User talk:TimGiangiobbe

The Baby Boomer Disaster Where's The Passion
When Katrina happened There was an outpouring of compassion from all over the country.The Federal Government was slow but who stepped up first,private citizens and they did it because the FELLOW AMERICANS NEEDED help and the country stepped up to help these fellow citizens who were homeless,confused and in dire need in A DISASTER.The response may have been slow but it is steady and now hope has become gratitude.Just in case someone has not noticed we have an ongoing DISASTER HERE when so many Baby Boomers who paid FICA and many other TAXES for years.Then they need assistance because of circumstances beyond their control,or maybe they are just down on their luck due to bad decisions.Either way we have some fellow citizens that need help.Where is the Passion to help these citizens or is the stigma so great that opinion and spite is a major factor in determining who get's help and who doesn't.The issue is so Big in Major cities that it won't be fixed without a commitment from the private sector and fiscal sponsors.The ISSUE will not be SOLVED without an outpouring of passion.Where is the Passion?Where's The Dignity? Where's the Justice?I say justice because some of these citizens are recieving unjust hardships and that makes it a justice issue too. GOD BLESS ALLTimGiangiobbe (talk) 23:28, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

American Pie The Day Dignity Died
Post WW-2 America,a time of prosperity and happiness.Americans were as Patriotic as ever after all America helped to defeat The Nazis and Americans were riding high in the glory seat.I was a fifties baby,and my Father was a Korean War Veteran fresh from the front lines.We had a nice little house with a picket fence.I was living the dream then and didn't know it.Americans were just introduced to Television and everyone had to have one,kinda like The way computers and I-phones are now extremely popular.Americans were glued to their TV sets and HUGE antennas sprouted up like appendages on roofs all over America.Father was up on the roof adjusting the antenna while Mom was in the kitchen using all those NEW SHINY APPLIANCES or doing some other household task,quite sexist.The middle class was as strong as ever and The Wealth was distibuted as evenly as it ever was in history. Americans were trusting of their government and if they questioned authority they were accused of being a Commie.The word beatnik was born and so was a counterculture that that was careful not to rock the boat to much or they too might be accused of being a non-patriot commie.World War two Veterans were revelling in their glory and A slice of American Pie was available for all who worked hard. The spirit of Patriotism was popular well into the 60s.Then events started happening,Kennedy was shot and America had seen a President assasinated on the Television News for the first time.The Press,TV and Politics haven't been the same since.We were not missing a thing after all we had our newspaper in the morning and the evening news.Then somethinmg NEW,for the first time we could see all the Gore in Living COLOR.Yes America could now vividly view all that has happened from Maine to Vietnam on the Color TVs that were being sold everywhere.WE were also viewing dissent on Television for the first time,something new Americans thinking for themselves and demonstrating.America was Having Economic changes,Inflation started making housing more expensive.The Post WW-2 glory had long worn off and America was involved in an Unpopular war and WE didn't miss it,we tuned in to The War in Vietnam every day and night.The televisions by the way were American MADE.Brands like RCA,and Motorola,Heathkit,Magnavox,Zenith,and The Cadillac The Curtis Mathis.Slowly Companies exported their manufacturing base to boost profit.Imports stared rising and our trade deficit was just starting to be lopsided.I can remember having a Black and white set longer than we wanted,then the JOY of having COLOR.The black and white sets are deep in landfills across America,just below the obsolete color sets and monitors.Americans always must have the latest gadgets after all WE invented them.While all this invention and planning was happening America was dividing and politics were changing and other countries were taking notes.Martin Luther King Jr and Robert Kennedy were assasinated.We landed on the moon and then we had the Watergate scandal and politics in America have never been the same since.Americans were buying more imports and we started to get spoiled to cheap imports.America was still the Technical hub with Radio Shack,Texas Instuments,IBM,Hewlett Packard,Meyer Sound,Early Semiconducter makers,FMC and such.Eight Tracks made way for Cassetes that made way for CDs .The Video recorders were born and Video CDs.This all of course BORN in America.Americans did not miss a thing Cable TV was born and we had TV 24 hours a day.America was the Technical Wonder and Inovator.While we were having our inner struggles other countries were still taking notes.The other countries sent students who took notes real well and we taught them our technology well, because they are disseminating the technlogy and have insidiously taken a substantial share of the market.These other countries are making engineers by the thousands,and for the first time America isn't the biggest dog on the block.China is making financial sacrifices now to gain leverage later by lending America money.We are setting ourselves up for financial disaster.The Wall Street Shysters don't care if America is sold to another country as long as they get broker fees.The number of financial institutions that bought inflated tech derivatives and Real Estate and Equity based derivatives that just happened to be insured is so great that it will be affecting stocks around the world for years to come.This is no surprise after all we don't regulate our own financial house and the wall street shysters and banking giants have been side stepping regulations for years.Warren Buffet said "Derivatives are the financial weapons of mass destruction"and he is no Idiot.The quest for a BIG slice of that American Pie has been evryones goal after all it is TASTY.Some scumbags are willing to do whatever it takes to make their slice nlarger than others.History has a way of repeating itself and America did have have prosperity a generation after The economy was stimulated by WPA and  after a Major War.WE need to  keep the eight tracks of the 60s on the shelf,next to the cassetes of the 70s and the CDs of the 80s and 90s.Then when we record our digital future we need to copy the Reel to Reel tapes from the 50s,The Prosperity tapes.Then we can have a repeat of the Prosperity of the Fifties but better we have a more racially diverse population and less sexism now. I feel that The American Pie is large enough for everyone to have a slice as long as no-one takes too big a slice.Tell that to those Corporate Executive and Bankers giving each other absurdly large bonuses.Tell that to the shysters short selling the very fund they used for leverage.Tell that to the drug corporations funding a schmear campaign full of lies against the health care bill.Tell that to the family about to lose a house because THE MEDICAL BILLS were too large and they did not have insurance or their insurance was cancelled,where is their DIGNITY?How about he couple who lost too much in the stock market and now their 401k is strapped.There needs to be a separate market created for retirement funds and long term investors.This stock market manipulation is a RUSE for DAILY THEFT.I feel that every time short term profits are shaved off the overall market strength erodes and therefore the need for two separate markets is the only way to have steady growth for the long termers like Warren and the other true American investors.Let's make a slice available for everyone after all America still has The Largest PIE.GOD BLESS AMERICATimGiangiobbe (talk) 17:20, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Human Trafficking the American Disgrace.
I find myself in China town during the wee hours of the morning now and then,usually in warm weather.I was walking through China town this last summer when I came upon a young Asian girl in distress picking on the ground like a crackhead.I was dismayed and then I was upset.I could not believe it,such a young and beatiful girl caught in the quagmire of crack addiction.I could not just walk away,I wanted to help but she was somewhat dispondent and angry.I noticed the Massage parlor directly across the street.I asked this old gentleman what was up and I recieved a remarkably candid answer,"she is a whore" and that blew my mind.He was around my age and was of THE MINDSET of the Chinese elders straight out of China and he was apathetic to the bone.I was sickened,I wanted to help but I had my own issues.I was inside at the time but was barely able to afford my rent much less help her.I can only Imagine what lies were told to her,she was promised Heaven and they delivered Hell.I figured the massage parlor used the cocaine addiction to limit her world and maintain control.The whole time I was there someone from the massage parlor was watching me.I will not say the name of the Place but I do not think there are many massage parlors on Waverly.She deserves better,she needs a chance at the American dream a slice of The American Pie she was promised.GOD HELP USTimGiangiobbe (talk) 20:42, 5 March 2010 (UTC)