onestand's Blog

Bite me, we the people have not even been informed to where the 700 billion has gone...Big surprise, NOT! Where is the acountabililty?  I know that our great leaders have already started spending the 700 billion, and for what has our hard earned tax dollars been spent. What do we have to show for this big price tag, I haven't seen anything or accountability.  They keep changing there minds, on buying up this and that,  they have a blank check book.

Our economy is in the crapper.  Why because we the people are like unto bugs that are being crushed under this huge shoe named crushed dreams. I think our leaders should stand back and check out the situation of the bandaids they are placing on those who have sinned upon their fellow men.

Now that being said, things really went South when "Big Oil" really stuck it to the people. They paralized our lives we had to start to scrimp and scrap just to get by with what little we had in our wallets. But now, we the people are finding more ways to become a little more independent from oil. Like the plastic bag for example, it so small insignificant to go green with the plastic bag, and it reduces huge amounts of oil having to be produced.

Supply and demand, we the people are banding together to stand as one and say sorry not here. I don't know about you but the cost of filling my tank of gas has been cut in half. I have a little more money to spend on other things, such as presents and clothing, etc... you get the point. E-mail your government representatives and tell them you want them to sit on their hands instead of hold them out their hands for more money from the American people. Lets wait until the next president can sit down and look at everything clearly, slowly, and determine the right path we should take, in our time of need. I think that these big price tags are being put out there because a new leadership is coming in, and those going out need bonus's for fixing the problem they couldn't stop. They have already given Freddie and Fannie Mac billions of dollars, what the hell? I personally want to see the check register for all this spending, where did it go, we don't know.

Now as pointed out previously, I do not know how to properly use this internet thing yet, but it you go to the internet, you can find your representatives e-mail address's along with other congress and senate representative and open the flood gates with our concerns. Don't sit on your hands, make them fly on the key board and make you desires and the future of our children be known.

They want TRILLIONS now, divide it among the people and let them fix the economy, beings it is our money and our future that is at stake, let us buy our own homes free and clear, and buy our cars and save for our children's future.

Remember, like it or not but we are all in this together. Keep your head up, and your eyes ever watchful! And smile people, it makes others wonder what your up to and what you have going on, we can do it, just believe!!

This election seems to be the most important due to the fact that our country is in shambles!!  Do you want to know who I'm voting for for President?  Good luck, I won't say... but there are more than just a Presidential canidate to vote for, there are a lot of openings for all sorts of positions.

I was just informed that if I were to vote all for democrat or republican, my vote for President WILL NOT BE counted.  What the....is going on right?

I can't believe this is in the news constantly.  Can you believe a man can marry a man and a women marry a women.  Wow, that is so scary, right?  It's like an epidemic, I mean if we allow this to happen, when are we going to catch the same fever!

Frankly,  it's not any of our business!  If other people want to be "gay" as society states, who are any of us to say it is wrong!  What happens in someone else's house between two consenting adults, is their business!  Let's say you or anyone else on this earth say, "this is a sin, and we can't let this happen." 

Two things come to mind...

1.  Judge not, least ye be judged.

2. Get your own house in order.

I received a forwarded e-mail and want to share it, because it's delicious!

"I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG."

"Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000.00 to America in a We Deserve It divided."

"To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+."

"Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up.,"

"So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00"

"My plan is to give $425,000 to gevery person 18+ as a "We Deserve It Dividend."

"Of course, it would NOT be tax free." "So let's assume a tax rate of 30%." "Every individiual 18+ has to pay $127,5000.00 in taxes. That sends $25,500,000,000 right back to Uncle Sam."

"But it means that every adult 18+ has 297,500 in their pocket. A husband and wife has $595,000.00."

"What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00 in your Family?"

"Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved."

"Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads"

"Put away money for college - it'll be there"

"Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs."

"Buy a new car - create jobs"

"Invest in the market - capital drives growth"

"Pay for your parent's medical insurance - health care improves"

"Enable Deadbeat Dads/Moms to come clean - or else"

"Remember this is for every adult US Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company that is cutting back. And of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces."

"If we're going to re-distribute wealth let's really do it...instead of trickling out a puny $1000.00 ("vote buy") economic incentive that is being proposed by one of our candidates for President."

"As for AIG - liquidate it," Sell off its parts," "Let American General go back to being American General." "Sell off the real estate." Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up."

"Here's my rationale. We deserve it and AIG doesn't." "Sure it's a cray idea that can "never work." "But imagine the coast to coast block Party!"

"I trust my fellow adult American to know how to use the $85 Billion, We Deserve It Divided more than the geniuses at AIG or in Washington DC."

"And remember, The Birk plan only really costs $59.5 Billion because $25.5 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam."

After reading this I got totally inspired, they just approved a 700 billion bail out plan, imagine dividing that up into the 18+ Americans to spend, all problems solved!! And American's control the check book.  Washington would never let this happen, of course it's nice to dream.  Is their $700 billion dollar bail-out, paid by tax payers check register going to be on-line, so we can really see were the money is being spent?  Don't hold your breath, I'm not!

I received a video DVD from the Southwest Indian Foundation, are you KIDDING ME!!

Our founding family of this country;  the tribes, the indians, who took care of the land to pass on to next generations.  They are the poorest, most neglected individuals that I have ever seen, reservations, are at their lowest peak. 

Some don't have proper housing, and they live so far from the grocery store and what not.  They don't even have paved roads to go on a "qwest" to get supplies.  If we end up getting dollars for fixing up the housing market, fix them first!! 

Here are our leaders, with a job discription of improving our country for the benefit of Americans.  I find it quite disturbing that decisions or bills being passed in our behalf cannot happen because these "elected officials" are Democratic or Republican.

It's like the "old gang" of crap!!  "We can't get anything done, because the majority of elected officials are either to many Republicans or Democrats!!  What a load of crap!! I received a letter from the government office that compiles the voting process.  They indicated that some of the parties won't even give you the oportunity to vote for the canidate of your choosing  if you don't declare which party you are affilated.

So billions of our tax dollars are being wasted in dead-lock decisions, because these individuals cannot determine what is best for the country based on being democratic or republican. 

And these polls determining whether or not people are deciding to vote democratic or republican are made up numbers.  I was reading one the other day, stating that "undecided voters" were going republican, and have doubts with the democratic party.  Where to they get these numbers, let me make a suggestion, "out of the air" and who is paying for the advertisement!

Elected officials get your act together, and start saving our country one decision at a time whether you are elected democrat or republican!  I think after officials are elected they should loose their titles of democratic or republican!

After putting in my time with the armed services of America, I was promised certain benefits.  Like a VA loan, that benefit did come through as promised.  I went to ITT Tech. and started school, they couldn't find my discharge papers, no record in the military.  So as I went to school, I wrote letters, and went through my files.  Finally I found my discharge papers, and presented them to the ITT Tech finance department.  I thought wow a load off my mind, the military is going to step up and help pay for this huge debt for my student loans. 

I've read all the fine print on my military sign up and discharge papers, and they do not contain the following.  You need to contact the VA office for the final blow to your system.  BEWARE!!  You must start your education within 10 years or you loose your benefits!!

Try scrambling to consolidate your private and federal loans, federal is possible at a good rate.  The huge private loans that are usually 12 - 18%, nobody will consolidate them for you, not one financial institution.

So before you sign up for college at the finance department were you go to school, make sure your paperwork from the military can be accessed by the military.  (sometimes units are no longer and somebody forgets to file the paperwork with the military.)

My student loans are around $50,000.00.  Time to get a second job!

As a consumer, I have been literally discusted going into my supermarket and seeing a mark-up on every item I purchase.  Now this whole mark-up thing started before the big gas crisis, and has become worse since the crisis hit the market. 

Well as with Supply & Demand, I look at the various market places around just my neighborhood.  It's time for the local markets to start competing for our business!!  They basically all carry about the same supplies and brands, checking out the weekly flyers in the mail, we can really clean up and save some money.  Thinking about the cost of gas and would it really be cost effective to do our weekly shopping at a variety of stores.  YES!!

I have several supermarkets and clothing supply stores within a mile of each other, Jordan Landing within the West Jordan area, it's time to compare and shop.  If more of us band together, the stores will notice that only a few items are bought here and there and will get a little more competitive in prices.  Right now I have only been shopping at one store for my weekly shopping and hitting a closer market for items I have needed. 

I'm starting my research this week and I know that my monthly budget for grocery supplies will be less than ever.  

There are studies that have been done that actually prove that there is more contamination of the soil, associated with drilling on land.  So much that it surpasses what has been spilled in the oceans.  The problems with our current drilling methods done on the land is the storage containersand.  Most of them are out of date, and are in dire need of repair, as they leak into our lands.  I propose that they kick up the offshore drilling.  Also the lands that this offshore drilling are associated with should stay with in America.  No foreign companies, owned by America and drilled by Americans.  I feel that the government should be responsible for the hiring and running of these facilites, and provide a reasonable price for the oil.  No more smug oil tycoons making a buck on the struggling business and Americans.

Then once drilling commences in the off shore drilling facilities.  The oil wells on the land, need to be cleaned up and updated.  Of course a little at a time, to offset what can be drilled on the offshore facilities.

I was watching a news report that showed the oil executives in front of a government panel, I don't remember if it was congress.  Anyway, they basically told this government panel to swallow up the prices and good luck impossing penalties, for they only blew up in the governments face last time they were imposed.

I thought that price fixing was against the law?  If the government cannot enforce the law, or find another way to obtain oil at resonable prices, they should offer the tax payers a write off at tax time.

Let's step back and take a look at the facts and studies to come to a solution that has common sense. 

Guatanamo, apparently isn't located in the United States of America, but is run by the American Government.  I've heard horror stories, little glimpse here and there in the news about this Guatanamo Prison.  I could swear that I heard of that the world wide group of peace keepers told the United States to shut down the facility, but that was a long, long time ago. 

Now on the internet, I see a video of this facility and of a young child being tortured there, and nobody cares.  Apparently he's from Canada, and has commited a crime against the United States military.  Why isn't the Canadian Government dealing with this child?  Doesn't the United States of America trust the Canadian Government to deal with it's own criminals?

There is a passage in the bible, don't ask me where, I just know it's there some where, and I will give you the gist of the passage.  It is better for a man to be bound by chains and thrown into the sea for messing with a child then having God deal with the one responsible. 

Can anyone help this boy?  Obviously he has made a grave error in his life, and needs to get help for his problems.  I think he has paid for his crimes with being tortured off and on for 6 years.  Stop the torture, lead this child by the hand!!!!!

Have we lost our minds totally?  From the newscast I saw yesterday, it was either channel 4 or 5, they were interviewing some head dude of Israel.  Now clearly  Isreal, does not have any interest in attacking Iran, or having the U.S.A, attacking IRAN.  The big hoop law, is that Iran is building a Nuclear facility that is not being used for the purpose of energy. Iran has complied with all those paranoid of their activities, they have allowed the paranoid to look inside their facilities.

Can anyone come up with a figure a number of how much blood has been shed on this planet, due to one conflict with one another?  Now the blood figure I don't believe can even be tallied.  How about how many people have been killed, or mammed as a result.  Look around people!  We need to repair the Earth, not punch more holes into the Earth.  Does any other continent have nuclear weapons, duh, duh, duh!! 

Looking at Iran and reading various ariticles about the region and "terroritst," I believe that anyone with enough money could buy just about any kind of weapon they need, nuclear or not.  So lets try a new method of a common goal shared by every living thing on this Earth,  Peace,  and fix up the joint so that we have clean air to breath, food to eat, and shelter. 

Going to War with Iraq was a big no, no with some world peace council, and yet we did it anyway.  We had all these reports of weapons of mass destruction.  Look at all the innocient people, who have been killed, based on "false information." I would like to see a newscast that goes around showing all the homes destroyed, and broken people around the regions.  Let's stop flexing our muscles and trying to show how strong we are, and get busy working on the more important issues.  We have an outbreak right here in America, many people of died, and it has hit many states.  And yet, we still don't know the source of the outbreak, nor we may "never know."  Hello, we have our own problems to worry about, instead of creating new ones.

Has anyone figured out a way to use this internet so the American people can cast their vote on this insane idea?

A  U.S. Senator on the news cast last night, suggested that we can produce a barrel of oil for $33.00 a barrel!   Sweeeeet!   Of course there is always controversy about, how and when and what not.  I say let's give it a chance, if it takes a while to get through the government red tape, lets start writing up the proposal today.   Get a few studies going from Utah, so we have a little back bone to present to the government.

Meanwhile,  I was on the internet today, and one of our states of the union has struck oil, and in a large massive fashion.   The headline "Oil is making millionaires in North Dakota."  By James MacPherson.  Now those down to earth people pictured in the article look like they wouldn't mind lending a hand.  

After filling up the auto yesterday, I figure were spending roughly $50.00 more a month in fuel.  We don't really have a lot of fancy things, but we get by, were probably considered "poor" according to the government statistics.  $50.00 extra dollars a month is a lot of money to budget, we have to cut back here and there just to keep our heads above water.

Now I don't know how it works, if our govenor calls their govenor or whatever, but someone should get on the phone and quick!

The F.B.I. are saving our innocent children, one at a time.  Although it seems like the problem of children becomming sex slaves seems unreachable.  Apparently there are alot of children that their own families have cast into the streets.  There are also children that are lured away for drugs, an escape from dreary everyday life.  Apparently they take the innocent and do horrible things to them, until they conform to being sex slaves. 

The F.B.I. doesn't have the red tape in crossing state lines to prosecute the pimps and prostitutes.  They are standing tall and reaching in and saving the children from a horrific existance. 

I bow down to the F.B.I.,  and they will definately be in my prayers!!

Hopefully after the ones responsible for these horrific crimes are arrested, we will have juries who will stand up for the children and put the pimps and prostitutes behind bars for the rest of their lives!!

Rack one up for the good guys!