Water Logged Gazette - October 2009

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Issue 6 - October 2009

First Lt. Travis Manion.

First Lt. Travis Manion was a Marine's

Marine, a warrior compelled to lead from the front of the fight.

Travis Manion during his 2006 tour of the Iraq War.

He returned later that year for more precarious

missions, the last of which came in April 2007.

to View Obama's current Political Poll Standings

With recent losses of nearly 250,000 American jobs, the economy in recession since late 2007, unemployment rates approaching their highest levels since the early 1980's, and No Expected Social Security increase for recipients in 2010, we, as Americans, need to express our displeasure with the political malfeasance that exists at All Levels of government by voting during the next congressional election in November 2010 and replacing those individuals that show their outright contemptuous attitude and disregard for fiscal and moral responsibility!

The U.S. Post Service was established in 1775 - they've had 234 years to get it right; it is broke, and even though heavily subsidized, it can't compete with private sector FedEx and UPS services.
Social Security was established in 1935 - they've had 74 years to get it right; it is broke.
Fannie Mae was established in 1938 - they've had 71 years to get it right; it is broke. Freddie Mac was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; it is broke. Together Fannie and Freddie have now led the entire world into the worst economic collapse in 80 years.
The War on Poverty was started in 1964 - they've had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our hard earned money is confiscated each year and transferred to "the poor"; it hasn't worked.
Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 - they've had 44 years to get it right; they are both broke; and now our government dares to mention them as models for all US health care.
AMTRAK was established in 1970 - they've had 39 years to get it right; last year they bailed it out as it continues to run at a loss!
This year, a trillion dollars was committed in the massive political payoff called the Stimulus Bill of 2009; it shows little sign of working; it's been used to increase the size of governments across America, and raise / add government salaries while the rest of us suffer from economic hardships. It has yet to create a single new private sector job. Our national debt projections (approaching $10 trillion) have increased 400% in the last six months.
"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in 2009 - - after 80% of the cars purchased turned out to be produced by foreign companies, and dealers nationwide are buried under bureaucratic paperwork demanded by a government that is not yet paying them what was promised.
So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that each and every "service" shoved down our throats by an over-reaching government turns into disaster, how could any informed American trust our government to run or even set policies for America's health care system - - 17% of our economy?

Maybe each of us has a personal responsibility to let others in on this brilliant record before 2010, and then help remove from office those who are voting to destroy capitalism and destroy our grandchildren's future.

“I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them.” - Thomas Jefferson

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Each week tens of thousands of diners eat at an Olive Garden or Red Lobster restaurant. Few of these diners know that the CEO heading these large restaurant chains

is a black man. Clarence Otis Jr. is the CEO of Darden

Restaurants Inc., the largest casual dining operator in the nation. The firm operates nearly 1,400 company-owned
restaurants coast to coast serving 300 million meals annually. Darden employs 150,000 workers and has annual revenues of $6 billion. Born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, Otis moved

to Los Angeles when he was 6 years old. His father was a high school

dropout who worked as a janitor.

The family lived in Watts at the time of the 1965 riots. In

the post-Watts period, Otis recalls being stopped and questioned by police several times a year because of

the color of his skin.

A high school guidance counselor recommended him for a

scholarship at Williams College, The highly selective liberal

arts institution in Massachusetts. Otis graduated Phi Beta

Kappa from Williams and went on to earn a law degree at

Stanford. Otis landed on Wall Street as a merger and

acquisitions attorney for J.P. Morgan Securities. He joined

Darden Restaurants in 1995 as corporate treasurer. He