Hi,
It's only a heartbeat way from the time after World War II (that was the mid 1940s) that home telephones were being demanded and rationed.
TODAY most citizens LINKED TOGETHER BY TECHNOLOGY think of that as THE DARK AGES; a lifetime ago in light of technology's advances and the expectation that things will always be BETTER, more ADVANCED, and more PROTECTIVE with a PHONE IN EVERY POCKET.
Change, we have been indoctrinated,is good!!!!!!!!! It can be. It can be great! Technology has opened this blogger's world. It can also become a forecaster for a future that is clouded by the demands and unswerving belief in PROTECTIONISM.
What exactly is this blogger's definition of PROTECTIONISM??????? It's EXPANDING THE MEANING from just high tariffs or protecting some businesses from foreign competition TO THE CURRENT NOTION OF TOTAL PROTECTIONISM FOR COUNTRY AND CITIZENS.Citing a few examples will help explain this and the economic cost will just be a given.
PROTECTIONISM means the right we feel we have to be protected from anything and everything that might harm us at whatever cost!!!!!!!!!! Silly as that may sound it's the current belief AND THE COST is in PERSONAL FREEDOM AS WELL AS DOLLARS. THE LOSS IS ENORMOUS.
We all know the tale of the AIRPORTS AND AIRPLANES after SEPTEMBER 11 and although even their own security FORCES admit it is inadequate PROTECTION, WE SUBJUGATE OURSELVES TO WHAT AMOUNTS TO STRIP SEARCHING FOR PROTECTIONISM.
LOOK UP AT THE SKY!!!!!! Do you see them?????????No!!!!!!!!NO WONDER BECAUSE THE DRONES FLYING OVER YOUR LAND ARE FAR TOO SMALL. BUT NOT TOO SMALL TO PINPOINT YOUR WHEREABOUTS OR ACTIONS!!!!!!! DRONES are not just part of your present life but a HUGE PART OF YOUR FUTURE and most Americans aren't really aware of what a PERVASIVE EFFECT they will have on their lives!!!!!!!! GO TO THE WEB AND READ UP ON THEM!!!!!!!!! YOU WILL NOT ONLY BE AMAZED but you may get a glimpse of what this blogger is talking about.
DAILY OR WEEKLY, when you approach your computer, you put up with the annoyances of SECURITY. THE PASSWORDS, THE PASSWORDS, THE PASSWORDS. And it's not likely to get better. PROTECTIONISM IS AT WORK to keep you from CYBER THREATS which is the next REALLY BIG PROGRAM. Now the alarm has gone out about cyber warfare and "hactavists" and hunting down a cyber group called Anonymous that embarrased the FBI and Europe with a posting of their joint investigation into hackers and into Wikileaks group which is a whistle blowing site.
NOW WILL THE GOVERNMENT DO THE SENSIBLE THING AND USE THE OTHER TYPES OF SECURE METHODS LIKE A SECURE PHONE??????????OF COURSE NOT!!!!!!!!!! IT WILL GO DIRECTLY TO PROTECTIONISM AND REDUCE CITIZEN USE OF THE WEB with more annoying and SECURITY LADEN RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!
For instance, we heard that the FBI is taking down certain servers that route messages across the internet this Monday to prevent the spread of a DNS redirect worm. This PROTECTIONISM HOPES TO STOP THE WORM FROM REDIRECTING MESSAGES FROM AMERICA TO FRIENDLIES
INTO THE HANDS OF UNFRIENDLIES.
COST TO US????????INTERFERENCE IN THE WEB MEANS THE DOOR IS OPEN TO MORE INTERFERENCE. AFTER ALL, just YOUR OPINION MAY SOMEDAY BE CONSIDERED UNWORTHY BECAUSE IT IS UNFRIENDLY.
What about church and state. Since Government has begun its war against religion and God in particular, there is a current move to make PROTECTIONISM work for the Church. For Pete's sake there are organizations called the "Secular Coalition for America" fighting for secular rights and "Citizens for Religious Freedom and Non-discrimination" to fight out the "Religious Freedom Amendment" in Florida. One side says it's for freedom, one sides says it's not, but both sides are seeking PROTECTIONISM again which means it could become a fight FOR GOOD THAT GOES BAD.
REMEMBER THE MORTGAGE CRISIS??????? The cause of the present dowturn of the economy WORLD-WIDE. Yes, most euro-countries were practicing the SOCIALIST THEORY of housing JUST LIKE IN AMERICA. When BAD FINANCIAL THINKING CAUSED A BUST -- WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE WE LEARNED FROM IT???????????? THAT'S RIGHT -- CREATE MORE PROTECTIONISM!!!!!!!! So we made the BANKS THE FALL GUYS (YES, THEY WERE CULPABLE TO A DEGREE) BUT THE GOVERNMENT PUSHED THEM TO ACCEPT FREDDIE MAE AND FANNIE MAC (remember THOSE PROSTITUTES????? THEY STILL HAVE A WAITING LINE). BANKS ALLOWED GOVERNMENT TO CONTROL THEIR EFFORTS FOR --YOU GUESSED IT--PROTECTIONISM.
So what came out of the debacle? BESIDES HOMELESSNESS, JOBLESSNESS OR GENERAL DECLINE???????? ANY HELP FOR THOSE WEARY WAGE EARNERS??????? YOU GOT IT!!!!!!!!! PROTECTIONISM IN THE FORM OF WHAT THEY CALL BANK LIVING WILLS!!!!!!!Yeah, you heard right. The GOVERNMENT has seen the greater usefulness of PROTECTIONISM and forced banks to sign away their rights DURING another CATASTROPHE that "threatens the broader financial system". It includes how they could be broken up and sold off when in danger of failing. It's called PROTECTIONISM FOLKS!!!! It' supposedly for OUR PROTECTION!!!!!!!
THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A DAMN MINUTE. What has been one of the leading tracts of COMMUNISM FROM THE BEGINNING BESIDES HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE??????????? NATIONALIZING THE BANKS, BOOBY. NATIONALIZING THE BANKS!!!!!!!!!! WHAT DOES THE LIVING WILL PREDICT?????????
Well, now (duh--since this blogger is considered by the enlightened to be unenlightened--it takes a minute) LET'S SEE!!!!!!!!!!
THE SOCIALISTS DIRECTING OUR GOVERNMENT through our own systems HELPED CREATE FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC TO ACQUIRE HOMES FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTED ONE!!!!!!!!! PROTECTIONISM!!!!!!!!! BAD MORTGAGES PRECIPITATED THE MORTGAGE CRISIS - AND OVERLOADED BANKS WITH DEBT THAT CAUSED THEM TO COME CLOSE TO FAILURE!!!!!!!!!!
THE SAME GOVERNMENT THEN SAVED THE BANKS FROM COLLAPSING because the public and our laws were not ready for NATIONALIZING BANKS. BUT THE GOVERNMENT DID NATIONALIZE A HELPLESS AND HAPLESS AUTOMOBILE COMPANY--JUST TO BE SURE THE FOLKS IN THE BANKS REALIZED THEY COULD, AND THE GOVERNMENT CALLED IT PROTECTIONISM.
SO now PROTECTIONISM HAS COME FULL CIRCLE WITH A "LIVING WILL FOR BANKS". NOW when the TIME IS RIGHT, IT WILL BE "DUCK SOUP" NOT REVOLUTION THAT SEES THE BANKS BECOME GOVERNMENT PROPERTY BY NATIONALIZATION!!!!!!!!!!!
PROTECTIONISM IS BASED ON THE "GOODNESS" AND WILLINGNESS OF HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS FOR THE GOOD OF ALL. NOT THE "BADNESS" OF ALL BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT OFTEN COMES OUT THAT WAY!!!!!!!!
AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST WE HAVE... "TA DA"... THE Health Care Bill, the most EXPENSIVE, EXTENSIVE, EXPANSIVE PROTECTIONISM of all !!!!!!!!!!!! A profound example MUCH LIKE THE MORTGAGE DEBACLE OF PROTECTIONISM. Carried to its full extreme and with the cost escalating continually, it is SEEMINGLY ON ITS WAY TO A SIMILAR FATE OF bankruptcy WHICH I AM SURE THE SOCIALISTS PLAN TO BLAME ON DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS AND THE INSURANCE COMPANIES IN A BID TO MAKE THEM GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED but certainly not their precious "intellectual" schemes for "GOOD"!!!!!!!!!!!!
With Europe's financial system tanking under the Euro, the popular Socialist theme is that it was the leadership of the banks, who were at fault, not the Socialist's faulty economic plan.
Wonder why Health care law is having such an easy time??????LOOK TO BIG BUSINESS!!!!!!!! WHY??????? IT IS SEEKING RELIEF FROM THE PROTECTIONISM OF HEALTH CARE COST WITH-----YOU GUESSED IT-------PROTECTIONISM BY A GOVERNMENT health care bill. THEY BELIEVE IN HIRING OUR CITIZENS, THEY SIMPLY DON'T WANT TO CONTINUE TO REDUCE THEIR PROFIT MARGINS with the current government demanded health or labor demands or other PROTECTED measures. LIKE IT OR NOT THAT'S THE REALITY. The countries to which they outsource work don't sponsor much in the way of PROTECTIONISM.
ALL CHOICES ARE A TWO WAY STREET and that's why they're often so contested and difficult to make. IF WE CHOOSE PROTECTIONISM AS A WAY OF LIFE AS WE APPEAR TO BE DOING can TYRANNY LAG FAR BEHIND?????????
PROTECTION REQUIRES "BIG BROTHER" AND "BIG SISTER" TO BE AT OUR BECK AND CALL. THE PRICE HAS TO BE PAID. THE RESPONSIBILITY HAS TO BE TAKEN BY AUTHORITY. PROTECTIONISM CARRIES A PRICE MOSTLY UNRECOGNIZED BY THOSE DEMANDING THAT PROTECTION. Some PROTECTION is always necessary but CARRIED TO EXTREMES AS IN OUR MODERN SOCIETY, IT OVERWHELMS THE GOOD AND LEAVES THE BAD.
So, the next time you have to make a choice AT THE POLLS WHEN VOTING OR in your personal life when choosing alternatives, think hard and long and if you CHOOSE PROTECTIONISM, THE PRICE IS YOURS TO PAY!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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