Why I became a Republican

  Why I became a Republican and abandoned my Democrat parents' beliefs,

 I must first tell you where I came from and how I got to where I am now. But stick with me an it will all develop to where life has led me

The beginnings

I was born in the worst February snowstorm of the winter. The doctor could not or would not leave home to help my parents. Dad got in the old car and drove Mom to the hospital. On Main Street in the small town they lived in was the hospital, which required a left-hand turn across 2 lanes of traffic. My mother told me that the snow was blowing so hard that traffic was visible only a very short distance away. My dad turned his car and made it halfway across those two lanes. An oncoming U.S. mail truck hit my mother's side, the rider's side of an American car. It lifted the car and turned it on its side, pinning the driver's side under it. It threw my mom onto the dashboard, under the steering wheel.

Dad somehow managed to get free and climb out of the rider's side door. The Mail Truck driver was very angry and was going to fight with my dad till he found out my mom was about to give birth to me. He helped dad get her out of the car and carried mom into the hospital through the blizzard.

The RN on duty was Mrs. Lincoln. My dad worked with her husband, and years later, I saw their son become a high school basketball player at our high school. Was a good kid, though I was not on teams, so our activities were rarely together.

First Encounter

I got good marks and finished all but 3 mandatory subjects in my first 3years of high school. My guidance counselorwas interested in getting me into a computer keypunch school for children who showed promise.

I started the following Year in my senior year of high school. My dad drove me 60 miles round-trip to school 5 days a week. It was 1971, and the Black folks were protesting with Vietnam demonstrators in the city streets. beating on cars, attacking folks, and occasionally setting fires and getting into fights with passersby.All in peaceful protests and pretty much the same as today, but there wasnt Ice Offiers to badger and taunt. I would be willing to bet those in the street today are the progeny of those in the streets from 1971, or the 1960s in general. (Grand)Children learn what they live.

On my first day of class, 4 young men, not much older, raised their clenched fists and yelled, "Black power." The classroom was made up of Black and Hispanic students from all over the world. I was the only White in the class. These guys demanded my removal from the school, or they would leave. The teacher asked them why. They said bluntly that the white boy wasn't allowed in a class for blacks.

 The teacher told him  

She quietly told them our ages were the same and that my school and parents had paid for me to be there. His classes were government-funded, and his actions could get him tossed. The leader, who seemed to be the boss, yelled that he wasn't going to be in the same Black Panthers room with a F..ing white boy. She told him that os definitely one on you, you're speaking and acting like a child. He cussed her out and took his 4 followers out. I went on to teach and assist the Trinidad lady who was working hard to pass her courses. Her name was Berl

She watched as my marks were much higher than those of the others in the class. Better schools and better education. But my parents, who both held 1-3 jobs to support a family of 7, consistently, as well as the older kids and my Republican Grandpa, were helping out.

Berl walked over and began talking to me. She asked me if I would help her with a class assignment. No one had spoken to me in many days. She told me she was married and had 2 children back home on the Island. She said, "If you help us pass."Help me pass, and I will help you with the unfriendly atmosphere you're getting. Deal? I was glad to help and told her I only needed to be asked. The class went smoothly, and I got to know most of those who were not still closed-minded. Berl and I graduated at the top of our class. She was smart and caught on fast. I have not seen her in 50 years, but I think she did well when she went home. I pray she did. The black-beanie group missed their education and probably ended up in prison.

Balancing it all

What they didn't know was that the RN, Mrs. Lincoln, was the first face I ever saw. She brought me into this world and was the first face I ever saw. The first hands that held me up made me breathe and fight to live. She was a newborn's first glimpse of humanity. Ms. Lincoln was Black. I thank God that she didn't feel that sickness within her heart when my life was in her hands.

A bit more to inform

I lived in a predominantly Caucasian community growing up. I heard very unkind comments growing up.  thought as I do for the moment that we all bleed red blood regardless of my exterior. So you can imagine the culture shock of a kid my age calling me "boy." Something, not in my mind, about either of us. I had just gotten my invitation to train to kill people I never knew and would never meet. I had just recieved My Draft Card and wondered if his hatred would cost other Americans their lives in combat!

I passed my courses and graduated. Berl hugged me, saying thank you for helping me get home. That hug was no different from any other friend I had known. She was a very nice Lady. Hope she is home and took over the company she worked for.

Time passes

Years go by, and I take some time off from my CDL driving job to work in a canning factory for the summer. I needed a break between leasing my rigs and buying my rig. I worked next to a young man who I thought was my friend. We were as aware as I was concerned. His dream was to become a Baptist minister. But he didn't have a driver's license. For weeks, James grieved that he truly wished he knew someone who could teach him to drive so he could get his lessons and maybe go to further schooling.

I had spare time and volunteered to teach him if he thought he could drive my Lincoln Continental. He did just fine. Took a weekend and got his license in someone else's car at work while I was busy that day. James showed up on Monday, driving an old VW-style van. 

He told me that day he was preaching for his church and was nervous. I said, James, I can come and support you. You can't do that, he said. I was taken aback and said, " Why can't I sit way back in the pews if I make you nervous.

He finally said, "You're not allowed in my church..."It's a Baptist church, and you can't be there. It's a black Baptist church, and you're not allowed. Sorry, but they would kick me out of the church. I told him that a while back, I taught Sunday school. I had been taught God made all his children, and he should make his sermon on that. 

More influential experiences

More years go by, back on the road again, got my own company and my own tractor-trailer rig. hauling in Arizona, it's 2A.M. I'm in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  start up from the off-ramp, stop at the light,e and a piston goes through my engine's top side. I grab a U-Haul and return to Texas, where my rig was bought. The engine was defective, and I was reimbursed for the cost it me nothing.

I got back to Texarcana to grab another tractor. met up with Cleatus, who happened to be there too. Cleatus drove the pickup to return the U-Haul with me. The counter guy took my key, printed out the receipt, and said, "Your boy clean out the back of the U-Haul?" I said MY BOY? Cleatus just looked at me and said nothing. I looked at the counter guy and said This man is my friend, not my boy. He said, "Sorry, where are you from? I said New York," and I was brought up better than that. It was very quiet. I said I was sorry it happened as we rode back in the pickup. Cleatus just said. It happens!

We went to dinner in his cab just up the road. Same as any of the guys always did when we ran into each other from time to time. had a good dinner and went to the mall to shop. We got the company to pick up this time. Nowhere to park a tractor. walked through the mall and grabbed the supplies I needed. Cleatus did the same. 

A group of guys walked through. They were black like Cleatus. He walked over, and they appeared to be arguing with him and staring at me, 6 guys walked back and handed me the keys to the truck. The guys are going clubbing, you can't go. I told him dont worry, I don't hang out in clubs. Well, you can't because it's for black folks only. I grinned as the U-Haul counter man's last remark went by my ears as I walked out the door. Hope you don't find out you're wrong in your thinking.

Cleatus never spoke to me again, only giving one-word replies.

Flash to the present times, more hatred

Flash forward to the present. I'm at a bus stop, getting off to walk home. A tall man with his hands full of several bags fumbles his bags of groceries, and numerous packaged items fall to the ground. I bend, grab a cottage cheese container, and go out to put it back in his bag.

He snatches it out of my hand and says angrily, repeating, " Don't you ever touch my food, numerous times. I said, Sorry, your hands were full, and I just thought I could help you. dont you touch my food with your hands. Dont you ever touch? I wondered if he was a germaphobe til he climbed back on the bus, where his other black friends were cheering him on about a white guy touching his food. NOT helping him, touching his package. You know, like the dozen people who had done it before he got it. But the laughter and comments when he stepped inside made me realize the error of my heart and thoughts.

There have been many times in between these that I have forgiven actions due to the hatred and ignorance of individuals. But it's something much deeper than that. People like me can no longer turn a blind eye to this one-sided situation. A good heart and open mind can only stand for so long before we are forced to see the forest for the trees.

Rejected Influences

I saw the KKK rally in Texas years ago and met someone who was an active member. He told me he forgave me for my Yankee Religion and felt sorry for me on the day I learned the error of my thinking.

Why I chose another way 

As an Ordained minister, I have always believed those Christians who were able to fight and kill the lions in the Roman arena but nelt and allowed themselves to be torn apart while the stadium cheered, were fools. The Bible states, "God helps him who helps himself." God give me strength. I need to find something between the mental midgets and blind idiots. The Republican Party May just be the Sword to put down the lions/ideas that have endangered our country's general welfare. I base my voting on the betterment of my Country. Not on Propaganda from talking heads. Most of those talking heads in office are driven and directed by those in the shadows who influence and control for their own benefit. No one we will ever know. Probably not even the politicians will ever know. IE, It is said that Epstein was a power broker who used blackmail and money to persuade and influence the powerful by the seven deadly sins. He had served his use.

Personal observations

These last few years have been a true measure of single, White self employed and independent men's strength. We seem to have become the kicking dogs for all the deadbeat dads and single mothers of those who had 12 fatherless kids left to become the same. Even the Democratic Party beat on us. We seem to be a convenient target for the blame of the world. Housing, Last to be housed, Benefits Last in line, Banks and business loans, startup, etc., Not stable, If you're not married with kids. Social insecurity is a great example of working all your life for a saved-up retirement, and the government has pitled t awayYou got an LLC up and running, but no excess Baggage to verify your social stability

So, you're a racist.

Labeled as racist by experts

Back before I got back on my feet. The Biden Years, I actually had black folks who didn't even know me push me out of a line, and tell me they were prioritized. I didn't consider it a priority at the time, so I stepped back. 

The wakening, Labeled racists by practicing experts

As time passed and this former democrats eyes began to open, and my Grand Fthers words echoed in my ears about respect being a two-way street. The ugliness that was growing in my direction from media talking heads, I realized the world was not going to change for anything but the worst or ordinary folks with no reason to be victimized.

The Final straw that broke the camel's back

The final event that changed my mind was one day at a Mental Illness convention, investigating social and mental illness. Prevention, treatment, and recovery. My education was in social law and a psychology major; I attended to keep up on the newest ideas. I was on break and headed for a men's room with coffee in hand. I looked up to check which door was the MEN'S. A short, extremely overweight creature with closely cropped, with Multi-colored hair, piercings, and tattoos all over the visible body.Yelled at me coming from the direction of the women's room. It said, I can go in there, and you can't stop me. I just looked at the individual, remembered it was a convention for those educated in this and those afflicted. I was later talked to by a convention person who said I had an encounter with that person. I had never spoken a word. For every encounter like the above, others are forgettable, even forgivable. But the many more that I have encountered or observed are memorable because they represent where our future philosophy that directs our country. It directs our hearts and thoughts. I got tired of decades of being a political and social punching bag for those who fell into line with the herd. Not a victim, just a profile who was an easy target for having a live and let live philosophy. not those who were the screwups in school, those who went on to blame everyone else for their self-inflicted problems.

But for those who still believe God made us in his own image. God has no specific color, because they are all his. God bless and keep you till next time, folks. Keep love in your heart even when no one else does. Please remember that your actions reflect who and what your future will be. Karma is a cruel nd unfeeling Angel that returns to you 10 times your actions.

Till next time, Comments are welcome. I do read them all, just as you to be kind

RJ Pickering

An Experts Plan to Obtain Economic Liberty in 30 Days

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Organization of the Federal Reserve System (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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The Following is an article that I saved many years ago. It was written by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., President of the Ludwig Von Mises Institute, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama,36849-5301. This article reflects the feelings of many Americans who want to free themselves from much of the taxation and foolish politicking going on today. The years since it was written have only worsened, in my opinion. It really doesn't matter who the country's official is in office. Even the best human being in office can't wave a magic wand and make years of bad Choices go away.

With this in mind and not saying I totally agree with this gentleman. I really feel that there is much that could be done around the world to redeem peace and prosperity to humans. That in mind, I give you the words of the honorable gentleman as follows. Apply them to your own piece of the world and see that it is very much like my world. We all need to think as one people...The human Race.   :-)

Day 1)The federal income tax is abolished, and April 15th is declared a national holiday. The 40% reduction in federal revenues is matched by a 40% cut in spending. The budget is stillalmost twice as big as Jimmy Carter's.

Day2)All other federal taxes are abolished, including the corporate income, the capital gains tax, the gasoline tax, "sin" taxes, excise taxes, etc. Business booms, and the new legitimate federal functions are funded with an inexpensive head tax. People who choose not to vote need not pay for it. (Note: This was a mainstream view in the 19th century.)

Day3)The federal government sells all of its land, freeing up tens of millions of acres for forestry, private parks, farming development, etc. The government uses the revenue to pay off the national debt and other liabilities.

day4)The minimum wage is reduced to zero, creating jobs for ex-federal bureaucrats at their market wage. All pro-union laws and regulations are scrapped. The jobless rate falls dramatically.

Day5)The Bureau of Labor Statistics, like the rest of the labor dept. is sent to that big hiring hall in the sky. Without detailed economic statistics, future economic planners will be blind and deaf.

Day6)The Department of Commerce is abolished. Big business has to make its own way in the world, without subsidies and privileges at the expense of its competitors and customers.

Day7)The plug is pulled on the Department of Energy. Oil and gas prices plummet.

Day8)All regulatory agencies, from the Interstate Commerce Commission to the Federal Trade Commission, are deep-sixed. Competition is legalized.

Day9)HUD is squashed like a bug. There's a building boom in cheap private apartments.

Day10)The interstate highways open asprivate businesses.Road entrepreneurs price travel according tocustomer demand. Using modern technologies, drivers get bills once a month. Non-drivers no longer subsidize car owners.

Day11)Government welfare is wiped out. Bums work, or starve. The deserving poor find a cornucopia of private services designed to make them independent. Private charity explodes as the American people, already the most generous in the world, see their incomes almost double thanks to the tax cuts.

Day12)The Federal Reserve closes its open market operations and stops protecting the banking industry from competition. But banks can now engage in all non-bank financial activities previously forbidden to them. The business cycle, which is caused by monetary expansion through the credit markets, is liquidated.

Day 13)Federal deposit insurance is scrapped. All insured deposits are redeemed from federal assets, which include the personal assets of high-level government employees. The threat of bank runs forces banks to maintain 100% reserves on demand deposits and prudent reserves on all other accounts. There are no more inherently bankrupt banks propped up by the government, at taxpayer expense, and no more bailouts.

Day14)The shaky flat dollar is defined in gold, with the ratio determined by dividing the government's gold stock by all existing dollars on that day.

Day15)The federal government sells National and Dulles airports to the highest bidder, and stops all subsidies to other socialist airports around the country. All constraints on airline prices and services cease. It costs more to fly during peak hours than off-peak, but overall airfares drop.

Day16)All government regulations and sustained cartels are abolished, including those for the post office, telephones, television, radio, and cable TV. Prices plummet, and a host of new and unforeseen services become available

Day17)Centrally planned agriculture, as proposed by Hoover and Roosevelt, is repealed: There are no more subsidies,payments-in-kind, marketing orders, low-interest loans, etc. Farm prices drop. Entrepreneurial farmers get rich. Welfare farmers go into another line of work. The poor eat like kings!

Day18)The Justice Department shutters its antitrust division. Companies, big and small, are free to merge up, down, or sideways. Stockholders can buy any other company's stock or sell their own stock to anyone else. Marginal producers can no longer battle their competitors with bureaucratic weapons.

19)The Department of Education flunks the constitutionality test and is kicked out. Private charities set up remedial reading and writing programs for former bureaucrats. Local school districts become responsive to parents or close, pressured by a fast-growingprivate school sector(which many more parents can now afford)

20)All federalmonuments are sold, in some cases to non-profit groups based on the Mt.Vernon Ladies Association, which owns and runs George Washington's home. The VFW buys the Vietnam Memorial. There is much bidding for the Jefferson and Washington Monuments. Nobody wants the FDRs, so they are torn down, and the land is sold to a farmer. (Blogger's personal Note: Disagree here!)
(With the Federal Government cut back to its constitutional size, much of Washington reverts to productive uses like agriculture, as in the late 18th century.

Day21)The computerized financial and political dossier maintained by the government on every American is erased. The public wanders through the federal offices to make sure, in a reprise of the East Berliners' visits to Stasi HQ.

Day22) Equal rights are granted to ALL Americans, even members of non-victim groups. There is no affirmative action, no quotas, no set-asides, no public accommodations laws. Private property and freedom of association are fully restored

Day 23) The EPA is cleaned out, with all "clean air" and similar big-government laws repealed. Ten thousand lawyers leap from their balconies. Private property is established in the air and the water. Americans harmed by pollution are free to sue the polluters, who are no longer protected by the federal government.

Day 24) Americans are given complete freedom of contract, restoring rationality to malpractice and product liability law.

Day25)Government scrambles for more assets to sell(ie, the national zoo, also known as Washington D.C.)to pay off the liabilities of the privatized Social Security system.

Day 26)Porn artists have to earn their own living, as the National Endowment for the Arts tries to raise its budget through sidewalk painting sales.(blogger's note: There is quite a difference between Mona Lisa and a urine-filled bottle containing a Sacred Holy Relic...What is Worthy ART?

Day 27) Foreign aid is outlawed as unconstitutional, unjust, and uneconomic. Foreign politicians have to steal their own money. The World Bank, the IMF, and the United Nations closed their super luxurious doors.

Day28)The American people are given the unrestricted right to keep and bear arms. (Bloggers' Note: Don't hold your breath on this one. Armed citizens are very threatening annoyances to folks in command. It becomes very hard to dictate your will in some places when "THE PEOPLE"get sick of being kicked around, & ignored, while living in fear and poverty: ie, Arab Spring....Dictators beware! Be very, very nervous. Your people are but a Sleeping Dragon. Build your Empire, forget your people, and they will come for you.

Day 29)The Defense Department is reoriented toward defense. American troops come home from all over the world. We remember the founding fathers' teaching that we cannot have an empire abroad and a constitutionalrepublic at home.

Day 30) All tariffs, quotas, and trade agreements are put through the shredder. Americans can trade with anyone in the world, without


This suggestion list may even be applied to any country in the world, as it has many similarities that would help reduce taxes and free up personal income for many people. This plan is only an idea to pull the plug on expensive, inflationary government spending. If people used it as a template for change, many citizens of the world would live richer, more upgraded lives. That is what most folks seek to do, isn't it? Live life to the best and fullest...We spend many days just working to pay for things that will never be listed with any credibility by government sources. It's called subterfuge: to hide in plain sight so as not to be the central attention, a distraction from the main point.


So long for now, and please come back soon
RJP

Updated from my blog in 2012, but still very much relevant.

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