All Rural Roads Lead To American Prosperity Including Our South American Neighbors

The Royal Highways

Now This Is Progress!

"These small Texas "farm to market" roads are the Royal Highways that makes mineral resources accessible and the trading routes of food producing farms trigger economic prosperity of Texas City States of the new millennium." 

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Weekly Address: The President Talks About How to Build 

a Rising, Thriving Middle Class

President Obama talks about his belief that a rising, thriving middle class is the true engine of economic growth, and that to reignite that engine and continue to build on the progress we’ve made over the last four years, we need to invest in three areas: jobs, skills and opportunity.

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Congressman Henry Cuellar announces his Video-Conference

22 MAY 2013, 12:30-1:30pm CT  U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (TX-28) as well as officials and experts from Texas will discuss small business development with:                        · Small Business Administration (SBA) · U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the · Economic Development Administration (EDA) Attendees will discuss: · Issues related to federal resources available for small businesses, · How to locate these funding opportunities, and · How to best secure them. The video conference will connect Washington DC with the following cities: · Pleasanton: Coastal Bend College – Room 106; 1411 Bensdale Road · Mission: Sharyland Independent School District, Administration Office, 1106 N. Shary Road · Laredo: Texas A&M International University, Western Hemisphere Trade Center, Room 224, 5201 University Blvd. · Universal City: Northeast Lakeview College, Room NLIB 312, 1201 Kitty Hawk Rd.                               Full Article  View In Your Own Web Browser

What Happens When The Governor Of Texas Declares War on Federal Safety Regulatory Agencies

People Are Decimated And Killed!

Where Is The-Rule-of-law

The Texas Department Public Safety Just Applied 

On The Murder of Two District Attorney Murders

However Never Mentions The Illegal Actions of The

Governor of Texas

Update 04/23/2013 Meditation

Press Release of Senator Cruz

Helpful Information for West, Texas 

http://www.cruz.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=341453

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Update 04/23/2013 National Tweet A Rick Perry Anti-Safety Federal Regulatory Web Picture He or His Political Team Posted. Show the world what this guy has been doing!

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Update 04/23/2013 

No! It Is Not My Personal View, it is the reality of things in Texas!

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No. It is not to early to talk about the explosion in a chemical Plant in Waco, yesterday April 18 2013. Another example of resisting the support of expert Federal Agencies to reap higher profits, just knocked down a West Texas town and killed or injured some 150 people and displaced thousands with long term effects on the local economy for many years to come. 

The state of Texas needs to know, "What Happens When The Governor Of Texas Declares War on Federal Safety Regulatory Agencies"

Look at Texas Governor Rick Perry's Apology To The President Of The United States Of America For His Anti-Ethical Views:

Sarcastically he writes, “I am Sorry for my Anti-Ethical Actions …….”

Anti-ethics: categories of good and evil do not apply

Oh No There Went Waco

Go Godzilla RICO Perry

Background

In April 2009, Rick Perry succeeded from the Union founding an organized  rebellion (paid for by the state)  by posting the 'Stop' web page instructing all Texas employees to group together and rebel against the Constitution of the United States as members of  the  "Tea Party" rebellion, targeting not just the new presidential administration, but the Honorable Barack Obama personally. 

Rick Perry and his cronies, wealthy corporate owners and investors, have just declared "War on the EPA" [2009, 2010, 2011], a statement just mentioned verbally in the state of Texas by a private citizen is enough to be harassed, arrested, and/or jailed by Law Enforcement for an unknown length of time, waiting for Terrorist Threat charges to be collaborated by Texas District Attorneys. 

It is unimaginable that the Governor of Texas would publicly "Declare War" against regulating authorities that would have prevented the Gulf disaster. The Gulf Disaster investigation shows hard evidence of repetitive special interest favors that caused the Texas BP refinery explosion in 2005, as Perry justifies his words by stating “Obama has declared 

War on Texas."  The 911 Patriot Act is clearly unconstitutional if the rule of law is not applied universally to those that Govern (Rick Perry) and those that are governed too.

The state of Texas has no record of any virtuous acts other than those good deeds provided by private citizens and organizations, in and out of the State of Texas. Over the last eight years, government agencies such as the EPA, Transportation Department, and Office of Civil Rights have tried every form of diplomacy to protect property and lives, and seldom pursue violations by court of law against the state of Texas.

 Some good local examples are Kelly AFB which is an active EPA Toxic Super Fund and the needless fuel fire at the Kelly fuel annex. Our farm burned three times in a five year period due to faulty oil well heads (fire from the lack of routine safety maintenance and inspections such as the BP Gulf Fire). 

A year later, after CNN interviews Gulf of Mexico Beach resort clean-up crews, who would not talk to the press, we find the root cause is that they were forced to read the Whistle-blower’s act that these companies in Texas transposed on the top in big black letters,  their Miranda Rights “You Have a Right To Remain Silent.” Safety goes out the window when employees are threatened by prosecution to do or say what is right to save lives and environment. 

Let’s don’t forget, the mass exodus of disabled students from the University of Texas, as well as campuses across America, because of hostile policies that segregate the disabled population from all other campus community members; many of which were stalked to insanity and fired upon their fellow class mates.

Most Texans believe that Perry's coalition is made of the few wealthy and corrupt State investors that have no regard for their fellow man or loss of human life. Countless examples of Perry's special interest policies such as the recent big pharmaceutical mortality spike of 88,000 deaths, Vaccine legislation support by special interest cash linked to cancer [And Other Diseases], drug legislation doughnut hole depriving the elderly for necessary medicines, antiquated DEA laws that aid the illegal drug trade and finance terrorism, burning fuel farms and oil well heads where cash buys safety certificates, academic payoffs justifying cheaper unsafe manufacturing processes, while the state of Texas was set ablaze in 2010. A "No Child Left Behind Law" that has filled Texas prisons with those very children, the law intended to protect ad infinitum.  

Most recently and tragically U.S. News reports, “5 to 15 killed, 160 wounded in 'devastating' Texas chemical plant blast” on April 18, 2013. 

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/17/17765837-boston-bombing-aftermath-how-you-can-help

Why should the Texas Tea Party have a concern that does not concern them? The united States Constitution does not imply or express that fellow citizens should have a concern of the welfare of others as Rick Perry recently justified his "Anti-ethical practices" in an apology letter to the President [2009] which is a true indicator, he and his coalition do not understand the term or value of 'ethics' or the destruction caused by unethical practices, guarded by the United States Constitution.

You ask where does is it written in the United States Constitution? It is all linguistic determination, not what sally says, or how Sally says it, but why Sally says it, as follows:

Ethics:  Ethics (also known as moral philosophy) is a branch of philosophy that addresses questions about morality—that is, concepts such as good and bad, noble and ignoble, right and wrong, justice, and virtue.

Anti-ethics: categories of good and evil do not apply

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America"

i. We the People of the United States:  All Citizens of the United States of America

ii. In Order to form a more perfect Union:  "to improve the general well-being of the country (McGire)"

iii. Establish Justice: "Justice is the concept of moral rightness based on ethics, rationality, law, natural law, religion, fairness, or equity, along with the punishment of the breach of said ethics (wiki)."

iiii. Insure domestic Tranquility: "One of the main goals of the Convention, then, was to ensure the federal government had powers to squash rebellion and to smooth tensions between states (US Constitution)."

v. Provide for the common defense: The primary responsibility of the government of the United States of America; to ensure the nation is protected from threats both inside and outside the country, such as terrorism, war, subterfuge, etc. (Answers)"

vi. Promote the general Welfare: "Welfare" means health, happiness, prosperity or well-being. The country has an interest in promoting or maintaining the well-being and liberty of its people (Answers).

vii. Secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity: 1. Preservation of Property and Environmental Protection  2. Community Safety   3. Public Improvements and Community Development  4. Business Development   5. Education (Wilki).

G. N. O'Dell 04/18/2013

A Response to a letter from the President of The United States The Honorable Barack Obama

Moving Forward In South Central Texas

Living in one of the hardest hit districts of the economic collapse of Fall 2008 in South Central Texas, a ride in the country side makes one's head hang low to avoid the view of every other farm an empty house with broken windows that once had children playing and a big yellow school bus forever in the way of traffic.

Taking a family ride south of San Antonio, the view out the window is of ghost towns in the Old West including an occasional tumble weed that rolls across "farm to market" roads in need of immediate maintenance.

These small Texas "farm to market" roads are the Royal Highways that makes mineral resources accessible and the trading routes of food producing farms trigger economic prosperity of Texas City States of the new millennium.

All Rural Roads lead to American prosperity including our South American neighbors. Not too long ago, one could drive safely from North San Antonio on the Pan American Freeway all the way to Chile in 1995.

I have seen this down turn before, when the strength of the American dollar put travelers on airplanes that ruined 1000s of miles of the passenger rail all the way to Mexico City.

Not long ago, I could hop on train in one of two railway stations in Old San Antone with a backpack and a few hundred dollars in my pocket. The scenic view by rail was worth the few extra hours to visit friends living near ancient city ruins of the Aztec empire deep and safely in to what has become a DMZ zone 500 miles wide between our border and the main metropolitan areas of the Republic of Mexico.

You ask for my ideas to keep America moving forward. I can tell you that heads are up and people standing tall with the bustle of rough neck oil workers filling once empty cafes in small South Central Texas towns with just a dream-  The American Dream!

Economic recovery may be years down the road, but you cannot tell it now on the faces of locals after the permitting opened for the Eagle Ford Shale drilling operations.

If we want to keep moving forward in South Central Texas,  is to go back in time of conservative spending by state, government, and citizens. Invest some of the profits of oil wealth back in passenger rail that will make Argentina accessible to the average middle class family and heal relations with war torn Mexico,  which will strengthen our border security better than a battalion of Army Soldiers, Squadron of Surveillance Drones, or an impenetrable wall twenty feet high, stretching from Del Rio to Matamoras.

Some would say that would take a miracle, or a goal that is not obtainable within reason.  While others before us such as Friar  Bartolome de Las Casas wrote in his letters to the King of Spain "Apologética historia de las Indias" about the same Royal Highway made without heavy equipment or metal tools as follows:

"Then, there is that miracle -- such it may be called for being the most remarkable, singular and skilful construction of its kind, I believe, in the world -- of the two highways.... across the mountains and along the coast. The finer and more admirable of these extends for at least six and perhaps eight hundred leagues and is said to reach the provinces of Chile....In Spain and Italy I have seen portions of the highway said to have been built by the Romans from Spain to Italy, but it is quite crude in comparison with the one built by these peoples...."

A miracle is a positive event in our lives that seem to oppose the laws of physics or the natural order of things. We do not need to wait for a miracle, reinvesting in passenger rail, Rural Road maintenance, and Freight Lines from Del Rio, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, would just take an investment of profits paid by oil resources. The return on investment would not only save Billions is wasteful sending on border control but regain trusted relations with our South American Neighbors and a balance in economic trade.

The construction and new routes of roads and freight train rail are already in the works by oil companies to gain access to Eagle Ford Shale in South Central Texas. Why not keep on moving forward with rebuilding by laying new Passenger Railroad ties, where once the old systems lay, mass transportation infrastructure lost by inexpensive fuel consuming air travel over the last 30 years in South Central Texas.

Gregory O'Dell  Rural South Texas July 4, 2011

Bibliographic Information

Apologética historia de las Indias (Madrid, 1909), originally translated for Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West (New York: Columbia University Press, 1946, 1954, 1961). Used with permission.