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Thursday, September 10, 2009 

Last night President Obama once again stated that his plan will not cover illegal foreign nationals. Supporters of the various plans in the House have said that those plans will not cover illegals. And Supporters of the plan in the Senate committee have stated that the plan will not cover illegals. Some critics are claiming that the bill does provide coverage for illegals.

So, do these plan's cover illegal foreign nationals?

When you read the language in the bills, the bills say that illegal foreign nationals are NOT to receive any help paying for their medical insurance coverage. In other places, the language says that it is illegal for illegal aliens (Illegal foreign nationals) to be covered by the plan(s).

So, the answer to our question, "Will Obama's healthcare plan cover illegal foreign nationals" is NO.

However, when you ask a slightly different question, "Will Illegal foreign nationals be able to access free or reduced price non-emergency medical coverage as a result of Obama's healthcare plan?" we get a different answer.

Illegals already receive free emergency care around the country at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of atleast $4.4 Billion dollars a year. But, what about healthcare insurance?

While the Obama plan will say that illegals are not allowed to gain healthcare coverage, they will indeed still get healthcare coverage. None of the current bills contain any kind of verification to actually identify fraudulent claims by illegal foreign nationals. The bill has NO enforcement, much like the rest of our broken immigration system. And none of the bills even allow the question to be asked, "Are you a legal U.S. citizen?". A few amendments that would have included some form of verification or check to see if folks are here legally, but they were easily voted down. The White House and the leaders of the House and Senate have all said that the final bill will NOT include any kind of verification system.

It is very easy to make it illegal for illegal foreign nationals to sign up for coverage under the new Obama healthcare plan. Just as it was to write similiar laws.

It is illegal for illegal foreign nationals to cross our borders.

It is illegal for illegal foreign nationals to work in our country.

It is illegal for U.S. employers to hire illegal foreign nationals.

Identity theft is illegal.

Despite the language of these laws, 1.5 million illegals will still cross our border in 2009 and enter our nation illegally. They will join the already 12 Million to 30 Million cheap labor illegal foreign nationals already living and/or working in the United States. Several hundreds of thousands of illegals are committing identity fraud in the United States. Illegal foreign nationals are not allowed to recieve social security, yet thousands of them still do illegally.

With no verification system, no enforcement and no questions being asked, the result will be illegal foreign nationals gaining healthcare insurance because of the passage of Obama's healthcare plan. Most of them will receive the coverage for free and some others at a reduced cost. I can assure you that this will happen and it will be widespread. Depending upon how many illegals received the coverage, the cost to U.S. taxpayers could run between $28 Billion and $40 Billion dollars each and every year.

71 other federal programs have a verification system in place to make sure illegal foreign nationals are not receiving benefits. The verification program is not perfect, but it does greatly reduce the amount of fraud. Even with the verification system in place with these 71 other federal programs, illegal foreign nationals still try to gain access to benefits that they should not be getting and they do so illegally. So, we can be sure that they would seek and gain access to healthcare coverage with no verification or enforcement.

The new healthcare plan could also open up access to Medicaid coverage for illegal foreign nationals. The new plan does not require identity verification for those claiming to be U.S. citizens. This new Medicaid loophole could cost U.S. taxpayers an additional several billion dollars a year.

So, while the media continues to say that the Obama healthcare plan does not cover illegal immigrants and the language of these bills state that illegals should not gain coverage - illegals will gain access to coverage because of the plan.  

The White House and the Congress have little desire to verify and enforce the language. Most of them would prefer that illegals gain healthcare coverage and the phony language is just cover for them to look good in the public eye while still allowing illegals to gain coverage.

Will Obama's healthcare plan cover illegal foreign nationals? NO

Will illegal foreign nationals be able to access free or reduced cost healthcare coverage due to Obama's healthcare plan?     YES

It is a language game and politics as usual.

The Globalization and Social engineering army is on the march....
 
The largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world continues....



Saturday, August 15, 2009 

Category: News and Politics


In 2001, the Philadelphia Eagles released Thomas Hamner after he nearly beat his pit bull puppy to death.

In 2004, the Philadelphia Eagles released Damon Moore after he abandoned a three month old Rottweiler puppy in a field in New Jersey.

These two players were released by the same Philadelphia Eagles owner and coach for animal cruelty charges. These abuses were very bad, but as bad as they were they were still not at the level of what Michael Vick did.

These players were not superstars and they were released immediately.

The Eagles owner, coach, players, the Mayor, the Governor all claim that everyone deserves a second chance. None of them spoke out and said that Thomas Hamner and Damon Moore should get a second chance. They simply want to win games, the "everyone deserves a second chance" stuff is a load of crap. The Eagles have had exceptional talent for years and year after year they failed to get it done. The many years of failure have made coach Reid and owner Jeffery Lurie desperate and they will do anything to try to win a superbowl. So, they will try to spin this fraudulent episode with phrases like "second chances" and "building character". They don't care what kind of low life trash helps them win.

Plus, Michael Vick has had more than a second chance. He has in fact had multiple chances and proved that he is not worthy of second chances.

In 2004, Michael Vick's truck was used by two drug dealers (friends of his) to distribute drugs. Vick claimed that he didn't know anything about it.

Again in 2004, Two members of Michael Vick's personal security team were caught stealing an expensive watch. Michael Vick refused to cooperate and refused to even talk with investigators. The watch was later returned and nobody was charged despite video evidence showing the crime.

In 2005, Michael Vick paid a large cash settlement to a woman named Sonya Elliot to drop criminal charges against him after he knowingly infected her with genital herpes.

In 2006, Michael Vick was fined for flipping off the fans during and again after a football game. Vick said it was the fans fault.

In 2007, Michael Vick failed to show up to testify before Congress to lobby for an increase in after- school programs. Vick promised to attend the hearing and missed two flights and refused to get on a third flight.

And after Michael Vick's house was raided and dogs were found abused,dead, hung from trees, shocked with jumper cables, etc., he said that he had no knowledge about it and blamed it on his "friends". Vick lied for months and months. He only came around to admit any wrong doing after the evidence was clear that he was directly involved and so his agent convinced him that his only chance to play again was to admit wrong doing.

Some people deserve a second chance. Michael Vick never did.

Second chances are something that should be earned. Vick has been fortunate enough to get many more chances than he has ever deserved because the "desire to win" causes some to try to rationalize giving him chance after chance despite the cancer that he causes on a team and the poor message he sends to the community. The Eagles are hurting the game and ultimately hurting themselves. Besides, they will once again fail to win the super bowl.

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 

Category: Blogging

I first watched the Tour De France back in the mid 1980's. On the weekends, CBS broadcasted segments of each stage from the prior week and showed live coverage of the weekend stages. It was at that time that I fell in love with the Tour de France and bicycling.

I have watched the tour every summer from 1985 until the present, except for one summer when I was far away from any TV's. In 1987 I began doing some serious riding. In the spring & summers of 1988 thru 1991 I rode an average of 45 miles per day (that includes 1-2 day(s) off per week).

Back then during the summer weeks of the tour, I was inspired and driven as I spent 8 hours per day exercising in the form of bicycling, boxing and martial arts.

Back then I had assumed that I would be making a living in athletics/ sports. But, my life took a different path. And I must say that Politics was absolutely the very last thing that I would have ever thought I would be involved in.

I don't get the bike out much these days, but I am still glued to the tv during the tour. The nearly 2,000 mile race that goes through the Alps is still just as inspiring to me as it was back then.

This year the tour was especially special. Lance Armstrong was back. I have never seen so many fans along the roads as this year. The French people came out in record numbers in order to see and cheer on Lance Armstrong. The Versus channel does a great job of covering each days stage race live.

Lance did not win this year, but his accomplishment (finishing 3rd) was truly amazing. The media and many Americans didn't pay as much attention to the tour this year when it appeared that Lance was not going to win. But, after a four year layoff and a very bad crash earlier this year, a third place finish is truly amazing. His performance this year was as incredible as his prior wins.

Bicycling is a team sport. And Lance was not the team leader for his team -Team Astana. His teammate Alberto Cantador (Spain) was declared the team leader and Lance and the rest of the team had one mission - to get Alberto Contador the overall win. And they did just that. This was despite the fact the Contador was not a team player himself. Contador is arrogant and showed no respect for Lance Armstrong. And so it was difficult to watch Lance work to get Contador the win.

If Lance had been on a different team, he may have been able to finish second this year instead of third. His conditioning wasn't back to the level it was in previous years and so it would have been difficult for him to defeat Contador this year. Contador has been called one of the greatest pure climbers in the history of professional bicycling.

But, Lance was inspiring once again. He will return again to the tour next year. And next year Lance will not be on the same team as Contador. Lance will be on a brand new American team sponsored by Radio Shack. Lance will be ready and he will train like a machine over the next 12 months you can be sure. He was disrespected and he will make Contador regret his rude remarks and behavior.

Lance has a talent of putting together a strong team. Contador will struggle at putting together a team, because he is not a team player. If Lance doesn't have any crashes in the spring races next year then I predict that he will defeat Contador (who many experts think is unbeatable) and win the tour once again.

This years tour was a true classic. Next year's tour is still a year away, but I am already looking forward to it.

The tour is always special to me. It's always magical and inspiring to me even when America has no strong riders in the race. But, this year it was extra dramatic and exciting.

Thanks Lance Armstrong.

Tuesday, July 07, 2009 

Category: Blogging

It was in my late high school years that I was first told about my father and what his name was. I was told that I was adopted and that my father was a good looking guy and that he died when I was only a few months old. And that was about it concerning my father. I will leave the rest of that conversation for another day, but let's just say that seconds before I didn't know I had another family, another life.

It was over ten years after that conversation when I was an adult student in college that I began sorting through the college library microfilm collection searching for any scrap of information about my father. I was curious, but I wouldn't say that I felt much else beyond that.

After several days of searching old newspapers there it was a few pages back in the local paper. My father was driving home and was speeding up a ridge called sand plant hill. Just after cresting the top of the ridge he slammed into the back of a slow moving 18-wheeler that just started it's way down the ridge. The truck driver was unaware that my father's car was lodged underneath his rig. So, the truck continued down the highway with my father lodging in a car that was being grinded away by the highway. The truck traveled over a half mile before seeing the car lodged underneath his truck bed. My father was still alive when the fire company was finally able to cut him out of the car. But, he faded away before reaching the hospital. It was the next years following his death that my living hell began. I will leave that for another day.

Well before reading about my fathers death, I had always gotten a strange feeling in my stomach as I crested Sand Plant Hill. It is the kind of feeling that you get when you are riding a roller coaster. I had always thought it was because I drove over the top too fast and the decline was so steep. I no longer drive fast over the top of that ridge.

Several days after finding the newspaper article, I went back to the library to check for additional information. A few days futher along in the microfilm collection, I found the final writeup. My father had a job pouring cement and was working on the mammouth Raystown Dam Project in Huntingdon County, PA. Oddly enough it was on Raystown Lake which was created with the construction of the Raystown Dam that my adoptive Dad would decades later spend most of his final five years. He took his boat to the lake nearly everyday and often fished all night. I spent many nights myself fishing and sleeping on the boat. He even went ice fishing quite often during the winter months.

In 2000, I spent several months tryng to track down the place where my father was laid to rest. I found out that most of the church's in the area have very poor funeral records. I finally found his name listed in the records at a small cemetary in Mount Union. I searched and searched for the grave marker, but it was nowhere to be found. I went to the exact plot that was listed in the records and found a grave stone. However, the grave stone had another name on it. After going through the records and looking at the grave stones, I came to the conclusion that the cemetary had been jamming folks all together and probably on top of each other. I finally tracked down a relative, a drunkin' relative at a bar at 8am in the morning on a weekday and asked him some questions. 

He said that "nobody could afford a grave stone at that time" and that he remembered the general area that he was laid to rest, but not the exact area. I told him that there was still no grave stone. He said that he would talk to the rest of the family and they would make sure they put up a grave stone before I came back to visit. 

A few days ago, nearly nine years later I went back there on the fourth of July. I walked the whole grave yard and still no grave stone or even any indication at all of where the grave is. Sometimes I am not sure if I want to find it.



Monday, May 11, 2009 

Category: News and Politics

The tobacco industry in America is fading as the campaign against smoking continues to gain ground, lawsuits and higher taxes on tobacco products continues to result in lower sales. While many would applaud the decrease in tobacco useage in the United States because of the health side effects, the fact remains that many family farms and towns are suffering economically because of the decrease in tobacco sales.

Farmers are losing their farms and their land. And once farm land is lost, it is very difficult to ever get it back as new development quickly gobbles up the land. Families who have worked the land for generations are having to give up their way of life and sell the land they love.

It is not in our nation's best interest to simple watch these farmers give up their land and their way of life or to have it taken. It is time to legalize the farming of Industrial Hemp in the United States.

Legalizing Industrial Hemp would allow our farmers to hang onto their land and continue their love of working the land. It is not just tobacco farmers that desperately need us to legalize Industrial Hemp, farmers all across the nation are struggling and losing their farms. Industrial Hemp can be made into literally thousands of products, including food. It is legal to sell Hemp products in the U.S., it is just illegal to grow it. That makes no sense. We are the only nation that has such a ban. Technically, it is not exactly illegal to grow Hemp in the U.S., it is illegal to grow Hemp in the U.S. without a DEA permit. And since the DEA doesn't normally give out permits, we will use the term illegal.

The United States has a long history of growing quality hemp, but it was made illegal some time ago when people got the crop confused with Marijuana. Hemp is not the same as Marijuana. Americans buy billions of dollars a year in Hemp products that are mostly grown in Canada. You would be very surprised how many products you have already bought that contain foreign grown Hemp.

There is a bill currently in the U.S. House to legalize the farming of Industrial Hemp, but it appears that bill is not likely to pass.

It is time to legalize Industrial Hemp. It would allow many American farmers to keep their farms and their land. And it would be one more step toward a return to American self-reliance.


-michael
NAIP

Return to American Self-Reliance
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Current mood:  annoyed
Category: News and Politics

OMG! Are you allowed to say that? Can one say "stand with" and "white" together without being arrested or accused of racism by the political correctness police or the actual police?


We are waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the New Haven White Firefighters reverse discrimination/affirmative action case. The City of New Haven, CT. denied promotion to 19 White firefighters and 1 hispanic firefighter who passed the promotion exam because all of the Black firefighters failed the test.

There has been no evidence that the test was unfair. The city simply didn't get the results that they wanted and so they decided to discriminate against the while firefighters that passed the test. As I have posted before, so many of our elected officals at the local, state and national level are more concerned with their social engineering agenda than they are for what is best for their town, state or our nation.

The New American Independent Party stands with the New Haven firefighters and we are proud to say so. We are especially proud of one of those firefighters, FRANK RICCI. Frank had a dream, his American dream. He loves firefighting more than anything and he wanted to achieve that rank that was right there in front of him if he just passed the test.

FRANK HAS DYSLEXIA. He quit his second job so that he could spend all of his time studying for the exam, When Frank Rucci wasn't on a run or working around the firehouse, he was studying for the test. All witnesses testified that Frank was studying 10 - 13 hours a day leading up to the exam.

Frank's hard work and incredible desire paid off. He went into that test and passed it! Frank reached high and grabbed his own American Dream. Well, the city of New Haven ripped Frank's dream away from him. The actions of the city are disguisting and these brave firefighters deserve better. These men should not be punished because the test didn't further the social engineering agenda of today's two globalist - corporate parties.

It is time that we stand up to this assault by the globalist - social engineering agenda. This is happening all around the country at an accelerated pace. 

It is ok America to proudly stand with Frank Ricci. He should not be punished just because his family roots come from Italy. It is ok America to proudly stand with the 19 White and 1 Hispanic firefighter that deserve promotions.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 

Current mood:  aroused
Category: News and Politics
A quick note for NAIP members going out to any of the Tea Parties going on across the country today:

These Tea Parties are protesting a number of different issues such as government bailouts, government spending, high taxes, the growing size of government etc, etc. I am sure that most of you have heard about them by now.

It is important to note that while the most of these tea parties are being run by ordinary citizens of all political leanings and parties, the Republican party is trying to take credit for these parties and is desperately trying to collect information from attendees and get those folks to support the weakening Republican party. They are trying to take the media coverage and momentum from all these parties and somehow try to funnel it into the Republican party.


Fox News and other media outlets and personalities will be attending and broadcasting live from some of these parties. Where were they when Bush and Republican members of congress were running up record debt, a record size of government and blank check Wall Street bailouts?

Just remember that these Tea Parties are NOT Republican party events and they sure were not the idea of the Republican party. The Republican party is getting desperate. They feel their strength and influence fading quickly and they are and will be getting more aggressive towards us (NAIP) and other third parties.

Independents and members of the New American Independent Party, Libertarian, Constitution and dozens of other parties along with Democrats and Republicans will be attending these parties.

All of the problems that the Tea Parties are protesting are problems that the Republican party helped create along with the Democratic Party.

Elephant manure and Donkey manure both stink.

A number of people requested that I speak at a local Tea Party near Philadelphia. So, I requested to speak at that Tea Party event.  I was denied and told that this event was a Republican event. lol. I am still going and I will still be talking to plenty of people. And I encourge you to do so also. If someone from the Republican party tries to block you from talking to people, hold your ground and continue getting the word out.

The Republican Party has run out of ideas and they are starting to get scared. Libertarians, Constitution and other parties will likely also see increased resistance and aggression from the Republican party over the next five years.

I recommend that you do NOT sign anything. Alot of different groups will likely be trying to circulate petitions and sign up sheets including ACORN who are going to several locations (in urban areas) and circulating petitions and pretending to be outraged at the government. I don't know what they are doing with the information that they gather, but I don't want to find out.


I hope you all go out and enjoy the Tea Parties! Just remember they are BY and FOR ordinary American citizens! They are NOT Republican events!

Enjoy the event and network, network, network.

And remember to pay your taxes today, unless you are angling for an Obama cabinet position!

-michael
Currently reading:
The Illiad
By homer
Friday, February 13, 2009 

Category: News and Politics
The U.S. House just voted on and passed the $800 Billion dollar stimulus bill. It is 1,100 pages long and not a single member of the House has read the entire bill. The final version of the bill was crafted behind closed doors by a small group and was not given to members until around midnight last night. So, once again we have no transperancy. Obama promised that bills would be posted on the internet with sufficent time for the public to view. And Obama's website said that he will put an end to legislation being crafted behind closed doors. That didn't happen either. So, now we have a $1.1 Trillion dollar bill borrowed from China when you include interest. This is the largest spending bill in the history of the world!

It is big, but it is neither bold nor beautiful.

Many of us already know about the wasteful spending in the bill and the special projects and handouts for specific lawmakers to get their vote - like the millions of dollars for both medical research (animal research) AND promised funds for a new train from Reading to Philadelphia for Arlen Spector.

The bill has no provison to make sure illegal immigrants are not hired with the money. Thus, an estimated 300,000 illegal foreign nationals will be employed with this money.

An estimated 2,000 legal foreign nationals (visa holders) will likely be employed with this money.

The Buy American Steel and Iron provision was re-worded and now you can be sure that Chinese steel will be used for many of these projects. Thus, the only part of the bill that directly helped American manufacturing is useless.

Thus, the bill does nothing for American manufacturing. American manufacturing is what created and will maintain the middle class. We do need to re-build our infrastucture and transform our economy into one fueled by clean renewable domestic energy. However, this bill doesn't do as much of that as the public seems to think.

We can build all the roads that we want. And we can build all the wind turbines that we want. But, that is NOT going to turn our economy around and stop our slide. This bill simply puts a band aid on the economy for a temporary amount of time. It does not address the real problems that we face - lack of manufacturing, free trade, dependence on foreign nations and other basic problems.

We will continue to lose jobs year after year with or without this stimulus plan.

The Democratic and Republican parties won't even discuss ending our disasterous free trade agreements that flood our market with cheap foreign goods and cripple American companies. American companies are still not going to be able to compete with cheap foreign products that get trade advantages. The temporary boost of funds will not help and might even hurt our economy in the long run.

Our companies don't have a chance and the clowns in Washington (both parties)continue to cling to unfair trade deals. They haven't even been discussing our trade policies when discussing how to fix our economy! Our failed trade policies are the reason why foreign companies can unload as much crap as they want in our stores and U.S. companies are only allowed to export a limited amount abroad and at a much higher cost at that.

U.S. companies will continue to be forced to either:
1. Move operations abroad
2. Import cheaper skilled labor through visa programs
3. Import cheap unskilled illegal foreign nationals
4..Go out of business

All four of those options are disasterous for the American economy and the American worker.

Just a few things of many things that we could do:

1. Re-negotiate our trade policies. Toss all blanket trade deals that include more than one other country. Negotiate one-on-one to make sure the deals are FAIR, not free. And make sure that we are getting products that we need and can't find elsewhere. We need FAIR TRADE, NOT FREE TRADE.

American manufacturing would immediately pick up and many, many times more jobs would be created compared to the stimulus bill. And these jobs would be long-term sustainable jobs that pay a decent wage.

Both the Democratic and Republican parties support free trade which has slowly drained America's wealth for decades. We are losing jobs, wealth, companies and self-reliance. This results in a fragile, weak nation that cannot maintain it's standing and strength for long.

On average the U.S. is losing about $25 - $55 Billion dollars each and every month in trade to China. That is the wealth of our nation slipping away. And these clowns refuse to address this problem.

2. Immediately freeze the foreign work visa programs until our economy turns around expect for positions that foreign workers would be prefered. Example: A chinese native would be preferred to teach Chinese language courses at a University over a non-Chinese native. There are currently over 1.5 million skilled foreign visa holders currently working in the U.S. and 99.9% of them can be filled by American workers. Over 40,000 U.S. tech workers have been left go within the past few months yet our government wants to lift the H-1B cap of 65,000 tech workers a year to allow an unlimited amount of foreign nationals to swarm our tech jobs.

3. Crack down on companies hiring illegal foreign nationals. A Slap on the wrist doesn't help. We need real punishment and loss of business license with multiple offense. This would open up millions of jobs for those unemployed. Illegal foreign workers sent more money back home to Mexico from the U.S. in 2007 than Mexico made in oil exports. Eliminating the hiring of foreign workers not only opens jobs up for Americans, but it keeps our wealth here instead of have it sent Western Union to another country.

4. Stimulus spending should be sunk into long-term sustainable manufacturing. We are in decline because we are losing our manufacturing base. The two globalist parties have given up on American manufacturing. The new service and technology economy will NOT sustain us and will only continue our dependence upon foreign nations and foreign investors. If we are going to pass a stimulus bill - it should be a bold one and one that actually create jobs.

A strong manufacturing base would re-strenghten our foundation and allow us to afford to fix our infrastructure and switch to clean renewable domestic energy.

The stimulus bill passed today provides more unemployement and food stamp funds, but the problems will remain when the boost in spending ends. The green jobs and infrastrucure spending are not long-term jobs. These are important projects, but they won't last that long. After that we will have nicer roads and more wind mills but our jobs and companies will continue to be lost. Thus any stimulus bill would serve us much better if atleast 50% of it was manufacturing. Then divided the rest into infrastructure, green energy and military spending.

Atleast 6 out of 10 cars that are bought with the new automobile tax credit will be foreign built cars. Others will be buying their tax savings on foreign made crap - thus the largest transfer of wealth will continue.

This bill is a disaster and it will not help the downward spiral that we are in. Until the Democratic and Republican parties get a backbone and are willing to stand up for American workers then they will continue to sell us out to corporate, foreign and ethnocentric interests.
 
 

 
Note: I don't have time to proof read this. So if you see errors you will have to get over it.
Currently reading/watching/listening/playing:
The American Revolution - Boxed Set (A&E)
Release date: 1997-04-24
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 

Category: News and Politics
It has been over 7 years since the Sept. 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. I recently visited ground zero again when I was in NYC for an event at New York University. I have visited the site countless times over the past seven years and one thing has remained constant - not much is going on.

Some of the hole has been filled in, but very little construction of the memorial and the new freedom tower has been started. A multitude of competing interests have been fighting over what should be done with the site almost before the dust settled.


The current plans call for a small memorial to be built for the victims. The memorial is to be built below ground. No other national museum is below ground. It will contain cheezy water fountains.

Also on the grounds will go the new freedom tower and several other smaller towers. The freedom tower design is unimpressive and has been called a piece of junk by Donald Trump. Surrounding the memorial will be dozens of shops and restaurants. So people will be able to eat and shop above the resting place of the victims.

And that is the heart of the dispute - money. That area is some of the most expensive real estate in the world and these interests don't want to give that up. That is the reason why these interests so badly want new offices to be built, either in the form of a freedom tower or the re-building of the WTC twin towers.

The whole plan and the whole process so far has been a disgrace and is disrespectful to those that died there. I would like to see the land given to the U.S. Park Service (the whole site) to have a proper memorial built to honor those who died there - including and especially the many brave firefighters and police officers. Forget the damn shops and offices and those that want to keep making money off of the site.


We need a timeless (above ground) memorial that Americans can go visit for decades upon decades in the future. It doesn't matter what you think really happened that day or who you think was responsible. The site and the victims should be our focus - not making money and not making a statement to those that did it.

I have worked to try to stop casinos from being built just outside of the historic battlefield at Gettysburg and at the historic encampment at Valley Forge. These clowns are always looking to make money and they could care less about the meaning of these sites.
 
Currently reading:
How to Prosper During the Hard Times Ahead: A Crash Course for the American Family in the Troubled New Millennium
By Howard Ruff
Friday, January 30, 2009 

Category: News and Politics

110,000+ tech jobs have already been lost in this country since the beginning of the year. The tech sector like the rest of the economy is struggling. Yet, despite all the job losses and the calls to stimulate the economy the clowns in Washington are at it again.


Dozens of lobbyists calling for more foreign H-1B Visa holders to be allowed to enter our market have been seen on Capitol Hill and at the White House this week.


H-1B visas are granted to foreign nationals with a college degree to work in specialty occupations in our country. Those specialty occupations are often technology and engineering positions. Large tech firms and our Colleges and Universities are the biggest employers on H-1B visa holders. They routinely overlook qualified American workers in order to employ cheaper foreign labor. Universities also prefer the cheap foreign labor because they add an additional “diversity benefit”.


The U.S. has and continues to produce more than enough able tech and engineering workers. Our higher education institutions produce over 200,000 tech/engineering graduates annually ABOVE the number of tech and engineering jobs available in our nation. Yet, despite these numbers, greedy tech firms and colleges claim that they cannot find enough tech workers. I know dozens of tech workers that lost jobs to H-1B visa holders, including two IT graduates from the University of Pennsylvania that were turned down for tech positions at the University. The University then proceeded to hire two H-1B visa holders that struggled with the English language. This Ivy League school cannot claim that their own graduates are not qualified.


Like President Bush, President Obama is on record supporting an increase in the number of H-1B visa approved to work in the U.S.The current annual cap on H-1B visas is 65,000. President Obama voted in the U.S. Senate to increase the cap to 180,000 cheap foreign tech workers a year and on another occasion he voted to remove the cap entirely to allow an unlimited amount of foreign tech workers to flood our market.


Every single member of Obama’s cabinet thus far supports increasing the number of H-1B visa holders. Homeland Security Sec. nominee Janet Napolitano has been one of the most vocal supporters of the H-1B visa program in the country. During the campaign, Obama, Clinton, Edwards, Richardson, Biden, McCain, Romney, Rudy, Huckabee and even Ron Paul all made statements in support of more H-1B workers. Our leaders seem intent upon making us completely dependent upon foreign workers and foreign companies to run our incredibly important and vital tech and engineering sector.


As you are reading this, new bills are being written to expand or even remove the H-1B visa cap. A prominent Philadelphia based immigration attorney Morley J. Nair even released a press release expressing his optimism that the H-1B visa cap will be raised or removed under a new Obama administration.


The H-1B program is broken and corrupt. Many H-1B visa holders do not have college degrees and many of them stay in the U.S. illegally after their visa expires. Colleges and Corporations often falsely claim that they cannot find willing U.S. tech workers. Immigration Law firms help teach them how to do this. I have a video of a Pittsburgh based Immigration law Firm telling clients that the goal is to NOT find willing and able U.S. tech workers. I will attach the video below in the comment section in the near future for those of you that have not already seen the video.


The new stimulus plan that will likely grow to at least $900 Billion if not $ 1Trillion dollars has no provisions in regards to funds going to firms that hire foreign workers (either illegal or visa holders). It is expected that many of the research/green tech/education stimulus funding will go to firms that hire a large number of foreign visa holders. And of course the infrastructure spending will likely go to companies that hire illegal immigrants since those companies have an unfair cost advantage and can place lower bids than the companies that play by the rules. Thus, much of the stimulus funding will not go towards hiring more U.S. workers. Instead, it will go towards hiring the cheapest foreign labor those firms can find. And those foreign workers will in turn send a percentage of that money (your future tax money) back home to their native countries. Not only will stimulus funding go towards foreign workers, but foreign companies will also be cashing in. For example, a large wind energy company based in the Philadelphia suburbs was recently bought by a foreign company and they are already making plans to get their hands on some of the stimulus funds.

Just as a lot of the bailout money went to U.S. banks that in turn invested it into Chinese banks, so too will the stimulus funds be funneled out of this country. The largest transfer of wealth in the history of the world is not only continuing, it is accelerating at a frightening pace. We are at war and most people haven't realized it yet. And I am not talking about Iraq and Afghanistan. It is going on all around you - open your eyes.





 



Currently reading:
The Illiad
By homer
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 

Category: News and Politics

The Loss of American Self-Reliance and the Coming Age of Instability

By Michael Thompson

America is entering into a new era of instability. 

When America places her feet to the earth, she no longer feels the rich soil between her toes and the solid bedrock underneath her. Instead of being grounded and steadied, she is met with instability and uncertainty. This instability is making it increasingly difficult for America to stand tall and proud. Our strong American foundation has been crippled and weakened. We are no longer standing firmly upon solid bedrock.

Today our beloved America is anchored upon a foundation of sand. With each new gust of wind, each new crashing wave, and each new thunderstorm in the form of another factory moving overseas or another bus load of illegal workers crossing our border our shifting foundation is further eroded.

Our two party leaders have abandoned the American principles of self-reliance, pragmatism and common sense. They have systematically weakened the American foundation. And we are quickly approaching the point of no return.

The shifting ground underneath our weakened foundation causes our entire house to shift and sway. This instability spreads like mold or a virus, infesting our entire home, weakening the weight bearing pillars of our public schools, our economy, our national defense and every other segment of our society.

America could always proudly stand on her own two feet. We always grew, made or provided the basics and most of the extras.

Our once strong manufacturing base, fueled by a strong work ethic created a thriving middle class. Today, America's middle class is being stretched to its limits. Our manufacturing base is dying. We no longer make anything in America and that is leaving us vulnerable and weak. It is simply common sense to realize that our nation and our citizens are more secure when we as a nation can provide our own food, clothing and shelter. How could our leaders even think of letting our nation become dependent upon the rest of the world for our vital essentials?

America has the best soil on earth and the best farmers to work that soil. Yet, for the first time in our nation's great agricultural history, we are importing more foreign grown food than we are exporting.

We import 90% of the clothing we wear. We import over 70% of the energy we use. We import most of the electronics we use. We now purchase more foreign built cars and trucks than American made cars and trucks. We import over 90% of the toys we buy our children. Even most American flags are now made in China. These are all signs of a decaying America due to the failed leadership in Washington and every state capitol in America.

Both political parties ignore the millions upon millions of cheap, dangerous foreign made goods that flood our markers each year. Our leaders allow our Pentagon to use computers that were manufactured by a company now owned by the government of China.

Over 1.2 million illegal immigrants cross our borders each year. Both political parties, corporate interests and ethnocentric interest groups wish to force American workers to compete with cheap foreign labor. Despite the fact that our economy is in trouble and unemployment is rising, we do nothing about the invasion of cheap foreign labor.

This wish to force American workers to compete with cheap foreign labor is not just limited to low skilled workers. Our Universities and hundreds of major companies hire nearly a million H1B skilled foreign workers a year in the technology and engineering fields. This is despite the fact that American Universities produce over 270,000+ qualified graduates each year above the number of new tech and engineering jobs produced.

Both political parties continue to push destructive free trade agreements that ship American jobs overseas. A Chinese Automaker is building a new $300 Million dollar auto plant in Tijuana, Mexico. The plant will produce 150,000 cars in the first year of operation which will be in 2009.

The cars are intended to be sold in the United States. And since the cars will be built in Mexico, they can be sold in the United States duty free. Thanks to NAFTA (which has already sent millions of American jobs overseas) our market will be flooded with vehicles priced so low that American automakers will be unable to match them. American automakers are already losing the battle against foreign automakers.

All across the country our leaders are allowing the virus and the mold to spread throughout our home when they approve the sale of our turnpikes, bridges, tunnels, wind farms and other vital infrastructure to foreign companies. The rest of our vital infrastructure (that hasn't yet been sold to the highest foreign bidder) is wasting away from neglect.

Our leaders are passing massive taxpayer bailouts of investment banks owned by foreign companies. The condition of our markets and our entire economy now relies largely on the global economy. Every month that passes by we see ourselves further growing dependent upon foreign interests.

We are borrowing billions of dollars from China and Japan to pay off our record high deficits.

Our foreign policy is increasingly driven by lobbyists representing foreign interests.

Our leaders have led us down the path away from American self-reliance. We can't even stand on our own two feet anymore.

Globalization is on the march. It is an intimidating and powerful opponent.

Sadly, our so-called leaders are carrying the flag of Globalization. Both political parties are carrying the flag of Globalization. Our leaders have become simply puppets.

I still carry the American flag. That is why I was forced to start a new political party. I believe that there is still such a thing as a NATIONAL INTEREST. Globalization leads to American decline. Globalization results in global redistribution of wealth in the name of fairness. Globalization is the threat that will completely wipe out our home. Globalization is the threat that will wash away what is left of our foundation. Unchecked Globalization will put an end to American self-reliance, pragmatic problem solving and a strong work ethic that has allowed our nation to grow and prosper. Globalization will be the final blow to the American middle class and our standard of living. America cannot sustain this onslaught by our failed elected leaders. The globalization axe is chopping away at our lower most foundation beams. And sadly, it is our two party elected leaders who are swinging the axe the fastest. The lobbyists and foreign interests are standing behind them cheering them on. As they cheer, our leaders chop faster and faster, smashing the axe blade against our home. When loyal Americans protest, the forces of Globalization turn their axes towards them calling them isolationists, xenophobes and racists. Those claims don't characterize our positions, but do allow the globalists to deflect legitimate criticisms.

If we submit to globalization, our destiny is no longer in our own hands. We will be handing over our laws, our wealth, our dignity and our destiny. America will then no longer be shaping and making history. We will be sitting on the sidelines watching history go bye. Europe is already now just a watcher of history, instead of being a player in history. Globalization will eat away any of our remaining prosperity as it is redistributed to the rest of the world leaving America and ultimately the rest of the world weaker and poorer.

Soon in the coming years, as our foundation continues to sway and shift under the falling weight of our house over our weakened foundation, Americans will be forced to act. YOU will be forced to take a stand and pick a side. Some will choose to wipe away the shifting sand and be willing to sacrifice what it will take to once again dig down to the steady soil and solid bedrock so we can gently sit our house down on a lasting and sustainable foundation. These loyal Americans who choose to still carry the American flag will be attacked for defending America and fighting for its survival.    

Which flag will you be carrying?

Currently reading:
Persian Mirrors: The Elusive Face of Iran
By Elaine Sciolino
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Documentary Filmmaker Wanted

By Michael Thompson
Tuesday, October 21, 2008

 

We are looking for a talented filmmaker to make a documentary about the founding, development and rise of the New American Independent Party.

With experienced mentors, our NAIP intern team will be a vital part of the film project. They will be involved in all facets of the film and NAIP outreach, candidate campaigns, voter drives and media outreach over the course of one campaign season or one year going from grass roots beginnings and campaign kickoffs until after Election Day. The goal is to tell the story of the internships and the development of the New American Independent Party simultaneously, in the form of a documentary.

 

This project would be an excellent opportunity for a documentary filmmaker to create a film about the New American Independent Party and its development.

 

Why would I want to make this film?

 

We think it will be extremely interesting to everyone who is curious about the American political process and the changing electorate. It is a unique opportunity to film the development and challenges of America's newest political party over the course of one summer or one year. The film might serve as an excellent addition to your portfolio if you are interested in making future documentaries or working on a reality TV show.

 

How will the film be financed?

 

This is a documentary. We're looking for a filmmaker who will finance and make the film themselves and own the rights. We want someone who can promote the film to typical documentary outlets (TV, IFilm, cable, video, etc, or just as a student project for a class).

 

The New American Independent Party will hold fundraisers in order to make available a cash grant of $8500 or more plus additional funds for expense reimbursement to the filmmaker we chose to work with, conditional on producing a finished film. If you're a student or amateur and are resourceful and willing to scrounge a little bit, this may be enough to actually make the film. If you're a professional documentary filmmaker, you probably know how to raise money to make films better than we do.

 

Again, this is not intended to finance the film, and we do not expect to own the rights to the film; it's just a subsidy that may make it easier.

 

Plus, the New American Independent Party will provide volunteers and interns to help the filmmaker on the project as the filmmaker sees fit. The interns will be a vital part of the film.

 

Who will see the film?

 

New American Independent Party members, Independent and third party voters and dissatisfied Democrats and Republicans audience will likely be a very interested audience. The interns will be maintaining a weblog all summer or year describing the development process, and building up a natural audience for a documentary about their experience.

 

When the documentary is complete, the NAIP will make the DVD available on its website. The NAIP will promote the film widely over the internet and at all NAIP events and rallies. This should get your film a fairly decent audience. We would also actively promote a trailer cut as well which we can use to promote the film on our websites and discussion groups.

 

What's in the documentary?

 

You're the filmmaker. Here are some suggestions you might want to include in the film:

·         The project kick-off meeting and progress meetings

·         Interviews with the candidates, volunteers, committee members and the interns

·         Interviews with voters and non voters

·         Candid interviews with interns about their experience, before, during, and after the project

·         NAIP door to door activities

·         NAIP essay contest

·         Ballot Access strategy meetings and legal obstacles

·         Media outreach and challenges

·         Candidate Debates

·         NAIP events across the country. (Most of the project will be completed in Pennsylvania, but a lot of travel will be required)

·         Other summer activities that NAIP staff and our interns do (life on the road, talking to voters, night on the town, visits to football games, NASCAR races and other activities which we will organize)

·         Speeches by NAIP founder Michael Thompson and NAIP candidates

 

The goal is to tell the story of the internships with the film project and the development of the New American Independent Party simultaneously, in the form of a documentary. We are not trying to create outrageous TV as a reality TV program does. However, the film will contain some aspects of the participants' personal lives. But the film should mostly be focused on the NAIP story and our candidates in a serious and positive way while also capturing the challenges the party and candidates face. But, the film should be entertaining and cutting edge.

 

We want to introduce more people to the New American Independent Party and our proposals while also entertaining the viewers. We want the audience to examine the current ballot access process and the entire American "two party" system.  

 

What's the Schedule?

 

Filming will begin no earlier than May 25, 2010 and end no later than November 15, 2012. The start time and finish time is very flexible at this time.

 

Interested?  / Have Questions?

 

If you are interested in this project, email Michael Thompson, admin [at] newamericanindependent [dot] com with your interest. You will be emailed or mailed detailed application instructions.