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Chuck Floyd
Due to the lack of a foreign policy plan by the UN and the US, Iran is on track to obtain nuclear weapons. The world will have a crisis by the end of this year due to Iran's nuclear program. Following the speeches in New York last week, the world is in a dangerous position with Iran and there is no plan on how to stop Iran.
The US has decided that it can live with a nuclear Iran. Israel will not follow the US in its foreign policy and will focus on its own national security. Israel will attack Iran by the end of the year due to the lack of a coordinated plan by the UN and the US. The leaders in Iran have stated that they want to destroy Israel. They are crazy and will do anything for their radical religion. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a great speech at the UN, one which should have been given by the US. He is a talented and feisty political leader who can and will make the tough decisions for his country. He will make the right decision at the right time. When Israel attacks Iran, the US will be brought into the conflict and we again will have to protect our allies and the shipping lanes around the world. A total blockade of Iran might avoid military action, but would cause many other issues. Gasoline is a key imported product by Iran and they cannot function for over two weeks without imports. Military action, in my opinion, is now not avoidable due to the past actions of the UN and the US. Our politicians have gotten us into a crisis. They have allowed Iran to develop their nuclear capabilities; thus becoming a very dangerous terrorist nation. Soon the world will pay the price. -
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September 20, 2009
Chuck Floyd
Fortunately the climate-change legislation has stalled on Capitol Hill due to the cost to American tax payers and businesses. If this legislation passes the Congress, it will cause millions of American jobs and will raise the utility and production costs for everything that uses oil as a base product. It will raise the cost of food, fuel, housing, and other consumer products by $5,000 per household.
Majority Leader Harry Reid said that he thinks the bill won't see the floor until next year, but they are trying to get the bills out of committee as soon as possible. Similar to the health reform battle, the plan is working its way through multiple committees - five on the Senate side before a plan is meshed with the House bill, which narrowly passed in June by a 219-212 vote. The Energy Committee is the only Senate panel that's passed a version so far. This energy bill is very dangerous for the United States and will cause serious problems for our economy. India and China want nothing to do with this type of legislation since they know that it brings negative economic issues. Let's be positive and have an energy policy that will help our businesses, our families, and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. I have several positive suggestions for a national policy: 1. Positive benefits for users to conserve and be energy efficient 2. Increase in renewable energy solutions (i.e., solar, wind) 3. Drill in the US 4. Open more oil refineries 5. Use nuclear energy production for electricity 6. Use clean coal for electrical requirements The Congress should propose a real energy bill that accomplished an energy policy of less foreign oil--not one that taxes Americans. -
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September 13, 2009
Chuck Floyd
It was good to see so many legal American citizens rally for the survival of our nation and our democracy. It is time we took back our country from a Congress and administration that wants to spend too much money and have the federal government control everything we do as American citizens. It is time to set limits on government and term limits for the US Congress.
Tens of thousands of conservative "tea party" protesters brought their angry grass-roots movement to the steps of the Capitol on Saturday in a muscular political demonstration against big government spending, budget deficits, taxes and President Obama's sweeping health care plan. In a patriotic, flag-waving "March on Washington" that conservative leaders said was a newly energized political movement determined to stop the Obama administration's tax-and-spending programs, the protesters stretched for blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue to a massive rally on the West Lawn of the Capitol, chanting, "USA," "Enough, Enough" and "We the people." This Tea Pary Rally reminds us of the famous Boston Tea Party and the effects that revolt had on our American way of life. Leaders of the rally said that it drew "tea party" conservatives from every state in the country who had staged hundreds of local tax-day rallies across the country on April 15 to protest the $1.5 trillion deficit, record-breaking spending bills and what they see as the government's increasing encroachment on their freedoms. One of the rally's speakers, Georgia Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the conservative House Republican Study Committee, said the protest rally was a declaration by "a new generation of patriots to carry that torch of liberty" to "take our country back." Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina called for a return to "constitutional government" and said "it was time that the president started listening to us." But most of the speakers were local grass-roots tea party activists like coal miner Greg Harrell, who said that lawmakers who ignored the tea party movement's appeals for smaller, more limited government would be thrown out of office by the voters. "We will find you, and we will fire you," Mr. Harrell warned. A major focus of the protesters and some of the speakers was the president's $1 trillion health care reform plan. Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York, who has been a sharp critic of the plan, carried a copy of the 1,000-plus page House health care bill to the podium and said that Mr. Obama's statement that it would not force people to drop their health care plans was "untrue." "You'll have to change to what the government has, and if you won't change to what the government wants you to join, you will be fined thousands of dollars," Ms. McCaughey said. "No deal. No deal." The crowd chanted back, "No deal." Many of the protesters said they had not been politically active before but decided to come to the rally because they felt that government spending was out of control and that proposals pending in Congress, like the health plan that is being drawn up by the Democrats, would rob them of their freedom of choice and burden their children with trillions of dollars in debt. These protesters are not like the union and Acorn paid (at tax payer expense) protesters who do it for the money. These brave American citizens want to save the US from socialism and a dominant federal government. God bless the USA!!! -
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September 11, 2009
Chuck Floyd
I used a ROTC scholarship in college to assist me with college expenses and then I served 20 years in the US Army. I had a great career and traveled around the world. With the security issues of our nation, it is beyond belief that certain elite (and liberal) colleges will not allow ROTC on their campuses. It is now time to stop all federal funding of these universities.
Seven elite universities persist in banning the Reserve Officers Training Corps from their campuses. This is not only unfair to students, but dangerous to civil-military relations. “The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.” —Thucydides, Greek historian These schools do not support the nation's obligations of citizenship. Serving in the military is a great way to show love of your country and to serve your nation. These students are taught that serving in the military is not just and is a bad career selection. Students at these universities do not have any real understanding of the sacrifices such idealism can require. They are self-centered and have a negative impression of those who serve our military. Fifty years ago, a significant number of Ivy League graduates joined the military. Today, hardly any do. Even more troubling is the fact that few students at these schools have any exposure whatsoever to the military that exists to defend them. During the late 1960s, schools such as Brown, Columbia, Harvard and Yale banned on-campus ROTC programs. This practice continued under evolving rationales, the most recent being Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the policy prohibiting homosexuals from serving openly in uniform. Until recently, recruiters could not even visit campuses without having their access to students severely restricted. It is time that we demand that the US Congress stop funding these universities. -
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