Hundreds nabbed for food stamp fraud in just one county

January 11, 2014January 11, 2014Allen Frederick 2 Comments

An investigation launched from suspicion that Butler County’s skyrocketing food assistance dollars may be attributed in part to fraud, abuse and misuse has resulted in the arrest of hundreds and a taxpayer savings of $5.2 million since July 2012.

About $6.6 million is distributed monthly in Butler County via the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps.

In the past 18 months, $5.25 million has been saved by catching intentional program violators, according to the Butler County Sheriff\’s Office.

This is only from 1 county in 1 state. Can you imagine the waste, fraud and abuse being perpetrated across all counties in all states? And yet we are assured by Nancy Pelosi that there is absolutely nothing that can be cut from the federal budget. Really?

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The Majority of Congress Members are Mil

January 10, 2014Allen Frederick Leave a comment

The Majority of Congress Members are Millionaires http://ow.ly/stwDz they do not mind being rich it is just you are not allowed to be rich! Get it?

Run the Right Race – Ignore the Hecklers

December 30, 2013December 30, 2013Allen Frederick 3 Comments

1 Corinthians 9:24-27 (GW)
Don’t you realize that everyone who runs in a race runs to win, but only one runner gets the prize? Run like them, so that you can win. Everyone who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training. They do it to win a temporary crown, but we do it to win one that will be permanent. So I run—but not without a clear goal ahead of me. So I box—but not as if I were just shadow boxing. Rather, I toughen my body with punches and make it my slave so that I will not be disqualified after I have spread the Good News to others.

Wrong Way (Photo credit: Jack Zalium)

During the 1990’s in an NCAA Division II national championship cross-country race in California, a bizarre twist of events took place. Mike Delcavo and 127 of the best runners in the country were battling for glory over the 10,000 meter course. About three miles into the race, Delvaco was somewhere in the middle of the pack, when he realized that the runners had made a wrong turn. So he yelled out, “You’re going the wrong way,” but they didn’t listen. Only 4 others followed Mike when he turned in the right direction…and suddenly, he found himself in the lead.

However that lasted only about a mile, since Mike and the runners who followed him soon reunited with the larger pack who, having gone the wrong way, actually shaved about a half a mile off the course, and were now in the lead again. The last blow came when, because so many of the runners had gone the wrong way, the officials changed the official course route to accommodate their error. So when Mike Delcavo finally crossed the finish line, he was number 103 overall.

At the end of the race, some of Delcavo’s competitors “thought it was funny that he went the right way.”

You see many will mock you when you ‘play by the rules’ but play by the rules anyway because that is a true test of character. When everyone around you seems to be going in an entirely different way it is very hard to swim against the tide of public opinion. Standing your ground and acting on what you believe in takes a strength of character I am afraid few have. Even those who officiate and referee the laws have a tendency to bend their own judgments to accommodate the majority even when they know the majority is wrong.

You have heard it many times from your children or from your friends and family, well everyone else is doing it. Just because many are (I am convinced that there are still those who refuse to follow the wrong paths) does not make it the right way to go or the right thing to do.

There is a way that seems right to a person, but eventually it ends in death. Proverbs 14:12 (GW)

Not to belabor a point but it is worth mentioning again. The firestorm that erupted over the comments Phil Robertson made in GQ when ask for his opinion on what he thought sin was offers an excellent object lesson on staying on the right course even when met with a huge crowd going in the wrong direction. To simplify what Phil Robertson was trying to say so that even the unlearned mind can comprehend the concept. Sin is knowing you are running the race in the wrong direction but refusing to turn around and go the right way. Just because you are followed by a large crowd does not make your wrong way the right way.

In our mixed-up world, when everybody is wrong, wrong by default becomes right. However, in the world to come there is only one Judge and He will not change the correct course regardless of how many or how few actually run it. His rewards will be based on our having stayed the true course.

It’s easy to follow the crowd. But it takes courage and conviction to follow wholeheartedly after God. Sometimes it can get lonely running your race, wondering where the crowd is going, and even whether you, yourself are on the right road. Remember these words when you find yourself among the minority and taking the road less travelled.

Matthew 7:13-14 (BBE)
Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it. For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

So as you plot your course for 2014, take a look at where you have been, take stock of which direction you have headed and if you find yourself running from God and not to Him, make a course correction and start running in the Right direction.

This is a view from the nest. What say you?

But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. _{Isaiah 40:31 (BBE)}

Along for the journey

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Battles of Ignorance in the Night

December 21, 2013Allen Frederick 7 Comments

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

In light of all the furor over what Phil Robertson “The Duck Commander”

said in a GQ interview I thought this would be appropriate:

From “Dover Beach” by Matthew Arnold:

The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d;
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath,
Of the night wind down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

– Matthew Arnold, 1867

Matthew laments what he sees as a receding shore line of Christian thought and influence in society. What remains are armies of idiots battling each other over things that are not of importance. The important things in life, like Hope, Joy, Peace and love are found in the Christian faith. Jesus is the light of the world, the hope for peace and the grantor of joy. It is that proclamation the angles declared on that first Christmas night… Peace on Earth and good will to all mankind. Joy to the world the Lord has come.

So as the darkness continues to gather around let those of us who still believe light another candle instead of cursing the darkness. As ignorant armies clash in the night let us be a beacon of hope and joy and peace on earth.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night.

ObamaCare is Working Just as it was Planned

December 3, 2013December 3, 2013Allen Frederick Leave a comment

Did you hear what Obama said? Do you really care what Obama says?

Speaking from the White House Tuesday afternoon while flanked by people who have “benefited” from Obamacare, President Obama said his signature piece of legislation is working. The speech was part of a new public relations campaign to try to salvage what’s left of the disastrous Obamacare rollout.
“About a half million people are poised to gain health care coverage…and that number…will keep on growing,” Obama said while ignoring the more than five million people who have lost their health insurance thanks to Obamacare. “This law is working and will work into the future.”

Yes indeed the Obamacare law is working its magic like it was designed to do. The law was never intended to actually HELP anyone but government potentates gain more power and control over our lives.

Here is how the Obamacare law is working. It is DRIVING UP HEALTH CARE COSTS, causing grumblings from the American people, which is precisely what Obama intended. He wants the people upset and crying for a FIX to this mess and then he will come riding in on his TROJAN horse and bring with him Government run healthcare.

You see this law was never intended to actually lower costs and make dealings with your insurance companies better or the relationship between you and your healthcare provider more secure, its sole purpose was to dislodge you from your secure, privately held and managed healthcare programs into one that is completely controlled by the central government. So for its intended purpose the LAW IS WORKING and will continue to work its havoc until such time as the government gets what it wants. THE ABILITY to decide who lives and who dies, as a matter of law and a way to cut costs.

The government aim is to make the healthcare system more efficient. HOW YOU ASK? Simple if no one actually gets any health care the system is very efficient since everyone will die before actually getting care, thus there is nothing to pay out and the government gets to keep all that money they have stolen from you with the promise of HEALTHCARE.

Yes my friends I am afraid OBAMACARE is working. It’s just not working for you and I and my friends Obama doesn’t care. There is NO CARE in Obamacare and that’s the truth.