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IACOCCA SPEAKS OUT ON OBAMA

Just as true today as it was when his book first came out. He was, and still is, a brilliant businessman!    Often we need to be

reminded of Iococca’s words.

Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He’s now 82 years old and has a

new book, ‘Where Have All The Leaders Gone?.’ Lee Iacocca Says:

‘Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening? Where the hell is our outrage with this so called

president? We should be screaming bloody murder! We’ve got a gang of tax cheating clueless leftists trying to steer our ship

of state right over a cliff, we’ve got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can’t even run a ridiculous cash-for-

clunkers program without losing $26 billion of the taxpayers’ money, much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting

mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘trust me the economy is getting

 better..’ Better? You’ve got to be kidding. This is America , not the damned, ‘Titanic’. I’ll give you a sound bite: ‘Throw all the

Democrats out along with Obama!’ You might think I’m getting senile, that I’ve gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But

someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.. The most famous business leaders are not the

innovators but the guys in handcuffs.. While we’re fiddling in Afghanistan , Iran is completing their nuclear bombs and

missiles and nobody seems to know what to do. And the liberal press is waving ‘pom-poms’ instead of asking hard

questions. That’s not the promise of the ‘ America ‘ my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I’ve had enough.

How about you? I’ll go a step further. You can’t call yourself a patriot if you’re not outraged. This is a fight I’m ready and

willing to have. The Biggest ‘C’ is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates

 on nine C’s of leadership, with crisis being the first.) Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It’s

easy to sit there with thumb up your butt and talk theory. Or send someone else’s kids off to war when you’ve never seen a

battlefield yourself. It’s another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down. On September 11, 2001, we needed a

strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a

mess, so here’s where we stand. We’re immersed in a bloody war now with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving. But

our soldiers are dying daily. We’re running the biggest deficit in the history of the world, and it’s getting worse every day!

We’ve lost the manufacturing edge to Asia , while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.

Gas prices are going to

 skyrock again, and nobody in power has a lucid plan to open drilling to solve the problem. This country has the largest oil

reserves in the WORLD, and we cannot drill for it because the politicians have been bought by the flea-hugging

environmentalists.

Our schools are in a complete disaster because of the teachers union. Our borders are like sieves and they want to give all

illegals amnesty and free healthcare. The middle class is being squeezed to death every day. These are times that cry out for

leadership. But when you look around, you’ve got to ask: ‘Where have all the leaders gone?’ Where are the curious, creative

communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense? I may be a

sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.. Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than

making us take off our shoes in airports

 and throw away our shampoo? We’ve spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is

react to things that have already happened. Everyone’s hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping the government will make it

better for them. Now, that’s just crazy.. Deal with life.

Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing.

Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when ‘The Big Three’ referred to Japanese car companies? How did

this happen, and more important, look what Obama did about it!

Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debit, or solving theenergy crisis, or managing

the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking

the middle class dry. I have news for the Chicago gangsters in Congress. We didn’t elect you to turn this country into a

losing European Socialist state. What is everybody so afraid of? That some bonehead on NBC or CNN news will call them a

name? Give me a break. Why don’t you guys show some spine for a change? Had Enough? Hey, I’m not trying to be the voice

of gloom and doom here. I’m trying to light a fire. I’m speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America . In my

lifetime, I’ve had the privilege of living through some

 of America ‘s greatest moments. I’ve also experienced some of our worst crises: The ‘Great Depression,’ ‘World War II,’ the

‘Korean War,’ the ‘Kennedy Assassination,’ the ‘Vietnam War,’ the 1970′s oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years since

9/11. Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about. It’s our country, folks, and it’s our

future. Our future is at stake!!”

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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Check out the book “Freedom’s Call.”

John

We live in America.  The land of opportunity. The home of  300,000,000 people.

The hell on earth that our forefathers endured to get us where we are is amazing.  Bows and arrows, suppression by the British, the conquering of the west, immigration from Africa, the tobacco plantations, religious dissidents, Pilgrims, the gamble of a better life.  Starvation, poor soil, low food supply and disease.  Death was rampant.  The Mayflower.  Plymouth.  Jamestown was here first. The Indians were here before that.  The Spanish were here.

We are a group of immigrants.  We probably can connect our geneology back to some other country.  It is a world community. 

One of the things that we forget…or maybe chose to ignore..is that the freedom from taxation and suppression was what brought our forefathers here in the first place.

We the people, for the people, by the people…..

Think about it when you are filling out your tax return.  This is why our forefathers came here.  The right to be free.  To practice the religion they wanted and to be out from under the tax suppression they endured in the old country.

Our great country, founded on violence in aiding indigenous people to overcome an enemy.  Learning from these people how to survive.  Thanksgiving is born.  Expand your horizons, practice your religion, prosper in this new country.  Tens of thousands coming to America.  The place for everybody from everywhere.  Agriculture, Commerce, and frontier discovery.  A quarter of the taxes in England.  America was prosperous. 

 A third of all British shipping is done in the Colonies and American wood is the commodity.  In Boston, four red coats for every citizen.   The Boston Tea Party.  Exports of fish, wood and agricultural commodities are taxed going and spices, slaves and imports are taxed coming, by the British.

March 5th 1770.  King street and what happens changes America forever.  War started.  5 deaths…Boston reacts.

The Fire of Revolution is set.  The most formidable army in the world firing on an un-armed crowd got the colonies up in arms.  Word spreads fast through the night-riders.  The 13 colonies are in outrage about the Boston massacre.

Rebels dump over 1,000.000 dollars worth of tea in Boston harbor.

British shut down the harbor in response.

Job loss, stranglehold by the British.  America is on the verge of a big change.

England is all up into America.  Banning this and Banning that. 

It was time to maintain Liberty.

Philadelphia said it.  The Thirteen American Colonies became America with the 1st Continental Congress.

An attack on any one colony was an attack on all colonies. 

Ordinary Americans rose to the occasion to protect there colonies. 

The enemy was the British.

Paul Revere rides and warns everyone across the New England countryside.

“The British are coming.”

Lexington transforms the world forever. The rebels fought for freedom itself.  60 men against hundreds of British trained in battle.  They faced off.  Overwhelming would be the word.  The American revolution had begun. 

The Patriots rallied.  The Militia gathers. The Carnage begins.

The blood and sacrifice to get us where we are today is absolutely unbelievable.

Is it worth the freedoms for which they fought?  How many of those freedoms have we lost?  Do you even know what freedom’s you’ve lost…even just in the last ten years.

Just a little thought starter for freedom.

Have a free day.

John