Part II
And When We get this Done, The American People will always remember that we had A trailblazing, community organizer, Advocate sitting in the Oval Office making the right, hard and necessary decisions that will help bring The American People out of lack and poverty, and help propel them into Abundance and prosperity. Health Insurance Reform Now!!
According to Wikipedia: President Obama garnered 69,556,897 votes and Senator Mccain got 59,934,814 votes.
We have 435 elected house of representatives, and We have 100 United States Senators.
We have 60 Democrats or Democratic Leaning Senators in the Senate.
President Obama is a very smart and Brilliant President and He knows that he has to get the 60 Senators on Board, so instead of just leaving it up to the 60, Our President is taking the Health Insurance Reform fight straight to the Insurance Companies themselves by way of American People's living rooms and kitchen tables.
We need to broaden our focus.
We need to go after the offending Insurance companies with the same tenacity, resilience and persistence we used when we went after Wall street. We need to call them daily and ask them why are they dropping or revoking people insurance policies whenever they are getting sick? and Why are they trying to undermind and disrupt the town hall meetings with "fronter groups" that rile-up some mccain/palin voters with hatred and wrong information and then send them out to the democrats town hall meeting to shut them down and shout them down.
We need to ask the Rougist Insurance Companies are they for US or Against US?
We will not let the ROGUE Insurance Companies continue to short-change the American People, we don't care how many Pre-Paid senators that they have got tucked away in their slick, dirty-little , greasly or is it grassley "my little finger is in the dike" back pocket?
We don't want the Insurance Companies making medical decisions for us?
We don't want "Them" The "ROUGERS" making loads of money off of the sick people that they have dropped, rejected, tricked, and then denied.
Is there a list of the Pre- Paiders/Senators who have taken money from the Roguers/insurance Companies that are fighting against the Success of the American People EVER receiving Health Insurance Reform?
P.S. All of the Insurance Companies like AARP and others are not against the American People Insurance Reform Bill but we all know that one spoiled apple Always rotten the the entire bunch.
After a long day of campaigning on July 8, candidate Barack Obama arrived at his Chicago headquarters for a three-hour brainstorming session about a suddenly hot issue: energy and climate change.
He had summoned a cross section of experts, including top executives from three utilities and two oil companies, the chief energy economist of an investment bank, a climate scientist, a California energy and environment expert, an oil consultant-historian, and several campaign staffers. Despite the late hour, one participant recalled, "He walked in as if he had just gotten up after a refreshing night's sleep to lead a class. He was clearly there to harvest information and then do something with it."
Now, four months into his presidency, Obama has elevated energy and climate issues to near the top of his agenda; he's made them pop by packaging them as ways to create "green" jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on imports of foreign oil. Favoring pragmatism over moral suasion, the president is attempting to make a sharp shift in national policy on an issue that many voters have yet to embrace as a priority, advisers and lawmakers say.
His efforts, combined with those of congressional Democrats, have already pushed forward groundbreaking initiatives. February's stimulus act lavished money on projects for renewable energy, energy efficiency and energy research. This month, the White House announced that it had negotiated corporate, state and environmentalist support for higher fuel-efficiency and tailpipe-emissions standards that would clamp the first nationwide limits on greenhouse gases.
President Obama announced this morning that the government will offer struggling auto companies GM and Chrysler a limited period of time to fundamentally restructure in a way that would justify an investment of additional taxpayer dollars. "While Chrysler and GM are very different companies with very different paths forward," the President said, "both need a fresh start to implement the restructuring plans they develop." The President also emphasized that:
We cannot, and must not, and we will not let our auto industry simply vanish. This industry is like no other -- it's an emblem of the American spirit; a once and future symbol of America’s success. It's what helped build the middle class and sustained it throughout the 20th century. It's a source of deep pride for the generations of American workers whose hard work and imagination led to some of the finest cars the world has ever known. It's a pillar of our economy that has held up the dreams of millions of our people. And we cannot continue to excuse poor decisions. We cannot make the survival of our auto industry dependent on an unending flow of taxpayer dollars. These companies -- and this industry -- must ultimately stand on their own, not as wards of the state. http://thepoliticalcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/03/obama-sets-tough-deadlines-standards-in.html
The Great Depression was triggered by a sudden, total collapse in the stock market. The stock market turned upward in early 1930, returning to early 1929 levels by April, though still almost 30 percent below the peak of September 1929.[10] Together, government and business actually spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. But consumers, many of whom had suffered severe losses in the stock market the previous year, cut back their expenditures by ten percent, and a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the summer of 1930. In early 1930, credit was ample and available at low rates, but people were reluctant to add new debt by borrowing.[citation needed] By May 1930, auto sales had declined to below the levels of 1928. Prices in general began to decline, but wages held steady in 1930, then began to drop in 1931. Conditions were worse in farming areas, where commodity prices plunged, and in mining and logging areas, where unemployment was high and there were few other jobs. The decline in the US economy was the factor that pulled down most other countries at first, then internal weaknesses or strengths in each country made conditions worse or better. Frantic attempts to shore up the economies of individual nations through protectionist policies, such as the 1930 U.S. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and retaliatory tariffs in other countries, exacerbated the collapse in global trade.
CAUSES
Irving Fisher argued that the predominant factor leading to the Great Depression was overindebtedness and deflation. Fisher tied loose credit to over-indebtedness, which fueled speculation and asset bubbles.[12] He then outlined 9 factors interacting with one another under conditions of debt and deflation to create the mechanics of boom to bust. The chain of events proceeded as follows:
The liquidation of debt could not keep up with the fall of prices which it caused. The mass effect of the stampede to liquidate increased the value of each dollar owed, relative to the value of declining asset holdings. The very effort of individuals to lessen their burden of debt effectively increased it.
Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression
A CBS News poll of approximately 500 people saw approval of the president rise from 62 percent before the speech to 69 percent afterward.
Meanwhile, a poll on CNN showed that 68 percent of respondents -- who skewed a bit Democratic -- viewed the speech positively, 24 somewhat positively, and only eight percent not positively. Eighty-two percent supported the president's economic plan as outlined in the speech, while 17 percent opposed it.
Those results were buttressed by the findings of longtime Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg. In his own dial poll, which included 50 participants of mixed gender, education and politics, Greenberg found a large swath of bipartisan support for Obama's addres. That included a 14 percent jump, from 62 to 76 percent, in the favorability rating for the president.
Saying at the onset that this was an "immensely successful speech," he highlighted a few issues on which Obama won over the audience.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/24/polls-show-obama-won-the_n_169700.html
Dear Mr. President.
Hello, may the all mighty watch over and guide you and yours, at the moment i do not envy your position at all. But there is help available 24/7/365+6.
My friend (permission to call you friend ?), you are a father yes, but you have no experience of fathering late teenage kids, i know time will come for that eventually.
But for now lets view in our mind's eye that you have, and one kid is GOP and one DEM, and all they do is consume and advise all day and all night, (all chief and no Indians). And if i remember correctly, as Cesar came to Rome his chariot horses were being guided by many kings he had conquered and on his chariot a slave standing behind him and kept reminding him of his mortality, which of course happened soon by none other than family and friends. Let me be the slave on the chariot behind you, let me carry your back from here.
Let me be your Tylenol and take your headache away, i know you already have many, don't worry,all will work out soon, you're on the right track, i must congratulate your Treasury Sec. Smart, Hansom, Able, Courage Under Fire, thumbs up.
The news media is turning this situation into a some kind of boxing match, put a stop to it immediately, don't drive a wedge between, continue working your administration on both sides of the ail es.
Always remember that there are many who would like nothing better than to see you and us fail. So make the next bill localized and targeted and get the local politicians sell the point to their Senators. (divide and conquer). Take care, god bless.
Raffi
WELCOME TO THE PRESIDENCY WELCOME TO BEING COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF WELCOME FIRST FAMILY TO THE WHITE HOUSE KEEP BEING WISE ~ WE THE PEOPLE RESPECT YOU RESPECTFULLY,
U.S.NAVY SUB VET
HALLANDALE BEACH, FLORIDA
JANUARY 20, 2009 TUESDAY 0811 HOURS
IN LESS THAN 28 HOURS BARACK OBAMA WILL BE OUR NATIONS PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF . . . WE THE PEOPLE of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA will enjoy a GREAT CHANGE to OUR LAND . . . . . . From 12 NOON (1200 HOURS) JANUARY 20, 2009 TUESDAY these next 4 YEARS we shall look forward to being INSPIRED even more by BARACK OBAMA . . . . . . BARACK OBAMA is a GIFT to OUR NATION . . .
. . . WELCOME MR. PRESIDENT . . . . . . WELCOME COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF . . . . . . WELCOME FIRST FAMILY . . . . . . WELCOME TO THE WHITE HOUSE
RESPECTFULLY,
U.S.NAVY SUB VET HALLANDALE BEACH, FLORIDA JANUARY 19, 2009 MONDAY 0820 HOURS
Please vote up "The Sperry Plan" (an evolvable "single payer plan) question at: http://change.gov/page/content/openforquestions_20081217_private_url
THE SPERRY PLAN
PART OF THE ANSWER TO THE HEALTH CARE PROBLEM
(The below plan was presented to David Cutler as an evolutionary plan not a revolutionary plan. It should cover MEDICAID and should be open to anyone who doesn’t have insurance on a means basis the way the “single payer” plan is in Japan. It should also be an option for MEDICARE and anyone else. It is believed the bonuses for better care and service will provide a service that will be the most attractive to all as they see it work and as it brings its costs down.)
To obtain optimum health care for less we must change the way we buy health care. It is easy to do. All that is necessary is to stop letting the special interests control the market through fear mongering. We are the source of the money and we can decide how we want to give it over to the health care providers and insurance companies. As we decide we wish to change the way we buy health care, the health care providers will have to adapt the way they sell or get out of the health care business.
The Meat:The Sperry Plan has contract bonuses based on morbidity report line items and service satisfaction reports such that the bidder for a contract would see the bonus as the expected profit if a projected performance is met.
Endemic health problems for a bid area could be approached by providing increased bonuses on that morbidity report line item. An example of a morbidity line item and its related bonus might be .01% for meeting a minimum acceptable rate of live births.02% for achieving a national average rate of live births .02% for achieving a locally set goal of live births .02% for exceeding the locally set goal by 20%Etc.The above is picked out of the air. It would be expected that contract administrators would be able to set the bonus items somewhat scientifically on a goal achieving target basis which should be somewhat based on community input. Such items should bring more focus on the less costly preventive medicine methods of health maintenance and benefit us all with a longer life expectancy and lower cost health maintenance.
Others have been thinking along the lines of some of The Sperry Plan details.
Peter Diamond: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote an op-ed for the New York Times in 1992 entitled “Fanny Medic”. His basic premise, we should buy health care based on where we live, is on the right track but the Sperry Plan had it first. Lemuel was promoting the better and more complete Sperry Plan in the Los Angeles area in 1991 as a potential ballot initiative but was unable to have or raise finances sufficient to get it off the ground.
The Sperry Plan buys health instead of sickness. Contracts for health maintenance would be issued by location with the consumer choosing his home zip code, his work zip code, his school zip code, or a neighboring zip code for the location of his health care.
The consumer would be able to choose his physician and hospital with in his selected area. Emergency care would be at the nearest available site with fixed day rate transfers between the provider of the care and the patients health maintenance contractor. (This charge would be similar to the fixed charges by military medical facilities for emergency care to those who would not otherwise be qualified for care at military facilities.) A patient who becomes dissatisfied with his contract area’s care should be able to change his area at will.
There would be no co-payments.
A physician’s assistant corps would be developed by methods similar to the training of Navy corpsman. The physician’s assistant corps could be reserve military and would be assigned to health maintenance contractors on request with the contractor picking up the costs of pay and benefits for the members of the physician’s assistant corps assigned to them.
The physician’s assistant corps is the backbone of the preventive medicine item of no co-pay. Physician’s assistant corps volunteers should be able to receive full scholarships to medical, nursing or medical technical school if they are mentally and physically qualified, including the pay and benefits of military academy cadets and if a slot is available. They would be required to continue to serve the corps as assigned for a minimum of say 2 years for each year of training as a means of payback.
The Sperry Plan has a contract bonus based on morbidity report line items and service satisfaction reports such that the bidder for a contract would see the bonus as the expected profit if a projected performance is met.
Endemic health problems for a bid area could be approached by providing increased bonuses on that morbidity report line item. An example of a morbidity line item and its related bonus might be .01% for meeting a minimum acceptable rate of live births.02% for achieving a national average rate of live births .02% for achieving a locally set goal of live births .02% for exceeding the locally set goal by 20%Etc.The above is picked out of the air. It would be expected that contract administrators would be able to set the bonus items somewhat scientifically on a goal achieving target basis which should be somewhat based on community input. Such items should bring more focus on the less costly preventive medicine methods of health maintenance and benefit us all with a longer life expectancy.
A percentage of the bonuses would be required to be shared with all employees on a pro-rata basis to help improve “bed side manner”.
No type of current medical provider would be blocked out of being a contractor or subcontractor. If an insurance company using fee based medicine could achieve profitable results and meet the morbidity and consumer satisfaction standards they could bid on a contract. The patient however, must be exempt from filling out claim forms other than signing a certification that the care was received. It is unlikely that an insurance company could obtain a competive basis bid contract because of their added costs of claim administration and a requirement that they pay all claims.
Anyone who is satisfied with their present medical plan would be able to continue it. Employers who provide health insurance presently would be required to maintain what they have as long as the employer cost isn’t raised and be required to add The Sperry National plan as an option.
Everyone would be required to pay Sperry Plan premiums according to their means, and other available coverage; a minimum premium for National Catastrophic incident coverage and would be transferred to The Sperry Plan on exhaustion of all other insurance benefits. In this manner The Sperry Plan would replace much of MEDICAID. Everyone would be required to be insured or post an adequate bond to assure their ability to pay for their health care out of pocket. In the event they choose to “roll the dice” and not pay for health insurance other than the means tested catastrophic fee collected with the Income Tax (MEDICAID now hidden in your tax bill), they would have to catch up all unpaid premiums from the point of their last coverage until they need insurance covered care. (Similar to what MEDICARE does now for those who elect not to have other than hospital coverage except not as onerous.)
The Sperry Plan would take all pre-existing conditions without an additional charge. Any state desiring to add their welfare recipients or other destitute residents to The Sperry Plan could do so by doing the means testing and could elect to pay the premium for such individuals.Premium collection and issuance of insured cards would be administered by the IRS while the contract auditing and oversight would be by the National Public Health Department. Local area contracts would be administered by contract administrators selected by state publically elected officials and approved by the Surgeon General of the U.S.
Prescription Drugs need to be free. We don’t want anyone to die because they can’t afford or think they have more important choices than their medication. To keep the cost down, military style pharmacies should be at all clinics. How the commercial pharmacies will be compensated for loss of business is a question? Perhaps they could bid as a subcontract for providing pharmaceutical services.
THE SPERRY PLAN is not written in stone. Let's discuss it and revise it to the point that most voters will accept it. It can be revised or repealed even after it is enacted. But let's get off the fence and do it. Just do it.
For editable copies of this blog email me at: lembray@hotmail.com
Plenty of space has been left to insert flags in the pdf file, or if you choose you can recommend changes in the word document and send which ever you use back to me. We’ll discuss the changes and up dates on the various forums for this purpose. Ultimately, I may send 2 or 3 versions to David Cutler and the institute writing the details. (I’m still hoping to be selected to be on the institute.)
Michelle Obama sent out a special message today, wishing everyone a happy holiday and encouraging those who can to reach out to those in need this holiday season: This holiday season, the grassroots movement you helped build can make a big difference for those in need. I hope you will join me in supporting your favorite charity or contributing to causes that are especially meaningful to me and my family. While many of us will spend the holidays counting our blessings and sharing dinner with loved ones, millions of people around the country won't be so fortunate. Donating to your local food bank will help provide a holiday meal to people in your community who can't afford one. Talking with the families of deployed troops was one of the most rewarding experiences I had during the campaign. Giving to Operation USO Care Package is a great way to send members of our military stationed around the world a reminder that someone back home is thinking of them. This is a time to celebrate our blessings, the new year, and a new era for our country. But it's also a time to come together on behalf of those who need our help. Do what you can to help today by locating your local food bank and giving your support. Or send a care package to an American in uniform. Thank you for all that you do and have a very happy holiday season,
Michelle Obama
Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled.
A look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs that are still open:
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED:
TREASURY SECRETARY: Timothy Geithner, president of Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
SECRETARY OF STATE: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Eric Holder, former deputy attorney general.
DEFENSE SECRETARY: Robert Gates, a holdover from Bush administration.
HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Retired Marine Gen. James Jones.
COMMERCE SECRETARY: Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR: Lawrence Summers, former treasury secretary.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET DIRECTOR: Peter Orszag, director of Congressional Budget Office.
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POSTS TO BE DECIDED, WITH THE CONTENDERS:
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
CIA DIRECTOR
John Gannon, former deputy director for intelligence at the CIA during the Clinton administration
Jami Miscik, former head of CIA's analytical operations
Steve Kappes, CIA's current No. 2
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., heads the House Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence.
John McLaughlin, former interim CIA chief
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR
Denny Blair, retired admiral and former commander of the U.S. Pacific Command.
Don Kerr, No. 2 official in Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Jami Miscik, former head of CIA's analytical operations.
Former Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Ind.
ENERGY SECRETARY
Dan Reicher, director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google, former assistant energy secretary in charge of efficiency and renewable energy programs in the Clinton administration.
Former Rep. Philip Sharp, D-Ind., now president of Resources for the Future think tank.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, D-Kan.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, D-Mich.
John Bryson, retired chairman of Edison International, parent company of Southern California Edison. Co-chair of the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a leading advocate for plug-in hybrid vehicles.
INTERIOR SECRETARY
Rep. Raul M. Grijalva, D-Ariz.
Rep. Jay Inslee, D-Wash.
Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.
Former Gov. Gary Locke, D-Wash.
John Berry, director of the National Zoo, former executive director of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
EPA ADMINISTRATOR
Lisa P. Jackson, former commissioner of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
Mary Nichols, head of California Air Resources Board.
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SECRETARY
Miami Mayor Manny Diaz.
Mayor Shirley Franklin of Atlanta.
Renee Glover, head of Atlanta's housing authority.
Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Bart Harvey, former chief executive of Enterprise Community Investment
U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE
Rep. Xavier Beccera, D-Calif.
LABOR SECRETARY
Ed McElroy, former president of the American Federation of Teachers.
Linda Chavez-Thompson, former AFL-CIO vice president.
Mary Beth Maxwell, executive director American Rights at Work
Former Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., member of Obama's transition economic advisory board.
Maria Echaveste, former Clinton White House adviser.
EDUCATION SECRETARY
Former Gov. Roy Barnes, D-Ga.
Arne Duncan, chief executive officer of Chicago public schools.
Linda Darling-Hammond, education professor at Stanford University.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY
Jane Garvey, former head of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Mortimer Downey, former deputy transportation secretary.
Steve Heminger, executive director, San Francisco Bay area transportation commission.
AGRICULTURE SECRETARY
Dennis Wolff, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture.
Tom Buis, president of National Farmers Union.
Former Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas.
Rep. John Salazar, D-Colo.
Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, D-S.D.
Former Rep. Jill Long Thompson, D-Ind.
VETERANS AFFAIRS
Tammy Duckworth, a disabled Iraq war veteran and director of Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, D-Md.
Former Sen. Max Cleland. D-Ga.
MIAMI (AP) -- First she hung up on President-elect Barack Obama - twice. Now Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is fielding calls from angry constituents who think she did it on purpose.
The Miami congresswoman says she and the Democrat had a good laugh Wednesday after she apologized profusely for assuming his calls were a prank.
"I was just flabbergasted," Ros-Lehtinen said Thursday. "I just hung up on the most powerful man on earth - twice."
She said Obama called to congratulate her on her re-election, saying he was looking forward to working with her as the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs committee.
But she assumed it was a radio station prank. Typically, when high-ranking officials call, an aide calls in advance to verify. That was the procedure recently when Ros-Lehtinen received a call from Sen. Hillary Clinton.
"But this one was just out of the blue he's calling me. And I said, 'Boy, you're a much better impersonator than that guy on Saturday Night Live,' and he's laughing and he's thinking I'm kidding," she said.
Obama tried convincing her that he truly was the president-elect, but Ros-Lehtinen says she "wished him the best of luck and told him I was going to hang up on him."
A few minutes later, Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, called the congresswoman with Obama on the line to tell her it wasn't a joke.
"I said I really do appreciate it. I love these pranks more than anybody and I'm honored that you would prank me, but I'm gonna hang up."
And she did.
It took a call from Rep. Howard Berman, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to persuade Ros-Lehtinen that Obama really did want to talk to her. She asked Berman to tell her an inside joke about a colleague that only they would know to make sure the phone call was legitimate.
When Obama finally called back, the congresswoman said they talked about policies on Cuba and Israel.
He told her "anytime my ego gets too pumped up, I think Michelle will remind me that you hung up not once, but twice on me," Ros-Lehtinen said.
Obama's office has not commented on the mix-up.
I know, I know, I know! It's totally crazy for me to think I'd be chosen to be the next American Ambassador to Nicaragua since I'm just a poor pensioner, and I have no diplomatic background or past government service, or even good political networking; but, heck, this is a New America, playing by new rules, speaking a higher truth, and anything could happen, and might, even this. A guy can dream, can't he?
I'm caught up with all the possibilities for building Millennial linkage between the US and the emerging dynamo of capital and development that Latin America, especially in Brazil and Venezuela, now represents. I could transform the relationship between the US and Nicaragua, now a very wounded beast of corruption, greed, special corporate interests and controlling, covert manipulation, harking back to US imperialistic hegemony, terroristic client-state thinking from the 80's, and a blinded overview which fails to see the needs of the impoverished people of Nicaragua, 90% of the population, working for $2 a day. All the US aid which the Embassy in Managua administers ends up in the pockets of the elites, one way or another: no campesino in Nicaragua has ever seen a dime of it. All of that would have to change.
Having lived with and supported and built bridges of love and understanding between rico Coloradans and Northern Nicaraguan peasants for the last fifteen years, as American Ambassador, I would bring the peasants' voices to the table for the first time, not just the elitist voices of "The Men from Managua" who own most of the country. It would work a miracle of transformation for all the people of Nicaragua and, as well, transform our US stance as a change agent for peace, healing, mutuality and economic restoration in a country that has witnessed firsthand the nastiest face of American foreign policy, for the last hundred years. I could help President Obama bring brotherhood, opportunity, education, health and democratic power to the people, who, to a man, woman or child, are the world's most capitalistic. My American Embassy would be a new beacon of light and gratitude for the mutual benefit of all. My ultimate mission: to foster the empowerment of Nicaraguans to empower themselves, as friends working together in the Greater America, the same tool of transforming change that President Obama used to win the election in North America.
I would also bring a 21st century voice to the State Department's 20th century muddle, which really needs to happen if we are to befriend and build alliance with the emerging Latin American panthers. In many ways, Latin America is getting it together without us: we need to get on the same page with them by changing ourselves.
Gracias for participating in my dream.
Charles Douglas Evans (aka Doug Evans Betanco in Nicaragua)
