reproductive health. So his Social issues are not much better outside of the world of the “Good Old Boys”. States like Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana are not likely to forget that before he was a Conservative he was a Tea Party candidate who are anti-Unions, as he talks about bringing back factory jobs. There is a reason that highly Catholic Pennsylvania did not want him back for a second term.

I urge you, Mr. President, not to back down to the bullying as those of us who back you are looking to you for your leadership to not let the bullies win. If you need to make a concession do not make it at a risk to women’s health or the rights of gays,minorities or the working poor and middle class, as we are your constituency.

Thank you for making the best decision you can make for us as we do know that we cannot celebrate in your win, if you do not make some compromises as well.

If they are going to win elections with lies in the Super Pacs then more power to you, if you do compromise in using Super Pacs, as well. We do understand that in a war that has been declared by the right-wing, Tea Party and Republican Party against You and the Democrats, you will need to fight “fire with fire.” Hope to celebrate your win in November.

Thanks for the job that you are doing and have done under such hateful attacks. It’s time to let those who support the “Good Old Boys”in Washington and those who are “hopefuls” take a drink from their own verbal poison.

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The Class Warfare Stupidity

The Republican’s Class Warfare Stupidity claims, along with the envy they claim the have-nots have for them, can be compared to the analogy of an undocummented Latino who is threatened with being sent back to her homeland, if she does not continue being mistreated and accepts unfair and unjust treatment, by the wealthy, for whom she works under duress.

The only class warfare that exists, in this kind of scenario, is in the mind of the wealthy family who is mistreating her, when her family comes and rescues her. The rest of us see the rescue as fairness and justice, and breathe a breath of fresh air in the sense that justice finally does occur when she no longer has to deal with the threats and unfairness of the working environment that the wealthy created.

It is when she is finally able to spend time in the arms of her loved ones, is when she and the rest of us know and understand, is the real wealth that we all seek. This is something that too many times go right over the heads of the disillusioned or those yelling class warfare in the Republican Party.

To think that these arrogant or obtuse people, would refuse to believe that the 99% have anything but disdain directed against them, and justifiably so,for the way they mistreated a woman who could not defend herself against their mistreatment, and the relief we feel when she is finally rescued, simply does not register in the minds of the home owners radar, anymore than it does in the minds of the current Republican Party.

They have been so use to feeling entitled to a life where they can order people around or treat them in any manner they wish, that the likely hood they will ever understand the difference between fairness and class warfare is next to nil. The Republican Party, does not get or understand that they are elected to serve our needs over that of their peers. That there is another world that exist and has nothing to do with either envy of them and their peers or class warfare, totally misses any level of understanding in their minds, so we will all need to show them at the ballot boxes what it is that we do mean by fairness.

There is little to nothing about any of them that we do envy, or would we waste a moment of our time to try to mess up a hair on their head. Some people are just so far removed from the rest of us that we would not cross the street to shake their hands and it is not class warfare but instead a total disinterest in the people who refuse to acknowledge our right to gain and hold onto our own dignity in order to work and provide for our families.

These are the real feelings that exist against the 1% but they are so full of themselves, that they would prefer to think that their pathetic lives and lack of compassion or empathy for anyone but their own goals or peers would hold anything other than the feeling of pity for them. For them to think otherwise, would lessen their own image of their own self-importance. Therefor like everything they do, it is better to put the onus or blame back onto the sholders of the 99% because they always have done so.

The great majority of us want to be as far away from their idea of morality as we can get. We might envy a sports figure’s ability or natural talent or a lottery winner who won the lottery ticket on the same lottery we spent a couple of dollars on, but there is not a thing about the wealthy who gain their millions to billions off of the back of workers, and then mistreats them, that we even want to go to war over, much less envy.

To blame the latino, or the 99%, or for that matter President OBama, for dividing the Country or to think it is class warfare on the part of the people under similar circumstances, is as unthinking and morally as objectible to the 99% as the Republican Party’s argument of class warfare, when President OBama and the Democrats ask them to cease and desist and to pay their fair share in taxes.

We understand that life is not always fair and that suffering is a part of life. We also understand the sacrifices we need to make for “Liberty for all”, as well as, the financial future of the working poor and middle class, and our government, is at stake. The problem is that the 1% do not understand that, or the fact that they need to make sacrifices, as well. If they were not so use to having their fanny kissed by the working poor and the middle class, then they would understand the difference between disdain,frustrations, and pain as versus envy and class warfare as versus fairness.

I am all in favor of teaching them at the polls, by re-electing Barack OBama for President, in November. I hope you agree with me and will join me at the polls to educate the Republicans, who need to know and accept the education on their behalf,without blaming those of us who do not believe in or fall for their own brand of ignorance or attempts to hide behind their deliberate moral corruption, as well.

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“American Workers Are Not Stupid!”

On several occasions Mitt has referred to the fact that Barack OBama is not intuned with regular people. That is dangerous territory for Mitt Romney to enter, not just because he must think American workers and voters are all stupid, but because he is both so disingenuine and apparently out of touch with, “regular folks, in his own campaign. Let me explain:

Let’s go back to when Mitt made a $10,000.00 bet, for starters. How many of us, who still deal in reality, think that if we are not setting the odds in Vegas, that the 99% are making a $10,000.00 bet with anyone?

I don’t know what is more dangerous;Mitt left to his own vices or Mitt following the script written for him by his writers. I recommend that you read my post called, “The Pathetic Lazy Rich” on this blog, as it will explain further why we have such inept politicians. If you need to understand further then follow along and you will see what I mean:

Mitt Romney’s intro is,”We need to bring back the soul to America.” This has been scripted for him by his writers. I can’t imagine a more out of touch remark, the man can make, that will scare off the voters more.

At a time, when a large group of Republicans, are having to convince themselves to vote for Mitt Romney,because they do know that there is no other religion that professes to be Christian, in America, that scares them more or subjects women to that of second class citizens more,unless timidly they might think it would be,the Tea Party sponsored Fundamentalists or the Jehovah Witnesses, they should not be advising Mitt to say that he is the man to give back the soul to America.

His writers should be smart enough not to say a Mormon,is the answer to,”Give back the Soul to America, when too many question Mitts own ability to own a pure one.”

I can’t help but think that if the Romney campaign, were aware of the fact that women far out number, male voters in America, and the majority are pro-choice they would be writing lines that worked for him when he ran in a more liberal environment as they did in Massachusetts.Aren’t we all certain they will once he gets past Iowa and South Carolina?

Not all of us come from that State but certainly they must know, both Mitt Romney and his campaign writers, that they have not seen anything yet, when it comes to opening up that vault of stored history. However, since they have come from the State of Iowa and are in South Carolina, where the Evangelical votes carry, they are treating all Americans like we are not intuned with the Romney campaign, and instead the Romney campaign is clearly out of touch with just how sophisticated that today’s voters really are.

His writers, if he can not figure it out himself, also needs to get the five Romney sons off of the stage, when they are or close to service duty age. If Romney is going to talk about taking out Iran and none of his sons are wearing military uniforms, he is only enraging families who sacrificed for 10 long years.

The sentiment after ten years of war in Iraq, with many of our own soldiers questioning if Iraq was even worth it, cannot be higher against chickenhawks. Those are the cowards who did not go to war or try to help families who suffered,nor will they ever send their own children to war,while they think nothing at all,of jeopardizing our children in a war when risks could not be higher, are not too highly held in esteem today.

For those, who are in denial about how the other 99% live or just too far removed from even imagining it,you do need to understand that how much money a person makes, does speak about what kind of leader he will make.

If we had honest politicians for the last decade plus, you might be right,about it not being such a big deal how much a person makes, so much, but Romney should know better that anyone else in America, that politicians are not honest and his refusal to turn over his tax returns do nothing but give the 99% justification, to feel that money or the 1%, will take priority in his White House, over the 99%, just as it has for the last decade in the Party he represents.

Mitt Romney, is a candidate for the office of White House, who is totally out of touch, if he does not know that. He only adds insult to injury by saying he will consider showing his tax returns, after he has already won the primary. Mitt has to be either the most dishonest candidate to ever run for the office or the most out of touch to have ever ran for the office.

I can continue with the list but it will go on until the doomsday, that some like to predict, but since I have obviously smarter readers, than what the Romney campaign has writers, or their PR team is making the mistake to think all workers are stupid, as I previously mention in my post,”The Pathetic Lazy Rich”,I will let you finish the list, yourself.

I recommend you make it fun by enlisting your children and seeing who can come up with the longest list. Don’t forget to put on that list, “I like firing people,” and “My speaker fees were not that much, they were only $375,000.00.” Those are his own gems as even I don’t think his writers did anything but cringed when he offered both of those jewels.

With over a million Democrats signing the petition in Wisconsin, to run Tea Party darling, Scott Walker out of the office of governorship in their fine State, I predict the number one thing that will defeat Mitt Romney is Mitt Romney’s inability to communicate with us, the American voters, and the arrogance of the GOP, who thinks anyone can beat Barack OBama. If Democrats can organize like that in the State of Wisconsin, that isn’t anything along side of the way we can organize against the hypocrites who are not tuned into the needs of the 99%, middle class workers.

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The Most Tragic Lie Ever Spread In America

Part 1 of the series of 5 posts

In keeping with the Republican idea of, “Getting Tough On Crime”,in America,the lie was started and spread by the media between 1994 and 2001, that juvenile crime was escalating and would increase at astronomical rates. The person responsible even made and spread a new term, called,”The Super predator amongst our juvenile population.”

The truth was that juvenile crime had actually dropped by 40% during this time. That did not stop John J. Diulio, who served as the director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initatives to both start and predict that 270,000 fatherless,Godless, and jobless juvenile superpredators(his terminology) would be flooding the American streets.

We have never yet reached the rate of crime, that we had as a Nation in the 1920′s, and the truth is between 1994 and 2001,there had been a steady decrease in juvenile crime since the 1970′s. However if a candidate is going to run on a platform of, “tough on crime.” then some one better invent the lie that juvenile crime is spinning out of control and spread it quickly, if they want their Republican candidate to win the election on that platform.

The evidence of an increase in juvenile crime rate then, or in the near future, was no more factual than the discovery of the Loch Ness Monster. That did not stop the general attitude or perception in America,to come up with the idea, “to kill the little bastards” would be the best law to safeguard us all, unfortunately. To make juveniles punishable for crimes in adult prison systems, would be the most favorable of law, in the minds of the right wing and the mind of the majority of Americans,sadly. It was so moved and became law, across America. When we realize that the human brain is not even capable of knowing or understanding the full imput of risk taking or fully formed until the age of 21, then in my estimation, that lie has become the most tragic lie of all, in America.

Even though America was part of the International Law group that forbid sending children to the gas chamber,or subjecting them to killing by lethal injection, the United States would sign and ratify the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, but would reserve the right to allow children under 18 to be put to death in 1992. The only other Countries that would allow this were Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,Iran, and Yemen.

As the voice of the Christians rose against abortions and in favor of Pro-Life for the embryo, the same voices rose in favor of being, “Tough on Crime”, even if it meant killing children who grew up in the most abusive of homes without guidance of any kind. Because the perception of the American people were being convinced that crime was on a runaway path, more children in America would be put to death than in all 4 of the above countries combined. 20 States still uphold death by execution for children while children await their executions on Death Row. More Conservative judges were appointed to make certain the punishment was tough on crime instead of treating kids in a rehab center for the drug addictions that help drive their crime.

If we treated drug use and alcohol consumption in youth in America as the disease that it is, we could spare the lives of the people that they kill as well as their own, and many would never have to die, in many of these cases. We must treat addiction in our youth as the illness that it is with the crime being charged against the adults who expose them to such, while they are under age. Adults may choose to be alcoholics and drug addicts but children often do not have the capacity to make a cognitive,informed, or intelligent choice. They are way too concerned about what their friends will think of them than they are able to understand the consequences or effects of their decisions. When we hear of 9 and 11 year olds being forced into prostitution and drugs, then an adult should be held responsible. Drugs and alcohol on the under-developed brain is certain to end up as an explosive in our Society, if left untreated.

Children, are in a large percentage,introduced to both drugs and alcohol in their own home. When they use it under peer influence, then we can almost bet that the pusher had their first “drunk” or “fix” under the lack of care of their parents or another adult. Juvenile crime would drop even further if parents were made to be responsible for or lock up their booze,drugs and guns or at the very least, pay a fine, if an under age child was found inebriated or with a gun or knife.I do not suggest that anyone evade our privacy in our own homes, but an adult needs to be charged while the child receives treatment, in my estimation. If we can make wearing seat belts a law for the good of our own safety can’t we enforce the law that is already on the books? Without anyone screaming Unconstitutional, the law called, “Reckless endangerment of a minor by an adult” only needs to be enforced. Putting children to death is never an answer to justice.

Children are victims in America, like all other Countries.Children are the innocent amongst us and the most vulnerable of all. They are starved to death, abused,neglected,raped and subjected to the most horrific of crimes. To know As Americans, with the best Democracy in the World, we the American people believed such a lie,spread against our Nation’s children, in order for the Republican Party to adopt a platform of “Get tough on Crime”, should be heart breaking to us all.

Yes some of the most horrific crimes in America, or anywhere else in the World, have been committed by children. Many of these children, in many cases, are made monsters in their own homes, and are totally in a rage due to the victimization that their own parents or society have done to them, or the victims that we make them become in some orphanages that are not fit to be a dog kennel, or foster care homes where the goal is to gain the check and forget the child.

As we watch today’s Republicans with their special interests propaganda, that has nothing to do with representing Democracy or “we the people,” who elect them, be it for eliminating equal rights through abortion, or protecting Drug and Insurance Companies against any form of healthcare that will help lower the cost of healthcare for the American people, or the Republicans and Tea Party out to protect the oil Companies revenue or right to drill on government land, it would do us all well to remember just how easy it is to start and spread a lie.

When those lies are started and spread by Faith-Based or Special Interests Groups of any kind, and two thirds of the radio stations are owned by Christian Broadcasting networks who have historically fired up people like Rush Limbaugh,Glen Beck or Robinson,combined by all the “Special Interests” dollars being spent on so called Patriot Groups, then we all have reasons to be more than concern. The fact that the lie on Crime was being spread in America and no credible network ever said anything about it being a lie,at the time, should tell all of us, how quickly Democracy can end. Re-elect Barack OBama in 2012.

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Uncurable Unemployment

For those who have not discovered it yet, drug usage and sales, are no longer just in the poverty sections of Cities and communities. It is in the middle and upper classes of America,as well. Once unheard of, in rural areas, it is now escalating everywhere. When he have drug users being supported by families, while they draw unemployment, then we can add them to the list of uncurable unemployment.

As larger numbers drop out of Society or schools, to join white Supremists and Patriot groups,while drawing unemployment, and more kids are told the uselessness of education, by these same groups, then we can add a higher drop out rate in education, while drawing unemployment into the adult years. As children are given more, while doing less to earn it, we add an increase amount of laziness to the lists of adults who would rather draw unemployment over working. All of these adults become uncurable unemployment records.

When we refuse to see 18 year olds as the adults that they are and expect them to leave home to either get an education or to hold down a job, while paying their own expenses, we create more people who will be drawing unemployment. When we have adults who refuse to take on jobs that they feel that are beneath them, we have another market for incurable unemployment.

When we have people refusing to leave what they know as home to go elsewhere to get jobs, that are not being filled, then we have immature adults who would rather draw unemployment over working. If unemployment was truly based on the amount of time worked as versus the about of time un-employed we would find more people taking the jobs that they currently feel over-qualified for, in my estimation.

The other thing, that all of us must keep in mind is that Corporate Amercia is not going to hire as long as they have oversight committees over them, if all they need to do is wait until the Republican Party comes back into office and withdraws all of the restrictions. They can produce product, at less cost, over seas, just as easilly. It is in their best interests to keep employment down and umemployment up, in order to persuade ,we, the American public, to vote the Republicans back in, so they can elimininate the Unions and go unchecked without restrictions, on their gaining profits again.

Unfortunately this is what created the mess that the Republican majority got us into.We already know that when restrictions are lifted on banks,oil companies, and Corporate the greed takes over at an expense to the middle class, as that was well proven when the restrictions were lifted. Please remember, though, that as the private sector made more money the working sector were laid off at even a greater rate, when restrictions were lifted.It was the over-seas market, who gained in employment. Lifting restrictions, only means gains to oil companies, Corporate and Banks, and more often than not a higher cost to the workers.

As long as they continue stock piling money while the banks continue refusing to lend money, then all they need to do is wait for another Republican majority, while draining the Government Treasury, by keeping taxes down.Once Uncle Sam no longer has funds to pay it’s debts then private business will own government and in doing so eliminate all restrictions that allows greed to run rapid, and we will truly see inflation like we have never seen, before, with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

The goal of the new Republicans and Tea Party candidates as well as “those for a more Prosperous America” who are running to be president in 2012, will be to convince us that our taxes are too high, although it is a complete lie since our Federal taxes, are as low as they have been since the 1950′s. Many of your States have been poorly ran and that combined with oil,cigarette,and City taxes along with the increase in food costs, may be taking a drain on your checks but Federal taxes remain too low, to reimburse the Treasury for rises in future costs.

Sadly, what we have going on in America, today, is uncurable unemployment with those who do want to work and are willing to make the sacrifices, that our fore-fathers made by moving across America to do so, paying the price. Reality is that government cannot force companies to hire or people to work, and as a result, we will maintain high unemployment until we do have a robust economy with people wanting to go back to work,again.

The argument has always existed that Capitalism is greed and unless we take off government restrictions then we choke free enterprise. Capitalism does need to be able to flourish but not at the expense of the American people who are made more desitute as a result of it. Without government then private business has no restrictions preventing it from literally bankrupting America.Too many have already attempted to do just that, and in the process both we as well as our children, and grandchildren are or will pay the price to make a handfull of people wealthier.

It has been my experience that those who do want to work will work even if it is in volunteer until they do make the right contact that will employ them, even if it means moving across Country or in some cases, out of Country. No one can keep a person of ambition down, not even Corporate or Politicians.”We the People” need to insist that the Republicans go back to work for we,who elect them,so that banks can start making rational loans and both the oil companies and Corporate quit gouging the American worker, by pressuring or paying,the Tea Party or the Republicans to work against us. We all need to go back to work by re-electing Barack OBama. We need to tell the “say No and argue” Republicans and
Tea Party Candidates, that they will not be elected unless they learn the art of compromise that benefits, “We the People”!

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“What We Know For Certain”

When we as an individual or a group of people join together to make an accusation or generalization about the member or members of another person or group of people, and view them all to be just alike, we are always wrong in our assumption, generalities, and judgements. There are never any exceptions to that truth, as we are the person or persons in error, when we do behave in the same manner. (See the post: “When Truth Speaks Over Lies” previously written in this blog)

So why do we do it? And why is it the Church groups of America, often are the first to do it? What is going on in the name of Jesus or God in regards to the Gay Community is and needs to be recognized as the disgrace and shame that it is, and be stopped as does the hate and lies, that divide us as a Democracy. I am going to pick on religion until the divide in America stops, because I know as you all know, a great deal of the views in America that divide us are coming from the different religious communities,inter-net sites,blogs, bullies, social media,various Churches,right of politics,the pulpits,Fox News, The Christian broadcasting Network, from the Church presses, and the list goes on.

Regardless of the right-wing denial, and what we hear, the hate in America, is not being generated by liberals,Atheist,Gays, or non-Church attending people in America. We all know that for certain. There have been plenty of times that the liberals and the right-wing were at war,but this time it is the Christians, after their own perceived right to judge and to infringe, on the Constitutional rights of equality for all Americans as well as all of our right to choose. God help us before they destroy Democracy and our freedom to choose for all of us,permanently.

For the sake, of a nine-year old little girl in Tucson, who had such high hopes for Democracy,the recent suicides of our young people, as well as all of our own children who are alive and look to us for their protection, we need to join together and show empathy and compassion for all Americans, including our President, Barack OBama, who inherited an extremely difficult task. Our religious views and beliefs belong between us and our Redeemer and stop at the Church doors. None of us, have a right to judge or deny, another or to infringe on their rights and choices,especially when we all are of a different race,creed,gender,religious view,or color, either the right to succeed or to fail.

To do so or to think differently from that and to certainly judge, destroys the very fiber of both civilization and Democracy. We know that for certain,as well. Law was ordained to both govern rights and freedoms in our Constitution,and never was it the right of religion to ever think it did have the power or was it ever, the intent of the writers of the Constitution to give that power to religion. Much less, have religion attempt to take the power from government which is “We the People” or to deny government or us, the same power of law. I can only pray that you who are doing it, stop the spread of the lies and hate now,before you do wake up and realize that you are naively involved in an immoral power struggle, and the enemy is YOU.

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It Matters Not–It Matters A lot!

It matters not whether we wish our fellow mankind Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas as a friendly greeting ,of any kind, is almost always warmly accepted when we are in the spirit of giving or receiving. To make or take issue with such a small matter when 50 million children, are reported,to go to bed hungry shows how petty some people have become or more about what is missing in their spirit, in my opinion.

As 2010 comes to an end, I would like to reach out and thank all of you who have taken out a moment of your time to read my blog and to comment as well. Whether you agreed with me or not,it matters a lot the large majority of you, showed real class in what the majority of we Americans represent, and that is respect of our fellow mankind to express themselves, in a free Democracy.

I began my blog on New Years’ eve 2010, and have enjoyed writing my posts. I can’t imagine what I left unsaid, and I know in areas where I am more passionate, I did repeat myself a number of times, my sentence structure and spelling left a lot to be desired at times, and you all were kind enough not to point that out. I thank you,for that, as well, as it was appreciated by me.

What has always and still does matter a lot, to me, at this time, is if 50 million children are going to bed hungry in the United States of America each night and one child is dying every 5 minutes, as a result of starvation related diseases in America, is true or a guise to contribute to not such reputable agencies? These are the figures being reported on radio, in America. I would hope someone with influence and the ability to check such figures would look into this matter.

It makes absolutely no sense to me at all, when the government gives away so much food in its surplus programs of commodities such as peanut butter and cheese, Americans contribute millions if not trillions of dollars as well as food products, through their private donations to food pantries, taxes,Churches,businesses,private organizations from Feed the children to the Red Cross to the Salvation Army (to name a very few) Corporations, and Banks that this food and the money to buy the same ,along with a great deal of food that is available free, is not reaching the hungry in America.

We are no longer living in the dark ages where hungry children could not be reached due to transportation difficulties. Every place where mail and technology can reach in America, so should food to the hungry be shipped or made feasible. So I ask again, if 50 million children are going to bed hungry and 1 child is dying every 5 minutes, why? When the buildings,sometimes utilities,upkeep,volunteer labor etc. is all offered free through volunteer efforts, where does the millions to trillions of dollars and pounds of food, donated, go and why isn’t it reaching the hungry in America?

Some children will always slip through, due to human error ratio, but we are not a third world country and to accept 50 million hungry children as well as so many children dying each day, as a norm, in a developed country such as our own should, I would think, alarm us all. If we can see every nook and cranny in America through satellite shouldn’t we also be able to make certain no child ever goes hungry in America? It is not a lack of generosity on the part of the American people or government to give, as we are the most altruistic Nation in the world. We are also the largest producer of food produce in the world. I understand a great deal of our altruism is spread around the world but shouldn’t we feed our own,first? Perhaps someone as concern as myself, with much more influence than I, can check this out in 2011 and report back to the Nation?

Since this will be the last of my posts for 2010, I again, offer my thanks to you all for taking out a little of your time to either read,curse, or hopefully perhaps, without seeming too indulgent of my own ego, to find someone who just might have understood what you were feeling. I wish each and every one of us a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! When we are generous and kind in our thoughts,speech and actions to one another, it changes negative attitudes that predispose some towards entitlement and greed,stops gossip and lies,and brings refreshment to our souls. It matters a lot!

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The Movement Against Policemen and Women

It certainly must occur to many who surf the net or use it to socialize or blog that the next great movement against government by so called, “grassroots types” is to attack the policemen of America. There are innuendoes non too slight occurring all over the net. There is a deliberate attempt underway to sensationalize, undo police force, on the web today, and the only conclusion anyone with any common sense, could conclude, is there are people out to destroy the public image of the police by sensationalizing it as the tabloids do.

The latest to destroy their image is, the story of the policeman that fed the child he felt was hungry. The first was the lemonade stand in Portland. This type of sensationalizing of police force or control, in other words nonsense, will only transplant the idea of a police state in the minds of the radicals, that believe conspiracy is around every corner. Sadly, it will work with too many. As we honor all the heroes of the war today, we should also not forget the heroes involved in the gang and drug wars on our streets that are going on or have been areas of concern in places like San Francisco, Chicago and Miami to name a few, on a daily basis, either. The police men and women of America have every right to be both honored and respected by all of us.

If there is any truth to any of the stories to begin with, all I can say is “Thank God we had a policeman that was concerned enough to think the little child might be neglected and came to their aid with food. The line of decency needs to be drawn by, we clear thinking, Americans. If all Americans did treat their children as children deserve to be treated the police would not have to be concern about children that go hungry, are sold into sex slavery(the latest count stands as high as 300,000), run the streets and join gangs where the only thing that stops murder in some of our poorer neighborhoods, is, if you belong to their gang. The atrocities happening to our children are many, and sadly, many times the number one culprits of neglect are the parents. Both Police men and women are already understaffed in many parts of our Country, and we have some of the finest of American citizens protecting us all, and keeping us safe in our homes, they need to be praised and not disrespected, nor attempts made, to disgrace them, as is currently under way.

It was the right-wing, in its influence in the 20th Century, who started accusing educated Americans as well as College professors as being commies, reds,pinks, and anything nasty they could use or think of, liberal became the new buzz words. When the professors of our Universities were the first to say that Capitalism was less than perfect and failed some Americans the word liberal and leftist became the nemesis and hate word of the right-wing.

The hate built by the right-wing in America, reached its pinnacle in the 1930′s, and went on to what was known as the McCarthyism era, where every man or every woman behind every wall or tree was a communist pink or spy. Not too unlike the Jesse Ventura show on Tru t.v. is trying to make all the fanatics in America believe conspiracy everywhere, today, in my opinion.

Although there was a movement underway of some Hollywood type executives flirting with the idea of communism, it got totally out of control as a result of the paranoia of McCarthy, Many innocent men and women had their lives as well as lively hood destroyed as a result of the furor that existed in the day. If you listen to the right wing of the era,the liberals or leftist, found their birth place in the State ran universities of America. It would appear the right-wing are now trying to attempt to move toward the diatribe of America being a police state, by trying to sensationalize these stories. That is how all these lies get started. First of all they have to split and divide us, as a Nation, before they can find a stand hold to operate from. I would say they have done a good job of doing just that, at this point.

We can all agree that there are extremists on the far left every bit as destructive to Democracy as the right-wing but to categorize every ,Democrat or American, who care more about the needs of the working class and their continuation of the middle class as communist or socialists, is bizarre. By sensationalizing the efforts of the police, they can then move on to attack the Unions that protect the wages and benefits of both the police and firemen of America. As we have already seen by their advertizing and opt out plea,they won’t stop until they try to eliminate or break the backs of all Unions who were established to protect the wages and benefits of the working class. It is possible for capitalism to co-exist with the working class, American. Capitalism will never fail as a result of paying a fair wage to the people they employ.To heft every lie and fault on the shoulders of education as well as the working people in favor of maintaining Capitalism so the rich get richer is to deny the platform of Democracy.

Yes, there are bad policemen amongst the group of our American heroes who risk their lives on a daily basis, but it is one organization that does work, when it comes to policing itself. They are not always quick enough, sometimes to recognize the losers amongst them, but unlike other powerful lobbyist, they do not protect their fellow police, at all cost to the citizenry of our Country, as a rule either.

So as we pause today, lets give thanks not only to all the heroes of America that have fought in battles and wars, both foreign and on our land, but also those proud men and women, that wear the blue 24 hours around the clock, to keep both us and Democracy safe. It will take those of us with common sense and decency to stand up to the new onslaught of lies heading our way. We owe it to the heroes that fight for us all around the world as well as in our own home town and city, of America. It is the least that we can do. Thanks to all of you who have ever worn a uniform. We are proud and grateful of your courage to protect all we hold dear. A simple thanks rings empty in comparison to your great sacrifice to “we the people”. Those of us that appreciate You offer it anyway.

(please note: I apologize to you, that not a single site tagged by me on this post printed this. I wonder if it is, since I do present an opposing view from others who do have control of the sites on wordpress, is the reason It wasn’t printed? I have found that I get zapped off of many sites to do with Democracy,politics, or anything relavent. That is why I find it necessary to do so many tags in hopes the truth will be read)

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Its Your House And Health

With all the outrage towards government and banks in America still running rampant, the consumer has lost sight of the fact that taxes are at an all time low. I will repeat it, until you hear me. Taxes are the lowest they have been since the 1950′s and interest rates have never been lower. When most of you were babies or not yet born, the interests rates soared to 18% and went as high as 22%.(on people’s house payments,not their credit cards) If you are bitching now what will you do when both taxes and interest rates start climbing again? It is true that deregulation of the banks and Wall Street led to the fiscal mess we are in but the banks were bailed out before OBama reached office and he had no choice but to sign the same when he took office. I actually agreed with that move,as if the banks are not able to function,neither is our economy. We were not in the position to slap their hands, regardless of how they got there, and say “bad boy,no more”!

The reason we no longer have the money that we once had on a more personal,at home reality, is not because of the present day government and Wall Street, but because we paid too much for our homes, in some cases,and in others could not wait to wash out the equity in our homes. The other major debt that keeps us feeling poor is our healthcare and property tax liabilities. When hospitals, across the land, went from County and State owned to privately owned we started seeing a huge amount of increases in our medical cost and insurance premiums. Many policies that we pay into are almost worthless even though they cost us, but we reason we have to have something. Even though OBama care is not what we wanted it does have some insurance reform as well as pre-existing disease clauses in it, that we would have to be stupid to repeal.

It should have been obvious to many, that parts of our Country such as Vegas, Arizona, and Florida were over-building and when the bubble burst anyone living in the area would have to pay for it with their property tax increase, but sadly the greed in all of us hoped it would go on forever. You are now watching your home prices slide on a monthly basis and are mad as hell blaming the wrong people. It should have been your State governments that recognized the crises they were headed towards but even if they had of, it is doubtful they could have done much about it. We are built on free enterprise, therfore capitalism, and government cannot stop or deny either, especially when all controls have been removed.

Obviously, if the mess we are in, was this simple of an explanation, then it would be easier to fix, but it gets so complicated that many people in charge of our economy are in a quandary as to which direction needs to be taken and are now struggling to find the answers. This is totally new territory and they will make mistakes until they do hit on the right solution, as to where we can get the funds to recover, when there are none to begin with.

Because both we the consumer as well as the government were in a frenzy spending money we did not have, we put it all on credit, we now must pay the price, whether we saved or spent. In many cases it is those of you that helped create this mess yelling louder than those of us that did save. Although we are now paying back on a personal level, until the job market returns, government has to keep the taxes and interests rate low, so I assure you, none of us are yet paying for either. When they do start paying off the debt it will lead to either increased taxes or more job lost.

All those second homes we had to have, that also, are not worth what we paid for, all that credit card debt, all the bigger closets we had to build to house, our out of control shoe shopping, all the meals we ate out, all the money spent on entertainment,suvs,boats and nicer more expensive cars and toys, all those stainless steel appliances we had to have even when it meant we threw out good appliances, all those granite counter tops we had to have to keep up with our friends, daycares tripled in some parts of the country especially when children were placed into the private schools, etc. we are now paying for and have no one to blame but ourself. At the same time we were spending in some cases $600 to $1000 dollars a square foot, to have that must have home or condo, people were buying the places we should have bought, and flipping them for a huge profit. We could have done the same with our own home but we were not willing to put in our own sweat equity. We had to have the perfect paint colors,with counters and appliances or we would walk away from it.

In many cases we did buy our home at a right price but every time the equity increased or the value of our home escalated to an artificial value that it was unable to sustain, we could not wait to take out a home equity loan, home improvement loan, or by whatever name it was called, we bankrupted our own home by taking out what actually are second and third mortgages so we could live better than what we made. None of us want to admit that we knew we were living a lifestyle we could not afford and did not want to do anything, but stay in denial, while we took that nice family trip we took on credit or bought more clothes or shoes. None of us fooled anyone, not even ourselves.

While a great deal of this was going on, there were others that saved 15 to 20 percent of each paycheck for a rainy day. We initially lost a great deal in our 401 k but in most cases we are back to where we were ,or not far from it. We like you, are afraid we will lose our jobs or in some cases, where we already have, we have been able to ride it through, due to those savings. Some of us even put off buying a home until we had a large down payment and are now buying those homes that others can not now afford, because they financed both the house as well as the down payment.

Long story short, this is not about pointing out our faults or mistakes but instead reminding us that many of us have no right to be so hateful towards those that we are blaming unfairly. It is time to stop the hate and the finger-pointing that is making all of our lives more miserable.What is important is that we have learned from our mistakes and know almost every generation before us/you have made the same mistake and came back and retired millionaires, anyway. It is not over, “until the fat lady sings” and she is not even doing her warm up exercises yet. I know her personally.

Two things in life that are always important to know and understand regardless of the situation are: Never lose sight of your own ability to come back and if we send out the karma of blame, we will make achieving our own goals that we were on our way towards achieving, that much more difficult to gain. Success of any kind takes ownership of the problem. It is time to stop the hate and whining and to get imaginative in our own lives. If we start working together maybe the politicians will as well. We can always hope for the best and many times be rewarded with the same.

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Living In OUR Safe Homogenized World

The problem that exists, as I see it, when it comes to subjects that are considered taboo like sex education and abortion, is, it becomes very easy to become smug and arrogant in our little Christian world. Ask Doctors, Cops,Those living in poverty, and District Attorneys, just what the human race is capable of doing to each other, and most of us would faint away in the telling of the cruelty. That is why we need laws that are not always definable in black and white.

Pathetically, much of this behavior has been going on for a 100 years and we are no better off today when it comes to finding prevention than we were then. What gains that we made in equal rights and civil rights is being undermined by denying rights to gays. The argument goes that since Christ was not involved in social problems then neither should the churches be, at the same time they try to prevent both women and gays their State and Federal rights.

It is rare to find either male or female prostitutes, in any city in America, that were not first a victim of incest, but if we do not know it, then it is easy to believe only 1% of the abortions are as a result of incest, or that there are only a hand full of victims,even when there is no basis for truth on that estimate. People do not report abuse when done by a family member, many times, so it is impossible to get any conclusive percentage of incest. We want to believe that the Catholic priests that molested these young boys did it in secrecy, one victim at a time, until we watch Oprah and hear the twins discuss the gang rape and torture that involved 33 Catholic priest, together at the same time, and happened years ago. The details are just now seeing the light of day. We may have acknowledgement and apology but pay off in cash, is not justice, for a crime of pedophilia.

Certainly they are lying about Bishop Long, we say, because we like him so. The worse our children ever face, most certainly we tell ourselves, has to be drugs that we prefer to ignore, and starvation and even that is rare because of free school lunches and Church ran free meals for the homeless, we like to believe. Certainly we the taxpayers, who are paying less in taxes than anyone since the 1950′s, are entitled to a break from all our struggles, we are convinced of, in our own self-congratulatory manner, because we are generously giving out free school lunches. Never mind we are closer everyday to needing them,ourselves, not because our taxes have increased due to government spending(YET) but because of our own spending habits. It is always easier to blame the liberals, who new key hate word is progressive, for the mess we are in. God forbid if we were able to take blame, ourselves.

We, simply, do not want to believe that parents can do to their children what they do and have done for decades, so we pat ourselves on the back, while we plant the white crosses in the fields and believe it, when we are told that most abortions occur because women want to look good in their bikinis. It is easier to feel Christian, when we believe that these terrible things never happened and it is all lies. Parents would never prostitute out their own children or give babies drugs, so they sleep around the clock, or put Coke in their baby bottles because it cost less than milk. Would they?

We do need to think about the denial, that we Christians, are in and why we do not listen to our Religious leaders when it comes to beating up on our mates, fraud, cheating on our taxes, failing to pay our bills, secret liaisons, adultery, birth control,greed or all the other things we do and feel justified in doing without our Religious leaders knowing. Why is it then that we all vote like a herd of sheep in order to prevent women freedom of choice granted to us by the Constitution and the equal rights amendment as well as law? Isn’t that social interference? How we vote is one thing that our Church Leaders cannot influence or tell us what to do, without breaking the law of Man or God or our Constitution.

Those of us that no longer attend Churches are not atheist, nor are we out to close the doors on religion, as you are being told. We just simply refuse to break any law whether it is Man’s law or God’s law, because we have developed our own responsiblity and conscious to do the right thing, in many cases. It is difficult for many of us to accept Church law as being God’s law due to the behavior of the Church leadership in most cases. Many of us still hold a deep and abiding faith in both God and Jesus and would like to see religion get out of politics as it is stated in the Constitution and in the separation of Church and State law.

No one person or group or organization should ever be given the power to be above the law of the Land, in my opinion as well as many other voters, even though the Churches have chosen to break the law by doing so. The agreement made in the 1940′s was to give all religion tax-free privileges and they would remain separate from state and not influence the vote. There is some conversation going on to take away their tax-free privileges since they have broken the law.

It always has been in the hands of “we the people” as to if they should or should not receive the same. Many Christians see the hypocrisy that apparently others don’t see, because of denial. It becomes impossible to put much stock in a Spiritual advisor that preaches,”do as we say not as we do.” Many of us grew up, a half of century or so ago, with that in our homes and saw the injustices in the thinking then as well.

It is no wonder, then, there is so much hate going on as a result of the self-righteous spreading the hate and lies. After all, if I was blind to what was going on, right under my own nose, I might too, be confused and angry. Whatever the decisions are, that are being made in Washington, we cannot elect politicians that can clean up a mess like the one we are in, without expecting some mistakes being made along the way in their efforts. This is and has been brand new ground that needs to be broken through trial and error. We admit that there have been some mistakes made, but not as nearly colossal, as the years prior to these last two years, but not because OBama is out to create Socialism as you claim.

We are taking things out on OBama, that should have been taken out on Bush and Cheney and those of us who voted for them,(However,even that would be somewhat immature and a waste in futility, as we should have known that they were a few short of a six-pack when we voted for them) but we do owe the Office of the Presidency and the man in it better than what we have given OBama. Anyone doing the job that he has had to do with a say “No” Republican party holding him back on every attempt, was and is going to make mistakes.

I would hope the new Congress coming in would try a little honey instead of announcing their main goal is to get OBama out of office. We are all going through withdrawals while waiting for co-operation amongst the elected officials and perhaps that is partially responsible for both “the dry drunk behavior” and the meanness that is going wild. Can’t we all agree a little honey might be the better of two evils? It still has to get past the Senate and the Dem.s are still in control of that,as well. After all, respect and courtesy, use to be the Christian way. Can’t we give it a try and all just try to get along, and see if together we can correct some problems without being afraid of who will get the credit or blame in 2012?

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