service men sentnace

I suppose everybody heared about the three aservice men that were sentanccedd to life in prison for shooting prisoners that they were supposed to be delivering to the athorities.I thought the sentances were perty severe considering the circomstances.If you just came out of A fire fight and these guys probably killed some of your buddies and you got to thinking these might be some of the guys that killed the prisoners they were holdingg. choped their headsoff and threw them in the river.If we deliver them they will be housed taken care of and probably turned loose you might be tempted to apply some of your own justice. what they did was A crime and they should be punished for it. But I would consider A ten year sentance more appropiat.This is A war and these guys are under A lot of pressure. I was exposed to the same kind of situation on Boganville during world war two.A sargent and myself were assighned to deliver A jap prisoner back to headquarters.When we got part way the sargent decided we ought to shoot the prisoner.I convinced him it was A bad idea.We delivered the prisoner.I dont know what happened to him after that but at least my concionce was clear. There is still A lot of contoversy over the war in Afghanistan but I don't believe we can afford to give up the fight now. I see where the Samali pirates are still active.Spain just paid three million to get their ship and crew back.Those guys should be hunted down and blown out of the water.All ships should have armed guards with orders to shoot to kill any pirates that try to board A ship. My opinion by John Zilverberg

Last week the democrats were congratulating them selves and patting each other on the back because they had passed the health care bill in the house .But that is only the first step .It still has to be passed in the senate and there are A lot of contivercial issues still to be settled. the cost is one big issue.The last estimate I heard was one and A quarter trillion dollars . that is A lot of money that is going to have to come from some where.Obama said he wouldnt sighn any bill that was going to add to the national debt.Majoity leader Harry Ried had suggested taxing the high income peope that are making over $500000.00 to pay for the health care bill .But I am afrid there is to much big money influance in Washington to let that happen. The fort Hood shooting that killed 13 people and wounded an additianal 29 of them was A very tragic event that never should have happened.But maybe it woke some people up. I see where the government has siezed four Muslim Mosques and A thirty six story office building owned by A Muslim organization and cotrolled by the Iranian government.There are also some Muslim schools and other organzations that that should be carefuly checked. We may be raising more terrorists in our back yard. My opinion by John Zilverberg

To listento the ads on tte T.V,from the psople that want to settle your account with the I.R.S,. They make it sound like the I.R.S. is your mortal enemy.They are not they are your friend. It is up to them to collect the money to run the govwernment.Build your roads , educate your children ,Supply the military and whatever other benefits you get from the government. How many people do you think would pay their share of the taxes if there was nobody to check up on them.The I.R.S. has A big job.If you pay your taxes on time and the right amount they wont give you any trouble.Sure they can and do make mistakes ocasionaly.But if you paid your taxes and have good reords you shouldnt have any touble correcting any mistakes. If your money is being wasted by the government that isn't the fault of the I.R.S. That is the responsibility of your legislators.If you cheat on your taxes you are cheating on your neighbors because the taxes you dont pay your neighbor will have to pay. My opinion by John Zilverberg

I was listening to lou Dobbs

I was listening to Lou Dobbs the other night and he brought up the subject of the unequal pay between company workers and the Ceos ,managers and directors that sometimes get millions in salaries and bonusses. some of them make as much in one day as the workrs do in A year. That is exactly what I have beentrying to get acrost for years.We are creating A class of multi millionais and billionairs at the expence of the general public.And A very simple soloution to the problem would be what I have been recomending for years.Raise the personal incone tax on individuals one percent for every100 thousand dollars after the first 250 thousand up to 90 percent.That would take care of A lot of our problems. We could pay off the national debt and return the excess money back to the states to use for projects that would help the general public. WE could raise the tax credit on capital purchases. Then the people that are getting all this money .If they knew they were going to pay most of it out in taxes would spend it on capital purchases to expand their operations . There by creating more jobs so more people would be paying taxes and we wouldnt have to be paying out so much in unimployment benefits The country and everybody in it would benefit.The only reason we can't get this done is because we have to many rich people in washington making our laws and they make the laws to protect themselves and their rich friends that help keep them in office.My opinion by John Zilverberg

Afghanistan in the News

Afghanistan has been in the news a lot lately and some people are thinking we should get out of there. It sure would be nice if we could bring all of our troops home, but consider the consequences. Maybe if we were not fighting our enemies over there we might be fighting them here at home. Just think how many people would be getting killed and how much of our infrastructure would be destroyed. These people hate us and they are not going to leave us alone if we go home. Remember they attacked us several different places and we didn’t do anything about it. So they attacked us here at home and in one sweep killed 3000 innocent people and did billions of dollars in damages. The object of the Muslims is to control the world and they won’t stop at anything to accomplish that. Their bible says all Christians must be eliminated and they have been trying to do that for a thousand years. The Bush policies have kept us safe here at home up to now but we better not let our guard down. There are cells in this country right now that would destroy us as a nation if they could or can. My opinion by John Zilverberg

Unless our law makers in Washington get realistic and do something about our national debt this country is going to be in real trouble like you have never seen before. The Govenment paid 190 billion interest on the national debt this year and at the rate washington is spending our money it will soon be double that. No company or government can exist very long spending more money then it takes in.Obama says we are making headway on the recession . But we are going deeper in debt all the time and our unemployment rate is at19.8 percent.We are loosing jobs because our wages are to high and we can not compete in the world markets. Every time we raise the minimum wage our cost of living goes up and more of our jobs go oversea where the cheap labor is. Now the Unions are pushing hard to get the law passed that would that would eliminate the use of the secret ballot in union elections. That in effect would force everybody to join the union or face the consequences which could be very serious as we have seen in the past.If we had implimented My recomended plan to raise the income tax on personal incomes one percent for every 100 thousand dollars after the firs 250 thousand we wouldnt have all this national debt and maybe not even the recession.Also it would help if we had all the taxes owed on the money the multi millionairs and billionairs have hidden in overseas banks. we owe China alone 800 billion .The mexicans have already taken over A big share of our language . maybe China will be next. My opinion by John Zilverberg

One of the high cost of our medical bills is caused by the high cost of the liability insurance of the phasitions and the hospitals.Which is caused by the extrmly high awards given to the plaintifs by jurys. i have always thought there should be some kind of limit set on these awards. Notthat doctors or anybody else shouldnt be respponsible for their mistakes and made to pay for them.but many of the awards to plaintifs in many cases are exccesive Not only in medical cases but others as well.Some jurys seem to think there is no limit to what companies or doctors can pay. One example is the case where A woman ordered A cup of coffee inMcDonalds and spilled it in her lamp burning herself. and A jury awarded her five million dollars.If you order coffee you expect it to be hot and if you spill it on yourself that sure isnt the establishments fault.I suppoe everybody herd the presidents speach to the gay community.It seems he wants to change the definition of the word marriage.THe dictionary says the word marriage is the union between A man And A woman. A union in my opinion between two people of the same sex would be A partnership.I would presume A definition of marriage would include the ability to produce children and create A family. My opinion by John Zilverberg