A Letter To America
Dear Citizens of this great nation,
Some of you have read my blogs (hopefully) and know me as Miguel. My real name is Miguel Espinal. A first generation Latino whose family came here in the late 60′s early 70′s. I have been taught from a youngster that this is the best country in the world. The reason for that is because this country is because the chances that are given to you as compared to other countries in the world.
If you haven’t noticed, the last few years have been a disaster for this country. We were excited because the turn of the century was marking a point where the country was going to surpass itself as the place to be on this planet. But I noticed that by the end of the decade, for the first time ever, less people have applied to live here than ever before. We went from being citizens to being called consumers, and at some we just stopped caring. We cheered on the politicians when they got rid of the banking rules that helped this country become stable. We loved the fact that the government was going to give out money and give tax breaks to the rich because as they saw it, the trickle down effect meant that everyone was at some point going to get some of that money. We loved that the stock market shoot over 10k points, and that everyone was making money (Well sort of). We were happy getting these credit cards that allowed us to spend as much money as we want. Not only that, we were even more happy about the easy money that was being given to us because it meant that we could buy houses, cars, boats, airplanes, and just do whatever we felt was right because its America. Shit people in Dominican Republic actually told me that we are so rich in this country, that a $10 bill would be on the floor for days because we have to much money to want to bend over and pick it up. Yes times were good for many.
The sad thing about good parties is that they end. It felt like the lights were turned on and learned that we were paying for all the so called free drinks that were given to us in the party (I been to something like that, and a huge fight started). My brothers and sisters, we need to step up and become citizens of the free world. We are being beaten by a divide and conquer tactic that is being manipulated the media and the career politicians. Why is it that we are still stuck blaming the left and the right while both parties are equally responsible for the mess that we are in. We then turn to a movement that has no leader, but behold, the media again takes hold of it and then tries to take it to a side just so that we could again be divided.
We all united to pick a president who promised change and a reform on Washington. We felt as if one of us was infiltrated the powers that be, and then we felt betrayed from the very beginning. He spoke harshly of Bush and the signing statements issued by him, and from day one he comes in and does the very actions he was chastising. We bailout banks (without our authority) on the consensus that the money be lent out to the people. But no we were once again lied to and the banks just held the money bought other banks, and then gave it back to the government after they made a shit load on the interest. And then the media goes ahead and tells us, “The banks are back in business. The times are getting better”. Meanwhile they are doing the same dirt as they had before and they do it knowing that the government is going to bail em out. So what if they made record bonuses, what can the government do to them? That is the mentality of these assholes.
But the problem is deeper than the corporations (or the people as they are famously called), no I’m writing because we have to all unite and VOTE OUT THE BUMS. The reason why everything is happening, we are letting the politicians do as they please. Why is it that no one is questioning how is it that politicians are worth so much money? Why is it that they are allowed to deal with insider trading while we cant? Why is it that they fly private planes all over the country but tell us that we have to reduce our carbon emissions? We have career politicians who have seats in a cobra clutch and would kill their mother before they let go of that seat. Why is it that no one complains that the highest court in the land is allowing corporations to lobby as much money as they please? Why is it that we are going broke no matter how much the government says that they are saving money?
I ask these questions because it seems that no one wants to ask the questions. Either that or we want to see what we want to see. I say we all use our votes for something useful. Instead of voting for a democrat or republican, vote for an independent. So what if it seems like its a vote wasted. The two ruling parties are really one corporation with two colored wings. Why listen to Rachel Maddow or Bill O’Reilly when they are paid by a corporation who wants you to follow the stat quo. You think Glenn Beck is one to trust? The only difference between tv commentators and the characters on Family Guy is that one is a cartoon, but both are scripted.
I want us to take the civilized way and vote out the bums. We are an angry nation, and our leaders are not listening to our voices. They made us believe that its good for us to own a piece of AIG, but how come most of us don’t know that we are about to give money to a foreign nation, because of the entanglement made by the CEO’s. Is it fair to you that we have millions of people here who need help, but there could be a possibility that we give them a bailout. How does that make you feel America? Lets ask how does that make our so called leaders? They probably dont feel nothing. And as Im at it, why is it that lobbyist get more of a say than us citizens. Because we stopped voting and let money do the talking for, and if you haven’t noticed, most of us are broke so only our votes can be heard.
Citizens of this great nation, and I’m only talking to ones who breathe, not the ones considered a person because of a name (aka the corporations), we are going to stand up and start making a new movement. One where we are known for voting for something better, and not because we have funny signs. Its time we stand up for things that matter, and that’s the well being for us people. Lets vote for another Glass-Steagall for its the reason that kept the country in good shape for all these years. Funny how it was at the beginning of the decade that it was taken away and then BOOM, everything in the country goes wrong financially. If the government knew what was best for us, then they would be listening to our opinions and not call us racists/ignorant/unpatriotic for not agreeing with the government.
Please Mr. Obama hear our voices so that we can better everything, not only for us, but for the future generations. You talked about being a constitutional professor, and how we the people are the ones who are in charge of everything. Please listen to us, and grow some balls. You need to take a stand, and when you do take that stand, stand by us the citizens, or as Donald Trump says “Your Fired”.
Sincerly,
Miguel Espinal
Just thoughts…
As our 44th president completes his first year as president, I ask, how much did we gain, and more importantly, how much did we lose?
As the Church of Obama steadily gains followers, it has become an unwritten sin to talk bad about the man. No never mind that we have freedom of speech in this country. You are either a racist, or with the man. There is no gray area when talking about him, and thats where the problem begins. See in life there is a gray area, the one people tend to forget that exists. If one cant criticize the man, then who can? People say we need to give him time, but he didn’t waste any time to raise the national debt to a point where it seems like we are never going to get out of debt. A debt that neither you or I incurred, we were just handed the bill because 300+ people decided it would be best for us to go into another country to occupy space, to bail out people who got themselves into trouble. When is it that the people of this country will wake up to the truth?
Minorities don’t want anyone to talk bad about the man, they look at him like he is one of us. But he is not!!! We don’t align ourselves with people who are just as bad as the next person. Tim Geithner is no different than Hank Paulson. Ben Bernanke is the same as Alan Greenspan. These experts are all playing on the same team. It may seem like a reform is coming, but as long as we vote for either democrats or republicans, then we are all going to be seeing the same “change” that was promised to us.
See Obama ran a campaign that was so clever, no one saw it coming until it was too late. Well lat me take that back, the change is coming, but its nothing that we expected. Its a change where the American dollar is going to collapse, where the cashless society is going to begin just like the Irish. We should all HOPE, but not for the president to do anything for us, but for people to wake up to the truth and see for themselves that only being true, and righteous can we be able to once again be the strong nation that was the envy of many.
And while im on the topic of the president, why is it that i can’t talk bad about him? See the other day, i compared the man to G.W. Bush and people looked at me like i was crazy. One man told me that as a minority i should be ashamed of myself. “The man has to be given a chance. He didn’t ask for this war, he cant solve all of the problems by himself. Shame on you”. See what i have to deal with. It doesn’t mater to people that the president claimed to pull out the soldiers 6 months into his campaign. It doesn’t matter that he added more soldiers to the war, it doesn’t matter that he kept alot of people that were on the Bush team. And why is the president always on TV. He isn’t in showbiz. Can someone tell him that all the time he has spent on tv could be used to do something to help this country. Jesus, this year alone, he as been on tv so much, that he is has made more people watch tv more than ever. Everyone wants to see the president say something funny, cause he is such a swell black man, and seeing that i just mentioned that he is a black man, can i really be a racist if the man is half white? So what is that considered half racist? Or a full blown hater of both the white people and black people, but if that true, then what about the real racist white people who were scared of the man because his middle name is Hussein? Are they haters of their own race? If so then maybe the whole country is confused. Only thing I know is that I will continue to push buttons, and maybe out of 100, make 2 people think for themselves.
Another thing, why is it that we are always giving “Aid” to other countries? We need aid over here in our country. I saw a commercial on tv the other day, it was sort of a feed the children commercial, but the twist is, that the commercial was aimed towards helping kids here in America. Can you believe it? We are making commercials to help kids in our country. Now if you don’t think that its the shittiest thing you have ever heard, then i have nothing else to say.
Episode: 12.17.09 Eugenics Peanut-Butter and Jelly SandMitch
Host: Jerry Adams
We have more news and leaked video from arrested protesters in COP15 protest. We discuss Eugenics. We reobserve our mandaite from President John F Kennedy. Osama Ben Ladin is dead.
Video and Links:
Police torture arrested people at COP15
The Population Control Agenda Behind Copenhagen Summit
President John F Kennedy Secret Society Speech
Its Peanut Butter Jelly Time!!!
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Imagine There’s No Global Warming
Video:The Iron Mountain Report
It’s NOT such a Wonderful Life!
The Economic Calamity
The global depression is about to knock on our doors. We are about to head into survival of the fittest like depression and there is no person on planet earth that is immune to this… except the big wigs. See if you haven’t noticed it yet, governments all around the world, especially in the US are not doing anything to protect the people, they are only interested in protecting themselves and their buddies in the big companies.
Fed chairman Ben Bernanke is credited by many for helping stop the economic bleeding, but look closely and it seems that the signs were written on the wall for the country to go into debt. Ben Bernanke once famously said “The US government has a technology, called a printing press — or today, it’s electronic equivalent — that allows it to produce as many dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost”. Now those words have been put into action, this is called ‘quantitative easing’ and the only easing that it does is the manipulation of the stock market. See if you listen to the TV economist, they tell you that things are getting better, the market is over 10,000 and it seems that sky is the limit. Now lets divulge deeper into this. The market tanked deeply due to one of the most famous TV economists Jim Cramer telling people to take their money out of the market as fast as they can. He set of a massive scare tactic even though the night before he was the one who was telling people to “buy buy buy” as he famously says.
Next we have the US government who keeps telling the public that things are looking better, but the situation keeps on getting worst. Ever hear that saying, if you tell a lie enough times that it will soon become a truth. Well that is our unemployment numbers. They say its at 10.2%, well let me correct myself its at 10% as of yesterday, but look deeper into these numbers and notice that these numbers are only the people who collect unemployment checks. They don’t count people who stopped collecting, part time workers, people who quit looking for a job and they don’t tally the death/birth ratio. The government also doesn’t have an algorithm to calculate how many small business jobs were created. They just make up the numbers, sort of like the bailout.
The education system. Yes hard to believe but even the education system has played a bigger role in the destruction of our economy than you believe. See there was a time when education was affordable. People would graduate from high school, and get a quality education with the aspiration of attaining a career. But soon, economics started playing a role in getting an education. So the price of tuitions starts to increase while the level of education is getting worst for the cheaper schools. Now as we all know, public education is nothing in America. Its actually worst than 3rd world country education. And then when people were able to catch up to the tuition prices, the economists went ahead and started to make new books every year and they forced people to pay $300 per book. So the level of playing field wasn’t as fair as it should be. I understand that education should come at a price but there comes a point when people shouldn’t be investing 30k or 40k just for a year of tuition. Then America makes it a point for kids to go to school and take out dozens of loans just for they could be able to get an education without caring if the kid could afford to even get something to eat. And those prices dont even include the dorm fees which up the ante up to 10k per year.
Television. Now televisions role in this is the influence that it has on us wanting to love money. Money has become its own religion. Its more powerful than love, and more worshiped than which ever God you believe in. How many relationships are broken because of money disputes? TV shows make it a good thing for people to win money, the lottery has found a way to sucker people into buying tickets with all the commercials that we see on tv. “Only a dollar and a dream” is the phrase used here in NY and it might be one of the most used phrases i have ever heard. I hear that more than Amen which is a sad thing. Its all about the benjamins P.Diddy said and how sad that instead of asking for health and family, people would rather ask for money just to make things good in they life.
The final culprit in the economy tanking is credit. Well more like the people and the countries who get it. Do people understand what the word means? I mean it drives me crazy that people just didn’t read the fine print to the credit card statements. Since birth people are told to carefully read what they sign, and that always included the fine print. When I was 16, I will never know how but I obtained my first credit card with $4,000 limit. You give that to a kid, and believe me he’s not going to know what to do with all that money. I went crazy, you better believe that I was the best dressed person in school for all of my high school life. All was good until I was 19, then the reaper came calling. I didn’t make too many payments largely because I never really thought of making payments, I just thought that the money was always going to be there. But it taught me a valuable lesson, NOTHING IS WHAT IT SEEMS. I wasnt surprised that Dubai went into default with their debt. They bought MGM less than 5 years ago, and immediately were trying to dump it off early this year. They were trying to sell it for drastically less than the amount than they paid for it. I wish that people would just read between the lines. I understand that some people need credit, but the chickens will come to roast. Its easier for people to just call the creditor and tell them that they are broke instead of paying one credit card with another. Think about it, you wouldn’t borrow money from a shylock just to pay another shylock. It doesn’t make sense and thats exactly what its like when you take money from a credit card. Except the credit cards took the shy locks out of business.
Video: Al Gore confronted on Climategate in Chicago
Episode:12/02/09 Lies Lies Lies
Host: Jerry Adams
In today’s episode we discuss Obama’s speach about increasing troops to Afghanistan the healthcare debate. Joe Biden stops by. Donald Rumsfeld discusses 2.3 trillion dollars in missing tax payer money.
Links:
Video: Missing 2.3 Trillion Dollars
Video: Biden Healthcare Propaganda
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