Who is the real Maverick?

An interesting change is already happening in Washington, with the President Elect, Obama, having a productive meeting with John McCain. This is the first time since before the Presidential Campaigning that the two men have sit down to discuss the issues together in a bipartisan way.

In the news article on ABC News website the writer Jake Tapper tells us, The two later released a joint statement, saying, "At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time. It is in this spirit that we had a productive conversation today about the need to launch a new era of reform where we take on government waste and bitter partisanship in Washington in order to restore trust in government, and bring back prosperity and opportunity for every hardworking American family."

Yes it looks as if John McCain, who claimed to be the Maverick is out Mavericked by Obama whom McCain called 'That One'.

3 Major Auto Industries Blame Who?

It is Saturday, November 15 2008. A week after the election economic troubles is still brewing for GW Bush's year end. The Final days till January 20, 2008 are still filled with more financial evils with the 3 major American auto industries now threatening to lay off workers if they do not get a bail out. It seems so strange to me that just before the November 4 2008 elections, the American auto industry said nothing of any problems. In fact, they hid their predicament so well. So why did they all of a sudden feel they needed to make the demand? Just what brought that on? Would those 3 American auto makers had made the same threat if the Republicans, McCain and Palin, were elected?

Yet the same old imaginary villain who the 3 American auto makers blame are the Unions. It seems that the same old song of the Republicans and the manufacturing industry is to cry about how the Unions are to blame for the over spending, over extending mistakes of the Companies. Yeah it seems the Old 3 Manufacturers are following suite of the companies of our past of bellowing out that Old Republican refrain from Reagans time of blaming the Unions instead of taking a good look into their own mirrored past that could explain why their present situation has come to pass.

Those 3 auto makers had been sending jobs over seas as they opened new manufacturing plants in other countries where they were building the more economical cars for decades, while they laid off employees, down scaled work and jobs, and closed a few auto plants here in the States. During these last 8 years of GW Bush administration, toward the end of the year, at least one of the auto giants here in the USA has laidoff some of it's workers. But when you add the number of those laid off during these last 8 years, you can begin to realise that the auto makers have caused this negative aspect themselves.

How can Americans buy the goods and services in this country, if the American Businesses keep laying off the American workers in this country while closing up shop in this country? Yep, it still has not occurred to the American Corporations that taking jobs away from the American worker also takes away the buying power of the American middle class worker. The American companies have yet to figure out that by making the American Middle Class Worker unemployed and devaluing the work of the American Middle Class Worker has stripped away 'The Cycle of the Economy'.

When will the companies realise that every time they make Americans unemployed, those same companies which relied on the American consumer, just keep shooting themselves in the foot.

Campaign Lies

Yesterday, November 4th 2008, a Democrat who is a Black man named Barack Obama was elected to be president. Of course he will be sworn in during the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2009 Inauguration day. But this campaign was unlike any other. There were the lies and innuendo, which we do normally experience. But this time, we actually had a fact check to mark the lies. John McCain, the Republican candidate told quite a few out right lies. Of course my list only has a few of the false, misleading, lies. I only went as far as one month's worth.

John McCain and his running mate Sarah Palin called Obama a Socialist. They said over and over again that Obama was going to share their supporters wealth and distribute their income to others. They had a Joe the plumber who they paraded around as proof because Joe the plumber said that Obama's tax plan sounded like Socialism.

Well Fact Check called that misleading (a lie). According to Fact Check During the panel discussion, Obama talked about court rulings and "redistributive change" from a historical legal perspective but there's no indication that he was advocating "redistributing wealth and income" which McCain and Governor Palin lied about. That also means that Joe the Plumber whom McCain and Palin had campaign with them also lied when he said that Obama's tax plan sounded like socialism.

John McCain and Sarah Palin claimed that Obama has Political links to Khalidi whom they claim is a Muslim terrorist.
What was the verdict from Fact Check regarding John McCain's claim against Obama? The verdict was considered misleading (a lie), since John McCain chaired the IRI which funded the CPRS which was co-founded by Khalidi.

And what was the verdict from Fact Check regarding Sarah Palin's claim against Obama? The verdict was considered misleading (a lie), While Khalidi eight years ago hosted a political fund-raiser for Obama, the two men strongly disagree over the Israeli-Palestinian issue and there's no evidence of a continuing political relationship.

John McCain made the statement: "According to the independent Center for Data Analysis, Barack Obama's new policies will destroy nearly 6 million jobs over the next decade."
What was the verdict from Fact Check regarding John McCain's claim against Obama? According to Fact Check the verdict is False (a lie). The study does not say Obama's plan would "destroy" jobs.

John McCain said that Obama and Biden are inconsistent on who will get the tax cuts. According to Fact Check the verdict is False (a lie). What McCain is doing here, in part, is comparing apples and oranges. He compares two different aspects of Obama's tax plan as if they were the same. And Biden never said people making less than $150,000 are the "only" people who would get a tax cut under Obama's policies.

McCain's VP running mate Governor Sarah Palin stated that Obama only served 300 days in the Senate before he became a presidential candidate.
What was the verdict? According to Fact Check that statement was false (a lie). Actually Obama served 743 days in the Senate working. Now 304 of those days he worked while the Senate was in Session. But the Senate works in the Senate even when the Senate is not in Session. So again, according to Fact check Sarah Palin lied.

McCain made said, "Sen. Joe Biden, Obama's VP running mate, had this cockamamie idea about dividing Iraq into three countries."
What was the verdict? According to Fact check it is false (a lie). Biden proposed decentralizing Iraq's government, but not breaking up the country.

Change Is Here

I have witnessed many things in my life time. At 4 years of age in 1957 in Chicago Illinois, I witnessed my father being told that he had to sit in the back of the bus, but because I was white looking the bus driver told my father that I could sit in the front. Even then I had the good sense to grab my father's hand and say, "Daddy, I want to sit with you."

At the age of 12, I remember watching TV at a peaceful civil rights march led by Martin Luther king in Chicago South Side in the 1960's. I watched in horror as white men, their wives, and their children were throwing bottles and bricks at the peaceful marchers as the Police stood on the side lines and did nothing. And as the civil rights marchers were being hit by the bottles and bricks thrown at them, I witness the blood as the marchers fell.

One news reporter captured a Chicago police officer saying, "We don't want their kind here."

Yes, I have witness many things in my day. But I never thought I would ever witness a Black man elected President in my life time. God Bless the United States of America. God Bless Barack Obama. God Bless the Obama family. And God Bless the Biden family.

The Continued Global Economic Crises

It is Monday October 6 2008 9:06 am Pacific Time in the USA and our markets have began to continue their downward plunge after the markets in Asia and Europe did a downward spiral on their Monday which is our Sunday. Try to remember that those countries are one day ahead.

I just wonder, since the Bush Administration pushed for and got laxing regulations during most of the 2 terms of Bush, and since the same Financial companies, Banks, and Wall Street corporations all benefited from those laxed regulations thus being able to do their deceitful business transactions with no oversight or accountability, how would throwing tax dollars at them suppose to improve the economy?

I have a hard time with the Bush Administration concept that throwing away 700Billion of tax payers money with the 150Billion of the sweeten deal at the same scrupulous companies and their devious transactions is suppose to improve the economy.

Just HOW does it improve the economy anyway?

Asia and Europe Markets Plung after US 4th Bail Out

It is Sunday, three days after the Congress voted for the 700billion dollar sweeten deal, in the United States but it is Monday in Asia. And in the Far East the Stock Market took a plunge.

In an article written by Alex Kennedy with the Associated Press in Singapore, the Asian and European Markets spiraled downward because they could not trust that the U S government bail out was enough to help the world economic crises.

What? The Europe and Asia Markets could not trust that the US government Bail Out as enough to help the world economic crises?

Why don't they do their own bailing out? Our U S Government is using the money of the tax paying working Middle class United States Citizens to bail out the Financial corporations, the banks and Wall Street. The federal tax dollars are supposed to be used to RUN THE GOVERNMENT not bail out companies. The federal tax dollars are supposed to be used to pay for the Government services that are suppose to be provided to the US Citizens, not given to CEO's. And how does that translate into bailing out the whole world?

You know what Asia and Europe? I have some advice for you. " BAIL YOUR SELVES OUT! " Enough already!

The U S economy is on the brink because of regulations that were altered by the Republicans in the Bush White House Administration.

Maybe you in Asia and Europe also took out regulations that protected the economy, and that could be why your economy is not doing well. Do you want to fix your economy, then put the regulations in your market and corporations to prevent the destruction of the economy as well. Try it, it just might work.

Too bad the Republican Bush Administration had spent most of the last 8 years to do away with those regulations. Wouldn't it be just PEACHY KEEN to see those regulations back in play, fixing the economy?

Sweeten 700Billion Deal

It has been one and a half week of president GW Bush demanding that the Congress approve a 4th bail out bill for the Financial Corporations, Banks and Wall Street. Only this time it was 700Billion tax dollars being decided on.

However, at first the Republicans walked out of the meetings. They refused to approve the 700Billion bail out the way it was written. Of course the Democrats also did not trust the bill that was presented to them because the Democrats wanted regulations and limitations added to it.
But that is not what the Republicans were concerned about and it is not what they wanted added to it. No! The Republicans in the Senate stated they would vote for it if they rewrote it. Well they did, and the Republicans added a lot of pork which has come to be known as the sweet deal.
Yet there was NO REGULATIONS, NO LIMITATIONS, NO RESTRICTIONS, and NO GUARANTEES for the American Tax Paying working middle class people.

The 7 1/2 years of the Republican GW Bush presidency has given us a roller coaster economy EVERY SINGLE YEAR since 2001. Guess Republican Bush just wanted to leave his office with something big to be remembered for in history. And it looks like he got his wish.