Father Jenkins Should Resign

The commencement celebration at Notre Dame today was a sham.  Of course we expected the usual liberal
babblings from the president, but the speech by Father Jenkins was appalling in his support of this President who has an unknown background and a questionable agenda.

Father Jenkins should be forced to resign from Notre Dame. His preclude to Obama's speech should have been focused on the class of 2009 but became the Obama show.  While he went on and on about the abortion issue and how he expressed his "love-fest" for a President who has shown nothing in the first three months but a downward spiral and move toward socialism for our country was not only nauseating but down right insulting.

As a person who has been raised Catholic, I cannot forgive his downright slobbering and intent to please Obama. Many American families, under difficult financial situations, choose to send their children to Notre Dame to get a Catholic education.  Today's abomination would suggest a better alternative to a 35k + price tag. 

I respect the faculty at Arizona State University more than the prestigious staff at Notre Dame for choosing NOT to bestow an honorary degree to a president who is questionable in his beliefs and his motivations to run this country.  I would hope the faculty and the alumni of Norte Dame  will ask to force the resignation of Father Jenkins.  His actions are despicable and not upholding to the Catholic faith.  

Amid this controversial debate, Obama should have declined the invitation; but since his motives are not in the best interest of Notre Dame or the United States of America, he proceeded to become a headline for a very disturbing topic: Abortion. I am sorry that the graduating class of 2009 had to be held hostage during this circus.  Good luck and God bless you.

TC / SS

Suzann

Inside Communism – Personal Rights (Must Read)

Everybody knows the Communism does not work. Socialism is communism in disguise. I always asked myself, why there is such a strong socialist undercurrent in this country of USA?

The following is an insight into the inner workings of a communist society. Statements and stories are not necessarily listed in any order; just thoughts from my personal experience.

Personal Rights

There are no rights. No litigation against the state is possible. The state is never wrong. No litigation against an individual would ever occur; nobody had any money to be collected from.

Individuals were simply “imprisoned” in their homes, city, county and ultimately, country boundaries – the armed guard borders. Dictatorship of the proletarians as claimed by the communist doctrine turned into the dictatorship over the proletarians.

My biological father left my mother, when I was three years old, to join the communist party. Five years later, he became an important communist leader in charge with a large territory. Few years after that he was sent to a labor camp where he spent years, not as leader, as a convict. When he was released he was a broken man. He died at an early age.

My uncle, who was a hotel manager, was arrested as he got off the train coming home. He showed up two years later and nobody knew where he was all this time.

One of my schoolmate’s father was arrested when my freind was only five. After 15 years, when my schoolmate was 20, his father showed up at the door of their residence. All these years his family didn’t know anything about his whereabouts.

A friend of my family, a medical doctor, run into some political problems with the government. His practice license as well as his driving license were suspended. He had to take a labor job, but most upsetting was the fact that he owned a motorcycle he could not use, nor could he sell it. People did not have the money to buy it.

The father of one of my childhood friends, was a taxi driver who owned his cab, a 1938 Cadillac. When the communism system took over, the government suspended his license as an operator as well as the registration license for his cab. He had his automobile sitting in his garage for more that 15 years. He could not drive it, nor could he sell it.

During my teenage years I was involved in competitive athletics: bicycle, skiing and speed ice skating. At the age of 19 I qualified for the national team (bicycling), training for the 1964 Tokyo summer Olympics. During training, the team participated in international races, mostly held in Eastern European countries. My country refused to issue me a passport and I was dropped from the team. I never found out why, in spite of repeated requests at all levels of government.

In the above cases, none of the individuals committed any crimes against the state. The only thing they did, they spoke against the government or were critical of it. I could never find out from them the actual charges. Of course if you were too nosy, you could end up in jail yourself. Everybody was numb and did not want to talk about it. 

 

The Government at Work - It steals you blindly if it can

Take a look at my recent telephone bill, period ending May 28. I had not made a single telephone call using the land line during this pay period. My basic service is 10.94 and my bill is 20.68. That represents almost 90% in taxes and surcharges going to the government from a service I don’t even use.

Tr Cojoc

May 28 Telephone bill – AT&T

During the month of May I had not made a single telephone call using the land line.

Here is my bill:

Monthly Service

1. Residence Flat Rate Service 10.94

2. Caller ID Selective Blocking 0.00

Total Monthly Service            10.94

 Surcharges and Other Fees

3. Federal Subscriber Line Charge 4.40

4. Rate Surcharge .26

5. State Regulatory Fee .02

6. Federal Universal Service Fee .49

Total Surcharges and Other Fees    5.17

Total Plans and Services    16.89

Government Fees and Taxes

7. CA High Cost Fund Surcharge – A .01

8. CA High Cost Fund-B and CA Advanced Svc Fund .06

9. California Teleconnect Fund Surcharge .01

10. Universal Lifeline Telephone Service Surcharge .13

11. CA Relay Service and Communications Devices Fund .02  

12. 9-1-1 Emergency System .06

13. Federal .49

Total Government Fees and Taxes    0.78

 AT&T Long Distance

 Monthly Service Charges

 1. OneRate Natn 10 Cent 2.00

Total Service Charges            2.00

 Surcharges and Other Fees

2. Carrier Cost Recovery Fee 1.49

3. Fed Universal Service Fund .27

Total Surcharges and Other Fees    1.76

 Government Fees and Taxes

4. CA High Cost Fund B and CA Advanced Svc Fund .01

5. CA State Emergency Telephone Users (911) Tax .01

6. CA Teleconnect Fund (0.13%) .00

7. CA Universal Lifeline Tel. Service Fund .01

Total Government Fees and Taxes    .03

 Total AT&T Long Distance    3.79

 Total Current Charges    16.89 + 3.79 = 20.68

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Oil Prices and Congress

I watched the congress and the senate hearings, interrogating the oil industry’s executives, treating them as culprits or worse as criminals guilty of making profits on the back of the regular, poor consumer having to pay a “high” price for gasoline. It reminded me the old communist system I escaped 49 years ago. The communists would have condemned and executed the culprits, the executives.

 
Of course this is the United States of America, and is not that easy for politicians to eliminate people they don’t like. Believe me, if they could, they would.

 
The most ridiculous statement was from congresswoman Maxine Waters, stating from the podium of the House of Representative, that the government might have to nationalize the oil industry. How arrogant, or rather stupid that statement can be?

 
If you think congresswoman Waters is an aberration, think again, she is not. The liberal congress is opening an investigation on “oil futures speculators”.

 
Futures market has been around for long time. It has served the free trading commerce environment flawlessly for hundreds of years. Japan had a futures trading system for rice going back to 1750.

Communist system eliminated free trade and credit. Under communism, if you wanted to buy a motorcycle, you had to save the money, deposited in the bank to pay in full, and once you had the full amount, you were allowed to place your name on the waiting list that might take a year or more to take delivery of your motorcycle.

If it was left to the Maxine Waters of the world, we would have to deposit money into a gasoline account and wait with a coupon at a gas station to get our two gallon allocation.

Of course, I am exaggerating, but maybe not.

 
Futures speculators are the most honest of the bunch; they are using their own money to make a quick buck. Most of them, 95% loose money in the process. Hillary’s $1,000 investment in futures returning $100,000 was a bogus gain; it was a payout. It was impossible. A $10,000 investment could have returned $100k if everything was right. However, a $10K investment could have resulted in a $100k LOSS just as easily.

Futures trading background

In 1878, a central dealing facility was opened in Chicago, where farmers and dealers could deal in ‘spot’ grain, and immediately deliver their wheat crop for a cash settlement. Futures trading evolved as farmers and dealers committed to buying and selling future exchanges of the commodity. For example, a dealer would agree to buy 5,000 bushels of a specified quality of wheat from the farmer in June the following year, for a specified price. The farmer knew how much he would be paid in advance, and the dealer knew his costs.

The most valuable service provided by speculators: PRICE of Commodity

Light oil crude futures, February 2008 with delivery in August, were trading around $90. Any buyer of crude oil, planning delivery in August, 2008 paid $90 for a barrel of oil. Today, June 2008, you can’t get any future delivery contract at below $130.

The speculators’ reading: Congress is not going to do anything good to help alleviate the problem. Secondly, you are on your own and you will pay these high and even higher prices for the near future.

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http://traian-forex.blogspot.com/2008/06/oil-prices-and-congress.html  

Excerpts from Communism Landed in Eastern Europe Un-Invited

Socialism is Communism in disguise. Give the socialists the police power of government and you have Communism.

Communism has done more damage to humanity than the World War II and is still doing it. Just look at Africa and now Venezuela, not to mention Cuba.

Compassionate Communists

My father had a small business employing two people. His equipment was confiscated and the business closed. He was placed as a worker with one of the large companies, now owned by the “people”, or rather the state.

Fiscal Reform - Communist Style

After the war, the inflation was out of control. After taking over the responsibility of feeding the “people”, the communist government faced the problem of setting prices and salaries.

The communists are equalitarian. No-one can have more than the rest. Here is how they did it:

The government printed new currency and made the old currency worthless. I was 9 years old. Over night, everything was really cheap. What used to be 10,000 lei, now it was only 10 lei.

What I did not know at the time, was that the government provided every family with just 1,200 lei in exchange, regardless of how much money anyone had in the previous currency. All cash owned by individuals just disappeared over night. Individual bank accounts were closed and credit disappeared. Everyone had a new start, and equally poor: 1.200 lei period.

Economic Impact

The economic impact was immediate. The food just disappeared. No milk, no meat and even the black bread had to be rationed. You needed a coupon to buy a loaf of bread. Even during the war, there was more food available. This state of affairs lasted for many years. It got better for a while, and then it got worse again. At one point, people were happy when they could find chicken feet on the market. And that was after 15 years of communism.

The fall of communism has been attributed to President Ronald Regan by taking a strong stand against communism and calling it The Evil Empire, which it was. However, the collapse of the Soviet Union was due to common sense of the new and educated leaders who could not bear to lie and mislead their own people and the world community.

Communism collapsed on its own from top down. There was no one to support it.

A Personal Contribution To The Conservative Cause

My name is Tr Cojoc,

I was born in Eastern Europe, right in the middle of the war. The year was 1941. The war eventually ended and the communism took over. I escaped communism with the sole purpose of making the United States my new country. The year was 1969. I became a naturalized US citizen in 1976. This country has been great to me. I am retired now living in California.

I am watching in amazement the presidential contenders promising to deliver just about everything under the sun to the “people”. This is a typical socialistic approach. Socialist undercurrents are not new to this country. Roosevelt had his Great Society, Nixon placed salary caps and taxed old and new oil differently creating gas shortages, Carter did even worse and the interest rates for a home went up to 20 percent. I can go on and on. All these measures were eventually repealed or in the case of Social Security, the country is still managing it somehow.

That is not the case when national security is influenced by socialist ideology.

The way communism landed in Eastern Europe puzzled me for long time. One day, I came across an old book, Inside Europe, by John Gunther, 1938 edition. It was like a time capsule, unrevised, frozen in time.

From 1924 to 1936, John Gunther was assigned to the London bureau of the Chicago Daily News. Well known author of several “Inside” books. Inside Europe is the source for my information. It is out of print, but you can still buy it used through Amazon.

1938 was an important year because it was only two years away from the war. England had several opportunities to stop Hitler in its tracks, when he had no weapons. England, not only didn’t stop him, it helped him. Stalin never intended to wage war anywhere. He had the International Proletariat that he financed whose mission was to build a strong communist party in each country worldwide.

Inside Europe by John Gunther, 1938 edition.

Yalta agreement between US, UK and Soviet Union signed by Roosevelt set the stage for the cold war. Roosevelt had the upper hand; he did not have to give Eastern Europe to Stalin but he did.

This is socialism at work. I am not saying that socialism will happen here in the USA, but it could.

Just think, free health-care and/or Obama becoming president.

The information presented on this site is intended to show how the socialist political leadership in Europe failed to prevent WWII and how US leadership fell into the same socialist trap that led to the cold war.

Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Roosevelt were socialists at heart.

Tr Cojoc

Socialism Is Deadly

The following are excerpts from Socialism Is Deadly:

Socialism is not self-sustainable. It needs a leader to employ the power of the state to achieve its goals.

Soviet Union was established in 1922. It called itself Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. It added in short order Soviet Socialist Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belorussia (now Belarus), Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kirgiziya (now Kyrgyzstan), Latvia, Lithuania, Moldavia (now Moldova), Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. They were all called “Socialist”.

Hitler raised to power by building the German Workers' Party. The name was changed by Hitler to include the term National Socialist. Thus the full name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei orNSDAP) called for short, Nazi.

After the war, Soviet Union retained Eastern Europe and installed communist governments. They all became “Socialist”. CzechSocialistRepublic, Socialist Republic of Romania and so on.

Hitler was a socialist

By the autumn of 1937 Hitler had held three plebiscites. One asked vindication of his departure from the League of Nations, and he received a 92.3 per cent vote of confidence. The second sought acceptance of his combination of chancellorship and presidency after the death of Hindenburg; the affirmation vote was 88.3 per cent. The third followed the Rhineland crisis in March, 1936; the vote was 98 percent in support.

Hitler and his speeches

Hitler in his speeches, suggested to the German people first that they were sick, second that he alone could make them well.

His arguments were passionate:

“You are humiliated. You are degraded. Germany is a sick nation. Admit it. Concede the extent of your misery. You have been trying to persuade yourselves that you are content with this miserable republic.”

“Those who stabbed you in the back, the Jews and the Marxists, are ruling you today. They prevent you from recovering your self-respect. They are the spiritual death of your nation. And your own spiritual death too. For you are Germany. We are Germany. Be men! Out with the traitors, the Jews, the pacifists, the republicans….” And so on.

These speeches had an immense emotional effect. Women, especially, were overcome by them. If the audience was full of women, Hitler would shriek out, “You are mine, and I am yours, as long as I live!”

For the Germans, suppression of liberty was the price they were willing to pay for his leadership. Hitler was a socialist.

Stalin perfected Socialism. It is called Communism.

Under communism, dictatorship of the Proletarian is the rule. Anyone who is against the rules established by the communist rulers, is an enemy of the state and must be liquidated. By 1938, Stalin was still busy exterminating state enemies, by now in the millions.

The Soviets, under Stalin’s chairmanship, even had a constitution. “The Constitution guarantees paid employment, leisure, and free education to all the inhabitants of the country.”

Just like Hitler, Stalin had a similar, but different mission.

In 1938, Stalin was the leader of the Communist International, which had roots in ALL countries. He was confident, that the Communism will rule the word without any military intervention. Stalin had no reason to go to war. The only purpose of his army was to defend the new and young communist society he was building. In 1938 Stalin had no fighting army to speak of.

Roosevelt signs Yalta agreement

Roosevelt by signing the Yalta agreement with Stalin, did more damage to the world than the war itself.

By 1943, Roosevelt had come to the view that the independence of small states was an obstruction on the road to peace, and that the Great Powers had the right to impose governments on states without the consent of their populations. Roosevelt was entranced with a vision of a world peacefully directed by the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

Washington and London kept fueling Stalin's war machine even as it was enslaving much of Europe. "Soviet preponderance in Europe," noted Churchill's official biographer Martin Gilbert, did not stop more aid to Stalin, code-named Milepost, including a delivery agreed to on April 3, 1945--after FDR's above comment. "Under this agreement, Russia was to receive, and did receive, more than a thousand fighter aircraft and 240,000 tons of aircraft fuel, as well as 24,000 tons of rubber from Britain, and more than three thousand aircraft, three thousand tanks, nine thousand jeeps, sixteen thousand weapons carriers and 41,436 trucks from the United States, as well as nearly two thousand million dollars worth of machinery and equipment."

I worked in the electronics industry in various management positions expanding over 35 years.

 
In the early seventies, design and manufacturing of anything electronics was done in the USA. I worked for a manufacturer of hand-held calculators as an electronics designer. This company was based in New Jersey and it manufactured everything in New Jersey. Sears was their largest customer.

In mid-seventies, while working for another company, we set up a manufacturing plant in Mexico, across the border in Nogales. Many American companies did the same. Some of them are still operating there today. The same happened in Canada. The business environment was helpful and friendly, and of course the manufacturing cost was lower than in the USA. By mid-nineties, the Mexican government started imposing all sorts of restrictions and regulations. A large number of companies shut down and left. The same happened in Canada. In the mid-eighties I was working for an electronics company in Southern California. This company was a pioneer in communication electronic devices. It had a factory already and it needed to expand. The company invested in equipment and buildings.

By the time everything was installed and functioning, the manufacturing facility was not compliant anymore under the fast changing air quality regulations in the state of California. The new regulations forced the company to sell its facilities and move its manufacturing to Singapore and Malaysia. The company is still in business today but there is no manufacturing in this country.

Made In China Is A Misnomer

The term “Made” implies creation, design and manufacturing of a certain item. That is not what is happening with products labeled “Made in China”.

I worked for a very large electronics Taiwanese company. The company had engineering and manufacturing facilities in Taiwan. At the time, this company was the 4^th largest Taiwanese company trading on the Taipei exchange, 4 billion USD. It supplied a key component required by every computer. Their top customers were Compaq, Dell, IBM and Hewlett Packard.

In the mid-nineties, the Communist China opened for business big time. It was a strategic move on China’s part. Make the country business friendly and everybody will come. And they did.

The Chinese government, in the nineties, started building manufacturing facilities (concrete walls, no equipment) along the southern border, close to Hong Kong. Hong Kong was a big port and easily accessible from mainland.

 

If you wander how a nationalized government health program would work, take a look at the information below.

My friend Joe, expected to retire at the age of 65 and collect $1,650 per month in social security benefits. At the age of 61 he was out of work and had to get a low paying job in retail. By the age of 62, Joe was broke and had to apply for early/reduced social security benefits amounting to $1,450 per month.

At the age of 65 when Medicare kicked in, his social security check was reduced by $100 (Medicare premium). In the year prior to reaching 65, Joe exceeded the $11,000 a year threshold defined by the social security rules and was taxed 50% on the amount above the $11,000. It amounted to an overpayment of two social security checks.

Joe is 66 now and his social security check is $1,200 per month.