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Restoring America’s Economic Mobility

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First, what is economic mobility?

Millions of people from all over the world come to this country for it.  They have been drawn to America by the magnet of ‘opportunity’.  The opportunity to come here and succeed, if you have what it takes.  And what it takes is: motivation, drive, a sense of strong work ethic, skills, intelligence (not a whole lot), a desire to succeed, a will to work with others, entrepreneurship,  and the tenacity to keep going, to not give up.

Economic mobility means that you come to this country with $50 in your pocket and possibly have a million in short order compared to most other countries.  But, it is not a guarantee!  Today too many Americans have few of this attributes (combined).  Too many have a sense of entitlement — you owe it to me, I shouldn’t have to work for it.  Why?  Because I’m special!!

Please read the following article which explains why we’re in trouble today and how we could pull ourselves out of this ‘dive’.  A well written article.

Restoring America’s Economic Mobility

 

 

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Economics, Financial, Politics, Public Interest

Working Adults — The Trend is Not Good

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Americans are being fed statistics that apparently come from some dark place void of conscience and factual information.  We’re told that the economy is booming and that we’re ‘on the road to recovery’..?  Yet the average worker is getting nowhere fast.  Too many people are not working.  Who says so?  Of all places, the Washington Post!  Yes, the left leaning paper back east.

But worse they tell of a trend that is worse than a high unemployment number today.  They talk about the number of people working tomorrow.

A disaster is looming for American men

I’m not sure how to reconcile how our government is going to feed and house that many people in the future..?  One must ask, where will that money come from?

 

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Economics, Education, Politics, Public Interest

The Little Book of Liberal Lies

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We receive a lot of electoral and political ‘junk mail’ soliciting money of course.  But occasionally we receive something worth reading.  One of those items came to us about a week ago and I just got around to reading it and thought it should be shared with everyone!

Senator Elbert Guillory is a current sitting official who in 2013 said he had enough.  It was then that he switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican party — much like many blacks during Lincoln’s time.  He indicated that the Democrat Party proved to him they did not have the ‘black’ interest at heart.

Having held a few years as a Republican he decided to write, publish, and distribute to Republican voters his subject booklet so that everyone knew what was really going on in politics and who is supporting blacks — not just saying nice platitudes.  After reading his booklet I decided to retype it (abridged) so that even more people can know what is really going on in Washington.  The following is a duplication of that information for your review.  Please share it with everyone so that they know the lies being told for decades.

 

Little Book of Liberal Lies

by Senator Guillory

The three lies the left uses to enslave black Americans and quotes by well know politicians over several decades of progressive influence.

To my black brothers or sister.

In 2013 I made national headlines when I abandoned the government plantation and party of disappointment.  Otherwise known as the Democratic Party.

My reason?  Democrats have hijacked and enslaved black America for their own power while destroying the black community.  Now I’m fighting to break those chains once and for all.  That’s why my campaign and I set you this “Little Book of Liberal Lies“.  Not only does this booklet give leftists a well-deserved tongue lashing, it also exposes the top three lies they use to keep black Americans like you in chains.

If nothing else, I hope your eyes are opened to the fact that Hillary Clinton and ALL liberals don’t care about me and you — the black community or freedom.  They only care about one thing:  Control.

After reading this, I pray you’ll join me today by rejecting your moder day slave masters and abandon the Democratic plantation and party of disappointment while turning to the true party of freedom — the party of Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

God bless you — Senator Elbert Guillory

Liberal Lie #1

‘All Republicans are racists’

If I exposed this lie to other black Americans, the Democrats would lose their stranglehold of the black community.  And if they lost that, they’d lose what they want most — CONTROL.

So these racist democrats tried to silence me by blasting me as an Oreo, Uncle Tom, and Race Traitor.  Ironic right?  Democrats celebrate themselves as the party of diversity and acceptance, but as soon as I leave t heir plantation, they start lashing me with their verbal whips.  The following are a few more examples of similar behavior.

President Woodrow Wilson (D) — Racist Father of Modern day progressivism

“The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation — until at the last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.”

President Harry S. Truman — The savior of WWII

“I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman.  Uncle Will says that the Lord made a white man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman.  He does hate Chinese and Japs.  So do I.  It is race prejudice I guess.  But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa.  Yellow men in Asia, and White men in Europe and America.”

President Lyndon B. Johnson — Creator of the so-called ‘Great Society’

“I’ll have those n*ggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.”

President Bill Clinton — ‘Slick Willie’

“A few years ago, [Barack Obama] would have been getting us coffee.”

Senator Harry Reid — from Arizona

“…a ‘light-skinned’ African America [Obama] ‘with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

Joe Biden — Obama’s Vice-president

“you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.  I mean, that’s a storybook man.”

Rev. Al Sharpton — 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ

“White folks was in caves while we was building empires…  We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”

Jessie Jackson — 1996

“There is nothing more painful to me …  than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery, then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

Hillary Clinton — To political operative Paul Fray 1996

“They [black youths] are often the kinds of kids that are called ‘super-predators’, no conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why they ended up that way, but first we have to bring them to heel.”

Margaret Sanger (Modern-day influence for birth control)  — Hillary Clinton’s self stated role model

Sanger created what eventually became the ‘Planned Parenthood Federation of America’.  The same group that has aborted millions of black babies.  Her view on blacks:  “Colored people are like human weeds and need to be exterminated.”

Liberal Lie #2

‘Democrats are champions of civil liberties’

  1. The Democratic Party created the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) after the Confederacy’s defeat in the Civil War.  An estimated 3,446 black Republicans and 1,297 white Republicans were lynched by the KKK between 1882 and 1968.
  2. Jim Crow segregation laws in the South were created by Democrats looking to overturn Republican civil rights laws.
  3. Democrats supported the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision that said, “a negro whose ancestors were imported into the U.S., and sold as slaves”, whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen.  The decision was 7-2 with ALL 7 Democrat judges voting in favor and the Republican and Whig dissenting.
  4. Immediately after taking office in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson (D) fired most blacks who worked in the Federal government and re-segregated the Treasury Department, Mail Service and the Navy.
  5. Governor George Wallace (D) stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, fighting to keep segregation permanent.
  6. Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene Connor in Birmingham, Alabama unleashed attack dogs and turned the fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the Democrat’s racist history.  As much as Democrats don’t want black Americans to know about this, they really don’t want you to know that the Republican Party is the real party of civil rights.  Somehow Democrats have whitewashed history to cover up the facts.

  1. The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement with one simple creed:  Slavery is a violation of the rights of man.
  2. Famous African American abolitionist Frederick Douglass calls the Republicans the “party of freedom and progress”.
  3. The first Republican President was Abraham Lincoln — the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.  Freeing the slaves was a big deal, much to the horror of Democrats.
  4. Republicans in Congress authored the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.  Congressional Republicans unanimously backed the 13th Amendment banning slavery while 63% of Democrats Senators and 78% of Democrat House members voted against it.
  5. 94% of Republican Senators and 96% of Republican House members voted in favor of the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing due process of law to blacks and all Americans.  All Congressional Democrats voted against it.
  6. Nearly all Congressional Republicans voted in favor of passing the 15th Amendment guaranteeing blacks the right to vote.  Every single Democrat voted ‘no’.
  7. President Dwight Eisenhower (R) championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and was unanimously supported by Republicans.  Democrats in the ?Senate filibustered it.

 

Liberal Lie #3

“The Democrat’s Agenda is best for black Americans”

The Democratic Party has created the illusion that their agenda and policies are what’s best for black people.  In fact, the heart of liberalism is the belief that only a great, all powerful central government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans.

Democrats love control — the empty suits disguise control as charity.  But they’re only ‘charitable’ with other people’s money.  And that’s exactly how they control and enslave black Americans. Slavery still exists through government controlled programs like welfare, food stamps, etc.

Liberal policies have failed the black community  Black Americans vote over 90% Democrat, but our communities are just as poor as they’ve always been!  Or have been completely razed!  Just look at Detroit.  A liberal controlled hell-hole.

Our schools continue to fail children.  And liberals refuse to allow school vouchers while at the same time sending their kids to the best private schools.  Our prisons are filled with too many young men who should be at home raising their children and caring for their family.  But here’s the bottom line…

Liberalism has destroyed black America.  Liberals don’t care about liberty.  They don’t care about [your] freedom.  Liberals could care less about African Americans like me and you.  That’s why I decided to leave the Democratic party for good in 2013.  Most people said it was a bold decision.  I don’t think so.  I think it was the right decision – not only for me, but for all my brothers and sisters in the black community.

The Republican Party is the party of freedom.  That’s a word that’s tossed around so frequently today that it’s become a cliche‘.

Here’s what freedom means to me and my black brothers and sisters.  Freedom is:  the idea that the economy must remain free of government persuasion;  the idea that the press must operate without government intrusion and actually hold our leaders feet to the fire.

We may finally all echo the words of one Republican leader who famously said…

“Free at last, free at last.  Thank God almighty, we are free at last.” — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Please share this information with as many people as possible.  The progressives in this country are doing their best to pervert our history and depend on us to keep ourselves ignorant of what the truth is in America.  If you’ve ever wondered why we’re going downhill fast, this is one of the major reasons.

 

 

 

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Good vs. Evil in America

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A lot of people today outwardly state that they believe we’re in the biblical end times.  Because of current events (the last 10 years), they are often scared into believing almost anything out of fear.  The fact that we are or are not in the ‘end times’ is obviously debatable.  However, the fact that evil is alive better than ever in recent years is difficult to argue.

Today good things are being attacked.  e.g., An American flag on a fire truck;  The ten commandments in a courthouse;  Praying at a football game;  etc.  But evil things are all too often rewarded..?!  American’s rights are being attacked every week while criminals are being favored.  ‘Show an example of that statement’, you might ask.  Well, how about California releasing thousands of felons within the last year and more are targeted to be released — while crime rockets upward.  The fact that any theft (petty or burglary under $900) is a ‘citable offense’.!!?  But you might argue, “Well, that’s California, what do you expect.”

The following chart shows the number of people pardoned by recent presidents.  Please note the trend based on party affiliation and our ‘recent’ leader’s stunning efforts.

Commutations chart

Source:  President Obama Has Commuted the Sentences of 348

And to think that Obama believes he is far behind on pardons!!!?  I could understand an honest man taking over a third world country and releasing political prisoners, but you will see that those he released are far from lightweight criminals.  Read the list of recent persons released by Obama.

Pardons Granted by President Barack Obama (2009-2016)

 

And then of course, there are those who’s prison sentences were commuted (shortened) by Obama.  My assumption is that he believes they were unjust or ‘discriminatory’ sentences somehow..?

Commutations Granted by President Barack Obama (2009-2016)

 

Also I found some quotes by Ayn Rand which were very coincidental to this article.  It would seem that the bright Russian immigrant had insider information on evil when it comes to having lived during Stalin’s reign of terror.  The following are some quotes from her of relevance.

“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed.”

“The goal of the ‘liberals’ – as it emerges from the record of the past decades – was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles, never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be named. Thus, statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow rot — by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading to a fait accompli.”

I’ve wondered for some time when the American people will wake up to their impending doom. It is becoming very clear to me now that they will awake when ‘it‘ is done.  At which time of course will be far too late.  At that point, America will be doomed to decades of pain, suffering, and hard times.  Sad indeed considering it could be avoided.

Not to worry though comrades, your political leaders will take care of you…

 

 

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Economics, Education, Financial, Politics, Public Interest, Technology

Economics — One World Government

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Over recent decades this world has drawn economies together with the (alleged) intent of preventing wars.  But if you think about it, is that not the first step toward creating a one world government?  As they say, isn’t it about the money?

Consider this quoted text from a financial newsletter I received.

The global economy is no longer about making a product in one country, and shipping and selling it somewhere else. It is about complex supply chains that weave together activities all over the globe, supported by investment, technology, and skills that know no borders.

Creating an even playing field is no longer just about reducing external tariffs and quotas, but about coordinating and sometimes revising what have traditionally been seen as domestic policies to “stabilize” agriculture, promote national culture and identity, encourage innovation, protect health and safety, and ensure citizens a certain minimum quality of life.

Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) argue it is no mere “trade” deal, and they are right: more accurately, it is a package of integrated economic policies that will increasingly fuse several national economies into a single marketplace.

Now I don’t know about you, but when you speak to me about ‘countries without borders’ and ‘a single marketplace’, I begin to see one government — several countries without borders between them.  And, if you follow this line of thinking a bit further, you will see competition which strangles the ‘average guy’ when trying to earn a living.  That meaning, that the ‘workers of the world’ should be making much less than they do now comparatively.  Primarily when compared to other countries, it means to me that the American worker will be crushed by what’s coming.

Consider these charts and then ask yourself, “What does this have to do with me?”

Now consider this important point, which jobs are not easily shipped overseas?  What I get out of this information is one had best be keeping up with their skills — not necessarily their list of degrees.

Consider two people:  One goes to college and gets a degree in business, the other gets a degree in nursing.  Which would have a job in tough times?  I would assume the nurse.  Why?  Because he/she has specific technical skills not easily transferred to a factory worker in China.  (And that job also requires you to be where the patient is located.)  Whereas the generalist with the degree in business may be very successful and make a lot of money, he may also be in the unemployment line due to an excess number of similar people fighting for that one job he may want.  Why?  Because this country has an excess of kids getting degrees that get them no job at graduation!!  About 30% of college students today make something exceptional of themselves after graduating college.

Wishing and hoping for success doesn’t work.  Sound planning and hard work bring success.

 

 

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Interview in Jamaica — A Third World View

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While returning from Jamaica I was in the airport talking to the wife and an airport worker overheard our conversation.  Being interested, he asked me a question regarding the U.S.. This then turned into a 20 minute conversation.  I thought you might be interested.

Our topic was politics and economics in the U.S.  (Surprise!)  What I found of interest was his view from a third world perspective.  First, it wasn’t a shock to me that he watched CNN on TV (because that’s all they have besides BBC).  But it was shocking that from his perspective he thought we Americans were being fed propaganda as a regular diet.!!  He asked if we believed that @#$%^ and I said it depended on who was listening.  Too many Americans are low end thinkers and buy almost anything from ‘the tube’.  His comment was that we were being ‘programmed’ into a new society.

Secondly, he thinks that America is in big trouble.  Worse for him, he said that the IMF owns Jamaica due to its large debt.  We discussed this for a few minutes and he said there’s no way they can dig themselves out of that hole — much like the U.S. and several other countries around the world.  The numbers are all relative.

What amazed me is what the people who are working get paid.  (Which isn’t all of them for sure!  If you see their living situation, you can tell things are tough!)  This young man who you would normally see at an aircraft boarding gate makes $500 per MONTH!!!
That’s roughly $11.63 per DAY!!  Buying a magazine could cost you days worth of salary!!

So, if I hear one more person complain about their low wages in this country one more time, I may be arrested for assault!  Imagine how hard it would be to get ahead in that environment!!?  And when I hear that illegals are getting paid $35/hr to be construction workers in TEXAS, now that really makes me nuts!  Just imagine how this poor guy felt when I told him that the average illegal alien family in this country draws over $5600/month in goodies from the government (and YOU).!?!  It’s no wonder people are fighting to get to this ‘horrible country’ (as too many believe).

It’ll be interesting to see where we are a year from now…?

 

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Economics, Public Interest, Technology

Jobs in The U.S. & Outsourcing

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Outsourcing — once an unknown word.  Now an ugly word to anyone working in the IT industry.  But hey, computing itself is an ugly word if you’re in IT any more.

In the 60’s computers were just getting started in the business world.  I remember thinking, “Well this new career path is helping me, but what’s it doing to the other people?”  As we created more innovative systems to ‘replace people’, I couldn’t help but wonder where all of this was going..?  People were outraged at the fact that their work was being ‘downsized’ using computers.

But not to worry!  “There will be higher paying jobs in the future in the IT industry for you to go to!”  (For awhile)  Then came outsourcing.  The simpler programming jobs started to get outsourced to India.  Time marched on and then various forms of more technical support started to move to other countries.  Now today there are very limited high paying jobs available within the United States.  Using IBM as an example, here’s how things size up in their case.

  • 1990 — There were 400,000 employees within IBM worldwide – 250K within the U.S.
  • 1993 — Layoffs started and 150K employees were dumped
  • 1994 — American jobs started to move offshore
  • 2002 — The entire Help center was in India with rare exceptions;  The entire networking support was in South America; Major operating systems support was being moved offshore;  DB2 (database management software) was being moved to China;  IMS (hierarchical database system software) support was being migrated to Russia;  etc., etc.
  • 2016 — IBM once again has 400K employees world wide, but around 60K or less are employed ‘here’!  And, they are in the process of dumping even more American employees — primarily over 40!!

Now you might ask, how could they violate basic employment rules?  Good question.  Why do we not know the current number of people employed within the U.S.?  Once again, treachery is keeping that information from the citizens of this country.  IBM is currently listing laid off employees as ‘retired’ if they have enough years with the company.  Hence, their federally monitored counts are skewed.  Who cares?  Because the more people they layoff, the more perks the employees are supposed to get by government mandate.

What’s your point you ask?  That corporate America is becoming as corrupt as our government.  And to what would we attribute this to?  A lack of consistent moral or ethical character.  (Easily learned by reading the original user’s guide — the bible.  But then since Bill Clinton was in office we learned that “character doesn’t count”.  And ever since our country has made a sharp turn downward.  And yet people are still wondering where their next job will come from.  Tomorrow that won’t be their primary question, it will be more like where their next meal will come from!!

Fasten your seat belt, the next few years will be a very wild ride!!

 

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Economics, Financial, Politics

Yet Another Clue

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We’re doing great!!  Right!?  No?  Awww come on.  We’ve faced the ‘crash’ and survived.  How much better do you want our economy?

The following is an excerpt from a financial report I received today.  These numbers should concern everyone!

According to Fortune magazine, Walmart lost an estimated $3 billion to shoplifting in 2015 and has made reducing theft a key priority for 2016.  [Does this mean there’s desperate people out there?]

Yeah… the job market is great..?  NOT!

Last of all, GoBankingRates, a national website that tracks interest rates, reported that 28% of Americans have ZERO money in their savings account, 13% had less than $1,000, and 21% don’t even have a savings account.

So let me see..?  If we have any sort of economic downturn (which is being predicted by many institutions in this country), how would we expect these people to survive that crash..?  Considering we already have over 47% of the populace on welfare now, wouldn’t this indicate to us that things are going to get reaaaalllyyyy ugly?  Like shoplifting may be one of the least of our worries..?

 

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