We the People...
ON OUR LOIS LANES
Printed in the NCT on December 9, 2011:
Words are powerful
Words are powerful. Words create. Words form, as well as inform, our world.
The left wants strong and stronger and ever increasingly powerful central government. The right wants government to respect the enumerated powers defined in the Constitution. It's really that simple. The rest is all noise.
Righties outnumber lefties, but the left has almost full control of the media and makes a daily and relentless bid for your mind with their words. I am not saying, listen to me. I am saying, seek another perspective and make up your own mind. ...
I pay for their "free" National Public Radio through taxes, but I also pay willingly for subscription radio that comes without commercials on podcasts. ...
Dear citizen, the forest is hard to see from the midst of the trees. Seek another perspective; make up your own mind. The American idea is at stake, and still the last best hope of earth.
Pat Mendenhall
Escondido
Pat's original submission to the NCT:
Words are powerful. Words create. Words form as well as inform our world. The Left wants strong and stronger and ever increasingly powerful central government. The Right wants government to respect the enumerated powers defined in the Constitution. It’s really that simple. The rest is all noise. Righties outnumber Lefties by 2 to 1 but the Left has almost full control of the media and makes a daily and relentless bid for your mind. I am not saying, listen to me. I am saying, seek another perspective and make up your own mind. There is a DVD available called, AGENDA: Grinding America Down. You can get more from that than what I can write here now. I pay for your “free” NPR through taxes but I also pay willingly for subscription radio that comes without commercials on podcasts. For those of you who don’t want to pay $5 a month for an expanded view, there is the American Conservative University podcast and the Mark Levin podcast, both FREE from the websites and also through iTunes. Dear Citizen, the forest is hard to see from the midst of the trees. Seek another perspective make up your own mind. The American idea is at stake, and still the last best hope of earth.
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Printed in the NCT on December 1, 2011:
Has 'Christ'-mas come to this?
Has "Christ"-mas come to this? Shootings! Pepper spray! Children being trampled! Sounds like a flash mob? No, this is Black Friday, the beginning of the 2011 "Christ"-mas season. Sure is a nice way to show our children the true meaning of "Christ"-mas.
We wonder what happened to this past generation of children. Not only can we thank our public school system for becoming so politically correct that they never leave room for morals, simply teaching right from wrong and the difference between love and hate, but they see their own parents act like animals during a season that should only be about love.
When I was a child, we were poor. At "Christ"-mas, my parents would take us window shopping, where we would show them what we were going to ask Santa for. There was the Betsy Wetsy doll, the first Barbie doll, the doll that cried real tears, Matchbox cars and GI Joes. Then, they would take us to see Santa and we would secretly give him our lists.
On "Christ"-mas Eve, we would go to church for midnight service, after which we would hit the bed until 6. On "Christ"-mas morning, there would be obligatory socks and underwear and maybe one or two of our wishes under the tree. Life was simple then.
Elizabeth Maher
Escondido
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Printed in the NCT on November 13, 2011:
Be grateful for country
There's a lot of talk lately about the top 1 percent, as if they were an entrenched class of bad guys who ought to be punished for bad motives. Hmmm.
In 1973, Steve Jobs was in the bottom 1 percent of income-earners, but 10 years later, he was in the top 1 percent. In 2000, Mark Zuckerberg was in the bottom 1 percent, and by 2008, he was in the top. That says something about the fluidity of these statistics and the greatness of America.
In America, anyone with a vision can pursue it, and with hard work and persistence, step into it and make it real. Most people who are in the bottom 1 percent have elevated out of it by the next census. Many people who are in the top 1 percent have only a one-year tenure there. There will always be a top and a bottom 1 percent, but they will not usually be the same people.
To buy into the propaganda of class warfare and take the bait to hate the rich is, as an American, an act of self-loathing. Americans strive for the upgrade and most of us want to be rich. Most of us do improve our circumstances over time. Let us remember that and be grateful every day for the exceptional country that provides us all with opportunity.
Pat Mendenhall
Escondido
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Printed in the NCT on October 27, 2011:
Tea party is not Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street is eating better than cake; try salmon, cream cheese and bagels.
The tea party is definitely not Occupy Wall Street. Those of us who consider ourselves tea partiers take responsibility for our lives. We hold down jobs, even if only for minimum wage. We love our country. We respect our military. We do not disrespect people or the property where we hold an event. We would never expect anyone to clean up after us.
At every event I ever attended, we left the location cleaner than when we got there. We aren't paid by anyone just so we can show we have more bodies to push our agenda. We are just as frustrated with corruption as OWS is. Ironically, OWS says the big bad banks and Wall Street are in the pockets of the GOP. Guess who financed President Obama's campaign? Those big bad bankers, Wall Street and the unions. Check the facts.
Yes, I am the tea party, not Republican or Democrat. I believe in limited government, personal responsibility and the free market this country was founded on. I said no to bank bailouts. I watched as those same banks, Wall Street and the media embraced Obama and nothing was said about that.
Elizabeth Maher
Escondido
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Printed in the NCT on October 18, 2011:
Saving America
"Money is the root of all evil."
"Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter." This was Ayn Rand's prophetic quote about the importance of money and the fact that "money is the root of all good."
President Obama stated, "I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." What a profound statement. Woodrow Wilson's progressive agenda is coming to fruition.
Obama has taken control of our banking system, our auto industry, and our health care. He has been around the world apologizing for America's arrogance, bowing to our enemies and snubbing our long-time allies. America is becoming the butt of the world's jokes.
Daddy used to scream at the liberal, left-wing, mainstream media. We dismissed him as crazy. I can no longer sit by while Obama tramples on our Constitution. I must make my voice heard. As patriots, we must stop this redefining of America. If we stand idly by as the progressive socialists get more aggressive, we will find ourselves falling head-first into the United Nation's push for a one-world order.
Our freedoms come from God, not the government.
Elizabeth Maher
Escondido
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Printed in the NCT on October 8, 2011:
The importance, impact of the bond market
The bond market is so incomprehensibly huge that any dislocation there would have stunning ramifications for everyone. The bond market is to the stock market what the Jolly Green Giant is to an ant. It's huge. So the bond market plays an important role in all of our lives, even those who distance themselves from Wall Street with utter disdain.
Up through the Clinton years, the bond market served as a "free market" restraint on government spending. It is the primary reason why "Hillarycare" could not pass. The bond market sniffed out the real cost of "Hillarycare" and rates started to rise, warning danger. No matter what you heard on the 6 o'clock news, it was the bond market, not the Washington wizards, that put Hillary Clinton's Pandora back in the box.\
So when you hear tea party patriots criticizing Ben Bernanke for all but destroying the ability of markets to restrain government spending, they are aware of this background and the danger it poses to civil society. So who benefits? Bernanke's friends - the too-big-to-fail Goldman Sachses of the world who make commissions on every bond traded. Folks, the marriage of "banksters" to government is an unholy alliance that none of us should sanction.
Pat Mendenhall
Escondido
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