The governor's meeting, what a great place to showcase health care once more when it's the economy that should be in the spotlight.

I was off today and decided to watch the President's address to the governors meeting in Washington and what I thought would be a speech on the economy turned out to be another rehash of health care reform. What's really becoming a sad feature of this President is his apparent inability to grasp the fact that the American people are more interested in his administration taking decisive action to help our flagging economy than the promotion of his Fabian philosophy.

He wasted time by promoting his flawed health care program to the governors, then segued into his revamp of the educational system citing South Korea as an example. He managed to leave out one important point as he always does when discussing education and that is countries that have a tendency to excel have strong family based systems, like South Korea. Also, countries that have superior educational systems also are countries that are not entitlement based societies in that the populations of those countries all understand the precept that success is achieved through hard work.

We are in the process of creating an entire class of unemployed in this country and all this President can do is stand in front of a group of governors and pontificate about the new industries we are going to create in the future which when closely observed are essentially service related jobs which in real world terms are the least stable. We need to make things in this country in order to have a strong middle class, and by that I mean we need to manufacture high quality goods that can be exported around the world. The United States was an industrial giant that was allowed to become obsolete through corporate and political greed. The greatest thing this President could do for this country would be to spearhead the retooling of our failing manufacturing base which in the long run would produce jobs and a strong economy.

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Napoleon Bonaparte
1769 - 1821
Emperor of France, Despot

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I think this is called 'the pot calling the kettle black' when a pimp like the PM of Haiti accuses Baptist missionaries of child trafficking.

It is beyond me how the US will stand aside and let a pimp like the PM of Haiti accuse the Baptist missionaries, currently being held in Haiti, of human trafficking. It's a fairly obvious that they were moving these children for purely humanitarian purposes and the scenario that is more than likely true is that the government officials are upset that the current pool of children that would normally be sold into slavery is currently low because of the earthquake and their income has been somewhat reduced. The news media has once again passed over some key points in an effort to make a faith based aid group look bad, the first and most glaring is the fact that human trafficking in Haiti is common place in fact it is so common that they have a name for those sold into bondage it is 'restavek'.

The sanitized version states that parents send their child to work for host household because they lack the resources to support the child, in some cases the child is treated well and in others the child is abused. My vote would be on number two just about every time and the evidence is there to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. The story goes that poor rural people send their children to more affluent people in the cities thinking they will have better opportunities and escape the poverty that exists in the rural enclaves. This type of activity could not take place without the consent of the higher authorities in a country the size of Haiti which would indicate to the outsider that the government has more than just it's fingers in this mess.

As of today the government is talking to the missionaries and if they are even moderately bright at best they will let these people go without any consequence and do it quietly, because they are about to get an enormous payday as the US begins to rebuild their country and the illegal gain they all stand to make will more than offset what they take in selling children on the black market. Since we are going to get tapped to handle almost the entire rebuild of Haiti I think it would be totally appropriate to line up all of the ruling body there and do away with them all, this would at least give the people of Haiti a chance at finally building a real country.

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Justice Hugo L. Black

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