FIU 30 Hour Famine

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To Whom It May Concern:

Before this day is over, 26,000 children under age 5 will die because of hunger, disease and poverty. 14,000 of them will die from causes linked to malnutrition alone. Today… tomorrow… and the next day… That’s one every seven seconds.

But here’s the good news. Students in our beloved Florida International University are choosing to make a difference. They are getting ready to take part in World Vision’s 30 Hour Famine (a 4/4 rated Charity by CharityNavigator.com). They’re going to raise money by not eating for 30 hours so that kids eat every day.

We have a vision. We believe that the Charity and Love of our fellow students can bond our University in common cause: feeding and loving the poor. We believe that the goals of tending to the impoverished and hungry can be accomplished within our shared collegiate community. We believe that we can overlook our factional divides, and together, we Students of FIU can bring about change in the malnourishment of hungry children worldwide.

Click here to Donate to FIU 30 Hour Famine

However, our vision does not include simply one club or fraternity, but the combined union of the University as a whole. We believe this is possible, and we believe it is forth-coming.

What Can You Do?
·    Pledge to Fast with Us During the 30 Hour Famine! Help us increase awareness and raise funds for starving Children worldwide. Join us online at

http://tiny.cc/FIUFamine

·    Sign Our Online Petition and Pledge to Remain Hungry for Hunger!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/FIU30HourFamine/
·    Make any small donation! With just $1 feeding a hungry child for one day, EVERYTHING counts! The change you receive at lunch can literally be life-changing.
·    Join the 30 Hour Famine Team! We’re looking for officers, ambassadors and more. Ask about service opportunities.
·    Spread the Word! The more we share this opportunity, the more opportunities arise. Help us share this goal.Facts About Hunger
·    Every three seconds a child dies because he or she is malnourished or susceptible to disease.
·    As many as 1 in 5 children die before reaching their fifth birthday.·    Every $30 you raise, you feed and care for a hungry child for 30 days. $360 will feed and care for a child for an entire year.

I personally thank you for any future involvement. May our Panther Pride and compassion unite us in this Common Good. Thank You.

–

Leonard O Goenaga

FIU 30 Hour Famine Chairperson

786.223.2404, LGoen001@fiu.edu

Obama and the Budget, Heritage Foundation

 

Obama's Budget and National Debt

“During his presidential campaign, President Barack Obama promised the American people a “net spending cut.”1 Instead, he signed a “stimulus” bill that spends $800 billion, and he has proposed a budget that would:

• Increase spending by $1 trillion over the next decade;
• Include an additional $250 billion placeholder for another financial bailout;
• Likely lead to a 12 percent increase in discretion­ary spending;
• Permanently expand the federal government by nearly 3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) over pre-recession levels;
• Raise taxes on all Americans by $1.4 trillion over the next decade;
• Raise taxes for 3.2 million taxpayers by an average of $300,000 over the next decade;
• Call for a pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) law despite offering a budget that would violate it by $3.4 trillion;
• Assume a rosy economic scenario that few econo­mists anticipate;
• Leave permanent deficits averaging $600 billion even after the economy recovers; and
• Double the publicly held national debt to over $15 trillion ($12.5 trillion after inflation).”

Federal Spending Per Household Under Obama's Budget

“President Obama has framed his budget as a break from the “failed policies” of the Bush Admin­istration. Actually, his budget doubles down on President George W. Bush’s borrow, spend, and bail­out policies. For example:

• President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.[3]
• President Bush began a string of expensive finan­cial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.[4]
  
• President Bush created a Medicare drug entitle­ment that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new govern­ment health care fund.
• President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. Presi­dent Obama would double it.[5]
• President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already in­creased this spending by 20 percent.[6]
• President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.[7]“

Obama's 1.7 Trillion Tax Increase

“Analysts have described President Obama’s budget as a repudiation of the past 25 years of economic pol­icy. In doing so, the President has rejected the most prosperous economic period in American history.

Between 1953 and 1982—a period of high tax rates, spending growth, and applied Keynesian eco­nomics—the economy was in recession 21 percent of the time, inflation reached 13 percent, interest rates hit 19 percent, and the stock market grew only 5.4 percent annually.

However, beginning around 1982, tax rates were dramatically reduced, and federal spending began decreasing as a share of the economy. In the 26 years following this major policy shift, the economy has been in recession only 10 percent of the time (including the current recession), inflation has never topped 5 percent, interest rates have never exceeded 12 percent, and the stock market (despite increased volatility) has soared 7.0 percent annually, even including the recent 50 percent drop.[25]

The United States has created enormous wealth over the past 25 years. For President Obama to pro­pose returning to economic policies of the Carter Administration, which brought stagflation and mal­aise, is unfathomable. Lawmakers should reject this budget and instead reduce tax rates for families and entrepreneurs, restrain runaway government, and reform unaffordable entitlements.“

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2249.cfm

 

Projected Budget Deficit

S&P 500 in the Great Depression, compared to the current recession

S&P 500 Comparison, 1930s Depression and Current Recession under President Obama

My First Campaign Position

It has been spring break, and how has Leonard O spent it? Working over 12 hours a day. I admit, I’m enjoying my work, and the thought of not having to interrupt it with studying or papers is enjoyable. I have been working on two things in specific:

1. My E-Commerce website: http://www.CongasGuayaberas.com. I’ve been adding a bunch of new features and have been working on the Wedding and item portions. One new feature I’ve been adding allows you to click from the item screen different micro images of the colored shirt, which then brings that shirt up in fill. My sales have been doing fairly well, as you can see in the attached chart.
2. In addition to working on my E-Commerce site, and having added my nifty header for this blog, my friend has asked me to join his campaign as the ‘Technology Chair’. This friend, Juan Carlos “Juanky” Robaina, is currently running as a Republican for District 117 of the Florida House of Representatives (oddly enough, my very district). I’ve basically been in charge of conducting online and techology related campaign activities, providing campaign outreach over various social media outlets, such as facebook, youtube, wordpress, flikr, twitter, etc. The position basically oversees that all outlets of the campaign are as up-to-date as possible, including desiging the image of the campaign, and maximizing tool of technology. Things I have worked on include:

• Designing the campaign logo:
• Designing the campaign website:
• Designing the campaign Youtube Channel:
• Designing Campaign Memos, Business Cards, Press Releases, Letters, Letterheads, etc.
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• Designing the Campaign Store and its Products:
• Designing the Campaign emails and their connectivity via hosting servers: Leonard@JuankyRobaina.com, Juanky@JuankyRobaina.com, etc.
• Integrating online Campaign tools with Google Applications: calendar.juankyrobaina.com, docs.juankyrobaina.com, mail.juankyrobaina.com, etc.
• Designing the campaign Flikr Account to capture Juanky’s political journey:
• Working with the domain hosting services, and both forwarding and masking domains (address will be JuankyRobaina.com within the 48 hours needed to settle forwarding).
• Designing web banners, icons, and other items to market the site.
• And a host of other things. I’ve found it quite fun, and I hope my efforts help Juanky in getting elected. Feel free to click any of the above links and pay my work a visit. God Bless.

Where Republicans Need to Go:

“Fifty-six percent (56%) of U.S. voters say the Republican Party should return to the views and values of the iconic 40th president of the United States to be successful,”

“Among unaffiliated voters, 61% say the Republican Party should return to Reagan, while 23% think the party should move away from those values.”

In his first inaugural address, Reagan declared that “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” Fifty-nine percent (59%) 59% of voters still agree with him.

Reagan also strongly believed that tax cuts are good for the economy, and 57% of voters continue to share that view. Only 17% disagree. Barack Obama’s path to the White House.

Rasmussen Poll Data

The Realities of Cuba Today

Senator Bob (D-NJ) Menendez on ‘The Realities of Cuba Today.