I Got Your Back

It's funny how people are quick to say they got political candidate's back or they are ready for a election but what about people get ready to help their community by having their communities back. What about people have each others back first before they have a political candidate or political parties back. What about people have their communities back by getting involved in their community to make real change happen. An election won't change that status of one's community especially if that person isn't involved in helping to ensure change takes place. So I got my community back! I got my country back! I got America's back first and always!

I'm An American

I'm not a Democrat or a Republican, I'm an America. Therefore I'm not here to defend one political party over the other, I'm here to defend America. I'm here to stand up for Americans not the Democratic Party or Republican Party. I'm an American and I'm proud of it. I will never pledge loyalty to a political party because I'm for country first and foremost not for political parties. If you can't get with that than move out the way.

Educational Ideas

It is time to start coming up with educational ideas that will lead the way to better preparing our youth to meet the challenges of today as well as the future. We need all hands on deck to help in better preparing our youth so that we can stimulate our youth mindsets like never before in nation's history.

Education in America

If we are to improve America's educational system than we have to start by changing the way we do teach our youth. We need to get rid of No Child Left Behind and come up with a plan that is more in line with the 21st century thinking that we need to meet the needs of our future. We can't just teach our youth to pass a test unless it is the ACT & SAT, which are the only two tests that should matter. We have to prepare our youth to be college ready and prepared to meet the challenges of today & the future.

President Obama is in campaign mode

President Barack Obama is in campaign mode as he explains to the American people why the Jobs Act should be passed.

Politics 1-on-1

Everyone should know about politics which is why one of the first things you learn in introduction to political science is that you are either a liberal, conservative or moderate. You are either a Democrat, Republican or Independent but you can't be a Democrat Republican or a liberal conservative because those are different political parties and orthodoxies. 

Congress & White House Taking a Paycut

Our United States Congress meaning the House of Representatives & Senate and the President of the United States of America needs to take a 10% paycut. We need for our nation's politicians to take a paycut so that we can pay on our national debt or better yet pay for some of the President's Job's Plan. Our nation's leaders should tighten their budget like we the American people are doing by taking a paycut.

Raising Taxes

Yes we need to raise the taxes of the rich in America but let's not be fooled that Warren Buffet & others can't give more. In fact, they can donate the Federal Government by going to: http://www.fms.treas.gov/faq/moretopics_gifts.html . Its like they are donating to a charity or non-profit, thus Warren Buffet can show he wants to give more by doing this.

Improving Education

We are in this together if we are to improve the educational system in America. We are one village in the United States of America so we must all take responsibility to improve the educational woes that ail us as a nation.

Dealing with Poverty

46,200,000 Americans today are living in poverty, the highest number since 1993. Thus we must help one another to get out of poverty. We must lend a help to our neighbors, to our families and to our friends if we have it to give. We can't ignore each other because we must serve one another to make this country better.

The American Jobs Act

President Barack Obama shares plan to create jobs with joint session of Congress. August 8, 2011.

The American Jobs Act sounds similar to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act because it is. However the things in the American Jobs Act are the best things that were in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that actually worked. So let's hope this Jobs Act is paid for and gets fixed.

Remember 9-11

10 years since 9-11-01. Never Forget that we are the United States of America each and everyday.

Jon Huntsman Job's Plan

Iowa GOP Debate: Jon Huntsman Says His Economic Plan "Is Coming"   

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman is released an economic plan last week that included a call for lowering the top federal tax rate on income to 23% and eliminating all taxes on capital gains and dividends.

Huntsman, who trails the rest of the GOP field, is attempted to grab attention by getting a jump on other 2012 candidates who will be announcing their own plans such as Mitt Romney who delivered his job's plan yesterday in a Las Vegas area speech. Huntsman also put his plan out there ahead of President Obama, who will announce his latest jobs and economic stimulus plan Thursday.

"Meeting our challenges will require serious solutions, but above all, it will require serious leadership – a quality in high demand in our nation's capital, and among my opponents on the campaign trail," said Huntsman. That line, part of Huntsman's effort to portray himself as "a serious leader," was a swipe at his GOP rivals, a tactic the former China ambassador has been aggressively pursuing in hopes of sparking interest in his candidacy. He has fallen to one percent in several recent national opinion surveys, including one released last week by Quinnipiac University.

Huntsman's economic plan calls for reducing the federal tax rate on corporations to 25% and removing "all loopholes, deductions and tax expenditures." That would mean doing away with tax breaks for home mortgages and for charitable giving. However, he said his plan would be revenue-neutral, with the increases in taxes that would come from closing loopholes plowed back into the system to lower tax rates.

Huntsman delivered his address at a manufacturing plant in New Hampshire, the first primary state, where he is focusing his long shot bid. "It's time for America to start working again; it's time for America to start building things again; it's time for America to compete again. I believe with a new administration we can do just that," Huntsman said.

The Huntsman campaign also released a new ad, which proclaims that "it's time for a serious leader."  It includes footage of a motorcycle rider in red rock country, produced by Huntsman's former adman Fred Davis. Davis left the campaign in late July to join a new "Super PAC" that is gearing up to supplement the former Utah governor's official campaign organization, according to Our Destiny PAC.


Still in a speech titled “Time to Compete,” the former Utah governor introduced an economic strategy that fuses ideas from the Paul Ryan plan as well as the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission. Huntsman’s speech focused on five distinct areas: debt, tax reform, regulatory reform, energy independence, and free trade.

“My plan may be challenged by the special interests, on the left and the right. But it represents a serious path forward – toward fiscal discipline and economic growth,” Huntsman said to the crowd of 50 to 60 people, according to the campaign. “It also represents a very different vision for our country than the current occupier of the White House. The President believes that we can tax and spend and regulate our way to prosperity. We cannot. We must compete our way to prosperity.”

On controlling the nation’s debt, Huntsman noted that he supports many of the Ryan Plan’s ideals paired with a balanced budget amendment. “Our debt is immoral and it should be unconstitutional as well. But we cannot restore our nation’s economic strength by cuts alone,” he said.

Huntsman then outlined his approach to tax reform, simplifying the system by the removing loopholes and temporary provisions. “Rather than tinker around the edges of a broken system, I’m going to drop a plan on the front steps of the Capitol that says, ‘We need to clean house.’ Get rid of all tax expenditures, all loopholes, all deductions, all subsidies. Use that to lower rates across the board. And do it on a revenue-neutral basis,” he said.

On individual taxpayer rates, Huntsman plans to remove all deductions and credits, lowering rates to 8, 14, and 23 percent. He also plans to rid of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which Huntsman says “is unfairly penalizing a growing number of families and small businesses.” Huntsman suggests that eliminating taxes on capital gains and dividends will jumpstart investment in the economy by lowering the cost of capital.

As for corporate taxes, Huntsman proposes lowering rates from 35 to 25 percent.  He also suggests a tax holiday for corporate profits earned overseas, which he says will he says will make $400 billion and $600 billion available to companies to make capital investments. Huntsman then moved to regulatory reform, where he called attention to the National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to block a new Boeing plant in South Carolina. ” If elected, I will immediately instruct the NLRB to stop pursuing this politically motivated attack on free enterprise, and if they fail to do so I will replace them,” he said.

Huntsman also plans to repeal the extensive set of financial industry regulations that comprise the Dodd-Frank Act.  “Rather than true financial reform, the American people were handed a 1600 page monstrosity that gives unelected bureaucrats unprecedented and unreviewable power over our financial system,” Huntsman said. “Another fundamental problem with Dodd-Frank is it perpetuates ‘too big to fail.’ Taxpayers must be protected from more bailouts. Yet we must reconsider whether increased competition between smaller entities is more efficient than a vast new regulatory apparatus that will almost certainly produce more bailouts.”

Huntsman concluded the regulatory reform portion of his speech by calling for a  repeal of Obamacare,  as well as “the EPA’s serious regulatory overreach” and “the FDA’s ridiculous approval process that increases development costs and unnecessarily delays new products.”

On energy independence, Huntsman plans to utilize domestic energy sources, “by expediting the approval process for safe, environmentally-sound projects – including our oil and gas reserves in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska and appropriate Federal lands and supporting the Keystone Pipeline Project in cooperation with Canada.” He would also call for the elimination of energy subsidies, making domestic energy sources such as natural gas and biofuels more viable.

On free trade, Huntsman said that previously established agreements with South Korea, Columbia, and Panama would become some of his top priorities as president. He also called for discussions with India to end the United States’ bilateral free trade agreement with the nation, “strengthening our relationship with a friend who will prove to be critical to America’s success in the 21st century.”

Huntsman concluded his speech by emphasizing his made-in-America values. ” It’s time for America to start building things again,” he said. “It’s time for America to start working again. It’s time for America to compete again. I believe with a new administration we can do just that.”

Mitt Romney's Job Plan

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Mitt Romney's Job Plan Promises 11.5 Million Jobs in First Term 

Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney and one of the favorites to win the GOP Presidential nomination has reveled his jobs plan to the American people.  In fact, Romney's speech on how to create jobs in America doesn't offer many new ideas but it does offer a plan that until now Congress has lacked the fortitude to offer anything and President Obama has been reluctant to offer anything until this week when he plans to give his own job's plan speech.

In fact, Romney's jobs plan can be summed up with having repeal regulations, tax cuts and sanctions to China. Now sanctioning China is the first time any Presidential candidate outside of GOP Presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman that tough talk has been directed toward China. Now Romney's plan is heavily lad with paring back tax rates which is some liberals eyes will not solve America's woes.  Still Romney's plan is filled with conservative principles such as limiting government by reducing regulations while slashing taxes which is believed to help spur the American economy.

"The right answer for America is not to grow government or to believe that government can create jobs," Romney said upon releasing his plan. "It is instead to create the conditions that allow the private sector and entrepreneurs to create jobs and to grow our economy. Growth is the answer, not government."

Romney argues that lowering taxes is the swiftest route to job creation, which is why he laid out proposals to cut the top corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent. He also would make permanent the tax cuts enacted under George W. Bush and eliminate taxes on dividends, interest and capital gains for anyone making less than $200,000 a year.

The former Massachusetts governor also outlined trade policies that would be favorable to American businesses, including free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. He also promised to sanction China for keeping its currency artificially low, a move that he said would level a key trade imbalance. "I'll clamp down on the cheaters, and China's the worst example of that," Romney said. "We can't have a trade war. But we can't have a trade surrender, either."

Romney promised to roll back regulations immediately if elected, describing a series of executive orders he would issue. Those would curtail Obama's healthcare overhaul, make it easier to obtain oil-drilling permits, and eliminate other regulations. Also included in the plan were a series of measures to sharply curtail government spending, including a 10% cut in the federal workforce, a promise of no new regulations that add new costs to the economy and a plan to save money on Medicaid by converting the program to block grants.

Labor Day 2011

Today is Labor Day and as many people celebrate this day, they did it by having cookouts and spending time with their family & friends. However, Labor Day is more than just an ordinary holiday, it is a day to honor the working class of America. Labor Day is not just for union workers but non union workers. Labor Day is a day to thank the working class of America for all their hard work to make America what it is.

Labor Day is for the host/hostesses in restaurants who help us to be seated. It is for the waiter/waitress who put up with attitudes all day long but still serve with the utmost respect. Labor Day is for the maids who make up our beds in hotels and clean our rooms despite all the messes we make & do it in the most professional way possible. Labor Day is for the valets who park our cars and do it without leaving scratches or marks cause they treat the vehicle like its their own car.

Labor Day is for the worker who works 8-4, 9-5 and even grave yard shifts to bring home an ends meat and put food on the table to feed themselves as well as perhaps their family. Labor Day is not simply about marches, speeches, rallies and cookouts but its about thanking the least of us for their hard work at creating a better America and a better world. Labor Day is not for the factory worker but it is for the hotel worker, restaurant worker, the mall worker, the department store worker, the hotel worker, the casino worker, the cleaning worker, and even the parking attendant worker.

Labor Day is for every worker that gives it their all not just to make a dime but to make the lives of others better. Labor Day is for me and you. Labor Day might just seem like another holiday but it is really America's appreciation to the American worker who gives it their all 24/7 to impact the lives of others in a positive and influential way that benefits the makeup of America.

It is the labor of America that makes America what it is. From the day of our formation as nation, it is the hard working men and women who have paved the way for not just an equal wages for equal work, a minimum wage and a middle class in this nation but it is the working class that produces many of the goods and serves that we use and have today in our homes.

Labor Day is not just today but it is everyday that you patronize a hotel, a store, a restaurant or any place where you get service because it is those people who help create the backbone of what America is about, which hard work.  Thus thank the working class everyday, appreciate those workers who show you respect and generosity despite the attitudes from some from customers. Last but not last, don't think Labor Day is just another holiday because its not a hallmark holiday or just a family gathering affair, its an appreciation of America's hard working class.