11/3/26, The Vote: Hallelujah Hard Work Ahead
The current spirituality shown by the incoming new politicians reminds me of World War II where 99% of the public were pulling on the same rope seeking victory over Japan and Germany. The 11/3/26 election put together a program of saving the middle class and the lower class, by great political efforts. We will have to find ways now to improve America’s problems with our backs to the wall because of so much debt confronting us. Meanwhile, wars, tariffs and corruption is adding to the price of food and gas.
A DIFFICULT JOURNEY FULL OF HOPE
The new politicians voted in, by their constituents will have very few days off! Don't forget when the country was in a lot of trouble constituting a new U.S. Constitution, George Washington and 54 others, some of whom were the wealthy billionaire class of their day, were dedicated to straightening out the problems of our nation. They were heartfelt, decent and honorable. They decided to find a new government, a more perfect union, “of the people, by the people and for the people” thus giving up much of their power and gambling their financial future on the new Constitution. One that formed a government run by the chosen representatives of the people.
A reminder of what happened when President Bill Clinton got into office in 1992. He and Vice President Gore decided the country needed to put a stop to an increasing national debt. They formulated a tax bill which included the rich and the middle class. The bill passed, without a single Republican vote. Meanwhile they passed a 10-year ban on assault weapons. What happened then? The midterms came along and the Republican Tea Party overwhelmed the Democratic members of the House and Senate. The Speaker of the House Tom Foley lost his seat. He said, “all I did is vote my conscience”. So dear reader at this time let’s talk about the Fairness Doctrine. This Bill was passed in 1947 to protect fair speech on FCC licensed radio and television. This bill was later voted out in 1987. Unfortunately for President Clinton, the careers of many right-wing pundits like Rush Limbaugh, followed by Newt Gingrich all emerged causing what they called in those days “hate radio”. And they poured it on President Clinton. The part of the story the historians will really appreciate was that he balanced the budget for five years thanks in part to the tax increase. Ironically those Republicans in office at that time tried to take all the credit for the balancing of the budget, even though they didn't have the courage to vote for the earlier tax increase.
Is the above example relevant to this day? You betcha! There is an ebb and flow in American politics. Midterms ride a rollercoaster many times. When the “bad guys” are offending the public, right or wrong, they often are tossed out of office. The good guys in office who are trying to pass tough bills that would be good for the country in the long term can be misunderstood by the voting public. The remedy for this situation is that you constantly must inform all of your constituents and all of the voters what you are trying to accomplish and why it may hurt temporarily. Also, you must inform the voter who are raising children, busy at soccer games, so they can't keep up with politics. It is the job of politicians to keep the public informed with repetitive political news. You must defend truth constantly because the opposition is often full of exaggeration and misinformation. In the first term of President Donald Trump, the Washington Post fact checked 30,000 lies told by the president (this is not a typo – fact-check!). Also, the DNC, should print a truth page once a week revealing all the lies and misinformation coming from the opposition party’s politicians and pundits. There should be a brief, once a week highlight on the lies told seven days earlier.
Again, remember President Bill Clinton left office with a 72% approval rating. Fact-check. This should make all politicians in the Capitol building recognize that there is a way to get full approval from the public via good works and candor with the people. Perhaps that is why Bill Clinton is always ranked in the top 10 of American presidents. His Administration created 22 million new jobs and when he went to Wall Street in November of his last year as president, he received a standing long ovation. His impeachment was overwhelmed by his performance as president. We should also give credit to President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden who both historically will remain in the top 15 presidents or better. Fact-check!
The spirituality of this 11/3/26 vote was absolutely superb. Virtually every candidate, Democrat or Independent sincerely gave their heartfelt opinions to the voter. Catholic candidates, Protestant candidates, Muslim candidates, Jewish candidates, and a native American all were successful. We must realize the Founding Fathers would be proud of this development emerging out of our U.S. Constitution that said there would be no religious test to hold office.
The new Congress may now want to look at the Fairness Doctrine again, a review may help point out what measures should be taken to stop all of the malicious, lies, inuendo, and exaggerations against opponents. Stories were told in this latest election that were absolutely depraved. Stories that were absolute lies about honest and decent representatives should not be allowed. Arguing that the First Amendment should allow any and all political discussion is unseemly. Malice and hatred should not be part of political elections. It may stop feckless politicians from making total unfounded false accusations about their opponent. We're losing the normal give and take of criticism, replacing it with abject cynicism and too often lies. We should consider revoking the use of lies and malicious speech given by opposing candidates. Normal exaggeration, innuendo and misinformation are part of everyday political election speech coming under the legal term of puffing, which may be allowed.
THE NATIONAL DEBT
Imagine these new elected candidates coming to Washington DC, January 3rd and have to see that they will be confronted with a national debt over $40 trillion and will probably be $41 trillion by February 1st. Why? There may be increases immediately starting in January for SNAP benefits taken away from children and more benefits taken away from Obama Care and Medicaid. An infusion of the cancelled medical premiums and Medicaid shortcuts that will have to be reestablished or we'll have a country where 40% of the citizens have no medical coverage. This is a sad situation, and the present Administration has no oversight and no appropriations input by the House or Senate members. The president has 100% use of the U.S. Treasury. He said he was going to drain the swamp, but it appears he wants to drain the U.S. Treasury. He gives credit card loans to foreign heads of state in the billions of dollars out of our U.S. Treasury. This is wrong. He's been using no bid contracts. He's rearranging the furniture and destroying the lawn of the White House. He has put a portrait of President Andrew Johnson in the West Wing. This is the president that is ranked dead last or close to it on some lists of performances by past presidents. He has removed the Rose garden; he has drained the reflection pond with so many mistakes it costs $16 million. Then out of spite Trump forced the American taxpayer to fork out money to sue an innocent bystander, twice. Remember the American taxpayer is paying for these groundless lawsuits against innocent people. He wants to build a triumphal arch without oversight or authority. The ballroom is impossible to predict the cost. It is profoundly imperative for the new House and Senate to reclaim constitutionally, the legal rights of oversight and all appropriations. If you see this debt reach 42 or 43 trillion dollars by March or April, the newly elected members will be accused of negligence of duty by trying to resolve important problems. Also impacting the national debt is the new Department of Justice that has laid off thousands of tax collectors. They have laid off hundreds of attorneys that had a history of handling white collar crime. It is now acceptable by this Administration to allow tax cheats and other white-collar criminals to be part of ordinary business dealings in America.
A REVIEW OF WWII GOVERNMENTAL DEDICATION
The current spirituality by the incoming new politicians reminds me of World War II where 99% of the public were pulling on the same rope seeking victory over Japan and Germany. The 11/3/26 election put together a program of saving the middle class and the lower class by full-time employment. We will have to find ways now to improve America’s problems with our backs to the wall because of so much debt. The House and Senate must do exactly what was done in WWII and that is vigorous meetings full of considered judgements that will lead us to an economic victory. They cannot go about this serious business without weekly keeping the public informed about how they're seeking remedies. The sad part of this entire economic problem is that in the past ten years the national debt has gone over $23 trillion (50%).
Finally, those Americans that have taken advantage of easy come easy go contracts grab bag style of making money with kickback schemes, and a president who has made $2.2 billion in one year having been the number one Wall Street trader at 11,000 in July of 2026. This is ridiculous. This kind of thing has never happened before. The money grubbing is going to be the ruination of America. We need to bring back investigators that have quit the DOJ out of patriotism and disgust over their disagreements with the way the Department of Justice is being handled. Remember Elon Musk in charge of DOGE went on national television literally with a chainsaw indicating what he was going to do about our “woke” institutions. There was no considered judgment, excellent employees were arbitrarily and summarily let go. Many of the American institutions have had a brain drain arbitrarily and capriciously. Because of the willy nilly tactics used, it created chaos and no one yet has been able to prove how much money was saved by DOGE.
There were several sad and cruel outcomes from DOGE, especially in USAID. USAID was created by President John F Kennedy as soft power in 1962 to show the world over foreign aid that America had a heart and a soul. In February of 2025 DOGE suspended many operations of USAID, including failure to deliver food grown by American farmers. This food was on wharfs, never delivered and some was incinerated. The result? Hundreds of thousands of African children starved to death because this food was not delivered and because medical clinics set up by America for years were closed down. Dear reader, fact-check.
Some of our politicians in the House and Senate right now are suggesting many Americans might have to as they called it “lawyer up” as they look into many questionable contracts.
STOP ICE VIA INJUNCTIVE RELIEF
President Donald Trump claims that a foreign army of immigrants that he calls murderers and rapists have entered the United States illegally and must be purged by an army of 70,000 ICE agents. The problem with that is his description of the situation is a lie. Immigrants commit fewer crimes than the average American citizen. Fact-check. The divide and conquer tactic of this Administration is to suggest what many authoritarians suggest and that is pick a group in the society to be used as enemies of the people. This has been tried by many authoritarians in the past. Stir up the problem and defend the false problem constantly. The history of America and immigrants has been a positive part of our society for over 250 years. Our population in the United States is not growing. We need immigrants on farms we need immigrants in the construction industry we need immigrants in restaurants in medical facilities. Right now the American farmer has lost many of its immigrant workers.
The president's false premise it's costing us billions and billions of dollars. The flood of ICE agents going into our cities creates chaos and mayhem and the citizens in those communities are not afraid of immigrants, but they are afraid of the ICE agents. The cruelty is unleashed by ICE agents, and it is unamerican and anti-American. We should not allow this disorderly behavior trying to enforce compliance without proven illegality must also stop. How many American citizens are losing sleep over the so-called immigrant problem? But many are losing sleep when ICE agents arrive in their city
Lies and bigotry cost us money. The U.S. budget for DHS and ICE is a disgrace. Why are we doing this to immigrants? They are simply in our country seeking a better life or a better existence. Over ninety five percent are here legitimately, green cards or seeking citizenship. The sad remarks used by this Administration to justify their cruel and chaotic behavior is improper. For example, Stephen Miller whose ideas are primarily used in ICE matters suggested that those Americans in the streets protesting are “domestic terrorists”. This is right out of the book of authoritarian countries. We cannot allow false premises to control our legal actions. When laws are failing in a community and being abused, we must turn to equity. We can stop ICE by demanding a substitute for the current laws covering ICE in the streets. The answer is to demand relief using injunctive methods to subvert the failed illegality in our midst. If our laws are failing should we seek an equitable alternative and change the laws?
I'm not a lawyer but I know the U.S. Constitution and I'm familiar with Common Law. The message we are now using to control the so-called immigrant problem is uncivilized and must be stopped.
The powers that be in cities and states should demand injunctive relief from a “foreign army” invading their communities under false practices. These invaders are a disgrace, using cruelty and they are unidentified they are paid large sums of money they are provided with fancy cars. They are told don’t worry about breaking our laws. This practice is unamerican.
IN CLOSING
The United States of American has been the leader of the free world since 1945. This Administration is not interested in continuing that political trend. How come?
None of us should be ashamed of patriotism or duty to God and country. None of us, from this day forward should close our eyes to the fact that we're losing all of our friends in Canada, in Europe and none of us should turn our backs on Ukraine. In fact, Ukraine simply wants to be part of the free world not part of Russia, who invaded their country illegally. It is sad that our president seems to admire Vladimir Putin more than George Washington or Ronald Reagan. Also, it seems Stephen Miller, Elon Musk, and Todd Blanche feel an authoritarian is more important than the U.S. Constitution. Fact-check!
We absolutely must return to the beginning that revealed the dreams and desires our Founding Fathers wished upon us. Right now, you may want to read again the Gettysburg address, the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and then we should all give thanks to our country as we now seek a rebirth of all we have stood for in the past.
Let us give thanks for the upcoming Thanksgiving Day.
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