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September 2009
#2
September 21, 2009
WHY PRESIDENT OBAMA SHOULD BE PROUDEST TO BE AN AMERICAN
The United States of America (USA) is 229 years old.
England was started in 1066, I do not know how old
Germany, Italy, France, the Scandinavian country’s
are and many of the other countries of Europe eastern
or western but I do know they have yet to elect a man
or woman their president, chancellor or premier who
happens to be a negro. As a matter of fact I saw on
a news report a man who is negro campaigning for a
job as an elected representative in Russia I believe
who is given absolutely no chance because he is negro.
One person interviewed said they wanted someone who
looked like a Russian.
So as the youngest of nations with the major percentage
of our popular white we have elected a man who happens
to be a Negro as our Commander in Chief i.e. our president.
For this reason Barak Obama of all people should not
only be proud of having attained the position he should
be touting his accomplishment all over the world when
appropriate and not ever apologize for any supposed
short coming of America.
I hope he is successful as president.
In order for him to succeed in his position as Chief
Executive Officer (CEO) of the USA he will have to
do what all CEO’s do when hired to turn a failing
company around, study what the problems are and act
accordingly to correct them. Thus far he has not done
this. The basic reason is his lack of experience as
a CEO. But that can be corrected very easily as all
he needs to do is look to men who have started companies
or who have accomplished turning failing companies
into successful companies, and there are millions of
them out there. How do I know this, easy, there was
nothing here on this land mass now known as the USA
in the early 1500’s when the Dutch and English
settlers arrived here from their respective countries
and they developed businesses. They were able to do
this because they were free. It was these people offspring
who rebelled against the tyranny to include taxation
being perpetrated upon them by the king of England.
The result of their rebellion; us the USA!
I hope he is successful as president.
He should study John D. Rockefeller (JDR). JDR created
the oil industry and should be honored for the accomplishment.
Until oil was processed into kerosene people with lots
of money used the oil from sperm whales in their lanterns
and poor people used candles at best. Because JDR was
able to create kerosene and sell it for pennies on
the dollar versus whale oil more and more people were
able to light their homes each night. I am sure the
impact on the whaling business was such that the need
to kill sperm whales for the most part came to an end.
Even the rich people saved money and bought kerosene.
So JDR was an environmentalist or conservationist by
his actions even though he probably never gave it a
consideration in that regard. As a result of his personal
effort he became a very wealthy man. He did not steal
one penny from any one. He just offered a product at
the lowest possible price he could and still make a
profit. Doesn’t Wal-Mart do the same thing (?)
and you never hear anyone say that it is run by “robber-barons”,
do you? He was instrumental in creating more industries
probably than any other single individual in American
business history. The most obvious is the automobile
industry. Think about all of the parts needed to build
a car to include glass, tires, fabrics, batteries,
lights, gasoline to power the cars, trucks used to
haul goods, etc. I could go on for ever naming things
that would never have come into being if oil did not
exist outside of the automobile industry. Ultimately
millions of jobs were created.
I hope he is successful as president.
How about Bill Gates and friends? They created a
program to allow someone like me to sit at a computer
and run it. It is called an operating system. The result
has been the sale of millions of computers world wide
and millions of new companies were created and millions
of jobs resulted. Gates has just like JDR “earned” millions
of dollars honestly. How come the term “robber
baron” hasn’t been applied to Bill Gates,
like JDR he hasn’t stolen one penny from anyone.
He just made a product that millions of people want
and as a result he has earned billions of dollars in
the process.
I could go on and on with examples of how and why these
people were successful. What President Obama needs
to do is recognize that these people as well as millions
more have seen a need and acted upon that information
to satisfy the need for which other people willingly
have paid them. One thing has been common to all
of these successful people is they each and everyone
have been free to do as they saw fit. FREEDOM will
release more creativity than anything else. Once
President Obama recognizes and accepts this premise
he will be on the way to being a successful president.
It is steering him in the face each and every day
the rejection of his current ideas. First it was
the tea parties and then it is the reaction to the
health care proposal. Tomorrow it will be something
else that represents socialism. How many more examples
does he need to see before he gets it? The people
of the USA simply want to stay FREE. There are thousands
actually millions of people from all over the world
living and working here who think it is crazy to
give up any freedom since they know first hand what
it is like to live without it.
To start turning the economy he must with the entire
congress step back and leave industry to do what it
does best, create products that people want which in
turn creates jobs.
We the people of the USA won World War II not the government.
FDR the then president put us into the war but without
the productivity of businesses who supplied all of
the armaments as well as everything else necessary
to supply the soldiers we couldn’t have even
entered the war in the first place. If the industries
did not exist to begin with who could FDR have gone
too in the first place. Make no bones about it; it
was industry that facilitated the winning of WWII,
not the government. Without all of the businesses that
were in existence FDR would never have had the capability
to enter WWII. Government does not recognize the importance
of these corporations, do they? No, all they do is
stifle business activity under the guise that they
are making to much profit. Imagine that a company that
strives to make a profit. If in fact the companies
did not make a profit they would go out of business.
What would all of the presidents since FDR have done
if not for the businesses that were, are capable of
building what the government needs to wage war in the
first place. There are a multitude of countries that
are openly hostile towards the USA but do not even
consider waging a war against the USA because they
have zero ability to supply their soldiers with the
necessary equipment needed to do the job. Their uniforms
are their everyday clothing.
Once President Obama accepts the importance of businesses
the correct way, right now he sees businesses as cash
cows and is trying to milk them any way possible, he
isn’t the first president to think this way,
he will be and so the country will be better off. If
he wants GM and Chrysler to succeed he should immediately
auction them off to the highest bidder in the private
sector of our economy. All he has to do is look at
Amtrak to understand that government can not operate
as a privately owned business can. He should also auction
off Amtrak. He should start taking back any and all
funds given to the banks under the TARP program that
want to give back the funds. He should get in front
of the congress with all members present and have them
start reviewing the laws already on the books that
stifle businesses and start repealing them as quickly
as possible versus dreaming up new laws. The first
to be repealed should be the Anti Trust Laws. If you
don’t believe me read Alan Greenspan’s
article in the book CAPITALISM: THE UNKNOWN IDEAL mostly
articles by AYN RAND but Alan Greenspan has two in
the book. President Obama should also take a weekend
holiday with pay on me and read it as well.
If President Obama is to be successful as president
he has to radically change his thinking, from the methodology
he acquired from several friends who in another country
would probably not be alive today because of things
they said or did. If he chooses to ignore the reasons
the USA has been the envy of the world, a place where
even a man who happens to be a negro can as we have
seen be elected President of the United States of America.
He should be proud to wear his citizenship on his shoulder.
To do otherwise will only mean that his presidency
will be a failure.
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