WAKE UP AMERICA

Life Has Always Been Hard—So Go Get Yours

2026-07-22T19:28:50.718-04:00

Every generation seems to believe they have it harder than the one before it. Yet today there is a onslaught of crybabies saying that today’s hardships are somehow unique.

Here’s a reality check: times have always been tough for someone. Why should your generation be the first to expect life to be easy?

Many young people have been taught that life should be fair, that success should come naturally, and that if they don’t have what they want, someone else is to blame. But that’s not how life has ever worked.

Let’s look at history.

Someone in every generation has had it tough. Let’s look at just a few.

What about an 18-year-old in 1940 that survived the great depression with their parents. Do you think they had it tough? Yes, but they pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and went out, did what they had to do, and got theirs.

Imagine being 16 years old in rural Oklahoma in 1936. Your family survives the Great Depression, only to be hit by the Dust Bowl at the same time. Your family’s farm no longer produces crops. You pack everything you can into a vehicle, leave your home behind, and head somewhere unknown with no guarantee of work or a better future. Then it’s 1940. The Depression and the Dust Bowl are finally ending, but jobs are scarce and the future is uncertain. What do you do? You don’t demand that someone else fix your life. You do whatever work you can find. You rebuild. You persevere. You pull yourself up by your bootstraps and go get yours.

Every generation has faced enormous challenges. This one is no different.

So why are so many people today convinced that socialism is the answer? Because of our indoctrination centers, otherwise know as the public school system and college professors indoctrinating our youth to believe capitalism is bad, socialism is good.

Yet history tells a different story. Everywhere socialism has been tried, ordinary people have often ended up with less freedom, fewer opportunities, and lower standards of living. Yet many students are taught to see capitalism as the problem while hearing very little about the failures of socialist systems.

The message often becomes: if you’re struggling, someone else is responsible. Nothing is your fault. But personal responsibility is what has helped countless people overcome difficult circumstances.

Consider Sarah Breedlove....you haven’t heard of her? Maybe you know her as Madam C. J. Walker.

Still don’t know her. She was born in 1867. And before she was 45 her net worth is reported to be over $1 million dollars. The equivalent to $35 million dollars today. Well, when you think back to your liberal teaching, you fall back on the usual trash talk about rich people, saying, “She was born into privilege,” or “It was white privilege.”

Well you’d be wrong on both cases. Not only was she born poor, she was orphaned at the age of seven and she was black. She lived in Southern Louisiana and Southern Mississippi. Slavery had just ended 2 years before she was born. She married at the age of 14, became a mother at 17, and was widowed by 20 years old. Still living in the deep south.

In 1889 at the age of 22 her and her daughter moved to St. Louis. She found work as a washerwoman, earning just $1.50 a week. Less than $220 a month in today’s money. And there was no Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps or Housing. No government assistance.

And just 21 years later, she was worth over the equivalent of 35 million dollars in today’s money. How did she do this? She pulled herself up by her boot straps and got hers.

So, tell me, what is it that makes it so bad today?

Prices are too high; they have always been to high.

Wages are too low; wages have always been to low.

Inflation is too high; every generation had to high of inflation.

The rich are getting richer, the rich have always been getting richer, but yet some of them lost everything and became poor.

And get this, some of the poor became rich, like Madam C.J. Walker.

The American Dream has never promised an easy life. It has always promised the opportunity to build a better one.

So instead of believing that someone else owes you success, take responsibility for your future. Make wise financial decisions. Develop valuable skills. Work hard. Learn from your mistakes. Keep improving yourself.

Don’t give up on the American Dream because life is difficult. Life has always been difficult.

So, get off your butt and go get yours. Don’t choose to stay poor like so many people have by making bad life choices. Make good lifestyle choices, good financial choices and go live the American dream. Don’t try to kill it thinking socialism is the answer.

LAKEN RILEY MURDERED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT

2024-03-01T17:28:00.008-05:00

THE BIG GUYS CUT

2024-02-29T20:39:00.003-05:00

AMERICA WILL CEASE TO EXIST

2024-02-29T20:23:00.002-05:00

DO YOU REALLY WANT TRULY ACCURATE ELECTION RESULTS?

2024-02-29T10:04:00.000-05:00

DO YOU REALLY WANT TRULY ACCURATE ELECTION RESULTS?

Here is a list of the Major points.

1. Voting will be held for 1 week, ending on the next Tuesday following the first Monday.

2. The only early voting is for Military on deployment and absentee votes. They will receive one extra week.

3. Absentee votes are for those who will be out of their precinct at the time of the election. If they are found to be in their precinct during the election period, they will face heavy fines.

4. Paper ballots will be used where voters will check a box for their picks.

TWO TIERRED JUSTICE SYSTEM

2024-01-27T15:33:00.001-05:00

NUCLEAR POWER IS GREEN

2023-12-21T03:46:00.001-05:00

THE RUSH TO GREEN ENERGY

2023-04-08T04:56:00.001-04:00

BIDEN'S BUILD BACK BETTER

2023-04-08T04:53:00.008-04:00

BIDENS GAS PRICES

2023-04-08T04:45:00.001-04:00

LEFTISTS HAVE DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB USING THIS TACTIC....

2018-08-05T06:24:00.001-04:00

LIBERALS BLAME TRUMP FOR RUSSIA.... BUT WHO WAS IN CHARGE??

2018-08-05T06:19:00.002-04:00

National Anthem

2017-11-21T10:55:00.001-05:00

2017-11-13T10:52:00.002-05:00

Why was this Black Woman attacked by a member of Congress in a hearing?? Why can he call her Ignorant??? It's because he's an Old, White, Democrat, Man.... This is the democrat party... a bunch of Old White People forcing black people through subliminal messaging to submit to their wishes so they can continue to gather the black vote..... If this had been a conservative congressman calling a black woman ignorant... The NAACP, the NOW organization and the lapdog media would be calling for this man's head on a platter.....Wake up democrats... This is what your party is......

DEMOCRATS......

2017-11-13T09:37:00.002-05:00

LAPDOG MEDIA

2016-08-13T07:39:00.000-04:00

LAPDOG MEDIA

The gay rights activists have taken another baby step, this time In Charlotte NC

2016-04-04T22:43:00.000-04:00

The gay rights activists have taken another baby step, this time In Charlotte NC. As I have said in the past, the left accomplishes their agenda by taking baby steps. They start off with just making small changes here and there. They know it may take years before the real story can be seen and they are fine with that. This is how we have gotten to the welfare state our government is subjecting Americans to. Baby Steps

This recent step is going to allow men to enter ladies bathrooms, and women to enter men’s rooms. The LGBT community says that this is needed for more equal rights, because a transgender man can’t enter a ladies bathroom. Once again, the gay community wants more rights, not equal rights. As with gay marriage, gay men had the same rights to get married as that of straight men, same for women.

Right now as a straight man, I am not allowed into a women’s restroom, and men that think they feel like a woman can’t go into the ladies restroom either. But now, with this baby step, a man that feels like a woman can go into a ladies restroom, but a straight man can’t. What does this law have to do with equal rights?

What this law is about is just taking us one step closer to removing Christian values from our society and making somebody’s sexual choices seem normal and forcing people to bend over backwards to them or face consequences, like going to jail, if you don’t bake them a cake.

But my problem with this law is not with the LBGT, I don’t think there is really going to be a problem with transgender people going to the bathroom. They have been doing it for years and the overwhelming population was completely unaware. But if this were just about allowing transgender people to go to the bathroom at Wal-Mart, that’s one thing. The problem is this law and other policies, create a broad array of where they have access to. One is locker rooms. This is one reason I believe that this law was created for ulterior reasons, as noted above.

In Olympia Washington, a 45-year-old student at Olympia's Evergreen College who identifies as a woman but with male genitalia says he has a right to use the facilities and the school agrees. The problem is that the swimming pool locker room is shared with students from nearby Olympia High School as well as children from a local swimming club share locker rooms with the college. This man has been seen in this locker room, sprawled out in the sauna room fully exposed. He has been seen just walking through the locker room, full of young girls, butt naked.

The bigger problem with this law is the freedom this will give sexual predators, and if you don’t think this is going to present some problems then you are delusional and show that you are more interested in pushing an agenda than keeping our children safe.

The Charlotte Non-Discrimination Ordinance Coalition published a fact sheet arguing, "Only people who are actually transgender are protected by the law" and that SOGI in no way protects men "pretending to be women to access the restroom." But the group did not explain what safeguards would prevent such criminal behavior. My question to this group is, how will you know if the person walking into the bathroom is a man or a woman? Will there be somebody standing at the restroom door or the locker room door checking people as they walk in??

Again, there is no reason for this law except for the gay community and the left to remove Christian values from our society and making sexual choices a right. And in this case, they are opening the door for sexual predators to gain access to our children.

My question to the TLGB community is, what’s more important, you and your agenda or the safety of our children?

I fear I know the answer to this question and that makes me worried about the direction America is going. The direction the Gay community and the left are taking us have been tried in other civilizations, and it didn’t lead to good things.

WAKE UP AMERICA

DISTORTING THE RECORD....OBAMAS EXECUTIVE ACTIONS

2016-01-08T09:23:00.000-05:00

Once again Obama supporters are distorting the record changing the parameters Obama is judged by. President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders. Obama has issued 227 executive orders as of the end of December. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda— all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders, for a total of 425 executive actions.

When these two forms of directives are taken together, Obama is on track to take more high-level executive actions than any president since Harry Truman battled the "Do Nothing Congress" almost seven decades ago, according to a USA TODAY review of presidential documents.

Obama has issued executive orders to give federal employees the day after Christmas off, to impose economic sanctions and to determine how national secrets are classified. He's used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration.

Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don't require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.

This is how the Obama record is being distorted and duping Americans into supporting him.

This tactic is also done with other things, Gun Control, Healthcare, Unemployment, the economy, etc.

He's already signed 33% more presidential memoranda in less than six years than Bush did in eight. He's also issued 45% more than the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who assertively used memoranda to signal what kinds of regulations he wanted federal agencies to adopt.

Obama is not the first president to use memoranda to accomplish policy aims. But at this point in his presidency, he's the first to use them more often than executive orders.

"There's been a lot of discussion about executive orders in his presidency, and of course by sheer numbers he's had fewer than other presidents. So the White House and its defenders can say, 'He can't be abusing his executive authority; he's hardly using any orders," said Andrew Rudalevige, a presidency scholar at Bowdoin College. "But if you look at these other vehicles, he has been aggressive in his use of executive power."

So even as he's quietly used memoranda to signal policy changes to federal agencies, Obama and his allies have claimed he's been more restrained in his use of that power.

Obama issued three presidential memoranda after the Sandy Hook school shooting two years ago. They ordered federal law enforcement agencies to trace any firearm that's part of a federal investigation, expanded the data available to the national background check system, and instructed federal agencies to conduct research into the causes and possible solutions to gun violence.

Two more recent memos directed the administration to coordinate an overhaul of the nation's immigration system — a move that congressional Republicans say exceeded his authority. Of the dozens of steps Obama announced as part of his immigration plan last month, none was accomplished by executive order.

Indeed, many of Obama's memoranda do the kinds of things previous presidents did by executive order.

• In 1970, President Nixon issued an executive order on unneeded federal properties. Forty years later, Obama issued a similar policy by memorandum.

• President George W. Bush established the Bob Hope American Patriot Award by executive order in 2003. Obama created the Richard C. Holbrooke Award for Diplomacy by memorandum in 2012.

• President Bush issued Executive Order 13392 in 2005, directing agencies to report on their compliance with the Freedom of Information Act. On his week in office, Obama directed the attorney general to revisit those reports — but did so in a memorandum.

The difference may be one of political messaging, he said. An "executive order," he said, "immediately evokes potentially damaging questions of 'imperial overreach.'" Memorandum sounds less threatening.

Though they're just getting attention from some presidential scholars, White House insiders have known about the power of memoranda for some time. In a footnote to her 1999 article in the Harvard Law Review, former Clinton associate White House counsel Elena Kagan — now an Obama appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court — said scholars focused too much on executive orders rather than presidential memoranda.

Kagan said Clinton considered memoranda "a central part of his governing strategy," using them to spur agencies to write regulations restricting tobacco advertising to children, allowing unemployment insurance for paid family leave and requiring agencies to collect racial profiling data.

"The memoranda became, ever increasingly over the course of eight years, Clinton's primary means, self-consciously undertaken, both of setting an administrative agenda that reflected and advanced his policy and political preferences and of ensuring the execution of this program," Kagan wrote.

Presidential scholar Phillip Cooper calls presidential memoranda "executive orders by another name, and yet unique."

The law does not define the difference between an executive order and a memorandum, but it does say that the president should publish in the Federal Register executive orders and other documents that "have general applicability and legal effect."

"Something that's in a presidential memorandum in one administration might be captured in an executive order in another," said Jim Hemphill, the special assistant to the director for the government's legal notice publication. "There's no guidance that says, 'Mr. President, here's what needs to be in an executive order.' "

There are subtle differences. Executive orders are numbered; memoranda are not. Memoranda are always published in the Federal Register after proclamations and executive orders. And under Executive Order 11030, signed by President Kennedy in 1962, an executive order must contain a "citation of authority," saying what law it's based on. Memoranda have no such requirement.

Obama, like other presidents, has used memoranda for more routine operations of the executive branch, delegating certain mundane tasks to subordinates. About half of the memoranda published on the White House website are deemed so inconsequential that they're not counted as memoranda in the Federal Register.

Sometimes, there are subtle differences. President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10789 in 1958 giving emergency contracting authority to the Department of Defense and other Cabinet departments. President Bush added other departments in 2001 and 2003, but he and Obama both used memoranda to give temporary authority to the U.S. Agency for International Development to respond to crises in Iraq and western Africa.

When the president determines the order of succession in a Cabinet-level department — that is, who would take over in the case of the death or resignation of the secretary — he does so by executive order. For other agencies, he uses a memorandum.

Both executive orders and memoranda can vary in importance. One executive order this year changed the name of the National Security Staff to the National Security Council Staff. Both instruments have been used to delegate routine tasks to other federal officials.

Whatever they're called, those executive actions are binding on future administrations unless explicitly revoked by a future president, according to legal opinion from the Justice Department.

The Office of Legal Counsel — which is responsible for advising the president on executive orders and memoranda — says there's no difference between the two. "It has been our consistent view that it is the substance of a presidential determination or directive that is controlling and not whether the document is styled in a particular manner," said a 2000 memo from Acting Assistant Attorney General Randolph Moss to the Clinton White House. He cited a 1945 opinion that said a letter from President Franklin Roosevelt carried the same weight as an executive order.

The Office of Legal Counsel signs off on the legality of executive orders and memoranda. During the first year of Obama's presidency, the Office of Legal Counsel asked Congress for a 14.5% budget increase, justifying its request in part by noting "the large number of executive orders and presidential memoranda that has been issued."

Other classifications of presidential orders carry similar weight. Obama has issued at least 28 presidential policy directives in the area of national security. In a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last year, a federal court ruled that these, too, are "the functional equivalent of an executive order."

Even the White House sometimes gets tripped up on the distinction. Explaining Obama's memoranda on immigration last month, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the president would happily "tear up his own executive order" if Congress passes an immigration bill.

Obama had issued no such executive order. Earnest later corrected himself. "I must have misspoke. I meant executive actions. So I apologize," he said.

COMING TO PERQUIMANS COUNTY, NC......

2015-08-15T09:56:00.003-04:00

COMING TO PERQUIMANS COUNTY, NC......

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for using alternative energy, but I'm also for respecting my neighbors. I don't believe that just because I can do something, means that I should. If my actions are going to destroy my neighbors property value just to make a few bucks, that's not right. These thing will cause my neighbors property value to plummet. Their electric bill won't go down 1 penny from the electricity being produced from these things because it is being sold to somebody, somewhere else, that won't have to see or hear these things. So how would I be a good neighbor if I did these things to my friends?

For those that say they don't make noise, think about it. These things are going to be about 600 feet tall. I know it's hard to imagine just how tall 600 feet is, so go out to Bear Swamp, they have put up a test tower. That thing is only about 190 feet tall. Imagine 3 of them stacked on top of each other, that is about how tall the windmills will be. They say the blades will only be turning about 10 revolutions per minute. That doesn't sound so bad, but at that speed, because the blades are so long, the tips of the blades will be traveling at about 180MPH. I'm sorry, but something that is moving through the air at 180MPH is going to make some noise. And if you put 100's of windmills close together, you are most definitely going to hear it.

People need to call our County Commissioners and let them know how we feel. So far there is only 1 that has come out totally against this, I can't believe that no others have stepped up and are willing to fight for their Friends and Neighbors. I say the one's that won't fight this, then we need to remember them next time elections come around.

Like I said, I'm for all types of energy, and I'm not a NIMBY when it comes to alternative energy. If everybody in the area where these things were being put up would get a substantial benefit from one of these windmill farms, I might lean towards putting one in. But if my Neighbors and Friends are going to be hurt, just so I can benefit a little, THAT'S NOT RIGHT......

SUPREME COURT PUTS KNIFE IN BACK OF CHRISTIANITY

2015-06-28T07:52:00.001-04:00

The Supreme Court has put a knife in the back of Christianity with it's recent ruling on the gay marriage lifestyle. With this ruling they have created what will be pushed as a civil right. How can a lifestyle choice be a civil right? Black Americans needed protection under civil rights laws because they were being persecuted because the color of their skin, the color of ones skin is not a lifestyle. Women needed protection under civil rights laws because they too were being persecuted because of their gender, being a woman is not a lifestyle.

Homosexuals being able to marry is a lifestyle choice. How is that a civil right, are all lifestyle choices going to become a civil right? Can a man marry is own son, or a mother marry her own daughter? In our immoral and perverted world we live in today, let your imagination run wild with all the different lifestyles possible, and now they all will have the civil right to do as they please.

Once civil right status is granted to these lifestyles, what is the next step....If a gay couple wants to be married at a Church that supports Gods Law on Marriage, will they be forced to perform the ceremony? Well, if the gay marriage lifestyle has civil rights protection, the Church will have to perform the ceremony. If the Preacher chooses not to marry the couple, will he be arrested? Will the Church be forced to shut its doors?

This is the ultimate goal of the gay rights movement, to shut down Christianity. Because True Christians are standing in the way of the homosexual lifestyle. They are not afraid to call a sin a sin. Although the media and the gay community claim Christians hate gays, this is far from the truth. This is just a ploy they use to get sympathy. True Christians love all Gods people. We don't hate other Church members that have sin in their lives, because all of us have sin in our lives, but we repent and ask for forgiveness when we do sin and try not to do it anymore, but inevitability we will sin again because we are weak in the flesh.

So with this ruling, a knife has been put in the back of Christianity and Christianity will in the near future become illegal. Think not, what about the businesses that were vilified or have gone out of business before this ruling. If the gay marriage lifestyle becomes a civil right.....look out. True Christians will be holding Church services in their basements.

THERE ARE OVER 20 VIDEOS JUST LIKE THIS OVER THE PAST 6 YEARS.....BUT NOW?????

2014-11-20T12:19:00.001-05:00

Which Obama do you believe?????

Why do democrats believe anything this guy says. This is not the first time he has done this. The more I hear from him, the more I understand just who Jonathan Gruber was talking when he called the American voter "Stupid". It is the democrat voter, because republicans and conservatives don't believe or support the crap this guy is saying.... So it has to be the democrat voters Gruber was talking about when he was calling the American voters "Stupid"........

WAKE UP DEMOCRATS!!!!!!

DO I HAVE TO DRAW YOU A PICTURE......

2014-11-15T08:54:00.000-05:00

"THE STUPIDITY OF THE AMERICAN VOTER".....

2014-11-11T08:10:00.000-05:00

This is what the arrogance of Democrats think of the American Voter....

"This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies, okay? So it's written to do that. In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said healthy people are gonna pay in... If you made it explicit the healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed, okay? Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever. But basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass."

So to get Obama-Care passed, they had to lie to you, and they counted on your stupidity to get it passed. They counted on you being stupid enough to believe whatever they told you. They repeatedly told you, "You can keep your doctor. You can keep your health insurance plan. Your premiums are gonna come down. No they're not taxes! There's no way they're taxes. And you're gonna get subsidies if you can't afford it."

Democrats even told you, "We have to pass the bill to find out what is in it." When they told you that, they really knew just how stupid you were. Mr. Gruber admits that, if it were known what was in it, it would not have passed, and liberal democrats are the one that wanted this law.

Well, it's not the stupidity of the all the American voters, because the majority of American voters has never supported Obama-Care. It's the progressive agenda of the democrat party and the willingness of the Lapdog media that pushed this law through.

Will Obama-Care be repealed? Don't know. If the American people continue to wake up and get involved, it can be. But it will be a hard row to hoe, because unfortunately the lapdog media has it's minions that believe anything they say and they will continue to support liberal, progressive democrat policies.

What Mr. Gruber has show in this video is the democrats true colors. They have to lie, mislead and trick the American people to get done the things they want to do. They make up the "War on Women". They continue to divide people by inserting the "Race" card when ever possible. They have no honest policy to run on, which is why they just lost big in the mid-term elections.

USING LIBERAL LOGIC, ARE LIBERALS RACIST?????

2014-11-08T09:00:00.001-05:00

YOU CLAIM TO BE A CHRISTIAN, YET.....

2014-11-01T06:11:00.000-04:00