Alex Martin for South Dakota State Senate, District 20

 I always like reading Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes.  “ Be hungry for success , hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.”  – Arnold Schwarzenegger https://everydaypower.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-quotes/ He says Be Hungry to have an effect, and Be Hungry to help other people! His first quote is stunning: “Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.”  – Arnold Schwarzenegger  Be hungry to help everyone succeed!  There is a way to do this!   Elections are easy to think about.  You "select" the best option or candidate. What is much faster is your Intense Desire (your Hunger) to excel, create jobs for yourself and other people AND to make sure Everyone Succeeds! In a free country like the United States, when we watch our thinking, we can succeed every day, and help others succeed.  (If you want to get te...

This is the 2nd highest number of cases South Dakota has had in one day.    https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2020/10/31/south-dakota-reports-new-covid-19-cases-10-deaths/6086982002/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/?utm_campaign=homeAdvegas1?%22%20%5Cl%20%22countries#countries Notice that South Dakota's number is MORE than the other 9 countries combined !  China and Japan have maybe 1, 125, 000, 000. Why are all these Asian and Pacific Islands countries so low, and South Dakota numbers are so HIGH? Discipline. Masks.  Testing.  Contact Tracing.  Quarantine.  Washing of hands for 20 seconds. They do it. Maybe half of South Dakota does not do it.  And the virus spreads more, every day. Is there any reason why we can't be doing as good as New Zealand is doing? New Zealand is 4.8 million people.  South Dakota is 885,000 people.  That's about a 6 to 1 ratio. So New Zealand had 7 cases on October 31.  If we were as low as t...

"The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent." Arnold Schwarzenegger https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/arnold-schwarzenegger-quotes   What can you dream?   Big things?  Great things to help everyone? The bodybuilder, movie star, Governor, and environmentalist we know as Arnold also said: "Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed." Arnold Schwarzenegger https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/arnold-schwarzenegger-quotes Arnold also said:  " Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety." Arnold Schwarzenegger https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/arnold-schwarzenegger-quotes Believe in your big vision 100% and you succeed!  Believe also that everyone has to succeed with you, everyone, the unemployed workers, the homeless, the immigrants, the part time workers, everyone! When we were a monarchy it was early 1776. Now we are a f...

The Argus Leader  reported 1,560 infections today on October 30. https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2020/10/30/south-dakota-again-hits-record-number-new-covid-19-infections-12-more-die/6084748002/ This is a record high for South Dakota. Does the Governor have anything to say? Does the Legislature desire to meet to take Action? 12 more deaths were reported. Governor Noem apparently is out of state today. She won the election in November 2018 by 2 percentage points. Now, on the biggest day of the Covid-19 invasion in South Dakota, she is absent. The Legislature is not in session now. According to Keloland news:  " “We expect the vaccine to be allocated by the federal government to the state of South Dakota in the very near future. We’ve been told to be ready for our first shipment in the middle of November,” Malsam-Rysdon said. Malsam-Rysdon said on October 28th. " https://www.keloland.com/news/healthbeat/coronavirus/october-number-of-covid-19-cases-nearly-quadruple-sd-tops...

  The most powerful step that anyone can take to turn their dreams into reality is a simple one. You just need to start. Marc Randolp h https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top-10-marc-randolph-quotes Marc Randolph is the co-founder of Netflix.  Notice that he did not say succeed or any other word. He simply said.... Start. How many times have you thought of a brilliant or interesting idea, and you never did one thing to start it? Maybe you thought about it.  Maybe you thought, I'll ask someone about this idea. But you did nothing. And the idea vanished. Take that one powerful step. You want it to become reality, right? Just Start. You might spend 10 minutes a day on it.  Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, said you can do SO MUCH in only 10 minutes! Actually work on the idea, make it real, even for 10 or 20 minutes a day. Then months or years later, you will look at it (whether it is a business, a social business, running for office, starting a class or going to c...

 So on Thursday, October 28, Taiwan had ZERO locally transmitted cases for 200 days.  Taiwan is 23 million people. https://www.axios.com/taiwan-record-200-days-no-local-covid-19-cases-b90d4923-fd66-4a24-8b5e-208eeb9b3f13.html (AP article-   https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/taiwan-marks-200-days-without-domestic-covid-19-infection/      ) So this means everyone living in and resident in Taiwan, there was ZERO spread.  The last domestic case was April 12.  Since April 13, zero cases. "CDC officials noted the milestone and thanked the public for playing a role, while urging people to continue to wear masks and to wash their hands often."  (Associated Press, above link). So what radical things were the people on Taiwan doing for the last 200 days?  Wearing a mask.  Washing their hands often. That's all. Since the start of the pandemic, Taiwan has recorded 553 cases of covid-19 (remember in South Dakota lately, we ha...

    “ Failure is not an option . Everyone has to succeed.”  – Arnold Schwarzenegger https://wealthygorilla.com/21-greatest-arnold-schwarzenegger-quotes-remember/   Wow!  That is a BIG idea! What we can do, as voters and citizens of South Dakota, to make that come true? Unemployment has gone up in 2020, and South Dakota is not known for high wages.  What we can we do to help those who don't have jobs, have trouble paying rent, or only have part time hours? 1.  First and foremost, Vote for people who will assist in creating jobs and lowering taxes!  (We have 9 Libertarians running for State Senators this year in South Dakota!)  Voting is you saying, I'm in charge, and I choose this person to represent me and DO something great for our State! 2.  As I say on this blog, be a job creator!  Create 3 or 30 or 300 jobs, here in South Dakota!  You can do this as a traditional ultra business owner, or as a social business owner (where yo...

Dr. Yunus, in 2017, said that we are all natural entrepreneurs. 'We are all entrepreneurs': Muhammad Yunus on changing the world https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/mar/29/we-are-all-entrepreneurs-muhammad-yunus-on-changing-the-world-one-microloan-at-a-time He said:   “Human beings are not born to work for anybody else,” he says. “For millions of years that we were on the planet, we never worked for anybody. We are go-getters. We are farmers. We are hunters. We lived in caves and we found our own food, we didn’t send job applications. So this is our tradition." When he was in Australia, he pointed out to the Guardian that many people in his country, Bangladesh, proved they were entrepreneurs. “There are roughly 160 million people all over the world in microcredit, mostly women. And they have proven one very important thing: that we are all entrepreneurs. Illiterate rural women in the villages, in the mountains, take tiny little loans – $30, $40 – and they...

  Keloland has a headline:  "Most South Dakotans feel President Trump is doing a good job of handling the pandemic."voters Don Jorgensen wrote the article. You go down to the 6th paragraph and read: "47% of our voters give him a favorable rating while 42% give him an unfavorable rating.  11% are neutral."    https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/keloland-media-group-argus-leader-poll-most-south-dakotans-feel-president-trump-is-doing-a-good-job-of-handling-the-pandemic/ How is 47% most? It isn't. In fact, according to that poll, 53% either give Trump an unfavorable rating or are neutral.  Note;  Neutral is not "doing a good job"--it is neutral. So how can 47% be MOST (??) South Dakotans?   It isn't. At best, it is "slightly less" than half of South Dakotans are convinced Trump is doing a "good job", while according to the poll, 53% have an unfavorable or neutral opinion of his "handling of the pandemic." That was 6 p...

In this review of Building Social Business by Muhammad Yunus, they summarize his book with 2 succinct paragraphs: "In recent years Dr. Yunus has moved beyond just lending to the poor; his new  goal is to eliminate poverty entirely , and his method is to spread the practice of social business, a self-sustaining, “zero-loss, zero-dividend” business model that applies not only to microfinance but to any good or service provided to the poor to ensure communities become self-sufficient.  Building Social Business includes is the  step-by-step guideline for entrepreneurs to create their own social businesses , as well as its report on two more years of Grameen Bank’s joint venture social businesses."  https://ourgoodbrands.com/building-social-business/ The idea is huge:  eliminate poverty by creating a social business. It is a new kind of wisdom.   Instead of assuming that when you or I get rich, others get poor(zero sum thinking);  instead think t...

 1, 063 cases reported on Sunday, according to KSFY. The record of 1, 185 was on Friday. Where is the Governor? Where is the Legislature? Nowhere to be seen. The plan of action against the Pandemic is..... No plan? The people of South Dakota deserve better leadership.  Infections should not be PEAKING in October.  Good leadership would have stepped in and BROKE the curve last March or April. We can VOTE in new leadership now and on November 3. Before the snow came to Mitchell, I went to a grocery store last night.  I saw 2 teenage girls shopping, no masks, and a few guys kin their 20s and 30s, no masks.  At Walmart, most customers wear masks, but the ones that didn't, I stayed away from them!   These people that don't wear masks are doubting science and the very existence of Covid-19.    By example, the Governor and all Legislators should wear masks and show the people they are SERIOUS about vanquishing the virus.  What a lot of people d...

Everyone knows who Arnold is. Bodybuilder, movie star, Governor of California, environmental activist. I found some quotes from Arnold that will help us envision our future. Here's one: “I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future. ”     – Arnold Schwarzenegger What's a small idea? Increase minimum wage to $7.50 an hour.  Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. as states by the year 2400.  Decrease medicine cost in the US by 3% Those are tiny ideas! Arnold says, Dream much bigger ! If you've read about or heard  Dr. Yunus on YouTube, you know he always thinks big! Big ideas make our Future Big! Listen to Dr. Yunus's ideas:  Worldwide-- zero unemployment, zero poverty, zero net carbon emissions! Your ideas should be Big and Bigger! Arnold also said:  " “It’s not what you get out of life that counts. Break your mirrors! In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more...

When I read the words of Ingvar Kamprad, the Billionaire founder of IKEA, I am truly inspired to share with you how he did it, and How We Can! This is what he said: “Being humble isn’t the same as keeping a low profile. If you have something important to say, say it. Being humble means admitting your weaknesses, and trying to put them right.” –  Ingvar Kamprad Another GREAT thing he said is to help everyone. Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.” –  Ingvar Kamprad https://addicted2success.com/quotes/36-intriguing-quotes-by-ingvar-kamprad/ Now, if You are humble and admit your weaknesses, and try to do better AND you serve everybody, VICTORY is certain! Do we hear political leaders in Pierre or President Trump admitting their weaknesses?  Not really.  Not from the Governor.  Not from Trump.  Occasionally from some leaders in Pierre. So what does this mean? He who lives a life of humility and endeavors to serve everyone will have...