Hi All:  I apologize for the recent post.  One of my recipients sent me the following link which shows the blog was not 100% accurate.  I should have looked further into the matter.  Dick

https://www.truthorfiction.com/maryland-michigan-arizona-allow-muslims-students-pray-school-truth-fiction

Immigrants and discrimination

IMMIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION

The story is always the same.  “Immigrants are criminals, rapists, robbers that are destroying out country.  They take OUR jobs and work for lower wages and destroy our standard of living.”  They take jobs (often back breaking jobs) that American workers don’t want and fill a great need.  Leaders will fan these flames of fear and distrust for their own political advantage as Mr. Trump has done.  Think of the Irish trying to escape the potato famine in the 1840’s, or the animosity between the Swedes and Norwegians in the upper Midwest, or the Italian immigrants to the east coast.  Think especially of the Chinese who came for the gold rush only to face discrimination for the next 90 years, including rulings from the Supreme Court.  Every one of us is an immigrant.  We have no business discriminating against any immigrant. Discrimination is the dark side of our country’s history.  Immigrants strengthen not weaken our country.  Anyone who really wants to come and join us in this country should be welcomed, regardless of origin.  There will never be a time when we should close our doors to immigrants.  We need everybody.

Separating Children and Parents

June 22, 2018

SEPARATING CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS

There is NO JUSTIFICATION for forcefully separating innocent children from their innocent parents, no matter the law.  What has happened to our society and our sense of decency under this AWFUL man and his awful henchmen?  Our border crisis could be solved with proper diplomacy and cooperation with leaders south of the border.  However, when our president insults, and repeatedly insults, the leaders of these countries I can understand why they are not inclined to help us or cooperate with us in solving this or the next crisis.  He was elected to do a job not destroy us.  He is taking this country in the wrong direction.  He is the epitome of the ugly American.  We need to come to our senses here and rise up and put a stop to this charade.

Children and the Law

CHILDREN AND THE LAW

The events of the past few days leaves little doubt about Mr. Trump’s view of the value of families and children.  I can’t even imagine the mind set of Mr. Trump and his associates that led them down this path of separating immigrant children from their parents.  “Immoral” is the word used by most leaders. Unthinkable is a better term.   Mr. Sessions has all but destroyed his career by emphasizing “illegal immigration is against the law and we intend to enforce the law by separating children from their parents.”  This is a national disgrace similar to the way we interned Japanese citizens during World War II.

The irony here is only last week Mr. Trump and Mr. Guiliani were saying Mr. Trump is above the law or he ISthe law.  Mr. Sessions was silent on this point even though he is the Attorney General and should know the law.   Mr. Trump has had to eat crow on this issue and has issued an executive order cancelling the policy, (previously stating he had no such authority) but typically, he will not take the blame for this awful blunder, but will blame someone, probably Mr. Sessions.    Mr. Trump lies, his word is worthless and he cannot be trusted.  His attack on all immigrants is misplaced.  We do not need to travel this immigrant road again and again and again—and especially not with children.  Immigrants strengthen not weaken America.  We need to come to our senses in this matter.

Is Health Care a "RIGHT

IS HEALTH CARE A “RIGHT”?

Senator Sanders says health care is a “right.”  I disagree.  I don’t see it listed under our Bill OF RIGHTS.  If health care is a Right does that mean any citizen can sue if he/she doesn’t get the same level of care as Bill Gates.  A person may say “The USA is a rich country and I am a citizen of the USA and therefore I am entitled to the highest level of care available and someone or some entity has to pay for it.”  Are those citizens who fail or refuse to follow doctors orders on such things as smoking, obesity, diabetes and a myriad of other illnesses that develop, entitled to demand their “rights.”  I am sympathetic to their need, but not to the extent that I want to pay for it.

Health care is an essential element of all societies, but that does not mean we, the citizens, are responsible and have to pay for every illness of every citizen.  We all have a responsibility for our own health.  Our government has the responsibility to provide for the PUBLIC health through various public health clinics, flu shots, epidemics etc.  We already have the Center for Disease Control  in Atlanta plus a big departments in Washington.  As far as the delivery of health care to our citizens, it is the Government that must create the business CLIMATE that induces, attracts health care personnel from doctors and all ancillary personnel to the field.  The Government has many tools to do this if they wish to make use of them.  Such as using tax advantages to induce physicians and ancillary personnel to locate in rural areas.

Therefore, I do not consider health care a “Right.”    However Health care is not a service that can be withdrawn or used as a political club to pressure citizens to gain some political goal.  Promoting the health of all citizens, should be the primary goal of all governments

Hate Groups

Blog 8/15/17                          HATE GROUPS

Swastika’s, Hitler quotes on T shirts, David Duke praising President Trump for “taking our country back”, and antisemitism coming from a group arriving with clubs and helmets to meet the “foe”?  I can hardly believe that any group would have the nerve to glorify these persons or actions is repugnant to me and a rejection of the many sacrifices made by those who fought in WW II.  We do not need to re-fight the civil war or WW II.  Racism in the USA is our dirty little secret and the dark side of our marvelous and welcoming society.  We must do everything necessary to keep hate and Racism in check.  Mr. Trump must take responsibility for this rebirth of this awful attitude that has come down through his Twitter followers.  He should resign for the good of the country.

Here we go again

Mr. Trump has forgotten he was elected to do a job, not spending his time sending mindless tweets across he country and the world.  No one apparently ever told him that he was going to be criticized right and left for his entire term.  He has insulted everyone and then has the nerve to complain that he is being mistreated.  This is hard knuckle politics and it is up to him to figure out how to manage it and still get his job done.  His latest criticism of a woman just shows us how shallow and unthinking he is.  He reminds me of a spoiled kid in both his demeanor, belligerent look and tone of voice.  I can't believe what he says and most of what he says is useless.  The current outburst is merely another diversion to take away attention from having to produce his entire TAX RETURN.  He must furnish his tax return if we are ever going to know if he is telling the truth.