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“I ain’t no ways tired….”
Is there a difference between mimicking dialect and putting on Black Face?
I found Obama adopting a ‘Hood’ accent while addressing Howard University to be Racist and Offensive. Can neither he nor Hillary address an African American audience without mimicking their cultural dialect?It’s manipulative, racist, bigoted: desperate for Hillary and pandering for Obama. College students with shiny new educations should be highly insulted at this transparent insult.
There is a constant tirade of anti Trump rhetoric coming from the Establishment Right and the Liberal Socialist Left. A full court press to STOP TRUMP. Its comical to consider given that Donald Trump is their creation. He is THEIR Frankenstein.
But what Mr. Trump really is, is the personification of the knee jerk reaction of most Americans to 8 years of what the Progressive Socialist have called the Fundamental Changing of America coupled with decades of mounting corruption in the establishment GOP. The Establishment GOP has long stopped being the party of Conservatives and is far less concerned with the survival of America as they are with Capitalizing on America. We Conservatives have watched in horror as a Republican Controlled Congress have done nothing to stop a runaway Executive hell bent on the destruction of America as we know it and the recreation of America as just another socialist player on a flatter world stage. And we have watched both America and the World pay the price as the USA has weakened is positions around the globe.
Now there seems to be great confusion, dismay and quandary over the success of the Donald Trump Campaign to Make America Great Again. A mantra that sums up so much of what we have been feeling since the first time we walked out of Kuwait with the job half done. The Media is baffling the world population with the attempts to rebuild Trump in their image.
It won’t work. It won’t work because there is a huge miscalculation about why so many of us are supporting radical change this election.
So let me explain why we support Donald Trump, why you miscalculate us repeatedly and why your transparent efforts to vilify both our candidate and us as his supporters will not work.
Trump supporters don’t give a damn about Trump University, bankruptcies, whether he’s a womanizer or racist,(although he’s not any of those), whether he’s done business with the Mob, whether he’s a Christian, Jew, Mormon, or Buddhist, if he uses bad words LOL or if he calls people stupid when they are, how many times he’s been married, divorced, or if he’s had a reality TV show or whether you hate him because he will blow up the traditional republican corrupt establishment, that he is not smooth and practiced, polished, primped or made appealing to your traditional standards of what a “Politician” should look like.
It’s not important to us in the least. .
What IS important to us is that he is NOT any of the people YOU like.
And THAT’s what will save America!
On the Eve of yet another Obamacare delay I am trying to sort out what will happen to my personal insurance coverage and the coverage of our key employees when our group policy renews in May and beyond.
With over 100 employees, some 90 of which are part time now, my key employees, 18 including my wife and I are fairly safe in our current policy.
Thanks to the absurdity of the mandates and the multiple delays, we are able to keep our current plan as long as we make absolutely no changes to it. The economics for our employees in us keeping our group plan works out very well; this year we will see only a 10% increase so that the average healthy late 20 something probably will still pay less than $300 /month of which we pay half. Of the 18 full time employees, only about 9 or so take advantage of this plan either because they are cover by a spouse, parent or are immortal. So far so good, right? Not so fast.
While it works out great for our 20 something employees who are smart enough to take advantage of the benefit, not so much for my wife and I. Thanks to O’Care, we have a decision to make. As members of our covered group, my wife and I, her a cancer survivor, me with moderate respiratory issues pay a hefty $28,000/yr for coverage. It now appears if we abandon our employees to the exchange and take out personal policies for my wife and I we can reduce our premiums by right at $14,000 / year? No kidding.
Our employees however will probably face massive increases in their premiums on the exchange and may end up uncovered given the ridiculous penalties which make it cheaper to pay them then to buy insurance. As a company we not only would save the $14k, we would also save the 50% co pay we were making toward our employees coverage.
Aren’t we worried about losing our key employees?
No, everyone is doing the same thing.
What about the penalties?
Nah, we get a pass on the first 30 employees and thanks to careful management for the last year, only have 18 full time employees.
Now thanks to Obamacare, our company could effectively save $20,000 / year at the expense of our employees.
Will we take this seemingly selfish move?
Probably, $20,000 is a lot of money. The other downside however affecting more than just our employees is that politically it plays right into the Democratic end goal of moving everyone toward a single payer system which will be the ultimate disaster for our healthcare system. … Another unexpected but planned consequence of Obamacare.
But wait, there is more redistributive good news this week Comrades. I received my auto policy renewal. It was just about a 100% increase. I had a minor fender bender in December. Rear ended my wife. But that is another story. Anyway, I was shocked at the increase for a minor event. But I was then told by my agent that the massive increase had nothing to do with the accident I had had 3 months earlier.
So why the incredible spike in premium? Remember Hurricane Sandy last year? Seems that our state was selected for these premium increases to make up for the losses that were sustained in the Northeast. I am still trying to figure out if it is just my carrier or a governmental program affecting all carriers. But check your renewals. Not that you’re likely to miss a 100% increase.
I’ll let you know via twitter how it works out.
I will stand and fight, I will walk on.
I will travel in groups, or alone on darkened roads.
I will scream the truth, or whisper it softly in your ear.
I will vote, I will rebel, I will preach, I will converse.
I will lead, I will follow.
I will stand in the bright sunshine, I will creep in the shadows.
I will take up arms, I will quietly wait.
I will keep watch, I will rest for the battle.
I will pray to God for the strength to carry on.
I will do all it takes of me to defend my God, my Country, my Family, my Freedom and Our American Liberty.
I AM AN AMERICAN PATRIOT
I heard today on the evening news a clip of a twit announcing “How Dare the conservatives attack the potentially First Woman President” in response to the conservative press and Conservative Caucus Members of Congress continuing to push Hillary on her involvement in the cover up of the murder of our four American Diplomats in Libya.
Have we not learned anything over the past five years? Didn’t we make that mistake twice by allowing the Socio-Communist Left to Race Bait the American People into quiet acceptance while our Establishment GOP Co-Conspirators in Congress cowered in the darkness, desperate to be seen as inclusive and not to be called Racist instead of railing against the incompetence and criminality of everything Obama just because he was black?
Who are the real racists here?
We should never have allowed the fear of being labeled cause us to accept the Constitutional Perversions pervasively practiced by this administration over the past 5 years. I have listed the areas in which our Country has been put at risk through the incompetence of Obama and the steadfast ideology of Progressivism in a previous post. Their ideas and direction are mis-timed and unfitting in a dangerous world, yet we allowed it to happen despite years of warning about the dangers of Political Correctness. Our failure to call incompetence and subversion what it is out of fear of being called Racist, Biased, Non Inclusive, Anti this or that, has nearly cost us our Republic.
We CANNOT let the same game be played by the left with any future candidate, community leader, etc., despite race, gender, or persuasion. We do not have to denigrate to educate. We do not have to engage in personal attacks against race, gender or persuasion. We DO however, have to speak the truth at all costs.
The first truth of this new Presidential Election Season is that Hillary Clinton is unfit for office because of issues and unanswered questions going back as far as Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, The Hillary Rodham Cattle Controversy, The Lewinsky cover up, Hillary-care, and most recently and most importantly Benghazi. And she happens to be a woman.
To quote Hillary herself, “What Does It Matter ! “
There is a controversy brewing mainly among legitimate Libertarians sparked by the overreaching intrusion into our privacy by the DHS, NSA and other Obama spy agencies. It should be causing more outcry among mainstream America, but the media has done a good job of making anyone who questions expenditures on security measures appear as loons. So you are not hearing much about this outside of local city council chambers where votes pass under various consent agendas to accept federal money for enhanced security measures which prop-up budget tight police departments.
The controversy revolves around DHS grants for the implementation of closed circuit cameras being offered to municipalities. Of the myriad things wrong and potentially wrong with this program, the opportunities for abuse are astounding and therefore should make these cameras, regardless of their placement difficult to defend, but instead make them nearly impossible to prevent.
When stories do break about these programs, people are scared. And that is not too strong a term. For those old enough to have studied history in school, the point we find ourselves at today, leaning further left then ever before in our history, with a verifiable Socialist in the White House, an all out attack on the Constitution, the pushing of the bounds of legality in government’s relationship with its people finds us teetering with Tyranny. Thinking people who are paying attention have a right to be scared.
Many legal immigrants fled their homelands in fear for their lives, from regimes which started out as this “Progressive” administration did in 2008 and continued to progress past this point to all out totalitarian rule. Can’t Happen Here? Well they are not so sure it can’t. We got close under Wilson and Roosevelt. But have we ever been this close? The current Progressive Liberal Government is socializing our education system, our healthcare system, our banking system, our Auto Industry, increasing taxes and fees on small business, advancing unemployment and advancing unemployment compensation, increasing the rolls of welfare and various entitlement programs, allowing millions of illegal immigrants across our borders and vying for amnesty, legalizing drugs, providing more disinformation then facts thus resembling a ministry of propaganda, spying on everybody through DHS and the NSA, using the EPA and the IRS as political weapons to stumble and punish their enemies at all levels, abandoning our allies, dismantling our military, making deals with our enemies, decapitating conservative military leaders through phony scandals, indicting writers and journalist and conservative politicians, and captains of industry who express disagreement with the current ideology on trumped up charges, and engaging in race baiting, class warfare while implementing comprehensive wealth redistribution policies and so much more …..
Is it any wonder people are fearful and suspicious about DHS grants providing for the implementation of surveillance cameras in American cities and towns which could be used to further track the movements of anyone who doesn’t tow the line? No it is not. So why are so many small municipalities biting off on this deal? Money like everything else. The current regime knows that our liberty is for sale. Just that easy. For the cost of a few cameras to allow local governments to keep tabs on their water treatment plants, busy intersections, downtown areas, government buildings, etc., under the guise of protecting the facilities and infrastructure from the threat of terror, our Socio-Communist masters will have the modern day equivalent of the ever present jack-booted Stasi in the GDR mounted on poles, monitored 24/7 and there is no way cash strapped cities, towns and counties are going to say no.
I remember walking down the sidewalk in Reading, UK on a business trip several years ago where the cameras followed me while I window shopped. So are they safer from terrorism and threat in the UK because of these invasive tactics? I would find it hard to make that argument in light of a growing number of Sharia Courts there. It appears the sacrifice of freedom and liberty was for nothing in light of the deterioration of British Culture and Society in various parts of England by those who have sworn to destroy our way of life. And so I guess even in small town American we’ll have to get used to an Orwellian future that has arrived too soon and without resistance, pretending its for our own safety, while our benefactors let our enemies in the front door to rape our culture while pocketing vast amounts of wealth while pretending to fight income inequality. Doesn’t sound much like Utopia to me….
“And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested.” 1984 George Orwell
We are small business people. We own 4 fast food restaurants, are part owners in a marketing company, are on the board of directors of a Medical products company and are community active. Altogether we have about 125 employees with roughly 100 of those between the ages of 20 and 35.
During the election of 2012, we tried to the best of our ability to educate these political neophytes on the importance of un-electing any and all socialists and the difficult times to come if we did not.
As evident as it was to those of us who garnered the experience of years what was to come, many of these, who would soon be in Obama’s middles class worker’s crosshairs possessed the apathy of innocence … And ignorance and the vast majority simply could not muster the interest to vote.
I have had the opportunity on several occasions when as an elder of this tribe I have been asked what was happening to pontificate that Elections have Consequences. The smug contentment of having an I told you so moment at their expense although momentarily satisfying has been fleeting.
Over the past few months we have been working our way through a very difficult task. That of telling our full time hourly employees that although we had been there for them as they built proficiency in a job, got married, bought their first home and some even started families, we were going to have to reduce their hours to below 30 in order to maintain the financial viability of the company and comply with the requirements of the ACA. It was hard. Some understood and were able to find outside part time work to make ends meet. Others simply had to leave us after years of service.
This month, we start the next phase of adding government insult to injury. Having to inform all of our employees that although most struggle now to make ends meet, they are going to be responsible for and required to purchase family insurance through the exchange or face the ridiculous burden of government imposed penalties. Gone is their freedom to choose how and when to protect their family. Gone is yet another sliver of liberty and one that imposes an unnecessary financial burden to their short adult lives. I struggle to not say, Elections have Consequences over and over, but do often, and prod them to not let another opportunity slip by without exercising their Constitutional right to vote to protect their freedom and personal interest. To read and study what they were never taught in school.
Even though we are a small business we have been forced to join the ranks of Darden, IBM, The Cleveland Institute and so many more who are making the tough choices of maintaining profitability to be able to continue to provide for their families and continue to provide jobs for their communities. The American working middle class is reluctantly shifting from 40 hour work weeks to 28 hour work weeks because this president has blindly and prejudicially inflicted undue and unnecessary hardship firmly on the middle class he duped into supporting his agenda of lies in 2012.
For those who voted for him, you reap what you sow. Oh well.
For those who did not vote, I hope this will be the most important and most expensive lesson of their lives.
One thing is Obvious to those of us over 40. History Does repeat itself and it always works out the same. The truly poor are always taken care of. The business owners and the rich, ALWAYS have options and ways to shelter their businesses and capital. The Working Middle Class are always the useful idiots. First and most easily duped or lulled into the utopian socialist hype and ALWAYS left holding the bag and paying the price. Thank God the government allowed their schools to teach history, civics and government when I attended, but political correctness and intended Social engineering has left the current generation woefully inept and incapable of seeing through the charade until it’s much to late and effects them personally. Well, unfortunately that time is here in January 2014. The clue train is pulling into the station.
If they don’t get it now, then to quote a great philosopher friend of mine, “We are So Screwed”
