Many Veterans like myself suffer medical problems from our careers  we served our country. We depend on Medicare and Medicare and the Veteran’s Administration and it’s hospitals and facilities.

       Personally I suffer from numerous problems from my military days and career I served 16 years. I have 3 discs in neck herniated, 3 discs in lower back herniated, PTSD, High Blood pressure,depression and more. Yet, I don’t go to hospitals unless I am in pain or suffering, I take the meds provided and hang on.

       So, if Obama or any other politician tries to lower or remove our benefits as veterans they should do double takes. American’s service members of both sexes who roam the halls of these hospitals deserve the help and benefits we get. It wasn’t those who did not serve who stood in harm’s way or gave their time and efforts to keep America, Americans and our way of life safe. Enough said there?

       Some Veteran’s Hospital’s like the one in West Haven Connecticut give great treatment and care to their veterans of which I am very appreciative about. But then on the other hand instead of improving the facilities and parking they let it sit. Parking is awful down there for all who go. Can anyone get a parking lot put in?

 

As we all saw on Television and the air waves on 9/11 the threats from Al Queda are not over nor are they gone.  As a country America must stay aware, awake and vigilant against these terriost and their plots. Hopefully we can do so and still live decently here.

        As September 12, 2011 dawns and life begins to move forward, other problems creep up and into the publics mind.  Politics is always central in many minds across America, I say while who shall lead is important, we have to realize that by electing a majority of one party for Congress and then a President of the other does not work. This plan is causing massive log jams and it is not making the President or Congress look like like fools but the voters. As to these two elected parties in the White House and Congress who know not how to compromise or get along or even discuss what is important for the American people, shame on all of you.

      My belief regarding the politicians and the states of our economy is simple, grow up politicians, while you grapple, fight and argue like children over a new toy, the american people suffer. The economy now draws even closer to depression due to your arguements and failures to compromise. Do you really want another full fledge depression to hit us? Wake up now.  Americans need to act also as the people who voted them in. Call them, fax them, e-mail them, push them, shove them and make em go for compromise and work together and get something done now! The longer Americans allow their politicians to play these  little mind games and politician ping pong with the economy, the more Americans will suffer.

       Next leave Medicare, Medicade, Social Security alone, refinance all of them, extend unemployment now, find a way. Leave Obama Care alone and let it be, the fight is over, now make it work for you made it law.

       Finally, lets even the trade field and tariffs and taxes.  Lets bring our troops and supplies and money home from wars we don’t belong in in Iraq, Afganistan and yes now Libya. Use the money you save from policing someone else’s nation and people to feed, provide homes for our own. And in closing leave the Veteran’s Benefits alone and give us our cost of living raises too, we are hurting. Wake up!

I cried for those on 9/11, I cried for those who went to heaven!. I cried for those i thought who might have died, Lord knows how I cried! And prayed for those who came out alive. That day will live in many a mind, and in the end God shall punish those who were unkind.

September 11, 2001 a day etched into the memories of every American who was alive. I watched on television that morning as first one plane then a little later a second hit the towers in New York and the panic that followed. Then I stood in fear as a plane went down in Pa. . I hoped and prayed no one I loved was hurt during it all, and I trembled in my shoes and pants as I heard Pa. for I have my daughters and their loved ones who live there.

              Now ten years later people are rebuilding still from these attacks, as New York and PA. build Memorials and people gather today, we must remain  vigilant and aware of our surroundings and realize too many want to hurt America and it’s people.

             I know across America police, firefighters, Emergency Medical Forces are standing by in case of an attack. As we face the worse Anniversary in our History, we must do so together as one country. It matters not what your color, your race, your religion or ethic background or what you practice as an American, your an American. United is how we must stand and fight these terriost and anything they may throw at us.

              In closing, I must admit myself and my family, and children and grandkids on both side were not touched personally by the attack in 2001. But I still remember standing before my television aghast and shocked as well as crying as it happened!. God Bless those who died, and God Bless those who worked to save who they could. May there never be another day like that again!.

 

             Too many lonely people roam the internet worldwide looking for the impossible relationship that they can not find in their normal, everyday, ordinary lives. They use internet services for dating, chatting, role-playing, in every form from “G” rated to “XXX” rated and find no solution to their problems or loneliness, why is this?

             A close examination of this situation shows that too many people are in too much of a hurry or desperate for attention that they will do anything to find someone. Sadly, what does that say about human kind and people in general on a world, that is over populated as it is today?  Chat programs and simulations are being used daily and nightly, 24/7 around the clock, from Yahoo, to MSN, to Second Life and others, yet people are still basically alone. Why?

           People stop and think one day, when you were young and having fun doing what you really enjoyed, and not trying to be what someone else wanted you to be, weren’t you happier and able to make more friends than? Yes you were!

           I can only tell everyone the same advise I gave an old friend of mine I know over 40 years now. We were both divorced at the time when I walked into his apartment and found him with envelopes and letters all over his coffee table and spending a fortune in stamps and time to write letters to women in magazines. Put the magazines away, save your money for stamps and envelopes. Live your life to the fullest, enjoy your job and life and do what you love most and someone will find you.

             And as my friend of over 40 years now found out, it works. It took him two weeks to meet a woman he spent over ten years with till she died of cancer on him. And then he took the same advise and did it again and is now getting ready to celebrate his tenth anniversary again with a new woman. It works folks for both sexes, be yourself, have fun, do what you enjoy and someone will find you, chats and simulations and the internet is not the solution to loneliness, real life is.

 

The economy here in America is definitely in the dumps and we are heading past a recession soon and possibly into a depression that could be just as bad or worse than the last one in the 1930s.  I recommend to many friends, family and Americans, save your money for a rainy day.

Second item, blue-collar jobs are what is needed in America not white-collar jobs. Reasoning is simple as proven now by the economy and over time it is the blue-collar jobs and service that makes America’s economy run. We allowed manufacturers to ship jobs overseas and our blue-collar people now line the streets as homeless, hungry, and begging for food. On top of that the few that could transfer over from blue-collar to white-collar are not fully prepared or educated for the white-collar market and the positions are few and far between.

So to help solve this problem if you ask me, 1) Even the markets and trade balance, stop imports from China, Japan and other countries who are taking over our economy and our jobs. 2) Innovation is needed and incentives to bring back manufacturing companies to America and jobs. So, give Manufacturers tax breaks to bring the jobs back here, and find people with new ideas on items we can manufacture and sell to the world.

As President Obama said, Americans are the best workers in the world and hardest workers too, but their one fault in my opinion is really greed. So, Americans if you want jobs, slow down the greediness of your Unions too. Much like in the past, when Uniroyal and others went overseas, they were paying the highest wages and benefits to all their employees, what forced them out and to leave, the greediness of the Unions and Employees, so don’t get overly greedy anymore.

Most average Americans just want a decent paying job, medical and dental benefits and to be able to survive and pay their way. White collar jobs while able to do this are not fillable by all, education is one part or it, second  there are only so many white-collar jobs available too. Lets face facts, America didn’t go to the white-collar industry to build weapons for wars, they didn’t go to the white-collar industry for  building our economy, it was built on the blue-collar jobs and people, the everyday, man and woman who gets up and go to work each day for 8 or 10 hours and tries to bring home a pay check each week. Lets get back to what we need to be and who we really are in the U.S.A. .

Again we are face with threats and told to be watchful and carefull and that three or four men are loose in the United States with vehicles and bombs in them and some are Americans. Sadly, we must remain vigilant and aware at all times. It is amazing how the world is viewed by these zealots and terrorist. As the world’s greatest military power of course we became the target of these people because we fight them all the time. What I wonder more than anything is why?

As 9/11 approaches we have finally gotten Bin Laden thanks to President Obama’s efforts and the seals who were brave enough to go in after him. We now need to stay vigilant and aware at all times, but we must also guard now against other countries, that hide these  individuals and Al Queda itself, allowing it to carry on it’s training in these activities.

As 9/11 reaches it’s tenth anniversary here in the USA, I want people not to just think about the victims in those towers, pentagon and else where, but please stop and think of the firefighters, police and rescue workers who now suffer from PTSD, and nightmares as well as medical problems. These rescue workers of all kinds are big brave heroes who rushed in, not away to save others and put their own lives at sake doing so.

In closing I hope and pray the authorities are awake, aware and vigilant and can stop these attacks and threats. God Bless The United States, its people and those heroes who protect and serve us all.

Signed; A Disabled American Veteran

 

                       President Obama made his Jobs for America Plan Speech last night on September 8, 2011. While I as one of the people who voted for him, do not agree with one hundred percent of his plan, at least he has one!  I belive he and Congress must look closer at trade agreements, unemployment insurance and other areas, but fully disagree with anyone touching Medicare, Medicade, or veteran’s Benefits of any kind, or Social Security.

                       Americans of all ages have paid into Social Security and now you are going to tell them  they will get nothing back for their money, that’s crap!. As a Disabled American Veteran who has no income, and lives on Social Security Disability, MIlitary Disability I think those who paid in like myself deserve their social security benefits when we get them and please don’t even think of questioning the military ones. Military  like myself who served for 16 years and got injuried in the line of duty deserve all of our benefits. I gave up 16 years, 6 discs in my spine, have sleep apenea, PTSD, and heart trouble, I need my benefits to survive.

                       Mr’ President the rest of your plan is fine, but if you give in and let the Republican’s trample upon Veteran’s Benefits, Social Security, Medicare or Medicade, the ones who live off of them will have nothing and our streets will be filled with disgruntled angry, ex military disabled veterans, social security disability folks and more. Create jobs  in other ways.

                       I agree in cutting taxes for companies, I believe in giving them tariff and tax breaks. I believe in extending the unemployment benefits and retraining of workers. Cut the trade deficiet some and balance the boards of trade with other countries. Lets level the playing field with China, Korea, Japan and Europe on trade. Lets educate our children and rebuild our infrastruture I agree.

                       In closing, I want to say one special thing I noticed. The Speaker of The House and  his Republican membership, are the most disrespectful bunch I have seen on Capital Hill in my lifetime. A President comes to give a speech on how to create jobs, and how he wants to work with Congress and they don’t even show or show any interest as he does so? Sad, state of affairs indeed!  As a voter and citizen of this great country, I say AMericans rise up call your Congressmen and women, call your Senators and tell them get off your asses and create jobs or lose yours!

                     

Among the American Economy and public jobs are needed for all. The problem is taxes, tariffs, trade imbalances and political bs, yes I said Bull Shit!.
From all the Republicans and Democrats we get the speeches of how jobs are needed and who can create them more. Stop the bull shit speeches and one upmanships, and start creating the damn jobs. It’s frustrating to the AMerican people to hear their politicians promise things or speak on how they can create jobs and then none get created. Why is this?
I don’t care if your Mitt Romney, Govenor Perry of Texas, President Obama or any one else damn it, don’t talk it do it, create the damn jobs and lets go.!. I believe it is sad that politicians who make upwards of over 150 gran a year easily at our expense and on our payroll, can’t even get together and agree the american people need jobs to get the economy going and at least agree on something to make it happen. Sad , sad, sad.

The bottom line between the two parties is so thin we need a third party actually.

                 The difference between Democrats and Republicans is simple one spends all the money the government has and stops and the other spends all the money the government has and keeps spending anyway and takes us into depression. Lets face the facts here though. William Jefferson Clinton left 8 years in office as President and this country was billions in the black, after 8 years of Bush we are now so deep in the red, all we can do is see red and want each others blood as we try to climb out of the hole. Sad isn’t it?

                 Jobs now become the major priority for all as so many people are out of work we have gone from the number one economy on the globe to now the fifth. Our homeless numbers are growing because people can’t afford to keep a roof over their heads and and the american people can’t afford to keep shelters for the homeless. People line our streets begging for work and food with signs that say, Will Work for Food! Sad isn’t it?

                 Ford is building plants in India, other manufacturers are sending jobs over seas too, why, the American Government is stupid enough to allow it is why. We over tax and tariff these companies and spend our resourses and money an dpeople to fight other people’s wars, why?

                 Lets correct these problems one at a time or all at once by doing the following: 1) Stop policing the world and fighting wars for other people. Bring our weapons, people and resourses home and use them to help  our own. 2) Give incentives in taxes and tariffs to American companies to stay in the USA and up the taxes and tariffs on companies not American. 3) Lets fix the trade deficiet by evening the trade agreements with China, Japan and other countries who now export more of their products to us then we can to them. 4) Lets create American jobs by using the resources and inovations we have to undercut their prices and make better products. 5) In the end when you stop and look at it all, doesn’t this actully come back to Harry Truman’s Old Line, The Buck STops here! We are our own worse enemies really, we were dumb enough to honestly think that if we elected a Democratic President and then elected a Republican HOuse and Senate to keep him in check it would work. Sometimes the American people tend to stick their foot in their own mouths so to say, and screw themselves. Lets tell the Government ELcted officials we put in office to wake up and start working together to create jobs or get em the hell out of office!.  Where ever a Democrat is in office vote Republican next time and where ever a Republican is in office vote Democrat go ahead and it will be a new log jam in Washington. You can’t elect one person for President then give them no supporting casta nd expect them to fix it all, won’t work folks, wake up!