Deleted Files.

Deleted Files.

Have you ever wondered were your deleted files gone to, out the window, under the carpet, in your trash can, or maybe they are in your closet?

How can I Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files?

Is there any way to get a file back after you delete it and empty the recycle bin?
Ever thought you were done with a file, and then realized that you need the file back? Or, maybe you accidentally deleted the wrong file? And to make matters worse, you even emptied the file from your recycle bin.
Is it possible to recover deleted recycle bin files?
The answer is YES! When you delete a file and then empty your recycle bin, many people think the file is permanently gone. Even the Windows help menu will tell you that "Deleting an item from the Recycle Bin permanently removes it from your computer."
The truth about recovering deleted files once they are emptied from the Recycle Bin
"On common operating systems like Microsoft's Windows family, simply deleting a file, or even following that up by emptying the "recycle bin", doesn't necessarily make the information irretrievable.

Those commands generally delete a file's name from the directory, so it won't show up when the files are listed. But the information itself can live on until it is overwritten by new files. Even formatting a drive may not do it.

The only sure way to erase a hard drive is to "squeeze" it: writing over the old information with new data -- all zeros, for instance." (Source: The Associated Press, Jan 2003. Click here to read the full article)

So, if you have not permanently erased your hard drive with a product like WhiteCanyon's WipeDrive, it is not hard to recover deleted files.
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See your deleted files before you purchase!
If you have lost or deleted a file and need to recover it, we can help. And best of all, you do not have to purchase the software to find out if it will work for you! You can download Recover My Files right now and search for your deleted files. Try it risk free.
How to recover deleted recycle bin files
• Step 1 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Download and install Recover My Files
• Step 2 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Select the Type of Search
Click on the desktop icon to run the program. A wizard will present you with three search options:
1. Fast Search: Try this first, should complete within 20 minutes;
2. Complete Search: Includes a Fast Search and should be complete within 1 to 5 hours.
3. Format Recover: Run this search if you have formatted your hard drive. The search should be complete within 1 to 5 hours. Follow these instructions.
Click next to proceed to the next wizard screen.
• Step 3 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Select the Drive To Search

The next wizard screen performs a scan to identify the devices (hard drives, digital camera, USB drive etc) that are connected to your computer. Select the device you wish to search by using your mouse to place a green tick in the box next to the device name.

The "Folders to Search" option allows you to add existing folders into your search. Add a folder by double clicking with your mouse in the specified location, remove a folder by double clicking on the folder.
• Step 4 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Selecting File Types to Search

The next wizard screen asks you to select the file types that you are trying to recover. After you have run the search, files that are located will be grouped by file types according to the selections you have made in this screen. All other files will be catagorised as "other deleted files".

PLEASE NOTE: The number of file types selected will directly impact the speed of the search. We suggest you select between 1 and 10 files. MP3 and Text files are the slowest. Conduct a separate search for these files.
• Step 5 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Running the Search

When the 'start' button is pressed the search is commenced. Note that a "Complete Search" and a "Format Recover" may take a number of hours as they are a scan of your entire storage media.

It is possible to preview the search results while the search is in progress. Use your mouse to move the progress box out of the way and access the search results screen behind it.
• Step 6 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
The Results Screen

Files found are grouped by file type in the left hand column (any files that are found that do not belong to a file type that you selected are placed in the "Other Deleted Files" folder).

Click on the file type in the left and column to display the files found for that type in the right hand column. Click on an individual file in the right hand column to see its properties and a preview of its contents (if available) in the bottom windows.
• Step 7 to Recover Deleted Recycle Bin Files:
Saving Recovered Files

Recover My Files must be purchased and registered in order to save files.
Click here to buy Recover My Files.

To enter the registration key click 'Help' and then 'Register'. Select the files to be saved in the results screen by placing a tick next to the file. Then click the save button. You must save files to a seperate storage media to the one on which they were recovered.

If you are using Version 2.90, released 5 November 2004, you can save directly to writeable CD or DVD (to access this feature select the drop down arrow next to the "Save Files" button on the results screen).

I do not think that people want to recover the deleted files, just get rid of them out of the Computer and free up more space, that all..!!

BEST BUY

BEST BUY

If you purchase something from Wal-MartSearsetc. And you return the item with the receipt they will give you your money back if you paid cash or credit your account if paid by plastic.

WellI purchased a GPS for my car:
A Tom Tom XL.S from
'Best Buy'.
They have a policy that it must
Be returned within 14 days for a refund!

So after 4 days I returned it in the original box with all the items in the box with paper work and cords all wrapped in the plastic. Just as I received it including the receipt.
I explained to the lady at the return desk I did not like the way it couldn't find store names.
The lady at the refund desk said there is a 15% restock fee for items returned. I said no one told me that.
I asked how much would that be. She said it goes by the price of the item.
It will be $45 for you.
I said all you're going to do is walk over and place it back on the shelf then charge me $45 of my money for restocking? She said that's the store policy.
I said if more people were aware of it they would not buy anything here! If I bought a $2000 computer or TV and returned it I would be charged $300 restock fee? She said yes. 15%.

I said OKjust give me my money minus the restock fee.

She said since the item is over $200 dollar sshe can't give me my money back!

Corporate has to and they will mail you a check in 7 to ten days.! I said 'WHAT?'

It's my money! I paid in cash!
I want to buy a different brand..
Now I have to wait 7 to 10 days.
She said well our policy is on the back of your receipt.

I said do you read the front or back of your receipt? She said well the front! I said so do I. I want to talk to the Manager!

So the manager comes overI explained everything to him and he said wellsir they should have told you about the policy when you got the item. I said no one has ever told me about the check refund or restock fee when I bought items from computers to TVs from Best Buy. The only thing they ever discussed was the worthless extended warranty program.
He saidwellI can give you corporate phone number.

I called corporate. The guy saidwellI'm not supposed to do this but I can give you a 45 dollar gift card and you can use it at Best Buy.

I told him if I bought something and returned it you would charge me a restock fee on the item and then send me a check for the remaining 3 dollars.

You can keep your gift cardI'm never shopping in Best Buy ever again and if I'd been smartI would have charged the whole thing on my credit card! Then I would have cancelled the transaction.

I would have gotten all my money back including your stupid fees! He didn't say a word!

I informed him that I was going to e-mail my friends and give them a heads-up on the store's policy as they don't tell you about all the little caveats.

So please pass this on. It may save your friends from having a bad experience of shopping at Best Buy

It's true! Read it for yourself!!

Best Buys return policy
“Bend over and I will screw you out of your purchase price guarantee at our store”
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=page&contentId=1117177044087&id=cat12098
FREEDON OF SPEECH

What Makes A Best Friend

What Makes A Best Friend

Have you a best friend? What qualities should a best friend have? In this article I am going to be writing about what constitutes a best friend, I myself have had a number of best friends in my life of which only one has stood the test of time.
Your best friend should be somebody that you can trust one hundred percent. You should be able to confide in them knowing that they will not spread your news to other people. How many times have told a friend a piece of personal information and have then asked them not to tell anybody else about it? The sheer fact that you had to ask them not to tell other people should tell you that they are not best friend material.

All of us have stages of our life when we really need a friend. We may be in trouble, we may have done a terrible deed, what we require in this situation is somebody to support us, listen to our problems, offer advice, possibly a room to spend the night but most of all not to judge us. We all make mistakes; after all we are all human. A best friend will offer all of these things, without hesitation.

We all need somebody to be able to phone from time to time, just for a chat, somebody who will make us laugh and ultimately happy. We all need to have the odd night out, perhaps at the cinema, perhaps to go for a drink or perhaps to go to the theatre. A best friend will be the person to call and will make time for us in these situations.
A best friend will not stab you in the back by attempting to steal your boy/girlfriend, they will not spread rumors about you, you should be able to trust them with your life.
Does your best friend have the qualities mentioned above? If the answer is no, this does not mean that you need to dump this person totally, it merely means that you should not be regarding them as a best friend.

One of my best friend that I have know since the middle 1960’s as this person was born around April 5th, 1960 and I meet the family of my first wife in 1961. As time went by and after serving in the Army for 2 years, and a tour of Vietnam in 1965 one of my best friends at that time was a female, and I will not give any name in this story. I ended up marrying this person and we had 2 wonderful children and today 6 Grandchildren from the 2 kids we raised and they turned out great, no drinking, drugs etc.

Over time, I meet my first wife family, aunts, uncles, cousins, in-laws and some outlaws haha..!! Plus, I got along with them; some times better than my wife did, because she loved to talk or diarrhea of the mouth, running all the time. Now that was not funny and I should have not said that, but some of her own family member said that to me. But she meat well in what she said and did, you just had to get use to it, or just forget it.

Her cousins seemed to be good kids when they were younger, but as they got older, one of the cousins got in trouble with drugs and one thing lead to another and finally ended up in jail for a few years. Then when he got out, he visited us in Aurora, Colorado and started right off the bat with stealing prescriptions RX tablet sheets and writing his own RX and using them for his drug habit. It didn’t take long before he got caught and back to jail again. One of the girl cousins got pregnant at an early age and had a daughter, and the guy that got her into a mother way left the scene fast and was history. As what I heard with the story, she didn’t want the child or baby and her dad decided to take the baby under his wing and raise her until she got the age of 18 and his wife said that will be just fine.

Well they raised her until she got to the age of 17 years old and in the mean while the other cousin as we got older, ended up working together with contract work in different states. I found out how fast a great friend as he was to me, start to go down hill over the years, as he love to drink and run around to the bars and try to pick up woman and wanted me to go with him. I did that once in California, Texas with him and one time in Colorado and decided that was not for me, as I was married at that time with his Aunt.

As this young girl that the father raised for 17 years came down with cancer and before he died he visited Colorado with other family member and wanted for sure to visit with me in Colorado too. As the father was the best true friend for life and I went to visit him and the family in 1980 and he had tears in his eyes as I left from the airport to come back to Colorado. And that is how close we were all them years until he died. I got him into amateur Radio during the late 1960’s and had fun all over the world talking on with other Ham Radios.

18 years later we ran into each other over the Internet and before we did that, I wrote him a letter and included my email address and that did it. We email each other for 2 years, telling stories from the past to the present and photos were traded off with each other with the email’s He had told me that he had 3 black sheep in the family and said WHAT? I know of one, but not the other. The other cousin that did not want to take care of her own child as he said she was a lazy bum. The other one was an over educated idiot that was a drunk. And of course the drug attic that could not make out in the world and wanted to stay in jail.

I have not heard for the over educated idiot, as his dad put it for a couple months later by email, and I ask him what he was up too? He told me that he bought a new corvette and condo along the beach in Florida. I ask him, what did you do? Hit the lotto for a lot of money and he answered yes. Great for you. And that was the last time I heard from him. Later, I found out after his Dad passed away, his Mom moved to Florida too, maybe to be with other family member which at that time was 4 that I knew about?

Now, I know were the money came from, as he drained his own Mom with some money that is Dad had left in the will, as his sister did too, as she lived in Treasure Island Florida. Now the boy cousin in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As he is an owner of a big yacht and live in the water with a boyfriend.

I ran across him on Face Book and got alone with him, until his Mom had died of cancer in Florida. I know he is having a time dealing with that, or maybe guilty of what he did?

One day, he asked me why I had 2 accounts with Face Book and I explained what the screw up was and then I deleted it, which I was trying to find out how to do that.
Then next, ask me why I was added some many things on my wall of my face book and also said, to get a life. That did it, in the first place he should have never opened his mouth and stuffed his foot in it and tell me what I can put on my own face book. One thing lead to another and I told him mind his own business, then he go mad and took me off his Face Book and that what you call a best friend, well he just cut his own throat. My gain and his lose. The story of his life is a real true loser. Never had a girlfriend very long never got married and now he is 50 years old, too late dud……!!! Name with held, as the person, all ready know who I am…..Thanks.

Remember: A True Friend ~ Give You A Push. When You Need It, Left You Up When You Feel Low, Guides You The Right Way, And Never Lets You Down…!!

MCI FOUNDED IN 1968

MCI: THE GROWTH COMPANY IN THE DYNAMIC TELECOMUNICATION INDUSTRY
COME GROW WITH US
Founded in 1968, MCI has won the right to offer U.S. business and government users a choice in the long distance telephone services they secure. The Company's own microwave radio system reaches coast-to-coast to serve metropolitan areas accounting for more than one-half of ail American telephones.
MCI is growing every day. It is expanding its system to new cities, broadening the line of its services to new markets, adding new customers daily to its network. Every day, the Company's penetration into the $15 Milieu long distance market deepens and intensifies.
And MCI needs people to grow with it, people with ail sorts of backgrounds, skills, and qualities. A brief leak at the enclosed Annual Report will give you an indication of the past and future growth of MCI. No nine-to-five routine. No hardened corporate arteries. The emphasis is on initiative, innovation, and diversity - on devising new ways to serve the customer better and more economically. The current staff has found this a thriving, satisfying environment. You might too.
MCI provides a truly comprehensive program designed to retain its most valuable resource, the MCI employee of Company paid testifies is a strong indication of the corporate commitment to MCI’s people and their future.
If you wane to participate in the challenging telecommunications industry, why not join its leader - became a part of MCI's excising environment, and watch for your future grow with us.

MCI BENEFITS

FULLY PAID .INSURANCE PLANS
Medical: Covers 80% of all doctor's care and prescriptions during illness, not just in-hospital care, after applicable deductible.
Dental: 80% Coverage for standard dental care, after applicable deductible.

Life Insurance; based on annual salary.
Disability; short and long term.
Accidental Death and Dismemberment: based on annual salary.
Dependent coverage available at nominal charge
EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE
Tuition and fees are reimbursed for approved job related courses or licenses (FCC license) upon satisfactory completion.
EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN (HSOP)
Provides shares of MCI common stock depending upon years of service and total compensation.
EMPLOYES STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

Allows eligible employees to become stockholders of MCI or to increase their stockholdings in the Company through payroll deductions. This method is a convenient and more favorable way of acquiring shares o company stock than would otherwise be available to you on the open market.
PAID LEAVE

Vacation
Sick Leave
Holidays
SFECIAL BONUS

Recruitment Bonus
Employee Suggestion Bonus


For further information, contact your local MCI Representative or call the Personnel
Department at (202) 372-1600.

MCI HISTORY AT A GLANCE

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1963 December: Microwave Communications, Inc. files application for common carrier microwave system between Chicago and St. Louis

1967 August: FCC Common Carrier Bureau supports grant of MCI application.


October: FCC Hearing Examiner issues initial decision to grant MCI application.
1968: August Microwave Communications of America, Inc. (now MCI Communications Corporation, "MCI") is organized to sponsor the development of affiliated regional common carrier applicants, whose interconnection forms a national specialized communications network.

December: President's Task Force on Communications Policy submits report backing specialized communications common carrier concept.

1969 August: In 4 - 3 Decision, FCC grants MCI construction permits for Chicago - St. Louis system.
September: MCI files first of sixteen additional MCI carrier applications to interconnect New York and Chicago.
1970 July: FCC issues Notice of Inquiry (Docket #18920) seeking comment on concept of competition from and among specialized common carriers.
December: One Hundred seventy-six separate organizations and individuals file comments with FCC in Docket #18920. One hundred sixty-six favor specialized common carriers; 10 carriers and their supporters oppose.
1971 January: Construction begins on MCI Chicago-St. Louis system.
May: In unanimous 7-0 Decision, FCC adopts policy favoring competition in specialized communications (Docket #18920), instructs staff to process applications in expedited manner.
October: FCC grants construction permits to MCI for New York -Washington, DC system. Authorizations granting coast-to-coast ^service follow in succeeding months.
1972 January: MCI inaugurates commercial service on Chicago -St. Louis link.

June: MCI public stock offering raises $33 million; Company also obtains $64 million bank credit agreement.

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1972 October: MCI, Comsat, and Lockheed Missile and Space Co. announce agreement on forming jointly-owned domestic satellite company.
November: Regional carriers begin to be merged into MCI Telecommunications Corporation, organized to assume MCI's common carrier responsibilities. (By July 1973, all but 4 of original 17 are merged into wholly-owned subsidiary.)
December: FCC approves jointly-owned satellite company's formation (Now CML Satellite).
1973 April: MCI acquires over 90% ownership in Microwave Communications, Inc., original Chicago - St. Louis regional carrier.
May: MCI Texas - East Microwave merged into MCI Telecommunications .
July: MCI issues first Annual Report to Stockholders.
July / August: Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee holds hearings into communications industry.
September: Responding to an inquiry by the Commission, AT&T informs FCC of its intention to file tariffs applicable to the provision of local distribution facilities for specialized common carriers with state regulatory commissions rather than FCC.
October: MCI inaugurates commercial service in South Bend, Toledo and Cleveland.
MCI holds first Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
FCC, in letter signed by the Chairman, informs AT&T of the impropriety of its actions, further instructs Bell System to "promptly" file with FCC tariffs for interconnection facilities for specialized common carriers.
MCI inaugurates commercial service in Pittsburgh, Detroit, Newark and New York City.
MCI sells Spectrum Analysis & Frequency Planning ; subsidiary to Collins Radio Co.
AT&T's continuing refusal to provide interconnection facilities for MCI's customer’s forces reduction in staff of approximately sixty employees.

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1973 November: MCI files in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia for injunctive relief to require AT&T to furnish local interconnections on regular and nondiscriminatory basis.
MCI petitions FCC to apply "fairness doctrine" to AT&T anticompetitive advertising, since public ultimately pays for such advertising.
Nonmember / December: MCI inaugurates commercial service in Philadelphia, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Washington, Dallas and Baltimore.
December: Justice Department issues Civil Investigative Demand to AT&T regarding AT&T's response to competition.
FCC issues orders rejecting AT&T's request for hearing into competition and asking AT&T to "Show Cause" why it should not "cease and desist" carrying out a lengthy list of anticompetitive activities.
Continued delay in revenue production, directly attributable to AT&T's intransigence regarding interconnection, forces MCI to further reduce staff by approximately 150 employees.
U.S. District Court in Philadelphia grants injunctive relief against AT&T, requiring that all Bell System companies immediately provide MCI the interconnections it requires including those to FX (foreign exchange) and CCSA (common control switching arrangements).
1974 January: AT&T files in Third Circuit Court of Appeals for stay of mandatory injunction issued by District Court.
February: Third Circuit Court of Appeals refuses AT&T's request for stay. AT&T files for and is denied reconsideration by the full court. AT&T announces intention to comply with court order — pending appeal.
March: MCI and Nebraska-based regional carrier N-Triple-C, Inc. sign merger agreement effectively adding to the MCI network Kansas City, Houston, Minneapolis, Omaha and several other Midwest cities.
MCI files civil Antitrust suit in U.S. District Court in Chicago charging AT&T and Bell Operating Companies with violating Sherman Antitrust Act. •
April: Third Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral argument on appeal of preliminary injunction against AT&T, and then vacates that injunction, citing the FCC's prior jurisdiction and pending action in the case. AT&T immediately begins disconnecting MCI customers installed during period in which injunction was in effect.

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1974 April: FCC issues "Cease and Desist" order directing AT&T to furnish, on a nondiscriminatory basis, all interconnections MCI requires. AT&T's subsequent motion for stay of FCC order is denied. AT&T begins reconnecting and installing required interconnections for MCI customers.
June: AT&T's Hi-Lo tariff — a direct response to competitors— goes into effect despite FCC's continuing request for delay pending further investigation.
June / July: Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee holds further hearings into communications industry.
July: MCI installs 1,000th circuit/400,000 circuit mile with approximately 2,000 circuits in backlog waiting to be installed.
IBM announces intention to acquire from MCI and Lockheed 55% ownership in CML Satellite Corp., pending FCC approval.
September Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejects AT&T's appeal of FCC "Cease and Desist Order".
MCI revises its FCC Tariff No. 1 to provide for a new category of service called "metered use service" (Execunet).
October: AT&T, MCI and other carriers begin meetings at FCC to settle problems relating to interconnection fees and procedures.
MCI introduces "Quicklime" service to financial community.
November: Justice Department files Antitrust suit against AT&T.
Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejects AT&T's petition to reconsider its decision affirming FCC "Cease and Desist" order of April 1974.
December: MCI signs agreement with WTCI to operate communications facilities in Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson and San Diego.
1973 January: FCC rejects IBM-Comsat application to acquire joint
interest in CML Satellite Corp. while outlining
alternative plans under which reapplication would
be accepted.
MCI begins formal marketing of "Execunet" service for small business users.

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1975 February: FCC gives "214" approval for MCI operation of WTCI system. Construction begins on link connecting MCI network in East and Midwest with West Coast.
MCI completes "overbuild" construction, tripling capacity on Chicago-New York Segment of its network.
March: FCC allows AT&T to increase interstate rates but by less than half of its January request; result is annual pretax profits for AT&T of $365 million.
AT&T signs agreement with MCI and other common carriers providing for reduced fees, more efficient procedures and additional technical cooperation in interconnection of customer circuits; effectively ends negotiations begun five months before at FCC (Docket #20099).
April: MCI files tariff at FCC requesting 8-1/2% increase in rates for private line voice and data services.
MCI introduces family of computerized telecommunication services: Telemanagement, Teleanalysis and Switched Private Line Service.
May: Having been accepted in April by FCC, negotiated agreement between AT&T, MCI and other carriers goes into effect.
MCI installs 6,000th circuit/2,000,000th circuit mile.
AT&T writes the FCC Chairman letter concluding that Execunet exceeds MCI's authority and asking the Commission to take action "to stop the unauthorized Execunet service".
June: MCI completes connecting links between its system and WTCI, becoming first specialized carrier to operate coast-to-coast system under its own control.
Supreme Court denies AT&T's request to review Court of Appeals decision affirming FCC "Cease and Desist" order of April 1974.
MCI is awarded first bulk competitive procurement of communications services ever undertaken by the U.S. Government.
July: FCC orders MCI to cease offering within 30 days its "Execunet" Service on grounds it is, in effect, message telecommunications service which MCI is not authorized to offer.

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1975 July: U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia stays effective date of FCC order regarding "Execunet" until further notice.
MCI sells one-third interest in CML Satellite Corporation to Comsat General for $1.5 million.
September: MCI launches nationwide advertising campaign directed toward capturing the smaller, non-network customers.
MCI begins offering commercial service in San Francisco.
October: Supreme Court refuses to review FCC's "specialized carrier" decision.
November: MCI completes public offering of 1.2 million units consisting of four warrants and four shares of common stock. Net proceeds to the company are slightly over $8 million.
MCI requests that the FCC hold a special evidentiary hearing regarding the lawfulness of Execunet.
The FCC approves MCI's tariff revisions requesting rate structure changes and a 10% rate increase — effective date December 13, 1975.
Orville Wright is elected President and Chief Operating Officer of MCI Communications Corporation.
1975 January: MCI public stock offering raises $8.2 million.
The FCC rejects AT&T "Hi-Lo" rates on the grounds that they are not cost justified.
March: AT&T succeeds in having legislation introduced in both the House and Senate in an effort to thwart competition in the telephone industry.
MCI's new service offering - Telemanagement — is installed for CNA in Chicago, MCI's first customer.
April: MCI finalizes a lease agreement with Andrews Corpora-action providing MCI with $1 million in financing this year and $2 million next year.
The FCC temporarily suspends AT&T's Hi-Lo replacement tariff and orders an investigation into the legality of AT&T's new Multi-Schedule Private Line (MPL) rate structure.
An Oral Hearing is held concerning Execunet after which the FCC directs the Common Carrier Bureau to (what)? Next line below:

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1976 May: write an order affirming their decision of July 2, 1975, that Execunet is not within the scope of MCI's authorized services.
Through an agreement with WTCI, Denver is being added to the MCI network by way of Omaha.
June: The FCC finds all revisions made by AT&T in connection with their WATS rates (filed since 1974) unlawful.
The Chicago - St. Louis overbuild is completed thus increasing its capacity from 1500 channels to 5400 channels.
New York's second Execunet switch becomes operational.
July: The FCC directs all common carriers to remove any sharing/reselling restrictions from their tariffs by September 1, 1976.
MCI files a formal complaint with the FCC stating that the Bell Companies have been overcharging them for local interconnection.
August: For the first time, MCI posts a positive income for operations during the first quarter of fiscal 1977.
MCI's CCSA tariff becomes effective.
September: MCI's Service 12 (metered-use tariff) becomes effective.
MCI's Shared Private Line Service (SPLS) tariff is rejected by the FCC, on the grounds that it is not within the lawful operating authority of MCI.

October: The Communications Subcommittee of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee holds "exploratory hearings" on competition in communications.
MCI achieves net income of $105,000 — the first month in its history for which positive results have been posted.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia modifies the Execunet stay. It orders MCI not to solicit new Execunet customers after November 19, 1976, but allows MCI to maintain those currently in operation.
November: St. Louis, Missouri and Irving, Texas overbuild is completed.
December: MCI's third quarter ended December 31, 1976, reports a net income of $1,230,000 —- revenue of $16.3 million.

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1977 February: The FCC approves two out of the three options provided in MCI's SPLS tariff.
March: MCI is listed in Standard and Poor's Directory.
The FCC rules that terminal equipment manufacturers are not required to use any of Bell's "protective" devices in interconnection if they register their equipment with the FCC.
AT&T files tariff modifications to cancel TELPAK (their bulk discount rates) effective June 8, 1977, due to the fact that it cannot exist in a selling and resale environment.
April: MCI finalizes negotiations with its five lending banks to stretch out repayment of their bank debt from 2.5 years to 7 years.
To more effectively compete with Bell's new MPL rates, MCI files tariff revisions to adjust its rates. MCI's average is now approximately 10% below Bell's MPL rates.
MCI presents an oral argument on Execunet at the U.S. Court of Appeals.
AT&T files a new tariff for WATS rates.
May: Construction is begun on the Ohio Valley System — approximately a $6 million project.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia orders AT&T to continue supplying Telpak to existing customers under existing terms and conditions.
The Court of Appeals unanimously decides that MCI is entitled to offer its Execunet service over its authorized facilities, and remands the case to the FCC for further proceedings, if any. (Execunet I)
August: The Court of Appeals grants the stay of mandate sought by FCC and AT&T pending applications to the Supreme Court for writ of certiorari.
September: House Communications Subcommittee holds hearings on Consumer Communications Reform Act - the "Bell Bill". MCI testifies against the measure.
1977 November: MCI announces that its continued listing on the NASDAQ stock quotation system is in question because of the Company’s negative net worth.

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U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the right of the Justice Department to press its antitrust action against AT&T.
1978 January:U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the Execunet decision. The mandate of the Court of Appeals issues and MCI may once again market Execunet.
AT&T tells the FCC that AT&T believes that it has no present obligation to make available to MCI additional local interconnections for Execunet.
MCI formally inaugurates service in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Columbus.
February: FCC agrees with AT&T that that Company is not presently required to make additional local interconnections available to MCI for Execunet expansion. MCI appeals this 6-1 decision to the Court of Appeals.
At the same time, FCC announces start of a new docket, MTS and WATS market structure inquiry, designed to determine whether there is any role for monopoly in that market.
House Communications Subcommittee agrees with its chairman, Lionel Van Deerlin of California, to undertake a "basement-to-attic" rewrite of the Communications Act of 1934.
April: The Court of Appeals directs the FCC to instruct AT&T that that Company must indeed make local interconnection available to MCI for Execunet expansion (Execunet II).
At the State level, the Texas Public Service Commission similarly orders Southwestern Bell to provide MCI the local interconnections it requires to expand Execunet on an intrastate basis.
May: The full Court of Appeals declines to hear the Execunet
case reargued, and FCC and AT&T press on the Supreme
Court. ;
U.S. Supreme Court denies FCC and AT&T a stay of the Court of Appeals order directing FCC to instruct AT&T to make available to MCI the local interconnections required for Execunet expansion. Execunet marketing and installation may once again resume.
AT&T files tariff for what it calls Exchange Network Facilities for Interstate Access (ENFIA), seeking to triple rates MCI pays for Execunet interconnections.

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1978 May: Discovery in MCI's antitrust action against AT&T is completed.
June: MCI announces inauguration of Execunet in six new cities - Akron, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Wilmington - the filing of 10 additional cities for Execunet, and the revision of Execunet's rate to a flat 26.5 cents per minute of use.
House Communications Subcommittee releases text of the Communications Act rewrite in which competition is identified as the guiding principle for U.S. telecommunications .
FCC, in a major policy shift, instructs staff to process and grant all common carrier service and facility applications in routine manner, regardless of the :. . .__ applicant, conditioning licenses only on the final outcome of the Commission's inquiry into the MTS and WATS market structure.
July: House Communications Subcommittee commences extensive hearings on the Communications Act rewrite. MCI testifies that "rewrite reflects reality that there is no monopoly in intercity long distance".
August: FCC begins general investigation of MCI's Metered Use Service, which includes Execunet, and of the lawfulness of its tariff schedules.
September: MCI, AT&T and other interested parties begin a series of negotiations under FCC auspices to arrive at a mutually agreeable rate which specialized carriers will pay for switched service interconnection facilities. Major participants in these "ENFIA" negotiations include AT&T, GTE, OPASTCO, MCI, SPCC, ITT, USITA and NTIA.
November: U.S. Supreme Court declines to review Court of Appeals decision directing FCC to instruct AT&T to furnish MCI the interconnections required for Execunet expansion Execunet litigation is at an end.
December: MCI and other parties to the ENFIA negotiations sign an Interim Settlement Agreement which specifies the interim payments other common carriers are to make for access to the local exchange facilities of local telcos in providing Execunet/SPRINT-type interstate services.
MCI completes a public offering of 1,229,000 shares of new Convertible Preferred Stock at $25 per share, raising $28.6 million net to the Company.

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1979 February: completed from Phoenix to Los Angeles.
March: Senate and House bills introduced to revise the 1934 Communications Act.
MCI's second route to the West Coast, from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, goes into operation.
April: FCC approves ENFIA Interim Settlement Agreement, and AT&T's ENFIA tariff becomes effective.
MCI files second antitrust suit against AT&T and some independent telcos for monopolizing the intercity telecommunications market in violation of the Sherman Act. This suit covers AT&T's monopolization efforts since 1975.
May: MCI officials testify before House and Senate subcommittees on common carrier sections of proposed legislation.
June: MCI realizes about $3.6 million from the exercise of 1.8 million warrants.
MCI introduces discounted evening and night rates in addition to a "multiple city maximum charge".
August: FCC asks for comments on what the market structure of MTS and WATS should be.
Customers are offered the use of an MCI Credit Card, /• which allows Execunet calls to be placed from 30 major cities using a universal credit card number.
September: MCI raises $69.5 million through sale of 4,950,000 shares of convertible preferred stock.
October: FCC begins inquiry whether "non-dominant" carriers like MCI should be freed from many present regulatory rules.
Per minute usage charges applicable to Execunet, Quick-line, and Network Service are increased by 4 percent. MCI introduces optional travel feature of Execunet which will compete favorably with AT&T's credit card calling.
November: MCI opens new switching centers in Phoenix, Cincinnati, and St. Louis and new terminals in New York and Chicago.
December: MCI provides its Execunet customers free Christmas Day calling and introduces $10 metered use service subscription fee which customer may substitute for present monthly minimum charge.

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1980 January: Ending a five year-old inquiry, the FCC finds that competition in telephone private line and terminal equipment markets continues to benefit consumers.
February: MCI v. AT&T antitrust suit gets underway in Chicago.
FCC opens inquiry on permitting resale and sharing of AT&T's MTS and WATS services.
MCI limits to 15 the number of authorization codes available to each metered use service customer.
March: MCI begins offering residential long distance service in Denver and Cincinnati, and unleashes an extensive media advertising program.
April: The FCC proposes an access charge plan under which interexchange carriers would pay more to local carriers for the use of their facilities in providing all long distance services.
MCI offers a 70% night and weekend discount applicable to the distance-sensitive usage charges for its metered use service.
May: Acting under Court instructions, the FCC presents a schedule for settling the WATS tariff dispute by May 1981.
June: A Chicago jury returns a verdict in MCI's favor and awards the Company $600 million in damages (trebled under law to $1.8 billion) in its antitrust suit against AT&T.
July: The House Commerce Committee favorably reports a bill dealing with the regulation of telecommunications common carriers and the structure of the industry.
August: MCI receives net proceeds of $50.5 million from its public offering of debentures.
The FCC officially determines that competition, not monopoly, should be the standard for the MTS and WATS services market.
The FCC votes to eliminate various regulatory rules for non-dominant carriers.
Ronald A. Schaffer joins MCI Telecommunication in 1980 as a technical Service Reparative. TSR and had his FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION RADIO TELEPHONE OPERATOR LICENSE Place and Date of Issuance: Denver, Colorado 23 November 1976
Date and Time Expiration: 23 November 1981 at Three O’clock A. M. Easter Stand Time. W.G. George & Ronald A. Schaffer
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The Historic Brown Derby

The Historic Brown Derby

About the turn of the twentieth century Lon sniff built the first brick building in Deer Trail, where he operated a saloon. The upstairs was used for dancing, roller skating, theater, church service, and other community activities. The first high school classes were also held here. This brick building was located on First Avenue across from the White Hotel.
Arapahoe County was 'dry' a few years before prohibition, about 1917. Lon Sniff was forced to close his saloon. He moved to a building just over the Elbert County line on Highway 40. about three or four miles south of town. He called it "Binnville."
U. S. Prohibition was in effect from 1921 to 1932. During this time there were many "stills" around the country, where people made and sold booze, homemade beer, and wine. The sheriffs were kept busy trying to close down all these stills.
After prohibition ended, a few restaurants started serving liquor by the drink. On May 1.1935 a Spirituous Liquor License to sell drinks in Deer Trail was granted to Dorothy M. Crandall, Crandall Cafe, also had roller skating in the back hall, now also part of the Brown Derby. Wheat was also stored in this hall at one time. In 1936 the Crandalls moved their restaurant down the block. Dorothy named it "The Brown Derby." Currently the Brown Derby is owned and operated by Glenn Kunkei. That has change and unknown who is the owner, as it is up for sale. The economy has a big roll in the Brown Derby in the last few years and has been sold to different people over the last 8 years without any success. Copy by: Ron Schaffer update.
(From the book, History of Deer Trail)


Deer Trail's First Rodeo Begun on a Bet
By Floyd Pakuer
Those who like rodeo should give thanks,
because of what happened in 1869 on the East Bijou
banks.
The place to compete was not far from the rail, a small town in the west called "Deer Trail." The wager was made, the date was all set, a new suit
of clothes is what the winner would get. Now. the riders were cowboys who worked for the
outfits around The Hashkife, the Campstool, and the
Mill Iron. The crowd that came to see this contest
didn't do it by chance. They traveled in buckboards and wagons to watch rawhide and denim dance.
These horses would kick and strike you. They were nobody's pet.
Real means Broncos, just as bad as they get. The horse would be snubbed to let the rider get set. This started a ride that no one would forget. Montana Blizzard, a horse who was a bad one to buck, and Emilnie Gardenshire, a cowboy who was to try his luck. The ole bronc would kick, pitch, and duck, with such great force you would swear that the devil must have made this horse. He was one of the worst broncos that ever grew hair, but that didn't matter 'cause that cowboy would stay right there.
When the dust had settled and the bucking had quit, this ended the ride that had Begun on a Bet.

1965 - Search and Destroy

1965 - Search and Destroy



That what we were doing in South Vietnam during my tour of Vietman in 1965
(Ron Schaffer)
Critics like Andrew Krepinevich have argued that the United States and South Vietnam could have succeeded in Vietnam had they only dispersed their troops into the villages to control the population, instead of using large numbers of troops in search-and-destroy operations. But such a shift would have caused the enemy to shift gears, too, by massing forces and defeating the dispersed forces in detail — the Communists actually did so on a number occasions, and their strategic deliberations show that they viewed South Vietnamese regulars, notmilitia units, as the principal obstacle to victory.

The three most basic operations or missions were search and destroy, clearing, and security. These terms and the concepts they described were new, and like most new names and ideas, they were understood by some and misunderstood by others. Best known and most misunderstood was search and destroy. Search and destroy operations began in 1964, before U.S. ground forces were committed. These operations were conducted to locate the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong main force units in and around their base areas and to attack them by fire and maneuver. Since enemy infiltration of the populated areas depended heavily on the availability of base areas near the population centers, destruction of close-in base areas received priority attention.

The second of the three basic missions was clearing. Clearing operations were conducted to drive enemy forces away from populated areas and to allow small units to carry on securing activities among the people. These operations upset the pattern of mutual support that was essential to the enemy's integrated main force-local force effort. Operation IRVING demonstrated the clearing of the central coastal area of Binh Dinh Province and the effects of the operation on the inhabitants.

Securing operations, the last of the three missions, were directed at the enemy in the hamlets-at the infrastructure and the farmers by day and at the Viet Cong guerrillas by night-who operated individually as well as in squads and platoons. These enemy elements required tactics that were different from those used against the main forces. Saturation patrols and squad-size ambushes, which were highly risky in the jungle against the main forces, proved to be effective against the local guerrillas. During securing operations, U.S. and allied forces maintained a respect for private property and for the people whose hearts and minds were the objectives of the enemy forces.

General Maxwell D. Taylor, who was appointed Ambassador to Saigon in mid-1964, believed that a carefully calibrated air campaign would be the most effective means of exerting pressure against the North and, at the same time, the method least likely to provoke intervention by China. Taylor thought conventional Army ground forces ill suited to engage in day-to-day counterinsurgency operations against the Viet Cong in hamlets and villages. Ground forces might, however, be used to protect vital air bases in the South and to repel any North Vietnamese attack across the demilitarized zone, which separated North from South Vietnam. Together, a more vigorous counterinsurgency effort in the South and military pressure against the North might buy time for Saigon to put its political house in order, boost flagging military and civilian morale, and strengthen its military position in the event of a negotiated peace.

Throughout the spring of 1965 the Viet Cong sought to disrupt pacification and oust the government from many rural areas. The insurgents made deep inroads in the central coastal provinces and withstood government efforts to reduce their influence in the Delta and in the critical provinces around Saigon. Committed to static defense of key towns and bases, government forces were unable or unwilling to respond to attacks against rural communities.

By the summer of 1965, the Viet Cong, strengthened by several recently infiltrated NVA regiments, had gained the upper hand over government forces in some areas of South Vietnam. With U.S. close air support and the aid of Army helicopter gunship’s, Saigon's forces repelled many enemy attacks, but suffered heavy casualties. Elsewhere highland camps and border outposts had to be abandoned. ARVN's cumulative losses from battle deaths and desertions amounted to nearly a battalion a week. Saigon was hard pressed to find men to replenish these heavy losses and completely unable to match the growth of Communist forces from local recruitment and infiltration.

In early March 1965, General Harold K. Johnson, Chief of Staff of the Army, was in South Vietnam to assess the situation. Upon returning to Washington, he recommended a substantial increase in American military assistance, including several combat divisions. He wanted U.S. forces either to interdict the Laotian panhandle to stop infiltration or to counter a growing enemy threat in the central and northern provinces.

The commitment of U.S. forces in 1965 prevented the enemy from attaining his objectives and averted collapse in the south. In this environment of impending disaster U.S. units were first ordered to search for and destroy or neutralize North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong forces, base areas, and supply points. The question of how best to use large numbers of American ground forces was still unresolved on the eve of their deployment. Focusing on population security and pacification, some planners saw U.S. combat forces concentrating their efforts in coastal enclaves and around key urban centers and bases. Under this plan, such forces would provide a security shield behind which the Vietnamese could expand the pacification zone; when required, American combat units would venture beyond their enclaves as mobile reaction forces. This concept, largely defensive in nature, reflected the pattern established by the first Army combat units to enter South Vietnam.

But the mobility and offensive firepower of U.S. ground units suggested their use in remote, sparsely populated regions to seek out and engage main force enemy units as they infiltrated into South Vietnam or emerged from their secret bases. The pattern of deployment that actually developed in South Vietnam was a compromise between the first two concepts. On 28 July 1965, President Johnson announced plans to deploy additional combat units and to increase American military strength in South Vietnam to 175,000 by year's end.

During 1966 and 1967, the Americans engaged in a constant search for tactical concepts and techniques to maximize their advantages of firepower and mobility and to compensate for the constraints of time, distance, difficult terrain, and an inviolable border. Here the war was fought primarily to prevent the incursion of NVA units into South Vietnam and to erode their combat strength. In the highlands, each side pursued a strategy of military confrontation, seeking to weaken the fighting forces and will of its opponent through attrition. Each sought military victories to convince opposing leaders of the futility of continuing the contest. For the North Vietnamese, however, confrontation in the highlands had the additional purpose of relieving allied pressure in other areas, where pacification jeopardized their hold on the rural population.

Four phases of the Vietnam strategy have been described by General Westmoreland. All four phases emphasized strengthening the Republic of Vietnam armed forces. In addition, during the first phase, from mid-1965 to mid-1966, the enemy offensive was blunted.. The second phase, from mid-1966 to the end of 1967, saw the mounting of major offensives that forced the enemy into defensive positions and drove him away from the population centers. In phase three, beginning in early 1968, the Vietnamese armed forces were additionally strengthened, and more of the war effort was turned over to them. The final phase called for further weakening of the enemy and strengthening of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam as the U.S. role became, in the words of General Westmoreland, "progressively superfluous."

The third phase of the war began in early 1968. Although the objectives of the second phase included wearing down the enemy and driving him away from the population centers, they did not take into consideration that the enemy was a victim of his own propaganda, that he was irrational, or that he was prepared to pay an awesome price to enter the cities of South Vietnam.

Early in the third phase the U.S. command recognized that the term "search and destroy" had unfortunately become associated with "aimless searches in the jungle and the destruction of property." In April 1968 General Westmoreland therefore directed that the use of the term be discontinued. Operations thereafter were defined and discussed in basic military terms which described the type of operation, for example, reconnaissance in force. Besides avoiding the mis-understanding of search and destroy operations, the change expressed the difference between U.S. operations in the early stages of the war and those conducted during the third phase. In the early stages, the terms "clearing," "securing," and "search and destroy" had served as doctrinal teaching points to show the relationship between military operations and the pacification effort. They had been adopted in 1964 for use by military and civilian agencies involved in pacification. By 1968, when the terms were dropped, the pacification program had developed to the point where civilian-military co-ordination was routine.
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"Did You Vote Today"

November 2nd, 2010

I sure hope Dennis voted for the Democrats this time, I mean Republican?

As he wants all the Democrats out, just like George Bush did for 8 years and they got us in trouble…lmao lol

Comment by: Dennis, How much cost of living did u get the last 2 years with democrats in office>>>>> $0.00.....the first time in 20 years but they voted themselves a raise....twice....in 1 year......go figure? who needs to go?

Ron's Comment Back:
That’s the Government for you, it does not matter what party you favor, like I said, “They are all crooks when they get elected. But, we only get stimulus money of $250.00 again this coming year, maybe if the ones that are voted in will stop it forever on the SSI and DAV. And you cannot fight the Government….!! We should have never been in Vietnam, just like George Bush did with IRAQ and screwed up the 8 years while in office, as he like to start a war, but Obama did the same as John McCain did….requested to continue the war, now in Afghanistan which we should never been there too. The United States needs to mind there own business and take care of the U. S. And not foreign countries. Charity starts at home and help the needy ones that are starving today and children. When they bail out the auto makers, at least they pay back the Government that was given to them, plus interests, the banks all suck and most of them will not lend money on foreclosures and the housing market is in the bottom of the barrel. A $250.000.00 house when bought 10 years ago are not worth $100,000.00 today, now the banks own them. Should I go on…..??

This is what the Republicans want to do, and this is only the tip of the iceberg..!!

TAKING AWAY YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE FOR YOUR OWN SENATORS

The 17th Amendment To The United State Constitution Allows For Direct Election of Senators By The People. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution. [17th Amendment to the United States Constitution]

Buck Supported Repeal of the 17th Amendment
Question: “Would You Be In Favor of Repealing…the 17th Amendment in Order to Bring Back the Legislature’s Voice in the National Congress?”
Buck: “The short answer is yes.” [Ken Buck Campaign Speech, Pikes Peak Economics Club, 6/17/09]

Buck Thought 17th Amendment Had a “Horrendous” Effect, Wanted to Repeal it. Buck said, “I don’t know that we get [repeal] tomorrow, but I think we get there in the very near future when people understand just what a horrendous effect the 17th amendment has been on the federal government’s spending.”[Ken Buck Campaign Speech, Pikes Peak Economics Club, 6/17/09]

Buck Thought it Would be Better to Let State Legislatures Elect United States Senators Instead of the American People. In June 2009, Buck told the Pikes Peak Economics Club that the American public needed to be educated “about the populist nature of the 17th Amendment and how it has taken us down the wrong path. How states could very well pass amendments and the same types of protection of women and victims that the federal government has forced on the states and wouldn’t force on the states with senators who are elected by the state legislatures and not by the people in a process that involves a lot more politicization of those elections.” [Ken Buck Campaign Speech, Pikes Peak Economics Club, 6/17/09]

RISKING YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY ON THE STOCK MARKET

Buck Said He Would Consider Privatizing Social Security. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, “Mr. Buck said he would consider some privatization of Social Security but wanted to be sure needy seniors retain a safety net.” [Wall Street Journal, 7/26/10]

Buck Suggested that Government Should Not Be Running Health Care or Retirement, and That The Private Sector Runs it Better. At the Constitutionalist Today forum, Buck said “I don’t know that the federal government should be involved in a retirement plan. It should be a plan that certainly, once people pay into it, they have an expectation of getting a retirement and they’re entitled to that. But the idea that the federal government should be running health care or retirement or any of those programs is fundamentally against what I believe. And that is that the private sector runs programs like that far better.” [Constitutionalist Today Forum, 3/9/10]

Newsday: Wall Street Would Pull In Big Bucks Under Private Social Security Accounts. “No one knows whether workers would prosper in private Social Security accounts, but financial firms would likely pull in big bucks. From mutual fund managers to brokerage firms to investment advisers, financial-services companies could in time earn hundreds of millions of dollars a year in fees and other revenue if workers were allowed to invest part of their payroll taxes in the stock market, as President George W. Bush is proposing.” [Newsday, 2/20/05]

Buck: Individuals Should Invest Their Own Social Security Funds. Buck told 9NEWS during a debate with his Republican primary opponent Jane Norton, "We've got to peg Social Security to individuals so those individuals have the ability perhaps to invest in various funds that are approved by the government. But those individuals also own that fund." [9News Your Show Debate, 7/22/10]

WANTS TO ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Buck Wants to Abolish the Department of Education. At a campaign appearance at Burlington Community College, Buck said that he would be in favor of abolishing the Department of Education.
Question: You mentioned education. Would you be in favor of abolishing the Department of Education at the Federal level?
Buck: “I would be in favor.” [Burlington Community College, 1/10/10]

Buck Wants to End Federal Student Loans. At a campaign stop in Teller County, Buck said: “There are some programs within education that we can get rid of tomorrow. There are other programs that are gonna have to take some time to get rid of like student loans.” [Teller County Tea Party Event, 2/6/10]

Buck: Ending Student Loans is “The Reality.” As reported by the Wall Street Journal: “I've never heard one person say 'Take my kid's student loans away,'’ [Buck] said, referring to his stance that the government should get out of the college-loan business. ‘But it's the reality.’” [Wall Street Journal, 7/26/10]

Buck: “I Don’t Think That Our Founding Fathers Ever Intended For The Federal Government to Have Student Loans.” [Greenhorn Valley Town Hall, 3/3/10]

DANGEROUS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES

Buck Supports the Colorado Personhood Amendment. Ken Buck endorses the Colorado Personhood ballot measure (Amendment 62), which states that life begins at the “moment of fertilization” and bans abortions in all cases including rape, incest and when the life of the mother is at risk. [Grand Junction Press, 5/28/10]

Buck: Vote for Me “Because I Don’t Wear High Heels”. During a speech given to the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party on July 17, 2010, Buck told supporters that they should vote for him “because I don’t wear high heels.” [Buck Remarks, 7/17/10]

Most people lived way over them means, 3 to 4 cars, boat, camper trailer, toys like motorcycles, guns, you name it they got it and they cannot afford that and go into foreclosures with a house that cost over $250,000.00 then they cannot pay for it with the high cost of interest payments on credit cards too!

Plus no jobs or work thanks to the George Bush administration in 8 years in Office and spending the SSI and DAV monthly benefits money to support IRAQ now Afghanistan. That is the main reason that the cost of living stop for SSI and Disabled Veterans.

The ax has fallen: Barack Obama captured the White House in 2008 on the strength of his personal magnetism, optimism that he could lift a sinking economy, an energized party base -- and by winning key battleground states. The results of the 2010 midterm elections revealed considerable erosion in these assets, which proved so vital to his winning coalition.

Unless Mr. Obama can reverse these trends then he will become the fourth one-term president in the last four decades, following the path of Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980, and George H. W. Bush in 1992.
Falling Popularity

One week after Mr. Obama took office, the non-partisan Gallup Poll found 66 percent of Americans approved of him, including 88 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents. Even 38 percent of Republicans gave him positive evaluations.
The 2010 exit polls showed that support for the president has fallen considerably from this high water mark. Overall, 45 percent of midterm voters approve of the way Mr. Obama is handling his job as president. Only 40 percent of independent voters and 10 percent of Republican voters give the president positive approval ratings. Support among Democrats is 84 percent.

Obama will have to substantially improve his approval rating, and quickly, if he expects to win again in 2012. Of the nine presidents who have sought re-election since Gallup began measuring presidential approval in forties, five of them had approval ratings below 50 percent after their first two years in office. However, none of the nine won a second term when less than half of the public approved of their performance twelve months before the general election.

At the time of the 2008 presidential election, the recession was well under way. Unemployment had risen from 4.7 percent in October 2007 to 6.6 percent in October 2008. Election Day found an overwhelming number of voters (93 percent) rating the economy negatively, including 44 percent of the electorate who judged the economy as poor. Worse, a majority of voters (53 percent) thought the economy would not get any better in the next year.

Mr. Obama was the clear choice of voters concerned with the economy. Voters who rated the economy as poor cast 66 percent of their ballots for Mr. Obama. Of those voters who did think economy would get better in the next year, 61 percent voted for Mr. Obama.

Since the president has taken office, though, the economy has not improved. It has instead continued to slide. The most recent unemployment figures show that the unemployment rate at 9.6 percent in September 2010.
Despite the recession commencing well before he took office, the exit polls show that Mr. Obama and the Democrats are now bearing some of the responsibility for the struggling economy. Twenty-three percent of voters believe that Mr. Obama is more to blame for the economic problems in this country than Wall Street bankers or George W. Bush. Sixty-five percent think the Obama Administration's economic stimulus plan has hurt the economy or made no difference.

If history is telling, than the economy will need to improve considerably over the next two years for Mr. Obama to be re-elected. Of the last nine presidents to seek re-election, none succeeded when the unemployment rate was 7.5 percent of greater in September of the year they sought re-election. The September unemployment rate in the year Jimmy Carter lost was 7.5 percent, while it was 7.6 percent for both Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush.

Mr. Obama won in 2008 by energizing and exciting the Democratic base. Historically Democratic groups like young people, African Americans, and union members turned out in large numbers. Some commentators went so far as to suggest that it was a realigning election, capable of producing a sustained period of Democratic dominance.

The 2010 midterm elections showed that such judgments were premature as turnout amongst a number of these groups fell considerably. Young people between the ages of 18 and 29 comprised 18 percent of the electorate in 2008, but only 11 percent of the electorate in 2010. Union voters comprised 23 percent of the electorate in 2008, but only 17 percent in 2010. African Americans made up 13 percent of the electorate in 2008, but only 10 percent of the electorate in 2010.

If these groups are not re-energized and head to the polls in 2012, it will likely spell defeat for Obama in his bid for re-election.
Battleground States Swinging Back

Mr. Obama won the 2008 presidential election by converting nine key states from the Republican column to the Democratic column. Majorities in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia voted for Obama after backing George W. Bush four years earlier. If Mr. Obama had not won these states he would have lost to Sen. John McCain 285 to 253 in the Electoral College, rather than winning by a 365 to 173 electoral vote margin.
The 2010 midterm elections show that Mr. Obama has his work cut out for him if he hopes to retain these key states in the 2012 election. Of the House seats that changed from Democrat to Republican, nearly a third flipped in these nine swing states. On the Senate side, Republican candidates won races in Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, and North Carolina by double-digit margins.

Despite these daunting challenges for Mr. Obama, they have been overcome in the not so distant past. Ronald Reagan faced similar circumstances in the 1982 midterm elections, but was able to reverse these trends over the next two years and easily defeat Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential election.

At the 1982 midterm, Mr. Reagan's approval rating was only 43 percent. The unemployment rate hovered over 10 percent. Republican base groups turned out in lower numbers. As a result, the Republicans lost 29 seats in the House, including several in key battleground states such as Florida, California and North Carolina.

By the start of the 1984 general election, the unemployment rate had dropped precipitously to 7.2 percent. Mr. Reagan's approval rating had improved with the economy, reaching 56 percent. The Republican based was energized and Mr. Reagan rolled to a landslide victory in his re-election bid - a win that seemed quite unlikely just two years earlier.

Barack Obama faces a much different political landscape in 2010 than the one encountered by Mr. Reagan in 1984. The structure of the U.S. economy has changed, posing different challenges for job creation. Public officials are far more polarized, making the passage of legislation that much more difficult. Voters also appear more fickle, as evidenced by the degree of turnover in recent elections.
Only time will tell whether Barack Obama can turn the tide like Ronald Reagan -- or be swept away by it like Jimmy Carter. Either way, he is on the clock.

The CBS News exit polls were conducted by Edison Research for the National Election Pool. Results are based on 16,982 voters interviewed either after exiting the polls across the nation or by telephone if they voted early. They have a margin of error of plus or minus two percentage points. One copy by: Ron Schaffer November 3, 2010

Now that the Republicans are taking over the house with the vote that happened November 2nd, 2010, what is going to happen now? Only time will tell… as the problems with the economy cannot be done over night. We wish them all the luck in the world.


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