As we prepare for the announcement of a New Supreme Court Justice the writing is on the wall that though black women have been part of this country since it’s founding there will not be a black female Supreme Court Justice. The major news outlets refuse to even consider that a black women will sit on the supreme court. However the big signal that a black women will not be the definite choice for the Supreme Court is the huge cover article that the Obama propoganda machine has negotiated on Michelle Obama with Time magazine, hitting the stands the same week that everyone speculates that Barack Obama will announce a new Supreme Court nominee in essence playing the Michelle card to Black women and those who care for them.
While it is refreshing to have a Black First Lady in the White House its becoming increasingly obvious that she has no or does not care to have any sway or bedtime influence on her husband as it relates to black women and their position in the Obama administration. The nonadvocacy of the aspirations of black females in the upper reaches in government have literally been squashed in the Obama administration. For the first time in sixteen years a black women will not hold a cabinet position in a presidential administration.
Unofficially from the Obama administration the cabinet position a black woman holds in the Obama administration is first lady. Never before has a first lady been trotted out and purveyed, what an example to black women, what an accomplishment she got married and managed to not be a welfare queen with ten children. There is a black first lady which is a wonderful and groundbreaking but I think most people expect it comes with having a black president.
The Michelle card has been played in many ways when it was pretty obvious that Barack Obama had no blood ties with the African American descendantsof western slaves, the connection of Obama to West Africa comparative to being Chinese versus Japanese or vice versa, the Obama supporters shouted out that Michelle was a descendant of West African slaves and his children would therefore carry on that legacy. African Americans and those who cared for African Americans thought that Michelle Obama was the prescription to the fact that Obama’s descendants were never enslaved and Obama would essentially be stealing the legacy of African American heritage to become president of the United States and to indicate that there was a new Nirvana of racial love in the United States.
What Obama’s administration as indicated by his one black cabinet appointee a position held by this black at the beginning of the Bush II administration is that Obama of interacial heritage and having gained the right to be president from his white mother’s U.S. citizenship does not identify in his mind, heart, or soul with black people. Obama is black on the outside and white on the inside and feels no loyalty to blacks. Blacks for Obama are a means to an end. This has been a key trait of Obama as politician the strong tendency to bit the hand that feeds him. This is strongly exemplified in the incident of Obama giving a now convicted felon contracts to run a housing project in his disctrict that lacked the very nesscessary ingredient of Heat in icy cold Chicago. When Obama’s constituents called to complain their calls were never returned. More on the Rezko deal can be found here. Obama’s identification with his caucasion side comes out at time with an almost exageratted claim to blackness I have a black wife, I play basketball, I talk slang a self proclaimed wigger is what Obama’s exagerations shout.
In any event the Times article on Michelle Obama at such an oppurtune time can mean only one thing a black women will not be nominated for Supreme Court Justice and if you don’t like it just read the nice Times article on Michelle Obama its so nice to have a black first lady is it not aren’t all of us black women lucky, be grateful for what you have and what you can get righto!!!!!!
As I attempted to drive into City Hall East for business. I came to the realization that I would not be going into the building because an impromptu slave market had been created in front of city hall and I was not comfortable walking through a throng of men to get to the other side of the street. It was a slave market made up of individuals who appeared to be Hispanic and I assumed illegal immigrants but maybe not.
I was shocked to see this, in the fair city of Atlanta. I had seen numerous scenes of cops literally standing over black and white men who dared to stand in the corner of a door. As a former Atlanta college student who racked up parking tickets as students do, I had witnessed numerous vagrants black and white going to jail for standing on the street too long. I had even witnessed one female judge give the vagrants their rights and tell them they did not have to serve jail time because their rights had been violated. One vagrant preferred to go to jail, I suppose jail served his needs for food shelter and clothing. However most individuals do not want to go to jail for loitering or harassed for loitering and it is not tolerated in this fair state unless you are Hispanic. Atlanta even has signs that say talking to a stranger on the street is illegal.
As I turned to leave the parking lot of the slave mart I saw a black man and said I was shocked at what was going on. He responded that the immigrants were standing there because there were no jobs. I went around the corner and spoke to a lady at a stop light and said I was shocked at what I saw, a literal slave market. She like the black man before her seemed a little peeved that I would ask about the slave mart and said the immigrants are looking for work and the neighborhood was about to go through “big changes” and they were renovating. I did recall seeing a Sothebys real estate sign when driving up from North Avenue in Atlanta but could not put together a slave mart with a Sothebys sign. I suppose it was an unsaid understanding in this neighborhood of the openly gay, vegan, any thing goes community that American men and women do not deserve a fair wage and illegal aliens did not have any human rights . Everything prior liberal individuals had fought for was being thrown out the door for a Sothebys commission. I suppose this is the advent of a new liberalism, an antithesis to the me generation when me literally means the individual and not the overall society in general, me means prosperity not concern for the weaker man. Yes, this is my generation fortunately my mother was slightly older when she had me so I was raised by a 60’s radical not a disco duck.
As I thought about this and also thought about another slave market that I knew about further North of town, it suddenly dawned on me that while Obama had been comparing himself to Lincoln, ironically Obama is facing the same economic pressures as Lincoln did involving labor, literal human bodies, that Lincoln did. I will never forget a passage that I read about in a book called The Strange Career of Jim Crow the passage said something to the effect when slavery was over, white men and black men held hands and jubilantly ran down the hill in joy because they knew that labor was no longer an issue and they both would get paid for their work. Ten years into the millennium the United States has a labor problem again. Republicans are not just undercutting the government by sending their jobs over seas but openly gay, vegan, yoga folks are undercutting the government too by refusing to hire individuals who are willing to work for an honest wage or hire a renovation company with skilled artisans. I suppose it could be said if democrats are getting theirs and republicans are getting theirs why should anyone be concerned, it seems like there is some mystical gravy train that is open to anyone who has half of a brain.
As I returned the next day to take pictures of the slave mart which I did not becuase I did not get their until 10:30 and it had thinned out. I went into the whole foods market and had such a great time at their restaurant. I felt maybe I was being oversensitive to the issue and everything was cool. While sitting at the whole foods restaurant I did notice that every race was hopping on the cheap immigrant labor bandwagon. I watched trucks move in and out of the area with ladders, building materials, windows etc. Again it was accepted that immigrant labor had replaced the labor of men who had not hopped on the capitalist or educational ladder. There is a new slave class in town and they want it. How ironic for the south to completely embrace a new form of sharecropping or slavery. Some things will never change.
While this may seem like a benign issue a way of getting your before someone else does. The honest truth is that this immigrant labor not bound by minimum wage or other requirements can only remake the United States into a third world nation. Either U.S. citizens will join them on the slave mart or they will be in bread lines. The media is toting that more women than men are working this can partially be blamed on illegal immigrants. I am not a racist, I am a realist and based on historical factors if one group undercuts another in terms of what their labor is offered for, the other group seeking an honest wage will be eating dirt at the bottom of a bridge.
There is a Sothebys sign on the one side of city hall and a slave mart on the other side, this is a conflict someone is going to pay a Sothebys price for a home but unfortunately just like the mortgage flippers they will not be paying for the quality of labor or for the honesty of labor. They will live in a house full of negative energy without the knowledge that their home has been renovated by exploited laborers and contributed to honest men enjoying the taste of dirt in their mouths at the bottom of a bridge.
Rahm Emmanuel is criticizing Paul Krugman, maybe it’s because Krugman should have been head of Obama’s economic team but Emmanual dropped the ball. Gordon Brown’s trip to the United States to talk about the Global economy just goes to show that the man who won a Nobel Prize for his global economic theories should be in the Obama cabinet; maybe the stock market would not fall every time the obama economic team opened their mouth if Krugman were heading the team.
A top economic man who is not smart enough to do his taxes correctly is troubling. I am also troubled that some Republicans are coming out with a stamp to stamp under the fed chiefs name on the U.S. currency that says tax cheat. Why doesn’t the current fed chief just resign and let the Nobel Prize Winner in Global economic Theories take the helm. This is not a game.
Hello Phillip recently because of you I had to stop open comments to my blog. This is something that I don’t believe in. I believe that anybody who wants to comment can. However I had to delete your comments because they were so full of lies.
In addition your wife proceeded to make comments also, by that time I was holding comments for moderation. Because of this your wife’s work url was revealed. If you all continue to write negative comments to the blog. I will have to fax the comments to her employer and request that their employees cease commenting to my blog. Furthermore in your wife’s comment she mentioned that what has to be paid is such a small amount. If it’s so small then why don’t you pay it. It’s not so small now since you’ve missed 4-5 months though. ” PAY IT”
With that said I am releasing comments to no-moderation because frankly I don’t want any-ones information emailed to me. I want people to be able to make totally anonymous comments.
This started because Phillip Smith you have not paid child support. You have not paid child support for the last 4-5 months. No one seems to care that you have not paid. Usually by now a court date would have been established like it has been for the last several years but this year someone has dropped the ball and is letting you get away with not paying.
I find it rather strange you are not paying. Your daughter in San Diego is now 19 and you no longer have to pay child support for her so you should be able to handle this child support payment to your son.
If individuals are looking for background on this issue, please refer to this blog entry
Furthermore Philip Tracy Smith I left a message with your mom that your son had Pnemonia two weeks ago and noone from your family could call and see if he’s OK. This is pathetic that you can comment to my blog but you can not enquire about your child. Let’s refer back to what your mom said when I met you she said you were a nice guy and asked me to please be nice to you. Your family can’t even inquire about a child with their blood, yet they are asking a 23 year old women to take care of a 43 year old man. This is disgraceful.
Furthermore, when your son was ill when he was little my mother was at a supposed friends house and she said you called this friends house who you had met at your sons christening. I did not believe her until I saw where your wife worked. I know this friend has gotten jobs at this place for many of her relatives especially the ones she pulled strings for to get them into undergrad and then medical school after they flunked out of a famous military academy. So if you see this mutual friend tellher I said hello becsue I’m pretty sure she pulled the strings to get your wife this job.
You know I was sitting here thinking about Rush Limbaugh and his attitudes towards liberals and their efforts to in the least give lip service to helping American citizens in need and at most provide assistance and relief to United States Citizens of all income groups and I could not help meditating on Limbaughs profound misunderstanding of National and World Affairs.
The first thing that kept going through my head was the international food crisis that is factually sweeping the world and how smart our government has been to plan for the poor, for the poor are always among us and always will be among us. I also thought about the base of the Republican party blue collar religious individuals who are in desperate need of the programs and resources that the Democrats are proposing to help them. Rush’s solution that tax cuts will create jobs and resources for this blue collar base is frankly ludicrous. What Rush is failing to realize is that the world is increasinglya competitive world, an increasingly capitalist world, and captalists’ are playing on the international playing field not the National Playing field. The only way to attract capital and capitalists to any Nation or society is to have a skilled workforce . However according to several sources the quality of the United States Educational system is not competitive, is not even in the top ten of best educations in the world. According to U-wire:
Now Rush is so fond of the word capitalism, in an increasingly technological world surely a smart capatalist survival of the fittest corporation is not going to bring his capital to the United States for complex jobs when all sources show that this is not the best place to get smart capital. He’s going where the best capital is and it’s not the United States. This is what smart legislators and a president realize. If your human resources lack the skill to compete world wide, a smart government provides assistance so that they can eventually be able to compete.
Finally I don’t know who Rush represents surely he does not represent blue collar workers becaue there jobs have been gone for a long time and the job losses we are dealing with are the stragglers, surely Rush is not talking about the middle class becasue they are in need of help too. Is Rush Limbaugh representing the Very wealthy. Bill Gates has a foundation that provides food aide to hungry people all around the world and says that he’s grateful to public education and libraries for helping him to reach his full potential. Surely he’s not talking about Warren Buffet because he says he believes in helping also. I am a little confused as to who rush is representing. The only people he seems to be representing so far are the virulent racists who are so prejudice that they will work against their very own interests.
While yesterday Rush Limbaugh bragged on the fact theat he did not need a prompt to speak and could go on and on maybe Rush should do less talking and more studying the bible and world affairs. Below is a little bible lesson for Rush.
Man I got summer hating on me cause I’m hotter than the sun
Spring hating on me cause I ain’t neva sprung
Win-ter hating on me cause I’m colder than ya’ll
And I will neva I will neva I will neva FALL
I’m being hated by the season
So fuck ya’ll who hating for no reason
For the first time since maybe the constitution was written we have a President that actually cares about the people. We have a president that actually wants to make the United States “ideal” of Liberty and Justice for All, real. While I have wavered and waned on my support of Barack Obama during the election. Since he has been elected the only behavior I’ve seen from Barack Obama is a caring and concern for the American people that is unprecedented. The haters coming out of the woodwork have literally stunned me. I can honestly say that I was unaware of the hate that certain white people felt for blacks until Barack Obama was elected. I would have never dreamed that so many self proclaimed Republicans and Caucasians associated Blacks with watermelon and fried chicken.
The two incidents that I’ve heard about involved individuals on the government pay roll. This is really a cause for concern that in the first case, a mayor of a town sent an email with the following picture to his list:
The Mayor says the "President" Will Not have an Easter Egg Hunt But A Watermelon Hunt this Easter
stating there will not be an Easter Egg hunt this spring at the White House but a watermelon hunt. The second incident involved cops who stated on their face book pages that:
“the rose garden will be turned into the watermelon garden” that there will be a “KFC set up right in front of the white house”
The scary part about these comments is that these individuals interact with the public. We will never know how many people have not been hired, who’ve been falsely accused and arrested, and wronged just because of racists in the woodwork.
Meanwhile the conservative Republicans are meeting and they don’t have a clue why they lost the White House and a large number of congressional seats. This is really quite funny that they fail to realize that the reason they lost is because of their lack of concern and ignorance of the needs of ordinary people. Instead of utilizing a strategy of how can we show that we are concerned and how can we win in 2016. They are insulting the President of the United States. They are using the same tactics that caused them to lose the White House by close to double digits. “Pathetic” The only people who are fooled are the racists. WAKE UP REPUBLICANS!
(Republicans)
I been in and out the bank bitch
While ya’ll asshole niggas been on the same shit
I flush em and watch em go down the drain quick
Two words you neva hear WAYNE QUIT
Cause wayne win and they lose
I call them April babies cause they fools
And while they snooze we UP
You know I insist on airing my dirty laundry on this blog as it relates to Philip Tracy Smith. It is not how Philip Tracy Smith of Ellenwood Georgia has treated me it’s how he has treated our son in many ways.
As I stated in a prior post Philip Smith originally of Valejo California called his mother and asked her to tell me he was a decent person because I did not have much interest in him. Mrs. Smith told me a 23 year old woman the her son a 43 year old man was a decent person. What she failed to tell me was that he had a daughter that he was not supporting, I had to find that out while going through his mail, mail he encouraged me to go through because he wanted me to know everything about him. What she did not tell me was that when Phil was 17 he and his mother took his girlfriend to an abortion clinic and her parents never found out. This is what he told me when I told him I thought abortion was disgusting.
His mother on his encouragment told me that he was a nice person and asked me to be decent to him and then he nor his family can be decent to my child. I called and asked if they would relay a message to him that it was very important that he pay child support this Christmas since he has never paid child support in December he always skips November, December, January, and February and then we go to court in March.
Well, when I called his house because I have always been cordial to his family to ask that they tell him to pay his saster Karen said: Don’t bother my mother about this this is between you and Phillip. Well I had not meant to bother anyone I just wanted a message delivered to my child’s father that he needed to pay child support for Christmas. I was a little taken aback considering my parents are very generous grandparents and know that Philip Tracy Smith has not paid. I suppose even though his mother told me that her son was “decent. She did not care to deliver a message regarding her grandson to her very very decent son.
You know there are some other things that I may wish to say like that he was fond of wearing pink shorts to Piedmont Park and sitting where the homosexuals sit but I won’t say that.
“I Wish I Could Take A Journey Through Your Mind and Find the Emotions You Always Try to Hide” JOE
Several years ago I was informed that their was a mind reading device that could read your thoughts and someone called the thoughts “computer thoughts”. While I was a believer and believed, I never thought that the technology would be mainstreamed and assumed that the technology would remain under some strange black project and would never see the light of day.
However a couple of innovative Australians have done what I never thought would happen. They will be main streaming a mind reading device that reads the brain waves in persons mind and translates them into their thoughts.
Two of the innovators behind bringing this technology to market were pioneers in early text messaging. They made their first millions by bringing text messaging technology to the masses. The other founder of the company is a Nobel prize winning scientist.
The writer from Inc. has tried the technology and has the following to say about the Mind Reading Device:
I‘m sitting in a darkened room, attempting to move a large block with nothing but my thoughts. I stare at it intently and imagine myself physically tugging on it, trying to flood my mind with a sense of strain and determination. But the block doesn’t budge. I try again, concentrating, concentrating: Move, damn you; I am your master. After a long moment, the block trembles a bit, then slowly skids toward me a few feet before stopping. Encouraged, I mentally bear down until the block resumes its sliding, and this time it keeps going. I’m gripped by the immensity of what I have just accomplished: effecting a change in the world around me without moving a muscle. Well, that’s not entirely true. I may have squinted a bit.
This isn’t a dream; it’s science — and soon, maybe, a big business. OK, the block was only a virtual one on a computer screen, but that’s a nit. The same technology that converted my thoughts into action on the screen someday could be hooked up to a real-life backhoe, robot surgeon, or microwave oven, placing any of those objects at my mental whim. This thought-conversion technology is composed of some extremely sophisticated software and a piece of headgear that looks like a cross between a telephone headset and a skeletal bike helmet. Embedded in the headset are 16 electrodes that press lightly on my scalp, monitoring the electrical signals generated by the 3 pounds of toothpaste-like goo sealed in my skull. The signals are my brain waves, the stuff of thought and emotion. The headset passes the signals to the software, which extracts patterns that can be used to control anything that’s run by electronics.”
Emotive plans to introduce the technology to the gaming community first because of their willingness to adapt new technologies and their openness to beliveing the technology could exist. The company then hopes to export the technology to as many areas of human interaction that it can. Some of the other uses the company hopes to export the mind reading technology to is to ipods and mp3 players, allowing your thoughts and feelings to determine what music is played.
Other areas that I can personally think of is answering the question do you really love me. Will people allow computer technology to do as Joe says “take a journey through their minds and find the emotions they always try to hide.” This device can answer the unanswered.
Personally while I know this stock will outperform Google I will be investing in the company that provides shielding from this type of technology because I’m sure it can be wireless.
I heard on CNN this evening that the cost of the bailout will be 850 billion dollars. The only thing I have to say is vote them out. According to about.com the Senators in the chart at the bottom of the post are up for reelection this year. Please be proactive and tell your friends in their states not to vote for them and to give money and votes to the opposing campaign I will be donating a small amount to Guy Davis who is running against Saxby Chambliss the senatorial candidate in Georgia, I will follow up my donation with a vote. With diebold voting machines we still are not sure that our votes are being counted but have faith.
When Webb of Virginia was up for reelection I made sure I called my homefolk in Southern Virginia and told them that Webb’s Democratic opponent participated in outsourcing. Prior to this call they were on the other Democratic guy’s team. However after I explained to them that this particular man’s business was outsourcing they changed who they planned to support. Some of them had even volunteered for the campaign but immediately stopped volunteering after they received more information about the other candidate and passed the word. The other candidate won Northern Virginia but lost factory based Southern and Eastern Virginia. I say all of this to say that the Senate can not be so arrogant with our support and ignore the will of the people. You can make a difference. Call your family and friends and tell them to vote against this bill by voting the Senators out who voted for it. There should be no safe seats. What Bush and Paulson did to the markets was terrible, they essentially played the role of a hedge fund operators by saying something about the market and making it true by fearing investors. Personally the way the stock market is doing business by responding to fear is rather strange. It seems pretty clear cut that computer modeling ought to be able to tell you how a company is actually doing. Oh I forgot some companies are cooking the books so that no one really knows whats going on and Paulson plans to bail his friends out who are doing this by giving them money. CALL YOUR FRIENDS AND HOMEFOLK! TELL THEM TO EXPRESS THEIR ANGER WITH A VOTE AGAINST THE SENATORS BELOW!
In any event the list of Senators seeking reelection follows below. I need to verify who voted for the bill and who did not but please, please, please if you know of individuals in the states that these Senators are from please tell them to vote these individuals out of office, even though Biden will probably be Vice President we need him voted out on the ballot. Here is the list according to about.com As for Obama, is anyone really believing that he would not have voted for the war, we are watching what he does and not what he says, furthermore does anyone doubt that he was the one who put in the provision to give ACORN money probably in the Rezco manner of give me some later or give me a high priced gift. I am still trying to support a democrat for the presidency because the Republican tricks as illustrated by the Bushs’ are just totally outrageous, wasn’t the last Bank bailout when Bush Sr was VP or President. They have robbing the American people down to a science, even now I’m pretty doubtful that eight years of a democratic presidency can help us recover from this Republican Administration. Welcome to the Banana Republic of the U.S.
Summary
One-third of the 100 Senate seats are up for election every two years; on 4 November 2008, voters will select 34 Senators (one special election). These senators will serve a six-year term from 3 January 2009 until 2 January 2015.
The following chart reflects the potential that a seat might change parties in this election cycle; it is based on analysis from several election consultants.
Analysis
The November 2006 election gave Democrats a slim majority — 51-49 — because two Independents caucus with Democrats. In the event of a tie, the Vice President, a Republican, casts the deciding vote.
Going into this election, the Democrats are at an advantage because most of the seats (22) are held by Republicans. Thus, they have fewer seats (12) to defend.
Eight of the 33 are first-term Senators; only one of these is a Democrat. One, Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) was re-elected in 2002 after retiring in 2000.
There is one special election, in Wyoming (which will elect two Senators in November).
Five senators have announced retirement. Should Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) not be nominated for President, he will run for re-election. Tim Johnson (D-SD) is still recovering from brain surgery.
Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO, announced 1/15/2007)
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID, resignation announced then rescinded)
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM, announced 10/3/2007)
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE, announced 9/10/2007)
Sen. John Warner (R-VA, announced 8/31/2007)
The legend for the chart:
Competitive: These races have the potential to become competitive.
Toss-Up: These are uncertain or too close to call.
Senate Seats Up For Election In 2008
State
Incumbent
Outlook
2002
Vote
AL
R
Voted NO!
59%
AK
R
Ted Stevens
(1968 – )
He will be 85 in 2008; under corruption investigation. Considering a challenge: former Lt. Gov. Loren Leman and former state Senate President Mike Miller.
78%
AR
D
Mark Pryor
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat
54%
CO
R
Retiring and Voted No!
51%
DE
D
Joseph Biden
(1973 – )
Considered safe seat; running for Vice President
58%
GA
R
Saxby Chambliss
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat
53%
ID
R
Larry E. Craig
(1991 – 2007)
Resigned. Candidates: former US Rep. and Army Veteran Larry LaRocco (D)
65%
IA
D
Tom Harkin
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat
54%
IL
D
Richard Durbin
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
60%
KS
R
Voted No!
83%
KY
R
Mitch McConnell
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator and Senate Minority Leader. Seat targeted by DNC.
65%
LA
D
Voted NO! Removed From List
52%
ME
R
Susan Collins
(1997 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: Rep. Tom Allen (D-ME-1) voted against Iraq War
58%
MA
D
John Kerry
(1985 – )
Considered safe seat
80%
MI
D
Carl Levin
(1979 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
60%
MN
R
Norm Coleman
(2003 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: author and former radio talk show host Al Franken (D)
50%
MS
R
Thad Cochran
(1979 – )
Considered safe seat
85%
MT
D
Max Baucus
(1978 – )
Considered safe seat
63%
NJ
D
Frank R. Lautenberg
(1982-2001, 2003-)
Considered safe seat; he will be 84 in 2008.
54%
NC
R
Voted No
54%
NE
R
Chuck Hagel
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat – has not declared; senior senator. Candidates: Attorney General Jon Bruning (R)
83%
NH
R
John E. Sununu
(2003 – )
State leans Republican. Candidates: Portsmouth’ Mayor Steve Marchand (D) Katrina Swett running as D
51%
NM
R
Pete Domenici
(1973 – )
Will not run; implicated in US Attorneys firings.
65%
OK
R
Voted No!
57%
OR
R
Gordon H. Smith
(1997 – )
Other Senator a Democrat. Candidates: businessman Ty Pettit (D), Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley (D) and attorney Steve Novick (D)
56%
RI
D
Jack Reed
(1997 – )
Considered safe seat; senior senator
78%
SC
R
Lindsey Graham
(2003 – )
Considered safe seat. Candidates: businessman John J. Cina (R)
The following resources are a list of alternative plans or suggestions to the 700 billion dollar bailout written about in news articles and/or blogged.
I listened to congress today and many in congress seem to think that the American People do not know what’s going on. Congress thinks that Americans are not listening to the fact that Small Businesses may not make payroll because their money market accounts are not FDIC insured and their banks may go out of business (take your money out know, it it’s in a non FDIC account, so this does not happen). They do not know that we understand that parents may not be able to get student loans for their childrens’ educations’ (educational institutions should voluntarily defer payments until after the election is over, or the government should extend some of that obviously available 700 billion dollars to Federal Student Aid, I have yet to see a justifiable reason for giving Bush and Paulson a blank check with a maximum of 700 billion dollars). In addition we understand that Banks are hesitant to lend to other banks because they are afraid they don’t have the money to pay them back. Well if the banks don’t have any money they should not be asking for it and should not be trying to sell other banks a fake bill of goods. A couple knows how much they can pay for a house, a bank knows how much money they can afford to borrow. Banks should not borrow more then they can afford to pay. In this brief summation I have of the bailout situation and the reasons for giving Bush 700 billion dollars I hope I have shown some understanding of “What’s Going On”.
With that said, I have to say that inherently I do not have a problem with bailing out Wall Street. I think after 911 Wall Street needs a lot of breaks but I have a great big objection to giving George Bush and Paulson 700 billion dollars. If you want to know the depth of my feelings, if you’ve read 1984 and remember the five minute hate scene where the enemy comes on TV and everyone screams at the TV in pure hate and disgust, then you understand how since Bush has asked for the 700 billion dollars how I feel about him. This last blackmail, this last debasement has just made me as an American feel so debased and taken advantage of. It’s creating flashbacks, first flash back – hanging chads, a statement my “brother” is Governor of Florida he’s not going to let me lose. I remember a browser I had “opera” that would automatically reload every several seconds that I looked at the whole night wondering what was going to happen as the numbers were constantly updated, then hanging chads, recounts, a helicopter following a Uhaul full of votes, and finally a Supreme Court Decision, the second flashback 911, i don’t know if Bush is behind 911 but the same black mail that’s happening now to get us to pass the 700 billion dollar bill is the same blackmail that went on to nullify the constitution and get the patriot bill passed, the unifying cry for the passing of the patriot act was never another 911, the third flashback; Iraq, the UN told George Bush over and over that their were no weapons of mass destruction. Instead I had to see a bustling Iraqi economy with cars, fruit stands, and people strolling down the streets, reduced to a pile of rubble with little orphan children, this does not even begin to take into consideration the dead American troops. Even with the Iraq war years later after it started we learned that the Bush administration had falsified documents and lied so that we could go into Iraq. The fourth flashback is a failure to pass a bill that would have given children medical care. This was horrifying to me that the president of the United States did not pass a bill to help children. This is why when bush says that he’s concerned about people losing their jobs, making payroll, and the American people I know that he’s lying like hell. He does not care for the American people he never has. If he cared for the American people if we are really in crisis he would find a way where he nor his representatives would never touch the money he’s asking for.
Finally I say the problem is not the message. Months ago while in the grocery store many people using their debit cards were not able to pay for our groceries because because for no reason our cards were declined. I was at the self checkout and we were saying our cards have been declined. There was a problem then and their probably is a problem now but please do not give Bush a blank check of 700 billion dollars, he’s only going to steal it. Please Congress find a way to administrate everything from the government until Bush gets the Hell OUT. It’s the messenger not the message.
And he’s not even an economist; he majored in English in the college of Arts and Sciences very far from macro and micro economics. Oh yeah he does have an MBA, the President of the United States probably thought this was enough of an “economic” qualification to make him Secretary of the Treasury. it’s not! They school of economics is in the College of Arts and Sciences and MBA’a are in the school of business. Take it from a Political Science person the school of business and the school of Arts and Sciences are Worlds away. It’s enough to have made him Secretary of Commerce but definitely not the Treasury. From my point of view it looks like Pauslon needs to be fired or do what past market failures have done and
JUMP OFF OF A BUILDING
, instead of given 700 billion dollars and Bush needs to be impeached.
With that said according to a late night email and the Houston Chronicle; the democrats and George Bush have reached a historic deal to give 700 Billion Dollars to George BUSH and his ”homey” Paulson. The timing could not be more perfect close to 90 days before Bush and Paulson will be out of Office.I suppose the I should not have voted for the war democrats led by I would not have voted for the war Barack Obama, will have to follow in the steps of embattled and reelected Louisiana Representative Jefferson who was caught with $90,000 dollars worth of bribery money in his freezer and go somewhere and buy a deep freezer or 10 for the bribes they received in exchange for voting for the 700 billion dollar bailout bill.
Finally why is everything failing because Bush and Paulson are making them fail.They are lying, suddenly they say everything’s going to fail and it does.I do not have the knowledge and the resources of the I voted for the war congress but I do have common sense and any man that has created a fight and a war with every oil producing country in the world and his business is oil is a criminal and anyone who gets behind him is naïve or a criminal too.This has essentially been Obama’s argument but he was the first to jump on the bailout plan, he also managed to give money to his former employer ACORN in the bailout bill.I suppose anyone who thinks he was not working during this time has been misled.He did work on the bailout bill, because Acorn is getting at least a billion of the money (my speculation) and I suppose ACORN and other community organizations will be distributing tax payer money to your local congressional persons home freezers’.
Trust Me they Are Destroying the Economy for 700 Billion Dollars, This is making me a believer that 911 was an inside job and congressional memebers were probably in on it too!
Every Time I think of how the country was asked to give 700 billion dollars to the Department of the Treasury from a three page letter I am incredulous. As a Political Science Major who’s never worked in the field, with extensive coursework in Public Policy, I know that if I had turned in 3 pages for any Policy Evaluation of an issue or Policy Solution, a three page prescription would have netted me a great big F. I think the minimum for a decent grade not to mention 700 billion dollars was twenty pages. As a former debater and a person with extensive experience with crafting public policy. There is no way possible Paulson could have given any serious thought to why he needed 700 billion dollars with three pages.
As far as debate goes, you can’t even begin to debate adequately with three pages because your competition who has to be familiar with all basic aspects of the issue would tear you apart. For instance if you were debating the overall aspect of the crashing economy. You would have to know what industry’s were or would be affected, what would throw the country over the brink into a depression, what solutions were needed to solve the problem, statistics, justifications etc, all buttressed by noted authorities well respected in their field. Finally after the solutions were proposed there would be talk of cost. The price of entry into debate is being able to SHIT, as one former debater coined it. T – Topicality - Do you have the ability to even firmly grasp the over riding issues and what’s going on, I -Inherencey – What are the inherent barriers keeping the problem from being solved, ex. Why is the U.S. facing a depression or in depression, and what is causing the depression? H -Harm - What will happen if we don’t solve the problem? this is one Secretary Paulson did get, he skipped immediately to pushing our country over the brink. Finally in debate your solution is called S-Solvency which includes a policy prescription and solutions to the problem. You will lose if you say give me 700 billion dollars and that solves the problem. You have to have step by step solutions. I’m sorry to say but a three page letter for 700 billion dollars would get you laughed at.
AS far as formal training in policy drafting and making the same applies. One wonders with such a large staff why Paulson would deliver a three page document in exchange for 700 billion dollars. Don’t the American people pay the salaries of policy wonks at the Department of the Treasury to examine broad issues of the economy, and render proposed policies that will provide the solution. Heck even a computer simulation predicted Hurricane Katrina at least five years prior to it’s happening. I’m sure their is a computer that Paulson could have used to get some statistics for why he needed 700 billion dollars. The problem here is that Paulson did not even try to make his robbing of the citizens look good. Furthermore, I am even wondering if this is his jurisdiction, yes he’s supposed to keep the economy going, but the Department of Commerce is supposed to be the governmental liaison between Wall Street and Main Street. You know I have only one thing to say, when I graduated from college I sent out hundred and hundreds of applications to government looking for a position as a policy analyst, no one hired me. It is a little disappointing to see a three page policy proposal for 700 billion dollars. I can’t even get a micro loan of $1000.00 without a business plan.
Then again just like the Iraq War., this situation is just friends helping friends and I believe what the callers of C-Span believe that once the deal is done the money is going to the Caymans and to Dubai. This is essentially a buyout of Wall Street and they don’t have to put it back into the U.S. economy. I have to admit that if someone bought my business for 700 billion dollars and I had a nightmare experience of employees faking documents, clients lying about their worth etc. There is no “way” I would try to come back and do business with the same types of people again. I would take my loan money to China, and to places where I know the people would pay me back and the people processing the loans were honest. After getting my share of the 700 billion dollars I would leave the country. The crisis that we are in is because we hire people who ask for 700 billion dollars because of three pages of documentation and “get it” because they threaten us or because we like them. This is not just a depression this is a disaster with a massively undereducated population that are not assets to the U.S. anymore. The one thing that Bush did get sort of right was a focus on education, however the high drop out rate is not good for the economy so he sort of got it wrong too. I heard a speech that Mc Cain gave in 2005 where he had already figured out that we had a crisis in the United States as indicated by his words, he said something like the following I went and talked to the President of Ireland and I asked him how he had turned his country around from being a place that people were fleeing from to a place where people were flocking to, McCain went on to say that the president of Ireland said that he committed himself to the education of the populace. I understand that with our Mobile society it is impossible for us to control how long and how children are educated but we must, the health of our country is at stake.
Finally, I suppose since the Secretary of the Treasury can ask for 700 billion dollars with three pages, I have a right to offer my own suggestions in a couple of paragraphs. First of all I think something like the WPA should be established to give people jobs in this crisis, second of all I believe that Loans and maybe buyouts should be given to Wall Street to firms that go through an application process with heavy documentation “required”, since Paulson has demonstrated that he could not be objective with his non bailout of Lehman Brothers and possibly Merrill Lynch (Does anyone want to do business with Lynch after being bought by the thieving bank Bank of America, I had three bank accounts prior to Bank of America with Bank Cards only, I never had an overdraft, I had a bank card with Bank of America also and in the first month of use they had managed to charge me over $150 in overdraft fees for an amount less than $25. and no I did not balance my accounts but I did what I did with every other account i called for the balance and evidently the balance was wrong because Bank of America fleeced me with overdraft fees just from a bank card, so as far as that buy out goes, ordinary individuals need to stay as far away from the New Merrill Lynch as possible, banks 1000 times smaller than Bank of America could manage to accurately reflect my account balance but BofA could not) In any event Paulson has demonstrated in his refusal to give equal treatment to Lehman brothers and Merrill Lynch while in a credit crisis, that he does not have the fairness and judgment to administer 700 billion dollars. If I were congress I would ask Banks and Investment institutions to create proposals with justifications and needs asking for the money and expedite the loan or purchase of securities to a day if necessary. I will repeat this one more time, I would in no way or no how give a man who asked for 700 billion dollars on three pages any money “never”.
Finally I mentioned McCain, I have to mention Obama too, Obama has showed great judgment in saying no, they can wait a little while longer, he also showed great judgment in actually consulting experts as in plural on the subject. I think our failure in leadership has come about because our leaders believe that they ought to know everything and do not consult or respect the knowledge of others. As for Mc Cain he showed great judgment in suspending his campaign to work on this issue. Evidently, he clued Obama in to the fact that he had to stay too, because CNN and Fox are reporting that Obama has not left Capital Hill. I think even the suggestion that Mc Cain is trying to grandstand politically is ludicrous. He has been a Senator for a very long time and several laws have his name on them. He wants to be involved and objective politicians on both sides wanted him to be Involved. Kudos to both men!
The Price of gas in my Georgia Neighborhood is $4.09 a gallon. We are running out of gas and the Governor is asking citizens not to top off their gas tanks and to make short trips. The only type of gas we have is unleaded. I am getting a little scared almost like I’m living in a third world country. However I’m still feeling like we’re being blackmailed by Bush and he’s trying to get his 700 billion dollar bonus check.
I have just spoken with my neighbor and she told me that the police had to be called last night at Quick Trip because people were trying to get gas before the pumps ran out of gas. She said they were blocking each other in and getting in front of each other. She said that her young daughter became afraid because their car was blocked in by other cars and they could not get out out of the gas station. She also said something about individuals who can not leave their house because the gas stations near their homes are out of gas.
Several leaders at the UN World Food Summit asserted that some of the hunger problems in their countries were not due to a lack of food, but a lack of income possessed by their citizens to afford food. They asserted that this phenomenon is causing not just a hungry world but a violent world fueled on by storefront visions of food by a starving populace unable to afford sustenance. This situation has been caused and fueled on by free trade and capitalism. Many rural inhabitants of poorer countries seeing the bright lights and big cities of their urbanized centers have abandoned their countries old practices of self sufficiency through self production of food and other items and rely heavily on the promise of a job at an urban center and the income to purchase what they may have normally made, or grown in their rural homesteads.
According to John Thavis of the Catholic News Service quoting a paper produced by the Vatican:
“long-standing subsidies to agricultural producers in richer countries have artificially kept down the international price of food products and thus discouraged farming in poorer countries. The result has been large-scale abandonment of local agriculture and increasing urbanization. Today, most poor countries are net importers of food, making them highly vulnerable as prices continue to rise.”
”The mindless liberalization mentality at the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and among my fellow economists misses the fact that food is a biological necessity as well as a commodity,” said Peter Timmer, a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Program on Food Security and the Environment.
The world’s developing countries have increasingly started to depend on a steady flow of food from multinational food producers which is at the whim and the mercy of natural forces. Several years ago according to Stokes the assumption of the world was that hunger would be stamped out by world trade and production however due to various reasons the opposite has happened and the world now faces a crisis of starvation.
Stokes, furthermore discusses the fact that the rise in food prices does benefit some poor producers and farmers of food, however turns around and penalizes poor people in the same region who are not food producers.
The solution many people advocate is arming poor people with a hoe and seeds and placing the power of food production and self sufficiency back into the hands of the starving people around the world.
This is just one aspect of the world hunger issue which has many causes.
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