MY CHOICES ARE WHAT AGAIN?

FIX OUR GOVT

2008-04-11T03:09:00.000-07:00

Somethings that need fixing are hard to see.

Take the National ID card with biometrics as an example.

There are direct links to the private sector and investment opportunities and what our govt imposes through legislation:

The cards Americans will have to carry, the database of biometrics on every American that someone will have to maintain, and the electronic equipment every American business will have to buy to conduct the biometrics check on every potential employee.

Perhaps one method that could thwart politicoes from being motivated to invest in companies that benefit from laws and standards they (govt officials) try to put in place is to not allow private investors who make; one example; over $75K per year to invest in these companies.

Another example is to help Americans who make less than ; another number just plucked from air; $40K per year able to know about, have priority, and invest their tax return (time the award of the govt contract with the tax return) in the companies who benefit from mandated govt contracts.

Just some ideas to try and help fix an unseen problem in America.

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ME Vs. OBAMA

2008-04-01T18:24:00.000-07:00

Okay it is me Vs. all three of these "viable" squares running for president.

Gas prices? Here I go.

I would revoke the oil companies tax breaks which gives me about $1.5 billion in spending cash on the American people and economy each year for the next ten years.

I would tell the manufacturers of auto's inside the USA to get ready to sell hybrids and any other electric car they can produce by the first quarter of 2010.

Due to limited funds and supply, I would offer to double anyones 2009 tax return to buy a more economical fuel efficient car with their entire tax return on a first come first serve basis.

I would limit proifits to be made by the auto manufacturers to about 15-25% only and demand there be a prevailing wages for the US auto workers making these American hybrids.

This would help jump start a lessening of demand on US fuel consumption thus helping reduce the cost of gas as more people will start buying American made hybrids and help spur places like Michigan with jobs.

I would also deport the illegal aliens to further reduce the demand of gas, also push working classs wages higher via economic fundamentals, and also spurring a small business boom that caters to innovation as businesswould no longer be primarily based on who has the cheapest waged workers but instead who does it the best way properly.

I would also shift to a 20% reduction in the cost of electricty for residential and small businesses while increasing the cost of electricity about 20% for big businesses putting more spending money in the pockets of Americans and help spur investment by big businesses to invest in "green" electricity production helping spur a price reduction for private "less rich" citizens to also be able to invest in "green" electricty production.

Now go smoke a cigarette Obama and think about that while you prove that you have self esteem issues puffing away and getting cancer!

UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE

2008-03-23T03:17:00.000-07:00

I just want to point out some things the media ignores about the universal healthcare discussions.

The candidates focus on the money that workers pay into healthcare; this is the carrot they dangle in front of the voters.

Don't forget that the employer matches what the worker pays.

With UHC the candidates talk about things like 'making businesses more competative in the world' and this is code for 'we aren't going to make the businesses pay into the healthcare system anymore' and businesses will put this money into their own pockets.

The candiates talk about 40 million uninsured Americans, but the media lets the candidates exclude the 10-20 million illegal aliens (which is a stat that is about 3 years old now and also when we look at the estimates from the last amnesty under Ronald Reagan that the govt estimates were 300% below the actual number of illegal aliens!).

The uninsured and illegal aliens do not pay enough into healthcrae to offset what corporations would no longer have to pay; thus this shortfall would be an increase in taxes when medicaid and social security is on the road to being bankrupt.

UHC has, in every country it has been implemented, caused wage stagnation or decreased wages for workers in the medical sector.

UHC causes wait times and this is in the best interest of the drug companies as these wait times will increase the amount of pharmacuticals needed to provide comfort until the actual medical procedure(s) can be done.

One aspect to why the healthcare costs have been increasing is the number of uninsured babies we allow to be born into our system as these uninsured procedures get the maximum billing rates and then cause everyone elses insurance cost to go up to recoup these charges.

Another aspect is when there are adverse effects from prescription drugs. I think the cost for adverse effects of prescribed drugs should be billed back to the pharmacutical companies as this requires more doctor visits and drives up the cost for insurance for everyone else also.

Another thing we could do instead is train more doctors and make college more affordable for everyone; like putting free basic college courses on the internet making the total cost to become a doctor to cost less.

Instead of UHC I would like to see a medical military branch converted from either the Marines or Army so that we use existing pentagon funds to provide basic medical care for the impoverished US citizens instead of raising taxes and letting corporations avoid paying for the benefit of healthcare.

IF THEY ONLY HAD A BRAIN!

2008-03-14T19:59:00.000-07:00

If only McCain, Obama, Clinton, or Bush had a brain when it comes to managing our economy into fairness and in favor of working class citizens. They seem to have fundraising and campaigning cloaked in rhetoric down well enough.

Even Romnay isn't in tuned with our economy as he is more capable of increasing profit margings and that means CHEAP LABOR WAS GOOD IN HIS OPINION UNTIL HE FLIP-FLOPPED INTO VAGUE OPPOSITON OF ILLEGAL ALIENS!

Things that are happening now are things like mortgages and other credited debt that have been sold long ago are now becoming worthless (no longer a decent return when they turn the APR into their currency) thanks to the destruction of our dollar.

China and Japan are sitting on a mountain of our debt that is declining and this worries me greatly as China is quickly building their military.

What would our image be if China took over that little island we are contractually obligated to defend? How about in the Muslim world when viewed alongside Osama's "paper tiger" declarations?

Also NAFTA AND CAFTA are ignored by all three front runners when it comes to the devaluation of the US greenback. Imports are slowing having the devalued dollars' caused inflation to creep onto the shelves of stores and Americans will need higher wages to pay the bills as these inflationary impacts also hit places like the supplies used by the electric company, and phone, and cable, and water, etc

Unfortunately the media dissected the fact that US working class wages are lower then what they should be thanks to the illegal aliens; and also that self employment opportunites have been lost as well due to the illegal aliens; but too many Americans got conned into thinking that the illegal aliens issue is a civil rights issue for the illegal aliens instead of the American worker.

MEDIA ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL!

2008-03-08T03:45:00.000-08:00

The media ignores issues that are unknowingly important to the public, take both their stances on trade agreements like NAFTA.

They both agree that we need to get these other countries to adopt tougher environmental and labor standards to help American workers.

But what will this do for us really?

It will have these additional costs added to the price of things we buy from them; in short it causes an INFLATIONARY impact.

In addition it will not result in their workers getting paid higher wages so their workers will still not be able to afford US exports.

The labor standards they talk about are working conditions, hours in a work week and child labor standards, NOT FOREIGN WORKER'S WAGES.

As long as we have to compete with foreign wages our manufacturing base will continue to diminish; and universal healthcare is NOT enough of an impact to cause a swing in direction for our manufacturing base as the media allows Clinton to pretend.

Then there is the fact that all three of the front runners are pro amnesty which the media refuses to LABEL as INSOURCING and degrades US working class wages.

NAFTA SHAFTA CAFTA BLAH

2008-03-04T04:31:00.000-08:00

They (Clinton and Obama) argue over NAFTA and ignore the illegal alien problem which has to do with the economy, healthcare costs, education quality, AND NATIONAL SECURITY.

If all these illegal aliens are good for our economy then sending them back would be good for their economy?

Sending them back would push US wages upward for working class folks; construction, cashiers in convenience stores, retail workers, food service industry workers, cleaning services, landscapers, etc.

Sending them back would improve our education system and reduce healthcare inflationary aspects.

I understand that we can't snap our fingers and have them all disappear, but we can solve any problem for the American people.

Once the illegal aliens are given the right to stay forever is the moment the next economic depression is irreversable.

10 THINGS FOR AMERICA

2008-02-25T04:02:00.000-08:00

1. Paid lunch hour for all workers earning an average less than $20 an hour and full time; which gives either more overtime for workers or more time with the family.

2. All Police officers working will wear a wire and record conversations for any possible future court needs for both the police and the citizens helping prevent abuse of authority by police and to better enforce possible fines/sentences against the citizen.

3. Use existing defense funds (no new taxes!) to transition the US Army from a fighting force to a Medical Military Branch that will be capable of being deployed into combat but will also provide basic medical care to uninsured US citizens.

4. Stop illegal aliens without imposing a retinal and/or DNA database and constant verification of all US citizens living in the USA just to catch the retinals and DNA we are looking for to deport.

5. Free online education from grades seven to all possible college accredited courses accessible to all US citizens at anytime during their lifetime.

6. Move minimum wage to between $9 and $10 an hour and start the slow process of deporting the illegal aliens by garnishing their wages to pay for their own plane ticket home.

7. Make having abortions illegal (exceptions would be life threatening, rape, etc.) as people know how babies are made just like they know they shouldn't drive drunk.

8. Legislate a price regulation for electricity costs and cause a (give or take) 20% increase for larger businesses and a (give or take) 20% reduction for residential electrical costs.

9. Re-establish the US automotive industry. Do not allow foreign auto makers to produce cars to be imported into America but instead mandate that they make all automobiles have the first 25% and final 40% of manufacturing to be done inside the USA's borders.

10. Establish a govt sponsored online forum for upcoming legislation for the genral public to point out aspects and concerns and also mandate that elected officials participate in the forum and answer the highest rated questions presented by the public concerning the legislation.

THE ONE PERCENT THEORY

2008-02-17T06:16:00.000-08:00

IMO; the media is lame and broken, helping lead my country down a path of self destruction and self consumption.

This needs to change as soon as possible; and I have a proposal: THE ONE PERCENT THEORY

The One Percent Theory (the OPT) is as follows:

Any issue that our governemnt undertakes, any issue at all, has at least one percent of the population paying attention and wanting to be involved in the discussion and can provide useful intuitive aspects that might otherwise go overlooked and undiscussed by our government.

1% of 300 million is 3 million people.

The challenge is how to get 3 million people into one room and have some sort of order to the dialogue; and the answer is the internet and computers.

You might say that 3 million opinions are too many to listen to, but I would guess that if 3 million people all voiced concern about an issue that many would have the same concern to voice.

Then our elected officials whom work for us, the legal citizens of this great nation, should be forced to respond in writting on the internet to the most popular concerns voiced by the general public.

I feel that every non-emergency type legislation should have a new process where we utilize this one percent theory to best shape all newly written legislation.

No more secret legislation kept out of the general public's eye, like the amnesty bill that neither Obama nor Clinton nor McCain nor Huckabee nor Bloomberg stood up to demand that the civil rights of American citizens never again be violated via any secret legislative process!

It doesn't matter what the issue. What matters is that we should no longer underutilize the most powerful resource available to the legislative process; the concerned American citizen. And computers now provides the capacity to fill this critical lacking component (the concerned legal citizen) in a world that moves so fast that merely relying upon the election cycle to stamp out corrupt govt is practically obsolete and ineffective.

But we need the govt to provide the leadership to the general public and to direct them to the internet place of meeting so the public does not act upon their own and scattered across the virtual landscape.

No person would be left out of the discussion; not gender, not skin color, not income level, not education level, nothing but the the lack of will to become involved would keep a person from joining a discussion and making observations about any specified topic as it approaches legislative fruition.

A SECRET ABOUT THE ECONOMY?

2008-02-14T17:58:00.000-08:00

Here is a little secret the media has ignored (actually just reported what they were told to report without their own in depth analysis)...

The war in Iraq (and Afghanistan) has helped our economy MORE than the Bush tax cuts; and ending the war would be another hit to our economy. Not just in production but in the increased wages (and tax free!) the soldiers wives/husbands spend while their spouse is away.

Since our economy is primarily a service economy now, we need to better regulate the number of workers; as pinching the quantity of workers available makes wages go up and thus increases tax revenue without burdening the welfare systems (which would include Obama and Clinton's UHC proposals). This means deporting the illegal aliens as soon and as fast as we can; garnish their wages and make them take USA airlines to also help the airline industry! Make them declare who and where they work while we slowly garnish their wages and fine the employers to put the money into Medicaid/care also!

I say the only change Obama is offering is skin deep; which is shallow in today's wonderous and advanced age.

FINGER PRINT/EYE-SCAN FOREIGNERS OPINION

2008-02-12T04:44:00.000-08:00

They will use the justification of doing it to others to begin doing upon our own at home.

The only people willing to use the fingerprinting and eyescanning are people who know they are not on a wanted or watched list.

People sneaking into our country will still find open and unguarded borders. The unsecure borders could be how nukes or other could still fairly easily be brought into the country.

If someone stays in the USA longer than they were supposed to, how do the fingerprints and eyescans help us remove these people if there are not regular fingerprint and eyescan stations that AMERICANS ALSO ARE REQUIRED TO USE TO VERIFY THEIR IDENTITY!

A suicide-terrorist has no intention of leaving alive and there are people in the organization that we do not know to look for as new recruits have soared since 9/11 and the mistake of the unwarranted Iraq invasion.

How does this help prevent biological attacks? (A biological attack should be feared more than a nuclear attack but the elderly and media in the USA do not realize this.)

This has nothing to do with the 10-20 million illegal aliens (which is an estimate that is 3 years passed) and yet the media won't point this perspective out to the American people.

This idea seems like another scam; like all of homeland security seems to be.

To me; the scariest possibility I have been able to think of is the terrorist contaminating hundres or thousands of small denomination dollar bills with a contagious biological contaminant (like small pox, etc.) that is snuck across our porous borders and spent frivolously into our society by suicide-terrorist. There would be no way to track the money and would result in an economic panic that could easily have long term negative impacts; even shut down our economy from a fear of money itself and have world-wide reprecussions for the greenback.

WHEN THE MEDIA IS COMPLACENT

2008-02-10T04:53:00.000-08:00

How can you tell the media manipulates the public and drives the agendas of the corporations; you might ask.

It is never okay for the US government to write legislation in secret from the general public and yet that is exactly what the amnesty bill was; and then was quickly brought to a vote without elected leaders able to read it and to effectively weigh the economic impacts upon the nation.

Lobbyist probably had something to do with this, but interesting is the fact that Obama, Clinton, and McCain (even Huckabee who has now flip-flopped on this issue) had a chance to chage how this process was moving forward and demand there not be a process without ALWAYS including the general public.

Negative impacts on healthcare costs, welfare costs, wage growth, the environment, the infrastructure, power and gas requirements, and the list goes on; yet the media wanted the public not just complacent on the fact that legislation was being written in secret from the general public but also the overwhelming negative impacts from illegal aliens.

No mention of how illegal aliens make the cost of living go up for things like power, gas, and rent while lowering wages for working positions/evaporate self employment opportunities at the bottom of the scale doing things like cleaning, landscaping, and construction and how all these negative aspects really hurt the newest LEGAL IMMIGRANTS that have come to our country.

What a pathetic media indeed; unless you are on the board of a major corporation!

I BET THEY DIDN'T THUNK THIS!

2008-02-06T18:29:00.000-08:00

Do you know any Americans that will use the opportunity during amnesty to re-establish their own identity?

Tens of millions of illegal aliens will be lined up to have paperwork processed, so who will take the time to pay notice?

Pay a couple thousand dollars in fines and drum-up a few forged documents to: erase debt, get out of child support payments, never having to bring up that murder thing when applying for a job again, or perhaps erase the child rape conviction that prevents them from getting hired at daycares?

Here is a fact: some hispanics look like white people and some Latin Americans look like black people; but most scary is that it is easiest for a Middle Eastern terroroist to know a little spanish and pass themselves off as a media-portrayed harmless illegal alien.

MEDIA PORTRAYAL

2008-02-06T04:10:00.000-08:00

It seems that FEAR will not decide the 08 election, but instead that this election will be won by HATE.

Look at the turn out #'s.

No Republican could win the 08 election.

So it will be some 3rd party candidate or we keep with the same old bread and butter where each candidate must follow the pre-determined party's agenda taht was put in place by corporations.

Maybe HATE is too strong of a word? For some maybe, but not for others.

The economy doesn't get any clear leadership unless you can discuss the overwhelming and unavoidable impacts of illegal aliens; and the media won't allow it.

Just like they won't allow a discussion about our elections not really being very valid from the high probability of illegal aliens voting.

I feel America is a very uncivilized nation.

Not just the people that are uncivilized, but the fact that politics and medias microtarget people based on race, gender, and age to divide and segregate perceptions of issues to motivate/demotivate voters and then use our election processes weaknesses seeking bipartisan corporate agenda.

I do not care what color you are; if you are illegal then you need to leave and come in the right way; but the media portrayed me as a racist....

Anyways....2 cents 4 ya.

WHY MEDIA; WHY!?!

2008-02-05T03:53:00.000-08:00

Where to start?

Why does the media protect the illegal aliens from having the (overwhelming) negative impacts from illigal immigration from being analyzed and/or discussed public?

Negative impacts on healthcare (Clinton and Obama get a free pass about UHC here).

Negative impacts on education.

Negative impacts on wages.

Negative impacts on the environemt.

And even more!

What will happen once the illegal aliens get legal citizen status?

Many will immediately file for welfare benefits like food stamp, assisted housing, and be eligible for unemployment benefits just to observe a few.

Unless the govt finds the funding to increase these existing programms, people will begin to be pushed off these programs. These are people that are disabled, single parents, etc that are LEGAL CITIZENS.

Why are we ignoring history that shows unfettered immigration helped cause the great depression and made recovery from the great depression impossible without WW2?

WHY, WHY, WHY!?!?!

NONE STOOD UP FOR AMERICANS!!!

2008-02-02T17:43:00.000-08:00

The candidates knew they were running for President when the SECRET amnesty bill was being formed and the media was trying to deceive and distract the public from the overwhelming negative aspects and yet not one presidential candidate stood up and called for an immediate cease action; instead luckily the American public took action and scared the government into paralysis on the matter.

None of these candidates has yet been faced with accountability for this fiasco by the national media and all was going to allow it to happen until some candidates FLIP-FLOPPED and now call for tough immigration action.

No wonder TV is used to brainwash the North Koreans. No wonder Chavez controls the media in Venezuela and retains and grows power. It seems these evil-leadered nations better understand the US goverments relationship and use of the media better than average Americans.

It is not about an outright brainwashing of all people; it is about manipulating as many as they can to win elections and complete corporate agendas.

Most Americans are too busy to thuroughly follow and cut through the media hype.

For example again, take the illegal alien issue.

Did you know that once the illegal aliens have the green light for citizenship (AKA; AMNESTY), that they can easily change their name and shed any bad credit they may have obtained while in the USA illegally? Excessive debt from credit cards or a foreclosed house can simply be removed from their credit history by them slightly changing their name when getting their new Social Security number.

There is no way that the US government will be able to stop the illegal aliens from utilizing this opportunity to dump any "bad bills" they no longer want to pay as there will be a burdensome need to process millions of people and our government also trying to conduct the 12-20 million international background checks.

These amnesty candidates seem to be smoking crack; perhaps this issue is an appropriate time to question Sen. Obaama's prior admitted cocain use?

Simply change a name to Jose Garcia or Theresa Martinez as there are too many to tell a difference, or go by a different last name (do you understand how many names hispanics can have?).

Where is the media on this foreseeable aspect? When you couple this with the fact that these same people that can shed bad credit are the same people sending their money back into Mexico you have nothing short of an international scam that gets paid for by the legal law abiding American citizen.

Wake up media!

RUN THESE CANDIDATES SHORTS UP THE FLAGPOLE!

2008-01-26T03:15:00.000-08:00

We need to better utilize the internet and establish free government supported education services online. The government needs to step in an ensure all colleges accept the online education credits to be acceptable by all colleges and universities.

We should also provide (maybe as early as 5th grade) 7th-12th grade online education for all legal citizens.

It costs less to run online schools than the traditional "brick & mortar" schools, a computer and internet service is cheaper than college today, it reduces today's overcrowding in public schools, and provides many more beneficial aspects to include helping reduce property taxes that pay for public schools over the long run.

It is time that we quit trying to place every American child into a "square hole" and allow gifted youngsters; or youngsters that need to work and help support themselves and families juggling work and school; the ability/opportunity to complete schooling at their own pace.

Sure some classes and education needs to be done in a lab or hands on, but those classes are fewer than the ones that can be done over the miraculous capabilies found on the internet; video, audio, massive people networking and meeting on message boards or chatrooms to discuss subjects, etc.

The governemnt needs to take the lead for the people and the future of our economy.

In addition, some topics/subjects could be placed into this free online education system and made available to every legal US citizen anytime throughout their lives; i.e foreign languages, history, mathmatics, etc.

Also, removing the illegal aliens improves our current public school system; so where was Romney, Huckabee, Clinton, Obama, Edwards, etc when amnesty was trying to be sold to the American people and 80% weren't buying the shovel-loads of amnesty poop?

We all know that Bush didn't and doesn't care about the negative impacts of illegal aliens, but all these candidates had already announced they were indeed running for president in 2008 (when the second attempt of amnesty was being written in secret from the public) and yet all failed to stand up for the children of legal Americans.

Why hasn't the media drilled these vast numbers of negative impacts from illegal aliens as a government scandal or at least widespread incompetence?

All these 2008 candidates should have to face their incompetence as the media is the first line of accountability for our government and not the voting booth, or else we need to hold elections every month!

HOW I WOULD MEND SOCIAL SECURITY

2008-01-20T04:49:00.000-08:00

Social(ism) Security started after we had unfettered immigration into the USA and then the great depression hit.

Now it is a normal and accepted, but self bankrupting, program to help our seniors.

I hope you are familiar with my deportation plan for all the illegal aliens (give them a 12 month window to pronounce themselves and where they are working and then garnish wages pays their own way home; failure to pronounce themselves qualifies the illegal alien as a felon) because this would provide an opportunity to mend SS as well.

When the illegal aliens make their where-abouts known, they will also start paying taxes. Our govt could direct their full amount of taxes paid into the SS program to help increase solvency.

Also; should there be fines to companies found to have hired the illegal aliens during the deportation process, they could have their paid fines directed into SS helping achieve solvency as well.

As illegal aliens are deported, the welfare systems needed funding will have a reduction in needed monies and this reduction of needed money can then be shifted to be paid into SS (no raising taxes needed!).

Then of course the hard fight to forever stop politicians from raping the SS funds.

HOW I WOULD BOOST THE ECONOMY

2008-01-19T05:20:00.001-08:00

Step one: Deport the illegal aliens. Doing this makes wages increase (not CEO wages!) and causes an economic boom for self employment (not self employment at the pay rates of Bill Gates, but still a nice way to earn a living!). As workers leave jobs in sectors such as retail, construction, and others to venture self employment the larger companies who employ workers will have to offer better wages and benefits to attract and retain employees. This is based on economic fundamentals of "supply and demand" which also applies to labor and not just products. It can also be described as "Trickle Up Economics".

Step two: Legislate a price regulation for electricity costs and cause a (give or take) 20% increase for larger businesses and a (give or take) 20% reduction for residential electrical costs. This pushes businesses towards investing for GREEN energy solutions to save money in the long run and thus helps snowball this new economic sector into lower costing reach for business and residential citizens that do not yet have the deep pockets to afford current high prices of green solutions.

Step three: Re-establish the automotive industry. Do not allow foreign auto makers to produce cars to be imported into America but instead mandate that they make all automobiles have the first 25% and final 40% of manufacturing to be done inside the USA's borders. Exclusively allow lower earning Americans to buy "low-cost" foreign produced automobiles and regulate the cost of these low-cost foreign made automobiles to not exceed an excessive mark-up % of the total production and shipping costs.

IMO; salvaging the auto industry manufacturing base is critical for national security. Not just from terrorism but also in the event that Communist China decided to attack. Our manufacturing base is what helped win WW2.

REMEMBER WHY AND HOW TO FIX IT?

2008-01-13T03:36:00.000-08:00

Deporting the illegal aliens would create a boom in small business opportunities doing "jobs Americans won't do" like in landscaping and housekeeping services that wealthier people actually won't do and could help spur our economy by paying more to have it done for them.

As well as cause other working wages to go up; like retail services and construction, etc.

For every business that has used illegal aliens was another business venture trying to do the same job or service within the legal limits of U.S. law but was being unfairly and illegally burdened chasing their own AMERICAN DREAM!

I would establish a national hotline for all illegal aliens to make there where-abouts known and who they are working for within a 12 month window. After the 12 month period, all illegal aliens found not registered will be treated as potential terrorists or drug/human smugglers. The others who willfully pronounced themselves would be given proper/basic consideration to have their wages garnished to pay for their own way home, and we also consider allowing families with children under six years of age to stay and get vaccines before returning as a family to their parent(s) homeland when the child(ren) turn six.

I also say we should finger print and document DNA of all illegal alien's children born in the USA for records that would allow these children born in the USA to return as LEGAL immigrants when they turn 18 years old.

IT'S THE ECONOMY STUPIDO!

2008-01-12T16:57:00.000-08:00

Where is the media on breaking down each U.S. economic sectors' wages in our economy?

Looks to me that the media seems too busy portraying most all 300 million legal American citizens as too shallow to look beyond a person's skin color and gender to give them a vote; I would still argue that we should closely examine every candidates religion though. (I am a Deist; FYI.)

What do the candidates have to say to single parents in regards to the illegal alien crisis?

A single mother without much college or less would face an enormous hurdle of maintaining a decent quality family environment in our economy when you also view the impacts from illegal aliens (remember they drive down working class wages through over competition).

Which candidate is currently standing in her corner? If you said a Democrat I would burst laughter into your face!

A single father (or statistically more likely a child support paying dad) who has little or doesn't have any college would also find the negative wage impacts from illegal aliens a LONG TERM drain on their family financial situaution; possibly resulting in fewer affordable visitations with the child(ren) depending on the geography of his/her/their situation.

These are the sorts of impacts that UNARGUABLY have long term negative impacts on the families with (or without) children growing up in our country; and the candidates did not stand up for these people when they first had the chance.

Unarguably but IGNORABLE!

This lack of action for the past two years really points to the quality (the complete lack of quality) these candidates bring to the table regardless of their EXPERIENCE.

I would trade experience of the political system for someone who could at least be "heads-up" about what is going on and the impacts on our workers.

McCain, Clinton, and Obama all voted for SECRETLY WRITTEN AMNESTY with near ZERO challenge from the national media.

One problem I see facing America is the inability to maintain a decent quality living standard on only one parents wages causing families to send both parents working just to survive and leaving the children lacking effective parenting during their upbringing.

Two working parents can create more tension and contribute to more divorces.

Two working parents can lead to eating more fast food and contribute to childhood obesity and diabetes.

These are just some issues dealing with wages and I for one am disgusted with the media's lack of depth in regards to political economic issues; especially negative impacts from illegal aliens.

I am okay with fettered immigration and have no problem voting for any ethnicity of either gender for President.

Just for the record; Clinton didn't make the economy good during the 90's, the NATURAL evolution of the computer and the internet did. It was the Clintons misjudgement of this natural economic evolution that began outsourcing and free-trade like NAFTA, and continues under G. W. Bush (CAFTA, and more recently the super highway some pretend isn't being planned) that goes mostly misunderstood by Americans thanks to a lack of correctiveness by the media.

Now besides outsourcing we also have INSOURCING doing service jobs that cannot be exported (but can be replaced through more evolution of technology; like self checkout counters at super markets and robotics in manufacturing, etc.) but seemingly the media doesn't really want to create a buzz word that internally works against multi-national corporate America as they like to use low waged services.

Just how does either the Democrats or Republicans plan on doing 12-20 million international background checks and how long would it take? It makes more sense, not just in an economic sense but in regards to national security too, to send the illegal aliens home.

Fair or Flat Tax tax scam

2008-01-06T05:30:00.000-08:00

There are reasons for a direct lifeline between businesses and the IRS and it has to do with things like child labor laws, minimum wage, workers rights, and the need to have had a third (nuetral) party to better settle any disputes between the employer and employee about pay issues...to include overtime, child supprt, etc.

Who is going to go in and audit big corporations if the IRS is dissolved?

Huckabee, and Obama, and Clinton, and Edwards, and McCain are all typical OLD SCHOOL politicans that do not speak to the American people as if they had enough brains to realize that anything our government does going forward ALWAYS has a PRO's & CON'S; and that includes the Fair/Flat Tax or Universal Health Care.....

Why don't any of the politocoes talk to the American people as if we had intelligence and are capable to understand the issues and their impacts?

Who wants to have to go to court if their employer dicides to short them on some money? Wouldn't that sort of situation be nice to have already had the IRS making sure that employers do not default on THEIR OBLIGATIONS TO WORKERS RIGHTS?

Why is Huckabee happier about making propstitutes, drug dealers, and other illegal activity partakers to pay taxes instead of stopping these illegal activities? GUFFAW!

The way I see it today is that Corporate America uses the media most in favor of whichever candidate can best SELL PERCEPTION TO AMERICANS as corporate (multinational) America has issues they want to see get passed on BOTH THE DEM AND REP side of the aisle.

And as long as there are only two parties to choose from, well then it is only a matter of time for them (corporate multinational America) to get their way as there isn't any "valid" alternative choices they have to worry about.

ANd finally; YES, corporate multinational America WANTS UNIVERSAL HEATHCARE instead of having to provide health insurance as a benefit with employment. If anyone wathced the Rep debate that included the healthcare topic might have noticed they talked about INFLATIONARY aspects of healthcare costs but failed to mention illegal aliens AND G. W. Bush's FAILED lawsuit cap the Republicans passed that was supposed to stop healthcare inflation....

Bush wasn't impeached?!?!?

2007-12-30T04:27:00.000-08:00

Why wasn't President Bush impeached?

He should have been, and he could have been; and he still can be...

The illegal aliens tried to first force their granting of U.S. citizenship on the Communist Labor Day of May 1st, 2005 (Our American Labor Day is in September!) by SHUTTING DOWN THE ECONOMY OF THE USA DURING THEIR STRIKES!

You remember the strikes they had; don't you?

The strikes where they waved the flag of Mexico instead of old glory.

When Osama ordered his minions to fly those airplanes into the World Trade Center, he did not only want to kill Americans, HE WANTED TO SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY OF THE USA!

Why then did McCain, Obama, and Clinton all support legislation that was written in secret from the voting public's eyes to give amnesty for the illegal aliens?

Why wasn't President Bush (and every other elected official) impeached for giving aid to a group that was organized and tried to SHUT DOWN THE ECONOMY OF THE USA?

This opportunity wasn't even publicly discussed by the medias!

Why is it that the media shuns away from digging deep into the issue of illegal immigration during the 2008 election cycle?

Most Americans do not know that if we deported the illegal aliens that wages for the working class would go up, and that there would be a BOOM of self employment opportunities for working class Americans (SORRY CEO'S!).

Does John Edwards address this fact? How about Ron Paul? Any of the candidates able to see ways to improve the quality of wages and benefits for America's working class that doesn't include some socialized tax dollar drenched proposal?

Is being gay a choice?

2007-12-30T03:21:00.000-08:00

My old reaction would have been an absolute "yes", but that has recently changed for me. But on a side note; I don't think people are actually born gay either.

I think every person who has ever, if even only a single time during their life, wanted to procreate and/or have a child (which I suspect is everyone) cannot be gay.

Sure you could argue that one doesn't need to "go through the motions" to procreate, but you have to then argue that people are born knowing advanced science; and that is just crazy talk to think people are born knowing about test-tube reproduction and/or cloning, etc.

Another point that I would like to observe is that there are many sexual perversions in the world and we do not say that people are born with these perversions.

We do not allow child molestors to argue that they were born to only desire sexual relations with young people. Nor do we allow people who prefer bestiality to claim they were born to only have sexual relations with animals. Nor feet. Nor bondage. Nor public acts. Nor voyeurs. Etc.

Yet we allow gay people to make a scientific claim which goes largely unchallenged due to the sensitive and private matter of the subject.

On a side note: Why do gays pressure or even make fun of other homosexuals who actually prefer to have their sexual activities kept private from the world? I think this is obvious "peer-pressure" and an indicator that they are not sure they were born gay as much as seeking acceptance when they possibly lack acceptance in other areas of their life.

So if a gay person is not born this way, then how do they end up acting gay.

First off, I suspect it has to do with the physical pleasure that sex brings people. If we view history and even being advertised now in modern Africa, we see that circumcision reduces the sexual pleasure for a man when he has sex and thus allows for men to more easily control their sexual urges.

The important aspect there was, "...allows for men to more easily control their sexual urges."

Sex results in a powerful climatic euphoric event; I don't think I need to go into further detail; one in which can be very desirable for both men and women. It is this "finale" that helps prod people to further explore their private sexual futures with a sense of comfort and assurance; and on the occassion into the world of homosexuality.

These are people who made a choice to be gay.

But I now also believe that there is not only the choice to be gay, but the convoluted guidance through imagery and peer-pressure to become gay.

An example is the famed Teletubby declaration by a famous religious person whose name I do not remember. If he was talking more about how the Teletubby that carried the purse around was not merely just a big, purple Teletubby, but instead that the purse carrying Teletubby appears to be the oldest and largest member of the Teletubby family (the one that seems to be the "man of the Teletubby house") is carrying a pursue like mommy ,then I would say he could be correct in his suspicion about homosexual imagery for children.

Mass media can have a profound psychological impacts on people at any age; leaving people with false impressions about reality, or historic events, and even be used for propoganda as Hitler discovered.

One easy example is the first radioed story "War of the Worlds" which brought mass panic in the USA.

Another good and more current example is plastic surgery. I suspect that there would be far fewer people "going under the knife" if there weren't television programs dedicated to showing plastic surgery which gives people a greater comfort about doing it themselves after a thirty minute glimpse into surgically altering one's self forever.

So I suspect that some gay people are gay by choice, but there are also gay people who are pschologically lured into being gay through imagery (movies, and regular television programming), or peer-pressure, or even other psychological factors.

If television didn't have such an impact, then why do they have to sometimes say, "Please do not try this at home!"?

I do not believe that being gay is a birth defect.

Why Republicans are not satisfied.

2007-12-14T13:12:00.000-08:00

Republican voters see opportunity available to be snatched from the jaws of Democrats and wonder why their field of candidates "won't go there".

The opportunity is indeed sensitive; forelaid with a perilous suicidal tendency for anyone uncomfortable with talking in front of large crowds to seek political office and providing a plethora of attractive soundbites that any corporate media would mold into an uncomfortable coffin.

But just what is this opportunity?

The opportunity, as I see it, is the opportunity to be reborn as a party fighting for the less fortunate folks in America. The working class. Blue collar workers. Those who live check to check and even those who don't make it from check to check.

The most obvoius undiscussed issue imapcting negatively on working class Americans is the ILLEGAL immigrants.

The more workers there are available to businesses means the businesses can hire workers for much lower wages.

Think of it in terms of blue collar applications: If you and one other person puts in an application for work then you will have a fifty-fifty chance of being hired and better able to negotiate the wage and perhaps benefits. The same is simply not true if there are ten applicants or twenty applicants.

It is no secret (except to the corporate TV medias?) that both Hillary and Obama knew they were running for the highest office of the land (and I am not forgetting all the other candidates who squandered an opportunity to demonstrate clear leadership and unity on this nationally important topic) and still hid behind George Bush's coat-tails while the Democrats demanded that he (Bush) better "sell" amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens that was ultimately thwarted by a unified USA for a second time.

There are many undisclosed negative impacts from the ILLEGAL immigrants:

Electricity consumption
Water consumptuion
Healthcare costs forwarded into insurance costs
Wage deflation
Pollution and waste production
Infrastructure (roads, bridges, powerlines, etc) needs that were unplanned
Increased criminal activity
Decreased police effectiveness
Judicial backlogging
Voter fraud

All very important aspects and I could even go on and on.

Who wouldn't like to know that we are decreasing the amount of electricty our country uses as a whole and thus decreasing the cost of everyone's electrical bills (residential and commercial electrical costs)?

Right now, the corporate medias are "selling" the perception that ILLEGAL immigration should be considered only a Republican issue. This is simply a diversion from having to provide an in depth analysis of the ILLEGAL immigration situation onto candidates from both parties and a discussion of the impacts on the entire country and economy.

In the upcoming months, the TV media will probably begin a propaganda campaign that wages need to be kept down in order to help contain inflation.

But inflation caused by increasing wages from the bottom of the economic earnings scale is actually not as bad as some people will pretend. Especially since we don't buy much made in America! And the lowest of wage earners are actually getting more money in their pockets!

This my friends is a need in capitalism and is what the US economy needs more than simply injecting cheap labor into our economy which lowers wages for blue collar workers and maximizes profits for multinational corporations.

How to cause wage growth? Deportation of the ILLEGAL immigrants.

I would establish a national hotline for all illegal aliens to make there where-abouts known and who they are working for within a 12 month window. After the 12 month period, all illegal aliens found not registered will be treated as potential terrorists or drug/human smugglers. The others who willfully pronounced themselves would be given proper/basic consideration to have their wages garnished to pay for their own way home, and we also consider allowing families with children under six years of age to stay and get vaccines before returning as a family to their parent(s) homeland.

I also say we should finger print all illegal alien's children born in the USA for records that would allow these children born in the USA to return as LEGAL immigrants when they turn 18 years old.

PS. The national minimum wage should be between $9 and $10 an hour; perhaps $9.11?