Ray Bly
U.S. Congress, District 2
My run for 2010 Congress follows this:
I run for Congress to wake up America. I see the Republicans lie just
like the Democrats. The Republicans are supposed to bring back our Constitution and our rights. But most of which they have
been members of their community associations or leaders in their community associations. They are hippocrits.
Upside Down
1. I would bring back fair trade which means everybody selling stuff in America could buy
it wholesale for exactly the same price whether it was trainloads or small quantities. This would bring back all the mom and
pop lumber yards, hardware stores, computer and clothing stores, etc.
2. I would ban community associations and site development plans in every City, County and State
in America. I would also ban all these prefix fixes that go after the zoning of the property that limits the useage of the
property. If it's commercial, let it be used for commercial. If it's residential, let it be used for residential. Let
them build what they want without every busy body getting into their life history.
3. I would toughen the EPA laws so the County, City and States could control the buildings and
projects so they do not damage our environment.
4. I would bring about national healthcare. That would be leased out to the Blue Cross Blue Shields
of America or some other insurance provider. Not Obama-care.
This is the way I see America, where parents can no longer discipline their kids, being afraid to go to jail,
where psychiatrists have come up with a syndrome for everything so it’s not your fault, where counties allow humongous
building projects without even thinking about the sewer treatment plants, roads or schools, where lawyers have taken over
our political life, where politicians from the smallest city to the federal government have passed benefit packages so that
even convicted felons kicked out of office still get their retirement. Public service should be very limited and no retirement,
but it’s a career now. Half the people in America that could vote have come up with 1,001 excuses not to register to
vote and I have gotten so disillusioned about voting myself that it doesn’t really matter, because of half of the people
that are registered to vote if there is a 25% turnout is considered big.
I ran my election with signs I kept from 2008. As I went around campaigning, people learned that I got almost
$100,000 from the VA for my 100% disability and asked me why didn’t I buy new tennis shoes and new clothing? I told
them I don’t waste money. When my shoes fall off, I buy another $8 pair of sneakers. I still have closets full of my
business uniforms to wear. I don’t need fancy clothes.
Being homeless and being evicted over 20 times as a child growing up, I learned what poverty really is. I
also learned about compassion, when my dad gave the last can of soup we had in the house to a poor African American that looked
like he hadn’t eaten in a month. He also gave him a blanket and a pillow and let him sleep in one of the junk cars we
had on the property to stay warm at night. Being in my own business for 35 years, I could have gotten rich like a lot of my
competitors, made a lot of money by ripping off people and ignoring them when the machine broke down, or false advertising
to sucker them into my store. But instead, I’ve told a lot of customers to go home and think. Some came back and bought.
In the 35 years, I gave close to 1,000 free service calls. I told my techs that if they had signs of extreme poverty, with
torn furniture, rotten houses, and broken down cars and was emptying their piggy bank to pay, to fix their washer or refrigerator,
just tell them God bless you and walk out. Have you ever heard a business do this? I’ve been called an idiot. I used
to make sinkers that I would sell for money so I could go fishing too. I gave hundreds to VA places in Maryland where the
GIs had access to fishing to help out the veterans. I bought uniforms for my daughter’s soccer team because all of the
liberal parents that lived in Columbia had to have their big screen TV instead of their daughter having a uniform so they
could play in the county. I’ve bought thousands of dollars worth of trophies for county leagues and school leagues to
award children with something. Out of the $100,000 I got, I did buy a brand new vehicle so me and my wife could enjoy life.
But about $25,000 of the money I got, I’ve given away to churches, ministers, community organizations, etc. I live in
a shack that’s warm, the roof doesn’t leak, but it’s mine as long as I pay the rent to the County every
year, called property tax. I don’t care about money and when I have money, I don’t mind helping people less fortunate.
This is truly being a Christian. People today are so materialistic it’s ridiculous. They have to own one of everything,
so much so, that they have to rent storage spaces because their house is full. They are in debt up to their eyeballs and still
want to buy more.
People vote for the people with the most signs and advertising but guess how they got this money? From special
interest groups and big corporate people and from the poor man that believes in their cause. Why spend money on throwaway
items like yard signs and bumper stickers and ads on TV that last 15 seconds and don’t bring back anything in return?
To me, these politicians show their true colors of how they are going to treat us when they get elected, i.e. wasteful spending.
The person that won against me in the primary bragged on his website that he was president of the community association but
yet wants less government and to bring back our rights. Community associations to me are the newest way our government is
controlling our lives. The average person in America loves community associations, not thinking of the consequences where
they basically have taken away our entire right to private property rights and individual rights, where we can’t even
change the color of our front door, or plant a rosebush in our front yard, or open the hood of our car to check our oil. There
have always been busybodies in every neighborhood that have complained to the police and the county about their neighbors.
The government used to ignore them unless their neighbor was actually breaking the law, like shooting guns in their front
yard or something. Now the government loves these busybodies and gave them power to control their neighborhoods.
On my campaign page, I didn’t hire fancy webpage designers, I just gave you the facts on where I stand
on stuff before. I talked about homosexuality, abortion, spanking, and a lot of other big issues. It appears that people vote
for people that condemn the other person more than they are condemned. They smear their opponent instead of telling where
you actually stand on issues. I could say I want better schools, lower taxes and smaller government, but how, what, when,
where, etc. I leave blank. I could also say I want change. Yeah, from the incumbent to me is basically what that means. People
don’t know how to open their eyes. Look at Al Gore with global warming. He is polluting ten times what the average American
does with his mansion. I’ve walked the walk and talked the talk and I am who I am. I don’t put show and tell and
avoid answering questions with a bunch of mumbo jumbo like candidates, so I can’t win. I’ve had a lot of people
offer me money in these past elections, but I refused to take it, because they were poor people like me. I don’t want
to be in the pocket of special interests or the corporate world. I didn’t answer one questionnaire this time in the
primary, because it’s hard to answer such slanted, biased questions that each one of these special interest groups put
out.
In my book, Born Screwed in the U.S.A., I call for a revolution and I think we’re doomed to one
soon. When I wrote my book, there were only millions of people disillusioned about America, but now there’s tens of
millions who are disillusioned. I’m disillusioned about a revolution now, because it’s going to be one of race
and religion. You can see the Tea Party movement and how many hypocrites are actually in it, living in their fancy houses,
renting storage spaces because of all the stuff they bought and being very right wing. To me, it’s more Pro Life than
to revitalize our government with our Constitution. I liked Glenn Beck’s march on DC on August 28th. He tried
to include all human beings of every nationality, ethnic background and religious background. But with people like Al Sharpton,
who makes millions off of keeping races all stirred up and bigotry stirred up, most minorities do not attend Glenn Beck’s
rally to bring back God’s given human rights that our Constitution guaranteed us. Glenn Beck I would probably vote for
President, but he does exaggerate some, because he’s a talk show host and needs ratings. But he’s a very charitable
man like me, that does not go out and flaunt his millions but gives it away. As Jesus told his rich disciple, if you give
away your wealth to the poor, I will provide for you.
As I’ve said earlier, I wish I could speak Vietnamese, but according to my wife, and a lot of her relatives,
Vietnam has greatly changed in 39 years, where families don’t matter anymore either. It’s all about our greed,
of who has the most money, and the most goods instead of family, God and community. I am a Billy Graham Christian. Billy Graham
goes by the strict interpretation of the Bible, what we call a far right winger. I live my life by God’s word the best
I can and I’ve tried to change every day to improve my life as God would want me to live, but that does not mean if
I was ever elected to take away God’s free will which is what the right wing wants to do for the entire population.
The Bible states that we have free will and that we are going to make mistakes and to spread the Word, not to mandate the
Word, which is where the right wingers have it wrong. If we all want to stay free as much as possible, we have to let every
religion and every person be able to practice what they believe as long as it does not interfere in such a shape or form as
to actually hurt their neighbor.
Why I am disillusioned about America is because of the money involved in getting elected to office. It takes
millions of dollars to become a U.S. Congressman and millions more to become a Senator and hundreds of millions to become
President. The average campaign for a candidate for office costs them $1 to as much as $10 a vote and I’ve heard it’s
gone as high as $30 a vote. The only way you can get this money is from special interests and the corporate world and of course,
if you get elected with corporate and special interest money, you have to vote on behalf of these groups. This is why our
government for close to a century is now wholly owned and controlled by our special interests and our corporate world. No
candidate wants to stand up against them because they will not get elected, or get the money they need to run.
I could tell you a lot more, but I’m so disillusioned now about our whole court system, taxation system,
and public officials that only God can help our country, as Glenn Beck says. I do suggest you arm yourself, because just like
violence in the streets of Spain and Greece spreading to many other countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America now,
we are going to start having it in America due to the greed of big corporations and of our own greed. May God bless you, because
with God, there’s still hope in the future no matter what happens to our once great country.
Thank you very much for reading this and please write in my name for U.S. Congress as a descending vote against
the status quo. I will not win and if by chance I do, with seven minor heart attacks, advanced emphysema/COPD, heart disease,
diabetes and dozens of other things wrong with me, that’s why I’m on Social Security disability and now Agent
Orange disability, I could not serve very long, if at all.
People think I’m dumb. They joke with me that I could never pass college. Try working 60 hours a week
and taking five to six classes all at night a semester and even one semester taking eight 3-credit classes, and being on the
Dean’s list every semester. I still have trouble reading and writing because of our public school system in D.C. and
Maryland that only cared about the extra smart students and ignored students like me that had speech problems and home and
family problems. There was a ten year limitation on using the GI bill and I only had 2 ½ years to get it. I did 132 credit
hours with a 3.4 GPA in 2 ½ years, all at night. As a child, I learned how every part in a car worked, because we used to
open the parts and repair them, not just throw them in the trash can and replace them like mechanics of today. I learned to
repair everything. Job Corps taught me how to repair electronic stuff and learn about electricity. People are amazed that
I can look at something and show you exactly what’s wrong with it, even though I don’t know what the hell it does.
I have an extremely quick mind and I never played high speed computer games. Job Corps told me I had an IQ of about 150 and
if I wouldn’t have had the medical problems of my tongue not reaching the roof of my mouth until 6th grade
where nobody could understand a word I said, I could have probably achieved a lot more.
What happened to wives being home, taking care of the bills, the house, and the children, which are full time
jobs and men working 9:00 to 5:00 and being able to spend time with their families? Our corporate world has destroyed our
family values. We have to stop greed. We have to bring back the family to America.
