former homeowners now living in tents.
thank you mr. bush. 
It's sad. But it's not ALL doom & gloom. People have been able to rise up despite operating in adverse conditions.
I work with many people who've lost EVERYTHING; some even had to live in a trailer after Hurricane Katrina.
But after only 3 months my friend Ricky B was able to get out of that FEMA trailer and into a brand new home.
You can hear Ricky tell his story in the video entitled 'The Global Experience' available
here(But only click the link if you want to hear Ricky's story, if not, don't click it. Ricky starts at about 8 mins 55 sec in)
The mainstream media won't even touch these stories. It's as if they fear people can't handle them. Yes we can. People have been rising up and overcoming adversity and challenges for years, ...centuries. Americans are no different. It's in her bones. America is chock full of spiritual mentors who have guided them along that path for years. They all had one thing in common... the audacity of hope. It enabled and empowered them to rise, ....and rise they did. And they passed that baton to future generations. Generations who are well equipped to guide the present and future generations along the path that they too must now travel. The people living in the tent cities have been struck hard, ...but like so many others before them who have been dealt heavy blows, ...they too will
rise.
<--click me (windows media audio clip)It's sad that Americans have to turn to foreign journalists to hear about homegrown hometown stories that their own news media will not even touch.
It's just like the other day when in response to JBGray's post about how the high cost of fuel was affecting every day prices of goods & services, I mentioned in passing the heavy toll current economic conditions were having on long haul truckers forcing them out of business and off the road, but that there was not even a peep of this in the media, ...only to be called a liar by HeadHunter, and to see my comments censored as some sort of spam.
I still do not see how my innocent validation of JBGray's comments were considered spam.
This censorship of my comments however, IMO, was quite consistent with the sins of omission we see daily coming from the corporately owned news media. Not only was I called a liar, my comment was deleted. That this censorship was done by a mod who has a consistent pattern of blindly agreeing both to and with every "official version" of lies handed to the people, no matter how incongruous, no matter much they defy the laws of nature, physics, or just plain logic, reason or common sense, should be no surprise.
I'm sure if NeuroToxin had merely made the statement that tent cities were popping up throughout the USA without having posted that link to validate his statement, he too might have been called a liar. Therefore, I don't think it unreasonable of me to prove that I was NOT lying, and that what I alledged to be occuring within the trucking industry is indeed happening. These guys are the ones that are protecting America's way of life on the domestic front. Without them, America shuts down... HARD! As patriotic concerned citizen's, shouldn't you know about any threats to them, ...and by extention, ...to you? I think you should, and I think those of you who understand the big picture do want to know and understand these concerns as well. Only through understanding the challenges we face as a society, are we then in a position to take positive action to meet and confront those challenges.
I wish I had not been called a liar, and my motivations questioned. It would then not have put me in the position of having to back up my allegation. Unfortunately, the only mechanism by which I am able to do this, to prove I was not lying, is by posting the proof ...the basis of my allegation.
Disclaimer: This proof comes using the only material I currently have at my disposal at the moment to do so, which happens to be a conference call from 2 days ago.
The subject of this conference call was not about validating an off the cuff remark censored by those who would rather stand idly by while the corporate news media focusses on distractions and continues to put forth lies of omission, in an attempt to keep the public from discovering what is really happening all around them, ...but rather was about providing information and collaborative, co-operative assistance, to our independent colleagues throughout North America. I apologize that I do not have at my disposal at the moment any other material with which to back up my allegations.
Please understand this is NOT intended as SPAM. The snippet you are about to hear, if you choose to click to hear it (and it is a choice) was a snippet from AFTER the official call was over. It was during our Q & A portion when quite frequently many of us simply just engage in conversation with each other, ...sometimes just keeping the truckers company as many of them are calling in on cell phones while they're out driving through the country. The purpose of posting this is to back up my allegations vis-a-vis truckers, and for no other purpose. I would also like to request that you not listen to the entire snippet, but rather fast forward to 14 mins 45 seconds into it to get to the claim I asserted on here earlier... a claim that was entirely about truckers siphoning gas out of their tanks and selling it to get a bus ticket home, and abandoning their rigs. That is the intent of posting this link... solely to validate and back up the allegation I made with regard to the economic toll the current state of affairs is having on the independent owner/operators who keep your country running and for no other purpose.
The clarification I provide, I believe to be very clear. And we are all adults with the ability to sort through and filter out periferals to focus in on relevant targets, so I'm requesting that we do just that.
That said, here is the validation of the claim I previously asserted that:
Independent truckers are abandoning their rigs and going out of business.
(windows media audio)Bush's economic policies are exacting a very heavy price on your country. The cost of this war is too high a price to be paying for a lie. McCain wants to perpetuate this. Thankfully, you have a presidential candidate (the only presidential candidate) with sound judgement who understood from the inception what the cost of war would be.
