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	<title>Lifestyle of America &#187; Goverment</title>
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		<title>Congress&#8217; Job Creation Plan (UNCLASSIFIED)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress&#8217; Job Creation Plan (UNCLASSIFIED)
This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).

Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Congress has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement, thus creating jobs and
reducing unemployment.
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This scheme will be known as RAPE (Retire Aged People Early).</p>
<p><img title="workers" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/workers.jpg" alt="workers" width="170" height="113" /></p>
<p>Due to the current financial situation caused by the slowdown in the economy, Congress has decided to implement a scheme to put workers of 50 years of age and above on early retirement, thus creating jobs and<br />
reducing unemployment.</p>
<p>Persons selected to be RAPED can apply to Congress to be considered for<br />
the SHAFT program (Special Help After Forced Termination).</p>
<p>Persons who have been RAPED and SHAFTED will be reviewed under the SCREW<br />
program (System Covering Retired-Early Workers).</p>
<p>A person may be RAPED once, SHAFTED twice and SCREWED as many times as<br />
Congress deems appropriate.</p>
<p>Persons who have been RAPED could get AIDS (Additional Income for<br />
Dependants &amp; Spouse) or HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel<br />
Early Severance).</p>
<p>Obviously persons who have AIDS or HERPES will not be SHAFTED or SCREWED<br />
any further by Congress.</p>
<p>Persons who are not RAPED and are staying on will receive as much SHIT<br />
(Special High Intensity Training) as possible. Congress has always<br />
prided themselves on the amount of SHIT they give our citizens.</p>
<p>Should you feel that you do not receive enough SHIT, please bring this<br />
to the attention of your Congressman, who has been trained to give you<br />
all the SHIT you can handle.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br />
The Committee for Economic Value of Individual Lives (E.V.I.L.)</p>
<p>PS &#8211; - Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas<br />
and oil, as well as current market conditions, the Light at the End of<br />
the Tunnel has been turned off.</p>
<p>Lets Get Your Opinion:</p>
<p>Have You Forgotten The President and Congress&#8217; Failed  Promise about creating jobs.</p>
<p>Yes_     No_</p>
<p>If you answered No then you&#8217;re  part of the population that doesn&#8217;t care and will be sucked into the cesspool of no freedom, no job and hopelessness.</p>
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		<title>Freedom and Socialism Don’t Mix</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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“One of the consequences of such notions as &#8220;entitlements&#8221; is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”


  Thomas Sowell quotes (American Writer and Economist, b.1930)



 



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<td><strong>“</strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/one-of-the-consequences-of-such-notions-as/411400.html"><strong>One of the consequences of such notions as &#8220;entitlements&#8221; is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.</strong></a><strong>”</strong></td>
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<td><strong> </strong><strong> </strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/thomas_sowell/"><strong>Thomas Sowell quotes</strong></a><strong> (</strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/nationality/american_authors/"><strong>American</strong></a><strong> </strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_writers/"><strong>Writer</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_economists/"><strong>Economist</strong></a><strong>, b.</strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/birthday/july_30/"><strong>1930</strong></a><strong>)</strong></td>
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<td><strong>   “</strong><a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/socialism_is_workable_only_in_heaven_where_it_isn/196078.html"><strong>Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn&#8217;t needed, and in hell where they&#8217;ve got it</strong></a><strong>”</strong></td>
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<p><strong>Freedom and Socialism Don’t Mix</strong></p>
<p><strong> <img title="ObamaDemocraticSocialism" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ObamaDemocraticSocialism.jpg" alt="ObamaDemocraticSocialism" width="275" height="200" /></strong></p>
<p>For more than fifty years American presidents and Congress have attempted to mix socialism with our capitalist system to make it fairer. We have taken a lot of the candy earned by top performers and created federal programs to distribute candy to those who didn’t earn it. But socialism and capitalism don’t work well together. Socialist policies dramatically increase government spending and debt, siphoning wealth and productivity from the private sector. Government intrusion into the free market has under mined personal responsibility, reduced incentives to work and save, and insulated people and businesses from the consequences of bad decisions.</p>
<p>It is actually quite amazing that there is any debate in America on the value of freedom versus socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union was a definitive rejection of the principles of a socialized economy and culture. China and India were backward economies until capitalism began to raise the standard of living for its citizens (although China doesn’t accord their people a democracy or human rights). There is no example in the world or the standard of living of their citizens. There is no example in the world or from any time in history where the principles of socialism actually worked.</p>
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<p>What is your opinion, please answer this question:</p>
<p>   Are you willing to relinquish or give up your freedom for a pound of sausage?</p>
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<li>  No</li>
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		<title>Welcome To The Real World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Goverment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy&#8220;.
Milton Friedman
For decades, America’s public-sector workers have been coddled and spoiled. The recession may change that and bring into this work environment a private sector mentality. The Government has been trying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fwelcome-to-the-real-world%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fwelcome-to-the-real-world%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>&#8220;The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private <strong>economy</strong>&#8220;.<br />
Milton Friedman</p>
<p>For decades, America’s public-sector workers have been coddled and spoiled. The recession may change that and bring into this work environment a private sector mentality. The Government has been trying to lure in highly talented individuals of workers and management to instill a highly motivated culture in government workers, but again no one agency was dedicated to overseeing this strategy so the   unions and the cradle to death mentality of workers and managers were never addressed.  Maybe now with the high unemployment rate and recession the government will become serious about breaking the backs of this bulging bureaucracy. Also, let’s not blame the individual workers, they are struggling just like all other workers in this country and were never taught or incented to be highly productive.</p>
<p>The following is an article worth reading in The Economist about this subject.</p>
<p><a title="THE ECONOMIST" href="http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15065693">THE ECONOMIST</a></p>
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		<title>Freedom and The US Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you believe in your freedom and mine as well as the constitution, read on and take the poll below. Then read the 2nd amendment in the US Constitution.























WE NEED YOU TO VOTE ON THIS ONE ASAP  2 clicks is all it takes, no names, etc&#8230;
Please vote yes and Distribute to everyone on your email [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Ffreedom-and-the-us-constitution%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Ffreedom-and-the-us-constitution%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>If you believe in your freedom and mine as well as the constitution, read on and take the poll below. Then read the 2nd amendment in the US Constitution.</p>
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<td valign="top">WE NEED YOU TO VOTE ON THIS ONE ASAP  2 clicks is all it takes, no names, etc&#8230;<br />
<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Please vote yes and Distribute to everyone on your email list ASAP</span></p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s new Attorney General, Eric<strong> </strong>Holder, has already said this is one of his major issues.<br />
This takes literally 2 clicks to complete.   Please vote on this gun issue question with USA Today. It will only take a few seconds of your time.   Then pass the link on to all the pro gun folks you know.   Hopefully these results will be published later this month. This upcoming year will become critical for gun owners with the Supreme Court&#8217;s accepting the District of Columbia case against the right for individuals to bear arms.</p>
<div>Here&#8217;s what you need to do:</div>
<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;">First &#8211; vote on this one. </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second &#8211; launch it to other folks and have THEM vote &#8211; then we will see if the results get published. </span></span></div>
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<div><span style="text-decoration: underline;"> </span>Click on the link below and PLEASE vote Yes!</div>
<div><strong> Click Here  &#8212;&#8212;-  <a title="http://www.usatoday.com/news/quickquestion/2007/november/popup5895.htm" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/quickquestion/2007/november/popup5895.htm" target="_blank"><strong>USATODAY.com &#8211; Quick Question</strong></a></strong><strong> </strong></div>
<div><strong><strong>The Question is:<br />
&#8220;Does the Second Amendment give individuals the right to bear arms?&#8221; </strong></strong></div>
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		<title>A Letter To President Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom &#8220;to&#8221; and freedom &#8220;from.&#8221;  ~Marilyn vos Savant
Here’s an individual who knows how to speak the truth so that he may save this country and what it stands for, for our future generations. Please comment if you agree or disagree.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fa-letter-to-president-obama%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fa-letter-to-president-obama%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>What is the essence of America?  Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom &#8220;to&#8221; and freedom &#8220;from.&#8221;  ~Marilyn vos Savant</p>
<p><strong>Here’s an individual who knows how to speak the truth so that he may save this country and what it stands for, for our future generations. Please comment if you agree or disagree.</strong></p>
<p><strong>LETTER FROM HAROLD ESTES TO PRESIDENT OBAMA THIS WILL DO YOUR HEART GOOD&#8230;&#8230;PASS IT ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW</strong></p>
<p>This venerable and much honored WW II vet is well known in Hawaii for his seventy-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it to the president.</p>
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<p>Dear President Obama,</p>
<p>My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 of this year. People meeting me for</p>
<p>The first time don&#8217;t believe my age because I remain wrinkle free and pretty much mentally alert.</p>
<p>I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WW II retiring as a Master Chief Boson Mate. Now I live in a &#8220;rest home&#8221; located on the western end of Pearl Harbor allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of my age, perhaps the only one, is to speak my mind, blunt and direct even to the head man. So here goes. I am amazed, angry and determined not to see my country die before I do but you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable lies like: “We’re no longer a Christian nation&#8221; , &#8221; America is arrogant&#8221; &#8211; (Your wife even announced to the world,&#8221; America is mean-spirited. &#8221; Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to 23 generations of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason than to free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and  hopelessness.)I&#8217;d say shame on the both of you but I don&#8217;t think you like America nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House. After 9/11 you said,&#8221; America hasn&#8217;t lived up to her ideals.&#8221;Which ones did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War ? I hope you didn&#8217;t mean the ideal 470,000 fathers, brothers,husbands,and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around because we stand for freedom.I don&#8217;t think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.Take a little advice from a very old geezer,young man.Shape up and start acting like an American.If you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue .You were elected to lead not to bow, apologize and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.&lt;&gt;And just who do you think you are telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more.</p>
<p>You mean you don&#8217;t want us to do what you did when that white cop used force to subdue that black college professor in Massachusetts  who was putting up a fight? You don&#8217;t mind offending the police calling them stupid but you don&#8217;t want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are,terrorists.One more thing. I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life but you&#8217;re the Commander-in-Chief now,son. Do your job.  When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you&#8217;re not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you&#8217;re thinking of.You could be our greatest president because you face the greatest challenge ever presented to any president.You&#8217;re not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That&#8217;s not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And</p>
<p><strong>I sure as hell don&#8217;t want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle</strong>.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p><strong><em>Harold B. Estes</em></strong> when a 95 year old hero of the &#8220;the Greatest Generation&#8221; stands up and speaks out like this, I think we owe it to him to send his words to as many Americans as we can. Please comment on this and pass it on to all your email lists.</p>
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		<title>USA Socialized Medicine or Another Bureaucratic Disaster?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now” ~  Thomas Jefferson

 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fusa-socialized-medicine-or-another-bureaucratic-disaster%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fusa-socialized-medicine-or-another-bureaucratic-disaster%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><strong>“Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now” </strong>~  Thomas Jefferson</p>
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<div id="attachment_350" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 241px"><strong><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/talkradionews/4086185103/"><img class="size-full wp-image-350 " title="Government Health Care" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/4086185103_ac0fd636d9.jpg" alt="Photo by talkradionews  " width="231" height="400" /></a></span></strong></strong><p class="wp-caption-text">Photo by talkradionews  </p></div>
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<p>This should be read and understood by all Americans whether you’re a Democrat, Republican or Independent.  I received this email and it sums up my feelings and 88% of my fellow Americans..It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons and our ex President and great patriot Jefferson was right about a strong large centralized government:</p>
<p>•     The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775.  They’ve had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.<br />
•     Social Security was established in 1935.  They’ve had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.<br />
•     Fannie Mae was established in 1938.  They’ve had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.<br />
•     War on Poverty started in 1964.  They’ve had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to &#8220;the poor&#8221; and they only want more and they need it because the federal bureaucracy hasn’t helped them out of poverty but kept the poor down by enabling them.<br />
•     Medicare and Medicaid was established in 1965.  They’ve have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.<br />
•     Freddie Mac was established in 1970.  They’ve had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.<br />
•     The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil.  It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before.  They’ve had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.<span id="more-312"></span></p>
<p>The federal bureaucracy continues to overstep their constitutional and legal boundaries and has FAILED in every &#8220;government service&#8221; that’s been shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars; AND YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM??</p>
<p>The Senate, Congress and Executive branch of the Government, have forgotten this is a republic by the people and for the people. America wake up this Hillary Care with another name, were being set up for disaster.</p>
<p>Try and be independent that will allow you to overcome the government control over you.</p>
<p><strong>“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it”</strong> ~  Thomas Jefferson</p>
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		<title>Continue To Have Fun Along The Way To Our Financial Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.&#8221; 
~Greenville Kleisser

We simply must balance the weight of the economic crisis we’re living day [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fhave-fun-along-the-way-to-our-financial-recovery%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fhave-fun-along-the-way-to-our-financial-recovery%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p style="text-align: left;"><strong>&#8220;Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keep friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.&#8221; </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">~<em>Greenville Kleisser</em></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">
<p><div id="attachment_319" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 273px"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidan/3052595344/"><img class="size-full wp-image-319 " title="Picture by D. [SansPretentionAucune]" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/3052595344_d71fa6f042.jpg" alt="Picture by D. [SansPretentionAucune] (•̪●) ✪  " width="263" height="350" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Picture by D. [SansPretentionAucune</p></div>We simply must balance the weight of the economic crisis we’re living day to day, and replace it with an emotional lightness that comes with having fun with friends and family. We have a right to worry and plan for the future, but we would be wrong to forget to have fun along the way. We simply won’t make it a better tomorrow if we don’t take time to enjoy life today. Take it from me; my entire life has been lived in the name of delayed gratification. You can do better; you can have fun along the way with family and friends.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">We would do well as a nation to remember the importance of taking responsibility for our own lot in life. I think there is a danger in putting too much pressure on the individual. I don’t mean that the government should pick up the slack and neither do most Americans. Our public institutions are weakening and are in no condition to be relied upon except in a time of crisis.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Pull your life together consider whether you are happy at your JOB, or your JOB is taking away too much time from your personal life and separation from family. You should consider a career change and look for something to provide financial independence, more personal time and having fun along the way of accomplishing these goals.</p>
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		<title>WAKE UP AMERICA &#8211; we are losing our country</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise would die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day.
Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals.
There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fwake-up-america-we-are-losing-our-country%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fwake-up-america-we-are-losing-our-country%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p><strong>“</strong>The lives of 12 U.S. citizens would be saved who otherwise would die a violent death at the hands of murderous illegal aliens each day.</p>
<p>Another 13 Americans would survive who are otherwise killed each day by uninsured drunk driving illegals.</p>
<p>There would be no one to smuggle across our southern border the heroin, marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines, which plague the United States, reducing the U.S. supply of methamphetamines that day, by 80%.</p>
<p>Our hospital emergency rooms would not be flooded with everything from gunshot wounds, to anchor babies, to imported diseases, to hangnails, giving American citizens the day off from standing in line behind illegals.</p>
<p>Eight American children would not suffer the horror as victims of sex crimes.<strong>”</strong></p>
<p><strong> &#8211; </strong><strong>Congressman Steve King of </strong><strong>Iowa</strong><strong> May, 2006</strong></p>
<p>Here is an exert from an Arizona paper this past week it reads:</p>
<p><strong>Mexico</strong><strong> is mad<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmontesi/138682949/"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-246" title="Picture by Daniel Montesinos flickr" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/138682949_f4066029f0.jpg" alt="Picture by Daniel Montesinos flickr" width="400" height="238" /></a></strong></p>
<p>State of Sonora, Mexico is angry at the Flood of Mexicans returning to Mexico!</p>
<p>Nine state legislators from the Mexican state of Sonora traveled to Tucson to complain about Arizona &#8217;s new employer crackdown on illegals from Mexico.  It seems that many Mexican illegals are now returning to their hometowns and the officials in the Sonora state government are ticked off about it. A delegation of nine state legislators from Sonora was in Tucson on Tuesday to say Arizona &#8217;s new employer sanctions law will have a devastating effect on the Mexican state.</p>
<p>At a news conference, the legislators said Sonora , (Arizona &#8217;s southern neighbor, made up of mostly small towns,) cannot handle the demand for housing, jobs and schools it will face as Mexican workers return to their hometowns without jobs or money.<span id="more-240"></span></p>
<p>The Arizona law, which took effect Jan.1, punishes employers who knowingly hire individuals who don&#8217;t have valid legal documents to work in the United States. Penalties include suspension of, or loss of, their business license. The Mexican legislators are angry because their own citizens are returning to their hometowns, placing a burden on their state government.</p>
<p>&#8216;How can they pass a law like this?&#8217; asked Mexican Rep. Leticia Amparano-Gamez, who represents Nogales . &#8216;There is not one person living in Sonora who does not have a friend or relative working in Arizona ,&#8217; she said, speaking only in Spanish. &#8216;Mexico is not prepared for the tremendous problems it will face as more and more Mexicans (working in Arizona and sending money to their families) return to hometowns in Sonora without jobs,&#8217; she said. &#8216;We are one family, socially and economically,&#8217; she said of the people of Sonora and Arizona .</p>
<p><strong> Wrong! </strong></p>
<p>The United States is a sovereign nation, not a subsidiary of Mexico, and its taxpayers are not responsible for the welfare of Mexico&#8217;s citizens. It&#8217;s time for the Mexican government, and its citizens, to stop parasitically feeding off of the United States and to start taking care of its/their own needs. Too bad all the US states don&#8217;t pass a law just like Arizona &#8217;s. Maybe that&#8217;s the answer, since our own Congress will not do anything!</p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>NOW</strong><strong>&#8230;Check this: </strong></p>
<p>New Immigration Laws: Read to the bottom or you will miss the message&#8230;</p>
<p>1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>2. All ballots will be in this nation&#8217;s language.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>3. All government business will be conducted in our language.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office&#8230;</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs.. Any burden will be deported.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>8. If foreigners come here and buy land&#8230; options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>9.. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * *</p>
<p>10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &amp;, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.</p>
<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p>
<p>Too strict?&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p><strong> The above laws are current immigration laws of </strong><strong>MEXICO</strong><strong>!!! </strong> They sound fine to me. <strong>NOW</strong>, how can we get these laws to be America&#8217;s immigration laws and be enforced?? <strong>WAKE UP, </strong><strong>U.S.</strong><strong> of </strong><strong>AMERICA</strong><strong> &#8211; we are losing our country&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;!!!! </strong></p>
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		<title>I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Rooney an American, a liberal of the kind that will intelligently debate with you and an American that is from the greatest generation. CBS which I&#8217;m surprised aired this in its entirety, maybe there&#8217;s is some sanity left in what was the greatest news team in the past century. For those that don&#8217;t really [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fi-am-proud-to-be-from-america-and-nowhere-else%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Fi-am-proud-to-be-from-america-and-nowhere-else%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Andy Rooney an American, a liberal of the kind that will intelligently debate with you and an American that is from the greatest generation. CBS which I&#8217;m surprised aired this in its entirety, maybe there&#8217;s is some sanity left in what was the greatest news team in the past century. For those that don&#8217;t really know Andy Rooney other then from &#8216;60 Minutes&#8217; see his biography <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Rooney#Biography">here</a>. Sorry for the long blog, but it&#8217;s worth reading&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Andy Rooney said during his monologue on &#8216;60 Minutes&#8217; a few weeks back the following I quote:</strong></p>
<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are  truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White<br />
Entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what happens&#8230;Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.</p>
<div id="attachment_235" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 360px"><img class="size-full wp-image-235 " title="Andy Rooney" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/2253910570_4d9f385dc5.jpg" alt="Andy Rooney by billypalooza flickr" width="350" height="263" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Andy Rooney by billypalooza flickr</p></div>
<p>Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.</p>
<p>I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING, MARTHA BURKE ?</p>
<p>I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.</p>
<p>I have the right &#8216;NOT&#8217; to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me<br />
off.</p>
<p>When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.<span id="more-227"></span></p>
<p>I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, is you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!</p>
<p>My father and grandfather didn&#8217;t die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.</p>
<p>I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threaten them after they tell you to stop. If you can&#8217;t understand the word &#8216;freeze&#8217; or &#8217;stop&#8217; in English, see the above lines.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.</p>
<p>We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; open to the interpretations.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t hate the rich; I don&#8217;t pity the poor. I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn&#8217;t stop you from watching them.</p>
<p>I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that&#8217;s better, and put your name on the building.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say &#8216;NO!&#8217;</p>
<p>I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don&#8217;t pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don&#8217;t want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!</p>
<p>I am sick of &#8216;Political Correctness.&#8217; I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa; so how can they be &#8216;African-Americans&#8217;? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don&#8217;t go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe&#8230; I am proud to be from America and nowhere else.</p>
<p>And if you don&#8217;t like my point of view, tough &#8230;</p>
<p><strong>I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE </strong><strong>FLAG</strong><strong>, OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, </strong><strong>AND</strong><strong> TO THE REPUBLIC, FOR WHICH IT STANDS, </strong><strong>ONE</strong><strong> NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY </strong><strong>AND</strong><strong> JUSTICE FOR </strong><strong>ALL</strong><strong>!<br />
</strong></p>
<p>It is said that 86% of Americans believe in God Therefore I have a very hard time understanding why there is such a problem in having &#8216;In God We Trust&#8217; on our money and having &#8216;God&#8217; in the Pledge of Allegiance&#8230;  Why don&#8217;t we just tell the 14% to  BE QUIET!!!&#8217;</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>brian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.&#8221;
~ Edward R. Murrow
America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continued)
 V. Accountability of government 
What the American people need from government is elected officials who say what they mean and mean what they say(which is for the most part [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Faccountability-of-government-and-restoring-responsibility-of-the-creativity-among-american-youth%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Flifestyleofamerica.com%2Faccountability-of-government-and-restoring-responsibility-of-the-creativity-among-american-youth%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>&#8220;We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.&#8221;</p>
<p>~ Edward R. Murrow</p>
<p>America, It Will Take Much More Than Our Daily Wants To Go Forward (Continued)</p>
<p><strong> V. Accountability of government </strong></p>
<div id="attachment_221" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 410px"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/shareski/3352272716/"><img class="size-full wp-image-221 " title="Accountability vs. Responsibility" src="http://lifestyleofamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/3352272716_a42d75c0f5.jpg" alt="Accountability vs. Responsibility image by Dean Shareski" width="400" height="266" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Accountability vs. Responsibility image by Dean Shareski</p></div>
<p>What the American people need from government is elected officials who say what they mean and mean what they say(which is for the most part the definition of accountability today). But even as Americans lower their expectations about how much government can do in their lives, they are going to raise expectations about how well government delivers on what it promises. We will and must throw out the party, either party,  that continues to promise the world and deliver peanuts.</p>
<p><strong>VI. Restoring responsibility of the creativity among American youth -</strong> Enough said about government I would like to say something about our future, the youth of America.</p>
<p>A poll of Americans was taken including all age groups. The question asked was, What do you think the youth of America need more?</p>
<p>Ages 18-29             Total</p>
<p>75%                          79%          A Swift Kick in the Ass</p>
<p>25%                          21%          A Gentle and Understanding Hand</p>
<p>A swift kick in the ass is not going to help this generation achieve its fullest potential. Because the youth have seen the worst of life, 9/11 and the depression we’re living in. This requires a significant effort to renew their faith in the future. This generation could be the most successful, dynamic and diversely talented cohort in American history. Our older generations should probably offer a compromise or something in the middle of the two questions above that were posed to our young Americans. What they need is a firm hand and gentle guidance to show them how to channel their creativity and raise them from this stigma of economic ruin. My opinions about what we should be doing are in my success tips.<span id="more-209"></span></p>
<p><strong>Success Tips </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Lets stop dumbing down our school systems with bad programs such as no child left behind, for example NYS lowered their passing grades from 65 to 55 for their state wide regions exams three years ago, because too many students were failing the exams and weren’t graduating high school.</li>
<li>Lets stop this attitude of a level playing field in our education system, exceptional children should be rewarded and recognized; how else will the average child be motivated to improve, if we continue this mediocrity in our school systems we’ll dumb down the talented and loose the potential talented students from the average or good student population.</li>
<li>Raise salaries/benefits of our teachers that deserve it, no raises across the board, no tenure, employment at will and rid the system of non-motivated and non-dedicated professional teachers. Also, parents elevate the teaching profession as one of the highest and admired professions and make sure each school system has a way to measure the teacher’s productivity. This way the parents have no one but themselves to blame when the child comes home with failing grades. The parent needs to have accountability as well as the school system.</li>
<li>Parents who are successful in the business world instill the idea of entrepreneurial ideas in their children such as an example of an independent <a href="http://www.mypolarishomebusiness.com/">Business like this</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>I hope you get my point because this country will be non-alphas and be betas or less as Aldous Huxley defined the future world in his book ‘Brave New World’</p>
<p><strong>More to come tomorrow………….</strong></p>
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