Nothing New Under the Sun

I’ve been going back over articles, notes and political ranting of the past 9 years and have come to the realization that there is nothing new under the sun when it comes to politics. What we had during the 2008 primary was Senator Clinton and Senator Obama vying for the Democratic Party votes and for the office of the Presidency was repeated during the 2016 primary as Secretary Hillary Clinton and Real Estate Tycoon Donald Trump sought the American voters in the quest for the Presidency.

There was a struggling economy, high taxes, homelessness, a failed healthcare system and illegal immigration was a huge problem. Remember the Freddy Mack and Fannie Mae fiasco? What about communities trying to eliminate homeless camps? Lots of folks were without healthcare? Illegals were flooding across the border?

What were the promises made by politicians back then and what proposed solutions were given in the form of campaign promises? In the first 11 months of the presidency of Donald J. Trump what has changed – The economy; taxes; homelessness; Obamacare or Trumpcare; immigration?

I venture to say that where there was despair, there is hope; where there was no confidence in our government; there is more confidence;

There has been a concerted effort by those aligned with the ideology of Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama and fueled by main stream media to bring despair and division to the American people.

That being said there has been a more concerted effort by those aligned with the ideology of President Donald Trump to bridge that division and to Make America Great Again; to bring pride back into America.

I can say that Americans are proud, hard workers who simply want to be treated fairly, taxed modestly and able to raise their families in safety, and to live the American dream. That is what has changed in just the last 11 months. – I am the Real Truckmaster

A Day of Reflection

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I remember hearing a special news report on the radio on May 13, 1995, about an Air Force cargo plane crashing in southern Idaho. This was of interest as I am originally from Southern Idaho and a family friend (Bob Buckhout) had been scheduled to fly in an Air Force cargo plane from Peterson AFB, in Colorado Springs, Colorado to Gowen Field in Boise, Idaho (my hometown) and return on this very day.

In fact his wife (Nit Buckhout) was with my wife at home and preparing to pick up Bob at nearby Peterson AFB when he returned. I made a call home to inform my wife of what I heard on the radio and Nit immediately left our house and returned home to find members of the 302^nd Airlift Wing waiting to make the official notification of the crash.

A couple of weeks after the accident I was able to travel to Boise, Idaho and accompany unit and family members to the actual crash site where they dedicated a memorial marker and flag.

I have since been to the crash site several times and have viewed several stones, placards and flags which are occasionally replaced at the actual crash site, near Bliss, Idaho, by well-wishers, recovery crew, and family members of the crew.

A memorial had been dedicated in front of the 302nd Airlift Wing headquarters at Peterson AFB, Colorado, to the crew on the 10th anniversary of the crash in May, 2005.

Here is my memorial Facebook page for Sumit 38, please visit:

https://www.facebook.com/Sumit38ADMIN/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel

May 13, 1995 – C-130E, 62-1838, c/n 3801, ‘Sumit 38’, operated by the 302d Airlift Wing, Peterson AFB, Colorado. Number 2 engine caught fire at a cruise altitude of 26K ft AGL after departing Boise, Idaho. One loadmaster activated all fire extinguisher carts, initially quenching the fire. However, fire re-ignited and the aircraft had no further extinguishers available. Crew attempted to divert to Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (MUO). Number 2 engine improperly disengaged from its mount, causing severe fuselage and wing damage. Wing eventually severed completely from the airframe, causing ‘Sumit 38’ to crash approximately 23 minutes after leaving Boise, killing all six crewmembers:

Lt. Col. Robert Buckhout – 302^nd Airlift Wing – Director of Safety
Captain Geoffery Boyd – 731^st Airlift Squadron – Navigator
1^st Lt. Lance Dougherty – 731^st Airlift Squadron – Pilot
CMSgt. Jimmie Vail – 731^st Airlift Squadron – Chief Flight Engineer
MSgt. Jay Kemp – 731^st Airlift Squadron – Loadmaster Instructor
SSgt. Michael Scheideman – 731^st Airlift Squadron – Loadmaster

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of each of these brave men lost that day. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

Tell Your Story

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I wrote this is in reference to The Vietnam War series by Ken Burns. I did not watch all the episodes recently broadcast on TV, but maybe one day I will go back and take a second look at the episodes I haven’t seen?

However it seems that the Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association event on 3 October 2017, in conjunction with Atlanta, Georgia’s PBS Station, PBA30 held a critique of after watching the 18 hour series.

Prior to the conclusion of the event, PBA recorded 7 Vietnam Veterans giving their assessment of the series and very briefly told their story of the Vietnam War during their time in country. Speakers (in order) are: Bob Babcock, Cary S. King, Jim Dickson, J. Craig Honaman, Tony Hilliard, John Butler and Gen. Ron Helmly.

During the introduction of these veterans the first speaker told of the importance of EVERY Vietnam Veteran to tell their story in their own words, either writing it in the form of a book, telling it to family and friends, or speaking in front of a church group or other forum where it can be preserved for the benefit of everyone who hears or reads it.

We all have a story, our story that can only be told by us. Each story is different. Each story is true according to our individual experiences.

One speaker said it best, the Vietnam War is not a 10 year war, but a 1 year war fought 10 times, by different soldiers, sailors, airman, marines, guardsmen and in the case of Thailand, Civilians of Air America and its subsidiaries.

I fully agree that it is especially important for Thailand Veterans of the Vietnam War to tell our story in our own words. Nobody can tell it for us and it is a disgrace to keep it to ourselves and take it to our graves.

Go to the link to the video of the critiques presented at Atlanta Vietnam Veterans Business Association (AVVBA) luncheon meeting on October 3, 2017.

Go to: pba.org/veterans

Scroll down to ATLANTA VIETNAM VETERANS BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, where the video can be viewed.

Click on this link: https://youtu.be/qeBC7DQoAbY

(or copy and paste into your browser).

I have a challenge for you, begin writing down your story, in your own words or set up your video camera and begin talking, as you would to a friend, telling about your experiences during the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Thailand Veteran.

I have already begun writing my story and I urge you to do the same. Share your story with others and maybe, just maybe we can get the word out about what really happened as we supported the war in Vietnam from based in Thailand. Remember our war was not confined to the 10 years of the Vietnam War, we were in Thailand before Vietnam and stayed long after the war ended, in fact many of our folks are still serving in Thailand today.

One last note, the battle hasn’t ended for those of us suffering the effects of herbicide exposure to chemicals such as Agent Orange and other chemicals used on Thai bases. Our brothers and sisters have been dying (some each day) because of this deadly friendly fire enemy, it is the Battle of Orange. – I am the Real Truckmaster!

Rocketman of North Korea

Elton John: Rocketman

She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it’s gonna be a long long…

During President Trump’s speech at the UN, everyone, except the delegate from North Korea (who was furiously writing), were attentive, especially when President Trump referred to KJU as “Rocket Man”. I busted up laughing (here all by myself) with the words to Elton John’s song running thru my head, it was then that I decided to do this simple illustration. LOL – I am the Real Truckmaster

The Battle of Orange

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We who have put on the uniform of the United States military were prepared for battle through meticulous training. We were told about the cunning ways of our enemy. We were taught how to fight the enemy not on his terms but ours.

We went to war in foreign lands. Many of our brothers and sisters engaged the enemy on the field of battle with devastating consequences. While the enemy felt our might, many of our brothers and sisters fell in battle. We honor and remember them, like the names on the wall.

We who remain have been fighting the Battle of Orange. It is an enemy we were not told about, nor were we prepared for the affect it has had on our lives over time. Without our knowledge or participation this enemy has whittled away at our body, cell by cell, tearing away at our bodies defenses.

Strangely once exposed to it, the affects are different for each of us. Many of us have yet to realize that we have been affected by it. We attribute our ill health as a process of aging, which might be true, to a certain degree.

We look at other brothers suffering and we feel compassion, but alas it is not I, we think. We go on with life and our brothers and sisters pass away, into eternity and the battle of Orange claims another victim.

What we are learning some 50 plus years later is startling, disheartening and often depressing. We find that the Battle of Orange is from friendly fire. It is self-inflicted by our unsuspecting brothers and sisters utilizing one of the many weapons of war – chemical herbicides.

They are called “Rainbow” herbicides for their many colors – Blue, White, Orange, Pink (just to name a few) each with their own concoction of chemicals, some more deadly than others and effective on plants, animals and humans.

We have heard of their use on foreign soil, used against the enemy to deprive of food and cover. What we have not heard is they were manufactured in chemical plants here on American soil and tested at home and abroad.

We have learned of their being tested, stored and used at various military installations in the United States, in the Central American country of Panama, where they were tested extensively prior to and during the Southeast Asian war in Vietnam. We find they were used in places like along the DMZ of Korea and in US occupied military bases throughout Thailand and in the countries of Cambodia and Laos.

We were told not to worry because these chemicals were used on the perimeter of bases and did not affect anyone except military police and dog handlers patrolling the fence line. We were told nothing about the potential for “drift” outside the spray zone. We were told nothing about why in a tropical environment there was little to no vegetation growing inside military bases.

It has been more than 50 years since many of us were little more than children, in a land with so much hidden dangers all around us where we spent 12 months or more exposed. The department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has comprised a list of ailments that are VA recognized as a byproduct of exposure to herbicides, and even though we have one or more of these ailments, we must PROVE we were exposed.

Are not the ailments proof enough? Even with our brothers and sisters dying from these ailments, proof is being denied?

What about our families, our children, our grandchildren? We have family members who were exposed? We have children and grandchildren born with a host of uncommon ailments, diseases or worse?

When will our Battle of Orange, (Agent Orange) end?

Death is not the end, the battle continues! – I am the Real Truckmaster!

The Busyness of Christmas

I wrote this back in 12-22-14, but it’s still true today – 12-24-2017

The Busyness of Christmas 2017

The holiday season is upon us. We have advertisements for “After Christmas Sale Now” and K-Mart has their infamous “Blue Light Special” only now it’s for Members Only? Gas prices are down in many areas to less than $2 per gallon for regular unleaded. We worry about getting the “right” gift for everyone on our gift list. We worry about sending out Christmas Cards, especially to those who’ve sent us one first? We make last minute phone calls to family and friends wishing them “Happy Holidays” and “A Joyous New Year”. Amongst all the hustle and bustle of making sure we’ve covered all the bases we mustn’t have forgotten anything. But have we really? We sing the songs; we eat, drink and are merry. But are we? We have our traditional viewing of “White Christmas” and “It’s A Wonderful Life”. We remember Tiny Tim and Mr. Scrooge. We have Scooby Doo, The Muppets, even Elvis. We have it all and still it’s not enough? Haven’t we forgotten something?

Let me submit this tidbit. It’s not about you, or me, or presents or eating and watching movies. It’s not even about Football! It’s not about getting the latest in electronics or the coolest car. It’s not about sitting around with family and friends reminiscing about “the good old times”. It’s not about getting Christmas Cards. It’s not about the holiday lights on many, many homes around town. It’s not about feeling good about doing good either.

Christmas is about love, unconditional love, the love of a Father for his Son, the love of the Creator for His creation. Christmas is about dying to be born. Christmas is about God becoming man to save man from sin. Christmas is about obedience to God. Christmas is about Jesus.

Jesus is the reason for the season. We are told that thru the obedience of a young woman named Mary, God gave his Only Begotten Son Jesus, born of a virgin, a living sacrifice, with the express purpose of dying for the sins of mankind. Christmas is celebrating this magnificent and one of a kind birth which goes against all sense of normalcy in the eyes of man. The King of Kings and Lord of Lord, born of an unwed (betrothed, but not yet married) mother, in a far away city (Bethlehem) where no lodging could be found, even for a full term pregnancy (9th month). Yes Christmas is celebrated because those chosen by God, submitted themselves to God so that the plan of God would be fulfilled.

Today (2017) we humble and submit ourselves to God by remembering what Christmas is all about. The reason for Christmas is Jesus Christ. – I am the Real Truckmaster

Qualified to be President

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That’s a nice thought but how does one prepare to be president? Is there some secret test you have to take? Who would you submit it to? Who exactly is the one who “certifies” that you are now worthy to become president? So how can someone make a pre-determination, or rather a post-determination that Donald J. Trump is not “qualified” to be president?

Those are some of my questions when I hear or read about some self-proclaimed “experts” declaring with certainty that Trump is unfit to be president. Who made THEM subject matter experts on the fitness of a president?

Why don’t we go all the way back to the beginning, to see who conducted the “Presidential Fitness Test” for good old George Washington? Did someone smuggle it in from France? (Oh wait France didn’t have a president!) Maybe the test came surfaced from some Russian contacts the very early Trump connection?

Let’s fast forward to “Honest Abe” Abraham Lincoln. Wasn’t he just some backwoods self taught lawyer? He didn’t even have twitter. How did he become qualified or fit to become president? Who certified him? Did they use an invisible scale of comparison to previous presidents?

Maybe if we come a little bit closer, what about Harry Truman? Wasn’t he just a shop keeper? Oh I almost forgot, he was a military officer during World War I? Maybe that was his qualifier? After all George Washington was a military man before him.

What about John Fitzgerald Kennedy? How did he meet the qualifications to become president? Was it money and power? Did someone give him the “PFT”? Wait he was a naval officer, PT 109 (I saw the movie) but who qualified him, his dad, who?

If we come even closer let’s look at George Hubert Walker Bush, who certified him to be president? Wasn’t he a presidential appointee, ambassador or CIA head or something? Wait he too was a military man, a pilot during World War II. Maybe he had a Russian connection?

Oh now I see, it was William Jefferson Clinton. He obviously was qualified, a lawyer, an attorney general, a governor and he was married to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Surely he had the touch. He was qualified.

What about “Barry Sotoro” aka Barack Hussein Obama? What was his qualification for president? Like many before him, wasn’t he a lawyer? Wait he was a community organizer in Chicago, and he was married to Michelle (forgot her maiden name) Obama so surely he was qualified? He wasn’t a military man (unless you count the Black Panthers)? He was a senator and most of all he was a democrat, just like Jack Kennedy before him, he had to be qualified?

Well that brings us to “The Donald” as he liked to be called, Donald J. Trump. Who administered the “PFT” to him? Who set the bar to become president? Actually who told Trump he had permission to go forward with his bid to be president? Who told him business dealings with Russia would be a disqualifier, rather than actually selling Uranium like Hillary did? Isn’t he just a rich businessman with money to burn and going after the job of president is just another feather in his cap? He doesn’t even like America (some have said), not as much as he likes himself?

What I see in President Donald J. Trump is a man who has answered a calling that few could or would. You see it isn’t something that gains anything additional for a man who has virtually everything one could ask for, family, money and possessions. What I see is a man who saw the awful direction this country has spiraled into and decided that enough is enough.

Like many of us who see nothing but corruption in government every time we turn on the TV. We see congress men and women acting downright outrageous, making ludicrous statements and doing nothing, nothing without somehow being financial “enlightened” in their bank accounts for passing things like the “bridge to nowhere” and studying how sand fleas mate or some such idiotic thing?

Not only did Trump see the corruption, but he decided that he COULD do something about it. He is not a man who does anything to fail. Failure is not acceptable. Trump does everything I say again EVERYTHING to win. Why run a race if you’re not going to TRY and win? Trump doesn’t stop at trying, he plays to win.

So when politicians try to lay the political blame game on him, he doesn’t fall for it. He doesn’t act like a politician. Maybe he doesn’t act like a lawyer either? Trump is a successful businessman and applying successful business practices is something that has not been applied to government before. At least not by someone who knows how to be successful in business, Trump is a negotiator and intent on pulling the best deal out of any negotiation he is engaged in. That holds true on the international scale as well.

As President, Trump has faced his fiercest battles with congress and the media. Some have said he is trying to circumvent congress while trying to stifle the media? I say hogwash. Trump is trying to motivate/shame congress over their lack of ethics and refusal to do the job voters have sent them to congress to do. As for the media, Trump has put their unethical tactics and fake news stories front and center where even a blind man can see them for what they really are – fake news. Any reporter or news editor worth his or her salt would take that as a challenge to simply report the news, not create fake news. I just wonder when the White House Press Secretary will simply withdraw the credentials of reporters from CNN and others and replace them in the press room with reporters who are committed to integrity in their reporting?

If you decided to run for president would you be able to pass the same “Presidential Fitness Test” that the congress and the fake news folks have declared was flunked by President Trump? Who would let you know if you passed such a test? – I am the Real Truckmaster

UN Vote to Condemn US Decision to Move Embassy to Jerusalem – 12-21-2017

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How does it feel to stand as a nation on principle because it’s the right thing to do, even though the world stands against us?

Romans 8:31 – What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Here are the member states of the United Nations and how they voted. The results may surprise you (or not):

Member states that voted in favor of the resolution condemning the US moving its Embassy to Jerusalem:
A: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan
B: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi
C: Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chad, Chile, China, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica
E: Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia
F: Finland, France
G: Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guyana
I: Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy
J: Japan, Jordan
K: Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan
L: Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg
M:Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique
N: Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway
O: Oman
P: Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Portugal
Q: Qatar
R: Republic of Korea (South Korea), Russia
S: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria
T: Tajikistan, Thailand, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey
U: United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Uzbekistan
V: Venezuela, Vietnam
Y: Yemen
Z: Zimbabwe

Member states that voted against the resolution:
G: Guatemala
H: Honduras
I: Israel
M: Marshall Islands, Micronesia
N: Nauru
P: Palau
T: Togo
U: United States

Member states that abstained (Refused to Vote):
A: Antigua-Barbuda, Argentina, Australia
B: Bahamas, Benin, Bhutan, Bosnia-Herzegovina
C: Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic
D: Dominican Republic
E: Equatorial Guinea
F: Fiji
H: Haiti, Hungary
J: Jamaica
K: Kiribati
L: Latvia, Lesotho
M: Malawi, Mexico
P: Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland
R: Romania, Rwanda
S: Solomon Islands, South Sudan
T: Trinidad-Tobago, Tuvalu
U: Uganda
V: Vanuatu

SOURCE: Al Jazeera News

Genesis 12:2-3. God is speaking to Abraham. “I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you,and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

– I am the Real Truckmaster

The United Nations

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Sorry folks but I can’t hold back any longer, but they are nothing but the epitome of an Oxymoron if I ever saw one. They sit in their “ivory” tower in New York City, yes I said New York City and do absolutely nothing about the injustices and atrocities being committed around the world today in 2017.

Just look around at the continents, Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. How many countries are currently committing genocide on a massive scale that makes Hitler’s atrocities pale in comparison? Many of those countries are where the United States has deployed covert special operations teams in an attempt to maintain stability and/or prevent genocide from happening.

What has the U.N. been doing, casting stones (voting against the U.S.A.) for deciding to move the US Embassy into Jerusalem because our President said so? Come on?

Why doesn’t the “Blue Helmets” go into North Korea and put an end to the reign of “Rocket Man” and free the Korean masses enslaved in slave labor camps working the coal mines so the social elites can live the life of luxury in the capitol city?

What about going into Africa and stopping the abduction of young women to be held as sex slaves by a group (s) of men and boys who do so brazenly and with impunity?

Maybe take a look at the religious persecution of Christians in the Middle East by ISIS and other Left Wing Muslim Extremists Groups, where a whole population who don’t bow to Mohammad are being sought out, forced to flee or are outright killed for their beliefs?

Look at what’s happening in Afghanistan where terrorists are and have been affecting the population of an entire country and the only choices are joining to fight Americans or die (That’s a die or die situation)?

I could go on and on, but instead of voting against these acts against humanity, the UN simply ignores what’s going on because they seem to be living (expenses paid by the US taxpayers) in the United States and rubber stamping the dictates of a select few who exercise their power over other members.

I’m glad that the US Ambassador to the UN has the internal fortitude to stand up to these whiney and grumpy old men and women of the United Nations and tell it like it is.

I don’t know what kind of “treaty” or contract the US has with keeping the UN on our soil, but I would hope that the President and with the backing of the Congress of the United States (both House and Senate) would stand up and demand that the United Nations relocate immediately to some distant land and do so without the financial assistance of the United States.

I can think of a number of locations that would be suitable. Some place where it’s sunny and warm year around, not affected by the weather that comes to New York.

How about the Bikini Islands? I hear that it currently has no inhabitants, thus no crime of any type. – I am the Real Truckmaster

Rewriting the book of Can’t

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12-20-2017

Rewriting the Book of Can’t

It would be funny if it wasn’t so true, prominent people “in the know” seem to think that telling President Donald J. Trump he can’t do something is going to make him change his mind, it only makes him that much more determined to push on through.

Before he decided to run for president, the name Trump was well known in New York City, Atlantic City and all the way down to Florida for his real estate deals. There were some that fell through and cost him a tremendous amount of money, but that didn’t stop him. He just found another way and his philosophy seemed to be never give up.

As President, Trump is a wild card and that scares those people “in the know”. He is brash, outspoken and at times very unconventional. He is the quaint essential un-politician. Trump has written several books (which I’ve yet to read), and even today he is rewriting the book of politics, the book of “You Can’t Do That”!

While other presidents have used various media to get their messages out, Trump has grasped social media in a way that others could not. Roosevelt used the radio for his fireside chats talking friend to friend. Reagan used television a media that he knew. Obama used late night talk shows and thought of himself a star. Trump used Twitter (and now X) to get his message across and that makes everyone in the media or on the left have a fit. When technology changes, so must we. That is exactly what Trump does.

When Donald Trump speaks what’s on his mind, it’s not just a casual off the cuff remark, but has had much thought behind it and Trump tells it like it is. Because it’s spontaneous and unpredictable it may come across as crude or “not presidential”, but the media is all over it like flies on……….honey.

So why is it that prominent world leaders know exactly what Trump means, yet so many (or so few liberal) Americans can grasp it?

I find it refreshing that a successful businessman can do what he does best – look at government like a business, bring in fresh, experienced and highly successful businessmen and women to evaluate the situation to bring about much needed changes much like a clock maker, fine tuning a Swiss watch. Changes aimed at bringing back American pride; pride in manufacturing; pride in working toward the American dream. Having pride in the accomplishments of the people who make up the American workers, through hard work, dedication to service and helping others is something to be sought.

Being so proud of yourself that you resent what you don’t have and the only outlet is to lash out at symbols of freedom and use all your energy to tear down anything that you feel is “oppressive” or representative of something evil in the past. How oppressive is that?

Turn your energies into something positive. Our government has become so huge it’s like a machine that gobbles up people and spews out rules, regulations and laws aimed at enslaving society as a whole and having gone unchecked for so long it is time for someone to say “check mate”, “Stop”, “There has to be a better way”.

President Donald J. Trump is not the savior of America or of the world. Unlike his predecessor who sought the office of President for various reasons and said he cured the economy while nothing changed for the better. Trump knows the savior of the world, Jesus who is the Christ, and when following the leading of the Holy Spirit of God things do get better for America AND for the world.

It has been a long time since one man has been so determined to bring about real change in government without a hidden agenda. The Trump agenda has been from the start to “Drain the Swamp”, although it began as a campaign slogan, the rumbling we hear coming out of Washington is the sound of the swamp creatures who are afraid of being drained as their power is taken away.

I don’t see that Donald Trump came to office for power or prestige, he had all that. Nor did he take on the job of president for money, he had more than enough. He didn’t do it so he could fly around in Air Force One, not when he had Trump One with golden faucets and all the elegance of HIS own choosing.

President Trump didn’t seek power so he could be ridiculed over every word he said, his employees were totally committed to making sure he was happy and satisfied on everything he saw, felt or touched. As far as worldly riches, Trump had it all. What a far cry for the man who had everything money, power, prestige, a family whom he loves and they love him.

So why would Trump take on the job of president? Because deep down inside like many of us, we tend to see something wrong and think to ourselves “Somebody outta do something!” and we forget that we are somebody and we can do something. Donald Trump said I WILL do something. I will run for president and I will win. Everybody laughed at him.

They said it couldn’t be done. Even the California politician who had no defined plan or policy idea about fixing what is wrong in America and everybody laughs.

If I know one thing about Donald J. Trump (whom I’ve never met), when you tell him it can’t be done, he will prove you wrong. I don’t know of anything that Trump has ever done in his life that he has not done to win. Failure is not an option with Donald Trump.

Quitting is for losers and Trump is not a loser.

President Donald J. Trump is for America winning again on the world stage. Yes Trump is an actor and he doesn’t put himself into a situation or “reality show” where he plans to lose.

Love him or hate him, Trump is for you – winning again.

Trump was the 45th President of the United States of America and means to put America First – secure our borders (build that wall); rebuild our military (prepare for war, live in peace); Talk Straight (say what your mean) and Mean What You Say; hold your loved ones close and your enemies closer.

Stay focused – keep the goal in sight and above all “Run the race to win”.

In everything you do, do as unto the Lord. Do it to please God above, not man below.

If you live to please man you aren’t living at all. – RTM