President Lincoln and Today

Annual Message to Congress --
Concluding Remarks

Washington, D.C.
December 1, 1862

"Will not the good people respond to a united, and earnest appeal from us? Can we, can they, by any other means, so certainly, or so speedily, assure these vital objects? We can succeed only by concert. It is not "can any of us imagine better?" but, "can we all do better?" The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."

Socialism

You load sixteen tons and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the GOVERMENT store.

War and Peace

"Si vis pacem, para bellum."
(If you seek peace, prepare for war.)

Robots, Automation, Computers and the Working Humans

The Coming Age Of The BORG

The Ballad of John Henry, Steel Driving Man

John Henry was hammering on the right side,
The big stream drill on the left,
Before that steam drill could beat him down,
He hammered his fool self to death.

   Who among us could not feel a grudging kinship with the Steel Driving Man, you know, fighting the inevitable with spirit even though the outcome was as certain as death and taxes? Besides, who could feel the slightest affinity for that big mechanical steam drill that was taking a man’s livelihood away and all for the sake of the dollar that some faraway good-smelling Dude laid down so he could make even more dollars without breaking one iota of steel driving sweat.
We all may crack an amused smile at the thought of a real live man actually challenging a steam machine to a steel-driving contest with only his muscle, grit and determination to match the power of steam. We smile, of course, because of the foolish nature of the contest. But then again, I wonder what most contemporary people were thinking and feeling at the time when in 1997 they witnessed a more recent contest between a real live man (Garry Kasparov) challenging a thinking contest with only his brain, grit and determination matched up with the power of billions and billions of silicon switches fastened together with the lifeless software of the chess-playing computer, Deep Blue?
     Somehow I think we probably feel a little differently about the thinking contest due to the contemporary and cognitive nature of the contest. But, I don’t know why! The two contests are identical and the outcomes just as inevitable! Perhaps we don’t even think the chess match was a foolish contest because of the notion that the magnificent organic thinking machine, the human brain, is surely the ultimate cognitive device that no mere machine could ever match. The human brain will surely prevail for all times just like John Henry thought his muscles could surely prevail over the mighty mechanical steam drill even though we now concede our magnificent muscles are no match for lifeless machine power.
   Here is a thought to muss up your day when trying to decide what to do about being outsourced by the machines of automation and all because some faraway good-smelling Dudes are still trying to make more money without breaking a contemporary sweat. John Henry and Garry Kasparov are not the only contestants in a continuing struggle between man and machine that started when Gorg rubbed two sticks together to make fire. We all are front and center in the enduring contest and so will all of our progeny. Research shows that we are loosing far more contemporary jobs to automation than jobs that are lost to distant lands where labor is cheaper and more abundant. Indeed, one of the biggest loss of jobs today is due customer outsourcing.
   What that’s you say? What is customer outsourcing?
    Customer outsourcing is transferring a job that was once done by a paid employee to a paying customer instead. Here is just one minor scenario of customer outsourcing. You drive your rattletrap Chevy to the local gas station emporium where you get out of your seat, pop in and quickly remove your Master Card or Visa (a lot of lost jobs of people taking money, counting money, bookkeeping, accounting, depositing, etc.) and wait for the computer screen to instruct you to continue. After being authorized by a great big computer somewhere that is connected by satellites, relays and God only knows what, lift the pump-handle and pump your gas (more lost jobs of gas attendants). Hell, I’m even checking myself out at the local Wally World and Home Depot and buying stuff off of the Internet by clicking a mouse and causing a massive whirling of untold computers that fetch my latest Ronco gadget, package and ship it without a single paid employee in sight.
   All of this is made possible by technology and (oh no Mr. Bill!) Machines. Because this is a continuing process, it is less noticeable in our everyday, put the meat-on-the-table lives. For example, before the industrial revolution, well over 50% of all people in the country was working on farms while today we produce all of our food needs by less than 1% of the population, i.e., million and millions of jobs lost to machines and we rarely think about the farm job losses as we rant about all of our current jobs going to China, India and machines.
  And the non-physical jobs like engineering, accounting, marketing, research are also being outsourced to machines and cheaper labor, so no one is immune to job loss except the rich (that is if you believe making money off of money constitutes a job).
   I think you get the picture and if you get the picture then you know that contemporary job losses will continue on at an ever-accelerating rate and due mostly to automation (machines). What to do? Hell, I don’t know either but I do know that at some distant point in the future the Cyborgs will have all of the jobs and I really don’t know how humans will make a living. That’s right John Henry:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED

FASHION

I am a slave to fashion. My wardrobe adheres to the strict dictates of that Fashion Maven, Monsieur LIFO (Last In First Out).

Urban versus Country

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.

From The Mouths of Babes

The teacher asked my grandson in kindergarten,
"Describe your Grandmother and Grandfather."
Grandson replied,
"Grandma makes cookies, Grandpa fixes things."
Enough said.

Cicero and Trump

From the Treatise on the Laws, by Marcus Cicero (58 BC) could well have been describing today's President Trump, to wit:
"His energy was indeed somewhat rude and rough, without polish or point, but he did what he could to recommend a manly and truthful eloquence."

Old Age

We shall fight old age in the fairways and on the greens, we shall resist failing abilities with a stiff shot of courage, we shall ignore the end of our days by loving our family and friends with vigor, and we shall give a finger to all things stupid and ugly.
I’m just saying.

Draining The Swamp

The 17th Amendment to the Constitution is the germ that has infected our Democratic Republic and created the swamp. The only way the swamp can be drained is to enact the below propose 28th Amendment. By enacting this Amendment, the drain plug can be pulled that will enable the swanp to be effectively drained.

 

AMENDMENT XXVIII

                                                            (Proposed)

Section 1. The seventeenth and twenty-seventh articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed in their entirety.

Section 2. Senators appointed by their respective State Legislature to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the State Legislature that appointed them for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their appointed office. Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Senator from any source other than from the appointing State Legislature shall be cause for immediate removal from office.

Section 3. Representatives elected to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the Congressional District from which they were elected for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their elected office.  Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Representative from any source other than the electing Congressional District shall be cause for immediate removal from office.  Elected Representatives may serve a maximum of three terms.

Reality

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”

― Winston Churchill

Wigs

Its time for the Republican Party to be retired as the Wigs were some time ago and let the Republican professional politicians (RINOs) join the Democrats where they will be welcomed.

Swamp Politics

An election was held, people voted, the Republicans won everything, promised big change, the result being the Democrats and ruling class are still in charge.

American Socialism

The slow decline of American exceptionalism into the abyss of socialism continues unabated since FDR started his Social Security program. Obamacare and the "Me Too" Republican Obamacare lite is just another step towards the abyss.

Obamacare

The plight of today’s Obamacare harkens me back to the day when there were public pay toilets. There was a pitiful refrain after one put their money into the door of the toilet and set down to get one’s money worth. Perhaps a word could be changed in the old refrain to match today’s Obamacare, but the sentiment is still spot on. That old refrain goes like this, “Here I sit all brokenhearted, paid to poop but only farted.”  

Rocks In Trees

Ronald L Clark is pleased to announce that his 5th book has been published and is available world wide in all book stores 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:

http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Products/SKU-001113647/Rocks-in-Trees.aspx 

Election 2016

Perhaps, I'm just saying, Trump was not elected to unify the country. He was instead, elected to do war with the Ruling Class and give the power back to the people. If he can win the war with the Ruling Class then perhaps the country will stand a good chance of unifying once the Ruling Class will no longer be able to divide the people in order to maintain power.

2017

Its great to be alive and enjoying the magnificent show called life. Dear Readers, I hope that the new year will afford you and yours the best show ever.

Founders Wisdom

Look closely at the 2016 Presidential political map below where Red is Republican and Blue is Democratic voters. The basic reason the Electoral College is important is that history has shown that eventually a country's cities accumulate the most population, money, intellectual concentration, and power that eventually overcomes the rest of the country that supports the cities and their population. This condition always results in strife and destruction of the country as a whole. The senate and Electoral College provides balance between the the country as a whole and the urban centers, as the 2016 map clearly shows.

The Time Has Come

AMENDMENT XXVIII

                                                            (Proposed)

Section 1. The seventeenth and twenty-seventh articles of amendment to the Constitution of the United States are hereby repealed in their entirety.
Section 2. Senators appointed by their respective State Legislature to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the State Legislature that appointed them for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their appointed office. Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Senator from any source other than from the appointing State Legislature shall be cause for immediate removal from office.
Section 3. Representatives elected to the Congress shall be compensated exclusively by the Congressional District from which they were elected for all expenses and wages associated with the execution of their elected office.  Acceptance of any compensation or gift whatsoever by the Representative from any source other than the electing Congressional District shall be cause for immediate removal from office.  Elected Representatives may serve a maximum of three terms.

Political Polls

Public Political Polling

It is time to consider passing a law making it a crime to publish a political poll. Political polls have become weaponized in order to wage opinion war upon the public. Professional Politicians, and their operatives, use the weaponized polls to create public peer pressure to advance their political goals, at best, and to create positions based on focus groups rather than principle, at worse. If Politicians want to sample public political opinion, they may do so, but by law, they must keep their findings private.

I'm just saying. 

Negative Vibs

It seems to me that our splendid Country is becoming overwhelmed by people whom can only find negative in every positive thing. They are the ones who give dimension to the notion that "Perfection Is The Enemy Of Good."

In other words, if our negative people of today were to have witnessed Jesus deliver his "Sermon On The Mount",  the only thing they would take away from the experience was that Jesus had dirty feet.

Neo Nazis

How can a leader of an advanced nation like Germany be so dumb? Chancellor Angela Merkel, by virtue of her misguided policy of letting the nation of Islam take over her country, has created an opportunity for the reassurance of the Nazis. As we are now beginning to see, her policy of unlimited Islamic immigration has enabled the Neo Nazis to have as issue that resonates with the whole of the German people.  And only the Nazis can ignore the global PC cabal and do what has to be done to rid Germany of the Islamic menace.  Dear God we don't need another Nazi union to deal with. 

Socialized Government Health Care

I am posting this again because, like I wrote in the posting, Obama & Co. wanted a way to get to Socialized Medicine. Obama just announced that he wants a Single Payer (Socialized Medicine) option to the Obama Care Act.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2013

Poison Pill Obamacare

I believe the decision was made by Obama & Co. that the only way to get to a Government run Universal Healtcare System was to destroy the current healthcare System as a first step. Hence, all of the poison pills in Obamacare (ACA) to do just that. No doubt they will find a way to blame Repubs, but I believe that main target for destruction will be the Insurance Companies. It has already begun. So as you can see, Obamacare was constructed with Political goals, not heathcare goals other than conversion to Single payer. Thats what they told the Country they were doing, and I believe them.

 

The Repubs

The Republican Party weapon of choice to dispatch Donald Trump.

Dems

Ageless Wisdom

A Man marries a Woman with the hope she will never change,
But of course she always changes.
A woman marries a Man with the hope he will change,
But of course he never changes.

From my book:
Flim Flam
http://www.amazon.com/Flim-Flam-Ronald-L-Clark/dp/1598584847/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460135122&sr=1-1&keywords=flim+flam%2C+Ronald+L+Clark

Executive Summary

All of this talk about left leaning and right leaning this or that Supreme Court Justice "interpreting" the US Constitution, misses the point, in my opinion. The US Government is the only Government the world has ever known where the founders fully explained, in writing, the why, how and for what purpose the Constitution is so written. So a Supreme Court Justice needs only to read the Federalist Papers to understand what the words means in the written Constitution. He or She has no need to "interpret" the Constitution as slanting Left or Right. The Constitution has already been fully "interpreted" by the writers and founders in the Federalist Papers.  That is, the written Constitution is only the Executive Summary of the "real" Constitution, which is the Federalist Papers.

Profit Without Ethics, Morals Or Conscience

Business in general, and Corporations, domestic and global in particular, are so driven by Wall Street demand for more and ever more profit that Business would use slave and children labor if they could get by with it. Hey, wait just a moment here. Computers, Automation and Robots are SLAVE LABOR. What was I thinking.

The Coming Age of the Borg, Redux

First there was John Henry matching muscle power with a steam machine. Then we had Garry Kasparov matching wits with IBM's Deep Blue in a thinking contest over a chess board. And now we have Ken Jennings and Brad Ritter matching knowledge with IBM's Watson over the Jeopardy board. We all know what the outcome is going to be. And what this means is we lose more jobs to computers and automation that all of the outsourcing and current job killers combined. The American deep thinkers had better consider what is happening with computers and automation causing a great social change and formulate policies to deal with it or we will become irreverent.

That's right John Henry, Garry Kasparov, Ken Jennings, Brad Ritter, Mr. & Mrs. America and all the ships at sea:

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,

YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED.

The Coming Age Of The BORG

The Ballad of John Henry, Steel Driving Man

John Henry was hammering on the right side,
The big stream drill on the left,
Before that steam drill could beat him down,
He hammered his fool self to death.

   Who among us could not feel a grudging kinship with the Steel Driving Man, you know, fighting the inevitable with spirit even though the outcome was as certain as death and taxes? Besides, who could feel the slightest affinity for that big mechanical steam drill that was taking a man’s livelihood away and all for the sake of the dollar that some faraway good-smelling Dude laid down so he could make even more dollars without breaking one iota of steel driving sweat.
We all may crack an amused smile at the thought of a real live man actually challenging a steam machine to a steel-driving contest with only his muscle, grit and determination to match the power of steam. We smile, of course, because of the foolish nature of the contest. But then again, I wonder what most contemporary people were thinking and feeling at the time when in 1997 they witnessed a more recent contest between a real live man (Garry Kasparov) challenging a thinking contest with only his brain, grit and determination matched up with the power of billions and billions of silicon switches fastened together with the lifeless software of the chess-playing computer, Deep Blue?
     Somehow I think we probably feel a little differently about the thinking contest due to the contemporary and cognitive nature of the contest. But, I don’t know why! The two contests are identical and the outcomes just as inevitable! Perhaps we don’t even think the chess match was a foolish contest because of the notion that the magnificent organic thinking machine, the human brain, is surely the ultimate cognitive device that no mere machine could ever match. The human brain will surely prevail for all times just like John Henry thought his muscles could surely prevail over the mighty mechanical steam drill even though we now concede our magnificent muscles are no match for lifeless machine power.
   Here is a thought to muss up your day when trying to decide what to do about being outsourced by the machines of automation and all because some faraway good-smelling Dudes are still trying to make more money without breaking a contemporary sweat. John Henry and Garry Kasparov are not the only contestants in a continuing struggle between man and machine that started when Gorg rubbed two sticks together to make fire. We all are front and center in the enduring contest and so will all of our progeny. Research shows that we are loosing far more contemporary jobs to automation than jobs that are lost to distant lands where labor is cheaper and more abundant. Indeed, one of the biggest loss of jobs today is due customer outsourcing.
   What that’s you say? What is customer outsourcing?
    Customer outsourcing is transferring a job that was once done by a paid employee to a paying customer instead. Here is just one minor scenario of customer outsourcing. You drive your rattletrap Chevy to the local gas station emporium where you get out of your seat, pop in and quickly remove your Master Card or Visa (a lot of lost jobs of people taking money, counting money, bookkeeping, accounting, depositing, etc.) and wait for the computer screen to instruct you to continue. After being authorized by a great big computer somewhere that is connected by satellites, relays and God only knows what, lift the pump-handle and pump your gas (more lost jobs of gas attendants). Hell, I’m even checking myself out at the local Wally World and Home Depot and buying stuff off of the Internet by clicking a mouse and causing a massive whirling of untold computers that fetch my latest Ronco gadget, package and ship it without a single paid employee in sight.
   All of this is made possible by technology and (oh no Mr. Bill!) Machines. Because this is a continuing process, it is less noticeable in our everyday, put the meat-on-the-table lives. For example, before the industrial revolution, well over 50% of all people in the country was working on farms while today we produce all of our food needs by less than 1% of the population, i.e., million and millions of jobs lost to machines and we rarely think about the farm job losses as we rant about all of our current jobs going to China, India and machines.
  And the non-physical jobs like engineering, accounting, marketing, research are also being outsourced to machines and cheaper labor, so no one is immune to job loss except the rich (that is if you believe making money off of money constitutes a job).
   I think you get the picture and if you get the picture then you know that contemporary job losses will continue on at an ever-accelerating rate and due mostly to automation (machines). What to do? Hell, I don’t know either but I do know that at some distant point in the future the Cyborgs will have all of the jobs and I really don’t know how humans will make a living. That’s right John Henry:
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE,
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED

Wisdom For Our "Educated" Youth

97%

Will someone, anyone, please research just who are the "97% of scientists" that say global warming is being caused by mankind's activity. Please list the names of the 97% so that we can ask them how the scientific method supports the settled scientific fact that humans cause global climate change.

Who Are You?

It is more relevance to say,
You are known by the enemies you keep,
than,
Birds of a feather flock together.

No Mean City

Indianapolis, Indiana, 1909.
The motto for the new 1909 City Hall,
"I am, myself, a citizen of no mean city."

Coming of Age

When one finally begins to come to grips with the realization that there are many more years lagging behind you than are looming in front, it causes a reflective pause. And with reflection comes the further realization that you are becoming less relevant every day to those around you. The phone rings less often, less panic consultations take place, and the 250 yard drive is a distant memory.
 Well Buckie, perhaps the time has come for us to step away from the plate, let the new generation swing the bat, and just get the hell out of the way. But most importantly, now might be the time to just relax and ENJOY THE SHOW.

Socialism and Flim Flam

   One of the most enduring mysteries is how Socialism continues to maintain a viable political position in the modern world. I say that because all of the variants of Socialism that have been practiced throughout history have been an unmitigated disaster for every class of Human on this Planet, save one. And the one class of people who exclusively benefits from the practice of Socialism is the Ruling Class. I say that because surely it is well understood that Socialism is the preferred political vehicle to obtain and practice unlimited Political Power with consent and approval of the people.

   And yet, today's educated, inexperienced, and privilliaged youth are embracing Socialism because of the ubiquitous indoctrination by our institutions of learning, even onto the primary and secondary education, that Socialism is the enlightened way for Human social conduct. Other people who are responding positively to Socialism's siren call, are the well meaning, but naive people, who have obtained a burgeoning altruistic streak enabled by a comfortable life brought about by the enduring success of the American way. They naively believe that their hard earned comfortable life should be paid for by sharing their good fortune, and more importantly, other people's fortune, with all regardless if earned or not.

   And then we have those who embrace Socialism because it's promise that all will be equal by forcing a spreading of earned wealth, property and thought to all, regardless of circumstance. These supporters of Socialism are the most strident of all become they are victims of the ancient practice of Flim Flam. Flim Flam only works because there are always dishonest people willing to believe in the promise by those practicing Flim Flam (Socialist and Opportunists) that you can get something for nothing. In other words, Socialists promise that you do not have to earn your way to prosperity, all you have to do is support your Socialist Government to force people who have earned their prosperity to share that prosperity with you. Opportunists also practice Flim Flam by promising "something for nothing" by using the absurd advertising message that "We cheat the other guy, and pass the savings on to you."

This is, in essence, the same message of the Socialist, to wit: "We cheat the other guy, and pass the savings on to you."

   You think I'm off base here. Well then, just listen to and marvel at the support Bernie Sanders is now getting.  

Affluenza

My wife has determined that I have never suffered from Affluenza.

Reformation

There has been a great deal of rhetoric lately about the need for a reformation of Islam to rid us of the so-called "radical Islam" that is largely responsible for worldwide terror. Not only is Radical Islam responsible for rampant terror, it is also responsible for the new holocaust of Christians unlucky enough to be living in the lands where Radical Islam is in total control. I think this rhetoric about Islamic Reformation has currency because the Reformation of Christianity was so successful, and so it follows that a similar reformation of Islam would produce the same positive result.

Not so, say I.

The Christian reformation was enabled, in large part, by the invention of the printing press. The printing press not only put the unedited Holy Bible in citizen's hands, the start of the Industrial revolution also enabled a new middle class to form and become enlightened. The Holy Bible was not changed by the printing press; it was made available to the masses unchanged. And so, the Biblical message of Jesus riding an ass while waving palm leaves instead of a sword, and preaching a gospel of Love and Peace, was made manifest to all who would read and understand.

The impossibility of a likewise reformation of Islam is so because the Holy Koran is now available to all who would avail themselves, and that Holy Koran would have to be changed to enable a reformation. That is to say, all that is happening in the name of Islam today is clearly authorized by the Holy Koran as it is written today. So it follows that in order to reform Islam, the Holy Koran would be required to change or added to as it stands today. This in itself is not impossible because the Holy Koran is so constructed that whatever is written last will supersede all that was previously written and at odds with that which is written later.

In my opinion, changing the Holy Koran to reform Islam will never happen today, tomorrow or ever. 

Vesting Again and Again, It's Important

Vesting Redux

Please bear with me as I once again post the piece on the insidious use of VESTING as a means to make Government Programs permanent and unstoppable. I have come upon a quote from President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the implementation of Social Security Program that proves the charge that these programs were developed with vesting as a fundelmental and important part of their structure in order to make them unstoppable. President Roosevelt quote, to wit:
"Those taxes (Social Security payroll taxes) were never a problem of economics. They are politics all the way through. We put those payroll taxes (Social Security Taxes) there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no dammed politician can ever scrap my Social Security Program. Those taxes aren't a matter of economics, they're straight politics."
Quote source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/Gulick.html

Why We Can’t Win At The Ballot Box

You say you want to cut Big Government down to size and regain our freedoms by using the ballot box? Good luck with that. It can’t be done and here is the reason why. VESTING.

That’s right fellow citizens, VESTING. What is vesting? Vesting is when you invest your money, time or other good and valuable resources into a program and then expect a return on your investment. Let me give you a real life example of how our elected Government uses Vesting as an insidious device to perpetuate and expand power by creating basically social programs that cannot ever be stopped or curtailed because of vesting.

Let’s take Social Security as an example and here is how it works. You start a safety net program for old age and pass a law that says you must participate in the program by paying taxes to support the program. Viola, you are now part of the program and you can’t get out without losing all of the money you have paid in even if you could. After time passes you realize that you have paid a great deal of money into the system and you then demand that the program be continued in order that you receive your fair share of what you have invested into the system. In short, you have become VESTED regardless if you wanted to be or not, and the program can never, never ever, be terminated because the citizens have become VESTED in the program.

It only gets better. The Government keeps on expanding the program (Social Security) into other areas and forces you to pay more taxes because you can’t or won’t get out of the program due to VESTING. I bet most people don’t realize that Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Aid to Dependant Children, etc. were all enacted under the Social Security Act. Insidious. Now multiply all of the others program that use vesting to perpetuate themselves and you have a situation where the citizens of this country will never allow anyone to stop these programs because of VESTING. For these programs to be fair, they should include an “Op In” clause so that if you want the Government to run your healthcare or retirement, then you must Op In into the program and only you and others who Op In to pay the taxes to support the program. I am now laughing out loud! You should live so long. I’m sorry Brothers and Sisters, you can’t fix our Big Government via the ballot box, it was designed to be unstoppable.

Radical Islam

Radical Nazism

When I constantly hear people "in the Know" keep referring to "Radical Islam" as being the cause for today's global terrorism, I got to thinking. I got to thinking about what would have happened to our war strategy during WWII if we would have considered Hitler and his followers as only the radical branch of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, (NAZI). You know, Hitler, and his followers, was just radical Nazi's and only small part of the overwhelming majority of the German people who are the peaceful, benign, and compassionate Nazis we all know them to be. This then being the case, then it follows that the vast majority of the German people did not support or approve of the radical Nazis in any manner whatsoever and we would not be at war with them. We would only be at war with the radical Nazis.

If this was our thinking at the time, (much like our thinking of today about radical Islam) how then would we have fought the radical Nazi's? Perhaps that could guide us in defeating the radical Islam that causes today's global terrorism.

I'm just thinking.   

America's Intelligentsia Is Leading Us Back To the Future Again

   As we watch Islam promote Jihad in order to subjugate the World's People into a global Caliphate, I am struck by the similarities of America's Intelligentsia response to this Islamic Political Movement of today (Global Caliphate) with that of the 1920's and 1930's US Intelligentsia response to the socialist movements going on in the Soviet Union (USSR) and the fascists in Germany and Italy at the time. Indeed, leading 1920's and 30's American Intelligentsia such as:

Charles Lindbergh, William Randolph Hurst, Joseph Kennedy (JFK's father), John D Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Allen Dulles, and Prescott Bush, were just some of the prominent Americans that gushed over the fascists Francisco Franco, Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler as being the leaders of the new world order that is surely to come. Even the influential Magazine Time, and other leading publications, had Hitler as man of the year in 1938.

American Companies were also on the fascist bandwagon, such as: DuPont, General Motors, Standard Oil, National City Bank, and General Electric. These, and other giant American Companies, were all doing business with the up and coming Fascists in the 1920's and 30's. We all are painfully aware that the American Intelligentsia and Business support for these hideous movements lead us to World War II and the unprecedented loss of innocent life and property.

            So here we are once again bearing witness to a new and improved American Intelligentsia that is embodied by the career body Politic, Mass Media, Entertainment, Art Community, and an Academia that no longer swoon over the Fascists and Dictators of yesteryear, but are now champions and paid up members of the American Progressive movement that now swoon over the prospect of no national borders and the elimination of constrictive national Governments along with their worthless scraps of paper called Constitutions. The very same Progressive Movement that inspired FDR, and other Leaders back in the day, to institute the Socialist Programs that are still with us today, such as, Social Security, Income Tax, Medicare, Medicaid, Obama Care, are the decedents of the same Intelligentsia that were yesterday's enthusiastic supporters of the Socialist movement that produced the Communists in the USSR, and the Fascists of Spain, Italy and Germany.  Yes Sir, these are the same Progressives that today find no fault with the Political movement that uses Islam as a Tactical Vehicle to make us all equal under Sharia Law.

            So it's back to the future for those of us who provide currency to today's Intelligentsia that are still very much hard at work to finally propel us all into the promise land were Utopia beams bright and strong, be it by a vehicle of new and improved Socialist doctrine or by living as one under Sharia Law.

Expediency

Expediency, Expediency,
Hurry me down to calamity.
The budget bill just passed is a excellent example 
of why Expediency should become the 8th sin.
Expediency allows small minds to justify anything,
and small minds were on full display when the passing of the budget bill had Expediency in full command and principal was summarily dispatched into the garbage can.  

Blister Packs

I really have made it my life's mandate not disparage anyone. However, there is one exception to my mandate and that is reserved for the person who invented Blister Packaging. That person should spend eternity in hell using only his hands to remove articles from Blister Packages.

Freedom's Brick Wall

We don't need no education,

We don't need no thought control,

Hey Obama, leave them citizens alone.

We won't eat your meat,

So that we can gorge on your pudding,

Hey Obama, leave them citizens alone.

2015

2015

It's now the year of our Lord, 2015. It sure took 1984 a long time to get here. But here it is with your Government forcing you to accept same sex marriage or feel the full force of Government until you do. Your Government is now in the process of creating a massive database on every American citizen in order to have the means to bring forth the full power of the Federal Government to enforce something called Social Justice. Social Justice being that magic thing that will ensure everyone is equal in every aspect of human life, that is, in terms of Economic, Academic, Social, Racial, and whatever else the idiot savants think is important. Of course, making this magic happen gives your Government the means to exercise the unlimited power they so desperately crave.  Your Government is now doing this and will soon move beyond forcing you to bent to the Government's will, you will be hammered down until, just like in 1984, you will no longer resist and love your Government for making you, and everyone else, equal and subservient. Sort of sounds like the Star Trek version of the BORG Collective, you know, "Resistance is Futile, You Will Be Assimilated."