20/20: A Clear Vision for Our Future

By Bill Muckler

Take a ride through the history of Our Constitution, the values of ownership and freedom and how these concepts shaped the wonderful experiment that is America right up to present times and how the future of America must be shaped. Restore Our Constitution, Respect Our Culture and Reclaim Our Country for our children and their children.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishing
• Release date: Mar 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9780996472425

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20/20: A Clear Vision for Our Future

Restoring our Constitution

Respecting our Culture

Reclaiming our Country

Bill Muckler

DEDICATION

This book is humbly dedicated to the 220 courageous Marines from 1st Battalion 8th Regiment, 18 Sailors and 3 Soldiers who, while on duty to protect us, were taken on 23 October 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon. May Col. Timothy J. Geraghty, USMC Ret. and his 1,800 brave Peacekeepers always be remembered.

CHAPTERS

PART I. RESTORING OUR CONSTITUTION

1. The Vision Continues – Page 15

2. The New Assignment - 31

3. All Aboard the Crazy Train - 46

4. We the People Own America - 61

5. We Own Our Rights - 76

6. The Fabulous First - 85

7. The Sacred Second – 107

8. 3:10 to Liberty - 126

9. The Whole Nine Yards - 138

PART II. RESPECTING OUR CULTURE

10. The New Abnormal - 167

11. The Abnormal Holy Trinity - 181

12. Islam: The Enemy of Humanity - 196

13. Christian Lives Matter - 213

14. American Lives Matter - 226

PART III. RECLAIMING OUR COUNTRY

15. The Hidden Enemy: The Deep State - 239

16. Rotation of Authority: We Need Term Limits - 259

17. The System is Rigged:  QE Fraud -273

18. Lock Down the Damn Border: Who Are These People – 288

19. Let Freedom Ring: Taking Back our Rights - 301

20. Our Clear American Future – 319

CHARACTERS:

Client Regional Vice President: Bob Burns

Client General Manager: Terry Maddox

Plant Manager: Ed Kunigonis

Plant Operations Manager: Ben Kiffmeyer

Plant Engineer: Karl Mugler

Plant Maintenance Manager: Marc Michaels

Plant Safety Director: Justin Elkin

Plant Environmental Director: Connie Scott

Plant Administrative Manager: Marianne Jones

Consultant Operations Chief: A.J. Leone

Consultant Process Director: Tom Rostal

Senior Consultants: Genie Moore, Ron Shock, Dave West

Cover and Art by Vlad Gheneli

Formatting and Editing by Christian Muckler

© Copyright 2020 by Paradigm Publishing LLC

ISBN Number: 978-0-9964724-1-5

PREFACE

The book you are about to read provides a fresh and very readable pathway into learning how our Constitution came about, and what its adherence could and should be to the thinking of a free people.

The unique presentation of these concepts can help American citizens understand what they already possesses. They should straighten the twisted thinking foisted on so many at the undergraduate level. Stop every immigrant and require them to read, and pass a test in English, on a clear vision for our future.

Incoming congressmen are given a thorough orientation to their new responsibility. Would that they be required to read and understand a clear vision for our future. -- Carl Muckler.

INTRODUCTION

A DECLARATION OF RIGHTS made by the representatives of the good people of Virginia, assembled in full and free Convention, which rights do pertain to them, and their posterity, as the basis and foundation of government.

THAT all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

Article 1. Introduced by George Mason at the Virginia Convention in the Capitol in Williamsburg. Unanimously adopted June 12, 1776.

John Dixon and William Hunter printed George Mason’s Declaration of Rights adopted by the Virginia Constitutional Convention on June 1, 1776. Thomas Jefferson closely followed the wording and ideas of this document. The material the Gazette printed in the weeks surrounding

the appearance of the Declaration of Independence supports Jefferson's contention that the Declaration was not an original work but an expression of the American mind.

Thirty-three-year-old Thomas Jefferson wrote the original draft which was revised in committee and later by the entire Congress. The Declaration was printed as a broadside on July 4 and distributed to be read publicly throughout the colonies. To achieve even wider distribution, Congress ordered it to be printed in newspapers as well.

Independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. The document was signed by 56 patriots from the 13 original colonies on August 2, 1776.

Dixon and Hunter printed the Declaration of Independence on page two of their July 20 issue of The Virginia Gazette out of Williamsburg, Virginia. Dixon and Hunter owned one of three newspapers titled Virginia Gazette in Williamsburg.

20/20: A Clear Vision for America described issues We the People faced in 2014. Americans still face the same concerns in 2019 as those our forefathers faced in 1776. However, there is a stark difference. Today, we are facing tyranny from within. In 1776, fewer than twenty percent of Americans wanted sovereignty. Americans should hope and pray more fellow citizens want a sovereign America today. We must band together to agree on a new course. 20/20: A Clear Vision for America is the bold course of action Americans need.

20/20: A Clear Vision for Our Future, is the aggressive call to action to alert American citizens to change the destiny of our beloved republic using:

- non-biased,

- non-ideological,

- independent perspectives in a compelling, easy to read narrative.

Wake Up! Stay Awake! Be Enlightened! Get Ready! Stay Ready!

Isaiah Thomas founded The Essex Journal on December 4, 1773. Thomas was a prolific printer, editor, writer, and author of the definitive History of Printing in America. He sold his rights to the newspaper to Ezra Lunt in 1774 who then sold to John Mycall.

John Mycall printed the Declaration on page one. Following the Declaration, there is a proclamation delivered on July 4 in Watertown, Massachusetts, calling for August 1 to be a day of public humiliations, fasting and prayer, to bring an end to the British atrocities against Americans. The proclamation ends with the emphatic declamation GOD save AMERICA! His prophetic words are truer today than ever before.

The people who brought this great experiment to birth did not have teletype machines, typewriters, fax machines, radio, television, telephone landlines, computers, software programs, spellcheck, the internet, cell phones, smart phones, tablets nor any other gadget or electronic machine we enjoy today. They had no modern conveniences. Instead they had a brutal overlord who ruled over everything they said, did and printed. Today, our own federal government is our new brutal overlord. They wrote on parchment paper and composed their printed material from hand-set type, one character at a time a skill many American typographers learned and performed.

Colonial printers held a rare position in the history of American printing. Printers in Great Britain had a legal monopoly on most printed material, such as the English-language Bible, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and all maps. American printers were limited to producing newspapers, almanacs, sermons, addresses, pamphlets, primers and other lesser items.

Today, we have the internet. We can write anything and send it anywhere in the world in a split second without reprisal. Do Americans appreciate the titanic technologies they have at their fingertips? Do they appreciate this, or take it for granted? Has society become so comfortably numb as to think this will last forever? Can we believe a so-called leader of our America when he said?

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

While we can all agree these first four sentences are true and could have been written by anyone, the last two sentences are difficult to accept. They could only be written by a person who has no respect for the American Mind and Spirit of Individualism and Entrepreneurship that Thomas Jefferson described. Knowledgeable, mature Americans cannot agree with those two sentences. They cannot accept them because many Americans have built businesses, President Obama and the government never built one.

This is the rhetoric We the People are subjected to today. We have politicians who will tell us anything to gain and retain our votes. We have a mainstream media (MSM) that is fully invested in the deviant ideology of socialism. These self-proclaimed elitists promote the politicians determined to take away our freedoms, liberties and property to enslave us into the failed philosophy that a central government is best for We the Slaves under the subterfuge that They the Elites know best.

Remember the words of John Mason, namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

In this book, we will explore: ownership in America; the means of acquiring and possessing property; the meaning of liberty and freedom; our legacy for our children; all Americans uniting as one nation; restoring our Constitution; respecting our culture; reclaiming our country; what it was meant to be; and many more topics to restore our American exceptionalism.

Did the authors and signers of The Declaration of Independence believe in ownership? If they did, how can we apply that to the world of today?

To the United States of America Today? Do you owe your country? Does your country owe you?

Our country is more than just the land, water and air. It is the resources, infrastructure, structures, utilities, improvements, culture, civilization and most of all the American Spirit of We the People and Our Constitution that gives us the Rule of Law.

Each citizen has an obligation, or owes, to each other, to stand by the Constitution and to provide value to every one of the more than 320 million people who live in this country we call the United States of America. As a republic, all must take responsibility to make everyone free, safe and prosperous.

We do this in many fashions: by becoming educated; being employed, or working; performing domestic, international or military service; providing health care and personal service to others; and numerous other methods including being good examples and bringing joy to others. As a nation, we have lost this concept. We must find it soon, or we will surely perish because it will be lost forever.

Visualize a heavy golden chain with more than 320 million links stretching from sea to shining sea. Imagine each citizen as a link in this 320 million plus link chain. Each link binds this nation together. Each

American in the chain must be a polished, bright, strong link. Everyone must play a vital role in the success of this exceptional republic. Everyone is equally important even though everyone has a different role to play.

A chain that must be constantly repaired and strengthened will eventually fail. To have a strong supportable country for our children and grandchildren everyone must be involved and pull their own weight. The chain must be strong and sturdy. It cannot fail. Each one of us is obligated to be a shining link in our magnificent republic.

We will delve into Root Cause Purpose and Root Cause Analysis. Who owns America? Who owns We the People? What do We the People own? Can We the People own property? Own ourselves? Our destiny?

What kind of America will we leave our children’s children? The answers follow:

We can Restore our Constitution!

We can Respect our Culture!

We can Reclaim our Country!

20/20: A Clear Vision for Our Future is a book of common-sense answers, which presents these discoveries in a style I’m certain my readers will undoubtedly identify with.

PART I

RESTORING OUR CONSTITUTION

"The American Spirit is empowered by our Constitution.

It sets forth the power of the people over the government.

It provides us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness plus the all-important right of ownership."

CHAPTER ONE

The Vision Continues

Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been too much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is." 

― Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist, travel writer, novelist, political theorist, and daughter of American writer Laura Ingalls Wilder. 

FRIDAY MORNING. WEEK 27.

In The Loop Consultants, LLC have been working in a large industrial plant for six months. The client has engaged the consulting firm, which specializes in the assessment, analysis and implementation of business operations in various industries and organizations. The consultants develop and design substantial improvement solutions utilizing proven principles and techniques which they implement in the form of results oriented work management processes. They train management and supervision to accomplish these initiatives as well.

The consulting firm has successfully implemented work management processes employing principles and techniques such as historical data and information, background information, cost-benefit analysis, root purpose analysis, root cause analysis, base data statistical analysis and other methods along with good, plain common-sense. Their current assignment is to design and implement a work management process, on-site, with participation and cooperation from their client.

The project schedule is one calendar year in duration. The four-person consulting team typically travels and meets at the nearest airport in the client’s area on Sunday; spends the entire week living in a hotel; driving a rental car to and from the client’s facility daily; and then flies home on Friday afternoon to see, and be with the family, run errands, take care of the home and refresh. The time is late Friday morning. The team has completed the first six months of their scheduled assignment and are slated to conduct a six-month milestone Management Progress Meeting. This meeting will be conducted in the Main Conference Room at the plant headquarters.

The four consultants: Tom Rostal, Genie Moore, Ron Shock and Dave West gather around the conference table in their assigned office, a small conference room, to conduct a brief dress rehearsal for the upcoming progress meeting. They met in the hotel last night to practice and make final revisions to their agenda. They are joined by their immediate boss, A.J. Leone, the consultants Chief Operations Officer, who has been mentoring them on the fine points of the presentation they are soon to deliver.

The client’s Regional Vice President, Bob Burns, arrived from his headquarters on Friday morning and met with A.J. Leone to put their fingers on the pulse of the project and to discuss potential long term goals for each company.

Chief Operations Officer A.J. Leone, is an excellent mentor with years of business acumen, experience, sage wisdom and savvy. He flew into the area Thursday morning from another project to join the team at the plant after wheel-man Dave West picked him up at the airport. A.J. has been with the consulting firm for more than twenty years having worked his way up to the position of Chief Operations Officer from Process Consultant. He met with the client’s General Manager, Terry Maddox, yesterday afternoon to discuss the results of the project to date and to take the temperature of the client’s management and supervisory team to determine if there were any slippages in schedule or chemistry problems with the consultants. A topic of concern was the existence of paradigm paralysis in all areas of the plant. Terry hinted that people have a difficult time realizing there are different ways to look at things and find it challenging to accept and recognize change can improve the operation.

Marianne Jones, the Plant Administrative Manager, knocked on the closed conference room door and entered without waiting for an answer. Marianne has an excellent working relationship with the consultants. She knew they were preparing for the Progress Meeting. She worked with the consultants on the agenda and the statistical data that would be presented as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and performance results compared to the scheduled project milestones. Marianne had an armful of Meeting Agendas and Reports for the consultants to distribute during the presentation. She discretely passed the news they were having a BBQ lunch at the meeting. That broke the ice and perked everybody up. It was time to gather everything up and head for the Main Conference Room. What she did not tell the consultants was there would be a special surprise at the meeting.

Little did they know what was in store for them.

FRIDAY NOON. WEEK 27.

The meeting attendees were lined up at a long serving table in the hallway outside the Main Conference Room. This was a typical self-serve lunch and everyone knew how to dig in. Salad fixings, BBQ, coleslaw, potato salad, baked beans and the traditional huge cookie for dessert. Everybody was loading up while trying to balance their food plate and bottled water before making their way to a place at the Main Conference Room table.

When everyone was situated, Ed Kunigonis, the Plant Manager asked everyone to stand, face the American Flag in the corner of the big room and recite the Pledge of Allegiance with him. Everyone stood and placed their hands over their hearts and recited enthusiastically:

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 

Clients attending the meeting are Bob Burns, the Regional Vice President; Terry Maddox, General Manager; Ed Kunigonis, Plant Manager; Ben Kiffmeyer, Operations Manager; Karl Mugler, Chief Engineer; Marc Michaels, Maintenance Manager; Justin Elkin, Safety Director; Connie Scott, Environmental Director; and Marianne Jones, the Administrative Manager.

Consultant firm attendees are the A.J. Leone, Operations Chief; Tom Rostal, Process Director; and the Senior Consultants: Genie Moore, Ron Shock and Dave West.

Ed Kunigonis asked Marianne Jones to say grace. Marianne graciously accepted and prayed that God bless our food, our people and America.

That was the signal for everyone to dig in. Typically, the conversation at lunch was light centering on families, weather and current events. The Progress Meeting would not start until everyone ate and the table was cleared except for the customary cookie.

During lunch, Bob Burns, the Regional Vice President, inquired of the group in general, does anyone know the history of the Pledge of Allegiance?

There were a few no replies as everyone sat attentively while Bob re-counted the original Pledge of Allegiance:

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands - one nation indivisible - with liberty and justice for all.

Everyone listened thoughtfully as Bob continued to tell the story while they ate lunch. "Francis Bellamy was a Baptist minister's son from upstate New York. He was educated in public schools and distinguished himself in oratory at the University of Rochester before following his father to the pulpit in New York and Boston. In 1891, he accepted a job from one of his Boston congregants, Daniel S. Ford, principal owner and editor of the Youth's Companion, a family magazine with half a million subscribers.

"On September 8, 1892, the magazine published a few words for students to recite on Columbus Day that year. Thousands of leaflets were sent to public schools across the country to be repeated on October 12, 1892, the quadricentennial of Columbus' arrival in America. More than 12 million children recited the Pledge of Allegiance, thus beginning a required school-day ritual.

A change was made to the Pledge at the first National Flag Conference in Washington D.C. on June 14, 1923. For clarity, the words the Flag of the United States replaced my flag." Various other changes were suggested in the following years but were never formally adopted.

"It was not until 1942 that Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance. One year later, in June 1943, the Supreme Court ruled that school children could not be forced to recite the pledge. In fact, today only half of our fifty states have laws that encourage the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the classroom!

An amendment was made in June 1954 to add the words under God." President Dwight D. Eisenhower said:

In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

A. J. Leone, the consultants Chief Operations Officer, then remarked, what a wonderful story that places our republic in context in these days of confusion and dysfunction. Thank you so much for sharing that beautiful story with us Bob.

The colors of the stars and stripes, Bob Burns continued, "did not have individual meaning when first adopted in 1777. The red stripes came to signify hardiness and valor. The white stripes represented the virtue of purity, perseverance, and justice. The stars symbolize the heavens and the divine goal to which man has always aspired.

That was also a perfect segue to start the business part of the meeting and for Tom Rostal, the Project Manager, to begin the Progress Meeting. Everyone has an agenda for this meeting so let’s get started by reminding everyone of our meeting standards. Turn off all electronic devices. Only one person speaking at a time. Respect what the other person is saying. Stay on topic to keep the meeting efficient and effective. Don’t get down in the weeds unless detail is necessary. And treat everyone with respect and civility. They all nodded agreement.

The first item on the agenda, as always, is the Safety Tip, Tom continued. Justin Elkin you have the floor. Justin, the Plant Safety Director, gave a tip on how to work safely and reminded all to pass the safety information on to their direct reports and employees. Be sure to remind them that safety is our number one objective. We always want our people to return home in the same condition as when they came to work. Always work safe."

Thanks Justin, Tom exclaimed. Next on the agenda is our Environmental Tip to be given by Connie Scott, the Plant Environmental Director.

Connie began by pointing out some very important environmental concerns and cautioned everyone to be aware of everything that is happening in the plant. I also want to point out that we have had no environmental incidents this year. She then reported some vital plant environmental statistics. Pass the good news on to your people and thank them for their diligence.

Thanks Connie. Great report. Now let’s go on to the rest of the items on the agenda. Production, productivity, statistics, Key Performance Indicators, Reliability Reports, Root Cause Analysis and our future goals and objectives, Tom read from the Agenda.

The items on the agenda were all covered and the project was deemed to be on schedule with all critical milestones being met or exceeded. The next week’s schedule was covered and a few key future dates were announced. Bob broke the momentary silence by saying, Thanks Tom. Your meeting and your report were both handled professionally. That gives us some time to do a little conspiring on our own. We are very pleased with your work and we’re glad to have you aboard. You have been very open with us and have pre-presented the project results to us beforehand so we knew this meeting would be a formality. However, there is one more thing.

The four consultants looked around the table at each other and then all eyes were on A.J. Their internal conversations were already chirping. A.J. had a smug look on his face but said nothing. Oh, oh. They were already thinking, there’s always a ‘but’ that comes up that we aren’t aware of. What’s next, they asked themselves?

Bob went on to say, We know all about 20/20: A Clear Vision for America. Karl overheard you all mention it in the break room one day and looked it up on the internet. What he found was this professional website and the vision you all created on your own time. Karl told Ed about it and he passed it on to me. We then ordered copies of the book for everyone, some as eBooks for those that prefer to read on their Kindle and some of us got your Chairman Emeritus, the author, to inscribe and sign some copies for us. We are all truly impressed.

Now Tom, Genie, Ron and Dave sat up straight with wide eyes and open mouths. All the while wondering how this happened.

"We talked with the author and learned how you went about creating this ‘Clear Vision for America.’ He told us you sent him your notes and then he put it into book form. He also explained how you would not take credit for the solutions you developed and how he is marketing the book and donating books and profits to charitable causes such as armed forces personnel, veterans, libraries and other such worthy organizations.

"That leads us to now, in this very room. While you were putting together your Progress Report and Meeting Agenda this week, we have been discussing our thoughts about the country’s direction. We are keenly interested because our company, our careers and our employee’s livelihoods and benefits depend on the actions of a few self-serving individuals such as the current administration, the Supreme Court and the 535 Senate and House legislators in Washington, D.C.

"You all know more than anyone, how much effort we put into the safety of our people, our environmental impact on the surrounding area, our reliability for our consumers and of course the costs we incur so we can provide the best possible service at the lowest price. Washington doesn’t get it. They are so far removed from veracity they couldn’t find it with a GPS. It’s not only us. We’re a big plant, but there are a lot of small businesses that depend on us. And we depend on them as well.

Those people are hard-working entrepreneurs who are faced with their own set of problems. We, and they, are all finding it impossible to operate our businesses, small or large, with high tax rates, the multitude of agency regulations and constant surveillance by government agencies filled with bureaucrats who lack knowledge of what we do or how a business, small or large, is supposed to be managed. Our businesses are inter-connected. We depend on each other. The elites don’t get it. We are the citizens who know how to do stuff; accept hard work and long hours; make sacrifices and then are handed thousands of regulations and restrictions written by bureaucrats who never knew how to do anything. We’re frustrated and angry and know something has to change fast.

What do you want us to do? Tom asked the group in general.

We want more of what you did when you created 20/20: A Clear Vision for America, Terry said softly but emphatically. "We all have a lot of gripes and a lot of questions we want answers to and would like you to investigate some issues for us, and for all Americans such as exploring

ownership in America; the meaning of freedom and liberty; our legacy for our children; the weakening of our armed forces military readiness; gross negligence of our veterans needs and benefits; political correctness destroying our first amendment rights; this heinous growing socialist ideology and political socialism; the disregard of the rule of law and tolerance of criminal activity; the political, morale and cultural division of Americans; and many more topics to restore American exceptionalism. If you accept our challenge, we will enumerate them for you. I think you will get full support from A.J. and your firm is eager to jump in with both feet to support you. When you have solved the problems, or explained the issues, we’ll learn the answers in the next 20/20 book."

Tom looked quizzically at A.J. who gave him a favorable nod. Genie, Ron and Dave saw the signal and all nodded approvingly at Tom. I guess we’re writing the next book. Let’s do it team, Tom volunteered. Okay, hit us with your best shot.

I’m going first, declared Bob. "I have three points that are more of an overview or summarization of problems that are about to totally destroy America and send us back to the Stone Age. The rest of the group will enumerate them in more detail.

"First, as a nation we need a leader and a strategy to deal with the threat of terrorism at home and abroad as well as the Russian kingpin, the Chinese aristocracy and the fanatical mullahs in Iran who are set to join the nuclear club. We are deploying more and more of our young people to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Africa and who knows how many more places. They are put in harm’s way and when they come back the government won’t take care of them.

Second, we need someone to explain to the American people that they need to realize what they are voting for. Do they want the continued huge expansion of the centralized welfare state or do they want to reclaim our freedom, liberty and ownership of America?

"Third, we need to educate our citizens that there is a genuine problem with the far left, socialist concept that the rich should pay for everything?

They are indoctrinated by the teachers, professors, politicians and the mainstream media (MSM) pundits that the rich greedily seize money and wages from the poor for their own selfish profits; they are brainwashed into thinking the rich have all the money; They believe they have no viable opportunity and must seek revenge against the people who have benefited from capitalism; that there is a limited amount of opportunity and wealth; and that they are shut out by a rigged system. A dark cloud has been placed over their American spirit.

Karl spoke up next. "We were hoping for transparency in government. Instead we get hidden and redacted documents and laws shrouded in secrecy. The leftists dominate the State Department and the Intelligence Community by more than eighty percent. They think leaking classified material is a game. Our past ‘Commander-in-Chief’ turned into the ‘Divider-in-Chief.’ We don’t think racism is systematized or institutionalized in our country, our community nor our business. But now we are told we must change our attitudes and our behaviors and look deep into ourselves. We were Americans before and now we have race-baiters telling us we are not. Don’t American Lives Matter?

"Regulations from federal, state and local governments are tying our hands behind our backs. We cannot operate effectively with this confusion. We are taxed by numerous agencies that leave us no alternative but to continually raise our prices and/or cut the wages, benefits or hours of our people. These socialist policies harm low income families more