President Obama's Address to Children

I am totally puzzled with all of the uproar regarding tomorrow's speech from the President to school children. Just what kind of liberal propaganda message do they think the president is going to give?

Reagan and Bush 1 gave national speeches to school children and can anyone who was in school at that time tell me what they heard and how it inspired or had a negative effect on their lives?

Why all this reaction before the fact?

If people want to criticize the President then let's do it on things he has done or on concrete proposals he has made. This jumping and talking about keeping children home from school is just ridiculous.

If we are to ban our children from listening to addresses from the President, and not trust their parents to discuss the speeches with them, are we also going to ban talk show commentators from the airwaves because of the influence their speeches (rantings and ravings) can have on our children?

Glen Beck called the president a racist, what effect did that have on children? I have not seen any movement to insure that children can no longer listen to Mr. Beck. What about Rush Limbaugh? Some of his comments can be taken as almost treason.

And I am not just picking on the conservatives. The liberals have their big mouths as well with all of their conspiracy theories and fear that the rich want to destroy the poor.

The bottom line is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights which grant ALL Americans the Freedom of Speech. We may not agree with what you have to say, but by God we are suppose to defend your right to say it. The founders of this country, through many years of fighting, discussion and debate knew that not everyone would agree but they did believe that every one's voice should be heard and then it was up to the listener to decide if what was said had value or not.

Today, the biggest proponents of the Freedom of Speech are also the ones who want to limit that freedom to those who do not agree with them.

Why are people afraid of the President speaking to the children? If so many are afraid of what the President is going to say, why did so many vote for him?

True, things are not going down the yellow brick road in DC, but they never do. Politics always rears its ugly head and forces compromise on all idealistic plans.

Let the President speak. Afterwards, you will be free to praise or criticize. Your children will be free to discuss the speech with you and all of you will be able to discuss the pros and cons.

Freedom of Speech, its the one freedom we must always preserve in this country.

Its Common Sense!

What is the value of a dollar?

I heard on the news last night that the Federal Reserve has requested the Treasury Department to print more money. With all of the recent bailouts it stands to reason that the country has to insure that there is enough money floating in circulation.
Unfortunately, the more money in circulation, the less the value of the dollar on the world market, which means if we are not already in a recession we are certainly on the way and if we are in a recession, then how far off is a depression? The stock market keeps heading down, there does not appear to be any hope of the horizon.
Which leads me to wonder just what our two prominent candidates for president feel about the current economic situation? Do they have a clue as to what is going on?
Mr. Cain seems to feel that things are not all that bad. After all, he is promising employees with lower paying jobs due to the fact that their original employers left the country that the government will somehow make up the difference between their current paycheck and what they used to make. How is that suppose to work? Where is the money coming from?
Mr. Obama wants universal health care and says that his plan will pay for itself. How? People who can afford health care are already covered by some kind of plan. It is low income individuals and those unable to join some kind of group plan that have no coverage. So how are they going to pay for coverage?
I urge you to write to the candidates' websites and ask questions.
I know that can be frustrating. (I have written several times to both candidates requesting specifics on their various plans and have thus far received no response. Perhaps the silence is the answer.)
We the people need to tell the politicians that enough is enough. There is only so much to go around and we have to put the money where it will best serve the country - education, defense, infrastructure, paying off the debt.
No more pork. The next member of congress who tries to add a special request on a bill should be run out of town on a rail.
We need common sense, not nonsense.