BLOG #  11 Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

     As we close out 2011 and begin a new year there will be some new challenges. We are in the middle of an election year where we may be facing the biggest decision of our lives as we enter the General Election in November 2012. Will we end up with another four years of higher taxes, more government spending, increase deficits, and a debt that may well exceed $16 Trillion by election day. Of course, there is no guarantee that whichever republican is nominated and will replace the current president there will be anything different. We can only hope and pray that if there is a change that a new day will begin in the way the federal government is conducted.

       I recently read the the eight hour filibuster (it is also a book entitled THE SPEECH) by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont where he blamed everything on the greed of corporate America, as well as the republicans. For those who do not know the Senator, he is listed as an Independent, but admits that he is a Progressive, and his record shows that he votes mostly with the liberal left in the Senate. After reading the speech I sent him a letter and stated that he could help cure all his concerns with eight changes and amendments to our Constitution, which are all possible IF our representative were actually interested in Constitutional governmen, rather than being re-elect by bribing us with earmarks, stimulus and tax holidays that do zero to solve the unemployment problem. In the next BLOG I will share these eight changes with you. 

     Until next time, I hope all of your Christmas wishes come true and that 2012 will be the happiest ever.     

BLOG #10 "FAIR SHAKE"???

   On Tuesday, December 6thm 2011, President Obama delivered an "Economic" address in the Great State of Kansas. Rather than an "economic" address, it should be called the "FAIR SHAKE" address, or better still the "DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH" address. As one commentator stated, this speech was the best "crafted" speech of Obama's presidency. It was clearly a misrepresentation of what America is all about. Our Founders only guaranteed  citizen the "OPPORTUNITY" to succeed in this life in order to "share" in the promise of LIBERTY and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS! 
   How does one obtain this? It comes by HARD WORK, being a productive member of your community, by being HONEST and FAIR with your family, friends and all others, and by seeking an EDUCATION to prepare for the abilities you need to succeed. However, even if you do all of these things life may not deal you with a "winning hand".  But here is the other part of what our Founders gave us: It was a FREEDOM to believe in a CREATOR and seek help and guidance to overcome the setbacks of life. A government, a politician or anyone else can fully provide the inner "intestinal fortitude" to get back up and try try again.
   Our current economic situation is not just a fault of the Obama administration. This trend in "fairness for everyone" had its beginning mainly at the beginning of the 20th Century with the Progressive political movement partially started and encourage by Theodore Roosevelt. Progressiveness  is just another word for socialism. Socialism did not work for the Pilgrims when they came to America in the sixteen hundreds and it has NOT worked for all of the European countries who are facing dire economic bankrupt today. And, unless the PEOPLE rise up now, America will go in the same economy disaster.