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		<description><![CDATA[Mornin guys! Here’s hopin this finds all in good health and spirits, and may 2014 be the best year ya’ll have seen to date. 2014?? Can you believe it? Shoot, seems like only a couple months back I was still &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1722">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mornin guys! Here’s hopin this finds all in good health and spirits, and may 2014 be the best year ya’ll have seen to date.</p>
<p>2014??</p>
<p>Can you believe it? Shoot, seems like only a couple months back I was still datin my checks as I’d write em out 2012 although 2013 had already rolled in??</p>
<p>Best piece of advice I can give all you younger guys and gals out there is simply…don’t get old!</p>
<p>I’d like to start out this morning with a few words from the late Jerry Clower.</p>
<p>They aren’t just as he told it, but pretty close.</p>
<p>He was speakin on women’s lib, and the woman in charge of this movement comin to see his wife, Mrs. Clower.</p>
<p>She pulled up in their drive unannounced, and proceeded to ring the doorbell. After bein let in she was brought to where Jerry was watchin TV, with evidently Mrs. Clowwer bein tied up at the moment.</p>
<p>She burst in to where Jerry was sittin and declared, “Well Mr. Clower…I’m here…to see your wife.”</p>
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<p>Jerry asked, “Bout what?”</p>
<p>She said quite arrogantly, “I’m here…to liberate her!”</p>
<p>Jerry bein Jerry, just calmly said,</p>
<p> “Well, if ya noticed them 3 Lincoln Continentals in the drive as ya pulled in, and 2 of em bein hers, then ya had to be aware of how nice Mrs. Clower’s house is, and then the door bein answered by her housekeeper, and finally as you were led down the hall with a TV playin in every room till ya got ta where I’m at, well…I gotta tell ya…”</p>
<p>“Mrs. Clower…”</p>
<p>“DON’T WANNA BE LIBERATED!”</p>
<p>Now, couple points here…bein Southern, and a redneck, I like Jerry Clower first of all, BUT, in today’s world, most of “the educated” look down their noses at us Southerners, and quite frankly see us as bein simply… “dumb as a pile a rocks,” wouldn’t ya agree?</p>
<p>But on the other hand, many educated people I happen to like very much. These people are a tremendous asset to our Country and its inhabitants.</p>
<p>Because of these people, and most happening to be rich too by the way, have throughout our existence as a Nation boosted our economy through the jobs they produce and the investments they made.</p>
<p>This in turn gave this Country one of its greatest assets…the ability for us as citizens to… “LIVE the American Dream!”</p>
<p>It also enabled us to have a strong middle-class, which today our elected elite see as a problem, only because they can’t hold us…under their thumb!</p>
<p>So today, our educated, although mainly the problem lies in our “liberally minded educated,” we’re looked upon as not bein… “the sharpest knife in the drawer.”</p>
<p>On the flip side, we as, “We the People,” for too long looked upon these educated liberals as…nuts!</p>
<p>Sadly, the opposite was true. </p>
<p>Educated yes, but only in the sense that “We the People” bein counted on to sit on our backsides while they continued to pass legislation each and every day to take away our fundamental rights and liberties our Country had bestowed upon us.</p>
<p>They had us pegged!</p>
<p>They weren’t nuts as we early on perceived them to be…they were very smart and very patient. They had…</p>
<p><strong>AN AGENDA!</strong></p>
<p>Through affirmative action, community organizing, redistribution of wealth through the guise of… “helping out the poor and oppressed,” through educational indoctrination, our media refusing to broadcast the real goings on in our elected elites agenda, political correctness, no child left behind, illegal immigration, no term limits in the House or Senate, and countless, countless others…</p>
<p>The liberal educated were working 24-7 too literally, and today arrogantly, destroy our Country as we have known it.</p>
<p>Is there still a Republican Party??</p>
<p> Democratic Party???</p>
<p>Nope…just putting on a show for us, of…good cop, bad cop.</p>
<p>Our mistake?</p>
<p>Takin for granted the good ole USA had in its Constitution all the safeguards needed to insure our rights.</p>
<p>We had…</p>
<p>Checks and balances!</p>
<p>We, as workin people, had families to raise, mouths to feed, house and car payments to make, and jobs to look after.</p>
<p>Then our Christian, even if you’re not a Christian, we still shared Christian like beliefs to…help our neighbors.</p>
<p>This too bein one more virtue the “educated liberals,” pounced on in their ability to kick-start all the welfare or social programs…it was…</p>
<p>The goodness of our hearts.</p>
<p>Ya know, lookin back, as bad as I hate to say it, but dern if we, as in, “We the People,” through our negligence, moral standards and trustfulness, literally HAVE been actin like…we did just “fall off a turnip truck??”</p>
<p>Northern AND Southern alike!</p>
<p>Seems when New York City was swearin in their newly elected mayor, they took one more swipe at, We the People, and our middle class through…</p>
<p><strong>Racist Accusations<br />
</strong><br />
Let me just say, in my own opinion, I’m sick of such allegations. Our Country has for quite a while now been anything but racist.</p>
<p>Sure, sure, there are examples of racism from time to time, but most made by nuts, black or white, which brings to mind the example of, “it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.”</p>
<p>The knockout game comes to mind.</p>
<p> You see the public demand by our inner cities people of somehow what the working people make is theirs too, whether the redistribution was made by black or white, or yellow or brown.</p>
<p>Anyway…at de Blasio’s inauguration the Rev. Fred Lucas says, “Let the plantation called New York City be the city of God, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness,” he declared. <em>“Elevate our valleys. Make low our mountains. Make our crooked places straight and our rough places smooth. Oh God, oh God, oh God, break every chain, break every chain, break every chain.”</em></p>
<p>Funny to me, this plantation rhetoric seems a tragic misstatement.</p>
<p>Misstatement in the fact that it was Dr. Martin Luther King whom pretty much broke the chains involving civil rights, yet just as soon as they won their rights, they sold their souls, replaced the chains upon THEMSELVES once more, and reentered the plantation, only this time…the GOVERNMENT PLANTATION.</p>
<p>Well Rev. Lucas, the racism and chain bondage you speak of was not of the white people of our Country’s doin so, as you guys seem to love portrayin it as, but was simply done by our own elected elite, black, white, yellow and brown, who so proudly proclaim…we’re here to help you guys!</p>
<p>In truth, nothing but a pack of lies, that have been executed through, well…a pack of lies, and the dumbin down of our inner cities populace.</p>
<p>Why the good Rev. and cohorts won’t speak the truth, and just come out and say, “Hey, we’re gonna take from you, dictate to you, and enforce laws upon you that will destroy your work ethic, your family units, your souls, and your Country is beyond me.</p>
<p>It has nothing at all to do with racism, but power and greed. They play the fiddle and the dumbed down dance to their tune!</p>
<p>They point their fingers and declare the whites, or any conservative thought process, NO MATTER THE SKIN COLOR, as evil, greedy, corrupt and…racist.</p>
<p>This thought process, reverse racism, or whatever you want to label it as, has been goin on since the mid-sixties, or again…bout the time the blacks won their civil rights.</p>
<p>But this has been taken to a new level by the Barack Obama’s, the Eric Holders, the Mark Lloyds, the Hillary Clinton’s, the John Kerry’s, and even the pastors…the Fred Lucas’ and the Rev. Wrights, to name but a few…religious leaders or elected elite.</p>
<p>Personally, I feel this to be very, very dangerous. </p>
<p>You have on one side of the fence a race of people who hear plainly, day after day, after day, from our elected elite, and yes, pastors of their own congregations, that the whites have destroyed any hope of them bein able to achieve anything for their family.</p>
<p>We as a race, have stolen from them, and won’t allow them anything else except a life of misery and pain.</p>
<p>They’ve been indoctrinated that everything we’ve worked for is part theirs too.</p>
<p>Then, on the other side of the fence, here we sit as whites, no other crime than that, simply bein white here in our Country today, and we hear this sentiment expressed by our elected elite that…we’re racist!</p>
<p>We have a President elected in our Country we didn’t like BECAUSE of who he was, NOT what he was, or stood for…yet, we’re racist on account of this.</p>
<p>There happens to be a football team named&#8230; The Redskins…we’re racist.</p>
<p>We want to keep as much of our money as we can, first off cause…we worked for it??? Well guys, ta tell ya, but that’s racist too.</p>
<p>On, and on, and on.</p>
<p>Ya don’t think our elected elite don’t understand at all that this IS…creating a racial divide among us? </p>
<p>Of course they do, and are actually advocating this very thing.</p>
<p>Once more…it ain’t about helping someone, well maybe it is…but only helping our elected elite and their minions!</p>
<p>Why are they pushing this racial divide so adamantly or maybe better put, so vehemently?</p>
<p>Well…we all know that too, don’t we, but that’s another subject.</p>
<p><strong>Some Quick Numbers </strong></p>
<p>These stats from 2009 mind ya, so what must they possibly be today???</p>
<p>Welfare spending is stretched across 13 government departments and agencies, 17 budget functions, and 71 separate programs.</p>
<p>President Obama plans to spend $10.3 trillion on welfare over the next 10 years. That’s $250,000 for each poor person currently living in this country.</p>
<p>From the “Heritage Foundation:”</p>
<p>•Welfare to poor and low-income families is now the third most expensive government function after aid to the elderly in the form of Social Security and Medicare and after education. We spend less on national defense than on welfare.</p>
<p>•Welfare spending in 2008 was $714 billion. That’s 13 times greater than welfare spending in 1964, when President Lyndon B. Johnson started the War on Poverty.</p>
<p>•During his bid for the presidency, <strong>Obama repeatedly bemoaned the fact that the war in Iraq cost each American household about $100 each month. By comparison, welfare spending costs each American family $560 per month this year; next year, that number will jump to $638.</strong><br />
<strong><br />
•And speaking of war, the federal and state governments spent $15.92 trillion (adjusted 2008 dollars) on welfare from 1965 to 2008. By comparison, the cost of all American wars since the Revolution is $6.39 trillion (adjusted 2008 dollars).</strong></p>
<p>So we’ve spent $15.92 TRILLION dollars since 1965 until 2008…on welfare??</p>
<p>Look around…sure seems to have done a lot of good.</p>
<p>Those educated elite are on top of it sure nuff, ain’t they?</p>
<p>NOW…bout that Jerry Clower thing this mornin…</p>
<p>If you’re “livin on that racist plantation” that you guys and our elected elite speak off with such hostility, cain’t be all that bad, huh?</p>
<p>Seems that this “plantation livin,” or even joinin a womens liberation movement are pretty much one in the same as far as bein set free, cause in order to BE liberated…</p>
<p>Ya gotta WANNA be liberated!</p>
<p>Seems pretty clear ta me…that ain’t the case! </p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God Bless!</p>
<p>Don’t ever forget to keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Doug and “Lucky”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, guys, first off good morning, and secondly…GO VOTE! Please, DO NOT have the sentiment that, “Well…I particularly don’t like either candidate…so I’m just not going to vote!” That IS JUST what our current administration would like for you to &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1622">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, guys, first off good morning, and secondly…GO VOTE!</p>
<p>Please, DO NOT have the sentiment that, “Well…I particularly don’t like either candidate…so I’m just not going to vote!”</p>
<p>That IS JUST what our current administration would like for you to do! A non-vote for Romney IS a vote for Obama, and you’ve just got to understand this!</p>
<p>Don’t think for one minute that their constituency is gonna sit at home. They’ll be bussed, drug, and pushed to the polls. There’ll be cigarettes and who knows what else passed out to them.<br />
I also saw the “New Black Panthers” will be at certain polling stations&#8230;AGAIN…to “monitor the situation.” Wonder what the “political correctness” advocators would have to say about possibly a “New WHITE Panthers” at the stations…monitoring the situation?</p>
<p>Not that I condone such, by “Black OR White Panthers,” but stop and think on this for a moment or two. </p>
<p>Couldn’t happen could it? So, what does that simple example say about the direction of our Country? It ain’t pretty folks!</p>
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<p>I live in the “Old South,” yet, unlike what we here from our mainstream media, AND our “Professional political elite” I see very little to NO racism…at least from the whites.</p>
<p> Yet, our President, his administration, and far too many others, the Hollywood crowd as another example, all calling us, the taxpaying, law-abiding, HARD working, believers in our Constitution citizens of our Country…RACIST!!</p>
<p>This is an out an out “political lie” perpetrated by people that are not only UNCONCERNED over their OWN constituents, Our Country, OR the path they’re taking us down as a Country, but for one common goal…THEIR POWER!</p>
<p>Which by the way folks, is really going to make it hard on not only YOUR own children, but their children AND their children, AND their children, and on, and on, and on! </p>
<p>WE ARE THE STOPPING POINT! WE ARE STILL THE POWER. WE ARE THE ONLY CHANCE OUR COUNTRY HAS TO CONTINUE ON THE PATH THAT HAS MADE OUR COUNTRY SO GREAT…FOR SO MANY!</p>
<p>Again…this is why people immigrated to our Country…the opportunity to SUCCEEED. The opportunity TO GROW. The opportunity to MAKE LIFE BETTER, FOR THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN!</p>
<p>YET, for far too long, “We the People” have sat back on our butts, passively, allowing our elected leaders to fill themselves with arrogance, greed, and lust for more, and more, and more!</p>
<p>It isn’t there fault…IT’S OUR FAULT! Complacency. It’s that simple. I’m just as guilty as the next, but dad-gummit, I’ve had enough already! Are you there yet?</p>
<p>We seeing, right before our eyes, our freedoms, morals, and values diminishing daily! We’re seeing the futures of our children becoming more and more that of the children of the “have-nots.” </p>
<p>This being simply…existence, and that is just WHAT OUR GOVERNMENT WANTS FOR THEM…merely, once more…existence!!</p>
<p>Take a look at the majority of these so called, “have-nots.” Why are they classified as…“have-nots?”</p>
<p>How bout simply because they’ve become indoctrinated in a believe that is SO absurd, SO far-fetched, and SO un-Christian like, that has been instilled in them for generations by our politicians.<br />
It is simply called… “WORK-NOTS!”</p>
<p>You want a job, and an opportunity to better yourself and your children?</p>
<p>“WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY? HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND?? H… NO I don’t want no job…I’ll lose “MY&#8230;BENEFITS!!”</p>
<p>Well, I’m REALLY tired of letting our government officials decide what I’ll do with MY MONEY! I work, sweat, worry, and pay FAR too much out for what in reality…I bring in. This lessens each year, as well.<br />
Thank you Uncle Sam…for nuthin in this regard, buddy!</p>
<p> I surely don’t mind helping somebody out…not in the least! BUT, in my way of thinking…I ain’t helping NOBODY out who first doesn’t…want to HELP THEMSELVES!</p>
<p>This belief is even in regards to my own children!</p>
<p>Let me give an example of this.</p>
<p>Many of you know that back in my early twenties I became hooked on cocaine. This today is a very embarrassing topic at times, but something that is very important in regards to, “helping out.”</p>
<p>Does anyone think for one minute that I’d have gotten off cocaine, IF, every time I turned around someone was giving me money and making the statement… “Here, here’s some money. I know you’re addicted to drugs, I feel sorry for you, so take this money…and go get something to eat, okay?”</p>
<p>What would I have done? Simple…</p>
<p>I’d have gone and gotten…MORE COCAINE! No doubt!</p>
<p>PLUS, I’d not have appreciated for one minute the “good Samaritan” giving me this money. </p>
<p>I literally would have thought… “What a chump! This is SO easy staying in cocaine! Shoot, every time I turn around, ANOTHER CHUMP, gives me some more! This addiction thing is as easy as sliding down a slide at the park!”</p>
<p>What was I shown instead of handouts? TOUGH LOVE!</p>
<p>The very same is going on with these “have-nots.” They have literally become ADDICTED to this give-away mentality! Seriously, they have!</p>
<p>They don’t need to keep being “handed out” to.  THEY NEED SOME TOUGH LOVE!!</p>
<p>This is literally destroying an entire class of people, and through their not thinking things out straight, and sadly, many of them not having the intelligence OR the ability to think things out straight, they’re literally dooming themselves to a life that will NEVER change. Each and every day will be the very same.</p>
<p>YET, THIS IS THE VERY REASON our elected leaders implemented these very programs of… “Entitlements!” PLUS, the very reason they implemented these programs on the class of people they chose from the get go…the very ones THEY KNEW couldn’t or wouldn’t think for themselves!</p>
<p>This was simply premeditated destruction of the very people they so openly profess to… “helping out!” </p>
<p>They NEVER HAVE, nor EVER WILL, be concerned with these people that they so proudly proclaim their concern for. Or as they state, “We champion for!”</p>
<p>They simply USED THEM in their own quest for power! For lack of a better terminology folks…these people are EVIL in every sense of the word! </p>
<p>YET, “WE the PEOPLE” allow them to run roughshod over us as well anymore! All the while each of us knowing the outcome of their agenda if they’re allowed to carry it out!</p>
<p>On top of this, you see example after example, coming from THEIR OWN MOUTHS (the have-nots), that they don’t appreciate any of this (our generosity)…AT ALL!</p>
<p>They too, just like our politicians have become arrogant, and now EXPECT this “Free Everything” to continue on and on, and on! </p>
<p>They also have bought into this “reverse racism” bull…., AND have jumped on the bandwagon that we, simply because of our own skin color, have kept them where they’re at in their lives. This through our thievery of something that SHOULD be part theirs, regardless of whether they contribute “to the kitty” or not!</p>
<p>Again, this all instilled into them by our “elected elite!”</p>
<p>So, to them…We’re Chumps! Really, that’s what we are!</p>
<p>Once more, I don’t mind helping someone out, BUT…I ain’t gonna be regarded as “a chump” while doing it. I’ll simply stop helping…helping those types out anyway! Don’t you guys agree with this?<br />
 I mean really, there IS NO WAY you can help someone who doesn’t want to help themselves first! This is a no-brainer!</p>
<p>Enough of that though…</p>
<p>Today is the most important election that I’ve ever been involved in…bar none!</p>
<p>Please go vote. </p>
<p>I could go on and on over all the reasons once more, like “We have to pass the bill to know what’s in it,” or, “In 5 days we’ll fundamentally CHANGE America,” or “Let’s not jump to conclusions over Maj. Nidal Hasan,” or “ Why don’t I wear a flag pin, or give my Flag the proper respect during the National Anthem, ummm, let me count the ways,”  or “Sure I’m an American citizen,” or “I am a Christian,” or “Let’s TAKE OVER a private run Corporation, place it under government control, AND GIVE THE UNION 20% of it,” or “Green Energy IS the ticket, but…we’ll waste billions and billions of taxpayer dollars in now defunct green business, but I’m guessing by the time we spend several MORE TRILLION dollars, MAYBE we’ll get it right” or “We’ll SPEND OUR WAY OUTTA DEBT,” or, and THE most important…”It’s Bush’s fault!”</p>
<p>But I won’t go there today…we’ve heard it all before, right? </p>
<p>Okay then…let’s get out and vote…and MAKE SOME CHANGE!</p>
<p>Understand though my friends. IF we get this guy outta office, it is only a FIRST STEP!<br />
We have got to start making our politicians…whatever the Party affiliation…ACCOUNTABLE! Accountable for EVERY cent! </p>
<p>After all, it’s our money, it’s our Country, and it’s OUR WAY OF LIFE! </p>
<p>Let me close this out with a video showing JUST SOME of what’s in store for us down the road…it is about Obama Care. It is very disturbing, but filled with references as to where to find each fact in the legislation.</p>
<p>It is also showing only SOME of what is in this legislation. This too is an example of “We the People” needing to be much more hands on by holding our politicians “feet to the fire.” It is time for our passiveness as a people to cease!</p>
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<p>One other thought in closing. This comes from our good friend Gary…</p>
<p>He said to me this morning that the Bible states that God has a hand in electing, or choosing may be the better word, of who our Kings, Queens, Presidents, etc., will be.</p>
<p>In saying this he also stated something I found very disturbing. </p>
<p>This was that, if, we re-elect this same man as President, then does this simply state that God is punishing us in some ways, and that through our own doings, such as turning our backs on God, and taking God out of SO many things in our Country…we’re in for some very troubling times?</p>
<p>Personally, I feel this could very well be.</p>
<p>We don’t have to look far to see many examples of our elected elite taking many religious values and freedoms from us…there’s that “political correctness thing” again! I’m bout to the point of shoving this political correctness thing up their ying-yang!</p>
<p>Manger scenes being declared not acceptable during Christmas season because they offend certain people. Prayer taken out of schools. Merely saying “Merry Christmas” to someone, and the list goes on and on!</p>
<p>Our religious freedoms ARE being taken from us…little by little.</p>
<p>This I got from our very good friend John, this morning…and is a very appropriate addition to our post this morning!</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he<br />
is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual &#8212; or at<br />
least that he ought not so to do;<br />
<strong>but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society<br />
for which he is accountable to God and his country.&#8221; </strong><br />
</em><br />
<strong>&#8211;Samuel Adams (1781)</strong></p>
<p>You guys have a great day! God Bless America, and God Bless you and yours! Also, as my Deb liked to say, please, “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!”</p>
<p>Dub</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys! How are you today? I hope this post finds all in good health and spirits. To all that aren’t, then you’re in our prayers. Let me kick this off this morning by making a little statement…GO GATORS! &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1598">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! How are you today? I hope this post finds all in good health and spirits. To all that aren’t, then you’re in our prayers.</p>
<p>Let me kick this off this morning by making a little statement…GO GATORS! Whipped up on them LSU Tigers, didn’t they? Yeah, man! Florida is on the road back! Kudos to Coach Muschamp, his staff, and the players themselves…great job!</p>
<p>Today I’d like to discuss a statement our President and his circle of insiders like to throw around to the less informed…which by the way is exactly the way they’d like to keep you.  I’d like to say the less motivated, but I won’t.</p>
<p>Through the process of “dumbing us down,” which by the way, includes our children within our educational system today, that in many cases are simply teaching “agendas,” they are accomplishing JUST what their true intentions are….a socialist America.</p>
<p>This being the ones in power, ARE the power, STAY in power, and in their totally anti-American mindsets understand by doing so, they’ll ALWAYS be the power! Scary stuff, but true.</p>
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<p>Look at affirmative action, political correctness, the government regulations in place today, the “new” definition of hate crimes enacted by our Attorney General, and the right to “Free Speech” enjoyed by our far-left counterparts YET, no longer enjoyed by us…the believers in our Constitution, simply because ANY belief we may have usually falls under the title of…anti-government, anti-American, and racist.</p>
<p> All totally fabricated myths.</p>
<p>We’re even branded as religious radicals, by the left as well. But, it seems to be okay for a religion that tolerates, and by doing so I’d have to say advocate… honor killings. Your wife doesn’t act just as you see fit? Kill her. Your children fall into the same category. </p>
<p>YET, these same people are PROTECTED in many ways through…the hate crime act among others. I wish someone would explain to me how my being against, or disliking the beliefs that these people have, could possibly be considered a hate crime? </p>
<p>It’s pretty obvious to me that these people really don’t seem to care for us either, SO, am I missing something here. Even my describing them as actually HATING us, is not going to any extreme…is it?<br />
I must be though, when an Islamic terrorist, who was a Major in our armed forces, kills over 30 of his fellow soldiers, all the while shouting “Allah Akbar,” and OUR President declares, “Let’s not jump to conclusions,” and this is exactly what I’d done when I heard about it. </p>
<p>I DID jump to the conclusion Hassan was indeed a terrorist…a religious terrorist. Maybe it was just me, but the Allah Akbar thing was kinda a dead giveaway. But, that was just my opinion.</p>
<p>From my standpoint, this very “religion of peace” pretty much advocates them not even LIKING THEMSELVES. They kill their own family members and by doing so, it falls under the banner of…HONOR? C’mon folks, gimmee a break here.</p>
<p>With this literally being the case, how could these same people give one hoot about me, MY family, or any other citizen of our Country, and what we stand for? That in itself is very scary too.</p>
<p>Yet our President sidesteps around this issue daily. Wonder what’s up with that?</p>
<p>We live in a society today created by our elected elite, the media, and all their little community organizing splinter groups where simply, WRONG, is now right. Our Country has literally been turned upside down, wouldn’t you agree?</p>
<p>Returning to today’s topic, our President recently made a statement, on July 13, 2012… “You didn’t build that!”</p>
<p>Take a look at this short, 3 part video STARRING Elizabeth Warren (the Cherokee wannabe), Barack Hussein Obama (LOOK, I USED his middle name!), and Professor of Linguistics at UC Berkeley (WHERE ELSE?), George Lakoff. </p>
<p>Three people who have used our freedom of speech, our freedoms provided for them through the bloodshed of tens of thousands of American veterans, along with the compassionate goodness of fellow Americans, who in many cases, have footed the bill for their educations and ambitions. </p>
<p>Do they know how to… “work the system?” You bet! </p>
<p>Although no more a “person of color” than me, Warren claims to have an Indian heritage and “rode that horse” to further her career… “working the system.”</p>
<p>President Obama has no idea the work ethic, sacrifice, integrity, or fiscal accountability involved in starting up and running a private business. “Well spend our way out of debt” comes to mind. </p>
<p>If this were at all possible, which it isn’t, if you were to add up what he and our First Lady have spent of your and I money on vacations, meals, entertainment and the like, shoot, we’d have been out of this economic downturn LONG AGO!</p>
<p>Also I wonder…WHO PAID for their educations? </p>
<p>Then we have Professor Lakoff…what’s in it for him? Probably not much, huh? Couldn’t be with all this talk they throw around so freely about SOCIAL EQUALITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE, and all the other “chain jerkin” they do.</p>
<p>An example of this “chain jerkin” you ask, well, listen to them. They promise the poor and oppressed that… “We’re in your corner. We’re fighting for YOU!” Bull malarkey.</p>
<p> Generations since “The Great Society” was introduced to “we the people,” nothing is better for the people who live in the&#8230; inner cities. </p>
<p>The inner cities are still…inner cities with skyrocketing birth rates, which we pay for, high school dropout rates off the charts, an educational system in our Country that has teachers going on strike leaving hundreds of thousands of students not attending schools, AND illegals DEMANDING more Spanish speaking teachers, nurses, and Doctors. Comprende??</p>
<p>Joe Brown people, NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER! (Joe Brown being an expression learned from a good friend of Deb and mine’s that she uses when angered or awestruck) </p>
<p>This a headline from CBS Detroit…</p>
<p><strong>Enter At Your Own Risk: Police Union Says ‘War-Like’ Detroit Is Unsafe For Visitors</strong></p>
<p>I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…Detroit is a fine example of this “socialist utopia” many today speak so highly of.</p>
<p>The slums are STILL the slums, and in most cases when we relocate these people to “nicer neighborhoods, or apartment buildings, it’s only a matter of time before these too look just like where they were relocated from!</p>
<p>WHY…because they have put absolutely NOTHING into them. Everything for free! Why would anyone respect and have the desire to keep something up if they’ve sacrificed absolutely nothing to have it, PLUS, you screw this up…we’ll relocate you again!</p>
<p>This is insanity, AND many of these “slumlords” operating today are elected officials, who once again profess to “fighting for the poor and oppressed.” Running water, leaking roofs, needing paint, etc., etc., etc!</p>
<p>They’ve become so complacent and “dumbed down” as a whole that they STILL vote the very same people in each election??? Good night a livin, how our society has changed!</p>
<p>Back to Professor Lakoff, sorry for the rambling, but I get SO AGGRAVATED looking in at all the literal, or should I say liberal, stupidity of “these constituents,” AND at we the people for sitting by and letting these “officials” destroy everything our Country stands for…right before our eyes?</p>
<p>BUT, in regards to Professor Lakoff, let’s only look at one other “professor, or college president.” This one is named Eduardo J. Padron. Padron on May 31, 2006, (2006 mind you so what could possibly in these packages in 2012??), terminated his participation in DROP, Deferred Retirement Option Program.</p>
<p>He collected, are you ready for this… <strong>$893,286 in lump sum benefits, AND began receiving $14,631 a month in retirement pay. </strong>Can you believe those figures? </p>
<p>He then RETURNED to his job as President of Miami-Dade Community College and began receiving his annual pay, once again! It’s not much though…<strong>only $328,860!</strong></p>
<p>Oh, but there’s a reason for all this…A spokesman, Juan Mendieta, for Padron said, “the president WAS ASKED TO RETURN when he told board members he was retiring. He went on to say as well,<strong> “That the process is perfectly legal AND acceptable.” </strong></p>
<p>Really? Legal and acceptable??? To whom? This is literally STEALING from us my friends. I don’t give a hoot about whoever TRIES to convince me it isn’t! </p>
<p>I just have to believe that if you took Professor Lakoff’s paycheck weekly, and divided it up among “the people,” his own view of this social justice and social equality would be looked at from an entirely different perspective, wouldn’t you</p>
<p>So you see clearly that these three, using all the above in the betterment of their own lives, and by such, being grateful to our Country and we the people for affording them these opportunities, is it appreciated? Not in the least. </p>
<p>They all are grateful for one thing…that these very same freedoms our Country affords us, is the exact freedoms they can use to destroy it! </p>
<p><strong>Really…You DIDN’T Build That</strong></p>
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<p>If you listen to the points used by these people, IF YOU CAN EVEN CALL THEM POINTS, is incredible to me. </p>
<p>Your company used the roads to get to and fro? You’re protected from marauding gangs?? SO…you didn’t build that???</p>
<p>I’m a small business owner, and I’m here to tell you, yes I did in fact build that, and it SURE wasn’t with any help “from them!” ALL other business owners know this as well.</p>
<p>Excessive taxation, government regulation, all are detriments to building a business here in the US today and is EXACTLY why so many of our jobs lost are to companies moving overseas. </p>
<p>For them to make a profit…THEY HAVE TO!</p>
<p>Let me stop and play Elizabeth Warren again. I’d already posted up but after watching this video I decided to throw it up as well.</p>
<p>Here is a very good example of a typical liberal response to a question. She talks about literally ANYTHING and EVERYTHING…except the question she was asked. DIVERSION is an Alinsky teaching. Cheat, lie, disrupt, anything is okay, just so long as you don’t admit…YOU lied! “The ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS!”</p>
<p>Elizabeth Warren…Cherokee Wannabee!</p>
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<p>Believe that?? HOW DO THESE PEOPLE HAVE ANY SAY IN OUR COUNTRY??</p>
<p>THEN, we have Obama care looming on the horizon. I read yesterday that Darden, a casual dining company, is already gearing up for Obama care through cutting back fulltime employees to part time status…through the number of hours they’ll be allowed to work.</p>
<p>Boy, that sure helps our economy, and in keeping food on those employees tables, huh? What are we thinking people??</p>
<p>Plus, what else is in the Obama care legislation? I know I’m hearing horror stories in this regard. THEN, prior to the bill passing, Pelosi declares, “We need to pass the bill first…to see what’s in it.” Once more, WHY do we as the backbone of our Country tolerate such as this? It all is just incredible to me!</p>
<p>Here’s a lighthearted look at the “You Didn’t Build That” statement. It was sent to me by our friend Bob. Too bad it is exactly what our leaders are suggesting to us or it would really be funny!</p>
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<p>You know, our officials today no longer appreciate the facts of what our Country was built on, and the opportunities for people to come here and work hard and grow.</p>
<p>They advocate today the policy of…we the government, need to be MORE involved in your lives, and through this…we’ll take care of you. We’re the power…we know best. You don’t want to work, no sweat, we’ll see you get everything you need…</p>
<p>Let me share a verse or two I read last night…I think it portrays the very ideals that have made our Country great. It talks about excellence, knowledge, self-control, Godliness, and other things as well.<br />
All things today that our elected officials don’t seem to put much faith into in regards to our Country, themselves, nor their constituents.</p>
<p>It begins by stating that God has bestowed upon us HIS divine power, and through this has given us everything we need for living a Godly life, and through this, we can weather anything and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires…</p>
<p><em>In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with Godliness, and Godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. </em> (2nd Peter 1  5-7)</p>
<p>Pretty powerful stuff, huh? Without trying to “preach” to you guys, I’m only suggesting you possibly start studying God’s word to some extent. </p>
<p>Personally, I have come to find out that God does love me, and by studying his word, although I don’t nearly as much as I should, I AM, understanding more and more, just how great and loving a God he is.</p>
<p>In closing today I’d like to thank you guys for stopping back by. God Bless you and yours, and work hard at…Keeping a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Talk at ya later…<strong>Comrades!<br />
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Dub</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys…good morning to ya! You know, Deb and I have met so many wonderful people since the inception of our site. Once again, one of our friends we’ve met gave me a good shot of inspiration this morning. Her &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1592">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>You know, Deb and I have met so many wonderful people since the inception of our site. Once again, one of our friends we’ve met gave me a good shot of inspiration this morning. Her name is Bonnie.</p>
<p>I was checking my e-mails earlier and opened one up from our ole buddy Bonnie in North Carolina. In less than 5 minutes, my day had been “made!” </p>
<p>Quickly, Bonnie is a PATRIOT. She reads, writes, researches, and ACTS, daily in her own quest to get the message out to others in regards to the goings on in our great Country. She’s a tireless worker, and through this post this morning I’d just like to say, “Thank you Bonnie, I appreciate everything you do! God Bless you!”</p>
<p>Edmund Burke wrote, “Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing…because he could do only a little.”</p>
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<p>How many of you out there look at things from that perspective? I know there’s times I feel that way, but as Burke states, this is a tremendous mistake on our part. </p>
<p>I’m sure you’ve all heard the phrase, which incidentally my Dad pounded into me from a very young age… “pennies MAKE dollars!” Though that statement is used as an example of fiscal responsibility, and well taken on my part, Burke is actually saying the same thing, but from a life in general standpoint.</p>
<p>Pennies DO make dollars…they add up. Over the course of time they can amass quite a “chunk of change,” right? You betcha!</p>
<p>So, like pennies “adding up,” we the people, although only one voice individually, once you group us together, in a “big wad” so to speak, suddenly a little peep becomes a mighty roar. A tidal wave of like-minded views that indeed COMMAND attention.</p>
<p>People listen, because…They Have To! You only have to look no further than say…community organizing. Through sheer numbers, AND  ORGANIZATION, these people have become a force to be reckoned with. Sad…but true.</p>
<p>The problem with this is that the people that have been “organized” to push for a better way of life, have been wronged, and not just in a minor way. What’s taken place with this “community organizing” scheme, yes, that’s exactly what it is, is our politicians have used these people as pawns to achieve THEIR OWN personal gains.</p>
<p>They have literally destroyed their work ethic, their desire to better themselves, their family unit as a whole, and in all honesty, their lives today are no better than they were when this community organizing, and all other related “programs” started back in the 60’s.</p>
<p>Look at the trillions of dollars spent since all these programs were started, and in reality, they’re even worse off today than when any of this started. Why? Because they’ve literally…sold their souls. </p>
<p>They BELIEVE today that they’re not accountable to work. They BELIEVE they’re “entitled” to stay at home, have a roof over their head, have a flat screen TV, have their power and food supplied to them, draw a government paycheck, have medical care, and have children in many cases, simply to bilk the system out of even more benefits…all FOR FREE!</p>
<p>Free for them, but you and I, as taxpayers, are paying dearly. In many instances today, this is literally taking food out of our own children’s mouths!</p>
<p>Then, pan out and look at the bigger picture of all this “community organizing.” Again looking at this, and all these other programs advocated by today’s corrupt political system, and you see not only the destruction of these people who have sold their souls, but literally…the destruction of our Country!</p>
<p>All the above are a fine example of a man or woman, though only one individually, but by banding together with others have…made their voices heard! Sure, they were led and manipulated by people who in reality didn’t give a hoot about them, but today, this is a mute-point. The “indoctrination” has already taken place!</p>
<p>A LITTLE bit of something…for NOTHING!</p>
<p>Through this political correctness, we the people are losing all our morals, standards, values, and freedoms that we’ve always experienced.</p>
<p>As great as living in a Democracy is, we’re seeing today, first hand, the downside of a Democracy…the freedom it allows for evil-minded people to exploit our system for the betterment of themselves.</p>
<p>Seems to me it’s past time for we the people, the law abiding, God fearing, hard-working, family oriented people to start a little community organizing ourselves. Bonnie, I assure you is doing her part!<br />
Where to start? I personally can think of no better place than to reinforce your relationship with God. You don’t have to look far to see the agendas in place to weaken, or totally silence our religious convictions. </p>
<p>No religion in government, no religion in schools, no “Merry Christmas, no In God We Trust, no…no…no…no…NO!</p>
<p>Please, watch this video. Bonnie hit a homerun this morning sending this to me. Again, I received such a lift viewing it.</p>
<p>It’ll take less than 5 minutes of your time, BUT, the message rings crystal clear. We ALL NEED…God in our lives! OUR COUNTRY needs God back involved in it much more than is taking place….</p>
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<p>Can’t you see, hear, AND feel his conviction? To me…it was obvious. I’d sure like to get to that point in my own conviction! It must be such a wonderful feeling, wouldn’t you think?</p>
<p>That man, President Ronald Reagan, loved his GOD, and his Country…our Country! After listening to President Reagan, I feel very belittled in regards to myself, and my own little to no attempt, in saving our freedoms for our children and grandchildren.</p>
<p>He was…a GREAT AMERICAN.</p>
<p>Then, on the flipside, look at the shape our political system is in today. Politicians attempting to “sell their seats,” reckless to no fiscal responsibility, at least two downgrades in our credit as a Country, and politicians who seem as if they’d rather lie than eat.</p>
<p>We have elected a man who attended a church, for 20 years or so, that incited racial violence and anti-American rhetoric.  BUT, if you ask him about it…he never heard of such??</p>
<p>He was, prior to politics…a community organizer, whose philosophy is…the ends justify the means. Virtue, honesty, morals, standards, nor integrity mean squat. Nuff said.</p>
<p>So in closing this morning, I’d like for all of you to stop and contemplate our situation today. Regardless of what our “political elite,” or our media, or our educational systems would like us to believe, know this. America…God DID shed his grace on thee. </p>
<p>The following is a quote from the Rev. Billy Graham…</p>
<p>At the end of his life Buddha said, “I am still searching for the truth.”</p>
<p>This statement could be made by countless thousands of scientists, philosophers, and religious leaders throughout  all history.</p>
<p>However, Jesus Christ made the astounding claim,<strong> “I am…the truth.” [John 14:6]<br />
</strong><em><br />
HE is…the embodiment of all truth! The ONLY answer to man’s search is found in him.</p>
<p>You guys have a great day, a great weekend. God Bless you all, and God Bless America as well! Be sure and keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! It’s great to be alive and well, isn’t it? We sure hope this post finds you all in the same boat.</p>
<p>Today we’ll change up just a little and talk about the fate of our Country some, and touch on our religious beliefs as well.</p>
<p>For all that didn’t know Deb, you missed out. She truly was a good Christian woman. She believed in God, she loved God, and she’d profess her faith in God to all that inquired, “How can you stay so happy and upbeat dealing with your cancer?”</p>
<p>Her answer was always the same. She’d point skyward with that little finger of hers and state, “HE…shows me the way.” </p>
<p>And he did. Of this I have no doubt. Deb used to tell me, “He talks to me.” </p>
<p>In the beginning I’d have reservations of this ACTUALLY taking place. I’d think, “Well, maybe she dreamed that he spoke with her.” As time passed, I became convinced that Deb did in fact hold conversations with our Lord.</p>
<p>After living with Deb our last 14 and a half months together it was so apparent to me, and anyone else that had contact with her, we just knew this woman was indeed living, and having, a very, very special relationship with God. He smiled on her daily.</p>
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<p>Before carrying on with this post this morning I’d like you to stop for just a moment and ponder, “Is God living in my life?” If so, you know what I’m talking about. If not, I only wish you would take just a moment and ask God to come into your own life. He’s there for us, we only have to ask him in.</p>
<p>In my own regard, I personally struggle every day in my attempt to live a better, more fulfilling life as a Christian. It ain’t easy, and I come up short far too many times for even my own liking, but fortunately for us all…we have a forgiving God. He loves us each and every one!</p>
<p>Now, in regards to our Country today, we know as Christians, things aren’t looking too promising, are they?</p>
<p>We see our Christian beliefs, our beliefs in our family units, are belief in a good, solid work ethic, our beliefs in helping each other instead of our government getting their hand into this, our beliefs in raising our OWN children, all being taken from us through what they call “political correctness,” or their not wanting to offend others.</p>
<p>Offending others? What about offending US? Which by the way,we happen to be the majority in our Country. Two words stand out to me in that last sentence…OUR Country!</p>
<p>We’ve let our own government, ELECTED officials mind you, to take away, or at the very least water down or dilute the very principles our great Nation was founded upon. In many cases adhering to, or what I call, “kissin butt,” to put it mildly, people in our Country that have NO right to be here in the first place.</p>
<p>Why? Well maybe because they’re here…ILLEGALLY!</p>
<p>They give them shelter in OUR Country, they feed, clothe, educate, and GIVE medical treatment to them.  </p>
<p>What’s up with this Obama care debacle…I mean those people are getting it FREE anyway, right? Our health care on the flip side was costing us $1,900 and some change per month. Since Deb’s passing, it’s only a mere…$1,200 a month, yet, most if not ALL, illegals get it free. </p>
<p> This on top of ALL the others that ARE citizens but have not worked a lick for generations now! Why?? Why good gracious folks, that’s simple enough to answer, it’s because they’re…ENTITLED!<br />
ENTITLED??? ENTITLED to WHAT?? OUR hard-earned money?? Gimmee a break here people!</p>
<p>You know what I’m entitled to? Let’s start with an EMPTY belly at night if I don’t work! I’m ENTITLED to live in a tent somewhere if I don’t make my house payment. I’m ENTITLED to no electricity if I don’t pay my power bill.</p>
<p>I’m ENTITLED to no cell phone, no TV, no hospital care, and in many cases today no job…if I don’t take a DRUG TEST! That’s the ENTITILEMENT program I’m on.<br />
Oh, one more thought on this. </p>
<p>I went to renew my Florida driver’s license a couple weeks back. I tried to renew online, but since Deb had renewed our license that way last time, I had to go to renew at the license office.</p>
<p>I had to produce my birth certificate. I was like, “C’mon guys, I have two picture ID’s, my tax returns, my proof of residence, AND I have had a Florida driver’s license for…40 YEARS! 40 years!!</p>
<p>They go, “Nope…you have to produce a birth certificate.”</p>
<p>Well, I explained that Deb had passed away, and I know we have a copy of my birth certificate, and I’ve looked, but haven’t found where she’d put it as yet. Again, here’s ALL my other information. </p>
<p>Long story short, I have to send off for another copy of my birth certificate?? A taxpaying citizen of the US, born and raised here in Florida, holding IN MY HAND my old Florida license with MY photo on it along with other ID, yet…I can’t get a license without a birth certificate??</p>
<p>Kind of ironic isn’t it? I can’t renew my Florida driver’s license, which I’ve had for 40 years, without a VALID birth certificate, yet I could be President of the United States of America…and not have one! Well, I couldn’t obviously, but there are some that can. Go figure that one out??</p>
<p>Honestly, why aren’t WE entitled just the same as these other people? In reality, if our elected leaders are givin OUR, once more, OUR money away so freely to illegals AND people who won’t work, no, no, I didn’t say didn’t want to work but can’t find a job, I SAID, WON’T work! </p>
<p>Then why aren’t we getting an equal cut ourselves. Once more, it is OUR money! </p>
<p>Big difference here, so don’t let the liberally twisted, I mean minded, continue to feed you that crap. Let me make this quite clear…WE ARE FUNDING, through a political agenda that we’re not even part of the equation in, OUR OWN DEMISE! Yep, our politicians are using, well, a better description is, TAKING OUR money…and destroying us in the process.</p>
<p>They don’t give one hoot in hell for us, or the “poor oppressed people” they claim to be fighting so hard for! IT is about only ONE thing…THEMSELVES! Their power, their greed, their friends and cohorts, and their staying in office.</p>
<p>Anyway, my point to this today is that unless we stand up and start being JUST as vocal, and JUST as goal-oriented as our liberal counterparts in regards to our own beliefs, we are in fact going to lose our Country, our rights as citizens, and our religious freedoms. </p>
<p>With that being said, let me share with you guys a prayer I received last night from a dear friend of ours. She too is a fine Christian lady and I think the world of her.</p>
<p>I had seen this prayer before, and many of you may have already read it as well. But last night I had the time to stop, read this, and let it sink in as to what the prayer was about, and just how appropriate it is in regards to our Country today.</p>
<p>I also had time to send over to this friend a return e-mail with a description of a “platonic relationship.” This being and inside joke between the two of us, and I couldn’t resist the opportunity to “gig her” one more time this morning on this topic! LOL!</p>
<p> Too many times we are so busy and tied up with other events taking place that we only “skim over” things sometimes, and I am guilty of this far too much myself.</p>
<p>It is supposedly written by Rev. Billy Graham, but in today’s world far too much you read on the internet is not always what they seem, or were actually written by whom others claim did write it.</p>
<p>With that being said, I did not “Snopes” this for actuality, but to be honest, I’ve gotten to the point I don’t ALWAYS believe everything “Snopes” claims is fact or fiction either. </p>
<p>Nevertheless, I would truly like to believe this is in fact a prayer by Rev. Graham, and if someone can verify this to be factual, I’d appreciate it. Even if it was not written by Rev. Graham, in my own belief, this prayer is so “right-on” in its meaning and so descriptive of the happenings in our Country, I could not fathom not sharing it with you all today.</p>
<p>If you have read it previously, please, re-read it, and then share it with others.</p>
<p>Please, don’t skim over this as I did the first time this was sent to me. Take the few minutes to sink in and contemplate its message. I was very glad it had been sent to me once again…</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. </p>
<p>We know your Word says &#8216;Woe to those who call evil good,&#8217; but that is exactly what we have done. </p>
<p>We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. </p>
<p>We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. </p>
<p>We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable&#8230; We have neglected to discipline our children and call it building self-esteem. </p>
<p>We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor&#8217;s possessions and called it ambition. </p>
<p>We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. </p>
<p>We have ridiculed the time honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. </p>
<p>Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and set us free.  </p>
<p>Amen&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Thank you all for stopping back by to visit with us again. Please take care, God Bless, and for heaven’s sake…keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart.</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys. You know, in regards to expressing my personal views involving politics today, I’ve gotten to the point where it really saddens me in my attempt to understand the path we’re being led down anymore as a Country. &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1499">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>You know, in regards to expressing my personal views involving politics today, I’ve gotten to the point where it really saddens me in my attempt to understand the path we’re being led down anymore as a Country.</p>
<p>I try and rationalize steps I see being implemented by our government, and keep an open mind in their regard. Maybe it’s because of this, maybe the reasoning for this decision was because of that, yet once I get down to the nitty-gritty I see only one outcome…basically, total governmental control and the advocating of a socialist agenda.</p>
<p>To me personally I see the end of our Republic looming on the horizon. To stop this steady march towards an end I surely don’t want to see, not so much for me, but for my children and grandchildren.</p>
<p>I’ve lived and experienced being a part of, and living in, the greatest Country on earth…the United States of America. If we’re not very, very careful, this legacy will come to an end.</p>
<p>Deb and I want to write about gardening, canning our vegetables, the benefits derived from juicing and eating good, fresh vegetables. We want to laugh and cut-up with you guys. We want to enjoy our lives, as we always have, and now that we too are getting older, we’d like a sustainable lifestyle, and a certain financial future.</p>
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<p>We’ve sacrificed and worked hard for this, but sadly today, with our economy teetering on the brink of financial collapse, we aren’t so sure, so certain of our future. This is not because of decisions we’ve made, but atrocious and outrageous decisions made by our elected officials. </p>
<p>Then, their backing by the mainstream media of a political agenda being reported to the people, and not the truth. This is very worrying to me!</p>
<p>You know, I posted yesterday about, “Political Correctness Be Damned.” I talked about our elected leaders and our media declaring that “we the people,” need to be compassionate towards the poor and oppressed. We should want to help.</p>
<p>My first response to such an accusation is anger. Honestly, it angers me to no end. First off, this accusation is an out and out lie. But, so is the same accusation that I didn’t vote for Barack Hussein Obama because he was black, or basically that I’m a racist. This too is an out and out lie!</p>
<p>But…my point today is about wasting my hard earned money on…deadbeats! Yeah, I know, that’s a pretty harsh accusation in its own right, but it is the truth in many, many instances! I’m only calling it as I see it!</p>
<p>On top of this, the people passing out my hard earned money are incompetents! Incompetents…with no accountability in taking care of…my money and YOUR money!</p>
<p>Literally, there IS NO accountability! I don’t know about you guys, but I’m sick of this!</p>
<p>A few examples I Googled up this morning after seeing on our local news about more governmental program fraud through giveaways! Again, this is sickening, and outrageous in the simple fact…NO ONE is accountable!</p>
<p>First of all, taking, and that’s exactly what it is, but stealing is the more appropriate term, from one individual to GIVE, no less, to another individual! </p>
<p>It is…the buying of votes! Compassion plays no role in this conversation, yet, that’s exactly what we’re accused of…having no compassion for, quote, unquote, “the less fortunate!”</p>
<p>You want to talk about having NO compassion? How about the total destruction of a man or woman’s desire to better themselves, to grow and prosper, and to live the American Dream through a good, honest work ethic?</p>
<p>Are the teachings, or indoctrination of people that you’re ENTITLED to free food, free housing, free cell phones, free everything, a show of compassion? Of course it isn’t! Yet this is what our politicians have promised them!</p>
<p>This is THEIR idea of compassion, or what they have panned off on their constituents, AS compassion! They started in the inner cities, and now for decades have had these poor people under their thumb with the promise of even MORE “entitlements!”</p>
<p>Have these people’s lives been made more enjoyable on account of the giveaways? Just stop and look at the crime in these areas.  Hell, the police won’t go into many of these areas, because of the crime. Violent crime! Yet our politicians consider themselves compassionate. </p>
<p>They, our powers that be, have destroyed these people’s souls through such blatant misuse of their power. They have not helped these people through compassion, they’ve ruined them. They’ve convinced them that you and I the taxpayer have cheated them out of their fair share. </p>
<p>Now today, these people don’t have the work ethic, the motivation, the desire, or the need to look for employment. They don’t have the gumption to go out, start a new business, and become productive themselves in our society. </p>
<p>In turn, by doing so,  they’d be helping our Country to grow, stay strong, and maintain the freedoms we’ve always enjoyed!</p>
<p>Is this not sad? It is to me. To destroy a man’s soul is just got to be one of the greatest sins against God, against mankind, and against your own soul. Yet, it doesn’t seem to bother our officials in the least. Power, pure greed and influence is what this is about.</p>
<p>It’s so sad that their constituents either don’t have the intelligence to see this is only a scam, and that their elected officials have NO compassion for them in the least, or they’re so narrow minded they just frankly, don’t care!</p>
<p>You guys know also that to the media and many in power today we’re considered, as conservatives and many Independents, as racist. It baffles me that this is an accusation thrown our way, yet many, many people of color in power ,know the true agenda behind these give-aways yet endorse them fully.</p>
<p>I’m the racist here, according to the left, yet I could not condone for one second my KNOWINGLY hurting another individual’s right to work, raise their family, or better themselves! </p>
<p>Yet the ones calling for us to “have compassion, and to share in our good fortune,” are causing people to live deeper and deeper into poverty day by day. </p>
<p>Plus, by doing so, they too, through taxation, regulation, unionization, and theft, are burdening “we the people” with a financial obligation we cannot continue to sustain at the very same time. Killing two birds with one stone is a good analogy. This IS orchestrated, this is the plan, and this is our future, mark my word!</p>
<p>A couple examples…well, several examples of no accountability through give-away programs.</p>
<p>Understand this does not include governmental agencies such as the Postal Service, Am-trak, our politicians “golden” retirement plans, pensions, or health care. All which anymore are unwarranted, undeserved, and in reality are theft as well.</p>
<p>This is mainly JUST give-aways…</p>
<p>From the <strong><em>“Long Island Business News.” </em></strong></p>
<p>• <em> Two Westbury women allegedly conspired with a child care provider to steal $4,988 from the welfare system when they signed attendance sheets indicating their children were attending taxpayer-funded day care during a period when their children were out of town or out of the country for more than a month. </p>
<p>•  A 37-year-old woman from Westbury allegedly requested assistance from DSS to pay her rent, which she fraudulently reported was $1,850 per month. An investigation revealed that the woman only paid $1,100 in rent and was allegedly pocketing the $750 difference for her personal use.  In addition, she lied to DSS when she reported her three children lived with her when in fact two of her children were living in and enrolled in school in Florida.  As a result of her fraudulent activity, the woman illegally qualified for $26,166 in Food Stamps and Public Assistance benefits. </p>
<p>•  A 35-year-old Huntington woman allegedly cheated DSS out of $15,219 in Nassau County Day Care benefits when she failed to report she bought a home in Suffolk County with the “absent” father of her children in January 2011.  She also withheld the income of her children’s father because disclosing that income would have made the family ineligible for public assistance. </p>
<p>•  A 51-year-old Great Neck man allegedly falsely reported that he was a part-time security guard for a retail store and falsified records to indicate that his family paid $750 in monthly rent, all in order to illegally qualify for $40,722 in Medicaid benefits. A DSS investigation revealed that the man actually owned the successful clothing store in Manhattan and owned a home in Great Neck purchased in 2006 for $856,000. </p>
<p>•  A 52-year-old Merrick man allegedly obtained $42,322 in Medicaid and Food Stamps benefits after concealing income he received from several businesses he owned. Despite allegedly reporting that he was either unemployed or working as a day laborer at various times, a DSS investigation revealed that the man and his family owned four businesses, a $613,000 home in Merrick, a 2010 Cadillac and a 2011 Chevy Camaro. </p>
<p>•  A 52-year-old Plainview woman and her husband allegedly failed to report their true income resulting in $33,618 in illegally obtained Medicaid benefits.<br />
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<em>•  A 56-year-old East Meadow man allegedly failed to disclose his true income and falsely stated that he was working part-time at a pizzeria in order to illegally qualify for $15,844 in Medicaid and Food Stamps benefits. A DSS investigation revealed that the pizzeria that the man reportedly worked for does not exist and that he is employed as an “executive chef” at an upscale restaurant.</em></p>
<p><strong>From the “Bradenton Patch.”</strong><em></p>
<p><em>Warrants for the arrests of more than 50 people were issued and the massive criminal round up began at 5 a.m. Tuesday morning. Fifty three people were charged with a total of 78 charges, including social welfare fraud, a 3rd degree felony, and a number of other charges related to narcotics.</p>
<p>In January 2012, undercover officers approached their administration regarding the large numbers of Electonic Balance Transfer (EBT) cards they were finding at various residences during drug busts. Officers stated that between three and four to as many as 10 to 15 EBT cards were found at homes that did not belong to those residing in the homes.</p>
<p>An investigation uncovered that drug dealers were purchasing the EBT cards from whom they had been issued, for 50 cents on the dollar or less. In addition to the drug dealers, it also come to light that some area store owners were also finding ways to use the EBT cards to their advantage.</p>
<p>The Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office in conjunction with the Bradenton Police Department, Florida Department of Financial Services, the US Department of Agriculture and Homeland Security worked together on the first bust of its kind in the area.</p>
<p>Targeting both individuals as well as store owners and managers, undercover operatives were given EBT cards issued in ficticious names by social services agencies, which they offered for sale at 50 percent or less, than the value of the card. During the exchange, the undercover officers also asked that when the person was done using the value on the card, that they return it to them, so they could get their benefits again the following month, all but one of those charged returned the card to the undercover officers.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want to commend the deputies, the officers, the detectives and the Federal agents that worked on this case,&#8221; said Bradenton Police Chief Mike Radzilowski. Radzilowski considered this a prime example of how local law enforcement agencies work together to fight a common cause.</p>
<p> Most were charged with social welfare fraud and depending on their previous criminal records, they could be looking at a substantial amount of prison time.</p>
<p>According to Sheriff Brad Steube, some management and owners of  local &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; foodstores, were purchasing the EBT cards from their customers for the same 50 cents on the dollar. They would then go to big box stores, like Walmart, and buy items in bulk to sell at their own stores at an increased price, essentially stocking their own shelves for half of the price, then reselling the merchandise for more profit.</p>
<p>Jeff O&#8217;Connor, resident agent for Homeland Security, has been involved with similar cases in the past and said that these individuals and businesses contribute to what amounts to millions of dollars in food stamp fraud annually on a nationwide basis.</p>
<p>EBT card use was implemented in all 50 states by 2004 and was originally started to replace paper food stamps in the hopes of curbing fraudulant use. Each card comes with a personal identification number (PIN) which is supposed to keep the instances of fraud down.</p>
<p>Shop owners are not under any legal obligation when it comes to accepting EBT cards and often do not even look at the card, assuming if the person making the purchase knows the PIN, everything must be alright, in many cases, it is not.</em></p>
<p><strong>From “Tampa Bay Online.”</strong></em></p>
<p><em>TAMPA &#8212; </p>
<p>The scheme was simple:</p>
<p>Customers with food stamps came to Majdi Juma&#8217;s Bradenton convenience store on the pretense of shopping. But instead of getting food, they got cash by using their benefits cards to make fake purchases. Juma gave them back half the value of the fake purchase, according to federal court records.</p>
<p>Over about 20 months, Juma and two other men at his store scammed the food stamp program out of more than $857,000.</em></p>
<p>Is this incredible? Have you ever heard, or seen before such examples of incompetence? This is OUR money my friends? </p>
<p>Honestly this has to stop. This is not right to take from one and give to another. It is wrong! The examples above are just mere drops in the buckets of what goes on daily across our Country.</p>
<p>I WILL help my neighbor, my friend, my family. Hell, I’ve stopped before and helped people I had NO clue who, or what they, were. This is, through my own upbringing, the Christian thing to do. I don’t mind.</p>
<p>I DO mind the government first, falsely accusing me of being non-compassionate, even racist, if I disagree with them period. This too is a form of indoctrination of the very same people, once again, they are supposedly helping out…through these programs.</p>
<p>They are teaching them literally that what’s mine is also theirs, even to the extent of violence against the taxpayer, who in turn is funding their entitlement anyway. It’s not Obama, Pelosi, Reid, or even Romney or any other politico…it IS the taxpayer who funds this!</p>
<p>Yet, we the haves (what little Deb and I do have), are evil, corrupt, and greedy, according to the have-nots. All through their indoctrination by their own leaders that yes, this is true! Talking about putting “a spin” on things??</p>
<p>This has become so obviously a political ploy, or agenda, for continued political power, that in all honesty it is treason, pure and simple! It is! </p>
<p>Is not the undermining or destruction of a Democratic society, built upon and around a Constitution, a Bill of Rights, and the guaranteed freedoms of that Country’s citizens an act of treason? Of course it is. Yet this is exactly what is going on in our Country today! Open, arrogant, blatant political misuse of power! The destruction of our Country as we know it!</p>
<p>Our good friend Gary sent this video to us…please watch…</p>
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<p>Interesting comments on governmental employee benefits, plus the giveaway programs. The comparison to Greece is interesting as well.</p>
<p>He also claims we can’t stop the giveaways (entitlements and pensions) on account of anarchy and violence in our streets. Where did this problem start? Politicians in their quest for buying the votes, their political power, and total control over “we the people.” All at our loss, and their gain!</p>
<p>We cannot sustain this. Personally, I would like to see these “entitlements” reigned in. I advocate help for our elderly, our handicapped, and our veterans. This I have no problem with.</p>
<p>Financial help for deadbeats (see above examples of fraud with our, the taxpayer monies), ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT entitlements (what is that all about in the first place), and “golden” government pensions…tossed in the trash! This once more is theft of our money, and in the bigger picture, the theft of our Country!!</p>
<p> As bad as I’d hate to see it, violence in the streets at this point, may be the ONLY solution we have to get these outrageous and unsustainable programs stopped. Terrible as this is to say, and honestly, I do not condone violence, BUT, I do not condone the destruction of our Country either.</p>
<p>This has to stop somewhere.</p>
<p>A couple quotes from Thomas Jefferson in closing…</p>
<p><em>“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”</p>
<p>“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.&#8221;<br />
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<p>Thank you guys for putting up with me one more time. I get so disgusted with such blatantly wasteful  misuse of taxpayer monies.</p>
<p>Our next post will be back to the subject of gardening, and cutting up some. Please take note though of the happenings taking place in our Country. Try and educate others in this very important Presidential election coming up this year! </p>
<p>Thanks once more and God Bless you and yours, and God Bless America!</p>
<p>Deb says as always, “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!”</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys, how are ya again? I just received this through an e-mail, and I just had to put it up. The friend that sent this to me this morning isn’t just a friend, he’s become a part of our &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1306">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey guys, how are ya again? I just received this through an e-mail, and I just had to put it up. The friend that sent this to me this morning isn’t just a friend, he’s become a part of our family. Deb and I both love him, because he’s a great guy, a very loving man, and a hard, hard worker.</p>
<p>He was born in India, but a part of which became the property of Pakistan when they won their independence, I believe is a correct statement. His family lost everything they owned, moved to India proper, and started over again.</p>
<p>He’s by title, a nuclear engineer, with experience in the civilian and military spectrum of this field. He came to the US in 1959, and worked in the construction of nuclear plants here in our Country. To say he is very educated is an understatement I’m sure.</p>
<p>He retired while still a fairly young man. He became tired of the travel that took him away from home and family, for extended amounts of time. He started building commercial properties and owns commercial properties to this day. He works on average about 17 hours a day…he loves his work, and most times he can do what needs to be done…from home.</p>
<p>He HAS lived…” “The American Dream.” He came to our Country to better his, as well as his family’s lives, and has paid taxes in support of our Country for years and years. He’s created innumerable jobs. He recognized what our Country had to offer him, and understood to really realize his potential…America was to become HIS HOME! </p>
<p>He loves our Country and what it stands for, but today, just like so many others of us, sees our great Country being run into the ground from excessive government spending, a government grown way too large, and the ruination of our citizens through the “giveaway mentality!”</p>
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<p>Today, as many, many of us know, we’re losing our Country as we’ve always known it. Less freedoms, less liberties, “Big Brother” watching us, as Americans through…the Patriot Act.</p>
<p> Businesses withering on the vine, unemployment numbers being called as “around 9%” and getting better they claim, while the TRUE numbers are probably between 16 to 18% unemployment. My family, or shall I say our families, of like-minded, hard-working, law abiding, freedom loving Americans are struggling these days…just to make ends meet!</p>
<p>Many, many Americans are “underwater” as the feds and the banking industry likes to describe your home or property being no longer worth, according to new appraisals, what it was worth, 3, 4, or 5 years ago. </p>
<p>So, many people with mortgages today are paying notes on money they borrowed to purchase their homes or property have found out that…they owe more now than they’re worth. This is… “being underwater!”</p>
<p> What caused this? Did we? </p>
<p>No, our government, our federal banking regulators, and the total absurdity, or INSANITY of our elected officials deciding that…every American should own a home! Not that our Country PROVIDES THE OPPORTUNITY to own a home through your work ethic, or saving for a few years to get a down payment, no, no, but it is YOUR RIGHT to own on home.</p>
<p>So, by forcing lenders to give loans, by the way with NO down payment, at sub-prime interest rates, we created a run on the housing market by people with little to no chance of being able to keep up with their house payments.</p>
<p> So, what if you only make $20,000 per year and are purchasing a $400,000 home…don’t sweat it. According to our more liberal minded politicians this was your RIGHT! Through this, the feds ruined our economy number one, thus in the end result forcing property values down so low that many…are underwater! Orchestrated my friends, all orchestrated!</p>
<p> I’d like you to take the time to watch this video! This is what’s becoming of the “Greatest Nation on Earth…” we’re being taken down…from within.  This is a picture today of what Lyndon Johnson deemed… “The Great Society!” This video is a good example of the future of our Nation. Why? Because these young people ARE the future of our Nation! A great society indeed!</p>
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<p>Makes you feel all good inside, doesn’t it? An indoctrination of…give me, give me, give me! This is but one example. There’s tens of thousands of examples of this going on daily! Why do we as citizens of our Country CONTINUE to fund such nonsense? I don’t know about you guys, but I’m getting very, very sick of this type of misuse of our tax money!</p>
<p>Then, the lady in the video wasn’t paying her rent either??</p>
<p> Want babies? Okay, we’ll pay you for them. Want phones? We’ll supply them to you AND pay the bill? Want a place to live? Okay, we’ll pay the rent? You hungry? Okay, we’ll buy your food. Want electricity? Okay, we’ll pay it! Want healthcare? Okay, you can get that too! Want an education? Okay, we got you covered! </p>
<p>Even, hey, you want to enter our Country illegally, and get the same benefits? Okay, c’mon in…they’re yours too! AND, you don’t have to speak English, I mean it’s only the National Language of our Country…but that’s alright too. We’ll HIRE someone to interpret for you, at school, the hospital, etc…all paid by taxpayer monies!</p>
<p>Through the last couple paragraph did you notice the word work wasn’t included in the conversation? Why aren’t these people MADE to work? </p>
<p>I look at low income housing here near our home. Their roads and drives are freshly seal-coated or paved. I see shrubs being planted from time to time. New AC units, fresh paint on the houses, right down to lawn care services mowing their yards! I mean they’re not even asked to MOW THEIR OWN LAWNS?? Why, for God’s sake?</p>
<p>I do not mind helping the elderly, the disabled or our vets, but pretty much everyone else…get a job. Oh, can’t find one now…for those who MIGHT want to work? Well talk to our elected leaders once again…they did it! It wasn’t small business that created our economic woes, but it’s the small business that’s suffering from it!</p>
<p>It’s election year people. We have got to make the best of this one. I’m disillusioned with my own party as well, but we as a people have got to start making our leaders understand…they’re not the boss, WE ARE! Hold them accountable, make them toe the line, and abide by our Constitution! It may very well be…now or never!</p>
<p>One more video for you. This of Detroit, Michigan, done by a Canadian news crew. This IS where we’re headed, IF, we don’t stop the insanity now! Take a look for yourselves. This is not the future I want for my children and grandchildren. Do you?</p>
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<p>Is this the “Socialist Utopia” they speak of? You betcha it is. Power for “the elite,” misery for the citizens.</p>
<p>Check this one out (The People’s Movement Assembly)…<br />
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<p> Again…WE FUND ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS WITH OUR tax dollars! Listen very, very closely…we are funding our own demise. You see it, don’t you?</p>
<p>What is a Peoples Movement Assembly? Why…it’s as easy as “ABC” …A-Assemblies…B- Brigades…C-Caravans&#8230; “stir something up.” WE, the taxpayer, FUND all these…COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS! This is part of our current administrations roots. TAKE FROM THE HAVES…and GIVE TO THE HAVE-NOTS! </p>
<p>BUT, as we see every day, the taking from the haves, and giving to the have not’s…doesn’t apply to our elected leaders.</p>
<p>Why would I make such a statement? Hmmm…</p>
<p>According to the “California Pension Reform,” as well as “Sacramento (CBS 13),” the number of California’s retired government workers receiving pensions of over $100,000 is, are you sure you want to know, 9,111! (This is taken from an article on May 17, 2010 in the<em> &#8220;Canada Free Press.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>I believe today there are over 11,000 for sure…maybe 13,000.</p>
<p>Let’s look at the top 6. The column on the left represents their MONTHLY pension…the one on the right, their total YEARLY pension income! Google it…it is true!</p>
<p>Bruce Malkenhorst	$42,472.05&#8212;&#8212;$509,664.60</p>
<p>Joaquin Fuster	$25,207.66&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;$302,491.92</p>
<p>Donald Gerth	$23,635.76&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;$283,629.12</p>
<p>William Garrett	$23,191.02&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;$278,292.24</p>
<p>James Stahl	        $22,587.99&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;$271,055.88</p>
<p>John Schlag	        $21,725.87&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;$260,710.44</p>
<p>They’re sure not giving to much to the have-not’s, are they? But they’re forcing you and I to! Again…where do these retirements come from…you and I. </p>
<p>This is stealing from us people, plain and simple. But the first thing in a crunch they want to do…cut services, turn prisoners out, but never, never, is the thought of cutting out their stealing from the tax payer ever uttered. They claim…we earned this?? Really? HOW? </p>
<p>So in reality…they’re not crazy, WE ARE!</p>
<p>One more video on&#8230;&#8221;Global Justice.&#8221;</p>
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<p>One question to us all this morning? WHEN are we, going to start organizing, and demanding OUR rights as honest, hard-working, tax-paying, LAW-ABIDING, God-fearing American citizens? Is this what our Founding Fathers envisioned as our path? We all know it isn’t. </p>
<p>Without a doubt, are politicians are tanking us today. There is no other reasoning for what is going on in our Country. We’ve been sold out, but are we determined and motivated enough to stand up and say, “No more?” </p>
<p>Our children, our grandchildren and their children will one day look at their own lives and ask, “Why didn’t our parents and grandparents do more.” To me, that’s my concern. Please, my friends, we have to stand together and stop the madness. It’s either that or The United States of America as we know it will simply…fade away…</p>
<p>Thanks guys, have a great day, and God Bless you! Deb says to keep a smile on your face, and one in your hearts!</p>
<p>Dub and Deb</p>
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