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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST THE IRS
SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT /ENTITLEMENT!
SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED 'FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT /ENTITLEMENT!
Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment"?
Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment"?
I 'll be part of the one percent to forward this. I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.”;
This isn’t a benefit – its earned income!
This isn’t a benefit – its earned income!
Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that 's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both your and your employer’s contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you 'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment.
Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you 'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month,
according to the Social Security Administration (Google it - it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you 're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot” that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently, they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. But is it our fault they misused our investments?
And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a “benefit,” as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they “borrowed” the money, doesn 't mean that our investments were a charity!
Just because they “borrowed” the money, doesn 't mean that our investments were a charity!
Let’s take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government – Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going, for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it.
Here’s a novel idea: Reduce the military budget to support our own population. Get out of the countries who don’t want us there. Bring our soldiers home and invest some of the $700B+ in giving them new careers
building roads and parks, teaching our children, creating new technologies, discovering cures for illness.
Then take the rest and begin to pay back Social Security, and call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won 't forward this.
Will you?
OBAMA SUFFERS AMNESIA BLAMING BUSH FOR THE ECONOMY
OBAMA SUFFERS AMNESIA BLAMING BUSH FOR THE ECONOMY
Dems pumped subprime mortgage market, triggering banking collapse
Published: 19 hours ago
Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Where's the REAL Birth Certificate?"More ↓
In the current narrative presented by Democratic Party operatives, the banking industry collapse of September 2008 was caused by tax cuts under George W. Bush and supply-side economics tracing back to the era of Ronald Reagan.
The narrative, however, ignores the personal responsibility Barack Obama and Democratic Party operatives played in creating the subprime mortgage market, beginning with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977.
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The 2008 banking collapse was triggered by a series of failures in the mortgage-backed securities market resulting from massive defaults in the subprime mortgage market and derivatives supporting the mortgage market that caused Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns to go bankrupt. Financial giants such as Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch and AIG threatened to follow suit, as detailed by the Guardian of London.
As WND reported in May 2009, Obama himself played a role as an activist lawyer in Chicago, representing ACORN in the 1994 case Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank. In the case, ACORN pressed Citibank to make more loans to marginally qualified African-American applicants “in a race neutral way.”
ACORN Housing, then a nationwide organization with offices in more than 30 cities, used the Citibank litigation to push the group’s radical agenda to get subprime homebuyers mortgages under the most favorable terms available.
Community Reinvestment Act of 1977
The Community Reinvestment Act, or CRA, was signed into law by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 with the goal of forcing banks to provide credit to businesses and homeowners with poor credit.
The CRA’s purpose was to stop banks from “red-lining,” or refusing to lend to people in low-income areas because the risk of the loan not being repaid was too high.
Even though lending to people with poor credit is inherently risky, the Carter administration was intent on forcing banks to accept a social responsibility to provide credit to homeowners and businesses in low-income neighborhoods.
The CRA was super-charged during the Clinton administration with a set of new rules that allowed subprime mortgages to be securitized.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the Community Affairs Research Conference in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 2007, noted a 1992 law passed during the Clinton administration expanded the CRA market by requiring the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to securitize “affordable housing loans,” a euphemism widely understood to mean low-income housing loans.
Clinton expands subprime mortgage market
Securitization of mortgages into bonds, a process that became a multi-trillion-dollar business in the 1990s, increased dramatically the liquidity, or amount of money available, to make new home loans.
Because mortgage originators could sell their mortgages to investment bankers, creating mortgage-backed securities, mortgage originators did not have to hold the mortgage in their portfolio. As a result, mortgage lenders could more easily engage in riskier lending, including lending to less qualified buyers in the subprime market.
By allowing CRA-generated and other subprime mortgages to be included in mortgage-backed securities, the Clinton administration advanced a social agenda to extend homeownership into inner-city poverty, where prospective homeowners were typically not qualified to obtain a mortgage.
By definition, subprime lenders are not credit-worthy under normal lending standards. They typically cannot meet normal lending requirements to verify income and have a history of credit problems.
Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, in their 2011 book “Reckless Endangerment,” detailed how the subprime mortgage crisis resulted in the collapse of financial institutions in September 2008. The authors demonstrated, as noted on page 3 of the book, how Clinton’s “calamitous” homeownership strategy developed and “came to blow up the economy.” The authors calls it a “story of greed, good intentions, corporate corruption and government support.”
In the aftermath of the U.S. government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, attention focused on three prominent Democrats who served as Fannie Mae executives: Franklin D. Raines, former Clinton administration budget director; James Johnson, former aide to Democratic Vice President Walter Mondale; and Jamie Gorelick, former Clinton administration deputy attorney general.
All three prominent Democrats earned millions in questionable compensation while serving as top Fannie Mae executives.
Raines earned $90 million in his five years as Fannie Mae CEO, from 1999 to 2004; Johnson earned $21 million in just his last year serving as Fannie Mae CEO, serving from 1991 to 1998; and Gorelick earned an estimated $26 million serving as vice chair of Fannie Mae from 1998 to 2003.
All three were subsequently involved in mortgage-related financial scandals concerning their stewardship at Fannie Mae.
Franklin Raines
Franklin Raines’ problems began in 2004, when Fannie Mae’s regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, or OFHEO, and the Security and Exchange Commission’s top accountant issued reports charging that under Raines’ stewardship Fannie Mae had misstated earnings for three and a half years.
The $9 billion restatement of earnings required by the OFHEO and SEC ended up wiping out 40 percent of Fannie Mae’s originally stated profits from 2001 to mid-2004.
Raines resigned from Fannie Mae in December 2004, with a $19 million severance package.
Raines continued playing the victim until April 2008, when he and two other Fannie Mae top executives were ordered in a civil lawsuit to pay nearly $31.4 million for their roles in what amounted to an Enron-like accounting scandal.
Raines and the other Fannie Mae executives were accused in the civil suit of manipulating Fannie Mae books to manufacture earnings over a six-year period that stretched from 1998 through 2004 to trigger for themselves millions of dollars in otherwise unearned bonuses.
In the final settlement, Raines was also forced to give up Fannie Mae stock options then valued at $15.6 million.
A controversy broke out when the Washington Post noted in July 2008 Raines had taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain ran a television advertisement using the Post article as a source to claim Raines was an Obama adviser. But Raines issued a denial that he was an adviser to Obama or that he had provided the Obama campaign with advice on housing or economic matters.
In September 2008, as the controversy developed, the Washington Post stood behind its original report, noting Raines statement that month that he never provided Obama’s campaign with advice on housing or economic matters contradicted what he told the newspaper in July 2008.
James Johnson
James Johnson was appointed to head Obama’s vice presidential selection committee until a controversy concerning an alleged $7 millions in questionable real estate loans he received on favorable terms from failed sub-prime mortgage lender Countrywide Financial surfaced and forced him to resign.
The controversy over Johnson began when the Wall Street Journal reported June 7, 2008, that Countrywide had extended to Johnson and Raines millions of dollars in favorable home loans because they were “Friends of Angelo,” or “FoA,” as such preferential borrowers were known in the inner circles of Countrywide.
The Wall Street Journal carefully noted there is nothing illegal about a mortgage firm treating some borrowers better than others.
Yet, when two top Fannie Mae executives received the preferential mortgage treatment, it spelled political trouble for the government-sponsored, shareholder-owned company, as well as for the Democratic Party and the Obama presidential campaign with which Raines and Johnson were connected.
A lawyer for Johnson insisted to the Wall Street Journal that Johnson’s Countrywide home mortgage loans were within industry practice; Raines did not respond to the newspaper’s requests to comment.
Jamie Gorelick
In 1998, Fannie Mae Vice Chairman Jamie S. Gorelick received a bonus of $779,625, despite her alleged involvement in a scandal in which Fannie Mae employees falsified signatures on accounting transactions to manipulate books to meet 1998 earning targets. The targets, in turn, triggered multi-million-dollar bonuses for top executives, including Gorelick.
The 1998 bonus reported for then-Fannie Mae Chairman and CEO James Johnson was $1.932 million. Then-Chairman-designate Raines received $1.11 million.
After leaving Fannie Mae, Gorelick encountered controversy a second time, over an alleged conflict of interest when a 1995 memo she authored as deputy attorney general at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration surfaced while she was a member of the 9/11 commission.
The memo, which outlined a policy that became known as the “Gorelick Wall,” appeared to put in place barriers that barred federal anti-terrorist criminal investigators from accessing various federal records and databases that may have assisted them in their criminal investigations.
Stroke has a new indicator - S T R
| Stroke has a new indicator They say if you e.mail this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along? Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue.  I will continue to forward this every time it comes around! STROKE: Remember the 1st Three Letters..... S. T. R. STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) ...she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PM Jane passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead. It only takes a minute to read this. A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough. RECOGNIZING A STROKE Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps, STR. Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke. Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions: S *Ask the individual to SMILE. T *Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently) (i.e. Chicken Soup) R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS. If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue. If the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other that is also an indication of a stroke. A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved. I have done my part. Will you? |
DEPORT HER TO AMERICA !
Well as with everything else each person must decided for his or herself. As for me it's just plain common sense and HISTORY. No nation can be subjugated and enslaved unless the people are helpless to defend themselves and their property. Law Enforcement does not and is not in the business of "preventing" crime. That is not their job and that's a good thing because if it was they would be the single most inept organization in history in carrying out their duty. There is no way for police to protect you beforehand, they can only mop up the aftermath and attempt to catch the perpetrators and then turn them over to the corrupt court system for prosecution. I don't know about you but that just doesn't make me feel all warm and fuzzy and safe. The fact that I now own a weapon and know how to use it makes me feel at least capable of protecting me and mine from those who would intend to harm. Law abiding people do not go around shooting people, criminals do and criminals will never hand over their guns no matter what laws are passed DUH! THAT'S WHAT MAKES THEM CRIMINALS!
I have many friends around the globe in disarmed countries and their stories are a mirror image of this one from Australia. Hello my fellow American's stop listening to the idiots on the mainstream scripted news and start listening to people who are LIVING what we are being told is the right, safe and humane thing to do... give up our guns.... OH HELL NO Who do you think benefits from a defenseless society? When was the last time the cops guarded you and your home or you and your car from attack? How many officers would it take in your town alone to personally guard and ensure the safety and lives of every single civilian citizen? Are you naive enough to believe that the literally millions of criminals in this country alone are going to suddenly "see the light", find Jesus and dedicate their lives to good works just because the UN says they should and Hilary Traitor Clinton signs a small arms treaty and the government then says you must turn in your guns because it's the law? If you believe for one second that defenselessness equals safety and freedom, go back to sleep you are already successfully shackled and are no longer in possession of your own destiny.
Teri
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Fact Check: First Lady’s False Fairy Tale of Struggle
Fact Check: First Lady’s False Fairy Tale of Struggle
First Lady Michelle Obama’s pitch to voters last night relied on the premise that she and her husband understand what it is to struggle to make ends meet. She spoke movingly about their early years–about how a young Barack Obama drove a car that was “rusted out” and found his furniture “in a dumpster,” how they both came from families that had to “scrape by.” Her fairy tale–however well-delivered–was one great, big, colorful lie.
Both Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama began their adult lives with a leg up on the rest of America. They attended elite schools: Michelle went to Whitney Young, the public magnet school for Chicago’s upper class, while Barack attended Punahou, the private prep school for the top stratum of Hawaiian society. They were accepted to Ivy League schools despite undistinguished credentials, and both attended Harvard Law School.
“[B]elieve it or not, when we were first married, our combined monthly student loan bills were actually higher than our mortgage,” Michelle said. That sounds like a raw deal–but in fact reflects their fortunate circumstances. They had both just graduated from a very expensive law school, and their combined income from cushy law firm jobs dwarfed the repayments. Barack also soon enjoyed a second salary from the University of Chicago.
They had expensive tastes, reflected in the $277,500 two-bedroom condo they bought in 1993–a high price even by today’s standards. Several years later, they moved into their $1.65 million mansion in Hyde Park–with the help of fraudster Tony Rezko. Barack often told a story of hardship on the campaign trail in 2008 about having his credit card declined–once. The fact that he thought this counted as real hardship speaks volumes.
Dinar Intel --- Footforward
9-5-2012 Intel Guru Footforward Info is all over the place, misinformation, things are just crazy, even coming out of Iraq. Biden went to Iraq, not even for a full day...he was not wanted there & turned around and came back.
There are some people there from the U. S., they have not delayed things. They are expecting something to happen very quickly. Good news on the Iraq front. Audits were done in the banks, they closed the banks at the last minute to make sure coins and lower denoms are not missing, they are keeping tight tabs on exactly what they have. That's why they had this bank holiday in Iraq.
The information coming out of the banks on the American side of the pond is very, very, very optimistic, at a level I have never seen before. They're definitely looking for something to happen right away. I still expect the rate to be good, I expect it to be in the double digits. As far as a date, I expect something right away, as early as this week. Everything that needs to be in motion is in motion. I can't find any source that tells me this will be delayed.
There are some people there from the U. S., they have not delayed things. They are expecting something to happen very quickly. Good news on the Iraq front. Audits were done in the banks, they closed the banks at the last minute to make sure coins and lower denoms are not missing, they are keeping tight tabs on exactly what they have. That's why they had this bank holiday in Iraq.
The information coming out of the banks on the American side of the pond is very, very, very optimistic, at a level I have never seen before. They're definitely looking for something to happen right away. I still expect the rate to be good, I expect it to be in the double digits. As far as a date, I expect something right away, as early as this week. Everything that needs to be in motion is in motion. I can't find any source that tells me this will be delayed.
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Have you ever heard that cannabis can be used to treat illness?
A very important video.
Have you ever heard that
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Forget the California-style
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Have you ever heard that
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It's true, but the story is much
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Forget the California-style
"pot clubs" where misguided
people are told that smoking
the plant will help them.
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Scathing New RNC Ad: Obama Campaign Stuck in 2008
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| A Chicken in every Pot, a Car in every Garage...Same thing was said in the 1930's during the last Depression... this is a depression. The Economic Dept. of the University of Indiana shows the real unemployment at 28% Subject: Scathing New RNC Ad: Obama Campaign Stuck in 2008 Scathing New RNC Ad: Obama Campaign Stuck in 2008 The Republican National Committee released a new web ad this past weekend, just on the eve of what is meant to be a triumphal display on the part of the governing Democrats at their convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. And as if the RNC wanted to earn a gold star in dramatic irony, the ad actually makes the case that the Democrats – whose very campaign slogan is “Forward” – are actually stuck in the past. The ad goes for the jugular, using clips of President Obama speaking from the stump in 2008, while also showing a split screen version of the president in the present day. As the 2008-era Obama proceeds through a speech, the 2012 Obama appears to give the exact mirror image of that speech, with a few word substitutions, almost as if nothing about the Democrats’ message circa 2008 has been altered, in spite of changing circumstances. After the speech is over, the RNC ad wryly concludes, “We’ve heard it all before.” |
Guard engineers help preserve town, southern Colo. mining history
Guard engineers help preserve town, southern Colo. mining history http://co.ng.mil/News/Pages/
Guard engineers help preserve town, southern Colo. mining history
By Air National Guard Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Theiral, Colorado National Guard Public Affairs
Spc. Luis Garcia guides Spc. Nathan Costman as he operates a roller to compact a roadway in Cokedale, Colo., Aug. 11, 2012. The 947th Engineer Company (Horizontal), Colorado Army National Guard, is installing culverts, cleaning ditches and repairing degraded dirt roads in the small town in southern Colorado. These repairs, in turn, will update and improve the town's infrastructure by directing storm water runoff away from building foundations, and improve the overall quality of life in the tiny town. (Official Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Cheresa D. Theiral/Released) Click here or on the photo to download a high-resolution file. More photos of this project are available on Flickr.
Between suppressing flames and assisting law enforcement in the wake of deadly wildfires, Colorado National Guardsmen have had one of the busiest summers on record.
Lesser known, however, is the National Guard's ability to prevent disaster.
To that end, the 947th Engineer Company (Horizontal), of the Colorado Army National Guard has been hard at work helping improve the quality of life in the tiny town of Cokedale, Colo., since Aug. 4.
The 35 Soldiers of the company's 2nd Platoon are installing culverts, cleaning ditches and repairing degraded dirt roads. These repairs, in turn, will update and improve the town's infrastructure by directing storm water runoff away from building foundations.
Yet refurbishing streets and drainage systems means more to the people here than just improving their standard of living.
Cokedale is also a National Historic District -- the only intact coal mining town in Colorado and one of a few remaining in the country -- so the Soldiers' work is also helping preserve history, said Kathy Kumm, Cokedale town clerk.
According to Kumm, Cokedale was once considered a model, company-owned mining camp, because each home had indoor running water one light bulb in every room, which was quite rare in 1907.
Mining ceased 40 years later, but the structures remained. The mining company eventually sold all the houses for $50 a room and $100 a lot, and Cokedale became an incorporated township in 1947.
"Today, many of the original structures are still standing, providing a good example of how folks used to live and of the coal mining heritage, which is paramount in southern Colorado," said Kumm. "We're very excited the Soldiers are here. We're going to have far more of this project done that we could have ever have done without them."
Cokedale resident Jeanne Lane notes the town is roughly 160 acres -- two square miles -- and with a population of approximately 120 -- including many living on a fixed income -- the town can't afford to make the necessary infrastructure repairs.
"It's important to get the ditches leaned out or the water would be in my basement," she said.
This civil-military project is part of the National Guard’s Innovative Readiness Training program. Civil-military IRT projects enhance unit training and readiness, while filling a community need that is not otherwise being met. The unit must maintain its readiness by performing realistic training, and IRT projects provide a meaningful outlet for that training and help connect National Guard units with the communities they serve.
"For a horizontal engineering company, we couldn't have asked for a better project," said 2nd Lt. Tim Barkley, 2nd Platoon leader, who noted that the unit is using all its equipment and is also tracking the Soldiers' mileage and hours."It means a lot to me that our Soldiers are getting great training and giving back to the community at the same time."
On behalf of his unit, Barkley also expressed his gratitude to the townspeople, who he describes as open, welcoming and generous -- to the extent that they’ve provided homemade meals and pastries, and left coolers full of cold drinks outside for the engineers.
"It's a mutual admiration society between the townspeople and the Soldiers," said Mayor Sandy McGonigal. "It's nice that we can allow them to do this real world and we're thrilled we're able to get this project done."
Past Colorado Army National Guard IRT projects include tamarisk removal in Grand Junction, Colo., building a retention pond in Deer Trail, Colo., work on a dam and reservoir No. 1 in Fruita, Colo., and a boulder removal and hauling mission north of Durango, Colo.
Engineers also worked to finish the Archuleta County Fairground in Pagosa Springs, Colo., earlier in 2012.
Starting Aug. 17, the 1st and 3rd Platoons of the 947th Engineers are scheduled to begin work on a storm water retention dam that will span Leach Creek in Grand Junction, Colo.
Lesser known, however, is the National Guard's ability to prevent disaster.
To that end, the 947th Engineer Company (Horizontal), of the Colorado Army National Guard has been hard at work helping improve the quality of life in the tiny town of Cokedale, Colo., since Aug. 4.
The 35 Soldiers of the company's 2nd Platoon are installing culverts, cleaning ditches and repairing degraded dirt roads. These repairs, in turn, will update and improve the town's infrastructure by directing storm water runoff away from building foundations.
Yet refurbishing streets and drainage systems means more to the people here than just improving their standard of living.
Cokedale is also a National Historic District -- the only intact coal mining town in Colorado and one of a few remaining in the country -- so the Soldiers' work is also helping preserve history, said Kathy Kumm, Cokedale town clerk.
According to Kumm, Cokedale was once considered a model, company-owned mining camp, because each home had indoor running water one light bulb in every room, which was quite rare in 1907.
Mining ceased 40 years later, but the structures remained. The mining company eventually sold all the houses for $50 a room and $100 a lot, and Cokedale became an incorporated township in 1947.
"Today, many of the original structures are still standing, providing a good example of how folks used to live and of the coal mining heritage, which is paramount in southern Colorado," said Kumm. "We're very excited the Soldiers are here. We're going to have far more of this project done that we could have ever have done without them."
Cokedale resident Jeanne Lane notes the town is roughly 160 acres -- two square miles -- and with a population of approximately 120 -- including many living on a fixed income -- the town can't afford to make the necessary infrastructure repairs.
"It's important to get the ditches leaned out or the water would be in my basement," she said.
This civil-military project is part of the National Guard’s Innovative Readiness Training program. Civil-military IRT projects enhance unit training and readiness, while filling a community need that is not otherwise being met. The unit must maintain its readiness by performing realistic training, and IRT projects provide a meaningful outlet for that training and help connect National Guard units with the communities they serve.
"For a horizontal engineering company, we couldn't have asked for a better project," said 2nd Lt. Tim Barkley, 2nd Platoon leader, who noted that the unit is using all its equipment and is also tracking the Soldiers' mileage and hours."It means a lot to me that our Soldiers are getting great training and giving back to the community at the same time."
On behalf of his unit, Barkley also expressed his gratitude to the townspeople, who he describes as open, welcoming and generous -- to the extent that they’ve provided homemade meals and pastries, and left coolers full of cold drinks outside for the engineers.
"It's a mutual admiration society between the townspeople and the Soldiers," said Mayor Sandy McGonigal. "It's nice that we can allow them to do this real world and we're thrilled we're able to get this project done."
Past Colorado Army National Guard IRT projects include tamarisk removal in Grand Junction, Colo., building a retention pond in Deer Trail, Colo., work on a dam and reservoir No. 1 in Fruita, Colo., and a boulder removal and hauling mission north of Durango, Colo.
Engineers also worked to finish the Archuleta County Fairground in Pagosa Springs, Colo., earlier in 2012.
Starting Aug. 17, the 1st and 3rd Platoons of the 947th Engineers are scheduled to begin work on a storm water retention dam that will span Leach Creek in Grand Junction, Colo.
8/14/2012
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