A friend sent me this and it is so TRUE !

**countryboy6685** · 04-25-2012, 01:15 PM

Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America's true living legends --- a former P & G executive, an acclaimed author, a dynamic teacher,and one of the world's most highly rated speakers. It was he who changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "Partnering". Here is part of a speech given by Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012

I was born in year two of the Great Depression (1931) and spent the first 10 years of my life influenced by the extreme hardships of the depression. By today’s standards my family was about a mile below today’s so called ‘poverty level’; but if you never ‘had’---doing without was not so ‘bad’. Borrowing shoes to graduate from the 8th grade didn’t seem at all demeaning because most of the 8th graders did the same thing.
In June 1944, my only brother, Joe, was killed in action on Utah Beach in Normandy, France during the D-Day landings. Exactly one year later, my father died and left me, my mother, and my sister to go it alone. And alone we went. My mother went to work at a department store, my sister dropped out of school and joined her and I went to work shining shoes on the streets of Memphis for a dime a shine. Government assistance was not available and if it were I am confident my mother would have refused it because she never wanted the government involved in our lives.
I mention this bit of personal history to help you understand that millions of Americans, including your parents and grandparents, grew up like me during the Great Depression and never expected nor wanted the government to offer them anything other than an opportunity and now to see what Obama is trying to do to our country tends to make you crazy.
As some of you know, my “Scare Me" letter went viral with millions of hits on the internet during the past 3 years. I have now written a follow-up letter which I will now share with you. It will be released to the press tomorrow morning. "
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To the editors:
"In April 2009, I sent President Obama and the New York Times a letter titled "You Scare Me" because, as a candidate, he promised to "fundamentally transform America." Now, after observing his performance for over three years, he no longer scares me--- he terrifies me for the following reasons:

FIRST He has done more to damage America's standing in the world, to lower the standard of living in America, to impoverish future generations and to shake our faith in the country's future than any other American president in history.

SECOND-- With a compliant Democrat congress, a lapdog media and a weak, almost nonexistent Republican opposition, he has shattered the American dream of job security, home ownership and rugged individualism for millions of Americans and has poisoned and divided our civil society with his politics of envy, class warfare, race warfare, and religious warfare which he is using as fundamental building blocks for his 'socialist' agenda.

THIRD-- culturally, he remains totally out of touch with traditional American values. This has absolutely nothing to do with race or where he was born, rather it has everything to do with where, how and with whom he was raised, schooled, educated, trained and associates with still today.

FOURTH-- he has surrounded himself with naive academicians, lawyers, politicians, bureaucrats and socialist leaning czars who arrogantly think and behave exactly as he does. People who offer no balanced suggestions or devils advocate positions and think in lock step with him that big government is the answer to all our problems.

FIFTH-- he not only encourages but aids and abets the unionization of all American industry, the albatross around the neck of the free market. In turn, they provide the money and muscle to intimidate his opponents.

SIXTH-- he has increased the national debt by over 30% in just three years. If re-elected and this rate of increase continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable 20 trillion dollar debt which will result in the Country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible ---- America will be the Greece of 2016.

SEVENTH-- given his fanatical beholding to the 'environmental' and 'man-caused global warming' fringe, he has deliberately discouraged U.S. fossil fuel exploration and production while wasting millions of tax payer dollars on solar, wind and algae experiments. He refuses to accept that oil, gas and coal are not America's enemies, they are America's assets which, properly managed, could make us energy independent within a generation.

EIGHTH-- He views the U.S. as a power in retreat which abused its World dominance. Therefore he systematically apologizes round the world. Last March he whispered to Russian President Medvedev "--this is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility". Just what is the secret that Obama and Putin are concealing from the American people until after the election? With what other leaders has he made similar secret agreements?

NINTH---and finally, after all his mis-steps, bad decision making, poor management, and zero leadership, the fact that he has the audacity to seek re-election should terrify every American.
I predict that if re-elected, future historians and political interpreters will look back at the eight year period 2008-2016, and conclude "the 44th President of the U.S. allowed the takers to overpower the payers which resulted in the greatest economy in history vanishing from the face of the Earth".
Farewell America, the World will really miss you!

Lou Pritchett April 15, 2012

Passed on to all of you my friends by Robert W

**Oscar Wilde** · 04-25-2012, 01:45 PM

I can't help but think that there is way too much emphasis placed on Obama's "incompetence". He and our elected legislators are following the script as they were instructed to do.

Those of influence, in concert with media, are performing theatre for our consumption .... the "ineptocracy" was established during the 1700s and has grown leaps and bounds.

It's over folks, we're done .... enjoy the rest of the show.

O.W.

**Nikefan** · 04-25-2012, 02:49 PM

I do believe that this government is headed in the wrong direction, however I'm not ready to hand it over to the Chinese, socialist, Fundamentalist or any other group that would like to see our great Country go the way of the Romans. Thats why I am talking with anyone who will listen we have got to get a handle on our elected officials. I think term limits are the way to go. They get up there and forget who sent them. They have to go back to being a "servant" to the people not a king. If they pass a law it has to be followed by everyone and that means congress too. My other complaint is spending money on ANY administration going on vacation. If they want to go on vacation then the American people will pay for you to go to camp David or to their own house. These are locations which are being protected 24/7 already. If they want to go to Hawaii then it should come out of their own pockets. I wish I could say feel better after venting but I don't!

**countryboy6685** · 04-25-2012, 04:29 PM

Nikefan I am right there with you and if you come up with a plain please let me know .
Robert W

**Oscar Wilde** · 04-25-2012, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Nikefan

.... I wish I could say feel better after venting but I don't!

Maybe you're not done yet .... always keep pen and paper handy to jot down your thoughts as your thinkin em' .... else you'll forget em' but still be perturbed.

O.W.

**myakka** · 04-25-2012, 04:56 PM

I think there is an agenda to take us to a socialist state. This can only be achieved if everyone is dependent on the government. Acorn, welfare all of these are tools. The Big O is not incompetent. Things are proceeding exactly as planned.

**Mangler** · 04-25-2012, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by countryboy6685

SIXTH-- he has increased the national debt by over 30% in just three years. If re-elected and this rate of increase continues, America will be burdened with an unsustainable 20 trillion dollar debt which will result in the Country's financial death. Recovery will be impossible ---- America will be the Greece of 2016.

I seriously doubt this was written by a man who used to be a VP of a fortune 100 company. Because he of all people should know that the US dollar being a world reserve currency prevents America from ever becoming like Greece.

In fact, by our government (actually the Federal Reserve) flooding the world with over 6 Trillion dollars of new money (QE1, QE2, TARP) it forced China to devalue their Yuan by 6 times as much. It is causing enormous financial problems in China, because for years they refused to float their currency, and now they just got screwed by Uncle Sam.

The 2 Trillion of US debt they hold is only worth half as much. In fact, if China gets all upity about it we still have enough financial muscle to do it again.

Obama basically did to China what Reagan did to the Russians. Reagan forced the Russians to try to keep up with us militarily and in trying we forced them into bankruptcy. China tried to play hardball financially, and we just took them to school.

**countryboy6685** · 04-26-2012, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Mangler

I seriously doubt this was written by a man who used to be a VP of a fortune 100 company. Because he of all people should know that the US dollar being a world reserve currency prevents America from ever becoming like Greece.

In fact, by our government (actually the Federal Reserve) flooding the world with over 6 Trillion dollars of new money (QE1, QE2, TARP) it forced China to devalue their Yuan by 6 times as much. It is causing enormous financial problems in China, because for years they refused to float their currency, and now they just got screwed by Uncle Sam.

The 2 Trillion of US debt they hold is only worth half as much. In fact, if China gets all upity about it we still have enough financial muscle to do it again.

Obama basically did to China what Reagan did to the Russians. Reagan forced the Russians to try to keep up with us militarily and in trying we forced them into bankruptcy. China tried to play hardball financially, and we just took them to school.

BS
Robert W

**Redneckwop** · 04-26-2012, 05:11 PM

It's all a big chess game & I believe we are playing defense trying to protect the queen & here soon we are going to get check mated.

**Mangler** · 04-26-2012, 08:24 PM

Actually I was off. China has to convert every US dollar taken in by foreign trade at a rate of 6.29620 to 1. So, manufacturing in the USA just became more competitive than it was four years ago, and wages paid to Chinese workers just became more expensive.

http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=CNY