Ok, if anyone of Mr. Presidents people actually reads these things, let him know he will lose my vote and a few more of my family members votes in Nebraska if he bails out the newspaper industry.
I have written a post that details what is happening to our economy. I hope, Mr. President, you understand what is truely happening to our economy. We are just in a stage of regrowth and you have to let everything old burn. Your best bet is to retire anyone over 55.
Here is the link: www.2009depression.com.
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If you are going to be in Washington DC during the Inauguration you may want to attend the Blogfest event to Help Wounded Veterans. see http://www.usaservice.org/page/event/detail/4jqt3
Where were you when the world stopped turning?
“If you want to be important—wonderful. If you want to be recognized—wonderful. If you want to be great—wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ebenezer Baptist Church, 4 February 1968.
HELP WOUNDED VETERANSSource: David Apperson, LIFE CLOUD
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It has been my perception that what has driven some Americans increasingly in the past two decades has been personal greed; greed not for just money but for power, control, influence, domination, security, knowledge, ideology, ..., all for individual or limited closed association/club benefit. That is not only the mentality of individuals, but of people operating in government and business as well.
We now witness the results of greed by a select few:
Corrupt and special interest government officials who set themselves above as aristocrats regulating government for their own investments or hidden ownerships in companies and organizations. Many who also take bribes and illicit favors from corrupt lobbyists.Laws are actually written/drafted by who? Do you really think your legislator, congressman, or senator sits down in front of a computer or uses his own pen and paper? Or, did you think it's his staff? It is lobbyists who actually do 99% of the work; work they have vested interests in, to see it is written the way their 'client' wants it worded. Do you as an individual have lobbyists employed by you? Financial institutions that cheat and steal from the unsuspecting, far beyond the weak laws of usury. Trustworthy? Bank & 'Trust?' Wanna givem another bailout for cheating? It looks like lobbying paid off for the financial 'institutions' (we have all been taught to 'respect?' the term 'institution?', but maybe we are learning). Insurance Companies that 'legally?' bribe law enforcement, judges, and congress/legislators with grants, equipment gifts, perks, and free trips in order to gain unprecedented influence/control -- everything from mandatory laws, to not or barely paying claims, to price fixing, to all sorts of corrupt and unfavorable methods imposed on individuals. Do most people realize that premiums (a name of 'respect?' for monthly payments you are charged) are used by Insurance Companies to pay for -- grants, equipment gifts, perks and trips as payoffs for public laws, regulations, and controls that the public does not want. It is a form of taxation represented/controlled by insurance companies, not taxation with public representation. It's a twisted form of taxation charged by insurance companies. Manufacturing barons who import economic slave labor and outsource to slavery. Pharmaceutical corporations that cover-up sickness and death with misinformation in order to push up profits. Weapons manufacturers that promote violence, war, and enduring sickness. Energy companies that monopolize production/prices and cause destructive environmental damage.American Companies, or those using names, that import/offshore products who turn a deaf ear and blind eye to safety, quality, and poisons.Service providers that care not about consumers but are strictly money driven, with less regard for employees; employees who suffer with unreasonable demands for performance and who are not paid a living wage. Private educational institutions that cater to the wealthy who have abandoned the public. The concept for the masses of "let them eat cake"; they will eventually go away from malnutrition of education because it will make them perish; and, those who survive can be the servants. Suburban Public School administrators in growing housing markets whose actual and hidden agendas are to serve land developers and government aristocrats. They play statistical number games made of fudge, intentionally choking out struggling students by actually encouraging students to drop out or be 'home schooled' by mom or dad. That's how suburban schools 'look' more attractive to potential home buyers, with faked academic 'success' -- faking the 'No Child Left Behind' statistics, a real game, using kids as pawns. But aristocrats brag, statistically they look like they have done a good enough job to re-elect them. And, most importantly to them, they can continue to reap the profits from either the land they own or are financially connected with.Inner City School administrators in decaying areas that hopelessly cope with being under funded, attracting the poorest quality teachers. Children do not choose to be born into poor families, or choose uncaring parents, nor do they choose parents that are ignorant and uneducated. Do these kids have the hope of opportunity? They are pushed aside as the burdens of a greedy society, in hopes they are not seen nor heard from now or later in life -- good to be used as the pawns in wars, or workers for catering to the wealthy though. Employees of city/county/state/fed. institutions (schools, universities, jails, prisons, leases/sales of buildings to Gov., contracted services, hospitals, VA facilities,...) who take kickbacks and gifts, in return for higher costs and sweetheart deals with companies often owned by or financially benefiting government aristocrats.Major colleges and universities chasing the buck by catering to overseas students. They somehow brag of a 40% to 60% foreign enrollment, while American students grasp for help and aid. Community colleges that are given the leftovers in funds, coping with unrealistic expectations of graduating students or preparing them for major colleges. Even with 100% tuition/books paid, it is unrealistic to expect students to juggle working full time jobs (for food and living) while going to school and studying full time. It is not surprising to see such an astronomically high dropout rate in America. Capitalist have made it clear to students, not to have hopes that are too costly; or, they will import already educated talent. Do wealthy capitalist require students in their families to work full time at low paying jobs while pursuing higher education's? Maybe they simply know it's a story made up for the 'less fortunate', like a fairytale dream, achieved by one to two percent and used as shining examples, stories told to pacify the masses. Those with capital also know, they can hire a well enough educated dropout at a reduced rate to do the job of a graduate, a real bargain. …
We could each recite instances far beyond this short list, and it is all for greed. People’s greed has been rooting through our nation and causing so much destruction. Certainly money has been a primary instrument of their greed, but their other instruments of power, control, influence, domination, security, knowledge, ideology, … have all been used to chip away and damage each of us who together form our great nation. With renewed vision and focused determination we will heal and rebuild to become more active and much stronger.
To learn more details, you can read my other three blogs about 1) Educational Devastation, The Need for an Entirely New System, 2) The Auto Industry, A Few of My Personal Experiences, and 3) Invention, Innovation, and Education.
Blog members can reply here, or anyone is welcome to contact me at: Alex.Karoub@gmail.com
hello reader.
well, let´s say, I´m also QUITE, really happy, that a) it´s done, the elections, that b) everything is fine so far. but c) please do not be too upset with reading that actually the shield question will be the first one to be posted.
in my opinion, shields like that are only stuff, that "catches" rackets, but in another sense of the sentence.
actually, in my opinion,
"shields" only provoke something, they do not "prevent" something.
in my eyes, this "shield" stuff "only wakes the bear up",
and you may know, what I mean (not the wall street),
when i tell you, that in our language (PL) people are talking about the history of their families with sentences like "my grandma has been a white polar bear - sitter" which means not a baby sitter, but has been in a quite cold white surrounding. history of east europe / polish part of it.
"i do not know why", but i quite good remember this and that from your last visit in this city here, I am writing from a part of this ex-wall-city :] let´s call it like this now.
and.
there has been - later i will have to say also other sentences about "forbidding people to have own transparents", but I said, this will come later.
first.
there has been a quite good discussion after your visit, someone has been there who´s writing for a newspaper, a daily one, which i choosed to be one of a few that I will allow to print this and that from my hands.
the person was - in this discussion - a bit surprised about a young female person (not me), taking part in this talk. and you know what? in this case - see: i like the newspaper, really. but in this case I´m on her side. actually, critical points, critical point of view, ability to put it in words, even words "not only the ones everyone is used to" has a kind of a young, 40 years old young literal tradition.
so.
what she said, was: c´mon, i´m also like "i would never even think about voting someone else. but i´m trying to speak it out: ok change, but let´s slowly come to the details."
so i am on her side. and - if you would ask ME, i would HAVE to answer: NO. this letter. where there is WRITTEN, that "well we are tryig to start with coming back with all this strange steps of my former call-it-whatever" - this letter is NOT on my writing desk. this letter is NOT here. i have NOTHING black on white, that you are preparing to take this STUPID IDEA back, this stupid idea, because shields directly lead to a bit more than only "problems".
i do NOT have it in the newspaper BECAUSE i do NOT have it on my desk / writing table.
so what now? how long will / do you want to wait with this? some of us here in eastern europe have a bit of a feeling like sitting on a powder box, and i do NOT mean "make-up", ya know what I mean.
ehm - all I want to say, is that it would be nice to hear a bit more than "we are working on the problem."
I´ll come back and see if I`ll find some comments or write on soon. bye.
ph.... does anyone there know, when they are going to pack their stuff? in our tradition in europe we do not wait until the last day when we start to pack our stuff into. boxes. cages. suitcases. when are they going to move out there? there in this white cottage? it´s getting boring. really. i´m happy that the .... guantanamo .... desisions ..... begun....... that it is starting to work a bit, move a bit. but this "call-it-whatever" there. your readers still-"plesidwnt" :] your joke, honeys, americans, really. we europeans will remember this last years period as the "US middle ages". we will make a joke history of it. like we´ve done so far, we know why. and ONE good journalist I heard here. an american one. was :] brilliant enough some years ago. in the middle of his sentence he just smiled bride and said it oud loud, normally: "well, I know i should not say anything here. I mean, I´m actually from a country whose president is not even elected :] and that´s through with his "colleagues" "helping him" to "make forget" about those "elections mistakes". i am also reading a bit more than only short messages, shortest news, so - in your case, as you as an american reader - i really would not try to make like "are you sure?" in this case.
so. i am happy to write on a bloq page, freshly created, looking like belonging to a country, whose ("whatever") is legally elected again. with normal votings.
let´s see how this one will develop.
let´s switch ("zipp") shortly to a culture channel. rumours are going around, that in germany somewhere deep deep there far far away in "cultured" ( :] very. oh very. "cultured." ) europe there is a marcel reich-ranicki and whatever the story is about: marcel made a good performance. why? because he is a a) reader. b) literature 'unofficial' scientist. c) a clever, ... - no, a really brilliant thinker and talker, so good, that really, here in "cultured" country, you can ask every one of the street, everyone recognizes marcels slang. not even this: everyone here has a fun about really knowing how to talk a bit like him :] and THIS - in my eyes - also is a - 'reputation'. you can ask around: this is really a tip. and: someone thought: ok, it´s a good friend of mine, i will ak him if he wants to take part in a tv show. to get a tv prize. well. and marcel took a chance and made a performance. he said what - something - there - something, that has been to be said. :] a lot of people were on tv. and later a lot of other people tried to save the "HM." the honour of the persons, that he said he has nothing to do with them.
but actually: his speech had a good reason. he took the tv-show-chance (he had done a lot of better with more tv viewers before, so it was not "complicated" to take this chance.) ... he took the chance and said some things about tv quality. the rest...later.
why i´m writing this one here. on a bloq site in washington DC, like standing in front of a white cottage. and :] waiting for those bunny-uncles too move out there. the reason I will tell you as soon as the bunny uncle - your former "whatever" - (your former "pwesilent" :] as soon as he moved out.
the story is interesting, but he takes too much time for moving out of a white cottage, it´s not so complicated to organize an. an umzug. a moving out. let´s now switch back to DC another channel now, 'cause see above, this was a guest visit in the culture channel.
[later i´ll write this here on, now i have to come back to my work place. see you.]
One man has moved an entire nation to acting on the belief, an African American is less than 20 days from becoming the next President of the United Sates of America. This movement can clearly be displayed in the enlistment from millions of volunteers to the Endorsement from the Number One National African American Newspaper.
The Michigan Chronicle endorses Senator Barack Obama for presidency. They released the following statement:
Sen. Barack Obama, the Democrat from Illinois, is best suited to become president of the United States
Senior Editor Bankole Thompson examines the facts. Thompson begins with issue one as universal health care. Read the Michigan Chronicle and learn what they believe is the first responsibility of the next president, will be to get the economy in shape despite fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Michigan Chronicle concludes, Sen. Obama, in their view, has demonstrated tremendous strength, intelligence and good judgment on the dire issues facing 21st century America today.
They ask voters to look at the candidates based on their competence and judgment, not on the color of their skins.
As one senior editor stated to me,
VOTE YOUR ISSUE NOT YOUR SKIN TISSUE!
http://www.michronicleonline.com/articlelive/articles/3227/1/Michigan-Chronicle-Endorses-Obama-for-President/Page1.html
Photo taken by Michigan Chronicle photographer
Published: October 13, 2008 5:30 PM ET updated Monday
Most people I think just read the headlines when it comes to Newspaper endorsements of a candidate. I'm not one of those.
On Monday two reporters from the Guardian, a newspaper based in the UK, came to our voter registration table and they posted an artice and video about our group and the youth vote on their website.
Check out the article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/16/uselections2008.socialnetworking
and the video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/sep/17/young.voters.us.elections
We are a student run organization whose goal is to help get Obama elected through the youth vote. Check out our facebook group, we have 950 members.
http://www.new.facebook.com/inbox/#/group.php?gid=10629102510
We have had and are having more events to get students fired up about voting. We are currently trying to register 1000 on campus voters.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=111
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ToThe Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, The Repository, Chronicle-Telegram, The Daily Record
SubjectOhio's Economic Future
Message To Whom It May Concern, I have lived in Ohio for nearly 20 years and Cleveland for the majority of them. In that time I have seen a steady decline in employment, population, infrastructure and morale. Ohio needs a change and I believe Barack Obama can provide leadership that will help bring about that change at home. After reviewing his website, here are just a few initiatives that I think should be highlighted by your newspaper: * Tax Rebates to American Workers: As the economy has continued to weaken significantly, Senator Obama has promised to enact another $50 billion stimulus package to provide immediate tax rebates to American consumers and working families. Obama will also provide a tax cut for working families, with a credit of up to $500 per person, or $1,000 per working family. * Rebuilding the country: Obama has pledged $60 billion over 10 years, to provide financing for infrastructure projects across the nation. These projects will create up to two million new direct and indirect jobs per year and stimulate approximately $35 billion per year in new economic activity. * Create the American Opportunity Tax Credit: Obama will create a new $4,000 American Opportunity Tax Credit to make college completely free for most Americans. * End Tax Breaks for Companies that Send Jobs Overseas: Obama believes that companies should not get billions of dollars in tax deductions for moving overseas. Obama will fight to ensure that public contracts are awarded to companies committed to American workers. Obama will fight for a trade policy that opens up foreign markets to support good American jobs. He will stand firm against agreements that undermine our economic security. Thank you for your time and attention. Larry G. Webb
The campaign would like some letters out today and tomorrow on energy policies and Obama's solutions. For the Columbus Dispatch email letters@dispatch.com Don't forget to also write to your local weekly paper
Progress Ohio also has a great site for getting letters sent out.
Talking points are below:
Barack Obama for the Democrats
Many Democrats have taken to worrying that the protracted and excruciatingly close battle for their party's presidential nomination may divide their ranks and diminish their chances of victory in November.
But that's a glass-half-empty view. A more positive outlook is that at a time when the departing administration has steered the nation severely off course, Democrats are blessed with two candidates of intelligence, vision and vigor.
And Americans have responded, with a surge in voting and registration.
Sen. Barack Obama referred to that excitement in a teleconference interview last week with this newspaper's editorial board. "We were always the longshot," he said. "The fact we've done so well speaks to the hunger of the American people for a different message and a different direction."
We agree, and we also believe that Sen. Obama is the Democratic candidate better equipped to restore Americans' hope for the future and to bring change to Washington.
For that reason, we endorse Sen. Obama in Tuesday's Indiana primary and in the May 20 contest in Kentucky.
