I am so tired of the left calling every conservative a racist, hate-mongering, heartless monster. It is a tired script by people who either have failed ideas and policies, or by people who have no individuality or ability to think outside of the little ‘D’ (Democrat) marked on the column.
I am also very tired of conservatives who want to bitch and moan about it, post nifty little items on Facebook, but do nothing at all to advance their supposed way of thinking.
For years, the left has endorsed using boycotts, public shaming, and even filing lawsuits against anyone who they find on their polar opposite viewpoint to the point of ruining family businesses.
My question is this:
Why do the supposed conservatives not do the same thing?
Why don’t you;
Before you go to buy anything where the salesman makes a commission, ask them what party they vote.
Before you buy something from a family owned business, ask them who they support or what candidate/political philosophy they adhere to.
Instead of crying about Colin Kaepernick, how about turning off ALL NFL games and take the time to send a letter to the NFL telling them why. Same with all other sports.
Write some letters, change up your lifestyle to fit your mouth and beliefs, get involved – or un-involved as it fits.
How many lies and insults about you and your beliefs do you conservatives have to take before you wake up and do the exact same thing to the liberals that they do to you??
Shop your beliefs and values.
I personally shopped 3 different bike stores to spend $1000, finding an owner who holds the same values I do.
I also shopped a dentist to find the same values.
Are you willing to start making an effort? Or just keep bitching?
I did not ask for this fight, but I am tired of rolling over.

I cannot find the author of this but it sums up the current Trump Phenom to a T.

It doesn’t matter who you support for President in 2016. This letter will make you want to stand up and cheer for the 80 year old American who expresses what most of us are feeling right now. Enjoy…

“RNC
P.O. Box 96994
Washington DC 20090-6994

Dear Representative,

From the time I was able to vote I voted Republican. I am 80 years old, and have a great deal of respect and influence with hundreds of senior ball players who also network with thousands of others around the country.

I received your questionnaire and request for money and strongly agree with every question, as I have since Obama was elected. Unfortunately the one question that was missing is “What have the Republicans done for the American people?” We gave you a majority in the House and Senate, yet you never listened to us. Now you want our money.

You should be more concerned about our votes, not our money. You are the establishment, which means all you want is to save your jobs and line your pockets… Well guess what? “It’s not going to happen” You shake in your boots when I tell you we’re giving our support to TRUMP and he hasn’t asked for a dime.

You might think we are fools because you feel Trump is on a self destruction course, but you need to look beyond Washington and listen to the masses. Nobody has achieved what he has, especially in the liberal state of New York.

You clearly don’t understand why the Trump movement is so strong, so I’d like to share with you an analogy to help explain the Trump phenomenon. By the way, it’s not just the Republicans who feel ignored and disrespected, there are plenty of Democrats and Independents who also feel let down by the Washington elite. You seem to have forgotten about “We The People” and who hired you to represent us.

So here it is, the best analogy I could come up with. Here is the reason so many Americans have boarded the Trump Train, and why you’re pleas to come back to the party who deserted us, is falling on deaf ears:
You’ve been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement. You want them gone immediately…You call the city and four different exterminators, but nobody could handle the job. There is this one guy however, who guarantees you he will get rid of them, so you hire him. You don’t care if the guy smells, you don’t care if the guy swears, you don’t care how many times he’s been married, you don’t care if he was friends with liberals, you don’t care if he has plumber’s crack…you simply want those raccoons gone! You want your problem fixed! He’s the guy. He’s the best. Period. Here’s why we want Trump: Yes he’s a bit of an ass, yes he’s an egomaniac, but we don’t care. The country is a mess because politicians have become too self-serving. The Republican Party is two-faced & gutless. Illegal aliens have been allowed to invade our nation. We want it all fixed! We don’t care that Trump is crude, we don’t care that he insults people, we don’t care that he had been friendly with Hillary, we don’t care that he has changed positions, we don’t care that he’s been married three times, we don’t care that he fights with Megan Kelly and Rosie O’Donnell, we don’t care that he doesn’t know the name of some Muslim terrorist. This country is weak, bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegal aliens and bringing tens of thousands of Muslim refugees to America, while leaving Christians behind to be persecuted. We are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo and Hasid is part of a special group with special rights, to the point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in; “AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED” and Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want.

We’re sick of politicians. We’re sick of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. We just want this thing fixed. Trump may not be a saint, but he isn’t beholden to lobbyist money and he doesn’t have political correctness restraining him. All we know is that he has been very successful, he’s an excellent negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he’s also not a politician. He’s definitely not a cowardly politician. When he says he’ll fix it, we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.

Oh yeah…I forgot…we don’t care if the guy has bad hair either.

We just want those raccoons gone.

Out of your house.

NOW!”

“Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce.

Is that what you consider evil?

“When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor – your claim upon the energy of the men and women who produce. Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money.

Is that what you consider evil?

“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by the muscular effort of unthinking brutes. Try to grow a seed of wheat without the knowledge left to you by men who had to discover it for the first time. Try to obtain your food by means of nothing but physical motions–and you’ll learn that man’s mind is the root of all the goods produced and of all the wealth that has ever existed on earth.

“But you say that money is made by the strong at the expense of the weak? What strength do you mean? It is not the strength of guns or muscles. Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. Then is money made by the man who invents a motor at the expense of those who did not invent it? Is money made by the intelligent at the expense of the fools? By the able at the expense of the incompetent? By the ambitious at the expense of the lazy? Money is made–before it can be looted or mooched–made by the effort of every honest man, each to the extent of his ability. An honest man is one who knows that he can’t consume more than he has produced.

“To trade by means of money is the code of the men of good will. Money rests on the axiom that every man is the owner of his mind and his effort. Money allows no power to prescribe the value of your effort except the voluntary choice of the man who is willing to trade you his effort in return. Money permits you to obtain for your goods and your labor that which they are worth to the men who buy them, but no more. Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss–the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery–that you must offer them values, not wounds–that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men’s stupidity, but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy, not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find. And when men live by trade–with reason, not force, as their final arbiter–it is the best product that wins, the best performance, the man of best judgment and highest ability–and the degree of a man’s productiveness is the degree of his reward. This is the code of existence whose tool and symbol is money.

Is this what you consider evil?

“But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality–the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind.

“Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants: money will not give him a code of values, if he’s evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a purpose, if he’s evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent. The man who attempts to purchase the brains of his superiors to serve him, with his money replacing his judgment, ends up by becoming the victim of his inferiors. The men of intelligence desert him, but the cheats and the frauds come flocking to him, drawn by a law which he has not discovered: that no man may be smaller than his money.

Is this the reason why you call it evil?

“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth–the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him. But you look on and you cry that money corrupted him. Did it? Or did he corrupt his money? Do not envy a worthless heir; his wealth is not yours and you would have done no better with it. Do not think that it should have been distributed among you; loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one, would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune. Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it.

Is this the reason why you call it evil?

“Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence. Did you get your money by fraud? By pandering to men’s vices or men’s stupidity? By catering to fools, in the hope of getting more than your ability deserves? By lowering your standards? By doing work you despise for purchasers you scorn? If so, then your money will not give you a moment’s or a penny’s worth of joy. Then all the things you buy will become, not a tribute to you, but a reproach; not an achievement, but a reminder of shame. Then you’ll scream that money is evil. Evil, because it would not pinch-hit for your self-respect? Evil, because it would not let you enjoy your depravity?

Is this the root of your hatred of money?

“Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit.

Is this the root of your hatred of money?

“Or did you say it’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It’s the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money–and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it.

“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another–their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.

“But money demands of you the highest virtues, if you wish to make it or to keep it. Men who have no courage, pride or self-esteem, men who have no moral sense of their right to their money and are not willing to defend it as they defend their life, men who apologize for being rich–will not remain rich for long. They are the natural bait for the swarms of looters that stay under rocks for centuries, but come crawling out at the first smell of a man who begs to be forgiven for the guilt of owning wealth. They will hasten to relieve him of the guilt–and of his life, as he deserves.

“Then you will see the rise of the men of the double standard–the men who live by force, yet count on those who live by trade to create the value of their looted money–the men who are the hitchhikers of virtue. In a moral society, these are the criminals, and the statutes are written to protect you against them. But when a society establishes criminals-by-right and looters-by-law–men who use force to seize the wealth of disarmed victims–then money becomes its creators’ avenger. Such looters believe it safe to rob defenseless men, once they’ve passed a law to disarm them. But their loot becomes the magnet for other looters, who get it from them as they got it. Then the race goes, not to the ablest at production, but to those most ruthless at brutality. When force is the standard, the murderer wins over the pickpocket. And then that society vanishes, in a spread of ruins and slaughter.

“Do you wish to know whether that day is coming? Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality.

It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

“Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims.

Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, ‘Account overdrawn.’

“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded.

Do not ask, ‘Who is destroying the world? You are.

“You stand in the midst of the greatest achievements of the greatest productive civilization and you wonder why it’s crumbling around you, while you’re damning its life-blood–money. You look upon money as the savages did before you, and you wonder why the jungle is creeping back to the edge of your cities. Throughout men’s history, money was always seized by looters of one brand or another, whose names changed, but whose method remained the same: to seize wealth by force and to keep the producers bound, demeaned, defamed, and deprived of honor. That phrase about the evil of money, which you mouth with such righteous recklessness, comes from a time when wealth was produced by the labor of slaves–slaves who repeated the motions once discovered by somebody’s mind and left unimproved for centuries. So long as production was ruled by force, and wealth was obtained by conquest, there was little to conquer, Yet through all the centuries of stagnation and starvation, men exalted the looters, as aristocrats of the sword, as aristocrats of birth, as aristocrats of the bureau, and despised the producers, as slaves, as traders, as shopkeepers–as industrialists.

“To the glory of mankind, there was, for the first and only time in history, a country of money–and I have no higher, more reverent tribute to pay to America, for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man’s mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being–the self-made man–the American industrialist.

“If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose–because it contains all the others–the fact that they were the people who created the phrase ‘to make money.’ No other language or nation had ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity–to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality.

“Yet these were the words for which Americans were denounced by the rotted cultures of the looters’ continents. Now the looters’ credo has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide– as, I think, he will.

“Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out.” -Ayn Rand (1957)

After my assignment at the US Embassy – Baghdad was completed, I was offered the position of Recruiting Manager for the entire project.
I arranged flight to Bosnia to start recruiting there, but upon arrival in France, I was re-routed to Romania as the Bosnian government wanted too big a bribe to offer qualified candidates to us. You see, they tried to tell us what recruiters to use, how to background these people, and also would not give local access to law enforcement records. So our hands were tied and we cancelled the operation immediately and decided upon Romania.

Once in Romania, I had my first taste of US Embassies outside of Baghdad, and the way they conduct business.
First and foremost is the continuous feeling of apathy by many State Department staff to do anything outside of their internal departmental interests.

We were placed on a low priority status to the point that they would get around to doing backgrounds on the candidates anywhere from 12 to 16 weeks – not nearly quick enough to get an entire embassy up and running.

Couple that with a corrupt governmental system in Romania and you have now created a chaos soufflé.

The Romanians were taking bribes of $5k per applicant to get them pushed through as passable on the background checks. This money would be shared with the local police department records divisions, as well as the Romanian government.

Our state department knew about it and looked the other way, stating, “It is in their culture to take payola” – pay-to-play.

The only reason we stopped that operation was due to the fact we could not wait 16 weeks to get a recruit on the plane for Baghdad.

Next stop – Kenya.

When I landed, there was no plan in place, no office, no staff, no anything to sink our teeth into; basically going in expeditionary style to stand up the operation by ourselves.

I say ourselves as it was myself and one other person who would only stay there for about two weeks to help me get thing rolling.

We had to rent an office, hire a recruiting agency, set up meetings with the US Embassy in Nairobi for the US side of the background checks, set up medical appointments for physicals, bank accounts, transportation (local and international flights, busing to the embassy), and many more finer details.

Now,

Here is where the entire thing pulls together regarding the ‘refugees’ and the immigration desires of Obama.

I do not think anybody could argue that the screening process for a Third Country National (TCN) to work at a US Embassy in an active war zone was far more invasive than the backgrounds being done on any immigrant coming to the US from anywhere.

Here is what happens:

The local employment agency puts an ad in the local paper for overseas jobs (Administrative, IT, construction trades, janitors, gardeners, everything).

The recruiting firm takes the first bribe to get them in front of me to do a technical interview where I would verbally test them on their skillsets and knowledge of the position they were applying for, including an English test – both written and verbal, to assure they could communicate in a rudimentary manner with anyone at the embassy.

In conjunction with the US State Department – Nairobi, we then pushed their identity to the local police department of their home town to get any records of criminal activity.

Later, I was told by several TCN’s that they paid $60 to the local police to lose their records or give them a clean background. $60 to a

Kenyan working in records at a local PD is a ton of money, compounded by the amount of recruits we pushed through.

Next stop: US Embassy – Nairobi

I would rent City Hoppa buses out for a day on Fridays, as that was the day the embassy only worked a half a day, and the ambassador approved the overtime for their personnel to do oral interviews. We were given priority 1 status.

(Sidebar: the State department gets a lot of time off – every US holiday, every holiday of the country they are working in, and their annualleave of a month. I won’t even tell you the money they make and the benefits, that is for another article. Nice life.)

The state department would fingerprint the candidates and do an oral interview for at most about 20 minutes per candidate.

No lie detector test.

Next, we would take the candidates for a medical screening to assure they did not have any communicable diseases or irregularities that would disqualify them from employment.

For the next 2 weeks, the RSO (Regional Security Office – like the FBI, only for the State Department) would take over the background checks.

This is very important:
If they could not find any records with the US criminal records, the Kenyan local or National records, or Interpol, they were approved.

No Lie detector tests
No interviews with neighbors or family
Nothing else

So, if a criminal had never been caught, or an AL-Qaeda associate who is not on the radar (as many were not due to them not having computers to communicate) they were thought of as acceptable applicants.

Having spent a year and a half in Africa, I can attest to the fact that almost none of the bad guys use cell phones or computers, nor do they get caught, as it is a third world nation.

How does this relate to the current situation??

We had many that came to apply for jobs who only wanted to get to the embassy to do damage, steal information, or hurt people.

In the interviews, they would pie and put on a sad face about how they are broke and only want to feed their family.

In other words, they just said what people wanted to hear and played on the interviewer’s emotions.

As a pretty logical and some might think a cold-hearted SOB, I could see through most of it, but I had to play by their rules, no matter my gut instinct.

Our failure rate of bad guys getting through was at probably 5%, and many were caught after they had arrived and done something wrong at the Embassy.

Luckily, they could not get their hands on explosives over there as they were locked inside the embassy 24/7.

All this with a much harder screening than these refugees would get.

It deserves repeating for all those who make choices based solely on emotion and pictures in the news;
THEY SAY WHATEVER IT IS TO PLAY ON YOUR EMOTIONS, EVEN GETTING COACHED ON WHAT TO SAY.

Now are you getting it??

Save your emotional decision for your family.

Next thought concerns the jobs, medical, schooling, food, and housing they will have to receive.
Do they even want to work?
Are they qualified?
Can they speak English?
Should the taxpayer take a job a US citizen should have?
Should the taxpayer pay for all those benefits?
What happens when they get disillusioned with their status in the US living at poverty level?

Studies have pointed to many turning hard to extremism and crime.

Add this to the proven fact that many if not most are not refugees at all but able bodied men who want a better lifestyle in Europe and the US. Many are not even Syrian.

Anyone who still thinks ISIS and AL-Qaeda are not going to infiltrate are nuts and should go on drinking the Kool-Aid put forth by the politicians.

Drink this and forget everything. Close your eyes, take a sip..,

The Real Problem with Refugee Immigration

(Part 2 – Personal Background)

After listening for several months about the refugee immigrant dilemma, I cannot sit back and listen to it any more without commenting.
I have a very strong background that can offer great truth and insight to this topic.

Background:

Back in 2007, I was working in the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, under a Chief-of-Mission program. There were ten of us who were contracted to oversee this program, which was to organize the opening of the New Embassy Compound (NEC) in Baghdad’s Green-Zone. The current embassy at the time was working out of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace.

The NEC was recently finished and almost ready for occupancy. Our mission was as follows:

1. Design and construct the man-camps for the support staff to live in as only the US State department personnel were allowed to live   in the apartment complex. Man-camps were built of flat-packs (a basic shipping container [8’ x 20’] that was collapsible for shipment. The support staff alone was well over 500 personnel.
   These living containers were a far lower quality of life than the state department staff in regards to size, amenities, private showers [none], etc.
2. Design and construct the giant warehouse that held every supply one could imagine to keep a miniature city alive and running at 100% efficiency; all in a very limited footprint, as well as maintaining an orderly traffic flow into and out of said structure –
   (This was my design – quite proud of it)
3. Formulate a procurement list of every conceivable tool and material (bench stock and more) that this small self-sustaining city would need at a moment’s notice.
   You see, in a war zone, getting supplies was a very big deal and sometimes took months to achieve. Add that to the immense paperwork the government requires, and it becomes a huge project that took four of us thousands of hours to complete, vet, and submit
4. Develop a staffing requirement to maintain the Embassy to include recruiting operations in 5 countries, trade and occupational staffing breakdowns, support and admin staff, operations, and overlap to cover R+R’s
5. Develop a detailed logistical plan for a smooth transition to new embassy to include office breakdown and set-ups, communications and internet set-up, hardware and office furniture, etc.., all while not interrupting the operations in any significant way
6. Develop a recruiting operation in several European and African countries to staff the Baghdad Embassy

Just at with my previous 2+ years in Baghdad, we were always under heavy fire from Al-Qaida and local militants. We had rocket propelled grenades, mortars, car bombs, and sniper fire on a daily basis. These were the conditions we had to operate under at all times. There were many times we could not go anywhere without wearing our full PPE (Personal Protective Equipment – Helmet, Vest), even a walk to the latrine or shower.

So what does this have to do with the current situation of refugees?

Well, until you have seen the after-effect and massive carnage of a car bomb or the like, one has no idea of the catastrophic destruction it causes, not just in body count, but the mental and emotional effects it has on the survivors and the ancillary support persons (first responders, quick reaction forces, and cleanup crews).

99.999% of Americans have not been subject to this horror, and it certainly gives one a unique and QUALIFIED perspective.

Just the actions of one single terrorist is enough to warrant the strongest objections to this current desire to bring in persons who may or may not be terrorists.

Part 2 discusses my background as a recruiter and the background checks the US Government did for the staff I hired.
(To be added later today – 22 Nov 15)