Michael Steele; Can the “Man of Steele” Revive the Republican Party’s Sinking Ship & Can the Republicans Put a Muzzle on Rush Limbaugh?

Michael Steele; Can the “Man of Steele” Revive the Republican Party’s Sinking Ship & Can the Republicans Put a Muzzle on Rush Limbaugh?
By Marc Chamot

“Short of a miracle, and unless the Democratic Party falls flat on their faces, because of their failure in fixing the disastrous American economic situation, and unless the Republican Party changes its philosophy from Wall Street to Main Street, not even the Man of Steele can fix their fast sinking image.”

Michael Steele is one of the brightest political minds around. He’s black, a conservative, and Republican, and he’s also very well known by the media everywhere.

For the Republicans in choosing him as their fearless leader, and their party savior, couldn’t have come at a better time. Under these extreme circumstances, and under the chaotic state that the party is in, it wasn’t too hard to figure out as to why the Republicans put him in charge.

After the sheer dominance of African American voters that catapulted Barack Obama over the top of the Democratic Party echelon, Republicans desperately found the need to pull in these lost black conservative voters back. Michael Steele wants to take the party to the grassroots level, and into the community level to rebuild a Party that is in disarray.

Michael Steele says that “the party has been unfairly caricatured by Democrats and the media, as racist and insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans. We also have an image problem” he said; “we’ve been misidentified as the party that doesn’t care, a party that’s insensitive, and a party that is unconcerned about minorities…nothing can be further from the truth.”

I totally disagree with Michael Steele’s views that the Republican Party is seen as racist, but I also disagree with Michael Steele’s portrayal that the Democrats are caricaturing the party as a doesn’t care party, and are insensitive to the needs of ordinary Americans.

These are not Democrat Propaganda folks! I’m not a Democrat; I’m far from being a Democrat. These are the cold hard FACTS about the matter, this fallacy is only being believed by the right-wing of the Republican Party, the Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s types, and by the right-wing pipe dreamers of the party.

It’s a TRUE FACT folks. Michael Steele is dead wrong. If the Republicans want to keep on going into this path of self denial, they will FAIL miserably, whether with him or without him at the helm.

The Republican Party has become the “Wall Street’s Party,” the party for the corporate elites, the party for the super rich, rather than the party for the common American working man, or for labor and for the American middleclass.

The Republican Party has also shown its true colors that they’re not the party for the regular working Joe’s of America. They are far from it, they never were the party for the majority of the middleclass, and they practically destroyed the working American middleclass.

Take a look at what the Republicans have done since 2000-2006, when President George Bush took office, and when the Republicans had total control of Washington politics. We lost millions of jobs, and mainly to China in favor for corporate profits. And during those years they were into “heavy duty” well paid American labor busting schemes, in lieu for cheaper foreign labor to help fill these greedy Wall Street CEO’s filthy pockets, with millions of dollars in bonuses, while Americans were going jobless in droves!

Rush Limbaugh used to be good for American politics; he may have 13 million listeners, but they don’t all vote and follow what he says for them to do. Rush, was a great voice at one time for the opposition.

I avidly listened to Rush Limbaugh, but there’s no doubt that Rush Limbaugh has lost his luster, and has done considerable damage to the Republican Party. Rush Limbaugh hasn’t been influential for the past two elections outcomes, the 2006 and the most recent in 2008. Rush Limbaugh has practically alienated some of his core supporters, and voters that used to make up the Republican Party, the conservative Libertarians like myself, who most have gone Independent.

I think what killed Rush Limbaugh with most Libertarians, was his constant pandering for President Bush’s illegal wiretappings on Americans, it was being done under the pretext of protecting us from terrorism, while knowing full well that it was against our protected rights as citizens, under the freedom and civil liberties, which is protected by the United States constitution.

When someone is hell bent in going against the American constitution, it can be pretty damaging politically. Take for example, the 2002 McCain-Feingold bill, the bill that Republican Senator John McCain co-wrote with Democrat Russ Feingold, and that both supported, they went directly after our freedoms of speech that was protected under our U.S. constitution. Unfortunately, this travesty stuck more with John McCain than it did with Russ Feingold.

The Republican Party has disgracefully drifted away, and has gotten completely out of touch with the American working populace, and made a mockery with our civil liberties. It angered the conservative Libertarians in the middleclass; and the regular blue collar working Joes’ of America, and these were the largest voting block in America.

It’s going to take a whole lot more than just a “Man of Steele” to get back the lost black voters, and to make things happen for the Republican Party again. It’s going to take a complete party makeover, reaching out to lost Libertarians, and middleclass workers. Doing business without the likes of the Rush Limbaugh’s and the Sean Hannity’s, and especially without having both of these characters stringing the party to their every whim.

Barack Obama’s First Big Lie; in Speeches, Sen. Obama Had Pledged that Lobbyists Will not Hold Sway if he Won; Now He’s Tapped 12 Lobbyists:

Barack Obama’s First Big Lie; in Speeches, Sen. Obama Had Pledged that Lobbyists Will not Hold Sway if he Won; Now He’s Tapped 12 Lobbyists into His Administration:
By Marc Chamot

Barack Obama: “This change will not be easy. It will require reforming our politics by taking power away from the lobbyists who kill good ideas and good plans with secret meetings and campaign checks, I don’t take money from lobbyists. I don’t take money from PACs. They have not funded my campaign. They will not run my White House, but I am ready to reform our politics because I’ve done it before. I’ve spent my career taking on lobbyists and their money, and I’ve won.”

Say it isn’t so Mr. President? Just one week into his administration, President Barack Obama just came out with his first BIG LIE of his presidency. Everything was going well up to this point. Until recently, when President Barack Obama placed 12 former lobbyists into key positions in his administration, when he adamantly said during his campaign that he would never do. Was this only a lie to get him elected, and could there be more back- stabbings coming from this man of words?

Barack Obama knows full well that special interests groups and lobbyists are the disease that’s killing American politics, especially in Washington. Barack Obama also knew that when he campaigned around on the premise of cleaning up government from its usual corruptive self, with these words, Barack Obama totally destroyed John McCain’s and the Republicans for any chance in winning the U.S. presidency.

But unfortunately, we’re being duped once again by another slick serenading politician that keeps breaking their promises with the American people for votes.

The following are more excerpts in Barack Obama’s own words for reforming lobbyists and special interest groups on Monday, September 22nd, 2008 in Green Bay, Wisconsin during his 2008 presidential campaign:

Barack Obama: “We’re here because for too long, the doors of Washington have been thrown open to an army of lobbyists and special interests who’ve turned our government into a game only they can afford to play – who have shredded consumer protections, fought against common-sense regulations and rules of the road, and distorted our economy so that it works for them instead of you.”

Barack Obama: “If we want a government that puts the needs of middle-class families before the whims of lobbyists and politicians; if we want to grow this economy and prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again, then the ways of Washington must change. We must reform our lobbyist-driven politics. We must reform the waste and abuse in our government. We must reform the rules of the road that let Wall Street run wild and stuck Main Street with the bill. We must change Washington now.”

The shame of it all is that it’s coming from the very same man that criticized John McCain about his lobbyists and what they would do if John McCain got into the White House.

Barack Obama: “When it comes to taking on the special interests, my opponent sounds like Fighting Bob Lafollette. But he acts like a guy who’s spent three decades of his life in Washington. He’s put seven of the biggest corporate lobbyists in charge of his campaign – lobbyists for the insurance industry and the oil industry; for foreign governments and Freddie and Fannie Mac, who paid his campaign manager nearly $2 million to defend them against stricter regulations. I guess they got their money’s worth.”

Barack Obama: “That’s exactly what we will get from John McCain. After twenty-six years of being part of this Washington culture, all that he has changed is his slogan for the fall campaign. And the people in charge of that campaign prove that if we elect John McCain, it’s not a team of mavericks we’ll be sending to the White House – it’s a team of lobbyists. And rest assured those lobbyists who are working day and night to elect my opponent isn’t doing it to put them out of business.”

So, Barack Obama promised us real change from the norm of what Washington politics have always been about. We listened to him, we believed in him also. He practically had the whole nation mesmerized over his change mantra. He had us cheering for him, supporting him, and loving him at the same time. It sure looks like Barack Obama did a complete 180 on the issue of lobbyist in his White House.

Barack Obama: “To restore this prosperity, we must change Washington. We must reform our regulations, our politics, and our government, but we will not be able to make these changes with the same policies, the same lobbyists, or the same Washington culture that allows politicians and special interests to set their own agenda.”

So far, there’s still no action from the Democrats and Barack Obama, on the chaotic state of our economy. Our jobless counts are still mounting and the Democrats are dragging their feet on badly needed NAFTA reforms that are killing American jobs. And they are stonewalling on the completion of that border wall along Mexico; both are issues that Barack Obama vehemently supported during his presidential campaign.

That economic stimulus package that Barack Obama and the Democrats are so keen on is going to fail. It’s like throwing out more flames to put out a grass fire. It doesn’t address the needs for the millions of out-of-work Americans. That trickle down effect that they are wanting doesn’t work anymore. It’s a broken system. Whether it was by corporate, political and/or banking greed, we don’t really know.

This stimulus package should have gone directly to the American citizens, they would have had the money in hand to spend, and this could have helped revive the economy. Those billions of dollars going to government agencies and for maintaining corporate structures is money being thrown away.

So President Barack Obama has just given unwarranted ammunition for conservatives and talk radio to use against him, people like the Rush Limbaugh’s out there, those who will question his every action, leadership, and his ability to keep his word on issues.

Maybe in closing with my article, we can all stop and ponder about, or just think about what President Barack Obama really meant by this last speech of his. Was he talking about his or John McCain’s next four years? I’m just wondering….

Barack Obama: “So if you want the next four years in Washington to look just like the last eight, then I am not your candidate. But if you want real change – if you want to shine a bright light into the backrooms of Washington; if you want to replace the special interests with your interests, if you want a government that costs less and works better for everyday Americans, then I ask you to knock on some doors, and make some calls, and talk to your neighbors, and give me your vote on November 4th. And if you do, I promise you – we will change America together. Thank you.”

Courtesy Politico.com & YahooNews.com

Here are former lobbyists that Barack Obama has tapped for top jobs in the White House:

1. Eric Holder, attorney general nominee, was registered to lobby until 2004 on behalf of clients including Global Crossing, a bankrupt telecommunications firm.
2. Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year on behalf of the National Education Association.
3. William Lynn, deputy defense secretary nominee, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for defense contractor Raytheon, where he was a top executive.
4. William Corr, deputy health and human services secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until last year for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, a non-profit that pushes to limit tobacco use.
5. David Hayes, deputy interior secretary nominee, was registered to lobby until 2006 for clients, including the regional utility San Diego Gas & Electric.
6. Mark Patterson, chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, was registered to lobby as recently as last year for financial giant Goldman Sachs.
7. Ron Klain, chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, was registered to lobby until 2005 for clients, including the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution, U.S. Airways, Airborne Express and drug-maker ImClone.
8. Mona Sutphen, deputy White House chief of staff, was registered to lobby for clients, including Angliss International in 2003.
9. Melody Barnes, domestic policy council director, lobbied in 2003 and 2004 for liberal advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the American Constitution Society and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
10. Cecilia Munoz, White House director of intergovernmental affairs, was a lobbyist as recently as last year for the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group.
11. Patrick Gaspard, White House political affairs director, was a lobbyist for the Service Employees International Union.
12. Michael Strautmanis, chief of staff to the president’s assistant for intergovernmental relations, lobbied for the American Association of Justice from 2001 until 2005.

Full Barack Obama speech from Green Bay, WI
Remarks of Senator Barack Obamathe Change We Need in WashingtonMonday, September 22nd, 2008Green Bay, WisconsinFull Text of Barack Obama’s Anti-Lobbyist Speech can be read here:http://speeches.demconwatchblog.com/2008/09/barack-obama-speech-from-green-bay-wi.html

Obama finds room for lobbyists
Kenneth P. Vogel, Mike Allen Kenneth P. Vogel, Mike Allen Wed Jan 28, 5:36 pm ET

President Obama promised during his campaign that lobbyists "won't find a job in my White House."

So far, though, at least a dozen former lobbyists have found top jobs in his administration, according to an analysis done by Republican sources and corroborated by Politico.

Obama aides did not challenge the list of lobbyists appointed to administration jobs, but they stressed that former lobbyists comprise a fraction of the more than 8,000 employees who will be hired by the new administration. And they pointed out that before Obama made his campaign-trail promise, he issued a more complete - and more nuanced - policy on former lobbyists.

Formalized in a recent presidential executive order, it forbids executive branch employees from working in an agency, or on a program, for which they have lobbied in the last two years.

Yet in the past few days, a number of exceptions have been granted, with the administration conceding at least two waivers and that a handful of other appointees will recuse themselves from dealing with matters on which they lobbied within the two-year window.

“It would be more honest if they admitted they made a mistake and came up with a narrower rule,” said Melanie Sloan, executive director of the government watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

“Obviously, they can’t live with the rule, which is why they keep waving the magic wand and making exceptions. They’re saying one thing and doing another. It’s why the public is skeptical about politicians.”

But another watchdog, Meredith McGehee of the Campaign Legal Center, praised Obama’s rules as “a good starting place” and urged patience in judging their efficacy.

“Any good set of ethics rules has the opportunity for waivers, but if the waivers become the rule, rather than the exception, then you have to look at whether the waivers are being sought too frequently or whether there’s a problem with the rule,” McGehee said. “I don’t think we’re at that point yet.”

At the White House, spokesman Tommy Vietor insisted the president has been consistent.

“During the campaign, then-Sen. Obama put forth the toughest ethics and lobbying reform policy in history,” Vietor said, “and now he’s acting on it to reduce the influence of lobbyists in Washington.”
Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090128/pl_politico/18128

American Ports in Demise, Massive Layoffs & Waves of Unused Equipment Litter West Coast Port Facilities:

American Ports in Demise, Massive Layoffs & Waves of Unused Equipment Litter West Coast Port Facilities:
By Marc Chamot

After five years of consecutive growth at West Coast ports, the global economy has cut deeply into dockworkers jobs and massive loss of revenues for our American port facilities mainly in the West Coast. The downturn has also devastated cargo carriers, and it’s estimated that over 200 ships have been pulled from service around the globe. “Dock work has practically dried up” says one West Coast dockworkers union. “It’s been a steady slide for the past two years or so.” Numerous West Coast ports have most of their equipment sitting idle; rows upon rows of unused machines, tractors and trucks just sitting there doing nothing.

The hours worked at Bay Area ports were down 13.4 percent in 2007, according to Pacific Maritime Association. And in 2008, the hours worked were off another 10.3 percent! “It’s something we’ve never seen before, it’s such an anomaly, I don’t think there’s any chance to recover from this for a while” says Pacific Maritime Association Chief Executive James McKenna.
The annual full time wages for dockworkers are $200,000 for foremen, $145,000 for clerks and $125,000 for long shore workers. Those days of earning that kind of money may be gone. With the American industrial crisis, and coupled in with the declines of our port facilities was a coordinated attack on highly paid unionized workers of America.

To some people, who have never seen that kind of money before might not have any sympathy for the woes of these highly paid workers. They might want to argue that they should have cut back on their astronomical wages too. Regardless, on who is on what side of the argument, an unemployed American worker is money out of the economy; they also become a bigger tax burden for taxpayers to maintain.

But, these attacks on American UNIONIZED labor have been coming mainly from the Republicans and their supporters while in power. It’s a fact folks, while our ports have been decimating, and Mexican trucks have been allowed to enter the United States with hardly any restrictions last year, it has expedited our own workers’ demise in both of these industries.

(This chart1 shows Mexico's container traffic since NAFTA was enacted in 1995.)

The Monthly Review, in their article, The NAFTA Corridors: Off Shoring U.S. Transportation Jobs to Mexico by Richard D. Vogel shows a stark correlation between the rise of Mexican shipping ports, and their trucking companies, whilst ours went in the opposite direction.

It’s another prime example on how some people in our government can devilishly plot the demise of American workers, just for corporate bottom lines, GREED, and for the good of the almighty dollar.

Taking care of corporate business interests, instead of the American worker’s interest is an American travesty that’s been getting too much out of control lately. It’s an American political contrarian attitude that’s needs reigning in badly before any more Americans lose any more jobs. It’s also attitudes coming from that typical stubborn Republican mentality, the anti-worker mentality, and the anti-union mentality that I’ve writing about for months on my blogs. They are also coming from the out of touch, and the John McCain snubs your nose attitude that destroyed his 2008 presidential candidacy, he GOT walloped by the blue collar workers of America, the middle class, and the people that I mostly write about on my blogs.

The NAFTA Corridors: Off Shoring U.S. Transportation Jobs to Mexico
by Richard D. Vogel

Capital’s relentless search for cheap labor constantly alters the flow of surface transportation in North America with widespread consequences. The end-of-century deindustrialization of the United States and importation of cheap commodities from the Far East through the West Coast reversed historical east-west transportation patterns and established Los Angeles and Long Beach as the largest ports in the nation.

To minimize transportation costs, which for many products are higher than the cost of production, transportation of containerized imports was developed. Manufactured goods are packed into mobile shipping containers at factories in the Far East and travel by ship, train, and truck to distribution centers and, ultimately, consumer outlets across the United States.

Currently, transportation of cheap imported commodities is the lifeline of the American economy. In 2004, the Port of Los Angeles processed 7.3 million container units and Long Beach handled 5.8 million. These two ports alone accounted for 68 percent of the West Coast total and are, by far, the largest employers in California. U.S. workers, who have seen so many lucrative manufacturing jobs moved overseas, assumed that import transportation and distribution jobs could not be off shored and were, therefore, relatively secure.

Current transportation trends are proving labor’s assumption to be dead wrong. Sparked by organized resistance and wildcat actions by workers against falling wages and deteriorating working conditions at America’s ports and on the nation’s highways, the flow of container traffic is being shifted to a south-north orientation. By leveraging both the U.S. and Mexican governments and taking advantage of the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), big capital is developing container terminals in Mexico and using that country as a land bridge and labor pool to deliver shipping containers to destinations in the United States at discount prices.

Chart 1 depicts the flow of container traffic through the Mexican land bridge under NAFTA. The data in chart 1, which comes from the Mexican Secretary of Communication and Transport and which is reported in the United States by the American Association of Port Authorities (http://www.aapa.org/), reflects the dramatic increase of container units through the Pacific ports of Mexico after the treaty went into effect in 1995—450 percent!
Full Story: http://www.monthlyreview.org/0206vogel.htm

Mexican Government in Danger of Collapse, Due to Drug Cartels and Rampant Government Corruption, Says U.S. Army Report:

Mexican Government in Danger of Collapse, Due to Drug Cartels and Rampant Government Corruption, Says U.S. Army Report:
By Marc Chamot

The U.S. may be forced to intervene on Mexico’s behalf to prevent that country’s “rapid and sudden collapse” at the hands of organized crime, drug cartels, and rampant inner government corruption, according to the U.S. Army.

A report from the Joint Operating Environment, compiled by the U.S. army’s highest command and intelligence, says that Mexico could become a failed state in matter of a few years.

The U.S., which has a 2,000 miles border along with Mexico, it could be pretty devastating for the United States, if Mexico were to get involved into a civil war, there could be massive out of control refugees flowing into the United States. It’s things that we only read and hear about that can happen to any third world country when at war. Something that’s very common in war torn continents like Asia, Africa, and some nations in the Middle East.

Since Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon has deployed Mexico’s army to fight against organized crime, corruption, and the drug cartels, it has brought chaos for the stability of that country. This battle is being waged against the four major drug cartels, which has claimed the lives of 5,367 members of the Mexican security forces and the criminal elements last year. These drug cartels have infiltrated all levels of the army, police, judiciary and government.

Mexican politicians, its military, police, and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assaults, and are under heavy pressure from the outside, and within, and from these criminal elements to stop them from what they are doing. If the Mexican government collapses, it could bring serious consequences and uncertainty, not only for Mexico, and Mexicans as a whole, it could also put more drugs; bring in more crime, and homicides, and a catastrophic flow of Mexican refugees into the United States.

The Colombian governments, along with American help, haven’t been able to pull the plug on the illicit cocaine industry that is currently destroying Mexico.

Because of our porous borders with Mexico, and with the constant patrolling of our maritime waters and shipping ports, it has been getting harder for smugglers to bring in their illicit drugs into the United States; it has made northern Mexico a more desirable and easier location for the drug cartels to import illicit drugs into the United States. Most of their cities and towns along the Mexican side of the border are ravaged with crime, and killings, it’s becoming a virtual no man’s land out there.

Today’s Mexican problems can be largely traced to former Mexican President Vicente Fox’s disastrous years as Mexico’s president, he spent his years fraternizing with popular Mexico’s Hollywood crowd, movie stars, the Tele-Novela crowds, and with American politicians, and presidents laden with speeches about giving Mexican illegal aliens their rights to be in the U.S.. Instead of watching, and keeping these drug cartels from forming and ravaging his country. He also allowed public corruption to go on, that’s currently running amuck in his country, Vicente Fox allowed all of these travesties to occur that has manifested into what Mexico is today.

Had the U.S. government totally sealed off its southern borders from the get go, Mexico wouldn’t be having these life threatening problems now. They wouldn’t be having American illicit guns that are causing this carnage going into their country, and we wouldn’t be having illicit drugs coming into America, (and then there wouldn’t be the need for these drug cartels posted along northern Mexico wreaking havoc, and it doesn’t take a real genius to figure that one out Mr. President and Democrats,) and there also wouldn’t be illegal aliens coming into our country either. I’d hate to imagine what it would be like, and the chaos that would create for our nation, if other than a stable Mexican government is running that country.

For exactly that reason, it’s imperative that President Barack Obama not only finishes the border wall, but sends in more American troops to patrol our southern borders, he must also do all he can within his power to help our south of the border neighbors to survive. Not only by giving them financial aid, he must also provide technical support, drug trafficking experts, and even military support if the Mexican government asks for it.

Photo above, are some rogue Mexican soldiers who are paid by the Mexican drug cartels. Courtesy http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://patdollard.com

U.S. military report warns 'sudden collapse' of Mexico is possible

EL PASO - Mexico is one of two countries that "bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse," according to a report by the U.S. Joint Forces Command on worldwide security threats.
The command's "Joint Operating Environment (JOE 2008)" report, which contains projections of global threats and potential next wars, puts Pakistan on the same level as Mexico. "In terms of worse-case scenarios for the Joint Force and indeed the world, two large and important states bear consideration for a rapid and sudden collapse:
Full Story: http://www.elpasotimes.com/newupdated/ci_11444354

A Dawn of a New Era: a Failed George Bush Presidency Now Gone, so what’s new with the One of Barack Obama?

A Dawn of a New Era: a Failed George Bush Presidency Now Gone, so what’s new with the One of Barack Obama?
By Marc Chamot

I have no doubt that the presidency of G.W. Bush left more wreckage during his eight years in the White House than did any of his predecessor’s administrations of Warren Harding (1921-1923,) and Jimmy Carter combined. In American presidential standards, G.W Bush’s was a total FAILURE. He was a divider, not a uniter.

Not only he divided the nation, and the world, he also divided and destroyed the Republican Party and their reputation. It ran up record deficits, created a culture of ineptness in government neglect that left some Americans neglected after Hurricane Katrina, and continued to keep us gripped into anxiety with an economic system ready to collapse.

The Bush White House pushed the limits of his administration and the law to establish warrant-less wiretapping on Americans, and the out of control no-fly-list that has put a lot of innocent Americans through grief. Some innocent Americans have even been placed on the no-fly-list out of spite and for POLITICAL REVENGE.

The Bill Clinton administration left the nation with a surplus of about $100 billion, but under George Bush, we’re approaching a deficit of $ 700 Billion dollars. He allowed the greedy Wall Street financial institutions to destroy many American dreams. Countless of lost homes, massive foreclosures, and massive joblessness that’s killing our economy.

President George Bush also allowed communist China into the WTO around 2001. Since then China has decimated our steel industries, textile industries, food and drink products, manufactories of all kinds have escaped the states to forgo our labor laws for cheaper Chinese labor. George Bush entered the nation into numerous free trade deals that benefited other nations than ours.

George Bush also opened up the borders for Mexican truckers to truck in imported merchandise from Mexican ports into our country, while killing our own American truckers of job opportunities, and meanwhile our own sea ports have been depleting. This nation is deeper in debt, gloomier in outlook, weaker economy, millions out of work, and disastrous in global stature than when G.W. Bush took office.

President Barack Obama and his First Lady Michelle Obama are riding high these days, of course they are, and they are taking over a previous presidency that had totally collapsed, it couldn’t get much worse from here on for the newly elected President Barack Obama.

It’s only two ways from here; it’s either upwards or downwards for the new president. After the festivities are over, and after they wake up and sober up tomorrow, it’s going to be a somber realization that fixing this country’s mess isn’t going to be as easy as he thinks for President Barack Obama and his Democratic cohorts.

First of all, that bailout that Barack Obama is talking about should go directly to the American people who are in need and NOT to the municipalities and states. Because, I read somewhere that San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom, was personally asking Obama for that piece of the pie for his city, so please explain to me, as to why we should give a city’s mayor that wantonly supports sanctuary status for his city’s illegal aliens, and for their costly FREE medical care which he also supports, and that are bankrupting his city? It just makes no sense at all.

Barack Obama has got to be the uniter he portrays himself to be, not the divider that he doesn’t claim to be. He’s got to reverse the terrible trend of jobs loses and work going abroad. He’s got to create fairer “free trade” deals that benefit Americans rather than the opposite. Obama’s also got to take a harder look into China, stopping the siphoning of American industries that keep on going over there. He’s also got to look into these cheap trade tariffs that are flooding our markets with cheap foreign made goods from countries with substandard wages.

Barack Obama’s got to shut down the Mexican truckers coming into our country that are making it unfair for our own American truckers to compete. He’s also got to finish building that border wall that’s been appropriated by congress in 2006, and he’s got to enforce all immigration laws that are in the books, including raiding and jailing meatpackers that keep using illegal aliens. Barack Obama has got to get tougher on employers who hire illegal aliens and must get that e-verify going, and then let’s talk about immigration reforms, eh?

America Burning; Will Fed-Up States Withhold Funds from the Federal Government & Is Seceding Another Alternative, Can it be Achieved?

America Burning; Will Fed-Up States Withhold Funds from the Federal Government & Is Seceding Another Alternative, Can it be Achieved?
By Marc Chamot

Now that Barack Obama has won the U.S. presidency, there’s been a whole lot of talk about possible seceding of some American States from the union. It’s something that was virtually impossible to think about in the past, it was treasonous to talk about it, but times are changing, and things are just getting worse instead of better. A possible states revolt seems to be looming ahead and looks quite plausible for it to happen in the near future.

The warnings are coming loud and clear, not from angry conservatives and moderates, but left wing socialist newspapers and mediums.

They are sounding the alarm bells that America may end up being a split up union, and or even regulate the federal government’s powers. It’s no doubt that the catastrophic way the federal government has run our nation into the ground that the possibility of such action exists.

History has shown that it’s a whole lot easier to secede than to overthrow a larger established government.

It’s quite evident by the number of states that have taken their own voters initiatives and through legislation curbing rampant illegal immigration that’s flooding our cities, towns and states. It’s something that the federal government has seriously failed to accomplish.

States has had to deal with the issue of marriages, and many states have passed strict and stringent laws regulating marriages between homosexuals. And now we’re faced with massive job loses, out of control immigration that’s benefiting illegal aliens and other foreign nations over our own people.

For years, individual state powers have been trampled upon and have been eroding through the federal government’s federal superior court systems. Countless of state voter initiatives have been overturned through these federal court systems. There is no doubt about it, our federal government has failed us miserably; pressures on governors by the voting populace in some states, will force more constitutionalist actions for serious federal reforms.

One key component that is being thrown about is cutting off paying the federal government employment fed taxes entirely. It may be a great bargaining tool for states to use, in keeping their citizenry from getting angrier due to an ineffective and useless central governmental system.

If you have been following my blogs for the past year and a half, you’ll see a pattern of dissent coming from my postings.

I have proven in my blogs the failures of our American politicians, mainly in Washington, and as to why they have failed us Americans. I have also shown the true facts and more facts on issues relating to our sad state of economy, immigration and joblessness, and with the federalist’s incompetence, and their inability to run and manage our once great proud nation.

I’ve come close to write about this subject matter before, but it’s a fascinating subject that’s been getting some news lately.

When push comes to shove, I can be just as RADICAL as these leftists, socialists, and communists left wingers. When they and our government trample upon my RELIGION (Christianity,) seeing massive uncontrolled immigration that’s changing my landscape, creating new laws against my moral values, and destroying my quality of life and job opportunities, it’s time to fight back about it.

Scientific predictions about a split up of America are all around. Samuel P. Huntington’s popular book called the ‘Clash of Civilizations and the New World Order,” claimed that world conflict would center on cultural rather than ideological differences. Huntington’s 2004 book, “Who Are We? The Challenges to American National Identity,” his theme was about our loss of American Identity through possible cultural threats from immigrants amassing in our nation. Huntington warned that the trend would divisively divide this country into different cultures, and different languages.

And there is also this Russian academic Igor Panarin, who for a decade has been predicting the demise of America. According to a December 29 Wall Street article at, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html "There's a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process," he adds, poker-faced. "But if we're talking reasonably, it's not the best scenario -- for Russia." Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.the article describes in detail about the eventual breakup of the states.”

This is the same Igor Panarin that predicted the demise of the former Soviet Socialist Republic thirteen years before it happened.

Igor Panarin forecasts on data supplied to him by FAPSI analysts, and he predicts that the chaotic economic, financial and demographic trends will provoke a political and social unrest in America. States will begin to withhold funds from the federal government, and some will effectively secede from the union.

And what both, Samuel P Huntington and Igor Panarin say, is that the United States will split along ethnic lines, and there will be deeper foreign influence in America. Mr. Panarin also says that with our out of control mass immigration, joblessness, economic declines, and moral degradation could also trigger a civil war and the collapse of the U.S. Dollar.

I had asked my best buddy Jason Hall out of Arkansas to investigate and work with me on this subject, on seceding. He did a great little introduction at: To Secede Or Not To Secede, That Is The Question! He quotes:

"In this time of discourse with our fellows in Washington we as a people need to hold them accountable for the path that they wish to impose on us as citizens. We need to look at them in the context of, are the powers in DC representing us or are they representing their own means and ends; and to the devil with the rest of us if we do not go along.

I would surmise that they have taken the latter rather than the former. They promise great things, they want to bring peace and prosperity but only deliver their own interest in the end.“I will go to Washington and I will ‘Change’ the way things work.” Does this sound familiar I would hope so, we have been entreated to these platitudes far too long and we as the populace grow weary, angry and even apathetic. We grow tired of the “same ole–same ole” among our elected aristocratic class. Yes, they have become the new bourgeoisie class who say one thing here in their home state and do a completely different thing in DC. And they expect us to be compliant sheep that is lead to the slaughter house of their power procurement, with out so much as a whimper."Read Full Story at his Site To Secede Or Not To Secede, That Is The Question!

After living in Arkansas and Oklahoma for a combined five years, the mood and the feelings from the people out there is pretty much beat up. It’s all up to Barack Obama and the Democrats to keep it from happening or else, we’d hate to see what the outcome would be. We will keep a sharp eye on this matter, really.

China’s Economy is now World’s Third Largest; Surpassing Germanys' & Its Effects on American Industrial Workers:

China’s Economy is now World’s Third Largest; Surpassing Germanys' & Its Effects on American Industrial Workers:
By Marc Chamot

Say it isn’t so Uncle Sam, through seven years of WTO and the wanton siphoning out of industrial and manufacturing jobs out of America, and mainly through these worthless “free trade deals.”

We have just made an anti-humanitarian rights violator, and a slave labored society very wealthy, and one that is reaping the benefits of other traditional well paid workers from around the world, jobs stolen from around the globe, especially from millions of American industrial workers.

Just in 1978 China was ranked 10th in the world of top economies, and new revised data from 2007 shows that China has just surpassed Germany, and is just behind Japan and the United States, as the top industrialized producer nation of the world.

China's economy, one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and the biggest contributor to global growth, grew 9.9 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of last year. In other words folks, China grew while the United States regressed BADLY.

China has grown over ten times in the past thirty years. Thanks in large part to the United States and our politicians for allowing China’s, horrendous human rights violations to still persist, using cheap/slave labor to produce our products, and to be allowed to become the third ranked economy of the world. And while in contrast to the economic declines in both, Europe and the United States.

But China’s exports fell at the fastest rate in years last month because of the global economic turmoil. China’s exports have declined considerably, it’s because of the same story, it’s because people are worried about losing their jobs and aren’t buying or spending any money worldwide.

They are still a long ways to catch up to the United States, but they will, you can bet on it. As long as we keep on electing these baboons, buffoons in office, it could become a reality folks.

Here are China's growth charts:

NOTICE: That under President George Bush, when China was admitted into the WTO around 2001. SEE the CHART above, check OUT the trade EXPLOSION that occured in China's favor since post WTO-2001.

By the numbers:
United States $13.8 trillion
Japan $4.4 trillion
China $3.5 trillion
Germany $3.3 trillion

A Legacy in Flames; New Hearst Data Shows President G.W. Bush’s U.S. Presidency, “is Worst Ever:”

A Legacy in Flames; New Hearst Data Shows President G.W. Bush’s U.S. Presidency, “is Worst Ever:”
By Marc Chamot

A Bush lie: “I inherited a recession; I’m ending on a recession. In the meantime, there were 52 months of uninterrupted job growth.”

In my last posting, when the history of unemployment came out. I had posted the unemployment charts from 1993 to current. President George Bush was right in one thing; he may have had 52 months of uninterrupted job growth. But, he did not inherit a recession like he says he did.

According to a recent Hearst Newspapers analysis of government data, by Robert Dibrell, paints a startling picture of President Bush’s legacy. The data, going back twelve presidents in America’s history, shows that President George W. Bush rates the worst of them all.

When George Bush got hold of the country back in 2000, it was economically sound and solid. Just the way President Bill Clinton left it.

When September 11th 2001 came about, President George Bush and the Republicans in power could never domestically come out of the rut they were in. They installed all kinds of social programs (seepages of manufacturing jobs abroad, failed 2005 bankruptcy laws, globalization ventures, NAFTA, GATT, WTO’S, and out of control “Free Trade”) that became counterproductive for the American economy.

Statistics and data show that former President Bill Clinton left us with the lowest unemployment in recent history. And, under President Bill Clinton, the Dow Jones had the best performance ever under any American president.

Data also show that President Bill Clinton had one of the tops GDP adjusted inflation changes around, ranked fourth overall of U.S presidents going back to Franklin D Roosevelt. But, under President George Bush the national debt increased more than twice as much, by a whopping 88% under his presidency from Clinton’s 40%.

His end of term approval rating of 27% is the lowest, only next to former President Richard Nixon’s 24%.

President George Bush has also the biggest negative swings in presidential popularity to an all time high of 73%. A president rated by the public as “a total failure” or below average, George Bush has a commanding worst 52% to former Democratic president Jimmy Carter’s 35%!

So! To those pundits, conservative radio hosts like Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and to the Ann Coulter’s out there, and those that truly believe, and claim that President Bill Clinton was worse than President George W. Bush, start stuffing your “crows” into your mouths. These people have very little to no credibility with me now.

Not only President George W. Bush was the worst ever, he had a commanding WORST EVER lead over his closest Democratic rival, President Jimmy Carter.

Enclosed is the chart; Courtesy Houston Chronicle:
See Chart here, http://images.chron.com/content/news/pdfs/09/01/11/legacy.pdf

11.1 Million Americans Out of Work; Jobless at 7.2% & 2.6 Million Americans Out of Work in 2008 & Appalling Republican Track Record:

11.1 Million Americans Out of Work; Jobless at 7.2% With 2.6 Million Americans Out of Work in 2008 & Appalling Republican Track Record on Jobs:
By Marc Chamot

It’s getting grimmer and grimmer for working Americans these days. Another 524,000 jobs were lost in December. Over half a million were lost back to back in September and November of 2007. At the rate we’re heading, we’re all going to be left jobless soon.

It wasn’t since January 1993’s 7.3%, we have had such unemployment highs, and under, you guessed it, former president George Bush senior, which caused him to lose his reelection bid to Democrat Bill Clinton.

Like father like son. Both Bush’s and both presidents brought us serious economic problems and massive joblessness. The economic idiocy seems to run high in that Republican family of theirs. It’s now proven that the Republicans under the Bush’s families, and party strategists, their economic ideals never worked, and never did work for America and Americans.

The current study and reports are out. On the unemployment’s graph history going back to 1993, (see chart below) it unequivocally and without a doubt, shows that President Bill Clinton and the Democrats had the better economic plan, and far better economic strategies, than their back to back Republican counterparts. There’s also PROOF that the years of Republican economic agendas, and their ideals and their strategies for the nineties since the Ronald Reagan era, have been a TOTAL FAILURE and has not worked for America.

I have been extremely critical of the Republican Party’s economic agendas favoring corporate profit and big businesses over labor and working Americans. In their quest for globalization, and their NAFTA, GATT’s, WTO, and “free trade’s” ideologies, has been a total disaster for America and Americans. We’re beginning to see the tip of the iceberg in their horrific decision making, and we’re now facing its repercussions.

American industries’ constant sharing with the global labor pools over American workers backs, would sooner or later, massively decrease our own labor pool here at home. For years, I have been tooting my own horn about the dangers of the Republican economic plans, and finally, the PROOF is out into the wide open. There can be no argument about it folks, the Republicans failed us big time.

And now, we’ve got 524,000 unemployed in December, bringing it to 2.6 million lost jobs this year. Of those, 1.9 million jobs were lost since September of last year, when the global financial system nearly collapsed.

Employment is expected to deteriorate and even get worse this year. Economists predict a net total of 1.5 million to 2 million or more jobs will vanish in 2009, and the unemployment rate could hit 9 or 10 percent, underscoring the challenges Obama will face and the tough road ahead for job seekers. In addition to the recent 2008 unemployed, it’s estimated that 11.1 million Americans are totally out of work.

The labor department also reported that the manufacturing sector lost 791,000 jobs in 2008, and these loses are still continuing. The construction industry payroll shrank by 899,000 last year. And the financial sector lost 148,000 jobs.
Recapping more job loses, only a few of the industry is indicated:
2.6 million: Jobs lost nationally in 2008.
1.9 million: Jobs lost in the last four months alone.
791,000: Factory jobs lost in 2008, roughly half of them in the last four months.
522,000: Retail jobs lost in 2008, more than half of them in the last four months.
22,000: Automobile dealership jobs lost in December alone.

This chart shows the good years among the bad years for working Americans. Take a look at the dramatic decline of unemployment under President Bill Clinton. And take a look at both president's Bush track records on each side of Clintons'. It's simply amazing folks!

Barack Obama looks into Clinton economical gurus. During President Bill Clinton’s administration, they were the best years for American business and labor in recent memory. It may explain as to why President Elect Barack Obama has dug in deeper into former President Bill Clinton’s cabinet to find the people that can help us out of this Republican man made disaster.

BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle’s Murderous Acts; Prove that Malicious and Rampant Abuse of Police Power Still Alive against Minority Citizens:

BART Police Officer Johannes Mehserle’s Murderous Acts; Prove that Malicious and Rampant Abuse of Police Power Still Alive against Minority Citizens:
By Marc Chamot

By resigning from BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), it is still not enough to absolve Officer Johannes Mehserle from impending murder charges and possible jail time for his crime. If the city’s district attorney won’t get him, the state will. If the state won’t do it, then the Feds will.

The Marc Chamot Blogspot usually has no sympathy for low lives and scum’s of the world. In regards to the possible police murder of Oscar Grant by BART police on New Years day, not much is known about the victim, Oscar Grant’s background.

The media and Grant’s family have not been totally forefront with us about it, and they have been pretty mum about Oscar Grant’s criminal records, if he had any.

So Marc Chamot cannot truly opinion much about the poor soul that got shot in the back, by a 2 year rookie BART police officer Johannes Mehserle.

What I can opinion about are the true facts behind Officer Johannes Mehserle’s horrific murder of a detained person while on public duty. What’s really troubling me the most, is the arrogant and incredulous attitudes being taken, not only by Officer Johannes Mehserle over the incident, is his refusal to explain his actions to his superiors and police investigators, it’s also how BART, it’s police chief, and mainly Bart Directors, who have quietly kept the incident under wraps for more than four days since it happened.

At first, it was claimed that the BART station surveillance cameras weren’t working at the time. They were going to thoroughly investigate the incident. It wasn’t until a couple days ago when witnesses videoed the incident with their cell phone cameras and posted it on the Net and sent them out to local TV stations, which began to bring a torrent of furry over the killing.

Was there a cover-up attempt by BART officials over this tragic killing? Every factor shows that there was an attempt to hide the facts of the crime, and attempted to cover-up the killing of Oscar Grant by the BART police.

I can understand that under any perilous situations a police officer’s adrenaline may be pumping, and mistakes can happen to anyone. Was a Taser confused for a gun? I think it may have been.

For what ever reason that Officer Mehserle had for shooting Oscar Grant, he had no real reason to shoot an unarmed man. Even if he thought that he had a Taser in hand, it would have been a reckless, and wantonly acts of savagery done to a fellow human being.

And now officer Mehserle has resigned as police officer for BART, in lieu of giving out his own testimony as to why he did what he did, but instead he clamed-up.

The 25 million dollar law suit against BART is pretty much a given, and well deserved. We will never know the reasons as to why Mehserle pumped a bullet into Oscar Grant, unless he talks.

There may be a perfect reason as to why it was one bullet rather than a series of bullets.

I don’t think there’s a cop around that would put a bullet into someone in plain sight and in front of numerous witnesses. What I do think happened, was Officer Mehserle thought he had a Taser in his hand instead of a handgun, and for what ever reason, just wanted to maliciously Taser Oscar Grant full of electricity, but to his chagrin, and realizing it too late, that he had a handgun in his hand instead, when a bullet other than electricity came out his handgun.

What I am pretty sure about; Johannes Mehserle was too inexperienced, too gung-ho, i.e. a real hot dog with a gun, and unqualified to be a police officer, or any kind of police officer for that matter.

Now Batting 0 For 3; Another Democratic Governor Bites the Ever Corruptive Dust; Bill Richardson withdraws bid to become commerce secretary:

Now Batting 0 For 3; Another Democratic Governor Bites the Ever Corruptive Dust; Bill Richardson withdraws bid to become commerce secretary: When Will American Voters Finally Wake up?
By Marc Chamot

What the hell is going on here with these Democrats? And better yet, what the hell is wrong with American politics? If Americans don’t begin to vote smarter, within the next few years we will have no country to call America anymore.

First, there was that Elliott Spitzer of New York, and then came about the downfall of Rod Blagojevich of Illinois, and now Bill Richardson of New Mexico, all governors, and all Democrats.

The manure of political corruption keeps on hitting the proverbial fan folks!

Barack Obama and the Democrats were talking about change. Change from the run of the mill corruptive politics of what it used to be. It’s no change folks, what we’re seeing is only shameful.

But, what we’re now seeing are these very same, Democrats that blasted the Republican leadership for the very same lunacy of corruptive activities and practices, Democrats who themselves are now embroiled into the same, and or even worse wanton acts of corruption never seen in America before.

American politics is unraveling people, and unraveling fast. Enough is enough! Sooner or later Americans will instill their own political kinds of justice, and a backlash against these dirty corruptive people you will see.

I want to again re-post my article that was intentionally ignored by most media and search engines. Public Corruption an American Illness That Just Wont Go Away, Politicians Have Turned American Politics Into Personal Piggy Bank Benefiting Them: Rod Blagojevich is a poster child of what is exactly wrong with the American campaign contribution system. It’s what bringing this nation down.

With the arrest by the FBI of Illinois Democrat governor Rod Blagojevich on serious public corruption charges, has once again put American political corruption into the limelight in front of all Americans to see.

The arrest of Rod Blagojevich also shows the weaknesses and the corruptive side of campaign contributions into American politics. What Democrats liked to call Republicans as the “culture of corruption,” it looks like the label of the pot calling the kettle black has just been tagged on Democrats this time, and big time.

With my vast political know-how, experience, and insights, I know very well on how the American political corruption game is played. As former insider for the former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown campaigns, it’s a common hidden practice in the United States for rewarding large campaign donors with lucrative taxpayer financed city, state, federal job/work/sales contracts.

It’s the way the American political contributions systems are set up now that leaves the door wide open for more rampant corruption. It needs to be reformed badly, but politicians in Washington keep sitting on their duffs and refuse to do anything about it.

American politicians have turned American politics into a buy, sell, and trade commodity to benefit their personal self-well being both, financially, and politically, including for the benefits to their donors.Mainly benefiting the well financed, and the well connected with hundreds of thousands, to millions of dollars of city, state, and federal contracts.

It’s a common practice that politicians have been using through the ages, and they seem to get away with it every time.These politicians don’t realize the serious damage that they are doing to our country.They are costing taxpayers billions of unnecessary dollars to pay off these sold out deals, in favor for lucrative campaign deals and so forth. They are what are bringing this nation down.
http://marcchamot.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-12-15T22%3A22%3A00-06%3A00&max-results=7

Richardson withdraws bid to be commerce secretary
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writer – 28 mins ago

WASHINGTON – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.

Richardson's withdrawal was the first disruption of Obama's Cabinet process and the second "pay-to-play" investigation that has touched Obama's transition to the presidency. The president-elect has remained above the fray in both the case of arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and with the New Mexico case.

A federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Richardson's political activities won a New Mexico state contract worth more than $1 billion. Richardson said in a statement issued by the Obama transition office that the investigation could take weeks or months but expressed confidence it will show he and his administration acted properly.

"But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process," Richardson said. "Given the gravity of the economic situation the nation is facing, I could not in good conscience ask the president-elect and his administration to delay for one day the important work that needs to be done."

Richardson said he will remain as governor and told Obama, "I am eager to serve in the future in any way he deems useful."

The announcement came ahead of Obama's Monday meetings with congressional leaders on a massive economic recovery bill he wants lawmakers to pass quickly.
Obama said he has accepted Richardson's withdrawal, first reported by NBC News, "with deep regret."

A person familiar with the proceedings has told The Associated Press that the grand jury is looking into possible "pay-to-play" dealings between CDR Financial Products and someone in a position to push the contract through with the state of New Mexico.
State documents show CDR was paid a total of $1.48 million in 2004 and 2005 for its work on a transportation program.

Richardson ran against Obama in the Democratic presidential primary, but withdrew after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

He is one of the most prominent Hispanics in the Democratic Party, having served in Congress and as President Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary. As governor, he has kept up an international profile with a specialty in dealing with rouge nations. Obama also considered him to be secretary of state.

CDR and its CEO, David Rubin, have contributed at least $110,000 to three political committees formed by Richardson, according to an AP review of campaign finance records.

The largest donation, $75,000, was made by CDR in June 2004 — a couple of months after the transportation financing arrangement won state approval — to a political committee that Richardson established before the Democratic National Convention that year. Full Story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090104/ap_on_el_pr/richardson

Reinventing Journalism, traditional media in peril, can anyone revive the watchdog press & can they catch-up with the Internet Big Boys?

Reinventing Journalism, traditional media in peril, can anyone revive the watchdog press & can they catch-up with the Internet Big Boys?
By Marc Chamot

Re-edited January 3, 2009

Is traditional media journalism dying? Traditional big newspaper organizations, the funding of reporters and editors that choose and produce what the public reads or views are crumbling. Declining readership, the Internet, demographic shifts, the economy, and by other self inflicted wounds. It’s really bad times for newspapers now.

“If newspapers want to enter the world of the Internet and draw in more readers, they are going to have to use the same formula that’s made the Drudge Report, Salon.com, and Politico.com HuffingtonPost.com, and a slew of others. BLOGGERS!”

Publishing newspapers is one of the most costly businesses to run and operate; it’s solely advertising and reader dependent. With the Detroit Free Press and News now going three days a week in home delivery, “DETROIT — Detroit's newspapers announced Tuesday they plan to offer only three days of home delivery and will push their online editions in a fight for their survival amid slumping revenue industry wide.” Full Story: http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2008/12/16/business/doc4947d90ca1ca4550620098.txt

Randolph Hearst Corp., also owners of a huge vast newspaper chain across the country is also looking into cutting back their home deliveries, to possibly three to four in a trial effort with some of their publications. It’s a new trend that newspapers across the nation are doing to survive.

2008 was a wake up call for the industry, and people are scrambling to reinvent themselves in journalism, finding new alternatives to keep their businesses alive. The Internet is a great venue, and it is a tremendous source of news information that would make any daily paper’s archives die with envy.

The problem with the Internet, local news is virtually impossible to obtain without the daily newspaper’s news reporters. Citizen journalists and bloggers can’t properly cover your local city halls, nor monitor both your statehouse, and the White House, unless it’s a full time job. If it weren’t for the local paid journalists and their editors, where would one get their local city news for local government and reports of crimes and so forth?

What’s got the Internet really at a disadvantage for newspapers, is reporting on national and world events. Once the story is out with the Associated Press and Reuters, the Internet is on fire, with thousands of newspaper mediums, and bloggers carrying the same story. No newspapers in the nation have the search advantage over Google and Yahoo to attract enough web readers to their sites when these stories break out.

This is a dilemma that newspapers have to answer for. They are kind in a pickle, they are screwed if they do, and screwed if they don’t kind of thing, it’s like a catch-22. If it weren’t for their publications, most newspapers’ websites wouldn’t be known to anyone. Local readers who want local news, usually read their local newspapers on the web rather than pay for the newspaper.

People on the Net don’t read local papers for their national, political and world news, they usually go elsewhere. Mainly where Google and Yahoo search engines takes them.

With my blogging experience when searching for news materials and stories on current happenings for my blogs. I notice most of the time, the top of search engines that I use, like Google and Yahoo that I usually run into, are bloggers that have run the same story that a publication had done. And at other times, it’s either the Associated Press, the New York Times, LA Times and local TV news channels that carry the stories that I access to.

What’s a newspaper to do? Newspapers have committed the biggest error in their lives. They should have charged their customers a hefty fee for circulation services rendered from the very beginning, rather than offering these news services for practically nothing.

Newspapers have been subsidizing their distribution costs out of advertising revenues for years. They have spoiled their readers with cheap affordable newspapers, and information for decades, and now when it’s time to get these readers to pony up/pay up to help support their waning publications, these readers are saying no more.

It’s obvious in today’s world of media it takes more than ever the support from the readers to stay alive. With this new Pandora’s box out, the Internet, it’s a virtual death knell for newspapers.

So when a newspaper says that they are quitting print and moving on to digital, and the Internet, it’s an imminent death knell for their publications.

On the Internet, the real heavy hitters drawing millions of readers monthly, who are making millions of dollars, and with lower overhead costs than print to boot, are the Drudge Report, Salon.com, Politico.com HuffingtonPost.com, and a slew of others, but none are newspapers.

If anyone can offer a unique, marketable news product in print, that people really like, and that thinks like them, they will pay for it. The customary dependence in advertising support for newspapers and writing articles, and opinions, that are contrary to the majority in beliefs, that also alienate their readers is slowly coming to an agonizing end.

For example, the San Francisco Chronicle went head first in opposing the proposition 8, the banning of marriages between the same sexes. They went all out and wrote pieces on the opposing side of view.

But, they neglected to give the proponents their point of view. They forgot that their distribution delivery market covers a wide area and not only San Francisco. They cover a huge market in central California, towns, and cities, that are more moderate leaning conservatives, and have family values. It did them in with their readership out there.

This is the problem with newspapers today, they are agenda driven, and they are angering a whole lot of people. The Net is a great new alternative for people who are fed up with these types of one-sided agenda driven views in their lives.

If newspapers want to enter the world of the Internet and draw in more readers, they are going to have to use the same formula that’s made the Drudge Report, Salon.com, and Politico.com HuffingtonPost.com, and a slew of others. BLOGGERS!

Newspapers are going to have to drop their biased attitudes towards bloggers, and newspapers have to look at bloggers as their friends, rather than their foe.

Many bloggers on the Net have a following that most newspaper journalists don’t have. Most journalists have a following only in print. Many bloggers have already set up backlinks and are ready to bring in business.

Bloggers are readily armed to bring Web traffic for any newspaper that uses their materials. Bloggers are more knowledgeable and experienced in web searching for stories, and marketing than the average newspaper’s IT guys, and their regular Web-host of their websites.

And of course, these bloggers will need to be paid too.