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About me: I have 85 years of life experience involving solving problems. I'm a retired attorney, living in Florida.  Andy Looney is my pen name because I just might be "looney" to think the American people can solve these long standing problems in America. We know congress hasn't been able and continues to not be able to for years. I welcome your comments, so let's start some dialog people!

 

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Friday, March 28, 2008

A FUTURE AND FINAL SOLUTION TO THE

U.S. SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM

 

 

 1.   Assuming, for the moment that the above social security plan, outlined below was adopted, passed by congress and signed into law by president bush or his successor.

      Now all workers in America are assured of an adequately funded retirement plan for their retirement years, the fund, under this plan will never be depleted and will never need patching.  Based on their contributions and, as matched by their employers over an expected work period of about fifty years, with interest added and compounded yearly, the workers should be financially worry free for the remainder of their lives.  They can enjoy their retirement in peace, dignity and tranquility.

      During the many years a worker spends in the work force, all workers worry about supporting themselves and their family, if and when a serious illness, injury or unemployment befall them and they cannot work.

      Of course, state and federal programs have been legislated to help the workers when they are temporarily unemployed or injured at work, while private insurance has always been available to those who can afford to buy disability insurance for non work related injuries and sicknesses.  These programs vary from state to state and they are temporary in nature, and for a limited period, leaving the worker with constant anxiety and worry.    Sometimes, workers are in serious financial circumstances at a time when they should be concentrating their energies in getting well and returning to work.

      Wouldn’t it be better if workers could solve their financial problems in advance, so they could receive immediate monetary benefits for their support and that of their family when they become disabled from work because of sickness, injury or become unemployed.  This can be accomplished without the usual hassle and conflict between the employee and the employer, the insurance companies, doctors and the workman’s compensation boards.  The result, leaves the worker without funds at a time they are needed the most, while everyone involved argues and fights as to who is responsible for the payment to the worker.

 

2.   Workman’s’ Compensation:

      This system, designed to compensate workers injured while at work is managed on a state-by-state basis with industrial compensation type boards who ultimately decide the fate if injured workers when a dispute arises.    Private attorneys may represent the workers while insurance company lawyers always represent the insurer and employers.  The employer pays a fee to the insurer based on the risk of injury for each category of workers and the wages paid to each worker.  In addition, the employers usually pays a fee to the state based on a percentage of the wages paid to the worker to help pay the administration of the state industrial accident board for the arbitration of these disputes.

      This system is three tiered, (1) the worker, his attorney and doctor, (2) the insurance company, its attorney and examining doctor and, (3) the state industrial accident board administrator, before whom all disputed claims are tried and decided administratively.

      This system is very costly and also very time consuming.  Anyone who has been injured is all to familiar with the hassle, the procrastination and delays involved in obtaining compensation in this manner.  A system that you should expect to be co-operative is confrontational. The usual squabbles arise, either, challenging the injury as work related, or disabling, if work related.  This process usually takes many months and puts the worker in financial difficulty at a time when he or she is very prone and at an unfair disadvantage.

 

3.   Private Disability Insurance for Non-Work Related Disability:

      If a worker had one insurance company for both workman’s compensation and non-work related disabling injuries and sicknesses, this would eliminate the need for such state boards and the hassles between work and non disabling work related injuries while filling the gap for income to the workers during their disability due to illness.  The workers need only prove they are disabled from work to immediately receive weekly benefits in place of their usual paycheck, a certified letter from a licensed doctor in his field should be sufficient to establish disability and the start of benefits until the insurer establishes otherwise.  In this manner, one insurance company would handle both of these claim situations at probably no extra cost than is presently paid by employers or taxpayers of the state and the workman’s compensation company.  This would eliminate the need for the workman’s compensation board and most lawyers, even on the question of the present disability of the insured, which would be handled civilly, or state run disability board.  Of course this would also eliminate all delays in the receipt of weekly benefits, once the treating doctor certifies the extent of disability. warranting payment.

      This same insurance company can be required to handle separate claims for disfigurement or permanent or partial disability, which is traditionally handled by a workmen’s compensation insurance company.  State law and a standard formula make these awards quite perfunctory.

      Each state and the U.S. would save the time, money and space required to administer their social security offices and workmen compensation boards.  Everyone wins and nobody loses under this plan.

 

4.   Unemployment:

      Finally, there is only one remaining roadblock separating workers from the problems of supporting themselves and their family.  Aside from disabilities and that is unemployment.

      All states, with the help of the federal government, provide some form of unemployment benefits to workers when they become unemployed, through no fault of their own.  The cost is partly funded by the employer but paid to and administered through local social security offices, which monitor the fund and the unemployed, while assisting in the re-employment of the worker.

      If, instead, this fund and responsibility is passed over to the same insurance company who handles the workman’s disability policies, this premium amount should more than cover the cost of the yearly premium for said unemployment insurance.  The net result would be a very sizable savings for the state and federal government in eliminating the administration of the unemployment system in the entire country.  The government would still cover of course long term unemployment as at present.  Regular civil and private employment offices would continue to locate and place unemployed and new workers in the workplace.

 

5.       Health Insurance:

          The only area of need for a worker left unfulfilled is the health insurance coverage needed for him or her and their family.

     It is obvious that 50 million Americans lack some form of the needed coverage today along with prescription coverage.   

     I shall unveil our simple proposal for all Americans, working and not working, including the retired in a few days, please watch for it!!
11:06 pm 

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Joyce: Thanks for your comment, I appreciate that you agree with me. Please spread the word through the country. My great Social Security plan will make us all equal in retirement (at least.)  Keep writing.  Joe
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Comment from Joyce: Take the monies away from the president,congress,& all politicians-give them their social security alone to live on. Send their children & grandchilren to fight the war and see if things would change. But maybe not, they're so stupid! I wonder if each and every politician runs their household the way they run the government?
 
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THE SOLUTION TO THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROBLEM

 

      For the last seventy-five years, Congress has managed to provide social security benefits as a major source of retirement income for most Americans.

     Now, because the large number of so called “baby boomers,” born during the 1940’s and 1950’s are fast approaching retirement age, they will cause a run on the system which will strain it to the limit.  At that time, the system will be paying out more than it is taking in.  In the face of this problem over the years, Congress and presidents have proposed temporary band-aid patches to the system, but never a cure. Now, the time has come for a permanent solution to the Social Security system.

     Congress has further componded the problem by awarding benefits to persons who have never contributed to the system.  If a contributor dies before reaching retirement age or before he is eligible for disability benefits, his contributions are forfeited into the general fund unless he or she leaves a dependent spouse or minor children.  This is not fair to that worker or his heirs.  Eligibility standards and provisions along with the actuarial tables used are now outdated and require update revisions.

      Permanent solutions to this problem can only come about with a complete overhaul of the system.

      What began in the early thirties depression years as a minimum retirement plan for the nation’s seniors to lift their dependence and burden on their families and communities has gradually evolved into a retirement plan relied on, almost exclusively, by most Americans upon retirement as the main source of income.    

      Most retirees, dependent on these funds for survival during their retirement, do not risk this income by investing in the stock market; seldom buy bonds, treasury notes or CD’s.  They usually are forced to live from month to month on said retirement income as they did while working from week to week, from paycheck to paycheck.  A vast percentage of Americans live with maxed out credit cards and little if any equity in their homes.

      It is more important, in their case, and for their sake, to build wisely and safely on their contributions to this fund rather than to gamble with any part of it, and risk it’s loss.

      The following suggested changes are made to the system:

1.       Whereas, the U.S. Government has had free use of these contributions, it is time and only fair for the U.S. to pay interest on these funds, just as they pay interest on the money it borrows.

2.       These funds as contributed with the interest compounded each year should be credited in a segregated retirement fund for the exclusive benefit of the contributor only.

3.            Totally and permanently disabled workers would receive their retirement payments from the date of disability and will continue to be eligible for such payments, while disabled. Their monthly payments would be calculated based on his contributions at the time of disability on the basis of an annuity for life.  If and when recovers and returns to gainful employment, his future contributions will be added to his existing balance value and continue to build until retirement.

4.       If a contributor, dies before reaching retirement age, or fails to exhaust his fund from disability benefits, the balance of the funds should be paid to his heirs in the form of an annuity or to his spouse and minor children, if any.

5.       An up front payment of five thousand dollars may be withdrawn from this fund upon the death of a contributor to help pay burial and other related expenses.  The governments one time, one spouse death benefit of $225.  Would be eliminated as unnecessary, saving the U.S. this cost.

6.       Upon retirement, the worker would receive a monthly pension for life, based on his contributions plus his added interest.  This payment would be calculated into an annuity policy, issued by the government.  The worker may choose to include his spouse as secondary beneficiary for their joint lives, at a reduced rate in most cases.

7.          Benefits, for a surviving spouse who has also contributed to his or her own fund would also be paid as they become due, regardless of payments to or on behalf of their deceased spouse.

8.          Survivors benefits would be limited to spouse and minor children.  As outlined in paragraph # 4 above.

9.          Workers may elect to make voluntary contributions to their fund, each year on 4/15, at income tax payment time these funds will be paid the same interest as the fund is paid, at the same rate as one-year treasury notes.  The yearly voluntary contribution would be on the same footing as allowed under the existing keough or IRA fund plans but would be tax free on both ends of payment and receipt.

10.     This plan would be on a national basis under which every worker and employer would be required to contribute equally, without exception.  It would apply to all persons employed in the private or public sector, under local state and federal public employment whether elected of appointed officials and shall include all earned income to the limits set by congress.  It would apply to every worker in the U.S., citizens and non-citizens and every one employed by a company or person located in the U.S.  This plan saves everyone big money.

11.     This plan will apply to all workers not retired or receiving disability payments.  These workers will have their wages recalculated, approved and credited to their personal account under their social security number, with interest added thereafter on a compounded basis until the fund is payable at retirement.

12.     All presently retired or disabled workers will continue to receive their retirement payment as due, at the same rate as at present plus the usual mandated standard of living increases (or decreases.)  All contributions and payments under the plan shall be tax-free.

13.     Since Americans are living longer, than was determined seventy-five years ago, it is obvious that the retirement age should be gradually increased to age seventy.  This will result in one’s benefits to increase, if they continue to work and contribute.

14.          Contributions limits from wages earned should be raised from $90,000.to $150,000.  To provide workers with a larger retirement fund and the government with more funds to administer the present depleting fund and help restore its solvency.  At some point the government may consider reducing the total employer–employee contributions from 12% to a flat 10 % because of these suggested changes.

15.     This plan will make the Social Security system solvent into the future, without any threat of insolvency because the government will pay out exactly what it takes in, no more or less, except for the interest it is already paying for money it borrows.  No one who does not contribute to the fund will be eligible to receive any of these funds except heirs and spouses and minor children and then they will be receiving the funds that rightly belong to the contributor and their benefactor.

Conclusion:

This new national social security plan will cost the government nothing and in fact will save them money on existing non-contributor payments and existing pension plans for federal workers and elected officials.  It would save money to local and state government’s pension plans to its workers and public officials.  It also should remove all negotiations for future pension plans in contracts between labor and management and help make employers more competitive in this highly competitive business field.

This plan should provide an adequate source of retirement funds to all American workers.  It has a built in method for each worker to add to their fund voluntarily to provide additional funds upon their retirement, based on their individual desires and perceived future needs.

 This plan is not put forth as a panacea or cure all for the Social Security system, but a real starting point in an effort to alleviate workers worries about supporting themselves and their families upon reaching retirement age, a time at which they should have earned the right to be financially free from these worries so they may enjoy their remaining years in peace, dignity and tranquility.

The next problem to solve would be a simple and reasonable way to free a worker from worry and anxiety of supporting their family when sickness, injury or unemployment befalls a worker.  That proposed solution will be presented as plan  #2 very soon as part of the expanded social security plan called:  “The Worry Free Work Plan for the American Worker.”     

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

 AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, BARACK H. OBAMA

MARCH 25,2008

      ON MONDAY, MARCH 24, 2008, AT A MEETING OF THE LEE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE, HELD IN FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, A GROUNDSWELL OF BITTER RESENTMENT WAS VOICED BY VOTERS WHO FEEL THEY WERE DISENFRANCHISED BY NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.

       THE ABLE AND POPULAR GUEST SPEAKER, LEONARD JOSEPH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FLORIDA DEMOCRATIC PARTY WAS BOMBARDED WITH COMPLAINTS FROM DEMOCRATS, IN ATTENDANCE WHO VOTED IN THE PRIMARY, AND DEMAND THEIR VOTES BE COUNTED.   THEY WERE TOLD THAT, MAYBE IN APRIL OR MAY A NATIONAL MEETING WILL BE HELD AND MAYBE AN ARRANGEMENT MIGHT BE REACHED, WHEREBY A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF THE DELEGATES WOULD BE APPORTIONED BETWEEN THE PRESENT CANDIDATES.  THIS STATEMENT WAS MET WITH MORE RESENTMENT AND REPEATED DEMANDS THAT THE ORIGINAL VOTE BE COUNTED AS CAST.   

        THE LOCAL DEMOCRATS WERE TOLD TO WORK HARD TO BUILD THE DEMOCRATIC BASE SO THE DEMOCRATS MAY BE ABLE TO BE THE BENEFICIARIES OF THE ELECTORAL VOTE IN THE FALL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FOR THEIR CANDIDATE.

         THIS STATEMENT BROUGHT MORE COMPLAINTS FROM LOCAL DEMOCRATS, CLAIMING, THAT UNLESS THEIR VOTES WERE COUNTED, IT IS MORE LIKELY THAT MORE DEMOCRATS WILL ABANDON THE PARTY AND VOTE REPUBLICAN, INSTEAD.  AND THE PARTY WILL ALMOST BE GUARANTEED A LOSS OF FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN IN THE NATIONAL ELECTION.

          IT IS OBVIOUS TO US THAT YOU, MR. OBAMA, DO NOT WANT THE FAVORABLE VOTE FOR HILLARY COUNTED IN THESE TWO STATES.  AS MATTERS NOW STAND, YOU AND HILLARY CLINTON HAVE THE LAST CLEAR CHANCE AND OPPORTUNITY TO SOLVE THESE VOTER COMPLAINTS AND COUNT THESE VOTES AS CAST.  TO DATE YOU HAVE REJECTED THIS SUGGESTED SOLUTION FOR YOUR OWN SELFISH INTERESTS AND NOT THAT OF THE VOTERS DILEMA, THROUGH NO FAULT OF THEIR OWN.

         YOU ARE IN THE LEAD WITH THE POPULAR AND THE DELEGATE VOTES AND HILLARY HAS AN ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE TASK TO OVERTAKE YOU.  THEREFORE, YOU SHOULD BEND TO THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE AND ALLOW THESE VOTES TO COUNT AND PREVENT THIS INJUSTICE AND DISENFRANCHISEMENT FROM CONTINUING.

           WE SUGGEST TO YOU, THAT IF YOU INSIST ON BLOCKING OUR VOTES, YOU MAY WIN THIS POINT, BUT WILL LOSE FOREVER THE CONFIDENCE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO HEAL OUR DIFFERENCES IN THIS MATTER AND OTHERS, IN THE FALL NATIONAL ELECTION.     THEREAFTER, THE BITTER TASTE OF RESENTMENT AGAINST YOU WILL FESTER AND GROW, RATHER THAN DIMINISH, AS IT SHOULD TO UNITE OUR PARTY AND COUNTRY AT THIS TIME OF DIRE NEED.  IT IS UP TO YOU.
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Monday, March 24, 2008

The Rise and Fall of an Un-American Candidate, Barack Obama

      FOR THE LAST YEAR WE HAVE SEEN THE RISE IN POPULARITY OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, A TRULY UNIQUE MAN WITH A MUSLIM NAME, A WHITE MOTHER AND BLACK FATHER.  

       HE HAS SHOWN HIS CHARISMA, INTELLIGENCE AND CHARM TO EVERYONE IN THE COUNTRY AND FOR A WHILE WE WERE ALL CAUGHT UP BY HIS RHETORIC AND PROMISES TO BRING THE COUNTRY TOGETHER WITH "CHANGE" AND “CAN DO” ATTITUDE.    

      HE AND HIS BOOK “THE AUDACITY OF HOPE” APPEALED TO THE AVERAGE AMERICAN, ANGERED BY THE DIVISION BETWEEN OUR WORKERS AND MANAGEMENT, TIRED OF THE NEVER ENDING WAR, THE COST IN LIVES AND MONEY, A DEEPLY SAGGING ECONOMY, WHICH A BICKERING AND DIVIDED CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT HAVE CONTINUALLY FAILED TO ADDRESS, FOR YEARS ON END.    

      WE ARE IN A DEEP RECESSION, THE LIKES OF WHICH OUR YOUNG  HAVE NEVER SEEN AND OUR OLD ARE REMINDED OF, THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930’S.  BOTH ARE CAUSING FEAR AND DESPAIR THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY AMONG THE WORKING MASSES, LOOKING FOR HELP AND LONGING FOR ANSWERS.  UNFORTUNATELY, THIS HAS CAUSED US TO BE PRONE AND SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE PROMISES OF CHARLATANS WITH GET RICH QUICK SCHEMES AND FALSE PROPHETS. 

      AS A RESULT, OBAMA WAS ABLE TO VIRTUALLY TROUNCE HIS OPPOSITION IN MANY PRIMARY STATES AND, ONE AFTER THE OTHER,  EQUALLY QUALIFIED AND ABLE CANDIDATES FELL BY THE WAYSIDE.  IN ADDITION, THEY FAILED TO OBTAIN BOTH  THE FINANCIAL AND THE VOTER SUPPORT NECESSARY TO SUSTAIN THEIR CANDIDACIES.  IN THE END, ONLY SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON REMAINED TO CHALLENGE HIS RUSH TO THE NOMINATION FOR THE  PRESIDENCY.  IT WAS ONLY THEN, THAT HE MET HIS MATCH, WHILE  TIME AND, TRUTH, FINALLY EXPOSED THIS MAN FOR WHAT HE REALLY STANDS FOR AND WHO HE REALLY IS.  WHEN YOU REFLECT ON THIS MAN OBAMA, YOU MUST ADMIT THAT VERY LITTLE WAS REALLY KNOWN ABOUT HIM, EXCEPT THE IMAGE HE CHOSE TO PAINT FOR US WITH HIS WORDS.

     FIRST, HE WAS BORN IN HAWAII, ABOUT THE TIME IT BECAME A STATE.  THEN, HE WAS ENROLLED IN A MUSLIM SCHOOL IN INDONESIA.  NEXT, WE ARE TOLD HIS FATHER LEFT THE FAMILY WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG AND WE HEAR HIS WHITE GRANDPARENTS RAISED HIM.  AS HE STATES HIS TYPICAL WHITE  GRANDMOTHER WAS AFRAID OF BLACKS.  THAT IMPLIES THAT ALL TYPICAL WHITES ARE RACISTS WHEN THE TRUTH IS THE OTHER WAY AROUND.  BLACKS ARE RACIST WHO HATE WHITES ROB, STEAL, KILL AND MAIM, INDISCRIMINATELY AND WITHOUT ANY REMORSE.  THAT IS WHY THEY ARE PRONE TO SUSPECT UNTIL THEY PROVE OTHERWISE.  THERE ARE MORE BLACKS IN JAILS THAN WHITES.  HE WAS RAISED IN A WHITE HOME AND IN A FAMILY THAT GAVE HIM UNRESERVED LOVE, AS THEIR-OWN CHILD.  HE HAS NEVER SAID HE LOVED, RESPECTED HIS PARENTS NOR HIS GRANDPARENTS, ONLY THAT HIS GRANDPARENTS SHOWED HIM LOVE EVERY DAY.  WE ALSO KNOW HE WAS THE  RECIPIENT OF A FREE EDUCATION AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AS A RESULT OF THE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS IN PLACE AT THE TIME.  WE KNOW HE WAS MARRIED TO HIS WIFE IN REVEREND WRIGHT'S CHURCH ABOUT TWENTY YEARS AGO AND THAT THEY HAVE  BEEN  PROTESTANT MEMBERS IN THAT CHURCH, SINCE.  OF COURSE, WE HAVE NOT BEEN INFORMED WHAT RELIGION HE WAS BEFORE HE WAS MARRIED FOR THE FIRST 26 YEARS OF HIS LIFE.   

      UNTIL THIS STORY BROKE ABOUT HIS PASTOR, HE HAD PRAISED HIM AS A FRIEND AND UNCLE, PUBLICLY AND IN HIS  BOOK HE CALLED HIM HIS MENTOR.  HE EVEN HAD HIM ON HIS PRESIDENTIAL COMMITTEE UNTIL LAST WEEK.  NOW, HE CONDEMNS REVEREND WRIGHT’S CONTINUOUS STATEMENTS OF HATRED AGAINST AMERICA ITS, WHITE PEOPLE, JEWS AND  OTHERS.  BUT HE CANNOT, HE SAYS, CONDEMN HIS FRIEND FOR WHAT HE MAY REPRESENT.  OF COURSE, WE HAVE NOT HEARD FROM HIS WIFE, WHO IS KNOWN HERESELF TO HAVE MADE RACIST REMARKS RECENTLY, HERSELF.  WHEN THE VICIOUS ANTI-WHITE AND ANTI-AMERICAN STATEMENTS FIRST SURFACED RECENTLY, OBAMA, DENIED EVER HEARING THEM.   THEN UPON REFLECTION IN HIS  EXCUSE  SPEECH LAST MONDAY HE TACITLY ADMITTED BEING PRESENT.  BUT THEN CLASSIFIED THEM AS THE RANTING OF AN OLD BLACK MAN WHO WAS SOON RETIRING FROM THE CHURCH AND AS HIS  REASON FOR NOT LEAVING THAT CHURCH.  WHAT MOST PEOPLE MAY FAIL TO REALIZE IS THE FACT THAT OBAMA WAS CAUGHT IN A BIG LIE AND AS SUCH HIS VERACITY NOW IS PUT IN  DOUBT.  THE TRUTH IS THAT CHURCH AND IT’S CONGREGATION ARE THE BASE OF OBAMA’S RISE TO POWER.   THEY HAVE SUPPORTED HIM SINCE HIS FIRST ELECTION TO OFFICE LOCALLY, TO HIS ELECTION TO THE U. S. SENATE AND NOW ARE HIS INSPIRATION FOR THE PRESIDENCY SO THAT HE CAN FINALLY REWARD THEM AT THE EXPENSE OF THE AMERICAN TAXPAYER WITH REPARATIONS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.  OF COURSE, NOTHING WAS SAID ABOUT THE OPINIONS OF THE BLACK CONGREGATION WHO ARE SEEN APPLAUDING THE REVEREND’S RACIST REMARKS WHILE JUMPING WITH  JOY IN A CONGREGATION THAT INCREASED IN NUMBERS DUE TO THE REVEREND’S RACISTS STATEMENTS, WEEK AFTER WEEK. 

       EVEN, OPERA WINFREY, WAS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO LEAVE AND DISTANT HERSELF FROM THE PASTOR, KNOWING WELL THE POTENTIAL FOR CRITICISM AND REPERCUSSIONS OF REMAINING IN THIS HATEFUL ENVIRONMENT.

    SUDDENLY, OBAMA HAS BEEN UNMASKED AS A RACIST HIMSELF SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY EXPLANATION FOR HIS FAILURE TO ACT AND REJECT THOSE HATEFUL WORDS AND THE MAN WHO WAS SUPPOSEDLY A MAN OF GOD.  HE NEVER APOLOGIZED FOR SITTING IN CHURCH IN SILENCE WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.

      ALSO, ONE MIGHT WONDER WHERE IS OBAMA OBTAINING ALL THE FUNDS FOR HIS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.  HOW CAN THIS RELATIVELY UNKNOWN MAN OUTPACE HILLARY CLINTON, JOHN McCAIN AND OTHERS BY A WIDE MARGIN IN FUND RAISING, CONSISTENTLY FOR MORE THAN A YEAR?

     IS’NT IT OBVIOUS THAT HIS NEWLY FOUND PAL AND SUPPORTER, OPERA WINFREY, IS THE UNOFFICIAL TREASURER OF HIS CAMPAIGN AND THE REAL SOURCE OF A BOTTOMLESS BAG OF MONEY, SINCE, AFTER ALL, SHE IS THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THIS COUNTRY, IF NOT THE WORLD AND WANTS DESPERATELY FOR OBAMA TO WIN, BECAUSE HE IS BLACK, LIKE HER?  WITH THIS WOMAN’S HELP HE IS ALMOST ASSURED TO BUY THE NOMINATION.

      HERE IS A WOMAN, WHO FOR YEARS HAS BEEN A CHAMPION  OF WOMEN IN AMERICA AND THE WORLD ONLY TO DUMP THEM AND A WOMAN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDEN, FOR HER BROTHER, OBAMA.

     THIS ATTITUDE IS REFLECTED STRONGLY AMONGST BLACK VOTERS WHO HAVE TURNED OUT WITH 90 % OF THEIR VOTES FOR OBAMA, WHILE WHITES FOOLISHLY HAD LOOKED AT HIM AS AN AMERICAN AND NOT THE VENGEFUL AND HATEFUL BLACK MAN THAT CANNOT SPEAK OUT AGAINST HATE WHEN HE SEES AND HEARS IT.  HE JUST CANNOT HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. WHERE IS THE COMPASSION FORGIVENESS, BROTHERHOOD, LOVE AND HEALING TOWARD WHITES IN THAT CHURCH?  WE FIND HATE AND CONDEMNATION AGAINST WHITES AND THIS BENEVOLENT COUNTRY WHO HAVE REACHED OUT TO HELP BLACKS AND ACCEPT THEM AS EQUALS FOR AT LEAST THE LAST 50, IF NOT 150 YEARS.  AMERICA SPENT BILLIONS TO BUS BLACK CHILDREN TO WHITE SCHOOLS FOR 20 YEARS, WHILE OBAMA CLAIMS THE BLACK ARE STILL IN SEGREGATED SCHOOLS.   

     AMERICANS AND AMERICA HAVE BENT BACKWARDS IN A VERY CONCERTED EFFORT TO FOSTER THE ACCEPTANCE OF BLACKS ESPECIALLY SINCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1963. WITH ADDED AND HELPFUL INCENTIVES IN THE FORM OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LAWS, WHICH, AT TIMES WERE AT THE EXPENSE AND DETRIMENT OF WHITES THEMSELVES.      

      IT IS OBVIOUS NOW,  THAT  BLACKS HAVE BEEN QUIETLY TAUGHT BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY THEMSELVES TO CONTINUE TO HARBOR ILL FEELINGS AGAINST WHITES AND THIS COUNTRY FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS IN SPITE OF THE SACRIFICE OF THIS NATION IN THE CIVIL WAR, TO GRANT THEM THEIR FREEDOM AND GIVE THEM THE EQUAL RIGHTS EVEN WOMEN HAVE YET TO RECEIVE.  PRESIDENT LINCOLN DIED FOR THE BLACKS.

      IT IS TIME FOR THE BLACKS TO STOP PLAYING THE RACE AND HURT CARD, WHICH IS NOTHING BUT AN EXCUSE TO TRY TO GAIN EVEN MORE FROM THIS GENEROUS COUNTRY AND  ITS PEOPLE.  IT IS TIME FOR ALL BLACKS TO JOIN ALL OF US AS AMERICANS, REALIZING THAT THOSE DAYS OF INEQUALITY AND SLAVERY WERE BACK IN THE DISTANT PAST.

      THE LAST TWO GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS HAVE BENT OVER BACKWARD TO ASSIST BLACKS AS WELL AS OTHERS, EVEN SO CALLED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY.  THEY NEED TO JOIN OUR SOCIETY AS EQUALS AS OTHER IMMIGRANTS HAVE DONE SUCCESSFULLY FOR GENERATIONS.  UNFORTUNATELY, MOST BLACKS HAVE CHOSEN TO DAMN AND REBUFF OUR HONEST EFFORTS, AND JOIN THE LIKES OF THOSE IN REVEREND WRIGHT’S CONGREGATION, ALONG WITH THEIR HERO FARRAKHAN AND OTHER BLACK EXTREMISTS.   

      NOW, I FOR ONE, HAVE DECIDED TO GIVE UP ON BLACKS THAT CHOOSE TO ACT LIKE DISPLACED AFRICANS, INSTEAD OF FREE AMERICANS FOR THE LAST 150 YEARS.  ENOUGH IS ENOUGH, AND WE HAVE SEEN ENOUGH OF THESE WHINERS, MALCONTENTS AND ANTI-SOCIAL COMPLAINERS.  NO MORE FREE HANDOUTS, FREE EDUCATION AND HOUSING FOR THE ABLE BODIED PERSONS.  IF THEY REFUSE TO JOIN OUR AMERICAN SOCIETY AND CONTINUE TO HATE AMERICA FOR SOME ANCIENT WRONG, THEY SHOULD LEAVE AND RETURN TO AFRICA IN SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE IN,  THEIR ORIGINAL HOMELAND.  IRONICALLY THE FREED BLACKS WERE GIVEN THAT CHOICE IN 1865 AND MANY SHIPPED OUT TO LIBERIA, TO THEIR SUBSEQUENT REGRET.
    OBAMA AND HIS WIFE NEED TO DECIDE ALSO, THAT WHETHER HE IS BACK OR WHITE, HE IS AN AMERICA FIRST AND FOREMOST AND WAS OBLIGATED TO MAKE HIS MOVE AGAINST REVEREND WRIGHT TWENTY YEARS AGO.  THE FACT THAT HE DID NOT, PROVES HE IS BLACK FIRST AND WILL NEVER TRULY BE AN AMERICAN.

     RECENTLY, OBAMA RECEIVED THE ENDORSEMENT OF SENATORS KENNEDY AND KERRY FROM MASSACHUSETTS, A STATE THAT OVERWHELMINGLY VOTED FOR HILLARY CLINTON.  THESE ARE THE SAME OLD RE-TREADS OBAMA HAS RILED AGAINST AND WANTS TO REPLACE WITH A NEW GENERATION OF “CHANGE.”  BOTH ARE LOSERS AS IS THE MOST RECENT ENDORSEE, GOVERNOR RICHARDSON OF, NEW MEXICO, ANOTHER RECENT LOSER IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST, OBAMA IS DESTINED TO MEET THEM AGAIN ON THE WAY DOWN TO DEFEAT, WHERE HE MAY JOIN THEM TO LICK THEIR WOUNDS.

    HE MAY CONTINUE FOR A SHORT WHILE, TO TRY TO OUTSMART AMERICANS AT THEIR OWN GAME OF POLITICS, BUT NOW HE HAS BEEN EXPOSED AS A RACIST AND LIAR.  HE  WILL FAIL TO WREST CONTROL OF THIS COUNTRY FROM WITHIN ON BEHALF OF THE LIKES OF THE BLACK POWER, HE REALLY REPRESENTS.  INSTEAD OF SUGGESTING THAT THE WHITE AMERICANS ARE RACISTS, HE HAD BETTER USE HIS EFFORTS TO EDUCATE AND SILENCE HIS OWN LOST BROTHERS AND SISTERS.  HE HAS CHOSEN TO EMBRACE, WITHOUT RESERVATION, THEREBY FORCING HIM TO TURN THIS NOMINATION INTO A BATTLE OF THE RACES. 

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Friday, March 21, 2008

OBAMA'S SPEECH IN DEFENSE OF REVEREND WRIGHT

      Recently, I listened intently to Barack Hussien Obama’s explanation of his ties to his pastor and admitted mentor, Reverend Wright, but was disappointed to hear him say he cannot disown him while condemning his racist tirades against white people and “the God Damned KKK of A” (America).

      How can he condemn such inflammatory statements made by a man of God in a church for thirty years who continually riles against the country and the “rich white people that run it!” and not condemn the man that repeatedly espouses such venom?  He is not a parrot or a recording.

       This is not a one-time guest speaker at the Lions or Rotary club.  This is a constant, continuing tirade against the U. S. A. and white people addressed to a black congregation meant to inflame them toward hate of America and the predominately white population.     There is no question that he succeeded in this effort, witness the applause and antics of the congregation as the pastor reached a point of crescendo with his incendiary remarks.    When you add the increase of his congregation from a hundred to several thousand parishioners, over this period, then you are assured they agreed with his vile sermons of hate and were increasingly attracted to this type of damnation of America and its white majority.  Reverend Wright is chiefly responsible for the actions of disgruntled blacks who rob and kill without remorse.  Look at the prison population and you will understand why Obama's grandmother and many Americans are rightfully fearful of blacks.

      First, Obama stated that he never heard those racist remarks.  But later relented and in his speech he tacitly admits he was present but excused them as the ranting of an old hurt black man who had been subjected to painful segregation prior to the civil rights act of 1963.  The fact is that Obama and his wife should have stood up and not only objected to these tirades as yesterday’s hurts and not conducive to the healing that has transpired since at least 1963, since he and his wife were beneficiaries of affirmative action but, they did not, they should have left that church and the ranting of Reverend Wright at least in silent protest as, Oprah Winfrey, had reportedly done, but they did not.  As a U.S. Senator he should have renounced those hate sermons against the Country he is elected to represent, but he did not instead he sat there in quiet approval even as he contemplated running for the highest office in the land.  It is obvious that Obama did not want to alienate the blacks, especially those of his parish or his pastor, friend and mentor, while seeking the support and future votes of whites and the general public throughout the country.  This is the form of deception that cannot be accepted and must be condemned, because Obama cannot have it both ways.  He cannot be a racist and expect the support of people he has allowed his black friend to openly hate.  If Obama was honestly interested in bringing the people of the U. S. A. together as part of the healing process between the backs and whites, then he had the obligation to prepare his own people and the congregation and pastor, first and foremost, but he did not.  It is obvious that because of this inaction, he must be considered one of those hate mongers, and part of the problem that still unfortunately persists in the U. S. A. in spite of all the real honest efforts to alleviate this problem, by this country.

      I am sick and tired of hearing the false laments of most blacks that make a concerted effort to give whites a guilt feeling because they were slaves here for 200 years.  The fact is slavery ended in 1861 with Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.  The North and the South fought the civil war for four dreadful years while both sides suffered horrendous losses of life and property, in order to sustain the freedom of slaves.  Maybe Lincoln’s death may have delayed the country’s plans to help the blacks transition from slavery but that is not the fault of our generation or those since 1962 when the Civil Rights Act was passed, thanks to the efforts of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, both Democrats.  The successive laws passed by Congress in the 60’s and 70’s of Affirmative Action and busing and the Supreme Court case against the Board of Education in Birmingham, Alabama ending the segregated schools of the South and its longstanding claim to “separate but equal” treatment of blacks.

      Compare all these achievements since 1961 for the blacks and compare that to the plight of women in this country who did not have the right to vote until the 1921, Amendment to the Constitution was passed.  White women have suffered far greater humiliation and a worse form of slavery than blacks for thousands of years without outward complaint, while giving their all to men, including children, family a warm and pleasant home and bed, food and heat and clean clothes.  Women have suffered far more and longer at the hands of men than blacks can claim.  Remember, the original U.S. Constitution gave no rights to women, they were excluded and only free men of all colors had any rights, thereunder.  Women have suffered in silent dissent while supporting their men in peace and war without open complaint.

      White slavery has existed throughout the world since the beginning of time and was commonplace until about 500 years ago.  It was the blacks in Africa that captured, tricked and sold their own brothers and sisters into the slave trade.

      For at least the last fifty years this country has taken the lead in securing and guaranteeing equal rights and special opportunities for blacks in America, usually to the detriment of the whites themselves.  Blacks have nothing to complain about to America in this day and age.  All they need to do is take advantage of the opportunities given them and all Americans equally in any field of endeavor.  If you are willing to work hard, as everyone else does to progress, the rewards are there.   The time for handouts has long since expired.   

       The actions of Reverend Wright in attacking everyone that is white and this country stands for is unforgivable, especially in God’s Church, they should be teaching brotherhood, forgiveness, charity and respect for their fellow man and women, as Christians.  Obama and his wife did nothing to stop those terrible tirades, and ranting and raving against fellow human beings and brothers in Christ.  To add insult to injury, Obama made their Pastor, friend and mentor, a member of his advisory committee for his presidential campaign, knowing full well of his hateful utterances or denunciations of whites and of his country.  It was only when his pastor was exposed did he withdraw him from that committee.  If he loved him so much, why didn’t he leave him on the committee?  Obama certainly saw the hate boiling over in that church for twenty years and did nothing to stop it and defend the country and his white-heritage, which he claims he loves.  However, because of his actions and failure to act, he has made it clear that he has become a partner to this hate of whites and the country.  He says he wants to bring this country together and heal this Nation, when the truth is that he, his congregation, the Reverend Wright and all those who espouse and fail to denounce this hate need serious rehabilitation and psychological help to become members of their community again.

     As Lincoln so aptly said, “you can fool some of the people some of the time but, you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

     Admittedly, Obama has talent, charisma and an attractive presence.  Too bad he is using it in a divisive and dishonest way.

     It is time for blacks to either join the American society as Americans or they should leave it.  They have been given more opportunities for advancement than any other immigrants ever received.  We black immigrants, and that includes most every one, only had to gain American’s respect with hard, honest work to join America’s society as fellow Americans and not remain as these black men have, as displaced Africans.         

11:07 pm 

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

MARTSO ATEENA, DISA YEER

Deer journali rita ina charga off da letta Ia senda toa yoo nowa.

 

          Ia thinka Ia gutta rita toa yoo beecuza di Americanzi no lika dere amicos frum Mehico.

Yua forgotta dat Texass, Califona, Noo Mehico, Arizzowner anda Neverda beluga toa Mehico anda yoo steel ita froma usa becuz wea keel yu ata da Alamo.  Thatsa no rite, no wey.

          Furst yu killa alls da Indianees ona da roda wen yu goa toa Californa for a alla da gold denari.  Den yua killa ussa tooa taka da landa fo da gold.  Shamma toa yoo!

          Den day say “U guta giff baka to da Indiani and Mexicanos wat you steel frum.”  Day efen haf a noo nama for da noo country, “The United States of Indian and Meexicans.”  Dena dea gif you Americanis a choice, go toa a resivasion ina nod Alaska or jumpa da fenz toa Mehego.

          Wea guta huri uppi toa doa dis befor dis guya “Obama” become Presidenti ana he and da blacka slaves frum years ago taka ovfa da country and calla ita “Da United States of Blacks and Whites.”  Dey guta rite for toa do dis, becuz da South kepe dem unda da shoo fo moor dan 300yeers, toa pic da cotton for u eers so dey no heer dem crie ala tima.

          Pres. Linkon a Rebublicano, free da blacka people ina 1861, buta do Sowt, he fite da war wid da Nord buta day loose afta 4 year, buta dena dis guya Boot keel hima, so da South deepa da slaves anudder hundra years untila Presidenti Jonson hea passa da law dey calla da citizens rites Law ina 1964 toa maka dem frea gen.  Buta da Souths isa no dum lika me, she changa the parti frum Democratico toa Fepublicano ana alla da KKK hida da grownd.  Buta we sea dem wen dey vota.

          Wea lika yer Constitupation anda Congresso becuz ita betta stilla den houresy.  Wea lika two, da A.C.L.U. hooa fite for a da rites wea no hav any wey.  Contresso saya ina 1985 “yua cana stey hear ala da tima.”  Tanka God for a Presidenti Bushy and Senatore Kennidi, dey wanta for a uses more toa stay hear like wea borna hear.  Da busineea poople giva toa uses cheapa jobas buta we gotta steel to makauppa the differenciali.

          Wena we steel yua guta gifta to uses avocado (free lawyore mouthpeaces) for da law cort and eeffin wea loose and goa toa da jailhowse U gota gifa uses a clean rooma anda tree meela dae.  Ina Mehico, wea geta breada and wata onli onca a dae.  U can no sena uses homa becauz ita costa tu mucho.  Anda ifa U do thata, wea justa coma ova da fence becauz itsa no dere.

          Presidenti Bushi wasa eleca becuz wea vota for a himes, tree tima eech.  Hea do alla dis so wen hea finish heer and cano runa agany, hea runna ina Mehico anda ween biga buy allus fenci jumpas, jumpa fo heam.  De Democratis tink we vota for a dem, buta theya ronga becuz wea no can vota hear, onni work ana hava kidsa.  Mabi eitheena years nexa, owa kidsa vota, ifa dea no in jayli.  Lika mi.

          Wea lika hear ina U.S. off A., wear we geta freea medically servisco ina alla  hospitallis emergencia roomas they no cana refus uses carea.  In Mehico nuthinka isa freea anda tha hospitalli isa no dare, noplasa.  Wen da gala Ia haf ina Mehico, she geta belli fula kidsi, shea haf da babi ina da howsa wida no worda anda lites tua sea inda darc.  Hear, in da U S Ia taka mia noo gala frenda to da ospitalli emergemcia rooma to haf her bastardo kidsea, a veri nicea cleena plassa, to eeta offa da floa.  Wena shea coma owta shea goa to da shity halla to getta welfair so she no gutta worka for a longa tima.  Wena da inspeka hea finda me ina da mattarattso wid hera, mak lov.  Hea saya “stoppa, but I saya, “Ia canno stoppa, itsa too lata” Itsa no mi falta iysa lova allada tima because wea no guta da pitsure tube ora da pesos toa goa to da moving theratro.

          I dona haf even da car or picmeup truck toa goes toa werka becosa Ia donshu no howa to steel hima yeta.  Mia cuzin Pedro hea tella mi to sho mi howa buta he wanna fife dollaro ina da hans befor hea sho mi.  So Ia guta waita untilla sombuudy go bi afta paydae soa ia can, yu no, taka da moni frum hisa porketa afta I hita heen ona hisa hed.

          Wen Ia work ina da feels ina Immokali Floridas, da nica mana paya me anda mi frendz one haf off da pey because he sae “yoo too shotta fo fulla pae, wena you gro uppy Ia paya U fulla pae, O.K.?”  Ia sae O Kays, den Ia crappa ona da spinucci so hea haf to tro alla the spinucci toa ada dumpi ana he gotta no paya ana no joba too.

          Wen ia go fo to wurka ina fatori thea saea ia needa carda wid da nmberos ona it, so mi cuzzin Pedro, taka mi toa da plas anda dae taca mi picha, puta ita ona carta fo tena dollas wid da numba ia rememba froma tha jale ina Montarey 110-99-3712 wear I s go fur sixa years wen Ia killa da guya whoa wanta 500 pesos to sho da wae to swima da Rio Grandi nota toa deepa fuma mi hed.  Da sunoma betchee sae da wadda wasa tree feet deepa, buta he no seea I ama tree feet talla ana iama submareen unda da wata.  So Ia swima backa anda keel heem ana gotta mi pesos bak.  Da judici, hea no lissin toa mia and saae, “Izza yu falt, U tree feet tall, no da falt off Mehico boda guarda hooa taka U pesos toa sow U da wey.  Da wadda isa tree feeta tall no?  Hesa rite, ana Ua ronga, six years ata harda labba ata the Guarda’s howsa.  Nowa U gotta taka hia placa ina Tiawana wid hisa fat wifa anna sixa kidsy toa supporta”

          Da Bossa offa da fatori sae, “U gota carta wid U picher, U geta seven dollars a our or twenty sense a peese wurka.  Ifa U no guta da carta U geta fiva dollars a our or ten sense a peese, O.K.?  I sae toa heem, Ia  go homa anda guta da carta anda coma backa sum dae, O.K. to U, tu?  Hea sae O.K. ana Ia sae O K agin, “buta whatsa disa meena O.K.? Ita like “hello” ontha telofone, Ita no meen “Bonus Dios or asta la vista.”  “Hello” Ia tink meena “go to hello.”  Buta no, mi amigo say, ita meens lika “Gooda Muormin ora Goodanita”  Ia sae O.K. buta wie no sae thata instead off “hello?”  He say get the hella out of here. 

          Youse Americanos no speeka da Inglish anda U expek uses to speek ita toa.  Ia no no wat U meen?  Yoo crazi ina da hed! 

          Wena Ia gota da cart, da boss looka, ana sae “thisa is a phoney card!”  (hea Mehicano too) Ia sae, no, I no guta ona da phone, Ia guta frum Pedro, mia cuzzin  Itsa reel becuz itsa costa ten dolas, casha.  Hea sae O.K. buta yoa toa shot for to make seven dolla, Ia gif you sixee, O.K.? Wen hea sae O.K. da scondo tima, I loos my minda and a I tink hea sae “get the hella outa hear” so Ia guta fixa heem for a da insuitta soa Ia pulla outa mi nife anda cuta off hea asses ona bot sidesses.  Now Ima in Jale ina uthe U.S.A, Ia guta a clean beda, tree meelas a dae anda TV ina mi privit rooma.  Dis isa da life, Ina the U.S.A. every ting is free if U no what not to work.  Da best ding isa thata dae gif mi a noo cart wid mi Picher and mi sama Numbero, 110-99-3712.  Wen mi tima issa uppi ina tena years, Ia musta cutuppa anudda guya so ia can spenda alla my life lika free mana, hear inda jale.

          U no wen we tak ova da country Ia am gonna passa a law, “Onli Mexicani spoken heer!”  Alla da scoolas willa teech Spanish onli, ana nowa U, Americaneez cana do da jobas owni Mexicanis cana doo befor.  Fur minimus wagesses, $5.75 fer our, to.

          PS.  Mi gala frend come ova to see mi too tima a montha.  Cuzzin Pedro maka a paypa to showa we marry soa we have conjunction rightsa ina da bed.  Thisa a gratta cuntree, thatsa Y alla da Mehicanos lova ita hear anna sta, anna no go homa, fur sewer.  Signda, Antonio Lunez 

 

12:45 pm 

Monday, March 17, 2008

ALL THERE IS, OR ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

   No one really knew who, Barack Hussein Obama, was when he decided to run for the highest and honored position as President of the United States.

     He served without distinction as a local representative in Illinois and the only record he made was voting present more than a hundred times as a political maneuver rather than to stand up and be counted on issues.

     In 2005 he was catapulted to the U.S. Senate in a wave of resentment of congress and the Bush administration.  He took his seat in the Senate Chamber a little late because, as he explained, he thought the sign “Senate Chamber” was the toilet and he continued to roam those august halls until his name was called at roll call. And a sympathetic page showed him the way.  As a Junior Senator from Illinois he was expected to lay back and speak only when spoken to but this was so annoying to him that he decided to leapfrog over everyone in the country and run for president in retaliation.  He spent less than a year in the senate and did little more than collect his pay and plan his campaign for President.  Once he convinced Oprah Winfry to help, with his charm and charisma she ran to empty her pockets of money while abandoning her preference for women and their rights for this handsome black person, like her.

     Obama is not the first black man to run for President, it seems every four years starting with, Jesse Jackson, a black man has been on the stage seeking the nomination for the last twenty years, time and again, try as they might, they failed to win, and gracefully dropped out of contention.

     This year, besides the usual dozen white men vying for the office, a woman, Hillary Clinton, entered the affray along with that ambitious, Obama, who just can’t stop running for any office.  Most of the other men running for this prestigious and important office were retreads and repeats from the Washington scene for so long, they are part of the scenery in that political stage, along with Obama that handsome black with a silver tongue and catchy phrases like “change” and “can do”.   He can fire up a crowd with his empty promises and he sounds great and pleases everyone and gives them hope they solely need after eight years of Bush, a sagging economy, a war that just will not end and a do-nothing congress that rather fight the political fight than solve the serious problems that need their attention.  The American people are bedraggled and worried and reaching for straws and a life preserver before they go down for the third time. 

     They had a real choice in Hillary, but she was a woman who reminded men of the disciplinarian at home.  Women have never been equal to men and men want it that way simply because that is the way it has been since Adam and Eve.  Even the U.S. Constitution failed to give women any rights while giving freed blacks equal rights, women had little or no rights to property and could not vote until the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution.  Women have been treated more like slaves than the black people and for more than 225 years in this country.  The difference is women never complained outwardly, but inwardly suffered at their plight as second class citizen, while giving men their all, including life and family.

     When the first primary ended in Iowa, Obama won handily because of his newness and lack of voter knowledge about him for people to question.  Many people would not vote for Hillary, because they equated her to her husband who embarrassed the nation with his tryst with Monica Lewinski.  This is obviously guilt by association but anything goes when you do not want to vote for a woman.  Any excuse will fit the shoe.  Good ole Hillary fought back as the Clintons always do, they never flinched and pulled out NH, then MA, TX, RI and OH, while Obama took more southern states with the solid black vote and most western states with his charisma and promises she even took FL and MI although the DNC claims they will not seat those delegates, because they moved up their primary date designated to them.  Obama has been able to garner more votes and delegates than Hillary along with the very old time politician’s endorsements like MA Senators Kennedy and Kerry, two divorced women bashers and the very same old politicians Obama decries publicly as old style Washington professionals.  Obama complains that Hillary got it wrong when she gave Bush the authorization to go to war and that this bad judgment should disqualify her for not getting it right the first time.  Well, if he wants to condemn her for that vote, he should also condemn the American people who not only approved of the invasion but also voted Bush back into office two years later to continue said war.  It was only in 2006 that public opinion turned against the war because of the horrendous cost in troops and money Obama is crafty and divisive while preying on the feelings of the American people who are frightened and confused.

    His march to the White House seemed inevitable until a wise Republican, expecting that Obama might be the Democratic candidate decided to check his record and background carefully and asked, where’s the beef?  What he found was no beef and a lot of baloney.  With a name like, Obama, it was only natural to check his credentials, especially for the highest office of the land.  First, it is a fact that Obama was a Muslim for the first 26 years of his life.  Obama said he had been a Christian for the last twenty years at a Chicago church where he was married, after he met the Reverend Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., whom he states was his mentor as stated in Obama’s book, the “Audacity of Hope” a title suggested by Reverend Wright, whom he called, “like an Uncle to me”.  When someone dropped into the church and dug out a few sermons, it was glaringly apparent that this man was a stark, raving, racist and had been for about thirty years.  He has attacked everyone but blacks indiscriminately.  Be they white, Jews, Italians, Americans and America itself.  In general, this was not one sermon but almost a daily part of the gospel he espoused, week after week to this day.  All his parishioners are black they cheered him on and gave him nourishment with applause and open acts of agreement.  He fired up the congregation lambasting all Americans who were not black and blamed them for all that the blacks had suffered for 400 years.  Obama and his wife, Michelle, sat there for twenty years, enjoyed his friendship and sermons and not once voiced their objection or made any point of disagreement by walking out and staying out, but Obama did not.  The only logical explanation is that he and his wife obviously agreed with these racist tirades along with every one else in the church.   He continued to return and was even present when the pastor gave an award to Louis Farrakhan known homegrown terrorists who applauded the terror work of the black panthers and advocates of black power.  Obama has the tenacity to admit he was there for twenty years but never heard the Reverend Wright, utter a racist word.  The only explanation for this must be that he and his wife are deaf, dumb and blind, there can be no other excuse.

     Now, in his defense he admits he learned about Reverend Wright about a year ago but failed to remove him from his upper echelon group of top advisors, until the story broke.

     Now, what is his explanation for keeping him on for another year?  The answer must be that he was devisive and hoped he would not be exposed and also did not want to throw his mentor under the bus, until he had to.  Now, he had to and did not hesitate or be exposed for what he really is, a racist lover.

     How insincere of Obama, to denounce his long time friend and mentor as a racist, when we all are aware that the denouncement was made purely for public consumption and was obviously arranged to save the campaign train from certain derailment.

     When you consider that just after his election to the U.S. Senate in 2005, Obama purchased a mansion in Chicago at a bargain price of about 200,000 dollars less than its value with the help of his chief fund raiser and confident, Mr. Tony Rasko, who has been indicted for influence peddling while also picking up a lot next door at a bargain price from Mrs. Resko, you wonder how deep this relationship he admits was a mistake really goes.  I think he should explain this transaction in complete detail before he is given a free ride in this matter that relates to his honesty.      

     Now Obama can continue to say it is a time of healing, when it really is, a subterfuge to win over white people so he can add them to the blacks that are solidly behind him and smell the chance to feel their oats even more and get reparations from the government for being subjected to slavery for all those years.  They all should go to work at honest jobs, instead.

     Even today Obama states he will not leave the church because he says the pastor is retiring and he doesn’t want to alienate the congregation who are just as racists as the pastor since they never walked out either, or complained.

     What all this proves, is that Obama is a phony candidate who wants to prove a black man can win.  He does not have the best interests of the country on his mind or in his heart, only the interest of the blacks to whom he has promised true freedom and retribution for 400 years of slavery and subjugation under the white people.

     Barack Hussein Obama thinks his cursory explanation of his racist roots is behind him and will continue to use his charm and charisma and glib talk to win over the nomination, but people now are really looking him over beyond these attractive talents and are looking for the important things they need but did not find, the beef they hoped for.  To date, they only found ham on a slice of white bread. 

     Wake up America before you make another mistake, for the third time.  Remember, three strikes and your out in the cold.               

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3:48 pm 

Friday, March 14, 2008

MONEY, THE ROOT OF ALL-EVIL

        When I read about banks and people being robbed of their money and people are killed or wounded, how drugs are sold for large sums of cash, how people work for cash and don’t pay their fair share of income taxes, I decided to write this article about money.

 

      I propose that Congress vote a recall period of six months to cancel all paper money in the U.S.A.  Of course those people that have, on hand legitimate sums of money will receive a Government check for said sums. Which must be deposited into a banking institute or spent on goods in the open market, during this period.

  

 1.    In this day and age of checks, credit and debit cards, money orders and American Express or other travelers checks, there is no practical need for cash in our economy, except coins for machines.

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 2.   The very act of a money recall will cancel out all lost, destroyed and all the ill-gotten money in the hands of the wrong people.  I estimate this act alone may save the Government a few trillion dollars to help reduce the national debt.  

 

 3.   We can save additional billions of dollars engraving, producing and circulating paper money, which in reality is nothing but a government promissory note, the Constitution, under section 8, gives the power to Congress, under PARA. b “to borrow money, and under PARA.  e., the power “to coin money, regulate the value thereof—“  once the U.S.A. went off the gold and silver standard, paper money was reduced to a mere Government promissory note and has no extrinsic value, anyway, except the credit of the U.S.A. as a result, under my plan, we can reduce the function of the Treasury Department to making and distributing coins, exclusively for the principal use in coin-operated machines.  The elimination of paper money is not a Constitutional issue.

 

 4.  The Treasury Department anti counterfeiting section, will be eliminated or drastically reduced to prevent the counterfeiting of our coins of course all counterfeiters will go out of business and be unemployed.

 

 5.  Banks will rest easy and require almost no security since they will handle only U.S.A. coins, a very small quantity as usual.  They will not need to worry about holdups for paper money since none will be available.  This will eliminate injuries and deaths connected with robberies for cash at banks, businesses and homes.

 

 6.  The need to collect and destroy old worn paper money will also be eliminated, as well as the attending cost.

 

 7.  State and Federal jails would not be needed to house those who are convicted of robberies for cash, or counterfeiting. So the costs will be eliminated.

 

 8.   The Federal and State court system will be spared the time and money in prosecuting counterfeiters, robbers, and thieves who steal paper money.  Law enforcement units will be freed to fight other crimes.

 

 9.   All, so-called “under the table work”, transactions and sales for cash would be eliminated and as a result they would be forced to the surface, be recorded and taxed.

 

10.  So called drug dealers would be deprived of their cash and non traceable transactions, all drug deals by check, credit card or other means would be traceable and easily identified and dealt with to the full extent of the law.  Money laundering will be eliminated, because there will be no money to launder.

 

11.  Paper money has always posed a real health problem, because of handling by thousands of people, many of whom may have infectious diseases.  All these dangers will be eliminated.

 

12.  The use of paper money as a traditional means of untraceable bribery of public employees, officials and politicians will stop.  If you see a politician walk out of City Hall with a refrigerator on his back you can bet it is a bribe, or he is a common thief.  Only dishonest politicians and people will oppose this plan.

 

13.  Banks and credit card companies will obviously experience a surge in business and resulting profits, and interest rates charged would drop in this lucrative field.  They will find tamper proof credit cards and checks, and, eliminate identity theft, which is necessary.

 

14.  People will have peace of mind from robberies for paper money and from kidnapping for money ransom, since only traceable assets will be available.

 

15.  Paper money will still be available to collectors as souvenirs, and many collectors will want to buy this redeemed paper money.  There by paying the price and offsetting the Government’s cost of the recall and redemption process.  Of course redeemed money will be marked “redeemed” to avoid problems.

 

     In conclusion, the time has come for the elimination of paper money.  We will win the fight against such cash crimes and criminals. And hurt them where it really counts, in their pocketbooks.  We will eliminate the business of stealing cash and the death, injury and costs of defending these thefts and prosecuting offenders.  We will be fighting terrorism since all U.S. money and illegal transactions will be traceable.  We will all be required to pay our fair share of taxes, thereby, reducing taxes for honest people.  Our lives will be safer, less costly in this area and we would be assured that every one in the U.S.A will be treated equally as the Constitution requires.  Everyone but thieves will be happy and thieves will be made more honest as a consequence of this plan or move overseas to greener (paper money) pastures.   

     Now is the time to remove this root of all-evil, paper money.   

 

 

 

  

11:27 pm 

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

THE MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA VOTE CONTROVERSY

       THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT TO COUNT THE DEMOCRATIC DELEGATES OF MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION IS VERY INTERESTING FROM A LEGAL POINT OF VIEW.

      IT SEEMS, THE DEMOCRATICAND REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEES MADE A DECISION TO DISALLOW THE DELEGATES IN THESE TWO STATES BECAUSE EACH STATE LEGISLATURE ARBITRARILY MOVED UP THEIR PRIMARY DATES IN SPITE OF A PREVIOUS AGREEMENT TO THE CONTRARY.

      UNDER OUR U.S.CONSTITUTION, THE INDIVIDUAL STATE LEGISLATURES HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SET THE MANNER IN, WHICH ELECTORS ARE SELECTED.     HOW THEN IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL FOR A POLITICAL PARTY TO ACT IN THIS REGARD, BASED ON A SIDE AGREEMENT WITH A STATE’S POLITICAL LEADERS?    I DON’T THINK SO!!

      OF COURSE, WE ARE DEALING WITH DELEGATES AND NOT ELECTORS AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A PRIMARY AND NOT AN ELECTION.      HOWEVER, IF THE LEGISLATURE IN EACH STATE HAS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO DETERMINE THE MANNER IN WHICH ELECTORS ARE CHOSEN, THEY MUST ALSO HAVE THE RIGHT TO SELECT THE MANNER IN WHICH EACH DELEGATE IS CHOSEN, SINCE IT IS THE INITIAL PART OF THE SAME PROCESS OF ELECTING A PRESIDENT OF THE U.S UNDER ARTICLE 2, OF THE U.S.CONSTITUTION.

        THE VOTERS IN MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA VOTED THEIR CHOICE AT EACH STATE’S PRIMARY ELECTION.    WHY WERE THEY ALLOWED TO VOTE IF THEIR VOTE WOULD NOT BE COUNTED AS THEY EXPECTED?      THEY SHOULD NOT BE PENALIZED IN THIS WAY, SINCE THE PARTY LEADERS SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT A LEGAL ACTION TO ENFORCE THIS SO CALLED AGREEMENT, BEFORE THE PRIMARY VOTE, AND THEY CHOSE NOT TO DO SO     I DO NOT BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE POWER TO COUNTERMAN A PRIMARY VOTE, BECAUSE EACH STATE HAS THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO SET THE PRIMARY DATE AS A PART OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL MANDATE.      THEREFORE SAID VOTES ARE LEGAL AND MUST BE COUNTED NOW     

      THE RESULTS OF THE PRIMARIES IN STATES YET TO VOTE, MAY NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IN THESE DISPUTED VOTES AS IT IS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY SINCE JOHN McCAIN HAS ALREADY GARNERED THE NECESSARY PRIMARY VOTES FOR HIS NOMINATION, IF ALL OF THE DEMOCATIC CANDIDATE FAIL TO GARNER THE NECESSARY VOTES FOR NOMINATION, WE CAN EXPECT A POLITICAL WAR AND CRISES OVER THESE VOTES AND THOSE OF THE SO-CALLED SUPER DELEGATES.     THAT IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A FINAL DECISION IN THIS MATTER, NOW, BEFORE A CRISIS DEVELOPS THAT WILL TEAR THE DEMOCRATI PARTYAND THE COUNTRY APART.      I HAVE NOW JOINED THE RANKS OF THE INDEPENDENT VOTER, SINCE; I HONESTLY FEEL THE POLITICAL PARTYS IN THIS COUNTRY ARE THE ROOT OF ALL THAT IS EVIL, CORRUPTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE TO THIS COUNTRY.    

      PLEASE READ THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, ARTICLE 2(b) THERE IS NO MENTION MADE OF POLITICAL PARTYS AND THEY SHOULD NEVER BE ALLOWED TO INFLUENCE OUR ELECTION PROCESS.    

 EACH STATE HAS AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT AND OBLIGATION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION TO DIRECT AND CONTROL ALL PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATIONS     EACH POLITICAL PARTY CAN STILL HAVE ITS NOMINATION CONVENTION FOR PRESIDENT BUT THE STATES’S LEGISLATURE HAS AN OBLIGATION TO HAVE THE LEGAL VOTES OF ITS CITIZENS COUNT AT SUCH CONVENTIONS.  

      OF COURSE IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR EACH STATE TO CONTROL ITS OWN NONIMATION AND ELECTION PROCESS IN EACH STATE THEN THE OUTCOME OF THE VOTES AND ELECTORS PROCESSED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE 12TH AMENDMENT THEREOF.    I BELIEVE IT IS ILLEGAL FOR ANY STATE TO DELEGATE ANY OF IT’S POWERS GRANTED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION TO ANY POLITICAL PARTY IN BOTH THE NOMINATING AND ELECTION PROCESS. AFTER ALL EACH STATE PAYS IN FULL ALL COSTS OF ITS PRIMARY AND ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT.         .                

7:58 am 

Saturday, March 8, 2008

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN AMERICA
             For the last 400 years here in America men held women in bondage.  What started with the cave men has continued unabated since Adam and Eve.  It was the brutal strength of men that forced their will on women.  The irony is that women accepted this role, sometimes, drudgingly, but usually, with silent complaint and resentment.

            Since the Declaration of Independence in 1776 the U.S. continued to treat woman as property rights.  The phrase "...all men are created equal..." meant to apply only to men.

            This trend continued until 1861, when President Lincoln freed the slaves with his Emancipation Proclamation with the 14th Amendment to free the blacks and outlaw involuntary servitude.  This also did not apply to women since under Section 2 thereof the right to vote in Presidential elections was reserved exclusively to males.  Thanks to the women's suffrage movements after WWI, the right to vote was finally granted to women under the 19th Amendment in 1920.  This was the result of the injustices visited upon women under the 15th Amendment, which confirmed the right to vote to those denied by race, color or previous condition of servitude (women were intentionally excluded). Women have continued to endure, discrimination to this day, although blacks received their rights nearly 150 years before.

            Even the Equal Rights Amendment of the 1960's designed to give women equal rights to men, failed to pass because of the states opposition.  That is only about 40 years ago.

            Women are still treated as second-class citizens; their wages are less than men only because of stupid traditions that should have been shed in 1776, 232 years ago when the U.S. Constitution was adopted.

            Now we have a woman running for President as well as a black man and a white man are still in this field.  Women have the unique opportunity once and for all, to prove that a woman is really equal (to men).  Men, today, have led us to the brink of a depression.  Each candidate is equally qualified and competent to be President.

            If women do not band together now to break the yoke of enslavement and prejudice that has also manifested itself in this campaign; today women, again, will be reduced to the status of second-class citizens while blacks have already been granted equality before women.

            Finally, it is time for all women to come to the aid of women, for a change.

           

            To read the full version, go to www.politicalsolutionsforum.blogspot.com

10:11 am 

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

ONE MAN'S SOLUTION TO THE HIGH PRICES OF GASOLINE

This article was written by, Andy Loony, because it is better to laugh than to cry about gasoline prices, while we find the solution to this problem before all our vehicles are used to fill parking and used car lots.  When are the American people going to wake up?


Wednesday, March 5, 2008

U.S. PATENT OFFICE

WASHINGTON, DC


Dear Patent Office:

                I have been working on a very important invention that I want to have patented.  I wish I could tell you about it, but it must remain a secret until I receive my patent.

                However, if you promise to keep it a secret, I will tell you about it, please cross your heart and promise not to tell anyone, especially, "Scooter" Libby, or the White House Staff of Sneaky Leakers.

                ORAL DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION:

                People have been searching for a substitute for Gasoline since 1972 when the OPEC countries of the Middle East unilaterally raised prices about 70% overnight, causing long lines and short tempers at the gas stations.  Recently, our domestic supplies such as Exxon Mobil the English, British Petroleum (BP) and Venezuela Oil, (Hugo Chavez's Oil Co., Citgo) have been manipulating the price of gasoline while thumbing their noses and insulting our country.

                Congress and each administration have been content to do nothing about this problem while stuffing their pockets with big money contributions from the oil companies of the world.  They have given us token credits for the use of solar energy and wind power, which they terminated as soon as prices stabilized.  The American public has had to resort to wood burning stoves in a desperate attempt to heat their homes at affordable prices for a long while.

                The need is now so evident; we must find renewable and alternative sources of energy, such as ethanol, solar, steam, horse and buggy and wind power to supplement and hopefully replace gasoline and the price gouging efforts of the local and international oil cartels.

                First, I have recently developed such a renewable and alternative energy source.  It trumps all others and generates power from the waste of our own bodies.  Our free urine and defecate can be directly transferred from one's body to the engine of a motor vehicle to form a continuing source of energy with only a slight transformation.  Each person is their own manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer and consumer of this form of energy, saving the middleman's added costs and profit.  Second, it is free at the pump.  Third, there is no cost or purchase involved and no need to travel to a station to refuel, like gasoline.  Fourth, it is a form of Nenewable Energy, since our body naturally produces this product day after day throughout our lives.  Fifth, this product, in the past has had to be wasted and cost money to dispose of, with the added costs of sewage treatment plants, etc.

                For years scientists and charlatans have attempted and failed to convert water into gasoline by combining water with a pill additive.  I have succeeded, after much research and testing, by using a person's urine, which naturally contains antiseptic and acidic qualities, as a base, and combining it with a person's defecation, pouring it directly into the fuel tank of a vehicle.  There, they are heated to a specific temperature and mixed to a certain consistency, resulting in the emission of methane gas of a high-octane quality to power an engine, free from pollutants, odors or any residual waste products.

                I should mention that our said body's wastes can be directly poured into a vehicle's tank, either with a person's own instrument for discharge or, for the modest souls, a private chamber or pisspot may be employed.

                This invention has many side or additional advantages.  By using my new fuel, there is no need to stop at any stations for refueling, if you follow a few simple directions and advice.  This eliminates the use of dirty, smelly rest rooms, fatty snacks and valuable energy source.  The time saved alone is worthy of mention.  It saves about 30 minutes or 3% of each waking day, time you can spend eating nourishing foods like beans, broccoli or canned fish.

                Of course, the more people in your vehicle the more free fuel is available.  However, a complication may arise if you try to put more people than there are seats in your vehicle.  It may be uncomfortable for passengers standing in a half bent over position in today's low profile models.  Increasing the size and seating capacity of vehicles may overcome this but at some point each pound added, directly reflects on the energy to move that pound, therefore these factors enter into the equation of the optimum point of lesser return.

                Therefore, I have determined that 4 to 6 people in a vehicle using my free fuel method of energy should rate the vehicle at 10 miles per person per hour or 40 to 60 miles per hour with 6 occupants, based on the National Transportation Department's latest theoretical test results.

                Another matter to be considered is that these persons must be fed food, estimated to be one pound per person per hour to continue a long journey non stop.  The food is an important individual, free energy producer, as well as disposing of human waste in a pollution friendly way.  If some passengers are unable to produce this free energy in a timely manner or within a necessary time period, each vehicle should be equipped with some ex-lax or enema equipment for such fuel emergencies.

                Of course, for those passengers who may be old, infirmed, or just plain lazy, I have developed a system of interconnected hose lines with quick connect attachments for the direct diversion to the fuel tank, so they may remain in place.  A recommendation and as a precautionary measure to prevent diversion to the fuel tank, so they may remain in place, a recommendation and as a precautionary measure to prevent tripping over the lines and causing a smelly environmental disaster.  Also, it would be a tragedy to lose any of the precious sources of free energy.

                Partaking in this free energy programs is a practical, economical, and patriotic way for all of us to help ourselves as well as the Country as a whole, to solve and end our dependence on foreign and domestic energy and avoid future shortages and crises. 
At the same time it is a positive way to put a friendly face on former Vice-President Al Gore warnings about Global Warming.

                Finally, I need to have this patent approved quickly so we can solve these present energy crises, caused by OPEC and the greedy domestic oil companies.

                I estimate, that this invention will cause the price of gasoline, a natural pollutant, to fall by $1.50 a gallon or less since the need and market for gasoline will eventually be eliminated and we can thumb our noses at them, at the same time we hold our noses to feed our fuel tanks.

                I also plan to buy up the future old and abandoned and shut down gasoline stations throughout the country and convert them to human sewage treatment plants and storage facilities for single passenger vehicles and heavy trucks and equipment operations.

                I also need to apply for two trademark protection registrations for this new, Free Renewable Energy Source, which I will call either "Pissaline" or "Crapaline."

                Also I will submit, a copy each of a sketch of this invention along with a scale model of a typical motor vehicle installation process, once I compelete them.  The filing fee of $2,500.00 is enclosed, but don't cash it for two years, or until I find some stupid investors, which will be easy, considering the subject.  One of my few republican friends suggested that Halliburton might be interested in this invention, but a loyal democrat told me to forget a bout it.  Since Halliburton is only interested in oil and gasoline and would probably buy it only to shelve it like any other oil companies have done with fuel efficient engines and ideas in the past.  I am in the process of constructing a working model, which I realize is one of the requirements for obtaining a patent.  It should be completed and I plan to deliver it to you personally, soon after delivery of this letter.  I know you will be anxious to receive it, so, if you will please leave your windows open, you will certainly smell it coming.


                I am so excited; I can't hold my water.

Very Truly Yours,

Andy Loony, Inventor
PS. It is better to laugh than to cry.

11:25 am 

Saturday, March 1, 2008

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AND THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM

            As a witness to the last two Presidential elections and the current controversy about Delegates for the nomination of Presidential candidates, we all know we should change the manner in which our President and Vice President are nominated and elected, for a four- year term.

            The national electoral system in grossly outdated and archaic and does not reflect the will of the American people.  Everyone expects and wants their vote to count and that the total popular vote should determine who is both our nominees and President.

            First, the electoral college voted in by the representatives of each States, provide for the winner to have the votes of all the electoral college, although it is not specified that these delegates are bound to vote based on the popular vote these delegates are bound to vote based on the popular vote cast by the American voter at the election time.  In addition this practice does not insure that the candidate with the move votes nationally will win the Presidency.  This was dramatically shown in the 2000 Presidential election when President Bush received the electoral majority but not the majority of votes, separate and apart from the dubious actions of the U.S. Supreme Court.

            Next, the manner of choosing our President has remained the same for 200 years.  Did you know that prior to 1804 the rule was that the person with the most electoral votes was elected President while the person with the second most votes became the Vice President?  Since the advent of political parties this proved too burdensome, thus the twelfth amendment was passed.  So the two candidates could run as a team.

            In addition, the Constitution, at Article 2, which dictates the manner in which a President is elected by electors, leaves it to each individual States Legislatures, as to the manner in which electors are selected.  As a result practically every State has a different and unique manner and plan for the selection of electors.  Some States have super delegates and some have not.  Some are bound by the popular vote, in the nomination process and some are not.  Super delegation, in any event, are not bound to vote other than as they please, which basically is an invitation to frustrate the voters choice at the polls.  Some States do not have popular votes in the nomination process and rely entirely on the vote of delegates appointed by the legislation, not the people.  This whole process results in speculation, surprise and possible corruption and the abuse of power.

            To further compound the problem, the selection of a nominee in each State is based on the two party system, now Democrats and Republicans.  And many States do not provide for any independent voter to be included in the nomination process.  Other States allow what we call “crossovers” and also the Independents to select either party’s ballot.  The former rule deprives a voter of his right to vote unless he is a “Declared” Democrat or Republican.

            In addition, many States put such stringent rules and conditions on a Non-party candidate to run for office, any qualified people are discouraged from entering the arena. 

            “Well”, you might say, “let’s change it!”  That will take a few Constitutional Amendments, which, at best, will take a few years, and buck up against the political power of most State Legislatures, since they will not be happy to lose this advantageous control of Presidential nomination and elections.

            Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution spells out the procedure to amend the Constitution.  It will require the vote of two thirds of each House or Congress or two thirds of the States’ Legislatures to adopt and to ratify the Amendment.

            It is suggested that the American voter, either arrange to have the matter put on a ballot as a question or convenience their Federal Legislatures to vote for such an Amendment.  If the public demands this action and makes their feelings noted by vote or poll, Congress must be made to act or the voter can use the power of their vote to reward them by “Re-Electing Nobody” at the next National Election.  The Congress must be made to follow the mandate of the people or we should consistently turn them out until they get it right.

            We can start by asking each Congressman in office now and those aspiring to the office to make this commitment to change the nomination and election of our Presidents in the future.

            We must restore the power to the people until our Representatives learn they must do the people’s business and solve all our pressing problems, without delay.  We are in the brink of a recession, the likes of which we have not seen since the 1930’s.

                         

8:46 pm 


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