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 So, are we really as bad off as the Liberals want you believe. Maybe if Congress gave themselves another raise we could....well...anyway.

Let's discuss the last 6 years.

Myth Number 1: There are no jobs.

• A.  Almost 8 million jobs have been created since August of 2003.

B.  Real wages rose 1.7% in 2006.

C.  The time it takes to find a job is down from 8.5 weeks to 7.3 weeks.

D.  Workers filing for unemployment are down 20% since 2003.

• E.  Job openings are reported at 4.2 million openings.
  
• Myth Number 2: We aren't getting paid enough.

A.  Wages grew 1.7% over the last 12 months, which is faster than inflation is growing.

B.  Real after-tax income has risen 9.7% since 2001.

Myth Number 3: Tax cuts go to the rich.

A.  The government has doubled the child tax credit.

B.  The government has reduced the marriage penalty.

C.  The President's Tax Relief Enabled More Than 5 Million Taxpayers, Including 4 Million     Taxpayers With Children, To Have Their Income Tax Liability Completely Eliminated In 2006.

D.  The number one tell of a healthy economy is the housing market. The President's economy provide for the healthiest housing market in over 40 years. Over one year of continuous growth in the housing industry proves quite well that the economy has been great.

Necessary changes are in order in our government. The President and Congress have acted as fiscal Liberals in the disbursement of their own appropriations. Conservatives should have three obvious goals for the upcoming election in 2008, 2012, and 2016.

1.  Reduce government size. (We will address this in my next blog.)

2.  Reduce government spending.

3.  Cut Taxes.

A given for conservatives, right? Maybe, but in the next three elections number one will be vitally important with decisions lasting decades.

Signed,

Boston Biz

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Sometimes, Americans have a problem seeing the forest through the trees. The video above gives us an insight into the absolutely horrible conditions that Americans are forced to live under...as the Liberal left sees it.

Until about a year ago, I worked a manual labor job that primarily employed minorities due to its relatively close relation to the inner city. I was about a month away from getting married, and I had lost my job. We were planning on closing on a house soon and time was getting tight. The phone book lay open as I let my fingers do the walking. Company after company explained their hiring situations to me. I found one company, drove immediately to it, handed the boss my resume (for good measure), and he gave me the requirements to get the job. I had to go pass a state test and return with credentials. At this point, I would be hired as an apprentice and have 3 months to train for the job. Then I'd have to pass one more company and one more state test. I left, I did it, and I came back with the requirements. I was hired on the spot. My apprenticeship started at $14.15 per hour, which jumped to $16.30 per hour when I passed the apprenticeship, and it landed on $17.21 per hour shortly after. This was a job that took me one week to find and one month to meet the requirements for...with no prior experience or credentials. No, a minimum wage job at McDonald's was not the "ONLY" job us unemployed Americans could find. Sure, the lazy ones who aren't willing to wear out some shoes, make some phone calls, print resumes, and drive distances for a job may find that to be true. I've known 4 family households where an overqualified husband could only find McDonald's...and he made it work.

What bothered me was that while I was excited over the fact that a novice like myself had acquired a $17.21 per hour job with benefits in a month's time the senior guys - making $24.00, with IRA plans, company health care, company matched stock contributions, guaranteed 60 hours a week - would stand around the office...attacking our failed economy due to the President's deplorable actions in the White House. One had a 2007 Charger he just bought...after he got this job. One bought a new conversion van. One bought a 2007 Mustang. One joked the night before that he lost $10,000 in his IRA last week, but it didn't matter because he had seen it jump $30,000 due to his stock purchases. Why, in America, is the price of gas the only criteria in the minds of our citizens required to have the economy considered healthy?

A wise man once said, "The poor will always be with us." He had enough sense to know that whatever you do there will always be present in society "the down and out". How can those people enjoying new cars, paying jobs, benefits, home ownership, eating out, new clothes, razor cell phones with bluetooth, Sirius and XM radio in their vehicles, and Comcast's bundle package at home dare look to the President and complain?

What is opinion without facts? In part 2 we will look into the facts.

Vote democrat in 2008. Four more years of home ownership and debt-free living is going to kill me.

Signed,

Boston Biz

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We have a warped image of the concept of friendship. We are bombarded from the left everyday with cloned talking points instructing us to become closer allies with the nations of the world. "We should cease from our bickering with Korea, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria," they tell us. "Get along with foreign nations." Unfortunately, as it is with the little boy clenching tightly to his toy, we forget about what we do have when we see something we don't have. Mr. Olberman, you're right. A lot of countries don't get along with us. Mr. Kerry, Mr. Reid, Ms. Pelosi, Mrs. Clinton, you're right. We don't have a lot of friends.

Benjamin Franklin once said, "Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen." On the world stage, no country will ever have 150 friendly allies. People just don't have the same visions, values, and views. No, you won't read all the books in the world. You don't have time for that. Sure, you can argue that we bicker and fight with our fair share of nations. I'd guarantee that you'd prefer not to live in Israel where they are hated and despised 360 degrees around. The number of allies is not my concern.

In my whole world, I have two real true friends. I'm sure you'd find that in most cases. I'm thankful for those two. You see, despite what the Left will badger you to accept, friendship is not based on merely "getting along". A friend is someone that stands by you against all attacks to see you bettered because he believes in you, and believes in your cause.

Mr. Blair, you have done so. Regardless the stigma that came from his friendship to the American President, he stood by him. When the world points to America want of pride and glory but with disdain and disgust, the British stand with us. The means are more important than the end, and irrelevant to whether or not you believe President Bush or Prime Minister Blair are successful leaders soon to be looked at through the eyes of history, we must come to the conclusion that right or wrong Mr. Blair stood by his principles, his convictions, his beliefs...

...and most of all, his friends.

Signed,

Boston Biz

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 Most of us, let's assume 89%, know exactly how we are going to vote this November 7th.  Ironically, the majority of the country with enough character and discipline to involve themselves in the learning and understanding of the issues at hand, never get to decide to whom the victory goes.  In virtually every aspect of life, those with vision enough to prepare for success are the victors and are hereby qualified to receive all the rights and privileges to the spoils thereof.  The guy with the MBA hears the echoes of, "Your Hired," ringing in his ears.  The athlete who planted himself at the free throw line for 500 shots post-practice receives the glory of the number one draft pick.  The overworked senior who popped NoDoz and guzzled Mt. Dew deep into the bondage of night gets the grade.  Ah, but to those of us injecting our systems with 1000CCs of Ingraham, Savage, Hannity, and Limbaugh, we are removed from this sane, righteous system of sowing and reaping and are enslaved to the whims of Jay Leno's "Jay Walkers."  Those among us who laughingly quote, "Al Gore," when presented with the difficult challenge of naming Mr. Bush's Vice President are the ones for whom the election bells toll.  This undecided 11% is the cause, the reason, and the wonder of every race to Washington.

I remain very interested as we approach election day.  Daily receptions of up-to-date election coverage saturate my computer, my radio, and my television.  For, you see, I care.  What began to interest me even more was the day that I finally realized, "I don't care what this ad says.  I know who I am voting for based on where these guys stand." Then suddenly, an epiphany so strong I shook at the magnitude of the synapsis; the inmates are running the asylum.  We watch as the well-educated, the well-read, the well-spoken, the well-written debate and discuss trends, polls, points, numbers, but the pundits and celebrity hosts and what they believe in are in the hands of the 27 year old burger-flipper playing "Grand Theft Auto" right now as we speak.

Fifty-Six Million strong roll up their blue sleeves, and fifty-six million strong roll up their red sleeves to fight.  Yet, the 11% undecided will step in at the last minute licking the potato chip salt off of their remote control blistered fingers just long enough to hang a chad, and they decide the outcome.

One example of sway would be the race card.  We know that none of these candidates are racists, yet, millions are spent on an ad to make the illiterate 11% give 2-3% sway away from "the racist" candidate.  Another example?  Either you want Talent or you want McCaskill, but with the knowledgable already on one side or the other the candidates strain to give one more speech to make the zombie uneducated slowly turn to follow thinking, "I like...Him good".  If it just so happens that he licks his chops in your direction on the 7th of November, you win!  Campaigns are steaks waved in front of ignorant dogs.  Which ever steak looks good for now he'll follow.  I sit and watch as political talk show hosts say, "Well, in the next few days we will see how the polls reflect today's speech,' and I gaze in awe wondering how in the world someone can be so out of the loop that one little pep talk or one little attack ad can change how they feel that day.  If the undecided 11% were taken out of the picture, campaigns would be about as follows:
        "This November, 2008, Republican _____ is running against Democrat _____."
I know who I'm voting for, do you?  If your reading this you probably do, but what's the use?  That guy in his car at the stop sign in front of your house, yea, the one listening to old cds of the Jerky Boys, he will decide.

I suppose my writing lacks any great discovery of truth.  I just stand amazed as we calculate numbers, discuss topics, read articles, follow candidates, study issues, poll the countryside, and watch debates all for those 11% that have no political standing or concern whatsoever.  The country is in the hands, not of those with roots, but of those who are swayed by the most minute phrase in a speech or spin in an ad.

Can anyone tell me where I can make a campaign contribution?

Signed,
Boston

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Loyalty is a dirty word. Loyalty to your country, that is. Loyalty to anything else stands as a testament to the greatness of an individual. We are indoctrinated with the belief that loyalty to your heart, loyalty to your family, loyalty to your religion (other than Christianity) are signs of greatness and honor, but beware the man loyal to his country. Teddy Roosevelt said that a man who is loyal to other countries as much as he is loyal to his own is equivalent to a man who is loyal to other women as much as his own. Nationalism is a disease in these days. We should never aspire to be greater than anyone else. The unfortunate error in the philosophy of the left is that every other nation jests at the ignorance and naivete of the American stooge as they pass us on the world’s 100 meter dash. This illogical standard belief that allegiance to your homeland will birth the next generation of Hitler’s Youth is absurd. The liberal progressive ideology that lacks historical regression misses out on America’s path to greatness. That path was excellence, competition, and ingenuity.

God forbid that the government of the United States would be so proactive now in protecting and nourishing the American economy as to keep it the bar of achievement that the world looks to. Not only the government, but also the people of this country have ceased to protect and defend the land that they use as the arm through which they siphon the rich sweet blood of American opportunity and wealth into their leechlike parasitic bodies. This lack of concern and love for their country leads us to a disgusting trend in Arab-American culture.

I can’t help but wonder, do the people of Middle-Eastern descent that now live in America really want us to defend this land? Do they really want us to find the insurgents and the terrorists that plague their glorious “religion of peace”? Do they really want a peaceful state of being for their homeland? I don’t know that I believe that. They have made no attempt to prove otherwise.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the Poles are not bombing us. The Germans are not bombing us. The Brazilians are not bombing us. The Islamic terrorists are, and the vast majority of them are Arabs. Don’t get upset with me for naturally taking a second look when they get on a plane. Why? Because 19 Dutch men didn’t fly one into the World Trade Center, and to my knowledge none have made it known that they want to. The response to my former statement proves in detail why I see such a lack of concern for the American good from our Arab brothers and sisters. The response is always the same. “We don’t deserve to be profiled.” I’m sorry, but if a lady just got robbed by a 6’5” white male in a predominately Spanish neighborhood, the only logical things to do when you see that white male is pull over and question him. When Islamic Arabs blow up the World Trade Center twice, when Islamic Arabs blow up trains in Spain, when Islamic Arabs blow up bus stations in England, I’m going to tend to look suspiciously at Arabs when I see them. I am honestly sorry that what I say is true. No veil of hatred covers my eyes, but one of logic does. It just so happens that there is a large group of people within the Arab race that want to kill me.

I understand that hundreds of thousands and millions of Arabs have no intentions whatsoever of harming Americans. The Arab-American mindset reminds me of the guy holding back the victim of a mugging from chasing after the robber while at the same time shouting, "Go get him! Go get him!" Do they really want us to hunt down and kill these terrorists or do their inner beliefs of a tyrannical greedy imperialist America shade their hearts?

If the Italians were terrorizing American cities and the U.S. government wanted to know who was a terrorist and who wasn't, I'd be the first in line to lay open the books of my life. I want the people of this nation to know that I have no intentions whatsoever of harming them or their lifestyles. Beaming with patriotism, I'd turn over the names of anyone I knew with Anti-American sentiment. KGB, you ask? No, turning over your parents to a communist dictatorship is the complete antithesis of warning your fellow citizens of a possible detriment to their existence.

The appropriate response from the Arab community would be to stand up and shout, "Search me, please." Well, if you aren't American enough to protect this nation that supports you before your homeland, maybe you aren't American enough to reap the benefits of one.

Well, am I right?

Signed,
Boston

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 The statement has been made recently and in the last few years, "You can either lead by faith or you can lead by fear.  George W. Bush has selected to lead by fear."  For this reason I propose to you today that fear is our friend.

Our liberal counterparts have for years loved the use of abstract phrasing in order to create the image of a utopia under Democratic leadership.  Unfortunately, their ideas are just that.  They lack a concrete value.  They have no substance.  "Let's end this reign of King Bush and begin making a stronger America."  "A stronger America" is a great thing, but what does it mean?  They have no answer.  Things like, "move the world forward to peace", and "influence the world community for good", and "stand shoulder to shoulder with our friends and allies".  They think you the citizen are stupid.  Explain what any of those things mean.  They can't because they are artificial best-case-senario "yea, that would be great" descriptions of a peaceful world, but they have no meaning behind them.  The phrase at hand?  "Lead by faith."  Ah, the images of a beloved leader biting at his lower lip as he strains to hold back the tears during his heartfelt speech to the peaceful peoples of the world.  A man steps forward to lead and believes in his nation and believes in the people of other nations.  We stand together, hand in hand, with no worries and no questions about tomorrow because his faith in humanity has brought peace to the world.

Then they create the image of a man who leads by fear.  He is a capitalist greedy devil.  He only entered politics for his own profit.  He has no leadership skills and he has no answers for the people.  Therefore, he scares them.  He talks about terror and killing.  He makes you think an Arab is going to sneak into your house and kill your children.  He warns you.  He scares you into voting for him because anything else would mean sure death.  He occupies and overthrows other governments because they have resources that he wants.  He is willing to give blood for oil.

Foolishly we surrender our logic to these stereotypical portrayals given to us by the liberal left.  Never once does someone ask, "What would it mean to lead by faith, and what would it mean to lead by fear?"  I will.

TO LEAD BY FAITH
Faith is that which we cannot see through our natural eyes, but can through our visions of the future.  When the Democrats so poetically teach us to lead by faith, their faith is flawed.  Their faith is humanist.  No one is evil to them.  The only reason that terrorists exist is America's lack of love and care.  We have turned our backs on the world, and therefore, they have reason to hate us.  Wouldn't you blow up yourself if no one would hear your voice?  We have forced them to this.  They are honorable for standing for their beliefs.  The liberals believe that if we just "have faith" in humanity, if we "talk things out", and if we "think positively" there will be no hate in the world.  They believe that if all the nations meet at the U.N. and discuss their problems mankind will find peace.  Their faith is in the goodness of man.  Leading by faith is a foolish way to say, "Hey, let's live in the gray area of life with no absolutes and think that these people across the ocean will change and stop hating us.  I have faith.  I have faith in the American people.  I have faith in God.  I have faith in the American military.  I have faith in a lot of things.  I do no believe in leading by faith.  Lead by truth.

TO LEAD BY FEAR
Scare a child.  Teach him that the most dangerous place in the world is in the middle of a street.  Tell him that a car could hit him.  Tell him the drivers don't slow down.  Tell him that he could die or have part of his body cut off.  That's leading by fear.  It's harsh, but it's true.  See, the next time that boy goes into the street, he will walk alert.  He will be very aware of his surroundings.  He will protect himself.  Even if no car is in sight, he will be careful.  That boy has more of a chance to live than the boy who is told, "no one wants to hurt you.  Don't ever be afraid.  Live freely.  Expect the best."

I teach kids from the ages of 12-18.  My lectures and teachings are on the topics of life, growing up, religion, how to be successful, how to reach your potential, and becoming an adult.  I teach fiercely.  I teach hard.  I warn them of failure.  I tell them that falling short of what I teach them will assure that they never succeed.  Why?  I want them to succeed.  I want them to get it.  You see, failure is prevalent.  Success must be searched out.  They are at the age when they don't really see a concern.  I have to instill it in them.  So, I scare them.  It works.  I see them respond, and I see them change.

For the sake of myself and my family, I want to know when someone wants to cut off my head.  Leaders should stand up and show videos on national tv of the beheadings in Iraq.  Show the truth, and if the truth brings fear, then at least I know where to go from there.  If there is something to fear, I want to know about it.  The best thing the government can do is scare you to action.  The shepherd who does not warn the sheep is a failure.  If we cease to be alert, then we cease to care.  When we cease to care, we cease to act.  When we cease to act, they win.

Off with your head.

Fear...my best friend.

Signed,
Boston

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Liberals have this ability for selective criticism. They select whatever side of an issue would benefit their criticism of the right. For example, President Bush is so much of an uneducated imbecile that he can’t possibly develop a plan for relief from the pressures of paying second mortgage payments at the pump, yet when prices drop to celebratory lows smoothing out the proverbial icing on the economical cake, he is suddenly an omnipotent super-genius puppeteer of the American economy, toying with the pockets and minds of the American demographic to gain votes for his domineering manipulative Grand Old Party.

However, the issue at hand is a certain man who is so often ousted and criticized along side His followers and then quoted to attack His followers. If you haven’t guessed, it’s Jesus. (You may not know Him. He died a long time ago…for a while.) Never has a man and his “organization” been so hated and rejected and at the same time used to prove His enemies right.

Let’s first examine the image of religion that is created by the left. Anyone who practices any kind of religion other than Christianity is pictured as a sweet, wholesome, innocent person. They are simply exercising those areas of their “heritage” that have been passed down through the ages. They practice a peaceful, heartfelt religion. Their ceremonies are sacred. They share an instinctive desire to better themselves and search out a nonjudgmental god. Such a spiritual experience is one of many ways that we all grow and seek inner peace. If confronted, you picture their expressions as that of a deer lapping water at a stream, looking up, unaware of anything impure. They appear as a small innocent child who, when he realizes he is being watched, looks up with no care or concern in the world. He simply enjoys his uncomplicated life.

In contrast, the Christian is a harsh, judgmental creature. He has no tolerance of anyone. Any time he mentions his beliefs it is a fierce attack on anyone who doesn’t believe like he does. Church services are hate camps. Preachers spew intolerance. They are unintelligent, unreasonable, and uncivilized. They shouldn’t have any say in decision making. If they hold a position of power or authority, they can’t be trusted because they are biased and outdated. They have claws and fangs. They don’t have the right to talk to their nonexistent made up hatemongering God anywhere where someone else who doesn’t believe in Him may be offended if they see it. Nothing that they believe can even be mentioned as a possibility in the public square. Only mysticism, Islam, and multi-cultural studies can be presented to children. They desire to have their prophet Jesus Christ (you know…the swear word) rule the land with an iron fist, destroying the unbelievers (that doesn’t sound anything like Islam).

Yet…these same liberals will use the President and CEO of the “Christian Club”, the commander-in-chief of the Jesus Freaks, the man who claims to be God to preach at those same Christians that they hate. Let me give you a newsflash Rosie O’Donnell. Until you’ve studied the life of Jesus for years in detail, and until you’ve read the Bible completely through, don’t tell me what Jesus stood for. Don’t tell me what Jesus said. Liberals seem to love the quotes about peace. “Jesus said, ‘blessed are the peacemakers’,” they quote. “Turn the other cheek.” “Jesus taught forgiveness.”

Well, to all the liberal politician/theologians who know so much about the man that hate to have mentioned, here’s some other things Jesus said and did.

-Jesus made a whip and drove out thieves from the temple.
-Jesus flipped over cedar tables in anger.
-Jesus said that He came to bring a sword.
-Jesus sided with the destruction of (that city that is the namesake of homosexuality).
-Jesus said it would be good to tie a millstone to the neck of anyone who hurts children and throw it into the sea.
-Jesus called out people by name and judged them for their sin.
-Jesus used the word SIN.
-Jesus is the same God that David said, “Teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.”

Should I continue? Jesus is called the Prince of Peace, but to only describe half of what a man is all about, you have done an injustice to the man.

You may have grace, but must also have truth. You may have beauty, but you must also have strength. You may have love, but you must also have wrath.

You talk about what you know, Rosie, and I’ll talk about what I know.   Also, don’t be so ignorant as to hate a man and then use Him for your own gain. Ah, well, you can only expect so much from some people.

Signed,
Boston

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The problem is not that India is becoming a intellectual, technological, entrepreneurial, and economical powerhouse.  The problem is not that any other country might be doing the same.  The problem is that they are gaining this advantage through the resources provided by the United States meant to enhance our own standing.  Our colleges should be producing Americans on their way to creating a more successful America.  Our government should be providing Americans with a reason to want to plant their businesses here.  God bless anyone who wants to better themselves so that they can be successful, but above all, God bless America.  Let's create an environment that encourages and nurtures our own growth and development.  There's a lot to be done.  Here's how.

1.    Parents must instill in their children a strong work ethic, and a desire to succeed.
I am not against wealth.  I am against n-teen year olds who have been given everything and have nothing required of them being so ungrateful and taking so much for granted that they have become a useless lump of flesh.  They have no desire to learn, no desire to grow, no desire to succeed.  I am amazed at the teenage youth that I work with that have never picked up a book.  Life is about imitating and emulating their favorite know-nothing counterparts in the entertainment world.  No wonder poor little boys and girls in foreign countries that have dreamed of opportunity and are willing to work for it grow up and come to the United States to fulfill that dream.  A lack of that famous "American Ingenuity" and an abundance of listlessness will be the demise of our superiority among the world community.

2.    Schools must once again become schools.  
Our public school system is a flawed failure and is a disgusting embarrassment to those who look to us.  More money is not the answer.  My mother is a teacher in a public school.  She notes that at the end of the year her school chooses what big purchase to buy in order to use up the left over funds so that the federal government will not reduce next year's budget.  Why is it that we now have countless learning centers where kids having trouble in certain subjects can go to get help?  Isn't the point of the school to do that?  Start teaching math and science and history and english.  Throw out multi-cultural studies.  Cut out the field trips and the parties.  Stop spending time with "sensitivity assemblies" and "This Heritage Week" and "That Heritage Week".  Close down failing schools.  Fire failing teachers.  Raise the standard of difficulty.  Make grade values mean something again.  Hold back unprepared students.  Fire school administrators with no record of improvement.  Hold back funds.  Value our children!  Don't worry.  Being number two to China or India won't be so bad.

3.    Provide scholarships to American born students with majors in math and science and business.
You're a racist!  I'm a nationalist.  This is my nation.  These are our kids.  These are our colleges.  This is our future.  If you want to come and learn then come, but we want the best for our own.  Just like the economy needs stimulation, so do our prospective college students.  Give them an incentive.  Give them the advantage.

4.    Reduce the corporation and small business tax. 
In an effort to keep "big business" and capitalists down, the rich-hating left (ironically the ones that make up the celebrity world and are the ones that fill our big cities) have also sent many wouldbe business owners oversees.  They hate the idea of one company getting big and rich.  They want a piece of that action so they tax them to death.  What's foolish is their thought process.  If you lower the corporation tax more companies will be willing to spring up not only creating your competition that you yearn for, but also creating a stronger American economy to compete with the world.  What's more is that all those companies paying the lower tax will actually bring more revenue for the federal government than the few companies paying the higher tax.  That all doesn't really matter, though.  The left wants America to be on a level playing field with the rest of the world.

5.    Create large incentives for research and development.
This one's important.  We want American companies to produce better products than the world.  We want the world to buy our stuff and not vice versa.  We want to be the first to think of that next billion dollar idea and be the first to build it.  Therefore, create incentives,  tax breaks, tax credits, anything that will stimulate American companies to create the superior product.  We want the world's money coming in to us.  We don't want to be shelling it out to them.  Research and development is key in taking the next step forward.  Reward them for it.

6.    Place high tariffs on all imports.
Give Americans a reason to buy American.  Sure, they can sell their product here, but they aren't going to put American businesses out of sale because they can legally work a 9 year old boy to death for a penny a day.  Don't punish American's for living ethically.  Those cheap shoes don't look so good when suddenly that "labor camp special" goes away.  Buy American.

7.    Refuse to do business with any and all nations whose ethics and human rights standards would not be tolerated in America.
Stop doing business with communist governments.  Why are we, in one action, destroying the American economy and supporting the growth of evil tyrannical governments?  Don't trade with North Korea.  Don't trade with China.  Maybe that's too drastic for our pussycat politicians to dole out.  Is Cuba any different than other despot regimes?  No.  We wouldn't let American businesses operate in these slave labor standards, yet we will put them out of business and support these kind of actions by buying from these nations.

I want America to be the land of opportunity in 50 to 100 hundred years.  Let's make that a possibility.

Signed,
Boston

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Why it is that we look up to such illogical and unreasonable people as I am about to describe just because they classify themselves as scientists, and their beliefs as science (everyone else being close-minded religious simpletons) I will never know.

The following is a paraphrase by one of our "open-minded" scientists as to why both evolution and creation cannot be co-taught in our schools:
           
It would be one thing to teach two different theories of science, but in this debate we are not dealing with two sciences.   In this debate we are dealing with one science and one religion.  Therefore, to teach both would be harmful because you cannot teach science and religion together.

Solum veritas.  Only truth.  Let me preface my dissertation by stating that I am a "closed-minded" creationist.  Frankly, I believe both systems of teaching require faith.  Logically, it seems that "In the beginning God," takes less faith than "In the beginning dust."  But, preconceived notions aside, I will prove my close-mindedness to be more open-minded than that of the open-minded scientist.  Let us go forth in logic, common sense, and facts.

Based on its definition, science is, "The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena."  It is also described as, "a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths..."  Therefore, anything that logically observes, describes, investigates, and has a theoretical explanation of how things works would be science, correct?  Also, a branch of knowledge or study would be science.  And so we continue.

Let's go step by step to a conclusion.
1.    The universe is here. 
        That's not to hard to believe.  Let's move on.
2.    The universe got here one of two ways.  Either it was created by someone or within itself is the ability to evolve using nature itself to progress. 
        I'm not trying to trip anyone up through tricky words.  If I have not properly described the evolutionary process then I apologize.  The point is this.  Either someone made it or it evolved.  If a watch that was on the dresser is on the floor when you return home, one of two things happened.  Something of nature (dog, wind, earthquake) caused it to fall, or someone put it there.  It's that simple.
3.    Therefore, both evolution and creation have a 50/50 chance of being correct.  
        One cannot be "probably" be more likely than the other since neither can be reproduced and neither have witnesses.  Both are theories based on faith and discoveries that cannot be proven.  You cannot prove that a rock is 3,000,000,000 years old and you cannot prove that a fossil of a fish on top of a mountain is proof of Noah's flood.  They both have a 50% chance of being right.
4.    Whichever theory is correct is, based on the definition, science regardless of the presence or absence of God. 
        If evolution is correct, then it is a branch of knowledge describing how something works, and we call that science.  If creation is correct, than it would have to be considered science.  You cannot say that something cannot be considered science just because there is a diety involved.  Based on the truth that there is a 50/50 chance for each of them to be correct, creation may be correct.  If creation is correct, than "God created the heavens and the earth," is science.  Because if God really did create everything, than creation is science.  Do not be so close-minded to write something off because "God" is implicated.  That's the opposite of what true scientific reasoning should conclude.
5.    If one of the two are correct, and which ever one is correct is the real science, then both should be considered scientific theories and studies. 
        We aren't dealing with one science and one religion.  We are dealing with two sciences.
6.    Therefore, if dealing with two different scientific possibilities with equal opportunities to be correct (and my money going to teach it), both should be taught in an effort to seek TRUTH.

Need I say more?

Signed,
Boston

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A person's perception is his reality.  Note, that this is a reality based on his perception and perception is by definition vision based on a position.  If we were to stand facing a wall of trees, our position may cause our vision to perceive that we were in store for a long hard journey through a dense forest.  Yet, if we were to stand only 50 yards forward of our current position and were able to see that vast clearing split down the middle by a paved road, our position would cause our vision to perceive that the journey ahead wasn't going to be so bad.

For this reason, I strongly believe that in effort to find the truth we should never base our beliefs on our position or our perception.  Discernment is the key to finding not only the truth but also the answers to the issues at hand.  We must discern the true core of the question at hand and begin to work from there.  I believe that this is one of the key reasons that certain political affiliations and their followers have such off track unreasonable answers and beliefs.  They look at the wrong perspective.  Let me illustrate.

I was recently counseling a teenage boy who had fallen into league with a certain group of people whose interests had caused three families major problems.  The most recent was the boy's own father who left his wife.  The boy's Pastor stressed to him the dangers of following this same trail.  I too dealt with the boy, backing up his Pastor's teaching.  The boy came back with the argument that he just didn't see the connection between what his father had done and this path he was taking.  His new "leader" had convinced him that there really was no bad side effects to what they were involved in.

This here is the same problem I see in the political world.  He wasn't seeing the boiled down point.  He was looking at it from the wrong perspective.  The point is not whether or not we could prove to him what was wrong with what he was doing.  The point is that he should have been teachable.  He should be able to look to those older and wiser and say, "I don't necessarily understand, but I will obey."  Obedience to authority is more important for a teenager than understanding every little aspect of what they teach.

Boil it down.  Always look at each and every situation and find one of two things.  Number one: What is my primary goal?  Number two: What rule is preeminent in this situation?

For example, (and I will write about this situation in more detail in the future).  Do we as Americans with open arms accept those from other countries that are hungering, longing to find solace in a land of freedom and opportunity?  Yes.  But...with the immigration issue there is a goal that is preeminent to the U.S. policy of acceptance.  It is the goal of protecting those that already are American citizens.  See, when you look at it after boiling it all down to the core, when you look for the preeminent goal or rule, you find the truth.  That's when you realize, we aren't racists for denying people to cross our borders.  We aren't "destroying the American way".  We are simply being true to our primary goal before we are able to have the benefit of one of our secondary goals.

Too many of our politicians focus on the wrong perspective.  Gun control.  "We need stop children from being able to commit violence to those around them."  Once again.  Wrong.  Our primary goal is to create in our children a heart that has no desire to murder.  Columbine did not occur because we failed to stop violence.  It occurred because we failed to capture the hearts of two teenage boys and direct them in the right path.  Problem?  We failed to find the primary goal.

Most people believe the end is more important than the means.  Again, we fail.  Many well-meaning people would love to introduce others to their religion if only they'd listen.  That's the "end".  Holding up those people in a bank at gunpoint would not be the right "means".  We all have an agenda.  We all want things to go our way.  Those may be honorable ends, but if we cannot reach them by honorable means, we have failed.

The examples could go on and on.  Solum veritas.  Only truth.  We must put aside our bias and personal perspective and speak "only truth".  Logic, common sense, and facts.  I truly believe that through those three elements a large portion of those good-natured well-meaning Americans who have been force-fed facts by the means of CNN, Ted Turner, Rosie O'Donnell, Nancy Pelosi, and countless other "false-perspective" advisors would change their views 180 degrees.  The year 2008 would be a landslide year for the right.  Let us speak in logic, common sense, and facts.  Let us teach only truth, solum veritas.  Let us always discern (pervisum) to find the truth.

Signed,
Boston