05/19/2008
A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY
Do you ever wonder that if I am only a critic or do I ever have any solutions? Yes, I do have solutions, but they all mean making sacrifices and changing our thoughts and they way that we live.
Sadly, that we live in a so called free country, variously defined as a democracy, or a republic depending on who does the defining, we are used to seeing things in a different light, and this obviously hides the truth. As we know that stores and the movies use different lighting techniques to make us look at things differently, it is about time that we grew up and realized that what we are being shown or being told is a farce. That we realize that the politicians are paid agents of various interests, democrats and republicans have no interest in the long term future of this country. Granted both sides pay lip service to how great this country is and how great the things are, and how soon all the problems will be solved, the truth is that if we totally followed the agenda of either party we will soon lose all our personal freedoms and we will work for food just like in any other third world country, with no possibility of breaking loose, lest you be named a rebel or worse a terrorist.
Why is it that the Democrats and the Republicans always end up promoting policies that hurt us, hurt our economy and our country? Why is it that they argue and argue and argue and in the end they always pass the bills that take away freedoms and always seem to help out the super rich? Why is it that the economic policies of the Republicans and the Democrats are always anti working class? It is simple, very simple, they use the television to keep you dumb and ignorant, while you watch the other people on the tube getting it, in reality it is you who is really getting it , get the point??? The big business is paying big bucks to the TV companies to keep you stupid, we have become a biggest community of phallicists in the history of mankind.
Let me paint you a picture, you hear the news from Myanmar where the government is refusing to help the poor victims of the cyclone Nargis, the military is stealing the food from the needy and others with means are hording food supplies, it is called a crime against humanity when you do things such as these.
Now we come back to the United States, we have a free country and market based economy. Back in February of two thousand seven I had predicted food shortages due to converting corn in to ethanol, I had predicted high fuel and food prices. I had also predicted the misery of the people on food stamps and social security. Now we are also in a situation where housing prices are falling and people are defaulting on their mortgages and credit cards in record numbers ( also predicted). As the food and the fuel costs rise it puts the people on the brink of defaults over the edge and exacerbates the problem of credit crisis. In the mean time our esteemed leaders, both Democrats and Republicans running around making excuses and not enacting any solutions. So let me spell it out for you my dear politicians, what is going on the this “free market economy” by your friends with big money (for political donations) and the speculators bidding up prices of crude and the commodities IS a crime against humanity, it is causing American poor and the elderly to possibly die of starvation or to for go their medicines or a trip to a doctor. The speculators of commodities are no different than the military rulers of Myanmar, only these don’t have to use guns they are using their money, the money you said they will use to create jobs.
Here is some things we can do to mitigate the problems.
Increase the margin requirements to fifty percent or more for traders trading in oil and food commodities that are necessary for people to survive.
Increase the capital gains taxes for the same commodities.
Once again stop the ethanol foolishness in its tracks and take away the ethanol subsidies.
Immediately impose a dollar a gallon gas tax to be increased by fifty cents every six months, to take away the speculative interest and to encourage conservation.
The tax money from the fuel taxes should be used strictly for development of public transportation and to provide transportation for the elderly as per need basis.
Any extra funds should be used to reduce the social security trust fund deficit or to provide for an increase in the benefits for the elderly at the bottom rungs of the social security ladder.
A rebate of a few hundred dollars a year for people living (permanently) in rural zip codes where a public transportation system is not feasible or available.
Use this tax money to provide for better insulation of homes for the poor and elderly, to upgrade air conditioning or water heating systems.
This will be a good start, of course the geniuses in Washington could always come up with better ideas, I am waiting.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
WHERE TO NEXT
05/14/2008
WHERE TO NEXT
As the campaign for the White House continues, and the Americans from all walks of life, from the left and the right, conservatives and liberals show up in droves to fawn over their prospective candidate, the Untied States continues her march towards the financial and social abyss.
Though they want cheap gas, and some even want to “reduce the deficits“, “notice that no one is asking for or talking about a balanced budget, let alone about paying off the debt. Notice that no one is talking about reducing the trade deficit, or we are giving away the wealth of the future generations. The bumper sticker on some vehicles “ I am spending my children’s inheritance” should be declared our generations , our nation’s motto.
Let me get this out of the way already, some so called liberals are stupid, lacking in common sense and believing that “free and open” sex is the cure all for all that ails this nation, no matter the diseases, the teen age child births, lowering the girl’s self esteem and their progress through schooling and then in later life. ( you can read all about it on my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com” under various titles, such as “Death of America, the female“, and “Death of America, the education”.
For many years I have been writing to the president, the senator Shelby, the Dothan Eagle, and others, about the economy, the banking, the problems in the middle East etc, so far I have never been wrong in my “guesses”. you would think the some one would listen, or at least the Air University would have given me the honorary doctorate instead of Ms. Rice, or that the president or senator Shelby would have called me at three a.m., I even offered the president to work for him for the same money the government is paying me now. You remember when I asked the senator “ when the government of the United States spends all this money in deficit, where does all that money end up at”, It was on WTVY news, and the Dothan Eagle two years ago and counting, I am still waiting for his reply, BTW he is on the senate banking committee.
Solutions to our problems are not easy or they are simple, but here is one fact of life. Conspiracy or not, so long as the United States has budget deficits and a trade deficits, the standard of living of the people of the United states will be getting lower. We can not maintain the current life style on borrowed money. And more importantly we are helping to establish one world government, “ A New World Order”. A financially broke country does not have leg to stand on.
We need to learn that the mantra of low taxes is designed to keep the country broke and borrowing, not to make the working people rich. The working people become richer by increase in wages, even if the taxes were at ninety percent, every dollar increase in wages puts another dime in your pocket. Lower taxes only help the ultra rich who get to keep more and more of their wealth thus making the working people poorer in relative terms.
You pay more for fuel first because when we buy things from overseas the people overseas take our money and buy fuel that we need, two the rich people buy up the fuel contracts betting they can squeeze more money out from your pocket. It will also help to remember here that even if we started drilling for oil in this country today, the net effect on the fuel prices will not show up in the market for five to ten years down the road, by then you will be riding a bike already. Four years ago I suggested a three dollars a gallon fuel tax to support public transportation, today you are paying a dollar fifty a gallon tax to the rich, now who is laughing?
It is asinine to say that a hundred million Americans own stocks, ninety nine million Americans own sixty percent of the stocks( not exact numbers) the top one percent own the other forty, top one hundredth of one percent own twenty percent. You may own a few shares of the Hilton chain but you are not “Paris Hilton”, take that Mr. Boortz.
You have heard about the ethanol fiasco? I wrote to the president and the senator Shelby and also sent a copy of the letter to the Dothan Eagle about the problems with ethanol on twenty first of February of two thousand seven, I said we will cause the people around the world to starve, I guess it was not worth publishing by the Liberal media.
WHERE TO NEXT
As the campaign for the White House continues, and the Americans from all walks of life, from the left and the right, conservatives and liberals show up in droves to fawn over their prospective candidate, the Untied States continues her march towards the financial and social abyss.
Though they want cheap gas, and some even want to “reduce the deficits“, “notice that no one is asking for or talking about a balanced budget, let alone about paying off the debt. Notice that no one is talking about reducing the trade deficit, or we are giving away the wealth of the future generations. The bumper sticker on some vehicles “ I am spending my children’s inheritance” should be declared our generations , our nation’s motto.
Let me get this out of the way already, some so called liberals are stupid, lacking in common sense and believing that “free and open” sex is the cure all for all that ails this nation, no matter the diseases, the teen age child births, lowering the girl’s self esteem and their progress through schooling and then in later life. ( you can read all about it on my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com” under various titles, such as “Death of America, the female“, and “Death of America, the education”.
For many years I have been writing to the president, the senator Shelby, the Dothan Eagle, and others, about the economy, the banking, the problems in the middle East etc, so far I have never been wrong in my “guesses”. you would think the some one would listen, or at least the Air University would have given me the honorary doctorate instead of Ms. Rice, or that the president or senator Shelby would have called me at three a.m., I even offered the president to work for him for the same money the government is paying me now. You remember when I asked the senator “ when the government of the United States spends all this money in deficit, where does all that money end up at”, It was on WTVY news, and the Dothan Eagle two years ago and counting, I am still waiting for his reply, BTW he is on the senate banking committee.
Solutions to our problems are not easy or they are simple, but here is one fact of life. Conspiracy or not, so long as the United States has budget deficits and a trade deficits, the standard of living of the people of the United states will be getting lower. We can not maintain the current life style on borrowed money. And more importantly we are helping to establish one world government, “ A New World Order”. A financially broke country does not have leg to stand on.
We need to learn that the mantra of low taxes is designed to keep the country broke and borrowing, not to make the working people rich. The working people become richer by increase in wages, even if the taxes were at ninety percent, every dollar increase in wages puts another dime in your pocket. Lower taxes only help the ultra rich who get to keep more and more of their wealth thus making the working people poorer in relative terms.
You pay more for fuel first because when we buy things from overseas the people overseas take our money and buy fuel that we need, two the rich people buy up the fuel contracts betting they can squeeze more money out from your pocket. It will also help to remember here that even if we started drilling for oil in this country today, the net effect on the fuel prices will not show up in the market for five to ten years down the road, by then you will be riding a bike already. Four years ago I suggested a three dollars a gallon fuel tax to support public transportation, today you are paying a dollar fifty a gallon tax to the rich, now who is laughing?
It is asinine to say that a hundred million Americans own stocks, ninety nine million Americans own sixty percent of the stocks( not exact numbers) the top one percent own the other forty, top one hundredth of one percent own twenty percent. You may own a few shares of the Hilton chain but you are not “Paris Hilton”, take that Mr. Boortz.
You have heard about the ethanol fiasco? I wrote to the president and the senator Shelby and also sent a copy of the letter to the Dothan Eagle about the problems with ethanol on twenty first of February of two thousand seven, I said we will cause the people around the world to starve, I guess it was not worth publishing by the Liberal media.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
TAXING THE POOR
05/07/2008
TAXING THE POOR
I have the copy of the Dothan Eagle, 27 April 2008, in front of me, the front page of the Accent section E, and I am looking at the two stories on the page, and the irony is killing me. The headline of the top stories reads “ Pinched by prices” it discusses the high food prices and how the poor are struggling, and the bottom story, “Bags go high-end for graduation gifts” talks about prices of hand bags and the only price in the article mentioned is $6,300, may be a used one for half that.
Sure, nothing to be ashamed of, we are a rich country and many among us can afford to pay that kind of a price for a hand bag. Do we not live in a country where we have a show called the “Life styles of the rich and famous” and the MTV shows teenagers having half million dollar birthday parties. I am not jealous mind you, I live a pretty comfortable life myself.
I am upset, however, about the taxes we have levied upon the poor of this country. But we don’t tax the poor in this country you say, but you are wrong and very much misguided, as the reality is the total opposite of what you are given to believe.
In the days of old, the kings levied taxes upon the local barons who in turn collected the taxes form the poor, as the king or the baron needed more money(in kind) they collected (took away) more from the poor ( I have watched Robin Hood myself).
My fellow Americans, you must understand the basic workings of the financial system if you are ever to survive, not just as a person, but even as a nation, in this land of the free and the home of the brave. Not just as a person but a free person and not an indentured slave.
May be this is all too complicated, but then I have admitted that this modern world is no place for a person with just an average intelligence. An IQ of one hundred ten and you are lost, anything below that and you don’t even count, you don’t even exist. So I will try to keep it simple, if your boss gambles ( like in a gambling joint) you may not get that next pay raise, can you see a connection? If not stop reading you are wasting your time, loser!
By the same token, when I said that free trade is reducing the elder care in China or that it increases child prostitution in the Philippines can you see a connection? If not, then the world is already gone way ahead of you.
So what does all this have to do with taxing the poor you say, everything, Everything.
Are you one of those who have been told that the rich pay taxes, or too much taxes? Read elsewhere in my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com”, the rich get rich not by creating money on their own, the rich become richer by usurping the fruits of the labor of others, period, end of the story. Therefore, as always the rich don’t pay taxes they just confiscate your money, by whatever means and pass it along to the government, how much of it they get to keep is how many politicians they can buy to conspire with them. Anyone talking about lowering the taxes is not trying to help the workers but trying to help the rich to keep more of the money they stole from you.
Look around you, you see some of the rich are doctors and lawyers, and business owners that come to work everyday, (or most of the days) they create jobs, provide services and some even have nicer homes than yours. These people are not rich by any means. The real rich are the ones you will never see, generally, not in your local grocery store or restaurant, and they don’t really need an office per se. They are the big time swindlers, they don’t create jobs for you and me or provide services, they are the gamblers who gamble big and steal money from you and I and move jobs overseas. They borrow “your” money from the Federal Reserve and gamble with it and if they loose big you and I must step in to bail them out (banking crisis?? Housing bubble?? Hedge funds??).
This is an indirect tax imposed on the working people of the United States, when the Federal Reserve or the treasury have to bail out the ultra rich, and it is the same people for whom the public is rallied by the talk radio and their ilk to support the lower taxes, when it is you the public who is paying for it.
Earlier I gave the example of the barons who raised taxes on the workers to pay the king, but sometimes the barons also raised the taxes to support their own life styles. And the same is the situation today. The reason you are paying extra for gasoline and food is not that there are huge shortages, there are shortages but most of the increase is due to the “speculation” by the rich and the so called institutions (also owned and controlled by the same rich), thus this is again a tax imposed by the “barons” on the working classes.
A major part of the problem is that when in the United States there is a talk of the poor, most people are thinking of the welfare mother in a ghetto and getting food stamps, no one making a forty thousand a year thinks that they are poor, once again if you are making not forty but even a hundred a forty thousand a year but are in debt, have kids in college, or just trying to keep up with the Joneses, you are also a poor working stiff, you are just too stupid to know it yet.
When I was young, my family and I were staying in a hotel where an actress “Saloni” of Pakistani movies was also staying, she was suffering from a sore throat and my father (a physician) told her that she required an injection of Streptomycin, an antibiotic, in her buttocks (I suppose), “ how shall I then be able to dance?” she asked of my father. Sadly, even as grown ups, we , sometimes, just don’t have our priorities right.
TAXING THE POOR
I have the copy of the Dothan Eagle, 27 April 2008, in front of me, the front page of the Accent section E, and I am looking at the two stories on the page, and the irony is killing me. The headline of the top stories reads “ Pinched by prices” it discusses the high food prices and how the poor are struggling, and the bottom story, “Bags go high-end for graduation gifts” talks about prices of hand bags and the only price in the article mentioned is $6,300, may be a used one for half that.
Sure, nothing to be ashamed of, we are a rich country and many among us can afford to pay that kind of a price for a hand bag. Do we not live in a country where we have a show called the “Life styles of the rich and famous” and the MTV shows teenagers having half million dollar birthday parties. I am not jealous mind you, I live a pretty comfortable life myself.
I am upset, however, about the taxes we have levied upon the poor of this country. But we don’t tax the poor in this country you say, but you are wrong and very much misguided, as the reality is the total opposite of what you are given to believe.
In the days of old, the kings levied taxes upon the local barons who in turn collected the taxes form the poor, as the king or the baron needed more money(in kind) they collected (took away) more from the poor ( I have watched Robin Hood myself).
My fellow Americans, you must understand the basic workings of the financial system if you are ever to survive, not just as a person, but even as a nation, in this land of the free and the home of the brave. Not just as a person but a free person and not an indentured slave.
May be this is all too complicated, but then I have admitted that this modern world is no place for a person with just an average intelligence. An IQ of one hundred ten and you are lost, anything below that and you don’t even count, you don’t even exist. So I will try to keep it simple, if your boss gambles ( like in a gambling joint) you may not get that next pay raise, can you see a connection? If not stop reading you are wasting your time, loser!
By the same token, when I said that free trade is reducing the elder care in China or that it increases child prostitution in the Philippines can you see a connection? If not, then the world is already gone way ahead of you.
So what does all this have to do with taxing the poor you say, everything, Everything.
Are you one of those who have been told that the rich pay taxes, or too much taxes? Read elsewhere in my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com”, the rich get rich not by creating money on their own, the rich become richer by usurping the fruits of the labor of others, period, end of the story. Therefore, as always the rich don’t pay taxes they just confiscate your money, by whatever means and pass it along to the government, how much of it they get to keep is how many politicians they can buy to conspire with them. Anyone talking about lowering the taxes is not trying to help the workers but trying to help the rich to keep more of the money they stole from you.
Look around you, you see some of the rich are doctors and lawyers, and business owners that come to work everyday, (or most of the days) they create jobs, provide services and some even have nicer homes than yours. These people are not rich by any means. The real rich are the ones you will never see, generally, not in your local grocery store or restaurant, and they don’t really need an office per se. They are the big time swindlers, they don’t create jobs for you and me or provide services, they are the gamblers who gamble big and steal money from you and I and move jobs overseas. They borrow “your” money from the Federal Reserve and gamble with it and if they loose big you and I must step in to bail them out (banking crisis?? Housing bubble?? Hedge funds??).
This is an indirect tax imposed on the working people of the United States, when the Federal Reserve or the treasury have to bail out the ultra rich, and it is the same people for whom the public is rallied by the talk radio and their ilk to support the lower taxes, when it is you the public who is paying for it.
Earlier I gave the example of the barons who raised taxes on the workers to pay the king, but sometimes the barons also raised the taxes to support their own life styles. And the same is the situation today. The reason you are paying extra for gasoline and food is not that there are huge shortages, there are shortages but most of the increase is due to the “speculation” by the rich and the so called institutions (also owned and controlled by the same rich), thus this is again a tax imposed by the “barons” on the working classes.
A major part of the problem is that when in the United States there is a talk of the poor, most people are thinking of the welfare mother in a ghetto and getting food stamps, no one making a forty thousand a year thinks that they are poor, once again if you are making not forty but even a hundred a forty thousand a year but are in debt, have kids in college, or just trying to keep up with the Joneses, you are also a poor working stiff, you are just too stupid to know it yet.
When I was young, my family and I were staying in a hotel where an actress “Saloni” of Pakistani movies was also staying, she was suffering from a sore throat and my father (a physician) told her that she required an injection of Streptomycin, an antibiotic, in her buttocks (I suppose), “ how shall I then be able to dance?” she asked of my father. Sadly, even as grown ups, we , sometimes, just don’t have our priorities right.
Friday, April 25, 2008
A FUCKING PROPOSITION
04/25/2008
WHERE TO NEXT
Surely what I say is not politically correct. Blaming the government and the politicos for our messes, or are we the ones responsible for our own problems, even the ones created by the government, the bank and the corporations.
Problem again is to be able to connect the dots. Is the kidnapping of the Mormon children in any way connected to our economic problems, or the abuse of the justice system (by the justice system), and the war on terrorism or our lack of morality (o.k. the boundaries of character that make us superior to the animals), the greed of the industrialists and our own, etc.
To me, as always it all connects.
Under our laws it is not legal to abuse or molest the children and the mentally deficient, we are not to take advantage of these; or to benefit from their misfortunes. But then what about the situation where the whole nation is retarded?
Is a rape still a rape if the person being raped is not only helping the perpetrator but actually enjoying the process? You tell me! In this case here we as a nation have been raped, daily, by our government, by our leaders, by the banks and the media and we have laid down and took it, even felt great about it. Now we look for someone to blame it all on because that is what the god of psychology tells us to do.
How is it that the government is willing to, nay begging to, bail out the stupid lenders and the stupid borrowers who willingly copulated with each other and now each is claiming that they were fucked? And if we allow the government to bail them out of the mess are we not also being fucked? Just as they had fucked each other and then now each claims a rape by the other, and now we want to help them so we can also be fucked.
WHERE TO NEXT
Surely what I say is not politically correct. Blaming the government and the politicos for our messes, or are we the ones responsible for our own problems, even the ones created by the government, the bank and the corporations.
Problem again is to be able to connect the dots. Is the kidnapping of the Mormon children in any way connected to our economic problems, or the abuse of the justice system (by the justice system), and the war on terrorism or our lack of morality (o.k. the boundaries of character that make us superior to the animals), the greed of the industrialists and our own, etc.
To me, as always it all connects.
Under our laws it is not legal to abuse or molest the children and the mentally deficient, we are not to take advantage of these; or to benefit from their misfortunes. But then what about the situation where the whole nation is retarded?
Is a rape still a rape if the person being raped is not only helping the perpetrator but actually enjoying the process? You tell me! In this case here we as a nation have been raped, daily, by our government, by our leaders, by the banks and the media and we have laid down and took it, even felt great about it. Now we look for someone to blame it all on because that is what the god of psychology tells us to do.
How is it that the government is willing to, nay begging to, bail out the stupid lenders and the stupid borrowers who willingly copulated with each other and now each is claiming that they were fucked? And if we allow the government to bail them out of the mess are we not also being fucked? Just as they had fucked each other and then now each claims a rape by the other, and now we want to help them so we can also be fucked.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
I am NOT a Pessimist
I am NOT a Pessimist
When I wrote to the Dothan Eagle, some fifteen months ago, that with us going with the ethanol; people around the world will starve to death, I was not being a pessimist, I was only telling you what the president did not dare say, or cared enough to say. Are you to believe that no one, no one in the administration or in Washington DC can see the things I see, and their consequences. I was right about the economy, when I predicted a housing and banking debacle five years ago, and I was also right about the Iraq war, that it will not be considered liberation by the Iraqis and they will try to kill us. I was right about the factions in Iraq continuing to fight amongst themselves for the power and the money. I was also right about there not being any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I had said that Saddam was only posturing. So does all of this make me a pessimist?
I wrote about the FED and its destructive policies well before Mr. Greenspan published his book of excuses. It is not a “conspiracy theory” when the crime is being carried out in the open, and if it is a conspiracy then we have all colluded in the conspiracy against our own country, due to our lack of knowledge and may be our greed. As it is said of the drug abuse no one pours drugs down your throat, you have to do that yourself.
America is an optimistic country, it is said. Alan Greenspan had used the phrase “irrational exuberance”. In psychology, however, there is another word for irrational exuberance, it is called a “delusion“, (1. psychology false belief: a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder ,“Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”).
There are many topics that I discuss on my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com”, from the economy to over population of the world, but this here only concerns the presidential race, just a little bit.
Whether you are a republican or a democrat, for Obama, Clinton or McCain, what do you think the next president will do for you? What can he or she do, there is one sure answer, not a Gosh Darn thing. The problem with the United States today is that we have only one thing shorter than our seven second attention span, our long term memory, we can not remember a darn thing. Knowledge depends not only on learning something; but also in retaining what you learn and using it in the future for reference.
Do you remember the president saying just seven months ago that seventy percent of the Americans own their own homes, well he was lying, and he was lying when he said four months ago that the US economy is solid. So that. Mr. President has yet retained his own irrational exuberance.
The US treasury is broke, our national and our personal net worth stinks, in this atmosphere we are told that we can provide health care for all, and can have everyone live for ever, and sink more money down the rat hole we call education, (a rat hole because we have few pupils and their parents interested in real learning, and even fewer teachers and administrators interested in teaching, or may be it is the other way around. On the other hand we are being told that we can afford tax cuts and that tax cuts increase government revenues. With John McCain it may be a symptom of more than a mere irrational exuberance. John McCain says he wants to give you federal tax break on gasoline for the summer, that is fourteen cents a gallon off from three dollar fifty, are you smiling? Do the math.
We are a broke country, we are paying more for gas and food because of choices the government has been making on our behalf. The choices we have allowed our government to make on our behalf. We have caused a few to get so rich that they can manipulate the whole world markets be it in corn or oil or rice. It was back in two thousand three when I wrote about the over population and poisoning of the earth, also when more people need more food and the rich can buy more than their fair share the poor must starve, what Egypt and Indonesia and India and Bangladesh and other poor countries need is population control, so do we.
An investment in the repairs, improvements or development of infra structures requires money.
In two thousand five I discussed the coming down turn in the economy and with it an increase in poverty and an increase in crime, since we have generations of people who are not used to having to work but living on handouts and free money. I also for decriminalization of prostitution since many with low or no skills or no jobs will soon be turning to the second oldest profession.
We have transferred the wealth of the United States to persons and governments overseas.
As the other countries and their people get ”richer” and buy more cars and food and goods. The cost of everything in this country also goes up. The problem is that the rich in those countries do not worry about the plight of their poor, and lately no rich in this country are staying awake the night worrying whether your children had enough to eat.
You can help yourself if you wish, STOP SPENDING and STOP BUYING, it is that old Christian thing. When you go to Wal Mart, or Lowes or , WHATEVER!, some of your money goes overseas and they compete against you in buying the things YOU need. Shopping makes you not happy but poorer. Have your kid ride a school bus, no after school activities or running around on dates allowed, turn off the cable, get rid of the cell phone, turn down the air conditioning, build smaller houses. This is not what I want you to do, this is what you will be doing soon any way, don’t you think?
When I wrote to the Dothan Eagle, some fifteen months ago, that with us going with the ethanol; people around the world will starve to death, I was not being a pessimist, I was only telling you what the president did not dare say, or cared enough to say. Are you to believe that no one, no one in the administration or in Washington DC can see the things I see, and their consequences. I was right about the economy, when I predicted a housing and banking debacle five years ago, and I was also right about the Iraq war, that it will not be considered liberation by the Iraqis and they will try to kill us. I was right about the factions in Iraq continuing to fight amongst themselves for the power and the money. I was also right about there not being any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, I had said that Saddam was only posturing. So does all of this make me a pessimist?
I wrote about the FED and its destructive policies well before Mr. Greenspan published his book of excuses. It is not a “conspiracy theory” when the crime is being carried out in the open, and if it is a conspiracy then we have all colluded in the conspiracy against our own country, due to our lack of knowledge and may be our greed. As it is said of the drug abuse no one pours drugs down your throat, you have to do that yourself.
America is an optimistic country, it is said. Alan Greenspan had used the phrase “irrational exuberance”. In psychology, however, there is another word for irrational exuberance, it is called a “delusion“, (1. psychology false belief: a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence, especially as a symptom of psychiatric disorder ,“Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”).
There are many topics that I discuss on my blog, “tombstone001.blogspot.com”, from the economy to over population of the world, but this here only concerns the presidential race, just a little bit.
Whether you are a republican or a democrat, for Obama, Clinton or McCain, what do you think the next president will do for you? What can he or she do, there is one sure answer, not a Gosh Darn thing. The problem with the United States today is that we have only one thing shorter than our seven second attention span, our long term memory, we can not remember a darn thing. Knowledge depends not only on learning something; but also in retaining what you learn and using it in the future for reference.
Do you remember the president saying just seven months ago that seventy percent of the Americans own their own homes, well he was lying, and he was lying when he said four months ago that the US economy is solid. So that. Mr. President has yet retained his own irrational exuberance.
The US treasury is broke, our national and our personal net worth stinks, in this atmosphere we are told that we can provide health care for all, and can have everyone live for ever, and sink more money down the rat hole we call education, (a rat hole because we have few pupils and their parents interested in real learning, and even fewer teachers and administrators interested in teaching, or may be it is the other way around. On the other hand we are being told that we can afford tax cuts and that tax cuts increase government revenues. With John McCain it may be a symptom of more than a mere irrational exuberance. John McCain says he wants to give you federal tax break on gasoline for the summer, that is fourteen cents a gallon off from three dollar fifty, are you smiling? Do the math.
We are a broke country, we are paying more for gas and food because of choices the government has been making on our behalf. The choices we have allowed our government to make on our behalf. We have caused a few to get so rich that they can manipulate the whole world markets be it in corn or oil or rice. It was back in two thousand three when I wrote about the over population and poisoning of the earth, also when more people need more food and the rich can buy more than their fair share the poor must starve, what Egypt and Indonesia and India and Bangladesh and other poor countries need is population control, so do we.
An investment in the repairs, improvements or development of infra structures requires money.
In two thousand five I discussed the coming down turn in the economy and with it an increase in poverty and an increase in crime, since we have generations of people who are not used to having to work but living on handouts and free money. I also for decriminalization of prostitution since many with low or no skills or no jobs will soon be turning to the second oldest profession.
We have transferred the wealth of the United States to persons and governments overseas.
As the other countries and their people get ”richer” and buy more cars and food and goods. The cost of everything in this country also goes up. The problem is that the rich in those countries do not worry about the plight of their poor, and lately no rich in this country are staying awake the night worrying whether your children had enough to eat.
You can help yourself if you wish, STOP SPENDING and STOP BUYING, it is that old Christian thing. When you go to Wal Mart, or Lowes or , WHATEVER!, some of your money goes overseas and they compete against you in buying the things YOU need. Shopping makes you not happy but poorer. Have your kid ride a school bus, no after school activities or running around on dates allowed, turn off the cable, get rid of the cell phone, turn down the air conditioning, build smaller houses. This is not what I want you to do, this is what you will be doing soon any way, don’t you think?
Friday, April 18, 2008
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
04/18/2008
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
So what, they are Mormons, and we don’t like them because they are weird. Is that it? For once in a longtime I find myself agreeing with Mike Savage, almost totally. Why did the Texas authorities raid the compound of the polygamist, are we not the nation with the religious liberties, if not then who has the authority to set the religious standards of acceptability.
Personally I have always been, and I do mean “always”, because I Am like that, against the polygamy, I was sickened by the rare practice and the abuse of it in Pakistan, and then totally disgusted by how it was practiced in Saudi Arabia where one of the kings reportedly had one hundred and fifty one wives, Idi Amin’s wives were supposedly counted into thousands. Polygamy, as it is practiced world wide is usually demeaning and disrespectful and even abusive of the women and the girls. Yet I have not seen a big uproar by the US state department against it, and many of our political leaders are over there in gulf sucking the Arab “faces” to make more money.
Mike is right, where is the department of human resources when the girl of fourteen and younger are having sex all over the place today, why are the girls as young as twelve being taught in our class how they can properly avail their bodies for use by the boys, parents are telling their daughters how sexy they can get. The same SOBs that are decrying the Mormon practice of older men marrying girls of fifteen, are the defenders of taking girls of eleven and twelve, even across state lines, for and abortion no questions asked, mind you I am in favor of abortion if that be the choice of a girl.
What bothers me here the most that how the government, and the stupid media, are desensitizing us against the governmental abuse of power. If they can run over the Zion compound without any reason, and yes the call from the girl there is a farce folks, can’t you see thru the government crap, then what, like mike said, the home schoolers?
We have seen that the Americans no longer love freedom, their own or those of anyone else’s, Our government’s agents killed a baby and a boy of twelve at Ruby Ridge on a charge that the man had a shot gun with a barrel seventeen and three quarter inches long instead of eighteen, but that is not so bad as when an irate citizen complains loudly in court room and is arrested for terrorism, slapping a teacher, not obeying an air hostess defacing a fire station are all acts of terrorism , in the land of the free, and when tomorrow the DHR comes to pick up your kids and you ask their escort officer as to why, you too could be arrested for being a terrorist, this the new world order.
I, personally, do not believe in an organized religion, at least for me, all religions are based on brain washing and indoctrinating unsuspecting minds in to superstitions of various kinds, thus Scientology is a religion, and so is Psychology both defy common sense and so do other religions and belief systems.
We are a nation of laws, but we used be, also a nation of personal freedoms. Today we have a “justice system” that is run amok. The “police” and the “protections services” are no longer involved on only to protect and to serve but they believe they have the right to tell you how to live. The proof of this is that laws are not applied equally either, the police, the judges, the district attorney themselves decide as to how they want apply a law to each individual, mostly based on the status o the person and their skin color too. It is just as scary to be pulled over or your house searched by police as it is to be held up by a thug, you never know what might happen next. Not to say all police or the judges or the people in protection service are bad, it is just the matter of the percentages, is it not. An over zealous co worker or neighbor or a school teacher can ruin your life on a whim and you have no recourse, not even a prayer. I used to live in Saudi Arabia, welcome to my night mare.
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE
So what, they are Mormons, and we don’t like them because they are weird. Is that it? For once in a longtime I find myself agreeing with Mike Savage, almost totally. Why did the Texas authorities raid the compound of the polygamist, are we not the nation with the religious liberties, if not then who has the authority to set the religious standards of acceptability.
Personally I have always been, and I do mean “always”, because I Am like that, against the polygamy, I was sickened by the rare practice and the abuse of it in Pakistan, and then totally disgusted by how it was practiced in Saudi Arabia where one of the kings reportedly had one hundred and fifty one wives, Idi Amin’s wives were supposedly counted into thousands. Polygamy, as it is practiced world wide is usually demeaning and disrespectful and even abusive of the women and the girls. Yet I have not seen a big uproar by the US state department against it, and many of our political leaders are over there in gulf sucking the Arab “faces” to make more money.
Mike is right, where is the department of human resources when the girl of fourteen and younger are having sex all over the place today, why are the girls as young as twelve being taught in our class how they can properly avail their bodies for use by the boys, parents are telling their daughters how sexy they can get. The same SOBs that are decrying the Mormon practice of older men marrying girls of fifteen, are the defenders of taking girls of eleven and twelve, even across state lines, for and abortion no questions asked, mind you I am in favor of abortion if that be the choice of a girl.
What bothers me here the most that how the government, and the stupid media, are desensitizing us against the governmental abuse of power. If they can run over the Zion compound without any reason, and yes the call from the girl there is a farce folks, can’t you see thru the government crap, then what, like mike said, the home schoolers?
We have seen that the Americans no longer love freedom, their own or those of anyone else’s, Our government’s agents killed a baby and a boy of twelve at Ruby Ridge on a charge that the man had a shot gun with a barrel seventeen and three quarter inches long instead of eighteen, but that is not so bad as when an irate citizen complains loudly in court room and is arrested for terrorism, slapping a teacher, not obeying an air hostess defacing a fire station are all acts of terrorism , in the land of the free, and when tomorrow the DHR comes to pick up your kids and you ask their escort officer as to why, you too could be arrested for being a terrorist, this the new world order.
I, personally, do not believe in an organized religion, at least for me, all religions are based on brain washing and indoctrinating unsuspecting minds in to superstitions of various kinds, thus Scientology is a religion, and so is Psychology both defy common sense and so do other religions and belief systems.
We are a nation of laws, but we used be, also a nation of personal freedoms. Today we have a “justice system” that is run amok. The “police” and the “protections services” are no longer involved on only to protect and to serve but they believe they have the right to tell you how to live. The proof of this is that laws are not applied equally either, the police, the judges, the district attorney themselves decide as to how they want apply a law to each individual, mostly based on the status o the person and their skin color too. It is just as scary to be pulled over or your house searched by police as it is to be held up by a thug, you never know what might happen next. Not to say all police or the judges or the people in protection service are bad, it is just the matter of the percentages, is it not. An over zealous co worker or neighbor or a school teacher can ruin your life on a whim and you have no recourse, not even a prayer. I used to live in Saudi Arabia, welcome to my night mare.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
BEATING OF THAT FLORIDA GIRL
What this beating tells us about us? For thirty years or more, I have advocated licensing for parents, not everyone in a country or a society or a world should be allowed to have children. Most "grown ups" today are not adults, just because you can have sex, a basic animal act that even monkies or dogs also indulge in the same as the humans do does not make a human being a capable parent. Humans may have at one time possessed an innate capability to raise a child as the other animals do but some how we have lost that as we "progressed". The idea of doing your thing, letting the children experiment, to let the kids have their freedom is all against the peace and even existence of a society, it is not normal.
That the girls doing the beating are somehow involved in cheer leading? What a shock, but first let me say one thing, i bet when you first heard about the beating, not watched it on TV or such, you had a mental image of some black chicks in a ghetto , did you not, I bet you did. The cheer leaders are a special bunch, they are the best cock suckers and slut in any school, a parent allowing their daughter to be in cheer leading might as well be pimping her pussy to the ball team on the side and make money cause that is what she will do anyway. The society is creating a special and privileged class called cheer leaders, and their bad behavior is accepted, expected, promoted and high lighted by the schools, the parents and the media in movies and the TV shows, like the "Mean Girls" and the "Bring it On" series and others.
Sadly though this beating is not extra ordinary in any way at all, it is more like par for the course.
If we were to see this beating in the light of what else is going in our country and the world only then you will see why I have proposed a licensing of parents.
Take a look around, when a kid is murdered, especially in gang violence, it is his mother, it always is the mother since most of them are without a father in residence, that is crying how her baby was so sweet and innocent, hey bitch I want to shout out, where the hell were you when he was joining the gang and not going to school and not doing his home work etc. Then you see the other teen being tried for the murder of the first and his mother is saying that he was always a sweet child and loved animals and such crap and I am shouting the same. More than likely both of the kids grew up watching mom going thru “boyfriends” and was drinking or doing drugs, and of course creating jobs for the people in “helping professions”.
Then we have grown ups in custody battles, or too poor and they are killing their own kids, just like they did in the old days, to get even or to have fewer mouths to feed, but also now because the kids interfere in their life style. Can you see the crap with the Brittney, why did that bitch need to have kids? Why? Or Paris Hilton having kids next? Why were the parents of Paris ever allowed to have a kid they did not want or did not know how to raise, can’t we just get the world court to have Paris spayed may be. It is not just the poor trash I am talking about.
Then we have the case of the twelve year old stripper ( why was not the whole bunch in that place arrested on the spot), and the school principle in a motel with two girls fifteen and sixteen, the guy even looked like a pig, but where were the parents of these girls, and how were they raising them. Hey look I am not being a preacher here, I don’t think God is coming to fix the crap, we are over populated anyway, stop letting people breed. These girls should have never been born. Their parents should have been spayed or neutered. I have as much faith in the psychologists and sociologists as I do in preachers and the police.
There is actually no amount of psychologists, sociologists, preachers or the police that could control the mindless freaks that are being produced. When the Cadillac advertises its car as a mechanism not to be driven, not to take you from point A to point B but to turn you “on”, then you are a stupid moron if you buy the car for twenty five grand instead of investing about fifteen dollars and just buy a dilldo. May be the girls did get so turned on by the beating that they had to go on cock sucking frenzy, are you listening daddy?
Time after time I have stated that things in life do not happen in a vacuum. Each is related to the other, the girls beating the other, the gang activity, and the Cadillac assuming you to be a brain dead moron, the suicides in the military, the pollution of the environment, the banking crisis, the divorce rate, the foreclosures, the budget deficits, they are all related, this how this world works, this why the god and the religion were invented, this why Stalin was Stalin, this is how I predict the future.
That the girls doing the beating are somehow involved in cheer leading? What a shock, but first let me say one thing, i bet when you first heard about the beating, not watched it on TV or such, you had a mental image of some black chicks in a ghetto , did you not, I bet you did. The cheer leaders are a special bunch, they are the best cock suckers and slut in any school, a parent allowing their daughter to be in cheer leading might as well be pimping her pussy to the ball team on the side and make money cause that is what she will do anyway. The society is creating a special and privileged class called cheer leaders, and their bad behavior is accepted, expected, promoted and high lighted by the schools, the parents and the media in movies and the TV shows, like the "Mean Girls" and the "Bring it On" series and others.
Sadly though this beating is not extra ordinary in any way at all, it is more like par for the course.
If we were to see this beating in the light of what else is going in our country and the world only then you will see why I have proposed a licensing of parents.
Take a look around, when a kid is murdered, especially in gang violence, it is his mother, it always is the mother since most of them are without a father in residence, that is crying how her baby was so sweet and innocent, hey bitch I want to shout out, where the hell were you when he was joining the gang and not going to school and not doing his home work etc. Then you see the other teen being tried for the murder of the first and his mother is saying that he was always a sweet child and loved animals and such crap and I am shouting the same. More than likely both of the kids grew up watching mom going thru “boyfriends” and was drinking or doing drugs, and of course creating jobs for the people in “helping professions”.
Then we have grown ups in custody battles, or too poor and they are killing their own kids, just like they did in the old days, to get even or to have fewer mouths to feed, but also now because the kids interfere in their life style. Can you see the crap with the Brittney, why did that bitch need to have kids? Why? Or Paris Hilton having kids next? Why were the parents of Paris ever allowed to have a kid they did not want or did not know how to raise, can’t we just get the world court to have Paris spayed may be. It is not just the poor trash I am talking about.
Then we have the case of the twelve year old stripper ( why was not the whole bunch in that place arrested on the spot), and the school principle in a motel with two girls fifteen and sixteen, the guy even looked like a pig, but where were the parents of these girls, and how were they raising them. Hey look I am not being a preacher here, I don’t think God is coming to fix the crap, we are over populated anyway, stop letting people breed. These girls should have never been born. Their parents should have been spayed or neutered. I have as much faith in the psychologists and sociologists as I do in preachers and the police.
There is actually no amount of psychologists, sociologists, preachers or the police that could control the mindless freaks that are being produced. When the Cadillac advertises its car as a mechanism not to be driven, not to take you from point A to point B but to turn you “on”, then you are a stupid moron if you buy the car for twenty five grand instead of investing about fifteen dollars and just buy a dilldo. May be the girls did get so turned on by the beating that they had to go on cock sucking frenzy, are you listening daddy?
Time after time I have stated that things in life do not happen in a vacuum. Each is related to the other, the girls beating the other, the gang activity, and the Cadillac assuming you to be a brain dead moron, the suicides in the military, the pollution of the environment, the banking crisis, the divorce rate, the foreclosures, the budget deficits, they are all related, this how this world works, this why the god and the religion were invented, this why Stalin was Stalin, this is how I predict the future.
Monday, April 07, 2008
CANNIBALISM
What will kill the humanity is not global warming, but the over population, pollution of land and water, greed of people like Mr. Turner himself for whom there is never enough money and last but not in the least , our use of food to fuel our cars
BUZZ WINDRIP FOR PRESIDENT
04/07.2008
MR. BERZELIUS ( BUZZ) WINDRIP FOR PRESIDENT
It was while back when The Dothan Eagle had asked of its readers as to whom should be our next president, I apologies for being late with my recommendation but I am proud to introduce to you to my favorite for the president in 2008, the incomparable Mr. Berzelius
(Buzz) Windrip.
My acquaintance with Buzz is not new, though many in our country have never heard of him lately, but Buzz has been known in the political circles for a very long time. And even though many in today’s politics have tried to copy him, George Bush comes the closest in his actions and Reagan and Obama, Clinton and McCain are close in oratory, but none is the genuine article. Mr. Windrip is a man of the common persons, humble and unassuming but he has the work of the people at heart. He truly feels our pains and is ready to take on the challenges of the country, if only we will give him our loyal and unquestioning support, without any hesitance or equivocation on our part, such as is being asked of by the three major candidates.
If you will take the time please, study his platform and you will see that he is anti-war and anti-peace, he is a member of the NRA yet he was also on the board of the Brady commission, he is for a balanced budget and a strong American dollar yet he does not care how high the deficits run so long as he has money to give to the American people, he is for the labor and against the unions and fully supports free trade no matter the Chinese oppression of her people, he is also going to the Olympics, now that is fair minded as all get out. He is against torture but does not want to interfere with the Arab regimes that are willing to do so. He is against global warming but sees the absolute right of the US and the American people not to have to sacrifice anything. His mantra being that the Americans have so many God given rights that they will never have to suffer any consequences of their actions. “It Can’t Happen Here” is what he always tells me.
Buzz Windrip is the best friend of the workers and the bankers and the large corporations and the common people, he is also against all taxes. So as we go to the polls in November, please remember, write in the name Buzz Windrip as your favorite for the president of the United States, “and thank you for your support“.
P.S. My thanks to my dear friend Sinclair Lewis who introduced me to Mr. Buzz Windrip.
MR. BERZELIUS ( BUZZ) WINDRIP FOR PRESIDENT
It was while back when The Dothan Eagle had asked of its readers as to whom should be our next president, I apologies for being late with my recommendation but I am proud to introduce to you to my favorite for the president in 2008, the incomparable Mr. Berzelius
(Buzz) Windrip.
My acquaintance with Buzz is not new, though many in our country have never heard of him lately, but Buzz has been known in the political circles for a very long time. And even though many in today’s politics have tried to copy him, George Bush comes the closest in his actions and Reagan and Obama, Clinton and McCain are close in oratory, but none is the genuine article. Mr. Windrip is a man of the common persons, humble and unassuming but he has the work of the people at heart. He truly feels our pains and is ready to take on the challenges of the country, if only we will give him our loyal and unquestioning support, without any hesitance or equivocation on our part, such as is being asked of by the three major candidates.
If you will take the time please, study his platform and you will see that he is anti-war and anti-peace, he is a member of the NRA yet he was also on the board of the Brady commission, he is for a balanced budget and a strong American dollar yet he does not care how high the deficits run so long as he has money to give to the American people, he is for the labor and against the unions and fully supports free trade no matter the Chinese oppression of her people, he is also going to the Olympics, now that is fair minded as all get out. He is against torture but does not want to interfere with the Arab regimes that are willing to do so. He is against global warming but sees the absolute right of the US and the American people not to have to sacrifice anything. His mantra being that the Americans have so many God given rights that they will never have to suffer any consequences of their actions. “It Can’t Happen Here” is what he always tells me.
Buzz Windrip is the best friend of the workers and the bankers and the large corporations and the common people, he is also against all taxes. So as we go to the polls in November, please remember, write in the name Buzz Windrip as your favorite for the president of the United States, “and thank you for your support“.
P.S. My thanks to my dear friend Sinclair Lewis who introduced me to Mr. Buzz Windrip.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
MURDERING FOR WHAT?
04/02/2008
MURDERING FOR WHAT?
As the Islamist murder rampage continues without any regards to the message of Islam, or even the consideration of what the world or a country will look like if they succeed in their purpose. We can look at the Afghanistan under Taliban, Iran under the Ayatollahs or Saudi Arabia under their Kings to see what an Islamist world would be like.
But the Islamists are not the only murders in the world are they? Look at the continent of Africa, now free of the people that stole people for slavery, and free of the colonists, Africa is worse off than ever before.
They say the hell is full of people with good intentions, then where do the people with bad intentions go?
No one today will admit to trying to hurt the African people, but Africa is suffering, with our help and with their own stupidity and greed.
Africa thru the years was an agrarian society, they grew food and when they could not grow food they died. So we decided to help, but not for the sheer altruism or mercy. Under the African dirt there are rare minerals, precious metals and gems that we need for our industries and also to flaunt our riches.
MURDERING FOR WHAT?
As the Islamist murder rampage continues without any regards to the message of Islam, or even the consideration of what the world or a country will look like if they succeed in their purpose. We can look at the Afghanistan under Taliban, Iran under the Ayatollahs or Saudi Arabia under their Kings to see what an Islamist world would be like.
But the Islamists are not the only murders in the world are they? Look at the continent of Africa, now free of the people that stole people for slavery, and free of the colonists, Africa is worse off than ever before.
They say the hell is full of people with good intentions, then where do the people with bad intentions go?
No one today will admit to trying to hurt the African people, but Africa is suffering, with our help and with their own stupidity and greed.
Africa thru the years was an agrarian society, they grew food and when they could not grow food they died. So we decided to help, but not for the sheer altruism or mercy. Under the African dirt there are rare minerals, precious metals and gems that we need for our industries and also to flaunt our riches.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
MURDERING FOR WHAT
MURDERING FOR WHAT?
From East to West and from the North to the South there is a continuous and unholy cycle of murder and carnage around the world. There are the daily reports of bombings and killings, suicides and torture, child rapes and stonings hangings and assassinations form all corners of the world with one common thread, Islam.
It begs to question what is the purpose behind all of it, and what are the Muslims going to do. No, not just the average Muslim but the Islamic governments, and the leaders of theses so called Islamic movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
First of all the average Muslim must confront his or her own beliefs such as, is slavery good or moral since Islam though against slavery it does allow it. Is it ok to stone to death, a woman or a man for adultery and if so should we stone to death every man and woman that is positive for any STD, sine the existence of a sexually transmitted disease itself is a prima fascia evidence that the adultery had occurred. Will you be willing to surrender your own sister or mother or daughter for the punishment. Does Islam forbid the education of the women? Will you marry off your twelve year old daughter to a fifty year old man? Is it ok for a twelve year old girl to get pregnant and become a mother? If the answer to any of it is no then the Muslims must step up and pronounce these, must speak out and say that something is wrong with system, write books and educate their public.
The Islamic governments also must say it , loud and clear, that their belief system is out of date in the twenty first century. It is not to say that everything is wrong with the whole of Islam. How can we in the West be against child rape and befriend the countries that allow it. How can we support any country where girls as young as nine and ten are being “married”, as in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for instance.
It should start at the top, currently there are two important Islamic regimes in the world that are using the sharia law as the basis of their rule, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Why is not a boycott of these regimes being instituted by the international community? It is the oil, right?
While we pretend to complain about the human rights abuses in Darfur and in Tibet by the Sudanese and the Chinese governments respectively, the protest against the Saudis is much muted, if it exists at all, and the sanctions against the Iranians are in regards to their nuclear programs not their record on human rights. Trade with China and Sudan goes on unabated, while we claim a higher moral ground. It is a shame, and we really don’t have much to say while we have the Guantanamo that is still open, with the prisoners there having no human rights, and we have declared water boarding not a form of torture and we have otherwise out sourced/ contracted out torture.
TO BE CONTINUED
From East to West and from the North to the South there is a continuous and unholy cycle of murder and carnage around the world. There are the daily reports of bombings and killings, suicides and torture, child rapes and stonings hangings and assassinations form all corners of the world with one common thread, Islam.
It begs to question what is the purpose behind all of it, and what are the Muslims going to do. No, not just the average Muslim but the Islamic governments, and the leaders of theses so called Islamic movements, from the Muslim Brotherhood to the Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
First of all the average Muslim must confront his or her own beliefs such as, is slavery good or moral since Islam though against slavery it does allow it. Is it ok to stone to death, a woman or a man for adultery and if so should we stone to death every man and woman that is positive for any STD, sine the existence of a sexually transmitted disease itself is a prima fascia evidence that the adultery had occurred. Will you be willing to surrender your own sister or mother or daughter for the punishment. Does Islam forbid the education of the women? Will you marry off your twelve year old daughter to a fifty year old man? Is it ok for a twelve year old girl to get pregnant and become a mother? If the answer to any of it is no then the Muslims must step up and pronounce these, must speak out and say that something is wrong with system, write books and educate their public.
The Islamic governments also must say it , loud and clear, that their belief system is out of date in the twenty first century. It is not to say that everything is wrong with the whole of Islam. How can we in the West be against child rape and befriend the countries that allow it. How can we support any country where girls as young as nine and ten are being “married”, as in Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for instance.
It should start at the top, currently there are two important Islamic regimes in the world that are using the sharia law as the basis of their rule, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Why is not a boycott of these regimes being instituted by the international community? It is the oil, right?
While we pretend to complain about the human rights abuses in Darfur and in Tibet by the Sudanese and the Chinese governments respectively, the protest against the Saudis is much muted, if it exists at all, and the sanctions against the Iranians are in regards to their nuclear programs not their record on human rights. Trade with China and Sudan goes on unabated, while we claim a higher moral ground. It is a shame, and we really don’t have much to say while we have the Guantanamo that is still open, with the prisoners there having no human rights, and we have declared water boarding not a form of torture and we have otherwise out sourced/ contracted out torture.
TO BE CONTINUED
Friday, March 21, 2008
PROTECTING OF VIRTUES
http://arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=108067&d=21&m= 3&y=2008 Arrests of Businesswoman and Professor: Unanswered Questions Nourah Abdul Aziz Al-Khereiji, noraaalkheriji@hotmail.com |
A number of questions have been raised regarding the recent arrests of a business- Firstly, would it not have been better for the commission's agent who took The same could be said about the professor who was arrested under similar circumstances. Every human being deserves to be treated politely and the commission agents should have A second question: Why doesn't the commission have women agents to deal with women suspects? Shortly after Yara's arrest, the commission agent took her in a taxi to a local commission center. By the commission's own interpretation, this transfer involved the Third: Why didn't the arresting agent contact Yara's husband at the moment the alleged Four: Why did the agent confiscate Yara's mobile phone in the first place? It has become common practice nowadays for the commission to take the personal belongings of people detained on suspicion of committing moral crimes. Five: Why did the agent have to take Yara in a taxi? As long as commission agents move about making arrests, is it not better to ensure they move around in official commission vehicles when they detain people? Six: What makes the commission think every citizen is going to be as compliant as Yara when it comes to demanding that they get into a taxi - or even a marked commission vehicle - without a male relative or at least a female commission member? I would have flatly refused to get into any vehicle under such circumstances, especially considering the high-profile case of Salman Al-Huraisi, who was beaten violently and fatally while in custody of the commission in Riyadh. Seven: Didn't the Interior Ministry last year order the commission to turn suspects over to the police? Under direct orders from their superiors, the commission must involve the police after detaining anyone suspected of a moral crime. In Yara's case as well as the professor's, the commission processed suspects without involving the police. Eight: Is a strip search really necessary for women arrested for khulwa? And when the commission confiscates personal effects, should it be allowed to destroy them as happened recently with an Al-Watan reporter in Riyadh? Nine: Why does the commission compel people to sign papers saying they admit to doing wrong? Ten: Why is having coffee in a public place with an unrelated man considered "illegal seclusion"? What is the true meaning of khulwa? If a woman is in a shop making a purchase and there is only she and a male salesman, is that khulwa? If a woman is taking a taxi alone, is she committing a moral crime? Eleven: Is brutally beating a suspect to death a form of promoting virtue or preventing vice? Should the commission apologize? Should the men who beat the suspect to death be charged with a crime and punished? Twelve: If a man gives permission to his wife to conduct business and travel on her own, what then? The commission also mentioned that Yara was showing her hair and displaying her beauty. But this has obviously been approved by the Ministry of Culture and Information since women television presenters do the same and also apply makeup to their faces. The head of the commission in Riyadh stated that the mingling of men and women in the workplace is not allowed by the Labor Ministry and is against Shariah and the country's laws. But in fact the Labor Ministry has allowed women and men to work together. At hospitals they work not only as doctors but also engage in administrative work along with men. They also work in tourism offices and in markets. Moreover, women have been in the audio and visual media from the beginning and there, they have to mingle with men. I hope and pray that the commission would not always look at men and women suspecting the worst but would at least sometimes assume the best. MY REPLY Dear Sister NourahYou raise here some good questions as to the operations of the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Here are a few suggestions and replies to your article. Back in the early seventies, when I still lived in Riyadh, more than once I was hit by these people, usually once or twice for not going to prayers, or having long hair and wearing tight pants like they did in the West in those days, I knew Mr. Amin Abdul Majid and was familiar with the Batha office of the commission. I still have my long hair, but now I live out here in the land of the free. The commission members by their definition, and job description I suppose, must be narrow minded individuals, not given to accepting personal freedoms and individual responsibilities. They must not be given to open-mindedness and considering each situation, they are the judge and the jury on the spot, that is their mission. Islam as “misunderstood” by the average conservative Muslim is non practicable. Islam says that it is here “to bring people from darkness to light”, the prophet talked of it as being a “guide”, it must be understood in it’s historical context, the women were to cover their bodies, privates, and jewelry, not to walk around like tents, you could not imagine a bunch of women in covering such as they have today in Saudia or Pakistan or Afghanistan to be walking in a camel caravan or herding sheep, now explain that to the Taliban. Lack of understanding must be a basic requirement to work at the commission , lack of education too. But the reason they do not have women employees is self explanatory. Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive, ( I would not want to share the road with a woman driver in the Saudi face cover ) thus a woman worker would have to be a with a male driver that is not her relative I suppose thereby causing a “khulwa” situation to exist of its own, secondly these semi literate conservatives already consider a working woman as a shurmuta so they will not respect her already. The ideal and the mission of the Commission of Virtue is to defeat the modern society, which it considers an enemy of Islam, I hear you pleading but the two of these can not co exist. Islam wants a person (male and female, as there is no prohibition from educating women anywhere) to be educated. This must be emphasized from every institution, every pulpit every ministry and by every king. On your fourth point, why did the agent confiscate the mobile, here you have to see that under the Saudi law a person is guilty unless proven otherwise and that the “criminals” and as such suspects have no human rights, actually they are to be considered less than human, and then a female criminal is less than anything that is of worth their respect, the underpaid and under educated keepers of Islamic values and saviors of the virtues of Muslim women can not be considerate of human rights. Your point number five is again explained by the occurrence of khulwa if the agent takes the prisoner in his department vehicle, but then we need to understand Islam, khulwa only can occur if the man and the woman are together in place where something “more personal” can happen , like in a house or a motel room, by the definition that these agents are using if I were to sit next to woman in an airport waiting room we would be fornicating, but these same people have no qualms about having sex in the presence of “GOD” himself with women they would not be married to, after dying, they just want to make sure you are not doing anything . I am glad that Yara did get in the vehicle, she could have been killed as you have seen lately, these guys are more frustrated than they ever were during the seventies and it shows in the cases of abuse and outright brutality of recent past,, what with the mobile phones and the internet and satellite TV these guys just keep everybody as virtuous as they once were able to. I could go on, but the kingdom needs to do something, starting with the abolishment of the whole department, it sets a real bad example of what Islam is, and what Islam could be. Immorality, public or private has its own punishments, look to the west, fornication causes disease, breaks up families, is ruinous financially, greed is destroying societies, undermining the countries, increasing criminality, and child abuse, promiscuity is keeping kids from learning in schools, keeping groups in poverty and on and on. One barely needs a virtues monitor just needs be educated. |
Thursday, March 20, 2008
A RACE ABOUT THE RACE
A RACE ABOUT A RACE
So now Obama is accused of being a member of a church where his preacher likes to say outrageous things, like god damn America! And that is racist? Bigoted? Shocking?
Oh come now folks? You and I well know that the people in “Boise” (and the other white places, do we forget that Idaho is the state where the white supremacists run to) did not vote for Obama because he is the most qualified, they voted for Obama for two reasons, one that they hate Hillary and two that against McCain, Obama WILL lose in a nation wide election.
But here is the point, it is not the sermons of Mr. Wright that show racism, or that even now Obama feels compelled to defend his preacher. The black bigotry and racism was already shown when ninety-one percent of blacks voted for Obama, forgetting all of what Hillary and Bill had done for the black community for a lot longer than Obama has been doing.. And also that while Obama has a slogan, he does not have a plan, may be a “road map“, but then we know enough about he “road maps” already.
May be racism in America, as practiced by the whites, is on the decline. But it is the law of percentages at work, that makes the problem look worse than it might be. At a personal level, most whites may not even be racists, but our government and private institutions are as full of corruption, graft, nepotism and quid pro quo, to make even the Hosni Mubbarak of Egypt and the King of Saudi Arabia themselves proud. Our Justice System has no justice and or any system. With the country still being a majority white country, most of the power, money and the positions are still held by the whites so that the common graft, favoritism and nepotism gives it the appearance of racism.
Say for instance the head of a government office or a business hires someone white because they are related or the guy being hired has a cousin who will hire the first guys cousin now it is not being racist, is it, just taking care of ones own, and one’s own kind.
And why not, when I accuse a white of being a bigot or a racist and not being helpful, I must first look at myself. There is an old saying that “you got to learn to crawl before you can walk”.
The difference between a critique and wise counsel is subtle, and mostly dependent on the listener’s mind set and attitude. The black community should know and be worried or happy, depending on their “tude”, that there is a “real white” under class coming, that will be their competition at the bottom also. This time the escape will be to swim to the top. We can not keep complaining about the past, and the slavery and the injustices of Jim Crow and the white upper class. We cannot obtain a recompense that will ever undo the bygones. If we look to a future of peace justice fairness and harmony, we will need to prepare ourselves for that with education and hard work, not complaints and hope for redress. We are all Americans, Not Africanized Americans, a ghetto attitude is counter to making race relations better, how can you have better relations with the whites when you can hardly live with each other amongst your own kind? We must think of ourselves as an American who is born black, not as a American who is born African.
As we look to the next elections, we are a nation of losers, white or black, we know the country is going through tough times. What with the NAFTA, the North American Union, the GATT and the free trade with the slaves in China and elsewhere, we need a leader. The leaders discuss the problem, ask for sacrifices and devise solutions. What we have in the race, as we have had in the White House for the past thirty years, are the pimps, YES PIMPS. The smooth talkers that talk about the bright and shiny things you will get, if you let them control your life.
So now Obama is accused of being a member of a church where his preacher likes to say outrageous things, like god damn America! And that is racist? Bigoted? Shocking?
Oh come now folks? You and I well know that the people in “Boise” (and the other white places, do we forget that Idaho is the state where the white supremacists run to) did not vote for Obama because he is the most qualified, they voted for Obama for two reasons, one that they hate Hillary and two that against McCain, Obama WILL lose in a nation wide election.
But here is the point, it is not the sermons of Mr. Wright that show racism, or that even now Obama feels compelled to defend his preacher. The black bigotry and racism was already shown when ninety-one percent of blacks voted for Obama, forgetting all of what Hillary and Bill had done for the black community for a lot longer than Obama has been doing.. And also that while Obama has a slogan, he does not have a plan, may be a “road map“, but then we know enough about he “road maps” already.
May be racism in America, as practiced by the whites, is on the decline. But it is the law of percentages at work, that makes the problem look worse than it might be. At a personal level, most whites may not even be racists, but our government and private institutions are as full of corruption, graft, nepotism and quid pro quo, to make even the Hosni Mubbarak of Egypt and the King of Saudi Arabia themselves proud. Our Justice System has no justice and or any system. With the country still being a majority white country, most of the power, money and the positions are still held by the whites so that the common graft, favoritism and nepotism gives it the appearance of racism.
Say for instance the head of a government office or a business hires someone white because they are related or the guy being hired has a cousin who will hire the first guys cousin now it is not being racist, is it, just taking care of ones own, and one’s own kind.
And why not, when I accuse a white of being a bigot or a racist and not being helpful, I must first look at myself. There is an old saying that “you got to learn to crawl before you can walk”.
The difference between a critique and wise counsel is subtle, and mostly dependent on the listener’s mind set and attitude. The black community should know and be worried or happy, depending on their “tude”, that there is a “real white” under class coming, that will be their competition at the bottom also. This time the escape will be to swim to the top. We can not keep complaining about the past, and the slavery and the injustices of Jim Crow and the white upper class. We cannot obtain a recompense that will ever undo the bygones. If we look to a future of peace justice fairness and harmony, we will need to prepare ourselves for that with education and hard work, not complaints and hope for redress. We are all Americans, Not Africanized Americans, a ghetto attitude is counter to making race relations better, how can you have better relations with the whites when you can hardly live with each other amongst your own kind? We must think of ourselves as an American who is born black, not as a American who is born African.
As we look to the next elections, we are a nation of losers, white or black, we know the country is going through tough times. What with the NAFTA, the North American Union, the GATT and the free trade with the slaves in China and elsewhere, we need a leader. The leaders discuss the problem, ask for sacrifices and devise solutions. What we have in the race, as we have had in the White House for the past thirty years, are the pimps, YES PIMPS. The smooth talkers that talk about the bright and shiny things you will get, if you let them control your life.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A SIMPLE QUESTION
Just think if Obama was a Muslim running for president, and he attended a mosque where his Imam preached sermons similar to what his Christian preacher is saying, how close would he have been to getting the democratic nomination????
Monday, March 17, 2008
SAVING AMERICA
SAVING AMERICA
Here we are, as I said before, the banking crisis in full bloom, the Americans losing their homes, inflation rising, the president as always not willing to tell the truth.
Is there a way out, probably not, but the damage to the country can still be mitigated, we could settle for a disaster instead of an out right massacre, if we care to learn the truth and face the consequences.
Here are two first steps that can be taken already without much pain and widespread discomfort, the first being that we stop the ethanol insanity. Effective immediately we need to stop all subsidies to the ethanol industry form crop subsidies to the fuel credits and tax breaks. If we did not know this before we now know that it has hurt the consumers with increased prices of everything and not caused the petroleum consumption to go down. Cost of fuel and food has gone up directly as the consequence of our foolish adventure in to alcoholism of ethanol. Lets just say NO!
The budget is on the rocks, the government is broke, this is not the time for tax cuts, allowing the Bush tax break for the rich to expire will help with the reduction in the federal deficit and allow the dollar to find some footing. Reduction in the federal deficit will help support the dollar and reduce the price of oil.
Allow the interest rates to rise some, support the dollar, and the foreigners will become interested in INVESTING in America again, not BUYING the America on the cheap. But then again you the reader could also be a politician or a media person sold on snuffing out the freedom of the Untied States and sold on to the North American Union
Here we are, as I said before, the banking crisis in full bloom, the Americans losing their homes, inflation rising, the president as always not willing to tell the truth.
Is there a way out, probably not, but the damage to the country can still be mitigated, we could settle for a disaster instead of an out right massacre, if we care to learn the truth and face the consequences.
Here are two first steps that can be taken already without much pain and widespread discomfort, the first being that we stop the ethanol insanity. Effective immediately we need to stop all subsidies to the ethanol industry form crop subsidies to the fuel credits and tax breaks. If we did not know this before we now know that it has hurt the consumers with increased prices of everything and not caused the petroleum consumption to go down. Cost of fuel and food has gone up directly as the consequence of our foolish adventure in to alcoholism of ethanol. Lets just say NO!
The budget is on the rocks, the government is broke, this is not the time for tax cuts, allowing the Bush tax break for the rich to expire will help with the reduction in the federal deficit and allow the dollar to find some footing. Reduction in the federal deficit will help support the dollar and reduce the price of oil.
Allow the interest rates to rise some, support the dollar, and the foreigners will become interested in INVESTING in America again, not BUYING the America on the cheap. But then again you the reader could also be a politician or a media person sold on snuffing out the freedom of the Untied States and sold on to the North American Union
Friday, March 14, 2008
FEDERAL RESERVE AND SEX
SEX AND THE FEDERAL RESERVE
The Federal Reserve giving the banks two hundred billion dollars of free money (replacing their bad bonds with treasury bills), is like paying some one to have sex with your daughter so you can teach her about abstinence
ETHANOL AND SEX
SEX AND THE ETHANOL
Replacing ethanol for gas makes the same sense as having sex with someone you know to have multiple types of STD's, ( that is venereal diseases)
first, you are screwed in many more ways than you bargained for
two, in the end it will kill you
second, using ethanol instead of gas just like being reamed with a wire brush and saying you are having sex
third, the government is paying an eighteen billion dollar subsidy to ethanol industry and the food prices are going up as a result, it is like getting screwed at the both ends
Replacing ethanol for gas makes the same sense as having sex with someone you know to have multiple types of STD's, ( that is venereal diseases)
first, you are screwed in many more ways than you bargained for
two, in the end it will kill you
second, using ethanol instead of gas just like being reamed with a wire brush and saying you are having sex
third, the government is paying an eighteen billion dollar subsidy to ethanol industry and the food prices are going up as a result, it is like getting screwed at the both ends
Friday, March 07, 2008
GIRLS SMOKING IN SAUDI ARABIA
| Up in Smoke Tariq A. Al-Maeena, talmaeena@aol.com |
| While out for dinner the other night, my wife looking over a table of young girls barely into their teens, turned to me and said, “Isn’t it ironic that these girls are freely allowed to smoke the argeela (water pipe) which is so harmful to their health and yet are denied the opportunity for physical education in their schools?” As I turned my attention to the group seated at the table and happily engrossed in animated conversation with each other while busily puffing away at their individual water pipes, I felt a pang of pain. These girls were not much over 16 or 17 years of age. And here they were sucking up to a fast-rising social phenomenon that has crossed over the age barrier and now is a fad among the young. From the experienced manner in which each girl was handling her water pipe, I wondered if they realized the consequences of such social habits to their health. And then I reflected on a recent letter I had received from a lady university professor who was elated when her pupils were allowed to play soccer on a soccer field against girls of another university. While her elation was justified in the face of past opposition to such activities by our girls, my concern was over the “under-the-wraps” approach that event was handled by. Why are we so afraid to allow our girls to participate in physical education activities in our schools? Why could we not have sent a delegation of Saudi female athletes to an all-women’s athletic meet of Gulf Cooperation Council members being held in Kuwait, as other countries of the GCC have done? Saudi Arabia is a prominent member of the GCC, and for it to fail in its obligations toward its female athletes is not an encouraging sign. It is certainly not that our religion forbids such activities, and judging from the reactions of most of those around me, it is certainly not many of the people either. Than why do we continue to bar physical activities that encourage the promotion of health among our girls and women? Are we afraid of empowering women or allowing them control over their own bodies? Do we fear that by providing them such an opportunity, we are leading them to a path of deviancy and deprivation? Why do we men assume such nobility upon ourselves and yet deny those very rights to our womenfolk? Some would say our society does not allow such activities. “Balderdash” is my response. Our society, which some have perversely twisted to mean such a “special place” is no different from any other Muslim country. We are no better or worse than people elsewhere. And until we get that through our heads, that we are in no way different or special from others, we will continue to wallow in such deplorable customs that allow young girls to puff away their health, and yet be denied to sweat away their energies in a more productive fashion. If small groups of people insist on imposing their extreme views on school authorities, the Ministry of Education must resist such callous and irrational arguments and be bold enough to declare physical education as part of the syllabus in girls schools for the coming year. By providing such an outlet, perhaps some of these girls may be discouraged from letting their health go up in smoke. |
tombstone001 says
Why are we afraid to let the girls play soccer?
It is rhetorical question indeed, in truth we are consumed by the filth in our own minds. We think of girls to be dirty minded like ourselves and as objects not of dignity and respect and even a little freedom that Islam calls for but as objects of nothing more than lust. We are afraid that not only all men, just like our own selves, desire our daughters mothers sisters and wives for sex, but that our daughters sisters mothers and wives will for sure run off to oblige if we gave them a chance. Also we think that if our women had any freedom or education the may find out how our men and the society think of them as no more than may be the family goats,(of course you can trade your daughter at least for a good looking camel), and may even take the liberties like eating from the rice tray before the man.
this will also be posted on my blog@
tombstone001.blogspot.com
along with your article
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
A REALITY CHECK
A REALITY CHECK
The prophets of the old were not despised because they preached the word of gods, they were disliked because they told people to change their ways and customs, to do things differently or they would be doomed.
So is the story today, people from all walks of life are following McCain, or Obama or Clinton because none of them asks for any sacrifices or warns of the catastrophe facing our country if we do not change our ways, do not tell us that the land of milk and honey may turn into a “blooming desert” soon if we do not do things differently.
Over a period of time, I have been called a communist, a socialist, a fear mongered, anti-American, un American and a few other unprintable names but my message is the same, we can not go on down this road, we must change our ways, and change they way we live. It was five years ago when the Dothan Eagle published my first warning about the run away spending and the consequences of federal deficits under the title “Whose Money”. The day of reckoning may yet not be tomorrow, but it is five years closer, we have waited for a deliverer a lot longer.
Any one can go to a political rally hoping that the “One” is the deliverer, only if he or she could get elected the things will get better, the sky will open up and the sun will shine again. Our house values will rise and we will be able to borrow more and spend like there is no tomorrow and the gas will be a dollar a gallon. WAKE UP!
Call it the decline in the value of the dollar, rise in the commodity prices, bursting of the housing bubble, there are only three reasons for the economic mess we have. One is the federal deficit spending, and to the out sourcing of the American manufacturing, and we like to live way beyond our means.
Take the second here first, as we all have been told, our trade deficit with the other countries has been increasing steadily for the last thirty years or so. The main reason for this is NOT that we buy more from overseas, the main reason is that our industrialists and the globalist i.e. the bankers and the government have moved our manufacturing overseas where they can pay people slave wages while we produce nothing. Since we produce nothing (add value to a product or raw materials) we in reality don’t have any “income“. Since we do not have any income the government is forced to print money it does not have, or borrows it from overseas. Our housing problem is causing banking problems in Europe, to illustrate the relation.
We spend this borrowed money to buy goods from overseas, so what happens?
What happens is that now countries like China and India have growing economies, thus they open factories and generate profits and then buy cars and homes. Our borrowed money directly contributes to the development of overseas economy and they buy oil from the Middle East and the price of oil goes up. And we the American people are stuck with the bill twice, once to pay for the federal debt, and once to pay more for goods that were supposed to be cheaper if made overseas.
The solution, the only solution now is the change in the way , we, the Americans, live, a change in our thinking, and a change in our standard of living. Today we have a choice, we can refuse to spend money, we can demand that manufacturing be returned from overseas, we can choose to buy only goods made in America and ask our rich to reopen local factories, we can choose to pay a bit more for the goods made in America, or soon we will not have these choices, one way or another.
What difference is there if a junky buys heroine produced by Islamists in Afghanistan or you buy oil from a mid east country, the money could always end up with the “terrorists”. What difference does it make if we sell the technology to the Chinese to make missiles directly or give them the money through trade for them to improve their military? We are selling ourselves out, all the same.
In a Bill Cosby LP, back in the seventies, a neighbor asks Noah who is building an ark, “Noah, what you are doing?”, “how long can you tread water” Noah replies, in there, there is a message.
The prophets of the old were not despised because they preached the word of gods, they were disliked because they told people to change their ways and customs, to do things differently or they would be doomed.
So is the story today, people from all walks of life are following McCain, or Obama or Clinton because none of them asks for any sacrifices or warns of the catastrophe facing our country if we do not change our ways, do not tell us that the land of milk and honey may turn into a “blooming desert” soon if we do not do things differently.
Over a period of time, I have been called a communist, a socialist, a fear mongered, anti-American, un American and a few other unprintable names but my message is the same, we can not go on down this road, we must change our ways, and change they way we live. It was five years ago when the Dothan Eagle published my first warning about the run away spending and the consequences of federal deficits under the title “Whose Money”. The day of reckoning may yet not be tomorrow, but it is five years closer, we have waited for a deliverer a lot longer.
Any one can go to a political rally hoping that the “One” is the deliverer, only if he or she could get elected the things will get better, the sky will open up and the sun will shine again. Our house values will rise and we will be able to borrow more and spend like there is no tomorrow and the gas will be a dollar a gallon. WAKE UP!
Call it the decline in the value of the dollar, rise in the commodity prices, bursting of the housing bubble, there are only three reasons for the economic mess we have. One is the federal deficit spending, and to the out sourcing of the American manufacturing, and we like to live way beyond our means.
Take the second here first, as we all have been told, our trade deficit with the other countries has been increasing steadily for the last thirty years or so. The main reason for this is NOT that we buy more from overseas, the main reason is that our industrialists and the globalist i.e. the bankers and the government have moved our manufacturing overseas where they can pay people slave wages while we produce nothing. Since we produce nothing (add value to a product or raw materials) we in reality don’t have any “income“. Since we do not have any income the government is forced to print money it does not have, or borrows it from overseas. Our housing problem is causing banking problems in Europe, to illustrate the relation.
We spend this borrowed money to buy goods from overseas, so what happens?
What happens is that now countries like China and India have growing economies, thus they open factories and generate profits and then buy cars and homes. Our borrowed money directly contributes to the development of overseas economy and they buy oil from the Middle East and the price of oil goes up. And we the American people are stuck with the bill twice, once to pay for the federal debt, and once to pay more for goods that were supposed to be cheaper if made overseas.
The solution, the only solution now is the change in the way , we, the Americans, live, a change in our thinking, and a change in our standard of living. Today we have a choice, we can refuse to spend money, we can demand that manufacturing be returned from overseas, we can choose to buy only goods made in America and ask our rich to reopen local factories, we can choose to pay a bit more for the goods made in America, or soon we will not have these choices, one way or another.
What difference is there if a junky buys heroine produced by Islamists in Afghanistan or you buy oil from a mid east country, the money could always end up with the “terrorists”. What difference does it make if we sell the technology to the Chinese to make missiles directly or give them the money through trade for them to improve their military? We are selling ourselves out, all the same.
In a Bill Cosby LP, back in the seventies, a neighbor asks Noah who is building an ark, “Noah, what you are doing?”, “how long can you tread water” Noah replies, in there, there is a message.
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