I just received a newsletter from Rick Steves, who has a travel show on PBS that my family has enjoyed for years. He writes: "After the election of Obama, Europe looks at us differently. Now, ambassadors will speak the languages of the countries in which they are posted. Cities will celebrate rather than shut down when the American president comes to town. Europe will look to America with more respect. When our president speaks, Europeans will actually want to listen. In an odd twist, now Europe is actually jealous when it looks at our leader — a man who embodies our high ideals of pluralism and inclusivity...an eloquent speaker who's intellectual, who's at ease with and enjoys sophistication. For Americans traveling to Europe, things are suddenly more fun. I personally cannot wait to get back to Europe in the Obama era." He goes on to post a long list of links to news headlines from news agencies around the world, which you can find here: http://www.ricksteves.com/news/travelnews/obamarama.htm Enjoy!
This video doesn’t give all the details of Americanism Economics, but does go over some necessary things the Congress needs to keep in mind.
http://ameriborn.com/blog/?p=1440
Here is a start for Congress and The Presidential Candidates.
Still a rough draft and not nearly complete. But I am tired and it is late. I spent at least an hour on this.
Americanism Economics
Immediate Relief Plan
Written by
William Landers
1. The creation of a central bank.
CREATION OF UNITED STATES CENTRAL BANK
The following will be the articles of creation of a United States Central Bank.
1) Congress shall have full authority over the United States Central Bank.
a) The Congress will not run the daily activities of the Central Bank.
b) Congress shall have a committee of the members of Congress monitoring the activities of the United States central bank.
2) The United States Central Bank will have thirty members on its board.
a) Each board member will carry one vote.
b) There will be a chairman of the board.
c) The will be one co-chairman of the board.
d) The Board will carry out a meeting once a week.
e) Congress on the creation of United States Central Bank shall appoint the original members and chairman.
f) After a term of four years after the creation of the United States Central Bank there will be held national elections for chairman of United States Central Bank.
g) The elections for chairman will be held on normal elections day with other offices sought throughout the country.
3) The United States central bank will have full authority of the treasury.
2. The United States Central Bank cannot print money that it does not hold at current with-in its collective body.
3. The Congress will not require The United States Central Bank to print money that it does not hold with-in its collective body.
4. Abolishment of the Federal Reserve
a. The Federal Reserve shall no longer be in charge of revenue generated thru taxation of American Citizens.
b. The Federal Reserve shall give all of the gold reserves of United States to a newly created Central Bank of United States.
c. The powers given to the Federal Reserve shall be as of this date be abolished and The Federal Reserve shall no longer control any interests in any business with the United States of America.
d. Any and all wealth gained by The Federal Reserve during its creation to its abolishment shall be handed over to The United States Central Bank.
5. Congress will not bail out any financial institution.
a. All assets of troubled institutions shall hereby be sold off to small businesses owned by American citizens.
b. The reasoning behind this is to promote small business growth and end monopolization’s.
c. Free-market is truly free when monopolization’s are not allowed.
d. Monopolization kills free-market enterprise and causes mass inflation.
e. Competition is the best form of ending mass inflation.
f. Congress will require all salable assets of any trouble Corporation to American citizen owned small businesses of less than 30 employees. This will promote growth within the middle class.
g. Congress will give a loan to these small businesses with a fixed interest of 1%. In return the small businesses will guarantee a restructuring of mortgages with the current homeowners of 4% interest fixed over 30 years. Congress will also require that the new mortgage holders guarantee a 90 day grace period before seeking first payment.
h. Congress shall require that no persons that sold bad mortgages or took part in any of these corporations that are failing to be allowed to take part in this American citizen owned small business relief program.
i. Congress shall loan each American Owned Small Business up to 40 million dollars per Business.
j. No businesses with over 50 employees, Wealth funds of any kind, or foreign National may purchase any of these American Owned Small Businesses that congress loans to.
6. Congress will put forth an aggressive American Citizen Owned Small Business Program that performs the following.
a. Manufactures Products in the United States.
b. Is involved in recycling products with-in the United States.
c. Employs up to 200 persons.
d. Start-up business that does the following.
1. When the person starting the business has made less than two hundred thousand per year in their life time.
e. Congress will fund these businesses with no less than two hundred thousand and no more than ten million.
f. Congress will create a new program called employer relief.
1. This program will ensure that the new business or small business can survive.
2. Congress will have a worker’s compensation fund.
a. Each employer will pay three hundred and fifty dollars for each employee up to two hundred employees for the year.
b. No employers with over two hundred employees can qualify for this program.
3. Congress will have an unemployment insurance program with the employer paying five hundred dollars for the year per employee up to two hundred employees.
a. No employer with over two hundred employees can qualify.
7. Congress will allocate ten billion for purchase of cars that drive forty miles on all electric and then can switch to a flex fuel for driving over forty miles.
a. Congress will have a committee that loans this money to these American Manufactures of cars that get forty miles on all electric and then can drive on flex fuels.
1. The cars have to be mainly manufactured with-in the borders of United States.
2. Congress will charge a fee of one perecnt to the American Manufactures to be paid back as cars are sold.
3.. The Manufactures will make loans to American Citizen Consumers at a rate of two perecnt.
Here is some news from around the world and here at home. Some of this will be discussed on the MSM, but much of it will not be discussed. Although the MSM has seemed concerned about our economic mess, once more their focus is largely on the political effects of this problem, and the "horse" race. Polls are not news. I have compiled news from around the world and attempted to set forth a brief synopsis. If you want to get more on the story, you can click the link below the summary.
Hurricane Ike:
A Blog about Gulf Coast Hurricanes Past and what Houston was saying at the time.
http://blogs.chron.com/bayoucityhistory/
Houston Mayor Bill White says the Houston area will need $40 billion in aid to repair the destruction brought by Hurricane Ike. He says they need 2.5 billion now.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6017417.html
Myanmar (sometimes referred to as Burma)
The Myanmar military junta frees political detainee, Win Tin, after 19 years imprisonment. He was part of a package that freed 9,000 political prisoners there. He is 79 years old and one of the founders of the National League for Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi. The NLD won elections in 1989 and Aung San Suu Kyi was set to take the reigns of government, but the generals stopped the transfer of power. Aung San Suu Kyi is under house arrest.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7631395.stm
South Africa-- the President, Thabo Mibeki, and 11 members of his cabinet are resigning.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7631358.stm
Chinese milk fears spread in Asia. The milk is tainted with melamine, which causes sickness and kidney problems.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7631265.stm
A 22 year-old shot 10 people at college in Kauhajoki, Finland before shooting himself. (My own editorializing: The tragedy of this waste!)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7630969.stm
NATO faces rising hostility in Afghanistan. The Taliban uses innocent civilians as human shields-- and those civilians too often are killed. Also, innocent civilians are killed by aerial bombing and they get caught in the cross-fire.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,471416,00.html
President Bush meets with military and other advisers to review Afghanistan policy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/washington/23policy.html
Yahya Jammeh, the "President" of Gambia (he seized power in a military putsch in 1994) claims he can cure AIDS and asthma. He says he can cure AIDS on Thursdays and asthma on Fridays and Saturdays. He has one requirement to seek treatment from him-- patients must stop taking anti-viral medication (commonly prescribed for AIDS). (Again my own editorializing-- is this "President" doing this in an attempt to keep power or does he actually believe this nonsense? This "cure" will kill many-- another senseless tragedy).
http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,470231,00.html
Members of the Sunni Awakening fight each other over power and control. Quote from the article:
“What you have is essentially armed factions, like mini-gangs, that operate in a certain set of checkpoints in certain territories,” said Lt. Erick Kuylman, a patrol commander in the First Battalion, 68th Armor Regiment, which operates in Adhamiya.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/world/middleeast/23awake.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Great Lakes protection. Ban near that would prevent water being taken from our Great Lakes and diverted to areas outside of the Great Lakes basin.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/us/23lakes.html
Our economy:
Secretary Paulson wants $700 billion quickly.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7631500.stm
Secretary Paulson's plan includes NO oversight of his action with regard to this $700 billion.
Secretary Paulson's plan upsets both Democrats and Republicans. Fed. Chair Bernanke says recession will come without bail-out.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/bush-team-congress-haggle_n_128501.html
A discussion of what might be done with the $700 Billion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/opinion/23kashyap.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Here is Senator Christopher Dodd's (D) legislative proposal:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_ayo08b28.html
and a discussion of this proposal by Politico:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0908/Dodd_bill_much_more_aggressive_than_Treasury_plan.html
This is a begining had to get this out to stop congress from making a horrible mistake today.
Late this evening I will be releasing the Full Relief Act.
AMERICANISM ECONOMICS RELIEF ACT
PART ONE
THE IMMEDITATE RELIEF ACT
written by
Sec.1
(1) Congress shall not under any circumstance give economic relief to any corporation that is not fully owned by American Citizens.
(2) Congress will be the only institution authorized to spend money generated thru tax revenue.
(3) The Federal Reserve shall no longer be in charge of revenue generated thru taxation of American Citizens.
(3a) The Federal Reserve shall give all of the gold reserves of United States to a newly created Central Bank of United States.
(3b) the powers given to the Federal Reserve shall be as of this date be abolished and The Federal Reserve shall no longer control any interests in any business with the United States of America.
(3c) any and all wealth gained by The Federal Reserve during its creation to its abolishment shall be handed over to The United States Central Bank.
(4) The creation of The United States Central Bank will hereby be the holder of the wealth of United States.
(4a) The United States Central Bank will be regulated thru Congress.
(4b) the United States Central Bank Chairman will be an elected position.
(4c) The Chairman of The United States Central Bank shall be elected thru national vote every 4 years to guarantee the rights of the American Citizens from tyranny or oppression.
(4d) The United States Central Bank cannot print money that it does not hold at current with-in its collective body.
(4e) The Congress will not require The United States Central Bank to print money that it does not hold with-in its collective body.
The immediate creation of The United States Central Bank is hereby written into law.
As of _____________________________2008
Members of Congress
- -2008
Members of Senate
President of the United States
I’m a single dad, I’ve been with my son since before birth. talking to him while he was still in his mothers womb. Seconds after birth he recognized my voice opened his eyes and smiled at me while reaching out. I raised my son as a single father since he was three. That’s him next to the D.N.A. model we worked on together. That’s also him at three years old at the end of the video.
“Please daddy dont leave“. VISIT scorpi2000 wordpress.com
This song was inspired by him. WHILE LEAVING FOR WORK MY SON SAID CRYING PLEASE DADDY DON’T LEAVE, STAY WITH ME. I PROCEEDED TO WORK THAT DAY WITH TEARS IN MY EYES, AND AFTERWARD TOOK MANY DAYS OFF TO GIVE HIM WHAT ALL OF OUR CHILDREN NEED.
UNITED SCHOLASTIC STUDENT MOTIVATIONAL PROGRAM was also inspired by him and my experience with the public school system.
I live in the city, an African American neighborhood, where their is a lack of fathers present to support and giude their children.
THE DECLINE OF THE TRADITIONAL BLACK FAMILY
This is not just a problem that is all the fault of black fathers . The divorce rate, The laws that support womans rights over mens rights.when it comes to children, and who has to pay child support. the government has traditionaly supported mothers in thier quest to raise the children. Forcing many fathers out of the picture only to be finacial providers. Many of those black fathers were discriminated out of a job. or the job owners moved to the suburbs. Many women changed thier perspective about allowing the man to be the man of the house ., making the easier choice of divorce, child support, and a new boy friend and public aid. As you can see thier are alot of cause and effect issues that plauge our black families and communities. This battle between who is going to be the leading influence in a childs life has seriously effected our black families and have manifested in what we see today.
I sacrificed jobs and money to personally walk my son thru his formative years. I really felt all alone, mostly mothers and their children. Many without fathers present in their lives. I sacrificed also dating because I felt it would distract me from my double duties. His mother was not available. Many mothers overwhelmed me with their request for me to be there for their children and be a good influence for their sons too. Where were their fathers ? Some working, some not there. I reluctantly turned the mothers down because, they were not willing to make the same sacrifices. They were not aware of the some of the issues and beleifs I was instilling in my son that were absent in their lives. Not only did I not have time or extra to sacrifice ,but trying to combine the up bringing of my child, as a single father and help with their children, would have been too much for me to handle . Being an only child I took on the roll of being father, mother, brother, and friend.I taught him computers before kindergarten, and stayed close to him all along the way as he maintained an A average. He graduated from grammar school Valedictorian 3.9 average. I was so proud of him and glad I made the sacrifice.Hes a junior in high school now, and so far wer’e beating the odds…….Now college ,,,,some how Im going to pull that off too.
A Fathers Involvement makes a Biiiiig difference.
ThanksSCORPI2000
Barack, you are 100% the right person to be president of the United States.Your words are my words.Thanks for being who you are. and bravely taking on these sinsitive issues plauging our culture
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Check out the overwhelming response from the World community at http://www.whowouldtheworldelect.com/. Senator Barack Obama is their man in almost every Country represented. From these results it's obvious that Obama will build bridges and heal international relationships. It's up to us to do everything we can to get him elected!
Take a moment and add your vote to this poll by clicking on the above link. Thanks to Shelton (Citizens.for.Obama) for this interesting information.
