The 2010 Election Plan for the

Democratic and Republican

Parties

July 18, 2010

      It is ironic that both the Democrats and Republicans think they have the winning plan for their election in the year 2010.

     The Democrats claim, after what former President, George Bush, did with the economy during his eight years in the White House, starting two wars that have no end, adding 10 trillion dollars to the deficit, and promoting a trillion dollar bank bailout bill the American people have a choice, go back to Bush's mismanagement or stay with a Democratic new President and Congress who are slowly bringing back the economy.   The Democrats have convinced themselves that because the American people wanted change and elected a Democratic President less than two years ago, they certainly do not desire to go back to the Republican ways and a Republican Congress now.

      The Republicans claim the Democrats promised change for the better with a new Democratic President and a Democratic Congress.  All the changes have been for the worse, with unemployment rising to nearly ten percent in spite of a trillion dollar stimulus bill, and a deficit now approaching 14 trillion dollars and with record foreclosures keeping the economy in shambles, the American people are dissatisfied and disillusioned with their government and the help they need is not coming, even with the extension of the unemployment benefits.

       All the polls show the American people are not happy with Congress and the President's actions so they feel the people definitely want change again, so they will throw out the Democratic Congress majority in 2010.

    The see-saw battle between Democrats and Republicans and their parties for elective office has been raging for at least 15 years, with open bickering and back biting in the halls of Congress to the point most action by Congress to solve any problems has been stymied and stalemated for years.

      I have come to the conclusion, after hearing both these plans and their attendant claims that both political parties are right, but at the same time, that does not mean the American people have the choice of voting for a Democrat or a Republican candidate only.  It is a known fact, that the Independent voters today outnumber either the Democrats or the Republicans.  If the Independent voters are to believe one or the other, between the Democrats and Republicans that does not mean the Independent voters will vote for one or the other in 2010.  If, on the other hand, the Independent voters believe, both or neither, the Democrats nor the Republicans then it is logical they will be seeking another or Independent candidate instead of a Democratic or Republican candidate.

      If some responsible person were to take an honest poll of the American people , they will discover that the American people are fed up with and have given up on both  political parties and all  the Democratic and Republican office holders in Congress and in November 2010, every incumbent seriously faces a loss of his or her  job in Congress.  The result eventually will be that there is a better chance for a "We the People" Independent candidate to win election in November 2010, than either a Democrat or Republican.

       Therefore, the conclusion is, that both the Democratic and Republican parties are right in their strategy, that the other party should lose, except they are wrong that the other party will win as a consequence, since we, the American Independent people will have a clear choice to elect a new face, an Independent candidate as a back handed reward to the Democrats and Republicans for their misfeasance and malfeasance in office for the last fifteen years.    

THE LATEST RACIAL ACCUSATION BY THE NAACP AGAINST THE "TEA PARTY"

July 17, 2010

Dear President Barack Obama:

            Here comes the race card again!  The latest is the NAACP attack on the Republican "Tea Party" claiming it is against blacks, and specifically against you.  As an American I cannot condone the vilification of my President at a Tea Party rally depicting you as a monkey with the slogan, "go back to Kenya" but, then again, this is what you can expect from a political party who has changed its color and ideology twice in the last hundred years.  First the South, former National Confederates and sympathizers changed their party affiliation from Republican to Democratic, because of President Lincoln's Constitutional beliefs and his Emancipation Proclamation of the black slaves during the Civil War.  Then, after John F. Kennedy's and Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Actions and Acts as Presidents, for the suffering blacks dealing with segregation in the South under "separate, but equal" accommodations, which were not equal, but segregated and in violation of the U.S. Constitution, the South suddenly and unabashedly changed its political party affiliation again, from Democrats to Republicans.  This was to correct a wrong that had existed in the U.S.  Since its Constitution itself sanctioned slavery and racism in spite of Lincoln's subsequent Emancipation Proclamation, the 14^th Amendment and the Civil Rights act of 1963.  Southerners and former slave owners and their offspring have stubbornly clung to their beliefs that blacks are not equal and will never be equal and they feel they are justified in being prejudicial and racial toward blacks.

            While they are at it, these black haters have also turned on the Jewish and Catholic people who, from their own experiences over the last two or three thousand years know something about suffering from prejudice and subjugation as recently as what happened to the Jewish people in the 1940's in Germany and the Catholic people here in the U.S. as late as 1900's under the protestant majority.  Remember the Presidential campaigns of Al Smith and John F. Kennedy?

            Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Nationality has existed, world-wide, since the beginning of time, spurred on by jealously, prejudice and supposed hate.  Just look at the situation in the Middle East today, where most Muslims have hated the Jews for three thousand years and now hate the U.S. and England because they have supported the Jewish state of Israel.  Wars are being fought to this day between religions of different faiths, racism is not new anymore than nationalism and the wars continue daily.

            The Catholics have an answer to this problem, they say, "Hold your loved ones close and your enemy closer (that way you will know what they are up to and you will be better able to defend yourself).  This is really a human nature thing; a person's beliefs come from their mind, taught like a poison from generation to generation.  Wars resolve nothing as the vanquished plot the future revenge while the victor baths in his imagined victory since like all things they are temporary as the challenge continues.

            And that is the way racism endures, it is branded and engrained in the mind and passed from father to son and from generation to generation.  You may be able to stop these aggrieving and aggressive acts temporarily, but not permanently, unless and until you learn how to deal with it and you deal with it by ignoring it when it doesn't threaten your safety.  By calling attention to it you are giving them attention and publicity and that is what they want and need to keep the insult alive.  When you ignore it, it will die on the vine and you will be the bigger for it, since you know what you are and what they are and to be thin skinned is a fault, of course when they threaten you physically the law will always protect you.

            In all events, remember the time honored slogan, "stick and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me."  Repeat it out loud or silently and you will receive great solace from it knowing you are a bigger person then they are.

            When I was young, the Irish kids in the neighborhood called me a "nigger" (as a Sicilian, I am dark skinned) I realized if I showed them I was angry they would repeat the taunts.  Instead, I ignored them and they stopped.

            One more point, the "tea parties" only threat is to the Republican Party, itself, please ignore them.  

THE CONFIRMATION HEARING FOR ATTORNEY ELENA KAGAN

June 30, 2010

Dear President Barack Obama:

          As an American attorney of fifty-three years, I have watched with intense interest, the Senate Judiciary Committee's Confirmation Hearing on your nomination of former Harvard Dean, Elena Kagen, as the next Justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

     Having watched other Confirmation Hearings over the years, I did expect the usual minority political party's squabble, complaints and opposition to the nomination by the opposite political party's administration to the nomination by the opposite political party's administration as a matter of course.  However, in this instance, I did not expect the minority, Republican Party, members of this Judiciary Committee's vilification of the nominee, just because she was a Law Clerk to an outstanding former Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall, the first black member appointed to this August Court.

          Why chastise and call Justice Marshall, a liberal activist member of the Court who purposely advocated a justified interpretation of the Constitution especially as it applied to the rights of black Americans?  Justice Marshall, obviously did try to make up for the one hundred years of denial of Constitutional rights to black Americans by the Southern States, since 1863, when President Lincoln rightly issued the emancipation proclamation.  He is renowned for this legal fight in the case of "Brown vs. the Board of Education", to end once and for all, the South's crude actions by establishing segregated schools and facilities, under the guise of "separate but equal" accommodations and ending with President Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act of 1963 and the Voting Rights 25^th Amendment.  If anyone needed to be activists in those days on behalf of the downtrodden black Americans, how could anyone condemn a black person for his actions after the Southern States had openly deprived black Americans of their "God given rights."  These same Southerner's cry out in their drive to bring religion into the schools and Government while they have also succeeded in having the present activist Supreme Court Majority turn around the real meaning of the 2^nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution so that now "the rights of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed," by any state of the union.  When you, also, add the recent Activist Act of the present majority of the Supreme Court in calling Corporations and Unions a "person" with the unrestricted right to make political contributions to political parties and candidates.  You wonder why and how, the republican members can complain about the possibility a candidate may act liberally actively, in supposed contravention of the Constitution, when the Republican controlled Supreme Court has recently acted in the very same manner.

          To call our first famous black Justice of the Supreme Court an activist when he was merely seeking to right a wrong perpetrated on the black people of America for more than a hundred years, is a tragedy in itself.  It betrays the lingering problems still perceived by the Southern whites against the blacks they have always looked upon as their property, and not fellow human beings and Americans, since the Civil War between the States.  It is the same reason the Southern States have managed to change their political party from republicans to democrat, starting in 1865 and then after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Southern States, again changed their party affiliation from Democrats to Republicans, in protest of the Civil Rights Act and the 25^th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

     It is obvious that most Southern Republicans are smarting at the election of a black Democratic President, and are still not willing to accept the black Americans they had managed to subjugate as slaves and free men and woman since 1863, as their equals from their stubborn and un-American actions to this day and never will.

     In addition, these same bigots hate the liberal Jews and Catholics who, knowing and having some experience about the pains of discrimination have always come to the aid of their brothers, the black Americans.

     And now, we know why most sensible people call the Confirmation process a charade and mere political duel without weapons, at the expense of the innocent nominee, something that should never happen, but is commonplace in Congress and our Government these days.  Hopefully, we also now realize that when on Political party calls the other Political party "...no good...," they are both right and they exemplify the reason why we should do away with political parties in our voting and in our Government.  They are the main problem why our Government is not working for the people as it should be and is torn apart by petty politics, today.

REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH BARTON,

REPUBLICAN OF TEXAS, PERSONIFIES THE ONGOING PROBLEM WITH CONGRESS

June 19, 2010

Dear Representative Barton:

          When you spoke at the public hearing held by a Committee of Congress investigating the problem of the oil spill by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, I could not believe what I was hearing.

          After about sixty days of the worst oil spill in history that is still ongoing and damaging the environment and livelihood of hundreds of thousands of fishermen and tradesmen in the Gulf States every day, it was both fitting and proper for Congress, as representatives of the American people, to seek answers as to the cause of this tragic event and hopefully find answers to end this problem and hopefully prevent this catastrophic event from happening again.

          It was obvious from the start of the questioning period that the representative from BP was stonewalling and as a lawyer of many years I can understand his evasiveness in order to protect his company from possible criminal liability in this matter.  It may be unfortunate that he had to take this stance, in light of the US Attorney General's ongoing investigation, but certainly understandable from a legal point of view.

          However, your actions and statements as a member of the committee in charge of this Congressional investigation even as a Minority Member leaves us perplexed as to your real motivations in this matter.

          Since this incident happened sixty days ago, BP has repeatedly acknowledged financial responsibility to pay for all past, present and future damages caused by this spill and in addition has tried to handle these claims as it also has attempted to stop the spill and has employed several methods to pick up the oil spilled and clean the beaches where the oil has come to shore.  BP has also stated it will not be bound by the money limit of 75 million dollar cap placed into law by the Congress for such disasters, a measure that has no practical basis nor reason and one, I am sure, you voted for.

          For you to publicly apologies to BP because our President Barack Obama called for a meeting with BP at the White House to ask for a 20 billion dollar fund to be set aside by BP to handle these damages by a third party, calling it a "shakedown", smacks of a complete disregard for the recovery of damages suffered and will be suffered by the American people at the hands of BP under the present circumstances.

          When you consider the precarious position of BP in this matter, with its stock falling to half its value in only sixty days, and with continuing damages mounting, it is obvious that a question arose about the viability and capacity of BP to pay all the damages and that Obama's actions in pressing BP to set up a damages fund, was nothing less than a stroke of unexpected genius.  In addition, Obama is putting the damages suffered by the American people ahead of the expected fines due the U.S. Government due to the spill.

          With the economy in such bad straits in the Gulf States, people have no time to wait for damage recovery by legal actions, since most are living from paycheck to pay check.

          Instead of playing the usual political game against the administration of the other party, by apologizing to BP, you Mr. Barton, should have complimented them and President Obama for doing the right thing for the American people in this tragic matter.  Instead, the President and the American people have found an "ass to kick" in this matter.  The apology you directed to BP should have been made to the American people, whom you never mentioned in your comments and who you obviously do not care about their suffering and predicament.

          If you politicians in Washington cannot find common ground to work together on the subject of this oil spill, then, you do not deserve to be in Washington come next November!

GENERAL McCHRYSTAL AND THE WIMP

IN THE WHITE HOUSE

June 22, 2010

Dear General McChrystal:

          For a great General who has been a hero in the service for your country and to your men, you and your staff are acting like a bunch of school kids talking about your teachers.  I am referring to the comments you made to Rolling Stone Magazine, recently, during an interview that should have never taken place.  The fact that you offered your resignation tells me you did make these statements about President Obama, Vice President Biden and others.  Even if your statement may be true, that President Obama is a wimp, you are the last person to be talking that way publicly about our Commander in Chief.

          As a soldier, myself, stationed in France and Germany during the War we heard our famous great, General Patton, make some stupid statements and act out of character more than a few times during the War, but tough as he was on himself and his men, who always loved and respected him, he always was a great General who out performed every other General in the field.  Who can forget his actions in saving the brave soldiers at the break through in December 1944.

          I know full well the stress you are under every day in the field worrying about your men and the success of your mission and how frustrated you may feel at times.  When you honestly say the Taliban are not winning while the allies may not be winning too.  That remark is true after nine years in Afghanistan without a clear victory.  As a soldier, our fight was to win and I can understand your frustration in Afghanistan.  The Taliban and Al-Qaida do not wear uniforms and cannot be distinguished from the civilian population, you fighting an invisible enemy who hides among the population dressed just like any civilian you may meet.  One minute they are armed and fighting you from the darkness and as daylight comes they blend in with the sympathetic Afghans their former leaders.  I can readily understand how common it may be to mistake a civilian for the Taliban or Al-Qaida members, or to bomb them on bad intelligence or by mistaken identity.  I can also understand your frustrations to see suicide bombers kill your soldiers and civilians alike.  My own grandson was severely injured by an IUD in Iraq and lost an arm and a leg.

          When I look back in history, I am reminded of, President Truman's, actions in firing the famous, General McArthur, for publicly stating we should declare War with China during the Korean War that now has lasted sixty years without resolution.  McArthur was right, in hindsight, but Truman was the Commander in Chief and only he could make that statement or decision.

          There is only one way to be successful in Afghanistan and that is to secure the boarders and occupy the entire country and prevent the population from carrying even a firecracker.  Like in World War II, you must fight a War to win you are not there to be on the defensive because the enemy can wait you out at little or no cost to them, while they make every day an expensive one for the lives and safety of the troops along with the expensive cost of a War.  You must ignore the Karzai Government since they cannot be trusted.  Al-Qaida and the Taliban cannot fight without weapons they are the key to success but you must secure the borders first to keep the flow of weapons and the enemy out.  You must move forward with the army, occupy and control once you defeat the fighters and remove their weapons they are at your mercy and will have no choice but to submit or die.

          If your Commander in Chief has not allowed you to win in such a way as I have described, you might as well resign than see your men led to a slaughter, day after day, in a defensive way.  It is obvious that our Government is lacking in this fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.  I can see why a fighting man like you cannot be made to be a part of the failure that will befall us and our troops if this strategy continues.  We are heading for another Vietnam and or Korea just as sure as when the troops are not allowed to win this War in an all out fight as they want to do and are only trained to do.

          Again, what you and your staff said is inexcusable and wrong, but at the same time if you cannot fight the War to win, it is better for you to resign so you can tell the American people just what the problem is, since you are in the best position to know.  When all is said and done we will always love you and be grateful for your great service to our country. 

THE REAL MEANING OF THE 4^TH OF JULY

July 4, 2010

       This year, as in the last two hundred and thirty four years, we will celebrate the anniversary of the signing of our declaration of independence by the thirteen colonies in America in 1776.    It was a very solemn occasion and a sheer act of defiance against the British crown who had ruled over them since the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts in the fall of 1620.

      As a result, the country was thrown into an eleven year war that only ended after many failures and few victories by our patriots who chose to risk   losing their lives and property, rather than to continue under the yoke of British rule, in order to be free.   When the U. S. Constitution was signed in 1787, the signers, all patriots said to their countrymen,"we have given you a democracy run by the people, but it is up to you to keep it alive and thriving."

       Today we celebrate this occasion with much fanfare, with parades, picnics and displays of fireworks and fun to the great entertainment of every inhabitant, proud to be an American.    Little thought is directed to those patriots who fought and died, against all the odds, to win the freedom and independence, we enjoy today.

      however,  every American, whether natural born or naturalized, has that inner feeling of  love for this country and way of life, to the point they will fight and die for America, just as those patriots did so many years ago to preserve it  for us and future generations to enjoy in freedom.

       Yes, it is proper for us to celebrate our freedom, but at the same time we should reflect, remember and be grateful to those men and women, who have sacrificed so much so we may remain free and keep our democracy.

       At the same time, we must remain ever vigilant to prevent others from eroding our freedom or way of life.    Today, our nation faces threats to our freedom from within and without our country.    North Korea and Iran brazenly challenge and insult us daily as does Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro from as close ninety miles away.  We have been mired down in a combat with the Taliban in Afghanistan because of the bombings in New York and Washington by the forces of Osama bin laden.   The eight year fight in Iraq is draining our lifeblood of our brave armed forces in a seemingly endless struggle, for a cause no one can justify.

      China, our nemeses in Korea at the North Korean border in 1954, and the oil Arab nations of OPEC have been draining our money in return for their oil and cheap products, while our local oil producers join in for excessive and shameful profits, at the cost of the American consumer.   We are losing two trillion dollars a year to them with the imbalance of trade, which has reduced our assets and placed us at their mercy for credit.  Our factories have run overseas because greedy unions have priced their goods out of the market.

       To meet these challenges, it is obvious that something must be done to free us of our commitment in Afghanistan and Iraq, so we may turn our needed attention to solve the problems presented by the threats of North Korea and Iran which are equally damaging.

       Our forces are already strained to the limit and we are incapable to take on any other military challenge, at this time, and our enemies know this fact.

       That is the reason American voters disclaimed the actions of president bush and his administration and elected a majority of democrats in congress in 2006.  Americans wanted the war in Iraq to end and for our brave fighting men to finally come home.   Instead, the new democratic congress voted the bush administration the necessary funds to keep the war going through 2008 for a "surge" and, as a result, the will of most Americans was denied.

        This was the reason why the democratic candidate, Obama won the presidency in 2008.    The American people wanted a change in direction in the war and a change from the same-old way congress and the bickering between the democratic and republican members have stalled any meaningful action.

       Instead, president Obama formed a cabinet composed of old line politicians, while giving the democratic congress the green light to pass a stimulus bill full of pork projects that only aided the congressmen votes for re-election and did little or nothing to aid the growing unemployment problem in the country. With unemployment at about ten percent, and climbing monthly at the rate of nearly half a million people, the country needs jobs.  Obama, congress and the bush administration, have given and wasted three trillion dollars to wall street and the nation's banks and another half trillion to the failing auto industry, while unemployment keeps rising.  All these expenditures were driven by the lobbyists who have controlled our politicians for years with fat contributions to their campaign funds.  It does not take a genius to realize that unemployment is our main problem with the economy,  without work, people cannot feed their families and pay their taxes so the local state and federal governments can afforded to provide the services needed by the people and country.  At the same time, real estate values are falling, because of the mortgage foreclosures, which continue to depress values and hurt the ability of municipalities to collect sufficient taxes to balance their budgets.

       Until something drastic is done to stop these foreclosures and stabilize real estate prices, and to put our ten million unemployed workers back to work, we will have a depression even worse than that experienced in the 1930's.  Without these corrections implemented soon, the country and democracy we have enjoyed since 1787, will wither and die.  This is the equally threatening danger of our collapse from within. It is caused by the lack foresight and action by our elected officials, for the last ten years.  We cannot afford the free trade agreements our past presidents and congress have foisted upon us and our working force.  We must replace this folly with a balanced trade policy, based on an equalization of our imports and exports.   This will balance our trade and eliminate our crippling trade deficit and put most Americans back to work. If we had poured all that stimulus money into a program for the alternative energy we should have started in the 1970's, we would be free of our dependence on oil in this country and that trade imbalance would have been eliminated by today.

        The fact that Obama and congress have done little or nothing with regard to these simple solutions, should convince everyone that they all have sold out to the lobbyists instead of the critical needs of the American people.

When this happens and the elected officials represent moneyed interests instead of the American people they are bound by law to represent, we have a breakdown of our government, of the people and by the people, and we are left with a government of politicians and special interests, instead.

        So as you celebrate the 4^th of July this year think about who is running this country and who they represent, and where this country is heading.  It is time for the American people to rise up, organize and take control of their country back from the professional politicians who are only interested in themselves and their own agenda and not the people they should represent.  We, the people have allowed this to happen because of our refusal to vote them all out of office.

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S MORATORIUM ON

DEEP SEA DRILLING OF OIL

June 24, 2010

Dear President Obama:

            Soon after the disastrous BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, your administration imposed a moratorium on deep sea oil drilling on the remaining about 33 other deep sea drilling sites, for fear of another catastrophic spill.  Of course, it turns out this act was overturned by a Judge on the Federal Court in Texas since the reasons given were not considered adequate to interfere with the contractual relationship with the oil drillers involved.  It turns out; if you had only given the real reasons for this moratorium that your government agency responsible to inspect and oversee this drilling operation had done their job the spill would likely not have occurred.  You quickly learned that agency had been compromised with gifts and favors, from the oil companies, which brought a quick resignation of one of its members.

            You said on television and you publicly stated that you were investigating the spill because you wanted to "know whose ass to kick."  This was a charade on your part because you were hoping to hang the entire blame on BP and away from your administration.  Also the American public knows you and Congress are beholden to the oil companies for their huge campaign contributions to all of you politicians, year after year.  That maybe the very reason why you hesitated to take control of this situation as you should have since American property was being damaged and whole industries were being seriously affected.  Your General, Thad Allen, is not in charge and you know that, too.  BP is still making all the decisions in this matter and sometimes the American public is kept in the dark and not kept informed, as we should be.

            In your haste to cover your tracks and place the blame on others, you did not realize your actions would put thousands of Americans out of work, and when added to the sagging economy only makes matters worse instead of better for the employment and business areas.

            If your administration had been the least bit honest in this matter it should have started making the required inspections of the remaining rigs to minimize the damage to the industry, workers and related business, but you did nothing.

            In the meantime, you put the County at risk for higher oil prices due to the shortages while drilling has stopped.  Now you are blindly threatening appeal of the Judge's decision instead of doing the job of inspection and monitoring, of which your administration is legally responsible to do, but has not done.

            This is just another example of your administration's insensitivity toward this recession and ignorance as to how to turn the economy around.  You say that the economy is improving when you know it is not.  Why do you insist on being political instead of a sympathetic American leader you claimed to be and are obligated to be?  Do you wonder why incumbents are losing in recent primaries and elections?  In addition you should pay attention to the National Polls for the last year that spells the doom of incumbents.

            I am reminded of the remark made recently, by General McChristal, to Rolling Stone magazine, that you were a "wimp".  Of course as a subordinate, he cannot say that, even if it was true and you were justified in firing him.  However, your actions since you became our President have been sorely lacking.  All the change you promised is for the worse and by your actions, you have repeatedly demonstrated you and your administration cannot do anything right.

            As an American free to speak my mind, within the bounds of decency, I reluctantly must tell you sir, that you are the biggest disappointment I have seen in the White House since I was born in 1924, and that even included President Herbert Hoover, our leader during the stock market crash of 1929, which brought on the depression of the 1930's which lasted about ten years.  This list includes such notable disappointments as Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and both George Bushes.  Are you surprised you have been added to this "Dumber than Dumb" list so early in your Presidency? As a word of advice, until you stop acting politically and rid yourself of your political advisers that ran your campaign, all your actions will be considered political as they have been viewed since you were elected.  You are a phony and a fraud and your sweet talk and promises have soured from the neglect of the American people you and your Democratic cohorts cannot knock and belittle our military leaders and expect them to respect you as their Commander in Chief.  Politics has no place in a war, when the lives and safety of the troops are involved.  We have had enough of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan; it is time to win a war, if you intend to stay in the business of you Presidency.  We are becoming a second rate Nation, when we should be a number one Nation in peace and war.