I'll let Herman Cain do the talking on this post.
Tell it, Mr Cain!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
From Welfare to Millionaire
This story is a true American success story.
This young lady pulled herself up by the boot straps and made something of her life.
She made the decision that she didn't need to stay on the Government dole anymore.
She woke up and found the American entrepreneur inside her and went for the brass ring.
THIS is the reason America is the land of opportunity, and not by occupying Wall Street and demanding a better life from others.
This is how each and every one of us can find prosperity. Alls you need to do is have the will to seek it and not by government engineering it.
From -Yahoo
Trisha Waldron was 28 years old when she realized that the life she had drifted into was a dead end. She had gone from being a daughter to a wife to having her first baby at 22. Now single and barely surviving on food stamps in the Black Hills of South Dakota, she had no college degree, no work experience to speak of, and no clear idea of what to do with the rest of her life. She owned a tiny two-bedroom house from her divorce, and she had her two lovely little girls, ages four and six, but that was about it.
You can create your own life
One afternoon, volunteering at her daughters’ school, she heard a teacher tell the kids, “You can create your own life.” That sentence changed everything. As she puts it, “I knew I had to take responsibility for my own life. I had been running it according to others and things hadn’t worked out very well.”
She applied for a student loan and went back to school. The first year, she and her girls lived on welfare, food stamps, and odd jobs, but the second year, an opportunity presented itself and she grabbed it. An artist friend offered her a job assembling jewelry for a mail order catalogue in her spare time. She knew it wouldn’t be easy: she’d be in school all day, taking care of the kids in the evening, and then have to work late into the night at her kitchen table, but she’d be working for herself and be able to get off welfare.
Having a job and being in school built up Trisha’s confidence and she eventually proposed to the owner of the catalogue that she design his entire line of jewelry. She says, “As an entrepreneur you are always going to be confronted by things you don’t know, but you can’t let it stop you.” She went to the library and dove into teaching herself the basics of jewelry design as well as exploring Native American motifs from which she would draw inspiration. She recalls that she didn’t get a lot of sleep in those days.
Growing the business
Her business moved from the kitchen table to the garage where she installed a wood stove to keep it warm against the bitter South Dakota weather. Still, she had to work in gloves and a heavy coat during the winter. After two years, she decided she was ready for an even greater challenge and, in 1985, incorporated her own company.
From the beginning, Trisha was as excited by the cultures that informed her jewelry designs as she was by the final product. She learned the world was a whole lot bigger than Rapid City, South Dakota. She forged relationships with bead and stone vendors from Africa, India, and China.
Looking back, she says those relationships and the ones she developed with her staff made all the difference for the long-term success of her business. She explains, “At first, I had a super aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach. I might have gained something for myself but I wasn’t very nice to those around me. Eventually, I learned that you draw power as a woman in business by being compassionate and inclusive. This way, you can make long and loyal relationships.”
Her first million
After only five years in business, she had made her first million. But, as Trisha remembers, “Getting there was incredibly challenging, I learned by trial and error, I cried a lot. But I lived simply and didn’t need much to survive. I was in a small town and hired my girlfriends to help me. My neighbors pitched in with the kids. My big break came in 1987 when the catalogue of the Smithsonian Institution started featuring my work.”
Helping others to help themselves
After winning the Smithsonian as a client, Trisha was able to move out of the garage into a proper jewelry studio. Other catalogues, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, started picking up the line. When things got busy, she would hire as many as 40 other women, mostly single moms, to fabricate her designs out of their homes--just as she had when she first started.
In 2006, after over 20 years in business, Trisha sold her company to an employee and retired to California with her second husband.
Trisha’s advice for people who want to start their own businesses:
• Your responsibility is to be clear about your vision. Then you can ask others to help.
• There is a lot of assistance out there for entrepreneurs if you look for it: I learned bookkeeping from a volunteer group of retired accountants.
• Surround yourself with people who support you. A lot of people said I was crazy to start my own business as a single mom. But I had a few people who believed in me.
• Be okay with the knowledge that you won’t know how to do everything right away and trust that you can learn.
• Create a “mastermind group” – 2 or 3 people who are willing to have you bounce ideas off them every few weeks. I kept my group going for 10 years.
• Realize it will be hard, and accept that.
GREAT JOB, TRISHA, AN AMERICAN PROSPERITY SUCCESS!
This young lady pulled herself up by the boot straps and made something of her life.
She made the decision that she didn't need to stay on the Government dole anymore.
She woke up and found the American entrepreneur inside her and went for the brass ring.
THIS is the reason America is the land of opportunity, and not by occupying Wall Street and demanding a better life from others.
This is how each and every one of us can find prosperity. Alls you need to do is have the will to seek it and not by government engineering it.
From -Yahoo
You can create your own life
One afternoon, volunteering at her daughters’ school, she heard a teacher tell the kids, “You can create your own life.” That sentence changed everything. As she puts it, “I knew I had to take responsibility for my own life. I had been running it according to others and things hadn’t worked out very well.”
She applied for a student loan and went back to school. The first year, she and her girls lived on welfare, food stamps, and odd jobs, but the second year, an opportunity presented itself and she grabbed it. An artist friend offered her a job assembling jewelry for a mail order catalogue in her spare time. She knew it wouldn’t be easy: she’d be in school all day, taking care of the kids in the evening, and then have to work late into the night at her kitchen table, but she’d be working for herself and be able to get off welfare.
Having a job and being in school built up Trisha’s confidence and she eventually proposed to the owner of the catalogue that she design his entire line of jewelry. She says, “As an entrepreneur you are always going to be confronted by things you don’t know, but you can’t let it stop you.” She went to the library and dove into teaching herself the basics of jewelry design as well as exploring Native American motifs from which she would draw inspiration. She recalls that she didn’t get a lot of sleep in those days.
Growing the business
Her business moved from the kitchen table to the garage where she installed a wood stove to keep it warm against the bitter South Dakota weather. Still, she had to work in gloves and a heavy coat during the winter. After two years, she decided she was ready for an even greater challenge and, in 1985, incorporated her own company.
From the beginning, Trisha was as excited by the cultures that informed her jewelry designs as she was by the final product. She learned the world was a whole lot bigger than Rapid City, South Dakota. She forged relationships with bead and stone vendors from Africa, India, and China.
Looking back, she says those relationships and the ones she developed with her staff made all the difference for the long-term success of her business. She explains, “At first, I had a super aggressive, take-no-prisoners approach. I might have gained something for myself but I wasn’t very nice to those around me. Eventually, I learned that you draw power as a woman in business by being compassionate and inclusive. This way, you can make long and loyal relationships.”
Her first million
After only five years in business, she had made her first million. But, as Trisha remembers, “Getting there was incredibly challenging, I learned by trial and error, I cried a lot. But I lived simply and didn’t need much to survive. I was in a small town and hired my girlfriends to help me. My neighbors pitched in with the kids. My big break came in 1987 when the catalogue of the Smithsonian Institution started featuring my work.”
Helping others to help themselves
After winning the Smithsonian as a client, Trisha was able to move out of the garage into a proper jewelry studio. Other catalogues, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, started picking up the line. When things got busy, she would hire as many as 40 other women, mostly single moms, to fabricate her designs out of their homes--just as she had when she first started.
In 2006, after over 20 years in business, Trisha sold her company to an employee and retired to California with her second husband.
Trisha’s advice for people who want to start their own businesses:
• Your responsibility is to be clear about your vision. Then you can ask others to help.
• There is a lot of assistance out there for entrepreneurs if you look for it: I learned bookkeeping from a volunteer group of retired accountants.
• Surround yourself with people who support you. A lot of people said I was crazy to start my own business as a single mom. But I had a few people who believed in me.
• Be okay with the knowledge that you won’t know how to do everything right away and trust that you can learn.
• Create a “mastermind group” – 2 or 3 people who are willing to have you bounce ideas off them every few weeks. I kept my group going for 10 years.
• Realize it will be hard, and accept that.
GREAT JOB, TRISHA, AN AMERICAN PROSPERITY SUCCESS!
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Democracy Denied
Democracy Denied is a guide to understanding and defeating the radical agenda that President Barack Obama is implementing by unilateral regulatory action through his agencies and czars.
This is a must read book. Even though you and I might be living it, it is a perpetual insight of Obama's agenda to march the nation to an engineered Social Society, regardless of who controls congress.
As we are fully aware of, he is backdooring "rules" utilize executive powers.
This is a powerful message, a powerful read.
Constitutionally, he has no authority to execute executive power be on the law.
And though there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4.
This is a must read book. Even though you and I might be living it, it is a perpetual insight of Obama's agenda to march the nation to an engineered Social Society, regardless of who controls congress.
As we are fully aware of, he is backdooring "rules" utilize executive powers.
This is a powerful message, a powerful read.
Constitutionally, he has no authority to execute executive power be on the law.
And though there is no Constitutional provision or statute that explicitly permits Executive Orders, there is a vague grant of "executive power" given in Article II, Section 1, Clause 1 of the Constitution, and furthered by the declaration "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed" made in Article II, Section 3, Clause 4.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The Occupy Whiners on Wall Street
As the Wall Street protester enter their 3 week of... well, protesting Capitalism, it's beginning to get pretty mundane to hear and see their message.
Their message,
Wall street is to blame for our economy.
Capitalism is to blame for our economy.
Greedy corporation are to blame for our economy
Here is a fine example of how the liberal media is playing in to the BS from these progressive lazy asses.
Washington Times interviews this putz (While another liberal mocks Fox News).
Their message,
Wall street is to blame for our economy.
Capitalism is to blame for our economy.
Greedy corporation are to blame for our economy
Here is a fine example of how the liberal media is playing in to the BS from these progressive lazy asses.
Washington Times interviews this putz (While another liberal mocks Fox News).
“I think a good deal of the bankers should be in jail.”
That is what Andrew Cole, an unemployed 24-year-old graduate of Bucknell University, told me Monday morning in Zuccotti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Mr. Cole, an articulate young man dressed in jeans, a sweatshirt and with a blue wool beanie on his head, had just arrived by bus from Madison, Wis., where he recently lost his job.
Articulate??? To join a movement that seeks to destroy our way of life in American, the way it always had been and has worked the best, is not being articulate. It's being naive. He might speak well, but hasn't a clue on what was the match that lit the fuse of the 2008 financial collapse of the economy. The Federal Government, with its Community Reinvestment Act.
But capitalism is obvious what he was taught as to whom is to be blamed, at Bucknell and by the organizers of the Occupy Wall Street, Unions!
But capitalism is obvious what he was taught as to whom is to be blamed, at Bucknell and by the organizers of the Occupy Wall Street, Unions!
Mr. Cole. He said he had come to participate in Occupy Wall Street because he believed in its “anticapitalist” message. “I see Wall Street as responsible for the mess we’re in.”
Need I say more? anticapitalist..... until he finds another capitalist job, which he should be doing right now, instead of spending his last paycheck heading from Wisconsin (union Madison, that is) to New York.
Some more signs from this organized movement that show another goal. That is Counter-Tea Party movement.
What are YOU going to do?
I'd like to see this nation raise up against the socialist and their handlers before people get the impression that this is GOOD for America.
I'd like to be a part of a Clean Out the Trash Occupying Wall Street movement and confront them and bring to an end of blaming Wall Street employees, who only make $40-50K a year.
Then pack them on a bus and ship them to Washington, to confront the REAL culprits!
Then go home and spend quality time LOOKING for work.
Some more signs from this organized movement that show another goal. That is Counter-Tea Party movement.
Fed up with this BS?
I AM!
What are YOU going to do?
I'd like to see this nation raise up against the socialist and their handlers before people get the impression that this is GOOD for America.
I'd like to be a part of a Clean Out the Trash Occupying Wall Street movement and confront them and bring to an end of blaming Wall Street employees, who only make $40-50K a year.
Then pack them on a bus and ship them to Washington, to confront the REAL culprits!
Then go home and spend quality time LOOKING for work.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Another 'Power' Grab Attempt by the Feds
Socialism is still alive and well in the Obama administration.
As reported on Fox News, the Federal government is attempting to seize control over power line projects, usually reserved for utility companies working with state and local officials.
Yet another law that needs repeal!
As reported on Fox News, the Federal government is attempting to seize control over power line projects, usually reserved for utility companies working with state and local officials.
The Obama administration is looking to consolidate control over the nation's power highway, pushing a proposal that would put one federal agency in the driver's seat when it comes to reviewing and approving power-line projects across the country.
The proposal has triggered a outcry of complaints, pitting the federal government against concerned citizens and local lawmakers.
The states, which along with local governments have long had authority over whether and where power lines get built, derided the plan as a move that would make it harder for local residents to weigh in.
"It turns the whole process on its head," said Robert Thormeyer, spokesman with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. He said the federal government would be "more inclined to build" than the states, if for no other reason than they probably wouldn't have as much interaction with citizens. A bureaucrat in Washington might not hear the not-in-my-backyard pleas as frequently as a bureaucrat in, say, Boise.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who helped write a 2005 law that initially expanded federal power over power lines, complained about the plan in a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
The chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said it appears the commission is trying to "rewrite" the language in the law. He said that's a decision for Congress, not the commission, to make.
The move, he wrote, "would pave the way for the commission to use the newly consolidated powers in ways never intended by Congress."
Under the law, the Department of Energy was tasked with studying where transmission lines were needed most. Then the FERC was given the power to grant construction permits in those areas under certain circumstances, including if a state withheld approval for more than a year.
Successful court challenges, though, have since blocked the federal government from exercising that authority.
Yet another law that needs repeal!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)