American Haiku: This Is Roger Madon and This Is What I Think.

By Roger Madon

This book is a transliteration of a audio presentations which were prepared for radio and were heard by millions of listeners througout the country.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781468541571

Roger Madon

I was born in 1936 which, for the mathematically challenged, makes me three quarters of a century old. After my birth my parents moved from Brooklyn, NY to Ozone Park, NY which, metaphorically speaking is like moving from the Russian Pale to Sicily. And it was in Ozone Park that I learned about loyalty to those who stood by you when things got a bit rough and love of family. I also realized, while growing up in Ozone Park that I was one of the luckiest people on earth because I was born and lived in America. Though I loved America I didn’t fully understand what it meant to be an American until I sojourned in France for a year and served in Zamboanga, on the island of Mindanao, Philippine Islands for two years. It’s one thing to be an American while living in America, it’s quite another to be an American while living with “foreigners.” People in foreign climes observe Americans as those who walk boldly and talk without fear of reprisal. Not being a tourist but rather a resident I had the opportunity to observe the indigenous reaction of both their amusement and apprehension. During the last 40 years I have been a practicing labor lawyer representing both unions and employers. I am probably one of the few political conservatives who have ever had the opportunity to observe the operation of a labor organization from the inside. I cannot count the times during which I have spent in the sanctum sanctorum of the offices of a union discussing organizing or negotiating strategy or the philosophy of trade unionism. Needless to say this was put to good use when representing employers. The same can be said when representing unions. In the course of my life I earned a BA in biology and three law degrees. I have also studied American history, national security, foreign and domestic policy. Today our beloved country is in a war of political ideologies. If we lose this war, the result will be the termination of the greatest democratic experiment known to the human race. Few of us realize we are in this battle and even those who are enlightened do not appreciate the terrible outcome which may be our destiny. As American citizens, it is our responsibility to protect our birthright and perpetuate the legacy of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness for our future generations. Becoming aware and sharing ideas is the first step towards making a difference. This book, made up of no more than 2 minutes of reading for each subject embraced is designed to be read on a bus or subway or during a time when you are on a short break from the mundane and quotidian. Each slice of reading is undated giving you an opportunity to guess the time when written or better yet in the hope that each one slice is considered timeless. Enjoy! I am married to the same women for 42 years and have two children, one daughter, a mother and an attorney and one son who is a civil servant for the Federal government and is an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves. I spend my time in the City of New York and the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts and thanking God every day I live in this wonderful country. This book is a transliteration of a audio presentations which were prepared for radio and were heard by millions of listeners througout the country.

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First published by AuthorHouse 01/21/2012

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CONTENTS

2012 Budget

A chaotic universe

A country at war

A dollar short

A dose of reality

A dying giant

A mother’s lesson

A new day for public sector unions

A president of the U.S.

Accidental president

After the election

Agenda of Reps

Agreeing wiith Obama

Airport security

Alien in the WH

All socialism leads to tyanny

All wars are wars of choice

America and its God

America and radical Islam

American Jews and their support of Israel

American story

America’s belief

America’s future

America’s military dominance

America’s Socialist Unions

Andrew Cuomo

Armed and dangerous women

Article III

Article III Redux

As if it were yesterday

A Walk In the Park

Baseball and Obama

Blaming Bush

Boeing

Bush light

Cain’s question

Can we talk

Casey Anthony

Chicago ward politics

China surpasses Japan

China thinking the unthinkable

Chris Wallace

Christean Fundamentalism and the RP

Christian Fundamentalism

Church and state

Conservatives and the Republican Party

CRA

Crazylikeafox

David Mamet

Democrat strategy

Don’t ask, don’t tell

Dooms day bomb

Drunks and America

Economic mess

Economyandtheenvironment

Election Day

End game

Enemy of the people

Equal pay for equal work

Failed treaty

Failing schools

Faisal Shahzad

FDR and Obama

Finding OBL

Fixing the enemy

France in Arizona

Free

Gabrielle Giffords

Germany and the EU

Giunta

Global warming II

Goldman Sachs is the bookie

Governor Bob McDonnell proclaimed April 2010 as Confederate History Month

Gusher

Habit of spending

Hamann’s rule

He died on my birth day

Herminated

High priests defrocked

Hoffa and Obama

Holder and Arizona law

How do Republicans win in 2010

Hypocrisy

Hypothetical

I have never met a poor Socialist

If His Surname Weren’t Bush

Immigration Arizona

Immigration II

Inconsequential

Iranattack

Iran’s atomic bomb

Israel and Obama II

Israel’s 1967 Borders

China and India

It is a tale of two countries

It is in our vital national interest to reduce conflicts

It is unseemly to hit a man when he is down

Jewish New Year

Jews and Obama

Jews in wonderland

John Kerry on the hunt

Kim Jong Il

Knowing We Are At War

Leadership luck

Liberal belief systems

Liberal Jews and Obama

Liberal tactic

Lincoln and Thanksgiving

Lincoln rule

Losing ground

Lost population

Luck and Obama

Lucky the Cat

Maccabee

Martial vernacular

McChrystal

Memorial Day

Mexican immigration

MLRJ’s Day

MRAP

Muslim in America

My blind right eye.

My mother

Never Again

New Cold War

NLRB’s new election rules

Obama and Socialism

Obama and State of Union

Obama and the American people

Obama one term president II

Obama’s 2 debt ceiling principles

Obama’s big stick

Obama’s economy

Obama’s failure to respond

Obama’s Iraq speech

Obama’s lost base

Obama’s Tucson speech

Obama-Secretary General

Occupy Wall Street and Obama

Occupy WS and public sector unions

O’Donnell the weird candidate

Opening of 2 minutes for GR Show

Opinions and facts

Our everyday lives

Pat Tillman and The Irrelevant Elite 1

Paul Krugman

Pay freeze

People Get the Country They Deserve

Power of the President

President Perry

Protesting Against the American Taxpayer

Public sector union dues

Public Sector Unions

Rand Paul

Rangel

Republican voter

Respecing America

Right to be free

Rumsfeld

Russia and freedom

Sadness vs anger

Safety net

Satchel and Barack

Saturday night binge

Shriver and Lieberman

Sirhan Sirhan

Socialism and morality

Socialism and the wealthy

Socialism in America

Socialist on Wall Street

Spoiler

State of the Union

Stealth socialism

Steve Jobs

Sticks and stones

Synecdoche

Taxes and the poor

Taxing the rich

The American Muslim

The American Tsunami

The Blessing of Israel

The Consitution and the American people

The Crucible

The Death of Bin Laden

The Democrats on Wall Street

The Elderly and HCRA

The Future of America

The Future of Private Sector Unions

The Future of the Republican Party

The Japanese

The labor movement in America

The lame-duck president

The Middle East is on fire

The new national security

The plans of Hamid Karzai

The primary rule of war

The real nominee for the RP

The self-correcting economy

The Sherrad case

The Socialist-in-Chief

The Turner Win

The two questions

The war at home

There is no escape

The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms

Thinking domestically and foreign

Third party candidate

Time has run out

Tony Bliar

Trump and Obama

U.S. v. Iran

UK and socialism

UN Human Rights Council

Unlearning on the job

Veteran in a new field

Vietnam war anniversery

Watershed

We miss him

We send them to glory

What is it going to take

When it comes to Socialism the past is impossible to predict

White working class Americans

Whitman vs Brown

Wikileaks and Journalism

World’s policeman

Young Muslim radical Americans

Your own eyes

2012 Budget

Yesterday President Obama sent over to the House of Representatives his 2012 budget. The budget is based on the Socialist belief that as long as you keep providing the American people with benefits, no matter the consequences, they won’t squeal.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

President Obama’s 2012 budget anticipates serious increases in taxes over the next 10 years but does not address the entitlements of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. So according to the Obama budget by year 2020 the American people will for the first time address how we are going to deal with 60% of current spending. Does this bore you? Well that’s exactly what President Obama wants to do. His hope is that after listening to him and the Republicans in the House the American people will finally throw up their hands and turn to more mundane matters, like how to find a job. The trouble is that President Obama’s budget is directly tied to unemployment. As long as his theory of government is to impose more taxes on individuals and companies the chances of reducing unemployment become less.

It wasn’t by coincidence that yesterday it was also announced that a German bank was considering purchasing the NYSE. Yes, the NYSE, the symbol of America’s financial prowess is being purchased by a company whose country we happened to have beaten to a pulp 55 years ago. You would think this is a wake-up call to all Americans that we better start dealing with our fiscal problems. President Obama, the Socialist is betting otherwise.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A chaotic universe

We live in a universe of order and regularity. So says the great popular artist M.C. Escher who is currently being exhibited at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. But it is our experience that it is chaos that rules the day.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Japan today is one of the most advanced nations. Its modern infrastructure surpasses that of most first world countries, including that of the United States. It ranks as one of the top countries in providing education to its young population and its economy is third among the industrial nations. It is free and democratic and its people are in peace with themselves and the rest of the world. When other nations have experienced natural disasters it has always been Japan that has stepped forward with man power and materiel quickly and with abundance.

Due to its great wealth and advanced technology it has done everything a responsible nation can do to plan for the exigencies of life: military defense, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. Since the end of WWII it has in fact experienced many such disasters and addressed them all with aplomb.

Last week Japan experienced an earthquake of 9.0 magnitude and then a tsunami leaving tens of thousands homeless and an incalculable death toll. At least 3 nuclear plants have been destroyed 2 of which have already ready exploded and with their nuclear fuel in possible total melt down. This destruction and mayhem is more than a 100 times greater than that created when atomic were bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during WWII by the United States.

In an orderly universe, when disaster strikes we wonder why me, why did this happen to my child, to those I love. What did I do to deserve this? But in a chaotic universe there is no need for questions. For each day of peace and tranquility we are thankful and feel lucky. In a chaotic universe we do not have to explain the workings of man or God. As Job, of the Old Testament ultimately did, we accept the fact that we live in a universe that we do not understand and accede to its incredible power. But we can prepare as best we can as have the Japanese. And from this we Americans can learn a great deal. But above all, as Pope John II said, Be not afraid.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A country at war

It is one thing for a rich country to share a border with a poor country. It is quite another for a country as peace to share a border with a country at war.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Mexico is a country of 100 million people and is in the midst of a civil war. It is a war which sets in opposition those who wish to live in peace and those who wish to use the country as a gateway to transport illegal drugs to the United States. On average 23 Mexicans are killed every day due to this war. The United States is a country of 300 million and imagine if 70 people were killed every day due to a drug war. That would mean 25,000 people every year would be found dead on our streets, many of them innocent of drug trafficking. This is what is happening to our neighbor to the south.

Right now Americans are looking the other way. Right now all we care about is the fact that Mexicans are crossing our border for what we seem to believe is to find work. We have set up border patrols to stop the influx of human beings. But 2 countries, one at peace and one at war cannot share a border without the country at peace becoming itself engulfed in that war. Especially when the country at peace is the very reason the other country is at war. If this civil war in Mexico does not end soon the violence of that war will spread not only into our border states but right into our cities across the entire country.

And is there anything that is being done by our Federal government about the millions of dollars and numerous caches of guns that cross our border into Mexico which represents the profits of the drug trade? Has the United States Federal government accepted the reality that if the civil war going on in Mexico does not end in victory for the Mexican government it will be carried out on our streets in the cities of New York, Chicago or Los Angeles? If this civil war in Mexico does not end and soon you will reading on the front page of the NY Times that a Marine rifle company crossed the border into Mexico in hot pursuit of a fully armed group of drug traffickers. Then what?

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A dollar short

Last night, at George Washington University, Barack Obama gave the best speech he ever gave during his entire term as president. The problem is he’s a dollar short and a day late. Actually he’s trillions of dollars short and 8 days late.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Eight days ago Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee released his much anticipated The Path to Prosperity. It is an economic blue print for our future and in it he warns the American people that in ten years if we don’t effectively address our current national debt it will grow to an unsustainable 24 trillion dollars. To quote Congressman Ryan about the American economy, We don’t have a taxing problem, we have a spending problem.

A few weeks ago President Obama revealed his budget for 2012 and it wound up with a 1.6 trillion dollar deficit and no plan for the next four years. Congressman Ryan’s report to the American people was a cold bucket of water dumped on President Obama’s future chances of winning the next election. It pointed out, for example, that unless ObamaCare was repealed Medicare and Medicaid would be unsustainable. President Obama’s speech at George Washington University, was a clear attempt to dissemble and mislead. When the husband finds Groucho Marx in bed with his wife, fully clothed I might add, Groucho protests that this is all very innocent. Getting nowhere he finally blurts out Who are you going to believe me or your own eyes? Well, President Obama, I don’t believe you.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A dose of reality

For the first time in decades, observing our politicians in Washington dealing with the recent raising of the debt ceiling, Americans received a solid dose of reality. And you know what, they kind of like it.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Americans, unlike Europeans, don’t hide themselves under the covers when faced with a crisis. The problem is our politicians have no faith in the American people and do everything they can to keep them from the truth. The debt ceiling crisis has become a corker and with the introduction of the Tea Party caucus in the House of Representatives there was little our politicians could do, Democrats or Republicans, to keep this one under the hood.

With a 9.2% unemployment rate, a new health care plan passed by Congress and signed by the President which represents 16% of our GDP and now a debt ceiling that has to be lifted by 2.5 trillion dollars to pay America’s ongoing bills, 40% of which is interest on our loans, Americans are stinking mad.

The media tried to make raising the debt ceiling into high drama. But Congress knew from the very beginning that there was little choice in getting the debt ceiling lifted otherwise they wouldn’t be re-elected in 2012. Becoming one of the unemployed at this particular time is certainly enough to focus a congressman’s mind. America is through the woods for the moment. But the next big truth is going to be that the only way we are going to reduce spending is tackling that big bugaboo, entitlements, you know, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. And that’s what the 2012 election for president and Congress is going to be about. And those politicians better be telling the truth because Americans are waiting for them with pitch forks and tar and feather down the road.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A dying giant

As the doom and gloom merchants spell out America’s collapse in the near future the real disaster is happening across the Atlantic in the country that most believe is the economic and political bulwark of Europe, Germany.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Today Europe relies on Germany as the country with sufficient economic prowess to bail out the failing socialist countries of Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and who knows what other country will require infusions of billions of dollars to prop up their failing social welfare programs. German sycophants point to Germany’s successful socialized medicine program, a successful government pension program, few poor people, if any and no need to be burdened with giant military expenditures. In a phrase it is Socialist heaven.

Well let’s take a close look at this German heaven. Today Germany is plagued by one particular crisis that seems to have no solution which is Germany’s Muslim minority. Unlike the Muslim minority in America which embraces America the Germany Muslim minority seems to have shut itself off from Germany, refuses to speak German and refuses to share in the German and European worldview. The birth rate among German Muslims is 2.4, nearly double that of the native German population which 1.38. Therefore within 6 generations the number of native Germans will be cut in half while the number of Muslim immigrants will quadruple. And that’s only one problem. In 2009 while 100 Germans of working age between 20 and 65 had to provide pensions for 34 people, they will have to generate income for approximately 65 pensioners in 2060. These 3 challenges of Muslim population growth, native German depopulation and aging will have major consequences for the financial sustainability of Germany’s socialist system.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A mother’s lesson

Every mother teaches her children that the world is a mean and vengeful place. During these last 7 days this lesson has not been lost on Herman Cain candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the United States.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Yesterday at a news conference wherein one Sharon Bialek, a discharged employee of National Restaurant Association, nearly 16 years ago when Mr. Cain was then CEO of the Company, revealed that she was sexually assaulted by Mr. Cain while in a parked car. This revelation was made within the context of other, so far unproven and anonymous, charges made throughout the prior week but having to do with sexual harassment not sexual assault.

There are two types of sexual harassment: quid pro quo and hostile environment. It seems that the sexual harassment charges filed against Mr. Cain involved something more in line with hostile environment. In order for a hostile environment harassment claim to succeed, the conduct-sexual advances or hostile behavior-must be unwelcome, based on gender, and severe or pervasive enough to create an abusive work environment as judged by a reasonable person. I take the liberty in perhaps being a bit of a bore in explaining this because it does have a bearing on how this new charge by Ms. Bialek should be evaluated. At the time the alleged sexual assault occurred Ms. Bialek was no longer an employee of National Restaurant Association and therefore was outside the legal definition of sexual harassment. Therefore what we are dealing with is an alleged sexual assault, which I might add happened 16 long years ago. The American people know that Mr. Cain is not running for county sheriff and that there are a lot of national political interests riding on his candidacy, for and against.

These are times when a grown man, even in his sixties, would like to talk to his mother.

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A new day for public sector unions

There is something exciting and enticingly different about our beloved country. And this is being demonstrated right now in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

In 1963 after nearly 100 years of organized labor’s efforts in the state of Wisconsin the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers for the first time in the country gained for its public employee members the right to collectively bargain with respect to their terms and conditions of employment. At the time there were those that expressed concern that it was analogous to putting the wolf in the hen house. Wisconsin voters however were undeterred in their belief that since private sector unions already had the right to collectively bargain with their employers since 1936 under the National Labor Relations Act the time was ripe to provide the same rights to public sector unions. Within a decade nearly 40% of all public sector employees throughout the country gained the right to collective bargaining.

Now we have come full circle. Yesterday, after nearly half a century of collective bargaining in the public sector, the state Senate in Wisconsin repealed this right by a vote of 18 to 1. There wasn’t a Democrat in the Senate chamber since they had fled Wisconsin and are currently ensconced in Illinois believing that this would deny the Senate a quorum prohibiting the Senate to vote on the bill to repeal. This legal technicality didn’t work and now these AWOL Democrats are claiming that democracy no longer exists in the State of Wisconsin. Union protesters have converged upon the capital angry and frustrated unwilling to accept the inevitable.

Those who expressed caution in 1963 have now been proved correct. The wolf has been eating the hens and the hen house is nearly empty. Today the bill goes to the Assembly and then to Governor Scott Walker for his signature.

So what does all this mean to the great American experiment? Unlike China or Russia which have autocratic governments, or even seemingly democratic countries such as France or Germany the American system of democracy has the American people providing the first word and the last word. Today, in Madison, Wisconsin, notwithstanding the anger and anguish of the public sector employee protesters, the American people will have the last word. Now what’s wrong with that?

This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.

A president of the U.S.

Will this President of the United States ever become a president of the United States? If the American people are asking this question in November of 2012 President Obama will serve only one term.

This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.

Let’s start from the top. President Obama doesn’t go to Congress when deliberating about whether the United States should involve itself in the Libyan rebellion, which, constitutionally he doesn’t have to do, but rather seeks UN approval which he seems to believe he is obligated to do.

Then, after the United States obtained UN approval to engage our armed forces, he makes no attempt to come before the American people and explain the basis of his action. This allows his opposition, which ironically comes from his liberal base, to have a field day in attacking the President as just another neo-con in sheep’s clothing.

The Libyan campaign, limited notwithstanding, at least so far, constitutes the sixth American military action involving Muslims in general or the Middle East in particular, over the last 20 years, 3 of which occurred since 9/11. Just to give some clarity to this the United States has not been militarily involved in any other country or region during the same period. It is obvious therefore that those countries or regions that adhere to the Islamic faith, and especially