ROCKS IN TREES

 Ronald L Clark is pleased to announce that his 5th book has been published and is available worldwide in all bookstores and of course from Amazon and Barns & Noble. However, for quick response, and as a favor to the author, you are encouraged to buy directly from the publisher. The link to do so is provided below:

iuniverse.bookstore/Rocks In Trees

URBAN FORTIFICATION OF SOCIALISM

 

Urban Fortification of Socialism

2000 Census Population Density USA Today 2004 Election Red/Blue Map

I invite you to look very closely at the above two maps. They are profound in their similarity. The left map is the official 2000 Census Population Density Map where the red color indicates where the highest population density is located. Of course, the concentration of red also indicates where the great cities are due to the greater population within the respective counties and so clearly indicates where the great urban centers are located. The map on the right is the USA Today 2004 election results, also down to the county level. Red represents Republican votes and in general indicates a more conservative political area. The Blue represents Democratic votes and in general indicates a more liberal political area. Now, try to overlay each map in your mind. I think you will find that the red high-density areas (urban areas) on the population density map closely correspond to the democratic, or politically liberal, areas of the 2004 red/blue map. The political importance of these maps is profound in that it clearly shows that the urbanization of America is providing an irresistible fortification of socialistic tendencies due to liberal or “progressive” thought within the body politic by virtue of the greater population and thus greater political power of the urban areas. Indeed, those who demand that the US Constitution be treated as a “living document” to support progressive or socialist dogma may well have a viable argument due to the phenomena of urbanization. Think about it. The country was mostly rural when the Constitution was ratified, and rural living peoples are very self-sufficient and fearlessly independent. The Constitution, in general, codifies self-sufficiency and independence of the individual as a way to ensure personal liberty and thus prevent tyranny from gaining a foothold in Government. When people congregate into urban areas, dependence upon one another is more important than self-sufficiency, and personal independence must be moderated in order to foster social conditions that will enhance the opportunity for all to live in peace and harmony with one another. In other words, urban living promotes a more socialistic environment by the necessity of interdependence, not independence, of city dwellers. This socialistic force due to urbanization is irresistible much like a trade wind that blows due to environmental factors, i.e., a socialistic wind is blowing due to urbanization factors, and it will continue to blow stronger and stronger unless a way is found to reverse urbanization, and that is not likely. Indeed, the census bureau reports that the 2000 census indicated that 81% of America’s population is now living within urban areas while the remaining 19% of the population is living in the rural areas of the country. But wait, there’s more. Just this week the United Nations announced that the World population is now 50% rural and 50% urban. What does it mean? Every good sailor will tell you that it is folly to try and change the wind because the wind will blow to wherever the wind will blow. Every good sailor will also tell you that you can set your sail to the wind and go to where you want to go regardless of the way the wind blows. Somehow, we must find a way to maintain personal freedom and liberty within a more and more socialistic environment that the urbanization of America is causing. It’s time for the intellectual sailors of this country to set freedom’s sail to the prevailing socialist wind so that personal liberty will still be the destination of our progeny.

ITS HOW ITS DONE

 The rapidly raising Federal Public debt is confounding to most citizens, and alarming to financial experts. However, if you know how big Government demands more and more power in order to continue to grow and control, then the spending contributing to raising public debt makes perfect sense. Remember, Taxes Are Power, and how do you get the people's representatives to cooperate in raising taxes in order to get more power?

  Well, you use the time-tested Government method of creating a problem that only big Government can solve, like the created problem of Global Warming. And how Government creates the financial problem that only bigger Government can solve is to spend, and spend, and spend until the country is facing certain financial ruin. Spending that is aided and abetted by our feckless elected Representatives, until the Congress must raise taxes in order to save the country from financial ruin. 

Mission accomplished, Taxes Are Power, and more taxes granted, and more power obtained. All at the expense of your personal freedoms and liberty as the Government controls more and more of your life and times by gaining more and more POWER through taxation. 

6 JANUARY

 The occurrence of 6 January brings to mind the ancient Sumerian Poet describing a rebellion by the Anunnaki to force their presumptive Lord to attend to their grievances. To wit,

"My Lord, your house is surrounded,

Battle has come right up to your gate."

PROPERTY TAX

 Property tax is a wealth tax. That is, the current value of your house, particularly if you worked your lifetime to pay off your house, is UNREALIZED WEALTH.  Therefor property tax is, indeed, a wealth tax. 

Self-Sustaining Big Government

 Big Government operational paradigm. 

We cheat the other guy, 

and pass the advantage on to you......

MESOPARALIA

 Mesoparalia, or The Land Between the Sea Coasts, is not only the heartland of the USA, but it may also become the remainder of the great American Experiment begat by our esteemed Founders. The Founders wisdom in establishing a Government of the People, by the People, and for the People, requires a foundational requisite in order for the promise of liberty and justice for all to be viable.  That requisite was best summed up by the Frenchman Tocqueville when he opined, "liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith." The Moral-Equivalency paradigm forced upon us all to define our culture and our freedoms by those who do not dwell in Mesoparalia is causing a great schism to occur. That schism, if not repaired, will surely break apart a once great united country into fragmented hostile Balkanized regions. IMHO.