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!

 

Jobs, Jobs, and Speeches

America a country built on blue
collar jobs and manufacturing is not creating jobs anymore, why is that? The
Republicans are giving speeches on creating jobs and promises to do so, The
President as the running Democrat shall unveil his plan for doing the same. So,
who is right or wrong and who should we listen to and support? In fact
Washington is at a crossroads and log jam.
As American’s we made a big mistake in electing a Democrat for
President, and then electing a congress full of Republicans.

The best solution for jobs is a
simple three part process which no politician will tell anyone. They want to
make it so complicated no one can understand and they can never do it once
elected. So, let’s discuss the facts of creating jobs in a simple manner.

Jobs can, not be created if the
people and businesses creating them can, not make a profit doing so, why create
them then? Right or Wrong I am sure many will agree with this.

Next, what all have forgotten, and few
ever will remember is the greatest economy America ever had was built on the
backs of the blue collar workers. The ones who sweated and strained, to work
for manufacturers, who created products, the world used. Now those blue collar
workers walk the streets searching for jobs that exist no more. Why?

We now face two choices simple and
pure 1) Bring back manufacturing to the USA by reducing tariffs and taxes and
cutting back on the trade agreements we made with other countries and selling
more then we receive once more.  Or face
our downfall as one of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world.

The second thing we can do to create
jobs is simple also, stop getting involved in wars and other countries and let
them solve their own problems. Bring our military supplies, weapons and
machinery home and our people and use the money spent on those wars to create
jobs here.

Isn’t it time finally to tell China
and other countries to stop buying our property and say no, as well as start
protecting our own? Haven’t we as Americans sacrificed enough over our history
to help other countries that it is time to take care of our own?

 

To Serve and protect the military motto of the United States American Armed Services, will forever be a part of American History and the History of many who choose to serve. This is a life many choose to live, to protect the rights we were given under our constitution and democracy in the world. Freedom is what keeps us going and the military is the way we ensure it. Those of us who have served, do not do it for our own personal welfare or wants, we do it to protect the rights and privileges and the families we left behind so they can grow up peacefully and safe. We do what we do in the military to protect home and family.

I served in three different branches of the United States Military, I started in The U.S. Army, but did not like it, nor did I last in it, I ended up leaving it due to immaturity. Then, went on, to join, the Connecticut Army National Guard, and then finally serving in The United States Navy for 12 more years. So Military life, was and is ingrained in me as a Disable American Veteran.

Naval stories I tell all, the time and people laugh at the ones I tell. I have been told some are good enough for publishing. SO I thought I would attempt to tell a story from my time in the Army and Army National Guard. My first job in the Army was as a M-88 tank retriever driver. I hated it, slushing through mud to tow out broken tanks. My second military experience was in the Connecticut Army National Guard and I became a Machine Gunner Scout then. I learned many tricks in warfare and field experiences from some of the best in the business in my mind, who, were actual Vietnam Veterans. These men were the best America had in my book and helped me mature and grow as a man I served proudly with them in the Guard and would do so again if I could, for they represent the best there ever was.

But like many Veterans, these proud men, suffered from the same thing I now suffer from PTSD, Post Traumatic Shock Disorder. Nightmares, flash backs, inability to sleep and certain circumstances that will make grown men not be able to sleep normally. And yes, I say men, but as we all know, the fact is women are included all so, so I shall say my fellow military Veterans of all sexes and ages and races. Sadly, war, and military life can affect all of us and in the end it also proves we are all equals no matter what gender, race, nationality or any other damn thing.

The National Guard Unit I served in is a small one in a small Connecticut town. We were called weekend warriors, playing war games in case we were ever attacked on the home front. But each, drill meeting or two week camp, each year brought all in the unit closer together and we depended on the senior members to lead and teach us. Among these men, were two, who to this day stand out in my mind and will forever more. Armand and Louie I call them, they were two Sergeants who served in Nam, and knew the ways of war, and suffered for it in many ways.

Once a month we would meet at the Armory and drill and take apart and clean our weapons, and clean jeeps and equipment. Listen to lectures and lessons in war and learn tactics we would need if anything occurred. A typical weekend drill would start on a Friday night for many of us, we would meet at the Amory, and hang out together even sleeping there. Fridays were for the men of the company to get together and have fun, card games and drinking then war games on the weekend. It was fun indeed at times and at other times very serious indeed.

For Armand and Louie, the drills were serious things and put them back into war mode when the real war games began. I remember starting one such weekend on a Friday evening and learning more then I needed to know about these two men who served so proudly and took the time to teach us younger solders things that would save our asses later. It began on a Friday at the Armory with beer, and drinks and cards. As I said we all stayed there together and had fun.

We gathered and ordered in pizza for the evening, laid out our equipment for the next day, and settled in playing poker. As the evening wore on, I lost money and they laughed about it and I didn’t care I was with real men who had served and I learned from them even at cards But I learned even more about these men by the things they mentioned about being in Nam and the nightmares they talked about at the time. At first I didn’t believe them and thought they were messing with my mind till that Friday night.

As the night wore on, we slowly got drunk and the card game ended. We all decided morning would come soon enough for us, and we cleaned up all the garbage and headed for the old sleeping bags and rest. We all slept in the same locker room and it was a team thing.

As we settled in to sleep I remember seeing Louie in his special hat. It was unusual and different then al the ball caps we wore, I only saw it in shows on tv, in movies and that was it, it was a camafloge hat with a wide brim. Louie love dthat hat and even slept in it and I wondered why. I found out that night.

We all fell asleep around 11 pm, drunk and out of it. But, we didn’t sleep long. Around 2 am it began, first with shouts of Run, Down, Hurry!. I woke in a flash when I heard it coming from Louie that night, but I didn’t move,.Louie, was asleep, his hands grasping his hat down over his head laying there, his legs moving like he was running in place. The sweat was running off his forehead, and the lights were on. I didn’t know what o do, he got louder and louder and moved more and more. It had woken me but it also woke Armand, his friend. Armand waited a bit longer laying there like me in silence watching Louie. He told me don’t do anything, don’t get close and whatever you do don’t try to wake him. So, I watched Louie run an dthen finally wake up in a cold sweat, trembling and soaked in sweat. His eyes popped open wide and he jumped straight up out of the sleeping bag ready to kill someone!. I was scared and shocked, but he opened his eyes and I could see it dawn on him slowly as to where he was. He finally relaxed and started to calm down. When he was normal I asked if he was ok, he said yeah, happens all the time and climbed back in his sleeping bag and fell fast asleep. I looked at Armand who, gave me a grin and said I will tell you later sometime.

That weekend we went North to New York for training in the field, as we drove up, we managed to take a side trip at Armond’s suggestion. The neighborhood package store, we took a army trailor pulled by a jeep, loaded it with ice and beer. We had to have something to drink after war games. We set the tents up and lite fires that night and gathered round before sleeping. Drinking the beer and booze we each bought, relaxed us to sleep after training all day. And I was about to get Louie’s full story that night.

Turns out like this, in 1968 in Vietnam, Louie was in his base with is unit. All was quiet and fine in the field that nite according to Louie and no one knew what was coming. So, they set out the guards for the night, and all went to sleep. Louie was in his sleeping bag in his tent when it all occurred. He never knew it at all. Till he awoke and came out of his tent he had no idea.

At dawn the next morning Louie awoke and climbed out of his sleeping bag all dressed and grabbed his rifle to head out. When he came out the tent flap, it hit him, he was alone it was dead silence. Scanning around there were bodies everywhere, his whole unit was dead! Louie had slept thru a slaughter of his whole unit and he was the last survivor!. Sadly, the unit was wiped out, while Louie slept and for some reason they missed him!. Louie survived yes, but would never be the same.

In the end, this is why Louie could not sleep in the dark at any time. He had to have light at all times when he slept or he would awake thinking he was under attack. Armand had known the story far before me, because they were both Vietnam Veterans, Armand told me now that Louie told me his story, he now trusted me and all would be fine, next time. I learned then as I know now, military life can get you in the end and affect you forever.

                                  Growing up in the 1960s’ comic books were still cheap at a nickel a shot and slowly rose in price over the years. But what was great about comics, was it was a make believe world you could escape to to get away from real life as a kid. You could dream of being Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Spiderman or Thor or Iron Man or whoever you wished to be. The stories were always of people in trouble rescued by people with super hero powers. in make believe world of course. I used to stand in the store at the comic rack and escape into the stories, to get away from real life problems in my family and life. And I know for a fact millions of other kids did the same, for the same basic reasons, it made family life and problems disappear and easier to live with.

                                   Now the price of comic books is around five dollars a shot for some of them and it will kill the comic book industry. Sadly the heroes, we grew up with will slowly disappear and the fantasy worlds will too. Even with the add on of movies and DVDS on these characters and fantasy worlds, the price of being creative and entertained by it is getting far too high. What will happen to the worlds and characters and fantasies many of us escaped to as children, that my friends is still a question top be answered! But for me as a child, escaping into comic books keep me sane and stable and kept me happy. That and old books and board games. The simple days when not everything was electronics and video game.

Lord I am not perfect, Lord I am not great, Lord I do love and very few do I do hate. Lord you made me who I am, in the end I am a Human and it is that I can be, for Lord you made me, to be me!

             I was divorced way back in1992 and my ex-wife took my daughters of course and raised them. She falsely accused me of crimes I did not commit, and I almost went to prison for it, but I didn’t. I gave this woman what she wanted her divorce because of problems in her family not mine. I have nothing to do with any moles testation or sexual abuse to anyone, her father did. Yet I ended up in a divorce because of that situation not my situation. When you marry someone do yourself a favor check for family problems ahead of time, they hide them well, I found out and they pass them on to their children if they get a chance. One one mistake when I got divorced was walking away from my daughters and leaving the state I was in. But as we all know, once a woman says divorce and requests it, us men have no legal leg to stand on and fight with, nor are we set up to raise children on our own. SO we make logical choices and use logical voices and carry on and start over, never forgetting what we left behind.

             I followed the laws and instructions of the courts, even though I was innocent completely of any charges when I was released. Be careful men, if you marry a woman and you do not know what her father or mother did to them growing up it can get you jail for 10-20 years. They pass on their stories of sexual abuse and molestation to their children who then make false accusations. It happened to me, but I survived it. Women of divorces are also vindictive about those divorces towards their ex’s for no real reason. It happens, believe me, I know I live with it daily. Any Way.

            I have two daughters, from this woman and both are beautiful and smart, yet, different I must agree. But besides their differences with one another I love them both equally and would do what ever I can for them and their children too.  But, recently, I have grown upset and angry with what I see from my daughter, on her Face Book Page, but, I know also her mother is controlling it right now. All of a sudden my ex’s second husband is named as her father, that’s crap. So I sent him a message telling him he isn’t her father and I sent my daughter one telling her I didn’t appreciate seeing this. My Ex-wife is an idiot at times and she will do anything she can to get at me including this bull. But I shall endeavor on and be a bigger man then she is a woman and let her take her Zoloft and carry on.

           When you ask for a divorce , you get what you want and you still hold anger over it, over 20 years later, it kind of tells me you didn’t really want the divorce in the first place and your sorry you made the mistake. Grow up and realize you made the decision and I accepted it is all, don’t ever blame the one you decided to hurt for what you did, blame yourself and grow up!.