RESIGN or RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURNS TRUMP AND SANDERS....NOW! EVERY Presidential candidate has done for 40 years - Stop Hiding

For the last 40 years EVERY candidate for President of the United States has disclosed (his and her) tax returns -- except for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.  Until they do, they need to withdraw from consideration because Americans have the right to know.

Aside from a lack of knowledge of the real world (Mr. Trump has now decreed California not to be in drought, his godly powers are so strong). Bernie Sanders bailed out of a radio interview when asked what real jobs he has had other than being a taxpayer-funded politician, and had no idea how to answer questions related to Central America "It's not something I know anything about" he admitted.

These two jokers claim the right to be our president--by hiding their tax returns from the people they want to vote for them?  What are they hiding? The truth for sure.

Let me guess. Voters would find Bernie to be worth a lot more than he pretends on the campaign trail as he promises free everything.  Trumps voters would discover that once again it was all a lie and he's not worth a fraction of what he claims.

The American system depends on transparency and honesty.  Whatever those returns says, it is an important document that is a bridge of openness between the one we pick as president and the people of this country. We aren't seeing it with these two. They are acting like the corrupt leaders of 3rd world countries I've been in where their people are kept in the dark.

What about Hillary your ask?  She has released 33 years of tax returns. You are free to go look at them. Compare them to returns ZERO for Trump and Sanders. 33 to 0.  So, WHY should a guy who wrote in "The Art of the Deal" that when you tell a lie 3 times its easy to screw people" and why should a guy who has lived on taxpayer money his entire adult life be so "special" to avoid doing what every other candidate has done for DECADES?

Are we Americans going to accept a president who can be a dictator whose tax returns we never see?  Trump is scheduled to be the defendant in a FRAUD trail November 28, so let that soak in if you don't think tax returns are important. Besides, if they don't have to release these returns now why do you think they would ever release another one if  they were elected? Then we do have a dark turn to an open country that has made America special in the world. Obama, leader of the strongest country in the world, releases his tax returns every year.

Failure of them to release these returns now opens the road to dictatorship, like the 3rd world corrupt leadership I have seen in my decades negotiating in nearly 50 countries. that is where we are going if all Americans don't DEMAND THEY RELEASE THEIR TAX RETURNS NOW.

Let's stick apples to apples. Tax returns are NOT speeches (which NO ONE has ever had to release so that's another issue for another day).

What are you hiding Deceitful-two-faced-change-my-mind-every-second Donald?

 What about you Bernie, who is so righteous and pious on "corruption" yet won't release all your returns "because Jane can't find them"?  What's next? The dog ate it? What makes you "special" from all the others who disclosed their tax returns including the woman you claim to be better than.

Until you candidates play by the same rules, we don't need you running for the highest office in the land that requires open disclosure BEFORE taking office.

RESIGN or RELEASE YOUR TAX RETURNS TRUMP AND SANDERS....NOW!

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Michael Fjetland, Author
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I Saw Socialism Up Close as a Global Negotator -- Why Bernie Sanders Version is Equally Disastrous

Bernie Sanders calls himself the "Democratic Socialist" as a badge of honor.

In my global negotiations I was in socialist/communist countries such as the Peoples Republic of China (its real name) in the early 80's. I went to Nicaragua just before it was taken over by the socialist Sandinistas. Know what I found?

The people were dirt poor and had nothing, yet those at the top of the party had access to education, money, cars, privileges that the 99% outside the party didn't have. yYu can see in the photos I published in my book showing "old" China under Mao's economy in 1982, people wearing the same drab clothes pushing brooms in the streets before it adopted a free market.  The people that I met at the Ministry of Machine Building had privileges in special shops no one else could access. They drove us around in the only cars available - government cars that looked like they belonged in the 50's when I was there in the 80s.

In socialist Cuba, the Castro brothers and their top commanders have it all. Everyone else has to live on $20 a MONTH (yes, that's $5 per week in 2016 dollars), even doctors! Nothing grows. 

Bernie's proposals would do here what his friend Fidel Castro has done in Cuba - wreck our economy. His ban on fracking would cost millions of jobs overnight, while his plan of raising taxes on low and middle income by $4,700 a year would be the price for "free" college. Where does any of this make sense?

I saw socialism and communist on a global scale. Our system is not perfect but beats socialism and communism a thousand times over....

Sorry Bernie, your socialist ideas haven't worked any place in the world where I have seen it in action. Your economic plan would cost us $15 TRILLION in increased deficits, while raising taxes on the middle and lower income by $4,700 a year (compare that to Trump/Cruz plans that would create $10 Trillion Deficit versus Hillary's $1 Trillion.)

That is a stiff price to pay for "free" college. It would be cheaper for Americans to fly to Norway where it is free, even for foreigners.

See for yourself in "Better Times Ahead April Fool."  Socialism is not an answer.

Michael Fjetland
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I have SPENT a Life Negotiating for America -- & put MORE thought into a plan to upgrade America than Sanders has!

Why does someone who has negotiated globally and been a terrorism analyst on TV think Bernie Sanders has no solutions?

Because frankly, as a non-candidate I have put MORE thought into a plan to upgrade America than Sanders has! And he's the candidate for president who recently admitted in a newspaper interview that he "never thought about" how to do the things, like breaking up the banks, he has advocated for over a year!

You can say "Let's raise the minimum wage to $15" but unless we upgrade our skills, we will still lose the global technology race.

I HAVE thought about it --for decades--and developed a real written plan based on experience in the real world (about 50 countries.) Unlike Bernie, when i traveled the world I was not chasing popes or to praise Fidel Castro and the Sandinista socialists who had taken power by force.

I went from a farm in Iowa to schools in Texas before becoming a legal negotiator selling American products globally (which actually create jobs HERE).   I did it as a young professional for Fortune 500, and later as an entrepreneur for small outfits after a lay off in the 80s (documented in "Better Times Ahead April Fool").

I have not been a government employee for the last 30 years as BERNIE has. I went broke in the 80's after a lay off. I know what the bro life is like more than the Bern.

Bernie hasn't even had a regular job like the bros in decades, so what the hell does HE know about being broke when he's been on taxpayer payroll over 30 years?

Bernie bros, the link below shows how the world really works -- by someone who actually got off the farm in Iowa and traveled the world on negotiations not tourist junkets to shake a popes hand (I didn't do that when I ran for Congress. My voters were here in the U.S. A.).

Bernie is pandering to your ass - you need to upgrade your skills because the rest of the world is getting smarter. We won't win a world that so many are clueless about.

It's in "Agenda for American Greatness."

http://globalamericanvalues.blogspot.com/2015/07/agenda-for-american-greatness-2015.html

Most Shallow Unprepared Presidential Candidates in Decades - FEAR is not a SOLUTION

Disagreements are Ok. They are an unavoidable part of life (ask any married person.)  What's important is HOW we handle them. By calm discussion or name calling? By rational presentation of facts or by attacking the other person and their body parts instead of adult discussion?

Candidates and supporters who use attacks instead of facts for persuasion to make their point, do so because they don't have real solutions. In 2016, America has the most shallow, unprepared bunch of presidential candidates in history, who are pushing FEAR instead of SOLUTIONS.

By making you fear Muslims, blacks, gays, "the Washington Cartel" whatever -- you won't notice that the emperor is naked. You won't notice that their economic plans are bizarre and would rack up TRILLIONS in deficits. By making you hate the other guy, you won't notice your pocket being picked.  Remember when people were labeled witches and burned at the stake?  Fear caused by an innocent person's awful death on our own history.

By using your fear, you won't notice that the emperor is naked. You won't notice that his economic plans are bizarre and would rack up TRILLIONS in deficits. You won't analyze that slapping China with a 45% tariff (Mr. trump) would immediately cause most goods people use go up in price by 45%!

Do your research. Too many people are buying into generalities not backed up with thought. "How do your break up the banks?" The answer should not be "I never thought about it!"  Nor should it be "Let THEM figure it out!"  That isn't a solution; that is a cop out of someone too lazy to actually figure out a reasonable solution.  Hate Wall Street? No, its not perfect but what's your SOLUTION, because even communist China used the free market economic approach to mushroom its growth, bringing millions of Chinese out of poverty --unlike Castro's Cuba that stuck with a socialist economy and hasn't advanced in 50 years.  IN China they ride the 265 mph MagLev train; in Cuba, they ride 1957 cars.

Start HERE at Global American Values blog with "Agenda for American Greatness" and pass it on to those looking at the issue this election year.

It's not based on fear but FACTS and a strategy to make America a key part of a new high tech global economy in a rapidly changing world. I have seen what we are up against in the world since I spent a life doing deals worldwide for Americans (which create jobs HERE). I see them passing us by if we don't upgrade our skills to compete.  But not by killing our economy with protectionism that created the Great Depression and Fear of the other in a diverse country that we are....

That diversity is our greatest strength that is nearly impossible to match by any other country in the world.  It is not to be feared but harnessed as we deal with a rising China, nuclear North Korea, Pakistan and India, the Middle East, and a Europe being banged about by bad economics and millions of migrants, causing nationalist parties to rise, based on.....FEAR.

There is only one candidate of the remaining big 4 that is offering actual, sensible solutions. I'll let you figure it out, or find it in Agenda for American Greatness. Stay tuned.

Michael Fjetland, Author
Better Times Ahead April Fool

http://globalamericanvalues.blogspot.com/2015/07/agenda-for-american-greatness-2015.html

Bernie Sanders "Hanoi Jane" Moment Makes Him A Loser Against GOP

There is a reason that Donald Trump wants Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic primary nomination. He knows that there is a dark time in Bernie's past that would enable even someone as hated as he is to win.

Is America ready for a socialist President who courted two communist governments that gained power by bullets, not ballots? Bernie courted Fidel Castro - even took a photo with him. This is when Cuba's economy was living on handouts from the Soviet Union. yet Bernie claimed how "impressive" Cuba's situation was.

My bet is that even a fascist would beat a naive socialist if it came down to that choice on the ballot.  Here's what I know, some from personal experience.

Bernie Sanders also supported leftist Daniel Ortega who led the Sandinista violent takeover of Nicaragua. Sanders did it personally, verbally and positively,  Google it. The Nicaraguan economy under Sandinista socialism is so bad that children live in a dump where they forage for food. They are called "Children of the Dump" in Managua, Nicaragua, which I discuss in the 2 minute video below. That's the type of economy they have twenty years later. Yet Sanders praised the Sadinistas as much as Fidel.

Castro and the Sandinistas denied free speech. Castro still does. They denied elections. They denied people freedom to protest. They denied free speech, and even freedom to own their own businesses. Yet Bernie Sanders sought out to praise these dictators.  Remember Hanoi Jane? Bernie in the mid-80's was like Hanoi Jane. (When I went to Nicaragua before the Sandinistas, described in my book, it was for a water project; I never praised them after their takeover, ever).

Check out this photo of Bernie with Fidel. It is not a photoshop. One is smiling like a Cheshire cat. The other is not impressed.  Bernie wasn't there to tell him to set his people free. He didn't push for a free market. Bernie was there to praise him --unlike Obama who made Raul Castro answer reporters questions for the first time in his life during his visit to Cuba.

In this photo, Bernie looks as ridiculous as Michael Dukakis looked in the tank helmet when he was running for president.

I happened to know about what was happening in Nicaragua because as a young lawyer for a big company I was sent their on my first trip overseas, on a mission to negotiate a water project for a Fortune 500 company just before the Sandinista's took over. So I saw personally what was going on (which is detailed a chapter in my book "Better Times Ahead April Fool") not expecting it to relate to this presidential race. 

President Somoza was a crook yes; my book talks about how he was trying to sucker our company to do a project that would calm people down; but the Sandinistas turned out to be even bigger crooks. They wrecked their economy just as Fidel wrecked Cuba's. Yet Bernie approved and praised them.

This is an excerpt from my book on what I found in Nicaragua - something Bernie apparently didn't see:
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Michael’s Journal
Nicaragua 1977
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            Though the night seemed quiet when I stepped off the plane into the darkness of Nicaragua’s capital city, Managua, the pot was already boiling as the taxi took me to the pyramid-shaped Intercontinental Hotel.

 Photo above: The pyramid building is the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Managua, capital of Nicaragua. Famous, flamboyant Howard Hughes was living on the top floor at the time of the 1972 earthquake, and fled. I stayed in the same hotel when I arrived in 1977 – the city still had not been re-built.

            All hell was about to break loose.  Only I was too naive to know it.  Hell, the whole world was naive about this flyspeck of a country in Central America that no one had ever heard of, until it became a household name during the Reagan administration.  Maybe a couple of spooks in the CIA knew the lid was about to blow off, but they weren’t talking to me or my Fortune 500 bosses. If they had, no one would have sent me, right?  But here I was on my first international trip as a young lawyer. Now what?

            The first indication that something was strangely amiss was the empty blocks we passed in the taxi on the way to the hotel. Whole blocks were barren of buildings: here a building, there an empty block, then another building then another empty block. It was eerie. Like a moonscape or something from a WW II bombing. But I heard no shooting, saw no overt violence.

Photo: After the quake in Managua

           I asked the taxi driver what had happened.  He said that an earthquake before Christmas in 1972 had knocked down many of the buildings.  The devastation looked like a scene from Bosnia in the ’90s. I found out later that President (a title synonymous with dictator in those days) Somoza had taken millions in U.S. aid money to replace the lost buildings, yet years later the blocks remained empty and there was no sign of construction activity.

            Eighty percent of Managua's buildings had been destroyed or damaged in the quake; over 10,000 people had been killed.  Somoza apparently looted the money, and people were ..." (cont at the link.)

Yesterday it was Cuba and Nicaragua, tomorrow it will be other countries. We can't afford naïve dreamers as president leading our ship of state through these perilous global waters of terrorism and global tax schemes. Frankly, such a lack of judgment disqualifies a person from being considered a serious candidate for a country that is built on elections, free press, rule of law. 

Of the remaining candidates, only Hillary Clinton has the experience and judgment to be president of the United States in these turbulent times in this inescapable global economy. The other choices are people with insane ideas that would cost trillions in debt and global ill will.  This is a time when America has to be the adult in the room when Europe is facing a split and China is about to become the world's No. 1 economy with a growing military presence.

Both Trump and Sanders - Far Left and Right are Trade Isolationists Who Would Destroy Our Economy

Bernie Sander and Donald Trump are in two different parties but both isolationists on trade. So both fringes are the same, once again.

Fact is, China has NO Trade Agreement with us - never has -- so "Trade Agreements" don't explain job losses.  We run deficits because we buy more of their stuff than they buy of ours. Only a trade agreement can reduce their tariffs for our companies to sell more there.

However, the article points out that Bernie expects low wage countries like Vietnam to pay U.S. wages as part of a trade agreement! That's absurd -they can't go from 65 cents to $6 an hour wages overnight.  That's like asking New York rent in Iowa - doesn't work.

This article points out that high wages in the U.S. are because we make high end goods - like aircraft. In low wage countries they make low end goods, simple things like electronics or clothes. That will happen WITHOUT trade agreements folks - it is the free market at play on a global scale.

Taiwan was once the low wage country taking our low end manufacturing. Then it was China. Then it went to Korea. Now its Vietnam. Tomorrow it will be another country. That's how it works. It is a constantly changing dynamic.

China started low end, yet its labor wages have gone UP - to the point where they can't make it cheaper than us.

Isolationism hurts US. It's what caused the Great Depression, along with increasing tariffs.  Trump and Sanders would be economic disasters with their strange trade ideas.

I spent many years promoting American made goods around the world and wrote about it in Better Times Ahead April Fool.  I lost deals because we had no trade agreements with a country we wanted to sell our technology. 

I saw plants move into other countries where there were no trade agreements, because it was the only way to avoid tariffs that would have driven up the price too much for the buyer.  If you want to see how it works, check out Better Times Ahead and Agenda for American Greatness, at the link.

Notice the Same Flaw in Each Candidate But One? It's All about THEM, not America

What I have noticed about the candidates for president, with one exception, is that each seems to have the same character flaw. It is ALL about THEM.

Trump is so vain he'd be having a nuke exchange over Putin posting a bad photo of his wife; one slight from a foreign leader would lead to military action from a crazed leader who is as presidential and educated about the world as a street bully dropout.

Ted Cruz has been all about Ted Cruz that he felt compelled to shut down our gov't over people getting healthcare, at a... cost of $24 billion - causing more damage to our economy then terrorism in a decade.

Bernie started off with some ideas but then he turned to fantasy land of free college with no taxes, and showed how HE didn't like his wife sharing the podium "Don't stand next to me." Then began the same "Lyin Ted" routine of making up false facts - such as progressive people like me who work in conservative oil companies who donate to Hillary are somehow "the company" making the donation so "its BIG OIL supporting Hillary." It is nonsense, and it is a lie because he knows better, having been an insider on the taxpayer payroll for decades submitting campaign reports. Some donated to Bernie too, so by his definition, he is on the take for big oil. Further, he refuses to fundraise for the party as Hillary has, because its all about HIM. That means down ballot losses and no change of Congress from R to D, making progress impossible.

Only Hillary is talking about THE COUNTRY and our people, not inciting violence at her rallies or fantasy's of free stuff that won't happen when you lose 49 states because the Trash Trump points out how Bernie was praising Fidel Castro and the Sandinistas as an elected official (ignoring that they took power at the barrel of a gun, then trashed their economies.)

Think about THAT. Only the woman is thinking of others instead of herself (isn't that how it is in most families?)

I have some items to add to Hillary's $10 billion rebuild America manufacturing plan. It includes putting unskilled to work, and skilled - like a solar energy generator by NASA. It's in "Agenda for American Greatness" - a realistic, not fantasyland roadmap for America.  Look for it in the last half of the chapter (after showing how we got where we are). It's based on 30 years global experience.

But its not about me; its about America and our childrens' future....

Trump's Nomination Will Split GOP Into 2 Minority Parties - Neo-Fascist and Establishment. Dems WIN

If Trump gets the GOP nomination some analysts think it will cause the Republican party to split and we we will end up with 3 parties: 

(1) the Democratic Party 

(2) the Trump party, a neo-fascist personality cult, and 

(3) what's left of the GOP establishment (and the last Republicans moderate)....

This is what happens when a politician replaces the usual talking point "dog whistles" -- coded racist comments said in such a way only certain people hear it -- with direct appeals to racism, violence and anger -- and directs it at minority groups. Trump himself as said on the stage: "I'd like to punch that person" and has encouraged his follows to get physical against others, inciting the violence that he denies responsibility for after creating the bizarre atmosphere of a Smackdown Wrestling match.

Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany's downfall; stoking German insecurities and fear into autocratic power for one strongman. Trump blames minorities and Muslims - same thing.

It wasn't true then and not true now that Jews, Muslims or minorities are responsible for a poor white guy with no skills and no education who can't get a job or find enough unskilled work to do.

You can't convince me Trump is anything other than another egomaniac autocrat who is willing to cross presidential red-lines by describing his private parts and announcing that people like Romney would "drop to their knees" to get the Donald's blessing if he demanded it.  Creepy.  

Trump's supporters anger is misdirected -- it should be aimed at this GOP Congress which has made sure from the day Obama took office that they were going to sabotage the normal operation of government ("to make Obama a one term president") and as part of that plan they weren't going to fund the normal bipartisan infrastructure jobs replacing pipes and replacing bridges that would give those guys a job. 

One example: The giant wind turbines being installed across America are being manufactured in EUROPE and CHINA. 

Why? Because CONGRESS refused to extend tax credits more than 1 year at a time during the past 7 years of Obama's term, until it finally passed a 5 year bill recently. Too little too late. Therefore, companies that could have been making turbines here could NOT because you can't build a factory and have it pay for itself in 1 year. Companies need the stability of a 5 year bill to make the substantial investment in a plant here to create jobs here. 

As a result and because of the GOP Congress American companies HAD to have the turbines made in foreign plants overseas, KILLING JOBS here. So, it has been the GOP as the JOB KILLER, NOT the President. 

In the meantime, Republicans Boehner and McConnell and Cornyn and Cruz were busy giving the high tech jobs and tax breaks to workers overseas who have those high tech skills, so they ship overseas with full tax benefits. (How companies and the 1% play fast and loose with special tax breaks globally, so they can hide TRILLIONS offshore, is detailed in "Agenda for American Greatness").

Trump's nomination, if it happens, will be the death of the GOP as a single party. 

The leftover GOP will then be one of two minority parties consisting of Trump and Tea party folks following him as a personality cult in one (the new version of the 1800's "Know Nothing Party") and the "establishment" types in the other. 

This is serious for yet another reason: Trump's trade war actions would cause a global economic disaster, just as Smoot Hawley tariff bill made the Great Depression go global in the 30's!  So those unskilled whites who think he would "help" them will find out he makes it worse, and that's before he has the media and all protestors arrested if not thrown on the ground for asking a question.

That will leave the Democratic Party as the one remaining dominant party and Hillary as the winner in 2016,  assuming it does not lose its mind and nominate Bernie Sanders who is as "pie in the sky" on the left as Trump is on the right.

This of course assumes that Bernie does not run a third party race after losing. If that happens then we enter into uncharted territory where, like the notations on the ancient sea maps, "Here be Dragons."  It will cause political chaos like never seen in the United States.

Stay away from the Dragons. (P.S. Russia and China are licking their chops at the prospect).

Michael Fjetland, Author
Better Times Ahead April Fool
Looking Back on the Future of America....
"Agenda for American Greatness"

What the MAD Voters for Trump and GOP Miss - They are Voting for the same Folks Who Sold Them Out

I get it that the Trump and Bernie voters are MAD about their stagnant wages and less-than-wonderful job prospects for unskilled work and that they aren’t getting the high skilled work going to China and India (or Chinese and Indian workers on H2 visas here.)

The problem is that they are taking it out on the WRONG people. Voting for the same people who sold you out isn't a solution.

For 7 years the very same GOP the majority they have been voting for has voted down increases to the minimum wage, voted DOWN any infrastructure projects to rebuild America's 70 year old falling-apart systems, they voted DOWN EVERYTHING that would generate jobs. They didn’t want the president getting credit for creating jobs and hoped to get elected by keeping things bad. 

So if you are voting for Trump because you are mad at this President, boy, you have been fooled not just once, but you are into serious foolish territory (can I offer you a "deal" on a bridge in Brooklyn?) The GOP sabotage of the economy didn’t hurt Congress reps making $185,000 a year (who show up only 111 days a year) to give it all to the 1% in tax benefits. It hurt the 99%. 

And THAT is why you are not happy! Not because of Obama, but because of the Republican extremism that put their political power over your economic well being. Chew on that for awhile, because its the truth.

If you want higher wages, more education for skills and replacement of ancient pipes and crumbling bridges and roads that would create millions of jobs, and a better future for your kids, then vote Democratic.  FLIP Congress to “D” with a "D" president with the global expertise to deal with future crisis -- and then we can address what people are mad about. 

Don't kid yourself, Trump and this GOP will continue to favor the 1% and their lobbyists buying their seats.  That is not a choice that helps anyone except those who are reading this over wine and cheese in a private jet while taking money to offshore tax havens…."Agenda" below describes how this occurred over the last 30 years.

Here is some real factual history to ponder as you vote this year for Congress and President…it’s called “Agenda for American Greatness.” No, it has nothing to do with Mr. Trump's plan to make himself great again. 

First part: HOW you got sold out. Second Part: How to be No. 1 again. Agenda for American Greatness - Update 2016
Michael Fjetland, Author
Better Times Ahead April Fool