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Danger, Danger, America, Danger!


      In the old days of the late 1960’s, on television we had some great shows. Among these were things like, Mutual of Omahas Wild KingDom. MaCales Navy, The Bionic Man and Woman, The Wonderful World of Disney and  more. We also had space fantasy shows, like Star Trek, and of course Lost in Space. Well, the time has come to face the Lost in Space we didn’t want to face, the 2012 election cycle for President!

In Lost in Space back then, they had a robot who would run around protecting lil Will Robinson from danger by screaming widely, Danger, Danger, Will Robinson, danger!. This kept lil Will safe and protected him from being hurt or killed. Well America I am not that robot, but, I do believe we face great danger today in this Presidential Race of 2012.

As the Republican Convention gets set to start on Sunday the 26th of August, we face danger, from the Republican Party. It’s Nominee will be Willard Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President. We do not need these individuals in office to ruin what is left of America and tear down the rest of the economy we have left. Sadly many American‘s look at this ticket on the Republican Side and think they will save America, false they can’t even save their own bills in congress or pass them, nor can they lead anywhere, but to a place I call Lost in Space. At least the producers of such old shows as Lost in Space and Star Trek, had a vision of where we may go one day, these two have a vision of destroying what America has and making themselves and other rich people richer.

 Lets give tax breaks to the rich and make the poor pay for them, right! Lets leave our troops in Afghanistan and continue to police their country, right! Lets kill OBama Care and destroy the one thing that may save and make America’s health care affordable to its seniors and to all! Right! Come on Folks, these two have no jobs plan that will work, they have no economic plan to help us and they want to kill the benefits and organizations we now have that help the public.

As their convention gets closer I stop to think just how Lost in Space these two really are. Stop and think America! Who would block women’s rights to have abortions in cases of rape or to protect a woman’s life? Who would want to over turn Roe vs Wade? Who doesn’t care if the U.S. Post Office goes under, that has been with us since the days of Ben Franklin, the Republicans is who! Who wants to take benefits from the elderly, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security and let them disappear from our lives, leaving the elderly nothing to fall back on in their old ages, the Republicans. Sadly, too many Americans belive this crap and listen to these Republicans talk it and they try to sell it to us and some do buy, watch on election day!

As we continue toward a fateful election come November America, we have to visualize what we may become and strive to attain it but making the right choices. This is not the America of the 1960’s, 70’s or 80’s or even 90’s anymore! We have deleted our political clout, we have deleted our resources and our abilities to recover is less than ever before. Is it not time America to pull back from policing other nations, fighting other nations wars and protect ourselves here at home? Is it not time we found manufacturing to employ our citizens and put them back to work? Is it not time to turn the corner in the Housing Markets, Job Markets and make America great once more? Well I believe it is and President Obama can do it given the time to do so. You can’t dig a hole for eight long years every minute of everyday and then ask someone to refill that hole and build upon the new land he put in,in half the time can you America?

 So, I say to you Americans, across out great country, Danger, Danger America Danger, don’t Elect the Republicans! They only want to make more for themselves as they hurt us middle class and lower class and broke citizens!

Remember my fellow Americans, a vote for the Republicans is a vote for Danger, and Destruction! A Vote for president Obama is a vote for hope and a future!

As the robot in Lost In Space said, Danger, Danger Will Robinson Danger, well America I say, Danger, Danger America, Danger, steer away from The Republicans!

 

Here We go America! Election Time is ahead!


     As Americans begin to scamper, beg, borrow and try to survive because of lack of jobs, rising food and gas prices and more, the Republican Convention begins to get underway soon. As the Republicans get ready to name Willard Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan, we need to look for the truths in this election.

The biggest choice we will all make in November on Election day, concerns what will happen to the job market, the economy, healthcare costs, loss of social Security benefits, Medicaid and Medicare and programs seniors depend upon. The cost will rise if the Republicans are indeed elected and you can believe it. The benefits will go down, the cost of taking care of our elderly and disabled will rise also. Sadly, we don’t need lower taxes for the rich, and higher taxes for the middle class and poor, we all know that. Lets keep the taxes down on us lower-income people and make the rich pay more I say.

Another thought to consider here and think about is, who will save the Postal service and such organizations that have been in America since the Revolution?  Are these jobs going too, and will we keep sending jobs overseas? Will we keep fighting other people’s wars too? I hope the hell not! The Afghans are killing American Service Members now, just for being there, yet we try to defend them and police their country, the time has come to stop now and bring our people home.

I have watched the commercials from both parties, the accusations, the sneering, the bad mouthing and more and grow tired of it. If you want to be President tell the truth, be honest, be up front and most of all be humble! Stop lying, and telling stories about the other party and it’s nominees, please. It is beginning to look like two elementary children in a school play ground fighting over things neither fully understand. Lets get the issues straight, and speak plain english please.!

 

Election Anger and False Statements


      As an Independent Voter, who is not a member of either Party, I tire of this bickering, and attacking each other from both parties and candidates. The Republicans attack the current administration and then in turn Obama attacks the Republicans and Romney. What we have here is not an election run by candidates who are adults, respectful and talking issues to the public and the citizens of America, but, two grown men acting like children on a playground in Elementary School. I can do better than you,no , you can’t I can. It feels more like a scene out of the Family Circus in the Comics page in the Sunday Paper!

Romney did not kill anyone and Obama is not going to break Medicare and Medicaid either, The Post Office and the system will go down because of electronic media such as e-mail, social programs like Facebook and more. Unless someone stops borrowing from it and gives it an infusion of cash or credit to continue. The Postal Service has been in effect and working in America since the days of Ben Franklin and our founding fathers in America, why are politicians and men in government going to let it fade?

And what of Social Security Ladies and Gentlemen? Is Congress going to continue to borrow from the money we pay in for our elderly days, till there is nothing left for anyone to have? We have Senior Citizens who have nothing to live on but these checks each month, they depend on Medicare and Medicaid also to pay for medicines and treatments!. So what happens if all of the above goes because politicians can’t figure out how to save it all, or how to refinance it all? Does this mean my children and their children and future generations of Americans can end up living like those in third world nations, hungry, homeless, sleeping in caves and tents and boxes? When will Congress wake up?

I have heard false accusations, false statements, lies and rhetoric from both sides so far now. when will someone tell us the truth Americans? When will one candidate stand up and admit our economy is failing, our job markets suck, because we killed off blue-collar work and factories! When will a politician stand up and tell us Unemployment will not be funded forever and will run out on us all?  Please tell us, Mr. President and Mr. Romney, when will our politicians who represent we the people, actually act and make some positive changes to create jobs, increase the GNP and move America forward once again? When will America be able to compete once more and be on top of the world markets? When will we stop fighting other nations wars and getting our service members killed for stupid reasons?  I have heard enough of the anger and false statements of both candidates this election season already, can someone make them finally give us solid plans, to save Medicaid, Medicare, Obama care, Social Security, and yes The Postal Service? When will either candidate finally show some guts and be honest with the American People and stop pointing fingers and state solutions for all above? Probably never if you ask me, for each just wants to carry on and be marked in history as either a two term President or President at any cost! The Cost Americans is us and the future generations of Americans, yes your children, your grandchildren and their livelihood and lives. Stop and Think, make these men and their political parties come up with solid answers that work! Lets clean up the deficit, lets create jobs, save Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Post Office, make the right choice America, for in the end it is our children, grandchildren and future generations that will suffer and pay for our mistakes!

 

It’s Time to Make a Choice!


  A choice must be made in everyone’s life concerning certain events, certain possibilities and life changing events. For Americans this November of 2012 could be that moment in time! Be careful Americans, make the right choice or lose in November whatever you may have gained in the past 4 years and go deeper in debt and get no changes at all.

         Americans across our grand country are losing homes, jobs and belongings left and right, money is disappearing off the map in financial markets, and the stock market goes up and down on it’s own. The world economy balances itself and tries to survive by countries helping each other through mutual agreements for bail-outs. Will we be next?

        Wars rage across the globe that have nothing to really do with Americans, yet we nose our way in, spend our man power, time, efforts and money fighting them, for what? We need to stop it now and get the hell out of war zones and countries that are in this kind of trouble. The world is looking at America, as a possible saviour for the people of Syria too, but in fact we are too broke to manage to save ourselves never mind them. The will of America, it’s politicians and system has practically run out in the terms of world power. Yes we speak they listen, but then they laugh and walk away, doing as they please. The fact is Americans are tired of fighting wars we don’t belong in and policing countries that don’t give a shit about us too.

       Lets talk about our jobs markets and the problems with them. We need innovation, invention, intervention by Uncle Sam to jump start it all. Tax breaks would help to bring big companies back, these companies pay high tax rates to operate in America and get little in return and then when the numbers  get too high they pack up and leave. No one can blame a company for making it cheaper and making more money if they can by moving overseas. We are losing too many companies this way.

       Jobs are tight in America, this nation runs on blue collar, middle class jobs not the and white-collar ones. Proof  is in the historical look back at America, jobs were best and the economy best when the blue-collar middle class were the backs it ran on. Factories disappeared starting at the end of the 1970s. and continued to disappeared since. Manufacturers said nope can’t afford to pay the taxes here and moved overseas or shut down period. In the meantime no politician took up the cause of saving these jobs and manufacturers, so now the back bone of the America Economy is becoming White Collar Jobs and the Resale Industry and we don’t even sell our own things to ourselves anymore. Why is that? Is American Pride in building the better car, stereo, tv,, bike, or any other device now gone, we don’t care? What is it?

        In the meantime, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security,Veteran’s Benefits and more disappear or are threatened in one way or another, just like the U.S. Postal Service.  Why do we borrow from Social Security and the Postal Service, we are killing good things than telling disabled americans,and elderly people we can’t give them Social Security until they are 70 or 75, next step will be 80 years old and only a few live that long. Lets be realistic here, Americans. for decades upon decades, Americans have paid into the Social Security Program set up by our government for people who earn by working and paying the tax it called for. Now, It will not be there for the next generation because Congress refuses to fix it properly and Americans who paid in will lose the money they did pay in!. Why? Lazy Politicians don’t want to fix it is why!

     So come November 2012 we have to make a choice between two men once more, as to who will lead the country as president. I recommend to all Americans to look extremely close at who you are voting for in all offices not just the top one. The republicans own the Senate and House and they stopped all progress for the last four years. Obama Care did go through and if anyone repels it, it would be stupid for Americans to allow it. Wake up folks, It is time to listen closely to what these politicians are saying and doing! We need a President who will keep Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security in operation and existence and we need jobs, we need a job plan to get more companies back to america, more jobs for our people and politicians who care about America, not just their own wallets and purses. Vote carefully and I think if you do, President Obama will be in four more years. If you don’t we may end up with Romney and go further backwards till we do become a third world nation. So the Time has come America, for all of us who vote, from the baby boomer generation to make a choice that will affect America for a long time coming. We are now in our 50s. 60s and 70s, and will be leaving soon in some form or way, will we leave behind for those  of ours, a country in devastation and financial ruin and with no help for the elderly or will we make a choice that will save the future for our children and grand children and those beyond them and save America, It is time to make a choice!

 

America, America, Wake up!


      The song goes America, America, God shed it grace on thee, and crowned thy good with brotherhood from sea to shinning sea!.  The truth is America does have brotherhood but not as much as it should be, we are divided over issues that many nations would laugh at and others would ignore.

        Skin color, the nationalities of each of us,the money levels we have and locations. Than on top of that division is religion and matters of history that divide us due to past wrongs done by ancestors not us. Look America we are all on one land mass with the exceptions of Alaska, Hawaii and some islands we took in, why can’t we just admit and accept the fact we are now all one nation!.

       The bitter fighting between political parties, races, colors, monetary divisions and religion must stop. America will destroy itself if these animosities are allowed to continue to divide us all. Sad as it all sounds otherwise America is a great country and we all know it, but will the problems I speak of start it’s downfall and demise? Like many great civilizations in the past, have we run our time out and will we ultimately fall as a nation into the ruins that captured and overran and destroyed other great empires? That question will be answered long after my life is over Iam sure, but it can’t be another 100 to 500 years away before Americans find out.

        Recently a statement was made by an actor who said, Barrack Obama is not the first black American President, well if he isn’t someone tell me, what he is. Ok so he may be a mixture as people call it, but isn’t it a fact he is the first non.White or caucasian President in the history of America enough?  And ultimately, what difference does it make as to what color your leader is as long as he can lead and get things done? Silly shit people say to make controversy is all.

        Also one more thing,did you notice that this 2012 Presidential Election is boring, slow to get started and in the end non-engaging for most? Very few are paying attention to either candidate, why? Because, Americans know that no matter who is in the Office, it is ultimately Congress running the show, and they are totally messed up and stalemated. In the end whether we re-elect President Obama, or elect Romney, it will be Congress that will either let things progress forward or die where it all is. Make the changes in Congress folks, if you elect a Democrat back to the White House give him a Democratic Senate and House, if it is a Republican the same must be true, otherwise America will sit still and never advance a damn inch in any direction. Sadly Americans it is time to be smarter than the people we put in  office and make the government work once more!

      

America, How do We Stop It?


      Across America everyday, more and more violence and strange acts get committed and people act stranger and stranger. Why is this can I ask?

       I believe fully Americans have lost sight of what really counts in their lives and what they need most. They fumble about, allowing their children to do as they please, addicted to drugs, alcohol and video games and yes even computers.  Why is that, well the morals and ethics of our forefathers and grandparents have faded from American Society. The churches have less people, the decisions made are made more loosely and the lack of discipline is fully apparent in the generation currently running the youth of America.

         When I was a kid in the 1950’s and 60’s, parents smacked ya if you spoke back, were disrespectful, and they did things like take away your favorite toys or, grounded you. Today parents are too lax and easy going. Discipline is totally lacking in America’s Society. Now I remind you I am not saying abuse your child, or destroy them, nor am I saying mentally torture a child no, I am saying for all things done wrong there must be a consequence and a result for all done right. Reinforce the good and discourage the bad. one must or society in America will become a rabid bunch of dogs, barking at one another and fighting till it destroys the country.

       Yes I believe the American Dream is still alive I just think too many Americans are letting it slip away because of a lack of morals, ethics and discipline within themselves, taught by their parents who gave them all they could and let them run wild. We have become a society in America who doesn’t teach our children what it is like to earn what they want, but we give them everything and spoil them, and ultimately it makes for a person of loose morals and ethics and beliefs who thinks they can do whatever the hell they really want at anytime and not pay for it if they did wrong. Sadly, proof of this walks across America each day, in the modern era. Children blinded and brain washed by Television, computers, and video games. They have no idea what a real book is, if it is not on a tv, computer or tablet or cell phone screen. Look around you, Americans at Doctor’s Offices, Hospitals, Hair Dressers, stores, movies and more, wherever you go some screen is running, keeping someone’s attention in check. Whatever happened to reading a book, writing a story or poetry,playing outside,playing board games with family members, all of the things that kept families intact for centuries in the world?

      American Society has gone from the we society to the me society in too many ways. It is no longer we the people united can do this, or that, or we fight together, or hurt together  or improve together. It is now the me society, I got mine and you don’t, go “f “yourself and get your own!. The days of helping a neighbors child or them, is gone, Americans look at one another with too much suspicion and anger and worry. Why because we allowed the American Society to get out of control, it needs to be reined in again and given some discipline and moral and ethics rules and character once more. Who will do this I don’t know, but, I do see America’s Great Republic and Society finally beginning to crumble much like the predecessors of Rome, The Incas. and The Aztecs. Will it happen, is it time that America’s reign as the world leader is coming to an end? It needs to be examined closely by the brains and geniuses in the world but as a simple middle class American I see it happening slowly all around me. The only question should be for American’s how do we stop it?

 

America’s Dream, is it Real Anymore?


Is the dream that brought out forefathers here in AMerica still alive today? Or is it really a fading glory and civilization like many others before us?

       America was created on the principles of freedom for religion, freedom for enterprise and freedom for all. Is it still that way in America, well yes to a point and no to another point of it all. America still shows a promise for those who will work and make ends meet and contribute to its ways and style and actions. But for those who can not find jobs, possibilities, and promise in America, you must be persistent and reliable to get anywhere. The other thing that is killing the American Dream is somehow, somewhere along the way we seem to have crested as a society and country and as a Republic. It seems we crested in the 1960s and 1970s, and began the downfall of America from the ranks of great nations at the beginning of the 1980s and have not been able to turn it around yet. Will we,, well I am beginning to think, like the Aztecs, Peruvians, Incas and Romans we peaked after a little over 200 years in existence, funny as that may sound the glory that was America in the old days is now gone, it has faded like a hue off a light cover and become bland and not interesting anymore. The American Indians had their run, the Aztecs and Incas and Peruvians theirs too and one thing history has shown proof of is the rise and fall of nations, governments and people, period. Are we next to fall and disappear into history, as so many other governments and societies before us? I believe the answer is more likely yes, than no. So as we go on in history and time passes American’s need to remember the greater days and return to some of the things that made those days and times so great once more.

Time to Make Decisions is Here!


     Welcome to a world filled with more pain and suffering then ever before, just not all of it is  war!

        Yes across the globe we call Earth and home, people are suffering from wars, but more are suffering from slavery, forced prostitution,homelessness and illness than ever before, in recent history. Sad isn’t it when people as a species creates cures, money and homes, yet people still suffer, or we already know things are not right and we don’t work to right them?

       I love this world and the country I live in America, but then I look across it today and see the same sufferings and pain  world-wide happening here in greater numbers than ever before in my 56-year-old life. People without jobs begging for pennies and breaks, asking to work for food, homeless people sleeping in card board boxes on the streets and the ill and injured not cared for because they can’t afford health care. Sad isn’t it folks, but if you think America is sad in these ways, the rest of the world suffers far worse. They don’t have the good samaritans we do, or the capabilities we do, do they?

         I tire of seeing pain, my mind wanders back in time and i wonder what happened to the America I grew up in. The one where a stock market soared and people made money, and parents had jobs to feed and home and clothe the children they had. What happened to those days?  What went wrong for the countrys economy and it’s job markets and  Congress and Government?  Back in the 1960s when I was a child a neighbor would come out and help a child hurt or in pain, or help find one lost. Now they all ignore the pain and suffering of others and run the other way, why? Is America heartless and uncaring, are we scared of helping one another, is our social networks in person being changed so badly we don’t talk to neighbors anymore? What the hell happened to the America of the 50s, 60s and 70s even?

        Well looking back I can tell you some changes occurred through media markets and on television and radio. Even the foul language barrier of television history has dropped, so vulgarity is now on television for all to see and hear. Americans are we extremest? Do we go from no, no, no, to yes, yes, yes that easy? Why? Standards need resetting in American culture, american entertainment and in  american lives!. Across this country people run from one another due to skin color,race, beliefs and more why? Is this not America the land of the free and home of the brave anymore? Do we not still have freedom of speech, freedom of action and reaction and equality? If not we need all of it to stay a great nation and the best country on the planet.  We can not rest on past laurels or past accomplishments either, we must forge together as a perfect union and country to maintain and survive in the world. A Divided country, divided over race, religion, ethics, morals or status will destroy our country and way of life, we need to be united and on the same path. Anything less will be useless, worthless and ineffective, to us as a country, as a nation and as human beings!

       The time is coming soon and fast, when Americans must make critical choices in which way our country should go next. Elections come by once more in November 2012, and decisions that will affect out culture, our country, our lives and health care and more are due to be made, lets not make the wrong ones folks! Vote to become energy efficient and less oil needy, vote to save the Postal Service, Vote for Extended Health Care, Medicaid, Medicare and Veteran’s Benefits. Vote to have Trade Agreements changed so we export more than we import once more!. Vote to Create jobs in the country we love and put all who want to work back to work. Lets force the politicians in Washington, DC. to work together, or get them out of office for good. Teach them to be bi-partisan or send them home. You can’t have a President and Commander-in-Chief of one party and majority of another party in Congress and not get blockades and stalemates and more. So what ever we do, women and gentlemen, we need to unite a President with a Congress of his own party and get this country off its ass again and moving forward! The time for the right decisions is now, not later!

 

What happened to the America we intended it to be?


      I tire of ranting and raving over stupid things in America, for no matter what you do or where you live in America there will alway be stupid things to see and people who don’t get it.

       Yet I see it everyday, everywhere I go, people acting like they know it all, or are in charge, or want to be in charge yet aren’t. Silly isn’t it, they all think they are the best of the world, because we are Americans, the truth be known we are not anymore. We have allowed other countries to surpass us in education, and that has led to our downfall. They surpassed our economy, they beat us at trade agreements, and in the end they make us look silly at times. The Chinese are now leading us economically, the Japanese beat us in trade agreements and countries like Afghanistan have us getting our military people killed by them, for what, so we can try to build a stronghold in the Middle East, pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee!

        We must as Americans and as a country once more Unite and Stand together and change our course back to what made us great. We need Trade Agreements that let us be the exporters once more and import less. We need to improve our education and educate out children and adults better, no one can do math it seems or read or write anymore. Take away the Video Games and computers from your children, teach them to work for what they want. Don’t spoil them anymore, they need to know discipline, they need to learn self-control and manners. The kids in this new century are not the kids we were growing up.

      Sadly they have been given too many things they don’t need, children don’t need computers unless it is for school. Children should be outside playing ball, riding bikes, exploring woods and the world, not sitting inside staring at big screen television, playing X-Box, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo WII games, and not moving, they grow fat and dumb that way folks. When they become adult they can tell you all about how to win a video game or what new ones are great to buy and play, but they know not what a vegetable is or what healthy eating may be. They know not fruits, and veggies and good food, they only know Twinkies, and chips and sodas. Sad isn’t it, ask a kid one day and you will see.

         We also need to help the poor and middle class, they need to be helped for the America we knew in the 50s and 60s and even 70s, does not exist anymore. The factories are less, the jobs are less, there is no big money except for a few. Average Americans struggle to maintain their homes, their jobs, their cars and to eat and drink. We hide it in newscasts and on Television and we don’t tell it on radio programs either, or in the papers but it is here. The homeless live in boxes on back streets, the hungry beg for food on the street corners with signs, yet no one changes a thing and helps anyone. Sad isn’t it folks? What happened to the America we intended it to be, what happened to the real land of the free? What happened to the country we loved both you and me?

 

America Are you Abandoning ?


      America, America, God shed it’s light on thee, and Crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shinning sea! I used to sing this song each day while i served my country for sixteen years in three different branches of service. I did the Army first which I wa stoo young and immature to be in at the time and , then went back to the Army National Guard and then finally the US Navy. Sixteen years I gave on the belief that America was and is the greatest country in the world to live in and call my own. I thought of family and friends as I served in ships across the world steaming from port to port and doing missions asigned to us. I love America and I gave my spine up for it and for my children and wife at the time, yes as I humped my ass off and did my jobs I did precisely that, I thought of how American Families are safe because of the military and what I was doing.

       Now a days I am a Disabled Veteran who takes pills daily for blood pressure problems, to prevent strokes an dheart attacks of which I have had two. I take pain pills for my spinal injuries and pills for depression due to PTSD, and I lay down when my spine won’t let me stand up. I do less each day and I depend on The Veteran’s Hospital to take care of me here at home, and through my disability payments I get and social security disability I survive. I don’t have medical insurance i can’t afford it. I am not rich or even upper middle class I am regular low income folks. I struggle to provide for myself and my family, and those i love, but thats life when you don’t work, or because you can’t.

        I can’t go out an dbuy new computers, or I pads or Tablets or video games, I have to get used when I can find the money for them. My clothes are older now and my tee shirts ripped and torn, my sneakers give out and i go back to old ones for some to wear. These are now the ways Americans in their fifties, sixties, and sevenities have to think. You can’t go out to eat, or to a movie unless you planned for it ahead of time, life in the USA is not the same way it was growing up.

        America, America, God forsaked us you see, for he left you and met jobless, hungry and homeless you see, America, America, why did you forsake me, I served you well and went through hell and yet you abandoned me. Across America Veterans, and average everyday people who need disability, social security, medicaid, and medicare, cry out for help and Congress wants to cut these benefits, why so you can kill off the generation that produce and protected the country we live in. STop and thionk please, and lets see if we can get America, America, back to God’s good graces, and help our disabled, veterans, and elderly survive longer and live happier.