Memo: Victorville Chamber of Commerce
P. O. Box 997
Victorville, Ca. 92392
Public Policy Form
May 8, 2009
Statement for discussion:
California’s economic depression can be traced to a terroristic disregard for the interests of the private sector in our declining economy.
As an elected official ..
1. Do you agree or disagree and why?
2. Please detail for us your private or public sector background.
3. Can a California politician survive by speaking truth to power?
Thank you Chamber for this opportunity to listen to our elected officials. It is my hope that this statement as well as the questions will be a part of the discussion on Friday.
G.Goslaw (Question was not used)
Friday, May 29, 2009
Fear is Good
Letter to the Editor
Daily Press
P. O. Box 1389
Victorville, Ca. 92393
April 2, 2009
Letter in response to Janet Turner, March 25, Letter to Editor
Fear is Good. Until we as a country wake up to the reality of the one world government in formation, the self centered blinders remain fixed. Out there doesn’t matter, the important stuff happens only in the few square miles around my house, so we think. As home prices fall it is becoming increasingly clear that “out there globalization” is transforming the world’s economies and our own.
Let’s define globalization as the exploitation of cheap labor for the benefit of the few invested, elitist, economic traitor’s to our country.As we watch the street’s of London it becomes clear that the betrayal reaches beyond our borders. Good jobs are disappearing daily. This new world economic government will soon rule over only the rich and the poor, with no middle class. Fear is Good.
The politically involved self employed persons are the enablers of this new government. The opportunity to exploit the acceptable boundaries of greed by pandering to these elitist interests is seemingly irresistible. Their creativity in this game is to be respected. It is baffling to consider why we elect them, unless they are good enough scammers to bring home the bacon to our few square miles of territory. Most of us prefer the blinders. Fear is avoidable.
Some weeks ago, Mr. Hank Paulson was interviewed. The former Treasury Secretary working for President Bush is also a former Wall Street CEO guru. While claiming to work on behalf of the American people, he made the following statement. “ You don’t regret what you could not have stopped. ” This is an obvious mental gymnastic to avoid responsibility but where were the follow up questions?
Mr. Paulson, did you even try? Did you convey your concern for the impending crisis to your president? From your insider vantage point, did you speak up and sound a warning? With the assistance of the interviewer, the silence is deafening and defining. Then the big question, were you strategically positioned to bailout the global interests if the crisis was to happen on your watch? Yes or no, Mr. Paulson? Fear is Good!
G. Goslaw (Letter published in Daily Press)
Daily Press
P. O. Box 1389
Victorville, Ca. 92393
April 2, 2009
Letter in response to Janet Turner, March 25, Letter to Editor
Fear is Good. Until we as a country wake up to the reality of the one world government in formation, the self centered blinders remain fixed. Out there doesn’t matter, the important stuff happens only in the few square miles around my house, so we think. As home prices fall it is becoming increasingly clear that “out there globalization” is transforming the world’s economies and our own.
Let’s define globalization as the exploitation of cheap labor for the benefit of the few invested, elitist, economic traitor’s to our country.As we watch the street’s of London it becomes clear that the betrayal reaches beyond our borders. Good jobs are disappearing daily. This new world economic government will soon rule over only the rich and the poor, with no middle class. Fear is Good.
The politically involved self employed persons are the enablers of this new government. The opportunity to exploit the acceptable boundaries of greed by pandering to these elitist interests is seemingly irresistible. Their creativity in this game is to be respected. It is baffling to consider why we elect them, unless they are good enough scammers to bring home the bacon to our few square miles of territory. Most of us prefer the blinders. Fear is avoidable.
Some weeks ago, Mr. Hank Paulson was interviewed. The former Treasury Secretary working for President Bush is also a former Wall Street CEO guru. While claiming to work on behalf of the American people, he made the following statement. “ You don’t regret what you could not have stopped. ” This is an obvious mental gymnastic to avoid responsibility but where were the follow up questions?
Mr. Paulson, did you even try? Did you convey your concern for the impending crisis to your president? From your insider vantage point, did you speak up and sound a warning? With the assistance of the interviewer, the silence is deafening and defining. Then the big question, were you strategically positioned to bailout the global interests if the crisis was to happen on your watch? Yes or no, Mr. Paulson? Fear is Good!
G. Goslaw (Letter published in Daily Press)
Letter to a Pastor
Rev. Bob Counts
Pastor Bible Baptist Church
12626 First Ave
Victorville, California 92395
Dear Rev. Bob,
Thank you for your letter of welcome to your church’s service on November second. After holding membership and attending regularly at the Apple Valley Church of the Nazarene, I was led to make a change. In that effort I am visiting many churches in the high desert to refine this search.
Overall the service was a blessing. I’m old enough to really enjoy a piano on the platform and a man leading the singing from a hymnal. Thank you! However I believe it was wrong of me to attend just a few days before the presidential election. It was obvious that the sermon was more a political rally under the guise of prophecy than a few needed moments of worship and seeking the reality of God’s will in our lives.
Speaking bluntly, your methods are wrong. As a country we are in the most severe recession in the last eighty years but the Church of Jesus Christ in America really has a problem. Can we change or will we be progressively relegated to irrelevancy? Shall we be a spiritual sepulcher akin to Europe? In my humble opinion confrontation does not work, waving banners on the street corner and antagonistic utterances are just as divisive. These tactics inflame and motivate the opposition, convincing them that the church is all about condemnation of their lifestyle. Let’s get real with a quiet confidence that God is in control, that the church is called to love not condemn.
As you well know, the prophet Jeremiah faced a similar circumstance. All the tradition biased prophets of Israel were exhorting the people to resist Babylon and to fight convinced that God would surely win the victory. Jeremiah took his marching orders vertically, his God recommended surrender and faith that Judah would be restored. These whimpish words were misunderstood by the people of Israel. However one commentator expressed it this way, Jeremiah was “ a man who loved his own people too much to stand bysilently and watch them destroy themselves.” ( TNIV Study Bible, p.1234)
The bottom line is that the God for whom Jeremiah was prophesying is all about mothering his people despite their constant rebellion. This love is almost impossible for we humans to understand. The prophets of tradition were regular antagonists of another prophet.
Surprise, surprise ! ( Gomer Pyle) Out of the tribe of Jesse, because Jeremiah preserved his people under the direction of his God, walked Jesus the fulfillment of at least sixteen centuries of our journey. The prophets of tradition were constantly harassing him. Therefore the prophets of tradition are not to be trusted,we must seek to hear from Him as we prophesy into the twenty first century. What will the current method-ologies look like? I am not sure but surely, if past revelation is akin to the present, it will not come from the majority. Church, listen up!
Thank you for giving me this opportunity, knowing that you surly didn’t ask for this opinion. Mom tells me you have been by the house a couple of times, you are definitely “old school” like my father and I respect you both. We may make connections in the future days, I hope so.
Seeking Him,
Glen Goslaw
(There has been no response)
Pastor Bible Baptist Church
12626 First Ave
Victorville, California 92395
Dear Rev. Bob,
Thank you for your letter of welcome to your church’s service on November second. After holding membership and attending regularly at the Apple Valley Church of the Nazarene, I was led to make a change. In that effort I am visiting many churches in the high desert to refine this search.
Overall the service was a blessing. I’m old enough to really enjoy a piano on the platform and a man leading the singing from a hymnal. Thank you! However I believe it was wrong of me to attend just a few days before the presidential election. It was obvious that the sermon was more a political rally under the guise of prophecy than a few needed moments of worship and seeking the reality of God’s will in our lives.
Speaking bluntly, your methods are wrong. As a country we are in the most severe recession in the last eighty years but the Church of Jesus Christ in America really has a problem. Can we change or will we be progressively relegated to irrelevancy? Shall we be a spiritual sepulcher akin to Europe? In my humble opinion confrontation does not work, waving banners on the street corner and antagonistic utterances are just as divisive. These tactics inflame and motivate the opposition, convincing them that the church is all about condemnation of their lifestyle. Let’s get real with a quiet confidence that God is in control, that the church is called to love not condemn.
As you well know, the prophet Jeremiah faced a similar circumstance. All the tradition biased prophets of Israel were exhorting the people to resist Babylon and to fight convinced that God would surely win the victory. Jeremiah took his marching orders vertically, his God recommended surrender and faith that Judah would be restored. These whimpish words were misunderstood by the people of Israel. However one commentator expressed it this way, Jeremiah was “ a man who loved his own people too much to stand bysilently and watch them destroy themselves.” ( TNIV Study Bible, p.1234)
The bottom line is that the God for whom Jeremiah was prophesying is all about mothering his people despite their constant rebellion. This love is almost impossible for we humans to understand. The prophets of tradition were regular antagonists of another prophet.
Surprise, surprise ! ( Gomer Pyle) Out of the tribe of Jesse, because Jeremiah preserved his people under the direction of his God, walked Jesus the fulfillment of at least sixteen centuries of our journey. The prophets of tradition were constantly harassing him. Therefore the prophets of tradition are not to be trusted,we must seek to hear from Him as we prophesy into the twenty first century. What will the current method-ologies look like? I am not sure but surely, if past revelation is akin to the present, it will not come from the majority. Church, listen up!
Thank you for giving me this opportunity, knowing that you surly didn’t ask for this opinion. Mom tells me you have been by the house a couple of times, you are definitely “old school” like my father and I respect you both. We may make connections in the future days, I hope so.
Seeking Him,
Glen Goslaw
(There has been no response)
Majority Rules
December 2008
Politics … we give up! After two years of 24 hour political festivities, the tortured election season is finally history. Majority rules is the cry of our democracy. Yet this principle does have a corresponding downside. We all can remember a time when black men suffered under minority status, miraculously we are maturing as a nation.
The same is true to some degree of women, the economic underclass, the unborn, any other racial minority and the gay community. Our history is replete with the struggle between majority rule and its dictates to minorities. When injustice occurs the federal courts are authorized to be the equalizer by the constitution’s promise of “justice for all”.
The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of justice in America even though it is an unfinished process. That brings us to PROP 8, the proposed clarification of California’s constitution to limit the legal definition of marriage to heterosexual relationships. This proposition should have been rejected because we are more than just a majority rule state, we are also American.
Uncomfortable as this may be to the moral majority, this proposition’s final fate is sealed within our U. S. Constitution.
G. Goslaw
Victorville, Ca. 92395
Politics … we give up! After two years of 24 hour political festivities, the tortured election season is finally history. Majority rules is the cry of our democracy. Yet this principle does have a corresponding downside. We all can remember a time when black men suffered under minority status, miraculously we are maturing as a nation.
The same is true to some degree of women, the economic underclass, the unborn, any other racial minority and the gay community. Our history is replete with the struggle between majority rule and its dictates to minorities. When injustice occurs the federal courts are authorized to be the equalizer by the constitution’s promise of “justice for all”.
The Supreme Court is the final arbiter of justice in America even though it is an unfinished process. That brings us to PROP 8, the proposed clarification of California’s constitution to limit the legal definition of marriage to heterosexual relationships. This proposition should have been rejected because we are more than just a majority rule state, we are also American.
Uncomfortable as this may be to the moral majority, this proposition’s final fate is sealed within our U. S. Constitution.
G. Goslaw
Victorville, Ca. 92395
No Buyer's Remorse
March 26, 2009
There is no buyer’s remorse from this reader. As a life time Republican, a conservative both fiscally and ethically, my vote went to elect President Barack Obama. His campaign rhetoric gave me hope that he might be at least a centrist president. In view of the fact that he is about governing from the far left, did I call it wrong?
It is clear that the president and I agree on very little. The liberal Democratic agenda of Nancy Pelosi is revolting. All politicians of both parties, the banks, the financial CEO’s, Mr. Hank Paulson and therefore President Bush are co-conspirators to defraud taxpayers and all future generations. They all knew it was coming and sounded no warning. The bailouts are morally reprehensible. The economic stimulus was primarily a bailout for state and local governments.
Education was also funded irrationally, the process is primarily a state function and what it needs is reform not more money. Life issues are taking a huge hit under the anticipated Democratic attack. While touting the priority of science, we are condoning the death of two celled human beings for supposedly scientific purposes.
The projected budgetary spending is gargantuan and is destined to reduce our country to a banana republic. Government has never, never,never voluntarily found the will to spend less. If you need a job with some security, work for the government who can just print more supposed security, at least short term.
O.K., surely you get the picture! As dire as these circumstances may be, there are three reasons why my vote was correct.
First, President Obama promised to change to our health care system, regardless of the projected costs. The percentage of citizen Americans without coverage grows daily. Those who have benefits are forced to pay for the uninsured through the back door. The minimal availability of care is immoral. The present system is doomed. Budgetary consideration for this change is a beginning point for a critical promise kept.
Second, the gutless situational failed spending politics of the Republican party. We have endeavored to attract voters by being the party without a cause or a broad constituency. The party has had no moral center from which to govern. The only unifier and moral authority has been the Almighty Dollar and political patronage extended to the most powerful interest groups. Ronald Regan resurrected the party from similar circumstances after realizing that the party had left him and his conservative principles.
Third, my vote was for the kid’s. A generational shift in political leadership is required. It is past time for we senior generations to give the young people a chance to succeed or fail. We haven’t done such a great job! For a few years we shall have to adjust to their decisions but the abdication of leadership responsibility brings relief from the pressure of unintended consequences. The country is always in the process of becoming a new America, keep the faith kid’s!
G.Goslaw
There is no buyer’s remorse from this reader. As a life time Republican, a conservative both fiscally and ethically, my vote went to elect President Barack Obama. His campaign rhetoric gave me hope that he might be at least a centrist president. In view of the fact that he is about governing from the far left, did I call it wrong?
It is clear that the president and I agree on very little. The liberal Democratic agenda of Nancy Pelosi is revolting. All politicians of both parties, the banks, the financial CEO’s, Mr. Hank Paulson and therefore President Bush are co-conspirators to defraud taxpayers and all future generations. They all knew it was coming and sounded no warning. The bailouts are morally reprehensible. The economic stimulus was primarily a bailout for state and local governments.
Education was also funded irrationally, the process is primarily a state function and what it needs is reform not more money. Life issues are taking a huge hit under the anticipated Democratic attack. While touting the priority of science, we are condoning the death of two celled human beings for supposedly scientific purposes.
The projected budgetary spending is gargantuan and is destined to reduce our country to a banana republic. Government has never, never,never voluntarily found the will to spend less. If you need a job with some security, work for the government who can just print more supposed security, at least short term.
O.K., surely you get the picture! As dire as these circumstances may be, there are three reasons why my vote was correct.
First, President Obama promised to change to our health care system, regardless of the projected costs. The percentage of citizen Americans without coverage grows daily. Those who have benefits are forced to pay for the uninsured through the back door. The minimal availability of care is immoral. The present system is doomed. Budgetary consideration for this change is a beginning point for a critical promise kept.
Second, the gutless situational failed spending politics of the Republican party. We have endeavored to attract voters by being the party without a cause or a broad constituency. The party has had no moral center from which to govern. The only unifier and moral authority has been the Almighty Dollar and political patronage extended to the most powerful interest groups. Ronald Regan resurrected the party from similar circumstances after realizing that the party had left him and his conservative principles.
Third, my vote was for the kid’s. A generational shift in political leadership is required. It is past time for we senior generations to give the young people a chance to succeed or fail. We haven’t done such a great job! For a few years we shall have to adjust to their decisions but the abdication of leadership responsibility brings relief from the pressure of unintended consequences. The country is always in the process of becoming a new America, keep the faith kid’s!
G.Goslaw
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Hypocrisy and Vouchers
Letter to the Editor
Daily PressP.O. Box 1389
Victorville, Ca. 92393
May 24, 2009 ( A revision of May 7, 2009 letter )
An Amen to Editorial Opinion by the Wall Street journal this day, “ Hypocrisy and Vouchers” (Daily Press, May 7, 2009 )
The above timely commentary by the Wall Street Journal should be pondered by all Americans. This writer would like to add a twist. Our President Obama is being hypocritical. His girls are being sent to a posh private school to maximize their potential and safety. This is a natural consequence of the Obama’s station in life and a reasonable decision. However, children just down the street are being brutalized by the Obama administration’s opposition to a successful voucher program in the Washington D. C. schools.
These children are trapped in the failure of an inner city system where educational failure is the norm. For these children, the voucher program is their only hope. No longer can President Obama purport tobe governing on behalf of the disadvantaged, the politically impotent. Public education is a politically sensitive culture that uses the educational dollar to enhance it’s own security.
The voucher dollar is a threat. Participants in this nest building bubble rain all hell upon every voucher system. Their target is the national slaughter of the competition. The teacher’s unions arguement against voucher’s is laughable. The unions cite difficulties in assessing success, curriculum control, a lack of professionalism and lax regulation. These are merely camouflage to conceal their only real motive, the almighty dollar. Forget the welfare of the children, forget parental sovereignty, forget educational priorities, the state run educational system wants the money. As a result, all voucher systems must die!
The politicians, including president Obama, ignore this injustice because the unions have paid their dues for political advantage and it is time for the government to pay up. It is so obvious and as simple as counting to three. Let’s rewrite the constitution to read government by the unions, for the unions, long live the unions. This traitorous linkage sounds the soon approaching death of vouchers and our freedoms.
Yes, President Obama is a hypocrite but no less so than the teacher’s of America who sit in church on Sunday. They insult the scriptures as they seek personal satisfaction instead of sacrifice. Judging from their union priorities, the welfare of their brothers and sisters is of no real concern. This hypocrisy within the church has risen to the level of preaching a lie. Personal security at the expense of others is not the priority of biblically based God centered living.
The church is called to be the salt of the earth, salt that dissolves in the cause of justice for all, even the children of Washington D. C. The church should advance the priorities of Jesus Christ, all American families should have the option of salty choices as they seek to educate their children. Hypocrites one and all, in the White House or in the church pew, should seek repentance and offer a prayer for Godly change.
G.Goslaw
Victorville, Ca. 92395
Daily PressP.O. Box 1389
Victorville, Ca. 92393
May 24, 2009 ( A revision of May 7, 2009 letter )
An Amen to Editorial Opinion by the Wall Street journal this day, “ Hypocrisy and Vouchers” (Daily Press, May 7, 2009 )
The above timely commentary by the Wall Street Journal should be pondered by all Americans. This writer would like to add a twist. Our President Obama is being hypocritical. His girls are being sent to a posh private school to maximize their potential and safety. This is a natural consequence of the Obama’s station in life and a reasonable decision. However, children just down the street are being brutalized by the Obama administration’s opposition to a successful voucher program in the Washington D. C. schools.
These children are trapped in the failure of an inner city system where educational failure is the norm. For these children, the voucher program is their only hope. No longer can President Obama purport tobe governing on behalf of the disadvantaged, the politically impotent. Public education is a politically sensitive culture that uses the educational dollar to enhance it’s own security.
The voucher dollar is a threat. Participants in this nest building bubble rain all hell upon every voucher system. Their target is the national slaughter of the competition. The teacher’s unions arguement against voucher’s is laughable. The unions cite difficulties in assessing success, curriculum control, a lack of professionalism and lax regulation. These are merely camouflage to conceal their only real motive, the almighty dollar. Forget the welfare of the children, forget parental sovereignty, forget educational priorities, the state run educational system wants the money. As a result, all voucher systems must die!
The politicians, including president Obama, ignore this injustice because the unions have paid their dues for political advantage and it is time for the government to pay up. It is so obvious and as simple as counting to three. Let’s rewrite the constitution to read government by the unions, for the unions, long live the unions. This traitorous linkage sounds the soon approaching death of vouchers and our freedoms.
Yes, President Obama is a hypocrite but no less so than the teacher’s of America who sit in church on Sunday. They insult the scriptures as they seek personal satisfaction instead of sacrifice. Judging from their union priorities, the welfare of their brothers and sisters is of no real concern. This hypocrisy within the church has risen to the level of preaching a lie. Personal security at the expense of others is not the priority of biblically based God centered living.
The church is called to be the salt of the earth, salt that dissolves in the cause of justice for all, even the children of Washington D. C. The church should advance the priorities of Jesus Christ, all American families should have the option of salty choices as they seek to educate their children. Hypocrites one and all, in the White House or in the church pew, should seek repentance and offer a prayer for Godly change.
G.Goslaw
Victorville, Ca. 92395
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
If I were president . . .
May 27, 2009
The plan is:
1. Bring our soldiers home … we no longer desire to be the world’s cop. We can’t afford it, stand up for America, let’s spend the money on Americans. Osma Bin Laden is winning the economic war.
2. Move from free trade insanity to a fair trade partnership focus. A partnership is about balance, cheap products are not the catchall. Trade must also work for the people. Let’s reward business to do their thing here at home.
3. Enforce and extol the necessity of citizens first, medical care for Americans based on citizenship, jobs for Americans based on citizenship. Education should be based on citizenship. The immediate deportation of all illegal immigrant violent criminals. Borders are patriotic and should be enforced by the military.
4. Jump start the private sector economy in true capitalistic fashion. This private sector tax base, provides the monetary resources for the public sector. We will downsize the public sector, respecting the private sector as the employer of first resort. We will return to the truly capitalistic economy that once existed. Deregulation has proven to be more dangerous than all other threats.
5. From my bully pulpit, a true publicly financed campaign reform bill would be passed and implemented, returning Washington to the people. In addition, I would refuse to fund all government without line item veto power given to the president. All legislation’s content must be made visible and time given for debate.
6. From my bully pulpit, meaningful term limit reform would be made law. Politics should be a part time, short term calling to public service. Career national politicians would be outlawed because power corrupts and getting elected corrupts. Enough with business as usual.
Retro America! This plan should keep me busy for the first few weeks.Our criticism of Mr. O Bama’s plans are not met with bipartisan respect on the Democratic side. The retort is always, where is your plan? Well Mr. President, this is a plan that will work because it has worked in the life of our country for generations. There will be pain in the short term but if we switch to this plan, our children’s children will respect us. Dream on America!
G.Goslaw
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