Hello! Happy new year. May you live a long healthy life and prosper.
According to a study by US dept. of Health & Human Services, 96% of Americans never achieve financial independence. They end up depending on charity, welfare, family, or are forced to keep working past their retirement age.
According to the IRS, 85% of the people reaching age 65 years don’t have even $200 in their bank accounts! US Census Bureau says that 97% of Americans never realize their dreams and desires in life, and are forced to retire on annual income of $10,000 or less!
The average American is $15,000 in debt, not including their homes and car payments.
Parents will have to spend over $150,000+ to raise their kids to the age of 18 years, and will spend another $77,000 to send them to college.
Every day, about 2,200 Americans lose their jobs, while more than 20,000 families lose their homes to foreclosure every year, and another 500,000 file for personal bankruptcy.
Some of the largest US corporations have been continuously downsizing their work force and laying off thousands of people during the past ten years.
America is weakening and sinking deeper into a debt nation. The paradox is that America is the richest and greatest nation on earth, and yet millions of the people live below the poverty level.
Why is it so? Why is it that 1% of the Americans control 37% of all wealth, 60% of all the corporations, and 10% of all the real estate?
One of the reasons is that most people do not know the SECRETS of the RICH and POWERFUL and are ignorant of the dynamics of wealth creation, preservation and perpetuation.
The majority of the people have been misled to believe that to achieve financial security, success and happiness, all they have to do is to go to college, obtain a degree and get a job.
Nothing can be further from the Truth!
To make both ends meet, both husbands and wives have to go to work.
In some cases, some people have two or more jobs: day job, evening job, and weekend job.
They spend every minute of their lives running from one job to the next, and have no time to enjoy the money they make or the company and love of their families.
Both the husband and wife hardly have time for each other or their children.
The children have no role models and are devoid of proper parenting. Some start missing classes, hanging out with the wrong gang, using drugs and committing crimes.
This leads to moral decay, lack of discipline, dropping out of school and life in and out of prison, teenage pregnancy and welfare dependency.
It is pathetic! Even when both parents are working, they still have mountains of bills to pay: mortgage, car, credit card bills and personal loans.
When they lose their jobs, they are unable to continue with the payments, so they lose their car, then their homes and credit line and probably end up on skid rows.
This leads to marital strife, discontent, divorce and depression.
And life in other continents and countries of the world are not better!
Since the economies and the currencies of the other countries of the world depend largely on American economy and currency, whatever happens in America ultimately affects the other countries!
America gives billions of dollars in financial and military aids annually to many countries in the world.
But many of the governments of these countries (especially the developing ones) are corrupt to the bone!
They steal these billions of dollars and salt them away in secret Swiss Bank accounts.
They don’t use it to build manufacturing industries that will create jobs for their country people.
They don’t use it to build the infrastructures to enhance the quality of life of their people.
Their people have no modern amenities and infrastructures, good roads, electricity, running water, telecommunication service, or jobs.
They have no business, no future and no hope!
That explains why some of them dabble in scams, while others escape to seek a better fate in America and European countries.
Instead of giving billions of dollars to these corrupt governments that enrich a few corrupt politicians, why not give the same billions of dollars to American corporations so they can go to those countries and help them build up their economies and create jobs that benefit the people?
That is what American government should be doing, if it is seriously interested in helping people from other countries of the world.
This may help improve international relationships and restore the respect and love that other countries once had for America.
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Warmly,
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Thinking ‘outside of the box’ can help you to view problems in a different light. This can help you find solutions you have previously struggled with. This type of approach to problem solving often improves the quality of solutions or ideas. Within the political arena it is unusual to find a politician who incorporates this type of unorthodox thinking and problem solving to drive change. One example is Cory Booker the mayoral candidate for Newark, NJ.
Cory Booker has a long history of employing unorthodox solutions to solve pressing problems. Booker, 36, a Stanford, Yale, and Oxford educated Rhodes Scholar is preparing for his second electoral battle possibly against 20-year incumbent Newark Mayor, Sharpe James. James, who has yet to announce his intentions of whether he will seek a sixth term, defeated Booker by a narrow margin in the 2002 mayoral contest.
The symbolism of the potential bout runs deep: The city’s longest sitting Mayor squaring off against a man who was the youngest ever elected to the city’s Municipal Council. Many have labeled this the test of a new generation, others, a final showdown between the city’s entrenched political establishment and broad-based reform.
There is little doubt that Cory Booker, if elected, would bring a new approach to governing. Over the course of his four years as Newark’s Central Ward Councilman, a seat that he surrendered to run for mayor in 2002, Booker was battered by many of his fellow council members and by the mayor for opposing status quo lawmaking. Booker recalls his frustration during his short tenure on the council. “I was consistently voted down 8 to 1, 7 to 2 on what I thought were common sense decisions.”
Booker’s reaction, despite his own admission that he at times felt defeated, was to press forward but from a different direction. “Some of the greatest issues facing my former constituents are those of crime, gangs, and drugs. There simply aren’t enough police on the streets, particularly in the neighborhoods where they’re needed most,” stated Booker. Mr. Booker vividly recalls receiving a phone call from the tenant president, Elaine Sewel, of Garden Spires, a high rise housing complex under siege by gangs and drug dealers. “She was pleading with me to do something,” stated Booker. “She said ‘you’re my councilman. Help me.’ My response was that I had no power in City Hall, the police wouldn’t listen to me, and that there was nothing I could do.”
The Transformation “It took a few hours– a few hours too long if you ask me– before I decided to act in the spirit of the great leaders whose shoulders I’m standing upon” stated Booker. The then 29-year-old councilman bought a tent and set up camp in the parking lot of the troubled housing complex where the security booth was burned to the ground and the guards forced to flea by drug dealers several weeks earlier. After a 10-day hunger strike, feces and debris thrown on top of his tent, and threats on his life, Booker and the dozens who joined him received a visit from Mayor James. Booker had accomplished his mission, having negotiated with the gangs and drug dealers on the property and drawing attention to a series of problems which he believes are still all too prevalent in his city.
It didn’t stop with Garden Spires. The great success of his hunger strike led Booker to realize that he could compensate for the resistance he faced in City Hall with grassroots action. He bought a used recreational vehicle and lived in it for six months, parking on the worst drug corners in the city. While he was repeatedly awoken by the blasts of gunfire, he wasn’t deterred as his presence drove drug dealing from neighborhoods that hadn’t experienced peace in years.
After his six months on the streets, Booker returned to his home of several years: Brick Towers, a high rise public housing complex that he led in a fight against its slumlord as a young lawyer resulting in a successful federal prosecution.
The Future
Only time will tell with any certainty if Cory Booker’s unorthodox approaches to affecting change will persist. Any doubt, however, seems handily diminished by a track record that is strong to say the least and as many Newarkers have come to expect nothing less from Booker. In a city which Booker cites as having “incredible and unbounded promise stemming from remarkable resources, the greatest of which is the spirit of its people,” his radical tactics may be just what Newark needs for it to achieve its potential. The example of Cory Booker shows the possibilities of an ‘outside of the box’ approach to political thinking. This approach to problem solving requires attributes that are not normally associated with politicians. These include a willingness to take a new perspective on dealing with day-to-day problems, an openness to new ideas, and a desire to create value in new ways. Actions speak louder than words however, and results are achieved only when these new ideas are acted upon. And the truth is that at the end of the day, real results are the measure of the politician.