THE ENTERPRISE--A LOT TO CONSIDER, THINK ABOUT…
COUNTDOWN --82 DAYS AND COUNTING: MY NEW BOOK: ROADMAP TO PROFITABLE GROWTH:@The Intersection IS NOW IN THE LAYOUT STAGE. I SHOULD SEE THE FIRST COVER AND INTERIOR DRAFTS IN ABOUT TEN DAYS.
ON THE THRESHOLD OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION--PREDICTIONS OF SORTS
The desperation of the Obama campaign will blossom in full force during the Democratic Convention--both from the podium and from the behind the scenes media and talking heads. Listen carefully to Bill Clinton when he speaks. Listen for what he does't say, or for "faint praise" of Obama. Clinton does not like Obama, ever since the vicious campaign against Hillary. However, Bill Clinton is an adept politician and he knows he much support the "party line" if he is to sustain his power--and keep doors open for Hillary.
Do not be surprised to hear more about other "negative aspects" of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan: (the Dems can find more bad things to say about two good men than imaginable by reasonable people).
1. Mitt Romney's Mormon faith--coming from a hypocritical president who claims to be a Christian, has previously referred to "his Muslim faith" on camera (prior to being elected), only attends church when it is politically expedient--a handful of times each year (because he doesn't want to cause a disruption, he says) and regularly leaves God out of pledges of allegiance and other well known public utterances (he just quits speaking at that point!) Perhaps he got all the church going he needed listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Chicago.
2. Repeated, and baseless references to Romney's finances/wealth, tax returns (Is this "the pot calling the kettle black,"--when Obama won't release anything about his background, who paid for what, how he got into prestigious institutions with mediocre grades, etc. etc.--or was I just an Obama-racist because I used the word "black" in a statement??)
3. A litany of so-called "lies" by Paul Ryan--e.g., the one about the Janesville GM plant, which was categorically true, exactly as Ryan said it. Ryan didn't say the plant closed after Obama was elected. He was illustrating just one of the many Obama campaign promises that were totally bereft of any actual results. (Creating five million green energy jobs--and the Solyndra debacle, the closing of Guantanamo, the inference of "government help" that would keep the Janesville GM plant open, and on, and on…)
4. That Romney is proposing "old ideas" that will take us backwards--how many of us would love to go back to the Reagan "old ideas" and the results they produced. (Obama's "new ideas" are a continuation of his failed ideas of the past 4 years--but then no one in the mainstream biased media will ever say that!)
5. That in Romney's career, he "destroyed jobs," (a blatant misrepresentation, since he was a huge "net" job creator--even Bill Clinton referred to his "sterling" record) or that his plans would "harm the middle class, when the opposite is the truth. More appeals to the "fairness" of taxing those who create wealth and redistributing it to those who do not--who, in fact, are part of a huge and growing "dependent underclass" that Obama is relying on to elect him.
6. Anything to avoid talking about the real issues--Obama's Failures as president!
NOTE: Here is just one of many excerpts from HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY…chronicling Obama's influences and his past mentors--all associations that he carefully avoids now, while throwing mud at his opponent, Mitt Romney
President Obama has amassed a long list of negative influences in this area, and he does everything
possible to avoid admitting the obvious effects of these influences.
o It is a fact that in his formative years Barack Obama was closely tied to Frank Marshall Davis
an avowed communist and socialist.
o It is a fact that one of Obama’s early associations was with Saul Alinsky, Marxist author of
o It is a fact that Barack Obama spent many years in Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church
listening to angry, black liberation theology.
o It is a fact that Obama also had considerable contact with Bill Ayers, the former head of the
“Weather Underground,” an anti-US socialist organization that bombed the Pentagon, and
perhaps Bernadette Dohrn too, also of that organization.
HOPE IS NOT A STRATEGY: Leadership Lessons from the Obama Presidency
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o It is a fact that the Obama home in Chicago was acquired in a questionable series of
“friendly transactions,” involving convicted Chicago mobster Antoin “Tony” Rezko.
o And he was raised in a Muslim country (Jakarta, Indonesia) in his early years, age 6-10—
which could be a potential explanation for his current Muslim sympathies.
o But this is just a partial list…from Obama’s formative years.
Even in Barack Obama’s memoirs, (which many think Ayers heavily contributed to “ghost writing”)
he states that he intentionally sought out the radicals to spend time with during his early life and while in
college. In short, much of Barack Obama’s life was spent around radicals, dissidents, and socialist/Marxist
thinkers, learning from these people and absorbing their belief systems. How would you imagine his belief
systems would develop?
ARE BUSINESS PRINCIPLES APPROPRIATE IN GOVERNMENT? CAN A BUSINESS LEADER, BE A LEADER IN GOVERNMENT?
Granted, the processes are dramatically different, with democratic votes on so many issues, politics altering practical considerations, and so forth. But even that has proven to be less true as Barack Obama has repeatedly circumvented Congress by using his Cabinet level people, and appointees (HHS, EPA, NLRB, NRC, etc.) to do so, OR through other presidential actions, mandates, proclamations, etc. So, I guess a business leader might be able to use some of those tactics too, right? For example, to defund, stop and take apart Obamacare? Or to reverse some of the worst of the regulations strangling business in the USA? What else might be similar or different in leading government compared to business?
WHAT BUSINESS WOULD SPEND 40% MORE THAN ITS INCOME FOR FOUR CONSECUTIVE YEARS
None that wanted to stay in business. Even the vaunted GM mess fell short of this kind of irresponsible behavior.
WHAT BUSINESS WOULD ATTEMPT TO BEAT ITS COMPETITORS WHILE TELLING THEM EITHER IN PUBLIC OR IN PRIVATE OF THEIR PLANS AND TIMETABLES?
None that wanted to actually win the competitive battles. But America told the Taliban when the US troops would be gone. It allowed others to ignore sanctions and support Iranian unke development
(Because, "I'll have a lot more flexibility after I'm reelected.")
WHAT BUSINESS WOULD GAMBLE HUGE AMOUNTS OF CAPITAL ON A COMPANY THAT ALL OF THE EXPERTS WARNED WAS NOT VIABLE?
Well, perhaps some businesses would, but not for long. Most would pull back their capital and loans as if they had touched a hot stove.
WHAT BUSINESS WOULD HIRE A TOP EXECUTIVE TO OVERSEE FOR AN AREA WHERE THAT EXECUTIVE WAS FOUND TO HAVE BROKEN THE RULES IN THE PAST?
Treasury secretary Tim Geithner had broken tax laws, failing to report things, in the very same area that he is not the "boss." If that sounds wrong to you--it is! (But he got a "do-over."
WHAT BUSINESS CONFUSES WHO ITS CUSTOMERS ARE--THAT IT MUST SERVE AND BE RESPONSIBLE TO?
None that want to stay in business long. But our US Government has forgotten that is was created to work for the American people--not vice versa!
DO YOU BELIEVE IN STARTLING COINCIDENCES?
- Presidential candidate gets nominated on his second try, after losing first time he tried.
- Presidential candidate's last name has 6 letters starting with R.
- The VP candidate last name has 4 letters.
- The Presidential candidate has "good hair" and an engaging smile.
- Presidential candidate was a successful Governor of a heavily Democratic state.
- The VP candidate was an accomplished career public servant, born in and hailing from the center of the country.
- Presidential candidate was born in the upper Midwest but later moved and spent much of his career and recent adult life in coastal area.
- The incumbent/opponent was elected with great hope, and many promises, but presided over even more great disappointments.
- They country was/is in great economic distress, and people are demoralized.
COMPARE: REAGAN--BUSH CIRCA 1980 and ROMNEY--RYAN CIRCA 2012
DO YOU KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT MITT ROMNEY YET?
If not, I'll try to add some pieces in here as the election gets closer. If readers come across good pieces to share, please send them along.
ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? ARE YOUR KIDS? NIECES, NEPHEWS, ETC.? IT'S EASY, AND WE NEED ALL THE VOTES WE CAN GET FOR MITT ROMNEY/PAUL RYAN
Do you know how to request Absentee ballots, and where to send them, and by when, to make sure you get to vote, even if you happen to be traveling or sick or out of town on election day? The Internet lists these Election Offices for every county in every state. Just Google it and find yours. You can usually get a .PDF format document to fill out and the address of where to mail ie. BUT DO IT NOW! THERE ARE DEADLINES AND THEY ARE COMING UP IN OCTOBER! GET EVERYONE IN YOUR FAMILY TO HELP.
DO YOU KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT PAUL RYAN? HERE'S A NICE LITTLE PIECE A FRIEND SENT ME--(OF COURSE IT SORT OF COMPARES HIM TO BARACK OBAMA--ABOUT WHOM WE KNEW LITTLE AND STILL DON'T KNOW ENOUGH--EXCEPT NOW WE KNOW ENOUGH TO WANT HIM OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
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Subject: OUR NEXT VICE PRESIDENT--HOW DOES HE MEASURE UP???……………………
Well, early one Saturday morning we learned that Congressman
Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin , is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States. What are we to think of this selection? (He's not a graduate of Columbia University . He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university either!) Instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio...the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another! One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father and found him dead of a heart attack. (He didn't write two books about that experience). Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution. Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer's, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need". Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. (No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.) When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress, (he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him); he waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. ( In Janesville , Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent;) instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents. After getting elected to Congress, Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington , buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes. Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville . He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions. For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention. Now, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish! (No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as he took his seat in Congress.) What is most striking about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row AND the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die. All without ever proposing a budget of their own.
(If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the
money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?) I heard that Paul Ryan seemed heartless. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big, wasteful GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all! He's way too sensible and responsible. Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants a VP who thinks American government should "live within its means?"
Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill?
Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over!
On the other hand, maybe his guy is exactly what America needs.
Someone right next to the President, offering practical sensible solution to American problems!
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DO YOU SCARE EASILY? HERE'S SOMETHING SCARY TO CONSIDER:
the most important question regarding the upcoming presidential election. If Mitt wins the nomination, he will enthusiastically support his candidacy. For friends who have hesitation on that score, He'd just ask you to keep four things in mind:
Columnist Andrew McCarthy gives us what probably is
1.. Justice Scalia just turned 78
2.. Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year
3.. Justice Breyer will be 76 in August
4.. Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago. (Justice Ginsburg has Pancreatic Cancer. )
5. Justice Stephens has already said he would retire (and is just waiting for Obama to be reelected.
The next president could appoint as many as 4 new Justices over next 4 years. This election is about more than ObamaCare Tax.
We wish them all well, of course, but the brutal fact is that whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one new member, maybe as many as 4, of the Supreme Court, in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.
If you don't think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you're smokin' something funky. So for anybody who is thinking of not voting because your favorite didn't get nominated, or writing in a candidate who can't win, imagine this: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ERIC HOLDER?
THAT'S PLENTY FOR ONE WEEK.
BEST, JOHN
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