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		<title>Women Rights v. Christian Rights (July 21, 2009)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this blog named Women Rights v. Christian Rights I will discuss my recent long drawn out battle between pro choice and pro life people on facebook. For the record I am for abortion in the case of rape, incest, if the mother’s life is threatened by the birth of the child or if the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=33&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>In this blog named Women Rights v. Christian Rights I will discuss my recent long drawn out battle between pro choice and pro life people on facebook. For the record I am for abortion in the case of rape, incest, if the mother’s life is threatened by the birth of the child or if the child is going to be born a vegetable or with a disease that will kill them early in life. With that said I do not agree that Abortion is a form of birth control that is what a condom and BCP’s are for (Birth Control Pills) or I’ll go as far as to say just for a girl to keep her legs closed and a man to keep his thing in his pants.  Now with that all being said I would like to add one more bit of information. The previous statement was purely my opinion and not that of everyone including women that feel there are other reasons to abort a fetus such as the part where if you can’t provide for a child either emotionally, physically, or money wise then they see it as a viable option. And with the way the US Adotion and Foster Care system is I can almost understand that way of thinking. The Adoption system is made so hard to get in that parents now go overseas to get children which just means more children in a system where they get lost in it and then end up on their own anyways.</p>
<p>Now chimes in the religious Right Wingers that want to see abortion made illegal. Lets face the fact here most Christians that oppose it say its “against God’s will” which in my mind is a lame excuse because not everyone believes in God but beyond that I have heard of Christians getting it done too so that just goes to show there are some hypocrites in the religious side of things. None the less the idea that its against the will of God is not an argument made for debate in a educated group of people. So lets move on to their next argument.</p>
<p>It is against the 1st Commandment which reads <em>“Thou shall not kill”</em> which I can agree with. No one should kill a person, but a unborn fetus is a parasite and a cluster of cells that require the mother to stay active. But looking past that what right does a right wing church fanatic have to tell a women that she cant get rid of her fetus? I mean we all know that Christians have killed actually people for hundred of years. I mean look at the Inquisition, the Crusades 1, 2, 3 and 4, and the Fulcrum Hammer (aka the Witches Hammer). If we really want to look into history we can also say they killed the Indians, and killed other Christians that maybe didnt believe in the invisible man exactly the same way they did. Let us also not forget that the Catholics of Europe also condoned the killing of jews during WWII.</p>
<p>Before you come to me with the thought that I or women should follow the 1st Commandment first how about you follow it yourself then I might take you up on your offer to follow it as a legal binding agreement. There is also this idea that if a women is raped she should keep the child. Why? So the child can be mistreated by the mother who is heartbroken and utter sickened by the fact she is having to care for a child on her own by a man that brutally raped her? And in the case of incest why in the world anyone would say its ok for you to keep a child that came from your father/brother/uncle? I mean where does that seem right?</p>
<p>When the question of the mothers ability to survive during birth the right wing is torn and rightfully so because you do have the diehards that believe that if a mother dies at child birth then it was Gods will to let the child live over that of the mother. There are more cases however that both child and mother are lost and then you have two dead people on your hands. If anything I feel sorry for men that are in those types of churches that believe something like that I mean come on its hard enough to choose between your child that “is” being born and your wife but to loose both because you were too stupid to let her get an abortion? That’s just moronic and inconsiderate to the woman that may have wanted to get the abortion.</p>
<p>Now comes the complicated part, as was proposed on facebook by several people for the pro life side. The idea that you can not be “pro choice” but only pro abortion because to be pro choice you automatically have to let every choose everything from if its ok to rape someone to have slaves. First off this logic is flawed from the get go. That’s like saying Christians are Nazi’s because they believe that no one should have choices at all because God makes all choices and that everyone is to give their life to a higher being (you know kinda like the people did in Germany during Hitler’s reign in power?) and that anyone that doesn’t believe in the same way they do should just got shite off somewhere or die. But “Oh no you cant call Christians Nazi’s because they love everyone and that’s just unfair.” Fine, they are not Nazi’s they are the Western version of Eastern Muslims.</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, there are those out there in the Christian faith that are no where near that bad and those are the few Christians I look up to and say ” you know what not all Christians are bad thank you for making me realize this” these are the ones that say “I don’t believe in abortion and I don’t believe that anyone should have the right to have one, but I can not judge for that is up to God”. While I do not believe in God its the few that show me that some actually have commonsense that makes me feel that there is hope for Christians as a people. Sadly that dream usually fades when the die hard jumps out of the closet and screams that the other person is not a “true Christian” but just a hypocrit against God.</p>
<p>So here we go lets summarize this whole thing up in a small lil section. If you don’t believe in abortion that is absolutely fine but for the love of all Freedom please get it through your thick uneducated and morality based minds that its not your damn right to tell a woman what the hell she can do to her body or with her body. If she wants to get a job as a damn prostitute then that’s her business she made that choice and like all people she has to live with the consequences of her actions. Thats what is wrong with people they don’t want to live with the consequences of their actions so they have to pawn it off on “God” as “his will” shame on you for doing that it was not Gods will you demented arse. God gave you the will to make your own damn decisions and a brain to realize that if you decied to jump from a 10 story building you probably will meet the maker a lot sooner then you really should think about meeting him.</p>
<p>In the case of abortion its a right granted to the woman in question and to her husband/boyfriend/fiance in question to decide if an abortion is right or not. It is not the right of the Christians to impose their will on others its their right to worship freely and not to be prosecuted for their belief’s but that’s it everything else is made up by the Christian masses in order to make themselves feel important and “closer to God”. You want closer to God how about actually following your own down book and your own damn belief’s, that would be a good start.</p>
<p>Here is an idea and I am going to piss a lot of people off but remember I do not truly believe in this it is only an option proposed because of how freaking fanatic a lot of Christians are about abortion. So lets look at this argument, Christians would like to abolish abortion because it is a tool to destroy a fetus (I refuse to call it a baby or child because its not born yet) so they are basically saying “anything that would harm or kill another is wrong and is not fit to be in a world of Christians” and if that is not what they are saying then they sure do have an odd way of proving that point. So lets make the decision right now to agree with the Christian Masters and abolish everything that could go against the 1st Commandment. So gun fanatics sorry, you didn’t make the cut you got ousted because even though you and I both know a gun is useless unless you pull the trigger its still a tool to kill so sorry it has to go. Knife collectors, cooks, and anyone that uses a knife to cut his or her dinner, sorry a knife is currently one of the leading tools of killers and thus it will be removed as part of our “remove tools that kill others”. Ropes, and any blunt object as well as cars are no more because you can kill people with these. You see where this is going?</p>
<p>The argument that you have to remove things that are against the 1st Commandment is null and void. The idea that abortion is a question of rights given to the mother or the unborn fetus is laughable at best. Why? Because no scientist in their right mind nor no politician would agree that a fetus is protected under any known law. Why? Because they are still cells that are growing, they are in fact a parasite living off the host till it reaches the maturity to sustain itself without the mothers body giving it life. Therefore abortion is a question of civil rights of a woman and the freedom of her choice. And by the Grace of Freedom let all women have the choice of to abort or not to abort.</p>
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		<title>&#8220;In God we Trust&#8221; and Money (July 21, 2009)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a debate that honestly I have little faith in every reaching a common agreement in. Why do you ask? Simply because that the amount of people that actually know what they are talking about when it comes to the dollar bill and the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” is lacking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=31&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Here is a debate that honestly I have little faith in every reaching a common agreement in. Why do you ask? Simply because that the amount of people that actually know what they are talking about when it comes to the dollar bill and the use of the phrase “In God We Trust” is lacking however the amount of people thats only real debate is to state “leave God in our nation because its a Christian Nation” is very very high. Lets face it however that even if that truly your opinion it is not a valid argument against those opposed to phrase being left on the dollar bill.</p>
<p>Personally, I feel that it doesn’t bother me to have it on there. I dont believe in God and most Atheist agree that it doesn’t bother them that its on the dollar bill. And in fact and others that don’t believe in the Christians interpertation of God feel its rather ironic that they would want such a meaningful phrase on the very sheet of paper that causes power, greed, and envy and also the fact that in many people’s minds money is the root of all evil. So why would you want your God to be associated with evil…unless of course you believe in the dark powers and such which then I can’t really say anything about it.</p>
<p>One of arguments by Christians has been that the dollar bill has always said this. In reality that is just not a true statement and anyone that studied American History would remember that the money didn’t have that phrase on it till the 1950’s because it was a way to make people feel better about being in America and to resist the Communist. That fact alone proves that many Christians in the debate don’t even know what they are talking about but expect everyone else to and to debate “correctly” and then when you throw out your evidence they shun you because your “going against God”. NO I am not going against God I am proving how ignorant you are about history which is obvious for many Christians never remembering the Crusades where they slaughtered thousands and millions in the name of God even their it clearly states in the first commandment “thou shall not kill” and in the 4th (pending on version) “thou shall not take thy Gods name in vain” which is exactly what you are doing by killing in the name of God.</p>
<p>Another argument by the right wing namely Christians is that we do not need to remove the phrase because we have already taken too much from God and his people by taking prayer out of schools and the 10 Commandments out of the courthouses and ect. Face it you can’t have your cake and eat it too, if you want freedom and want equality then step up and get over it. You can not have freedom and religion hand in hand unless you are speaking about the freedom of religion which is granted by the 1st Amendment under the US Constitution which was ratified by the founding fathers to ensure that America wouldn’t end up like England. Unfortunately that to many Christians meant the right of freedom of religion only if you are a Christian anyone else is screwed according to them. However that is nowhere in the text and I doubt anyone back then would have put such in there. The problem here is that we allowed too much about God into society and now its biting us in the ass because the radicals and the fanatics are coming out of the wood work now.</p>
<p>Let us make one thing clear, there is no US National Religion any thought of such is just ridiculous and those that  believe it are in need of going back through History class. Lets face it America is a land of freedom which means you have the right to believe what every invisible man or woman you want to so long as you respect all the other peoples invisible man and woman. Most people can live with that but there is a growing number that says “mine is better then yours and so it should be only religion” that is the kinda thinking that led to the Crusades and the Witches Hammer. So will the Christians in this nation demand a new Crusade where they will march coast to coast pillaging, rapping, and killing all those that don’t convert from their ways or are not Christians? No I don’t think that would happen though its interesting to see how many Christians think it should.</p>
<p>In closing the facts are obvious and there is not enough evidence to prove that the words “In God We Trust” should remain other then the simple fact its been on there this long and to most people its not even a freaking issue and its the Christians steering this issue up to cause problems. The facts are: Was not printed on the money till 1950’s, most Atheist don’t give a damn about it being there, you cant have freedom of religion if you want freedom of only the Christian religion, and being ignorant of the history only makes you less effective in your arguments.</p>
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		<title>Support the Troops v. Support the War (July 24, 2009)</title>
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<p>The issue that I find funny about this whole debate about Supporting the troops and supporting the war is the people that literally think that you cant support one without the other. I find there are more and more people that are doing the whole Yellow Ribbon thing because they support their troops. That’s great if you want to wear your little ribbon and say “I support the troops” that’s fine and great and I respect that but those are also the same people that will tell you “If you don’t support the war you don’t support our troops.” It makes me wonder if I should feel sorry for these people because they lack the ability to understand simple social science or if I should feel more sorry that these are the people that voted for Bush in the first place. Lets face it soldiers are simply that soldiers. They fight and serve their nation with the greatest distinguished honor and they do as told when told how told because if they don’t they go into the brig or military jail as some call it.</p>
<p>What I am saying in a nut shell is this, the soldiers have no say in who they fight they just fight who they are told. The guys sitting behind the desks in their cozy offices sipping on fine wine and smoking cigars are the ones that decide who they fight and why they fight. “Today I think we need more oil so we’ll invade Iraq.” The soldier doesn’t know why he’s fighting but when morale starts to wear a bit they run the adds of “its for freedom” Who’s freedom? Well cant be mine cause every time you turn around they make new laws making my freedoms dissapear. Cant be Iraqi freedom cause they are still scared of getting killed by the evil towel headed bombers. Which sadly is inaccurate because they all don’t wear the turbans on their heads most wear hats or nothing at all.</p>
<p>Lets face it and get back on topic here, I can damn well support my troops and not support the freaking war. I love my troops because damn it they are great soldiers. Why? Well I don’t see many people leaving their families behind to go join a service to be put into a uniform that to the enemy means “free target” and then go to the place they call the “sandbox” because its nothing but a big giant desert full of people wanting to kill you and guess why they are fighting for the very same rights that you and I have for those people the very same people that want to kill them. You talk about guts and balls let me tell you something I can personally say if someone tried to kill me forget their freedom they have the freedom to die and be buried. Many troops don’t even support the war they just fight cause they are told too and you know what that is a freaking hero to believe in your nation so much that even when its wrong you still fight for your nation. Normally I wouldn’t support such an action but because I feel that a point needs to be made here that people look for reasons to be stupid.</p>
<p>Here is the big difference between supporting the war and supporting the troops. If you support the troops you want them to come home and to come home alive and not physically or mentally scared and able to live long and productive lives with their families and to accomplish their life goal and never had to take part in wars created by insane men seeking some sort of glory and never winning an election…that’s for another topic. If you support the war you really are only supporting the aspect that our men and women are there killing people for the reason of freedom. The difference is when you ask them who’s freedom they answer with “our freedom” the only thing I can tell from that statement is that people have completely allowed their brains to become shit. I mean seriously since when has Iraq threatened our freedom…NEVER. So before you spout off “our freedom” lets remember in reality we are there for their freedom which in my opinion…let them fight for their own damn freedom…we did. I mean hello people forget the Revolutionary War.</p>
<p>If you support the troops that’s great because you are showing your armed forces you understand that they are hero’s because they have to go through hell everyday because a guy in an office told them to. I mean you didn’t see Dick Chaney or anyone else in Congress pick up a gun or send their children to fight did you? Hell no cause they don’t give a damn about the lil guy all they care about is making laws that make them rich period. If you support your troops and not the war then you have found the basic understanding that is needed in the US. That is that its ok to support the people that fight but not the cause they fight for. I once heard from a vet when he was talking to another vet that was his friend someting that caught my attention. His buddy said “here we went and fought in the jungles of Vietnam and came home and got spit on and we were hated for fighting, these guys come home and they are hero’s” my friend and coworker turned to him and said, “your right we did and your right they are but you remember that feeling we got when we came home and got that treatment? Do you want them to go through the same pains we did?” To which the other vet admitted he didn’t want them to know that feeling.</p>
<p>In closing I want to say this, I support my troops 100% because they do the things that I can not even begin to understand, making the sacrifice  to leave loved ones home and taking a chance to die in a far off land for the freedom of others, for the freedom of people that hate them. I do not support the war in Iraq and I will never support actions that are not needed in my eyes. Would I gladly give my life for a good cause? Oh hell yeah if the US was invaded you damn right I’d be there fighting in the trenches but if you just make up a reason to go to war then no I don’t think that deserves my time, my families time or my life. Support your troops, support their families, but DO NOT support the dumb-asses in capital hill.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this blog titled Economic Illusions I would like to go over some very basic yet very misunderstood information about not just the way the US Economic system is made and operated but also how the concept of a Global Market and Economic system is utter crap. I know many people out there are however [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=27&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>In this blog titled Economic Illusions I would like to go over some very basic yet very misunderstood information about not just the way the US Economic system is made and operated but also how the concept of a Global Market and Economic system is utter crap. I know many people out there are however all for a Globalist Market but few know what exactly that all means and exactly what will have to be done to create the World Economic Market System. The ranting in this blog is actually quite more contained then in previous blogs cause honestly I feel if your not quite up to speed on the worlds economics systems and how they work then you are actually just as normal as anyone else in the world because there is a small amount of people that understand the basic and advanced concepts of Economics. Let me be the first to say however I do not know everything there is to know about the Economic System but I do know the basics.</p>
<p>The Economic System that governs a nation is usually sat up on a sophisticated set of guidlines and numbers created based on many different varibles. In a nut shell however the idea is pretty basic in principle. You have a good or a service and you wish to sell it. You base your prices on the value of your good/services, the ability and quanity of your good/service, and the idea that you in return for this will make profit after paying your bills which are also calculated on the same idea. Also there is the basic understanding that you need to take into effect the rate of Supply and Demand. However this is fromt he aspect of the business world and not so much of the large scale effort a nation goes through managing its wealth.</p>
<p>Wealth is literally classified as how much the economic structure of a nation can maintain and how much it is literally worth. Wealth is currently described as the amount of Gold a Nation ownes and uses as colateral to produce marked bills (aka money). The value of the Dollar in the US is identified by the factor of what the current value is in the World Market. The US Federal Treasury Department which is actually not owned or sanctioned by the US Federal Government but instead actually ran by a committee of independent bank owners has absolute authority as to how much money is printed and what the Gold = Dollar value is. During the early stages of the current economic crisis several people I knew asked why it was that the Government couldn’t just print more money. The answer to that is actually clear as daylight. If you print more money you are creating a substances without collateral and therefore the Wealth of the nation shrinks. Then you would see the price of a loaf of bread shoot up rom $3 a loaf to $8 a loaf because of the introduction of more cash then Wealth.</p>
<p>Now that I have filled your head full of some small facts that are hard to swallow lets look at the primary cause of the Economic System and why Globalist have it all wrong. Since I can remember the word Globalist and Globalism was placed to mean the evetual and complete transformation of a Global Economic System lead by the largest business and companies in the world. What this means to a guy like me is simple, to make a Globalist Economic System to work and to work effectivily you would have to create a solid single currency system. That means eliminating every other currency in the world and making just one. People will say that, thats not exactly what would have to be done, but in reality it is exactly what has to be done to make it work right. Currently the system is working with all the currencies of the world but as was seen by the US Recession that rippled around the world the fact that every currency depends on the other in a way uncontrolable by the Global Community has proven that the lack of a single currency system can strain the worlds economics.</p>
<p>Globalist also believe in International Free Trade that only serves to undermine working class citizens by allowing companies to go where they can pay low wages and pretty much encourage slave labor. The US’s lack of seeing this has been proven to be extremely fatal as more and more jobs go over seas in the name of cheaper labor and cheaper prices. In the end it doesn’t matter how cheap something gets when you have no job and therefore no source of income. This fact has led to the utter failing of the Welfare System. That and loopholes in the system that allows people to remain on the system for their entire lives when they are just simply too lazy to get a job. The idea that Free Trade promotes international friendliness and cooperation is laughable at best as it only serves to allow Corporations to gain footholds in area’s that will ensure their production of goods with less baggage. Why pay US Workers $12 an hour and full benefits when you can go to Asia and pay $2 an hour and no benefits? Well because honestly its the right thing to do.</p>
<p>Sure when things are made in the US they cost more but hey when things are made here guess what people have jobs and they can afford to spend more. In essense the workers are led to believe the greatest Illusion of Economics. That cheaper goods and services will safe them money. The problem is what they dont tell you is that you are making someone richer at the expense of other workers just like you. I have seen several come in to where I work and ask to buy only “US made products” then when they find what they want they go “damn its too high” and it makes me think “well do you want cheap slave labor products or hard US Labor products” and you cant ask them that cause they get offended. Globalism serves only to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.</p>
<p>The Greatest Illusion of Economics is the one where they tell you that Globalism will help the US Economy. It has yet to do so and will never do so, when you take American jobs and push them overseas all you are doing is telling people you dont want them. People will say its the Unions that are doing this and I will not say that there are not a lot of unions out there only for themselves which makes others look bad but the fact is that there was a time without Unions and in that time the workers were treated like slaves and then we grew wiser and created the Unions to ensure Worker Rights. Why change now? Why not just take steps to prevent the bad Unions for ruining it for others? Because if that was to happen the Corporations would lose out and the rich man would lose money.</p>
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		<title>Immigration Delima (August 1, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>No matter how free a nation is it is the nations duty to the people that reside in it to pass laws that will undoubtedly lead to a nation secure from the occupation of another nation. In other words it is the power of the people to instruct its government to stop the continued advances by Mexico’s Government to force its people into the United States illegally and to use that as a means to take back land lost in a war many many many years ago. It is also the right of the people to tell their government that it is time to do away with NAFTA and to stop free trade with Mexico as it has been proven time and time again that Mexico only serves one power and that is its Government which is corrupt. Now saying that dont get me wrong our government is corrupt to but they also know that unlike Mexico, here people own guns and people are not afraid to stand up for what is right. In Mexico no one really owns a gun except the drug lords and how right is that?</p>
<p>Immigration has always been an issue but only now do we realize the need to look at it with a fine tooth comb. Why? With the influx of hispanics coming in from Mexico due the lack of vital care and jobs because instead of using that US Aid money like they are suppose to the Mexican Government would rather furnish gold door handles on El President’s luxury home. Lets face it many nations that request aid dont use it for what they say they are going to. Look at the Banks that requested aid here in the US did they really use it for what they said they were? No, and Mexico and its Government is no different. If anything they are worse because they literally have a campaign to push millions of Mexcians into the US which only serves as to destroy our economy and grow our prison population.</p>
<p>Now saying this let me make one thing clear. I am not a racist and I do believe in LEGAL Immigration. If you come here and take the test and learn English and get a job and become a productive member of society then you are an American and I gladly welcome you to this nation. If you come here via the fence then you should return to your country or perish. Our welfare and prison system is already screwed up we don’t need more people demanding it to make it even more screwed up. Also as many people will tell you when a family of Mexicans move into a neighborhood the rest of the town goes down hill. I know that is bad to say but its honest truth and I will not dispute facts given to me from first hand accounts.</p>
<p>So I have always said there was a plan that I would support if anyone ever got the balls enough to write up a bill to do it. That plan calls for the creation of the great wall of the US where we have a 10×10&#215;10 foot wall of concrete with pillboxes, guard towers, guard dogs, and land mines all across the border between the US and Mexico. If you don’t have a travelers Visa or a Green Card you are not welcomed across the border. I am tired of the Democrats coming up with excuses to make these illegal aliens legal in the US. First off Democrats I understand your for the people but I thought you were for your people not everyone’s people. Lets face it its not the US’s job to support the Dictator leadership in Mexico it is our job to support ourselves and help others if we can. As part of this plan I also call for the dissolvement of NAFTA and the dissolvement of any aid sent to Mexico until either the Government is replaced or the people revolt and take over their government.</p>
<p>I am sick of people defending illegal aliens and supporting them and I am against anyone hiring an illegal alien simply because they are willing to work for cheap labor. I know that people dont want to do manual labor jobs here in the US because as we all know people here are getting more and more lazy, but lets face it if these business owners would stop thinking they can get away with slave labor then maybe they could hire an American worker and get something done. So as part of my former proposal we are also needing to add a law that anyone caught helping an illegal by hiring them to work for them will be fined $1000 a day for every day they worked in the country under that employer and then the employer must sign a contract stating should he be found to have hired another illegal after said contract then he would be placed in jail for 5 years for failure to comply with said stated contracted agreement.</p>
<p>People will say im harsh on this issue and that I am a racist. But in reality I am a concerned citizen of this nation that is seeing day by day more and more illegals coming here polluting our streets, filling our welfare system and our prisons and the ones that do work and try to make a good life could have done so legally period. If I was to go to Mexico to live I would think they would want me to do it legally. So here is another plan seeings they are coming here I say we white people start moving down there and taking their jobs and taking their benefits and start imposing our ideas on them and see just how much they like it. I bet they wouldnt last 5 years before wanting to kick us out if not sooner. But of course as you will learn about nature when it comes to races is that its ok for one but not the other to do it. I am sorry to say though I dont live by that rule I live by the rule that you get your damn green card then you can move here or otherwise stay the hell out of my country.</p>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform (August 1, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>People that know me know that I know personally how fucked up the Health Care System really is because of all the things I have had to endure dealing with family doctor needs. I also know that the current system is based on the same system a lot of doctor offices use and Insurance companies use. Lets face it they are designed to make you pay top dollar for everything because thats how they make their money. Now don’t get me wrong I understand that a doctor goes to school for many years to get where they are in their field and they needed to be paid in due course with their profession. But there comes a point to where even the most conservative of members goes “where does the rabbit hole and the money grabbing end?” Well as we all know if your in insurance you cant stand really to gain any more money because you already have everyone bent over taking it without lube and if we ask for the lube your just going to charge us for it.</p>
<p>Lets face the facts here people, the Health Care system is in disrepair and has been for many many many years and until now no one really looked into it because it was kind of one of those “we don’t talk about issues” and honestly I dont see why we need to talk about it now seeings as we are in the middle of an economic break down and that people can barely afford to put food in their mouths little lone go to a doctor and pay thousands in bills that was probably only about worth 600$. Lets face it when it comes to health and health care its all a shame to begin with. We all know that Hospitals and local Clinics are needed more then anything because of the many different diseases that are going around since we became a “civilized” nation. But lets face it there is no operation in this world that costs $200,000 unless you talk to the doctor that will get exactly 25% of that if not more for his salary.</p>
<p>So the Obama Administration says they want to redo it to cover more Americans and then charge the wealth a little more to cover the cost. Is it fair? Yes, its fair because lets face it, the rich make enough money that to them a few thousand dollars more is a drop in the hat to them. The ones that bitch and moan are only doing it because they feel neglected by the fact that they depend on that money to buy off other government officials. I say lets expand the tax system on the rich. If you make over 500,000$ a year your taxes just went up 5%, if you make over 200,000$ a year your taxes just went up 3%, if you make a yearly bonus over 180,000$ you will get a 2% tax added on to your regular taxes. Honestly people will say I am anti rich, but I am Pro-Working class because this nation was founded on hard work and determination not men in expensive coats, with 3 houses, 5 cars, and 3 wife’s all in different states.</p>
<p>If you want to make money you have to spend money as the old saying goes so when the rich wants to make money they shouldn’t bitch about having to pay out more money. Lets face it the Government is at the very least got the right idea on the taxing format to a point but that doesn’t really cover the concerns on Health Care. If you really want to make a dent in health care don’t make a state ran system. Even though I support a completely State ran system right now we need to get the economy going and a State Ran system cant do that at this time so lets focus on what we have. Tell these medical companies and these insurance companies that its time to lower the prices or face fines. I am sorry to say if these places cant operate better and cant do better then how they are doing then pay the fine.</p>
<p>As for the bill in the Senate and House that Obama proposed, I say there is way too much butter on this bread slice and that before it can pass we need to take some of that butter off and look at rethinking how to cook this bread into toast before we worry about putting the butter on it. I didn’t vote for Obama but I have to admire the man that put his neck out on the line to be President knowing what he was getting himself into when he went in office. I give credit where its due and I give blame where its due, Obama may not be able to safe the economy but at least he is trying, unlike Bush who was the one that got us into this mess to begin with. So all in all Health Care Reform is needed and its needed soon but the way they are going about it is wrong. Tell the companies to make it affordable and to put up or shut up and then fine the shit out of them if they refuse to lower their prices to keep people healthy.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently my Fiance sent me a letter she got from her college explaining that due to the current situation in her state (California) that the school was raising tuition and raising their in school medical coverage plan to ensure that they could at the very least keep the campus going for the next school semester. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=20&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Recently my Fiance sent me a letter she got from her college explaining that due to the current situation in her state (California) that the school was raising tuition and raising their in school medical coverage plan to ensure that they could at the very least keep the campus going for the next school semester. They were predicting over $10million in losses that if sustained for more then two or so semesters would force the school to under go a budget reform that would eliminate teachers, classes, and even programs all together. As we all know California is in the middle of an economic crisis that is threatening to destroy the state and harm all that live in it because as always you have the rich getting richer and he poor pooer and instead of the Government trying to create taxes on the rich to help offset the economic crisis they instead tax the poor till the poor and even middle class cant afford to eat anymore and then they just stop spending and at some point go bankrupt which is where California is heading soon I am afraid.</p>
<p>The Economic Crisis has lead to both a Health Care crisis and now an Education Crisis. Education has for the most part in the most recent years become nothing more then second rate means of educating kids how to be mindless zealots that toil at working for the betterment of society at the expense of working for large corporations that don’t want them to succeed unless of course that means making them more money. Corporate greed has brought not just doom on the economy but now doom on our future by impeding the process of eduction to a point that children are faced with the conflicting ideals of either going to college (if they can even get into a college and afford to go) or to go straight into the work force to help their parents afford to live.</p>
<p>Education should always be the top priority of a nation especially one like ours. Without it we would not be where we are today and yet those on capital hill and those in the business world see education to a point a thing not needed to the common person such as the work class. It has always been a saying that governments would prefer uneducation and unarmed peasents over that of an educated and armed citizen. As we have seen from history dealing with civilizations that believed that only the upper class deserved education and the lower and middle did now they lasted a few hundred years before the lower and middle classes revolted and ended the upper class’s rule over them. It was seen back during the Middle Ages and Dark Ages quiet a lot.</p>
<p>The United States once was the envy of the world for its education system designed to explore all possibilities in all fields of research and development. Now the nations of France, Germany, Belgium, Japan, England, and many others surpass us in education. The lack of interest in education and the promoting of war and big business has only served to undermine the need of education. Soldiers dont need to go to school all they need to know is how to kill. And a rich business man can always pay for lessons for his child. In other words this crisis in education stems from the lack of understanding and a failing system that was designed to only last a few years till a better system was made and then became a permanent failing system.</p>
<p>If you want to keep the American citizen well educated you must first redo the system that will allow them to learn quickly and efficiently and to promote the need of learning. I believe that we should seek out a new system one from Japan, and one from England and combine them and totally redo our education system. Increase teacher pay and benefits, create smaller class sizes, upgrade all schools to run off better Internet and install new teaching methods that promote not just generalized education but advanced understanding of the world around the student. To enhance our existing system is not enough we need to redo it from the ground up and promote it in a manner in which parents and children will have faith in it.</p>
<p>To do this though we need an administration that focuses on it and takes time to develop it through and through and not spare any expense as education will pay for itself with rewarding students with the know how to get good jobs and to keep them. We also need to eliminate the things that are holding back education. Vouchers, Affirmative Action, and much more needs to be removed before the new education system can take effect. To teach children to be more then they think they can be is a gift unto itself, and its a gift that keeps giving.</p>
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		<title>Welfare Reform (August 26, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people are against welfare, people that at one time were for it. Why is this? Simple the mismanagement of the funding for welfare as well as the too lax system as well as the idea that “minorities” that don’t pay into welfare deserve the welfare because they lack the desire to get a job [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=17&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Many people are against welfare, people that at one time were for it. Why is this? Simple the mismanagement of the funding for welfare as well as the too lax system as well as the idea that “minorities” that don’t pay into welfare deserve the welfare because they lack the desire to get a job because they are lazy is hampering a system designed to assist displaced workers for a short time till they can find a job even if that job pays less then their previous one.</p>
<p>I believe in Welfare, but I also believe in stipulations to it and that we should follow through with it. If I tell you, you have six months to find a job and start working or I’ll cut you off welfare even if you don’t have a job I should pull the plug on you in six months period. Yes, I will feel a little sorry that you can’t get that big plasma TV, or that xbox, or the new four wheeler, but suck it up if you want that or to pay for your crack addition then do it out of your own damn pocket.</p>
<p>In welfare mandatory drug testing is a must. If you come in to get your check and we test you and you test positive for drugs guess what? No fucking check, why? Simple why should we support your illegal habit, maybe next time you’ll vote Green Party so they can legalize it and then tax it like they do tobacco and then welfare just might support your weed habit…but no hard drugs. Point is that its illegal and if your doing it you don’t get a check.</p>
<p>Another thing about Welfare. If you think just cause your black, Hispanic and or Asian *the majority of people on welfare as stated by most statistical websites* means you deserve welfare over everyone else you are 100% wrong period. I have no use for hypocrites that talk about freedom and equality then turn around and think they are better then the others or think that just because *white people* are wanting to be treated equally that we are racists. Lets face it most people that claim racism are racist themselves and are the cause of the issues. So these rules would apply to ALL RACES, if you don’t find a job in six months you lose your check, if you test positive for drugs you lose your check, if you fail to provide the needed information about you looking for a job or if you simply “don’t answer the phone” when work calls you, you lose your check, and if you have not worked before and have failed to pay any money into welfare guess what…YOU DON’T GET A FUCKING CHECK.</p>
<p>If you want a check you do it by the rules or you dont get jack, I am sorry if you think thats harsh but guess what, if you want to live in a free and equal society you play by the rules, if you dont like it then go to a different nation that doesn’t have Welfare and see what they do to you. They put you in jail and force you into labor camps. Maybe that should be our next idea, instead of putting people that break the law on Welfare into prision lets put them into labor camps and force them to work their time off. What do YOU think?</p>
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		<title>Tution Hikes kill the American Dream (August 25, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest issue faced by the American Students leaving the drama filled halls of high schools heading to the lucrative halls of the college campus in the pursuit of the American dream of advancing their careers into greatness are now facing a harsh bitter reality. With the increased economic failure and the increasing idea that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=15&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The newest issue faced by the American Students leaving the drama filled halls of high schools heading to the lucrative halls of the college campus in the pursuit of the American dream of advancing their careers into greatness are now facing a harsh bitter reality. With the increased economic failure and the increasing idea that the Education System like the Economic System if failing due to large mistakes on management and crowd control the schools are attempting to cut out classes, cut out students, and increase tuition and other additional services in order to foot the bill.</p>
<p>The best place to look to see this take place are schools like Riverside Community College and its affiliates. Recently students received a letter stating that many students that paid prior to the installment of a new funding system would be forced to pay the newly set Tuition costs. Many students were given 1 day exactly to pay the extra cost or lose classes. The prices ranged from 60$ extra and up, this in turn assisted the college in eliminating students who couldn’t provide the money at the time the letter was gotten. The entire state of California is doing the same thing and many other states are following suit as college across America are cutting corners, cutting courses, cutting programs, raising tuition and slowly strangling the American dream of going to college and becoming a somebody.</p>
<p>However let us look at the schools slightly closer. School Administrators get enormous salaries, benefits and paid hotel stays and free car rentals when they go on business calls. Many teachers barely make enough to sustain themselves while others get free rides. Who pays for all this though is no mystery, the students. The Federal Government has cracked down on exactly how much grant money and Financial Aid is given each semester now due to the Financial Crisis and with that swift move the government is assisting the worse Education meltdown in American History. Soon students will be forced to choose between surviving and going to school a choice that no student should have to make.</p>
<p>Regardless of race this effects everyone and while many will argue the “real” ones effect will be the minorities let us not forget this, that in California that White’s are the minority so before that argument comes into play lets get that out in the open right now, that in California Whites are the minority so in that case the white people need special treatment and the rest should be treated like all the other “majorities”…I mean its only fair right?</p>
<p>Education is slowly falling into the abyss and soon it will hit rock bottom unless we can start to redo the Education System.</p>
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		<title>Tired of Health Care (August 23, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am getting sick and tired of hearing about the Health Care dilemma. Honestly its getting old I know its a big thing and all but there comes a point and time that we should address some other issues like the Economy again, or maybe how companies are squeezing Americans left and right and wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drecqslife.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10318500&amp;post=13&amp;subd=drecqslife&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>I am getting sick and tired of hearing about the Health Care dilemma. Honestly its getting old I know its a big thing and all but there comes a point and time that we should address some other issues like the Economy again, or maybe how companies are squeezing Americans left and right and wonder why people are starting to safe money and spend less and why their profits are going down down down. Its actually very freaking simple as to what needs to be done.</p>
<p>Stop sending jobs overseas and stop shipping in illegal immigrants and start hiring Americans. With this step we can see a dramatic decrease in the Unemployment rates and lets not forget that now people will have money which means they will buy again which will increase business. Lets create laws and enforce them against illegal immigration and against companies that send jobs overseas. Lets also start to disband the Free trade Agreements and start imposing some small tariffs again. Small tariffs never hurt anyone. Let us also go back to simple business ethics, if you treat your workers with respect and help them when they need help they will give you 110%. Choose to use them and ignore them they will ensure your productivity is low.</p>
<p>With that said on the issue of Health Care I don’t see the big problem with letting the Government own and operate its own system as long as it runs along side the current optional system. It creates competition between the current companies and will maybe finally force them to realize that they need to be doing with the money we pay them exactly what they say they will do with our money instead of cheat us.</p>
<p>All in all Health Care as it is, is nothing more then a scheme to get certain companies rich at the expense of people lives which is immoral and wrong but when it comes to money there is no such thing as morality and that is because Business is based on the concept of gaining the largest amount of money in the shortest amount of time at the expense of ones own morality and moral obligations. In otherwords very few business are moral and just while many are only out for the money. Sad but true my friends sad but true.</p>
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