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An Open Letter

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

(I will be emailing this letter to the White House each day, till I get a response)

Dear President Obama,

I know you are not really going to read this. If you do end up reading this I hope you take action and do something! You have done tons of things for women at town hall meetings that have complained they couldn’t make payments on their homes and so forth…how about you help me?

I am a 30 year old man who has led a pretty good life. I did six years in the Air Force Reserves from 1997-2003. I was an Air Transportation Journeyman and I was good at my job. After 2003 I didn’t re-enilst due personal reasons and wanting to concentrate on college. Now I am going to admit it that I probably shouldn’t have given up on it but at that time in my life I was being led in a different direction.

Back to my main point.

I am writing this letter to ask you one question: What the hell are you doing? I know I am only one story in this economy and there probably THOUSANDS more like mine but things are just completely messed up in this country.

I did six years in the reserves and at a time when enlistment is down in this country and I am seeing videos of soldiers on CNN that are being arrested for deserting their duties and we are still fighting two wars it’s just amazing to me that I would go into an Air Force Recruiter and tell him “I would like to go into the Air Force. When can I go” and to have him turn me away because I am too old, or past a certain point of age limit or that they just don’t want anyone right now is just INSANE! I WANT TO GO ACTIVE DUTY and you are letting recruiters turn people away?! Are you insane?

My message to you is this: When I get done with my BA here in about a year and 1/2, I am going to see one more time if I can go active duty as an officer and if I am turned away again…well, you just will be making a terrible decision.

In a time when people are needing jobs and trying to make things work in their lives, you would think you would be open to anyone trying to go active duty in ANY of the 4 services. Yes, there are guidelines like you must have all your limbs, senses and no medical problems. Well, that was me and I was turned away. Thanks.

You run all over the world making speeches and trying to win the Olympics for the U.S. but you are forgetting one thing: Your citizens back home in the U.S. You don’t do all these things for us, you seem to me to be doing them to make yourself look good and keep your face in the news and spotlight. Well, here is one way to make things good, how about helping me go back into the Air Force? How about you concentrate on us back home? I keep hearing about job losses each month on the news and wonder to myself why I can’t get back into the military but the only person that would be able to let that happen would be you…the Commander and Chief.

You have all my information and a way to contact me. I will be here in Oregon, working and taking care of my wife and I and you do your thing out in D.C.

I would love to see you do something about this but tell you what…I aint holdin’ my breath.

Sincerly,

Jason Steele

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Follow up….

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

I wrote a blog about Health Care the other day. I also saw my article transform during the two days of writing it. With this post I got a lot of comments with people agreeing and disagreeing. Great, but that is not what this post is about.

I made a huge mistake with the Health Care post. I shared personal and private information about a person. I used them as an example without their permission. I didn’t know 100% of the actual information that I wrote about and that got me in some hot water.

Now, I know you are all saying that in blogging you are not going to make everyone happy. That is not what I am addressing. I am trying to point out that as bloggers, writers or just people who wanna vent on their blogs, we have the task in front of us that we need to be respectful to those that are mentioned in our blogs.

Yes, I was voicing my opinions. For anyone that knows me, you all know that I am very opinionated when it comes to things. However, that does not give me a right to post personal and private information about a someone or something that I don’t have the permission or right to post.

I am not going to quit blogging. I love doing it. But, I am going to be watching a bit of what I write so that this does not happen again.

To the person that was referenced in the blog post: I am sorry. I messed up. I had no right to share your personal information. Yes, I should have written a different way and or created a ficticious story or something to prove my point. You are someone that I hold in high regard and always have. I do sincerely apologize for what I wrote.

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Distress

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

As most of you know, I work in talk radio.  I do guest relations for a well know FM radio show that is nationally syndicated.  We get callers from all over and their topics are all over the map.  Topics range from “Obama is not a US citizen” to “I need advice on what to do with my boyfriend”.

I got a call from a man this morning who works in a machine shop of some sort.  He was talking about the Health Care Rumors article on The White House’s main page.   Here is the link.  He then said that with this article and what he has heard he and his coworkers were flying their American flag upside down in the machine shop.  This is not a “I hate America” statement but it’s meant to mean “We are in Distress!” when hung upside down on a ship or boat.

I have to say, I have no problem with this.  But after he got on the air I received a flood of calls from VERY liberal people saying that he was doing the flag and “injustice” and that what he was doing was “punishable under the constitution”.

I think that these people are TOTALLY wrong.  It’s not an injustice.  An injustice to me is buring the flag in protest.  That is, or should be, punishable under the law.  To take the flag that this nation looks at as a symbol of our country and destroy it is tasteless and just disgusting in my book.  Hanging it upside down is not destroying it but making a point.  We are in distress. This country is dealing with the “Hope-and-Change-Yes-We-Can” that Obama brought with him while riding in on his white horse.  However, most of what he said is turning out to not be the truth, we were lied too.  JUST LIKE BUSH, let me throw that in there.  I have issues with the last president and don’t give him a pass but for people to not realize this is happening with Obama just shows that they are all blinded by the “Hope” and “Change” they voted for.

I say fly your flags upside down.  WE ARE IN DISTRESS!  We need help and we all need to realize that we are the ones that have to stand up and show our contentment for what is going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

What do you think?

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