So while Rome appears to still be burning, we find the Obamas living the good life in Martha’s Vineyard on a $20 million dollar estate they rented.  Not bad for the former junior state senator from Illinois.  This year so far they have vacationed in Hawaii, Bar Harbor, Chicago, Panama City, Spain and back to the favorite haunt of the liberal left, Martha’s Vineyard.  I guess since President Obama didn’t go to Spain, we can’t count that as a family vacation.

The trip to Spain was because Michelle promised a longtime Chicago friend who just lost her father that she would spend some time with her.  I guess they must have had no vacancy in Deadwood or Disneyland so she just had to go to Spain.

Still, as most Americans are pinching pennies and staying home for vacation it’s nice to see that the President and family get to share some quiet time together in some of the most expensive places in the country.  Good Job.

Howard Galganov  Tuesday, December 08, 2009

JOB SUMMIT MY ASS:

Barack Hussein Obama is speaking to all the jerks in BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG BUSINESS AND BIG LABOR for information and inspiration on how to create jobs.

BIG LABOR – WHAT A JOKE!

What has organized labor ever contributed to creating jobs?

Aren’t all these BIG GUYS (government, business and labor) the same bad actors that got all of us into this mess in the first place?

No one in North America creates jobs like SMALL BUSINESSES. And I’m not writing about rinky-dink short-term temporary jobs the likes of which HUGE companies create.

I’m talking about REAL sustainable jobs.

And when the government claims to “create” jobs, in reality, all government is creating are debts, since ONLY taxpayers pay for these jobs.

So, all of those new jobs Obama and Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper claim to create or ridiculously SAVE in additional government jobs, are in truth nothing less than new national liabilities.

HERE’S WHAT EVERY SMALL BUSINESS-OWNER IS UP AGAINST:

TAXES – ENTITLEMENTS- REGULATIONS – BUREAUCRACY.

Where was it carved in stone along the way that I am my Brother’s Keeper, and the government I pay for has the RIGHT to strip me from the fruits of my hard labor and risk?

Where in our FREE society is it a condition of my FREEDOM that I have to be responsible for those who won’t take responsibility for themselves?

Under what codicil is my success through hard work dependent upon how much I have to carry those who will not carry themselves?

If I am to be obligated to make sacrifices for others, do I also have the right to dictate terms to those for whom my sacrifices are made?

How did we ever come to this “NORMALCY” in business, where a business owner of any size enterprise is automatically deemed to be accountable for the well being of those he or she employs?

AND MUCH – MUCH WORSE:

These massive corporate bandits Obama and Harper have bailed-out were bailed out with the tax dollars created by SMALL BUSINESS.

Think About What It Takes To Start-Up And Maintain A Small Business:

One day you might wake up with an idea that you think can provide a better service or product that can make money for you and your family. But, every new idea for a product and service requires several incontrovertible obligations and risks.

1 – As an entrepreneur, you’d have to refine your idea to the point that you have a real strategy. And while doing that, it becomes your entire focus ahead of personal and family life. Even ahead of the job that you are doing that pays the bills and puts food on the table.

2 – After doing the research and development, you have to find the money to get into the next step of setting-up shop. So how do you find the money?

You can go to a bank. But, with little to nothing more than an idea, it’s not likely a bank would give you the time of day let alone money. You can go to relatives. But do you really want to put family members on the hook for something that very well might NOT work out?

There’s always friends, and friends of friends. But, they won’t put up a dime into your dream without getting some ownership in exchange for their investment. Do you really want partners? Especially partners you might not even know? And how much ownership should you give up?

There’s always the house, which is very often the ONLY means available to entrepreneurs to raise money through 2nd and perhaps 3rd mortgages.

3 – Once the start-up financing is in place, which is usually less than what you would really need, then the real hard part begins.

Life in the business world is not for the faint of heart. Just like you want to carve out your market-share by taking it away from someone else with the same products or services, others are doing the same to you.

Because you’re so under-funded, you probably can’t afford staff. So it’s all on you as the chief cook and bottle washer. But, when you finally come to the point when you really need to hire people, chances are better than not that you will forgo taking a pay so you can meet your payroll.

4 – While you’re scrambling to stay alive while building and managing the new business, there’s little to no money coming into the house. If you have children, you have to explain to them why they can’t have the new Play Station. And forget about adult toys, meals out, and vacations.

After all of this, MOST start-ups NEVER survive, leaving crashed hopes, deflated dreams, and very often broken marriages.

What I’ve just written is not anecdotal. This is the way it is. In business, especially amongst most startups, ONLY the toughest survive.

And even at that, very few entrepreneurs get rich. More often than not, the owner of an average small to medium size business earns not much more than just a living. Many who have made it do very well. But many also live from paycheck to paycheck just like their employees.

Being an entrepreneur is more about the FREEDOM of being your own boss than just the dream of riches.

With all of that said; it is the small to medium size business that is the NUMBER ONE creator of jobs and tax revenue. It is also the entrepreneur who carries our North American Society upon his or her shoulders.

It is NOT, and has NEVER been GM, GE, Exxon, the Big Banks and Insurance Companies, or any of the other so-called Blue Chip Companies that have carried our societies. It is, and has always been the small to medium size company owners who are not just the carriers of society, but also the innovators of products and services.

More than being the engine that employs North America and pays the insatiable tax appetite of all forms of government and special interests, the small to medium size independent business owner has also been FORCED to become His and/or Her Brother’s Keeper.

Since Obama and Harper have NEVER experienced any of the above. And have never so much as run a lemonade stand, here’s a list of advice on how they can help create REAL long lasting jobs in North America.

A – CUT corporate and personal taxes.

B – GUT the bureaucracy.

C – Get rid of all NON-necessary regulations.

D – STOP bailing out loser corporations like GM.

E – Pay DOWN the debt.

F – Stop spending like drunkards on a binge.

G – And just get government the hell out of the way.

If you want to know more about Obama and Harper’s Joke on the North American people concerning their expertise in Job Creation, please click on the Radio ICON at the top of the page to hear a 4-Minute editorial.

Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov

The federal government sent Bob Bray $26,174 in stimulus aid to fix a fence and replace the roofs on public apartments in Blooming Grove, Texas, a town of fewer than 900 people outside Dallas. He hired five roofers and an inspector to do the job.  But the number of jobs he reported to the government looked very different — 450 jobs.  He said that he told the government that he had created six jobs but that a federal official told him that wasn’t right. So he reported the number of hours the roofers worked instead.  That’s the number that was used.

The police department in Plymouth, Conn., claimed in its report that a $15,355 grant used to buy new computers had created or saved 108 jobs. The department had 22 law enforcement officers last year, according to the FBI. Mayor Vincent Festa said that the town has resorted to “counting paper clips” to save money but that it had no plans to lay off any of its police officers, even without the stimulus. So how did they create or save 108 jobs.  Even if the money helped keep the current officers on staff that number should have only been 22.

The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, which employs about 500 people in its Head Start preschool program, reported creating or saving 935 jobs with about $1.3 million in funding. They are using its stimulus money to give a 1.84% pay raise to its employees and pay for other needs such as playground equipment and training for the teachers who serve 2,300 low-income children.  Another example in which at best, if they were going to fire everyone and the stimulus money was used for that purpose the saved or created number would only be 500.

Teach for America, which helps place recent graduates in teaching jobs in urban and rural districts, reported that a $2 million grant created or saved 1,425 jobs. They used that money to pay part of the salaries of 125 employees; a separate $6 million allowed it to expand the training program to include 1,300 more graduates.

 So with math like this do you still trust that the governments accounting of how much health care will cost is accurate?

We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history,  and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why  we are worth preserving.  Students by and large cannot write, think  critically, read, or articulate.  Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity.  Why? We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so  controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman.  Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?).  We  have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream
 
Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana  republic.  To what purpose?
 
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free  fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, Social Security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our entire  government.  Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about.)   The list is staggering in its  length, breadth, and depth.  It is potentially 1929 x 10.  And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same  religion.

And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has  never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska .  All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in  their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him  speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders?  No?  Oh, of course.  The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more  important.)
 
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am  now.  This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life.  In my assessment, Obama will  divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure.  Change is indeed  coming.  And when it comes , you will never see the same nation again.
 
I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral  German felt in the mid-1930s.  In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German  knew next to nothing..  What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they  disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises..  Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he  was a great speaker.  And he smiled and waved a lot.  And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would  bully them into submission.
 
And then he was duly elected to office, with a full-throttled economic  crisis at hand [the Great Depression].  Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person,  bureaucracy by bureaucracy.  The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think.  How did he get the people on his  side?  He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex.  He did it by indoctrinating  the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better=2 0jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country,  across Europe , and across the world.
 
He did it with a compliant media – Did you know that?  And he did this  all in the name of justice and .. . .. change.  And the people surely got what they voted for.  (Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)  Read  your history books.  Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of.  When Winston Churchill pointed  out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and  called a crazy troublemaker.  He was right, though .
 
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in   Europe .  It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities.  And in less than six years – a shorter time span than just  two terms of the U. S. presidency – it was rounding up its own citizens,

The road to Hell is paved with them.

Since many of you enjoy senior citizen status or will sometime in the not  too distant future, I thought you might be interested in this information.
 
IN GOD WE TRUST

Every body that is on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting  close or knows somebody that is.
 
Most of you know by now that the Senate version  (at least) of the “stimulus” bill includes provisions for extensive  rationing of health care for senior citizens.  The author of this part of the bill, former senator and tax evader, Tom Daschle was credited  today by  Bloomberg with the following statement.  “Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them.”  If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that Senators and
 
Congressmen have their own healthcare plan that is first dollar or very low  co-pay which they are guaranteed the remainder of their lives and are not subject to this new law if it passes.
 
Please use the power of the internet to get this  message out.  Talk it up at the grassroots level.  We have an election  coming up in one year and nine months.  We have the ability to address and reverse the dangerous direction the Obama administration and it allies have  begun and in the interim, we can make our voices heard!  Lets do it!
 
If you disagree, don’t do anything.  After your country is taken from you then you can scream from the rooftops, “how did this happen?”  “Why wasn’t I told?”