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Is Ted Hayes the New Ward Connerly?
Los Angeles Sentinel , Commentary, Dr. Anthony Asadullah Samad, Posted: Jul 15, 2007
Editor’s Note: Republican and former homeless advocate Ted Hayes has become the ‘Black Face’ of the anti-immigrant movement. He is on record stating “illegal immigration is the biggest threat to Blacks since slavery.”
Illegal immigration reform is a salient issue in America today. Particularly among the Republicans who consider this issue “a border crisis.” Congress’ effort to legislate a solution was met with a last minute Republican filibuster stalled a viable solution to addressing the 12 million resident aliens in the country, a measured naturalization process for those who qualified. It was said that it was too much like amnesty. But now the Republicans have pulled out their latest secret weapon, former homeless advocate now Black Republican, Ted Hayes. Hayes, who came to the nation’s attention as a homeless advocate in the 1990s, has abandoned the homeless movement that has taken on a disproportionately African American hue (at a time when Los Angeles is the homeless capital of the nation) for a new “Black movement.” Illegal immigration.
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This is my Response….
Dear Anthony,
I read your article about Ted Hayes. Up front I am going to tell you why I think you are more destructive to your community than Ted Hayes could ever be. First, you use the sound bite “Colorblind” as if it’s a derogatory term. What is wrong about being color blind?
I am a white man and I am not a racist. So if YOU ask me to treat you differently because you are black, and I don’t, that doesn’t make me racists. I was raised colorblind. In other words I took to hart what my parents taught me and what Martin Luther King tried to teach you and your community; Don’t judge people by their race or gender just their character ability and talent.
Upon objectively reading your article I could initially judge you as a divisive spoiled elitist trying to prove something to someone, but I would need to meet with you in person to be certain of that judgment. Have you ever sat down with Ted Hayes? I challenge you to interview him as a man not afraid to be creative.
Why shouldn’t you and I hold people to the same moral, ethical and intellectual standards regardless of their race gender and religion? Why is your article replete with references to color and race? “White conservative “minuteman” protecting America from illegal invasion that assaults their “American values.” The Minutemen are Americans that comes in all strips; Black, White Asian, Vietnamese, rich poor, homeless etc etc etc… Why did you mislead your readers? Was it to manipulate the truth to justify your false premise: that the minutemen are racist? You go on to state that they want to protect their property. Don’t you believe in Property Rights? Or, are you one of those open borders communist that believe in taking from the successful and giving it to the lazy? Why don’t you tell your readers who is really paying the bill in this country? 10% of the most successful are paying 90% of the taxes? Instead of saying the richest 1% that owns 40% of the wealth, or the bottom 35% of Americans are paying no taxes at all.
Why don’t you believe in American Values such as family, faith and Country from which a comprehensive set principals such as less government, less taxes and more personal freedom blossomed. History shows Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan did more to preserve the Constitution, Liberty and Freedom than any Democrat in history. What was the result of their efforts? The emancipation of the African slaves and their offspring, which led to the 14th Amendment written by Republicans, Our Republican Generals MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower won both WWI and WWII. It was the Republicans that wrote the first civil rights laws and gave woman the right to vote, and are currently in the process of bringing freedom and liberty to the Middle East. Most importantly, we have defined and refined Free Market Capitalism; the most successful and compassionate economic system in the history of the world.
Did the Republicans abandon the Black American in the sixties? No, we are not the party who “sees groups” unless they are oppressed such as the Europeans, Japanese, Russians, Iraqis, Afghanis, and the slaves (all slaves not just black slaves). Once we shifted the laws from Big Daddy government to the strength and independence of the individual we created an environment for this human resource to flourish. However, the American Blacks fell in love with the Democrats that felt guilty about their past oppressive relationship and created the welfare state that inhibited personal responsibility and a strong family unit.
You, on the other hand, believe that your community is different and in need of special attention. Right? Republicans and conservative Americans believe that dependence on anyone is equal to slavery. Look at Iraq. Democrat’s main argument about surrendering Iraq is that we need to cut them loose so they can take care of themselves. I agree but not until we can be sure that they can fight off Al Qaeda and Iranians. Tony it time for you to join Ted Hayes and lead your community to independence instead of victimization, cut yourself loose from the shackles of dependency of the old and new slave masters the Democrats. Theirs is the party that thrives on using the Black community as a means to win elections. And what has come of this arrangement?
I am an 11th generation American. Mayflower and all that. My ancestors were immigrants. Immigrants are what built this country to what it is today. Africans and Asian slaves played a part in the construction of this country. It was ugly and a blemish but a fact nonetheless. Once the Republican Party was formed we sent 500,000 white boys and several thousand blacks to their deaths to liberate the slaves. Now look at how you are repaying us. By doing the bidding for the original slave masters the Democrats. American did away with slavery and we hold the basic values “That all Men are Created Equal” as a universal God given Truth. This Human Right is not given to us by the State, as the Democrats want you to believe, but given to us by God as the Republicans believe.
This is why we are so concerned about illegal immigration. On a side note Mr. Super Intellect, in order to further your cause of divisiveness you claim that Ted Hayes is purely against illegal Mexican immigrants. I have known Ted for 3 years now and this is the furthest from the truth. His main concern is the condition of his community… the poor and homeless, (race is not a factor) which is growing as a result of illegal immigration from below the southern border. (300,000 illegals are living in garages in LA County)
Blacks ARE being hurt by illegal immigration. But that’s not the point. OUR SOCIETY is being hurt by illegal immigration and it is a fact that Blacks are disproportionately being hurt the most. Why is that? It is this question where you should be directing your super intellect toward answering. But you don’t. Instead, you tear down others that are creative enough to devise a solution to the problem, but you don’t even try.
Now here is where I question your motives. It seems that you enjoy tearing down other people and their noble efforts so like-minded peers can laud you. I am a Music Producer and reject musical acts that I call mimickers – in other words, pianist who can play Beethoven’s 5th perfectly but can’t even write their own compositions to save their lives. Ted Hayes dares to be original and you just mimic the same old failed liberal rhetoric.
It is this mind-set that robs society from its true potential. I do expect you to dismiss this like a good communist would, but if you care about the idea of America and the 50 states and their citizens that have adopted it, then ask yourself these questions. Why, after 45 years of Democrat control over Black Americans have their not been any increase in the percentage of Blacks in the US population? Why have there been 35 million abortions of Black Babies since Roe vs. Wade? Why have Black Americans rejected God for the godless ideology of socialism? Why do Black Americans insist they are owed something as a race thereby separating themselves from the rest of American Society? Why is this not so for the Japanese or Chinese who look as different as any other culture? Is it because ALL American Blacks are descendants from slaves? That 200 years ago their brethren in Africa sold them out? How should I feel about your place in this country when I am not color blind, but you are? Anthony, why do you keep harping on other’s ideas when you offer no idea’s of your own?
Why shouldn’t all of us hold people to the same moral, ethical and intellectual standards regardless of our race gender and religion? We are all Americans… Right?
Jeffers M. Dodge
AFTER ACTION REPORT
Pro Immigration Anti-Illegal Immigration
March and Rally Sponsored by Ted Hayes
National Chairman of Choose Black America
THE LAPD WAS OUTFOXED… AGAIN
Ted Hayes Hero LAPD Patsy
by Jeffers M. Dodge
Reminiscent of Martin Luther King and Gandhi, homeless advocate Ted Hayes, who is now the National Chairman of Choose Black America, averted a nasty violent confrontation as he held back his hundreds of followers from entering Leimert Park that was being unlawfully occupied by the Nationalist Hispanic Reconquistas Movement.
This group threatened violence if the LAPD let Ted Hayes and his supporters who had permits into the park.
The LAPD, as you may remember, were victims of violent agitators from the same Communist Backed Hispanic group at MacArthur Park last May. This group again OUTFOXED the LAPD. As much as we support the LAPD we are saddened by the crisis of leadership from Chief Bratton that the rank and file has had to endure in the past year.
Ted Hayes and Choose Black America obtained legal permits from City Hall to hold a peaceful March and Rally at Leimert Park to protest the destructive effects that illegal immigration is having on wage degradation and Black Communities.
The Pro Immigration Anti Illegal immigration rally drew several hundred supporters and a quick reaction from the Nationalist Hispanic Reconquistas Movement who sent out press releases and faxes stating that Ted Hayes was teaming up with the KKK and the Minutemen to drive a wedge between the Hispanics and Blacks.
When asked Ted Hayes, stated that in fact he stands with the Hispanics who have obtained American Citizenship legally and with Cesar Chavez who himself was anti-illegal immigration. This is not a Black Brown thing this is about following the Laws. Choose Black America is about the civil rights that were won on the backs of the African slaves.
Last Saturday was a defining moment in the fight to save our communities, our schools and our hospitals. The consequences of the actions taken by the LAPD and City Hall, who gave Ted Hayes the permits in the first place, then denied his civil rights while protecting the Communists and Anarchists, and then, to add insult to injury, arrested him, is a shot that is being heard around the world.
Ted Hayes is the hero, he controlled his supporters, he chose the path of Martin Luther King and Gandhi and, like them, he was arrested to cover up the incompetence of City Hall.
Please visit Ted’s YouTube Website I set up for him at the following address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKg9SotZI
Dear Friends, Members and My Fellow Republicans and Conservatives,
It has been unusually hard for the Republican brand this year. The Dems have stepped up their attack machine and have been extraordinarily effective casting negative light on our Party’s name. I happen to believe they are knowingly risking our country’s security with their unrelenting attempts to undermine any Republican effort to uplift the American condition. Why? For fear of becoming irrelevant.
I say we need the Democrats. We need the competition, but what we don’t need is an opposition party that wants to embolden our enemies. The Democrats have taken a far left turn into the extreme outer edges of socialism bordering on Marxism. They want our country to fail so they can institute fascist draconian measures to force us into their distorted vision of utopia. God help us.
We are at war with three enemies: Islam, Illegal Immigration and the most insidious — the enemy within. They call themselves Progressive Democrats, Leftist and Liberals. What they have in common is they are all wannabe Marxist, fascist, leeches and looters that despise other people’s success while spending other people’s money. They are winning the battle by marginalizing African Americans, Hispanics and our poor through incompetent education and corrupt bureaucracy.
Folks, we have to fight back. We have to get our heads out of the sand and recognize they are beating us at Public Relations. The only way to do this is not by being reactionary but pro-active through marketing and promotion of our conservative values and principals. The same core values that built this great country: Family, Faith and Country and the same principals that have bonded each one of us together; Trust, Honor and Integrity, and the understanding that the surest way to prosperity is free market capitalism, as my friend Larry Kudlow likes says.
I would like to propose four things that you can do to help with this marketing and promotional effort. One; During this election season, give your time and volunteer several hours a week to local campaign efforts such as PopUpUSA. Two, if you can’t volunteer then contribute to local efforts such as this organization, which will be starting our own county wide advertising campaign this summer. Three; TEACH! At the very least you can call into progressive radio shows, write letters to the editors and get involved in the Internet. Talk to your neighbors and friends and start your own blog.
Jeffers M. Dodge
President LARA
Los Angeles Republican’s Alliance
(310) 841-0676
Innovation motivated by profit with honor saves millions upon millions of lives each year. Innovation motivated by forced altruism or the guilted sense of the greater good is an ideal that quickly loses its glamour when the benefactor of another’s goodwill gets all the glory. In a socialist world everything is equal and no one is treated differently except for the elite ruling class. In the Real world it is the innovators and the entrepreneurs that get treated differently, and rightly so. A lot of what the Left is so angry about is human nature that cuts across all ideologies. Greed is good if it has honor and the intent of socialism looks good on paper but has never worked. Socialism, Marxism, communism, nationalism has been responsible for more death by famine, forced labor camps and religious persecution than any Republic that utilizes free market capitalism in the history of the world.
Dr. Peeno should have lost her license for she clearly violated her oath and it was her action that caused that mans life. (See article on Michael Moore’s use of this woman as a weapon against America.)
It is profit with honor that has made America the most prolific country the world has ever seen in creating life-saving technology such as the medicine I am taking right now. Those that think by having our constitution changed to allow the government to compete with private industry is going to get a health care system that resembles King Harbor Hospital.
The socialist idea does not work, never has never will. Profit motivated innovation is the key to a successful society as long as it is done with honor.
Jeffers M. Dodge June 14, 2007
Lets start with Social Security.
The fact that many retirees are eating dog food is a testament to how destructive the socialist policies of Social Security, and Medicare really are. If in fact workers are forced to hand over $15 out of every $100 they earn, don’t you think it should be going into a “Lock Box” with their name on it? A lock box they own and have control over in regards to where the money should be invested to maximize return. For instance a mutual fund tied to the S&P 500, which has historically yielded over 9%. May I refer you to a web site that outlines the “Rise Up Theory of Economics.” Here you will be amazed at how the government has been ripping off the workers of America while using basically the same principals outlined in the Rise Up Theory.
For example, a worker earning a minimum wage during his career lifetime of 45 years that is compelled to set aside $15 for every $100 he earns will have accumulated over $1,000,000 when he retires receiving a monthly check of $10,000 each month until he dies. He can leave as an inheritance the million dollar nest egg to anyone he wants.
Compare the current system where the government takes from the worker $15 for every $100 he earns and pays him, when he retires, less than $1,800 every month until he dies. And that’s it! No inheritance nothing! The government gets to keep all that money. Now as we all know American Black’s average life span is 67 years old, the same age as the Social Security retirement age so statistically Blacks are not on an equal footing with other races (Asian life expectancy is 87 years old). This is called institutionalized racism and has been going on ever since the Democrats put Social Security into law.
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Global Warming may be true but what is defiantly not true is the allegations that humans are responsible for it. That, my friend, is the sole providence of the sun. (buy video) Humans do contribute to air pollution and acid rain and a whole bunch of nasty environmental stuff, but not global warming. The whole idea of Global Warming is no different than the Global Ice Age scare of the 11960’s or the over population scare that lead to the population decline of today. Global Warming is nothing but the Left’s answer to Global Terrorism, just another bumper sticker slogan. Just a way to raise money.
The irony is the that if both Democrats and Republicans can come together on the Global Warming issue we can achieve a cleaner environment while at the same time lessen the threat of from Islamic Fascism. How? Find an alternative source of energy, which will, in essence, cut off the funding our enemy and at the same time cut down the use of fossil fuels.
Now the only threat to global warming is currently Iran acquiring and using a nuclear bomb. Now that’s Global Warming.
The Gang problem is simple. Both parents have to work and the kids have no place to go after school. The reality is that California has spent billions on programs such as “After School Care” but the money never made it to the kids. There might be facilities but no one to run them or there might be “After School Care” facilitators with no facilities. One thing is for sure is there are plenty of people in the “After School Care” bureaucracy. WHERE IS THE MONEY!
Think about it. The money the government spends on the “After School Care” bureaucracy coupled with the hard costs of Gang violence, police, jail, courts, hospitals, vandalism, and loss of productivity is more than the loss of income to a family where both parents have to work but one of them stays home to properly parent their kids.
We need a federal audit of the State and Local taxpayers allocations to social programs to keep kids away from gangs. Where is all that money is going. Now if the last generation were able to utilize the Rise Up Theory of Economics then this generation of kids would all be going to private schools in a brand new Cadillac. So fighting for Entitlement reform utilizing Rise Up Economics (the other half of “Trickle Down Economics”) our inner city kids would get a better education and better jobs, which means a decline in gang membership, less crime and ultimately less poverty and significantly less spending by our government.
Drug Prices are low in Canada and elsewhere because the Government buys the drugs in bulk from US Pharmaceuticals. These countries have very high taxes in order to buy this quantity. These country’s health care systems are socialist systems where you have to wait 8 months to get an ulcer operation. The have poor access, and poor quality and you get what you pay for. Our health care system by comparison is the best system in the world. It has the best access and the best quality in which you have to pay a little more. The trick is to have a good insurance policy.
How do we get all working citizens a good health insurance policy? Again, I bring you to the Rise Up Theory of Economics. As you contribute 15% of your earnings into a “Lock Box” under government regulation a small portion is subtracted from the aggraget amount every quarter. When you are 21 years old and just starting out that may not be very much but according to the insurance actuaries you are not going to get sick very often. As you get older and your income goes up then so does your contribution to your insurance premiums. The result – every working American has health insurance. Let the free market be free!
Illegal immigration is an interesting set of issues. Consider this. Since Roe vs. Wade there has been 45 million abortions. When you extrapolate that over the same 30-year time period America would currently have 150 million more workers contributing into the current entitlement programs. Consider this other fact. During the 1960’s the leftist forces in America decided to take advantage of the liberal sweep going on in the country and created a movement called feminism. Well it was good intentioned but went to far to the extreme.
The unintended consequences were that our strongest and best woman decided that they wanted to compete with men instead of having babies. So now we have a declining birth rate, except for the Hispanics that are having big families (God Bless them). These migrant workers are in essence the replacement babies that we whites and blacks did not have or killed in the womb. If it wasn’t for the immigrant Hispanics, who would pay for the Social Security benefits of our ageing society? George Bush recognized this problem and tried to reform the entitlement system but got smeared in the process.
So look what the Democrats have given us… Feminism – no more babies, abortion – kill the babies, and big daddy government with an ever increasing entitlement handout that is going to bankrupt this country in less than 10 years. Is this there master plan?
After saying all this we have several very big economic problems with mass immigration. We have wage deterioration, which is affecting the jobs that Blacks currently are doing, and the dilution of the American culture. 99% of illegal immigrants don’t know what America is all about, nor do they care. All they know is we are the best country in the world and it used to theirs and they want it back. If they are successful the west coast is going to look like Tijuana… which most of L.A. already does. CLOSE THE BORDERS until congress works out a rational immigration bill.
1. Militarize the border RIGHT NOW while our Politicians reconvene with the Special Interests lobbyist to revamp their expectations. Also, start construction on the 800-mile fence and train twice the number of current Border Guards.
2. Enforce existing laws: Sue Employers who hire illegals and quadruple the fines.
3. NO Sanctuary Cities/Pass a Law: cut off Federal Funding immediacy to all cities that have made it their policy. Sue City Officials who disobey – after all this is a “Federal Problem.”
4. Deport all Criminal Illegals including those with j-walking or parking tickets.
5. No Citizenship for babies born of illegals
6. Tamper proof ID for all Illegals, granting NO Rights, solely for identification, deport if no ID
7. No Social Welfare for illegals
8. No loans, credit cards, or U.S. bank accounts for illegals
9. TEN YEAR Moratorium on all “unskilled” immigrants
10. No chain immigration, no Z Cards, no over-extended Visas.
FIX MEXICO SO THEY CAN LIVE PEACEABLY IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY!
These Ten Commandments were written by an anonymous blogger at Steve Frank’ CA political News and Views. I agree with the Ten Commandments and have made a couple of modifications to the original which you can view by clicking here.
Just an objective observation… We need human replacements for the 45 million abortions since Roe vs. Wade (a socialist value). When extrapolated our Country is down 150 million workers needed to support the socialist entitlement programs which will bankrupt the U.S. in 10 years. Forget Global Warming, this is the real threat. Wait until next years California Budget squeeze due to our pension liabilities. Rational immigration must account for the population deficit. This may be one reason all our politicians are seemingly in denial about the immediate ravages of illegal immigration. Our county’s population stands at 300 million. Our entitlement programs would be in trouble if we go back to 280 million.
The Politics of Fear
Where in the course of human history has the collective human existence not used fear to create a better society? The Liberal concepts of Global Warming uses a false premise that declares that the debris of man is absolutely causing the spots on the sun, which in turn is creating the warming of the earth, while ignoring the fact the debris is a residue of fossil fuel that is firing the engines of human existence. What’s more, the Right is just now realizing that the dollars we spend on fossil fuel is funding the most destructive enemy on earth. The same enemy who has testified to use another great source of energy that will cause a more ominous cold spell – the nuclear winter.
When is this going to stop? I know – when the Right joins the Left to ask nicely for the Islamo Fascist to put down their guns and join the 21st Century. NOT… The only way the socialist faction of Democratic Party has a chance of winning in the ’08 Election is by creating an equally terrifying and catastrophic fantasy of Global Warming to stir the outrage of their constituents, thus emotionally guilting them into contributing tons of cash to their dark cause: bring down the west in order to create a more perfect utopia.
So in essence this is a battle between Socialism and Free Market Capitalism, the difference between a godless ideology and a system dependant on family, faith and patriotism.
Unfortunately the Socialists are winning. They keep our county polarized and off balance by incrementally taking over our media and schools. They fight to maintain our self-destructive entitlement programs and encourage their expansion by herding in the Mexican invasion and keeping our schools poor. They develop anti-war movements all over the world, consciously siding with the enemy of the Free-Market West, encouraging appeasement and waiting for the aftermath of chaos. Once their puppets are firmly in positions of power and in control of the world’s strongest military they will execute a sinister plot to wipe out the one last evil religion: Islam.
As idealist and the protectors of the U.S. Constitution we Conservatives just want to be left alone so we can produce and enjoy our families. But we are too successful and our treasure is the lure of the scum of the earth. I call them “Looters” and the modern Socialists have fine-tuned the art of looting by effectively transferring the power and the wealth from the people to the government they control.
So how do we fight this insidious enemy? Just relying on truth, reason and faith is no longer enough. One technique may be to disarm them by hijacking the Global Warming issue. If Islam gets control of a nuclear bomb then you can bet there will be Global Warming much sooner that the Socialist anticipate. And as we all know the only thing Islam produces beside terror is oil which we cannot live without and which we pay dearly for. So in essence we are funding our demise.
If we were to join the Democrats with their Global Warming issue and declare our independence from foreign sources of energy then we can cut of the funds to Islam. With this plan we achieve several things. First we achieve less carbon output by developing alternative sources of energy. Second we marginalize Islam and their well funded quest to convert the world to Islam. And finally by forcing a reformation of their religion we have taken away the only tools the Socialists have creating a wedge between the West and the Muslim civilization.
Here is a fact you will never see in the socialist controlled media: If Islam laid down their arms the world would live in peace. I bet you didn’t know that 95% of all wars on Earth are due to the unwillingness of Islam to assimilate into the societies that lets them in. They are the aggressors and the resistors to classic liberalism.
The surest way to facilitate the reformation of Islam is to reduce the use and cut our dependency of fossil fuel hence reducing Global Warming. This is where an unlikely Alliance of the Left and the Right can achieve the end to both Global Warming and Global Terrorism. – Jeffers M. Dodge April 7, 2007
There is a way to achieve the end of hunger. It starts with fiscal reform right here in the United States. Yes, we are the wealthiest country in the world, and there is a reason for this; it’s called free market capitalism within the framework of the U.S. Constitution.
Nowhere in world history can you find a more successful system as ours. It is time to shed the fiscal policies that have proven over and over and over never to have worked. I am speaking of the socialist welfare policies written by left wing politicians who would be out of work if poverty did not exist.
A good example is the payroll tax of every worker in the United States. The socialist elements of our tax system takes $15 dollars out of every $100 dollars you earn and delivers it to the entitlement fund. Our government, both Republicans and Democrats, seem fine with collecting $900 Billion per year in these taxes while only paying out $600 billion dollars to individuals in amounts that barely pay the rent. Where does the balance go? Nobody knows.
Now if you were to put that same mandatory $15 into a government regulated lockbox with your name on it under your control in terms of where it is invested (such as a government guaranteed diversified stock fund) you would retire a millionaire with a minimum $10,000 per month interest check and a million dollar nest egg that you can leave to your children after you die. And this is if you were to make minimum wage for 45 years.
Now here is where the end of poverty comes into play. When you set up your Living Will you can leave your nest egg to your children so that they can have permanent health care coverage, the best education, auto and life insurance and never, never go to bed hungry.
It doesn’t stop there. By shifting the $15 tax out of the public coffers and into the private sectors generates more capitol to expand business in terms of market share. When a business grows it needs educated employees who in turn pay taxes to the federal government. The result is a huge decrease in government spending and a huge increase in government revenues allowing the government to reduce taxes putting more money into the pockets of the citizens allowing them to better educate their children so they could get better jobs. This would result in less crime, less gang membership, less homeless and significantly less poverty.
The only problem with this is it will mean less government jobs which means the end of purposefully perpetuating poverty to make people permanently dependent on government employees to keep them poor.
This system of failure and corruption can be best illustrated here in Los Angles. We have a 70% dropout rate in our high schools. We have 120,000 gang members armed to the teeth ready to loot every jewelry store in LA as soon as there is a Katrina like catastrophe. There are only 9,000 police officers. Crime is on the rise. Our Mayor thinks it is a better idea to spend $2 billon dollars on planting tress in the LA River than to hire more police officers. Homelessness is at an all time high of 90,000 in the streets of LA County, and there are 300,000 illegal immigrants living in garages breaking all kinds of civil building codes. And speaking of illegal immigrants 90% of all outstanding murder warrants in Los Angeles is for illegal immigrants. Our schools, jails and hospitals are beyond the stress points because of illegal immigration. But I regress…
Charity starts at home. We can best take care of the world if we take care of our selves first. In terms of foreign policy why feed the dictators and tyrants the goodwill of the American people if all they do is keep the money? Why should the most compassionate nation/people on earth stand by while these same tyrants and dictators kill their own people by the millions through neglect and corruption?
Why would anyine choose not to help the family next door if there was a bad man looting their property and murdering their kids?
The world has change more in the last 35 years than in all time before it combined, because of one thing. The innovation of individuals who live in free countries with the United States in the lead by a huge margin. Technology is bringing awareness to an ever-shrinking world. How are we going to put shoes on all those kids? We need business to develop new materials, cleaner methods of manufacturing and newer means of distribution so these children can go to school with good shoes on their feet. The innovation needed to do this is bred only in free societies with free market economic systems not centrally planned socialist economies.
A good example of this innovation is the Internet. Look what it has produced. One great idea is Micro Loans. A company called Kiva has a website that acts as a loan broker between poor working people in third world countries and people that want to help. Here is a quote from there website. “Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, you can “sponsor a business” and help the world’s working poor make great strides towards economic independence. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates from the business you’ve sponsored. As loans are repaid, you get your loan money back.”
This is innovation at its finest – that only a free market can create. I love it.
Our system works theirs doesn’t. Face it conservative economic polices have created the most compassionate economic system in the history of the world. It is time to shed socialism because there is absolutely no example of its success anywhere in the world. Never has never will be.
If you want to discuss this with me please email me at Jeffers@thirdplanet.tv.
And that my friend is all I have time for…
Jeffers
I love to write — it is so therapeutic. It exercises my brian and occasionaly I write something original and good. The below comment was sent to me by an individual whose is obliviously disappointed on the way his world is turning out. I attempted to answer him with a rational but firm jolt of reality. Help me find someting to say to help bring some order to this man’s life.
I am going to call him Demi, and below is his email to me:
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:11:34 EDT
Perhaps a good example of “capitalist economics” would be today’s announcement by Circuit City that it is firing 3,500 workers and will allow them to re-apply for their jobs in 10 weeks at a lower salary. ALL THIS WHILE THE TOP EXECUTIVES RAKE IN MILLIONS. That’s how loyal, hard-working employees are rewarded under “capitalist economics”.
So-called capitalist economics is decimating the middle class which has built this country and made it great. The soul of this nation has been moved from Main Street to Wall Street so that the soulless bansksters and corporadoes and global multi-national profiteers can enrich themselves while the rest of us suffer —- a kleptocracy if there ever was one.
But there is some good news —- the man and woman in the street are beginning to realize they’ve been had and they will rise up and challenge these outsourcers, these exploiters of cheap labor. The K Street Project and the Project for a New American Century will soon relegated to the scrap heap of history, and this administration will go down as, by far, the worst in the nation’s history.
My answer;
Thanks for writing and sharing your views. Although, from my perspective a little harsh. The fact that a company is going through hard times isn’t any concern for you. The fact that they employ 45,000 people doesn’t matter to you. The fact that the government not only taxes Circuit City on its income but also taxes the money it pays to its employees is not part of your equation. Your emphasis on those 3,500 people who lost their jobs makes me believe that they have all been given a death sentence.
All comforts you have are innovated by people, manufactured, marketed and distributed by entrepreneurs under the rules of free market capitalism and none of it by government. The only products that our government has any control over is students and here in Los Angeles a 70% high school dropout rate amongst minorities is not a good record. With an undereducated workforce where else are we going to get good labor? Overseas.
Since we are talking about globalization in terms of free market capitalism, lets examine diplomacy. You insist that we talk to our sworn enemies, and elicit help from our global allies to avert wars. Yet, you are so insistent on oppressing developing democracies by not outsourcing from a country that is fully employed.
Our government is built on protecting Free Market economics. Our Government was not instituted to compete with people, nor telling people how much profit they can or cannot make.
If our government were to hire a thoughtful person like yourself to tell corporations how to spend their money how soon do you think it would take for Circuit City to completely close up shop? Not to mention the potential and probable corruption inherent in that kind of power. From you lack of objectivism I would not want you telling me what to do.
What about Barbara Streisand charging $250 a ticket? She makes $100 million a year while most of her crew gets minimum wage.
Minimum wage earners, if compelled to save 15% of their wages, could retire a millionaire and live comfortably on a monthly $10,000 interest payment. But because the Government compels them by threat of imprisonment to fork over 15% of their income to them for so called entitlement benefits, the worker only gets$1,300 per month upon retirement. Where is your sense of fairness or justice in this, the biggest governmental scam in history.
You are not considering there are 300 million people in this country 6 billion world wide. Where do you think they are going to get their t-shirts and tennis shoes? There medical treatments and there fresh water? From Castro?
There is only one economic system that has proved it can feed all its people while providing a good living for all. So criticize it all you want but we are not a socialist nation and in fact it is socialist policies that are killing this Country. If you don’t believe me look at Social Security, Education and Immigration issues.
Where is the compassion in that.
I respect your passion but I think it should be directed toward things that really matter like education, crime, gangs, homeless and poverty.
