ASK YOURSELF

      This is almost a do it yourself posting, at least in its purpose. Read the statement or question or fact and decide for yourself what the answer should be. Could be interesting and insightful, perhaps giving you some understanding of why you think or act as you do and perhaps it might be time for a change. So here we go. By the way, there is an interesting dualism here. Read on and see.
    Do you -
want a person who pushes faulty financing as your leader?
 want a leader who refuses to obey the laws of the land?
want a leader who lies quite often and quite glibly?
want a leader who disrespects others, who loses his temper and who is disloyal to his own crew?
want a leader who pushes his own agenda, often to the detriment of his constituents?
want a leader who demonstrates a fierce temper, particularly at those who oppose him or point out his errors?
want a leader who assumes that he can be the Leader for Life, following in the footsteps of other nasty people round the world?
want a leader who refuses to follow the Constitution of the United States, particularly the first Ten Amendments such as freedom of assembly, of speech, of the press?
want a leader who conducts much of the work in secret?
want a leader who does not understand the true dynamics of a well run organization?
     Well, read and answer. If your answers are consistently NO, then you know what you have to do on Friday. Start the narrowing of his assumed powers and elect people who will do the job for the people of the Village and not for themselves.
     Now for the parallel part of this posting and see if you can notice the similarities in not so many words.
What was said: Folks, I am adding this in and putting it first after I read in the early AM about the new developments in the Russian - Trump campaign scandal. The Trump posse maintain and maintained in the past and present that they did not have contact in any way, shape, manner or form. And yet, we already have Flynn out and now the bigger scandal of them all. Jeff Sessions, a bigot of the first degree now has another mark against him. Surprise! He lied. So....
The truth is: There have been large and widespread meetings between Trump personnel and the Russians. In fact, Jeff Sessions lied about this in his hearings and said he had never met with Russians and yet we now find out that there had been two meetings between Sessions and Russian personnel. At the very least, he needs to resign. At the very best, the entire Trump staff need to resign for their lies and again, I say, for their treason. They treated with the enemy, with a foreign power, they colluded with Russia to affect the election - which I say is null and void. Committing perjury at one's hearing. Wow!! A major no-no and possibly a criminal act as well.
     Thank G-d the Obama administration made sure to keep the intelligence in existence for otherwise all this would never have come out and as far as Trump and his administration is concerned, they want to punish the whistleblower rather than the Russian ties. What does that tell you!!
  What was said: "Don't blame me" on almost every issue that has blown up in Trump's face. it was the fault of everyone, anyone but him."He blamed “the generals” for a raid that led to the death of a Navy SEAL in Yemen. He accused former president Barack Obama of fomenting protests against him and leaks within his administration. He blamed the judiciary for future terrorist attacks against the United States, and the media for the firing of his first national security adviser. He even blamed the weather for his smaller-than-desired inauguration crowd." And do not forget his statement that he had not called Russia for ten years. Methinks he needs a mathematical lesson as he was THERE in 2013. That is not ten years!
What was said was-
"we have begun to drain the swamp, restrict lobbying and lobbyists..."
The truth: Not so much actually. The swamp critters are there in the Cabinet and the lobbyists? It is for one's former agency. That is all, folks!
What was said -  We have not defended our borders, leaving them open to drugs and a huge flow of immigrants.
The truth: Truth be told, the immigration flow has lessened over the past few years as have most of the drug interdictions. The statistics are there for those who care for them.
What was said - boasting of jobs supposedly saved and/or brought in.
The truth: He had very little to do with it.
      Ford had its long term goal of building electric cars and did not need a factory for small cars built in Mexico as the demand had lessened.
     Fiat-Chrysler had its plans for a factory in Michigan in the works for a year already and had spoken with the union about it.
     Softbank had plans to spend this money anyway and the US, as a leader in this field was on track already for funding amounts.
     What was said - that he had brought down the price of the F-35.
  The truth: The Pentagon already had saved the $600 million he keeps boasting of!
    What was said - the number of jobs for the two pipelines was way exaggerated, from 3,900 to close to 39,000 - oops! And the steel came from India and went to the factory, Indian owned, which was the only factory that made it and yes, in Arkansas.
What was said - that we are removing all the bad guys, the criminals and when we cut the illegal immigration and stop them coming we will save billions, people will have jobs and tra la la la.
The truth: We already were deporting the gang members and the violent criminals but now our ICE and BORDER officers are chasing those dangerous traffic offenders or broken headlights or the shoplifter from twenty years ago. And pardon me, but I am amazed that all those  brown people are so powerful that a deportation of one or more will cure all the job and economic problems of the US to the tunes of billions and amazing that all of a sudden the regular Americans will be willing to go pick the fields and wash the dishes, clean the homes, cut the meat and the chickens, become smart and become doctors for rural areas, lawyers for the poor, nurses to heal the sick and bodega owners and anything else you can think of. What we will have is a busted economic pipeline.
     We can go on, with inaccurate figures of $6 trillion spent in the Middle East - actually 1.6 trillion but whose counting? And it just goes on and on.
So.....who do you believe, the facts and figures or the talk and talk and the no action other than illegal and immoral ones. And as for that infrastructure plan? Ha!! Good luck getting the Republicans to pass it. The Democrats have been trying for eight years already and guess who has always blocked it. Uh huh. You got it. And what do we do with a president who tries to constantly put one over on everyone other than his family? the truth is, right now there is a secret piece of legislation re the healthcare that will screw the nation and only Republicans can get to see it in a reserved one in a secret process. Lovely, just lovely.
    So read and think and ask - who is the leader and why are these people so similar in thinking and style - dictatorial, oppressive, boastful where there should be none, dismissive of the interests of others and keep ongoing.
    So....resist and demand answers and think and think again and partake in protests and marches and in fighting against those representatives in Washington who do not serve the people. The same with the Village.
     Both of these administrations need to go. For fiscal responsibility. For adherence to the law and the principles of the Founding Fathers and the purpose of the Village. For the sake of the truth, the truth, the truth. For the sake of decency. For any hope in the future. And yes, folks, there is a future for us and for our families - if we act now, before the Village goes to rack and ruin and before that lying crew and their leader, Trump, blow us all up with his threat to take military action against North Korea or turns us into a police state. It is that serious.