Walmart today will throw a few bones to shoppers with some low prices than go back to normal. Walmart is a Food Stamp job employer ... Just remember, most of the Walmart employees are probably on food stamps and paid for by you, the tax payer... You are indirectly giving Walmart money ... So, good luck their low prices .... and to al my friends that think Walmart employees are mobile and can quit and move any time they want I would like to say to them; " you are truly lacking in life experiences and the plight of the American worker through out history"." Some are old,others sick some lack ducation,and still others are alone with no family support". Not everyoe can get a govenment job that offers support,health care , and benifits". I ask for compasson and support for these workers. They work hard and deserve a future. If you have a good job be thankful and try not to judge others. These people are only trying to make a better life. I have hd 17 different jobs in my life and the unskiled ones were by far the hardest.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Sunday, November 18, 2012
My Favotite Football Teams and Why
I always comment on Facebook each week about my favorite football team and if they won or lost. I thought it would be fun to explain why they are my favorite teams.
Kent is my Number one team because it is the Alma mater of me my wife and my daughter. The team is 10-1 this season and will be going to a bowl game for the first time since 1972 when Gary Andres ,Barbara Brooks and Jack Lambert were students there.
I like Youngstown State. This is the school my son received his engineering degrees from. They also gave him a scholarship that helped pay a good part of his expenses. They also have won four division 1A national titles.
Third I like Mount Union of Alliance Ohio. The Purple Raiders have won 10 division titles and they are located 10 miles from my house.
My fourth favorite team to follow is The Ohio State. They are the biggest college in the state and everyone follows them . I love their games against Michigan every year. I also like the history their program has.
My fifth favorite football team is the University of Notre Dame. I is hard not to attend a Catholic school and not be a fan of the fighting Irish. Their history also attracts my loyalty. The Gipper ,Rudy, and Knute Rockne and his famous record.
When teams play that I am not a fan of I usually pull for the state school not the private one. An example of this would be the UCLA game against USC. I would pull for UCLA.
There is one team I do not like and that is the University of Alabama. When I left basic training in Texas I took a bus ride to Biloxi Mississippi. I was shocked to still see people of color picking cotton in the fields. This was 1966 for cripes sake. It was explained to me that they were sharecroppers. While stationed in Mississippi I took many weekend trips to Alabama and Dolphin Island. I did not like seeing Rebel flags everywhere.
I became aware of the University of Alabama watching the news while in high school. One event really turned my stomach.
In a vain attempt to halt desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he ,Governor Wallace,stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama, on June 11, 1963. This became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbachh, and the Alabama Army National Guard, Wallace stepped aside. What many don't know he did this a couple more times at other state schools. The picture of these two students ,with books in arms, being yelled,spit upon and threatened will stay with me forever.
One would think that things have changed over the years. To some extent they have. A recent poll though said that 42% of all Republicans would favor secession from the Union makes me wonder. Since Alabama is a very red state that is a lot of people. I believe that without federal laws and oversight things would slowly return to Jim Crow era.
Kent is my Number one team because it is the Alma mater of me my wife and my daughter. The team is 10-1 this season and will be going to a bowl game for the first time since 1972 when Gary Andres ,Barbara Brooks and Jack Lambert were students there.
I like Youngstown State. This is the school my son received his engineering degrees from. They also gave him a scholarship that helped pay a good part of his expenses. They also have won four division 1A national titles.
Third I like Mount Union of Alliance Ohio. The Purple Raiders have won 10 division titles and they are located 10 miles from my house.
My fourth favorite team to follow is The Ohio State. They are the biggest college in the state and everyone follows them . I love their games against Michigan every year. I also like the history their program has.
My fifth favorite football team is the University of Notre Dame. I is hard not to attend a Catholic school and not be a fan of the fighting Irish. Their history also attracts my loyalty. The Gipper ,Rudy, and Knute Rockne and his famous record.
When teams play that I am not a fan of I usually pull for the state school not the private one. An example of this would be the UCLA game against USC. I would pull for UCLA.
There is one team I do not like and that is the University of Alabama. When I left basic training in Texas I took a bus ride to Biloxi Mississippi. I was shocked to still see people of color picking cotton in the fields. This was 1966 for cripes sake. It was explained to me that they were sharecroppers. While stationed in Mississippi I took many weekend trips to Alabama and Dolphin Island. I did not like seeing Rebel flags everywhere.
I became aware of the University of Alabama watching the news while in high school. One event really turned my stomach.
In a vain attempt to halt desegregation by the enrollment of black students Vivian Malone and James Hood, he ,Governor Wallace,stood in front of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama, on June 11, 1963. This became known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". After being confronted by federal marshals, Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbachh, and the Alabama Army National Guard, Wallace stepped aside. What many don't know he did this a couple more times at other state schools. The picture of these two students ,with books in arms, being yelled,spit upon and threatened will stay with me forever.
One would think that things have changed over the years. To some extent they have. A recent poll though said that 42% of all Republicans would favor secession from the Union makes me wonder. Since Alabama is a very red state that is a lot of people. I believe that without federal laws and oversight things would slowly return to Jim Crow era.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
A proud American !
I have kept my mouth shut during the elections and just watched the process unfold. I did this because I was tired and felt adding my two cents to the din was just a waste of time .
I am also a four year veteran but I never really paraded it around . This is the first Veterans Day that I posted my self in uniform. I generally never fly the flag except for holidays. I usually try and use civil language when I talk and write. I do this because there is a very large part of my being and behavior that is conservative. That is about to change in this post.
I just finished listening to the Dan Rivers show on my radio and the conversation centered around the real possibility of states using secession from the Union as a weapon against President Obama. This was the final straw my friends. I have taken as much shit as a human can stomach.
I sat by for eight years when George Bush was President. I knew a lot about the history of the Mid East and knew that the policy of the United States was to use Iraq as a buffer between the Suni Muslims and the Shiites from Iran. Saddam had control of his largely Shiite population and kept them from joining the forces of Iran. I knew this policy of containment was very delicate and an invasion of Iraq was a bad idea. This was exactly what Osama Bin Laden wanted. Still we did attack and all hell broke lose.
I kept my mouth shut and just went about my business. Then President Obama was elected and the shit started falling. They attacked his church,his place of birth,his loyality,and even his citizenship and said he had secret Communist plans for America.
Then the poor man made a big mistake. He passed a Health Care Act . How dare he resort to Socialist principles they said. I kept my mouth shut.
President Obama won reelection and now there is a petition to have him impeached. There are petitions in every state to withdraw from the Union. Companies are fighting the new ACA by laying off workers to punish them. The speaker of the House still refuses to put tax hikes for the wealthy on the table and dares the President to take us over the so called fiscal cliff.
I thought the election was over and we could live in peace for a while. No we can't. The Republicans just can't leave it alone. They are going to attach until they split this country in half.
I am going to fly my flag everyday and if I hear anyone talking about leaving the Union or picking up their guns I will punch them in the nose. I am an American and I will fight for my country with enemies both foreign and home grown. In closing I would like to say to all of you babies that lost an election to get over it and support your country or just shut the hell up. I have heard enough bullshit this week to last a lifetime. I would ask are you Republicans or Americans ? I am an American.
I am also a four year veteran but I never really paraded it around . This is the first Veterans Day that I posted my self in uniform. I generally never fly the flag except for holidays. I usually try and use civil language when I talk and write. I do this because there is a very large part of my being and behavior that is conservative. That is about to change in this post.
I just finished listening to the Dan Rivers show on my radio and the conversation centered around the real possibility of states using secession from the Union as a weapon against President Obama. This was the final straw my friends. I have taken as much shit as a human can stomach.
I sat by for eight years when George Bush was President. I knew a lot about the history of the Mid East and knew that the policy of the United States was to use Iraq as a buffer between the Suni Muslims and the Shiites from Iran. Saddam had control of his largely Shiite population and kept them from joining the forces of Iran. I knew this policy of containment was very delicate and an invasion of Iraq was a bad idea. This was exactly what Osama Bin Laden wanted. Still we did attack and all hell broke lose.
I kept my mouth shut and just went about my business. Then President Obama was elected and the shit started falling. They attacked his church,his place of birth,his loyality,and even his citizenship and said he had secret Communist plans for America.
Then the poor man made a big mistake. He passed a Health Care Act . How dare he resort to Socialist principles they said. I kept my mouth shut.
President Obama won reelection and now there is a petition to have him impeached. There are petitions in every state to withdraw from the Union. Companies are fighting the new ACA by laying off workers to punish them. The speaker of the House still refuses to put tax hikes for the wealthy on the table and dares the President to take us over the so called fiscal cliff.
I thought the election was over and we could live in peace for a while. No we can't. The Republicans just can't leave it alone. They are going to attach until they split this country in half.
I am going to fly my flag everyday and if I hear anyone talking about leaving the Union or picking up their guns I will punch them in the nose. I am an American and I will fight for my country with enemies both foreign and home grown. In closing I would like to say to all of you babies that lost an election to get over it and support your country or just shut the hell up. I have heard enough bullshit this week to last a lifetime. I would ask are you Republicans or Americans ? I am an American.
Monday, November 5, 2012
A Sad but True Story.
I know that I wanted to keep my mouth shut until the election was over but I had a visit from a neighbor yesterday. He is a nice man who works for a small company with under 25 employees. He and his wife both have two children. They also have Sugar that affects their health. I runs in the family. They are both lucky to have employer covered health Ins.
A while back a third child was born with severe medical problems. This child spent many months in a children's hospital to save her life. Her parents rung up a bill of $3,000,000. Their ins. Company paid the lifetime limit of $1,000,000 and the couple had to declare bankruptcy. The child was born four months before Obama care's lifetime limit was eliminated. .
Their Insurance company was not very happy with a large bill and changed coverage for the small company to a plan with a very high detectables for all employees and with high co-pays. The other workers are upset but what is my neighbor to do ? I tried to explain to him that very soon exchanges will be set up so his company can join thousands of other workers and get better coverage from another Ins. company. He just did not seem to understand and blamed Obama for his trouble. He said that if Obama is elected again his employee said he would lose all coverage.
I tried to tell him that if that happened he would be able to buy Ins that would not look at his families past health issues and it would be subsidised by the federal Gov. so he could afford it. He told me he still plans to vote for Romney. He can't even understand that there will be no coverage for his family that he can afford and that at retirement age he and his wife will not be able to afford Ins at all with their past health problems.
I just gave up because he seemed to understand nothing at all about his current problems or that if Romney wins he will never be able to afford coverage at all. He can't see that his problem is connected to the birth of his sick daughter. He would rather blame President Obama. I am not mean enough to wish that he gets what he deserves. I pray that President Obama wins and my neighbor's future would look a little brighter.
There are just too many stupid ads and lies on TV and not enough explanations about programs like the Affordable Care Act.
A while back a third child was born with severe medical problems. This child spent many months in a children's hospital to save her life. Her parents rung up a bill of $3,000,000. Their ins. Company paid the lifetime limit of $1,000,000 and the couple had to declare bankruptcy. The child was born four months before Obama care's lifetime limit was eliminated. .
Their Insurance company was not very happy with a large bill and changed coverage for the small company to a plan with a very high detectables for all employees and with high co-pays. The other workers are upset but what is my neighbor to do ? I tried to explain to him that very soon exchanges will be set up so his company can join thousands of other workers and get better coverage from another Ins. company. He just did not seem to understand and blamed Obama for his trouble. He said that if Obama is elected again his employee said he would lose all coverage.
I tried to tell him that if that happened he would be able to buy Ins that would not look at his families past health issues and it would be subsidised by the federal Gov. so he could afford it. He told me he still plans to vote for Romney. He can't even understand that there will be no coverage for his family that he can afford and that at retirement age he and his wife will not be able to afford Ins at all with their past health problems.
I just gave up because he seemed to understand nothing at all about his current problems or that if Romney wins he will never be able to afford coverage at all. He can't see that his problem is connected to the birth of his sick daughter. He would rather blame President Obama. I am not mean enough to wish that he gets what he deserves. I pray that President Obama wins and my neighbor's future would look a little brighter.
There are just too many stupid ads and lies on TV and not enough explanations about programs like the Affordable Care Act.
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