Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo's Open Salon Blog

Answer to Andrew Leonard’s Article: Paul Ryan's plan

Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:04:55 -0400

Answer to Andrew Leonard’s Article:
Paul Ryan's plan to erase the Great Society

Dismantling it has been the right's goal for nearly five decades, and now they have a blueprint to achieve it

Andrew Leonard

WRONG THAT IS NOT THE GOAL!

The goal of both Obama and the Tea Party fascists is the utter decimation, destruction and end to unions, the working classes and reduce the population to fewer than 100 million people ASAP.

The Voluntary Army eliminated drafting everyone and exposing the ceaseless wars to continue without the protests of draftees, making it even more easy to use the Patriot Act to turn everyone who protests into a "terrorist".

Skyrocketing gas prices, no job availability, no banking earned interest the planned mortgage fraud will take down even the wealthier middle to upper middle classes and the stress of being unable to afford health care will wipe them out before they "get-it" and arm themselves and start killing the rich and war criminal politicians.

This is only marginally about eliminating Johnson's and FDR's policies, it is about a kill-off of larger proportions that killing off 25 million buffalos to begin the genocide of the ten million American natives.

In 25-50 years the remainder of the middle classes will be sitting in a reservation in Harlem, Chicago and what is left of LA, as the children of the wealthy pass through guided tours, where tour guides say, “these people actually worked at jobs at one time before the Fascist Uprising. They were too stupid and materialistic to see what only a few did, so they are here living in squalor while the few who did “get-it” exited to Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Australia and Dubai.

LETS CREATE JOBS AND INCOME, NOT BULLETS AND BOMBS!

Sun, 4 Apr 2010 19:04:50 -0400

(David Elias, ProfPete's Arts and Literary Agent, here. I am posting for Pete, but since he will be away out west, and the rest of the staff and his colleagues are busy and there is no one to mind/manage the COMMENTS, you may rate if you wish, but I have shut off the comments.

PS: Pete says Happy and Blessed Easter To All!)

LETS CREATE JOBS AND INCOME, NOT BULLETS AND BOMBS!

After passing a watered down health care plan the Democrats, But only a small and shameful token of what they once were in the days of FDR, are now acting out their attraction to avarice/greed with even crimes against the elderly, the helpless and the least fortunate, and even against you Mr. and Mrs. Middle or Upper Middle Class, yes I mean YOU!

There is right now little difference between what the unenlightened Bush Crowd did and what the Obama people are trying to do. The Constitution wrecking Military Commissions Act of 2006, still stands as a poor testament to the depths our congress fell to under Bush, and supported by many Democrats. The even more devastating Patriot Act which destroyed nine of the ten articles of the Bill of Rights has been reenacted by Obama, Gas prices have more than doubled since December 2008 (when they stood at $1.44) when Big oil and Wall Street commodities speculators. dropped the prices and let them languor at $1.44 per gallon, frightened and not knowing what to expect, fearful of the greatest move of president Jimmy Carter, when he capped oil prices at $8-$10 a barrel and established a Windfall profits Tax upon them, which I urged, Obama to do as well.

I could go on about the wars, still raging and there are threats to other nations by the US, prices on gas, insurance, food all rising, and incomes intentionally lower, what American do not need is anyone tampering with their Social Security and Medicare, and yet that is Exactly what they are doing in Washington, and surprise it is no not the greedy Republicans, proposing it, but the Democrats. And the betrayal goes on!

That’s right, you guessed it they are lighting out after your lifeline, a drive to “reform” Social Security. They are, thanks to people like Rahm Emanuel, cutting your Medicare and Social Security benefits, instead of taking the advice of many to focus on reducing War Spending as the war and Oil debt places you - Mr. and Mrs. America, $19 Trillion in arrears, going from Bush’ blowing of Clinton’s $5.9 Trillion Surplus on No-Bid Contracts to his pals, to the sad Debt shown above.

The goal of those who want America to reduce its population long term, (The Bilderberger Plan. Did you know that Oprah has joined the Bilderberg’s?) is to undo everything FDR put into place and reduce the debt of the United States by any way they can even if it puts the lives of the elderly and the Three classes below the very wealthy, in eminent danger and under severe stress. And yet they keep on spending… and on what, on killing brown people, specifically brown Muslim People. Killing Muslims, even innocent one’s, is what is called Fundamentalist “Christianity” in Action.

According to the NYT The New York Times the impetus behind Obama’s health care bill, goes, is to reduce Medicare by$ 500 billion dollars over the next 10 years and will introduce a number of “innovative ways of delivering health care.” That comment is Orwellian to say the least. The new health care? “Health care rationing,” offering less, for higher premiums, is the basis of Obama’s health care plan. More people will be indeed covered and more Insurance Companies will profit mightily.

Dr. Donald Berwick, Obama’s new appointment in heading the push was discussed, is that he plans to, plans to cut benefits by at least ten percent this year. Dr. Berwick’s health care philosophy, is and with no bones about it, cut, cut. He loud replace many surgeries with “treatments’ instead, regardless of what the attending physician thinks. Problem is I would not count on your physician to be the beacon of truth, they on average each take $13,500 in perks from drug dealers. (the Pharmaceutical companies which these days nothing more than pervasive, toxic, addictive drugs and they have much in common with street drug dealers and ore than likely cripple and kill more of their drug users than do street dealers as well.

You can bet it is yet another trap to force inoculation, steroid injections, and dangerous drugs as “Treatments,” instead of surgical cure’s. “Treatment” is Orwellian doublespeak for Emanuelspeak meaning “let them die off," but in his usual language.

I carefully read the original plan, and for once, and just that once, Mrs. Sarah Palin was close to correct, subtle, and slow, something resembling "Here is How Much They Are Worth, So Under Treat Them Panels," are an end reality of the format in mind from Obama and Dr. Donald Berwick, but often in a slow and subtle manner. If you won’t take their offers of inoculations of possible toxic drugs, you may find coverage and doctors unwilling to extend you other options. To prove for instance that you cannot take a certain drug because of Chemical Sensitivity or allergies, you may be forced to prove it by taking the dangerous drug and dying or becoming vegetable from the forced “inoculation.” On that, again for once, the Republicans are on target, though their plan is not much of an improvement. It seems to some Americans, especially those in Congress, the Presidencies of late and those who exempt or do not offer to enlist in Military Service, love spending money aimed a killing others from foreign lands, but not so much to save their American brothers and sisters.

Thus rationing of health care and “reforming” of Social Security are the goal now of both parties. Many whose comprehension of the small print and between the lines of the “Healthcare Bill” say it is going to “rid” the nation of an additional 12%-15% of the elderly and the handicapped each year.

Some are broadcasting to give Obama a thorough political beating in 2010. A beating at the polls for being traitors to FDR’s and Jesus’ view of how to treat others, may be just the thing they will never forget. That is at least my plan, and I am a fourth generation FDR progressive. I will vote straight independent in 2010, and if need be in 2012. The New York Times says, in no uncertain terms, that Obama and his medical “Hit-Man” Dr. Donald Berwick will slash Social Security benefits as well by 10%-15%.

The NYT says, “Central to the health care changes are hundreds of billions of dollars in reductions in Medicare spending over time... As some administration officials acknowledge, that effectively takes those fast-growing entitlement programs off the table for deficit reduction just as Mr. Obama’s bipartisan commission to reduce the mounting national debt gets to work.

“That leaves Social Security, the other big entitlement benefits program and one that Mr. Obama has suggested in the past that he is willing to tackle. While its looming problems are not of the scale of those afflicting Medicare, it now stands as the likeliest source of the sort of large savings needed to bring projected annual deficits to sustainable levels, many budget analysts agree.”

“...packaging future reductions in the retirement program [Social Security] that Democrats zealously defend with tax increases that Republicans typically oppose would have the makings of a grand compromise to shrink the debt.”

This will mean that the plan to gradually raise the retirement age for the not yet retired Social Security candidates is catching on. I say slash War spending instead and do as promised, bring the troops home. But Mr. Emanuel does not want them home, he owes his wealth to the wealthy and he wants the oil, the coverage for Israel, and all of the money he and his friends can bank by giving Wall Street just what it wants. He wants the Republican votes in 2012. What about you? These reductions, the NYT says, are necessary because “...the promise of future reductions would immediately reassure global markets fretful that the United States’ debt is already its highest since World War II.”

Therefore The wealthiest investors, are pressuring the U.S. to pay them back, not in inflated dollars but above the inflation in regular year 2000+ dollars. Obama’s giving the $2.3 trillion to the rich not the poor, was simply an indication of his cowardly, evil direction, Judas-like Betrayal of those who voted him into office. Obama is going to force you, the working people to pay this debt back, not the rich, or Wall Street. Obama reveals himself to be the Anti-FDR, and at the same time replacing Bush as the newest version of an Anti-Christ. It would appear to some observers that Obama and Bush are joined at the hip and head, ObamaBushites?

Keep in mind that the middle and lower classes pay 6.2% of their income for Social Security, however, the wealthy pay at the low end 5% - 00.005% depending upon how much over $107,000 they make, of from 17%-20,000% less than you pay.

The President of the AFL-CIO Richard Trumka offers a prophetic view, one of which Jesus might be proud, in saying, "The best way to fix the deficit is to create 10 million jobs now — the number of jobs needed to close our jobs deficit. This will require large amounts of public investment in the short term, which should be paid for in future years by taxing Wall Street. In addition to creating jobs for Main Street this tax will also curb short-term speculation and other Wall Street abuses that caused this recession."

My plan to pass a bill mandating R-30 Insulation in walls and R-50 in ceilings and Geothermal HVAC in new construction and remodeling and offering tax credits and other financial incentives, would create millions of Jobs, and taxing Outsourcing Union scale Plus 15% would produce large incomes, and between 7.5- to 11 million new jobs for the middle and lower classes. Energy is expended 24/7/365 in homes and businesses and only a few hours a day in auto's. We need to jump start the housing and remodeling markets and put people to work. More workers, more investments and expenditures, more tax dollars, a better economy for all.

But it will take men and women of impeccable integrity and action to take to the streets by the millions and support candidates of any party which are Progressives and no longer support Candidates who pretend at being Progress during campaigns and, like Obama and many others they lie and side-in like the unethical avaristic, cowards, they claim to despise, who are the very people which lavish lobbying cash upon them- the criminal Super Rich who are trying to destroy the Middle Classes and the poor.

It is only unaffordable when the money is for the Middle and lower classes, it is always affordable when the money is going to the already rich.

Doing so, is like shooting off their noses to spite their own faces, by diminishing their markets. Obama and his followers are among them as Super-Rich wannabe's to dynastic wealth, thus betraying the very people who voted them into office. The war has cost us $19.3 Trillion and the Health care plan $845 Billion, so end the wars and put 1/3rd of that money into Medicare and Social Security and we will save $9.4 trillion.

LETS CREATE JOBS AND INCOME, NOT BULLETS AND BOMBS!

Is Facebook Inappropriate For Minors?

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:03:02 -0400

Is Facebook Inappropriate For Minors?

Wake Up Mr. Mark E. Zuckerberg, and Notification to; Aaron J. Greenspan, Tyler, and Cameron Winklevoss Et Al and all parents::

By-Professor Emeritus Pete Bagnolo and Professor Charley Mattucci

FROM THE FACE BOOK TOS:
“Membership in the Service is void where prohibited. This Site is intended solely for users who are thirteen (13) years of age or older, and users of the Site under 18 who are currently in secondary school or college. Any registration by, use of or access to the Site by anyone under 13, or by anyone who is under 18 and not in secondary school or college, is unauthorized, unlicensed and in violation of these Terms of Use. By using the Service or the Site, you represent and warrant that you are 13 or older and in secondary school or college, or else that you are 18 or older, and that you agree to and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.”

In my opinion, this space should Not allow children! Oh, not that it is pornographic, or degenerative, but it is more a lingering, underground and threatening, lying in the weeds, sort of danger for the Health, welfare and Safety of Minors and women, and of late for some men. It brings up nightmares of a burgeoning of the kind of bloody Serial murderers, rapists one sees on the Criminal Minds TV show where crazies begin using Facebook to set up and entice victims

The whole "Friends" structure here at Facebook is ridiculous and dangerous not only for young people; but also to females and others of any age. Facebook asks one to befriend someone they know very little to NOTHING about. Many of those people offered as friends have much of their Bio’s/profiles and histories hidden unless and until befriended. People using alias’ are rampant.

In order for me, an adult, to make a friendship, I must have more knowledge of a person, their philosophies of life, their beliefs, their likes and dislikes, their many preferences. Why on earth would you befriend anyone without knowing anything about them? Personally I want to first see their bio, who they are, what they stand for, a photo of them, their REAL Name, not some silly avatar made up name, or cartoon picture and their age. My standard is if you are not 18-21 you should not be on Facebook and any adult with a drop of commonsense not knowingly befriend anyone under that age. Why are many people not showing their real names on Facebook? From what or whom are they hiding? Have they no courage? Are they a danger to others? How would Facebook know that in order to protect the interests of those which are members? And why do people share publicly the most intimate details of their lives and habits?

Further, people who spill their personal information are sitting ducks for con-artists, scammers, blackmailers, Trolls, predator’s, whether men or women and other greedy or malicious whack-jobs of which this planet, this nation has far more than their/its share.

One more thing, people on Facebook are allowed to join if they over Thirteen (13) years of age? Join at 13? With their elders? Are they crazy? Are their parents Crazy? Are they even aware, if not they certainly ought to be, or do they really even care? Preposterous! There is too much danger for those under age on such sites and younger people should neither be exposed to nor involved in matters of older generations. Children should not have a presence on a site inhabited by adults. There are several sites for children already and they ought to be closely monitored if they are not already by parents and law enforcement, and getting law enforcement at the Federal level to oversee spaces like Facebook, is my goal.

Minimum age for Facebook ought to be 18 or 21, whatever the legal age of consent is. The Founders of this site need to do some ethical homework before they find themselves in legal or even criminal hot water. There has already been at least one attack on a gal of 17, by a man of 33 posing as a 19 year old who raped and murdered her, after having met her on face book. I say no children on Facebook! Instead send them to the several Children's versions of Facebook for those beneath the age of 18/21 and do not allow contact with those who are adults. Further Facebook and all such social websites should verify ages of its members or be liable for any harm coming to those below the ages of consent, which depending on where one lives may be 18 or 21. I also believe that the age of consent ought to be raised to 21. Perhaps there should be a division separating those in Primary school from those in High school in addition to the one restricted to adults.

However, Facebook is not the only site which allows both adults and children to be members. The congress should create a national law restricting the ages of those on various sites into at least three categories, Primary school up to age 14, High school up to age 18/19, and college 18/21 and older. Where are parents when children are chasing each other around the internet, and adults, psychotics, and perhaps serial murderers and rapists are disguised as their peers? Do parents allow 13 years old children to attend bars, strip clubs, night clubs, gambling casino’s? Why have do people have children if they do not intend to care for and protect them? Why do they allow children to attend places where harm could befall them? One has to be 25 years old in many states to run for political office and 35 to run for president, and yet parents expect children to make decisions, that even foolish adults lack the common sense with which to deal?

Sadistic, careerist, prosecutors, whose ambition overcomes their common sense/grace, love to prosecute children as adults. They see such prosecutions as a snap, so I say raise the bar a bit and perhaps we can be rid of such ambitious, sick, fascists, and deal with underage people who commit crimes as those whose minds are not yet fully developed. Remember that there are a great many very sick people having children, and those children grow up to be as, or more sick than their parents. Today a great number of parents still in a marriage abandon their children to nursery schools or baby sitters in order to live a more materialistic life, have a house and autos that will impress.

If the Bush generation has taught many Americans one thing; it is that everything is always about the money to a growing number of people. Since FDR passed from the scene we have learned, as we purview presidents and congress-people, governors, legislatures of states, cities and towns, that corruption is as rampant in politics as it is in the business world. There are two reasons for that, those who aspire to political office are mainly either wealthy, or wealthy-wannabes ruled by avarice and believe me in the world of business, avarice/greed and corruption is, even among many of the clergy a dominating factor

Parents are often a part of that avarice and even in many households where one parent makes enough money to support a marriage easily, the other does not stay at home to care for the children. No, instead both work to push their lifestyle to measure up to those of the celebrities they appear to worship and emulate. Money, appears to be more important than sanctity or the proper upbringing of their children and more important, of greater priority, than doing the Right thing, which many confuse with making more money, with which to liven their collection of snobbish collection of material things. And trust your instincts on this, even the most unworthy among us, are snobbish and judgmental of others, especially those they envy the most. The flip side of snobbery, which is both an offense and defense, is envy, and low self-esteem.

And let me add that stopping the wars and organizing, at a fraction of its cost in time, personnel, and money on Health Care and Protecting our children is far more important that enriching further, the oil companies, arms dealers and Criminal No-Bid Contractors. By-the-way, a Public health care plan, of which my above suggestion would be a part, would over 25 years - (a single generation, a quarter of a century), cost 1/10 (10%) of the wars America has ill-advisedly waged since 2001. It seems that the same bloodthirsty people in America, want again ad a gain to punish others with death and destruction and still want to call themselves Christians.

The present war has already run more than twice the length of the last World War, WW II, and cost fifty times more! And yet the treasonous Conservatives and their blind followers would rather spend twenty times more money killing people from another country and them wasting more than ten times as much rebuilding it, than invest far less, in healing people of their own country? How foolish is this? Do these voters think they are immune to illness?

In terms of the dangers to the too-young, the naïve’ and the reckless and their parents, here are few examples of what should never have occurred, were it not for the selfishness of those who are profiting at the expense of victims and the many more to come attributable to social websites, is minuscule, that figure, unless such sites are under the watchful eyes of those honest members of society will Burgeon, in just a few years. I suggest a Cabinet Level Office Of Internet Surveillance be established and manned. Social Websites can be a very dangerous place for anyone.

1)-Peter Cartwright/Peter Chapman, a 33-year-old allegedly a registered sex offender, pretending to be 19 years old, raped and murdered 17-year-old Ashleigh Hall in the fall of last year. He was found guilty and sentenced to 35 years in prison

2)-One Woman, an aunt of two underage girls, asked: Are there age restrictions on Facebook? My 10 and 12 year old niece & nephew are on there & I want them off!!!? Apparently there was no oversight on Facebook. Are they simply taking a persons word for their age?

3)-In addition, 13-year-old girl allegedly had sex with 22 year old man, and though she lied about her age, saying she was 18, he was convicted of rape. The man with which she had sex, went to her father to tell him of the situation after the 22 year old fellow found out that she was not of legal age and as a result of his honesty in revealing himself, was indicted. This case should be reopened. The same girl it is alleged, had sex with a 24 year old and he was convicted and imprisoned for five years. Many feel that Her parents ought to have been the ones held responsible for her actions, not the men she dated. I would not give her or them the satisfaction of visiting her site, but she is a child and her parents ought be cited, in my opinion. Talk about injustices? How could a thing like this have happened in America? Reread the entire article if that is still a question.

Other cases were noted to have included a girl who was 14, pretended to be 20 and had a faked ID to prove her age, which also got her drinks at a local bar and grill. This is a regular occurrence I am told. This case, however, was not related to Facebook. I bring it up as evidence that not even a driver’s license is viable. In a way this may be a good thing, perhaps it will reduce adulterous sex and the spreading of disease, or it could more likely, result in a worse thing, more rapes, more murders, more STD’s, more pregnancies, more abortions.

In any event if Facebook and other such social websites don’t clean up their acts maybe the FEDS ought to enact the restrictions I list above.

Footnote::
One more thing, those who oppose Health care remind me of Dead Beat Dad’s, and of Men who profit from the selling of poisonous toxic items imported from nations which have even less conscience than some of the slimier American Commercial criminals, some of which include The Legalized, Toxic Addictive Drug Dealing Pharmaceutical Companies (TLTADDPC) and their pushers, the ad agencies and some of the many physicians who profit on average $13,500 in perks from the TLTADDPC.

TWIMC:

Since, veterans here know, from past experience, Prof. Peter B. Is on his annual expanded Spring/Summer vacation, and I am up to my ears in research, so there is no one here to mind the store/answer or read comments, so please excuse the Closed Comments deal it is done out of necessity.

C. M.

WIILL THE SECOND SHOE OF THE DOW FALL?

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:03:54 -0400

HOW SOME AMERICANS MADE A FORTUNE WHILE THE MARKET CRASHED, AND CAN DO SO AGAIN!!

THE DIAMONDS ARE INDICATORS REPRESENTING THE DOW. THE SPYDERS ARE INDICATERS REPRESENTING THE FINANCIALS AND THERE ARE OTHER INDICATORS FOR THE FINANCIALS. Ask your broker what s/he thinks.

How a handful of people made a fortune in the recessions of 1987,early 1990's, 2000, and 2008, by foreseeing the crashes, shorting and rebuying and how all of America can do the same thing setting off a rousing economic revolution that will yank control away from corporations and allow the middle classes to rule America, because those criminal slavers at the top have no clue.

Money is the addictive drug of choice of Executives and Board's of Directors who in colusion, manipulate the Stock Markets by the systematic conspiritorial looting of the publicly traded stocks of their own corporations. These men and women, who rape and hijack corporate profits of their companies for their own profits Re: Golden Parachutes, Incredibly high salaries, bonuses, pensions, and other multi-billion dollar perks, make the Mafioso Loan Sharks look like the Good Guys. They should all join Mr. Maddoff or face life imprisonment. But we can with the help of some needed regulation, beat them at their own game.

MY Method of “Stimulating The Economy

FDR bought some companies out and redirected their management replacing some, put the companies on the road to profitability and when they rose in stock price sold them at profit to the Treasury of the USA. He also gave the bulk of cash to people with minimal Net Worth to spend on durable goods and investments. He did so with jobs he created.

*FDR's method with Some New Augmentation

This may work: Instead of a "stimulus" to the already rich and greedy, which has NEVER made the market move. I'll put my winning hand where my mouth is, shorting SPYDERS, DIA, and other indicators .

The correct stimulus is NOW to give $1 trillion to all families of gross incomes of under $1,000,000. They will spend or invest thus stimulating buying and jobs, by paying off debts, mortgages, credit cards, or buying autos and other durable goods for which the stimulus will mandate.

Then Congress must tax the Bejeepers out of Corporations which are Outsourcing jobs overseas and charge them with treason if they do not comply, and then cap oil at $20 per gallon, and hit the oil companies with a retro active Windfall Profits tax on the $2.3 trillion in excess profits made from 2001-now and into the future.

Following that, mandate part of the cash as rebates for installing Geothermal HVAC and R-30 insulation in walls and R-50 in Ceilings of all new Construction, to grow the sustainable buildings market and all rehabilitation. They should them ban use of OSB board, and Vinyl siding because the way to make quality housing is not to use inferior materials, but to lower profit margins.

Let’s end the reign of "Builders' and offer bonuses to Architects to build and develop on bidded-out construction to three or more contractors bidding on every trade and service, rather than using a one crew construction system which is the hallmark of greed. Further the government should cap land prices at $3,000-$5,000 per acre, thus effectively banning avarice and profits of 300%-2000% on land much of which caused the crash.

This saddled buyers with huge tax bills because “Builders” mandating of placing huge square footage minimums which drove up prices, wasted materials and forced real estate taxes even higher, most of which were wasted by communities of luxuries and silly purchases. Real estate taxes should also be capped by a Constitutional amendment. Communities waste money on frivolous and silly purchases as well as on salaries of mayors, governors and boards of trustees.

Further we spend only an hour or two in our autos each day, but we are we are running HVAC in our homes 24/7/365 and THAT is where the grants and savings should focus. The government is looking through a narrowed lens when it comes to energy savings. The Government also must mandate this energy savings plan; Have the entire nation on Daylight Savings Time in which 9:00 AM begins at sunrise in each time zone, this will save billions of dollars in energy costs.

Now let us beat the corporate theives by:
1)-Having all board members be financial academics like Paul Krugman, or FBI specialists in finanaces, instead of hand picked, reciprocating, pals and sympathizers. The present structure of publicly traded corporations in RACKETEERING at its theiving worst.

2)-Limiting executive Compensation Packages to 25 times the average employee salary including those of outsourced jobs employees as well as employees of independent contractors.

LASTLY

Just before or just after the DOW Hits 11,000, if/when it does, will be the time to consider Shorting. The Call is yours. We saved our entire savings by pulling out even our IRA's in Spring 2008 and began the shorting research in August 2008. Watch and be vigilent, or you could lose yor shoes a second time. My Finger is poised over the Short Button between now and the 11,000 mark DOW. If it fails to crash, you lose nada, nothing, if I am right again, you can make a fortune shorting.Its your money, so ask your broker or think for yourself. Again, the Call is yours.

PS:GM is mired down at about $00.5625 as of Last Friday. Under the symbol MTLQQ.

THE WHITE HOUSE, VALERIE JARRET AND I

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:01:52 -0500

The above Hero (FDR) gave his very life for us. Were he still alive he would be tearful as his sacrifice is spit upon by the present administration.

Like many of you perhaps, I received this email from the White House.

" --- On Mon, 1/11/10, Valerie Jarrett, The White House wrote:

Dear Friend,

As the first year of the Obama Administration concludes with the State of the Union, the White House is inviting Americans across the country to connect directly with some of the President’s senior advisors. Through WhiteHouse.gov, these leaders will report to you on their work and answer your questions on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re heading.

Every morning this week at WhiteHouse.gov, you’ll find a guest blog post from a senior advisor talking about the progress the Administration has made in a particular area. Then, in the afternoon, that advisor will host a live video chat with the public where you can ask anything you want, or just tune in and see what’s going on.

Here’s the schedule we have planned:

Monday, 3:30 EST: Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate, discusses the President’s push to create the new clean energy economy.
Tuesday, 3:00 EST: Ben Rhodes of the National Security Council discusses the President’s handling of national security and foreign policy.
Wednesday, 12:00 EST: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will talk about health reform, from how far we’ve come to how reform will benefit American families and small businesses
Thursday, TBD: The nation’s first Federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, will join Norm Eisen, special counsel to the President for ethics and government reform, to talk about all the ways in which the President has changed Washington.
Friday, 1:00 EST: Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, talks about the President’s primary focus on restoring the economy for all Americans and creating jobs for the American people.

Stop by WhiteHouse.gov to read all of the posts, join the chats, and find any updates on times. As the President likes to say, this is the “People’s House,” so we want to open it up and make sure you know what we’re doing to bring the change America needs.

Sincerely,

Valerie Jarrett
Senior Advisor to the President"

HERE WAS MY REPLY:
Dear Valerie:
Well, I made an error, as we all do at times. We had hoped, for the good of those less fortunate than we, that B. Obama would strive for the ideals of FDR, instead he has striven for the ideas of the President we thought was the worst in America's history, Mr. Bush. We are sorry to say that after several generations of being FDR Progressives, we feel the party has deserted the ethics, morals and empathy of FDR, for celebrity, dynastic wealth and association with the worst in our society, the avaristic, Military, Medical Industrial Complex.

I do not swallow the falderal spewed by talking heads, I instead do research and here is what I have found and far more:
1)-In December 2008 gasoline was at $1.44 a gallon, now it is approaching for the third time since, the $3.03 level. Now, many people cannot even afford to drive to work.

Faced with similar circumstance Jimmy Carter nipped that in the bud with an $8-$10 cap on the price per barrel of oil as well as a Windfall profits tax. Apparently this president has not the will to do that, but if not, if he brings me to the White House and gives me the authority, I will do it for him at no cost and he can blame me. God will protect me from the Military Medical Industrial Complex by bringing me home with Him. I am not afraid of the bastards and they cannot "Lobby" Me. (Translate to they cannot bribe me or scare me because I do not seek dynastic wealth and am protected by my lack of avarice.)

2)-We are still fighting two wars which we, the people of the democratic persuasion, never wanted, against a shadow make believe set of “bad” guys, ala an Orwellian nightmare for those of above average insight.

3)-The Military Commission’s Act of 206, which gutted the Bill of Rights, and the Patriot Act, which damaged our beloved Constitution are not only still in place but have never been mentioned since the election.

4)-Fearless FDR used the Executive Order tool to shame congress into submission, this president seems to be allergic to the Executive Order idea and seems to fear the congress almost as much as he fears the Military Mecical Industrial Complex, I do no fear either.

5)-Taxing Outsourcing Corporations Union scale + 15% for each employee overseas and for each employee of their sub-contractors would perk the job market and pay for healthcare so we could add every living person in the USA to Medicare.

6)-Forcing the incompetent “Builders” of America to use R-30 insulation in walls and R-50 in ceilings and offering grants to those who do so in remodeling and for switching to geothermal HVAC, with Solar Shingles, an energy free system, in new construction and remodeling. This combination is a virtual 24/7/365 answer to the energy crisis, which this president seems to be too timid to tackle. Perhaps he is fearful of incurring the wrath of the Oil industry? Poor Fellow. My recommendations above in #5 and here in #6 would add more than 1,000,000 jobs in short order.

7)-Instead of making the people who are to blame for this mess, pay for their stupidity and avarice, this president in true Bush fashion, rewarded them for their greed and incompetence. In contrast, FDR invested most of the money in incentives directed at infrastructure and building and put millions to work. He also fought and won against high energy prices, but then he was a prophet, not the type who sees where his bread needs to be best buttered for his own future. Capping raw land prices and "builders" profit margins (which instead of an architects 8%-12% profit, "builders" tack on 100%-500% while using inferior materials in home building. We should also be nationalizing oil, water, and the Drug industry which is what Jesus would do, because it is the kindest and most empathetic and logical thing to do.

8)-I would like to know who is profiting by the once defunct and now a $100 million and # 1 in the world in opium sales and why haven't our troops burned the Illicit opium crops. They are certainly easy enough to spot when in full red bloom from the air and documentaries show the army looking at them and commenting that they have no orders to burn them and so they walk on by, doing nothing. Where is the $100 million going? Where is the opium going? How very evil is that? I cannot believe that the president believes in God. Is Obama related to Mr. Bush?

Do you expect a people driven from their jobs, taxed out of their homes, and seeing their water "Privatized," and being beset on the one hand by scabs workers who are not even citizens, being fed toxic drugs, by greedy physicians, having their children hounded by drug dealers, both illicit and corporate, do you expect such a people to remain loyal to the Democratic party, which like the Republicans, now also, does nothing but fatten their own bank accounts?

Perhaps, you are an advocate of Margaret Sanger and wish to deplete the world population, starting with us, by 85%-90%. Perhaps you are listening to fools instead of to prophets? Well, no wonder, there are a far greater number of the former than the latter for the ill-discerning to page through.

I could go on, but I am no longer a fan of this president, he is not my idea of a worthy apostle of FDR. I would have preferred Mr. Spitzer, or Mr. Sharpton or Mr. Jesse Jackson. He will be a one term president, but if not he will win without a vote from this household unless the eight points above are properly addressed and adjudicated.

As of a several weeks ago, I will not vote for him in 2012, and am rather sorry I did vote for him in 2008.

Extremely disappointed, Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo

PS: Please do drop by again real soon, I do so enjoy these homey, fireside chats.

PS:PS: I am giving Mr. Obama, for whom I did vote, no less lip than I gave Mr. Bush, for whom I did not vote, but now feel as though I did, but in 2008, while he was disguised as The candidate for which I thought I was voting .

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