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FDR and JFK

11 Monday May 2026

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        Did President John F. Kennedy know he was saying the opposite of what President Franklin D. Roosevelt thought during his famous line in his inaugural address? FDR said the government owed the people and not the people owed the government. JFK said “And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you – Ask what you can do for your country.”

            FDR said, “We have millions of people living in extreme poverty.” JFK said much the same and put together programs to try to solve the problem. Today we have millions still living in extreme poverty. Today’s millions still lack enough food, local medical and dental care, and a living wage or any job prospects of a decent life.

            Most Americans don’t believe our government should be just giving those in poverty money but to give them a job to earn their money. Medical help is a larger problem because our country is short 65,000 doctors now and over 75 million live in areas with a shortage or no medical help at all within an hour or two or more drive. Millions lice in a food desert where the grocery store may be miles away within a city and ten of miles away in rural areas in Appalachia or the South.

            Small towns have closed up leaving the area of people without anything. I like to stay in Cave-In-Rock State Park where its local stores and gasoline convenience store are closed. The park has a small café which serves as the only place to eat within an hour’s drive inside Illinois or cross the Ohio River on the Ferry and drive the narrow highway about 40 minutes to Marion, Kentucky. Many places in Illinois are in the same situation. Many states are the same.

            We must follow a Presidents Program – which one will work best today?

Saving Social Security

09 Saturday May 2026

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        The current estimate for the so called Social Security lockbox to start running out of money and causing reductions in the monthly checks is 2035. The reduction would be about 20% for a few years and then more. As our population becomes elder, living longer because of Medicare, and less people paying into it, severe cuts will be necessary.

            As we perfect robotics we will need less and less people working in manufacturing things. As artificial intelligence gets more intelligent it will allow robots to do more, replacing more manufacturing workers, and replacing those white collar people who never thought they could be replaced. Those who lose their job will no longer be paying into Social Security but will be drawing from it when they reach retirement age. That means less in and more out.

            My first suggestion to increase the lock box and remove the wage cap on payments into the lockbox and limit the amount of payout based on a gross of, say 100,000. It is a fair trade for those very wealthy people getting rich by being involved in the robotic and AI replacements.

            Another idea is to have companies pay into Social Security for each person a robot replaces. Figuring out those replaced by AI may be much harder to figure. A few decades in the future these payments will be harder to calculate but necessary to support the people they replaced.

            The first suggestion is fairly easy though the wealthy are going to fight it. Remember Clinton and Gingrich had a 75 year fix before the scandal 27 years ago. Now the fix requires a harder and greater fix! The longer it takes the harsher and inventive the fix must be.

Oval Office Is Not A Crime Center

06 Wednesday May 2026

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        The first thing a responsible President after King Trump must do is undo all the things Trump did to enlarge his massive ego and bill him for it. The first would be an order to put the word “Defense” back on the proper building and melt the word “War”. Take his name off the Peace Building and tear down that huge Ball Room and rebuild the East Wing and the Rose Garden. A responsible President would remove the entire Ass-Kissers Trump has put in place whose sole job is to enhance the King like the Kennedy Center.

            The responsible President will then recover all the gifts Trump has received including all the gold and vehicles including the 800,000,000 dollar jet. In addition, confiscating all the gifts and money he has coerced people and companies to contribute to his family, companies, and Trusts.

            Some if not all the overseas businesses his companies, families, and relatives have are from coercion using Tariffs as a weapon or from a gift currying his favor. All of those must be given up without any profit even if it causes a loss.

            The people of the United States must recover from the near Kingdom and Dictatorship and erase every remnant of what almost happened and pass laws so it can never happen again.

Truth in America

16 Thursday Apr 2026

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        What has happened to truth in America? One of President Donald Trump’s money makers is Truth Social. Seldom does he say any truths on it and in fact, he lies about the lies he previously says on the site. Millions of Americans believe what he posts so his sycophants must continue saying them even when they have trouble keeping up with his changes. Those elected Republicans must continue saying them even when they know they are lies or get blasted by Trump and kicked out of office as several already have been.

            Isn’t whitewashing our history another type of lie? When he sees the information he doesn’t like on truthful plaques and has the signage removed, it’s a lie isn’t it? When he causes the truth to be skewed to fit his reality, isn’t it a lie? When he supports groups that spread lies on social media and by parades through our streets, isn’t he a party to those lies? We all know about one of those groups which have convinced people NAZI death camps didn’t exist.

            Home schoolers teach their students the lies they believe. Without the day-to-day oversight at the homes and private schools many lies are spread through generations. It is harder to kill a lie than to kill the truth. For some reason Americans had rather believe a wild lie than a truth they can see with their eyes.

            Those who spread the lies they or others created are protected under the first amendment and those who spread the truth can be sued under our libel laws if they are incorrect in a report. Somehow I don’t think the founding fathers foresaw our predicament. Maybe they had some inkling with the political lies of their time! Today Phineas T. Barnum would be outclassed by today’s con artists.

Diversity Equality Inclusion

06 Monday Apr 2026

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       This is the current term for something that has been going on for over 160 years. President Lincoln and General U. S. Grant enlisted thousands of black former slaves and free men into the infantry to fight. Black companies were kept into World War I where General Pershing put a few thousand black troops into the French army command. During World War II most black troops were used in transportation, construction and other non-fighting duties. One group was trained in Tuskegee to be fighter pilots and distinguished themselves. President Harry Truman integrated the military with plans for it to carry over into the civilian sector.

            President John Kennedy took another step with the integration of Southern Universities. President Lyndon Johnson continued the efforts with several civil rights laws which cost the Democratic Party the Southern States. Democratic Presidents and lawmakers have continued the policies in spite of resistance from many Republicans.

            Diversity Equality Inclusion also means bring women into the formerly male occupation and management. In the last couple of decades women have become CEOs, Generals, News Anchors, and many other professions at a salary approaching equality.

            Although President Donald Trump says he is against DEI, look at all the crony women he has put in office. Bondi and others are incompetent but pretty. That is what counts with him.      

What is the Truth?

02 Thursday Apr 2026

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        Throughout history there has been an overlooked question and this is “What effect did lies have on events?”  Many wars have started because of a lie. Perhaps the person with the most expertise was Adolph Hitler’s Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. For twelve years he told one lie after another and for most of those years most Germans believed them. He may have originated the term the “Big Lie”. He said a lie becomes more believable the more often it is repeated. Today in our country that practice is being repeated almost every day.

            The obvious question is how now and then can people “Believe” something they should know is a lie? President Donald Trump has told tens of thousands of subtle to the most outrageous lies. The most outrageous one is the one started by his boosters in the Oval Office when the results of the 2020 Presidential election were known. He couldn’t have lost so there must have been fraud. He latched on to it and told the lie thousands of times and may now actually believe it. After all the recounts by his supporters, he still tells the lie and millions of people believe it with hundreds of office holders repeating it.

            Today, President Trump listed several newspapers and television channels as liars because they were telling the truth against his lies. He will continue to harass the media for telling the truth. Remember the “Big Lie” requires repeating the lie to make it believable. The Media, however, moves on to another truth allowing the “Big Lies” to win over millions of gullible people.   

            The answer to the question is: the truth is a lie when it conflicts with a leader’s lie.

Trump’s Bridge

27 Friday Mar 2026

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        President Donald J. Trump just stopped the opening of a new toll bridge from Detroit to Canada because Canada didn’t use American steel or workers and Canada would, own the bridge and land on both ends. Trump said all the tolls would go to Canada but bridge was built with U.S. Taxes.

            Again it is all a lie. It is co-owned by U.S. and Canada, it is U.S. Steels beams, built on our side and Canadian their side. Canada has their end and Americans our side. Tolls go to pay off bonds to build it which is mostly to American bond companies and banks.

            So, why the sudden change of attitude for a bridge he hailed in his first term? Could it be one of crony friends paid into his directed shelters (pockets) and now wants it stopped because his group owns the other toll bridge and this new bridge would greatly reduce his income? We already know Trump goes where he is getting his money and it’s not that pittance of $400,000 in what we pay him to just be our President.

            Another example  – his meeting with oil and coal CEOs where he told them what he would do if they put a billion into his campaigns before the 2024 election. They did and he is repaying them with fewer regulations and drilling where they want. Shutting down a bridge opening is easy for a few hundred thousand between friends.

            The Pentagon just contracted with four drone companies to test drones. Three are well known but the fourth isn’t. Guess which one his sons is part owner of.

Different Personalities

14 Saturday Mar 2026

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        I have often compared Adolf Hitler to Donald Trump for good reasons. Trump’s behavior and actions follow the guidebook of Hitler. But I have realized one big difference and that is Basic Personalities.

            Adolph Hitler was an Austrian who saw himself as a German. He was in World War I fighting for Germany and felt betrayed by the elites in German government forcing the Kaiser to surrender. The resulting national punishments further made him more patriotic to Germany and its people. That’s the difference between the two men. One is the people first and the other is Trump first, family second, and people third.        

            Everything Hitler did was to help Germany to regain what he thought was its rightful place in Europe for a thousand years. He was poor and as the Furor he still led a basic life and only put on the “Great One” personality when necessary to promote his goals for Germany. While he “owned” the Nazi party he didn’t participate in enriching himself as his appointees did. Wealth and power were their driving ambitions which allowed some to make life miserable and deadly for many ethnics and cultures.

            We don’t know if Hitler had some conflict with a Jew at some time or was the “Hatred” just the belief of the poor people that all of Germany’s economic and political problems was the Jew’s fault. Since all Europeans are the same color, the Jews facial features, dress, and names were the way of separating them from other Europeans.

            Adolf Hitler truly loved Germany and everything he did was to advance Germany and not himself. Donald Trump was born rich and believes everything he does is to enrich him and increase his already stellar ego. Both fell to the need for greater power to the detriment of their people and country.

The Tail That Moves Us

12 Thursday Mar 2026

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        Today’s geopolitical situation in the mid-East reminds me of my dog. Tina is a golden doodle. That is a cross between a poodle and a golden retriever. She weighs about 55 pounds and has a heavy tail, so when she gets excited her tail wags hard making her body rock back and forth.

            Have you figured out what I am comparing Tina’s tail to yet? There is and was no good and immediate reason for the United States to get involved with the two attacks on Iran. Trump broke the deal with Iran in his first term on how high could their Uranium could be enriched and inspected, so inspectors could keep track of and test. Iran was complying but Trump broke it at the directions of Israel’s Netanyahu. This caused Iran to break the agreement and enrich their uranium to 60% from 35%.

            In Trump’s second year, Netanyahu talked Trump into bombing the underground facilities. Trump says he destroyed everything forever so the second war was unnecessary, – right? After another meeting with Netanyahu we suddenly attacked the leadership which decapitation of leaders has been illegal for decades. We are also literally flattening the entire country killing thousands. Everything is based on the Israeli intelligence agents. Those same people persuaded Clinton into bombing a pharmaceutical factory and Neta Chemical Weapons Factory in Sudan in 1998.

            Israel has been wagging our tail for years getting us involved in the wars that Israel starts and expects us to protect and supply them with planes and thousands of bombs, rockets and weapons. The Shia will now make us a real enemy instead of just a chant!

            The only “Greater Good” is the destruction of the drone factories that supplied Russia with drones to hit Ukraine.

Alexander’s Prophecy

14 Saturday Feb 2026

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        Alexander Hamilton on August 18, 1792, wrote to George Washington a letter warning of a Demagogue who could “mount the Hobby Horse of Popularity” to create chaos in America and its political divisions.

            Hamilton said such a person would be unprincipled, desperate, and instead of standing for liberty, would actually create a chaotic tyranny. How could Hamilton foresee 233 years ago what we have today in the White House? The only things he left out were such a monstrous ego and paranoia. Perhaps he didn’t know those words.

            Other phrases Hamilton used in the letter was “Bold in his temper”,  “despotic in his ordinary demeanor”, and “flatter and fall in with the nonsense of the zealots of the day”. Sound familiar?

            Another phrase was such a person would “throw things into confusion” for personal power. This last phrase is in the public record of the 2019 impeachment trial. All the other phrases should have been quoted repeatedly in 2024 so voters could realize the con job that was being played on them.