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It Is Not About Politics

Posted by Anah on May 26th, 2010

If you think I am speaking in political terms on my blog, I’m not. I’ll make it easy for everyone to know where I stand.

I follow the rules when the rules follow the supreme law of the land. In the USA, that is the Constitution. If the laws made do not conform to it, then those laws are to be removed. Growing up in the Philippines, it was what my Dad said. If he called, we went home even if it meant leaving a slipper behind. The IRS can fine me but it doesn’t hurt like a bamboo switch to the bottom of the feet.

There are two other driving forces. I am a fiscal conservative, but let me define that for you. I want my debt at $0 and my bank accounts growing. I like having a strong exchange rate so I can better help a deserving family member back in the Philippines like so many other Filipinos. Where I am different is I do not believe in enabling or being sucked dry by lazy family members just because I live in a place others deem to be a “rich country.” I will help those who truly need a hand up. I don’t give hand-outs. My sister can’t stand up and be on her own because of medical issues. I’ll help her. If you think you can sit on your butt while being able, I won’t help you. The greatest form of help can be a kick in the butt.

Lastly, the other main driving force is the Bible. No, it isn’t because I’m some right-wing religious Bible thumper. If the directions in the Bible are followed, it works. If the directions in the Bible have human values added to them, they have a tendency to fail historically. When it is purely following the values of people, it always fails in terrible ways. Summary: The Bible’s directions work, human’s don’t.

How did I come to these conclusions? I really didn’t care what people said. Opinions are plentiful and everyone has one. I also know there are nearly 7 billion people on the planet and well over 99% do not know I live or care what I say. Humility is helpful in that way. I don’t have all the answers but I will dig to get them. I go on proven facts and getting advice from people who truly did master their field or took what they could offer with a grain of salt.

One of my greatest pet peeves are individuals who refuse to follow the rules and directions or choose to ignore them. When they are in decision making positions, it paralyzes everything as you don’t know what the rules are when you deal with an organization that has a loose cannon employed. I’ve run into this during the immigration process and we had to call on Federal level congressional help just so 6 employees would all know what 2 pages of clear directions meant. If they had followed the directions, it wouldn’t have taken multiple filings, numerous months, expenses, and headaches for all. How many tax dollars could have been saved and additional cases processed if they only had followed the directions?

No matter what your position on any given topic, there is one consistent fact throughout all things political, medical, personal, and all the rest. You can feel however you want about a subject, but math doesn’t work on feelings. If the numbers don’t balance or stay in the positive, it is a losing proposition. You can no more make a household budget based on feelings than you can federal policy. In the end, if the math doesn’t hold up, you don’t hold up.

Thanks for reading!

Live well,

Anah

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Why Do They Do That ?

Posted by Anah on April 6th, 2010

These are only questions based on observations.

Why do some people work two jobs, get a fancy sports car, but live in a lousy mobile home (lowest standard outside of homeless)?

Why are so many people lazy in the land of opportunity as closing on half get welfare handouts of some kind?

Why do people prioritize the wants not the needs?

Why are so many of the obese in the USA also on welfare?

Why are people being protected from their stupidity as opposed to suffering the consequences?

Why are criminals and repeat offenders rewarded with a long list of benefits from taxpayers while the law-abiding taxpayers are continually punished (financially and freedoms lost) just for following the law and working hard?

Why do people think it is a good idea for the government to take my money, give it to someone else while adding in a charge for the government’s services? Wouldn’t it be better if I donated the money by my choice?

Why do the people who think they know everything ask some of the stupidest questions?

Why are we being taxed on top of my income, Social Security, Medicare, and FICA taken from our wages earned?

Why do we have to report the income tax refund that we received from the STATE to the Feds when it is merely a return on the same income already taxed by the Feds?

Why do so many of the citizens of the USA (sadly, not just USA but other countries din) not know the basics about their OWN country?

Why would you sue McDonald’s if you got burned when you spilled on yourself the HOT coffee you ordered?

Why are people in the USA so gullible that they’ll sign a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide? (i.e. H2O – water)

Why did a court award a burglar a lawsuit for damages against the owner of the house he tried to break into but got hurt doing so?

Why did an attorney think it was a good idea to sue McDonalds for making his client fat when his client choose to go there and eat every day?

Why wasn’t that attorney disbarred?

Why did this yahoo think it was a good idea to sue a pet store that offers grooming, vets on site, and obedience classes for dogs when he didn’t watch where he was going and stepped on a pile of dog poop after choosing to enter the store knowing dogs are in there on leashes?

Why do people yell loudly about a topic then run away when confronted with basic facts?

Why there are online trolls?

Why oh Why? LOL!

Thanks for reading!

Live well,

Anah

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Eligibility Issue

Posted by Anah on April 1st, 2010

I might as well post this topic as well so Filipinos who may have heard about this can get the rest of the details. Again, I will refrain from making much commentary on it.

You may have heard about an issue surrounding the current President of the USA. The issue is simply is he eligible to be the President of the USA? Further, the questions go into is he a “natural born citizen” and is he even a citizen of the USA?

Here is what is known or, better said, not known. The current President of the USA has not disclosed his original long-form birth certificate (location of birth and presiding doctor info), kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

Why has he not disclosed this information? I have no idea and I refuse to speculate. Why didn’t those in charge of double checking candidates do their jobs? Again, I have no idea. But all this does create a lot of problems and questions.

First, a “natural born citizen” is simply defined as a citizen of the USA born to two citizens of the USA. It was included for the purposes of loyalty to the nation. According to his book, his father is a Kenyan citizen thus making him ineligible to be President of the USA. Why is this important? On a personal level, this raises a serious question. I am a legal immigrant to this country. I am not yet a citizen of this nation by personal choosing. I do have two daughters. By the definition in the Constitution, my daughters will never be eligible to be President of the USA. So this begs the question of is he eligible or not? If he is, then the law is ignored and my children are also eligible when they reach 35 years old. If my children aren’t eligible, then neither is he unless the details in his book are fraudulent.

Second, the office of the President of the USA makes the holder of it a significant person of history. Any historian worth their credentials operates only on verifiable information. As of now, they have nothing to work with to write up his entry into the history books.

Third, there are massive legal ramifications if he isn’t eligible. Every executive order he signs, every military command he issues, every appointment he makes, every law he signs in would be deemed illegal and have to be undone. That would include the Stimulus, the budget, the health care bill, the student loan stuff, the takeover of the USA automotive industry, the appointment of a judge to the Supreme Court of the USA, and every other thing he signed off on. Also, any person in the military would be following illegal orders thereby stripping them of the protections of being in a standing military. Quite simply, those in the military being deployed to the theater of war in Iraq or Afghanistan would be war criminals. This could destroy the American military in one move from within.

Finally, this is my pet peeve on this topic. Anyone who has gone through the process of immigrating to the USA knows of the expense, wait times, and extensive background checks and documentation needed to come here. It is a very sad statement when becoming a legal immigrant to the USA is far more thoroughly checked than a person running for one of the most powerful positions on the planet.

Before I hear the standard drivel, his skin color has nothing to do with producing legal documents establishing his truthful history. Being elected does not make him above the law. This entire topic does not depend on what one believes or what opinion one holds. Easily proven facts are not being disclosed. Why? What is the point in not disclosing such basic information?

Also, do not construe this post as a political statement. I’m not a citizen of the USA and can’t vote legally. I just want to know what rules we are all supposed to play by. I play Monopoly by the rules, I want to live that way too.

Thanks for reading!

Live Well,
Anah

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Extended Impact and Educational Consequences

Posted by Anah on March 31st, 2010

If you have read enough of my blog, you’ll know that my hubby is the do-all dude on the home front. I’ll probably touch on that some other time. As for me, I have two jobs that mesh well with our situation. One of the jobs is in the pharmaceutical field and involves receiving calls as a help desk person (work at home virtually). The other job has me working in a college. The combination provides me with solid information and insight.

For example, I can say with all certainty that the 4-yr universities in the USA are having more problems with their budgets as people just can’t afford the cost in money or time to go to them for retraining into a new field. The 2-yr colleges are swamped with students. People are desperate to get an income stream going. Things are really touchy in the economy and many are on the brink of financial collapse. So they make their educational choices with the end goal of employment and meeting the bills in mind.

On the education side, the Nursing programs at colleges and technical colleges are massively flooded with students. In 1-2 years, the supply of nursing graduates will outstrip the demand for them making this flooded field clogged up and graduates looking how to repay their loans. This is nothing new to the USA career system as it historically “declares” one field being hot which then gets flooded, changes happen to the field and you get a lot of well-trained unemployed people.

Sadly, the motivation for people entering these fields often has little to do with their skill sets, attitudes, or abilities but primarily they are driven by the wage commanded by the profession or other perks. We have all experienced these kinds of individuals in the service focused jobs. They are not there to provide a service but to put in the time to get the paycheck. These are usually the individuals that give a profession a bad name as they aren’t approaching the service profession in the right mind-set such as actually caring more for the patients than the paycheck.

But these are becoming desperate times for many people and they are willing to go into fields they probably shouldn’t just so they can eventually pay the bills.

Add in a large number of desperate people getting training for a field about to be financially gutted creates a horrible problem for many people. What happens when a flooded field of candidates gets done with school to find their field gutted? How do they repay their student loans and make ends meet?

All of that will only serve to feed back into the destructive loop of more foreclosures, less funds available for products and services, and the further breakdown of the commercial sector and employment sector.

The USA is on the economic ropes and getting hit faster than Manny Pacquiao can punch.

I’m just waiting for someone to champion starting a pineapple plantation in Wisconsin claiming how many jobs it’ll create. With how things are going, they’ll use the logic of since pine trees and apple trees grow in Wisconsin then pineapple will too. Then you’ll get 20-35% of the people saying it is a great idea and ridiculing anyone who points out the obvious.

Here is another obvious point. Canada and most of the European countries that have the version of health care in place that is being forcefully promoted in Washington DC have another thing in common. We foot most of their defense budget so they have resources the USA doesn’t have and it still isn’t working for them.

Thanks for reading!

Live well and make it a great day,

Anah

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