Wednesday, March 30, 2011

America Needs Our Help



After watching our President read his speech, from the usual monitors, the other day on how he is the hero of “Libya”, lightening struck; our America is really very much in need of our help to save her. Oh, I know God is the answer, but the God I grew up with has always told us that “God helps those who help themselves”! It was then that the light bulb switched on over my head and I came to the realization that God really meant what he said, and if we don’t climb off our safety nets, we will watch our America change from the great, beautiful land that God blessed us with, to something so very different. Neither you or I want that and although you probably are way ahead of me on this, I have truly reached the conclusion that it is up to us, and yes we must, not should, but absolutely must turn to our wonderful and loving God and make things happen. We must make things happen that will start the slow change in the direction these socialists and radicals of this administration and congress are taking us! And for those who have given up, it’s time you wake up and get on board, the train will not wait for those who procrastinate, it will leave you behind and you might be the one that makes the difference. How would you feel about not acting and because you failed to act, we lose America to those who would destroy everything our founding fathers stood for, fought for, and delivered for us, under their strong faith and belief that God will be there for them and they were right, God was and he delivered what has become the beacon that stands for “freedom”, the shining hope for mankind around the world to continue to be the leader that the world looked up too as the one nation all mankind could always depend on when they are in trouble, the one stable, strong, and righteous leader who is made up of men and women willing to sacrifice so much for so many. If you have not figured it out yet, America needs us, just as the world needs us, and it is time for us to step up to the plate! Throughout our history, America has had good, bad and adequate Presidents, at least until our current President mesmerized America to elect him into the most powerful office in the world, the most respected office in the world, and the most dependable office in the world, so what happened? Well, as this old worn out, broken down Vietnam Vet, disabled and tired observed history start the change that is causing the promised “Transformation” of the free, democratic republic, called America, into an America led by radical, Socialist and communist deadbeats of the 60’s and 70’s, led by a charismatic young, clearly one of them, but one who promised “Change” and it was time for change, but not the change promised by this self indulgent egomaniac who allowed his hunger for power and greed for recognition that allowed him to be called a “Head of State” and travel all around the world on our dime, not his change we would discover would lead us into the trappings of his world and ideology. How is it that we were fooled by one who all the signs told us who he was, even his own words promised what he is delivering, yet so many of us still voted for something he never said he would deliver, and because so many of us failed to see or believe all the truths of a man trapped in his delusionary world that so many like him before tried to bring about in so many other countries where the times led those vulnerable followers into the sinister, evils of the “Socialist, Marxist, Radicals” who hunger for a moment in history to bring about chaos, destroy and then in his already warped mind bring about a world that is a utopia never achieved because it is only an idea written in a book, where once achieved, what was once good and strong will evolve into a subservient, mindless world of the have not’s, while those who led them into this warped “Transformed” State, take everything from almost all but those who assisted in the destruction of the once Republic that our forefather’s gave so much so that we would be rewarded with God’s gift. America needs us now, not tomorrow, next week, next month or on the next election day, she is bleeding and it is up to us to heal the wound and stop the bleeding. America needs us now, more than at any time in our history and it is up to us to respond and answer her call. She has been there for us, as God’s gift, we are obligated to come to her aid. America needs us. We all knew on the day we elected a Socialist Radical into the highest office in the land that our America was and is in trouble, the great gift of God, the legacy of our forefathers has been taken, no stolen, from an American population fooled or lulled into trusting, against our instincts, that the man who promised “Transformation” and “Redistribution of wealth” must have meant something other than what we knew he promised, and so here we are, desperate to find a way out and in that desperation we call for “Impeachment” or even thoughts that God would never consider valiant or proper. No, we must do it as our forefathers would want for us to do, with dignity and resolve. We must act with God’s guidance, trusting in him as our forefather did before us. It is up to us to take the lead and call on those we currently have in office, knowing not all are going to be there for us, but for their own personal self-serving agendas, we must identify those who are there for the right reasons and demand that they fight for us as we will do all we can, within our power and within the limits of the laws of our country, to bring about the change we expected from the “President of the United States”. A President we cannot trust nor have faith in as we know that he is not there for us, and never will be, regardless of what lies spew from the lips of his deceiving mouth. We cannot ever trust or believe in this man again, regardless of what words or actions are rendered as he is not one of us, he is a “Radical Socialist” who believes in his cause and will never change, not for us, not for anyone, he is who he is and we must never fall into his trap again. America needs us, she depends on us to be there for her as she was for us. We must not fail to stand together, arm in arm, ready for whatever is planned for us by this evil, Godless soul, who only has the destruction of our value system, diminish who we are, and destroy the essence of an America that once was, and now calls on us to come to her aid. We must not complain, look for easy answers, trust who we know cannot be trusted, and deliver ourselves, ready to sacrifice what needs to be sacrificed as we look to God, for the answer is in him, it will be through love, hope, faith, and charity that will clear the path ahead for us to endure the suffering that is sure to be there, but let us think of those in battle, in lands far from ours, who are giving their lives and limbs, as well as their minds, so that we have a chance here in the land they protect and defend. We must be the soldiers here, picking up the phones, the emails, the letters, the gatherings in peaceful protest, making our voice loud and our hearts known to all those filled with hate for we who love America and the gift that only God could have given. America needs us now, we must start the campaign of identifying our next leader and we must ensure that he or she will be strong and filled with the spirit of God. There will be names that sound good to some, while bad to others, we must put aside our personal and self needs to find our leader, the one that will take back the power and dignity intended for the man who sits in the seat behind the desk in the oval room at the White House. American needs us now, to come together and ready to find ways to look past our differences and find that one person, who is touched by the holy spirit and guided by God’s will, taking us on the ride to restore America back to the America God left for us to care for and take care of, never to allow another false prophet to ever have another chance to do what this man is trying to do, but will fail. He will fail because he is not who he thinks he is, and he does not have the power he thinks he has, he is nothing without us, and we can effect the change that he promised, but were changes that lulled us into believing we were getting change that was nothing like the change he promised. America is calling on us to save her, and like the soldiers on the battle field, we must be willing to sacrifice to restore what God placed in our care, our America. Yes, America needs all of us and if we turn our backs on her now, there will not be another opportunity for us to do what we are being called on this very day. You either hear the call and are ready to do what it takes, or you have become one of them. Although confined to my bed and housebound, I will be answering the call as long as God gives me the strength to do what I need to do, or can do, and trust me, I will. I belong to an army of soldiers who will be defending and protecting the very gifts left to us. Our Constitution, Declaration of Independence and our America are in danger, so I must answer the call, and so must you, we just can’t lose sight as too how we go about it, and it must be without the violence of those who would take from us what we love so much. America has called on us, she needs us, we have no choice but to respond, to do otherwise is to fail. Failing is not an option, America needs us, she needs us, God help us, America needs us, “We the People”!


Thursday, March 24, 2011

How Much Do We Really Know About "Steve Lerner"?


Take a good look at the image above, then read this column!



I have been alluding to this man and his intentions the past couple of columns, it’s time for you to look into it and decide for yourself, I have, and I am mad as “He..”! We better start thinking about how to respond to this, we can’t leave Glenn Beck out there to hang in the wind, he needs our support! After all, all Glenn wants is for us to save America, together! So, are you in, or out?

Steve Lerner




CAUGHT ON TAPE: Former SEIU Official Reveals Secret Plan To Destroy JP Morgan, Crash The Stock Market, And Redistribute Wealth In America

Transcript:

PRESENTATION

W: We’re going to hear from Steve Lerner next, of SEIU, the Architect of the Justice for Janitors campaign. Currently, he’s working on partnering with unions and groups in Europe and South America, it’s building campaigns to hold financial institutions accountable.

S. Lerner: It seems to me that we’re in a moment where we need to figure out in a much more, through direct action, much more concrete way how we really are trying to disrupt and create uncertainty for capital, for how corporations operate. And it may sound like that’s a crazy thing that in a moment of weakness we could deal with it, but the thing about a boom and bust economy, it is actually incredibly fragile, because it’s not based on real way, well, it’s based on gambling and all of that. And so there are actually extraordinary things that we could do right now that would start to de, destabilize the folks that are in power and start to rebuild a movement. And for example, 10% of homeowners, going back to where you started, who are under, a quarter of all people who own a home are under water. Right? Their home is under water, they’re paying more for it than it’s worth. Ten percent of those people are now in strategic default, meaning they’re refusing to pay but they’re staying in their homes. That’s totally spontaneous. Right? They figured out it takes a year to kick me out of my home because the mort, the foreclosure’s backed up. I’m going to say I won’t pay. It’s just what business does, it’s a good, a good business decision. If you could double that number, you would make banks, put banks on the edge of insolvency again.

And so the question would be, what would happen if we organized homeowners in mass to do a mortgage strike. Just say if we get, and, and, if we get half a million people to agree, we’ll all not, we’ll agree we won’t pay our mortgages, it would literally cause a new financial crisis.

There are four things we can do that could really upset Wall Street. One is if city and state and other government entities demanded to renegotiate their debt because they’re paying too much interest. And you might say, well why would the banks ever do it? Because they, the cities and counties could say we won’t do this and this in the future with you if you don’t renegotiate the debt now. Meaning, about a third of bank profits generate from dealing with cities and states. So we could leverage the power we have of government to say we won’t do business with you, JP Morgan Chase, anymore unless you do two things: you reduce the price of our interest, since your interest rate is down; and second, you rewrite the mortgages for everybody in the community so they can stay in their homes. We, we could make them do that.

The second thing is there’s a whole question in New York now about austerity and student’s rates and the question of the debt structure. What would happen if students said we’re not going to pay? It’s a trillion dollars. Think about your …sweeping that debt, a trillion dollars from students debt?

There’s a third thing that we could think about, what about if public employee unions, instead of them being on the defensive, put on the collective bargaining table when they negotiate they said we demand as a condition of negotiation that the government renegotiate, we want, we believe in good financial management. It’s crazy that you’re paying too much interest to your buddy the bankers. It’s a strike issue for us. We will strike unless you force the banks to relieve the debt of the city. I’m not going to go through all the detail except to say there’s extraordinary things we could do and if you add on top of that, if we really thought about moving to the kind of disruption in Madison, but moving that to Wall Street and moving that to other cities around the country where we basically said you stole $17 trillion, you’ve impoverished us and we’re going to make it impossible for, for you to operate.

Labor can’t lead it, but we can be a critical part of it. We do have money, we have millions of members who are furious, but I don’t think this kind of movement can happen unless actually the community groups and other activists take the lead. And that’s a big reversal of how a lot of these coalitions have even thought about it, so unions helping community groups, or communities who cover this narrowly. And if you’re se, if we really believe that we’re in a transformative stage and what’s happening in capitalism, and we need to confront this in a serious way and develop a real ability to put a boot in the wheel, then I think we have to think not about labor community alliances. We have to think about how together we’re building something that really has the capacity to disrupt how the system operates.

And so I just, I guess raise that we need a whole new way of thinking about things, which is not a partnership, but building something new. Because the bottom line is, as soon as the union gets sued, it’s going to be terrifying. When we get an injunction that says, you know, you, un, the union backs down. So we need to build a movement based on we know the oppression we’re going to face. And I think the only way we can do that is to think much more creatively, and the key thing I …is we have to say what does the other side fear most? They fear disruption, they fear uncertainty. Every article about Europe says a riot in Greece, the markets went down. The folks that control this country care about one thing: how the stock market does; how the bond market does; and what their bonus is. So I think we weed out a very simple strategy: how do we bring down the stock market, how do we bring down their bonuses, how do we interfere with their ability to, to be rich. And if we don’t do, and that means you have to politically isolate them, economically isolate them and disrupt them. So, it’s not all theory, I’ll do a pitch.

So, a bunch of us around the country are thinking about who would be a really good company to hate? We decided that would be JP Morgan Chase. …. And so we’re going to roll out over the next couple of months what will hopefully be an exciting campaign about JP Morgan Chase that is really about challenge the power of Wall Street. And so what we’re looking at is in the first week of May, we get enough people together – we’re starting now – to really have a week of action in New York with the goal of … I don’t want to go into any details because I don’t know which police agents are in the room, but the goal would be that we would roll out in New York the first week in May—

M: (Can’t hear speaker)

S. Lerner: Yes. …connect three ideas – that we’re not broke, there’s plenty of money; they have the money, we need to get it back; and that they’re using Bloomberg and other people in government as the vehicle to try to destroy us. And so that we need to take on those folks at the same time and that will start here. We’re going to look at a week of civil disobedience, direct action all over the city, then we’ll roll into the JP Morgan shareholder meeting, which they moved out of New York because they were afraid, I guess, of Columbus, where there’s going to be a ten state mobilization to try to shut down that meeting. And then looking at bank shareholder meetings around the country and try to create some moments like Madison, except where we’re on offense instead of defense. Where we have brave and heroic battles challenging the power of the giant corporations, and we hope to sort of inspire a much bigger movement about redistributing wealth and power in the country.

W: You were talking about why unions are so invested because of their pension plans and why ungovernability, as Frances Fox Piven and Cloward taught us, you know, poor peoples’ movements are successful when they create conditions of ungovernability. And then you win victories.

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Want more, check out the Business Insider and read what they had to say. This is far too much for me to digest and report. Sorry, Milt

(I do ask that you do not ignore any of this, check it out for yourselves, and check out Steve Lerner, easy to do, I know, I did it. He is a very scary man! As Glenn would say, he is a “Spooky Dude” almost as spooky as George Soros…. Well, maybe even more, I just don’t know any more.




Andy Stern, never gorget who he is and how much access he has to the President of the United States of America, then you might want to go back and review what you just read.


Monday, March 7, 2011

Some Senators do resond to your letters and emails


I have had so many people tell me they never get a response from their congressmen or senators. I have to disagree, although my congressmen here in Georgia, from my district (13), (not worth mentioning), never gives me an answer, only a standard letter to everyone, My senator, Senator Johnny Isakson has always responded and I have posted some of them in the past and thought I would post this one. He always addresses my specific questions and I really appreciate that, and yes, he is a Conservative Republican, the Progressives never give you a straight answer. Anyway, for those interested in what Georgia Senators are doing about the “Health Bill” I offer this catch-up. Milt







Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gregory:



I thought you would find the following update interesting.



On February, 2, 2011, I voted for an amendment to repeal the terribly flawed health care law that was passed by Congress and signed into law by the President last year. Unfortunately, the amendment failed by a vote of 47 to 51. The measure to repeal the law was offered by Republican Leader Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KY, as an amendment to the FAA Reauthorization bill and it needed 60 votes to pass. My Republican colleagues and I will continue to offer such amendments, as well as work to strike specific provisions of the law, such as the individual mandate. I am a co-sponsor of S.192, a bill that would effectively repeal the health care reform law.



During the same debate, I also voted to repeal a section of the health care law that would have imposed an overly burdensome new tax reporting requirement on small businesses. The amendment to repeal the 1099 reporting requirement passed 81-17. Specifically, Section 9006 of the new health care law requires business owners to submit a separate 1099 reporting form for every single business transaction that totals more than $600 in a given year. As a result, small business owners would have had to complete and submit 1099 forms for basic business expenses, including phone and internet service, shipping costs, and office supplies.



In my judgment, the Affordable Care Act has little or nothing to do with affordable care. Since its passage, we have seen increase after increase in costs – both in terms of insurance premiums as well as the application of the law to the practice of medicine. This law is not about affordable care. It is about rising health care costs. The fact that over 70 waivers have been issued by Health and Human Services is proof that the bill is flawed and proof that we will continue to see exemptions in order to make a bill that is designed to fail, work.



Thank you again for contacting me.





Sincerely,
Johnny Isakson
United States Senator

For future correspondence with my office, please visit my web site at




http://isakson.senate.gov/contact.cfm.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Does Congress Really Understand Just How Much Trouble Our Country Is In?


We the People” know that America is in trouble, and those strong “Christian Conservatives” turn to God, just as our forefathers did a couple of hundred years ago. What concerns me is that I don’t have a lot of confidence that our Congress, at least the “Progressives and Liberal Democrats” have given serious thought to the consequences of their actions. Rather than hear the voice of the people, who spoke so loudly last November, their deaf ears listen with clarity that I fail to understand. Rather than listen to the loud voice of America, only selective “Labor Unions” appear to demand an audience with those “Progressives” in Congress and Senate, as they promise to fill the pockets of those elected “Leaders?” with promises of campaign money! So, the selected few take precedence over the masses who voiced, in peaceful protest, their disagreement of the insane spending of A “President” who only hears the “Sound of money” as it flows from this great nation, to the countries whose leaders promise only destruction of our way of life, we know it as “Freedom”.



I fail to understand how even the worst of the worst who’s allegiance is to the “Progressives” who only want nothing good for our country, but as they keep telling us over and over, “the redistribution of our country’s wealth” can fall into the trap of those who will fill the hearts of the “Union Radicals” with more and more hate and distain for “We the people” who only want Good for all who are legal American Citizens of this great land that God blessed us with. What am I missing? When I entered into the military, took my oath, and spilled my blood, as so many did, I never imagined that the sacrifices that I gladly made, and put my family through would be viewed as a flaw by those who want this “Great Experiment” to fail, but fail it will not! The only failure will be by those who impose their hate filled views on those of us who see this country for what we believed it to be so many years ago, and continues to be as we enter into this crises period of economic implosion. I know that I will never stand by and watch it go down, I speak of our country, as I know that those who view these columns I write are stronger than any of those who we face in Congress and Senate. Yes stronger in character, stronger in moral fiber, stronger in self worth, and stronger in Character, just as we all are stronger in our “Faith, Hope and Charity” that defines just who we are.
As I write this column, I listen in the background “Fox News” speaking to the radical explosions of angry Muslims taking their countries back from cruel leaders who brought turmoil to that part of the world, but it reaches across the oceans to affect the very fabric that holds our economies together. Is there anyone out there who recalls how George W Bush tried to influence that part of the world to find “Democracy” as an alternative to what they had, and how he was criticized, attacked for his views and his actions, while he only wanted to bring what we had to that part of the world as he understood that no “Democratic Countries” ever go to war with other Democratic Countries, a trend that would have stabilized not only that part of the world, but the end result would and could only be greater of our Christian Nation towards so many non-Christian nations. I think if you look at where he was attempting to take our country, it will look so much greater in its objective compared to where this current President and Congress has chosen to use its influence. Tell the world we are so wrong and so bad for so long and in time they will come to believe it and our influence is no longer a desirable direction for those we have tried to come to terms with as we became the example, rather than an America that we are now having to try and prove is one to trust rather than be suspicious of. So, I ask does this congress know the trouble we are in, and why? Do they understand that spending our way into oblivion will never be the answer, or a solution that we can live with? Do they have a clue that “We the People” do understand and want them to do the job they were elected to do and “Govern” the United States of America, like the great country she is, and “Stop!” the spending, slow it down and spend it wisely, and with caution, knowing that failure to govern with care will cause us to lose what made us so great, the ability to govern with humility and understand that the money spent is not the Governments, but the peoples! Until they return to those values, we remain in trouble.

How is it that members of congress in States where one party hold the key to power, the members of the minority run to hide in other States so as to fail to have to govern and do the job they are being paid to do! They are cowards! When our country needs strong governance, we have weaklings and cowards, and come election time they should not be allowed to return to their State’s elected offices to continue to hide from responsibilities they promised their constituents they would face and direct their energies to vote for what bills come before them. What has happened to cause such mass defections from sworn duties to cowardly behaviors demonstrated by the cowards now being sought to return to their states and govern as promised! We are not like the rest of the world. Why is it that so many in our government have forgotten who we are, and what we stand for? Does our Government have any idea as to just how much trouble we are in, and more important, do they really care? Well, I have news for them, “We the People” do understand, and we do care, and we will remind them in November of 2012! Don’t believe me, stick around, I’ll be here to remind you, God willing. It is up to us “We the People” to remind our government just how much trouble we are in, and trust me, we will be doing that every opportunity we have, every day, every week, every month, every year, until the “Progressives” are gone, and the Christian Conservatives know very well just how serious we are about getting it right! We are tired of waiting for them to do the job they were looking for. God bless you all and God bless our beautiful America! Get it together “Congress”, get it together now, and don’t make us remind you of what you already know, or at least you should know!




God Heard My Prayer Today


Now I know God hears my prayer’s every day, but today, I really felt he was paying attention to me as I said a prayer for my son who is in serious harm’s way right now, you know, that part of the world where everyone is demonstrating with violence all around. No sooner than I finished my prayer, a simple prayer, that went something like this:



“Dear Lord, I know you hear from me every day and I am always asking for so many thing related to our troops, my son, and my granddaughters. Well, I have not heard from my son, Milt III, you know the one who has been over there (God knows just where I speak of) going on nine years now and it’s been a while since I have heard from him. I know you are very busy with trying to fix what is wrong here in this great land you left in our care, and we have not really kept our end of the bargain lately, have we? I try not to call on you for things for myself, but after losing our youngest son, Wayne, Milt is all we have left, so I get a little anxious when we don’t hear from him, knowing what he does, after all, I did the same thing myself for over 20 years, but never have spent nine years in such danger. So, if I call on you to have him let us know he is Ok, forgive me for my selfishness, just an old soldier who really is worried about his son. More than that, I watch Val, his mother; “tear up” as we finish our nightly prayers, knowing the deep concern she has for her very special son. Milt is one of the most giving and kind human beings that I have ever known, you made him special, as you did Wayne, who you took home to you. So as I watch my loving wife, who knows the danger our son is now in, I am asking you only to let him call, or email, to let us know that he is alright. Please Dear Lord, while you look after all those young men and women serving all over the world, take a moment and check in on Milt, nudge him to call, if he can, and just allow another beautiful gift you gave me, my sweet Val, let her smile and know her, our, wonderful son is OK. I’ll try not to center my prayers on our own concerns, I know so many moms and dad, and family members all over are just as afraid for their loved ones as we are. God bless our troops and God bless all those serving all over the world for this great country you left in our hands. Keep them safe, and bring as many as you can back home to those who love them so much. I talk to you later tonight, when Val and I will kneel with heads lowered, as we ask again for your loving and caring spirit to watch over those we all love so much. Thank you Lord, thank you for all you have given already to two of your humble children. And whatever you answer, we know you are there, and we know that you care. Amen”



Well, and I made the sign of the cross, ending my prayer, the phone rang, and yes, it was our son, calling only to let us know he is OK, and for us not to worry so much, and then he had to go. We are used to that, but never take it for granted, never think for one moment God may take our son rather than have him call us so we don’t worry. God has always been good to us, so I dare not complain, I can and did say another short prayer to our Father in heaven, and it was simple, something like this:



“Thank you dear lord, again you brought comfort to us as you always do. Val and I will always know where your love comes from, and will always know where it is, your loving and very grateful old soldier and his loving wife, Amen.”