House of Prayer Grand Opening August 27

“A Gathering Place of God’s People to Come and Pray”

502 W. Broadway (Russell Cain Building on Hwy 185) in Seadrift

Come By From 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday, August 27. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, or for prayer, contact: David or Evelyn Williams at 361-553-9328

On Friday, August 19th from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Seadrift students are welcome to meet their teachers for the new school year. Students may bring their school supplies at this time. Also new Seadrift School T-Shirts will go on sale. The price will be $10.00.

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U.S. Senate Race

I recently had the privilege to listen to a talk given by retired Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez.

General Sanchez led our troops in combat in Iraq and also saw duty in Kosovo.

General Sanchez is asking for our support in his bid to become the next U.S, Senator for Texas.

He believes the future of our nation depends on us seeing that all our children have the opportunity to get a quality education. He also believes that every one should serve our country in some capacity for two years, either in the military or some civil service.

I urge all of you to listen to General Sanchez and consider voting for him come election time.

You won’t regret it if he becomes our next U.S. Senator.

G.B. Robertson

“The Way I See It”

The way I see it, Mr. William D. Brayshaw’s ability to weave his own opinion into and around a few questionable facts is only exceeded by his verbosity.

While I steadfastly defend the right of us all (not only to have his own opinion) but the right to express it without the fear of arrest or persecution I am sure that if Mr. (AKA Longknife 21) had the misfortune to be a citizen of one of a large number of other countries and attempted to assonate the character of that countries leader as he has attempted to do to President Obama he would now be entertaining his guests from within some rodent infested prison instead of talking about adult beverages in an easy chair.

I wonder what Mr. B. would have to say about the man who was President for eight years before “Little Barry” was elected? I am speaking of the presiding person while all of the big banks were indulging themselves and their greedy over compensated officers who were happily wheeling and dealing with those sub-prime mortgages and by doing so were inflating the housing bubble and draining off the profits. They were permitted to get away with this larceny by an administration whose philosophy was to let big business police itself. Like sending a monkey to the store to bring back bananas. Mr. Obama inherited the recession from the prior administration, let us not lose sight of that. They also were the ones who started bailing out the wall street banks as well as American General Insurance company with billions of my money. (boy I sure could use a few million of that now)

It is my opinion that if greed is left unchecked by government will be unchecked period, and there will be no middle income people left. There will only be the ultra rich who have stolen all the assets of our country and produced nothing, and the working poor.

Shame on you Mr, Brayshaw! Do you have any idea how it feels to work as hard as you can at an honest job and not be able to pay all of your bills at the end of the month? I don’t know you but I doubt that you have ever wondered how you were going to buy clothes for your children. I have been there done that, Mr. Brayshaw. My circumstances are much better now and I will assure you that it is due to hard work over a long period of time. Not one time in my life have I made money by buying and selling sub-prime mortgages on other peoples homes or any other unethical or illegal means. I bet you think that the tax breaks President Bush gave to the rich people is OK. Right?

H.B. Thomasson
AKA Scalpel

The Way I See It By Naomi Albrecht

As we get older, all of us wonder from time to time if our memory is not what it used to be, but recently I have begun to suspect that this entire nation is suffering from Alzheimer’s (the loss seems particularly bad here in Texas). Of course, the nation is approaching 250 years of age, and even Texas has been governing itself in one form or another since 1836, so perhaps advancing age accounts for politicians’ and voters’ political amnesia.

Do we really not remember that when George W. Bush took office this nation was poised to pay off the national debt by 2015 and had a projected surplus of $5.6 trillion in the bank to invest (including $3.5 trillion intended for future social security and medicare needs so that promises made to aging Americans could be kept when they retired)?

Have we forgotten that Bush immediately proposed tax cuts that would cost our nation 1.6 trillion over 10 years but that he assured us would result in the creation of new jobs? Of course, the top 1% of tax payers got 37% of the tax cuts while the bottom 60 percent got only 15%, but we were promised that cutting the taxes on the rich would mean more jobs and improved incomes for the rest of us.

Do we recall that these jobs never materialized, that workers found their jobs moving to foreign countries? By 2003 the surplus had disappeared. Have we forgotten that under President Bush America raised the debt limit seven times even as our country financed two wars through continuing allocations (emergency funding not included in budgets) at a cost of $1.26 TRILLION?

Where was the talk of living within our means when these debts were created, and how is it now that the same politicians that created the debt can lecture the rest of us on living within our means and declare that cutting social “entitlements” that tax payers already have paid for in years of payroll taxes are the only acceptable way to get our nation out of debt? No wonder that some students of American politics call this “deficit by design” (a situation begun by Ronald Regan, under whom the debt ceiling was increased 18 times) and suggest that it is part of a plan to destroy programs such as social security and medicare!

Of course, our governor can brag that here in Texas we are balancing our budget and creating more jobs that in other parts of the nation. How soon will forget that the budget was balanced on the backs of our school children and that expenses previously met by state funds are now pushed down to the local level?

How long will it take us to realize that the jobs being created are low-level minimum wage jobs that leave workers in poverty and provide them with no opportunity to save for their future and little hope of help when they reach retirement?

Do we remember 2006 when Gov. Perry and the Legislature cut the property taxes that funded public schools and promised that a new business tax would make up the difference? Have we already forgotten that the Texas comptroller warned us that “this legislation is a staggering $23 billion short of the funds needed to pay for the promised property cuts over the next five years.”

Have we already forgotten that when the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act sent Texas $3.25 billion to spend meeting the state’s educational needs, Perry used those funds to cover shortfalls in areas unrelated to education?

Do we need to be reminded that even as we balance school district budgets by closing community schools, cutting course offerings, laying off teachers and charging students to ride school busses, Texas ranks 49th out of 50 in per-capita taxes, 38th of 50 in its spending per student and 43rd in its graduation rate? Or that only this year our legislators chose to ignore the Texas constitution and state law requiring that educational spending should keep up with the increased costs faced by Texas schools?

Did we not even notice when the 80,000 new students in our schools were ignored as the state underfunded education by $4 billion, leaving schools expected to educate additional students but to do so without a way of paying for their needs?

Has our national and state Alzheimer’s become so bad that we have forgotten how we once made our nation and state great and never noticed when the present and future needs of the many are being sacrificed to make the few even richer than they already are?

Are we really unable to recognize how we are being used by those who hide behind the masks of patriots while manipulating their version of history so that it seems to support policies that serve the desires of the few rather than the needs of the many?

Do we even remember what it was like to be a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people?

Naomi Albrecht, Port O’Connor

“The Way I See It” is an attempt by the guest columnist to enlighten readers on a subject, as he views it, and does not necessarily reflect the views of this publication. Comments on this article may be addressed to: Dolphin Talk, P.O. Box 777, Port O’Connor, TX 77982; Email: dolphin1@tisd.net

Understanding Obamanomics, Part III

What I call Obamanomics did not start just since he was elected, but has grown out of a Liberal/Socialist policy designed to empower the left-wing control of the Democrat Party and create dependency on Govt programs in the voters. The Socialists know that voters who are dependent on welfare programs will vote for whoever promises them the most. Current estimates state that 48% of Americans pay no income taxes. It ‘seasy to understand that someone who receives handouts and pays no taxes will be in favor of raising taxes.

Not all Liberals and Socialists are evil, but some are. I doubt that many Democrat supporters understand the Cloward-Pivens Strategy, or have even heard of it, but the current leadership certainly has and they appear to be using it, or the general effect of the strategy is being implemented by the current administrations policies. Whether intentional, or the unintended consequences of bad policy, the effect on the economy and the taxpayers is destructive. If they can’t maintain their power by “buying” elections with welfare and promises, they seem to be willing to destroy the economy, and the dollar, to use the resulting chaos to install a totalitarian socialist govt. Violence, riots, and revolution are the traditional tactics of militant socialists.

For over forty years I have listened to the Liberals say the Repubs would “cut Social Security”. Obama saw that his support was weak among Seniors, so he cut the COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) starting in 2009. And they raised the Medicare deduction so retirees checks were less. They said the COLA was not necessary because there was no inflation, but the cost of basic food and electricity were rising rapidly, due to Obama’s stated policies. Now Obama threatens to stop all Social Security for retirees and military pay – even active duty! – but will not consider reducing welfare programs. Punish the people that paid into a socialist Ponzi Scam for 45 years and the people that protected our Nation, but continue to reward the Welfare Class. That defines the core of Obamanomics – use the power of the Treasury to reward your friends, buy support, and punish any group that opposes you.

The $830 Billion Stimulus Bill was to create jobs. Last week the figures came out that the average cost of jobs created was $278,000. Since most of the jobs were fairly low-paying entry level gov’t jobs, why so few? Because the Stimulus was treated as a giant political slush fund to reward friends and buy political support. When the unemployment rate went up to 9.2% Obama claimed the Stimulus was working because the jobs lost were in the ‘private sector’. Is this temporary insanity, incompetence, or admission the planned Stimulus was to grow more govt and devastate the private sector?

Many of the world’s leading economists have stated that raising the debt ceiling without serious cuts in the ‘Welfare State’ will lead to international loss of status for our Treasury bills and a repudiation of the dollar as the World Reserve Currency – that will lead to great inflation. Every one of Obama’s ‘economic’ policies have failed to meet their stated goals, but all have had ‘unintended consequences’ that are potentially disastrous in the long run, if not immediately.

Obamanomics is really about Power. Concentrating power in the Federal Gov’t and creating more and more dependency in the Federal Govt. Not just the power to create ‘money’ out of debt; the Federal Reserve has scammed the Taxpayers with that for 98 years, but the power of Centralized Control to determine what foods we can eat, what kind and how much energy we can use, even what light bulbs we can buy. They have placed 34 ‘Czars’ to write bureaucratic regulations that are totally unConstitutional but carry the penalty of law. You can not buy or sell a home if they don’t approve of the design and the appliances. They will determine what kind of vehicle you can buy and it may be suitable for couples or small families in the cities but useless to farm families in the country. They will determine what water-well you are allowed and put a meter on it and charge you for the water. They do all these and more in the name of ‘saving the planet’, but the real goal is control.

Carol Browner, one of Obama’s Czars, has said for years that control of the food supply can be used to “modify people’s behavior”, make them even more dependent on Govt. Tight controls on fertilizer, agricultural chemicals, hybrid and gene-modified seeds, and even zoning is used to stop people from growing and controlling their own food supply, and now implementing UN Agenda 21 in regards to “sustainable development” that further limits the actions and initiatives of a Free People. Thankfully, here in Texas it is not nearly as bad as in eastern and northern states but more Federal laws and mandates are coming. And with UN Agenda 21 you may have to get a permit from some UN Committee to build a house, drill a water well, or even plant a garden.

What we are seeing today of Obama’s refusal of cutting back on the Welfare State Policy is simply a political gamble. He needs the power to continue to create debt to continue to grow Federal power and buy allies to win the 2012 election. He knows the Economy is not going to get better because his current policies forbid it. Their goal is expanded gov’t and dependency on these tax consuming programs, not freedom and financial independence for the citizens. We will find our lives micro-managed by bureaucracies headed by over-indoctrinated, under-experienced, Marxist-inspired college professors. Look at the people he has appointed as Czars and to other high offices.

It is a recipe for disaster, loss of freedom, property, our economy, our savings, the value of currency, and our future. Marxism fails, especially with the American people it will fail quickly and spectacularly, and will quickly degenerate into a Stalinist type regime and we will be the Kulaks.

We are watching today (7/23) the House Republicans bring plans to reduce runaway spending, temporarily raise the debt ceiling, without raising taxes on a struggling economy, but Obama and Harry Reid refuse to budge from new spending and raising taxes, and they offer no constructive plan of what they think is a solution. They don’t have a solution or a plan.

They got us deeper into this mess by the Old Liberal ‘solution’ of throwing money at any problem or imagined problem. And they are borrowing $4 out every $10 they spend. They already owe an incomprehensible amount of money, and their “solution” is to borrow more?? How will they even pay the interest on this debt when foreign countries stop rolling over these short-term debt instruments and interest rates go up to ‘Jimmy Carter rates’?

The Nation is broke and they are still trying to kill what industry we have left. The cost of energy is climbing because of the ‘Green agenda’. Also turning basic food into a low grade fuel at tax subsidized expense is just plain stupid at this point.

Doing the same things again and again and expecting a different result is one definition of insanity. Borrowing money when you are broke and just throwing it away is another.

The Federal govt takes in approx. $183 Billion per month. Interest on the Debt is $17.7B, total defense spending is $58.5B, and Social Security is $59.6B, for a total of $135.B, so why would we default on the debt interest? It is only 9.7% of our monthly revenue! Or stop paying the troops? Or stop Social Security? I’m sure there is waste in the military budget and Social Security (especially SSI), and it should be addressed, but the immediate concern is the interest and maintaining a trustworthy currency.

Obama is like a man threatening to not make his mortgage payment so he can buy 4-wheelers for his neighbor’s kids! The man has no sense of economics or budget, any farm-wife or grandmother could do better.

We have the opportunity to stop it now. We have got to take the ‘Credit Cards’ away from these Elitists and Wannabe Elitists. Obamanomics is all about creating debt so we must pay for our own chains of slavery. They are using the Utopian promises of socialism to fool the idealistic as well as the lazy and criminal parasites into giving them centralized totalitarian powers that would be dangerous in the hands of a benevolent dictator, much less a gang of bandits that seems to despise everything America stands for.

Bill Brayshaw, Seadrift

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