February 21, 2011 by ItheConsumer.

Listening to the Media one is lead to believe Congress has only two ways to deal with the debt. Cut spending or increase taxes, yet take both those options off the table and most over the age of 30 wouldn’t be able to tell you the first thing to do to solve the problem. So if there is more than two ways to skin a cat in life than doesn’t it make Common Sense that there are more than two ways to solve Americas’ Budget and Debt problems?

For why cutting and taxing means taking away from people, the words investing and saving demonstrates the willingness to grow. And grow we must so why won’t our media ask our elected officials how they plan to invest and save America to a balanced budget and a positive cash flow? Is it because with all their education they do not know themselves what investments and savings would work. Could it be that they are so busy trying to live paycheck to paycheck that they can’t think of such things. Even worse one can believe the media advertisers are so concerned about maintaining power that they only want to see Americas’ Democratic and Republican Civil, Political, and Religious Leaders to discuss cutting spending for the American Worker while increasing the taxes on the Want-to-Be Rich.

Yes, even as state governors are telling the public workforce they have to take pay cuts and spend more on healthcare insurance they demonstrate a lack of vision which has lead to Americas’ Greatness. For already paying for Community Health Centers, I wonder how much money the state could save by allowing state employees access those services instead of paying the high premiums associated with Doctor Visits and regular checkups. How much better service could public workers provide if they were crossed trained to do more than just one job?

However, where is the talk about investing in a Smarter Government by the Governors and Media? Could it be your parents have been promoting ignorance for so long that they forgot how to use Common Sense and American Know How to solve problems or does the problem extend even further? For could it be some people believe they can retain power simply by plotting to set one side against the other so nothing gets done. Whatever the reason, the solution for States and the Federal Government is simple how do “We the People” get a Smarter Government in order to help build a Smarter Society.

Thus, why investing and saving might be a foreign subject to the Youth of the 60’s and Silver Spoons of the 70’s and we know Intelligence is not their strongest suite. The Media reflecting the political ideas of Americans are going to have to face the facts.  For looking forward does Americans want a Smarter Government and Society or will they vote to cut education and funding in order to keep promoting ignorance in 2012.

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January 18, 2011 by ItheConsumer.

As the House of Representatives bring to the floor the bill to kill the health care reform act passed by the 111^th Congress and signed into law by President Obama this week I do believe Speaker Boehner needs to remind the Members and their spokesperson from both parties that Freedom of Speech is guaranteed to the Ladies and Gentlemen who wish to peacefully assemble to discuss their issues, but not the men and women who want to cause harm and malice to our citizens and country. For after listening to some Radio and Media Pundits this past week try to defend the actions and words which we witnessed at the past town hall meetings on the subject and may have lead to the 6 died in Arizona. I do believe the Conservatives and Tea Party risk losing their agenda for the next two years if they cannot control the civil discord over the next few weeks.

Because already fighting an enemy aboard which believes Americas’ Government is wrong, I do believe the Elders today will have no other recourse but to shut down the public debate in America so the enemy within can no longer claim it is Americas’ Government who is at fault for not being able to solve the problems the Human Race has been unable to deal with over the past 30 years. And though it may seem harsh to some to think Americas’ Elders and Powers-that-Be could and would do such a thing. As one who remembers in the 1970’s when Americas’ Elders and Powers-that-Be being forced to act in the same manner after civil discord by the Radio and Media Pundits got so bad I do believe Americas’ Democratic and Republican Civil, Political, and Religious Leaders today will not make the same mistakes.

So why I can understand the need to readdress Americas’ Health Care Reform Act, knowing that part one is nothing more than political theater and a way to debate what changes can and should be done to lower the cost of health insurance and medical expenses in the 21^st Century. Let us not get caught up in the name calling or fall for the misinformation tactics used by some in the business to turn us against each other or our elected officials. For why we must reform our present healthcare system to meet the demands of the 21^st Century, like our ancestors at the turn of the last century who took a health care system out of the woods and built it into the one we enjoy today. Hopefully, we can get Congress and the Private Sector to agree on letting us take the healthcare system we grew up on into one which could only be imagined by our Founding Fathers some 230 years ago when they first opened the doors to Americas’ Library of Medicine so every Citizen could learn how to be their best General Practitioner of Health and Medicine.

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