I have been watching the administration as they attempt to resolve the nation's financial woes and I can not make any sense out of what I see. Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent which we are told will end up costing trillions to pay back, which by the way, will have to be done as a big percentage of the money is borrowed from foreign investors. The Fed cannot just print more money as that would turn the world into a tailspin financially and devalue the dollar beyond repair. Has the "stimulus" money helped you in anyway? I don't believe so!
There has been so much flip/flopping by this administration (Obama) already that it makes your head spin. I do not believe that they can spend hundreds of billions of dollars of the tax payers money and expect to solve the problems any more than you can spend hundreds and thousands of dollars on video equipment that you will never use in your practice and believe that somehow it will all wash out in the end. I believe that there has never been a better time for America to look at itself and face the fact that Washington is not the answer to the problem. They are actually the problem. You might say that I am just anti-democratic party but that is not the case. I am anti- big government and anti-socialism and that is what is happening to our great country right before our eyes.
Both parties are guilty as sin when it comes to spending our tax dollars just to get more people to vote for their parties candidates. We could all personally be heading into serious problems in the very near future if each of us does not watch out. Now is the time to stop spending and let the equipment that we already have pay us back for our investment.
I know, it is tempting to get the very latest video equipment because we want to be "State-of-the-art" and be able to show off our very latest toys, but I believe that the equipment that we already have can do the job, as it has in the past, especially when the video formats are changing every hour on the hour. I believe that we should set back and let this thing sort itself out while we invest our funds in marketing our selves rather than putting ourselves in deeper financial debt purchasing equipment that will not make us one more dollar than the equipment that we already own.
One other thought, maybe the time could not be better than right now to do an inventory of our equipment that we are no longer using and offer it for sale on Ebay. I know that I have several thousands of dollars worth of very good equipment that I do not need any more and you will be seeing it offered for sale very soon. I would love to hear your thoughts on the subject!
Friday, May 15, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Well, the new president is now in office (they had to swear him in twice just to make sure it was going to stick) so it will be interesting to see just where he leads us during the next four years. It is not going to be easy for the good old U.S.A. to get out of the financial mess the country is now in and I just hope he doesn't make it worse. It will be a whole lot worse if he gives away all the money that he promised to dole out during his campaign for the office. I will continue to pray for him and our nation and I am sure that God will hear and answer our prayers as long as we as a nation honor Him.
It was interesting that he had Pastor Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration. I am presently reading his best selling book, "The Purpose Driven Life". I just received an email quoting Pastor Rick and here is his suggestion as to what we should be doing during our lives here on good old planet earth: "During happy moments, PRAISE GOD; during difficult moments, SEEK GOD: during quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD; during painful moments, TRUST GOD; and every moment, THANK GOD!"
I certainly thank our awesome God for his many blessings to Jan and I and one of those blessings are the wonderful people that he has brought together in the American Guild of Court Videographers! We are continuing to grow faster than ever as we have enrolled better than one new member a day during the month of January.
I sincerely hope that you are capitalizing on the tremendous increase of legal proceedings that are going on in our courts across the nation today. If not, get out there and whip up the lawyers as they have found out that any attorney that goes into court today without good video evidence is the one that comes out the loser every time. The X and Y generation will not be impressed with an attorney that still uses the procedures that have long gone by the way. See ya!
It was interesting that he had Pastor Rick Warren give the invocation at his inauguration. I am presently reading his best selling book, "The Purpose Driven Life". I just received an email quoting Pastor Rick and here is his suggestion as to what we should be doing during our lives here on good old planet earth: "During happy moments, PRAISE GOD; during difficult moments, SEEK GOD: during quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD; during painful moments, TRUST GOD; and every moment, THANK GOD!"
I certainly thank our awesome God for his many blessings to Jan and I and one of those blessings are the wonderful people that he has brought together in the American Guild of Court Videographers! We are continuing to grow faster than ever as we have enrolled better than one new member a day during the month of January.
I sincerely hope that you are capitalizing on the tremendous increase of legal proceedings that are going on in our courts across the nation today. If not, get out there and whip up the lawyers as they have found out that any attorney that goes into court today without good video evidence is the one that comes out the loser every time. The X and Y generation will not be impressed with an attorney that still uses the procedures that have long gone by the way. See ya!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Another Year gone by!
It is December 31st and we are now concluding a year which has been a difficult year for the Marquette's. As we close out the year, we are still at war in Iraq and Afghanistan with no immediate end in sight. It is draining our nation's resources, resources that could very well be used at home in our fight to get our economy back where it should be. A fight that we seem to be losing at this time.
We will have a new president in just 20 days and he will be facing a most difficult task in his attempt to turn around our failing economy and put our country back where the rest of the world will respect us for the good that we have historically done for nations around the world. With our nation trillions in debt, I will not live to see the day when all this is paid back to those who have extended us credit. I am convinced that the U.S.A. has ventured into dangerous economic waters which has taken us away from the free enterprise system that has served our nation so well for two centuries. Being a "go for it" type of guy, I feel frustrated that we as individuals can really do nothing but set back and see how this all comes out.
In spite of this difficult past year, I am looking forward to 2009 with great anticipation for my family, for our businesses and for our nation. We are still a "Nation under God" and I have faith that as long as we honor Him, He will provide for us in one way or another. May God give you rich blessings this New Year!
We will have a new president in just 20 days and he will be facing a most difficult task in his attempt to turn around our failing economy and put our country back where the rest of the world will respect us for the good that we have historically done for nations around the world. With our nation trillions in debt, I will not live to see the day when all this is paid back to those who have extended us credit. I am convinced that the U.S.A. has ventured into dangerous economic waters which has taken us away from the free enterprise system that has served our nation so well for two centuries. Being a "go for it" type of guy, I feel frustrated that we as individuals can really do nothing but set back and see how this all comes out.
In spite of this difficult past year, I am looking forward to 2009 with great anticipation for my family, for our businesses and for our nation. We are still a "Nation under God" and I have faith that as long as we honor Him, He will provide for us in one way or another. May God give you rich blessings this New Year!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Our New President
Well, it is all over but the shouting and that is certain to follow. The election was certainly president setting in that we finally have an African American President elect who will be taking office in January, 2009. To be honest, he was not my pick as I am a conservative republican, both fiscally and socially and it appeared during the campaign that Obama is neither. Much to my surprise, he has changed his position on many subjects now that he is the President-elect.
I do not believe that he has changed his liberal social positions which really concerns me when it comes to decisions on abortion and gay marriage that are bound to come up during the Suprime Court hearings in the near future sessions. Obviously, he is going to appoint very liberal judges when there are vacancies on the Federal and Supreme Courts. My concern is that we will see a contuning of the Courts establishing new laws rather than protecting Americans under the Constitution as it was written. I pray that I am wrong in my concerns.
I believe it still comes down to the old story that the candidate that promisses the most gets the most votes even if they really know that they cannot fulfill their promisses if and when they are elected. The candidate that talked about "change" has already proven to me that we are still going to have more of the same by looking at the nominees for key government positions that are right out of the Clinton regime.
I am still going to support Obama and will pray that Obama will seek God's guidance as he directs our nation and the rest of the free world and that he will exercise restraint when it comes to the very difficult decisions that will affect millions of Americans.
God bless you and may God bless America!
I do not believe that he has changed his liberal social positions which really concerns me when it comes to decisions on abortion and gay marriage that are bound to come up during the Suprime Court hearings in the near future sessions. Obviously, he is going to appoint very liberal judges when there are vacancies on the Federal and Supreme Courts. My concern is that we will see a contuning of the Courts establishing new laws rather than protecting Americans under the Constitution as it was written. I pray that I am wrong in my concerns.
I believe it still comes down to the old story that the candidate that promisses the most gets the most votes even if they really know that they cannot fulfill their promisses if and when they are elected. The candidate that talked about "change" has already proven to me that we are still going to have more of the same by looking at the nominees for key government positions that are right out of the Clinton regime.
I am still going to support Obama and will pray that Obama will seek God's guidance as he directs our nation and the rest of the free world and that he will exercise restraint when it comes to the very difficult decisions that will affect millions of Americans.
God bless you and may God bless America!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
NEW PRESIDENT
In just one week we will be selecting a new president, one that is going to be responsible for turning around a nation in financial distress and one that is definiately heading in the wrong direction. The difference between the two candidates has never been wider in U.S. history than the difference between Senator Barack Obama and his running mate, Senator Joe Biden, and Senator John McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin!
In my opinion, the Democrates have selected the least experienced and least qualified candidate for the President of the United States that I have seen in my entire lifetime. Obama has a very poor record of performance as a Illinios state Senator voting "present" over 130 times showing that he will not take a stand for what he believes is right. He even voted to not assist new borns from boched abortions and perferred to allow these children to die. His voting record in the U.S. Senate has shown him to be the "most liberal" Senator in the entire U.S. Senate. His past record of friends has thrown up a red flag to me as to his true character and should be considered alarming to those who think this man is qualified to lead the free world.
We need a fighter such as John McCain if we hope to regain the respect of the world. I could go on and on about the qualifications of Senator McCain but you all know about his service in the U.S. Navy, his 5 years in a prison camp and his many years as a Senator.
I am only one, but I am one, and I am doing what I can to see to it that we stop heading our nation head long into socialism. It is my prayer that we return to the basics that our founding fathers had established for what has become the greatest nation on the planet.
I am hoping that you will join me in putting a real fighter into the White House, Senator John McCain!
In my opinion, the Democrates have selected the least experienced and least qualified candidate for the President of the United States that I have seen in my entire lifetime. Obama has a very poor record of performance as a Illinios state Senator voting "present" over 130 times showing that he will not take a stand for what he believes is right. He even voted to not assist new borns from boched abortions and perferred to allow these children to die. His voting record in the U.S. Senate has shown him to be the "most liberal" Senator in the entire U.S. Senate. His past record of friends has thrown up a red flag to me as to his true character and should be considered alarming to those who think this man is qualified to lead the free world.
We need a fighter such as John McCain if we hope to regain the respect of the world. I could go on and on about the qualifications of Senator McCain but you all know about his service in the U.S. Navy, his 5 years in a prison camp and his many years as a Senator.
I am only one, but I am one, and I am doing what I can to see to it that we stop heading our nation head long into socialism. It is my prayer that we return to the basics that our founding fathers had established for what has become the greatest nation on the planet.
I am hoping that you will join me in putting a real fighter into the White House, Senator John McCain!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Looking forward to Denver
Well, the Kansas City seminar has come and gone and we had a great time and certainly enjoyed the famous BBQ at Jack Stacks down in the Plaza. I left K.C at 12:00 pm on Thursday and was home in bed at 12:01 am Friday morning after driving straight through. What a great joy to meet our new members and expecially the Carson family from Tulsa. I want to wish all of the attendees much success as they pursue their new legal video career.
Now, we are looking forward to a great Denver seminar next week. It follows the largest regional video expo in the country where over 150 manufacturers and suppliers will have their goods on display. Of course, I will be there with my little AGCV booth. The expo is October 8th and 9th of this month and we follow it at the same hotel with our four day CCVS seminar the 10th through the 13th. We still have room for you!
I received some distrubing information this week regarding the legal profession and I am sure that very few people realize just what the litigation costs are in this country to the average U.S. citizen. We are paying $625.00 per person for the court rooms, the judges and their staffs because we have become the most litigious country in the world. These costs do not include the lawyers fees and other costs that the litigants have to pay on their own. This report came from Richard Ward, chief executive officer of Lloyd's of London. England is fast approaching the same situation where businesses are relocating out of England (and out of the United States) to countries where they are not facing the posibilities of class-action law suits which are crippling the companies that are doing business in our two nations.
I hope that Congress will wake up to the fact that we, as a nation, are loosing many manufactur-ing firms that are locating in other countries because of our serious tort problems. Unfortunately, Congress has brought up tort reform 13 times and the Democratic canditate for Vice President has voted against the tort reforms all 13 times. This should come as no suprise as the Democrates have received some $107 million so far in 2008 from the class-action lawyers. I have nothing against lawyers making honest money but when it comes to class-action litigation, there have been a string of high-profile attorneys that are now serving time because of being convicted of crimes regarding their illegal actions.
Now, we are looking forward to a great Denver seminar next week. It follows the largest regional video expo in the country where over 150 manufacturers and suppliers will have their goods on display. Of course, I will be there with my little AGCV booth. The expo is October 8th and 9th of this month and we follow it at the same hotel with our four day CCVS seminar the 10th through the 13th. We still have room for you!
I received some distrubing information this week regarding the legal profession and I am sure that very few people realize just what the litigation costs are in this country to the average U.S. citizen. We are paying $625.00 per person for the court rooms, the judges and their staffs because we have become the most litigious country in the world. These costs do not include the lawyers fees and other costs that the litigants have to pay on their own. This report came from Richard Ward, chief executive officer of Lloyd's of London. England is fast approaching the same situation where businesses are relocating out of England (and out of the United States) to countries where they are not facing the posibilities of class-action law suits which are crippling the companies that are doing business in our two nations.
I hope that Congress will wake up to the fact that we, as a nation, are loosing many manufactur-ing firms that are locating in other countries because of our serious tort problems. Unfortunately, Congress has brought up tort reform 13 times and the Democratic canditate for Vice President has voted against the tort reforms all 13 times. This should come as no suprise as the Democrates have received some $107 million so far in 2008 from the class-action lawyers. I have nothing against lawyers making honest money but when it comes to class-action litigation, there have been a string of high-profile attorneys that are now serving time because of being convicted of crimes regarding their illegal actions.
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
We Report, You Decide
I received an e-mail that I found extremely interesting and I am going to pass it on. This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long time. The sad thing about it, you can see it coming. I have always heard about this democracy countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. The e-mail was intitled "How Long Do We Have?" Here it is:
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Atherian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilations from the begining of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. from bondage to spiritual faith; 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from courage to liberty; 4. from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to complacency; 6. from complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence; 8. from dependence back into bondage."
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of states won by Democrats: 19; Republicans: 29. Square miles of land won by Democrates: 580,000, Republicans: 2,427,000. Population of counties won by Democrates: 127 million, Republicans 143 million. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Democats: 13.2, Republicans: 2.1. These are simply the facts!
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompasses those citizens living in government owned tenements and living on various forms of government welfare." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complancency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
The conclusion, if congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called "illegals" and they vote, then we can say goodby to the USA in fewer than five years.
I hope that this message will help you realize just how much is at stake in this election and that you will realize that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
"WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!"
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Atherian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilations from the begining of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence: 1. from bondage to spiritual faith; 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from courage to liberty; 4. from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to complacency; 6. from complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence; 8. from dependence back into bondage."
Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election: Number of states won by Democrats: 19; Republicans: 29. Square miles of land won by Democrates: 580,000, Republicans: 2,427,000. Population of counties won by Democrates: 127 million, Republicans 143 million. Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by Democats: 13.2, Republicans: 2.1. These are simply the facts!
Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompasses those citizens living in government owned tenements and living on various forms of government welfare." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complancency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.
The conclusion, if congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called "illegals" and they vote, then we can say goodby to the USA in fewer than five years.
I hope that this message will help you realize just how much is at stake in this election and that you will realize that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.
"WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!"
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