Financial Stability in America and American Responsibility by Chelle Stockman

The financial problems in America began with Americans. Let us consider how the dollar has lost its purchasing power. The first and most powerful way we have decreased the value of our dollar is by not using it. You see, the dollar no longer stands for spending power. We trade predominantly with credit and debit reserving cash for smaller items; therefore our dollar has less purchasing power.

Now let us consider how we do business. We buy things on credit and because credit is so freely given and so freely taken in exchange for goods and services, prices of those goods and services continue to increase which places a strain on the supply end of the production train which also drives up costs. That in return forces suppliers to look for areas where they can increase production without raising the cost of their products which is merely a temporary solution because as the supply becomes available, the demand continues to increase. If we paid cash for goods and services, the demand would be more stable which means the cost of production would decrease but because we buy things on credit, we can have what we think we want right now and concern ourselves with paying it at a later date. In essence, our jobs go overseas to fuel our appetite for goods that we buy on credit.

Credit has replaced the currency in America. To restore our country's financial stability, we must cease using credit except to start up businesses and purchase homes. For everything else, including health care, we must use cash. When we pay cash, we should try to pay for things made in America and if we simply must have something, we should then seek to pay cash for items made on our continent. This will help to solve immigration problems, and the trends will eventually catch the eyes of economists who will start chatting about our spending habits. They will be forced to adapt to the consumers demand rather than string us along on the perilous path of job losses and credit woes.

In the arena of health care, the cost will drop drastically if we can avoid using services that we cannot pay for. The health industry regulators fear a sickened and possibly infected society and will make policy changes (reluctantly) to curtail the never ending inflation of health care costs.

You want to keep jobs in America? Buy American made goods and when you aren't able to find them, write your representatives. Write the companies you prefer to do business with and encourage your friends and neighbors to also do so. You want to have affordable goods and services? Pay for them with cash and buy only what you need to use. Don't visit doctors every time you get a cold or a sliver. Go when you need to. A wiser use of your cash would be to visit menu planning nutritionists who promote longevity diets rather than wait for sickness to force you into a hospital where even Tylenol is served at an inflated cost.

Americans don't realize that our oil costs per barrel decreased when we used less. OPEC and other oil commodities have production limits that are heavily taxed when they over-produce. In a way, that's how it goes for other goods and services we purchase. You want affordable housing? Buy more affordable products and save for a larger cash down payment; the market will adjust to our spending habits. It's pretty simple if we'd only do this.

We the American people can serve one another best buy developing better habits as consumers. I'm ready to get started. You folks with me? The time to restore the value of our currency is now and that can only happen if we trade and sell with cash, resisting the urge to use credit and debit.

God Bless these efforts.

Chelle Stockman

Palin and the Russians by Chelle Stockman

While the media suffers letdown after their election climax, they seek to revel in the aftermath by extending the experience through Sarah Palin gossip. What they fail to inform us about is who bailed Russia out of their financial fiasco, so it looks as though it's up to me again. Too bad nobody will see this.

Two weeks ago, Russia sought their help from our past allies, the Saudis. The media almost covered it in all its serious consequences but as they so often do, they never complete what they start. They asked us that if President Obama goes through with his promise to withdraw our troops, won't there be a void citing the longstanding resentments between the Sunni and Shia tribes. That's where they started and that's where they ended without exploring certain facts.

One: something always fills a void; therefore, should we withdraw from Iraq, someone will come in to occupy the space we now fill and that someone will most likely be Russia.

Two: The Saudis have a lot to lose in that region because of their tempestuous past with Syria, Iran, Kuwait, Libya and Iraq because OPEC is in jeopardy which will compromise the control the Saudi Emmirate have over resources in that large region. Therefore, they require someone to occupy Iraq which is the middle ground because it wouldn't be ethical for the Saudi's to do so, all that religious brotherhood stuff and such. The Saudis are about appearances and Iran has always seen right through them. We, under the Bush regime, were being told that Iran is our enemy when in fact Iran is a watchful nation because they have been unable to trust the allies we were so heavily indebted to, the Saudis. Now Russia is heavily indebted to the Saudis.

All you have to do is be reminded of how this all began and then connect the dots for yourself. I've just reminded you, now please connect the dots. This is a time of prayer.

That's all for now.
Chelle Stockman

Letter to Rachel Maddow by Chelle Stockman

Letter to Rachel Maddow by Chelle Stockman

 

 

Good Morning, Rachel;

 

I have a question regarding Senator McCain's ties to the Kemper-Marley crime syndicate.  He seems hell bent on bringing up Senator Obama's associates but the fingers seem to point right back to himself, his lovely wife, and her father. 

 

Is it true that Jim Hensley was connected to the Tishes, the Linders, the Rothchildes and Drexel Burnham Lamburt?  If so, why is there nothing about it slapping us in the face? Where is that guilt by association John and Sarah are offering up?

 

It's no secret that Republicans don't vote for people of good character instead opting to vote for characters such as gippers, mavericks, and hammers. With sensible reason tossed out they are casting their votes for winks, the pursing of lips, empty promises and identifiable charm instead which cloaks the high crimes and suspicious suicides ultimately leading to Jim Hensley's involvement.  Tell me Senator McCain didn't know this.

 

Is it also true that Cindy McCain has profited heavily off of the war industry and has money in off shore accounts?  What the hell is going on with our nation?

 

Any response is appreciated.

 

Chelle Stockman

Dollar Gobbled by Credit Beast by Chelle Stockman

Extra, Extra.  Dollar Gobbled by Credit Beast

By Chelle Stockman

 

Our representatives aren't able to act when we send them our warnings.  How many of us does it take to inform our representatives of a potential problem before any solutions can be offered and why do they fail to see the connection of inflationary prices in a sector to the devaluing of our currency, from the devaluation of our currency to the loosening of lending practices, from the lack of regulation to the rape of the consumer? 

 

It isn't like our representatives were not aware of this.  They've had six years to prepare for this. I know I wasn't the only constituent who consistently wrote to them about each and every wave that affected me or my business. I know many of you wrote to them as well. 

 

Our president thought he'd boost our nations economy through new construction, focusing on the housing sector.  For many of the states, the housing market was in a moderate to slow growth cycle which made new housing a crazy idea at that time.  People simply were not able to buy the houses at the current rates back then. Building new houses at the newer costs and expecting people to suddenly be able to afford them meant you had to know it would force the lenders to change and the tradeoff would mean further deregulation of that industry which could spell major trouble. But, our president did this anyway. 

 

What had to happen to pay for the new housing?  More credit would have to become available on a much larger scale.  How could more credit become available?  Loosen the lending criteria.

 

Contrast to 1980

 

In 1980, you met with your real estate salesman.  They would take down your combined annual income, figure your current debts and  record assets if you had any.  You were required to put a down payment of ten percent or more which was do-able because the housing market was under a controllable inflation rate compared to average salaries.  The real estate salesman would take the differences of money coming in and money owed and then figure out eleven percent.  Back then, 11 was the magical percentage rate for maximum amount of money the buyer could reasonably afford to pay out annually.   They broke the figure down into approximate monthly payments and that was what they were willing to allow you to pay. They set the maximum amounts you were allowed to pay back then. In retrospect, those lenders were ethical.

 

They weren't shoving FICA scores down our throats in those days.  They were shoving our ability to pay down our throats. If you were not able to show a large enough amount of money to pay for the goods under their 11 percent rule, you were denied.  You also didn't have hundreds of lenders competing for your business either. They didn't solicit you, you solicited them.

 

Fast forward to the year 2002, the new housing boon.  A two-bedroom one bath house two blocks away from my salon went for 95,000. This particular home's value in 1980 was a mere 45,000.  I wanted to divorce my husband and sat down with the same formula in mind and worked up to see what I could afford as the real estate salesperson showed me back in 1980.  I was going back and forth with the idea that I would be over extending myself and thought I'd hold off for another six months to see if I could save a larger down payment.  Bad move, at least that's what I thought.

 

That house suddenly went from 95,000 to 186,000, in a six month period.  I was supposed to think that was still a fair price because the newly built condos were now 365,000.  What no one was getting was that if it was a tight squeeze at 95,000, it would be larger squeeze at 186,000.  That house finally sold nine months later for 385,000 (15 months after I first looked at it).  How could people suddenly afford to buy this house when they couldn't 15 months earlier, when the house was selling at one-third of the cost?

 

My answer was this.  To qualify for a half million dollar home in 2004 you didn't have to offer a down payment.  Suddenly you weren't qualifying based upon 11 percent of your annual income; all you needed to qualify was something called a FICA score. 

 

The better your FICA score, the less interest you'd have to pay on your loan. If you had a low FICA score, your rates would be higher, but you wouldn't be denied.  In fact, you were told that you should do it, go for it, and in a few years with consistent payments you'd be able to apply for a loan and a betterinterest rate; refinancing is what that's called. Typical lending ethics of today, where the poorer you are the more you pay and the better off you are the less you pay. Oh, the poorer consumers never learn, do they.  Good for those lenders, bad for the taxpaying citizens being asked to bail them out.

 

The problem began when people's salaries weren't keeping up with the costs of goods.  That was never addressed through legislation but was addressed through the creditors.  We were flooded with credit cards.  Larger goods were still not moving as was the case of homes and businesses. So the larger scale lending practices had to loosen to keep things moving along because we still hadn't addressed the problems with our purchasing power. We didn't realize it back then but America's largest gross domestic product would become our debt.

 

The first problem that has led us to this "Bail Out" was that our purchasing power was on the down low without the help of credit.  The second problem was created by the credit industry flooding us with the illusion of having the necessary purchasing power to keep going.

 

We bottomed out.  Our representatives failed to address the problems about the average Americans dependence on credit to purchase.  Secondly they failed to address the inflationary sectors credit helped to create and lastly, they failed to handle the problem of our falling values of our currency.  They are all interdependent upon one another.

 

When a woman has to use credit to fix a tooth, pay for a son's ticket, get a new water-pump in her car, buy clothing for her growing children and pay for groceries for a week here and a week there, our nation is in trouble. Necessity overtook our desire for frivolous purchases when it came to spending on credit. You can't rent a car without a card, barely book a flight without one.  Credit has killed the dollar bill.

 

We are being told that this bail out was important to us so we could have access to credit, when it's using credit in place of currency that is the real problem.  The creditors all know this and has this stopped them?  NO.  As our representatives voted in favor of the bail out, my 19-yr-old unemployed and troubled son just got a credit card from Bank of America. Think the credit companies care? Why should they?  We will pay them one way or another.  ENOUGH!

 

Power to the People.  Power of Currency. Screw Usuary.

Laissez Faire Economics by Chelle Stockman

Laissez Faire Economics

By Chelle Stockman

 

Opinion

 

 

We have reached a state of economic fragility; so much for that promise of a broader shared prosperity.  Republicans blame Democrats and vice-versa. American voters are growing weary from the political blame game and are considering ejecting them all from our plundered garden, much like God ejected Adam and Eve when they chose to blame others rather than admit that they messed up.

 

The actions of our representatives over the decades have had far reaching social consequences which began with deregulation and privatization without federal oversight.  American voting citizens know their limited voice is tossed into the electoral grog; however, the American consumer has been trained to demand a more expeditious satisfaction.  Where it takes a voter years to rid themselves of a representative, it takes a consumer one trip to a different store, a mere change in our shopping habits.

 

Our representatives know this and fear this above all other things because with their signature they transferred our Representative Democracy to a deregulated Corporate Democracy.  To the American voters they for years have shouted the virtues of Market Equilibrium saying, "There are ups and there are downs but the market will always correct itself."  Today their cry is but a whimper and the power transferred from the voting citizen to the desperate consumer has been diminished, leaving the multi-national corporations in charge of our liberties.

 

We should be demanding that our leadership from the Office of the President on down answer this one question. If your market equilibrium assertion that it will correct itself because it always does is true, why on Earth are you demanding that we the citizens bail them out?

 

Okay, I'm done for now.

 

Chelle Stockman

The Change Begins With Us by Chelle Stockman

 

By now, most of you know someone who has had to accept a lower wage to be employed. You probably know someone who got themselves over their head by overuse of credit cards. The housing market has left its finger print on your ability to acquire a loan for the purposes of funding a child's college education For those of you who use public transportation, you've seen the costs rise in the past few years and for those of you who commute using your own vehicles are most likely spending over fifty dollars a month ( 50 bucks a week for me).

 

Many of you can probably pass through your town and see vacant signs going up where small businesses used to be.  You milk drinkers out there are probably paying four bucks a gallon unless you buy the two-fers and then even with that, you are probably paying a dollar a gallon more right now than you were just three years ago.

 

With health care premiums on the rise, and energy bills taking their cut out of your allowable income, things might seem to be a little out of control for you.  For those of you who have the luxury of being able to investigate which presidential candidate deserves your vote,  realize there are no candidates on the ticket that can do one thing to help you or your loved ones to overcome their current predicament. 

 

The conditions we are facing today make me think of the times when slaves were ready to be free.  It took them a century to make their move.  While they had much needed help from others outside their situation, it was they who had to decide that the time had come to be free.  Once they made that decision, they actually freed themselves. Sure others finally pitched in to help them, but they began their harrowing journey out of bondage into personal responsibility, which is the heart of real freedom.

 

Today, we have all been held in bondage, whether it came by our own habits or by our acceptance of the conditions we thought ourselves powerless to overcome. But like the slaves in our American history, to overcome the silent bondage we face, we must decide to free ourselves.  There is a saying that comes from the Scriptures. It goes like this: Before you try and remove the speck out of your brother's eye, remove the log from your own.  Everyone has heard that said before and in so many different ways.  Most of us think that the saying is limited to one interpretation, that being; before you dare to criticize someone, examine and work on yourself. I submit to you, it also has another meaning, and that is; In order to encourage others who are facing difficulties, face your own.

 

How do we do that?

 

First, we must realize that blame is fruitless.  We can't achieve our freedom by blaming others.  While we hope there will be accountability for those we are tempted to blame, we could be doing what it takes to give us more advantage.  We must realize that all these things dragging us down are circumstances. If we endeavor to "fight" the circumstances, more circumstances will manifest. So, we need to get back to the basics.

 

Laughter is free. It's contagious.  It's essential for healing.  Gratitude is free.  It's contagious.  It's essential for peace.  Both are more powerful than blame.  Both help us to transcend circumstances but blame invites circumstances. So rid yourselves of blame.  I know its hard to do but it gets easier as you remind yourself that blame advances no one.

 

There is love, kind acts, sincerity and a host of other tools we have to empower us on our victorious journey. 

 

 The thing is, belief is core to our ability to overcome whatever circumstances we face.  We need to believe that change begins with us.  We need to be willing to show ourselves mercy.  Hell, anyone can feel guilty about something if that's what they want. Through mercy we can overcome the guilt.  So be merciful to yourself and you've just climbed one wrung out of a rut. Show others mercy and you've climbed a few more.  Shout, speak, whisper, think, "Thanks. I'm getting it. I feel less guilt or no guilt about... and I no longer have the urge to be harsh to others around me. I'm getting it!  Thank you!"  Gratitude is a booster shot.

 

It takes you to advance yourself and it takes you to overcome. By the way, others around you will be witness to the light inside you that slowly replaces the darkness; and when they are ready, they'll be helped by your success. Success is contagious.

 

So, challenge yourself to eat healthier, dance a little more, say hello to townspeople in passing, smile at a child, pet an animal, and be thankful that you can do all those things.  Be thankful that you are the owner of your own thoughts.  If that's all you can find to be thankful for, no worries.  Begin there.  The more you are thankful, the more things you'll find to be thankful for. 

 

The only caution there, and I hesitate to share it with you, but I really should, so here goes; when finding things to be thankful for, don't be thankful for what is not. In other words, don't compare yourself to others or other circumstances.  Be thankful for your own breath, your own mind, your own experience and if you find the urge to say, "I'm thankful I'm not like that...," stop yourself and say, "NO!"  Keep it positive and heal yourself.  Healing is contagious.  If you want to help others, change the way you think.

 

I want us to change our entire society in order to get us back to living healthier, free from oppression and the other circumstances that seem to prevail. Rather than fight the circumstances, endeavor to overcome and remember, circumstances are temporary.

 

I'm expecting your triumph and I'm grateful that we have one another, if nothing else, in our prayers.

 

May the blanket of circumstances be cast off our blessings.  Amen.

 

Chelle Stockman.

Era of Americrats by Chelle Stockman

Back in 1948 or there-about, there was a push for another national political party by southern Democrats who disagreed with the civil rights platform of Harry Truman.  They were dubbed "Dixiecrats."

While it never became an official party, the term Dixiecrat evolved to represent those who disliked favoritism of any kind as well as loathing anything Republican.

 

Here we are today, some of us trying to figure out whom we shall cast our votes for between the Democrat, Barack Obama and the Republican, John McCain.  John McCain ought to be wary right about now because I predict we shall see an even larger movement to keep Republicans out of high office and I'm calling this new unoffical party the Party of Americrats; Americans fed up with anything Republican.  Those are the people who shall be casting their votes for Obama.

 

That's all for now.

 

Chelle Stockman

A Mother's Pain by Chelle Stockman

 

The Pain in My Heart

 

How does a mom stop worrying for her wayward child?

How does a father say "our son will never be allowed back home," and expect the mom to behave truly sane?

How can happiness shine in the eyes where sorrow cries?

Who does the son go to when the hauntings at night prevent him from sleeping, when he has no home to call his own?

 

My son is homeless and I am not permitted to help him in anyway.

When a child doesn't want to do things that are expected of him, when no matter how much you do for him; it isn't enough.  When authority of any kind sparks his competitive nature and challenges his independence; when in his quest for that independence he wars with those who care most for him and consequently wrestles with his own desire to do what is right; he ends up doing what isn't right.

 

Episodes include acting out, which results in destroyed feelings and property. He resents direction, even in the form of suggestion. No doubt, anyone assisting him provokes anger; yet he expects it of everyone else and blames them for providing the very things he needs or asks for. The problems begin with any and every kind of suspected authority and I'm concerned that my problems manifest as my son moves toward his end, which indeed appears to be in the hands of authority.  The very thing he desires, self control, is elusive; and as he manifests anti-social behavior, his desire to be in charge of himself could forever be taken out of his hands leaving him with no hope to live a normal life. My most profound desire as a mother is to have my child live as normal of a life as is possible, but, that's to much to hope for at this time.

 

God protect him, protect his heart, his mind, and his soul. 

 

 

 

Father's mantra, "He will never be welcome here again."

Son's mantra, "Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it."

 

Where does this woman fit in?

 

That's all for now.

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Reverand Jeremiah Wright's Calculated Sacrifice by Chelle Stockman

Reverand Jeremiah Wright's Calculated Sacrifice by Chelle Stockman

 

Rev. Wright seemed to agitate everyone on television and off television through his rantings at the press club yesterday.  They all called for Obama to distance himself from his pastor.

While listening to my debate partners emotionally express themselves regarding this issue, it became apparent that the Reverend was acting out of character with his unusally persistent rantings.  I do believe the Reverend decided that Obama needed to show his strength and courage believing that Obama will do what is best for the Party and the nation even if it meant disavowing a long time friendship.  I believe he intentionally attacked Obama's character in order to bring to the light, the strength and grace of Obama's real character. So in essence, the Reverend sacrificed his own reputation and quite possibly, some of the rooted plants in his own garden in order for Obama to fill his purpose in life as the Reverend saw it.

So today, Obama did just that.  It left me wondering if Obama could see through this maneuver or if he had previously known about the Reverend's intentions, if he would have behaved in quite the same way.

None the less, the Media is fueling this big time and it does frustrate me a little that the Reverend has taken up airtime that Clinton might have otherwise been available to use. 

Such is the world of politics.

Homeland Security- a Sham By Chelle Stockman

This is a letter I've sent to my Representatives hoping that they will share with the other members of Congress.  I hope you find it interesting.

 

Senators Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer

 

 

Dear Senators, Honorable Ladies of Congress:

 

I was dismayed when I learned that the wide spread push for Liquid Natural Gas was the reason behind our high costs at the pump. So I wondered how those in D.C. would feel if we began extracting natural gas in their backyard, say beneath the Whitehouse.  I googled the phrase, “ natural gas beneath the Whitehouse.” Several links opened up and what I thought looked to be a reliable link popped up.

 

A complete map of the natural gas lines through out the United States as well as aerial shots of sites and intended sites popped up with it.  Then I got angry.  You see, many of you folks voted for the invasion of our privacy in the name of terrorism, suspecting terrorists could be communicating via emails and telephones.  So there goes one of our rights; yet you have done no legislation concerning real security.

 

How is it that I, a hairdresser, can so easily find a map of our natural gas lines online in just a few moments? Seems to me that terrorists and people with malicious intent might find those to be useful. Instead of allowing the goons and ghosts who haven’t proved to be trustworthy, who have not proved they have my best intentions in mind, those people who can say they suspect me of knowing or being a terrorist can by that very claim alone, gain access into my private life; why haven’t you people instead, legislated a measure to thwart the availability of information showing the pathways of our resources?  Only the people working on an area, like engineers for natural gas, should be privy to such information, but hairdressers have no business knowing the exact routes and placement of areas of  “interest”.

 

I’m truly disappointed in our Congress right now.  Most of you folks push forth a free market agenda that compromises not only our individual rights, but also our nation’s security.   Think about that one and seek to immediately resolve the issue wasting no time.

That’s all for now.

 

Chelle Stockman

 

Liberals Raise Taxes? by Chelle Stockman My response to NewsMax

News Max is blaming liberals for high prices and taxation.  They sent me a letter.  If you notice how it starts I want to ask a similar question of all of you and I want you to be thinking about the first question Newmax asks of us.  Question example offered:  How does an orange peel help to protect an apple?  Okay, now go read their letter and my response. 

Here is the first part of it:

Dear Newsmax reader,

How exactly do higher taxes help lower energy costs? (Hint: They don’t.)

It’s one question the Democrat leadership in Congress can’t answer, no matter how long they talk.

The truth is, the tax and spend crowd is just looking for ways to increase taxes on American consumers by targeting domestic energy production.  At a time when already high energy costs are weighing heavy on this country’s economy, and when signs are indicating that even more trouble may be ahead, why would Congress seek to pass legislation that will raise prices and increase financial hardships by strangling America’s energy supply?  Congress should be looking to cut taxes, not increase them.  Higher energy prices won’t avert or minimize a recession.  They’ll do just the opposite.

My Response to them was this:

Members of Congress are not responsible for the state we are in anymore than you and I are.  That goes for conservative, moderates, and liberals.  However, as Milton Sinclair (meant to say Milton Freidman while thinking of Upton Sinclair, but oh well, I blew it again, kinda like Oberman does) pointed out so long ago, the Free Market Economic policies we have in place are directly responsible.

 

Truth is, pump prices will change as we convert to using mostly Natural Gas.  Many Republicans and Democrats are in collusion to bring us what they call Alternative Energy when real alternative energy does not use carbon based sources.  Their ideas of green energy involve the color money. 

 

Regarding taxation, you do not lower taxes when you are spending so much.  The war outside our country and homicides in our country, the building of bridges and tunnels instead of shoring up our current infrastructure, these things determine our level of taxation. 

 

That's my way of interpreting the knowledge I have.

 

Chelle Stockman

 

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Move on, Moveon by Chelle Stockman

My response to Moveon.org's request from me regarding support of Senator Obama.

 

You are barking up the wrong tree.  Obama voted down the line for Cheney-Bush Energy Policies.  Prices rising at the gas pumps?  Won't be long before we are extracting natural gas here at home wrecking our environment and making war with our neighbors, vying for position for the lucre in the Oman Gulf, the Caspian Sea, Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, etc.  Check out the commercials from the United States Department of Energy.  Well boys and girls, so much for "alternative" energy.  When John and Barack align themselves with "green" energy, they are referring to $$$. 

So, please go fertilize another field with your Obama poop.

Senators McCain and Obama: Pimps of Cheney-Bush energy policies by Chelle Stockman

Tired of the climbing prices of Gas at the pumps?  Wait, there's more to follow.  Your water resources are dwindling, your food resources in jeopardy and that's nothing compared to the "environmental allergies" cloaked under names such as the "flu-season".  All are related to Liquid Natural Gas, boys and girls.  Yup, LNG, the new "alternative" fuel, both John McCain and Barack Obama are making possible. 

200 years of supplies(!) they tell us. Oh joy, 200 years of more war to fuel our levels of consumption.  They promise us more green ($$$) energy.

Sources in the United States for LNG can be found in the shale lands, deep within coal mines (methane gas, anyone?), and on earth's crust beneath the ocean floors (we want the artic caps to melt so we can get to the methane on the ocean floors.). 

Both John McCain and Barack Obama ignored the science pertaining to carbon based fuels figuring that Natural Gas would be a friendlier commodity to oil.  We have exhausted our black oil resources, they tell us; but hell, we have gobs of natural gas!  So this is their idea of "Alternative" energy and a profitable long-term plan they refer to as a solution.

Both of these men have said they were against pork in legislation and in bills, but this is rather like a mating call.  They lie to us via and when they make there case prior to voting and when they don't vote, they let the others lie for them.  I hope you all watched this morning's House session from the Transportation Committee on C-Span. (4-24-2008)

The House members doing the bidding for LNG were so upset about our Coast Guard- their ineffectiveness.  Seems we don't have enough of them or enough of their ships to do what the Coast Guard is supposed to do and while allowing them (diverting them) to escort the LNG ships into port. So why don't we redistribute the cash in order to better equip and train our Coast Guard to do not only the job they are supposed to do, but also to do the job of being an escort to private corporations who ignore environmental responsibility. 

The threat the Congressional supporters of the Energy Bills of Cheney and Bush issue to us, will go like this: if our government doesn't seize full control of this now and begin the funding process, all the control and profits will go to private companies.  Like they ever cared one way or another.

Wake up people.  John McCain and Barack Obama are not on the up and up.  John is working the Republicans while Barack is working the Democrats.  It reminds me of George 41 and Bill 42, all over again, only more nefarious than before. 

They sell it, you boys and girls buy it. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Obama the Politician by Chelle Stockman

Obama the Politician by Chelle Stockman

Barack Obama calls himself the candidate of change.  I guess his supporters are as exploited by his claims as Americans in general were about Bush's "average man" image.  Bush brought us change and it really is no wonder Barack claims the same.

He says he voted against the war while still an unknown to most of us as he served in the Illinois Senate but while running for the U.S. Senate in July of 2004, he told us, "There's not much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference in my mind, is who's in a position to execute."   In fact, every chance he had to urge a withdrawal, he instead avoided the subject of Iraq.

As the Republicans sought to pass appropriation bills for the Iraq war, Obama voted in favor of every one.  Then he, like most of the senators, including Clinton, voted for Dr. Rice to be confirmed as Secretary of State, though she was responsible for the lies that originally led us to vote in favor of war in the first place.

He is, excuse me, was a civil rights lawyer; yet he voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act in July of 2005 which was a direct violation to every citizen's right to privacy, our right to be protected from invasion of our property.

He says he will bring our troops home ASAP yet he still keeps saying he plans to add 100,000 combat troops to the military. Think those young ladies and gentlemen in colleges who voted for him will enlist? His position regarding the Iraq war is duplicitous at best.  He knows few of us will research the truths, because a great many of us never wanted to go to war in the first place.  Many of us have loved ones in the military.  Many of us have family outside this country who are being depicted as "enemies" of our country while they face an oppressive government that allows foreign military forces to occupy their countries. For those of us, the Iraq War, more over, the lies sold to our Congress, its truly an emotional issue of importance. Even Rachel Maddow has said this.  Yet, the duplicitous senator, Barack Obama, exploits the votes of his opponent as if its any different than his own, or most everyone elses in the Senate at the time those votes came down.  The only who had balls enough to vote against the presented evidence, was Senator Russ Feingold.  God Bless you Senator Feingold.

Obama, as I've said in previous letters and blogs, voted in favor of the Class Action Fairness Act in 2005, which was a Republican sponsored bill.  Yes, he reached out in a "bi-partisan" way to ensure the favors of big-business backed legislation under the guise of thwarting frivolous lawsuits.

When you hear MSNBC or their kind saying the GOP would love to have McCain run against Clinton, don't you believe it.  The GOP has been very busy hedging their bets, that if McCain can't carry a victory, their "boy" Obama surely will.  Sorry to offend some of you who resent that kind of terminology, but you had better know that is exactly how the GOP has always thought.  Don't you dare think that because we have a near messiah running for high-office, the GOP will repent from their long standing traditions.  They are the leaven that leaveneths the entire lump.

He was loathe to explain his stance on interest rate caps on credit cards, which he voted against, but told us he voted against it because it was poorly written,--you know, like most pork ladened "legal" documents are, the stuff lawyers read and write on a daily basis. Feingold and Clinton voted for it in order to give we, the average consumer a break in hopes we wouldn't have to file bankruptcy.  This is Barack Obama, the NEW WONDER BOY, ladies and gents, the one most of you are so fascinated with.

It is apparent to me, that you folks won't be holding him to any standards, that you are willing to overlook his records even after he ordered us all to go check out his actions to see if they matched his words.  Obama is very much like Bush, just younger, cuter, smarter and more articulate.

I didn't vote for Bush. How can I justify voting for Obama? I have the right to vote for the one I believe has our most precious rights in mind.  I'm not a politician, I'm just as, Tim Russert and the NBC/MSNBC folks say, " A white woman over 50 earning under 50 grand that doesn't have a degree." And, I'm a lovely woman with a keen wit and a nurturing soul.  I'm a warrior in quest for truth and kindness. Life is interesting and worth living and I really wish that soon, we'll actually insist on representation we think we are voting for.

Chelle Stockman

Letter to my Son regarding foreign currency by Chelle Stockman

Hi you.

I've not been going up North because every single time I do, you call.  It has been a few weeks now and you haven't called!!!  Do I have to leave to hear from you???

I've been volunteering for things like the binding arbitration stuff going on in our town. So, once again, I'm out knocking on doors for signatures.

Our town is going bust pretty much and making national news while we are at it.  I guess we are the barometer for the rest of the nation when it comes to our economy.

But dig this, Son.  Huge corporations, about a decade ago during the Clinton Administration, took American dollars and converted them to Euros and other foreign currency.  So much of their capital gains were diverted from our taxation radar and converted, a sort of global money laundering, if you catch my meaning.  Last week, by Wednesday, they began huge pull-outs of foreign currency and began converting back to American dollars.  Just as their actions contributed greatly to the loss in our capital reserves,  they will surely do the same to the currency exchange rate in the other countries.  If you know anyone who converted their cash into foreign currency, you tell them to convert it into American dollars right away or it won't be worth what they originally exchanged it for.  I do believe that by December, the value of our currency will begin shooting higher than the Euro and other such currency.  It isn't being spoken of, but every so often, you can see it trailing past on the lower tickers that constantly scroll by on news stations.  Still, the money experts have not mentioned it. Man, Halliburton, Trident, GE, even, they all cleaned up!!    I cannot fathom the profit they made.  I wonder where they'll hide it.  They'll have to hide it for awhile until they can reintroduce it back into our economy.  Maybe they plan to exchange it for the gold that was never accounted for in the trade center's destruction.  This is so darn fascinating, and not good, but fascinating.

Let me know when you expect to be visiting, please Son.   I sure do miss you.  Give your fellow soldiers my hellos. 

Bye for now.

Love,
Mom

Reply to Michael Moore & the DNC by Chelle Stockman

Dear Friend:

 

Senator Obama has said many times that you can know him by his actions.  I've been busy going through his records in the 109th Congress.  He tends to site Senator Clinton's voting record in the 107th and 108th Congress, but since he wasn't involved until the 109th, I could only judge his actions from that point on as it pertains to our nation.

 

It's amazing what I found.  He differed from Senator Clinton whenever he voted in favor of Bush policies.  In fact, he voted for what is now known as the Cheney/Bush Energy Bill.  I have heard him say in his speeches, not to be confused from his pulpit-style messages, that he was for alternative energy. I guess he made a mistake when he said that.  So, "clean" coal (strip mining) it is. So, leasing out the shale lands is where its at.  Drill in the Artic, no one really hikes there anyway.  Oil, Coal and Natural Gas must be where it's at; that's what Senator Obama's vote tells me.

 

After all the letters I wrote to the  Democratic Committees, news stations and morning news shows, it was interesting to wake up to CNN pundits scrambling to find out "safe" votes only to find his most noble records are in his current proposals not yet voted on, the ones that deal with loans pertaining to education.

 

As for the rest of his record, he is quite a lot like both McCain and Clinton, no great differences there. 

 

So, Friend, I can respect that you are supporting Senator Obama, but just so you know, I am not.

 

Chelle Stockman

Obama votes for Big Oil by Chelle Stockman

More often than not, Senator Obama of the 109th Congress has voted in favor of Big Oil.  In fact, he appears to vote in favor of Cheney/Bush Package deals.

He is on record as voting for oil drilling in the Artic, voting to obliterate rivers and streams on the west coast, mainly in Oregon (californians kicked them out) in the name of LNG.  This was part of Cheney's and Bush's Energy Bill. Senator Obama continuously tells us that we need to move towards "alternative" energy plans, yet he votes in favor of the current energy forces for things like "clean coal" as if there were such a thing that would not hurt the environment, liquid natural gas, leasing of the shale for purposes of extraction, and drilling for oil in our country which would reverse the environmental protection acts that had to be enacted due to past pollution and destruction. 

Obama, unfortunately, is pandering to every direction disclosing only ideology that fits a territory while ensuring by way of his vote, that current corporations in control have no reason to worry--business as usual.  Guess that's why we see so many warm fuzzy commercials uniting liberals and conservatives in the name of energy.  It is apparent that Obama has no intention of moving us away from carbon based fuels.  In addition, he has voted for anything that would promote ethanol, which means farm subsidies that deplete our food supply and erode the soil its all grown in. 

My thoughts are if you are going to support policy that revolves around science, you better know your science and know that graphs and stats are used only for marketing purposes.  The moment you see such marketing tools, know that you are the intended sucker.

By the way, Hillary voted against these bills.

Just thought some of you might value a little truth.

Chelle Stockman

It's a Woman's Thing by Chelle Stockman

How's the value of your property these days?   Happy with the cost of a gallon of Diesel?  How about the cost of Gasoline?  How's the price of your energy bills coming along?  Happy about the War in Iraq at the expense of Afghanistan?  For those of you who have stocks and bonds, how's your earnings this past quarter? Know anyone out of work, layed off or closing their business?  Are you happy for them?  You happy about the quality of health care your loved ones and yourself are recieving and are you content with your copay costs on medical, dental, and your vision care?  Know anyone who doesn't have insurance for the above mentioned items? 

I say, what a mess.  This mom knows a mess when she sees one and this is as though the house is coming down around the entire family.  So what do mothers do at times like this?  We organize and get a team going and tackle the mess.  Then we make a plan so that it never gets in such a disorder ever again.  Mom's don't like repeating mistakes and repetitious cleaning of messes, but if you ever had a son, you know better than most that cleaning up his messes is a constant.

Government functions much like a home; it can be well run or totally out of order, or everything in between. Mom's are the glue that generally holds it all together, no matter how disfunctional or functional it may be.  Of course, this isn't always the case, but in far more cases it has always been a truism, even in today's world with the attempt at role reversal.

Children are taught in school that typically, men are the hunters and women are the gatherers.  Men have to find the one meat source, the one weakness of an intruder, and other such things that require strict focus on that one important matter.  Women had to be able to look at all things simultaneously in order to manage their time which was spent gathering leaves to keep the surroundings smelling fresh, to mask scent from being detected by an unwanted invader, spices and herbs to heal the men who, through their aggressive tactics were always suffering from one wound or another and in both cases, men and women, there is so much more to the hunter/gatherer hypothesis.

Now we have the brain science to back up the natural born tendencies of males and females.    You can see all the findings and sources of said proofs in the following link or http.  http://www.cerebromente.org.br/n11/mente/eisntein/cerebro-homens.html

You know, it's been the men that have brought us to this point in time, of course with women at their side for support of all kinds (prostitutes, even).  But right now, we are in such a mess, it's time for women to rise and clean up the mess.  It's one of the things we are fabulous at, that and multi-tasking.  Give a man more than a few heavy duty chores and they are lost.  They do the things they prefer to do most, first; then all other things get quick fixes and or tossed to the side out of their way so they don't have to see them.  Women on the other hand are able to do it all and almost at the same time.  Of course, just as men work best with women watching their back, so it is with women.  A woman soars as long as the men in her circle are supportive.  Women are much better communicators because they can listen while delegating.  They are naturals at reading body language.  Why?  Its a brain thing.  It has very little to do with education and a great deal to do with the physiological design of the brain.  Men have specialized brains while women have diverse brains.  Men tend to think and process out of the left side of their brain while women can use both sides of their brain simultaneously.

For that reason,  I'm asking you all to consider the problems this nation is facing and consider voting the woman in as our President to lead us through these problems, not only for immediate solutions, but also for long term solutions.  I certainly look forward to us all working with one another.  I'm truly looking forward to the day when women stop viewing themselves through a man's eyes and do as the Lakota suggest in their prophecy.  Until women use their power, all is lost.

I'm going to say one more thing that so few are too yellow-bellied to say.  You take the color of Obama off of him and all you have is another man. 

Time for a woman. 

Just be glad I haven't said to you what President Bush has said so many times; "Either you are for us or against us."  Hmmm. Odd how that rings true when it is true.

That's all for now.

Bush: The President of Change

Senators and Representatives serve two different purposes, one serves the legal and legislative aspects to governance while the other serves the fiduciary aspects to governance; but what they share in common is that neither are allowed to vote or make decisions based on psychic premonitions. Neither are they allowed to logically vote or make decisions upon anything that isn't already admitted into evidence.

Sure, when it came time to vote to give the fairly new President Bush, a little more power in case we had to go to war, most of us screamed, "This isn't a good idea."  Some were against giving him more power because they felt war was the prime objective and thought nothing good ever comes out of war.  Other's saw it as giving a crazy man too much power.  Others thought about his past failures in his father's vested interests (the Carlyle Group), and said, "Oh, no way are you gonna give this monkey more power," while still others claimed to have premonitions about this President of real and lasting change.  Even Michael Moore spouted on Larry King Live that "1 million Americans knew...." a lot of things, most especially that we would be going to war in Iraq.  It was far more than a million people that knew this to set the record straight, but the Senate and the Representatives are only allowed to vote according to the evidence presented to them and that evidence was fudged as are many documents that come across their tables, including writs of trade violations which won't be discussed at this time.

We hear Obama going after Clinton because she made certain votes he wouldn't have had he been given the chance.  Another armchair quarterback?  In the Senate, the only senator who pushed a fit in the vote was Senator Feingold and he is now labeled a radical liberal.  Of course, in the House of Reps, there was Maxine Waters and Barbara Lee, but they saw far different documents than did the senate and their vote was the authorization to go to war while the senate was to give the commander in chief more power.

I'd say that's enough change for this decade and I offer that what we need now are solutions to those changes.  From No Child Left Behind to the Abstinence Policies, both foreign and domestic; from the Clear Skies to Clean Water initiatives; from Afghanistan to Iraq, and our sanctions and blocks against Canada due to our lack of insight when it came to Free Trade Agreements, and how it affected our lumber industry; well, what we need more than change are some good SOLUTIONS!

The question is this.  Who has what it takes to look at the overall picture, the hunters or the gatherers?  I say to you that this is the time for gatherers to lead us because they see the overall picture and have been relegated to doing all the grunt work in order for hunters to bring in the kill.  So, you can vote for the Vegetarian Black Hunter, the Older POW Hunter, or the Seasoned Gatherer (a female-shhhhh). 

People say it is Obama's time that our country is ready for a black man.  I find this to be a silly argument.  Other's say he'll be more benevolent because he is a vegetarian and everyone knows how aggressive meat eaters are: this is silly too.  They say that Hillary is a woman and that women need to wait for African Americans to gain momentum before the woman can have their voice that it has always worked that way. I say this is preposterous.  Some say McCain, being a POW is going to help us navigate from Iraq into Iran and that we must need this because everyone is talking about it.  I just have to scream, "WTF?"

I'm tired of waiting for our voice to be heard.  Obama and Mc Cain are both men and men have always led this country. It is time for a woman to do so and right now, living amongst us, is the most capable woman to do this job and she could do it better than any of the men did, including her own husband, and that woman is Hillary Clinton.  You folks want to elect a vegetarian?  He is a young man, so vote for him in 2016.  The woman is getting older and I doubt America is willing to vote for an older woman over a younger woman because we are a nation of racists, sexists and ageists.  That's all I'm going to say about this for now.

Gatherers or Hunters?   You decide.