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02/20/2017

When Power Goes To The Head
2/16/2017
It is funny how you go through life and you believe that if you do the right thing and vote for the right people then life will be alright and everything will turn out for the best. What we forger is that when we vote for people and put them into positions of power then that power eventually goes to their head and they begin to believe that they have the power to do whatever they want and no one can stop them.
We are now seeing a prime example of this in the Indiana legislature as the House of Representatives and the Senate are debating on how to fix the devastating state of our roads and the general decline of our infrastructure. Now let’s be clear that this is not a one party problem. This decay of our infrastructure started under the control of the democrats but it also continued under the last twelve years of republican control, so both parties are, in my eyes , equally to blame for the state of decay that we find our infrastructure in today. The question is how do we go about fixing it and how do we pay for it.
Since the republicans have a super majority in both houses of the legislature I would expect the obvious solution would be to come up with a plan to fix the immediate problems out of the general fund by making cuts in the budget from other areas and then planning a long term strategy for the longer term projects by cutting more waste from the budget and becoming a more efficient budget-minded government. Isn’t this what we always here that the Republican Party is all about? A smaller, more efficient government that uses our tax dollar more wisely and cuts our taxes instead of raising them like those tax and spend democrats?
But lo and behold, here we are in the midst of all this and the parties seem to have all of a sudden done a total flip flop and now the republicans with their super majority that allows them to do whatever they want has decided NOT to trim the fat out of the budget but instead they want to raise every single tax that they can find in order to pay for all of these repairs. And to the surprise of most of the voters that put this super majority into office the democrats have come up with a plan to make all of these repairs without raising a single tax. What is wrong with this picture?
The problem is with giving anyone too much power. When you tell a group that they can make the rules and no one can stop them they are bound to go all the way to the limit and take as much as they can and they will not stop until someone forces them to. Unfortunately with this group, we cannot them until the 2018 mid-year election.
But here are some other things to look at. While these legislators are sitting up there in the Capitol Building all smug in there comfy little chairs knowing that they can do whatever they want and nobody can stop them, we need to remind them that we are the ones that can stop them in a couple of years if they do not listen to us. They are sitting up there preparing to take another big chunk of our money while almost annually voting themselves a very nice pay raise so that most of them make more for a part time job than the rest of us make on our full time jobs.
There is so much good that could be done with this super majority and it is all being wasted because they have the power and it has gone to their heads. We initially gave them this super majority so that they would pass the marriage protection law and then they did not listen to the people but got scared by the two percent that were yelling and protesting and threw their constituents that elected them under the bus. Then we re-elected them because they promised us lower taxes and smaller government and now they are throwing us under the bus again with a huge tax increase on gasoline and a tax increase on our vehicle registrations, These are the taxes that hit the poor and the middle class the hardest and affect the upper class and the rich, like most of the legislators, the least.
Now is the time that we need to let them know that if they do not listen to us when we tell them that we do not want more taxes and we want lower taxes and smaller government so find a way to fix the infrastructure without raising ANY taxes. Find a way to trim the fat and use it for the infrastructure. Maybe skip the pay raise for a year or two. Use tax money that is coming in as it was supposed to be used. We were told that the millions upon millions of dollars that would be collected from the casinos would be used to rebuild our infrastructure. What happened to that money? Wherever it has been sent to, pull it back and start using it for what it was meant to be used for.
This misuse of power is precisely the reason that we need term limits on every office on the state and federal level. That is the only to prevent these career politicians from gaining too much power and influence. It is a sad day when the conservative Republican Party becomes the tax and spend Republican Party. You are on notice. Stop this nonsense now or we will vote you out!!!
We will remember in November 2018!! I Vote!! Will You?
Doug Chambers is the Publisher of Greenwood Newspapers, Inc. which currently publishes newspapers across central Indiana. His column “Things That Trouble Me” is currently syndicated in newspapers throughout the Midwest. You can read this column each week by sending $30 to subscribe to the Print or Electronic version of the Greenwood & Southside Challenger, PO Box 708, Greenwood, Indiana, 46142-0708. You may reach Doug at [email protected]. You can follow “Things That Trouble Me” as well as all Challenger Newspapers on Facebook and usapublicnews.com.
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11/23/2016

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11/07/2016

The Time Is Here
11/3/2016
Well folks, the time has come for the election to end. It is finally here. It is time to stop listening to all the hype and the lies and the propaganda and the beginning for money and the negative advertising of all the candidates telling us to vote for them because the other candidate is bad instead of telling us why they are the best candidate for the job.
It is time for Hillary to stop insulting American citizens because they have a political opinion that differs from hers. It is time for Hillary to stop degrading the police in this country. It is time for Hillary to stop dividing our country with her racist overtones and divisive speeches. It is time for Hillary to stop breaking the law and then telling us that she made a mistake and won’t do it again. It is time for Hillary to stop lying to Americans just to make herself look like she is a credible candidate for President of the United States of America. We all know that she is not!! And most of all, it is time for Hillary to stop blaming Donald Trump for all of her problems because people were screaming about her lying and breaking the law long before Donald Trump even announced that he would run for President. Hillary has been Crooked Hillary for a long time and a liar for even longer than that.
The other side of Hillary is that she is constantly claiming that she is the candidate that is the champion of women and that she is outraged by the way Trump talks about women but at the same time she is married to Bill who is a ra**st and a sexual molester of women and a womanizer that has been enabled by Hillary for many years and even protected by Hillary. So my question is, if she is such a supporter of women and is outraged by the way Trump talks about women then how does she account for the fact that she threatens women who have come out and accused her husband of r**e and sexually molesting them? If she is so outraged by the talk then how does she justify the fact that her own husband is a man of action, albeit illegal r**e, but nonetheless action in ra**ng these women. When I look at her husband’s actions versus Trumps words it kind of makes the words seem a little miniscule in the overall picture. And by protecting her husband and threatening these women with bodily harm if they continue their accusations on her husband it makes her an accomplice to her husband and just as guilty of the r**e as he is.
Trump on the other hand has reached the time where he needs to stop with the constant talk about crooked Hillary and putting her in jail because we all know that it will never happen. We would all like to see it happen but we all know that the Clinton name has Teflon in it and nothing ever sticks. The other side of that is that if by some miracle Hillary wins the Presidency it is all over in America anyway and she will change all the laws so that no one will ever be able to touch her anyway. And if Trump wins the election, as he should, then in his last days as President, Barrack Obama will issue a pardon to Hillary Clinton for any and all crimes committed so that trump will never be able to put her in jail for any of the crimes she has committed. That in itself should be criminal but you know that is the way it will happen.
But election day is Tuesday and we ALL need to go to the polls and vote and hopefully Donald Trump will come out of this with enough electoral votes to win the presidency without any confusion and then he can take the reins of the country and get to work turning the country around again. He has promised to reverse all of the ridiculous Executive Orders that Barrack Obama has illegally used to bypass Congress in the last eight years and to move forward in the legal way to pass laws through Congress and to make America great again. He is a top notch businessman that knows how to take something that is on the brink of bankruptcy and build it into a great and noble and economically feasible venture. That is just what our country needs in order for our country and all the citizens in it to once again be able to prosper and thrive and be able to enjoy the fruits of our country. I also believe that under a Trump Presidency that we will be able to enjoy that life while feeling safer and not having to worry about terrorism in our country because we will have secure borders that terrorists will not be able to cross and our tax rates will be lower because we will no longer be overrun with illegals in America. If people want to immigrate to our country then they will once again have to do so in the proper and legal manner which will mean that they will also have to pay their fair share of taxes when they come to this country and work. Under a Trump Presidency there will no longer be a free lunch for the lazy but their will once again be an American dream for those who come to this country the legal way and work hard to achieve it.
Let’s make all of this possible. Let’s make America great again. Let’s make Donald J. Trump President of the United States of America and restore the American Dream once again. Let’s ALL go to the polls on Tuesday and vote for Donald J Trump for President.
Remember on November 8th!! I Vote for TRUMP!! Will You?
Doug Chambers is the Publisher of Greenwood Newspapers, Inc. which currently publishes newspapers across central Indiana. His column “Things That Trouble Me” is currently syndicated in newspapers throughout the Midwest. You can read this column each week by sending $30 to subscribe to the Print or Electronic version of the Greenwood & Southside Challenger, PO Box 708, Greenwood, Indiana, 46142-0708. You may reach Doug at [email protected]. You can follow “Things That Trouble Me” as well as all Challenger Newspapers on Facebook and usapublicnews.com.
© 2016, Greenwood Newspapers, Inc.

09/27/2016

An Amber Alert has been declared.
Dear Doug Chambers,
The Center Grove School Police Department is investigating the abduction of a child from Greenwood, Indiana.
Isabella Negri is a 7 year old white female, 3 feet 10 inches tall, red shoulder length hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing a blue shirt, jean shorts, sandals and a purple backpack.
The child was last seen at 10:00 am EDT in Greenwood, IN and is believed to be in extreme danger. Greenwood, Indiana is 14 miles south of Indianapolis, Indiana. Center Grove School Police Department believes the child was abducted by her non-custodial mother, Morgan Negri, a 27 year old white female, 5 feet 3 inches tall, 115 lbs., with long red hair.
Suspect vehicle is a Gray 2007 Kia, Sorento, with Indiana plate number IU4320.
If you have any information on Isabella Negri, contact the Center Grove School Police Department at 317-346-6336.

09/02/2016

08/17/2016

Why Not Let Those Syrian Refugees In
8/18/2016
Every time I turn around these days I hear some liberal on the television or the radio blasting Donald Trump saying that he hates Muslims because he said he would not allow any Muslims into the country if he were elected President. That is a lie. I also hear the liberals saying that Donald Trump hates Mexicans because he will build a wall to keep out ALL Mexicans and therefore he hates Mexicans. That too is a lie. Donald Trump never said either one of those things. The problem with today’s society is that a conservative says something and then the liberal’s troops take part of what was said and twist it around to make the conservative sound like a wretched person that is a total hater and then puts that lie on social media and everyone takes it as fact because it is on social media.
What Donald Trump said is that we need to stop the flow of Muslims into our country until we have a system in place that provides a verifiable background check in order to make sure that we are not allowing radical terrorists into the country under the guise of being Muslim refugees. This makes a tremendous amount of sense to me and to anyone else that has the least little bit of common sense left inside them. And the other comment about the wall was that we need to build the wall in order to stop CRIMINALS from entering our country illegally. This is not just Mexicans but other nationalities as well. That also includes terrorists. You see, the terrorists that we are trying to stop from blowing up our country are not stupid criminals but are very smart. They are smart enough to figure out that if Mexican drug runners can cross the border into our country illegally then it would be easy for them to do as well. Donald Trump feels the same way as most Americans do and that is that ANY immigrant is welcome in America, as long as they come into this country the LEGAL way with the proper paperwork and follow the laws of our country. It is the criminals that cross the border illegally that we want to stop. Those are the ones that come into our country and commit the crimes and cause the trouble that Donald Trump was talking about. We have no trouble with anyone who comes to this country legally to try to have a better life but the ones who come here illegally are starting out their life in this country as a criminal and that does not bode well with their future of being an upstanding citizen in America.
So it therefore sickens me when I think about what happened to the World Trade Center buildings on September eleventh of 2001 and the fact that all of the destruction and the lives that were lost that day were caused by radical Muslim terrorists and that these same groups of radical Muslim terrorists are now trying to gain access to our country by coming in disguised as Syrian refugees and the liberal big mouths in our country are running around screaming that the conservatives are a bunch of haters for trying to keep them out. You are right on the count that we are trying to keep them out because we are smart to have learned on September eleventh 2001 that it is not smart to let your enemy into your country when you know that they are trying to kill you and destroy your country and that they want to bring war right to your own country to fight on your ground with cowardly su***de bombers and cowards that will take their stolen guns into the gun free zones and kill American citizens where they can kill a large amount of people without fear of any law abiding citizens shooting back.
So I had a thought the other day that I thought was the perfect answer to the liberal’s demands that we let all of these Syrian refugees into our country, knowing that some of them are more than likely Muslim radical terrorists. I say that if we are going to be forced to let them into this country by the Obama administration then we should force them to live with Barrack Obama and his family, Hillary Clinton and her family, Tim Kaine and his family and then we should force some of them to live with every member of Congress that votes to allow them to come into this country. Then the rest of them should be distributed around the country to live with the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and all of the other loud mouthed liberals that are constantly shouting about how we should allow these refugees into our country. If we started making this a requirement of these refugees coming into this country then I think that you would see the liberals learning to shut up and sit down because their whole point is that they want to force these refugees into the country to live at our expense and our discomfort. If they have to be put out by them then their tune would change real quickly.
That is why we need a real non-politician like Donald Trump to run this country and make America great again. We need a leader that will stop talking like a politician and start telling it to us like it is and being truthful with the American people. We need a leader that will be strong and stand up for what is right and tell the rest of the world that America is back and that America is not going to be pushed around anymore. We need a leader that will tell all of these terrorists that if they dare attack America or its citizens then we will hunt them down and we will kill each and every one of them without thinking twice about it. And we will do that without Miranda rights or attorneys and trials because the terrorists are not American citizens and therefore do not have those rights. That is why we need a strong leader like Donald J. Trump to run this country instead of a feeble, pantsuit Obama wannabe that will do nothing but run our country further into the gutter.
Join me in making Donald J. Trump the next President of the United States of America.
Remember in November!! I Vote!! Will You?
Doug Chambers is the Publisher of Greenwood Newspapers, Inc. which currently publishes newspapers across central Indiana. His column “Things That Trouble Me” is currently syndicated in newspapers throughout the Midwest. You can read this column each week by sending $30 to subscribe to the Print or Electronic version of the Greenwood & Southside Challenger, PO Box 708, Greenwood, Indiana, 46142-0708. You may reach Doug at [email protected]. You can follow “Things That Trouble Me” as well as all Challenger Newspapers on Facebook and usapublicnews.com.
© 2016, Greenwood Newspapers, Inc.

08/15/2016

Now Is The Time To Rally
8/11/2016
Why do the democrats always have an easier time winning than the republicans do? Because the cemocrats have mastered the skill of rallying around your candidate no matter how bad they are and backing the candidate no matter what. To the democrats what is important is to get their candidate elected to the office that they are running for and not whether or not they like the candidate. To the democrats the important thing is to win and not to worry about whether or not their candidate is the best person they could have found for the job. To the democrats the important thing is to win and hold on to the office and not care about who they have running. The republicans could learn a lot from the democrats in that respect.
One thing that I have seen in this election on the republican side is a lot of whining. The republicans always shoot themselves in the foot and cost themselves many elections because they spend so much time and resources whining. What good does it do for them to do all that whining? In this election cycle the whining is because Donald Trump is the person that won the primary and is the nominee for President. We hear all this constant whining about how he is not qualified because he has never been a politician before. Well I hate to inform all of you politicians but the rest of us Americans are fed up with career politicians that go to Washington on a bed of lies that you have fed to the American people and then turn around and screw the people so you can make your deals to make yourselves rich and elite and tromp on the rest of us.
The rest of us Americans feel that the time has come for someone who is a true businessman to take over running the country instead of a career politician that will carry on with the business and screw them as usual policy routine. That is why WE voted for Mr. Trump to be our next President. Of course there are a few other reasone as well.
We like and enjoy the fact that he says it like it is and is not politically correct. That is how we are. We are fed up with all of this politically correct crap and we are not going to put up with it any more. Are we afraid of offending others? No, we are not. What is wrong with offending someone? That is a part of life. When we were growing up our mothers taught us a valuable little saying that we learned to use as a life lesson. It goes like this. “Sticks and stones will hurt my bones but words will never hurt me”. So when you politically correct police wannabe’s are sitting there worrying about whether or not the rest of us are going to offend someone, just stop it. We do not care. Offending others is a part of life. You are so worried that we may say or do something in our religion that we are not allowed to pray in public because it may offend a Muslim yet the Muslim is allowed to offend a Christian by laying down his prayer rug anywhere at the appointed time and saying his prayer to Allah which may offend me and that is okay. Offending someone is subjective and you cannot make something that is subjective against the law and you cannot prohibit it.
We also here all this whining on the republican side because they do not think that Donald Trump acts the way he should. We have had a President for nearly eight years that most Americans do not think acts the way a President should. The current President has gone around this country and bowed down to other foreign leaders and apologized for America. The current President has traveled the world on lavish vacations costing millions of dollars at the expense of taxpayers while complaining about the lack of resources to feed our poverty stricken citizens here at home. The current President has used illegal executive orders to move thousands of refugees that contain Muslim terrorists into this country with free housing and medical benefits against the will of Americans while denying the same benefits to our own military veterans that have fought to keep our country free. And yet the republicans whine about Trump because he doesn’t seem to act Presidential enough since he acts like a tough guy. I would say that it is time we elected a tough guy for President and let him show the world that America will be great again!
Republicans hear me now. The time has come to learn to learn from the democrats. They took a washed up has been lying, criminal and turned her into a Presidential candidate. They know that the majority of their own party does not trust her or even like her but she is their candidate so they did what they do best they rallyied around her and will support her no matter how bad or crooked she may be. Even if she were to be indicted they would still rally around her because the important thing to them is to win the white house.
It is time that the republicans learn to do the same thing. It is time that the republicans learn to STOP all the whining about Donald Trump and realize that he is the candidate. It is time that the republicans realize that Donald Trump IS the Republican Party. It is time that the republicans stop all the whining and start rallying around the republican candidate for the President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump. It is time that the republicans realize that this is what it takes to win.
Remember in November!! I Vote!! Will You?
Doug Chambers is the Publisher of Greenwood Newspapers, Inc. which currently publishes newspapers across central Indiana. His column “Things That Trouble Me” is currently syndicated in newspapers throughout the Midwest. You can read this column each week by sending $30 to subscribe to the Print or Electronic version of the Greenwood & Southside Challenger, PO Box 708, Greenwood, Indiana, 46142-0708. You may reach Doug at [email protected]. You can follow “Things That Trouble Me” as well as all Challenger Newspapers on Facebook and usapublicnews.com.
© 2016, Greenwood Newspapers, Inc.

07/15/2016

I’m Tired Of Black Lives Matter
7/14/2016
I am tired of the black lives matter movement. It has gotten to the point where they do not matter anymore. This is a stupid movement that causes a division in our country and this movement is one off the most racist things our country has ever seen. Because of this stupid movement twelve white police officers in Dallas that had nothing to do with shooting anybody were shot and five were killed solely because of the color of their skin. Simply because it was white. Where is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to proclaim the horror of someone being shot solely because of the color of their skin. They are nowhere to be found because the skin color was not dark enough. It is funny how we see the protests start and the rioting begins along with all the looting and the criminal behavior when a violent criminal is shot by police after he shoots some else and then runs and points a gun at a police officer and is then idolized because his skin was dark and the police officer that shot him was white yet it is okay for a group of black men to shoot unsuspecting white police officers in another city and it is still the police officers fault instead of this being a hate crime as it should be.
Why is it that black people that are shot by white police officers are idolized even though they were criminals and often violent that were in the process of committing crimes and the police were just doing their jobs. These same black people can see the same statistics that the rest of us can see. Most of the black people that are killed in this country are killed by other black people. Statistically there are very few instances of black people being killed by white people whether they are police officers or any other profession so the only reason this is even heard about is because the few times it happens is because the racist black people like Al Sharpton make such a big deal out of it in order to draw attention away from the real problem which is the black people killing other black people.
So I guess what I am saying is that if you want the rest of us to believe in this black lives matter movement then we think that YOUR people should start taking it seriously and stop killing yourselves first. Until you start taking it seriously there is no reason for us to take it seriously.
All this movement is doing is providing Hillary Clinton a division in the country for her to use to divide the country even farther to enrich her campaign. She is using it to try to take the guns away from the law abiding citizens so that only the criminals will have guns and the rest of us will be left unprotected and she is using it to divide it to get us to believe that she is the only that can bring us together again if she is elected. The problem with that strategy is that her and President Obama are the architects of the racist division to split the country in order to achieve the goals of the liberal agenda which is to divide and conquer. As long as they can keep the race war going in the country, then the longer they feel that they can keep control of the White House and keep moving their liberal agenda of gun control forward and keep moving more and more citizens onto the government dole of food stamps etc. where they can control those people and keep them under their thumb. That is why we need to put a stop to this stupid black lives matter movement because it is just a racist divisive movement that does nothing good for anybody.
In the meantime I have a much better idea. Why don’t we replace the black lives matter movement with a much more sensible ALL LIVES MATTER movement and start that one moving across the country. How about we use that to stop the killing of cops, and black people and white people and yellow people and purple people and nurses and doctors and plumbers and hotel clerks and convenience store clerks and stay at home moms and anyone else that happens along. Because in the end, it really doesn’t matter what the color of someone’s skin is for their life to matter. A life is a life and it matters, no matter what color their skin is or what their chosen profession is or what their sexual orientation is. None of these is a reason to take someone’s life and if someone does take a life of one of these people and then they are shot by the police then there should be no complaints about them being shot because they have demonstrated that they are dangerous and that is why they were shot and not because of their skin color. And there should be no television coverage of their mother up there crying because her son would not have pulled a gun on a cop just because he just shot and killed three other people. How stupid is that?
It is time that we get rid of all of this liberal agenda and hire someone tough to stand up for our country. Hillary is just another continuation of the last eight years and our country will continue to decline further and further into the abyss. We need to hire an outsider who is not afraid to stand up and tell it like it is and make the tough decisions even when they are not popular. That person in this election is Donald Trump. While I know that he is not the most popular candidate, I do know that Hillary would be a disaster and after reading Trumps plans for the economy and his stand on the Constitution and checking out his list of Supreme Court Appointees, I feel that he would be a far better President that the crooked, lying criminal Hillary.
Remember in November!! I Vote!! Will You?
Doug Chambers is the Publisher of Greenwood Newspapers, Inc. which currently publishes newspapers across central Indiana. His column “Things That Trouble Me” is currently syndicated in newspapers throughout the Midwest. You can read this column each week by sending $30 to subscribe to the Print or Electronic version of the Greenwood & Southside Challenger, PO Box 708, Greenwood, Indiana, 46142-0708. You may reach Doug at [email protected]. You can follow “Things That Trouble Me” as well as all Challenger Newspapers on Facebook and usapublicnews.com.
© 2016, Greenwood Newspapers, Inc.