The Audacity & Nerve For Change Let Alone Hope

I like tens of millions of Americans have been blessed with being laid off twice in the past two years.  Like millions of others I spend hour after hour trying to find a job in a country where there are none. Every day I get up  and have the privilege to listen to my elected leaders tell us what they know is good for us when what is good for us, is not what is good for them.  Correct me if I am wrong and call me crazy for perhaps believing what our founding fathers wrote and envisioned for us as a nation.. but should there be two sets of rules and two sets of standards when supposedly Thomas Jefferson penned, "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

So I respectfully ask all you are to think about of the following.. Why is it that you and I work all our lives to hopefully reach the age of sixty five or older to retire. That hopefully we have put enough money away to be able to pay our bills and survive while retired yet a congressman, senator or president can work one term be it 2 years, 4 years or six and be entitled to a life time salary/pension?  Why is it that our elected leaders are exempt from having to pay back student loans, have life time pensions, get to vote themselves a raise and in the end have the nerve to live a standard of life that is miles apart from the very people who elected them to serve and represent.

The Nerve for Hope in the country is gone erased forever if things go unchanged. How can one hope to find a job when our elected leaders in their infinite wisdom have voted to allow all our jobs manufacturing and service jobs to be shipped overseas. What hope can I have for myself or my son to know when I get into my car made from parts built overseas from foreign steel driven on overseas manufactured tires using imported fuel can I hope my life will get better.

What hope can I have to know that if I have a problem with my credit card, bank statement, computer, health insurance or problem with lost luggage that I will be talking to someone ten thousand miles away in India, the Philippines or any where else but the U.S.A. that they are sorry for my difficulties and yet waste my time listening to their outsourced scripts all in all being polite but never accomplishing or resolving anything.  This is the country I  live in and pledge my life to honor and defend?

The time for change has never been at a more decisive moment. It is time to demand term limits for politicians, to eliminate life time pensions for short term service and one set of rule for the public and a separate set for our elected representatives!!!  It is time to boycott credit cards, airlines, insurance companies, computer tech support lines etc. and demand that these jobs and these companies start to bring back customer service, produce a higher standard of quality product and support it with people who live, eat and breathe the air here in the U.S. once in for all!

We are at the highest level of unemployment since the depression. We need to stop passing legislation to allow jobs to be farmed out over seas and start passing legislation which punishes overseas outsourcing while passing tax credits and stimuli for companies to manufacture and provide support jobs here in the good old USA. 

 The time has come to have a heart to heart with the unions and decide what is an honest wage verses losing competitiveness and allowing the job to go abroad. Only we as American can facilitate change by taking a unified and defiant stance! Together we shall boycott importation and demand a locally made product or service as a solution. 

 I ask why when I pick up a bottle of apple juice, or bag of vegetables does it say the contents come from China, Argentina, Brazil, or Chile? Do we not grow apples and produce in this country. Is the solution to our border problem to stop producing food and have it imported?  How can I have hope for the future with such stupidity? 

Obama promised change and has delivered! Things have gone from bad to worse! Our elected officials have created even greater levels of Bipartisan stupidity and our nation is on the verge of collapse.  Together I ask let's create a new party that is neither Democrat or Republican. Let's call it the American Party where every member represents what is right for the people and is representative of the people. Let's create a new party which will demand term limits, stop outsourcing. Let's start a party that will bring back pride in America by rebuilding our nation's infrastructure, eliminating imports on everything from cars, food, clothing, and fuel and bring back something that has not been seen since the 60's  labels stamped in big letters, Made in the USA with Pride and Quality"!

Together formulating such a party puts American politicians and the world on notice,  our citizens are angry and fed up and are taking back our nation with the election of a new party of politicians that are truly representative of our country.  Without such an effort why have the nerve for hope?

CREATING FAIR LEGISLATION FOR ALL

Monday on Fox news they learned that the staffers of Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?

35 States file lawsuit against the Federal Government

Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.

This will take less than thirty seconds to read. If you agree, please pass it on.

This is an idea that we should address.

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws. The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform... in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn't seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don't care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.

If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States."

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO CUSTOMER SERVICE?

This past Thursday I flew from Philadelphia to San Diego via San Francisco on United  flight 447.  From the start I knew things would be a disaster. The flight was over booked and delayed.  While boarding a flight attendant with Nazi like behavior demanded that everyone surrender their carry on luggage as there was no longer any room in the overhead compartments. When I asked what about story our bags under our seat I was told not to question him and to surrender my bad. I explained that I had medications with me and that I was not comfortable surrendering my bag. I was told I would comply or face being pulled off the plane and arrest, so I complied.

We boarded and took off an hour late.  Imagine this being a dinner time flight yet all that was offered was the complimentary beverage service. No snacks.. no meals etc for a seven hour flight.  If you wanted any thing else you could purchase said items using only a credit card. Correct me if I am wrong but didn't airlines at one time offer a choice of complimentary meals on almost all flights?

When we arrived at San Francisco, I was told our flight to San Diego had been canceled however they would offer a flight to LAX with free bus service to those wishing to still get to San Diego so I signed up.  I asked as did all others about our baggage and was assured that our bags would be put on our flight to LAX.  Prior to boarding I asked the gate attendant about our bags and again was assured that the bags were already on board the aircraft.  So imagine my dismay when we arrived at LAX and went to the baggage claim only to be told our bags were never loaded on board.

The airline gave us an 800 number to call with the calls being answered in the Philippines and India.  Each of us laughed as we listened to each other's various conversations that were taking place while driving the three hours to San Diego.  Conversations grew heated and there was much yelling when due to language  barriers people repeated themselves for nine, ten and even twelve times.  As each of us called, each of us was told different excuses, told we had to either fly back to San Francisco to claim our bag or drive to LAX. Told that it was our fault that the bags were not  on board to being told that we needed to pay for our bags to be sent to us.  All the while none of us had their bags or in many cases like my own no meds.

I called numerous times to corporate hq and again was not given any one to speak to nor did those I spoke with care.  After 39 hours without my medications I was told that the airline would reimburse me for two days of meds. Yeah good luck getting two days worth of medicine, and what about clothes?   Only after more than 30 calls was I able to get my bags sent to me 36 hours later having missed my conference and being sick as a dog without my meds.  Yet the airline just doesn't care!  I ask you all to call your senators and congressmen and demand a law be passed to provide travelers a Bill of Rights!