jax276's Blog

This woman speaks to us all...

For those of you that wondered whether voting yes on stem cell research for religious reasons or whatever may be wrong need to read this article.There are no limits to where this research will take us in the relief of human suffering.

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/200811
19/EU.MED.Windpipe.Transplant/
(If clicking on the link doesn't work, try copying and pasting it into your browser and hit "enter.")

Chinese carmakers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire GM and Chrysler, China’s 21st Century Business Herald reports today. [A National Enquirer the paper is not. It is one of China's leading business newspapers, with a daily readership over three million.] The paper cites a senior official of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology– the state regulator of China’s auto industry– who dropped the hint that “the auto manufacturing giants in China, such as Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) and Dongfeng Motor Corporation, have the capability and intention to buy some assets of the two crisis-plagued American automakers.” These hints are very often followed with quick action in the Middle Kingdom. The hints were dropped just a few days after the same Chinese government gave its auto makers the go-ahead to invest abroad. And why would they do that?

Is this the type of corporation we need to bail out? I use to feel a deep loyalty to the Big Three because I am a native Detroiter and also was involved in parts for automobiles for many years. From tooling to building injection molds my life revolved around the car. How have they repayed that loyalty? By laying of workers and factory closings that has trickled down through the industry and crippled this not only this city but cities all over the country. At the same time they are asking us for help they are building and expanding in other countries. You be the judge. 

While GM, Ford and Chrysler put the squeeze on the taxpayer’s elected (and appointed) representatives, their shift of investment out of the U.S. and into other countries continues apace. This morning, for example, the Associated Press reports on the grand opening of General Motors newest $300mfactory… in St. Petersburg, Russia. “This plant is GM’s first in Russia, where demand for cheap, well-built cars has exploded amid a decade-long economic boom.” Similarly, last month GM opening it’s second factory in India and launched a new $250 million Shanghai, China R&D palace. For the life of me, I do not understand how GM executives can continue to pay themselves outrageous sums of money, shut down American factories, put development programs into the deep-freeze, toss American workers on the ash-heap, invest the company’s dwindling resources everywhere else AND demand financial bailouts from American taxpayers. Oh yeah, and don’t forget that bit about blaming American customers for un-patriotic buying decisions. Speaker Pelosi, are you paying attention? Can someone please tell her from whence cometh the Chevrolet Aveo?

I don't have the eloquence to be the author of this but it's food for thought.

Jax

By Tom Adkins

I don't care what your political affiliation is...This is quite a portrait.

My Niece works as a supervisor in a preschool. Her husband works construction and of course is laid off and scraps for side jobs. They both work insanely hard trying to hold their family together. They have two children, my great niece Leah 3 and great nephew Ryan who's about 3 months. Granted, Having Ryan in this economic climate wasn't the smartest move but they didn't ask me how to conduct their lives behind closed doors. The only heathcare they can get is a pittance through her job that takes a large chunk of her checks and has a $1,500 deductible which may as well be a million. This family isn't rare, they are just a snapshot of half the young couples in this country. Oh and did I mention their house is going into foreclosure? Silly me.. I just thought you might be interested why they were turned down for medicaid. It's because they make too much money. Where are our tax dollars really going? Where are our healthcare dollars being swallowed up? Take a look, I couldn't get the picture of Ryan or Leah getting hurt or sick this winter when I watched this.  

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'

  - Franklin D. Roosevelt

'The buck stops here.'

  - Harry S. Truman

'Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'

  - John F. Kennedy

And for today's democrats...

'It depends what your definition of 'IS' is?''

  - Bill Clinton

'That Obama - I would like to cut his NUTS off.'

  - Jesse Jackson

'Those rumors are false .... I believe in the sanctity of marriage.'

   - John Edwards

'I invented the Internet'

  - Al Gore

'The next Person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ***.'

  - Joe Biden

 'America is--is no longer, uh, what it--it, uh, could be, uh what it was once was...uh, and I say to myself, 'uh, I don't want that future, uh, uh for my children.' ''

   - Barack Obama

 'I have campaigned in all 57 states.

  - Barack Obama

'You don't need God anymore, you have us democrats.'

  - Nancy Pelosi     (said back in 2006)

'Bill is the greatest husband and father I know. No one is more faithful, true, and honest than he.'

  - Hillary Clinton    (said back in 1998)