Please Sign Petition to Reform Social Security Disability SSDI and SSI Determination Processes
Take Action! Sign My Petition! Reform Social Security Disability SSDI and SSI Determination Processes - http://tinyurl.change.org/zXUto Thanks! I won at the hearing level 2006, but got cut off soon after that due to husband making too much $ for SSI/Medicaid. Now hubby left, have to reapply all over again in April! Just got first denial notice... Here we go, reconsideration, again. Not so sure I'll make it for hearing again this time. It is ridiculous. You must First become a supporter of Poverty in American, then click on sign my petition button.
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It's no surprise Republicans in Washington thought they could stay the course and keep government running the way they liked it, slow and inefficient without accountability. They are testing President Obama's voice of change and that means ours too.
Don't sit idle and let the forces that drove us into an economic ditch get what they want. Make calls to your Congressional leaders. Tell them about the letters arriving in the mailbox everyday with credit card companies and banks changing the rules of credit, such as raising lending rates even on their best customers. That while American taxpayers bailed them out economically and continue to do so and for what? They are content to keep the money and make more money as the situation worsens and Americans can't pay their credit card debt due to unemployment and trying to keep food on the table.
Ask why Congressional Republicans and some Democrats are willing to make the economic situation worse. Ask them when they will freeze their salaries and drop some of their perks to save money. Just as in the campaign, President Obama, nor his staff can do it alone, we have to stay involved and keep reminding our leaders that we are their bosses not the other way around. Republicans are content to add amendments to offer more corporate tax breaks while leaving the middle class and those without jobs or health care stranded.
Step up, take a stand and don't be shy about making repeated calls. President Obama has three million volunteers that aren't shy and can make a difference. The right has Rush Limbaugh and no other plan except to get in the way of change.
Yes We Can again.....again and again! Groups like Move On.org and AARP are among those sending emails with phone numbes attached and petitions for us to electronically sign to put pressure on Congress for real change, not just something they pledged on November 5th. Republicans don't want to be bi-partisan, as in Abraham Lincoln's time, they want to become the Do Nothing Party.
Speaking of President's Day, this year on the 200th anniversary of President Lincoln's birth, celebrate on February 12th, his true birthday, not the government holiday. He deserves that and more for facing challenges that inspire President Obama to stay strong and bring better days to America and the World.
Happy Birthday Mr. Lincoln!
Janet Webb, Frisco, Texas
If you can't volunteer on the 19th, there are multiple ways to help now and in the future. Please go to www.usaservice.org and sign up. FInd an event or host one yourself. This is just the beginning of the journey, and there is lots of work to do. President Elect Obama and your fellow neighbors need your help.
An Inaugural Gala to celebrate the incredible victory of President-elect Obama will be held on January 20 from 7-11 pm at the Plano Center off Spring Creek parkway; over 150 RSVP's so far and they are still coming in. Live Music with Memphis Soul Live, Dancing, Food, Cash Bar, along with live TV Coverage of Inaugural Events and more.
Come celebrate this historic moment.
Please go to www.obamacollincounty.com to learn more and to RSVP.
Let's celebrate our green builders, green realtors, and green companies. Join us in learning more about "green" entities here in Collin County, and how to be greener in your daily living.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpthl7
I'm sitting here in Munich, Germany right now on November 6, 2008. We left the USA on Friday, October 31, 2008 for a 1-week stay in Germany. Of course I voted ahead of time through the early voting process. (Stood in line for 20 minutes at the new Frisco Lakes Senior Citizen development)
Since I'm a native Californian living in Texas, it's hard to find those of progressive like-mind..even though there are a few Obama supporters in Texas. lol.
I watched CNN and BBC News (only 2 TV stations in Germany in English) as they covered the election. What is interesting to note is the World opinion on Obama. They love him.They would prefer him over any others any day. CNN reported and showed people in Kenya (Obama's Father's hometown) dancing in the streets both before and after the election. I also liked watching the honest and open reporting that demonstrates the truth of how Europeans felt about the disastrous Bush adminstration.
I've been saying for years that Bush is a typical Texas whack job. But of course no one out here will dare talk against Bush. Californians should know that out here in Texas they look askance at you if you are from California. They assume you are a "liberal" and assume you are this or that...they are pretty close-minded and petty and mean-spirited out here...even if Frisco is considered an afflluent, white upper middle-class community you will find that it's all superficial.
It's obviousl McCain country out in Texas. I saw the voting results for all the various United States and noted Texas had a 55% for McCain and 44% for Obama. Oklahoma and Kansas and Wyoming had percentage numbers in the 60's in favor of McCain.
Only the District of Columbia and California had percentage numbers in the 60's in favor of Obama.
All that aside, I have never cared about what Texans think of anyone else as they are so backasswards in their worldivew. Many of them should be eating crow about now but no doubt they'll be whining and blaming (boy how they love to blame and not take personal responsibility) on Frisco Online--an online community full of arrogant hateful and intolerant medieval minded morons. I'm sure they are finding ways to blame Obama for his win rather than accept the fact that their republican "hero" McCain lost.
My bitching about Texans and Frisco comes from 12 years of living here and experiencing this shit firsthand.
Back in 2004, I had neighbors of Asian descent (the wife had relatives in California) who were harassed by their neighbors for not putting up a Bush yard sign. These polite friends of mine said that it was not so much about who they were for but they just didn't want to put up ANY yard sign. So this small group of arrogant Texans gossiped about this family and made them feel harassed. Eventually the family sold their home and moved to another community in North Texas where they are fine. I point this one incident out to show you all just a small sampling of the kind mentality that exists out here. It's sad to say that the stereotypes about Texans unfortunately ring true.
I'm surprised I haven't had harassment for proudly displaying my Obama car sticker on my back window. As I drove around white-collar Republican Frisco Texas I rarely would see Obama car stickers let alone yard signs. Maybe just a few.
Even my 13-year-old daughter told me what the mindset is like in her school. Only 3 of her 20 Orchestra members were for Obama. The rest parroted what their parents must've taught them and that was to support McCain in a blind party effort to keep repugnant republicans in office.
My daughter went to a birthday party and while the kids were playing a game talk came up about the presidential race. One girl mentioned something about how bad Gays in general are because the Bible "says gays are bad and wrong"...my daughter said there is nothing bad about Gays and further if there is love involved between 2 people of the same gender it should not be looked upon as "bad". Well that just set this little white Texas girl off who went on to say that McCain is a good guy because he believes in the Bible and the Bible says gays are bad people...some kind of circular reasoning which of course makes no sense except to a die-hard arrogant texan. Then my daughter said she was more in favor of Obama because he is generally accepting of people regardless of the color of their skin or their personal beliefs and so on. The other kids at the party were too initmidated to get involved with the conversation and so ran off. This left my daughter and the other girl to finish off their heated debate.
I could go on and on with some of the narrow-minded fanatical mindedness of Texans in general that I've experienced but since I've travelled the world a lot already in my 47 years, I can say that only this one slice of America is this retrogressive in their worldview. Bush's failed policies and other idiotic actions he has demonstrated over the past 8 years have helped to actually cement this view that Texans are backasswards in their thinking and incapable of governing anyone or anything in an intelligent, rational manner.
Now I realize my blog comments can be interpreted as inflammatory (especially by native Texans) but it's my blog and I'll call it as I've experienced it.
What I can hope for is that a President like Obama who has a wide worldview will help shape society in such a way that those with the narrow-minded view will wake up someday to realize they haven't grown, they haven't learned what real life is all about. It's not about their tiny little keyhold view of the world but about a larger door to a larger planet that we all share and should join together with the highest ideals of the human spirit.
I just need to blog how screwed up I think Texans are in general. They really should never be allowed to govern people nor anything larger than their own grocery list. They really have demonstrated over and over how petty and small minded their view of the world is.
Congratulations President Obama and Vice President Biden.
President Obama read Psalm 91 daily. Hold on to the promises that God makes in Psalm 91.
God’s presence
God’s protection
God’s peace
God’s perspective
God’s provision
God’s power
Safe in the Lord
5 You will not fear any danger by night or an arrow during the day.
16 I will give them a long, full life, and they will see how I can save."
Let us all pray for our President and Vice President tomorrow at 12:00 CST.
I write this as I am about to pick up the phone and start calling into Ohio. I am a child of Kansas and its golden wheatfields, Colorado and its majestic mountains, Oklahoma and the Cherokee history of my ancestors, Missouri and the "Show Me" attitude and now Texas for nearly 20 years as an adult of independence built on strength, resolve, character, challenges and above all faith.
You see, like all of us I am a rainbow of colors, sunrises, sunsets, tremendous losses and unbelievable miracles. When I think of Barack Obama's campaign his message of hope for the future and faith in what we can all do as Americans inspires me to believe that people of a cascade of experiences and backgrounds can come together for the common good of this wonderful nation.
It is hard for me as a former Republican to see the party that Abraham Lincoln held so dear and fought so hard for in order to keep the Union together to come apart at the seams. It is being pulled apart by hatred and bigotry from within.
Divided we fail is surely its fate I believe because win at all cost is the GOP's motivation. I admit to election anxiety and to a disbelief in polls, having been in the meda for my whole career I discredit swings from double digit leads to single digit "too close to call" in the matter of a day or two. As I have said before in my blogs, don't believe a single thing the media says, believe in Senators Barack and Biden and their words because that's what America wants to hear and see in action in the White House.
In Texas we seem to be the land of stolen Obama signs and the land of discounted electoral votes. We have the backs of every battleground states. Once this weekend, a simple request, call into Texas and ask a voter to give Barack and Joe their support. On Election Day work like it is a marathon not for you but for your children, nieces and nephews and friends. Let the other side do what they will attempt to steal the election, they won't succeed, because have worked too hard, given all we can and done so as Barack says not for him but for us and for our believe in America the Beautiful with its spectacular tapestry of people who love this country and love each other.
God Bless You All and Thank You!
Janet Webb (Frisco)
I have yard signs and would love to hand them out; please come participate in the mega canvas this Saturday and help get out the vote, and get visibilty for your yard at the same time!
LOCATION: Wal-Mart US 380 (University Dr) & Custer Road in McKinney (meet us on the South Side of the Wal-Mart parking lot near the L strip mall)
This is the last major canvas effort in Collin and we need all hands on deck. The more people that come out, the more doors we can hit. There are still people out there that are uninformed about the early vote time and locations; we have this Saturday to push all that info out and get them to the polls for the last week of early vote.
Please join us in what will prove to be a great final canvas effort for Senator Obama and the down ballot candidates; it is such a small effort with such a huge payoff! It's our time!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gsh97f
OBAMA SUPPORTERS PLEASE CONTACT YOUR AREA PLACES OF WORSHIP TO ADVISE THEM OF
EARLY VOTING "SOULS TO THE POLLS SUNDAY" ON OCTOBER 26, 2008 FROM 1:00-6:00PM.
THIS WILL ALLOW CHURCH FAMILES TO PROVIDE RIDES AND ASSIST THE ELDERLY WITH EARLY VOTING.
OBAMA WORKERS PLEASE VOLUNTEER AS GREETERS AND POLL WATCHERS ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2008 TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING RUNS SMOOTHLY FOR SOULS TO THE POLLS.
CONTACT YOUR LOCAL DEMOCRATIC GROUPS TO VOLUNTEER AS POLL WATCHERS. THERE WILL BE POLL WATCHER TRAINING CLASSES ALL WEEK SO CHECK YOUR COUNTY DEMOCRATIC WEBSITES.
1. VOTE EARLY!
2 SIGN UP TO BE AN ELECTION WORKER FOR TUESDAY NOVEMBER 4, 2008.
3 SIGN UP TO BE A GREETER OR POLL WORKER DURING EARLY VOTING.
4 COMPLETE TRAININGS FOR JUDGE, CLERK, AND POLL WORKER.
5 NOTIFY CHURCH'S OF SOULS TO THE POLLS VOTING ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008
6 POST EARLY VOTING PLACES AND TIMES AT BEAUTY AND BARBER SHOPS!
7 POST EARLY VOTING PLACES AND TIMES AT CHURCH AND IN CHURCH BULLETINS.
8 REVIEW THE HANDBOOK FOR ELECTION JUDGES AND CLERKS.
9 PURCHASE OR RENT OR BORROW A LAPTOP COMPUTER FOR ELECTION DAY.
10 PRAY. PRAY. PRAY SOME MORE!
1. GO EARLY VOTE THIS WEEK AND DON'T VOTE ALONE. TAKE A FRIEND OR TWO OR THREE!
2. KNOW YOUR VOTER RIGHTS!
3. CONTACT FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND MAKE SURE THEY VOTE EARLY.
4. ENCOURAGE YOUR GROUP ASSOCIATIONS TO VOTE EARLY.
5. ENCOURAGE YOUR CHURCH TO PARTICIPATE IN SOULS TO THE POLLS BY VOTING ON SUNDAY OCTOBER 26, 2008 FROM 1:00PM-6:00PM
