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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning. We hope this finds everyone doing very well, and in good health and spirits. It&#8217;s been an awful long time since I&#8217;ve posted, and to be honest&#8230;it feels good! I&#8217;ll begin to start doing some of this again. &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1776">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning. We hope this finds everyone doing very well, and in good health and spirits.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been an awful long time since I&#8217;ve posted, and to be honest&#8230;it feels good!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll begin to start doing some of this again.</p>
<p>I thought I&#8217;d speak a little this morning on not our, or any other all natural products, but the challenges of our faith in regards to the political agendas today in our Country, and the world in general, or better known as….</p>
<p>The “C” word.</p>
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<p>We are firm believers in our faith&#8230;Our Christian faith.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not here to beat you over the head in regards to our faith, but simply to express some thoughts of mine in its regard&#8230;and they&#8217;re exactly that, thoughts of mine.</p>
<p>If you happen to believe along my lines of thought, that’s great, and God Bless. </p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t, then that&#8217;s great too. That IS your right as an American, but in the same breath, it seems anyone who doesn&#8217;t feel the same way I do, does in fact get to beat me over the head with their opinion.</p>
<p>The world is filled with believers such as I, nonbelievers, and other religious based faiths.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m fine with your beliefs, although it seems today the Christian faith is getting slammed simply on account of &#8220;what,&#8221; we believe.</p>
<p>Much of our problem today stems simply from political correctness and its, &#8220;not offend anyone,&#8221; or to basically make everyone&#8230;feel nice.</p>
<p>First off, to anyone with a brain, you should immediately recognize the true intent of this political correctness as simply being &#8230;restricting speech, and undermining your right to free speech.</p>
<p>Secondly, it&#8217;s pretty easily seen that this &#8220;PC thing&#8221; isn&#8217;t restricting the progressive rights to free speech at all. </p>
<p>Only the people in our Country who believe in &#8220;their God and their guns&#8221; is this really being applied to, as our President has proclaimed.</p>
<p>If you believe in our liberties, morals, and what our Country was indeed founded upon, which is enforced in our Constitution, you&#8217;ve been branded today as racist, right wing extremists, anti-government, terrorists, and even teabaggers.</p>
<p>Between us, my son had to inform me to the true meaning behind such a statement. </p>
<p>Seems somewhere, somehow, the world simply passed me by, but regardless of my own ignorance of much of today&#8217;s lingo, I do understand right from wrong,  but even that’s becoming confused if listening to a progressive speak.</p>
<p>Ever hear of spending your way out of debt as our President declares?</p>
<p>If you passed elementary arithmetic, you see the futility in such a statement.</p>
<p>Now&#8230;stealing your way out of debt is another matter entirely!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s pretty evident that political correctness involving people that believe as I and other likeminded individuals do isn&#8217;t the same at all when being applied to the political left.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also heard our President declare&#8230;&#8221;America is not a Christian Nation.&#8221; </p>
<p>This in a nutshell is my reasoning for today&#8217;s post.</p>
<p><strong>We ACTUALLY WERE Founded Upon Our Judeo-Christian Beliefs</strong></p>
<p>Personally, I feel that Louisiana governor, Bobby Jindal was right on the money when he stated, &#8220;Now is the time for our Nation to turn back to God.&#8221;</p>
<p>The media, and many Republicans as well, thought his statement as anything but a simple declaration of his belief, and totally about as politically incorrect as you can get&#8230;</p>
<p>After all, far too many today believe as our President states, once again, &#8220;We are not a Christian Nation.&#8221;</p>
<p>A poll in 2012, did anything but affirm this belief. Its findings were that in fact 75% of Americans today do consider Christianity as their religion of choice.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to share a few examples, through quotations, that yes, America was indeed  founded upon our Christian belief.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usachristianministries.com">I stumbled across this website just a few days ago.</a></p>
<p>“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.”<br />
- George Washington – </p>
<p>“The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.”<br />
- United States Congress 1782 – </p>
<p>“The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected, in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”<br />
- John Adams – </p>
<p>Here’s a quote that I find to be so descriptive of our government today, in its blatant attempts to not only convince people our Constitution is out dated, but to totally ignore it.</p>
<p>“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”<br />
- John Adams – </p>
<p>“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”<br />
- Benjamin Franklin -</p>
<p>“God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.”<br />
- Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Memorial &#8211; </p>
<p>“I verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society. One of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is a part of the Common Law … There never has been a period in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying its foundations.”<br />
- Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, Harvard Speech, 1829 – </p>
<p>“[The Bible] is the rock on which our Republic rests.”- Andrew Jackson<br />
“Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian…This is a Christian nation”<br />
- United States Supreme Court Decision in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892 – </p>
<p><strong>Ending up today’s post with these final three…</strong></p>
<p>“Without God there could be no American form of government, nor an American way of life. Recognition of the Supreme Being is the first, the most basic expression of Americanism. Thus, the founding fathers of America saw it, and thus with God’s help, it will continue to be.”<br />
- Dwight D. Eisenhower</p>
<p>“I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.”<br />
- Theodore Roosevelt, President</p>
<p>“This is a Christian nation.”<br />
- Harry Truman, President</p>
<p>To all the naysayers who don’t believe as I do, that’s your option, and once more by being so, I condone your opinion, but, have you ever considered my simply being right in my own belief?</p>
<p>If I and the great many others who believe just as I believe are wrong, I’d venture to say that we really haven’t lost a thing, but if we’re right, eternity is an awful long time, wouldn’t you think?</p>
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<p>Thank you for dropping in to see us today and God Bless you and yours!</p>
<p>Doug</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning all. We hope today finds everyone in good health and spirits. You know, my Dad, who has been pretty successful in his own right, used to tell me… “Look down the road, son.” His meaning was pretty simple &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1740">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning all. We hope today finds everyone in good health and spirits.</p>
<p>You know, my Dad, who has been pretty successful in his own right, used to tell me… <em>“Look down the road, son.”<br />
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His meaning was pretty simple and actually very good advice.</p>
<p>His meaning behind that statement is that, you never start out on top. This whether you are employed by someone else, or even workin for yourself.</p>
<p>Success comes from a great work ethic, the desire to better yourself and your family, the ability to cope through not just the good times, but the bad too.</p>
<p>It means you have to start at the bottom somewhere. Then through pure determination to see something through, you eventually start climbin the ladder to achieve…success. </p>
<p>So you see, his statement means to not let what happens today hinder your drive to, “look down the road</p>
<p>You have to stay focused, believe in your own ability, and maybe most importantly…NEVER…take no, or, you can’t do it, as an alternative.</p>
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<p>Dad never…came from money, quite the opposite. His father commercial fished for a living. Granddaddy day worked cattle as well, plus any other thing that he could turn an honest dollar at to feed and clothe his family.</p>
<p>This was the way of life of our generations past, and sacrifice to better their own family was all the drive they needed to push themselves to keep going.</p>
<p>I remember my Father never being at home much…he worked all the time. Although many of his friends went to work for large companies, back then, the power or telephone companies, but Dad saw an opportunity for agriculture to be his…way out…and eventually it was.</p>
<p>Did this all fall into place? Anything but.</p>
<p>He worked for Ralston Purina. He started off moving chickens at night, which is about the lowest on the totem pole you can get. </p>
<p>He, through another example of his mentality and belief used to tell me…</p>
<p><em>“You know Doug, when I started out moving, or pullin chickens as we call it, my whole outlook was to be THE BEST chicken puller out there. Whatever you do son, ALWAYS strive to be the best! It doesn’t matter if you’re digging ditches…and if you are…be THE BEST ditch digger out there!”</p>
<p>“IF you keep that mentality, eventually someone in a position of power WILL see you, AND…you’ll get an opportunity.”</em></p>
<p>He eventually became a flock supervisor with Purina, but still worked on the service crew at night. </p>
<p>He was literally working…daylight to cain’t.</p>
<p>When he retired from Purina to start his own egg company…he was General Manager of the Southeast.</p>
<p>Here was a man who started out with absolutely nothing except…a tremendous work ethic, the mentality for never accepting the word, no, and the vision to… “Look down the road.”</p>
<p>When he sold out in Oct. of 1995, he had over two million birds laying, had his own feed mill to supply the birds with a good quality feed product, and his own hatchery to keep his layer operations in birds.</p>
<p>To get a grasp for what he achieved, the one complex I ran had twelve houses with 60,000 birds per house. EACH house ate between 12-14 thousand pounds of feed per day.</p>
<p>I still find that incredible. </p>
<p>His poultry operation enabled him get into the citrus business, and eventually the cattle business as well. </p>
<p>I, like my Dad, and thanks to him as well, had these same traits. Though not nearly as successful, although comfortable most times, he had instilled in me, to… <em>“Look down the road, son.”</em></p>
<p>What we’ve accomplished is literally because of the work ethic and never quit mentality that he bestowed on us.</p>
<p>Now, as I, “Look down the road” today, what I see for my children and grandchildren ain’t very pretty, to say the least.</p>
<p>Does our Country today even present the opportunity for our children and grandchildren to… “Look down the road?</p>
<p>Sadly, I don’t believe it any longer does, and the ability to do this and succeed looks more and more bleak daily.</p>
<p>We have become a Nation of political elite, a Nation of politicians for life, a Nation of political arrogance never before witnessed in our Countyry, and a Nation ofso many new laws passed each year, I believe over 40,000 were passed last year alone, that if our politicians, state, local or federal, really wanted to get us, there just has to be a law on the books for them to do so.</p>
<p>Washing your car? Riding your bike? How bout watchin TV in your home?</p>
<p>I hope there aren’t laws against these things, but any more, there are so many, who knows?<br />
How bout this…<br />
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<p>Now he MAY have become belligerent, I don’t know, but 84 years old? Bloodied by police? Several police??</p>
<p>What are we coming to?</p>
<p>Which brings me to one point this morning that rubs me the wrong way…although it is but one…</p>
<p>I<strong>llegal Immigration into our Country.</strong></p>
<p>Seems the other day, our Director for Homeland Security Secretary, Jeh Johnson, made the following remarks…</p>
<p><em>“The approximately 11 million people who are in the country illegally have “earned the right to be citizens.” </em></p>
<p>So, in his opinion, these people HAVE EARNED the right…</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>I’d be willing to bet if I decided to enter Mexico, or most other nations for that matter, their government wouldn’t consider me as having earned the right to anything, besides a kick in the behind getting me back across to my side of the border!</p>
<p>PLUS, even if you do cross into Mexico LEGALLY, in order to take up residence there you have to prove your self- sustainability.</p>
<p>Also, jail time is a must.</p>
<p>Quickly, and in jest, I read the other day where 4 tractor trailer loads of Americans were stopped at the border and deported for…tryin to slip into Mexico!</p>
<p>I did a post in <em>The Canada Free Press,</em> quite a ways back, actually on April 26, 2010, so let’s see, that’d made me…27 or so! Lol.</p>
<p>The title of the post was…</p>
<p><em>“The Definition of…Illegal,”</em> and can be found in the CFP’s columnist archives under, Doug Bronson.</p>
<p>A few quotes from that particular post…</p>
<p><em>According to the Random House Webster’s Dictionary, the definition of the word “illegal,” is as follows:  adj.  1- Forbidden by law.  2- contrary to official rules or regulations.</p>
<p>That’s it, forbidden by law. The word itself is not confusing by any means, and in fact, is actually pretty self-descriptive. Illegal is the exact opposite of legal. So where do all the problems associated with this particular word come from?</p>
<p>“Is it just me, or do you feel also, that many of our politicians, the left, and our media really have difficulty understanding this word, illegal? The misunderstanding of the word illegal really seems to become evident when they speak of people coming across our borders without permission. At that point they like to refer to them as “undocumented.”  Put simply though, they’re not undocumented, they’re in reality illegal, the exact opposite of legal, which by the way, undocumented isn’t.”<br />
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It goes on…</p>
<p><em>“I wonder if Nancy Pelosi for example, a strong advocate of amnesty for illegal aliens, would consider one of them, or anyone else for that matter, which walked into her home uninvited or without her knowledge, consider this person as an “undocumented visitor?” I’d venture to guess she’d not consider this an undocumented visit, but rather an illegal entry and they’d probably be charged by Mrs. Pelosi with such.</p>
<p>Many people would defend her actions because this event would have taken place at, or in, her home. Good, valid point. No one wants this type of incident taking place at their home, myself included. It’s your home, and it’s where your family comes as well. It’d be preposterous for people you didn’t know to come and go as they please in your home, wouldn’t it?</p>
<p>But in reality, isn’t our country our home too, just a bigger home? Isn’t our country where our families reside as well? Do you love your country any more or any less than your home, and do you want to see them both protected equally? So where does this big difference of opinion lay when it comes to people illegally entering our country, which is our home, without permission? It’s still illegal, no matter how you cut it or spin it. It is not by the farthest stretches of your imagination an undocumented action either. It is though, the exact opposite of legal, isn’t it?</p>
<p>How has our country become “turned upside down” when it comes to the definition of our laws, as well as our fundamental American values? This subject is but one example.</p>
<p>Probably to the astonishment of the left I will say this. I do advocate immigration into our country. I believe the great majority of Americans do also. The problem I and millions of other Americans have with the immigration policy in our country is the fact that so many are coming here illegally. This in itself is the problem.</p>
<p>First, there is no accountability as to who they are. Are they criminals, or even terrorists? No one knows the answer, simply because there is no record of their entry. To me, this is not a viable excuse to be used by our administration when, and if, a tragic event involving an illegal happens.</p>
<p>For whatever the reasoning, our federal government has not “taken the bull by the horns” approach to this problem. We’ve seen the pleas by local law-enforcement, especially along the border, asking for federal assistance in handling the problems arising from this. The locals haven’t the manpower, or the capabilities to combat this alone. Why do such requests go unheeded by the feds?<br />
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<strong>But One Example of the Cost to the Taxpayer of Illegals<br />
</strong><br />
This too taken from the same post…</p>
<p><em>“Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas (these are 2006 numbers), is the second busiest maternity ward in the U.S. Almost 16,000 babies are delivered there each year, about 44 per day.<br />
A patient survey indicated that 70% of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies (American citizens) born every year just in Dallas. The hospital spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million, and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.</p>
<p>This has been documented through Snopes.com.”</em></p>
<p>Again, this is but ONE example, of ONE hospital, in ONE town, in ONE county, in ONE state! Once more these numbers were from…2006!</p>
<p>What in the world must be the numbers today…nationwide??</p>
<p>So, in my opinion, these “illegals,” Jeh Johnson says DESERVE amnesty, is a crock. Not all, but most, I believe probably don’t appreciate our Country, number one, and number two, many, many more wouldn’t if you took away all these dad-gum giveaways!</p>
<p>With this in mind, I’ve come to the conclusion are Department of Homeland Security is misnamed, to put it very, very mildly.</p>
<p>Something more appropriate, and more fitting is, hmmm., let’s see…how bout the Department of Homeland <strong>Insecurity!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Our Department of Homeland Security and ALL Illegals Deserving Amnesty</strong></p>
<p>I did one other post in the CFP titled, <em>“Should Arizona Consider Sovereignty in Regards to Illegal Immigration?”</em></p>
<p>This one from Dec. 18, 2010.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.house.gov/sites/members/tx10_mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf">The link I checked out and it still works</a>.</p>
<p>These numbers I’m fixing to give you are from a House Committee report on…HOMELAND SECURITY, in 2006.</p>
<p>It’s title?</p>
<p>Get this guys…</p>
<p><strong>“A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border”</strong></p>
<p><em>Keep in mind the U.S.-Mexico border runs nearly 2,000 miles.</p>
<p>•	During 2005, the Border Patrol captured approx. 1.2 million illegal aliens. All but 165,000 of these were Mexican. Of the non-Mexican aliens, around 650 were from special interest countries. Special interest countries being those designated by our intelligence community as countries that could export individuals that could do harm to our country by the way of terrorism.</p>
<p>•	U.S. Immigration and Enforcement Investigations revealed that aliens were smuggled from the Middle East to staging areas in Central and South America, before being smuggled illegally into the U.S.</p>
<p>•	Members of Hezbollah have already entered the U.S. across the Southwest border.</p>
<p>•	U.S. military and intelligence officials believe Venezuela is emerging as a potential hub of terrorism into the Western Hemisphere. The Venezuelan government is issuing identity documents that could subsequently be used to obtain a U.S. visa and enter the country.</p>
<p>This should be priority #1 for border security and THE reason for shutting off the flow of illegal aliens into our country. Each day that goes by, continues to raise the risk factor in this matter. We’re playing with fire.</p>
<p>•	Federal law enforcement estimates that 10 to 30 percent of illegal aliens are actually caught, meaning as many as 4 to 10 million illegal aliens crossed into the U.S. in 2005 alone!</p>
<p>•	On Feb. 7, 2006, the Subcommittee convened to examine a particularly troubling into the sovereign territory of the United States by armed individuals who were driving military-style vehicles, carrying military type weapons, and appeared to be wearing Mexican Army uniforms.</p>
<p>•	The cartels have cemented ties to street and prison gangs here in the U.S.</p>
<p>•	One MS-13 gang member described the ease at which he comes and goes across the border. He decided one year he wanted to go back to Guatemala to see his mother during the Christmas holidays. To save his own money, he turned himself over to authorities here in the U.S. and was flown home to Guatemala under the expedited removal program on the taxpayer’s dime, spent the holidays at home with his family, then crossed the border illegally once again. He claims he has done this several times.</p>
<p>•	The cartels have no mercy for women or children.</p>
<p>•	The Violent Crimes Institute conducted a 12 month in-depth study of illegal immigrants who committed sex crimes and murders in the time period of Jan. 1999 through April of 2006. This study clearly shows the U.S. faces a dangerous threat from sexual predators crossing the border illegally.</p>
<p>They looked at 1,500 cases in-depth, including serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides, and child molestation…all by illegal immigrants. Police reports, public records, interviews with police and media accounts were all included. Offenders were located in 36 states, with most of the offenders located in States with the highest numbers of illegal immigrants. California ranked first followed by Texas, Arizona, New Jersey, New York, and Florida.</p>
<p>Based on an estimated illegal immigrant population of 12,000,000, and with ICE reports and public records showing sex offenders comprising 2% of the illegals apprehended, the Violent Crimes Institute estimates that there are approximately 240,000 illegal immigrant sex offenders in the U.S.</p>
<p>Using these numbers, the Institute concluded that there are 93 sex offenders and 12 serial sexual offenders coming across the U.S. borders every day. The 1,500 offenders used in this study had a total of 5,999 victims. Each sex offender averaged 4 victims. This puts the estimated victimization numbers by illegal immigrants at around 960,000 for the 88 months examined in this study!</p>
<p>Those numbers are appalling, aren’t they? To have that extent of those types of crimes committed in our country is unforgivable, but to have them committed in our country by illegal aliens is unconscionable</em></p>
<p>YET…</p>
<p>They’re DESERVING?</p>
<p>Please?</p>
<p>So, in closing, it is pretty obvious that a vast number of these illegal aliens have absolutely NO business being here, much less anywhere else, but to realize that we have government officials calling for amnesty, not for the betterment of the people mind you, but one more voter bloc to be counted on for THEIR political power, THEIR political greed, and THEIR ambition of eventually tellin us when to crap, how to crap, and how much to crap, is unimaginable to me, that “We the People” have allowed this to take place!</p>
<p>I for one am tired of bein part of the silent majority! I’m not condoning violence by any means, but I am condoning not sittin on our butts anymore and to start making yourselves heard…</p>
<p>LOUD AND CLEAR!</p>
<p>I’m tired of political correctness, when the political correctness shoved down our throats is number one, false and wrong, and number two…not beliefs held…by the majority.</p>
<p>So, I’ll continue to, “Look down the road, son, it’s how I was brought up. Sadly once again though, my lookin down the road sure ain’t very pretty.</p>
<p>God Bless all you guys, and God Bless America.</p>
<p>Please be sure to try to keep that smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Love you all…</p>
<p>Oh…I apologize for bein so short-winded this morning. Seems I jus say what comes to mind and…I’m done! LOL!</p>
<p>Doug and Lucky</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys…I hope this finds all well. &#8220;Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. &#8221; &#8220;My reading from history convinces me that most &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1736">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys…I hope this finds all well.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Democracy  will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. &#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My reading from history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The strongest reason for the people to retain and keep the right to bear arms is, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>All three quotations were written by Thomas Jefferson, long before our present government existed.</p>
<p>That man had foresight, did he not?</p>
<p>These three quotes were sent to me from a very good friend of mine, and one whose writings have been seen on our website from time to time.</p>
<p>I call him AP, and this man is a true patriot in every sense of the word.</p>
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<p>AP is a self-made man, in his 90’s, a veteran of WWII, a staunch believer in our Constitution and ALL it stands for, and a person not unlike so many of us simply because he LOVES this Country and all it stood for.</p>
<p>“Stood for?” Did I misspeak?</p>
<p>Unfortunately I didn’t.</p>
<p>We lose freedoms every single day.</p>
<p>The lawless have now become…the law. </p>
<p>Through executive orders, political correctness, the mainstream media, literal indoctrination of our children and grandchildren through our far left educational system, illegal immigration, and terminology being shoved down our throats to soften, or deceive true intent or mislead us in so many different ways…</p>
<p>“Enemy combatants” to describe terrorists, or “progressives” to describe elected elite who hide behind this, “nice term for…communists.”</p>
<p>Wasn’t it our President himself when speaking of Sarah Palin told us, “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig?”</p>
<p>The very same can be said of enemy combatants, and progressives, because no matter how much make-up you try to cover it with, they are still…terrorists and communists.</p>
<p>Let’s just say, <em>“If the shoe fits…wear it.”</em></p>
<p>When are WE, the silent majority, going to take a hard lesson learned from the progressive playbook and stop being…so silent?</p>
<p>Instead of listening ALL the time to their name calling, finger pointing, race baiting, hate mongering, divide and conquer style of politics, can we not turn the very same on them?</p>
<p>You know full well the difference between the two would be our facts in regards to our freedoms and liberties this Country USED to provide for us, versus THEIR jibberish they lay upon their own constituents, whom they have literally dumbed down…bought and paid for with pennies on the dollar through a welfare state, and the literal hate induced rhetoric they enflame them with.</p>
<p>Today, these welfare recipients are convinced it is you and I who have put them in the position they are in as this is exactly what the elected elite tell them…over and over, and over!</p>
<p>When in reality, it has been the goodness of our hearts to even allow this to take place. Our…love thy neighbor” Christian values.</p>
<p>I have made this next statement until I’m blue in the face…</p>
<p>WE ARE FUNDING OUR OWN DEMISE.</p>
<p>I read the other day, that here in the US, we now have more people on disability than the entire population of Greece.</p>
<p>10,982,920…almost 11 million people on disability now.</p>
<p>I wonder the percentage of TRUE disabled people? I’d be willing to bet it’s not even half…or even close.</p>
<p>Our politicians have made this giveaway mentality the norm, and have countless organizations that TEACH, teach them mind you, how to bilk we the taxpayer more and more. </p>
<p>Once again…funding our own demise.</p>
<p>Their goal…destruction of the middle class.</p>
<p>Once WE become dependent…game over. We’ll ALL live on…Rowhouse Street.</p>
<p>Social Justice? That’s what they claim.</p>
<p>Social Equality? Yep…we’ll all be broke.</p>
<p>That’s bout as equal as you can get, huh?</p>
<p>You better think about that…bein broke scenario, people.</p>
<p>It won’t be just broke financially.</p>
<p>It means broke mentally, and spiritually as well.</p>
<p>Once tomorrow has absolutely NO possibility of ever bein better than today, it’ll be a pretty despondent world we live in, huh?</p>
<p>Every single day…the same. </p>
<p>Week after week.</p>
<p>Month after month. </p>
<p>Will there be food on the shelves? </p>
<p>Milk for your babies? </p>
<p>Gas for your car? </p>
<p>Heat in your home?</p>
<p>If so…could you possibly afford it?</p>
<p>Not if we continue to elect communists into office. </p>
<p>I’m crazy you say?</p>
<p>You only have to educate yourself in a very simple and easy to do way. It will tell you quite clearly the end result our elected elite are striving for…</p>
<p>Read history…World history.</p>
<p>Better yet, I’m sure many of you know friends who came here from communist bloc countries…ask them.</p>
<p>I have a buddy from Poland. Lost EVERYTHING he had to the communists…</p>
<p>TWICE!</p>
<p>Moved here for the opportunity our Country provided for him and his family.</p>
<p>He thinks we’ve lost our mind in our choice of elected officials!</p>
<p>He says, <em>“DOUG…you are living today in a mild form of socialism…it will continue to grow, corrupt, and ruin this Nation. You guys don’t read history?”</p>
<p>“ Oh…it starts of nice enough…free food…free rent…free, free, free…(soundin familiar?)Then suddenly…no milk for your children!”<br />
</em><br />
This man has lived the so called, “socialist utopia.”</p>
<p>What the uneducated don’t realize is that the only utopia that will exist will be exclusively for…the elite.</p>
<p>My buddy worries himself sick that now, after coming to the good ole USA and our political environment today, he’ll now lose everything…for a third time! </p>
<p>A few headlines…</p>
<p><em>Sen. Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) proposed using the Internal Revenue Service to curtail Tea Party group funding during a speech on how to “exploit” and “weaken” the movement at the Center for American Progress on Thursday.</em></p>
<p>Wouldn’t that have to be considered as using your political power to pursue your own political agenda, as well as the destruction of any other mindset, our Constitution be damned? Doesn’t  that reflect as a true democratic society? </p>
<p>Funding our own demise?</p>
<p><em>Man in Wisconsin sentenced to one year in jail for attempting to defraud disability claiming to be blind.</em></p>
<p>Seems he collected $115,000 in unlawful Medicare benefits and evaded $178,000 in taxes between 2004 and 2009 in addition to disability payments.</p>
<p>Evidently, in our government, when you’re using someone else’s money (OURS!), you seem to be much more lenient while passing it out. </p>
<p>But shoot, they don’t read the bills passed into legislation anymore, why would I think they’d be much more stringent and check people out prior to deeming them…disabled?</p>
<p>Crazy me, huh? What could I possibly be thinkin?</p>
<p>Funding our own demise?</p>
<p>Healthcare anyone? I find it bizarre that more people have lost their credible health insurance since the rollout of Obama care than have been enrolled.  </p>
<p><em>Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, whose documentary 2016: Obama&#8217;s America took a critical look at President Barack Obama and was a surprise hit in 2012, will be arrested in New York on Friday for allegedly violating campaign-finance law.</em></p>
<p>Is it just me, or do most remember ALL the questionable campaign financing our President received from overseas, much from anti-America peoples?</p>
<p>Very convenient, the law…when “the lawless” are now, once again…the law!</p>
<p>In closing, we need to take a good, long, hard look at what Mr. Jefferson’s three quotes are warning us of….democracy losing out to giveaway programs, a government grown way, way too large, and our rights through our 2nd amendment to keep and bear arms.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, here in our Country today…silence is no longer golden. </p>
<p>Not on our part!</p>
<p>We as believers in our Founding Fathers, and what freedoms they laid out for us are going to have to start opening our mouths, just as loud, and just as often as our far left leaning political opponents.</p>
<p>We HAVE to stand up and be heard…</p>
<p>You guys have a great day and God Bless.</p>
<p>Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart.</p>
<p>Doug and Lucky</p>
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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[Mornin guys…how are ya? We hope this finds all well. We’re doin fine, just been very, very busy. Not a lot of time this morning, but I just had to vent a little. Seems our elected elite have found it &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1716">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mornin guys…how are ya? We hope this finds all well. We’re doin fine, just been very, very busy. </p>
<p>Not a lot of time this morning, but I just had to vent a little.</p>
<p>Seems our elected elite have found it in the goodness of their hearts to…</p>
<p>Vote on this week, a bill to…</p>
<p>CUT OUR RETIRED MILITARY PENSIONS???</p>
<p>Do you believe this?</p>
<p> Can you believe this?</p>
<p>Alright…now my rant.</p>
<p>Yet another example of our elected elite doin whatever, and whenever they want. More proof that we no longer have a say in our election process as we are spoon fed the candidates by the powers that be.</p>
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<p>The architect behind this…the one and only Paul Ryan.</p>
<p>Ya know…you remember Paul, right?</p>
<p>After all, HE was the Republican candidate for vice-president on Mitt Romney’s ticket. </p>
<p>Comin back to you now?</p>
<p>HE…who was supposed to stand by the virtues and beliefs of our Republican Party and be our voice…crafts a bill to take money from our veteran’s pockets.</p>
<p>EVEN DISABLED VETERANS ARE NOT EXEMPT!</p>
<p>Ah…these very same veterans are the very people who insured these political elite today the FREEDOM to live in a Country where they could be elected…AND SERVE!</p>
<p>Maybe it’s just me…but weren’t our officials supposed to serve…</p>
<p>THE PEOPLE?</p>
<p>One of Ryan’s reasons really irks me…to no end.</p>
<p>I quote…</p>
<p><em>“We give them (our veterans) a slightly smaller adjustment for inflation BECAUSE THEY’RE STILL IN THEIR WORKING YEARS and in most cases EARNING ANOTHER PAYCHECK.”</em></p>
<p>REALLY???</p>
<p>Hmmm….seems to me far, far too many of our elected officials are guilty of this very same thing…retiring…then takin another job….BUT, with a couple MAJOR differences.</p>
<p>The first bein in their regard, the term, “work” is…VERY overstated!</p>
<p>Wouldn’t most agree?</p>
<p>The second is the retirin or leavin one public sector job, and immediately takin another…public sector job…which by the way is paid for by…you and I once more…the taxpayer!</p>
<p>Do THEY take a pay cut?</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>Do they collect retirement benefits which include pensions, health care, AND in many cases a cash buyout?</p>
<p>You betcha they do!</p>
<p>Ever heard the term DOUBLE or TRIPLE DIPPIN?</p>
<p>For those who have…why do we as taxpaying citizens tolerate such?</p>
<p>For those who haven’t, well, I suggest you step outta the closet for a while, or worse yet, stop takin our elected elites word on, well…</p>
<p>ANYTHING!</p>
<p>A few quick examples…</p>
<p>Today there are over 13,000 former California elected elite collectin pensions of over $100,000 per year!</p>
<p>In New York, over 16% of its retired police and fire department employees collected pensions of over 100 grand.</p>
<p>In Michigan, according to Ballot-Pedia, their public sector employees are allotted, get this…</p>
<p>12 to 13 PAID HOLIDAYS a year…</p>
<p>15 to 35 days of vacation time a year…</p>
<p>13 sick days a year…</p>
<p>I’m just thinkin…take off the weekends and how many days a year…</p>
<p>DO THEY WORK?</p>
<p>Must be nice to have a bottomless pit to draw from, huh?</p>
<p>If ya ask me, our elected elite could do TONS OF CUTTIN…right in their own purse strings…wouldn’t ya agree?</p>
<p>By the way, our elected elite decided against not havin to cut our veterans retirement by simply…</p>
<p>REFUSIN TO CLOSE A LOOP HOLE for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS which costs, once again, we the taxpayers an estimated 4.2 BILLION for a child tax credit allotted to these…ILLEGALS!</p>
<p>4.2 BILLION DOLLARS to once more…ILLEGALS!</p>
<p>YET…we see fit to cut our veterans pensions???</p>
<p>I saw on a newscast from Indianapolis I believe where one Hispanic family, livin in a mobile home was collectin child tax credits on…29 children.</p>
<p>Yep…29 children.</p>
<p>Once the news crew investigated…there was only one child livin there, YET, our elected elite, or the IRS decide to take absolutely…</p>
<p>No action.</p>
<p>We’ve become a Country, once more, of…NO REPRESENTATION!</p>
<p>Possibly our elected elite might want ta sit down and discuss this no representation thing with ah….the British maybe??</p>
<p>Again though, I find this mind boggling the Democrats refused to close this loophole, but instead, decided to cut our veterans retirement???<br />
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More Rantin…</strong></p>
<p>So, what kind of predicament does this put us into as a Country, in regard to our election process?</p>
<p>If a candidate today believes in morals, standards and virtues…you’re out!</p>
<p>Liars, cheats, and me, me, me have become THE STANDARDS of our political process. </p>
<p>If a candidate believes in the family unit, raising your children as you see fit, and would like to see our children’s standard of education once more raised to the point we are once again among the world’s best…sayonara!</p>
<p>Educational indoctrination is the new goal today.</p>
<p>Global Warmin, don’t drill in the US…we might kill a swamp rat or two, shoot, even though we’re the breadbasket of the world…lets ship our produce in…from outside the US.</p>
<p>So, through the process of dumbin down our youth, and although I’ll be labeled probably as a racist for statin this (although I’m not)…our inner city peoples…or people of color…our elected elite have figured out they can buy the vote for literally…pennies on the dollar. </p>
<p>Remember also, all the times a president has spoken the words… “OUR ADMINISTRATION will STOP the out sourcing of our jobs! We want to put Americans back to work!”</p>
<p>Lip service…that’s all we get in our Country today!</p>
<p>Not too much shocks me anymore today… </p>
<p>“Pass it, THEN we’ll see what’s in it”… “Read the bill, are you kiddin me…we don’t have time to read the bill”… “If you like your insurance, you can keep it”… “If you like your doctor, you can keep him”… “OH, I’m sorry I misspoke in regards to you bein able to keep your insurance…or your doctor”…</p>
<p>Lies, lies, and more lies.</p>
<p>What have WE become as citizens of this great Country to allow such behavior?</p>
<p>If a candidate todays speaks of our Constitutional liberty’s (written by old, out of touch white men as the left likes to declare), or speaks of God….see ya!</p>
<p>They have dirt dug up on them and are drug through the mud, or today I must admit, I personally feel they’re threatened, along with their family.</p>
<p>It took me 3 attempts at the driver’s license office to renew my license. When Deb passed, I had no idea where my original birth certificate was…so I HAD to go get another one.</p>
<p>My wallet had been stolen a couple years back so…I had to go get a new social security card.</p>
<p>To be honest, I don’t remember what the last problem was, but there was one more hurdle I had to clear to once more…renew my driver’s license.</p>
<p>The kicker here…I HAD MY OLD LICENSE…WITH MY PICTURE ON IT!! They couldn’t just type me into the computer along with all MY INFORMATION, and see without a doubt that Doug Bronson was INDEED…DOUG BRONSON.</p>
<p>The very same Doug Bronson who HAD been drivin in the State of Florida for the last…46 YEARS!</p>
<p>YET today…our elected elite declare it AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS, or EVEN RACISM, to ask for an ID to be allowed to vote???</p>
<p>GEEZ people…that’s probably the GREATEST right we have as Americans…the right to vote!</p>
<p>SO HOW COULD INSURIN THAT YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE, AND THAT YOU ARE IN FACT A LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZEN, BE IN ANY WAY OFFENSIVE IN YOUR DUTY TO…CAST A VOTE?<br />
YET, in this crazy mixed up world we live in it evidently is??</p>
<p>If we have a candidate today who speaks of a work ethic…he is racist among other things, and our mainstream media destroy him, or her.</p>
<p>Our elected elite today harp on financial aid…better known as entitlements.</p>
<p>To help someone is a horse of a different color, but to cause the total financial dependency of individuals to their elected elite is beyond grasp to me.</p>
<p>If you’ve lost your job…my heart goes out to ya, and to be quite frank, we ain’t livin on easy street here either.</p>
<p>Ya want to pinpoint the blame…well, ya needn’t look any farther than our elected elite.</p>
<p>They’ve destroyed jobs, just take a look at health care, but also TOO much government regulation, TOO much unionization, and TOO taxation.</p>
<p>On top of this, we have literally GENERATIONS of people in this Country who have…NEVER WORKED!</p>
<p>NEVER!</p>
<p>Through the indoctrination of our people through our elected elite, they are now CONVINCED it is THEIR RIGHT to take from us and it be given to them!</p>
<p>I remember vividly Michelle Obama declarin… “You need a piece of the pie too…”</p>
<p>Well, get your butts off ta work and go to the bakery, or go purchase the ingredients from the neighborhood grocery…and get your own pie!</p>
<p>I promise you right now that you can keep YOUR PIE, cause I don’t want any of it!</p>
<p>My reasoning is pretty simple…</p>
<p>It’s YOUR pie, not mine.</p>
<p>How can I possibly declare what is rightfully yours…be mine too?</p>
<p>If I started showin up on the doorsteps of the entitled people on the first of every month, ya reckon they’d share THEIR WEALTH with me? I mean after all, ain’t it part mine too, accordin to our elected elite’s reasonin?</p>
<p>I’d sure think so, wouldn’t you?</p>
<p>SO…how bout leavin our veterans retirements alone, and focus in on takin the welfare benefits from these very people who have never worked, never intend on workin, and as it stands now…asin’t gonna work!</p>
<p>Oh, wait a minute…</p>
<p>If we were to do that, wouldn’t that cause riotin in our Country? Anarchy? Possibly even race wars?</p>
<p>Yeah…it very well could, but ya know what…you only have to look at our elected elite once more! They, and they only, orchestrated this too!</p>
<p>So, in closing, I’d just like to say to all our elected elite, Paul Ryan as well, there is a day of reckonin comin….maybe not in this life, but the next.</p>
<p>Eternity is a very long time.</p>
<p>Your power today to destroy men’s souls, pass laws to take more and more from the taxpaying citizens of this Country, spend, print and borrow money that our children and grandchildren could never possibly pay back, and total disregard our Constitution and its rights given to us by our Founding Fathers will one day come back to haunt you…with a price.</p>
<p> Your greed, your corruption, your lack of morals or virtues, and once again, your lust for power, will eventually be things that will cause you much grief, if not here or now, will do so down the road.</p>
<p>Once more, eternity is a very, very long time.</p>
<p>It is…</p>
<p>AN eternity.</p>
<p>What was it Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing once said…something to the effect of…</p>
<p>“You have to give acknowledgment, or a “hats off,” to the greatest community organizer that ever was… So great that he won his own kingdom…</p>
<p>“LUCIFER.”</p>
<p>How can you possibly debate, or even visit with people of such a mindset?</p>
<p>To be honest though, I’m glad it’s the left with this type of viewpoint, and not I!</p>
<p>The day will come when these people do in fact reap their just rewards.</p>
<p>Me…I’m hopin I’m in a much better place… “Keepin a smile on my face, and one in my heart!”</p>
<p>God Bless you guys! </p>
<p>God Bless the USA, and Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night…even though it’s morning!!</p>
<p>Doug and Lucky</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys. A beautiful day here in sunny Central Florida, although we’ve had a 34 degree temperature change since yesterday…38 degrees here this morning. Yeah, I know…you Yankees (is usin the term “Yankee, politically correct??)” must think I’m a &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1713">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys. A beautiful day here in sunny Central Florida, although we’ve had a 34 degree temperature change since yesterday…38 degrees here this morning.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know…you Yankees (is usin the term “Yankee, politically correct??)” must think I’m a “titty-baby” whinin about it bein 38 degrees here when you guys at times consider 38…a warmin trend! Lol.</p>
<p>Hey…Happy Thanksgiving guys!</p>
<p>We here on our place wish you the very best, and ya’ll see many more in the comin years! </p>
<p>God Bless!</p>
<p>As Thanksgivin bein a day to contemplate all of our blessins, let me share a few of my thoughts on this topic.</p>
<p>First off, I’d like to thank our president for the loss of millions of health care coverages across this great land of ours, with myself bein included in those numbers. </p>
<p>I heard of your statement proclaimin to be sooo very sorry for any hardships you may have caused to we, the American taxpaying citizen by mispeakin, but down here where I’m from, we call it by a different definition altogether.</p>
<p>We call it simply…</p>
<p>LYIN!</p>
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<p>Better yet, it’s actually STEALIN too! </p>
<p>Gotta feed that monstrosity today that used to be called…government!</p>
<p>We’ll weather this storm as well, kind sir, just as we always weather any adversity tossed our way, cause we’re simply not “quitters,” but…Ameri-CANS!</p>
<p>So, my statements this morning on “obamacare” ain’t whining, only I do wish you’d do us all a favor…how bout you and all your cronies get online and sign up for it yourselves, and stop the moochin of the hard workin, law abiding, tax payin citizens to pay for YOUR golden policies. </p>
<p>Simply put…it’s named for you, so you shouldn’t have any problem getting coverage, and surely you’d be proud to set this example, huh?</p>
<p>Possibly a little “heads-up” for ya…don’t try to sign up online.</p>
<p>Movin along here this morning, I’d like to you for bein sooo transparent in your policy makin, just …as ya promised us.</p>
<p>Guess ya just…misspoke again, huh?</p>
<p>Oh, for I forget, I’d really like to express my sincere thanks for you expandin our Country’s land mass. I musta been asleep on that one cause I just woke up one morning, turned on the tube and there ya were, tellin us we had…57 states!!</p>
<p>That’s a good un!</p>
<p>Where they at, and what they called?</p>
<p>Ah…how bout Professor Gates and his remark to the police officer investigatin a possible break in at the good professor’s home? When asked to come out onto his porch the professor replied… “tell your mama to come out onto the porch!”</p>
<p>Or something very similar to it.</p>
<p>Makes me warm inside to know our children and grandchildren are bein taught by such intellectually gifted teachers in the use of the English language. </p>
<p>Plus, when this incident first took place, your own remark was simply implyin…the police were racist.</p>
<p>Thank ya mr. president for keepin such an open mind and not playin…the race card!</p>
<p>Thanks also for your wise insight at the time of the shootins at Fort Hood, and cautionin “We the People” to not jump to conclusions that this was a terrorist act!</p>
<p>Shoot…</p>
<p>Me bein me, and not nearly so wise as you, I personally considered this exactly what it was…a terrorist incident, but again, what do I know, cause when I was readin this guy was shootin our people, shoutin, “Allah Akbar,” crazy me thought, “ya know what…that’s one of those dern radical Islamic terrorists!</p>
<p>Thanks for enlightenin me on this although it still seems to me this continuous “misspeakin” on your part simply looks like…ya can’t seem to keep your foot outta your mouth??</p>
<p>I’d like to thank you for your superior intellect in proclaimin to us all, in a time of our dire economic future, that your solution to this is actually very, very simple… “We’re goin to SPEND our way outta debt!”<br />
I will say you’re doin an excellent job in this regard…what is it now…</p>
<p>$17 trillion and countin???</p>
<p>I’m sure our children and grandchildren would like applaud you for a job well done as well! Things are lookin very good down the road for those guys, huh?</p>
<p>Oh, I could go on and on, but I’d like to stop and truly say a few things we can truly be thankful of…</p>
<p>Family and friends.</p>
<p>Our health.</p>
<p>Although not what it once was, and this is not in reality our political leaders fault, but OUR OWN for bein so complacent on far, far too many issues, I’d like to give thanks for our Country…still the best place on earth.</p>
<p>I’d like to give a special thanks to our military, past and present. These young men and women are one of the reasons we can lay our heads down at night and sleep peacefully.</p>
<p>Most of all, I’d like to thank our Good Lord, for all the blessings HE bestows upon us each and every day!</p>
<p>There are many, many more reasons to be thankful this thanksgiving morning, but I’ll only list those few besides…thank you to the writers and journalists who daily speak out and keep us informed as to the REAL goins on in our Nation today!</p>
<p>Judi, Brian, and the Canada Free Press are among the most informative.</p>
<p>Still seems kinda funny to me that two people who so love this great Nation of ours and are concerned enough to attempt to give us a heads up daily as to what we as a Nation are confronted with from our political elite…are from Canada!</p>
<p>Go figure???</p>
<p>God Bless you guys…we love ya’ll!</p>
<p>Thank you as well to this next lady whose post I’ll put up this morning…I received this from my good friend, AP.</p>
<p>There are some gifted people who have the ability to put into words that which most of us are thinking. Maureen S. is an ardent American patriot who was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and retired to VA, in 2000. Free from the nine-to-five grind of writing for employers and clients, she began writing political commentary to please herself and express her convictions.</p>
<p><strong>The Architect of Destruction:</strong><br />
<em><br />
Barack Obama appears to be a tormented man filled with resentment, anger, and disdain for anyone of an opinion or view other than his. He acts in the most hateful, spiteful, malevolent, vindictive ways in order to manipulate and maintain power and control over others. Perhaps, because, as a child, he grew up harboring an abiding bitterness toward the U.S. that was instilled in him by his family and mentor…seems to have never left him.</p>
<p>It is not the color of his skin that is a problem in America . Rather it is the blackness that fills his soul and the hollowness in his heart where there should be abiding pride and love for this country.</p>
<p>Think: Have we ever heard Obama speak lovingly of the U.S. or its people, with deep appreciation and genuine respect for our history, our customs, our sufferings and our blessings? Has he ever revealed that, like most patriotic Americans, he gets &#8220;goose bumps&#8221; when a band plays &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner,&#8221; or sheds a tear when he hears a beautiful rendition of &#8221; America the Beautiful?&#8221; Does his heart burst with pride when millions of American flags wave on a National holiday &#8211; or someone plays &#8220;taps&#8221; on a trumpet?</p>
<p>Has he ever shared the admiration of the military, as we as lovers of those who keep us free, feel when soldiers march by? It is doubtful because Obama did not grow up sharing our experiences or our values. He did not sit at the knee of a grandfather or uncle who showed us his medals and told us about the bravery of his fellow troops as they tramped through foreign lands to keep us free. He didn&#8217;t have grandparents who told stories of suffering and then coming to America, penniless, and the opportunities they had for building a business and life for their children.</p>
<p>Away from this country as a young child, Obama didn&#8217;t delight in being part of America and its greatness. He wasn&#8217;t singing our patriotic songs in kindergarten, or standing on the roadside for a holiday parade and eating a hot dog, or lighting sparklers around a campfire on July 4th as fireworks exploded over head, or placing flags on the grave sites of fallen and beloved American heroes.</p>
<p>Rather he was separated from all of these experiences and doesn&#8217;t really understand us and what it means to be an American. He is void of the basic emotions that most feel regarding this country and insensitive to the instinctive pride we have in our national heritage. His opinions were formed by those who either envied us or wanted him to devalue the United States and the traditions and patriotism that unites us. </p>
<p>He has never given a speech that is filled with calm, reassuring, complimentary, heartfelt statements about all the people in the U.S.</p>
<p>Or one that inspires us to be better and grateful and proud that in a short time our country became a leader, and a protector of many.<br />
Quite the contrary, his speeches always degenerate into mocking, ridiculing tirades as he faults our achievements as well as any critics or opposition for the sake of a laugh, or to bolster his ego.</p>
<p>He uses his office to threaten and create fear while demeaning and degrading any American who opposes his policies and actions. A secure leader, who has noble self-esteem and not false confidence, refrains from showing such dread of critics and displaying a cocky, haughty attitude.</p>
<p>Mostly, his time seems to be spent causing dissension, unrest, and anxiety among the people of America, rather than uniting us (even though he was presented to us as the &#8220;Great Uniter&#8221;).</p>
<p>He creates chaos for the sake of keeping people separated, envious, aggrieved and ready to argue. </p>
<p>Under his leadership Americans have been kept on edge, rather than in a state of comfort and security. He incites people to be aggressive toward, and disrespectful of, those of differing opinions.</p>
<p>And through such behavior, Obama has lowered the standards for self-control and mature restraint to the level of street-fighting gangs, when he should be raising the bar for people to strive toward becoming more considerate, tolerant, self-disciplined, self-sustaining, and self-assured.</p>
<p>Not a day goes by that he is not attempting to defy our laws, remove our rights, over-ride established procedures, install controversial appointees, enact divisive mandates, and assert a dictatorial form of power.</p>
<p>• Never has there been a leader of this great land who used such tactics to harm and hurt the people and this country.</p>
<p>Never have we had a President who spoke with a caustic, evil tongue against the citizenry rather than present himself as a soothing, calming and trustworthy force.</p>
<p> Never, in this country, have we experienced how much stress one man can cause a nation of people &#8211; on a daily basis!</p>
<p>Obama has promoted the degeneration of peace, civility, and quality of cooperation between us. He thrives on tearing us down, rather than building us up. He is the architect of the decline of America, and the epitome of a demagogue.</em><br />
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A Very Real Thank You:</strong></p>
<p>This too was sent to me by my buddy AP, who is 95 years young. It is on…Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.</p>
<p>At 5, began studying under his cousin&#8217;s tutor.</p>
<p>At 9, studied Latin, Greek and French.</p>
<p>At 14, studied classical literature and additional languages.</p>
<p>At 16, entered the College of William and Mary. Also could write in Greek with one hand while writing the same in Latin with the other.</p>
<p>At 19, studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.</p>
<p>At 23, started his own law practice.</p>
<p>At 25, was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.</p>
<p>At 31, wrote the widely circulated &#8220;Summary View of the Rights of British America ? And retired from his law practice.</p>
<p>At 32, was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.</p>
<p>At 33, wrote the Declaration of Independence .</p>
<p>At 33, took three years to revise Virginia &#8216;s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.</p>
<p>At 36, was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.</p>
<p>At 40, served in Congress for two years.</p>
<p>At 41, was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.</p>
<p>At 46, served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.</p>
<p>At 53, served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.</p>
<p>At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.</p>
<p>At 57, was elected the third president of the United States .</p>
<p>At 60, obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation&#8217;s size.</p>
<p>At 61, was elected to a second term as President. </p>
<p>At 65, retired to Monticello .</p>
<p>At 80, helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.</p>
<p>At 81, almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.</p>
<p>At 83, died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams.</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. A voice from the past to lead us in the future:</p>
<p>John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement:<em> &#8220;This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.&#8221;</em><em></p>
<p>&#8220;When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe .&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>&#8220;To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.&#8221;<br />
&#8211; Thomas Jefferson</p>
<p>Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.</p>
<p>If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property &#8211; until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>AP also states…</p>
<p><em>“I wish we could get this out to every American! I&#8217;m doing my part. So PLEASE…do yours.”</em></p>
<p>You guys have a wonderful Thanksgiving, and God Bless!</p>
<p>Be sure to, “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!”</p>
<p>Doug and Kathrine  (aka…“Lucky”)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good mornin all. Stand firm…How many considered this statement, stand firm, as speakin to our elected republican officials? Well, it ain’t, although that’s just EXACTLY what they need to do! Oh, there’s no doubt that I’d love to see those &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1705">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Stand firm…How many considered this statement, stand firm, as speakin to our elected republican officials?</p>
<p>Well, it ain’t, although that’s just EXACTLY what they need to do!</p>
<p>Oh, there’s no doubt that I’d love to see those guys do just that…stand firm in their duty to we the American people, and finally get the gumption or backbone to stop this insanity goin on in DC today…BUT, I don’t see it happenin.</p>
<p>I’d read yesterday they had, “made a deal,” with the dems, but Obama turned it down. </p>
<p>Is this true? </p>
<p>Who knows anymore, but part of “this deal,” would have allowed the funding of…obamacare??</p>
<p>Today our two party’s represent…good cop…bad cop.</p>
<p>It’s a show folks…that’s all.</p>
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<p>As bad as I hate to make such a remark, that’s exactly what it is.</p>
<p>First off, to have our elected officials, democrat or republican, allow funding for this monstrosity known as obamacare, is a travesty, which by the way is not condoned in any shape or form by the MAJORITY of the American people.</p>
<p>Need I say the very same on the subject of… “Have a Merry Christmas?” How has it come to pass where 12 to 15 percent of our people have full say in matters such as… “Merry Christmas?”</p>
<p>I’ll state this once more…the MAJORITY of the American people say… “DON’T do it” to obamacare, and we’ve been sayin it from the get go.</p>
<p>Pelosi statin that we’ll see what’s in it (read it in other words), AFTER we pass it.</p>
<p>I can’t think of any better example of total contempt of the American people than those words.</p>
<p>Here is a VERY well paid, VERY well compensated through a golden retirement package and LIFE LONG healthcare paid for …BY US, and sadly, a VERY powerful ELECTED official who just pretty much heard the racket bein made by we the American people, screamin… “Don’t do it,” and with absolutely no remorse, or feelin of any obligation of any kind that she indeed is workin…FOR US, she literally just…</p>
<p>Gave us the finger.</p>
<p>This is the most atrocious, dastardly, unfathomable piece of legislation to ever come down the pike…bar none.</p>
<p>A job killer is putting it mildly…VERY mildly…I’m VERY scared of what all IS in the dern thing, but as Pelosi stated, we ARE sure fixin TO see what’s in it!</p>
<p>You only have to look around to see company, after company slashin employee hours. This will only get worse…and worse…and worse!</p>
<p>Amazing thing though, is isn’t it funny, that AFTER READIN the bill for themselves, the dems, and repubs alike, after seein some of what was in the dern thing, suddenly…they didn’t WANT ANY part of this in regards to THEIR, or THEIR family’s health care??</p>
<p>So guess what?</p>
<p>They declared THEMSELVES…EXEMPT from this great health care plan.</p>
<p>Funny, isn’t it, that Obama, ain’t covered by…obamacare??</p>
<p>WHY??? </p>
<p>I mean accordin to them, this IS what the American people wanted. This IS what the American people NEEDED! This IS the greatest thing since buttered toast! THIS IS the answer to ALL our health care concerns!</p>
<p>ALL, that is, EXCEPT the very people who wrote it, implicated it, and decided that even though the majority of us DIDN’T want it in the first place, they’d just go ahead and shove it down our throats.</p>
<p>Let’s see…hmmm…they’ve nationalized some insurance companies, they’ve nationalized some financial institutions, they’re nationalizing health care, and also, in the process, they’ve “nationalized” thousands more IRS workers to see that they collect their forced nationalized health care monies, that aren’t a tax mind you as our commander in chief declared, but in reality…are a tax.</p>
<p>They’ve also nationalized the car companies, two anyway, and awarded their “buddies” the unions, who in reality were the back breakers in  the car companies bein able to turn a profit, with, guess what…</p>
<p>A twenty per cent stake in the companies they broke!</p>
<p>Seems this “socialism thing” works pretty good if you’re…one of their comrades, huh? </p>
<p>The unions been destroyin companies for years now…steel mills (gone), textile mills (gone), car companies, the postal service cain’t turn a profit, Am-trac, etc., etc., etc.</p>
<p>You only have to look at Detroit today to see the ghosts of good days past.</p>
<p>Couldn’t be that Cloward-Piven thing could it?</p>
<p>Ya know, that theory where in order to help destroy America as we know it, you do it through overwhelming our economic system with welfare and the like. </p>
<p>That gimmee, gimmee, gimmee thing where your goal IS NOT to get people OFF welfare, but ya put MORE and MORE people on welfare!</p>
<p>Ya keep putting more and more on it until, guess what??</p>
<p>We can “know” longer fund it.</p>
<p> I use the word no in that tense simply because you and I the taxpayer have kNOwn for some time now that , no we cain’t continue to support this, yet…we do it anyway, although once more…</p>
<p>We knew we couldn’t!</p>
<p>In essence, what we’ve done is simple as well…</p>
<p>WE’VE FUNDED, our own demise!</p>
<p>Ya want more people on welfare, the best way to do so…cut jobs! </p>
<p>Through the unions, government regulations, and excessive taxation, and NOW…healthcare, jobs vanish. </p>
<p>Companies makin a profit is not greedy, not selfish, and not wrong as the dumb downed are told.</p>
<p>It is simply people with visions, go getters if you may, who through a hard work ethic live a dream, and through their dream, they grow their company, or business.</p>
<p>THROUGH THIS, and THIS ONLY… THEY create jobs. </p>
<p>Government today declares this, as evil…selfish…greedy…AND, of all things…UN-AMERICAN!</p>
<p>There was a time not so long ago that this vision had a name…</p>
<p>The American Dream!</p>
<p>Today, to have such a belief is simply, racist, extremist…and even terrorist!</p>
<p>Anyway, one other point to this rant is simply that…seems the unions are, or soon will be…exempt from obamacare too!</p>
<p>Great job comrades! </p>
<p>You’ve sure done your part in this takeover of the USA too. Funny though, that of ALL the jobs the unions have killed, at the expense of their own members, they still exist??</p>
<p>Ya reckon this obamacare thing could possibly be the government’s trump card in job destruction? I mean, all these companies are already cutting hours because of it.</p>
<p>Plus, less hours means less bring home money for your family. Less bring home money means…more welfare.</p>
<p>So ya see, this very well could…</p>
<p>Naw…couldn’t be&#8230;seems I&#8217;m just an old, outdated, white guy! ***</p>
<p><strong>Standin Firm</strong></p>
<p>In reality today, my statement, “Stand Firm,” means for you as true Americans, stand firm in YOUR beliefs.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your values and standards.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your integrity. Your name DOES mean something! Start actin like it, okay?</p>
<p>Stand firm in your right in regards to freedom of speech. Political correctness be damned!</p>
<p>Stand firm in your right to live the American dream. You CAN start your own business and be successful in doing so, although this today is tougher than it’s ever been here in our Country.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your right for your children to get an education, even if it means home schooling them.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your beliefs that our Constitution IS what we were founded upon, and is not an ***old, outdated document written by a bunch of…white men, no matter how our elected officials try to spin it.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your belief that we DO live in the greatest Country on earth, and that our freedoms and liberties are GRANTED to us, and not to be tampered with. </p>
<p>Stand firm in your beliefs that this period of immorality, unaccountability, and total Godless behavior too shall pass, although it will take action on all of our part for this to take place.</p>
<p>Stand firm that right, still is right, and wrong is just that…wrong. This will never change, again, no matter how our elected officials attempt to spin it.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your belief that work is part of life. It teaches all of us responsibility, and that through hard work, good things do indeed happen. It’s not easy, and it takes time, but through a good, hard work ethic you have the opportunity to grow.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your belief that your children are…YOUR children, and NOT the responsibility of our government!</p>
<p>Stand firm in your commitment to raise your child AS YOU see fit.</p>
<p>Stand firm in your commitment to discipline your child, if need be. This is done out of love, not contempt. As hard as it is for liberals to understand, but we discipline our children, once more out of our love, and attempt, to show them right from wrong.</p>
<p>If we didn’t love our children, then we’d not discipline them…we’d simply just not care, plus, if you pay attention, this is but one more cog in the destruction of our great Country…</p>
<p>The destruction of the FAMILY UNIT!</p>
<p>How many children today…don’t know their father?</p>
<p>How many women today, don’t know who the father OF their child is??</p>
<p>How many women today are REWARDED for havin children? The more ya have, the more you’re paid!</p>
<p>Once again, we’re fundin our own demise. It’s our tax money fundin these…lotto winners. The more children ya have…the bigger your lotto jackpot!</p>
<p>You have the right to keep and bear arms! This IS non-negotiable!</p>
<p>Finally, you have the right to believe in, and worship God…but this too is under attack, isn’t it?</p>
<p>Contrary to remarks made by our president…America was founded as a CHRISTIAN Country.</p>
<p>We are…ONE NATION UNDER GOD!</p>
<p>America…GOD DID shed His grace on thee, and…IN GOD, WE TRUST!</p>
<p>Look up…I promise He will not put on you more than you can bear. He’s with you 24-7.</p>
<p>I know it’s tough. I know I see the goings on in our Country, and you betcha…it ticks me off, but first and foremost, I try to keep the faith, and trust in God.</p>
<p>Perhaps this will help you as well, so…stand firm.</p>
<p>God Bless, and “Keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart.”</p>
<p>Doug and Lucky</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning guys! What’s up? Heard a story yesterday of a little boy, maybe seven years old, sittin on the street corner tryin to sell a lawnmower. A man of about 45 came pedaling up on a bike. The man &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1670">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! What’s up?</p>
<p>Heard a story yesterday of a little boy, maybe seven years old, sittin on the street corner tryin to sell a lawnmower.</p>
<p>A man of about 45 came pedaling up on a bike.</p>
<p>The man stopped, looked down at the mower with the  handwritten,“4-sale sign,” hangin off it, and asked, “Is this your mower, does it still run, and why ya sellin it?”</p>
<p>The little boy replied yes to the first two, and then said he was sellin the mower to buy a bike.</p>
<p>“Hmmm…” the man thought. “You know, I don’t ride this bike much, and I do NEED a mower…Tell ya what, I’ll swap ya my bike for your mower, and we’ll both have come out ahead here today.”</p>
<p>The little boy agrees immediately, but asks, “Mister, can I take the bike for a test spin?”</p>
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<p>The man said, “Yes, of course ya can, and may I start the mower?”</p>
<p>The little boy replied that this would be just fine, hops on the bike and starts circling around the cul-de-sac, happy as a lark!</p>
<p>Meanwhile the man, his face red as a beet, CONTINUES to tug on that mower rope, but the mower hasn’t even attempted to fire off. It’s been a good five minutes or so, and he’s getting a tad aggravated with the dern thing.</p>
<p>He hollers out at the boy, “YOU SURE IT’LL CRANK?”</p>
<p>To which the little boy, who by now is happier than a pig in slob over his stroke of good fortune, hollers back, “Yes sir, she sure will, but ya might have to cuss her just a little.”</p>
<p>“Cuss her a little,” considers the man, then he hollers back out, “Son, I cain’t cuss her a little…I’m a preacher! Shoot, it’s been so long since I have, I don’t even remember… HOW to cuss???”</p>
<p>The little boy shot back, “Just keep tuggin on that rope preacher man…it’ll come back to ya directly!”</p>
<p>Reckon how you’d have reacted?</p>
<p>Myself, I’d just been tuggin on that rope, smiling the whole time, tellin that little feller just how PROUD I was that he was ENJOYIN that bike so well…</p>
<p>Most of my friends, at least the ones who’ve known me for several years, will attest to the fact, that I AM HARD…to get flustered!</p>
<p>NOT!</p>
<p> LOL!</p>
<p>I was reading last night, not really anything on my mind to speak of, and ran across a few things that kinda jumped out at me.</p>
<p>It was talking about a vineyard that had been planned, laid out, and constructed.</p>
<p>This was to be a beautiful vineyard, a vineyard whose vines would never want for anything, and would bear fruit abundantly.</p>
<p>The vineyard grew, and the owner settled in for his harvest of sweet grapes.</p>
<p>The vines though, produced only sour grapes.</p>
<p>Again, the owner had provided any and everything to get this particular vineyard to the point where, down the road, it being a great garden, actually…the “perfect garden!”</p>
<p>Yet, although the vineyard did produce, its fruits were bitter, and not of any type of quality.</p>
<p>The owner was so distraught, so angered by this, that he declared…</p>
<p><em>“Now let me tell you what I’ll do to my vineyard;</p>
<p>I will tear down its hedges and let it be destroyed.</p>
<p>I will break down its walls and let the animals trample it.</p>
<p>I will make it a wild place where the vines are not pruned and the ground is not hoed,</p>
<p>A place overgrown with briers and thorns.</p>
<p>I will command the clouds to drop no rain on it.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>This story of the vineyard is actually a song about “The Lord’s Vineyard,” with the vineyard actually representing…the nation of Israel, God’s chosen nation&#8230;</p>
<p>It is told in the Book of Isaiah, Chapter 5.</p>
<p>Israel had turned away from God, stopped doing God’s work, and because of this, was destroyed.</p>
<p>This was God’s punishment for their sins, allowing Assyria to conquer and destroy them.</p>
<p>Also during the prophet Isaiah’s time, Israel was divided into two nations, Israel and Judah.</p>
<p>Judah had been spared for the time, and Isaiah evidently had come as a prophet for mainly Judah, but his word was for Israel also.</p>
<p>This “song,” was to warn Judah of the consequences it faced, and eventually it received from the Assyrians as well…</p>
<p>When people see no distinction between good and evil…</p>
<p>Destruction soon follows.</p>
<p>This statement is so true in so many different ways, yet look around you today.</p>
<p>Do you recognize the Country you grew up in? </p>
<p>Do we still display an outward appearance as a nation with morals, integrity, compassion, patriotism, and strong Christian values?</p>
<p>How bout people coming freely, openly, and LEGALLY, to experience what the United States of America represents…a nation where ya get outta something, what ya put into it?</p>
<p>You work, sacrifice, save, and through this, in your own way live out a dream. A dream to better yourself, and your family.</p>
<p>“The American Dream.”</p>
<p>The dream that let you lay down a foundation acquired through a hard, honest, work ethic that allows your children the opportunity to start their own careers, possibly a rung up the ladder than your start.</p>
<p>This…to be your legacy.</p>
<p>What legacy do far too many leave their children today?</p>
<p>A legacy of what others work for is in fact…yours too.</p>
<p>An e-mail from a good friend today, explains it much better than I.</p>
<p>It simply states….</p>
<p>1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.</p>
<p>2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.</p>
<p>3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.</p>
<p>4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!</p>
<p>5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.</p>
<p>So, the legacy today we as Americans leave to our children and grandchildren, is a legacy brought about by our government. </p>
<p>A legacy where our Country owes YOU something, not, you owe our Country a debt, simply because of the freedoms it has provided for us…all throughout our history.</p>
<p>Our legacy today is simply…</p>
<p>A legacy of entitlement.</p>
<p>Without getting further off into this particular topic, let me ask you this?</p>
<p>Is our Country today heading down the same path of Israel, and Judah?</p>
<p>Could be.</p>
<p>Parents killing their children. Children killing their parents. Children killing children.</p>
<p>Religious freedom becoming a thing of the past to many.</p>
<p> Leaders of our Country, many whom have never known God.</p>
<p>Dr. Benjamin Carson speaks of “Godless leaders.”</p>
<p>Listen to him…</p>
<p>Christian morals questioned, or even ridiculed. </p>
<p>Looking back on history, does any of this story, the story of Israel and Judah sound familiar?</p>
<p>Could be.</p>
<p><em>HE will send a signal to distant nations far away and whistle to those at the ends of the earth.</p>
<p>They will come racing to Jerusalem.</p>
<p>They will not get tired or stumble they will not stop to rest or sleep.</p>
<p>Not a belt will be loose, not a sandal strap broken.</p>
<p>Their arrows will be sharp and their bows ready for battle.</p>
<p>Sparks will fly from their horses hooves,</p>
<p>And the wheels of their chariots will spin like a whirlwind.</p>
<p>They will roar like lions, like the strongest of lions.</p>
<p>Growling, they will pounce on their victims and carry them off,</p>
<p>And no one will be there to rescue them.</p>
<p>They will roar over their victims on that day of destruction like the roaring of the sea.</p>
<p>If someone looks across the land, only darkness and distress will be seen;</p>
<p>Even the light will be darkened by the clouds.</em></p>
<p>Could this be possible in regards to our Country, and the path we’re headed down, through reverse racism, political correctness, the destruction of a work ethic, indoctrination of our children through a school system no longer educating…but advocating.</p>
<p>Advocating an agenda where right is wrong, and wrong in fact, is right.</p>
<p>An agenda…of entitlements.</p>
<p>Once more…</p>
<p>When people see no distinction between good and evil, destruction soon happens.</p>
<p>Could this possibly be the end result?</p>
<p>Actually…</p>
<p>It could be…</p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God bless you, and yours!</p>
<p>Be sure to 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! What’s up? Been hangin out with a “younger crowd” over the holidays, thus, the “what’s up?” I’d be willing to bet the last gatherin I was at there wasn’t a single person there over 50?? Seems I’m &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1649">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good morning guys! What’s up? Been hangin out with a “younger crowd” over the holidays, thus, the “what’s up?” I’d be willing to bet the last gatherin I was at there wasn’t a single person there over 50??</p>
<p>Seems I’m becoming “the old man” at more and more of these gatherins! May have “winter” settin in on my head, but I’ll be derned if I ain’t STILL got some “spring” in my rear-end!” It’s all in your attitude, course that Ensure stuff don’t hurt either! LOL!</p>
<p>I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and in doin so, I hope you remembered the REAL reason for this…our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. </p>
<p>I was sittin here this morning, checkin out the headlines. Pretty depressing anymore, wouldn’t you say? </p>
<p>Let’s take a gander at just a few…</p>
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<p><strong>A School in Texas Using Tracking Devices to Insure Students Staying On Campus…</strong></p>
<p>Maybe it’s just me, but don’t you all find this very…unusual? How bout just plain offensive? What gives anyone the right to have access to your child’s whereabouts through…surveillance?<br />
Ya reckon this might possibly be…un-Constitutional? </p>
<p>Oh, sorry, I forgot, our Founding Father’s that laid out the moral principles that are the backbone of making our Country so great in the past, and so appealing to all the masses that have immigrated here through the years, are in actuality…old, rich, white men thoughts.</p>
<p>With this being the case…who needs the Constitution, right? </p>
<p>Those dern Progressives, how in the world have we gotten along without them all these years? </p>
<p>Could this maybe be one more indoctrination of our youth that the Progressives see as an opportunity to instill the “idea” into our youth that, you know what…what DOES it hurt that THEY know EVERYTHING about us? Jus sayin…</p>
<p>Listen up guys…UNTIL, we take back our educational system…nothing is going to change. </p>
<p>Until WE decide that our children and grandchildren are going to once more receive an education (imagine that), our liberties and freedoms as we know them will simply continue to disappear! </p>
<p>I’m speaking craziness you say? Well, okay, I’ve been labeled MUCH WORSE than that before. Sadly, many times for some pretty good reasons too! LOL!</p>
<p>I know a lady who’s become a dear friend, by accident, which by the way at times ARE the best kind, who lives on the “Far-left coast.”</p>
<p>Our first contact she expressed she had a lot of the same political views that I have.</p>
<p>My first thought…”poor thing, living in California, and having many of the same conservative views as I? </p>
<p>Now there’s a good example of some poor child that just HAD to have been dropped on her head while still a youth.” </p>
<p>Yet, after speakin with her, and her assuring me that this wasn’t the case, but in reality she HAD BEEN a liberal during her youth, I stopped feelin sorry for her, and just HAD to hear the reason for her political “change of heart.”</p>
<p>It was quite simple…once she went out after college, got a job (oh, the mere thought of work is so, so, “old-fashioned” anymore, huh?), she realized after looking at what “Uncle Sam” was taking out of her hard-earned paycheck… “Good night, that’s A LOT!”</p>
<p>Case closed.</p>
<p>Our youth are easily influenced, people. Don’t you remember growing up? We were too, at least I know I was.</p>
<p>“Miss Warner,” my old high school French teacher, yeah, I took French (not to learn the dern language, but mainly to spend an hour out of the day checkin out Miss Warner! LOL) heavily influenced me. </p>
<p>That woman could have told me to “pass a football,” and I’d have only asked for…time enough to “swaller the dern thing!” </p>
<p>Yep, lookin back now, I was pretty easily influenced!</p>
<p>Seriously though, we have to start teaching our own youth that nothing is owed you. Not a free education, although I feel this perfectly fine if awarded to a youth, ANY youth, black, white, brown, or yellow, who excels in their studies. </p>
<p>Affirmative Action, No Child Left Behind, and all the other “political think-tank programs” that are advocated today by our elected leaders…have simply got to go!</p>
<p>Then, the amazing thing to me, is still the fact that we have people here in our Country, actually MASSES of people today in our Country, who think these same political leaders they vote for, election after election, actually give one hoot in hell about them???</p>
<p>Why not, instead of allowing our school systems to dumb down our children, indoctrinate our children to the Progressive mindset, and create even further, the mentality of…gimmee, gimmee, gimmee, simply start once again…to give our children what they’ve gone to school for in the first place. Like maybe say…an education?</p>
<p>We don’t have to, and SHOULD NOT, lower our educational standards to fit into the “Oh look, we had a 90% graduation rate last year. Isn’t life grand?”</p>
<p>Well, pardon me folks, but I don’t consider our seniors graduating high school with a 5th grade reading level as…being “very grand” at all??</p>
<p>Let’s take a look at another “piece of news” that simply enforces my belief on this matter.</p>
<p><strong>Obama Re-elected by an Illiterate Society…</strong></p>
<p><em>Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.</p>
<p>He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia.  Obama&#8217;s fools and Stalin&#8217;s fools share the same drink of illusion.<br />
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That’s a real eye-opener, huh? Not the statement itself, but actually WHO made the statement!</p>
<p>PRAVDA!</p>
<p>It goes on to say…</p>
<p><em>President Vladimir Putin could never have imagined anyone so ignorant or so willing to destroy their people like Obama much less seeing millions vote for someone like Obama. <strong>They read history in America don&#8217;t they? Alas, the schools in the U.S. were conquered by the Communists long ago and history was revised thus paving the way for their Communist presidents.</strong> Obama has bailed out those businesses that voted for him and increased the debt to over 16 trillion with an ever increasing unemployment rate especially among blacks and other minorities. All the while promoting his agenda.<br />
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I’ll just add to this that our media plays a major, major part of “our ignorance” today as Americans as well!</p>
<p><strong>Black Friday…</strong></p>
<p>Well, we’ve all seen the reports of this, huh?</p>
<p>People brawling, shoplifting, mass chaos, even deaths??? What kind of society are we living in today??</p>
<p>Nuff said!</p>
<p><strong>Recession in 2013?&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>AH…ya reckon?? </p>
<p>Good night people, you cannot continue to eliminate jobs in our Country, spend money as if it grows on trees, although when you have the ability to print money, maybe it really does grow on trees, huh?</p>
<p>Over 16 trillion in debt, and growing daily mind you, with the TRUE jobless rate in the US being 16-20%, adding more and more Americans to the “Nanny State” teet. </p>
<p>How could you possibly NOT have thoughts of recession on your mind, especially when your leader states… “We’ll SPEND our way out of debt!” </p>
<p>Good sound economic logic there, wouldn’t you think?<br />
NOT!</p>
<p>Oh, now I get it! Just see above statement on an illiterate society.</p>
<p> I see…you see? </p>
<p>Then, in our last look at some headlines, our good friend, Sandra, sent me a link. Perfectly expresses today’s sentiments of our Progressive society!</p>
<p><strong>Jamie Foxx: &#8216;Our Lord and Savior Barack Obama&#8217;</strong></p>
<p>Don’t believe me…Google it. It’s there….</p>
<p>http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior#ixzz2DKou43ep</p>
<p>His actual statement goes like this…</p>
<p><strong>JAMIE FOXX: First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.<br />
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Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/11/26/jamie-foxx-calls-obama-our-lord-and-savior#ixzz2DLE61M2b</p>
<p>Umm…umm, people. Kinda scary stuff, that. </p>
<p>Day of reckoning coming to Mr. Foxx, not unlike any of the rest of us, although I feel much more secure in MY OWN beliefs than putting any faith into Mr. Foxx’s statement!</p>
<p>Sure hope he has a change of attitude prior to his meeting our “True” Lord and Savior!</p>
<p>In closing today why not think about the song verse, “America, America, GOD shed HIS grace on thee!” Pretty appropriate, don’t you agree? </p>
<p>Don’t kid yourself though, our liberal counterparts understand fully how much a “thorn in the side” our religious beliefs and freedoms are in regards to their Progressive agenda, and it’s because of this they attack our religious freedoms so vehemently!</p>
<p>“THE WORD,” speaks quite clearly of false prophets and false prophesies, and in today’s world, we hear of each quite frequently. </p>
<p>Discrediting our Christian values is literally a MUST DO in order for their political agenda to continue. As long as we have religious freedom…we have FAITH!</p>
<p>NO FAITH, equates simply into…NO FREEDOM.</p>
<p>The choice is our own…</p>
<p>As for me, I’ll take Faith and Freedom, hands down…EVERY TIME!</p>
<p>Sandra also sent me this, this morning as well. It too is very appropriate in today’s message…</p>
<p><strong>• You shall have no other gods before ME.</strong></p>
<p><strong>•  You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who LOVE Me, and keep My commandments.</strong></p>
<p>You guys have a great day, and God Bless! Also, how bout keeping a smile on your face, and one in your heart! Deb would love it!</p>
<p>Dub</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well guys, I’ve gotta say that when I pulled up today’s headlines, I was shocked. No, actually shocked is an understatement. In all reality…I was stunned! I went to bed at 9:30 last night and got up at 2 am, &#8230; <a href="http://ridinouttherecession.com/?p=1625">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well guys, I’ve gotta say that when I pulled up today’s headlines, I was shocked. No, actually shocked is an understatement. In all reality…I was stunned!</p>
<p>I went to bed at 9:30 last night and got up at 2 am, number one because I was tired so I went to bed early, but secondly because I really didn’t want to undergo the stress of watching the election returns. I figured I’d just get up, get on the internet and see that as a Country, we’d realized the terrible mistake of this past 4 years and redeem ourselves at the voting booth…until now.</p>
<p>I figured that after the citizens of our Country had witnessed such atrocious spending, and printing of money, and the massive borrowing by our political elite, that through our process of free elections, we’d right our ship…until now.</p>
<p>I figured that even though many had made the mistake of voting in “a person of color,” mainly because of guilt associated by actions that were taken so many years ago to suppress the “people of color” by others, that they’d now realize that actually none of these actions had ANYTHING to do with them, and that their casting their “sympathy” votes during the last election was in reality, wrong…until now.<br />
I really still believed that the citizens of our Country were smarter than making the very same mistake again, in regards to the associations in the past, and present, that our President had, and still has…until now.</p>
<p>I believed that, as a whole, our children and grandchildren’s futures were much more important to us than what our politicians obviously thought…until now.</p>
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<p>I believed that the freedoms and liberty this great Country of ours stood for, and represented to us, such as our “freedom of speech,” would be appreciated once more, and that we’d finally silence such absurd thinking created through, political correctness…until now.</p>
<p>Which by the way, this very same political correctness, AND our freedom of speech all allowed our political elite to misconstrue, turn around and twist, and misrepresent through wording, and by these actions, to finally use these very same freedoms to destroy our Country as we’ve always known it.</p>
<p>They literally used these very values to turn our world upside down, as law-abiding, taxpaying, hard-working, family oriented, and a Christian people (majority wise), into an agenda of everyone being equal. This IS…social justice, or social equality. Welcome…</p>
<p>I’d have never believed this to be possible in our Country…until now.</p>
<p>I’d never have believed, in the farthest stretches of my imagination, that we, as a Nation, could possibly ever elect a President that has shown such disrespect of, and towards our Nation’s Flag, the VERY SYMBOL of our freedoms, not just once, BUT TWICE, mind you…until now.</p>
<p>I never thought I’d wake up to find that our Country has been so totally blinded, through these so called, “entitlement programs,” that we’d literally vote in, again mind you, an administration that has any and everything on their agenda for THEIR power and greed to continue moving forward with absolutely NO consideration for, “We the People”…until  now.</p>
<p>I’d have never considered that by literally having to show some type of ID at a polling station, proving who you are, could ever POSSIBLY be seen as oppression against some class of people…until now.</p>
<p>YET, in renewing my own Driver’s license, I had to display my birth certificate, or NO license. To an extent I can understand this, BUT, not when I’ve had a Florida Driver’s License, in my possession for 40 years! Same license, same picture on my license, same guy in the picture.</p>
<p>I’d have thought that the simple right to vote, and the importance of your vote, in electing as a free society your leaders, would have much more significance, and I’d expect much more emphasis by our system to actually PROVE who you are, than say, your Driver’s license…until now.</p>
<p>I’d have thought that seeing what a monstrosity the entitlement programs have become, simply through the funding now required to keep them afloat, that “We the People” would overwhelmingly…toss the bums out. Until now.</p>
<p>I believed that the Health Care our administration shoved down our throats, and the horrendous implications small, and large business, even individuals such as yourself are now faced with, and now actually becoming enacted, would be more than sufficient to demand change at the highest levels…until now.</p>
<p>I always believed that we Americans, through our work ethic, our values, and our will to succeed, by only having the chance our Country provides for us in these regards, would ever allow any type of socialist movement to take a foothold in our Country, much less gain total power, would…COULD…never happen…until now.</p>
<p>I’d never have dreamed, here in our Country, that I’d EVER wake up and wonder…can I, as a small business owner…survive the next 4 years…until now.</p>
<p>I’d never have dreamed, that I’d live to see business in our Country, BIG business too, laying off people, cutting their employee hours below full-time status because of their own concern that they no longer know what these very employees are going to cost them through taxation, AND Government FORCED Health Care and regulation…until now.</p>
<p>I’d never have believed that the American people could ever not understand SIMPLE economics…until now.</p>
<p>One simple explanation of this is that IF you have a jar of money sitting on your kitchen table, as an example, and  you continue daily to go take a little out here, a little out there, but NEVER put any money back into your jar…eventually, the well runs dry. There is…no more money. </p>
<p>This is where we’re at.</p>
<p>The very people who consider it a right to get something for nothing, will be dumbfounded when “the jar” runs out of money, and their first question will be… “WHAT happened?”</p>
<p>Ah…geez guys…I don’t know??</p>
<p>In all honesty this morning, I have to say, I’m very glad God is in my life. Through him, and the strength I take from this, my life is still secure. He sees to this.</p>
<p>I never thought I’d ever say this, until now, but this morning I’m very glad, elated actually, that my dear Deb has left THIS world.</p>
<p>I say this because I believe in my heart, we as American citizens have a very tough road in front of us and by her being gone, I’ll not be worried in her regard. Personally, I can take whatever they throw at me.</p>
<p>Even if we’d have had a change in the Oval Office, our path as Americans, and the challenges that lay ahead of us would have been very difficult. Now…they’ll be EXTREMELY difficult.</p>
<p>BUT, the path that lays ahead for us is still…up to us. </p>
<p>It is not too late to exert our will. We simply have to face the adversity that will come, face it head on, and accept it for what it is. It is not too late to demand our own rights, to bond and support one another as believers in all the greatness our Country STILL provides for us.</p>
<p>It is up to us to BELIEVE in ourselves! To not take no as answer, and to still demand accountability by our elected elite.</p>
<p>I made this statement yesterday, and I’ll always know that it is entirely correct…WE, again WE, allowed all that has gone wrong in our Country to take place. </p>
<p>It’s not our politicians fault, although they are now in the driver’s seat, because of our inability to act as one, and snuff out the policies that they’ve enacted, and by our inability to act as one, their policies became more and more arrogant. This is human nature.</p>
<p>Complacency, my friends is our biggest strike against us. We, the silent majority…were silent far too long, and we now see we’re paying a very heavy price for it.</p>
<p>The game is not over though…not by a long shot, IF, we no longer see complacency as simply…not wanting to rock the boat!</p>
<p>Watch our politicians very, very carefully from now on. You HAVE to become a player in the game NOW, or, the game will soon be over.</p>
<p>Understand though, that using football lingo, we’re only fixing to start the second half…of the game! </p>
<p>There’s still two full quarters to play. Get involved, stand up for your rights, because no matter what our government would LIKE for you to believe, they are still just that…YOUR RIGHTS!</p>
<p>Let’s stop punting the ball, and go on the offensive for a change. We’ve got to start pounding, demanding action from our representatives, and by this…us gaining the initiative once again!</p>
<p>One thing about the “true” American people is that we have always have had a resolve to win. This literally is bred into us! Who likes to lose? Not me!</p>
<p>“We the People” are at our very best when our backs are against the wall. Our true character comes out, and we have the mentality we’ll ALWAYS win, with a no matter what it takes attitude! </p>
<p>Nothing is unattainable, and I STILL believe that our children and our grandchildren’s futures are far too important of issues for us to throw up our hands and quit. We will overcome any obstacles we have to face.</p>
<p>Yes, we’ll endure some tough times, but there’s also a saying that is very appropriate here… “When the going gets tough…the tough get going!”</p>
<p>To look at this any differently is so…SO…UN-AMERICAN!</p>
<p>I’M IN…how bout you guys? Just hold them accountable, and not accept anything less from them. By simply doing this, we’ll win the second half…AND the game!</p>
<p>Also, let’s all thank Judi and Brian, the Canada Free Press, and all the others out there just like them that have spent the time, effort and had the concern to bring us the TRUE goings on in our Country. Your work has been so appreciated by each and every one of us!</p>
<p>Please…keep it up!</p>
<p>God Bless you guys, God Bless America, and let’s keep her…”The Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave!”</p>
<p>Through it all, let’s keep a smile on your face, and one in your heart!</p>
<p>Dub</p>
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