What's Happening in Chicago, IL, USA

The heat has left the Chicago area taking 18 lives. So far, there are a total of 35 lives lost to the extreme heat and humidity in the USA.  Why did Chicago have half the heat-related deaths? There are
a lot of people in Chicago and many of the heat-related deaths were people over 55. Still, that is too many heat-related deaths.

Then there were the killings on the near west side and the south side in Chicago, IL. Homicides they are called by the news and the police. I call them domestic terrorism. Chicago seems to be the deadliest city in North America.  Mexico still hold the record for killings with a whooping 26,000 people killed over the last few years. That is more than the IRAQ & Afghanistan's total deaths combines over ten years.

Something is wrong there. We need the MILITARY to come home and "TAKE OUT THESE DOMESTIC TERRORISTS once and for all." Chicago is a WAR ZONE - when you count the number of killings, you have to realize that Chicago is not a safe place for many residents.

Why are we sending out troops to stop terrorism in other countries but not doing a real killing of these terrorists? We need to WIPE OUT these foreign terrorists so the troops can come home and WIPE OUT the DOMESTIC TERRORISTS in Chicago.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Who are the real Obama voters? And why?

When I think of the Obama administration and the people that Obama surrounds himself, I get scared.
Scared because there are no middle of the road people in Obama's cabinet or the 20 or 30-some Czars. They are all either liberal, very liberal or extremist and even anti-USA terrorists (Remember Van Jones who had to quit?)

Now I wonder who these people attract. The obvious is the black voters. They voted 98% for Obama last time. And they will most likely do that again - even though the black populace has been hot the hardest in the last 3 years of the Obama Presidency. Black unemployment as reported by the government's figures is now 14.4% (and you know that number is lower than reality like all the unemployment figures.) So it must be a racist thing. What else can it be?

Then there are the white liberals. They have been around since before the American revolution. If it was up to the liberals, we would still be a colony of England and ruled by their queen. What is up with these liberals? They seem to have their heads in the "should be" world and not in the real world. And they seem to be unaware of the costs of the programs they want to "give" to people (using other peoples' money.)  But liberal are the cheapest when it comes to giving to charity. More money and more percent of income is given to charity by independents and wealthy families than liberal familes as reported by the IRS.

Asians seem to be mixed as to voting.

That leaves Hispanics. As a group they 'should' be conservative since they are mostly religious and Catholic. But the fight over maintaining the US borders has been turned into a political hotbed totally altering the way Hispanics view the liberals. Hispanics who are legal residents are mostly in favor of a worker-visa program to allow people to enter the USA for a limited time to work. Then leave when their work is over. BUT that requires a secure and tightly closed border - like most countries have.

So you have millions of Hispanics who are ILLEGAL RESIDENTS. The vast majority are good people. The problem comes when it's time for their employer to take out social security taxes. And the social security number given turns out to be illegal.

So what happens? The treasury gets the money - Maybe - and the workers do not get any record of payments. But the illegal workers get the benefits of food stamps and medical care. And who pays for this extra costs? You and I pay for this through extra federal and state taxes. OK - there is some positive when they pay sales tax - if they pay sales tax.

Now the schools are filled with these illegal immigrants' children. This causes legal citizens to pay for building more schools and paying more teachers' salaries which increases the states; pension liabilities. AH-HA - THIS INCREASES UNION WORKERS! Now we are getting at one of the important factors about illegal immigrants.

Here is the formula > More illegals = more schools built and more teachers hired = more union workers. And union workers vote for the Democrats.

There you have it. That is why the Democrats want to keep the birder issue on the political scene and never want to solve this problem. That means that the unions will continue to vote for the Democrat plus half of the Hispanics plus virtually all the blacks plus the shrinking white liberal middle class plus all the people who are living on welfare and plan to stay on welfare.

That is who votes for Obama: The blacks - the liberal whites - the welfare takers - half the Hispanics - and virtually all the union members.
And who wouldn't be proud to have this combination of people that you need to court to get elected?

Notice that the people who work for there money - the people who build small and medium businesses - the people who live on straight commissions like real estate brokers - plumbers - electricians - dentists - doctors - nurses - individual contractors of all types to name of few.
Another words - the hard working people of America who pay their taxes to support the takers on welfare - the people who give the largest share of their income to charity.

You get the point. The free lunch will eventually end - one way or another. Better to end it now so fewer people will be hurt than to wait until everyone will be hurt. Now is the time to vote for the Republican candidate to protect your America - to protect your ability to feed your families - to protect your children.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

CA does not need a high speed rail system

California, prone to earthquakes, has approved a high speed rail project. Really? And how much faster will CA residents be able to travel from San Diego to San Francisco? Maybe save a few hours - at best. This looks like a highway for illegals traveling north as well.

Who really benefits from this high speed rail project? The union members who will build it and the union members who will run the trains. That means more pension expense for the state. But the towns along Highway 5 or 101 will lose all that business from drivers that would travel through these towns to gas-up and grab a bite to eat or even sleep over on their way - just like the towns along highway 66 that lose most of their business when highway 66 was replaced. 

So lets look at this financially.

Less city and town sales taxes.

Less local gasoline taxes.

Small businesses that depend on the traffic from people driving up and down CA will close.

More local people will be out of jobs.

Less jobs means less Social Security and medicare taxes will be received into the US Treasury.

More unemployment means more stress on the CA's state deficit - almost as large as Greece's debt.

All this means that many CA cities and towns will have to increase real estate taxes.

And why are we building this high-speed rail system???

Because the unions want this project.

Everyone else in CA will lose.

And that's the way I see it...

Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Victim Class Versus the Decreasing Middle Class

All the people on welfare are there for many different reasons. But what is new is that many in the welfare class are people who used to be in the Middle class. The new welfare class people lost their jobs or had to bankrupt for one reason or another. The net result is that Obama with his bad decisions and bad spending of trillions of our tax dollars has decimated the Middle Class.

There is no blaming "the other guy before me". It is time for the President to step up and admit he screwed up. Screwed up big time. Obama even laughed at the idea that there were ''shovel-ready-jobs" just waiting for money to be spent.

What did the Obama administration do with the money he said would grow the economy? He gave it to over-spending States so they could pay the State's' bills instead of giving money to contractors to re-build USA's infra-structure. That would have created real jobs. And that would have created real tax revenues to both the Federal and States balance sheets.

Now Obama wants to do another round of spending just before the election. Now Obama is telling us he is concerned about the loss of jobs in the US economy. BULLS**T!!!.  If he was truly concerned, he would have done something about jobs in the first two years when he had control of both houses of Congress. Instead he focused on the Obamacare which had to promise all sorts of things to senators and house members to get the votes. Then he had to promise to allow many groups (mostly unions) to avoid being under the obamacare laws so their congress persons would vote for the bill.

Enough!!!  

Welfare is growing !!!

The middle Class is shrinking !!!

Who will be left to pay the taxes for the welfare group ???

There is a tipping point and we are at it. We need to cut spending and we need to vote in someone who is not an inept amateur. We need to have a LEADER - something Obama is not and ROMNEY is!!!

Everything else in this election is hiding from the truth. The truth is the USA needs to change its economic direction. We need to have a real President with real experience in the White House.

Mitt Romney was a governor. He presided over a completely liberal congress and yet was able to get legislation passed. Romney knows how to work with all the people and with people in both parties.
Romney has business financial experience. Romney has working experience. Romney has shown us his birth certificate and college records. Romney has saved thousands of job using his own money. Romney has created tens of thousands of jobs using his own money. Romney is the very picture of what every American aspires to: Work hard and get the benefits of your hard work.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.

The Color of a Bus

Have you seen the color of the two buses for Romney and Obama?

Mitt 's bus is Red, While and Blue

Obama's bus is Black

What can you read into the colors?

Mitt is patriotic.
Obama is racist or pro-black (not the President of all the people - just the black people.)

It is so very glaring!!!

And what has the President done for the black people? Nothing except widen the divide between the black people and the general population. Black people have a 14.4% unemployment rate. WHY? They have the same brains as everyone else. So it must be something else. If they vote for Obama in Nov, that shows you that the black populace are racists as a group. Last election 98% of black voters voted for Obama. Every other group was divided.

This President has made racism worse than when he came into office and he will make racism ever worse yet again if he gets re-elected. Then Obama will blame every other group for the plight of the black people. Further dividing the races. He seems to be a racist and a divider. Only been one other person in recent history that acted like Obama. And he killed or caused to be kill over 50,000,000 people all over the Earth by dividing people and causing one group to be against another group.

We need a Red, White and Blue President for everyone. A President that can bring the country together. A President that has a solid HISTORY of working with both sides of the aisle and HISTORY of getting legislation passed. A President who will make a "real" budget and get it passed by both houses of Congress. ((Something that the obama did not and could not do for three years.))

We need a change in the Presidency in November for the good of all the Citizens of the USA.

And we need to increase the number of Republicans in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Cliffprd

US Job figures do not add up

Today they touted that 14,000 fewer people applied for unemployment. Ok that's a nice number.

And we added 174,000 jobs in June. - another nice number.

BUT in June, there were 374,000 that lost their jobs!!!  HOLY S#%& !!!

To me that's a NET LOSS OF 200,000 jobs in June. How can the administration tout that 174,000 jobs were created. Are they completely stupid or does the administration believe that the citizens are completely stupid. Seems more like the later to me. The USA LOST A NET OF 200,000 JOBS IN JUNE BY THE GOVERNMENT'S OWN FIGURES!!!

This is absolutely stunning that people still believe that the obama administration is worthy of getting another term. Considering what they have achieved in the first obama term, the USA will be completely bankrupt just like Greece if the obama gets another 4 years to ruin the USA economy.

Talk about the ignorant leading the blind ...

The only reason this obama has a chance to get re-elected is that there are almost half the voting citizens on welfare and they want to keep getting free welfare at the expense of the working citizens.
Talk about fair share. I want to keep my earned income to feed my family and friends and not a bunch of takers on the dole forever.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

South Side of Chicago OR Afghanistan?

Here's my question again.

Where would you rather be stranded? On the South side of Chicago or Southern Afghanistan?

For the last several weeks, the incidents of shooting were 10 times more on the South side of Chicago than in Afghanistan. And the death totals were three times more in Chicago than in Afghanistan.

The USA should concentrate on the domestic terrorists --- commonly known as gangs --- and get out of Afghanistan. The real terror problem is on the South Side of Chicago. We need military intervention there. And we need to not just capture these gang members; but we need to treat these killers as domestic terrorists and put them in front of a firing squad. Putting them in prison only rewards them with doing nothing and getting three meals a day plus a clean place to sleep with heat, air conditioning  and a place to work out.

As much as Afghanistan is a world problem, he USA needs to get its own house in order before we try to straighten out other countries.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Look Out! It's now Germany 1936

In Germany, about 1936, the chancellor declared total control of all things in Germany and you had to swear allegiance to the new chancellor. Well fellow Americans, with obamacare there is no difference now than in Germany 1936. That's right! We have lost so many freedoms - THAT'S OUR FREEDOMS I'M TALKING ABOUT - in the last three years that I am scared. Scared that I will be taxed for not buying something. Scared that my religion will not be acceptable. scared that my healthcare will not now be as good and cost more than I can afford. Scared that my doctor told me that he will have to stop being a doctor because of obamacare. Scared that the government can lie to the people and get away with it. Then the government can bribe other congress persons to make them vote for a lie. (It's a TAX - not a penalty - GET THAT THROUGH YOUR HEAD!) CONGRESS HAS CHEATED ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. That include the poor, the middle class, and the rich - everyone!

Whatever the news tells you, the truth - IT'S THE TRUTH YOU WILL READ HERE - is that 85% of all the USA citizens were happy with their health care. All that was needed was special legislation to take care of the remaining 15% who really needed help. BUT NOOOO! The congress had to make it worse for everyone including the 15% with A LIE in their new obamacare law.

We need to take obamacare back - ((That's called rescinding)) and replace it wIth something that takes care of the 15% that need the help PLUS making sure that people can change insurance companies without worrying about pre-existing conditions. And we need to get things that are not health related - like student loans - and the tax for not buying something - out of this BAD obamacare law.

How to do that??? First, we need to do TORT REFORM. What that means is to go against the lawyer's lobby. Tort reform will reduce the cost to doctors for special insurance they need to carry which can cost as much as $100,000 to $150,000 and more per year. No wonder the doctors are charging higher rates and no wonder doctors are leaving their profession. No wonder, there a fewer doctors being graduated today than ten years ago.

The second thing will help all USA citizens. Bring competition to the medical insurance premiums. Allow people to COMPARE AND BUY FROM ANY INSURANCE COMPANY ALL OVER THE USA. Stop the limits we place on citizens who can only buy from a few monopoly-like insurance companies within their state.

Third, we can do to the drug companies what other countries do to the drug companies. These other countries like England, France and Canada to name a few tell the drug companies the maximum amount they can charge these countries' citizens for drugs. There is still enough profit left over for the drug companies. NOW all Congress has to do is copy what these other countries are demanding from the drug companies.

That is so simple. Three simple things. Why hasn't this become law in the USA? Congress has to do its job. What are we paying congress and the president for. They are employees of the citizens of the USA; not there to 'steal' money from lobbys and make "front-end" stock purchases just before a new bill was about to become a law.

So simple - yet not done.

The people of the USA deserve more.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Dollar will be de-valued

Watch out dollar owners. As China increases the YUAN against the dollar, the purchasing power of the dollar will fall. Who will that help? Not the USA exporters whose products will then be more expensive in foreign countries. Not the USA purchasers of oil or gold or anything made outside of the USA. So who benefits???

The USA government benefits. HOW??? Because they can pay back the debt with cheaper dollars.
The USA will do this at the expense of anyone who has any dollars or dollar denominated investments.

The dollar has dropped in value so far that it is starting to look like the old Italian LIRA or maybe someday like the Argentine Peso or Austral OR the old German Mark OR the Mexican Peso.  All these currencies exploded into inflation and worthlessness.

Will the dollar be next??? Think it can not happen. Look at History. That's right HISTORY. Every nation since Romans times, any country that had more debt than it could pay off devalued its currency and screwed its citizens. I repeat - EVERY NATION with excessive debt - devalued or bankrupted its currency.

There are things to do to prepare. You have been alerted well in advance to protect your dollars and dollar denominated investments. It is not if - it is just a matter of time.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

American Workers - You Decide

The day after the Supreme Court upheld the obamacare, I have a thought.

Say I'm a business owner of any size and I'm faced with the extra costs

associated with obamacare, what do I do ???

Well for one thing, If obama gets re-elected I would tell my workers that with 

costs going up, I will have to cut my workforce. Then I would tell them, that 

if obama does not get elected, and obamacare gets rescinded (That means 

erased as if it never happened), then I would be able to keep all the workers.

So it boils down to this. If obama gets re-elected, some of you will lose your jobs.

And conversely, if someone else gets elected and actually rescinds obamacare,

then I will be able to keep everyone and possibly add a few workers; maybe 

someone you can refer to me.

The choice is yours.

You decide when you vote Nov 6th.

And that's the way I see it...

Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

The American Fall

The Arab nations -one by one - had an Arabian Spring to gain honest
representation of their freedoms from a dictator.

Is it time for Americans to rise up and demand freedom from this
dictatorial dictator in the guise of a President in an American Fall?

The Elections are Nov 6, 2012. Your freedom depends on who you vote for.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Straight Talk about 'the obama'

Lets look at the base of the obama followers.
They are mostly poor, ignorant about how business works, and
ignorant how the government works. And if you add in all the people
who were not legally allowed to vote but did vote, then you have
a part of the obama base. Then there is the people who are idealistic.
These idealistic people would starve to death in a more uncivilized world.

Liberals have beliefs of "shoud ofs" that can never to paid for. But they do not
allow balancing the budget to get in the way of their idealism. That is why our
debt is growing beyond the United States' ability to pay the interest on our debt
let alone paying down the principle.

Whatever party comes in, we will have tough times ahead. One party will bankrupt
the United States making misery for all. This could possibly bring down the entire
world economy causing wars and worse. The other party will rein in spending and
cause misery to many people but not all. The good news about this party is that
the United Staes can recover from their budget path and the world's economy will
prosper.

The choice is not about idealism this time. It is about the debt, the US budget and
the ability of the private businesses to create jobs for all that want to work.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Soda bottlers' collusion

The soda bottlers say they are ALL reducing the size of their cans and bottles in
unison because they are saving their customers the calories.

Does anyone really believe this???

And isn't this price collusion??? I believe it is. And that is illegal.

They have reduced the amount of soda in a can and the soda makers are saving
the money by shorting the customer. The customer gets the shaft.

This is another form of inflation. We have to pay the same for less product.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Greece, New York's School Bus Monitor

As the Pendulum begins to return to center from the far left, we need to think about
re-capturing control from the children. We need to re-establish control over children.
When children act up, they need to be immediately corrected. If a child needs to be
spanked or held down to avoid further 'acting out' then we need to get back the
adult authority over children without fear of being sued by the child or the state.

Children do not have fully developed brains. That is a fact. Children have little
empathy and little understanding of their actions' consequences.That is why children need
to have their 'rights' limited back to where adults are in control. When a child acts up, an
adult needs to be able to immediately, right then and there, reprimand that child.

The child does not have rights when they act up. Even though they do not have the
ability to understand what they did wrong, children need to be controlled when they
step out of line.

We need to be parents of children - not their friends. This is or the best interest of
any child's growth. Children need to learn about limits and how their actions affect
other people.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

The obama does it again

Don't we have an independent Congress anymore? What's with
this obama writing new laws from the executive office. The Office
of the President is supposed to be separate from Congress and the
Supreme Court. Watch out America. He is looking at disbanding
Congress and declaring obama-law. This will never happen. I
believe in our Constitution.

This immigration quasi-law that obama talked about today is nothing
more than  political campaign speech. If he really wanted to do this,
he could easily done this when the Democrats controlled both Houses
of Congress. BUT HE DID NOT EVEN TALK ABOUT IT THEN!!!

And today's obama speech was also a "two-fer". He also moved
attorney general's illegal activities off the front page for a few days.
Eric Holder needs to resign or be impeached immediately.

In my opinion, eric holder is a reverse racist. He is anti-caucasion and
pro black. He has demonstrated this over and over. And speaking of
racists, in my opinion, the obama is a rabid racists. Just look at what
he does and what he talks about and what he injects his words into.

This President had zero management experience and zero experience
of any kind except being able to deliver an effective speech. He is a fraud.
He need to be voted out.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.

Obama and the duck test

Let's look at the facts. Like Sherlock Holmes says, when you eliminate all the clues except one clue,
then that one clue - no matter what - is the answer.

When there are only a handful of people who are in the obama inner circle that know the info that
has been leaked and there is only one person to possible (in his eyes anyways) gain from the leaks,
then it comes down to one of obama's inner circle people that leaked the sensitive info.

ONE of those persons should be tried for TREASON and go to jail.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford.

OBAMA needs to go

Why is the Attorney-General Holder going to Wisconsin to "watch over" the election this Tuesday???
 It looks more like a what a dictator would do when he was trying to throw the election.

With only 20 mishaps of potential election fraud in over millions of voters, the incident is so low that it begs the question again - why should Eric Holder go to Wisconsin for the Tuesday election???

 This administration has corrupted our constitution so much that this administration thinks it is above the law. In fact in obama's own words, he said: "My congress" instead of the Congress of the United States. He is wrong! And he talks about HIS white House. Wrong again. It is the people's house. Obama is a free-rent occupant and nothing else.

And who really runs the White House. Not obama. It's more like Valery and Michelle. He only talks a good game with a script. But when the facts are in, and he has to talk without a script, you see the extremist and not-so-smart, unprepared-to-hold-any-office person. Je is a fake. He comes out of nowhere. His Harvard college application shows that he put his place of birth as Kenya not the United Sates of america.
Therefore, he should be disqualified as a President. You might even put obama on others on trial for TREASON.

I have never been more embarrassed by any President 0f the UNited States than I am of obama. And I was plenty embarrassed by Carter and Nixon. The sooner he leaves office the better for all ofAmerica and the world.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk by Jay Clifford.

Voting Rights!

US Attorney Holder has declared war on all registered voters.

By allowing even one person to vote without a picture ID opens up the way for FRAUD. People then can vote for anyone who does not show up. That is called BALLOT STUFFING and occurs regularly in areas where there is a low voting count and where there is no picture ID required to vote.

OUR VOTE is a part of our independence and needs to be protected from those who would cheat all
registered voters of their choices.

Call your senator and local house representative and demand that voters show a picture ID before voting.

It makes a difference in all our freedoms.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford.

Is obama hiding or just does not care???

The tornadoes have gone and the people are left with cleaning up and
re-starting their lives. The charity of neighbors is absolutely wonderful.

BUT WHERE IS OBAMA???

Why hasn't he mentioned a word about helping these people in tornado struck areas????

I'll tell you why he is absent.

There is no political gain to be had. Most of the tornadoes are in RED states and
he will not help a RED state. THIS IS UN-AMERICAN.

Obama is suppose to be the President of ALL AMERICANS.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

OBAMA SUCKING UP FOR THE JEWISH VOTE

Their is no record from the obama administration that obama has any strong and positive
feelings towards Israel and the Jewish people. Today he said he would back Israel. But in the last
three years, he has condemned Israel for so many things and even suggested that Israel go back
to the 1967 borders without anything from the arabs.

Who is he lying to and why???

He wants to get the Jewish vote.

His standing in the Jewish community has dropped so now he is saying whatever he has to say just
to see if he can capture the Jewish vote.

Hopefully, the Jewish people are smarter then that and see thru his ignorant mouthing of a few
Hebrew words.

This President needs to be replaced in November by anyone - a Rep or even another Dem. He just
needs to be removed and a real politician needs to fill the shoes of the Presidency.

obama certainly has not filled the shoes of the Presidency.

obama is a fraud and he has reached his "peter Principle."

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And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Social Security - suggestions to fix it

What started as a safety net has turned into an expected benefit.
But statistics show that with fewer people contributing to the Soc Sec fund and
more people living longer, then the Soc Sec fund will shrink until it can no longer
provide a safety net.

Here are a few suggestions:
1) Reduce the amount anyone can receive from soc sec depending on their total gross income.
If you make 250,000 a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 10%
If you make 350,000 a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 20%
If you make 500,000 a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 33%
If you make 700,000 a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 50%
If you make 900,000 a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 75%
If you make 1.000,000 or more a year from all sources, cut the percent payout by 100%
That is called means testing and will not hurt anyone in those income categories.

2) Raise the social security AND the Medicare income limit by $100,000. That will only affect
large income people a small bit and will hardly affect any corporation.

3) If those two can't make soc sec fund solvent, then raise the age limit incrementally a month
a year for several years.

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And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

obama's call that did not happen

If obama can take time out of his busy schedule to chat
with ms fluke about her three times a day sexual activities and her
use of birth control, WHY HASN'T OBAMA SAID ANYTHING ABOUT
ALL THE DESTRUCTION AND LOSS OF LIFE FROM THE RECENT TORNADOES???

OH Yeah, They are all probably red states and we all know that obama
does nothing for red states even if it will cost the United States jobs or
gross revenue. Think how he will not help South Carolina with their
port that needs to be dredged to accommodate the deeper and larger
ships that bring goods to the USA.

And who benefits by not helping to increase the size of South Carolina's
ports??? (a red state) You have to know it's New York. And what color is
New York? It is a blue state. Point made. BUT New York's ports are smaller
and all union run. So less product can arrive and it will all cost more. But
obama does not care about the good of the entire USA. He is in campaign
mode. In fACT he has been in campaign mode since the day he started is term.

Making a statement that he will help the red states that have been hurt so
badly is not in the best interest of obama's re-election - so he says nothing.

We need a President for ALL THE US CITIZENS not just the blue states and union workers.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

obama's phone call

obama calls ms fluke who spends $3000 on birth control when
a condom costs about $1 each. Let's do the math. That would be
3000 thousand uses of a condom over, let say 3 years. That would
be about 1000 uses per year. BUT there are only 356 days in a year.
So that means ms fluke had sex 3 times a day every day for three
years. WOW!!!

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So when did ms fluke have any time to study for her law degree??? In between her
three sex activities times every day? How did she fit all that recreational sex into her schedule???

And now ms fluke wants you and me to pay for her 3 times a day sex habit.

I DO NOT THINK SO. LET HER PAY FOR HER BIRTH CONTROL OR MAYBE CUT
HER SEXUAL ACTIVITIES TO MAYBE 2 OR 3 TIMES A WEEK.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

Where is obama ???

Yesterday (3.2.12) and today, we had 30+ tornadoes killing 37 people so far over 8+ states and
causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage yet nothing from the President. Not a word from obama.
Where is obama ???

We can give 2 BILLION dollars to Egypt for nothing - yet we cannot afford to help US Citizens.

Where is obama on this problem???

Why is obama silent ???

We should not give another dollar to egypt and use that money to re-build US Citizens' homes and lives.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk WIth Jay Clifford

Chicago corruption and Obama

In Chicago, recently labeled number one in corruption in all cities in the USA, we have a thing called PATRONAGE.
What this means is you get hired by a politically connected person. Your job is now dependent on that person
staying in power and you doing what that person says. Does this sound familiar?

This is a model based on the MAFIA (I know they do not exist Ha-Ha-Ha). And this is a model that unions use
to keep people in line whether they are union members or not. Think how the unions infiltrate any group to
stir chaos and trouble.

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Now think about how Obama's administration has taken your money and mine to pay for union workers jobs
and pensions. The money for teachers given last year AFTER all the teacher budgets were firmly in place ended
up being used for things other than teacher's pay. Things like State budgets in general. But real estate taxes
pay the majority of the teacher's pay - not state funds.

So what we have are three main states with the most teachers: New York, Illinois, and California --- all solidly
Democratic states getting huge finds from the Obama money handouts. And by the way, they are all in the top
most corrupt states in the USA. Connection???

Patronage is the way political leaders control the elections. And Obama coming from the most corrupt state
of Illinois seems to be running the most corrupt government just like what he was taught as a 'community
organizer'.

Come on people. We still do not know anything about this man's history. You could put all his history in a
2-page pamphlet. We know nothing of his birth. We know nothing of his college education. We do not even know
why he applied to a college as a foreign student. We know nothing of his religious beliefs except he sat
listening to Reverend Wright (WHo hates America and spews hate and racism at his sermons) for 20 years. We know
nothing of his connection to Aires and that real estate broker (who is now in prison). We know nothing of how
he purchased the multi-million home in Chicago.

We do know that he sees racism in everything - remember the beer get-together in the rose garden. We do know
that he has little understanding how any economy works. We do know that he thinks more of himself then he is.
We do know that he was tutored by the city of Chicago (the most corrupt city in all of the USA). We do know
that he was NOT a professor at the University of Chicago - but a temp, stand-in lecturer - unpaid even. We do
know that his social security was issued to a person who died around when Obama was born. Obama does not
even have his own social security number. We do know that Obama thinks that if everyone was equally poor, and
owing their jobs to him, that he could control everything. We do know that Obama's wife is not proud to be an American. Hey, she said it herself before the political handlers made her correct her statement.

Obama is a plight on the United States Of America. We need to elect anyone but him in November.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Union Bullying needs to be stopped

Mob action by unions is destroying the United States rule-by-law.

Instead the unions will intimidate through force - brute force - to get what they want. And what do they want.
Let's look at what is behind the union wants.

The union wants you and me to pay for their pensions. The public pays for these pensions through real estate taxes and state taxes. Sure union members pay these same taxes but their share is so little compared to what they are getting that it is UNFAIR to the rest of the tax paying people who do not have these high-paying pensions.

And what is making up the most of many state's deficits? It's union pensions!!!

States need to limit union action with states. Unions have a place in the private sectors but not in the governmental sectors where you and I pay for these excessive concessions to pensions and health care for union members.

I compare these strong-arm union tactics to 'mob' actions similar to "protection rackets."

We need strong people to stand up to these brutes. They are bullies and bullies should not be tolerated.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk by Jay Clifford

Unions and pensions and State's deficits

Let's look at this through a financial lens. The unions which make up a smaller and smaller part of the total work force get unbelievable large pensions. They put in a minor amount and receive upwards of $36,000 to $50,000 to $75,000 to $100,000 to $150,000 per year; and many get more. Where does this money come from?

The money comes from Real Estate taxes and State Taxes for the most part. That means every home owner and anyone in a state with an income tax has part of their taxes going to pay for these pensions. Most of the people
who pay these real estate taxes and state taxes will never get a pension for a variety of reasons. But the unions
always demand more and get pensions for their members while the economy is barely limping along. Just plain greedy. That's my opinion. When 18% to 21% of working age people are unemployed the unions are not
satisfied to keep their jobs, they always ask for more. And that MORE comes right out of your wallets.

The way I see it in America today, it is the non-union people versus the unions - and definitely not low earners versus high earners. The class warfare is more about the union class taking from all the other non-union people. The unions are in fact a re-distribution of money channel. The unions are a very greedy group of people.

Think about this when your state raises your tax rate or when your real estate taxes go up while the price of
your home goes down. But the union members will be getting their share.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Political race 2012

The race to the President is reaching new lows. All I want to hear from the current President is what he has
done in plain talk. And how it will affect the USA and its citizens. And All I want to hear from the others is how they will be different from the current President.

All this double talk, lies and mis-direction is blurring reality and cheating the citizens of the USA.

We are at a cross-roads ---in my opinion--- similar to the 1930s in Germany. We have a choice between
traveling down a road to financial inflation and bankruptcy OR a very tough road to a strong USA. It is
that simple.

We can not spend money we do not have. Look at Greece. Look at Italy. Look at Spain. Remember what
happened to Mexico a few decades back. Remember what happened to Argentina a few decades back

We are seeing in Greece and Italy what could very easily happen in the USA. People not wanting to give up some of what they have to ensure that they will have something in the future. People greedy enough to demand pay
increases in the midst of a major recession. People demanding pensions while other have no pensions for
all sorts of reasons - many not their fault - like bankruptcies.

We need to cut our spending immediately - not in ten years. Why immediately? Because the interest is
approaching a level that cuts into the money available for social spending.

Do we want to spend out gross national product paying interest on the debt or to give everyone medical care?
The solutions are simple. It's the power grabs of congress and the President that are making it difficult. we
need to cut spending - plain and simple. And if we cannot figure out where to cut, then we need to cut
everywhere by 6% or 7%.

Like any company in financial trouble, we need to shed employees and assets. This will reduce expenses and
bring in revenue. We need to do things that we might not do in good financial times. Things like;
1) Open up Anwar for oil drilling. This is a wasteland delta close to another private drilling operation.
That will increase jobs and bring in tax revenue plus decrease our oil dependancy on countries that hate us.
2) Build the Pipeline from Canada to our southern refineries. This will increase jobs and bring in oil that will
otherwise flow to china. More jobs and more tax revenue.
3) We need to cut some of the agencies in our government or at least reduce the number of employees in
each agency. Private companies all over the USA are doing exactly that and they are turning profits.
4) We need to bring home some of our soldiers stationed in Germany and South Korea and re-deploy them
in the southwest States of America.
That will slow the drug traffic into the USA and help to secure our southern borders. And as a benefit, the
southern states will get needed income and from all these soldiers. More USA jobs and more tax revenue.
5) We need to deepen the harbor in South Carolina so it can handle the new and deeper container ships.
That will add tens of thousands of jobs plus keep costs low for imported goods.

All five of these choices will INCREASE JOBS AND TAX REVENUE. And this increased revenue can offset some of
the interest in our debt plus pay down our debt.

It is simple. It can be done quickly. The results will show up within a few months. Here's one reason why.
Just by announcing that we will drill in ANWAR, Alaska and that we will build the pipeline will bring down the price
of oil. It does not matter that the actual flow of oil will be a few years in the future. When the price of oil drops two things happen.
1) The price of gasoline will drop - putting thousands of disposable dollars into consumers' hands.
2) Those countries that hate us will have less revenue to finance terrorism against the USA.
All good things. So why aren't we doing this??????????? It's all about POWER. The power of congress,
The power of the President. The powerlessness of the USA citizens.

We need to accomplish these five tasks NOW.
Call your congressperson and demand that we accomplish these five things NOW!!!

And That's the Way I See It...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Obama and liars

Do you like being lied to?
Do you like having someone reach into your pocket and spend your money on themselves?
Do you like people always blaming others for what they were supposed to do? Never taking responsibility???

Well the obama bus campaign tour is just that lie.
It is not about doing his job as President.
The tour is a campaign tour for re-election and tax money is paying for it.
Tax money that you and I are sending in to the treasury every paycheck.

Call your congressperson and complain that obama should be paying for this campaign tour from his re-election fund.

Tell the obama to be responsible for his actions FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE! Stop voting "present" and take a stand.

The only reason there was any debt reduction (small as it is) was because Americans said
TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY - TEA for short. Just like the Boston tea party when AMericans tossed the
English Tea Overboard in rebellion to the taxes imposed by the King of England, the TEA group
said ENOUGH. And it is only because of the TEA group that we have stopped some ((NOT ALL)) of
the run-a-way spending by congress.

And lastly - Remember the BS budget submitted by the obama calling for 4 to 6 TRILLION MORE
DOLLARS IN SPENDING??? WELL that 'budget' did not get one vote. Not one vote from the Republicans. Not One vote from the Democrats. That shows you just how STUPID that obama budget proposal was.

And the obama claims that he is doing something. That is pure BS - a lie.

Remember when someone yelled "You Lie" in obama's state of the Union speech. Turns out that obama did lie.

You can not trust this obama with any more time as President. Anyone Democrat or Republican would be better.
ANYONE BUT OBAMA is on my 2012 campaign button.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk WIth Jay Clifford.

obama's bus tour

Who is he kidding when he says it's a job's bus tour.
It is blatantly a champaign tour on the US taxpayer dollars - just insulting to taxpapers.
This President votes "Present" all the time BUT I DISAGREE!!!
He is not present.
He has not been a leader like any other Democratic or Republican President.
He is an absent President and needs to be voted out.
He has reached his PETER PRINCIPLE back when he was a community organizer.
Yes, he has a great campaign strategy and sometimes when he practices, his
speeches are given with a strong Baptist urgency. BUT, he does not have it
within himself to be a leader.
He has still not written a budget for over 830 days. That IS one of the President's most
important functions and HE HAS FAILED TO PREFORM.
All he does is create dis-harmony between races and find fault in the tiniest places with
Republicans about subjects that he refuses to tell anyone what he specifically and in detail believes.
This man needs to be replaced with a leader; Someone who will respect the Presidency and
make a budget and get out in front and lead.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

Somolia's starving children

Your heart goes out to the millions of starving children in the world. BUT these people populate fast.
They just keep on having children and more children. They know there is not enough food in the entire world to feed them and they know there is not enough water, yet they populate and populate and when the drought comes or seasonal floods arrive, the world rushes to save these poor people.

This may seem harsh but the world has about 7 BILLION people and growing. What we need is a strict one
child per woman law just like china has in these countries. There are too many people in the world now!

They bring poverty on themselves by having so many children. They don't have enough farm land to grow
enough crops to support the populace now and they continue to populate. So why should the countries of the world rush aid to these people??? If we manage to save just half the children from dying, there will be another half million starving children in a few years - the children of these saved children.

This has to stop. I am in favor of stopping our aid. We have starving people in the US that need the food
and medicines. We do not have the money to feed the world. If we give all our corn and wheat reserves to
these people --who will be in need again next year-- and the US suffers a drought, there will not be food for the
citizens of the USA!!! And that is a fact.

And who will ever come to the aid of the USA??? Think about that. WHO??? Name a country. Hits you hard
doesn't it. There is no country that will come to the aid of the USA. Nor is there a country that could come to the aid of the USA if they even wanted to help us.

The USA has to begin holding back on our aid. - We need to re-assess our financial contributions to
countries that do not like us and we need to hold our food and water in reserves.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Whose responsible

Have you noticed that whenever something happens bad, the first thing Obama does is to point his finger
at other people. Seems he is never responsible for anything he does.

Now Axelrod the slayer of truth and the lead finger pointer of blame is saying that it's the TEA PARTY that caused
this rating downgrade. Come on people.

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All the tea party did was to point out to the Amercian people that we are spending too much for the money
we bring in as a nation. Talk about killing the messenger and forgetting about the message.

GET IT People. IT IS ABOUT SPENDING AND SPENDING ALONE. Yes, some people will get hurt a bit. But the entire
US could crumble from within if we continue to spend like fools without being responsible.

IT'S ABOUT IDEOLOGY, GREED AND POWER. And that has brought the US to a downgrade on our credit rating.

It is time to do some unpopular things to get the US back on track or we will begin to look like GREECE and
the riots in the streets.

http://craigkamman.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/sp-downgrade-whos-to-blame/

Read the article above. Then call your congressperson and tell them to cut spending.

We are all in this together. The poor, the middle class and the rich - the small businesses and the large
corporations - the financial institutions - all. The dollar is built on trust. That's the secret. If the populace
believes in the dollar and if the world believes in the dollar, the dollar will be strong. And of course the dollar
has to be based on a strong budget with positive cash flow. That means we need to get the spending down
and let business grow so we can increase revenue from increase business - not taxes but increased revenue
on which taxes are levied.

We need to reduce spending until spending is below 35% of GDP. Currently Spending is at 67% of GDP on
our way to 75% of GDP in a short time unless we change and reduce spending. It is not about casting blame.
IT IS ABOUT DOING THE RESPONSIBLE THING.

AND THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

The Obama vacation days

Ok everyone should get a vacation every now and then. But $76,000 for a night out on the town is way too
much money for a President to spend in the recession.

And where is the President these days where the proverbial sh*t is hitting the fan. He is out trying to gather money for the re-election game. In fact he has been campaigning to be re-elected from the first day in office instead of doing what a President should do - and that's be a leader. And where will he be over the next 16 months???
On the road collecting more money. He knows he will need more money to lambast any Republican candidate.

That is his strategy. Not to run on his absolutely dismal record but to make the Republican candidate seem so
terrible that you might vote for Obama because of how the Democrats have painted the Republican candidate.

This President has taken a bad time and made it worse by a factor of 10. He DOES NOT DESERVE ANOTHER 4 YEARS.

AND THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

STOCK MARKET FELL FROM 12850 TO 10800 IN 2 WEEKS

EVERYONE should have seen this. And what happened immediately after the stock market fell over 600
points and rallied back to only a 400 point loss?? Well the obama spoke. In the next ten minutes after he spoke,
the market crashed back down another 200+ points. Why? Because obama spoke smoke and mirrors and
had nothing concrete to say; just more of the same.

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So what happened next? The Republicans said the same thing they have been saying for over a year. "It's
not about adding income. It IS about reducing spending." And S & P rating agency agreed and downgraded
the US debt for the first time in our history.

The treasury market rallied. Why? Because the world knows that the DOLLAR is strong. But the stock
market took it hard and everyone with a mutual fund or 401K lost money

We need to reduce spending NOW. And contrary to the Republicans thought, we need to both lower federal
taxes while closing loopholes which allows GE to make hundreds of Billions of dollars profit and pay no tax plus by adding a national 1/4% national sales tax on everything except food and medicines. Between the parts,
the debt could be reduced enough to shrink to a NON-GROWTH phase. And in 10 years the debt could
be lower than it is now by several trillion dollars. That's real money people. We pay real money on the interest on that debt. The lower the debt and less we spend on interest - the more we can spend on US citizens.

BUT we need to act now! The congress needs to act NOW!

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Budget framework compromise weakened by obama's press conference

After all the wrangling between two sides and between sides within sides the President opens his mouth
and in a few sentences tells everyone that he believes the compromise is bad and he would not have
gone along with it.

How dare the President.

If I was either a Dem. or Rep. on the left or right of my party, I would be thinking hard whether
to vote yes or no after the President's stupid speech. He should have just kept his mouth shut
and left the process work. BUT NOOOOOO. He has to be the big shot and try to take some of'
the glory that was made by Congress.

This is a man who reached his Peter Principle when he became a senator and is mucking things up.
This man needs to admit he is over his head, step down and let the Vice President take over.

Let me know what you think - either leave a response so all can see or e-mail me at JayClifford@gmail.com

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

Why we need a FIX on the DEFICIT

A while back Congress passed a credit card law which said that the credit card issuers must charge more
in their minimum payment. Why did this law pass? Because if your interest is 19.99% per year and the bill
is only for a minimum of 1% of the outstanding balance, then next month's balance will be larger even if that
person does not purchase anything over the next month. So by BEING FORCED TO PAY HIGHER MINIMUM, the
CONSUMER WILL BE FORCE TO PAY DOWN THEIR BALANCE AND AVOID A FINANCIAL CRISIS.

SOUND FAMILIAR ???

Today with our deficit around 1.426 Trillion and growing by 4 BILLION A DAY the ONLY WAY TO REDUCE THE
DEFICIT IS TO STOP SPENDING.

WHY NOT JUST INCREASE THE PAYMENT??? GOOD QUESTION!

UNLIKE the individual consumer who can stop spending and use that extra savings to pay down their credit card balance, CONGRESS IS COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON TAX REVENUES. AND BY TAXING EVERYONE MAKING OVER
$150,000, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MONEY CREATED BY THE 100% TAX RATE TO MAKE A DENT IN THE DEFICIT.

Therefore there are three options.

Sell Assets - The US has HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN ASSETS THAT COULD BE SOLD AND AND THE
NEW OWNERS COULD RUN THESE ASSETS MORE PROFITABLY AS WELL. Money into the treasury now and a stopping of red ink by owning these assets over the years.

CUT Spending - The toughest and best option - but it is more political than fiscal. Both sides seem to not
recognize that there is too much deficit and their way of receiving BRIBES from lobbyists to pass favorable laws for particular companies at the expense of the Citizens of the USA are over.

Devalue the dollar - the worst option. We have already devalued the dollar some 25% in the last 2 years.
That is a hidden tax on everyone. Costs will go up and inflation will grow. We are already printing hundreds
of billions of dollars EVERY WEEK more than the US receives in tax revenue. This is not good.

So the easiest and best solution is to cut spending now. And forget about this bull of cutting over ten years with most of the cuts occurring in the last few years. That is smoke and mirrors because by the time the real cuts begin, the deficit has already grown by another 25%.

We need cuts this year and every year for 10 to 20 years.
We can cut the military - 50 to 100 billion a year
We can cut out completely the Cabinet of education - saves about 15 billion a year
We can cut partially aid to hostile counties - saves about 50 billion a year
We can partially cut food stamps to non-citizens - saves about 35 Billion a year
We can partially cut the size of the Congressional staff force - saves about 100 Billion a year

SO YOU SEE THERE ARE WAYS TO CUT THE DEFICIT IF THE CONGRESS LIVES UP TO ITS OATH TO PROTECT THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.

HERE'S THE BEST PART > FOR EVERY HUNDRED BILLION OF DEFICIT CUT - THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SAVE
ONE BILLION OR MORE IN INTEREST PAYMENTS. THAT IS IMMEDIATE MONEY AVAILABLE FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS.

IF THE DEFICIT IS CUT IN HALF OVER A FEW YEARS, THE REMAINING DEFICIT WILL ONLY REQUIRE HALF THE
INTEREST PAYMENTS AND AT THAT TIME, THE BUDGET WOULD HAVE BILLIONS FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS. AND
THE INTEREST RATES WOULD REMAIN STABLE AND THE HOUSING MARKET WOULD STABILIZE AND THE
RECESSION WOULD BE OVER AND THERE WOULD BE JOBS FOR ALL WHO WANT TO WORK.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk With Jay Clifford

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Why a fiscal crisis???

One side says it's all about the other side not wanting to compromise.

LETs LOOK AT THIS STATEMENT...

What this really means is: Congress has spent the USA into a financial crisis. Not one side, but both sides.

Now --- One side or rather a part of one side has said ENOUGH. --- LETs Get OUR FISCAL HOUSE IN ORDER.

And for once a part of Congress is requesting that there be a BALANCED BUDGET.

Why a BALANCED BUDGET???

That will restrict how much Congress will be able to spend of OUR MONEY WE SEND CONGRESS EACH YEAR.

So when one side says the other side is not willing to compromise, they are really saying ---
DO NOT TAKE AWAY MY BLANK CHECK.

IS that all bad???

When you consider how having a BALANCED BUDGET WILL RESTRICT LOBBYs' ABILITY TO GET FAVORS IN THE LAWS, A BALANCED BUDGET HAS POSITIVE IMPLICATION.

AND LIKE SPOILED CHILDREN, THE CONGRESS DOES NOT ANY RESTRICTIONS PLACED ON IT.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Our Budget is going to take us all down.

If you have credit cards where the minimum payments are more than your take home pay and you are borrowing even more money from your credit cards to cover the payments, then you are in reality --- BANKRUPT!

NO GETTING AROUND THIS ONE FACT.

So what are you going to do. You have three choices:
1) Get a second job and earn your way out of the dilemma you created by spending too much;
2) Find some way to decrease your monthly spending - stop buying some discretionary items.
3) Sell some things to create some extra source of income
AND probably all three.

OR
You will have to declare bankruptcy.

Now we take the US government's budget. The INTEREST on the debt is fast approaching what the total income
of the United States is. Once the debt ceiling is raised and the U.S. borrows more money; and once interest rates begin to move up just a little bit, the total interest on the US debt WILL BE MORE THAN ALL THE INCOME THAT THE U.S. TAKES IN. And as inflation kicks in and we print more money to pay for the interest without ever paying down the principle debt, the US Dollar will become worthless. And worse, the U.S. will be forced to de-value its currency. Time will come when you are asked to turn in 10 old green dollars for 1 new tan/green dollars. Instantly everyone will be poorer by a factor of TEN. If you had 10,000 in the bank, you would then only have 1,000. And the prices of food and commodities would be the same or higher.

GET IT PEOPLE !!! WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE IT!!! BUT WE EITHER HAVE TO REDUCE THE U.S. SPENDING AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WITH GET HURT OR WE CONTINUE TO SPEND AND ALL THE PEOPLE WILL GET HURT.
THOSE ARE THE U.S.A.'s ONLY TWO CHOICES. You do not have to like them. The two choices are there and you have to decide how you will go from here.

It's a choice between very bad and disaster. No one will like it. BUT it will be one or the other choice no matter what side of the political spectrum you are on. So my choice is to begin to cut spending and NOT raise the U.S. debt spending limit.

As the debt is slowly and painfully reduced over several years and as the U.S. economy slowly begins to increase and more people are employed and pay more taxes, then and only then, will the U.S. economy and the U.S. dollar get on firm ground.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

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Where is Lincoln when we need him

We had a leader in President Lincoln. A person of commitment. A person of foresight. A person of justice. A person of Honor. Yes, President was all these things and more. And he was killed by the confederates. John W Booth, it turns out, was an officer in the confederate army. But the President was a leader among men.

And what do we have now??? A passive quasi-professor with one foot racial world and one foot in the socialist world. Someone who may or may not be a citizen of the USA. Someone who really never taught at the Univ Of Chicago. He was just a grad student fill-in who worked for free just to be able to say he was a professor on his resume. And he probably never went or Princeton or Harvard. At least there is not one graduate of either UNiversity who remembers him. And did he get the scholarship he applied for as a KENYA resident? Who knows.

And when he was in the Illinois house of Representatives he ALWAYS voted "present". He never was able to make a commitment. OH YES, except to the pastor who hates America - "wright".

Then there is his Senate tenure where he repeated most of his votes as "Present" EXCEPT where he voted exactly opposite the way he acts as President.

And has he every worked? I mean taken a job. NO

And has he every managed a group of employees. NO - He has zero experience as a manager.

In my opinion, he is as weak as President Carter and President obama is doing to America what President Carter did. He is weakening America and hurting alliances with our best allies. obama is embarrassing the USA with all the world. The world now thinks that the USA and obama are weak and not to be trusted. Quite an accomplishment for just two years in office.

And lets not forget how the Democrats and obama are bankrupting the USA. Don't come to me crying that the dollar has been de-valued in a short while from now. Every nation that tried to "inflate" its currency to get out of debt has de-valued their money. The people suffered terribly. That is the Future of the USA unless some one or Some group can stop the spending and reduce the obama and democratic debt significantly.

President Lincoln - President Reagan - we need you now.

And that's the way I see it...
Straight Talk with Jay Clifford

Candidates for president in 2012

Just saw the interview with Mr Trump. He tells it straight. No BS here. He knows that China is cheating
the USA and other countries with their currency manipulations and their cheap prison labor. He knows that we
are sending BILLIONS of dollars to countries that hate us and would cause harm to the USA if they had half a chance. He knows that GE made $5,000,000,000 and paid ZERO USA TAXES last year. How does that make you feel as you read that fact. He knows that GE is in bed with the obama. That is why GE gave money to congresspersons to pass the obama health care law. So GE could make hundreds of millions of dollars in the next decade off the medical industry. And guess who owns NBC - That's right - GE - Think you are getting
honest coverage with obama or GE on NBC - no way !!!. Would you tell your boss he is wrong and risk
being fired? I do not think so.

Trump has an uphill battle with folks in IOWA and New Hampshire. But he has my vote. He is a mixture of the Republicans and the TEA party. By the way TEA is short for TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY. IT IS ABOUT TAXATION
AND THE BUDGET. SO WHEN TRUMP an excellent businessman says he can balance the budget or at least get
it back down a few TRILLION dollars. A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000 - And the USA only collectively earns
about 3,200,000,000,000 a year. And our deficit is 14,600,000,000,000. So even with these unbelievably
exceptionally large numbers, by reducing the budget by a trillion dollars every 5 years, that will bring the deficit under what the entire USA gross national product is. And that is very good for everyone - Dems and Reps alike.

Lots of numbers and they are important. When the USA deficit gets too large, someone will one day devalue the
USA's dollar. And that will mean that everyone who has dollars will have to exchange 100 of their OLD green dollars for ONE NEW tan dollar. And all your money in the banks will automatically be be exchanged. And then
we will all be poor because the prices will stay the same. So a Newspaper that cost $1 in old dollars will
still cost $1 in new dollars. But the new dollars will be valued at 1 percent of the old dollars - so expect all prices to rise - thru Instant poor-house for almost everyone.

Since, I believe that Trump can get the budget reduced and save the USA from having to Devalue the Dollar, i
would vote for him. Forget all the side issues, this election is about your financial solvency - plain and simple.
Yes, there are side issues. BUT they become meaningless if the dollar is devalued. This election is more about
the deficit then employment. This election is not about Democrats or Republicans BUT about who will
reduce the budget. Financial solvency is the only thing to vote on in this election.

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If it's time to make a decision - the obama gets out of the USA

What is going on with the selective decisions on foreign politics. We do not interfere when muslims are slaughtering Christians in west africa. We start a face book ground swell in Egypt whose outcome is still in question. We do nothing when China massacres hundreds during a protest. We semi-attack Libya to little
to late and get involved in a civil war that we know nothing about who is doing the uprising.
And we have no way to finalize the results.
We have not interfered in Bahrain where we have physical assets in our naval ships. The Saudis have sent troops
to Bahrain to support the government there. The entire middle east is splitting between two factions of muslims.

Does it seem to you that the obama always takes the side of muslims or gets involved in racial matters???
It seems that way to me.

And where did the obama go immediately after he declared war on Libya? He went out of town. And did the obama go to congress to obtain a declaration of war before sending out ships to fight??? No way!!!

And will we accept Libya as two countries like North and South Korea??? is there any way an east Libya can
exist without the oil from west libya? I do not think so. And with the tens of BILLIONS of oil dollars that Libya's
dictator has stashed away, does it matter that we freeze his assets abroad??? Not in the least. So what will be
the possible outcome? We have to HOPE and PRAY for Libya's dictator's untimely death. Not a good bet.

With a President who can not and has never led anything, we can expect nothing from the obama except
what he has shown us already. He will protect the interests of muslims and Blacks. Definitely NOT a President
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE.

We have to wait and see. Maybe one of our missiles will get lucky find the right person. Are you feeling lucky
today???

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Over Population and ENERGY

The Japan earthquake and tsunami has shown the world that we need something new to create energy.
Recently in INC Magazine, there was an article about a little box that is being tested that takes less energy
to create more electric power. In fact, one Electric utility is currently testing this new product.

I think this company should offer their new product to Japan's electric company. They would get world-wide
coverage and - in my opinion - if it works as people are saying - this could change the face of electric
power within a decade. People could eventually purchase smaller versions and not be tied to an electric
company's "down lines" during storms. PLus they could save on their energy costs.

Sounds like an idea whose time has come and the opportunity is perfect.

Read the latest issue of INC Magazine and see what I am talking about. It is part of your near future.

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Over Population and WATER

AT 7,000,000,000 PEOPLE, there is just so much fresh, drinkable water. It's about 1% of all the water on Earth. A lot of water BUT the drain of water is increasing every day as an increasing population will need more water; as more people switch from a grain diet to a meat diet; as more land need irrigation for farming. One of the largest population countries is doing a great job in managing and reducing its population. BUT no good deed goes undone - as they say. The Chinese people have acquires a taste for meat. The difference is about 45,000 gallons of water per pound of growing meat versus 1.5 gallons of water for the same amount of rice. WOW !!! BIG DIFFERENCE. And the oceans are producing at capacity now. So we now have fresh water fish farms; another drain on the limited water supply.

There is about 1.5% of all the world's fresh water in ice burgs and glaciers. Who would want to risk melting this source of water. At some point, the ocean levels would rise and that would mean millions would be force to flee lower ground for higher ground. That would cause unbelievable over-crowding and sanitation problems.

So what are we to do? For one, every country need to force a population reduction. India is the biggest population growth country and the one of poorest countries overall. Yet their population is soaring. That is an issue for another time. For now, someone needs to be prodding India to reduce their population.

The other resource for water is the ocean. Now the cost of fresh de-salted water is very expensive. When someone can figure out how to extract the pure water from the ocean and harvest the salt inexpensively, that will be the next multi-billion industry. And that will have a down side as well. That will encourage population growth.

Does anyone have abetter idea??? Hopefully someone reading this will have an idea and make it happen.
Until then, every drop of water you conserve, will prolong the remaining supply of fresh water. Thank about that when you are washing, bathing, brushing your teeth, washing you car or clothes or dishes. We can all do small bit that will add up to a huge slowing of the fresh water drain.

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Over Population

What would happen if the population increased by another Billion ??? Would the world take notice? Probably not,
as long as there was peace and prosperity.

But if you combine another Billion people and a drought lasting years over several 'major crop areas' - then you would see a world-wide calamity. There would not be enough food to feed all the people. On top of that, the food exporting countries would lose export money. Their economies would falter - maybe food riot - maybe just riots in general.

Add to that another earthquake rattling Peru or Southern California or the Pakistan/turkey area, hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation - maybe a few billion people would starve. The airports would be unaccessible, the roads would be not passible, the water/sewer systems would stop working. There would not be enough fresh water for everyone. Disease would rule the world killing billions.

All because the world has too many people and just one or two events combining to create a huge loss of life.

It's time to start reducing the world's population before these major events happen. And happen they will. It's just a matter of time before another volcano, earthquake or hurricane happens.

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Over Population

Whatever happened to "natural selection" of the human species? When people living in harsh lands had little water or less food, it was OK to have a baby every year. And maybe one or two would grow up to have babies of their own. BUT What happens when you "help" to maintain that population with just enough water and food to allow those families to have almost all their babies grow up to have babies? That is a population explosion everyone can understand. Add to that today's medicine and natal care and you have the makings of a future over-population that will one day collapse on itself and take down a few neighboring countries in the process.

Take the Middle East as an example. They are populating exponentially. One country is spending enormous amounts of money they get from oil-sales to get fresh water by de-salting the ocean. Another country has turned the desert into a garden and feeding its population while exporting food. Other countries are importing food - some from oil sales and some from world food banks. There is no rational reason to have such excessive population growth. It is unsustainable and will collapse on itself at some point.

Europe has been reducing its population for decades - BUT with the immigration and the immigrants' continuing to have multiple babies per family, the population is both increasing and politically rushing towards disaster.

South America has had its over-population spurt and will soon be unable to feed itself.

What does this mean for everyone? Possible starvation. Possible no jobs for everyone. Possible a change in the structures of governments. Does any of this sound good to you?

That is why I believe we need to be taking a rational approach to curbing the world's population. Hear that India? Put a condom on it. You cannot feed your population now. India has over 50% unemployment. This is serious. Slow down your population. You are headed towards a major water and food shortage. The world can not and should not rush to your aid. Natural selection is necessary everywhere. It's nature. It's the way the planet works.
If shortage of water or food does not reduce your numbers, then disease or even war will eventually reduce the entire planet's population.

A little thought now will stave off a terrible disaster later. Limit the number of babies per family NOW!

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over-population

Nature has a way of dampening down on "Overpopulation". When small ground mammals have extra large families, the predators somehow know to increase their babies. And this gets the population back level. When any human grouping prior to very recent times grew to large, disease always struck and reduced the human population.

Now we have used our brains to build larger cities with intricate systems of fresh water plants and food and transportation and disease control plus reduce baby mortality. All this combines to create an over-populated world.

When any disaster occurs like a hurricane or major flooding or tsunami or earthquake or prolong drought, all the structures for supplying fresh water and food disappear. This will be the way of the future. The "bread-basket" of the Midwest USA has experienced several repeating droughts. The underground lake in the Midwest is slowly being drained for irrigation. If a drought and the water table in that lake drop at the same time, the USA will be without both a food source and a multi-billion export industry. Are you prepared to last 2 or 3 years before the "bread-Basket regains its growing capacity?

Some of the things we are doing now could stave off that scenario for a year or two. But 3 or 4 years and there will be riots in the streets with people looking for food. And people will begin to migrate back to around the Great Lakes where there is plenty of fresh water.

Somehow - Someway - the world's population needs to reduce by as much as half or we will all be in dire straits.

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