THE RISE OF OIL PRICES DUE TO IRAN'S THREAT TO BLOCK THE STARITS OF HOMUZ

December 29, 2011

          Iran's threat to close the Straits of Homuz to all oil shipments because of the proposed sanctions is just another excuse for the oil companies to raise their oil prices again.  Overnight the price jumped about .15 cents even though the oil still flows and the threat is not likely to succeed.

          If the truth is known, the American people would realize we import about 40% of our oil needs from the Middle East, while the same amount of oil produced in the United States is shipped to Japan and Asia from Alaska and the United States mainland.  Therefore if the government really controlled its oil it leases to the oil companies we would not import one gallon of oil to the states, so much for who really controls American oil and its price in the U. S. A.  It is the oil companies who control oil and its price with their huge contributions yearly to our representatives in Washington to keep their hand off this scheme to rip-off the American people.

          What we need in the U. S. A. is price controls on oil and all its products as a means to stop this constant price fixing and high prices on oil that is in America's property and given away to the oil companies under so called "leases."

          All the sources of energy should be put under the control of the U. S. A., at least until we crawl out of this deep recession.  The same should apply to food which continues to rise, while and our wages continue to go down.

          We cannot expect help from our office holders in Washington, simply because they are the cause of the problem.  Unless you throw the bums out, these rip-offs will continue    replacing one party member with a member of the other party does nothing but change the faces of those in Washington and not the results.  Our representatives we send to Washington are controlled by each polticalparty and usual they vote in lockstep with the parties' wishes and not that of the American people who they are supposed to represent.

          Let us all decide to really make a change in our government in 2012 by replacing all our representatives with independent candidate who will represent the American people for a change.     

Why president Obama does not deserve a second term

A Christmas wish for the American people

December 22, 2011

                   With seven or eight republicans battling it out for the republican nomination for the presidency, Obama has no democratic opposition, when he should have, because he does not deserve a second chance to fail again as our president.

                   Everyone remembers his sweet talking promises of "can do and "change" because after three years he couldn't or wouldn't do anything right and in fact, he changed nothing but continued the gridlock that has crippled Washington for years.  The sad fact is that he had the first two years of a democratic congress to pass legislation to fix the economy, the unemployment and house foreclosure problems and he managed to make matters worse by voting temporary pork bills to help his union friends and public workers, while voting temporary extensions to the unemployed, instead of finding permanent work for those jobs that have fled overseas under the free trade system.   

                   In the finance field, he handed out the second half of the bank and wall street bailout money, without any conditions to help the mortgage default problem which has plagued the country for the last five years and, which continues to deflate real estate values every day.  His only comment was, "why help those who should not have purchased homes, they could not afford".  He forgot it is the lending bank who had the obligation to determine the feasibility of the loan and had the last clear chance to say no!, except for the bank's greed.  Unemployment has doubled under his watch while his only solution is to watch it rise or remain stagnant.  Giving temporary extensions to the unemployed only prolongs the problem and compounds it, as a result.  Nobody has come up with a plan to help employment, by bringing the lost jobs back because the president and congress are paid by big business to do nothing while reaping in huge campaign contributions of about two million dollars a congressman each year.  President Obama's chief political supporter is Wall Street and he has been amply paid to help them and not the American people.   He bailed out the three auto makers with huge loans to help the union auto worker keep his job, whose union has been the major cause of foreign competition in the auto industry.

                   He did cram a national health plan through congress with the help of his democratic majority, which is so bad and costly it must be repealed and abandoned.  If he had worked on a plan to reduce medical costs, everyone could afford their own medical, insurance. 

                   His biggest lie was to complain that his opponents, Hillary Clinton and John McCain, voted for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and that he would get them out right away, then waited three years to leave Iraq, while sending thirty thousand more servicemen to Afghanistan as casualties have doubled in the process as a result, without any progress. Or any hope to win the fight against a handful of terrorists.  As we now leave Iraq, a civil war between the Sunnis and Shiites religious faction has already broken out which will end the nine year plan to democratize the country who has rightfully hated invaders for three thousand years.

                   If he didn't get the message as a result of the loss of the democratic house in 2010, he will get the message by his defeat in 2012.

                   If this is the best our president can do, in the last three years, with no promise or plan to help, except to let nature takes its course, the American people are disillusioned and disgusted with their leaders in Washington and the only sensible thing to do is to reject them all and put in new faces who will work for the American people who elect them and need help desperately.

                   By the same token, none of the republican candidates have any plan to help the economy.  All they want to do is to reduce taxes on the rich, reduce the national budget and debt, repeal the Obama health plan and remove all controls on big business which has resulted in the worst recession since the great depression, and which will make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer.  With both the democrats and republicans selling out their souls and country for big business contributions, there just is no hope to return the country from the present control of big business and return it to the hands of the American people who are the real owners and guardians of our constitutions of this failing country.  It is clear that our representatives in Washington are taking orders from their respective political party and not the American people as they should.

                   Unless we elect a president and congress who will represent the American people, first and always, this country is doomed to become a second rate country like Rome, Spain, France and England, whose fall from grace came from within.

                   During this Christian holiday season, let us pray that the United States comes up with a true leader for the American people who will really lead us out of this mess; our trusted politicians have put us into for far too long.     

                   We need a leader who really can do and make the necessary changes we desperately need without further delay.       

NEWT GINGRICH, OR NEWT GET RICH, OR NEWT KINGRICH, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME

December 18, 2011

      When I hear that Newt Gingrich is soaring in the republican polls for president, I cringe, and worry that the republican majority, have lost their way in 2011 in their quest for the "best" candidate to beat president Obama in 2012.  I am convinced, if they finally nominate Newt for their presidential candidate, they are insuring the re-election of the democrat Obama as our president in 2012.

      Everyone knows that Newt is a Washington insider who has profited from his influence peddling from the government agency Freddy Mack and Fanny Mae and from big health insurance companies.  He has made so much money at his latest trade, that his current third wife has a $500,000 credit account at Tiffany's in New York City.

     Newt was expelled out of his speaker of the house of representatives job for dishonest dealings not to mention his adulterous affairs while his first wife was dying of cancer, then he led the charge for the impeachment of then president Clinton for his liaison with Monica Lewinski while he, hypocritically was doing the same thing with a member of his office staff.  This man has never displayed a commitment to his marriage or the honesty necessary or required to hold public office, but has the gall to run for president of the United States?  Now he fancies himself as, "Kingrich", and as, "Newt Get Rich."  Don't forget, he referred to the occupy Wall Street crowd as "bums and complainers who should take a bath and get a job."  As president and "King" he will stamp them out as  president Hoover did to the veterans of world war one, during the great depression when they marched on Washington for their promised bonus for war time service.  His arrogant and superior attitude makes me think he wants to be king of the U. S. A.

     There is no question that Newt is a great speaker and liar, much like, Obama, whom makes promises he does not intend to keep.  He recently came up with a tax plan to set the rate for individuals at 15% while corporations are lowered to 12.5 % from 35%, capital gains and estate taxes are eliminated, which only favors the RICH and the BIG CORPORATIONS while his intention and that of all republicans is to reduce the national budget and debt by trimming Medicaid Medicare and Social Security, at the expense of the poor and middle class.  Now, he wants to send all the illegal immigrants back to where they came from to prevent another amnesty which could only help the democrats.  This man has already demonstrated he is bought and paid for by BIG BUSINESS, can't be trusted to tell the truth and will sell his soul for a buck or two.  After what has been happening in Washington for the last twenty years do we need or want to continue with the same thing over and over again?

     We need a person who gives us the hope and confidence that they will put the 10% of unemployed Americas back to work in permanent jobs and improve the housing and construction  markets which were ruined by the greedy banks and lending institutions.  Both Newt and none of the republican candidates have come up with a plan to do this.  Their interest is only to eliminate the Obama health plan, reduce the national budget and national debt and help BIG BUSINESS and the 1% of Americans who have controlled this country with campaign contributions.  They want the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer.  Nobody, not the democrats or republican parties, want to represent the American people, whose country it is.  It's the BIG BUSINESSES and labor unions that have hijacked our country and its riches, its opportunities and its future. 

    If you want more of the hard times and fewer jobs and opportunities, then vote for Newt Gingrich.  If you want someone who will represent the American people, vote independent!

    Wake up and get involved before it is too late, "Washington is burning," while the politicians are filling their pockets.

President Obama's Decision to Withdraw all Troops from Iraq

Written on:  October 21, 2011

          Today, President Obama finally fulfilled a campaign promise to withdraw American troops from Iraq.  My only complaint is that it came about three years too late, after such a promise and is another prime example of what politician say to get elected and then do after their election.  When you realize, Obama won the democratic nomination and the election on the grounds he voted against the war in Iraq as most American also felt was wrong, while Hillary Clinton and John McCain voted for it in congress.

          When you remember the reason why the then president George Bush decided to invade Iraq, he and his administration made a strong case that Saddam Hussein was still amassing weapons of mass destruction, including the material necessary for atomic weapons.  Congress went along with this war in the middle of the 9-11 hysteria and just after the invasion of Afghanistan and the capture or scattering of the Al-Qaida terrorists training there.

          Within a few months Iraq was conquered and Saddam Hussein went into hiding, only to be captured later, tried, convicted and publicly hung by the neck.

          In the meantime, I remember the triumphant landing of our president Bush on that aircraft carrier where a giant banner read "Mission Accomplished" upon reflection, at the time; I felt that statement was true.  So why are we still there fighting a few stragglers and terrorists probably sent there through the help of Iran next door.  It seems we had a new mission, to make a democracy out of a country torn by religious turmoil between the Sunnis and the Shiites.  Nearly nine years later we are still training Iraqi forces to take over after we emphatically denied the Sunni majority who had ruled under Saddam Hussein and were perfectly capable to defend the country to stay in power.  We the United Sates, decided to put the ill trained and novice leaders in charge and to take over, but who still are a question mark as defenders of the government we put in place there, almost nine years later.

       Now, after we lost about 5000 fighting men and an additional 50,000, wounded there, over this period and spent about a trillion dollars we did not have to spend there in the first place, while we are still fighting a stalemate war in Afghanistan after ten years, we have finally decided to get out, because the Iraqi government wants jurisdiction over our soldiers who have been fighting and dying there for nearly a decade.  Everyone knows that the Shiite government is allied with friends in Iran and Syria, and they desire to end the increasing influence of America in that country and area, since increasing influence of America in that country and area.  There, as it seems also the case in Afghanistan.  These people had the patience to wait us out, knowing we would leave some day and that day has come.  Our mission was accomplished when we disposed of Hussein and put him to death.  No country can impose its will on another country and people who don't trust our motives in the first place.  We should have left Iraq a few months after we went in, if not stay out in the first place, since weapons of mass destruction were never found and we were duped into a war Bush wanted and Vice President Cheney profited from with the help of Halliburton.

       Today, the republicans came out crying foul, since politically they are against anything and everything Obama does in order to unseat him politically regardless of what is right and what the American people have wanted since e the vote nine years ago.  It gives you and idea, how fierce the politics are and have been in Washington for the last ten years and why no one cares about helping the economy and unemployment problem that is destroying our great country.  No one seems to care that the free trade agreement and fuel costs have reduced the country to only a service status.  Our country has been lost to China a communist country who will own us very soon.

          The republicans are always looking to lover taxes and reduce the enormous national debt of about 15 trillion and rising.  Removing the troops from Iraq means we will save 100 billion dollars yearly in troop costs.  That money is urgently needed to help the economy, balance the overburdened budget shortfall, or reduce the national debt.

          All this mess, points out how important it is to take the politics out of the operation of our government, be removing Obama and all the members of congress from office, be them democrats or republicans and electing independent candidates to office who will represent the American people instead of political parties and special interest groups who are in control of our country, "...Of and by the People...".

The Complaints and Demands of the "Occupy Protestors"

Written on: October 24, 2011

            These country wide protests by disgruntled and disillusioned protestors against Wall Street and the Federal Government's inability to help the economy and the unemployment problem in the United States of America, was born out of frustration.  Our government's inability or refusal to help the average American citizen, suffering under a broken economy, has helped only the 1 % super rich and Wall Street banks and financial institutions, who have caused this problem, in the first place.

            Back in 2008, a few weeks before the presidential election President Bush and his Treasure Secretary, Paulson, rushed to congress with an emergency request to bail out Wall Street from the mortgage fiasco they themselves created.  Presidential candidates, McCain and Obama, joined in as fellow spokesmen urging congress to pass a near trillion dollar bailout, obstensively to help those, too big to fail, so they would loosen up the funds necessary in the financial market to help the economy and the unemployment problem.  Instead, Wall Street took the money given them without a single directive or condition and gave out bonuses to undeserving employees and managers alike, held lavish parties and thumbed their noses a the American people while investing the money to bring back the sagging stock market, make huge profits, while leaving the American people with a huge mortgage problems with sagging real-estate values and defaulting mortgages and foreclosures, which have continued to this day.

            The election of the glib, Barack Obama, who promised a "can do and change" administration turned out to be a big disappointing lie, since things did not change, but continued on the same favorite path for big business and the Wall Street crowd as usual.  Obama deliberately released the second half of a trillion dollars on his Treasury Secretary Gehtner's advice.  Suddenly, after nearly three years, it has become apparent to every hurting American that Wall Street and big business control our elected representatives and run our government for their exclusive benefit with the payment of hundreds of millions of dollars to political campaigns for our representatives, while each political party joins in with their own controls, like a cattle drive in Texas, herding our representative to vote in lock step to their own political agenda, with more money, intimidation and control.  For the last twenty 25 years this country has been on a path of ruin, as a result.  Every bill out of congress has helped Wall Street and big business which in turn has caused our factories and industries to escape overseas in search of our factories and industries to escape overseas in search of cheap labor while Wall Street and the financial institutions had congress relax credit laws permitting easy credit and the bundling of mortgages on the world stock market.  The Federal Reserve System aided in this unlimited credit plan by lowering the discount rate almost monthly to near zero, prompting and encouraging the homeowner to refinance their mortgages several times over because of the lower interest rates, the government provided.  The finance bubble continued for more than 20 years until the easy credit by banks caused the bubble to burst with overbuilding in 2007, when the Stock Market and the building boom collapsed.  The mortgage and construction business have been abandoned while the stock Market has boomed due to Wall Street's money infusions, along with our governments Federal Reserve System.

            Most politicians blame the consumer and the borrower for this problem, to escape responsibility for their actions, but that is not correct because, those banks had the last clear chance to stop these easy loans, but did not because of their greed for profit.

            As a result the average homeowner is now sitting in a home where the mortgage exceeds its value, all because the government did not exercise its power to rein in the banks and, instead bailed them out while leaving the home owner stuck with the bill.  Mitt Romney, the leading republican presidential candidate, recently said, "The mortgage foreclosure problem must run its course."  Now, you know neither democrats nor republicans intend to help these American home owners, the real victims, of this bank greed.

            There cannot be any recovery of the economy when 25% of our workers are unable to work in the construction field.  In addition, as the mortgage foreclosures continue, real estate values will decline further, putting other mortgages at risk of going underwater.

            The future of this country is at risk, if the American people do not meet this abandonment by their representatives in Washington, by doing something drastic.  For now, they have rightly chosen to vent their anger at the "darlings" of politicians, the financial industry, the direct cause of our economic breakdown, in 2007.  Soon, the will start demonstrating at the congress and White House where, in the final analysis, the American people demand relief from a problem their own representatives have caused.  You saw 25% of congress replaced in 2010, now you are about to see a revolution at the polls in 2012, unless a drastic turnaround happened to this plight.  The result may be a complete change in the presidency and both sides of congress, but I believe there still will not be the needed change in the economy and unemployment.

            What is needed is a complete change in the politics of America.  But that is not possible while, we keep changing one political party control over another, time after time or replace a donkey with an elephant; they are still and always will be dumb animals.  What we need is the Independent human beings that are mentioned in the United States Constitution, "We the People of the United States..." to take control of their country back from the politicians we have elected in the past, only to have sold us out with their greed for money, for the last 30 years.