What is really wrong with America?

You want to know what is wrong with America? It's not the pillaging of the American Citizens by Wall Street, Big Unions and the progressives in control of the executive and legislative branches of our government. It is not the unemployment rate. It is not even the decrease of real estate values back to something that represents reality. No my friend, the real problem is the character of many of our fellow citizens and more importantly, the character of the individuals who make laws and regulations about something they have no real knowledge of. Legislation lobbied by special interests with an agenda, the consequences of which are never considered. Two small illustrations follow after an introduction of the problem. I think a lot of Americans will be able to relate to these.

Around 1980 the United States passed emission legislation which required cars sold in this country to be equipped with computers and sensors to control emissions. These computers have the ability to turn on warning lights that will force you to go to an automotive service department with the correct software to diagnose the reason all of the warning lights came on. You cannot even sell your vehicle with these warning lights on because it will not pass the smog test. In many cases, the sensors will stop your car dead in it's tracks and have you on the phone with a towing service. As you will see by the following examples, this approach has opened the door for Americans to exhibit what is "The Real Problem With America."

Illustration No.1:
I was driving home from a wedding about 100 miles from home a year ago. At midnight, going down the freeway at 70mph, with my wife, daughter and another friend, my 2003 Jeep
Liberty stopped running. All of the warning lights on the dash came on, the tack went to zero and we coasted to a stop. After being stranded for a couple hours, we were rescued by my best friend, the Father of the groom, and the next morning decided to have the car towed to Aamco Transmission in Oceanside on Monday morning. My Jeep only had 70,000 miles and had had all of its services. I checked with Aamco every day for status and was told they were having to do "extra" diagnostic computer work.That should have been my red flag. The car was finally ready on Friday. I was told both cam and crank sensors had gone out. The sensors were $140.00 each and with the "computer diagnostic work" and labor the bill was $675.00. After I got home to San Bernardino and checked with the Service manager at Moss Motors, I found out that crank sensor failure was common on the Liberty. The crank sensor retail was $39 and labor to install was $100. He also said that he had never heard of a cam sensor problem on the Liberty and that it was mathematically impossible for both sensors to fail at the same time. He said that what probably happened was that they misdiagnosed the failure and replaced the wrong sensor and then had to go back and replace the correct one. At any rate they had overcharged me $100 on each sensor.

Illustration No.2:
Last weekend it was time to buy my almost 18-year-old daughter a car. I was limited to $6,500.00 so we wound up at the Repo-Depot in Redlands, California. Andrew, one of the owners, had a 2006 Suzuki with 60,000 miles that was pretty clean and told me that I could get it out the door for $6,500.00. I drove the 15 miles back to our house with my anxious daughter eager to go out and learn to drive the stick shift as soon as we got home. After a call to my insurance agent to add the new car, with daughter behind the wheel, off we went. My daughter had been driving our Jeep with the automatic transmission for almost 2 years but needed some lessons on driving the manual. After 20 minutes the check engine light came on. Back home we went to call the dealer with daughter thinking she had broken her new car. The dealer told me to drive back to his lot and he would check it out. He used his hand-held computer to turn off the check engine light and told me that I had probably not tightened the gas cap good enough. That should have been my red flag. The next morning I took my daughter back out to try again. After 20 minutes the check engine light came on again. This time, a clue to the real problem surfaced. The throttle pedal stopped working. With the engine running at idle, nothing happened when you pressed down on the throttle pedal. Something in the car's computer or sensors had put the car's engine into a "Limp" mode which prevented the throttle from working. After turning off the car and restarting it, the throttle worked for a few more minutes and then again stopped. Push down on the pedal, no response. Back to the house for a second time with my crushed daughter again thinking she has broken her car. Andrew doesn't work on Sunday so Monday morning I take the car back to him. He says he will take it to his mechanic and have the problem fixed. Two days later, Andrew calls and says the car is ready. They did a tune up and everything is fine. When I asked Andrew exactly what was wrong, he asked me to call the mechanic directly for that information. Now I'm talking to the mechanic, Mr. Morales, who is not happy when I ask for the error codes from his diagnostic work and what parts were replaced, but goes to find his diagnostic work. After giving me two codes he admits that they did not replace any parts. They had cleaned the throttle body and reset the computer so that the check engine light would go off. They had then driven the car for 20 miles and the check engine light did not come back on, yet. In other words, either they could not diagnose the problem with the sensors, or they did and the dealer was not willing to hit the hip for the repair bill. I am quite sure that when the check engine comes on the next time and the throttle stops working, I am going to learn the true character of Andrew at the Repo Depot. I will add the end of the story to this blog when it plays out. Wish me luck.

This is the consequence of letting special interests get their way with lawmakers, regardless of the ultimate effect on others. Building in thousands of dollars of service department repair bills to replace computers and little sensors and perform computer diagnostic work on cars seemed like a good idea to Detroit. How are you liking your sales figures now, Detroit? How many Americans have experience situations similar to mine? I have a suggestion, Detroit. Build a simple car with no computers or unnecessary sensors. One that can be serviced in the driveway by the owner when needed, without a computer. I'm O.K. with making the car pass a smog test every other year. If the owner can't keep the car smog compliant, make him take it to someone who can and don't renew his license until he does. We don't need to destroy our cars to fight smog. A little common sense will do.


Tell your senators and representative to introduce legislation to stop this madness. Don't we have a car czar that can handle this anyway? I thought the taxpayers owned a controlling interest in the American car industry. If they won't do it, elect someone who will. We have the power if we will only use it.


McWeijun

Merry Christmas, Mr. President

Well, Mr. Obama, congratulations on your "I'm gonna bag on Bush and Cheney for 4 years" prize that you received today from the Nobel Prize Commission. You were so humble as you preened before those well dressed liberal twits. Thank you for that wonderful line, Mr. Krauthammer.

I heard again today that you are going to hand another extension of unemployment benefits to the sheeple on the backs of that newest of endangered species, the American taxpayer. In case you did not notice, I did not take advantage of the last extension that you offered me. Why, your confused community organizer mind may ask? It was the little letter that came with your offer that said I could no longer interview for jobs in the profession that provided my livelihood from 1972 to 2007. No, in order to take advantage of that last extension, I must interview for any job including minimum wage jobs. Since all of the government jobs have been taken by minorities thanks to affirmative action, and since millions of illegal aliens have gobbled up any other private sector jobs, that leaves Wal-Mart greeter.

I will not sing "Holiday" carols in front of Wal-Mart for the illegal aliens who have come to spend my tax dollars on gifts for their anchor babies, Mr. Obama. I would rather starve or freeze to death in a house with the utilities turned off.

You and your progressive pals are destroying my country, you jerk! You can take your new extension of unemployment benefits and put it right where only Barney Frank can find it.

So Merry Christmas, Mr. Obama. I'll be thinking of you when we carve the glazed Spam for Christmas.


Your unemployed and uninsured American Citizen,

McWeijun

Tell me it ain't so

Well America, it looks like Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder have figured out how to finish me off. After the government killed the industry that provided my livelihood for 35 years and thereby removing my health insurance which is now causing me to drain the small retirement account that I was able to set aside, the "Traveller in Chief" has now come up with the Coupe de grace. They are taking away my Fox News. How are they doing that, you may ask?

In a short time from now, the Jihadist Muslims that planned the 9-11 attack on the United States will be arriving in New York. Here they are going to be given all the rights of American citizens and prosecuted for their actions. They will be given public defenders if they cannot afford their own "Dream Team" of attorneys. They may even get a mostly Muslim jury. Hey, stranger things have happened. For the next unknown number of months or years, they will make a laughing stock out of my country. Sure, there will be plenty of photo ops for someone we see too often on T.V. these days. Sure, this will tie up our courts so that they are not available for normal activity. Sure, this will cost the taxpayers untold millions of dollars. I will not give this circus one minute of air time. That is how they took away my fox news.

It is already happening. All day Fox has been discussing the upcoming event. I just hit the off button on Fox News for what I am sure was the first of hundreds of times to come. I sent an email to Glenn Beck and asked him to please spare us this national embarrassment. I will not watch the news without the remote in my hand and my index finger on the off button until this fiasco is over.

I have a much less expensive resolution to the presidents dilemma regarding his campaign promise to close GITMO. Take all the surviving family members and friends of the 3000 killed on 9-11 to Yankee Stadium. Give them all shiny new baseball bats. Bring in the Jihadists. Tell the family and friends it is now o.k. to press charges.

Lots of people are telling me that most Muslims are good, peaceful people. I am sure that is true. My problem is that sometimes you can't tell the difference between the ones who want to kill you and the ones who might want to be your friend until it's too late. I think there are a bunch of wounded soldiers and dead soldiers at Fort Hood right now who would share my sentiment. The Holy Qur'an tells some Muslims to saw my head off. The same Holy Qur'an tells other Muslims to live in peace.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's time for the Muslim religion to come up with an answer to this dilemma. It is not my job to figure out a solution. I will err on the side of caution and will not risk my life being politically correct. If we learn nothing else from Fort Hood, it should be that.

Learning lessons about the downfalls of being politically correct seems to be a hot topic these days. Our President is getting ready to learn a big one in New York.

Keep your remotes handy my friends.

McWeijun

Don't give up hope

If your like me, last week was a rough one. To see our president at the U.N. general assembly bash our country and abandon Israel to the applause of Qaddafi, Ahmadinejad and Chavez was not easy to watch. By Friday night I was starting to get that hopeless feeling. We cannot allow that to happen. We must stay positive.



We can return our capitalistic society back to the time when it was controlled by ethics and morals rather than the unbridled greed of today. I must agree with the students who protested at the G20 when they lament about the people who get paid hundreds of million of dollars per year to run companies into the ground. I share their anger when it comes to that. I have heard that 250 people make 95% of the income in this country now. That is criminal. I don't begrudge anyone a good income for hard work or a good idea and the guts to make their dream come true. There needs to be some kind of balance though. My God, I don't want to sound like an Obama wealth re-distributor, but maybe we can find some common ground with the left.



I did see something that amazed me the other night. Rush Limbaugh was applauded by the audience when he appeared on the Jay Leno show. Maybe, just maybe, the tide is starting to turn



With respect of the Israel situation, their going it alone is the fulfillment of Bible prophesy. If you are a Christian, your church family can help you with book, chapter and verse on that issue. See Ezekiel 38,39. Also see Zechariah 14:2.





McWeijun

Why can't we enforce our immigration laws?

The answer to this question is so simple that it will astound you.

The 14th Amendment to our Constitution (adopted in 1866) was designed to give a pathway to citizenship for the children of African slaves born on U.S. soil. I don't think many Americans would argue with the value of this Amendment, for the purpose it was intended.

Unfortunately, as our country began to adopt it's immigration laws, this 14th Amendment was not repealed. It is now a major cause of the flood of illegal immigration across our southern border.

When an illegal immigrant delivers a child at an emergency room in the U.S., that illegal is no longer illegal. They are now the parents of a U.S. citizen. How can you deport the parents of a U.S. citizen? The simple truth is, you can't. I can give you about 17 million examples to prove my point.

Great Britain and Australia had similar laws to our 14th Amendment which they repealed 30 years ago.

I think we should all be able to agree that the 14th Amendment has long since served it's intended purpose.

Only one question remains: Is there a legislator left in this country with the courage to introduce a bill to take this first step in controlling our borders?

Let's all send an email to our legislators and ask them if they would like to take the first step in controlling our borders and enforcing our immigration laws. Then, remember the response you get the next time you go to the voting booth.


McWeijun

Patriot In Trouble

Well, my fellow Americans, to coin a Bill O'Reilly phrase, we are about to find out who at Fox News is a Patriot and who is a Pinhead.

In case you have not noticed, there is a guy named Glenn Beck who has been pouring his heart out to try to right the good ship America. This is a man who sees our country going over a waterfall with very little time to waste. He is right on the money. In your heart, you already know that he is a good American.

Now he has had the nerve to say that our President is a racist, on national television no less. Anyone remember where Obama sat for 20 years on Sunday and who he was shouting "amen" to? Can you say Rev. Wright, children? Can you say Father Phlager? Is it just possible Glenn is right?

Because of Glenn's comment, thirty-three sponsors want to pull their advertising and their money in an attempt to get Glenn's dance card pulled at Fox.

Will O'Reilly or Hannity or Van Susteren come to Glenn's aid here or will they throw him under the bus and cash their paychecks. The left has drawn a line in the sand. Let's see what kind of gonads these people and Fox News have.

I have a suggestion. To coin an expression of a truly worthless American, Rahm Emanuel, "never let a serious crisis go to waste." Why doesn't every conservative American get a list of the thirty-three companies that are trying to get Beck pulled from Fox. We all send each of them an email stating that we will boycott their companies until Glenn Beck receives an apology from each of them.

I have another request. Any businesses out there who are run by conservative Americans and who are concerned with where this country is going, call Fox News and tell them you would like to replace one of the sponsors that has pulled their advertisement.

I think we can turn this into a good thing for Fox News and for Glenn Beck. Fox is a good company; Beck is a good American. They need your help right now!

By the way, have you emailed your congressman and your senator yet? Tell them that if they have any part in the witch hunt to prosecute the very people who kept us safe for 8 years from another 9-11 attack, you will vote them out of office at your next opportunity. Can you even believe we have come down to this sorry excuse for an Attorney General. Maybe we should just surrender to the Jihad now and save them the time and trouble .


McWeijun

Racism in America

Hello America!

O.K., we have already discussed several issues of concern in my viewpoint. Now it's time to get down to a rather sensitive issue that cannot be ignored another day. Why is there still racism in America today?

Let me list a few organizations that come to mind: Miss Black America, The Negro College fund,
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, The Congressional Black Caucus, Black History Month, etc.

Can you imagine the outrage in America if any of these, or the many other organizations, contained the word "White" in place of "Black" or "Negro"? They would be called racist, and rightfully so. Where did this double standard come from? How did it become O.K. to have organizations promoting the black race only? Can you say 'white guilt about slavery children'?

I have to tell a short story here about my father during World War II. He was standing in a Navy pay line and when the paymaster called out his Scottish surname, my dad answered "here", and so did the black man standing a few feet away. I think that means that at some time in my family tree, we must have owned slaves. My first ancestor on American soil came from Glasgow, Scotland and was a paymaster for General George Washington. So let's talk about my feelings of guilt about slavery.

Black people were sold by other black people to slave traders who took them all over the world and sold them. They left a world of starvation, disease, and running from very nasty animals. After a few generations, thousands now have multi-million dollar professional sports contracts, many are very successful doctors, lawyers, professors, politicians, and yes, even a President of the United States.

I, myself, have never had a slave. As a matter of fact, I have been a victim of affirmative action and quotas my entire adult life. I watched people get into college and get government and private sector jobs just because of their skin color. So how much guilt do I feel about slavery? Let's put it this way: If you took all of my guilt and put it in my eye, I don't think I would blink.

As I watched Rev. Wright scream in church about the evil white man and evil America, (the church that our current president sat in for 20 years), I began to wonder what Dr. King would have thought. He gave his time, and eventually his life, to try to put an end to this type of racial hatred. Were black churches in America really preaching hatred for white people? As I listen to Maxine Waters, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson rant about the injustice that black people have to endure in America, I have this offer: I'll trade my house and my savings account straight across with any of them.

I would also like to say thanks to people like J.C. Watts, Michael Steele, and Juan Williams. These are great Americans who are trying to put racial hatred behind us and live together in harmony, the dream of Dr. King. Don't give up, guys. You are the hope for our future.

It is time for blacks to stop keeping racism alive in America. It is time for whites to stop feeling guilt about slavery. It's also time to hope that our next black president does not come from Rev. Wright's congregation.

Oh, by the way, tell your kids to pull their pants up and turn off that foul gangster rap. Women do not deserve those lyrics. Come on, man. It's time to be a part of the solution, not the problem.


McWeijun