THE ENTERPRISE--TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY--A THREE-STEP PROCESS
THE "POSER" IS STILL IN CHARGE: THESE THINGS SIMPLY WILL NOT GO AWAY--WHERE THERE IS SMOKE, IS THERE FIRE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
WHO IS THIS MAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED PRESIDENT FROM OUT OF NOWHERE?
Anyone who goes to such extreme measures to hide his background MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE!
WHAT'S HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS? HERE'S "JOB KILLERS" LIST COURTESY OF IBD
Download IBD--What's Holding Back The Hiring
A CORRESPONDENT SENT ME THIS INFORMATION--WHY THE OBAMA ADMIN JOB PROGRAMS DON'T WORK!
"Obama has the lowest percent of people in his cabinet with business experience of any President in history. After all, for Socialists, Capitalists are the enemy." MY REPLY WAS: "Which is why they are clueless and wrongheaded on any and every jobs program.
They never made a payroll except on the backs of taxpayers."
ANYONE WHO THINKS RETAKING THE HOUSE IN 2010 WILL FIX THINGS IS WRONG!
There is a three step process spanning the next 2-1/2 years if we are to retake our Country from the misguided Democrats in Congress and the "Phony" who is our President, the ONE the mainstream media and moneyed interests convinced so many uninformed Americans to elect.
STEP ONE: RETAKE THE HOUSE--GAIN THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS THAT CONTROL THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA
The keys to power in the House lie in the hands of the committee chairmen who are the senior members from the majority party. It is in these committees, or rather out of these committees that new legislation emerges. Whichever party controls them, controls the initial source of legislation. But taking control of the House is NOT ENOUGH! WE MUST ALSO RETAKE THE STATE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS THAT WILL DO THE "REDISTRICTING." These decisions set up one or the other party for advantageous districts in political makeup. I don't know with certainly, and am not sure how other states do it, but in OH I believe the key spots that control redistricting are the Gov. the Sec'y of State and the Auditor.
STEP TWO: RETAKE THE SENATE--BUT A SIMPLE MAJORITY IS NOT ENOUGH EITHER
It now takes 60 Senators to truly control the Senate, by stopping filibusters with cloture, because filibusters are the only means the minority party has to stop legislation. The Democrats are trying to lower this again, to 55, to meet their current, short term needs. This could backfire if "We the People" can retake enough of the Senate. This is unlikely to happen in 2010. It will take another round of wins in 2012. Even if the GOP controlled the House and had a small majority in the Senate, the Democrats will filibuster bills endlessly. The few that make it through will be vetoed by Obama! And there will be far from enough Republicans to over-ride his veto. Thus, nothing much will happen. Gridlock will be the order of the day for the intervening TWO YEARS!
STEP THREE: RETAKE THE WHITE HOUSE, AS MANY STATE GOVERNORS AS POSSIBLE AND A SIZABLE SENATE MAJORITY
This requires that the GOP choose a powerful candidate for 2012. It also requires no stop in the crusade to "Take Back America" that starts with the November mid-term elections. Retaking the Senate is a big job. Incumbent Senators are powerful people who win reelection almost all the time (95%+) unless they retire, die or are involved in a scandal.
WHERE AND HOW DO WE HAVE TO "TAKE BACK AMERICA?"
In our heartland, that's where. Ten years ago I wrote an article I want to share with you here. I think it explains a lot about how our country's power is so concentrated in places where the media and liberal establishment is so strong. See what you think. Remember, I wrote the article entitled "The Coasts and the Chasm" in the year 2000!
FOR THOSE READERS WHO LIVE ON THE COASTS, YOU MAY NOT LIKE THIS--OR YOU MAY FIND IT AFFIRMING
As you can see, I wrote it ten years ago in a fit of frustration with the media and publishing world. I was also becoming aware of the divisions now known as "Red States" and "Blue States," based on political majorities. There is much history about why the coasts, being settled first are heavily laden with the more intellectual and wealthier parts of society. The "chasm" as I call it was settled by the hardier people who were willing to struggle with many dangers and challenges and carve a home out of the wilderness.
THE STRUGGLES WERE DIFFERENT AND THE RESULTING POPULACE DIFFERED TOO
Of course the coastal dwellers once had to do it too--but the ventured less far inland from where they first settled and landed. Thus they avoided mountains, virgin forests and sprawling plains that make up the central part of the USA. I suspect the history and culture led to some of the societal developments. So also did space, natural resources like timber, fresh water, minerals, etc. The hardiest pioneers travelled all the way across the country, and thus people on the Western coast are a mixture of Asian and HIspanic immigrants and descendants of those hardy, rebellious and persistent pioneers that made it all the way across America.
I AM NEITHER A HISTORIAN NOR A CULTURAL/SOCIOLOGICAL SPECIALIST--I'M JUST DRAWING OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS...circa year 2000--surprising how many are relevant 10 years later.
The Coasts and the Chasm
©John L. Mariotti 2000
An alarming thought went through my mind recently. What if the tidal pull of the earth’s oceans is influencing our businesses and society in ways we don’t even recognize? As I looked through my pile of reading material, and then considered my investment portfolio, I realized that the vast majority of the information generated today in print and electronically either originates in or is controlled by people located within 100 miles or less of the ocean(s).
Maybe there is some phenomenon bigger than the Internet at work. Most major book publishers are located in New York, Boston, or San Francisco. The same can be said for major magazines and national newspapers. Ditto the headquarters for major TV networks—nearly all in or around New York or L. A. Do "birds of a feather flock together", or is there some other, more mysterious force at work?
Then I realized that between San Diego, Silicon Valley and Seattle on one coast, and Boston to Washington, DC on the other, the coastal influence was even more striking. Check the market capitalization of companies on the major stock exchanges and see where the headquarters of the biggest and most valuable are located. Cisco, Microsoft, GE, Intel, IBM, Lucent, AOL, Time-Warner, and on and on—all within 100 miles (or much less) of the oceans.
Of course it is a given that much of the nation’s policy originates in Washington, DC. Most of the country’s financial wealth is brokered and traded on Wall Street, in NYC, where else? Then consider that many of the legendary universities: Stanford, UCLA, Harvard, Wharton, MIT and many others are all located in these two narrow bands of geography.
Is there anything wrong with this? Maybe, maybe not! There is not really a "chasm"--physical or intellectual--between these coastal bands of influence. A lot of very important stuff goes on in the middle 2000+ miles of the U.S. A. For starters, almost all of the food we eat is grown or raised there. Nearly all of the "creature comforts" that aren’t made in the Orient are made in the good old central U. S. —the chasm. It is often called the "Rust Belt" but it isn’t so rusty any more.
Try to do without furniture, carpets, beverages, automobiles, plastics, gasoline, steel, appliances, computers, pipes, wires, fiber optics, and the tools and machinery needed to actually produce all of this and much more. The vast majority of these are made in the "chasm"-nowhere near the coasts. People actually make physical things there, instead of just having ideas and reducing them to words on paper, policy in laws or digits in cyberspace.
But much less is said or written about those who reside and work in the chasm, except in the media that is mostly regional, local or of a "controlled circulation". This means they go primarily to the same people that they are created about and for. Of course there are some national media in the chasm—WGN, Chicago’s TV super-station comes to mind, as does Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta with its CNN, TNT, TBS, etc. UPS in Atlanta and FedEx in Memphis deliver the goods and are "chasm dwellers". Dell & Compaq actually design lots of computers in the chasm--even if they are not all made in the chasm. But these are the exceptions, not the rule. They (mostly) make things!
There are even real cities located in the chasm: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and lots more. People from the coastal areas may know of them because their airplanes stop at these hubs when they can't go direct. There are also some major sporting teams located in the chasm’s major cities.
Where am I going with this? Here’s where. Anytime the vast majority of the creation and communication of ideas is localized to a few cultural areas; it can easily become biased and ingrown. That is decidedly NOT good. If a (relatively) small cultural area influences most of the financial markets in the country (and maybe the world), that also is NOT good.
Diversity is what made this country great. Diversity is what supports the richness of our social fabric. Diversity of thought can be threatened by the concentration of knowledge, wealth, and most of all information influence in the "coastal" cultures. If it isn’t about dot.coms or e-commerce, financial markets or stock prices, the Fed or the government, it isn’t news—at least not at quite the same level.
If you disagree, fire up your computer, go to a newsstand, or stop at a bookstore and do a random check. We are in danger of developing and promulgating a skewed, biased version of every kind of information, but especially that about our business world. Pick up 50-100 magazines that you recognize as the "biggies", and see where they are published—that means where the people live who decide what goes in them—and what doesn’t.
Do the same thing with books. Just choose 100 at random and look where the publisher's headquarters are located. That is where the decision to publish that particular book, on that topic, by that author was made—and in a lot of cases that's where the author also resides. Then check where the major TV networks and national newspapers originate. Sure, they all have local affiliates and branch offices—and we all know how much influence they have compared to the "home office".
Thanks to the Internet, it is possible to break down this coastal cultural bias—but it won’t happen easily, if at all—because that is also where many of the powerful web sites originate, either at major publications and corporations or with portals like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
What must happen is for balance to be regained is for everyone in the "central chasm" to start taking a much more proactive role in ensuring the diversity, quantity and balance of information and perspectives needed to keep our country great. That means, start generating good, insightful, interesting information and getting it widely disseminated.
Build the reputation capital of the chasm-based colleges and universities. Take proactive positions and speak out. Otherwise, we all better move to one of the coasts and either get a subway pass or grow a beard and lose our shoes.
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THERE YOU HAVE IT. THE THREE STEP PROCESS TO RETAKE AMERICAN
And some insights into why it will be so difficult. Blacks and Hispanics will heavily vote for Obama (of course so will Muslims). The more illegals he can get accepted into citizenship, the more voters he will have. IT WILL NOT BE EASY TO BEAT OBAMA IN 2012, NO MATTER HOW LOW HIS RATINGS GO. The sheer numbers of minority voters require only a modest group of liberal Democratic voters and Union members to re-elect him.
THAT IS YOUR SCARY STORY FOR THIS WEEK. DO EVERYTHING TO CAN TO KEEP IT FROM COMING TRUE!
BEST, JOHN
Want to end with a grin? A little story from a friend.
New Truck
I stopped by the Toyota Dealership yesterday for a look at the new Tacoma . Just for fun, I took it out for a test drive. I wanted to
sense that new "feel" The salesman (wearing an Obama "change" lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat describing the truck and all its
"wonderful" options. The seats were of particular interest.
He explained that the seats directed warm air to your butt in the winter and directed cool air to your butt in the summer heat.
Feeling like messing with his mind, I mentioned that this must be a Republican truck. Looking a bit angry, he asked why I thought it was a Republican truck. I explained that if it were a Democrat truck, the seats would blow smoke up your ass year-round.
I had to walk back to the dealership... Guy had no sense of humor.
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John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, Phone 614-840-0959 http://www.mariotti.net http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/
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THE "POSER" IS STILL IN CHARGE: THESE THINGS SIMPLY WILL NOT GO AWAY--WHERE THERE IS SMOKE, IS THERE FIRE? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE
WHO IS THIS MAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE HAVE ELECTED PRESIDENT FROM OUT OF NOWHERE?
Anyone who goes to such extreme measures to hide his background MUST HAVE SOMETHING TO HIDE!
WHAT'S HAPPENED TO AMERICAN JOBS? HERE'S "JOB KILLERS" LIST COURTESY OF IBD
Download IBD--What's Holding Back The Hiring
A CORRESPONDENT SENT ME THIS INFORMATION--WHY THE OBAMA ADMIN JOB PROGRAMS DON'T WORK!
"Obama has the lowest percent of people in his cabinet with business experience of any President in history. After all, for Socialists, Capitalists are the enemy." MY REPLY WAS: "Which is why they are clueless and wrongheaded on any and every jobs program.
They never made a payroll except on the backs of taxpayers."
ANYONE WHO THINKS RETAKING THE HOUSE IN 2010 WILL FIX THINGS IS WRONG!
There is a three step process spanning the next 2-1/2 years if we are to retake our Country from the misguided Democrats in Congress and the "Phony" who is our President, the ONE the mainstream media and moneyed interests convinced so many uninformed Americans to elect.
STEP ONE: RETAKE THE HOUSE--GAIN THE COMMITTEE CHAIRS THAT CONTROL THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA
The keys to power in the House lie in the hands of the committee chairmen who are the senior members from the majority party. It is in these committees, or rather out of these committees that new legislation emerges. Whichever party controls them, controls the initial source of legislation. But taking control of the House is NOT ENOUGH! WE MUST ALSO RETAKE THE STATE GOVERNMENT POSITIONS THAT WILL DO THE "REDISTRICTING." These decisions set up one or the other party for advantageous districts in political makeup. I don't know with certainly, and am not sure how other states do it, but in OH I believe the key spots that control redistricting are the Gov. the Sec'y of State and the Auditor.
STEP TWO: RETAKE THE SENATE--BUT A SIMPLE MAJORITY IS NOT ENOUGH EITHER
It now takes 60 Senators to truly control the Senate, by stopping filibusters with cloture, because filibusters are the only means the minority party has to stop legislation. The Democrats are trying to lower this again, to 55, to meet their current, short term needs. This could backfire if "We the People" can retake enough of the Senate. This is unlikely to happen in 2010. It will take another round of wins in 2012. Even if the GOP controlled the House and had a small majority in the Senate, the Democrats will filibuster bills endlessly. The few that make it through will be vetoed by Obama! And there will be far from enough Republicans to over-ride his veto. Thus, nothing much will happen. Gridlock will be the order of the day for the intervening TWO YEARS!
STEP THREE: RETAKE THE WHITE HOUSE, AS MANY STATE GOVERNORS AS POSSIBLE AND A SIZABLE SENATE MAJORITY
This requires that the GOP choose a powerful candidate for 2012. It also requires no stop in the crusade to "Take Back America" that starts with the November mid-term elections. Retaking the Senate is a big job. Incumbent Senators are powerful people who win reelection almost all the time (95%+) unless they retire, die or are involved in a scandal.
WHERE AND HOW DO WE HAVE TO "TAKE BACK AMERICA?"
In our heartland, that's where. Ten years ago I wrote an article I want to share with you here. I think it explains a lot about how our country's power is so concentrated in places where the media and liberal establishment is so strong. See what you think. Remember, I wrote the article entitled "The Coasts and the Chasm" in the year 2000!
FOR THOSE READERS WHO LIVE ON THE COASTS, YOU MAY NOT LIKE THIS--OR YOU MAY FIND IT AFFIRMING
As you can see, I wrote it ten years ago in a fit of frustration with the media and publishing world. I was also becoming aware of the divisions now known as "Red States" and "Blue States," based on political majorities. There is much history about why the coasts, being settled first are heavily laden with the more intellectual and wealthier parts of society. The "chasm" as I call it was settled by the hardier people who were willing to struggle with many dangers and challenges and carve a home out of the wilderness.
THE STRUGGLES WERE DIFFERENT AND THE RESULTING POPULACE DIFFERED TOO
Of course the coastal dwellers once had to do it too--but the ventured less far inland from where they first settled and landed. Thus they avoided mountains, virgin forests and sprawling plains that make up the central part of the USA. I suspect the history and culture led to some of the societal developments. So also did space, natural resources like timber, fresh water, minerals, etc. The hardiest pioneers travelled all the way across the country, and thus people on the Western coast are a mixture of Asian and HIspanic immigrants and descendants of those hardy, rebellious and persistent pioneers that made it all the way across America.
I AM NEITHER A HISTORIAN NOR A CULTURAL/SOCIOLOGICAL SPECIALIST--I'M JUST DRAWING OBVIOUS CONCLUSIONS...circa year 2000--surprising how many are relevant 10 years later.
The Coasts and the Chasm
©John L. Mariotti 2000
An alarming thought went through my mind recently. What if the tidal pull of the earth’s oceans is influencing our businesses and society in ways we don’t even recognize? As I looked through my pile of reading material, and then considered my investment portfolio, I realized that the vast majority of the information generated today in print and electronically either originates in or is controlled by people located within 100 miles or less of the ocean(s).
Maybe there is some phenomenon bigger than the Internet at work. Most major book publishers are located in New York, Boston, or San Francisco. The same can be said for major magazines and national newspapers. Ditto the headquarters for major TV networks—nearly all in or around New York or L. A. Do "birds of a feather flock together", or is there some other, more mysterious force at work?
Then I realized that between San Diego, Silicon Valley and Seattle on one coast, and Boston to Washington, DC on the other, the coastal influence was even more striking. Check the market capitalization of companies on the major stock exchanges and see where the headquarters of the biggest and most valuable are located. Cisco, Microsoft, GE, Intel, IBM, Lucent, AOL, Time-Warner, and on and on—all within 100 miles (or much less) of the oceans.
Of course it is a given that much of the nation’s policy originates in Washington, DC. Most of the country’s financial wealth is brokered and traded on Wall Street, in NYC, where else? Then consider that many of the legendary universities: Stanford, UCLA, Harvard, Wharton, MIT and many others are all located in these two narrow bands of geography.
Is there anything wrong with this? Maybe, maybe not! There is not really a "chasm"--physical or intellectual--between these coastal bands of influence. A lot of very important stuff goes on in the middle 2000+ miles of the U.S. A. For starters, almost all of the food we eat is grown or raised there. Nearly all of the "creature comforts" that aren’t made in the Orient are made in the good old central U. S. —the chasm. It is often called the "Rust Belt" but it isn’t so rusty any more.
Try to do without furniture, carpets, beverages, automobiles, plastics, gasoline, steel, appliances, computers, pipes, wires, fiber optics, and the tools and machinery needed to actually produce all of this and much more. The vast majority of these are made in the "chasm"-nowhere near the coasts. People actually make physical things there, instead of just having ideas and reducing them to words on paper, policy in laws or digits in cyberspace.
But much less is said or written about those who reside and work in the chasm, except in the media that is mostly regional, local or of a "controlled circulation". This means they go primarily to the same people that they are created about and for. Of course there are some national media in the chasm—WGN, Chicago’s TV super-station comes to mind, as does Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta with its CNN, TNT, TBS, etc. UPS in Atlanta and FedEx in Memphis deliver the goods and are "chasm dwellers". Dell & Compaq actually design lots of computers in the chasm--even if they are not all made in the chasm. But these are the exceptions, not the rule. They (mostly) make things!
There are even real cities located in the chasm: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Denver, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Pittsburgh and lots more. People from the coastal areas may know of them because their airplanes stop at these hubs when they can't go direct. There are also some major sporting teams located in the chasm’s major cities.
Where am I going with this? Here’s where. Anytime the vast majority of the creation and communication of ideas is localized to a few cultural areas; it can easily become biased and ingrown. That is decidedly NOT good. If a (relatively) small cultural area influences most of the financial markets in the country (and maybe the world), that also is NOT good.
Diversity is what made this country great. Diversity is what supports the richness of our social fabric. Diversity of thought can be threatened by the concentration of knowledge, wealth, and most of all information influence in the "coastal" cultures. If it isn’t about dot.coms or e-commerce, financial markets or stock prices, the Fed or the government, it isn’t news—at least not at quite the same level.
If you disagree, fire up your computer, go to a newsstand, or stop at a bookstore and do a random check. We are in danger of developing and promulgating a skewed, biased version of every kind of information, but especially that about our business world. Pick up 50-100 magazines that you recognize as the "biggies", and see where they are published—that means where the people live who decide what goes in them—and what doesn’t.
Do the same thing with books. Just choose 100 at random and look where the publisher's headquarters are located. That is where the decision to publish that particular book, on that topic, by that author was made—and in a lot of cases that's where the author also resides. Then check where the major TV networks and national newspapers originate. Sure, they all have local affiliates and branch offices—and we all know how much influence they have compared to the "home office".
Thanks to the Internet, it is possible to break down this coastal cultural bias—but it won’t happen easily, if at all—because that is also where many of the powerful web sites originate, either at major publications and corporations or with portals like AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc.
What must happen is for balance to be regained is for everyone in the "central chasm" to start taking a much more proactive role in ensuring the diversity, quantity and balance of information and perspectives needed to keep our country great. That means, start generating good, insightful, interesting information and getting it widely disseminated.
Build the reputation capital of the chasm-based colleges and universities. Take proactive positions and speak out. Otherwise, we all better move to one of the coasts and either get a subway pass or grow a beard and lose our shoes.
====================================
THERE YOU HAVE IT. THE THREE STEP PROCESS TO RETAKE AMERICAN
And some insights into why it will be so difficult. Blacks and Hispanics will heavily vote for Obama (of course so will Muslims). The more illegals he can get accepted into citizenship, the more voters he will have. IT WILL NOT BE EASY TO BEAT OBAMA IN 2012, NO MATTER HOW LOW HIS RATINGS GO. The sheer numbers of minority voters require only a modest group of liberal Democratic voters and Union members to re-elect him.
THAT IS YOUR SCARY STORY FOR THIS WEEK. DO EVERYTHING TO CAN TO KEEP IT FROM COMING TRUE!
BEST, JOHN
Want to end with a grin? A little story from a friend.
New Truck
I stopped by the Toyota Dealership yesterday for a look at the new Tacoma . Just for fun, I took it out for a test drive. I wanted to
sense that new "feel" The salesman (wearing an Obama "change" lapel pin) sat in the passenger seat describing the truck and all its
"wonderful" options. The seats were of particular interest.
He explained that the seats directed warm air to your butt in the winter and directed cool air to your butt in the summer heat.
Feeling like messing with his mind, I mentioned that this must be a Republican truck. Looking a bit angry, he asked why I thought it was a Republican truck. I explained that if it were a Democrat truck, the seats would blow smoke up your ass year-round.
I had to walk back to the dealership... Guy had no sense of humor.
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John L. Mariotti, President & CEO, The Enterprise Group, Phone 614-840-0959 http://www.mariotti.net http://mariotti.blogs.com/my_weblog/
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