Where do African Americans go from here?

We, African Americans, fought for White Americans freedom as well as our own and yet we still remain at the end of the line. Our legislators are continually writing legislation that pushes us so far back that the end of the line would be a big step forward. Our legislators are continually granting special privileges to special groups for political gain.
I was particularly disturbed by the special protections granted to gays for choosing to be gay and the special privileges given to them for same sex marriage. If you choose to be different, you should not be rewarded with special privileges. African Americans who were already at the end of the line have now been pushed back even further to make room for a pseudo group of people.
I have been a supporter of California Governor Jerry Brown since his first two term as governor. The bill under consideration in the legislature that would allow illegal immigrants to qualify for publicly funded scholarships should be dead on arrival. This bill would not only push African Americans further back, it would also push legal Mexican Americans who are only a step ahead of African Americans in line, further back. The ramifications of trying to be everything to everybody for political gain hurts those that can are already enduring more than their share of pain.

Presidential authority to raise the debt limit in the Constitution

I agree with Bill Clinton that President Obama has authority under the U,S. Constitution to raise the debt limit. Obama's attempts at trying to get the Republican party to agree to any plan to reduce the deficit is a mere courtesy. Rather than deal in good faith with President Obama and the Democratic party, the Republican party will continue to push and raise their demands until time runs out or they find a weakness that they can exploit. The question is: on August 2, will President Obama issue an executive order raising the debt limit?

Reaganomics

“Reagan did push through deep, across-the-board cuts in tax rates in his first year of the presidency in 1981, fulfilling a campaign promise."

BUT "the following year he signed the largest peace-time tax increase in U.S. history, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982.”

AND “he raised taxes in every succeeding year of his presidency except the last.”

ALSO “as California governor, Reagan also signed the biggest tax increase in state history.”

Excepts from an article By TOM RAUM - Associated Press

Obama is a closet Republican

Here's a new term, "Obama is a closet Republican." Although he was elected as a Democrat, he has given the Republicans everything a Republican President would have asked for and because he was elected as a Democrat, and he is an Afro-American, the Republican Party seized the opportunity to force reckless legislation and policies on the American people.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's war on Islam

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House committee has declared a personal war against Islam. I agree, US taxpayers should not be subsidizing groups that seek to undermine US policies, interests and it's allies, but the cuts should be unilateral. Since Israel is the cause of all the conflicts in the Middle East and is responsible for a huge drain on the U.S. Economy, all aid should be withheld from Israel until it reaches a peace agreement with it's neighbors.
In our quest for world peace, we need to change our priorities. All aid should be withheld from Pakistan and Israel and should instead be given to countries that have shown by democratic elections that they are democracies and only so long as they remain democracies.

Vision Industries Wins Order for 100 Fuel Cell Class 8 Heavy Trucks

EL SEGUNDO, CA--(Jul 18, 2011) - Vision Industries Corp. (OTCBB: VIIC) announces that it has received a Letter of Intent from Total Transportation Services, Inc. (TTSI) of Rancho Dominguez, California, to purchase one hundred zero emission Tyrano™ hydrogen fuel cell-electric class 8 heavy-duty trucks at a total purchase price of approximately $27,000,000 dollars. The purchase is subsequent to the successful trial of the initial vehicle which will be delivered to TTSI on Friday the 22nd of July. The Letter of Intent also opens the door for TTSI to purchase an additional three hundred Vision trucks, bringing the total value of a TTSI sales contract to approximately $108 million dollars.

"We are pleased to see such demand from a trucking company of TTSI's caliber. It underlines our assumptions that there are multiple commercial applications for our hydrogen powered zero emission big rigs in today's trucking industry," says Martin Schuermann, CEO of Vision Industries Corp.

To jumpstart the LOI, TTSI will take delivery of the first Vision Tyrano™ zero emission truck for testing in commercial revenue service. The initial truck will perform typical drayage operations, hauling freight containers from port terminals in the Ports of Los Angles and Long Beach to rail yards and other distribution facilities.

Source: Marketwire



This latest development from Vision Industries follows an order (link) from the Port of Los Angeles delivered last April.

Image source: AutomotiveWorld.com

Source: Fuel Cell Today

Progressive Change Campaign Committee

Bravo to the Members of Progressive Change Campaign Committee for standing up and letting Obama know that he cannot keep selling out his base.

Smaller Government???

When the local mom and pop pop sickle company only serviced the neighborhood, it could effectively hire and manage the Mom and Pop operation. But when sells grew and Mom and Pop opened more manufacturing sites, new departments had to be created and they had to hire managers to oversee the new sites and new departments. When Mom and Pop went national they had to hire regional employment specialist, management and supervisory personnel to oversee and hire managers and workers. When Farmer John sold a few plots of land to his friends and neighbors, it was just community. As the community grew and it became a town, the town required management, services and protection, and a governing board to oversee the management, services and protection. When the town grew and it became a city it needed more departments to service the residents such as transportation and health services. So in view of the real and constant need for a larger Government, the responsible point to make to the public would be to eliminate waste earmarks and corruption in government programs.
As a matter of courtesy to the American people, the Tea Party and the Republican Party should stop talking to us as if we were stupid enough to believe in their “smaller government” concept.

Parents of Obese Kids

Education and Counseling should be required of all parents of obese kids. and teachers should be required to report them to the proper authorities for treatment.
The parent should be counseled, educated and treated, and the child should be removed from the obese parents until they show that they care enough about the health of their kids by both completing a counseling course and getting their weight to within a medically healthy range.

Doom For The Democratic Party

In three years President Obama has turned back 40 years of gains of the of the poor and middle class. If the Democratic Party does not turn its back on Obama and support a strong presidential candicate in 2012, we will no longer have a voice as a political party.
The latest concession, putting cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table spells doom for the Democratic Party.

Have You Heard Of Fuel Cells?

We came up with an alternative to the gasoline internal combustion engine, hydrogen fuel cells, hybrid hydrogen electric, and electric. The writing is on the wall. When we stop talking and complaining about oil and gasoline prices and start talking about fuel cells, electric and hybrid electric automobiles, the price of oil will drop. I predict that the price of gas will be under $2 a gallon within five years due to the increased availability and use of fuel cells.

Afghanistan

If I could say anything to General Petraeus and President Obama about Afghanistan, it would be, you cannot defeat the Taliban by giving weapons and support to a tyrant that aspires to lead the Taliban. The mistakes we are making in Afghanistan today are reminiscent of U.S. support for Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba.