About 24 years ago I went to a building supply store in Boise, I think it was Home Club looking for some boiler valves for the camp ground. Everything they had was made in China. A young man working there said “what is wrong with that? They work good.” I told him that someday when he didn’t have a job he would be able to tell me what is wrong with that.
That day has come and it will get worse because we don’t produce enough to keep this country going. We buy most of what we use from China and other foreign countries. We make hamburgers etc here.

I received this in an email the other day.

I WAS BUYING FOOD THE OTHER DAY AT THE COUNTRY MARKET.

ON THE LABEL OF SOME PRODUCTS IT SAID ‘FROM CHINA’.

FOR EXAMPLE THE “OUR FAMILY” BRAND OF THE MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN ‘FROM CHINA’.

I WAS SHOCKED!!

SO FOR A FEW MORE CENTS I BOUGHT THE LIBERTY GOLD BRAND OR THE DOLE SINCE IT’S FROM CALIF.

TAKES FOREVER JUST TO BUY FOOD AND DO LABEL READING ! !

Are we Americans as dumb as we appear — or — is it that we just do not think? While the Chinese, knowingly and intentionally, export inferior and even toxic products and dangerous toys and goods to be sold in American markets, the media wrings its hands and criticizes the ex-Bush Administration for perceived errors.

Yet 70% of Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.

Well, duh..why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?

SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, AMERICA!!

Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says ‘Made in China’ or ‘
PRC’ (and that now includes Hong Kong), simply choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.

Who needs plastic eggs to celebrate Easter? If you must have eggs, use real ones and benefit some American farmer. Easter is just an example, the point is do not wait for the government to act. Just go ahead and assume control on your own.

THINK ABOUT THIS:   If 200 million Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that’s a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor…fast!!

The downside? Some American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory. Wahhhhhhhhhhhh !!!

The solution?  Let’s give them fair warning and send our own message. Most of the people who have been reading about this matter are planning on implementing this on June 4, and continue it until July 4.  That is only one month of trading losses, but it will hit the Chinese for 1/12th of the total, or 8%, of their American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness were worth it.

Remember, June 4 to July 4.

EVEN BETTER. . . START NOW AND DON’T STOP!

It is obvious to me that Barack Obama has little regard for the military… and no, I won’t call him “President” until I see a real, honest-to-God birth certificate or see which nation’s Passport he used while traveling abroad as a college student. Was it American, British, or Kenyan? Neither document is difficult to produce.

He is just a young man and doesn’t seem to this old woman to be very wise… or even very aware of which citizens from which nation provided him the power he now wields so carelessly around the world.

To my European friends, I say the following:

A man who carries the official title of President of the United States recently came to your continent and made apologies for American arrogance. I ask that you accept that apology as coming from the man, not the nation. I, personally, feel no sense of obligation to offer you an apology for the energetic American entrepreneurial spirit… something about which you seem to have little understanding – which is probably why you prefer socialism to capitalism.

You have my apologies for the behavior of the man who calls himself this nation’s President. On any given day, more Americans oppose his condescending behavior than approve it. He and his wife may not be proud of America. We, the people, are.

Memorial Day is special to us. This day, Americans honor heroes who died in our nation’s service – and our European friends should honor them, too. So many American men died in service on European soil.

On May 5, 1868, General John Logan (as in Denver’s Fort Logan where my Dad served in WWII) proclaimed the existence of Memorial Day in General Order No. 11.

Graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery were first decorated on May 30, 1868.

Southern women decorated the graves of Confederate soldiers even before the War Between the States ended in 1865.

In 1873, the state of New York first officially recognized this holiday. By 1890, all Northern states recognized Memorial Day. The South honored their dead on different dates until after World War I.

It was then Memorial Day was changed to honor all soldiers who died in service of our country rather than those who died just during the War Between the States… or, as some call it, the Civil War.

Because of all the above, I found Barack Obama’s apologies to European nations for American arrogance to be particularly offensive. Arrogant men do not tread the shores of foreign nation and die for a cause called “freedom.” Arrogant men do, however, minimize such efforts… and even apologize for them. Perhaps men who have not served their nation via military service do not understand such things. Being a military man is quite different than being a community organizer, I guess.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that be true, then I offer the following 20,000 words to explain why no apology from American to Europeans is necessary.

Article continues after the pictures.

1 The American Cemetery at Aisne-Marne, France; 2,289 American soldiers buried here

2. The American Cemetery at Ardennes, Belgium; 5,329 American soldiers buried here

3. The American Cemetery at Brittany, France; 4,410 American soldiers buried here

4. Brookwood, England American Cemetery; 468 Americans soldiers buried here

5. Cambridge, England; 3,812 American soldiers buried here

6. Epinal, France American Cemetery; 5,525 American soldiers buried here

7. Flanders Field, Belgium; 368 American soldiers buried here

8. Florence, Italy; 4,402 American soldiers buried here

9. Henri-Chapelle, Belgium; 7,992 American soldiers buried here

10. Lorraine, France; 10,489 American soldiers buried here

11. Luxembourg, Luxembourg; 5,076 American soldiers buried here

12. Meuse-Argonne; 14,246 American soldier buried here

13. Netherlands, Netherlands; 8,301 Americans buried here

14. Normandy, France; 9,387 American soldiers buried here

15. Oise-Aisne, France; 6,012 American soldiers buried here

16. Rhone, France; 861 American soldiers buried here

17. Sicily, Italy; 7,861 American soldiers buried here

18. Somme, France; 1,844 American soldiers buried here

19. St. Mihiel, France; 4,153 American soldiers buried here

20. Suresnes, France; 1,541 American soldiers buried here

This partial count… those American soldiers buried at these European cemeteries – and that’s not all of them – totals 104,366. And then, we have Arlington and all of the other veterans’ cemeteries around America and Europe where our WWII (and WWI) veterans are buried.

Who owes whom an apology and for what? Maybe Europeans should apologize to Americans for not managing their governments well enough to avoid having to call on the United States to shed the blood of its youth on foreign soil?

I keep trying to think of things done for Americans by Europeans… and I know I’m getting old, but it is difficult to bring anything to mind.

You tell me who is arrogant!

© 2009 Marilyn M. Barnewall – All Rights Reserved

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Marilyn Barnewall received her graduate degree in Banking from the University of Colorado Graduate School of Business in 1978. She created the first wealth creation (credit-driven) private bank in America in the 1970s. Prior to her 21-year banking career, she was a newspaper reporter, advertising copywriter, public relations director, magazine editor, assistant to the publisher, singer, dog trainer, and an insurance salesperson and manager.

She was named one of America’s top 100 businesswomen in the book, What It Takes (Dolphin/Doubleday; Gardenswartz and Roe) and was one of the founders of the Committee of 200, the official organization of America’s top 200 businesswomen. She can be found in Who’s Who in America (2005-08), Who’s Who of American Women (2006-08), Who’s Who in Finance and Business (2006-08), and Who’s Who in the World (2008).

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Bob Pearcy

Equal does not mean special. Letter to the editor published in the Idaho Press-Tribune on May 17, 2009

Once someone explained to me the statue of Blind Justice often seen in our court buildings.

She is blindfolded so that she distributes justice impartially without respect to race or creed, but solely on the basis of principle embodied in the law.

Delmar Stone wants our nation to jettison such equal protection under the law for the sake of a diversity system akin to affirmative action in which someone gains more of a hearing than someone else because the plaintiff belongs to a social group somehow classified as underprivileged.

This would give weight to something other than the merits of the person’s case. As Mark Levin explains in his book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” that is the road to tyranny, anarchy and oppression.

It may sound wonderfully egalitarian, but it completely nullifies our Constitution. Even the word “diversity” sets aside the ‘e pluribus unum’ melting pot which has made us one nation out of many peoples. It shows favor to one group and pits it against all others. That would result in a balkanization of our country with no end of civil disorder.

Read books such as The Dictatorship of Virtue by Richard Bernstein or The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America by Alvin Schmidt and you learn that such pitting people groups against one another for the sake of diversity is based in Marxism, not the freedoms we have cherished for 232 years.

Phil Bohlken, Caldwell

I want to thank Phil and the Idaho Press-Tribune for letting me post this on my blog. And I appreciate that the Press-Tribune prints these letters in their paper without bias.

Thank You Wiley for giving us something to think about. Maybe to wake up some that don’t remember those days of experience that we should learn from.
Folks, I don’t think most of the world today realizes how close we are to another saga not much unlike the one this ‘cartoon’ is about.

In MEMORIAM - 64 YEARS LATER

Just received -- 

>From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, President, Grassfire.org Alliance

Bob,

Our sources are telling me that President Obama and Rep.
Henry Waxman are pushing for a key vote on the Carbon
Tax BEFORE Memorial Day -- a tax that studies show
will cost each family $3,100 each and every year.

Last week, Obama met behind closed doors with House
Democrats to pressure them to pass the Carbon Tax.
Now, Waxman is even contemplating skipping the
Subcommittee hearing on the $2 trillion Carbon Cap
and Trade Tax and fast-tracking this new tax straight
to his Energy and Commerce Committee.

Waxman wants this all done by the end of next week...
and Team Obama is turning up the heat on key Democrats
in the House to pressure quick passage of the Carbon Tax.

+ + Why Obama and Waxman Are Fast-Tracking The CO2 Tax

There's a reason Obama and Waxman are pulling out the
stops to pressure Democrats to pass this tax through
the Committee...

    Obama, Waxman, Pelosi and the gang fear that any delays
    could kill their precious plan to "save the planet" and give
    the government the power to tax and control the air!

That's because even some Democrats are now getting nervous
about imposing such a large tax at a time when the economy
is struggling. Reports indicate this new tax could cost the
average American over $3,000 every year and result in 7
million lost jobs!

And the American people overwhelmingly do NOT want the
Carbon Tax (by a 2-to-1 margin according to Pew Research).

+ + Help me short-circuit the fast-tracking of the Carbon Tax

Bob, I need your help right now to short-circuit
this latest effort to fast-track Obama's Big Government agenda.

I want to flood the members of the Energy and Commerce
Committee with faxes from citizens opposing this latest
Big Government imposition.

    Go here to schedule your faxes to key House members and
    tell them you oppose the Obama/Waxman plan to
    fast-track the Carbon Cap-and-Trade Tax:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=18963&CID=112&RID=20552169

(As always, we encourage every Grassfire team member to send
their own faxes. Our FaxFire system is an optioanal service
for your convenience. Click the link for all the support
information to send your own faxes.)

+ + Global "reset" of the economy under way!

Bob, our team had to dig to uncover what Obama
and Waxman are doing.

If the cap-and-trade scheme passes, it will initiate the most
radical restructuring of our economy toward socialism in
American history. One leader is actually calling what is
happening in the economy a global "reset" of capitalism!

And don't be fooled... Al Gore and "Big Environment" will get
filthy rich in the process (see below for a link to my blog
where I connect the dots).

Waxman wants to fly under the radar and push the Carbon Tax
Scheme before the American people realize what is happening.
The most crucial vote on the Carbon Tax cap-and-trade scheme
may be taking place before Memorial Day...

Please help.

Send your faxes here:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=18964&CID=112&RID=20552169

Then, call your Representative today and tell him or her that
you oppose the Waxman cap-and-trade Carbon Tax:

Rep. Minnick 	202-225-6611

Thank you for taking action!

Steve Elliott, President
Grassfire.org

P.S. I know I've covered a lot of ground in this update. And
of course, the liberal media are not covering the Obama/Waxman
plan to fast-track the carbon tax. That's why I have made a
more detailed post on my ResistNet blog -- complete with web
links. Go here:

http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?U=18965&RID=20552169

This was circulating last year and maybe you saw it then.
How does it look now that we have seen over 100 days of obama?
Now that we have the largest deficit ever with no end in site?
Now that we have a bunch of crooks surrounding our president and even he is probably not legal to be where he is.

A letter to the editor from a former Cuban citizen.

Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch:

Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30
I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4 I celebrate America’s.
This year is special, because it marks the 40th anniversary of my
independence.

‘On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months
later, I was in the United States to stay. That I happened to arrive in
Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is just part of the story, but I digress.

‘I’ve thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The
election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot about Cuba and what
transpired there. In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a
change, and they were right. So when a young leader came along, every
Cuban was at least receptive.

‘When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and
denounced the old system, the press fell in love with him. They never
questioned who his friends were or what he really believed in. When he
said he would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care
and education to all, everyone followed. When he said he would bring
justice and equality to all, everyone said, ‘Praise the Lord.’ And when
the young leader said, ‘I will be for change and I’ll bring you change,’
everyone yelled, ‘Viva Fidel!’

‘But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the
executioner’s guns went silent, the people’s guns had been taken away.
By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and
oppressed. By the time everyone received their free education, it was
worth nothing.

By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they
were now working for him. By the time the change was finally
implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to

Third-World status. By the time the change was over, more than a
million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes. You can call
those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate
Cubans. And now I’m back to the beginning of my story.

‘Luckily, we would never fall in America for a young leader who
promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out?
What will it cost America?

‘Would we?’

Manuel Alvarez, Jr. Sandy Hook