International BUSH IS GONE Celebration

Because we need to party!

During and after the Reagan Recession the Republicans were swift to rewrite history and the Democrats were nowhere to be heard. Facts are: Reagan increased the National Debt by 700%. We became a debtor nation on a scale never seen before. Ronald Reagan was the biggest spender in the History of the World! - (key word - Was)
According to the Reagan administration, the National Debt was approximately 500 Billion when he took office and the National Debt was over 3.5 Trillion when he left. In real dollars Reagan managed to outspend all previous administrations COMBINED!
Then we had the Reagan Recession.

George Bush Jr. took us from a well loved nation with a surplus (+3.5 trillion) equal to the debt Reagan put us in to a debt of over 10 trillion (that's a 13.5 trillion dollar turnaround) and we became a debtor nation on a scale 3 times that of Reagan (the great Check Writer).
Now we have the Bush train-wreck & recession.

The idiot Bush and his pathetic scum sidekick and orchestrator - Dick "the Dick" Cheney are OUT OF OFFICE - yeah!!!!!! A thousand cheers to infinity and beyond!!!!!!

All Americans - All Patriots to Humanity - Lovers of Truth and Freedom World Wide - we need to rejoice! We need to remember! A group of Hitler's has come and gone and we escaped with only a few million dead and only a few million in financial ruin - it could have been worse - John McCain and Palin might have gone on to create the last World War!

Celebrate!!!! - stomp off the crud from your shoes - shower off the patina of an era of ignorance, intolerance, hatred of science, godless religiosity and endless bullying!

Let the world resonate in the harmony of distaste for the treacherous scum that has tainted the world - Bush scum - Cheney scum - !!

Enjoy the freedom from the shackles of ignorance and hate - Rejoice in the enlightenment of the present and enjoin your bravery to move into the future embracing change and our evolution!

Say goodbye to the sentimental poppycock that would have us believe that everything was better in the bygone era's. When women knew their place, couldn't vote and had no choice. When the races were know by racial slurs and found hanging from the nearest lynch-mob tree. When small countries were made for subjugation, slavery and exploit. When the cake eaters ran the world and the rest were slaves to their indulgence.
Say goodbye to the Conservative thinkers who tried to convince us that if we abolished child labor of 10 to 12 hours per day we would go bankrupt and have no work ethic. That fair wages and safe working conditions were too costly and that god would provide for those uninsured and desperate masses.

Say GOOD RIDDANCE to the menace of the last 8 years - the back water jackasses that rode this country into massive debt, financial collapse and an over abundance of Cake served to those with average incomes of $118,000 PER Month (upper 2%). Never have we seen such a dramatic growth in the chasm between the poor and those that eat Cake.

Jump up and down - bring your smile - your style - your grace - Celebrate in your Country - in your Region and in your Town - Humpty Dumpty has fallen down and all the pieces will be burned to the ground! We can recycle the ashes that have been excised of the evil vibrations of greed, excess and entitlement!

Festive Rum Drinks will be served!
Kool-aid will be ritualistically poured down the drain!
Be absolved of your sins if you were one of the millions of the silent (complicit) majority - we will have blessings and incantations extraordinaire!!

Forgive - But NEVER forget!!
Bring peace to your soul - and face the feckless fetid bastards for who they were - who they are and who they shall never become again!

We will burn them in effigy - we will flush their ashes into the sewer!
Small and large votive effigies will be lite by the millions!

A festival of emancipation!

Celebrate your nation - celebrate your hope - remember your childhood and remember that experience creates growth and change - we can change for the better - Change is good -
Celebrate the extraordinary change that has taken place in the United States - United against tyranny and greed, hate and regression!

May the Supreme Being shine upon all the peoples of the world dancing at the new dawn of consciousness that is being born from the ashes of the godless scum that we have survived.

The rein of ignorance is in ashes and the flood of love and love of dialog and intelligence and art is at hand!


Celebrate - this year - during the traditional holidays - pick a date - reserve a (BIG) space - have a blast!


The International Bush Bash Celebration!

Enjoying the Bush Hangover?

Remember the Reagan Recession?
Enjoying the Bush Recession?
Happy with the Schwarzenegger bankruptcy?
See a pattern?

Frame it today!

The asylum is running the Republican party


Fundamentalists are Robots


Robot religious groups


Robot evangelicals


The Bush recession


The Regan recession


Ronald Regan increased the national debt by 700%
(500 million to 3.5 trillion)
"Deficits are caused by spending more than you take in. And this is where President Reagan and President Bush both have excelled. President Reagan’s spending from 1981 to 1989 was the largest in US history. Federal spending increased 69% during his 2 terms as president. President Reagan spent more in 8 years than all of the US presidents before him all added together. (This includes all the money spent during Roosevelt’s NEW DEAL era including the cost of WW II.)"


Ronald Regan was a check writer when he was governor of California.
(increased spending 12.5% over Pat Brown)
"In 1966 Reagan defeated Pat Brown to become the Republican Governor of California seeking to impose tax cuts of 10 per cent across the board. He found that budgets could be cut only slowly and went on to preside over the largest budgets and some of California's largest ever tax increases."



Regan, the great check writer.



Regan's spending problem was a template for Carl Rove in training Bush Jr.



Bush put the country in the emergency room.



Nothing cost more than an emergency room visit - Bush put us here and once again the Democrats will fix it.


Democrats balance budgets.


Democrats are better with economic issues.


Corporate whore is not too harsh a label.


The average income of the upper 2% is $114,000 per month.


Key words:

Asylum
Corporate whore
Robots
Bush recession
Emergency room
Regan recession
Check writer
National debt


We need volunteers now - Media trainers - Framing - Donations - Animators
Democrats just don't understand framing - we must create a voice that breaks into the hearts of Americans! We spend way to much air time saying nothing about everything.


Never before have so many people said so much to so many people that no one remembers.
Democrats - your messaging is lost on the public everyday.
Help us create a training group for messaging.

For those of you who understand what is being said here - get in touch with us now.

We are dealing with a totally obstructionist agenda from the robots - facts are of no interest to them - they frame the issues in the emotions of Americans. They will do anything necessary to obstruct Obama. Obama cannot be allowed to be re-elected for two reasons:

1. He will probably have a chance to select another Supreme Court Justice.
2. Good national public health coverage will bring "Choice" back to women in many areas.

These groups will kill, bomb, lie, cheat and steal in the name of god.

80% of the radio and talk show political personalities are far right Republicans. Fully trained, promoted and fed framing messages by the far right machine.

The game is up - we need your help now - the red states have become a powder keg - the religious nuts are armed to the teeth. Never before in the history of the United States have the citizens been so armed. The "Christian" soldiers of Black Water and other military groups heavily paid by the Bush administration are home and training para-military groups. They are prepared for Armageddon and they intend for it to happen.

We need to re-frame the hearts of Americans and diffuse this extraordinarily dangerous situation.

The big dive - deflation

We are not at the beginning of a recovery!

It is OK that we say we are recovering and speak positively - but make no mistake - the crust of the country has only just begun its adjustment. (The crust is defined as all areas within 100 miles of the coasts and 100 miles of any major waterway - this area contains 96% of the countries wealth, all the best colleges and the vast majority of intellectual property)
Real Estate has barely started to adjust and credit card debt and negative savings rates have yet to take their bite.

In the Great Depression we saw a huge market crash followed by a recovery of 50% in relatively short order followed by an 85% drop. Then and only then did the Kool-Aid wear off.

Nothing points to really significant health in our system at the present time and home values in the crust have barely adjusted if we consider historic ratios of income to average cost of a home.
Incomes are falling in the crust areas - they are near 1998 averages and still going down, yet home prices are no where near 1998 levels.

We are entering a deflationary period. If you still own a home that is underwater in these areas, it will just get deeper - hand back the keys - grow your cash - rents will fall along with home prices.

If you are making monthly payments of lets say $8,000 per month (mortgage and credit cards) and you walk out on them, you can easily rent a nice home for 2500 a month or less and put $5,500 in the bank. If walking out on you debts leaves you with no car - the $5,500 per month in savings will buy you a good used one quickly.

If you feel ashamed for walking out on your debts - look at it another way - you were swimming around in the big pond and suddenly you found a hook in your mouth - and while you were the one that bit the hook, you were also the one who was pulled out into the air and put on the plate and you were the one they put up on the plaque. The home sellers got 6% for doing next to nothing and the mortgage brokers another 1.5 - 2% for the financing. On a $600,000 home that comes to $48,000. Not even a high school diploma was required. You were chopped up and fried and should feel proud to unhook yourself and get back to swimming again!

Now for gods sake - don't come up with the Republican knee jerk - "but what if everyone did that" - they won't! Get the hell out of the pot - and back on to firm ground. Reduce you debts to nothing, save money and by the way - you can repair your credit in no time - (be sure to keep all the credit cards you have that you owe the least on, and if you don't have a credit card problem, then just walk away from your mortgage - you can have great credit within a couple of years and a whole lot of cash and peace of mind in no time at all).


It is not an opinion that home prices will continue to fall in the crust areas - on average they will fall for some time. Home prices always have a relationship with rental rates and the ratios are way off.

You have to be very unclear in the head in order to be wanting to purchase a home at this time in the crust areas. Rental of the same property is typically 1/2 the cost. The chance of the home going up in value in the next 5 years is almost zero and your down payment of lets say $100,000 has a VERY good chance of appreciation - even if you don't do anything with it!

US Dollars will rise over the next few years as deflation deepens. Your cash will buy more and more. If you had bought a home in October of last year you would have lost value. If you had invested say $100,000 in Ford you would have about $3 - $400,000 as of this date.

Panic will bring a short term rise in Gold but it will fade - we are broke - let me repeat - we are broke, and deflation will be the rule for several years. When people have little money and large assets are losing value, they do not go spending on Gold. It will probably not crash from todays levels but it will end up lower by double digit percentages.


Why all this fiscal information?

Because Democrats just sit there and don't frame the issue of our current economic situation as being the advent of the "self-regulation" God of Bush and his treasonous cronies. Democrats will take the blame for this mess as they refuse to educate the population on the fact that no one spends more money than Republicans, that the massive debt was brought to us by the Republicans and that accepting fear and lies was a road map of destruction and stupidity. Republicans also ran the most inept war in the History of the United States and they continue to be the worst leaders on foreign policy.

We are in a train wreck - brought to you by George Bush Jr.!

Enjoying the Bush Hangover?

Health Cost Reform - Town Hall

Health Care - what to do at your local town hall meeting:

If you are an official:

Don't answer the question in the way it is put to you. Take each question as an opportunity to make a point you want to make. (remember that for the last eight years, no matter what the question, the Republicans made a negative comment about Democrats whenever they had a microphone or camera pointed at them)

Never throw away your media opportunities to frame an issue - never!

Frame it:

Health Cost Reform (not Health Care Reform or Health Insurance Reform)

People like their health care - but not the cost, therefore "health care reform" is not a good framing of the issue. "Health insurance reform" makes democrats angry because many of us do not want Insurance reform - we want an option that does not include Insurance companies.

Your Town Hall Poster:

Classic Bush fear mongering! (poster idea)


Ways to dissipate the angry and the fake questions:

"fluoridation was once considered a communist plot"

"We must put "health cost reform" at the top of our priorities - we can do this - we must do this!"

"we cannot continue to worship self-regulation"

"the current system is corporate welfare"

"insurance companies are killing our citizens"

"insurance companies are constantly cheating our elderly"

"8 years of Republican spending created this train wreck deficit"

"Deficit?! - hey - Train wreck brought to you by George Bush Jr."

"Lets not confuse the issues - the Bush Hangover was caused by an all Republican fear blitz and self-regulated greed"

Share your stories:

$146,000 For The Birth Of Our Son.

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Our son was born with relatively few complications. My wife had a mild level of preclampsia that was monitored for 7 days while we tried to induce a natural birth. This did not work and the birth was cesarean. Total bill: $146,000.00. later negotiated down to $96,000. That's roughly $90,000 more than any other country in the world for the same service.

House calls and reasonable health care
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I was recently in France where I had a rough bout with sciatica. I could not move and had to call a doctor - it was Sunday. He arrived 40 minutes later, gave me a shot, a prescription and everything total was 92 euro.
If this had happened in the US, the Bill would be above $8,000.00. Given that we were on the 4th floor and the elevator could not handle more than 2 people, the ambulance would require several people to carry me down the stairs (Our doctors don't do house calls). The emergency room charges are through the roof and the shot and drug charges alone would be 3 times the total in France.
Why we fear change so much is beyond my comprehension - but we are among the most change resistant countries in the world. Bought and paid for by the corporate interests and the horrendous fear of words like "socialism".
It really is time for total change in our political campaign system - and I mean total change.
Our officials are owned by the Corporate Interests.


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Bring your story of our unfair and expensive health care system or ask it as though you have one - make it personal:

Here are some great story / questions (use them):

• All nations with national health care systems offer extra insurance coverage by private insurance companies - does this new health care system also offer these choices?
  
• "My best friends parents recently filed for Bankruptcy as a result of their health problems and the insurance companies policies. This is the leading cause of Bankruptcy. They had full insurance all of their lives, worked and paid taxes all of their lives. Will the new health cost program stop the insurance companies from cheating our citizens out of continued health care at a reasonable cost? Cheating them out of their life savings?
  
• "I was recently in Estonia and was shocked to find out that our infant mortality rates are worse than theirs - we have the highest infant mortality rate among modern countries. How will the new health cost reform improve our current corporate owned health care system?"
• Do Veterans hate the VA hospitals? I have heard the VA hospitals are among the best in the world - aren't they run by the government?
• Ronald Reagan increased the national deficit by 700 percent, George Bush Jr. took a 3.5 Trillion Dollar surplus and left a train-wreck of debt in his wake. We will be dealing with the Bush Hangover for years - explain how this health cost reform will help cure the hangover?
• I don't hate our military, I don't hate the post office or our highway system or public schools or the constitution - why should I hate public health care for all citizens?
  
• The United States has more buying power than any other country in the world, yet we refuse to get the best pricing on drugs and health services - will the new health cost reform unleash our ability to drive down prices and complete with the rest of the world?
• Why are insurance companies working so hard to kill this reform? Do you think it is because their profits have quadrupled in the last 9 years?

Please post your stories and the questions you would ask.
Also - if any of you have any ideas how we can motivate Democrats to do anything, let me know! I cannot understand where they have gone - the need to step up to the plate and help their country and their president - but they are no where to be found.

Reagan - Dump Truck Spender

Ronald Reagan created the template for the new Republicans.
Newt Gingrich established the rigid partisan politics that is now a mainstay of the Republican loyalist only agenda - he started with the GoPac tapes.

The sad truth of Reagan's administration is to slash taxes, deconstruct society as we know it, disregard law and the constitution, and last but not least: Spend money by the dump truck load!

Ronald Reagan was the biggest spender in the history of the world - he got his practice in California where as Governor he took a large surplus and turned it into a deficit - and where he increased overall spending by 12.5% over Gov. Brown's administration.

Republicans simply spend money like drunken lottery winners while cutting taxes for those making at least 20,000 per month. Its what they do - its what they love - their modus operandi is the following:
Get in office, cut taxes for the wealthy, rape and pillage the American people for every nickle available, go hell bent into debt and embed the entire government with Republican operatives.
Leave only a trail of indebtedness for the Democrats. When they get into office, constantly accuse them of big spending and how taxes will kill all incentive to do anything. And why not? The Democrats willingly wear a bulls eye target for just such a purpose - they were born as a deer looking into headlights. Dump truck Spending is what the Republicans are all about yet its the Democrats moniker and they wear it like happy little drones.

Ronald Reagan was the great liar, a pillar of charisma and a statistical manipulator the likes of which we had never seen. He came into office with a US debt of less than half a trillion and left with a debt of over 3.5 trillion. He removed 3.5 million people from the statistics regarding the unemployed and thereby transformed the unemployment figures that we remember from his time in office. He removed the Housing index from the inflation index thereby transforming the inflation figures that we remember from his time in office. He initiated the greatest push to jail citizens in the history of Western Civilization and our jailed population would now qualify as the 6th largest nation in the world.

The Bush Hangover

It is not possible to provide aid that will stop home prices from falling to the equilibrium levels that they need to reach. It is also completely ignorant to believe that any aid package can stop the cascading decline in home values except for the briefest of moments. The stimulus bill provided by Obama is a weak kneed and ineffective approach to decreasing foreclosures.

It is very clear, if you are not still under the influence of the "kool aid", that home prices need to drop by large percentages in order to get back to realistic ratios between the local income of an area and the price of a home. In the most affluent sections of our country, namely the coastal areas and those areas nearest major waterways (claiming the vast majority of this nations wealth, top colleges, intellectual property and invention), this decline in home values has only just begun.

In the mid section of the country the stimulus package will help those wanting to purchase homes for the first time - and since the homes in that area of the country have in many cases already fallen to pricing levels in line with historic "income to home price" ratios, people purchasing those homes will generally not see their new homes continue to depreciate much and the ground lost should be quickly recovered in 3 to 5 years.

In what I call the crust areas of the US, (those areas near the coasts - within 100 miles - and those areas near major water ways - within 100 miles, the decline in home values has only just begun. During the Bush administration when fiscal oversight was blinded by the ridiculous mantra of "self regulation" the liar loan became the loan of choice in these areas. Home prices soared way beyond the historic ratios because loans were based on fantasy incomes and in many cases a 50% adjustment is not enough to correct the situation. Taunting first time home buyers in with a reassurance that "Now is the time to buy" may seem correct at a 30% decline in price, but in reality the new home owner will be significantly under water within 6 to 12 months - and this is not an opinion - water will seek its level and the level will be somewhere near the historic ratios - which most of these areas are still a considerable distance from reaching.

My personal advice to the average person underwater or moving into that position is the following:
1. Do not use up your savings trying to save your home.
2. Do not go into credit card debt trying to save your home.
3. Do not chase the "equity" you once had, but rather as you would in a poker game - you have to ask yourself the real question "should I be in this game anymore?" If their is not enough money on the table to make it worthwhile or if you no longer have the energy or funds necessary to play - then leave. And don't leave penniless - don't leave divorced - don't leave after one of you commits suicide.

If you hand them back the keys to your house and leave with all of your credit card balances still low or at zero, and with your 401K still untouched and all the savings you had still intact - your credit will be in fine shape within just a couple of years and you can typically move into a rental for less than half the taxes and payments you were making with your underwater house. If you bought a house that was 900,000 in 2007 and when you leave in 2009 it is worth 650,000 - just know that if it was 380,000 in 1999, it will reach somewhere near that level or lower again in a fairly short time.

Why will houses continue the fall?
Incomes have not risen for over 10 years - with the exception of the meteoric rise in incomes for those in the upper 1%. Qualifying for a mortgage is now like it used to be - you have to actually be employed and prove you have the savings and equities that you say you have in order to qualify for a loan. You also have to show that you will have a stake in the loan - namely - a real down payment.
This means that in an area with an average income of 80,000 the average price of a home will not tolerate 800,000 but it will tolerate the historic ratios of between $240,000 and 400,000. (3 to 5 times the average income). Some areas historically have ratios as high as 8 to 1, but if most of your neighbors do not own Bentleys and Helicopters, you are not in one of those very rarefied areas.

Democrats need to realize that homes need to fall to the historic ratios - propping them up will only delay the organic processes needed to level the field. Real solutions will be allowing the investors to take the losses that they are entitled to for allowing themselves to become drunk so quickly after the last infallible god - the god of the DotCom bubble. Investing in businesses that often did not even have a business plan was absurd then and investing in home loans as high as 23 times average income were just as absurd during the Bush Jr. kool-aid party.

We are having the Bush Hangover - are you enjoying it?
We need to recoup and get our heads on straight again - fix our bridges, build our schools, reinvest in our intelligence again - seek out leaders that really are the best and the brightest and build a real future.
We need to clean out the scum that has been strategically embedded within the government by the Rove's and Cheney's - put them in prison - actively go after the criminals of the past 8 years. Restore our military leadership, our world leadership by taking our foot prints off the faces of our allies. The foot prints left there by the Bush Jr. regime.

We need to embrace real change - Whole Earth change - completely new thinking - We need to shake off the weakness that has become so ingrained in the Democrats - We are certainly as weak as the Republicans have been feckless and greedy. We need to shake off this hangover and clean up the drunken mess of the last 8 years. Put the criminals behind bars and let the investors take their hits like the fools they were.

No more bail outs - Real ideas - Real leadership.