12/16/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X
"THE CASE OF A PARADIGM SHIT"
So then in what else is new, "news". The name of a Bernie Madoff is grabbing the headlines. But look deeper and you find that the whole Wall Street, wealth creation, get rich at all cost, get richer than everybody else, screw the worker culture of greed is the same., and has been on going since Mr. Reagan corrupted the investment system, OK, he allowed it to be corrupted because he did not understand what his handlers sold him on.
If we are now naming names of the crooks, then why not list the boards of directors of the NYSE, the top twenty employees of the treasury department, the Board of AIG, Lehman Brothers, and a hundred top corporations, all the day traders, the options traders, and the international bankers, who created wealth.
If you are old enough and remember it started out with hostile takeovers of companies and laying off workers, you could borrow money on the cheap and buy a company , fire the workers and call it increasing productivity, and then sell the company back to the public.
Then came the globalization, the NAFTA, and the workers lost their jobs and in manufacturing. But we had a new class of the "rich" that could could hire the laid off workers to cut grass, and make five dollar cups of coffee. And of course you could go to build houses for the people who had no money.
The whole system is, and has been nothing but a fraud, from an average worker who believes that after eight hours of showing up at a job, any job, he deserves the ultimate in rest, big screen TV, cable, airconditioning and a twelve pack of beer and kids who feed and clothe and educate themsleves, to the B school graduate who thinks that he is the GOD's gift to mankind in more ways than he can count, to a whole society that believes that they deserve more than they have because they are born in AMERICA and hardships ar for the other people who happen to be not so lucky.
I have argued for years that we are on the wrong path, our expectations are way out of touch with reality. We consume more than our fair share.
As millions more lose their jobs, and join the ranks of the home less, the poor and hungry we need to name names, name the process by which we got here, I have a suggestion. Since we are so anamored of calling old things by new names like "barristas", and "human resouces", and "facilities engineers", I ahve a new name for the situation we are in , it should be called a
"Paradigm Shit", yeah that s right.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
BAILING OUT THE HOUSING
12/14/2008
POSTED ON CNN/FORTUNE
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/12/news/newsmakers/morris_bair.fortune/index.htm
No. First of all it is a punishment to those who remained sensible and stayed within their budget. People who bought over priced homes also caused the price inflation and kept reasonable people out of better homes. Now we will reward these at the expense of the ones who stayed within their budgets and means, and are still making payments and have been making payments.
Two, in the markets where the foreclosures are the highest, the jobs are also disappearing fast, there is no guarantee that the people who are refinanced will be able to keep up the new payments.
Three, if and when the prices may go up, these people will be rewarded with price appreciation, while the tax payers are shouldering the burden of bailing them out, they should not be allowed to gain ANY benefits from price appreciation, it should all be payed to the treasury.
It will be best to bring the jobs back permanently, that is in manufacturing, free trade and globalization have failed, and damage the country immensely, The foolishness must be stopped.
POSTED ON CNN/FORTUNE
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/12/news/newsmakers/morris_bair.fortune/index.htm
No. First of all it is a punishment to those who remained sensible and stayed within their budget. People who bought over priced homes also caused the price inflation and kept reasonable people out of better homes. Now we will reward these at the expense of the ones who stayed within their budgets and means, and are still making payments and have been making payments.
Two, in the markets where the foreclosures are the highest, the jobs are also disappearing fast, there is no guarantee that the people who are refinanced will be able to keep up the new payments.
Three, if and when the prices may go up, these people will be rewarded with price appreciation, while the tax payers are shouldering the burden of bailing them out, they should not be allowed to gain ANY benefits from price appreciation, it should all be payed to the treasury.
It will be best to bring the jobs back permanently, that is in manufacturing, free trade and globalization have failed, and damage the country immensely, The foolishness must be stopped.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Comments on food
12/11/2008
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-comes-down-to-food-on-the-table/
Global warming, lack of food, polution of land and waters are all being caused by over population and the need for “some” to use way too much of the limited resuorces of the earth at the expense of the others.
It is time that we decided who gets to continue populating the earth and who must be taken out of the gene pool. Humanity can not advance and become more evolved if we allow people of the lower intelligence levels to out breed the smart ones.
Far as eating animals, who will we eat when we run out of those, may be we will be hunting each other down for a meal.We have already fished the seas dry. We must make smart and logical choices NOW.
Paying females for not having kids willbe a good start.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-comes-down-to-food-on-the-table/
Global warming, lack of food, polution of land and waters are all being caused by over population and the need for “some” to use way too much of the limited resuorces of the earth at the expense of the others.
It is time that we decided who gets to continue populating the earth and who must be taken out of the gene pool. Humanity can not advance and become more evolved if we allow people of the lower intelligence levels to out breed the smart ones.
Far as eating animals, who will we eat when we run out of those, may be we will be hunting each other down for a meal.We have already fished the seas dry. We must make smart and logical choices NOW.
Paying females for not having kids willbe a good start.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
12/12/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
It is not a surprise, not to me, for years I have foretold of the collapse of this economy of ours, of the world economy. I have told you step by step, what was wrong with the picture, where the money was coming from, where it was going and how the system was doomed.
I also told you how the lack of morals, values and ethics was contributing to eventual failure. Our economy has been based on the idea that everyone is buying, always buying and always spending money. Money was created by the Federal Reserve, we could have as much as we wanted.
That system failed, as you have seen. So where to next?
Looking back, the buying to run the economy, buying to bring prosperity, buying with money you don't have system failed. What is the next shoe to drop.
Remember when I told you , at the start of this series, that the computer you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own. The next shoe to drop will be this web based economy, the Internet age is about to go under. "Face book", "YouTube", "Google", "Yahoo", whatever, these websites are based on the income from advertising, on selling you stuff. As the economy is tanking and no one has money to buy anything these sites generate no revenue. They can no longer be free, they have to become subscription services. Meaning you have to pay to be on face book or have a g-mail address., or you poor schmuck, you have to get a real life in the "rt".
Oh you don't know how to live in the "rt".
So here it is how it goes, as you become poorer, the access to the web becomes more costly, as you need more access to the web the web becomes more inaccessible. No more free lunches. Once again , the whole model of living on the web becomes out of reach of the average person, web that was supposed to create equality and openness will kill the equality and openness.
At the same time, businesses that are providing free information content, TV channels, news papers and the news organizations, are losing money in advertising, they will also find it difficult to make money on the web and start to charge for access to their websites.
The other business model of late, volume merchendising, big box stores, where little profit on each sale make up for a larger profit on fewer sales will also fail as the sales go down and people have less money to spend. this will cause the Wal-Marts, Sam's club like businesses to increase prices, just when people have less money. It will take a while, like the slow death, people will sell assests, take money from their retirement funds, sell their insurance polices, second homes, rental properties, etc to pay for day to day expenses till there is nothing more left to sell.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
It is not a surprise, not to me, for years I have foretold of the collapse of this economy of ours, of the world economy. I have told you step by step, what was wrong with the picture, where the money was coming from, where it was going and how the system was doomed.
I also told you how the lack of morals, values and ethics was contributing to eventual failure. Our economy has been based on the idea that everyone is buying, always buying and always spending money. Money was created by the Federal Reserve, we could have as much as we wanted.
That system failed, as you have seen. So where to next?
Looking back, the buying to run the economy, buying to bring prosperity, buying with money you don't have system failed. What is the next shoe to drop.
Remember when I told you , at the start of this series, that the computer you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own. The next shoe to drop will be this web based economy, the Internet age is about to go under. "Face book", "YouTube", "Google", "Yahoo", whatever, these websites are based on the income from advertising, on selling you stuff. As the economy is tanking and no one has money to buy anything these sites generate no revenue. They can no longer be free, they have to become subscription services. Meaning you have to pay to be on face book or have a g-mail address., or you poor schmuck, you have to get a real life in the "rt".
Oh you don't know how to live in the "rt".
So here it is how it goes, as you become poorer, the access to the web becomes more costly, as you need more access to the web the web becomes more inaccessible. No more free lunches. Once again , the whole model of living on the web becomes out of reach of the average person, web that was supposed to create equality and openness will kill the equality and openness.
At the same time, businesses that are providing free information content, TV channels, news papers and the news organizations, are losing money in advertising, they will also find it difficult to make money on the web and start to charge for access to their websites.
The other business model of late, volume merchendising, big box stores, where little profit on each sale make up for a larger profit on fewer sales will also fail as the sales go down and people have less money to spend. this will cause the Wal-Marts, Sam's club like businesses to increase prices, just when people have less money. It will take a while, like the slow death, people will sell assests, take money from their retirement funds, sell their insurance polices, second homes, rental properties, etc to pay for day to day expenses till there is nothing more left to sell.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
12/10/2008
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=117115&d=10&m=12&y=2008
ALSO PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW
"""""""“Today, we need a dialogue of the Ummah within itself. It is because sedition, ignorance and fanaticism are threatening the hopes of Muslims. The terrorism that threatens the entire world is attributed to Muslims alone because of the acts of a few extremists who represent none but themselves. Though they put on the guise of Islam, the religion has nothing to do with them. This is what makes the dialogue of the Ummah with itself imperative for achieving a unified stand, elimination of the causes of their disputes, strengthening their moderate middle path, and to stamp out extremism,” King Abdullah told his guests.
The guests included Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Chechen President Ramadan Kadirov and Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Abdullah Al-Turki.
“During the last Haj season, I spoke to you about the significance of interfaith dialogue. The Kingdom organized the Makkah conference for Muslim scholars and thinkers to discuss the idea of dialogue, and was welcomed by them... It was followed by the Madrid conference in which representatives of various religions and cultures endorsed the outcome of the Makkah conference. The high level meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly on the interfaith dialogue, in which prominent international personalities participated, upheld the concept of dialogue,” King Abdullah said.
“The Kingdom with this program aims to uphold the glory of Islam and service to humanity,” the king added. King Abdullah left Mina yesterday evening and later arrived in Jeddah."""""""
MY COMMENTARY
How are we talking about an open dialogue here? Where in an Islamic country is there a freedom of thought and the freedom of press. Whose ideas are we willing to accept? Look at Iraq, look at Palestine it self, and can we say Egypt? Pakistan, and how about Saudi Arabia her self.
An open dialogue implies that anyone can have an opinion without the fear of oppression. As things stand, I can say something here from the safety of my home in the United States, but with the knowledge that my opinion in matters Islamic or political can subject me to sanctions by an Islamic government, or even a fatwa of death by some mullah or imam in an Islamic country or even a local mosque locally.
Ironically this call for an open dialogue comes from the leader of the most conservative country, not only in Islam, but in the world.
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=117115&d=10&m=12&y=2008
ALSO PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW
"""""""“Today, we need a dialogue of the Ummah within itself. It is because sedition, ignorance and fanaticism are threatening the hopes of Muslims. The terrorism that threatens the entire world is attributed to Muslims alone because of the acts of a few extremists who represent none but themselves. Though they put on the guise of Islam, the religion has nothing to do with them. This is what makes the dialogue of the Ummah with itself imperative for achieving a unified stand, elimination of the causes of their disputes, strengthening their moderate middle path, and to stamp out extremism,” King Abdullah told his guests.
The guests included Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Chechen President Ramadan Kadirov and Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Abdullah Al-Turki.
“During the last Haj season, I spoke to you about the significance of interfaith dialogue. The Kingdom organized the Makkah conference for Muslim scholars and thinkers to discuss the idea of dialogue, and was welcomed by them... It was followed by the Madrid conference in which representatives of various religions and cultures endorsed the outcome of the Makkah conference. The high level meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly on the interfaith dialogue, in which prominent international personalities participated, upheld the concept of dialogue,” King Abdullah said.
“The Kingdom with this program aims to uphold the glory of Islam and service to humanity,” the king added. King Abdullah left Mina yesterday evening and later arrived in Jeddah."""""""
MY COMMENTARY
How are we talking about an open dialogue here? Where in an Islamic country is there a freedom of thought and the freedom of press. Whose ideas are we willing to accept? Look at Iraq, look at Palestine it self, and can we say Egypt? Pakistan, and how about Saudi Arabia her self.
An open dialogue implies that anyone can have an opinion without the fear of oppression. As things stand, I can say something here from the safety of my home in the United States, but with the knowledge that my opinion in matters Islamic or political can subject me to sanctions by an Islamic government, or even a fatwa of death by some mullah or imam in an Islamic country or even a local mosque locally.
Ironically this call for an open dialogue comes from the leader of the most conservative country, not only in Islam, but in the world.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VIII
12/10/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VIII
I am not a pessimist, I have stated this before. The truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Today we have experts predicting doom, I have been predicting doom, and explaining its roots in the destruction of society. What made us, or makes us humans in the first place.
We went for the riches, money became the most important thing in out lives. Money it self would not have been so bad, but we decided that we did not need any boundaries, no morals, no ethical, no religious, not even family cohesion, money became the only God.
Go back in this blog, ( there are copies of my blog entries from Salon.com, and articles I submitted to the local papers over the past ten years, to CNN, and to the USA Today).
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we were pursuing happiness and became lost. Divorce is for the rich only, middle class loses all in a divorce, no one wanted to listen. HIV, genital herpes, cervical cancers, nothing would scare us away from a romp. We had money, we were rich, we had three million millionaires did we not.
I have been predicting a depression for ten years, asking people to reduce spending, not to take large risks, large loans. I even went thru hell, with my wife, trying to stay in the same house for the last twenty three years, I could have bought a larger house. The depression was only deferred because of the dot.com spending , and then later with the spending after 9/11 and the two wars we created. Only now it will be longer and deeper, have we not been asking for a longer and deeper for a few years, now we are about to find out what a longer and deeper really means.
I don't wish bad on anyone, but with no morals, no family, and no savings to fall back on , the catastrophe facing our nation , and the people world wide could be biblical in scope. But look at the positive side, the population will be reduced, food consumption decline, no more threat of global warming, we won't be driving cars anymore, reduced consumption will lead to cleaning up of the environment, we won't need more refineries, and power plants. No more deforestation, and threats of off shore drilling or in the ANWAR( have you even heard anyone talking about drilling lately?).
May be I am too optimistic.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VIII
I am not a pessimist, I have stated this before. The truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Today we have experts predicting doom, I have been predicting doom, and explaining its roots in the destruction of society. What made us, or makes us humans in the first place.
We went for the riches, money became the most important thing in out lives. Money it self would not have been so bad, but we decided that we did not need any boundaries, no morals, no ethical, no religious, not even family cohesion, money became the only God.
Go back in this blog, ( there are copies of my blog entries from Salon.com, and articles I submitted to the local papers over the past ten years, to CNN, and to the USA Today).
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, we were pursuing happiness and became lost. Divorce is for the rich only, middle class loses all in a divorce, no one wanted to listen. HIV, genital herpes, cervical cancers, nothing would scare us away from a romp. We had money, we were rich, we had three million millionaires did we not.
I have been predicting a depression for ten years, asking people to reduce spending, not to take large risks, large loans. I even went thru hell, with my wife, trying to stay in the same house for the last twenty three years, I could have bought a larger house. The depression was only deferred because of the dot.com spending , and then later with the spending after 9/11 and the two wars we created. Only now it will be longer and deeper, have we not been asking for a longer and deeper for a few years, now we are about to find out what a longer and deeper really means.
I don't wish bad on anyone, but with no morals, no family, and no savings to fall back on , the catastrophe facing our nation , and the people world wide could be biblical in scope. But look at the positive side, the population will be reduced, food consumption decline, no more threat of global warming, we won't be driving cars anymore, reduced consumption will lead to cleaning up of the environment, we won't need more refineries, and power plants. No more deforestation, and threats of off shore drilling or in the ANWAR( have you even heard anyone talking about drilling lately?).
May be I am too optimistic.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
HAJJ 2008
12/07/2008
HAJJ 2008
Alhamadulillah, now Hajj is comfortable and safe, today as opposed to fourteen hundred years ago , we have five star hotels, air-conditioned tents, snack bars, cell phone towers, "crowd control?" Police and the National Guard to make sure we all do as we are told. Saai in air conditioned walk ways, and jamarat from four levels.
People in AL Haram need to be protected from each other? We buy souvenirs, and other stuff to smuggle back to our home countries, and bribe the customs officials to let us through. It makes the trip worthwhile to get some shopping and sight seeing. What experience, and what sacrifice?
What great lessons learned? ask me!
HAJJ 2008
Alhamadulillah, now Hajj is comfortable and safe, today as opposed to fourteen hundred years ago , we have five star hotels, air-conditioned tents, snack bars, cell phone towers, "crowd control?" Police and the National Guard to make sure we all do as we are told. Saai in air conditioned walk ways, and jamarat from four levels.
People in AL Haram need to be protected from each other? We buy souvenirs, and other stuff to smuggle back to our home countries, and bribe the customs officials to let us through. It makes the trip worthwhile to get some shopping and sight seeing. What experience, and what sacrifice?
What great lessons learned? ask me!
Thursday, December 04, 2008
TERROR IN INDIA, 2
Also see my comment above
This blog here is a proof that owning a computer or having access to the inter net, does not make one smarter or more educated.
Personally, I do not believe that Sonya is a REAL person but some jack ass, commenting here to agitate but then see how many of you (us) have fallen in to her trap. What should have been an enlightened discussion of the problems at hand has easily disintegrated in to a shouting match among the neighbors of any slum like street. Whether India is a second world country or better than any other country has nothing to with the fact that she was attacked, neither it has been proven that the attack was supported by the government or the general public of Pakistan. As I mentioned before, and was subsequently restated by Ms Rice, any conflict between Pakistan and India has a real possibility of turning in to a nuclear conflict. Cooler heads must prevail. The agitators and the ignorant must not be allowed to hijack, no pun intended, the discourse. If you are a proud Pakistani, or a proud Indian, bless you. You have serious problems in your own country. Focus your energies on the problems at hand in your home town, in your own home country. Blogging on here does not make life better in your country or change the facts of your country as you know them.
If your god wants to fix the problems or wants to favor one over the other let him do it on his own, surely he does not need your help, he is a BIG BOY now, you know.
This blog here is a proof that owning a computer or having access to the inter net, does not make one smarter or more educated.
Personally, I do not believe that Sonya is a REAL person but some jack ass, commenting here to agitate but then see how many of you (us) have fallen in to her trap. What should have been an enlightened discussion of the problems at hand has easily disintegrated in to a shouting match among the neighbors of any slum like street. Whether India is a second world country or better than any other country has nothing to with the fact that she was attacked, neither it has been proven that the attack was supported by the government or the general public of Pakistan. As I mentioned before, and was subsequently restated by Ms Rice, any conflict between Pakistan and India has a real possibility of turning in to a nuclear conflict. Cooler heads must prevail. The agitators and the ignorant must not be allowed to hijack, no pun intended, the discourse. If you are a proud Pakistani, or a proud Indian, bless you. You have serious problems in your own country. Focus your energies on the problems at hand in your home town, in your own home country. Blogging on here does not make life better in your country or change the facts of your country as you know them.
If your god wants to fix the problems or wants to favor one over the other let him do it on his own, surely he does not need your help, he is a BIG BOY now, you know.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VII
12/04/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VII
So who do we want to help really? There are many talking about how banks can not be allowed to fail, or the insurance companies or auto companies. So far it is estimated that already the government has spent or taken on debts to the tune of seven trillion dollars, that is 7,000,000,000,000. So where is that money, and where did it go?
The old adage is that the money always goes to the top, have we not heard, time and again, that if some one took all the money and distributed it all equally, soon some Will be richer than the others, and the rich will again be getting richer. Then why are we talking about a tax cut for the rich , but we are against helping the poor. The money spent, borrowed, distributed so far has not shown up in the economy and on the main street is because what the government has done is to buy off the worthless papers from the ultra rich and hedge funds, and they in turn are not loaning it out again to the people with poor or no credit at all.
As the government anticipates another bailout, or a stimulus package, we should realize that that money will also end up with the rich, or overseas, if the marginal tax rates are not also increased, may be even to the seventy and ninety percent range so that the money can be recycled through the economy again and again. If not then the money will evaporate fast and the resulting benefits to the economy will be short lived.
I am not for giving money to the poor, I am not for giving money to idiots for making more idiots, I am for abortions, forced or coerced, I am for paying stupid people money for NOT having children. As long as we give money away we can tie strings to it, higher taxes for the rich and social responsibility for the poor,( it is hopeless to expect the rich to be socially responsible too)
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VII
So who do we want to help really? There are many talking about how banks can not be allowed to fail, or the insurance companies or auto companies. So far it is estimated that already the government has spent or taken on debts to the tune of seven trillion dollars, that is 7,000,000,000,000. So where is that money, and where did it go?
The old adage is that the money always goes to the top, have we not heard, time and again, that if some one took all the money and distributed it all equally, soon some Will be richer than the others, and the rich will again be getting richer. Then why are we talking about a tax cut for the rich , but we are against helping the poor. The money spent, borrowed, distributed so far has not shown up in the economy and on the main street is because what the government has done is to buy off the worthless papers from the ultra rich and hedge funds, and they in turn are not loaning it out again to the people with poor or no credit at all.
As the government anticipates another bailout, or a stimulus package, we should realize that that money will also end up with the rich, or overseas, if the marginal tax rates are not also increased, may be even to the seventy and ninety percent range so that the money can be recycled through the economy again and again. If not then the money will evaporate fast and the resulting benefits to the economy will be short lived.
I am not for giving money to the poor, I am not for giving money to idiots for making more idiots, I am for abortions, forced or coerced, I am for paying stupid people money for NOT having children. As long as we give money away we can tie strings to it, higher taxes for the rich and social responsibility for the poor,( it is hopeless to expect the rich to be socially responsible too)
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VI
12/02/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VI
It is not something I have not discussed before, we are doomed, at least the life and the life style as we know it today. We failed to see how the economic crisis was developing. Even those who saw it coming did not foresee the whole picture, and the consequence and causes there off remained unexplained. I tried bit no one wanted to listen to the bad news.
When I stated that the computer in front of you may be last one you will ever own, it is not hyperbole. It is the fact that you are just not aware off, not yet.
Washington’s efforts at reforming, stabilizing, boosting the economy may work in the short run yet, but they are doomed. The fact remains as the population keeps increasing, fewer and fewer people are needed to perform the actual “work”. That is the problem today with the social security and Medicare already. It is not that we only have two workers to support each retiree, it is that more workers are not needed to perform any gainful “functions” and thus have reasonable income to base the tax on.
You can see the problem, if you can relate one to the other, in the auto industry. As the leaders of the three auto makers are in Washington again, hats in hand, their problem is not that they flew in on private jets, (the whole idea is a created distraction form the real problems) the problem is that they need fewer workers ( read automation and technology) and pay them less now , and to make less in profits, ( TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET), and thus the contributions to support the retiree’s pensions and health care have fallen. It is the same problem in social security, fewer workers, lower wages, and more beneficiaries. At the same time, it would be funny, were it not so ironic that the congress and the senate are accusing the auto makers of mismanagement and poor planning, is it not the kettle calling the pot black!
Their are others on the right, who want to blame the unions for all that is wrong with the American industry, auto or other wise. For one I would like to have a look in the congressional parking grages and see how many are driving small electric cars or Austin Coopers. And two I would ask them as to how much they had predicted the rise of health care costs and how much they had tried to control these or the housing costs or the education inflation. Was not Bush pushing for a social security monies to be invested in stocks? How well did any of us plan for the future, indvidually or as a nation. Of course the auto business is in the dumps, but not all of it on its own. It wonders me to hear those with perfect health benefits provided by some one else to be talking about the health care costs of the auto workers. Do we not live in a society where we want eighty year olds to be treated for cancer at a cost of millions so they can live a few months longer? Do we not want to keep those in permanent vegitative state to "live" for ever on machines? Why not advocater mercy killings. Why not shoot a few wokers a day after their shift is over, we could even have lottery, (may be Neal Boortz will agree). Or we could pay more for workers, even the useless ones, or we could vote to control population growth.
Blame it all on the advances in health care and advances in computers and robotics. What makes you live longer, and even supposedly healthier is what is killing you !
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION VI
It is not something I have not discussed before, we are doomed, at least the life and the life style as we know it today. We failed to see how the economic crisis was developing. Even those who saw it coming did not foresee the whole picture, and the consequence and causes there off remained unexplained. I tried bit no one wanted to listen to the bad news.
When I stated that the computer in front of you may be last one you will ever own, it is not hyperbole. It is the fact that you are just not aware off, not yet.
Washington’s efforts at reforming, stabilizing, boosting the economy may work in the short run yet, but they are doomed. The fact remains as the population keeps increasing, fewer and fewer people are needed to perform the actual “work”. That is the problem today with the social security and Medicare already. It is not that we only have two workers to support each retiree, it is that more workers are not needed to perform any gainful “functions” and thus have reasonable income to base the tax on.
You can see the problem, if you can relate one to the other, in the auto industry. As the leaders of the three auto makers are in Washington again, hats in hand, their problem is not that they flew in on private jets, (the whole idea is a created distraction form the real problems) the problem is that they need fewer workers ( read automation and technology) and pay them less now , and to make less in profits, ( TO COMPETE IN THE GLOBAL MARKET), and thus the contributions to support the retiree’s pensions and health care have fallen. It is the same problem in social security, fewer workers, lower wages, and more beneficiaries. At the same time, it would be funny, were it not so ironic that the congress and the senate are accusing the auto makers of mismanagement and poor planning, is it not the kettle calling the pot black!
Their are others on the right, who want to blame the unions for all that is wrong with the American industry, auto or other wise. For one I would like to have a look in the congressional parking grages and see how many are driving small electric cars or Austin Coopers. And two I would ask them as to how much they had predicted the rise of health care costs and how much they had tried to control these or the housing costs or the education inflation. Was not Bush pushing for a social security monies to be invested in stocks? How well did any of us plan for the future, indvidually or as a nation. Of course the auto business is in the dumps, but not all of it on its own. It wonders me to hear those with perfect health benefits provided by some one else to be talking about the health care costs of the auto workers. Do we not live in a society where we want eighty year olds to be treated for cancer at a cost of millions so they can live a few months longer? Do we not want to keep those in permanent vegitative state to "live" for ever on machines? Why not advocater mercy killings. Why not shoot a few wokers a day after their shift is over, we could even have lottery, (may be Neal Boortz will agree). Or we could pay more for workers, even the useless ones, or we could vote to control population growth.
Blame it all on the advances in health care and advances in computers and robotics. What makes you live longer, and even supposedly healthier is what is killing you !
Sunday, November 30, 2008
TERROR IN INDIA
11/30/2008
TERROR IN INDIA
The problem of terrorism is not going to end, so long as there is real or perceived in justice in the world. Fundamentalist Islamic education, media and indoctrination does not cause terrorism, but it is certainly at the root cause of world wide terror. Before the world can do anything about the Islamic terrorism, it must unite against those who are speaking out against terror to the world, on the face of it, but behind the scenes are the universal sponsors of the fundamentalist and radical ideology of Islam and promoters of the Sharia.
Secondly the unbridled capitalism is also causing hardships for masses, capitalism needs reformed and economic justice for masses must be true around the world, not just for the upper middle classes of the whites.
Problem between India and Pakistan (over Kashmir) is no more solvable than the ever lasting problem of Palestine, between the Arabs and the Jews (and Christians). Even If India were to be able to prove that the attacks were carried out by Pakistani elements, India can not retaliate militarily, without of course leaving herself open to a nuclear retaliation by Pakistan. The United States can only give lip service to problem, sending FBI, the Interpol or anyone else to find out who the culprits might be, big deal! Then What? United States is wanted Musharraf removed, wanted to bring democracy to Pakistan, now we have no one there we can hold responsible. Zardari's pronouncements to the contrary not withstanding, an Indian attack on Pakistan will cause a nuclear conflict, WE ALL KNOW THAT!
It is about time for the US (and the Indian)foreign policy to grow up, to face up to the truth, to the reality, that to support democracy and freedom and justice in Islamic lands, to reduce the threat of terrorism, they must break their ties to Islamic regimes that are promoting fundamentalism and sharia laws, within their borders and without. To do otherwise gives credence to the conspiracy theorists that the US benefits from both the terror and the so called war on terror.
TERROR IN INDIA
The problem of terrorism is not going to end, so long as there is real or perceived in justice in the world. Fundamentalist Islamic education, media and indoctrination does not cause terrorism, but it is certainly at the root cause of world wide terror. Before the world can do anything about the Islamic terrorism, it must unite against those who are speaking out against terror to the world, on the face of it, but behind the scenes are the universal sponsors of the fundamentalist and radical ideology of Islam and promoters of the Sharia.
Secondly the unbridled capitalism is also causing hardships for masses, capitalism needs reformed and economic justice for masses must be true around the world, not just for the upper middle classes of the whites.
Problem between India and Pakistan (over Kashmir) is no more solvable than the ever lasting problem of Palestine, between the Arabs and the Jews (and Christians). Even If India were to be able to prove that the attacks were carried out by Pakistani elements, India can not retaliate militarily, without of course leaving herself open to a nuclear retaliation by Pakistan. The United States can only give lip service to problem, sending FBI, the Interpol or anyone else to find out who the culprits might be, big deal! Then What? United States is wanted Musharraf removed, wanted to bring democracy to Pakistan, now we have no one there we can hold responsible. Zardari's pronouncements to the contrary not withstanding, an Indian attack on Pakistan will cause a nuclear conflict, WE ALL KNOW THAT!
It is about time for the US (and the Indian)foreign policy to grow up, to face up to the truth, to the reality, that to support democracy and freedom and justice in Islamic lands, to reduce the threat of terrorism, they must break their ties to Islamic regimes that are promoting fundamentalism and sharia laws, within their borders and without. To do otherwise gives credence to the conspiracy theorists that the US benefits from both the terror and the so called war on terror.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION V
11/26/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION V
So it may be that you don't give much credence to my misanthropic musings, still all that I say here is not bunk. Human nature has not followed the human technical advances, the society and the individuals are still bound by our primitive instincts. As you see in the current upheavals in the world wide markets, the human greed has ruled the human mind. Is it not ironic that when Moses returned from Mt Sinai he found his people worshiping a golden calf, and three thousand or so years later, the Wall Street has a symbol of the same golden calf , now grown in to a bull.
I have said it again and again that the cause of corruption of Wall Street has been the deficit spending, of course along with lower taxes, day trading, lower taxes on capital gains etc. Now combine that with lobbying, campaign financing, political contributions, political campaigning etc, it is not hard to see how the "government money" corrupts the system it is supposed to protect.
Ancient religions were formed to protect society from common "sins". To save the family, and to keep the social order. Simple boundaries, no lying, cheating, stealing, covetousness and fornication. Today we call the lying cheating and stealing, "investments, business proposals, and financial instruments". And greed and covetousness are business savvy and innovation. With all the money being given away to save the economy will you be surprised if there are no new "innovations"?
Corruption breeds corruption, as more money is thrown at the system, more and more people will try to get as much of it as they can get, and not just the bankers. It will soon trickle down to your local governments as money comes down the pipe to states counties and the cities and towns. Government officials giving contracts to their buddies and relatives, or out right embezzling. The cops and the courts needing money will abuse the citizenry and so on, it is not a prophecy, it happens in every third world country. Human nature has not kept up with the advancing financial markets.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION V
So it may be that you don't give much credence to my misanthropic musings, still all that I say here is not bunk. Human nature has not followed the human technical advances, the society and the individuals are still bound by our primitive instincts. As you see in the current upheavals in the world wide markets, the human greed has ruled the human mind. Is it not ironic that when Moses returned from Mt Sinai he found his people worshiping a golden calf, and three thousand or so years later, the Wall Street has a symbol of the same golden calf , now grown in to a bull.
I have said it again and again that the cause of corruption of Wall Street has been the deficit spending, of course along with lower taxes, day trading, lower taxes on capital gains etc. Now combine that with lobbying, campaign financing, political contributions, political campaigning etc, it is not hard to see how the "government money" corrupts the system it is supposed to protect.
Ancient religions were formed to protect society from common "sins". To save the family, and to keep the social order. Simple boundaries, no lying, cheating, stealing, covetousness and fornication. Today we call the lying cheating and stealing, "investments, business proposals, and financial instruments". And greed and covetousness are business savvy and innovation. With all the money being given away to save the economy will you be surprised if there are no new "innovations"?
Corruption breeds corruption, as more money is thrown at the system, more and more people will try to get as much of it as they can get, and not just the bankers. It will soon trickle down to your local governments as money comes down the pipe to states counties and the cities and towns. Government officials giving contracts to their buddies and relatives, or out right embezzling. The cops and the courts needing money will abuse the citizenry and so on, it is not a prophecy, it happens in every third world country. Human nature has not kept up with the advancing financial markets.
Monday, November 24, 2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IV
11/24/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IV
May be that I am too harsh, but the truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Had it not been so I believe many more would have listen to me and followed my advice, or at least given consideration to my word. But people today, as always, do not wish to here the truth, especially if and when you are warning them of the impending doom.
Here is some good news and some bad news, the problem is that the bad news is really, really awful and depressing, as the bad news is the real truth.
The president elect announced that his fiscal policy will create two and a half million new jobs by the end of 2010. That is all the good news, now for the truth or as we call it the bad news, at the current rate of half a million jobs lost per month we would have lost nine million jobs by the start of 2010, and that on top of a hundred thousand jobs a month that are already not being created currently. Can you say an unemployment rate of forty percent or more?
How do I arrive at the forty percent figure, when at the depth of the great depression the unemployment rate was only twenty five percent they say.
First you must realize that back the economy needed many more people to function. Most work was physical and labor intensive, to day we don't need many workers to perform jobs, in factories and in offices or the fields. Even as the government creates more jobs in whatever manner, it is hard to imagine that this job creation will of itself create more jobs and thus have an exponential effect. Since more and more jobs are lost in services and in sales the government can not recreate these jobs. It is hard to imagine that people who will be placed in these "new jobs" will automatically go out and spend everything like we have been doing for thirty years, or that they will be w willing to have their lawns mowed, or pay someone to do their house cleaning and such. Thus the jobless rate will keep going up and up.
Secondly, during the depression era women were not among the unemployed, now with sixty percent of the women working and their jobs being mainly in services and sales, and the jobs in services and sales declining, women will suffer the most from the declining job numbers.
This may be a good time to search this blog for items on "slavery" "slaves" and "legalizing prostitution"
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IV
May be that I am too harsh, but the truth is a bitter pill to swallow. Had it not been so I believe many more would have listen to me and followed my advice, or at least given consideration to my word. But people today, as always, do not wish to here the truth, especially if and when you are warning them of the impending doom.
Here is some good news and some bad news, the problem is that the bad news is really, really awful and depressing, as the bad news is the real truth.
The president elect announced that his fiscal policy will create two and a half million new jobs by the end of 2010. That is all the good news, now for the truth or as we call it the bad news, at the current rate of half a million jobs lost per month we would have lost nine million jobs by the start of 2010, and that on top of a hundred thousand jobs a month that are already not being created currently. Can you say an unemployment rate of forty percent or more?
How do I arrive at the forty percent figure, when at the depth of the great depression the unemployment rate was only twenty five percent they say.
First you must realize that back the economy needed many more people to function. Most work was physical and labor intensive, to day we don't need many workers to perform jobs, in factories and in offices or the fields. Even as the government creates more jobs in whatever manner, it is hard to imagine that this job creation will of itself create more jobs and thus have an exponential effect. Since more and more jobs are lost in services and in sales the government can not recreate these jobs. It is hard to imagine that people who will be placed in these "new jobs" will automatically go out and spend everything like we have been doing for thirty years, or that they will be w willing to have their lawns mowed, or pay someone to do their house cleaning and such. Thus the jobless rate will keep going up and up.
Secondly, during the depression era women were not among the unemployed, now with sixty percent of the women working and their jobs being mainly in services and sales, and the jobs in services and sales declining, women will suffer the most from the declining job numbers.
This may be a good time to search this blog for items on "slavery" "slaves" and "legalizing prostitution"
Thursday, November 20, 2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION III
11/20/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION III
May be it is too harsh to say that it is just like betting on a man dying as to when he will be dead, but it is at least in the same moral realm of stealing a dead man's wallet.
What I am talking about is the stock market. Like I have said before it is no longer a place to "Invest" in companies and their future, no, since deregulation and Mr. Reagan, it is advertised as such, and has become a place to make a quick buck and to see how you can scam monies from others.
For the past thirty years, the government money, "deficit spending" has been channeled to the rich thru stock market. However you slice it, my theory is the only right. As the government spends money and does not collect taxes, the money flows thru the economy ending up with the richest. Now the scam was as to how to get that money in "your" pockets. Since the money has to be spent somehow, corporations end up getting their hands on it, and with lower taxes, the richest get to keep most of what they make. So how you can get the most, is thru the stock trading, day trading, options, and then margins. As more and more money was needed the leverage.
Stupidity is contagious. Back in June and July when I was complaining that the economy is not designed for a four dollar a gallon gas, many had called me out. At that time I had proposed, among other things, an increase in margin requirements on oil trades, and an increase in the capital gains tax of up to ninety percent on short term trades of investments held for less than twelve months.
No matter what the bail out plans proposed and implemented by the governments, the economy can not improve unless the stock market i s brought under control, we can not allow the vultures to scam the country. The stock market should be brought back to the real function of the "MARKET" to buy and invest in company shares of your choice, not a casino to make a quick buck, if not then the country is doomed.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION III
May be it is too harsh to say that it is just like betting on a man dying as to when he will be dead, but it is at least in the same moral realm of stealing a dead man's wallet.
What I am talking about is the stock market. Like I have said before it is no longer a place to "Invest" in companies and their future, no, since deregulation and Mr. Reagan, it is advertised as such, and has become a place to make a quick buck and to see how you can scam monies from others.
For the past thirty years, the government money, "deficit spending" has been channeled to the rich thru stock market. However you slice it, my theory is the only right. As the government spends money and does not collect taxes, the money flows thru the economy ending up with the richest. Now the scam was as to how to get that money in "your" pockets. Since the money has to be spent somehow, corporations end up getting their hands on it, and with lower taxes, the richest get to keep most of what they make. So how you can get the most, is thru the stock trading, day trading, options, and then margins. As more and more money was needed the leverage.
Stupidity is contagious. Back in June and July when I was complaining that the economy is not designed for a four dollar a gallon gas, many had called me out. At that time I had proposed, among other things, an increase in margin requirements on oil trades, and an increase in the capital gains tax of up to ninety percent on short term trades of investments held for less than twelve months.
No matter what the bail out plans proposed and implemented by the governments, the economy can not improve unless the stock market i s brought under control, we can not allow the vultures to scam the country. The stock market should be brought back to the real function of the "MARKET" to buy and invest in company shares of your choice, not a casino to make a quick buck, if not then the country is doomed.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
DEATH OF CIVILIZATION II
11/19/2008
DEATH OF CIVILIZATION II
I am not a pessimist, I have said this before. The propensity of the human mind to deny the truth is unlimited, also called faith, hope and having a positive out look or some other garbage. And why not, In "1984" the government invents a new language, a "Double Speak", today we have new names and titles permeating the language. Wall street bail out, to put money in banks that don't have any, is being called "Troubled Asset Rescue Plan", how do the assets get in trouble? Do the go out and jump in front of Mack trucks? Become suicidal?
What is a freaking barissta? And hydrating ones self? And was not a "serial monogamy" the name for prostitution? What the hell is a "serial monogamy"?
No wonder we as humanity are on pathway to destruction.
Today is my son's birthday, he is 11, what world is this that I have brought him in to. As the congress discusses the bailout of the auto companies, the auto companies are bailing out on their retirees, with the economic down turn and the companies failing the health and pension plans of millions are in jeopardy, will health care industry failure be the next shoe that drops, because more and more people lose health care insurance? How about the insurance company collapse because people who can not afford to pay mortgages and buy cars can not [pay the premiums or don't need to pay insurance premiums?
Like I said in the article below, " A Cruel Analogy", the whole house of cards collapses, like the Twin Towers, no central support.
How long will or can the government keep putting money down the rat hole.
And then what? Hunger and starvation is already on the rise, here as well as around the globe.
With millions of acres, chicken farms, cattle ranches, processing plants etc owned by large corporations, and the corporation having no incentive to grow , raise food due to lack of buying power of the average citizen, we could see massive starvation , or the taking over of food production by the governments.
DEATH OF CIVILIZATION II
I am not a pessimist, I have said this before. The propensity of the human mind to deny the truth is unlimited, also called faith, hope and having a positive out look or some other garbage. And why not, In "1984" the government invents a new language, a "Double Speak", today we have new names and titles permeating the language. Wall street bail out, to put money in banks that don't have any, is being called "Troubled Asset Rescue Plan", how do the assets get in trouble? Do the go out and jump in front of Mack trucks? Become suicidal?
What is a freaking barissta? And hydrating ones self? And was not a "serial monogamy" the name for prostitution? What the hell is a "serial monogamy"?
No wonder we as humanity are on pathway to destruction.
Today is my son's birthday, he is 11, what world is this that I have brought him in to. As the congress discusses the bailout of the auto companies, the auto companies are bailing out on their retirees, with the economic down turn and the companies failing the health and pension plans of millions are in jeopardy, will health care industry failure be the next shoe that drops, because more and more people lose health care insurance? How about the insurance company collapse because people who can not afford to pay mortgages and buy cars can not [pay the premiums or don't need to pay insurance premiums?
Like I said in the article below, " A Cruel Analogy", the whole house of cards collapses, like the Twin Towers, no central support.
How long will or can the government keep putting money down the rat hole.
And then what? Hunger and starvation is already on the rise, here as well as around the globe.
With millions of acres, chicken farms, cattle ranches, processing plants etc owned by large corporations, and the corporation having no incentive to grow , raise food due to lack of buying power of the average citizen, we could see massive starvation , or the taking over of food production by the governments.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
TO "ON POINT" ON NPR
I am surprised that “On Point” decided to take my comments (in reference to retirement) off their site yesterday. All I was trying to say was that the population is to large for the world to sustain, and to provide for all the ammenities of modern life, given all the complications of the same. The situation with the Nebraska law is in the same vain. Too many people are having kids that they are not ready to care for and can not afford. The corporation, the employer, can not, in this global market, provide a living wage let alone health care for the average worker. Thus at each step the government has to step in, food stamps, medicaid are steps towards socialism. If you listen to the right wing commentaries, they want the worker to pay for his or her own retirement and health care while the wages are lowered, the left wants to let everyone do what ever they want to, blow their money , buy garbage, make babies without having any consequnces. The both policies are doomed, or they will doom us all. Is that too much to say out loud? Can “On Point” handle the truth?
Sunday, November 16, 2008
THE DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION
11/16/2008
THE DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION
I have not been away, not been busy, I did not want to say what I have been thinking, then again I have been saying it for years, have I not?
The G20 summit is over, the elections are over, the government is on the ball, on the case, and soon the problem with the economy will be over too, right?
It a new paradigm they say, a new horizon, a new humanity, right! And who am I but a poet, a dreamer, a philosopher, who has limited touch with reality, yet I dare harken to the masses, ye the end is near.
Ever walk thru the great pyramids? Or the Stonehenge, looked at the pyramids of the South America? Twenty years ago I started to worry, one day someone will be walking through the Manhattan, looking at the ruins of sky scrapers and wondering, what were these people doing, thinking, I did not know it will be in my own lifetime.
Can you understand that the computer that you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own? The car that you drive will be your last car. I know it is really real hard to imagine this, but twenty years ago it was hard to imagine that we will have computers in our homes, and we will have homes bigger we will ever need or that our thirteen year old daughters will be sexually active and know about oral sex and anal sex be going to rainbow parties,and require birth control and "Gardasil". Goodness, isn't progress something!
Yes, progress IS something, and hope is something, and may be Jesus will show up just in time.
Barring a return of Jesus, what are the odds that the "problem" we have can be and will be resolved?
We live in a world where are just too many people, smart people, and dumb people and stupid people, so what are the chances that you, "YOU" are needed to keep the human gene pool alive and thriving. Let me break it to you , you are a nobody, you are nothing, you are not needed, no matter your looks, your degrees, your job status, you are excess garbage. Yeah it sucks, I know!
Over the world, millions of jobs are being lost as we speak,( as you read this). So once again you must disabuse your self of the idea that the "rich" create jobs. If that were true then we should have jobs a plenty, so where are they?
And if tax cuts increase tax revenues then why are countries/ governments broke all over the world.
So what did G20 summit resolve? anything? No, not a damn thing, the circus was only to appease the average person , by making him/her think that there was something being done.
Where are all the rich , creating jobs and passing their money around??? The truth is that the ones who became rich in the recent "economy" are trying to save their own behinds. Which means that they are trying to protect the "money"- it is called capital preservation- they made in their favorite scam of late, be it hedge funds, real estate flipping, commodities, whatever, and they are not going to blow that money if that preservation can be accomplished.
The monies ( although imaginary) that are being committed to resurrect the fallen economy are not enough, since the collapse the real estate values are sinking, stocks, bonds and commodities are all losing value, businesses world wide are going under, the net losses in paper values may be down by somewhere between fifty to a hundred trillion dollars, then what is few trillion of salvage money that is being committed?
As I explained in, " Braking the Banks",
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
the money was being created out of thin air, just for the asking, then that money was being leveraged forty to a hundred times, the newer and newer scams called "financial products" were being created in all corners of the world. Now everyone knows that the fix is in, all they bought and sold was nothing but a wet dream, now everyone knows that everyone else is a crook also, so how can there be any honor among the thieves, thus the reason why the credit markets are frozen.
Can the markets thaw? Do we once again believe that the Chinese or the Saudis will like us to have a higher standard of living than their own people? Should the Europeans finance our way of life while they break down their own social and safety networks. Did the Saudis not lose their ass already in likes of CITI bank? and Disney? And the Japanese in our real estate.
Read the, "A NEW WORLD ORDER 2003"
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-world-order-2003.html
THE DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION
I have not been away, not been busy, I did not want to say what I have been thinking, then again I have been saying it for years, have I not?
The G20 summit is over, the elections are over, the government is on the ball, on the case, and soon the problem with the economy will be over too, right?
It a new paradigm they say, a new horizon, a new humanity, right! And who am I but a poet, a dreamer, a philosopher, who has limited touch with reality, yet I dare harken to the masses, ye the end is near.
Ever walk thru the great pyramids? Or the Stonehenge, looked at the pyramids of the South America? Twenty years ago I started to worry, one day someone will be walking through the Manhattan, looking at the ruins of sky scrapers and wondering, what were these people doing, thinking, I did not know it will be in my own lifetime.
Can you understand that the computer that you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own? The car that you drive will be your last car. I know it is really real hard to imagine this, but twenty years ago it was hard to imagine that we will have computers in our homes, and we will have homes bigger we will ever need or that our thirteen year old daughters will be sexually active and know about oral sex and anal sex be going to rainbow parties,and require birth control and "Gardasil". Goodness, isn't progress something!
Yes, progress IS something, and hope is something, and may be Jesus will show up just in time.
Barring a return of Jesus, what are the odds that the "problem" we have can be and will be resolved?
We live in a world where are just too many people, smart people, and dumb people and stupid people, so what are the chances that you, "YOU" are needed to keep the human gene pool alive and thriving. Let me break it to you , you are a nobody, you are nothing, you are not needed, no matter your looks, your degrees, your job status, you are excess garbage. Yeah it sucks, I know!
Over the world, millions of jobs are being lost as we speak,( as you read this). So once again you must disabuse your self of the idea that the "rich" create jobs. If that were true then we should have jobs a plenty, so where are they?
And if tax cuts increase tax revenues then why are countries/ governments broke all over the world.
So what did G20 summit resolve? anything? No, not a damn thing, the circus was only to appease the average person , by making him/her think that there was something being done.
Where are all the rich , creating jobs and passing their money around??? The truth is that the ones who became rich in the recent "economy" are trying to save their own behinds. Which means that they are trying to protect the "money"- it is called capital preservation- they made in their favorite scam of late, be it hedge funds, real estate flipping, commodities, whatever, and they are not going to blow that money if that preservation can be accomplished.
The monies ( although imaginary) that are being committed to resurrect the fallen economy are not enough, since the collapse the real estate values are sinking, stocks, bonds and commodities are all losing value, businesses world wide are going under, the net losses in paper values may be down by somewhere between fifty to a hundred trillion dollars, then what is few trillion of salvage money that is being committed?
As I explained in, " Braking the Banks",
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html
the money was being created out of thin air, just for the asking, then that money was being leveraged forty to a hundred times, the newer and newer scams called "financial products" were being created in all corners of the world. Now everyone knows that the fix is in, all they bought and sold was nothing but a wet dream, now everyone knows that everyone else is a crook also, so how can there be any honor among the thieves, thus the reason why the credit markets are frozen.
Can the markets thaw? Do we once again believe that the Chinese or the Saudis will like us to have a higher standard of living than their own people? Should the Europeans finance our way of life while they break down their own social and safety networks. Did the Saudis not lose their ass already in likes of CITI bank? and Disney? And the Japanese in our real estate.
Read the, "A NEW WORLD ORDER 2003"
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2006/09/new-world-order-2003.html
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
OBAMA, MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE
So you did not vote for Obama, and I kept my word too, i did not vote for him either. But he will be the next president, mine and yours, and that means a lot.
We elect presidents to represent us, and in that we tell the world who we are through that person, his face becomes the face of the United States, his persona becomes the persona of United States. We also see ourselves through that person and his persona, we feel bad when presidents get sick, or die, even years after leaving the office, we celebrate their triumphs and their failures too become our own personal loss.
Of course, the next president will hear from me, that goes without saying. I am anti authority, and suspicious of any and all claims made by such persons. You can look in this blog about Obama's message of change and read my entry, "We are all Shrecks now", and you can also read my article on too many promises from both camps,titled, "It Can't Happen Here".
MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, just as in using her adaptation of the lipstick on a pig adage, Sarah Palin did not see the irony that she was herself being used as a lipstick on the pig of John McCain campaign, the pig of a GOP, we forget that Obama is not a black American, not an African American as we call them these days, Obama is a son of a foreign student who happened to be black and from the continent of Africa, yes Palin, Africa is not a country. Still his election speaks volumes about the United States, yet we must get past the appearances and look deeper.
What Is is IS, Clinton asked famously, so what does it mean to say i never heard, as in Obama's claim that he never heard Reverend Wright make anti American pronouncements? Did he mean that those sermons never meant anything to him or that he did not pay any attention to them, did not take them to heart? I never heard can mean many things.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The words or MLK were never so true, if Obama was elected on the basis of his character and not on the basis of his color. But what does it say for the average person in the Untied States today where character is rendered meaningless, where Princess Di and Paris Hilton are idolized by millions, where "Sex in the City" and the "Desperate Housewives" define the moral standards. Where greed is not only good but it is God. Where black children and white children are raised up to be thugs and sluts and lazy.
Some may celebrate that we have the first black American as president, another question should be that, WHY? Why did the White Establishment let Obama be elected?
Not only Obama beat Hillary Clinton, she with her resume and credentials and sixteen plus years of experience and organization, why did Hillary lose. And as Cliff May redcorded in his editorial, "John McCain did not win the Republican primary- he did not defeat Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson et al. Rather each of those campaigns imploded or eroded- and McCain was the last man left standing."
So what did happen? Could it possibly be related to the economic mess the country is in. Could it be that the people like Giuliani and Romney and Thompson et al realize that the country was headed for the economic abyss and thought that they did not want to do anything with it? Could it be that the establishment saw that with the coming total collapse of the economy we will have chaos unrest and increase in crime and saw best to let Obama handle it? Could it be that they saw that best way to handle the upcoming problems will be totalitarian and socialist type government?
Is there a message?
We elect presidents to represent us, and in that we tell the world who we are through that person, his face becomes the face of the United States, his persona becomes the persona of United States. We also see ourselves through that person and his persona, we feel bad when presidents get sick, or die, even years after leaving the office, we celebrate their triumphs and their failures too become our own personal loss.
Of course, the next president will hear from me, that goes without saying. I am anti authority, and suspicious of any and all claims made by such persons. You can look in this blog about Obama's message of change and read my entry, "We are all Shrecks now", and you can also read my article on too many promises from both camps,titled, "It Can't Happen Here".
MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE, just as in using her adaptation of the lipstick on a pig adage, Sarah Palin did not see the irony that she was herself being used as a lipstick on the pig of John McCain campaign, the pig of a GOP, we forget that Obama is not a black American, not an African American as we call them these days, Obama is a son of a foreign student who happened to be black and from the continent of Africa, yes Palin, Africa is not a country. Still his election speaks volumes about the United States, yet we must get past the appearances and look deeper.
What Is is IS, Clinton asked famously, so what does it mean to say i never heard, as in Obama's claim that he never heard Reverend Wright make anti American pronouncements? Did he mean that those sermons never meant anything to him or that he did not pay any attention to them, did not take them to heart? I never heard can mean many things.
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The words or MLK were never so true, if Obama was elected on the basis of his character and not on the basis of his color. But what does it say for the average person in the Untied States today where character is rendered meaningless, where Princess Di and Paris Hilton are idolized by millions, where "Sex in the City" and the "Desperate Housewives" define the moral standards. Where greed is not only good but it is God. Where black children and white children are raised up to be thugs and sluts and lazy.
Some may celebrate that we have the first black American as president, another question should be that, WHY? Why did the White Establishment let Obama be elected?
Not only Obama beat Hillary Clinton, she with her resume and credentials and sixteen plus years of experience and organization, why did Hillary lose. And as Cliff May redcorded in his editorial, "John McCain did not win the Republican primary- he did not defeat Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson et al. Rather each of those campaigns imploded or eroded- and McCain was the last man left standing."
So what did happen? Could it possibly be related to the economic mess the country is in. Could it be that the people like Giuliani and Romney and Thompson et al realize that the country was headed for the economic abyss and thought that they did not want to do anything with it? Could it be that the establishment saw that with the coming total collapse of the economy we will have chaos unrest and increase in crime and saw best to let Obama handle it? Could it be that they saw that best way to handle the upcoming problems will be totalitarian and socialist type government?
Is there a message?
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
THANKS MR. BUSH
11/04/2008
THANK BUSH
If Obama is the next president, the credit will go to one man and one man only, that is the current president of the United States, George W. Bush.
There is no other possible method or a reason where by Obama could have won the presidency, but for the two losing wars, an economy on the life support, and pandering to the religious right.
Thus it also follows that everyone who voted for Bush the first time and then again the second time, without regards to the failure of Bush, also deserves credit for the Obama win.
THANK BUSH
If Obama is the next president, the credit will go to one man and one man only, that is the current president of the United States, George W. Bush.
There is no other possible method or a reason where by Obama could have won the presidency, but for the two losing wars, an economy on the life support, and pandering to the religious right.
Thus it also follows that everyone who voted for Bush the first time and then again the second time, without regards to the failure of Bush, also deserves credit for the Obama win.
Monday, November 03, 2008
HOPE
11/03/2008
HOPE
Hope is the expectation of a desirable result in face of odds and the evidence to the contrary.
The voters for Obama and McCain must “believe” that their candidate will make a difference that will be to their own personal benefit, regardless of the current economic situation and the reality of the country being broke already.
No one from the followers of either side wants to believe that they must now make personal sacrifices, not only in financial sense, but also in limits in their so called personal expectations and choices.
For instance the social costs of divorce, teen pregnancy, health care, child raising, crime, justice, gay rights, disappearing morality all have costs that can be translated in to dollars.
Free trade may get us more stuff, but it is also the cause of lower wages, lack of health care provided to workers, lack of full time permanent employment and more.
The excess spending on the military where billions nay trillions of dollars are wasted and stolen and misspent, (yes I know this personally).
The United States today is becoming more and more like a third world country. Is there a Plan?
HOPE
Hope is the expectation of a desirable result in face of odds and the evidence to the contrary.
The voters for Obama and McCain must “believe” that their candidate will make a difference that will be to their own personal benefit, regardless of the current economic situation and the reality of the country being broke already.
No one from the followers of either side wants to believe that they must now make personal sacrifices, not only in financial sense, but also in limits in their so called personal expectations and choices.
For instance the social costs of divorce, teen pregnancy, health care, child raising, crime, justice, gay rights, disappearing morality all have costs that can be translated in to dollars.
Free trade may get us more stuff, but it is also the cause of lower wages, lack of health care provided to workers, lack of full time permanent employment and more.
The excess spending on the military where billions nay trillions of dollars are wasted and stolen and misspent, (yes I know this personally).
The United States today is becoming more and more like a third world country. Is there a Plan?
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