The Depression In America

Folks, this is depression. The term recession came into use during the 1st great depression of the 30's. The government decided to change the term to recession from depression, because people saw the depression as deep dark pit that had no way out.
The, so called, recovery is a huge sham. Jobs are still being sent over seas and more people will lose there jobs after the holiday shopping season is over. The strategy of spending billions on road projects is a failure. No matter what the government says about the number of jobs that would have been lost without that strategy, the fact is that 10 percent of the country is out of work and many of those jobs will never come back. In fact, companies have decided that they can operate just fine with the employment level that they are at right now.
More and more of the information technology jobs are going out of the country. This will eventually eliminate those careers as an option. High tech is dead and buried in the United States. The only thing that is missing is the funeral.
People know that buying electronics of any kind is a fruitless pursuit, because next years model is always better. It is all a game. They have developed all these technological advances and they let them trickle out slowly, so that people will buy and buy and buy. The problem is that the content on the web and TV is dwindling into nothingness. What do you really do with your TV, cell phone and computer? You are throwing good money after bad to make these things better, but a fast computer on a slow Internet connection is still slow. Television shows run for ten episodes and end in an anti climatic mystery for the season. The same movies play sequentially from channel to channel. New releases happen once a year and are usually movies you've rented before. You spend a thousand dollars a year on your cell phone and most of the time you aren't talking about anything. The phones cost hundreds of dollars and there are dead spots. You grow apart from your friends and family, because you don't get quality time together and the phone makes your relationships less meaningful. You text people across the room, rather than talk to them. This leads to an inability to talk to people face to face, because you have lost your social skills.
We have grown apart as a society and as communities. Everything is sterile and seems to have nothing to do with our lives. Video games have replaced outside recreation. People are not only feeling the effects of the economic depression, but are generally depressed.
What's the point? The rat race needs to end. People need to spend quality time together. They need to put away the toys and live real lives. The store is not meeting your needs. You long for real relationships, but you can't let anyone into your life who isn't on your face book page. Human contact is extinct.
All these things add up to a society where people have no incentive to hire people in our own country. If people haven't got a relationship with you, they have no reason to save your jobs, because they have the same attachment to people here as they do to people in India and China. None at all. Now days a warm body is a warm body no matter where it's location might be,
There was a time when people bought from the people they knew, because those people took good care of them. Those days are over. It's dog eat dog.
Yes we are in a depression and we made this depression. We spent more than we made. We went for the quick buck and ignored the consequences. We invested our money without knowing where it was invested. We might have well stuffed it in the mattress and set the mattress on fire. We think that people with their own television shows and radio shows know what they are talking about, simply because they have a show. This depression is going to last for years. We have not turned the corner yet. We are not supporting local businesses and big business has pushed us off a cliff, time after time. There is no money flowing into our economy from any one but us and we are hurting. Buying things can not create a stable and vibrant economy. There simply aren't enough dollars for us to spend to make that an option. Americans must begin to make things again. And the things that we make must be priced to sell. No one can afford to spends hundreds of dollars on things that cost 25 dollars to make. We have to stop trying to sell things that cost the war debt to people. If we don't get realistic about what things should cost, our products simply won't sell. When fast food costs what a sit down meal used to cost there is something wrong.
When the grocery bags get smaller and smaller , so that you won't feel like your getting less and less of everything in the store and it's all half as big, we don't complain, we pay. People we are throwing money we don't have into the basic necessities of life. We are suffering day after day, because we won't stand up for ourselves. There is a sense of helplessness in this country that has grown into an epidemic. This depression is not about what you are doing. It is about what you are not doing. Americans no longer demand certain standards from business. They reach blindly into their wallets and surrender their cash for less and less product. Until you demand more for your money your going to have less money. This country will never recover until Americans demand more for less.

Dear Barak

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As a member of the Democratic Committee I would like to express some thoughts.
You have assembled some of the most intelligent people in the country. The problem is you listen to them. First for get the Republicans. They are living in an alternative universe. People do not care what are saying. They don't see them doing anything to give them jobs and you might point that out in your next press conference.
It's time to get your head out of your asses down there. People don't care about politics right now. They want to see action.
The health care reform issue is important. Every minute that the Senate spends playing pass the beach ball someone who is ub=insured is dying. We need a public option just to keep the insurance companies honest, because even if they can not deny coverage to people because of a pre-existing condition, they will walk through the biggest loop hole they can find. One of those loop holes is calling every thing experimental. They already use this excuse. You have one shot to get this right and passing just anything is not an option, because real people are counting on you.
Issue number 2 is Afghanistan. Troops are dying there. If you are not going to pull out then you better kick the Taliban's ass. I say this, because people are tired of the death toll on the news.
Pulling out is an option. If you pulled out let the Taliban in and then went in in force and took them out you could avoid a lot of heartache.
If you are going to put more troops in then don't announce it for gods sake. Did we announce Normandy. The post Vietnam era is full of vacillation, because we are afraid to lose and afraid to win. The bottom line is that people would support a large offensive if it produced long term results and the Afghans gained the ability to protect their country. We created the Taliban. We trained them and it's time we took them out. Afghanistan in the hands of Alquaida and the Taliban we completely destabilize the middle east and result in huge increases in the price of oil. The insurgents are attacking Iran now. If they spread militant Islam ism across the middle east we will be in a hell of a position. Doing nothing is not an option. Drop the 40,000 into Afghanistan in a massive surprise offensive and tell the press after. It is time we stop telling the enemy what we are doing.
Jobs are issue number three. No one is buying the happy talk about the improving economy. The days of spending money we don't have are over, so we know that consumers are not going to drive this economy.
If you want to cut the budget deficit in half and put people to work, start changing the countries problem with oil dependency by following T Bone Pickens energy plan. This will cut people energy bills in half. The result of cutting people's energy bills in half will be an increase in spending by the consumers of things that factories produce, rather than pouring their money down the black hole that the oil companies have become. This would also result in jobs in the private sector, increased revenue for the US government, and a huge reduction in the deficit, which is what you are all worried about down there.
These three solutions would also push your pole numbers up to where they were in November of 2008.
The problem in the White House is to much talking and hand wringing over poll numbers. For Christ sake, Roossevelt didn't spend all his time watching news bites that said he was inept. He went out and kicked tail and took names. Worrying is what happens while your life falls apart. Doing something is better than failing bcause you did nothing.

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Growing Up Psychic

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Now that the movie, "Staring At Goats" is coming out, the truth about psychic abilities will come out. It is based on the true story of the U.S. Military's program to use psychic powers as a weapon.
Psychic abilities are not main stream, so most of us don't publicize it. I grew up psychic and so did other members of my family. Real psychics have different levels of ability, so don't start writing me about your grandmother's lost treasure. It doesn't work that way.
I come from a very Orthodox Catholic family, so we never spoke with each other about our abilities. As a matter of fact, it was never mentioned by any of us when we were growing up. To us it was natural to suddenly know something was going to happen and it wasn't like it was an every day occurence. I didn't know psychic from a hole in the wall until I was 20. That's when I started to put two and two together and began to experiment with it.
The subject here is growing up psychic, so I will stick to it. It wasn't much different from any body Else's childhood, except, I had times when things would come to me. I never spoke about it, but I found that I could avoid pitfalls that I knew were coming for me. Did I change my future? From what I can tell, everything in my life that was supposed to happen did. It's no different from looking both ways before you cross the street. If you see a car coming you're not going to cross. That's the way I see my ability. I simply saw the cars sometimes.
I know there are a lot of fake psychics out there. I have even met one. The truth is that psychics, for the most part, are very private people, who sometimes don't want to know the things they see. In my case I have learned to block out the majority of what I could see. It isn't a peasant thing to know the things that barged their way into my mind.
I think that psychic ability is hereditary in many cases. It runs in families to some degree, just like blue eyes and red hair or freckles. It is far from welcome for some of us, because I have seen things that have cripplled me. I would gladly give it away. I know the question on your mind. If your psychic why don't you pick the lottery winners or go to vegas? The answer is that it is more like being sensitive to the ebb and flow of other people`s energy. Machines don't have thoughts. I have used it in Black Jack and with all deference to the gambling industry, I believe they cheat, though I have no proof that I can show you. My experience with the casino industry has lead me to avoid betting.
Growing up with psychic abilities was about the same as someone who was good at Math. You just don't understand that every one else can't do it. I think the same goes for good musicians, it comes naturally and it is easy to take it for granted.
Please don't write and ask for messages from dead relatives or lost pets. That's not my bag.

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Tread Lightly Dan Brown

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Dan Brown spins webs of mystery. It sells a lot of books, but what it also does, is to create the desire of his readers to know the truth. The truth about government secrets is complex.
The government keeps secrets about other countries that could potentially damage their reputation, like those of the Iran contra affair. It made the fact that Israel was part of the deal secret after the fact, but the reason for that was that there is probably more to that debacle than what the news organizations Knew. By making it top secret it prevented the press from pursuing it or printing all that they knew. The press knows a lot about government secrets, but they have gag orders on them, so they can not release it. There are many things that the government won't declassify simply for that reason, so the notion of a free and open press is fiction.
Another thing that the government keeps secret is political scandals. Yes some get out, but by and large they are kept quiet. The reason for this is that the powerful people who are involved simply don't want people to know. These people are not just politicians, but lobbyists, corporations and very wealthy and politically powerful people.
I know that these two examples are boring, but there are deeper secrets and this is where Dan Brown leads us. What are the deep secrets about power, weapons, and very secret government agencies?
First you must understand that the military monitors technology and also drives it. They look for the potential for a military use of everything. The government has spent decades trying to develop the potential for military use of the mind. It goes back to the days before LSD was used to determine if it was useful as a means of breaking people and getting at the truth. The bottom line is that government doesn't want people to know the true power of the mind and the release disinformation to keep it that way. The government does not just higher experts to get to the bottom of mysteries or to develop uses for things. They also hire experts to put out lies that prevent people from learning the truth about many things that they can not keep out of the public eye. Two examples of this are UFOs and psychic ability's. Most people have had experiences with both, but they either explain it away to themselves or the government helps explain it away.
Here I will talk about the secrets of the mind. Peoples brains are electrical. Actually anything that the brain controls is connected to electrical impulses. This is a fact that you probably learned in high school science class. An EEG measures the electrical impulses in the brain. Scientist have discovered that irregular brain wave patterns are symptomatic of some diseases and sometimes brain tumors.
The fact is that electricity can travel. If you need proof rub your feet on a wool carpet and ground yourself by touching metal or another person. The result will be a shock. In fact enough static electricity can actually kill a person. I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. Electricity can be created by two polar opposite magnetic fields with wire wrapped around it and spun rapidly. That is what a generator is. When electricity passes through objects that are good conductors of electricity, like the human body or power lines it creates a magnetic field. Electric fields are measured with an EMF detector.
Now here's where it gets a bit less believable. Every living person has their own electric field. For every person this field is different. That is why some people are more sensitive to the size of electric fields that power lines generate. If another magnetic field interrupts your magnetic field there can be a reaction.
We all know that electricity is a form of energy and that energy can be transferred. Tha is how a telephone works and that is how a cell phone works. Bet you didn't know that. Well it is thought that psychics pick up other peoples energy and can then turn that into visions of a past event. How? Everything that has energy leaves residual amounts of energy. Some materials such as quartz store that energy. Well you say what about reading minds and seeing the future. Well talk to Einstein folks, because he reasoned that time was not fixed in a line. I know this is hard to comprehend, but time has to do with energy. The earth spins and revolves around the sun. What does that? Gravity and gravity is linked to energy. Time here is not the same at it is on the moon. So what some scientist believe is that some people can tap into the energy that the future emits. Others believe that they pick up the energy that the earth stores up before an event, such as a disaster.
The government has been studying these phenomenon for decades and it is not far fetched to think that with the help of some of the sensitive people and the greatest minds on earth, that it has learned how to manipulate it. After all energy is always being stored and released. The bottom line is that it is probable that the government has learned to manipulate people's thoughts directly by using energy. Can it control what you think? I don't know, but once you understand the nature of how the mind works you can see that it is possible now or will be in the future.
Now if a agency such as the CIA or the Pentagon had that power what do you think they would use it for, Given that the government tries to find a military or alternate use for every scientific discovery that could possibly be utilized by them.
So, Dan Brown is not far from the truth when he considers the potential use of the mind as a weapon or a weakness that could be subject to a weapon.

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JOBS 101

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There are no jobs right? Why aren't there jobs? The public might think that the economy is the reason there are no jobs and they would be partially right, but there is another reason that jobs are scarce.
Politicians get support by limiting competition for companies. Lobbyist do not spend billions on them to get business alone. The truth is that businesses want to eliminate competition from the market place. It's not an accident that certain companies become big players in a certain business. They lobby to achieve that. They also swallow up their competition. We all go to the store and buy food. We look down the aisles and see thousands of products, but the prices are pretty close to each other on the product level. Some of us think nothing of this, because they are used to it. Things get two times smaller, but the price stays the same. It doesn't seem that there is an explanation for this that is out of the ordinary, but there is.
Most of the groceries you see in the store are made by different companies, but those companies are owned, for the most part, by a few huge companies, so they can shrink the size of the package and the contents in it and not be hurt if people move to a different brand. This model is true to some extent across the whole United States and politicians get lobbied to keep it that way. And when I say politicians I mean local state and Federal. So what does this have to do with jobs?
The sad fact is that lack of competition means higher prices and less companies entering the market places. This means that the number of jobs in the country are artificially limited. Remember the banks that were too big too fail? There was no real competition in the banking industry. Yes, there are local banks, but local banks do business with the big players in the banking industry. The majority of the jobs in the industry are generated by those huge companies. The same is true for every industry. So there is no true competition. This is why cars are all priced in the same price ranges.
Now comes the jobs part of the equation. The number of jobs is controlled by the big players in each industry and the politicians know it. For this reason there are always a certain number of people who do not get jobs. The government knows this is true and it accepts a certain percentage of unemployed people to be normal. Too bad if that happens to be you. Not everyone can work in a capitalist society. Some people have to be jobless all the time so that there will be a labor pool, but it goes beyond this.
There are too many people in this country for the economy and politicians on all levels know this. There must be a certain number that do not work. This is why only people on unemployment are counted as unemployed. The politicians do not want the people to know how many people really want to work and are jobless, because they would have to do something about it. They would rather have people believe they are lazy and unmotivated or they don't have any skills. These are the facts. When a politician speaks about job creation, they fail at it after the election. This is not a coincidence. It is powerful lobbies at every level of the government opposing more competition, Which in turn limits the availability of jobs. So, the next time you are out of work and can't find a job, you should know, that it is thanks to all the politicians, at every level of government. That is why unemployment never falls below 5% or so in this country.
You might be saying that this would have to be a conspiracy and you would be right at one level, but as we know all politicians do not get together to block competition. It is far more sinister than that. It is always made to look like the vote went against a company or they were lacking some necessary requirement. This is why the American market has become so vulnerable to foreign competition. They don't have to play by the politician's rules and they are forced to accept foreign trade, because the economies in other countries requires it in order to allow American products in to their countries.

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Republicans Create Envirement Ripe for Assination?

Is it wittingly or unwittingly that Republicans and, their unofficial spokesman of hate, Rush Limbaugh could be creating an environment that could lead to Obama's assassination? In either case the unthinkable could result.
The secret service needs to be vigilante, less Kennedy's fate repeated by some crazed southerner. We all know what happened in Dallas. That memory is etched on the brains of many of us who were young children at the time of Kennedy's death. The fact that a southerner was convicted in the conspiracy to kill Kennedy seems to be lost on the general public. Is it a coincidence that a Conservative Southern Democrat took his place.
Many people wouldn't call Johnson a Conservative, but he was forced to follow a more liberal policy to save the South of the stigma of being called assassins, which many were at the time, though they concealed it by masking it in the persona of the Ku Klux Klan.
Is Limbaugh connected to the Klan? One wonders. He spews the same hate speach as they do, but without the racial or religious undertones that would surely drive his sponsor's away. Never the less, his attitude seems to be one of a person who might be a member of the Klan. Of course, as the Klan has done in the past, it would surely be denied More reasonable people might recognize that Klan or not, Limbaugh is a radical Conservative who might want to see Obama dead. He would deny that, but all people have to do is create the environment; then they can have plausible deniability and protection from responsibility under the law should some crazed listener do such an evil act. As for the Republicans, they don't seem to have the desire to preempt such an act from taking place since they seem to worship at Limbaugh's feet. There for I would say that they are conplicit in the result should it occur.
Finally I would like to say that this is my opinion and the questions I have at this time and I wonder why The Secret Service has not made this a priority since it seems to me that speaking about the president in a viscous way might cause him to be in danger from some fervent conservative maniac.

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Erin Maxwell could have died accidently

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It is possible that Erin was not murdered at all. If Erin had fallen walking on a board on her bed, because the board turned sideways, she could have fallen forward with the board striking her between her legs in her privates. Falling forward would have pulled the rope in what would appear to be a downward angle. This could have also lead to her hitting her head on the board and perhaps her face.
I have heard no evidence that Erin struggled to free herself, which anyone being choked would have done. It may be that she was knocked senseless when she hit the board and did not try to free herself immediately. I can not say that this is what really happened it is simply a very plausible and logical method in which it could have happened if it was an accident.
I am not on any one's side. I simply find the facts of this case a perplexing mystery that do not add up. You simply don't strangle someone with a rope without leaving some DNA behind. The force needed to strangle someone would almost definitely leave some of the killer skin on the rope. I have worked with children in the past and they can be very strong. Almost anyone who is fighting for their life would have a surge of adrenalin that would make them stronger than normal. Anyone who has seen two kids in a fight would know that it is not easy to separate them and size does not always predict which one ends up sitting on top of the other. There are many questions that still gnaw at me, This was and is a very strange set of circumstances, surrounding her death.

Republicans Murder The Unisured

Republicans have purposely weaved a web of lies to get back into power after destroying the economy and putting people out on the streets. They are now sentencing millions of people to death, including children to prevent them from getting insured. Every day people are diagnosed with catastrophic illness and have no resource. They simply wait to die, because they have no insurance or they are under-insured. The Republicans count on the greed of the American people, which is well documented to weave their plan. They know that the uninsured are the invisible workers and children of this country. The person that gets your coffee, changes your tires, and serves you in all those little ways that make you feel pampered. Most of them are younger under employed people who's huge companies do not supply adequate health coverage. The Republican plan is to spare McDonald's and the huge insurance companies from covering these people. As usual they get paid buy lobbyists to deny the people a right. This time it is the right to life, which is guaranteed under the Bill of Rights. The bottom line in the United States is that if your to expensive you shouldn't live any more.
Today I call on every uninsured American do a small thing to show you exist. On labor day at 7:00 PM walk out and stand on the side of the street for 5 minutes. I call on every american who knows someone who is uninsured to spread the word to them to do this. Just show yourselves. There is nothing to be ashamed of you are victims of the Republicans.

Gas $3.50 A Gallon

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Hold on to your wallets folks. Gas has risen a dollar since it hit its low at $1.60 a gallon. Soon you'll be emptying those change jars again to get enough to get to work. If you have a job that is.
Obama's people expect gas to hit at least $3.50 a gallon. We all know that the government let's the oil companies charge what they want, so this shouldn't surprise you. The oil companies own the government. There is not one government official who will take them on. Well maybe Sarah Palin, but I was speaking about The Federal Government.
Hell why don't we just but our gas upfront. We'd be better to lock it in now than wait another month. For years the oil companies and the car companies have had a pact to keep gas mileage low, so the oil companies could charge what they want. What do you think gas prices will do now that the government owns GM. They will get the tax revenue from the gas and you will be buying your car from them. Does that make you a bit queasy in the stomach? It does me.
I think we ought to let the Mexicans in and start moving there. It's cheaper to live there and for the most part the weather is better. There are no jobs there, but hell, there aren't any here. If you haven't lost yours yet, it's because your business hasn't gotten around to it yet. Don't worry they will.
The government really wants us all to work for Walmart and at this point that doesn't look too bad. The Class of 2009 would probably take a job at Walmart considering there are no other jobs. They are in serious debt and with no job they are defaulting n their loans. Of course the banks will raise your interest rates to make up for that.
Why would anyone want to keep a credit card at 30% interest. If you use it your credit rating will plunge. All these experts who tell you not to close the accounts want you to use those cards and spend yourself into oblivion. If you can't afford to pay it who cares if you can borrow less money on a credit card. Credit Cards are now just another scam on us.
When gas hits $3.50 a gallon as predicted, you will be parking your car, because that is the real reason for the recession. People couldn't pay that much for gas and pay their bills and the same will be true when it happens again. If you are listening to them say the stock market is recovering, you should turn the sound down now. Gas prices are what will determine a rally. If they head up hide your money in the mattress or buy gold, because we are in for a big crash. If gas prices go to $3.50 a gallon, and they will, you can bet that people will not even be driving to Walmart.
Some people will call this gloom and doom talk, but if you think back to last year, the bottom fell out when gas prices spiked to record highs. With them on the rise, you can bet that no one will be buying anything stimulus or not. Be vary wary of spending any money with gas prices on the rise.

Israeli Cowardice

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Thousands of Americans have died and more die daily fighting Arab extremists. These soldiers didn't ask for this war and their families did not ask for them to be shipped back in coffins. Make no mistake about why they are dying; they are dying because of Israel's lust for land.
Even as Amaerican's have their limbs blown off, the Israelis build more and more settlements in an attempt to drive the Palestinians out. They tear down the Palestinian's houses and build housing, so that they can expand to the point that their Genicide of the Palestinian's is complete. It reminds me of the fate the native americans suffered at the hands of our government.
As the Israeli's build and build, they cowar from the war that rages in the middle east. They have not and will not send troops to fight next to our men and women. They are cowards.
We should not be fighting a proxy war for Israel. They have men and we have sold them all the weapons they need to get the job done. This war is not about the U.S. This war is about years of turning a blind eye as israel mistreated the Arabs and fanned the flames of hare in the Middle East to the point that we became a target. If Israel wants the land let them fight for it. Let them die. The Middle East is not our problem, but it came back to bite us in the ass on (/11. That was the day that the arab extremists chose to punish us for our hands off approach to Israel.
I will be called an antisemite for this blog, but I have Jewish blood. I have Jewish aunts and uncles and cousins. I respect their beleifs, but I can not and will not watch silently as Israeli Policy spills more and more American blood. The Israelis have the means and the weapons to fight and it is time they ended their cowardly ways and fight their own battles.
As for the Arab extremist, it has long been an international agreement that combatants who do not where uniforms are spies and they should be summarily tried and executed. Personally I think that they should be left hanging in public for a few days as a message to these animals that we don't take any shit.
As for Pakistan, if they can't handle their business or are somehow aligned with these extremists, we should remedy the situation with our superior weaponry. You don't pay thugs and black mailers, you kill them.You find them and and let the B52's do the work. It's ironic that we have the best weapons in the world and we can not annihalate these parasites. It would seem that the billions of dollars we have poured into weapons systems year after year for decades have not created weapons that can take care of the problem. Maybe it went to the Officer's Golf Courses.
Finally, I would like to point out that thereis not one general in the military with the guts to lead our men into battle. They are useless lazy pencil pushers, who would sacrifice 100 eighteen year olds, so that their recreation is not interrupted. Where is Patton when you need him?

Disability, Discrimination, and Neglect

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Nobody wants to be disabled. Every type of disability carries a stigma with it. People stare at the disabled like they are freaks or shake their heads with pity. They look at them as an inconvenience or a drain on society.
What people do not under stand is that one day they are likely to be disabled in some way. Whether it is arthritis, heart disease,aztheimers, or the ravages of cancer; people will probably be disabled at some time in their life. Disability cab become personal real fast. Imagine being stricken with a stroke and loosing the ability to walk in seconds. Suddenly you are the inconvenience. Suddenly you are the one without insurance, who has to wait a year to get medicare. On top of that you are unable to go to the county office building to ask for help. Imagine all the places that are not wheel chair accessesible. You pass them every day without a thought. One day it could be you that needs togain entrance to them.
Discrimination take many forms; from indifferent to blatant. One example is Syracuse, N.Y.; where many people have been denied permission to build wheelchair ramps on their houses, because the city considers them in the same manner as they would adding an addition to their house. These people are trapped in their homes now and have no escape if a fire should start in their homes. Thei only choice would be to burn alive screaming in unbarable pain because they have no exit. Their flesh melting from the heat and dripping off their bones as the fire burns uncontrollably around them. Maybe your city or town has the same housing code.
Maybe as in Syracuse, the disabled have to wait years for affordable housing or live in residentials to have a roof over their heads. I could go on, but this blog would become a book. The bottomline is that the disabled are unwanted and excluded. The only reason they are not allowed to die is that it would be bad publicity for the politicians.
Instead they are placed in homes where they are neglected or worse yet sexully abused. Imagine your grandmother being sexually abused daily by an evil employee of a nursing home or residential facility. I'm sure you don't think this could happen in your area or to your relative.
Maybe you think that people who are disabled cost too much money, so you believe that they should just be allowed to waist away. Funny how when it is a dog or a cat people will spend tens of thousands of dollars to meet their medical and sheltering needs. The fact is, that when it is your dog, you will spend freely on them. Some people even buy medical insurance on their pets.
In the United States today the services that the disabled receive vary from town to town, not just state to state. There is no equal treatment under the law for the disabled. There are no rights that cross state lines, county lines, city lines, or county lines. Some day when your sitting in the wheel chair or bed ridden you'll wish that you had payed attention to the plight of the disabled.

Better Economy?

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The people, who would smile gleefully as their houses burned, are now saying that things will get better in late 2009. I would just like to point out that better is a relative term. If your neighbor's house burns to the ground and yours only loses the roof then you might think you are better off.
This is a depression people and the government refuses to call it what it is, because they don't want to take the political heat. All the signs point to more unemployment and devastating times. You may say this is doom and gloom, but it is really economic reality. When 6 million people lose their jobs, every other job is affected. GM and Chrysler are on the skids and up to another million people could lose their jobs as plants close and their suppliers take a major hit. Bottom line this is going to be a long depression.
Now for the worse news. Inflation is likely to hit double digits when the economy does pick up, because the government has printed money more prolifically than BINGO halls. Too much money in circulation forces the federal government to raise interest rates. Any one who lived through the post Reagan years saw interest rates in the 25% range. The banks raised their credit card rates from 6 and 7 percent to 20 and 30 percent and they didn't come down. Thank you congress.
Stocks may rebound immensely, but their value tied to inflation won't. This is just an economic fact. Deflation results in the printing of money and inflation follows, because there is so much money in circulation that buying power goes down.
People need to buy commodities that are undervalued now as a hedge against inflation, but gold and platinum are at the top of the bubble now and the bubbles is about to break. Those commodities will see a huge drop in value as suddenly a house prices did. The bottom line is that when things reach a price that shuts out people's ability to buy in great enough quantities, there is no market for them and the price falls, leaving the last people holding the bag with any empty bag.

It's time to Split New York State

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Upstate NY knows that the interests of downstate NY are separated by a huge rift. Downstate votes laws that have no benefit for upstate, but they are forced to pay for them. Downstate doesn't even like upstate NY. They snobbishly consider themselves the only part of NY that counts, so it's time to split New York State and allow Upstate NY to persue it's own course. If votes were decided on geographical area upstate would win every vote, but they have the majority of the people. They also cost the state the majority of the money it costs to run the state. So let us have our land, which downstate doesn't care about and have a government that is truly responsive to us. It's time for north and south NY. Just like the Carolinas.
That worked out fine for both halves of the Carolinas and it will work out just as well for north and south NY. Upstate is a totally different environment from downstate and they really don't want us, so cut us loose. We can do what is economically beneficial to us and southern NY will not have to be bothered with us. It makes total sense that when two areas have nothing in common that they separate and persue their own interests. Upstate is rural with a few major cities, that with time and without the straight jacket Albany has put on it, will do quite well. It has vast natural resources and no need for people from New York City or Albany to spend a day here and there in it and decide what's in it's best interest. We don't need the PSC and The Attorney General doesn't recognize upstate, so no big deal there. The governor, the legislature and most of the agencies that should represent us are from Downstate. It makes total sense that they should deal with downstate and allow us to become a separate state that represents itself with people from our geographic region. We are best able to decide what is right for our region economically, politically, and in any other manner that need be considered.
For years upstater's have talkled about splitting the state and I think the time has come. Our issuse have nothing in common with downstate at all and their attachment to us has caused nothing but economic ruin and inconvience for us.
We do not want or need a state that is ruled by monopolies, which drain our wallets and cause the area to be economically depressed, because it is convient for downstate. We have plenty of energy, tons of land that can be developed, and a transportation corridor that is rival to none. All we need is for Albany to release the corrupt strangle hold it has on us and let us develope it. Upstate has the potential to be a tax bastion since we have a very small drain on the economic budget.We don't want or need every hair brained law and ordinance that downstate whimsically places on us.
The time has come people to do what has been socially, economically, and politically logical for decades. Simply split the state.

Made In America, NOT

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American companies are crying, because the economy is bad and people will no longer go deep into debt to buy their products. I am surprised they are not blanketing the airwaves with ads to buy American. The truth be told though they really can't because nothing is made in America.
Huge corporations bought all the companies that made things in America and sold everything that was not nailed down, fired the workers, and sent the jobs to other countries, where they could pay people 2 dollars a day to make the old company's product. They have sent our jobs out of the country, so that they could become indecently rich and we have taken whatever jobs we can find to try to survive.
The turning point in America was when Ronald Reagan fired the Air Traffic Controllers and broke their union. Since that time American companies have followed his example and taken peoples jobs, pensions, and anything else they could get their hands on. Now there are no American Companies. Why should any American show any allegiance to these companies. Let them all fail. Personally I would rather buy a product from a company based on quality and price, because the money is going out of the country any way. Just because a company keeps a token workforce here, so that they can sell the fantasy that their products are American does not mean I have to buy them. I would rather buy from a company that never had American workers than one that laid American workers off, because of their greed.
These companies want nothing more than to make 100% profit every year and they don't care who they have to sell out to do it. Why buy their products, so that they can become obscenely wealthy and hoard all their cash. Let's face it if you didn't have to buy gas for your car you wouldn't spend a dime to help the oil companies. As far as I am concerned the same goes for companies that lay off American workers, so they can outsource. I think as long as it's not made by American workers it's not American and I don't think they should have any more rights than a Japanese company.
Whether it says made in America or not it probably isn't. Half the time the quality isn't there, because the parts were not made here. If 90% of the parts are made in China, then it is Chinese. Bottom line is, we all know that Chinese means cheap garbage. I'm sure that people can remember the Japanese transistor radio when it first came to this country. It was a piece of junk that lasted a day at the most. Well, now we have cheap crap from China that is being passed off as high quality American Made goods. People, pay what it's worth. It cost them 50 dollars or less to make and the money is going back to China. On top of that they want a thousand dollars for it. People pay them what it's worth. Keep your money in your pocket until they stop gouging you, or form a group and buy right from where it's made.
Congress can allow them to say they are American, but we know the truth. Most of it hasn't touched American hands until you've taken it out of the box. All they did was donate huge amounts to Congress for their Campaigns. Money that congressmen and senators will keep when they leave office to live high off the hog. For every dollar they send to help you they are getting 10 to help make themselves rich.
Don't waste your time trying to buy American until the factories that make the things and all their parts are in America and employ American workers.
One last word on the bailouts of Banks. Let them fail. Use the bailout money to bring American jobs back and to insure our money. I guarantee you that if the banks failothers will take their place just as fast as you can say go.
No company is too large to fail. We've all seen big companies come and go and there is always someone to take their place.

Poison From China

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You know it I know it, everybody knows it; The label made in china is a skull and cross-bones. It means it's poison. If the U.S. did not owe China a trillion dollars, nothing would be allowed to enter the country from China.
China has a long history of human rights abuses. They don't care about their own people, because there are billions of them and a human life has no value there, because they have more people than they need or want. This attitude lead them to use hazardous materials in everything they made or grew and no one cared, because it was Chinese who were dying.
The Communist Government of China allowed their own children to be poisoned with melamine and all kinds of chemicals. Then the rest of the world saw the doors of China open and there was a cheap labor pool that would never run out, so they ran there with all their products and had them made there. What they chose to ignore was, the poison that the Chinese used to make those products. It was a dirty little secret they kept, because they saw China as the answer to all their problems.
China was cheap labor and a potential market for their goods and people elsewhere weren't able to buy goods in the quantities that were required to sustain there huge profits and satisfy the thirst of their stock holders. They had failed to gain the trust of Russia in their manufacturing processes, but in China they found a country they could pollute and poison with no consequences.
Everything was fine. In fact, it was fantastic, until, the poison spread through the world and people in The U.S.realized that their pets, their children and they themselves were being slowly murdered or brain damaged, by Chinese goods. Up until that time the U>S> Government turned a blind eye to it, but when the truth became known, they had to begin to admit it. Now we know, but still the game is on, because China produces drugs for the U.S. market and they found the problems with Chinese made drugs when people began to die from their heparin. Still, the U.S. Government will not admit the truth that any drug from China has the potential to be a killer. The drug companies list all the side affects from their drugs, but no one knows whether the side affect is due to the drug or where it's made and the drug companies don't have to tell us. They don't even have to tell us where the drug is made. The FDA is part of the scam. It allows some drugs into the country that are suspect, but refuse to allow European drugs that have been used for years with low side affects and good results. They are the tool of the drug companies now. They keep competition down and allow the drug companies to maximize their profits. In return Americans who can not afford to live in Europe get Chinese poison and since the population of the U.S. is soon to be turning 65 the government knows that older people have to die, so that Social Security can survive. Thus they are allowing our people to be poisoned, so that the economy can remain healthy and the government can go on like a bloated cow. Spending Trillions to keep their friends rich while we perish.
What does it mean when you're elected officials freely admit that their oldest and closest friends are lobbyists? It means that they are willing to sacrifice us to save them. It means our politicians have sold us out. It means we will be poisoned or part of China one day.

Dow: 6000. Do I Hear 5?

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The stock market fell to the point that people used stock shares as wall paper during the great depression. If your financial advisor keeps telling you you're fine, and you listen, You are just plain stupid. The stock market can fail altogether. Businesses can shut down. It's happening all over.
The republicans want to punish the coountry for voting for Obama, so they and their rich freinds have gotten together to screw you. They will do anything to make the economy worse, because they think that you will turn to them out of desperation if it gets worse.
They are playing politics with your jobs, your houses, and your money. They don't care if you go down. You are collateral damage in their plan to regain power. If you need proof look at the Republican Governor that refused stimulus money. The people in their states may lose their jobs and their shirts, but they will get reelected. This is their grand plan.
The Republicans tanked the whole economy, the stock maekets, and the banks, but that's not enoough they want you on the streets selling apples. You don't remember your history people. The republicans were in power at the beginning of the Great Depression too. Their policies have done nothing, but cause economic disasters in this country. The rich have even gotten the shaft from them.
Ronald Reagan the great Republican hero caused a recession. I think every Republican has started one. Maybe they have a secret pact to cause recessions and depressions.
All their freinds own gold and platinum, so when the stock market is on life support they will sell the gold and platinum and buy stock at two cents a share. They still have millions because they got out before it really crashed, so they will then buy stock for pennies and make billions, while you walk the streets with your families. It's no problem though, because you won't mind, will you?

America Stop Bending Over!

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Service is only for the people who want to over pay for what they buy. Good government is for people who donate their paychecks. Law enforcement and justice go to the people who can pay for the best. Job security is a fantasy. Respect is a foreign concept. You can jump in with your two cents any time and add to this list.
All this exists because of you. You tolerate it. You promote it in your jobs. You expect it from your politicians. You believe that your bank account makes you a first or second class citizen. God forbid you should stand up and say I won't take this any more.
Over 4000 soldiers died in Iraq to give you the right to tell people you won't be walked on, but you won't honor their sacrifices by standing up for yourselves. Your jobs wouldn't have gone to China, Mexico, and India if you had any balls. On the day you put your credit cards away and refused to buy anything this country took it's first step towards an actual opportunity to improve this country.
You can now demand the things that used to be your rights. You can tell your bank to stick it. You can fire your politicians and find some that aren't in the pocket of the lobbyists. You can end welfare for fortune 500 companies and the rich. They don't need government help. They have the money to hire people to solve their problems. They don't need any help from the government.
If they sent your jobs to china then no American should buy from them. China sends us lead tainted products and poison in our food. Here's an idea spend ten dollars and buy a shirt that says I don't buy foreign made goods. Find out where the things you buy are made. Find out if a companies tech help is in India. Find out where your food comes from. Find out where the oil that was refined into gas comes from for your car. When you've found out, stop buying foreign goods.
When the bank raises your interest rate tell them to screw off. No one should pay loan shark rates to buy things. If there is a restocking fee at your store for returns, tell the salesman you don't buy where there is a restocking fee. If your paying for checking your a lost cause. I have free checking and my bank payed me 100 dollars to move my account there.
If you have a cell phone and pay a monthly fee your either getting too many calls or your an idiot. Go to skype for your home phone and pay a total of 100 dollars a year for phone service, then buy a tracfone and pay as you go. Stop walking through the mall calling everyone you know for the hell of it. Don't text unless it's life or death. The cell phone companies are sucking your bank accounts dry.
If you stop bending over to pick up the soap, you will find that everyone will get good service. When someone slights you where you shop, leave the cart or the goods wave your money or credit card in front of their face and say good bye. I guarantee you that if everyone does this service will suddenly improve for everyone. If your grocery bill has skyrocketed find a different store. People are creatures of habit and they waste more money going slapping designer labels on their asses than the whole budget of California. If you wear their name, they should pay you for advertising for them.
If you don't take control of your life and everything in it, then you deserve to get bent over. You deserve to pay 5 times what a car is worth. You deserve to have it fall a part in 5 years while you still owe 20 thousand dollars on it. You deserve to have to scrimp together the minimum monthly payments on your credit cards. And can I just say no coffee is worth 5 dollars a cup. You are paying that for some imaginary status in your pitiful little worlds. If you could only hear what people are saying about you wannabes behind your backs, you wouldn't set foot in half the places you go.
A watch tells time people. It is no indicator of your status. Shoes protect your feet. Guys don't look at you feet ladies. Spend the money in the gym losing your beer gut. Buying things is not an antidepressant. Grazing at restaurants because you are to lazy to learn how to cook is sad. Half the country is just plain fat. They are lard buckets with low self esteem, who need to substitute designer items for a real healthy self image.
The phrase of the month is stand up for yourself.

Hidden News Hits Mark On Dow Drop

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On octaber 24th The Hidden News predicted the Dow would hit 7000. Well folk, It's almost there and still dropping. Had you payed attention then you would have saved a boat load of monney, but were not here to tell you I told you so.
The Dow is likely to hit 6000 before this mess is over as Tech Stocks take a major hit. Tech stocks will come back though. The keys is to dump stocks buy bonds which have out performed stocks and sit tight.
This crisis is far from ober. It is just begining. As Credit Card Compnies indiscriminately raise interest rates on people the default rate will triple. People who were good credit risks will suddenly lose the ability to make payments. People who were bad or average credit risks will default like mad. There will be no amount of money the government can invest in the banks to save them at that point. They will simply fail.
The banks have chosen their own demise buy following this policy. They will force people into bankruptcy at unprecedented levels by making them unable and unwilling to pay off their Credit Card Debt.
In the mean time Congress is sitting on their hands, because the banks own them. They are so afraid of the banks they will let the econommy suffer a nuclear disaster. This is the beginning of the end folks. Get a safe. Go to a credit union, but get your money out of the banks. If you own stock you are toast. Sell it for what you can get. Liquidate all your assets if they are affected by a major bank and sit on it. Roll your 401ks into iras and run I repeat run from anything to do with a bank that offers credit cards, because once a person defaults on one credit card the rest follow like dominoes. Expect the Dow to drop to 6000 maybe even 5000.
The govenment, the media, and the stockmarket would have you think that a panic is going on, but the real story is the market is about to hit lows that can't be predicted and can not be comprehended. The Dow could simply fold, since it is only based on 30 high performing stocks. If the dow folds, it could take the whole market with it.
The result of this could be a depression deeper than the great depression and even a decade of economic failure and misery.

The Bottom Line Keeps Falling

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I've been fairly silent in the past month, because I was waiting for the last shoe to drop. I thought that politicians would start speaking the language of the average person, but it seems that they are still enveloped in their fantasy world.
They are playing politics as the economy burns to the ground and believe me it is a 20 alarm fire. Congress seems to be caught in the 0's culture of drugs that can allow people to hallucinate that reality depends on perspective. It seems that they are hallucinating that the bottomline keeps falling lower and lower in respect to the how soon they will be solvent again.
Every day people are looking at their retirement and their bank accounts and praying that they are caught in a bad dream. Sorry people, this is not a bad dream it is what happens when a country stops making things and all the money has been sent to asia. You see what the politicians and economists call a global economy is a fantasy that a fool dreamed up. You can not have jobs in a country this size if people are not buying goods made in the country. The bottomline is that buying american was not just a slogan, it was an economic necessity. But, companies in the U.S. were greedy and the American people wereg greedy. The companies sent all the products that were made in america out to be made overseas and the American people blindly invested in those companies. Well, the chickens have come home to roost. Empty factories that could have pumped money into the economy and kept the wheels greased are crumbling and the mask of prosperity has fallen off. People can see that the money they thought was here was never here and now the government has to print it and hand it out, so that this country will have money in it's economy.
What people and economist failed to understand was that the economy of a country is a fish tank. Monet goes around and around in a circle over and over again and it gets more added to it as it is needed, like the water in a fish tank.
So what happens when you start pumping water out of the fish tank. It runs out and the fish die. Well America pumped dollars out of the country and the economy died.
Make no mistake the economy is dead. The question is can it be revived. The answer is no. This economy is dead forever. The days of borrowing insanely are over. The days of spending with impunity have ended. A new economy must rise from the ashes of the old economy. People in the U.S. have to make things again. They need to buy what is made. This country got to be the greatest economic power in the world, because we made it better, smarter,and in large enough quantities so that products were affordable and reasonable. Now things are disposable. Nothing last like it should. People have gone back and bought the ssame things ovr so many times that they are in debt up to their armpits. They depended on raises to stay ahead of their debt and most of them did. But, and this is the big but, the things they bught were inflaated in price. They were spending money to buy things that lost half their value when it left the store. That was the begining of the end people. When you can't sell your things for more than you bought them for, when your house has no one to buy it, because the price is out of everyones purchasing power, it all comes crashing down. The U.S. economy became a giant pyramid scheme and the music stopped playing and millions of people were left without chairs. They had no savings. Their houses were overvalued and there were no buyers. Result: An economic crisis that rivals the great depression.
Of course the banks didn't help, because they handed out money like mints in a hotel and relied on borrowing more until they were repayed. But suddenly, millions of people were not repaying the money. The banks couldn't borrow more than what they could repay and they couldn't repay anything. So, the banks began to fail.We threw money at them to save them, but n one asked if they were in debt so deep that they were lost.
Obama has asked the 1 trillion dollar question. How much do they owe? This is something that Wallstreet doesn't want to know. Commpanies don't want to know either. Really no one wants to know, because if they have too much debt, no amount of money will save them. Think of all the money you won't have if they default. Nothing will be worth a plug nickle, because everyone will be broke. There will be no buying, no selling, nothing. What you have right now is what you'll have 5 or ten years from now. This is the skeleton in the closet and Obama's about to open the door.