I recently received this email by Lou Pritchett, a well-known public speaker who retired after a successful 36-year career as the VP World Sales for Proctor and Gamble.

 

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management. Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.

 

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

 You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.  

 You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

 You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.    

 You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

 You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

 You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

 You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', and are always blaming others.   

 You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

 You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

 You scare me because you want to change  America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. 

 You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. 

 You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

 You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

 You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

 You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

 You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

 You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

 You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

 You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

 You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. 

 Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

 Lou Pritchett

Do you have the character to say to yourself and others: "WOW, did I get it wrong!...I apologize to my fellow Patriotic Americans for helping to put them in the current mess" .   For most voters who keep up with what is going on, Obama is already the worst President in the history of our country and it took him only 160 days!  And, when you consider that group includes Carter and the Clintons, it seems absurd that so many folks voted for him.  How could that happen, you might ask?  Well, when you consider the "news" was tightly controlled by the Liberal press, it is easy to understand why Americans never heard the truth about this guy.  We were feed daily pap about how great his past was and how great the future would be under him.  The press never dug into his checkered past, his socialistic views, his communist associations, his total lack of management skills - they just took him at his word(s).  "I like what he says" one friend told me.  Neveryoumind he lied daily to anyone who would listen.  One of the great talents of all charlitans is their ability to convince the masses of their product by the use of flowery phrases, unsupported claims of success and impossible claims of the future accomplishment.   He was able to make the Liberals feel good again and the press helped voters view Bush as the bad guy.  Obama's victory was not so much a win for him as it was a defeat of Bush.  He did not run against McCain he ran against Bush by saying McCain would be "just another George".  I doubt McCain would be allowing us to be bullied by tin-pot dictators or apologizing for keeping most of the world free, or setting terrorists loose in our neighborhoods.   Never mind that the financial crisis was purpertrated by the Democrats controlling the purse strings.  Never mind that Bush's policies had kept us free from attacks for 8 years.  Never mind that the Dow was as 14,000+ when the Dems took control in January of 2007 and had dropped 50% in 12 months - it only took them one year to destroy 7 years of fiscal responsibility.  Oh no...the press refused to print any of this.  Instead they nit-picked the Republicans to death.  Can you imagine their zeal if McCain had a questionable birth place?  Wow, they would have crucified this guy and somehow "produced" a birth certificate to show he was not a naturally-born American and thus ineligible to be Pres.  But with all the questions of Obama's birth certificate the mainstream Press just plain avoided the issue.  They wanted this Oreo to be in the oval office.  The blacks who put him in suddenly didn't care he was half-black, half-white.  Can you imagine the hue and cry if it had been McCain who was a mixed breed?  Al Sharpton and Jesse would have been screaming even louder than they are now while calling for a Pedofile's ascension to saint-hood.  The liberals suddenly hid their N.O.W. agenda so they could crucify Palin.  Now that she is gone they are back at their gender discrimination efforts - it's business as usual.

If you really want to know what is happening today you must pick up the "mirror" of the world press and look into what others are very aware of...that BHO is a total failure as a patriotic American, as a statesman, as a business manager and as a leader.  He is a capitulator, a doormat, or as the Brits have labeled him:  President Pantywaist.    Use your browser to find international newspapers and find out what you are not allow to find out in our own morning news.   I no longer read daily papers or watch the TV news shows even though I have a dozen or so coming in 24/7 via satellite.  I personally use:  http://www.inkdrop.net/dave/news.html  and http://www.geocities.com/~oberoi/newspapr.html to find out what is REALLY going on!!  Try it, I think you will be surprised when you compare the headlines from around the world to ours, and see what others think about our narcissistic head of state.  If you doubt the control of the news, all you have to do is look at this week's coverage of Michael Jackson while leaving coverage American soldiers dying, Ed McMahon and Farah Fawcett in the dustbin. The fact that Obama wrote MJ's parents expressing sorrow over his death while ignoring McMahon's war record and Farah's wonderful work with terminal cancer patients, should be reason enough to kick him out.  However, I doubt Impeachment is possible with a Demo congress (remember slippery Bill) so the only thing real Americans can do is work like crazy so we can turn things around in 2012.  Our country will have a hard enough time surviving the next 3+ years much less another four. 

I have looked in vain for any sort of comment or article or study or recommendation or opinion that there is any connection between our dwindling natural resources (air, water, oil, etc) and irresponsible family planning.  Or maybe it would be more accurate to say No Family Planning!.  We are literally "screwing" ourselves to death...worldwide.  Why cannot normal couples, that is man and woman see the connection between having a raft of kids and running out of clean air and water?   Must be their own personal egos have gotten in the way of their common sense...why else would they deliberately have 3 or 4 children in the face of our global deterioration of essential resources?  Got to be EGO!  Every child born today will be a driver on our already overcrowded roads in 16 years!  Every child today will be sucking in clean air and drinking clean water from the moment they are born, two resources that are constantly overused and in dangerously short supply.  Every child will, in about 5 years, require a classroom and a teacher to babysit them for the next dozen years.  They require food that requires oil, air and water to produce.  Well, you get the idea if you have an I.Q. at least equal to a houseplant!  Most of these mothers seem willing to have someone else raise their kid so they can return to work.  Don't they ever realize this is part of the child-making decision, BEFORE stopping birth control methods? 

Who is to blame for this disastrous overpopulation activity?  Well, first of all, as a readily identifiable group, I blame the Catholic Church, who blindly goes along banning birth control, an idea that belonged in the 16th Century.  Then I blame today's parents who won't let the schools teach sex education.  Then I blame the parents who won't force their children to go to school and actually see that they learn something.  I blame the schools for hiring babysitters instead of teachers. (of course we have to put part of the blame on the unions who insist on tenure regardless of talent)  I blame the government agencies that reward females with children out-of-wedlock...rewards that are sufficient to keep them in the baby-making business.  I blame any institution, private or public, that will not support mandatory sterilization of unwed mothers.  I blame society, both religious and non who do not publicly denounce these miscreants.  Make shame a part of Sunday's sermon again.   How about the parents who support their pregnant daughters and congratulate the father BEFORE the wedding?  Shame on them.  Maybe we need more abortions, at least once then sterilization to guarantee this female doesn't do this again to the taxpayers.  And the man too! Snip Snip!   Yes, the taxpayers are picking up the tab, somewhere along the line, eventually this child will take part in the government payout plans.  Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Disability...ADC; all adults eventually funnel into this "free" source of money.  

It is time we take responsibility for our actions and not expect the world to pay for our bad judgments.  If we can keep the births down to one family-one child, then maybe over the next 50 years or so the world's natural resources will be able to recover.  If not we need to remind ourselves the all the water on our earth today is all their ever will be...it cannot be manufactured.  Same goes for all the air and all the land...WYSIWYG.    

We have already been publicly warned that humans have exceeded the Earth's "limits of sustainability", now in 2009.  We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population, researchers say as the planet can't support many more people.  

Can you even imagine wars over food? clean air? drinkable water?   When there are more people than there is food to feed them the strong will survive and the weak will die.  It happens every day somewhere in the world today.  We are just more fortunate here in the USA that others.

So, to put an end to this rant, start thinking that a raft of kids is not something to be proud of...it is something to be ashamed of.   As Pogo said "we have found the enemy and he is us".

I have been sitting on the sidelines since the last election put the most unqualified person in history into the oval office.  A man with an obvious lack of scruples, one who intends to turn this country into a socialist enclave based on Britain's model of inefficiency, corruption and government control of every aspect of a persons life.  BHO is starting with health care, proposing that many needed operations be treated with aspirin.  He has taken taxpayers money and bought shares of GM, after deposing the GM chairman, turning the money over to the unions who continue to screw their own members.  He is quietly attacking the 2nd Amendment from almost every angle except a direct assault, which he will do now that his Supreme Court is in place.  He want this country to be like England, Canada & Australia where only criminals are allowed to have guns.  His course of action is exactly like Hitler's, Stalin's, Mussolini's, and Saddam's in this respect - Remove all possibility for the citizens to rise up against an oppressive government. 

So, in the days and weeks and months to come, I intend to continue my attacks on any person or group of persons who attempt to take away our liberties and freedoms.   Stay Tuned....

I am going to say some things here that will make some of you angry...but that has never stopped me before!  So here goes..

The recession that the liberal media is blasting from the headlines isn't happening everywhere.  When you get past their attempt to discredit the past administration and particularly President Bush, you find that most of Americans are doing just fine and most are improving financially.   However, there are enough ignorant folks out there that actually believe what the media says and so have convinced themselves that they are suffering.  Of course they are suffering from owning more homes, bigger cars, more credit cards, more food availability, fancier vacations, better retirement investments, better education, more freedom, more appliances and more technology than ever in history of this country.  Yes, it is possible to convince yourself that you are depressed if you listen to this news drivel over and over.  If you keep saying: "I'm gonna fail..." repeatedly...well, you will fail because you have convinced yourself, and everyone else is saying you will fail.... so guess what.  YOU FAIL!

Yep, the average American is very well off compared to the past.  Sure there are still some who are deep in poverty but whose fault is that?  They made bad choices by dropping out of school, or not getting training for their future, or by not investing in something besides a new TV or car or by living beyond their means. .  Certainly it's not the government's fault - heck, these folks get more daily handouts than the rest of us who pay for them can really afford.   Ever stand behind one of the  "food stamp"  users when they use their discount card to buy better food than you can and then use their "profit" to buy cigarettes and beer?  I for one am incensed to see this, and have on occasion been tempted to say out loud: " ...aren't you going to thank me?...after all I am paying for your treats..."  But, fistfights are no longer good for me at age 74.

Anyway, the reason for housing market decline is the lack of responsibility of the home buyers who tried to get something for nothing by buying more than they could pay for IF times got tough.  Well folks, times are tough for those economically stupid buyers who tried to Flip a House, etc.  They got caught and now want to blame everybody else but themselves for the result.  They made a bad choice and must now suffer the consequences. 

These same folks complain about high gasoline prices, all while filling up their 20 mpg gas-guzzing SUV's and pickups.  Remember the word "choice?".  Well, no one forced them to choose an inefficient vehicle over one that gets 30-40 mpg.  They picked it out and now complain that our fuel shortage is "not their fault"!  Saving just 2 gallons a day would make our shortage go away!

We Americans have wandered away from what made our country great - taking responsibility for your own actions and having the courage to fix your own problems.  Quit blaming others for your stupidity.  If you didn't vote in your states primary, Shut Up because you have forfeited your right to complain.  If somehow you don't like were to be elected President, then you have nobody to blame but yourself...you didn't vote at all or you voted for him because you are a Democrat and like a herd of sheep, you do what you are told.  But don't blame others, you failed your country so vow to do better the next time.  Next election, get out and work for a qualified candidate.

And when gas goes up to $5 a gallon, as it surely will, quit blaming the auto makers for selling those guzzling dinosaurs - blame yourself for not having the courage to just say no, and for not buying a vehicle that will help be part of the solution to our energy crisis, not part of the problem.

So, forget any recession - take some of the money you spend foolishly on luxuries and invest in a Roth IRA or other stock market based retirement or savings fund.  Don't buy "name brand" medicine, save by buying the Generic.  Don't burden our health system with post-illness treatment...take better care of your body by good using illness preventive lifestyles.  Loose the 100 lbs that plagues the average American.  Be a smart shopper when it come to buying the right food products.  Learn to "read-the-label"!
 
Remember, if Obama gets a chance to put his Socialized Medicine into practice, every American man, woman and child will suffer, not only financially, but in lack of timely treatment.  Good Doctors will leave the profession in a rush - doubt it?  Just look at England or Canada. 

And, finally if you are hard up - quit your complaining and blaming others for your failures...pull up your pants, turn your hat around, cut your hair, cover up your tattoos, remove the body jewelry and go out and get a job!  No jobs you say?...Pick up any newspaper because there are thousands of jobs waiting out there every day.  It may not be your perfect choice, but at least you will be able to contribute to the American way of life instead of being a burden to it while you are looking for something better.  Unemployment insurance is a shameful thing to take - No American citizen should be  out-of-work more than 48 hours in this country. 

IMHO, as always
Charly

Before you vote in 2012, be aware you may get more than you asked for:

In 2007 after the Demos took over the purse strings of our economy:
1) Consumer confidence stood at a   2 1/2 year high;
2) Regular gasoline sold for $2.19   a gallon;
3) the unemployment rate was   4.5%.

Since voting in a Democratic Congress in 2006 we've seen:
1) Consumer confidence   plummet;
2) the cost of regular gasoline soar to over $3 a gallon;
3) Unemployment is up to 5% (a 10% increase);
4) American households have seen $2.3 trillion in equity value evaporate
(stock and mutual fund losses);
5) Americans have seen their home equity drop by $1.2 trillion dollars;
6) 1% of American homes are in foreclosure.

America voted for change back in 2006, and we got it!   Don't do it again in '012

Jay Leno wrote this; it's the Jay Leno we don't often see....

''The other day I was reading Newsweek magazine and came across some poll data I found rather hard to believe. It must

be true, given the source...right?

The Newsweek poll alleges that 67 percent of Americans are unhappy with the direction the country is headed, and 69 percent of the country is unhappy with the performance of the President.  In essence, 2/3's of the citizenry just ain't happy and want a change.

So being the knuckle dragger I am, I started thinking, ''What are we so  unhappy about?''

Is it that we have electricity and running water 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

Is our unhappiness the result of having air conditioning in the summer and heating in the winter?

Could it be that 95.4 percent of these unhappy folks have a job?

Maybe it is the ability to walk into a grocery store at any time, and see more food in moments than Darfur has seen in the last year?

Maybe it is the ability to drive from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic

Ocean without having to present identification papers as we move through each state?

Or possibly the hundreds of clean and safe motels we would find along the way that can provide temporary shelter?

I guess having thousands of restaurants with varying cuisine from around the world is just not good enough.

Or could it be that when we wreck our car, emergency workers show up and provide services to help all, and even send a helicopter to take you to the hospital.

Perhaps you are one of the 70 percent of Americans who own a home. You may be upset with knowing that in the unfortunate case of a fire, a group of trained firefighters will appear in moments and use top notch equipment to extinguish the flames thus saving you, your family and your belongings.

Or if, while at home watching one of your many flat screen TVs, a burglar or prowler intrudes , an officer equipped with a gun and a

bullet-proof vest will come to defend you and your family against attack or loss.

This all in the backdrop of a neighborhood free of bombs or militias raping and pillaging the residents.  Neighborhoods where 90 percent of teenagers own cell phones and computers.

How about the complete religious, social and political freedoms we enjoy that are the envy of everyone in the world?

Maybe that is what has 67 percent of you folks unhappy.

 Fact is, we are the largest group of ungrateful, spoiled brats the world has ever seen. No wonder the world loves the U.S., yet has a great disdain for its citizens. They see us for what we are. The most blessed people in the world who do nothing but complain about what we don't have , and what we hate about the country instead of thanking the good Lord we live here.

I know, I know...What about the President who took us into war and has no  plan to get us out? The President who has a measly 31 percent approval rating? Is this the same President who guided the nation in the dark days after 9/11? The President that cut taxes to bring an economy out of recession? Could this be the same guy who has been called every name in the book for succeeding in keeping all the spoiled ungrateful brats safe from terrorist attacks?

The Commander-In Chief of an all-volunteer army that is out there defending you and me? Did you hear how bad the President is on the news or talk show? Did this news affect you so much, make you so unhappy you couldn't take a look around for yourself and see all the good things and be glad?

Think about it...are you upset at the President because he actually caused you personal pain OR is it because the 'Media' told you he was failing to kiss your sorry ungrateful behind every day.

Make no mistake about it. The troops in Iraq and Afghanistan have volunteered to serve, and in many cases may have died for your freedom. There is currently no draft in this country. They didn't have to go. They are able to refuse to go and end up with either a ''general'' discharge, an ''other than honorable'' discharge or, worst case scenario, a ''dishonorable'' discharge after a few days in the brig.

So why then the flat-out discontentment in the minds of 69 percent of  Americans?  Say what you want, but I blame it on the media. If it bleeds, it leads; and they specialize in bad news. Everybody will watch a car crash with blood and guts. How many will watch kids selling lemonade at the corner? The media knows this and media outlets are for-profit corporations. They offer what sells , and when criticized, try to defend their actions by 'justifying' them in one way or another. Just ask why they tried to allow a murderer like O.J. Simpson to write a book about 'how he didn't kill his wife, but if he did he would have done it this way'...Insane!

Stop buying the negativism you are fed everyday by the media. Shut off the TV, burn Newsweek, and use the New York Times for the bottom of your bird cage.  Then start being grateful for all we have as a country. There is exponentially more good than bad.

We are among the most blessed people on Earth, and should thank God several times a day, or at least be thankful and appreciative."

Jay Leno  2007

Please keep his insightful comments in circulation. There are so many people that need to read this and grasp the truth of it all