Hi,
This is SILLY season. The festival time before elections when candidates are permitted to spend a mint on ADVERTISING AND PERSONAL APPEARANCES declaring either complete lies or ALTERED TRUTH.
!!!Since this is an economics blog and one of the economic categories is finance, this blogger would like to take you through one facet of this FESTIVAL FOR POWER.
The challenging candidate, Mitt Romney, has taken a lot of heat for having been SUCCESSFUL in a country that prides itself on SUCCESS but that our current government feels is a DIRTY WORD. THIS BLOGGER FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THE OPPOSITE OF SUCCESS IF IT ISN'T FAILURE AND OUR ERSTWHILE SOCIALISTS NEVER EXPAIN THAT. However, be that as it may the current theme is that Romney hasn't PAID HIS fair share or DUES to AMERICA, the country in which he succeeded.
Let's analyze that statement. One of the examples used is that he paid 14% on $20 million dollars AND THAT IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONSTITUTE A FAIR SHARE.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT 20% OF TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS IS ??????????????? THEY COUNT ON YOU NOT TO KNOW OR FIGURE IT OUT.
IT IS 2.8 MILLION IN TAXES. THAT'S RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!! TWO POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS IN TAXES WHICH AMOUNTS TO:
$200,OOO. A MONTH (in round #s)--THAT'S A MONTH $$. TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND A MONTH!!!!
MOST FOLKS WOULD WELCOME $200,000. A YEAR (not a month) AS A HAPPENING SALARY!!!!!!!!! HE'S PAYING THAT amount a MONTH (yearly) TO OUR GOVERNMENT AND THE SOCIALISTS DO NOT CONSIDER THAT A FAIR SHARE !!!!!!!!!! BASED ON WHAT ?????????????
AS AN EXAMPLE (PICK YOUR OWN PROJECT FOR THIS MONEY)an experienced public school teacher in America makes approximately $56,000.(+or-) a year to TEACH A MULTITUDE OF KIDS. ROMNEY'S TAX PAYMENT WOULD PAY FOR APPROXIMATELY FIFTY (5O) TEACHER'S YEARLY SALARY. IN EFFECT HE'S TAKEN CARE OF FIFTY OF OUR CITIZENS AND PRESUMABLY THEIR FAMILIES. How many families did our tax payments individually support ?????????
SURE IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF THOSE SCHOOL TEACHERS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE $200,000. A MONTH OR 2.8 MILLION (ROMNEY'S COST OF TAXES) A YEAR. They deserve it BUT THAT IS NOT THE WAY ANY FINANCIAL WORLD CAN SURVIVE!!!!!!!!!!! PERHAPS WHAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IS A REEVALUATION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF JOB SKILLS AND SEE TEACHING ON A HIGHER SALARY PLANE BUT THAT'S A TOPIC APART.
WHO THOUGHT UP THIS "FAIR SHARE" THING IN THE FIRST PLACE????????? And how do they plan to figure OUT what YOU OWE. If 2.8 million is too little for Romney to pay and help 50 teachers BE PAID their ANNUAL SALARY, just WHAT IS CONSIDERED ENOUGH?????????? FOR YOU ???????? ARE YOU LOOKING DOWN THE ROAD AT TAXES THAT AMOUNT TO MORE THAN YOUR CURRENT BILLS ??????????????
REMEMBER THIS IS THE SAME group THAT SET UP THE 'SUBPRIME MORTGAGE' DEBACLE which BROUGHT OUR COUNTRY TO ITS KNEES IN 2007-8 AND ONLY A TARP BAILOUT KEPT A
"1939 DEPRESSION" OR WORSE FROM HAPPENING according to accounts. That same TARP needs to be gotten rid of now that the primary emergency is past. Another new topic.
THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE BUSINESS HAPPENED THROUGH BILL CLINTON--WHO BY THE WAY IS REALLY A 'TEFLON' EX-PRESIDENT and escaped most of the blame for that LAPSE OF JUDGEMENT. We were duly instructed BEFORE HE WAS ELECTED that Clinton was intelligent and a Rhodes Scholar (MORE ELECTION RHETORIC)--they didn't tell us he flunked finances.
This blogger is attempting to point out just how much GARBAGE WE ARE FED DURING THE SILLY SEASON OF CAMPAIGNING. And that most of the politicians bank on the fact that we don't have time to CHECK THE FACTS OR STATISTICS that they SPOON FEED US!!!!!!!!!!
Obama and his wife are fond of implying that they know what a FAIR SHARE is and HOW WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER (at 2.8 million dollars EVIDENTLY SOME OF US ARE IN THIS MORE THAN OTHERS). THESE ARE WHAT THIS BLOGGER CALLS MEALY MOUTHING PHRASES used TO APPEAL TO THE "FAIR" IN EVERYONE.
IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT A MAJORITY OF FOLKS WANT TO SHOULDER THEIR 'FAIR' SHARE IN AMERICA AND APPEALS SUCH as THIS ARE AN 'EMOTIONAL' ATTEMPT TO SLANDER OTHERS AND CON THE REST. Some of our GREATEST CON ARTISTS are not in PRISON--they run for POLITICAL OFFICES. The old Kentuky Colonel character cartoons HARUMPING at election time and promising to put A SUNDAY CHICKEN IN EVERY POT (oh yes, FDR did that too!) was not far off the mark.
THIS BLOGGER HOPES WHEN YOU HEAR THE POLITICAL RHETORIC YOU WILL STOP AND CONSIDER THAT ADVICE FROM A FEW BLOGS BACK. CUT THE "TRUTH?" IN HALF, CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN AND MAYBE YOU CAN SWALLOW THE REST. It's not just STATISTICS THAT GET SKEWED DURING THE SILLY SEASON OF CAMPAIGNING. And remember if Romney were to send YOU $200,000. per month to help out, YOU'D THANK HIM PROFUSELY!!!!!!!!!! $200,000 A MONTH NOT A FAIR SHARE??? COME ON..........GET REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!
FAIR SHARE??????????
VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT'S A FAIR SHAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheers, Connie
8/17/12
YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID POST 120
Hi,
This blogger received a post today entitled "You Can't Fix Stupid" that showed many variations of private Spanish citizens running close to tied bulls. Tied, one supposes, so that no one is killed only maimed. It pointed up our economic problems in a fine, pain filled situation with BULLS AND HUMANS.
BULL FIGHTING IS AN INTERESTING SPORT AND this blogger ATTENDED THE BULLFIGHTS IN BARCELONA WHILE IN SPAIN. At one point the audience became agitated during a fight and began to cry 'BAD BULL', 'BAD BULL" FOR SOMETHING???? MY INEXPERIENCED EYES COULD NOT DETECT but THE CHANT BECAME OMINOUS, and chair cusions (WHICH WERE MADE OF STONE, BY THE WAY) BEGAN TO FLY "OVER" OUR HEADS-thank goodness. The officials sensing the rage of the crowd ordered the bull removed and no heads were broken or bulls charged!!!!!!!! IT WAS AN ILLUMINATING EXPERIENCE AND THE HUMOR OF THE CROWD DEMANDING FAIRNESS FOR THE BULL FIGHTER EXTREMELY INTERESTING BECAUSE HE DOES RISK DEATH OR MAIMING IN THE RING IF HE MISSES A BEAT.
Bull fighting surprisingly enters a lot of our jargon in this country. You know we use it when POLITICIANS ARE BULL------- voters; one can be told to cut the bull;that's a lot of cockamanie or bullmanie; the market is bullish; a subject is judged to be full of bull and so forth. BULLS ARE SELF IMPORTANT, HUGE, AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS, FULL OF TESTOSTERONE.
THEREFORE, THE EGO OF MAN AND his MACHISMO (MOSTLY MEN SINCE I DIDN'T SEE ANY FOOL WOMEN RUNING THE BULLS BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE AREN'T SOME!!!!) AND THE WOMEN AND THEIR MARASCHINO (for the cherry) have an ALMOST CHILD LIKE NEED TO TEASE THE BULLS AND GET GORED. AND THEY DO GET GORED, SOME VERY SERIOUSLY. IF THAT SEEMS STUPID TO YOU THEN YOU AGREE with the gist of the email that this is the way the Spanish take care of the STUPIDITY in their culture.
SUPPOSE INSTEAD OF DEBATES, we decided to test our POLITICIANS IN THE BULL RING????????? THE ROMANS USED A LION IN THE RING WITH THEIR GLADIATORS. WOULD THIS BE SO FAR REMOVED?
DO YOU THINK THEY COULD GET RID OF ALL THAT EGO AND MACHISMO OR MARASCHINO as the case may be so they WOULD NOT GET IN THE ECONOMIC RING WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BILLS WHICH ARE CURRENTLY DEFEATING THEM??????????? and us!!!!!!!!!! IT MIGHT NOT CURE STUPID BUT IT COULD SURE PUT A HURT ON IT!!!!!!!!!!
Let's look at their solutions to health care. Told over and over by experts that Medicare as it stands will be out of money in a few years WHAT DID THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT DO??????????? PASSED A BILL THAT RAISED THE ANTE TO A COST OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BRILLIANT????--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE--POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED!!!!!!!
NOW HOW ABOUT MORTGAGES-CAN'T PAY YOUR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS?????????SOLUTION: GET ANOTHER MORTGAGE THAT YOU CAN'T PAY EITHER AT HIGHER INTEREST!!!!!!!BRILLIANT???--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE (FANNIE MAE-FREDDIE MAC)-POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED!!!!!!
EDUCATION FOR YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY CAN GET GOOD JOBS????????????? WHY NOT LEND THEM LOTS OF MONEY AT ACCELERATING INTEREST SO THEY OWE MORE THAN THEY CAN MAKE!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE -- POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED.
IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS????? DECIDE THAT PRESENT CITIZENS PAY ROOM, BOARD, AND PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR JOBS DONE CHEAPLY SO BUSINESS BENEFITS!!!!!!!!!!BRILLIANT??????--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE ---POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED.
Now with that kind of record JUST AGAINST CONGRESSIONAL BILLS, I fear if we sent the politicians up against the BULLS, IT WOULD BE MURDER AND MAYHEM FOR THE POLITICIANS AND THE BULLS WOULD WALK FREE ONCE AGAIN. HOWEVER THE PUBLIC MIGHT BE UNGORED!!!!!!
HOW DO WE STOP THE EGO AND MACHISMO AND MARASCHINO THAT RUNS BEFORE THE BILLS?????????? VOTE AND STOP LETTING YOURSELF BE GORED BY BAD JUDGEMENT, BAD POLICY AND BAD EGO. YOU CAN'T CHANGE STUPIDITY BUT YOU CAN VOTE IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
This blogger received a post today entitled "You Can't Fix Stupid" that showed many variations of private Spanish citizens running close to tied bulls. Tied, one supposes, so that no one is killed only maimed. It pointed up our economic problems in a fine, pain filled situation with BULLS AND HUMANS.
BULL FIGHTING IS AN INTERESTING SPORT AND this blogger ATTENDED THE BULLFIGHTS IN BARCELONA WHILE IN SPAIN. At one point the audience became agitated during a fight and began to cry 'BAD BULL', 'BAD BULL" FOR SOMETHING???? MY INEXPERIENCED EYES COULD NOT DETECT but THE CHANT BECAME OMINOUS, and chair cusions (WHICH WERE MADE OF STONE, BY THE WAY) BEGAN TO FLY "OVER" OUR HEADS-thank goodness. The officials sensing the rage of the crowd ordered the bull removed and no heads were broken or bulls charged!!!!!!!! IT WAS AN ILLUMINATING EXPERIENCE AND THE HUMOR OF THE CROWD DEMANDING FAIRNESS FOR THE BULL FIGHTER EXTREMELY INTERESTING BECAUSE HE DOES RISK DEATH OR MAIMING IN THE RING IF HE MISSES A BEAT.
Bull fighting surprisingly enters a lot of our jargon in this country. You know we use it when POLITICIANS ARE BULL------- voters; one can be told to cut the bull;that's a lot of cockamanie or bullmanie; the market is bullish; a subject is judged to be full of bull and so forth. BULLS ARE SELF IMPORTANT, HUGE, AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS, FULL OF TESTOSTERONE.
THEREFORE, THE EGO OF MAN AND his MACHISMO (MOSTLY MEN SINCE I DIDN'T SEE ANY FOOL WOMEN RUNING THE BULLS BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE AREN'T SOME!!!!) AND THE WOMEN AND THEIR MARASCHINO (for the cherry) have an ALMOST CHILD LIKE NEED TO TEASE THE BULLS AND GET GORED. AND THEY DO GET GORED, SOME VERY SERIOUSLY. IF THAT SEEMS STUPID TO YOU THEN YOU AGREE with the gist of the email that this is the way the Spanish take care of the STUPIDITY in their culture.
SUPPOSE INSTEAD OF DEBATES, we decided to test our POLITICIANS IN THE BULL RING????????? THE ROMANS USED A LION IN THE RING WITH THEIR GLADIATORS. WOULD THIS BE SO FAR REMOVED?
DO YOU THINK THEY COULD GET RID OF ALL THAT EGO AND MACHISMO OR MARASCHINO as the case may be so they WOULD NOT GET IN THE ECONOMIC RING WITH THE CONGRESSIONAL BILLS WHICH ARE CURRENTLY DEFEATING THEM??????????? and us!!!!!!!!!! IT MIGHT NOT CURE STUPID BUT IT COULD SURE PUT A HURT ON IT!!!!!!!!!!
Let's look at their solutions to health care. Told over and over by experts that Medicare as it stands will be out of money in a few years WHAT DID THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT DO??????????? PASSED A BILL THAT RAISED THE ANTE TO A COST OF TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. BRILLIANT????--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE--POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED!!!!!!!
NOW HOW ABOUT MORTGAGES-CAN'T PAY YOUR MORTGAGE PAYMENTS?????????SOLUTION: GET ANOTHER MORTGAGE THAT YOU CAN'T PAY EITHER AT HIGHER INTEREST!!!!!!!BRILLIANT???--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE (FANNIE MAE-FREDDIE MAC)-POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED!!!!!!
EDUCATION FOR YOUR CHILDREN SO THEY CAN GET GOOD JOBS????????????? WHY NOT LEND THEM LOTS OF MONEY AT ACCELERATING INTEREST SO THEY OWE MORE THAN THEY CAN MAKE!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE -- POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED.
IMMIGRATION PROBLEMS????? DECIDE THAT PRESENT CITIZENS PAY ROOM, BOARD, AND PROVIDE EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FOR JOBS DONE CHEAPLY SO BUSINESS BENEFITS!!!!!!!!!!BRILLIANT??????--NOT EXACTLY. SCORE: BILL ONE ---POLITICIANS AND PUBLIC GORED.
Now with that kind of record JUST AGAINST CONGRESSIONAL BILLS, I fear if we sent the politicians up against the BULLS, IT WOULD BE MURDER AND MAYHEM FOR THE POLITICIANS AND THE BULLS WOULD WALK FREE ONCE AGAIN. HOWEVER THE PUBLIC MIGHT BE UNGORED!!!!!!
HOW DO WE STOP THE EGO AND MACHISMO AND MARASCHINO THAT RUNS BEFORE THE BILLS?????????? VOTE AND STOP LETTING YOURSELF BE GORED BY BAD JUDGEMENT, BAD POLICY AND BAD EGO. YOU CAN'T CHANGE STUPIDITY BUT YOU CAN VOTE IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
8/10/12
WHAT'S THE SCORE? CITIZENS VS. GOVERNMENT?
Hi,
With the primaries coming up, this blogger hopes your ballot is filled out and ready to take to the polls. The primaries should be considered a most important issue for party members because the INCOMPETENTS THAT WE SEND TO WASHINGTON START IN THOSE PRIMARIES.
Too little attention is often paid to the committee men and women who are responsible for much of the party actions and most voters have NO IDEA who those STRANGERS on the ballot are or what they represent. UNFORTUNATELY THEY REPRESENT YOU!!!!!! and your selection of CANDIDATES. YOU GET THE FINISHED LIST ON THE BALLOT BUT HOW MANY GOOD CANDIDATES IN WHOM YOU WOULD FEEL INVESTED are not on that ballot?
This blogger realizes that few of us have the time to be part of the planning,construction and organization of political parties but we should be demanding an accounting from them. The Democratic, Republican and other parties should be presenting voters with at least reports of their activities and THE REASON FOR selections of candidates. One would think they would want to send out bulletins, post on the web, or submit media articles keeping the public or at least party members informed. I'm sure membership from registered voters would climb if they CAME OUT FROM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS before election pressure!!!!!!!!!!
THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY CLOSED DOORS IN OUR PRESENT SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. Not all of them are closed because of sinister intentions. Many such as political parties become represented by political clubs whose influence is far greater than the pubic imagines but do not have to report their activities since they are private. Now, I'm not proposing new laws (WE'VE GOT TOO MANY OF THOSE ALREADY!!) but this blogger is suggesting public involvement in demanding MORE INPUT INTO HOW THINGS GET DONE!!!!!!!
WE SEND CANDIDATES TO WASHINGTON TO PICK OUR POCKETS AT TAX TIME with little or no knowledge of what kind of PICKPOCKETS THEY ARE. At least in Europe they train their PICKPOCKETS IF NOT THEIR CANDIDATES!!!!! This beyond all shadow of a doubt is the problem throughout the monster that has become GOVERNMENT in AMERICA. NO ONE INCLUDING GOVERNMENT MEMBERS HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE DEVIL IS GOING ON? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? ARE THEY REALLY QUALIFIED TO DO THAT? (WHATEVER "THAT" IS?-IF THEY CAN FIND THAT OUT). DOES THE logic sound UNREASONABLE? - WELL, SO IS THE SITUATION.
THIS BLOGGER IS WILLING TO ASSERT THAT MOST VOTERS AND some POLITICIANS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY IN THE POLITICAL WORLD because it is A WORLD APART FROM ITS CONSTITUENTS. THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BET YOU COULD recite MORE about the NFL COACHES, PLAYERS, AND PROPOSED GAMES THEN WHAT CONGRESSMAN IS PLAYING THIS WEEK and what BILLS ARE IN THE AIR, OR WHAT THE COACHES OR WHIPS (the Chairs in the House and Senate) have on their PLAY LIST!!!!!!!!!! Most folks could offer CHAPTER AND VERSE ABOUT WHO COMPETED IN THE OLYMPICS?, DID THEY WIN OR LOSE?, WHAT'S SCHEDULED NEXT AND WHO THE MAIN WINNING TEAMS AND COACHES REPRESENT?
FUN STUFF, SURE, BUT WHY CAN'T WE PUT POLITICS INTO THAT CATEGORY???????? The stakes are certainly higher for each of us. MAYBE THAT'S THE PROBLEM. WE SEE THE STAKES AS TOO HIGH, TOO SERIOUS, TOO DAMAGING IF A MISTAKE IS MADE AND THAT SUCKS THE FUN OUT of the COMPETITION!!!!!!!
HEADS UP FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! IT JUST A'INT GOING TOO WELL THE WAY WE'RE HANDLING IT!!!!! SO, TIME FOR A SHIFT IN TACTICS. Maybe the folks in WASHINGTON WOULDN'T FEEL THEY COULD PASS A HEALTH CARE BILL WITHOUT READING IT if their ELECTORATE WAS AT LEAST MARGINALLY INTERESTED IN THEIR ACTIONS!!!!!!!!! OUR SUPREME DISINTEREST IN ALL THINGS CONGRESSIONAL IS LIKE SENDING CANDIDATES TO WASHINGTON AND SAYING "YOU DO IT" AND WE'LL RUBBER STAMP IT!!!!!!!!!!!
YES, THIS BLOGGER IS AWARE OF THE INTERNET FORWARDS BY MANY AND THEY GET TERRIFIC RESULTS WHEN CONTINUALLY FOWARDED!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS BLOGGER IS ALSO AWARE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE TEA PARTY AND APPLAUDS THEM. THEY HOPEFULLY WILL KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU????????????
Did you stop to consider that the TEA PARTY action came AFTER THE BARN DOOR WAS LEFT OPEN AND THE HEALTH CARE BAIL OUT!!!!!!!!!! PROTESTS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!!!! And did you stop to consider that the LACK OF INTEREST IN WHAT WAS HAPPENING POLITICALLY pointed up the fact that TEA PARTY MEMBERS had been roused out of citizen stupor so well THAT THE SOCIALISTS CALLED THEM VILLANS FOR STANDING UP, GOING OUT, AND BEING HEARD!!!!!!!!! The CSPers made it sound like a crime for citizens to suddenly become interested in the process that makes their lives what they are or could become. SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That alone should point up the lack of interest too often conveyed by American voters, who begin with a lack of knowledge at the primary and follow through with a lack of knowledge about the many bills passed by the UNKNOWNS they are NOT WATCHING IN CONGRESS, THEIR SENATE, OR THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. About the only interest taken is condemning whomever is President FOR DOING A BAD JOB OF WHATEVER. THAT'S PROBABLY TOO TRUE SINCE WHOMEVER IS PRESIDENT MOST LIKELY KNEW MORE ABOUT BASEBALL OR BASKETBALL THAN THE GOVERNMENT BEFORE taking OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This blogger believes the internet could be the SALVATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS IN KEEPING THE PUBLIC UP TO THE MINUTE!!!!!!!! AS WELL AS GETTING TO KNOW THE PROCESS, PLUS THE CANDIDATES (AT LEAST THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PLANS) and SHED SOME LIGHT ON ALL THE BILLS AND ISSUES UP FOR GRABS. FLORIDA LEARNED LONG AGO THAT "PORK CHOP POLITICS" (THE GOOD OLD BOY, KEEP IT A SECRET SYSTEM) WERE CAUSED BY THAT LACK OF OPENNESS TO VOTERS AND THE CLOSED DOOR ALLIANCES HELD CORRUPTION AND GREED AS BY-PRODUCTS.
PERHAPS IF YOU'RE SITTING AT THE COMPUTER TODAY WONDERING HOW YOU CAN INCREASE YOUR INPUT INTO THE REAL WORLD, let this blogger suggest some possible approaches. Start an ONLINE CLUB THAT SHARES POLITICAL INFORMATION ON A LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL. OR start AN ONLINE group that shares researching THE BILLS AND LAWS THAT COME OUT LOCALLY AND IN WASHINGTON. OR START AN ONLINE CLUB that shares looking into the benefits afforded certain politicians, their districts, and maybe their pocketbooks from their actions on a LOCAL OR NATIONAL LEVEL.
I COULD OFFER DOZENS MORE IDEAS BUT THAT'S A GOOD START TO RAISING YOUR POLITICAL INTEREST TO THE LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE OF FOOTBALL,BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, THE OLYMPICS AND "AMERICA HAS TALENT".
MAKE POLITICS YOUR TALENT AND SCORE THE GOOD LIFE!!!!!!!!!!It SHOULD SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THOSE WHO REPRESENT US IN OFFICE!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
With the primaries coming up, this blogger hopes your ballot is filled out and ready to take to the polls. The primaries should be considered a most important issue for party members because the INCOMPETENTS THAT WE SEND TO WASHINGTON START IN THOSE PRIMARIES.
Too little attention is often paid to the committee men and women who are responsible for much of the party actions and most voters have NO IDEA who those STRANGERS on the ballot are or what they represent. UNFORTUNATELY THEY REPRESENT YOU!!!!!! and your selection of CANDIDATES. YOU GET THE FINISHED LIST ON THE BALLOT BUT HOW MANY GOOD CANDIDATES IN WHOM YOU WOULD FEEL INVESTED are not on that ballot?
This blogger realizes that few of us have the time to be part of the planning,construction and organization of political parties but we should be demanding an accounting from them. The Democratic, Republican and other parties should be presenting voters with at least reports of their activities and THE REASON FOR selections of candidates. One would think they would want to send out bulletins, post on the web, or submit media articles keeping the public or at least party members informed. I'm sure membership from registered voters would climb if they CAME OUT FROM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS before election pressure!!!!!!!!!!
THERE ARE JUST TOO MANY CLOSED DOORS IN OUR PRESENT SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. Not all of them are closed because of sinister intentions. Many such as political parties become represented by political clubs whose influence is far greater than the pubic imagines but do not have to report their activities since they are private. Now, I'm not proposing new laws (WE'VE GOT TOO MANY OF THOSE ALREADY!!) but this blogger is suggesting public involvement in demanding MORE INPUT INTO HOW THINGS GET DONE!!!!!!!
WE SEND CANDIDATES TO WASHINGTON TO PICK OUR POCKETS AT TAX TIME with little or no knowledge of what kind of PICKPOCKETS THEY ARE. At least in Europe they train their PICKPOCKETS IF NOT THEIR CANDIDATES!!!!! This beyond all shadow of a doubt is the problem throughout the monster that has become GOVERNMENT in AMERICA. NO ONE INCLUDING GOVERNMENT MEMBERS HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE DEVIL IS GOING ON? WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? ARE THEY REALLY QUALIFIED TO DO THAT? (WHATEVER "THAT" IS?-IF THEY CAN FIND THAT OUT). DOES THE logic sound UNREASONABLE? - WELL, SO IS THE SITUATION.
THIS BLOGGER IS WILLING TO ASSERT THAT MOST VOTERS AND some POLITICIANS HAVE NO IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY IN THE POLITICAL WORLD because it is A WORLD APART FROM ITS CONSTITUENTS. THAT'S NOT GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BET YOU COULD recite MORE about the NFL COACHES, PLAYERS, AND PROPOSED GAMES THEN WHAT CONGRESSMAN IS PLAYING THIS WEEK and what BILLS ARE IN THE AIR, OR WHAT THE COACHES OR WHIPS (the Chairs in the House and Senate) have on their PLAY LIST!!!!!!!!!! Most folks could offer CHAPTER AND VERSE ABOUT WHO COMPETED IN THE OLYMPICS?, DID THEY WIN OR LOSE?, WHAT'S SCHEDULED NEXT AND WHO THE MAIN WINNING TEAMS AND COACHES REPRESENT?
FUN STUFF, SURE, BUT WHY CAN'T WE PUT POLITICS INTO THAT CATEGORY???????? The stakes are certainly higher for each of us. MAYBE THAT'S THE PROBLEM. WE SEE THE STAKES AS TOO HIGH, TOO SERIOUS, TOO DAMAGING IF A MISTAKE IS MADE AND THAT SUCKS THE FUN OUT of the COMPETITION!!!!!!!
HEADS UP FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!! IT JUST A'INT GOING TOO WELL THE WAY WE'RE HANDLING IT!!!!! SO, TIME FOR A SHIFT IN TACTICS. Maybe the folks in WASHINGTON WOULDN'T FEEL THEY COULD PASS A HEALTH CARE BILL WITHOUT READING IT if their ELECTORATE WAS AT LEAST MARGINALLY INTERESTED IN THEIR ACTIONS!!!!!!!!! OUR SUPREME DISINTEREST IN ALL THINGS CONGRESSIONAL IS LIKE SENDING CANDIDATES TO WASHINGTON AND SAYING "YOU DO IT" AND WE'LL RUBBER STAMP IT!!!!!!!!!!!
YES, THIS BLOGGER IS AWARE OF THE INTERNET FORWARDS BY MANY AND THEY GET TERRIFIC RESULTS WHEN CONTINUALLY FOWARDED!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS BLOGGER IS ALSO AWARE OF THE ACTIONS OF THE TEA PARTY AND APPLAUDS THEM. THEY HOPEFULLY WILL KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!! BUT WHAT ABOUT YOU????????????
Did you stop to consider that the TEA PARTY action came AFTER THE BARN DOOR WAS LEFT OPEN AND THE HEALTH CARE BAIL OUT!!!!!!!!!! PROTESTS BETTER LATE THAN NEVER!!!!!! And did you stop to consider that the LACK OF INTEREST IN WHAT WAS HAPPENING POLITICALLY pointed up the fact that TEA PARTY MEMBERS had been roused out of citizen stupor so well THAT THE SOCIALISTS CALLED THEM VILLANS FOR STANDING UP, GOING OUT, AND BEING HEARD!!!!!!!!! The CSPers made it sound like a crime for citizens to suddenly become interested in the process that makes their lives what they are or could become. SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That alone should point up the lack of interest too often conveyed by American voters, who begin with a lack of knowledge at the primary and follow through with a lack of knowledge about the many bills passed by the UNKNOWNS they are NOT WATCHING IN CONGRESS, THEIR SENATE, OR THEIR LOCAL GOVERNMENT. About the only interest taken is condemning whomever is President FOR DOING A BAD JOB OF WHATEVER. THAT'S PROBABLY TOO TRUE SINCE WHOMEVER IS PRESIDENT MOST LIKELY KNEW MORE ABOUT BASEBALL OR BASKETBALL THAN THE GOVERNMENT BEFORE taking OFFICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This blogger believes the internet could be the SALVATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS IN KEEPING THE PUBLIC UP TO THE MINUTE!!!!!!!! AS WELL AS GETTING TO KNOW THE PROCESS, PLUS THE CANDIDATES (AT LEAST THEIR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND FUTURE PLANS) and SHED SOME LIGHT ON ALL THE BILLS AND ISSUES UP FOR GRABS. FLORIDA LEARNED LONG AGO THAT "PORK CHOP POLITICS" (THE GOOD OLD BOY, KEEP IT A SECRET SYSTEM) WERE CAUSED BY THAT LACK OF OPENNESS TO VOTERS AND THE CLOSED DOOR ALLIANCES HELD CORRUPTION AND GREED AS BY-PRODUCTS.
PERHAPS IF YOU'RE SITTING AT THE COMPUTER TODAY WONDERING HOW YOU CAN INCREASE YOUR INPUT INTO THE REAL WORLD, let this blogger suggest some possible approaches. Start an ONLINE CLUB THAT SHARES POLITICAL INFORMATION ON A LOCAL AND NATIONAL LEVEL. OR start AN ONLINE group that shares researching THE BILLS AND LAWS THAT COME OUT LOCALLY AND IN WASHINGTON. OR START AN ONLINE CLUB that shares looking into the benefits afforded certain politicians, their districts, and maybe their pocketbooks from their actions on a LOCAL OR NATIONAL LEVEL.
I COULD OFFER DOZENS MORE IDEAS BUT THAT'S A GOOD START TO RAISING YOUR POLITICAL INTEREST TO THE LEVEL OF IMPORTANCE OF FOOTBALL,BASEBALL, BASKETBALL, THE OLYMPICS AND "AMERICA HAS TALENT".
MAKE POLITICS YOUR TALENT AND SCORE THE GOOD LIFE!!!!!!!!!!It SHOULD SCARE THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THOSE WHO REPRESENT US IN OFFICE!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
8/3/12
RELOADING FOR HISTORY! POST 118
Hi,
This blogger ran into a QUOTE ATTRIBUTED TO Thomas Jefferson this week that hits home so I pass it on to you.
"PEACE IS THAT BRIEF GLORIOUS MOMENT IN HISTORY WHEN EVERYBODY STANDS AROUND RELOADING."
That seems to be where we are right now with elections looming and the DESTINY OF OUR MODERN NATION waiting at the polls as it was in the thirties and sixties. We seem in this country to have 30 year recessions and 30 year battles with the FOLKS WHO DO NOT LIKE AMERICA PER SE namely the CSPers (Communist=socialist=progressive) and each outcome takes our country further afield from our original concept of what America should become.
In the mid-sixties the plans for the current push TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT COMPLETELY was written by two Columbia University sociology professors. THEY wrote a treatise on how to COLLAPSE an Economic system by PROVIDING GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE to as many citizens as possible (OUR MORTGAGE DEBACLE AND HEALTH CARE BILL DO THAT) and thereby bankrupt a current financial system. You can find it on the web under Cloward-Piven 2.0. They believed that "crisis strategy" would end poverty and included CLASS WARFARE, DEMONIZING THE RICH, AND PUSHING THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM TO COLLAPSE BY EXTENDING WELFARE ASSISTANCE. IT IS ALSO SEEN by CURRENT PSLs AS THE PERFECT VEHICLE TO ENSURE THAT OBAMA REMAINS IN OFFICE.
Seem foreign to you that almost FIFTY YEARS ago warfare strategy (AND WARFARE IS NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT-GUNS ARE ONLY ACCESSORIES TO REAL WARFARE!!!!!!) was set in place by two COMMUNISTS and set out finally on the web????????? This blogger has told readers many times that COMMUNISM IS NOT MODERN. IT'S ANCIENT AND ITS FAILURES to REDUCE POVERTY AND DESTROY ECONOMIES ARE LEGENDARY but that doesn't seem to SLOW IT DOWN. They take their time and look for OR CREATE vulnerabilities like RECESSIONS. ISN'T THAT THE WAY ALL WARS START???????? HITLER TOOK EUROPE IN A VULNERABLE RECESSION,. THE COMMUNISTS CONQUERED EUROPE ECONOMICALLY since WWII and now LOOK AT THE ECONOMIC FAILURES!!!!!!!!)
So, in essence we are between wars and everyone is reloading. So far, it's all quite civilized while the CSPers reload and Americans DECIDE whether they NEED Muskets or not. THE COMING ELECTION WILL CERTAINLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION. If the CSPers win, it's going to be a strong incentive to AMERICAN CITIZENS to review their options and either defend or abandon the current system of government in America. Make no mistake it WILL NOT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL IN OUR NATION AND EVEN WITH YOUR EYES TIGHTLY CLOSED IT IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy the temporary tranquility because there may well be VERY ROUGH WEATHER AHEAD for all us since we have only seen the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. (hey, not often I can use old mediphors together). But this Blogger reflects on past history and how the Hindenburg is a good example OF DISASTER APPEARING in GERMANY. IT OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE CRUISING ALONG ENJOYING LIFE WITH ONLY MINIMAL (ALTHOUGH THEY SEEM MAXIMUM) TROUBLES IN TOW WHEN WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU M'AM???????????? YOU HIT A HARD PLACE AND CRASH!!!!!!!!!
WE DON'T HAVE TO LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!! WE'VE SEEN THE TIP OF THE ICEBURG unlike the Titanic AND THIS ELECTION CAN TURN US OFF THE DISASTER COURSE. We can take WASHINGTON BACK AND PUT OUR COUNTRY ON A NEW COURSE BY TELLING THE CSPers TO BACK OFF!!!!!!!!!!! This election can be a THANK YOU NOTE TO OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS AND OUR COUNTRY FOR GIVING US THE PEACEFUL LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE.
YES, WE HAVE PROBLEMS just as ROSES have THORNS but you don't KILL THE ROSES, YOU harvest the roses, CUT OFF THE THORNS THEN ADMIRE THE ROSES. Don't let the MISGUIDED AND MISINFORMED take charge with OLD IDEAS AND RHETORIC. Look at the REAL FACTS. WE MAY NOT BE THE MOST PERFECT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BUT WE'VE BEEN DAMN CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!AND CAN BE AGAIN BY RENEWING OUR VOWS. WE CAN BE AS GREAT AS WE BELIEVE WE CAN BE!!!!!!!!AND THAT IS NOT RHETORIC. FREEDOM, PASSION, INGENUITY, INDUSTRY AND RESOLVE ARE ALL AMERICAN TRAITS. We can use them to make JOBS APPEAR, FEED OUR HOMELESS AND NEEDY, AND MAKE LIFE COMFORTABLE AGAIN FOR A GREATER NUMBER OF CITIZENS THAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
WE CAN DO THIS WITH OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, OUR CONSTITUION, OUR COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM AND OUR BILL OF RIGHTS. WE HAVE THE PAPERWORK--NOW LET'S DO THE REAL WORK!!!!!!!! RUN THESE USURPERS OFF THE PROPERTY--PUT UP NO TRESPASSING SIGNS AND GET ON WITH BUILDING AMERICA BACK TO WHERE IT CAN BE STRONG, EFFICIENT, WELCOMING, AND CARING FOR ITS CITIZENS AND THOSE WHO REQUIRE SUSTENANCE OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER.
This may be a time of RELOADING NOT JUST MUSKETS BUT PRINCIPLES and those PRINCIPLES will be UP TO EVERY VOTER TO UPHOLD. DON'T LISTEN TO THE WORDS--LISTEN TO THE PRICIPLES OF JUSTICE AND FREEDOM. THAT SHINING CITY ON THE HILL NEEDS THAT UNDERLYING FOUNDATION TO SURVIVE.
GO TO THE POLLS AND REJECT A LOSS OF FREEDOM AS A TRADE FOR FREE CANDY. Your Mom taught you NOT TO TAKE CANDY FROM STRANGERS--THE CSPers ARE STRANGERS!!!!!! UPHOLDERS OF OUR REPUBLIC ARE NOT STRANGERS.
CHEERS, CONNIE
This blogger ran into a QUOTE ATTRIBUTED TO Thomas Jefferson this week that hits home so I pass it on to you.
"PEACE IS THAT BRIEF GLORIOUS MOMENT IN HISTORY WHEN EVERYBODY STANDS AROUND RELOADING."
That seems to be where we are right now with elections looming and the DESTINY OF OUR MODERN NATION waiting at the polls as it was in the thirties and sixties. We seem in this country to have 30 year recessions and 30 year battles with the FOLKS WHO DO NOT LIKE AMERICA PER SE namely the CSPers (Communist=socialist=progressive) and each outcome takes our country further afield from our original concept of what America should become.
In the mid-sixties the plans for the current push TO CHANGE GOVERNMENT COMPLETELY was written by two Columbia University sociology professors. THEY wrote a treatise on how to COLLAPSE an Economic system by PROVIDING GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE to as many citizens as possible (OUR MORTGAGE DEBACLE AND HEALTH CARE BILL DO THAT) and thereby bankrupt a current financial system. You can find it on the web under Cloward-Piven 2.0. They believed that "crisis strategy" would end poverty and included CLASS WARFARE, DEMONIZING THE RICH, AND PUSHING THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM TO COLLAPSE BY EXTENDING WELFARE ASSISTANCE. IT IS ALSO SEEN by CURRENT PSLs AS THE PERFECT VEHICLE TO ENSURE THAT OBAMA REMAINS IN OFFICE.
Seem foreign to you that almost FIFTY YEARS ago warfare strategy (AND WARFARE IS NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT-GUNS ARE ONLY ACCESSORIES TO REAL WARFARE!!!!!!) was set in place by two COMMUNISTS and set out finally on the web????????? This blogger has told readers many times that COMMUNISM IS NOT MODERN. IT'S ANCIENT AND ITS FAILURES to REDUCE POVERTY AND DESTROY ECONOMIES ARE LEGENDARY but that doesn't seem to SLOW IT DOWN. They take their time and look for OR CREATE vulnerabilities like RECESSIONS. ISN'T THAT THE WAY ALL WARS START???????? HITLER TOOK EUROPE IN A VULNERABLE RECESSION,. THE COMMUNISTS CONQUERED EUROPE ECONOMICALLY since WWII and now LOOK AT THE ECONOMIC FAILURES!!!!!!!!)
So, in essence we are between wars and everyone is reloading. So far, it's all quite civilized while the CSPers reload and Americans DECIDE whether they NEED Muskets or not. THE COMING ELECTION WILL CERTAINLY ANSWER THAT QUESTION. If the CSPers win, it's going to be a strong incentive to AMERICAN CITIZENS to review their options and either defend or abandon the current system of government in America. Make no mistake it WILL NOT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL IN OUR NATION AND EVEN WITH YOUR EYES TIGHTLY CLOSED IT IS NOT GOING TO GO AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy the temporary tranquility because there may well be VERY ROUGH WEATHER AHEAD for all us since we have only seen the TIP OF THE ICEBERG. (hey, not often I can use old mediphors together). But this Blogger reflects on past history and how the Hindenburg is a good example OF DISASTER APPEARING in GERMANY. IT OFTEN HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE CRUISING ALONG ENJOYING LIFE WITH ONLY MINIMAL (ALTHOUGH THEY SEEM MAXIMUM) TROUBLES IN TOW WHEN WHAM, BAM, THANK YOU M'AM???????????? YOU HIT A HARD PLACE AND CRASH!!!!!!!!!
WE DON'T HAVE TO LET THIS HAPPEN!!!!!!! WE'VE SEEN THE TIP OF THE ICEBURG unlike the Titanic AND THIS ELECTION CAN TURN US OFF THE DISASTER COURSE. We can take WASHINGTON BACK AND PUT OUR COUNTRY ON A NEW COURSE BY TELLING THE CSPers TO BACK OFF!!!!!!!!!!! This election can be a THANK YOU NOTE TO OUR CONSTITUTION AND BILL OF RIGHTS AND OUR COUNTRY FOR GIVING US THE PEACEFUL LAND OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE.
YES, WE HAVE PROBLEMS just as ROSES have THORNS but you don't KILL THE ROSES, YOU harvest the roses, CUT OFF THE THORNS THEN ADMIRE THE ROSES. Don't let the MISGUIDED AND MISINFORMED take charge with OLD IDEAS AND RHETORIC. Look at the REAL FACTS. WE MAY NOT BE THE MOST PERFECT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BUT WE'VE BEEN DAMN CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!AND CAN BE AGAIN BY RENEWING OUR VOWS. WE CAN BE AS GREAT AS WE BELIEVE WE CAN BE!!!!!!!!AND THAT IS NOT RHETORIC. FREEDOM, PASSION, INGENUITY, INDUSTRY AND RESOLVE ARE ALL AMERICAN TRAITS. We can use them to make JOBS APPEAR, FEED OUR HOMELESS AND NEEDY, AND MAKE LIFE COMFORTABLE AGAIN FOR A GREATER NUMBER OF CITIZENS THAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
WE CAN DO THIS WITH OUR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT, OUR CONSTITUION, OUR COMMITMENT TO FREEDOM AND OUR BILL OF RIGHTS. WE HAVE THE PAPERWORK--NOW LET'S DO THE REAL WORK!!!!!!!! RUN THESE USURPERS OFF THE PROPERTY--PUT UP NO TRESPASSING SIGNS AND GET ON WITH BUILDING AMERICA BACK TO WHERE IT CAN BE STRONG, EFFICIENT, WELCOMING, AND CARING FOR ITS CITIZENS AND THOSE WHO REQUIRE SUSTENANCE OF ONE KIND OR ANOTHER.
This may be a time of RELOADING NOT JUST MUSKETS BUT PRINCIPLES and those PRINCIPLES will be UP TO EVERY VOTER TO UPHOLD. DON'T LISTEN TO THE WORDS--LISTEN TO THE PRICIPLES OF JUSTICE AND FREEDOM. THAT SHINING CITY ON THE HILL NEEDS THAT UNDERLYING FOUNDATION TO SURVIVE.
GO TO THE POLLS AND REJECT A LOSS OF FREEDOM AS A TRADE FOR FREE CANDY. Your Mom taught you NOT TO TAKE CANDY FROM STRANGERS--THE CSPers ARE STRANGERS!!!!!! UPHOLDERS OF OUR REPUBLIC ARE NOT STRANGERS.
CHEERS, CONNIE
7/27/12
PIE IN THE SKY THEORY AS GOOD AS ANY. POST 117
Hi,
Elections bring the fantasy world right into your home. Numbers and predictions, both dire and advantageous, about budgets and spending ring in with a sense of truth and verification.
Of course, no one mentions who compiled them or who verified them so they could have been made up out of whole cloth to astonish you. Oh yes, they mention the Government budget office but do not tie it to any one person. They mention Republicans or Democrats (however not socialists-we're still playing that game!) but never tie it to any one person. Why not? The first rule of newspaper writing USED TO BE verifying your source!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!!!!!!!!! in NEWSPAPERS OR MEDIA. VERIFYING THE SOURCE MAKES A PLACE FOR BLAME; MAKES ENEMIES FOR THE MEDIA; AND PROOF CAN BE SHOWN OF THE ERROR if it turns out there is one.
So, what now? WHO DO WE BELIEVE AND HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING? Well, my Dad used to have an old "SAW". TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN AS THE "TRUTH", CUT IT IN HALF, THEN CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN AND IT MAY BE NEAR CORRECT. It works pretty well. Or his PIE IN THE SKY THEORY--IF YOU CAN'T GET IT DOWN, CUT IT AND EAT IT. IT DOESN'T EXIST! VERY UN-SCIENTIFIC but you have to do something to fight losing your way in the FOG OF ECONOMIC FANTASY.
It appears that we can believe certain rates and figures. For sake of argument, the DOW JONES tanked on Wednesday for a third day in triple digit losses because of predicted losses in Europe. EVEN TECHNOLOGY TANKED!!!!!!!!! We do so much selling and buying world wide that our own resources can be drastically affected by anywhere in the world. These explanations seem plausible.
There are predictions of another recession even though U.S. government debt is considered relatively safe (ALL FISCAL PROBLEMS BEING SEEN AS EQUAL) OUR YIELD ON THE 10 YEAR TREASURY NOTE FELL TO ANOTHER LOW AND THE DOLLAR SAW A TWO YEAR HIGH AGAINST THE EURO. THE GOOD OLD SOCIALIST INSPIRED EURO WHICH HAS PROBLEMS ON ITS PROBLEMS. Since Germany will probably have to support weaker economies in Europe like Italy, Spain and Greece, investors are being warned by Moody's Investors' Service that Germany's shouldering a greater financial burden may affect their credit ratings.
Let's look at Spain. We've covered Greece in past blogs. It's needs sent the Euro to a new low on the first of the week which of course affected the Dow. Investors have pulled back from risk (where riches are made) into the safety?????? of our government bonds. One wave sends the next higher. So, of course borrowing became more expensive for both Spain and Italy while the declining economic output makes it near impossible to deal with debts. With high interest rates going higher on borrowing costs for Spain and Italy, Greece may lose emergency loans that it needs to avoid default since it has failed to hit its specified targets from two bailouts.
On top of all this we find that a Chinese central bank forecast that China's economic growth was slowing even further after 3 years of growth reduction.Some economists hoped China woluld be able to compensate for Europe and the U.S. slowdowns but the lassitude appears to be spreading to China. NONE OF THIS, IN CASE YOU HATE READING THE WRITING ON THE WALL, IS ANYTHING BUT BAD NEWS FOR EVERYONE AND COULD LEAD TO ENLARGING AND FURTHERING THE CURRENT RECESSION.
YOU HEAR A LOT OF BLATHERING ABOUT A DEADLOCKED CONGRESS AND THAT is a bad thing!!!!!!! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN PRESENTLY!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T SPEND ANY MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T PASS ANY MORE BILLS!!!!!!!! TRY TO SAVE WHATEVER IS LEFT IN THE TREASURY OR WE COULD GO DOWN!!!!!!!! DOWN!!!!!!!! DOWN!!!!!!!!
FOLKS, UNFORTUNATELY, BY BECOMING WORLD TRADERS ON A ENORMOUS SCALE we are affected by the WORLD'S ECONOMY. OUR CONGRESS, BOTH THE HAWKS AND THE SOCIALIST LIBERALS, have to yield on REDUCING THE BUDGETS no matter how much it hurts. AND IT NEVER HURTS AS MUCH AS THE DIRE PREDICTIONS!!!!!!!!!
GREECE, ITALY AND SPAIN WERE GIVEN EARLY WARNINGS WHICH THEY CHOSE TO IGNORE and much like those in our CONGRESS YELLING FOR ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER TO GIVE IN. ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE THE IMPASSE UNTIL JANUARY!!!!!!
WHY JANUARY??????????? The election will be over. HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE SEATED A MORE REASONABLE AND BUDGET CONSCIOUS CONGRESS AND HOPEFULLY A NEW PRESIDENT, WHO WILL USE HIS POWERS IN THE EXCUTIVE OFFICE TO .......SAVE AMERICA..........NOT RUIN IT FINANCIALLY!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only is this an election to save our REPUBLIC and our CONSTITUTION with our VALUES against A CLEAR SOCIALIST THREAT but it is an ELECTION TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY and bring us back to the LEVEL OF ECONOMIC ENDEAVOR of which we are capable if we get the GOVERNMENT OFF OUR BACKS.
CLEARLY SOCIALIST ECONOMIC AND FISCAL PLANS HAVE FAILED IN EUROPE AND IN CHINA where a launch into a CAPITALIST system was a little too late and a little too little. WHY ARE WE FLIRTING WITH SOCIALIST ECONOMY HERE??????????? THE HUMONGOUS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CHINA FAILED and is now a mere shadow of itself. YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THAT DO YOU??????????? The European Union and the EURO is FLOUNDERING AND ABOUT TO FAIL. THESE ARE JUST THE OBVIOUS FAILURES OF SOCIALISM. JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T ADMIT TO THE FAILURE DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REMEMBER MY (CSP)=COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM AND PROGRESSIVISM=ONE AND THE SAME. You plug in the WORD YOU LIKE. JUST BECAUSE THEY GO BY DIFFERENT TERMS DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!
DISRAELI SAID: LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS. So, NOTHING really changes--only the SUBJECT and that doesn't really change since MONEY and POWER are at the ROOT, no matter what the discussion claims. ARE WE GOING DOWN for THE THIRD TIME AS IN DROWNING??????????? I HOPE NOT!!!!!!!!!! THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT CHOOSING BETWEEN A SOCIALIST STATE AND OUR REPUBLIC and the outcome WILL DETERMINE OUR FUTURE!!!!!!!!! IF WE GO SOCIALIST THEN WE WILL SEE EUROPEAN ECONOMICS BECAUSE THE COMMUNISTS NEVER ABANDON "BAD" IDEAS. They just EXPLAIN THEM away and blame it on someone else when the economic plan goes wrong.
FOLKS, YOU CAN SORT THROUGH ALL THIS CONFUSION IF YOU WILL IGNORE THE 'PROMISED LAND' THEORIES!!!!!! What is the 'PROMISED LAND'??????????? That's the PERFECT PLACE where there are NO WARS, NO FAMINE, NO UNTREATED ILLNESS, NO POVERTY, NO SOCIAL LEVELS, NO LACK OF EDUCATION, AND NO..............PROBS!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!!!!!!!HEY!!!!!!!!!! ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL ASPIRE TO?????????????? SHANGRI-LA.
UNFORTUNATELY, NO ONE CAN GIVE US THE 'PROMISED LAND'. We can hope for it but until we as individuals can figure out A REAL SOLUTION TO ALL THOSE NAMED PROBLEMS, no ONE INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF POLITICIANS can give it to us. THEY CAN ONLY OFFER US SOPORIFICS AND DEBT. RESEARCH, INNOVATION, INVENTION, SKILL AND MAYBE TECHNOLOGY CAN BRING US CLOSE BUT NOT PHILOSOPHICAL OR PRAGMATIC POLITICS. THE DAMN STATISTICS ARE INVESTED IN THE WRONG INTELLIGENCE GROUP.
IF NOTHING ELSE, USE MY DAD'S THEORIES: "CUT THE "TRUTH" IN HALF, THEN CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN. OR USE THE PIE IN THE SKY THEORY!!!!!!!!!! IT'LL HELP.
CHEERS, CONNIE
Elections bring the fantasy world right into your home. Numbers and predictions, both dire and advantageous, about budgets and spending ring in with a sense of truth and verification.
Of course, no one mentions who compiled them or who verified them so they could have been made up out of whole cloth to astonish you. Oh yes, they mention the Government budget office but do not tie it to any one person. They mention Republicans or Democrats (however not socialists-we're still playing that game!) but never tie it to any one person. Why not? The first rule of newspaper writing USED TO BE verifying your source!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!!!!!!!!! in NEWSPAPERS OR MEDIA. VERIFYING THE SOURCE MAKES A PLACE FOR BLAME; MAKES ENEMIES FOR THE MEDIA; AND PROOF CAN BE SHOWN OF THE ERROR if it turns out there is one.
So, what now? WHO DO WE BELIEVE AND HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING? Well, my Dad used to have an old "SAW". TAKE WHAT IS GIVEN AS THE "TRUTH", CUT IT IN HALF, THEN CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN AND IT MAY BE NEAR CORRECT. It works pretty well. Or his PIE IN THE SKY THEORY--IF YOU CAN'T GET IT DOWN, CUT IT AND EAT IT. IT DOESN'T EXIST! VERY UN-SCIENTIFIC but you have to do something to fight losing your way in the FOG OF ECONOMIC FANTASY.
It appears that we can believe certain rates and figures. For sake of argument, the DOW JONES tanked on Wednesday for a third day in triple digit losses because of predicted losses in Europe. EVEN TECHNOLOGY TANKED!!!!!!!!! We do so much selling and buying world wide that our own resources can be drastically affected by anywhere in the world. These explanations seem plausible.
There are predictions of another recession even though U.S. government debt is considered relatively safe (ALL FISCAL PROBLEMS BEING SEEN AS EQUAL) OUR YIELD ON THE 10 YEAR TREASURY NOTE FELL TO ANOTHER LOW AND THE DOLLAR SAW A TWO YEAR HIGH AGAINST THE EURO. THE GOOD OLD SOCIALIST INSPIRED EURO WHICH HAS PROBLEMS ON ITS PROBLEMS. Since Germany will probably have to support weaker economies in Europe like Italy, Spain and Greece, investors are being warned by Moody's Investors' Service that Germany's shouldering a greater financial burden may affect their credit ratings.
Let's look at Spain. We've covered Greece in past blogs. It's needs sent the Euro to a new low on the first of the week which of course affected the Dow. Investors have pulled back from risk (where riches are made) into the safety?????? of our government bonds. One wave sends the next higher. So, of course borrowing became more expensive for both Spain and Italy while the declining economic output makes it near impossible to deal with debts. With high interest rates going higher on borrowing costs for Spain and Italy, Greece may lose emergency loans that it needs to avoid default since it has failed to hit its specified targets from two bailouts.
On top of all this we find that a Chinese central bank forecast that China's economic growth was slowing even further after 3 years of growth reduction.Some economists hoped China woluld be able to compensate for Europe and the U.S. slowdowns but the lassitude appears to be spreading to China. NONE OF THIS, IN CASE YOU HATE READING THE WRITING ON THE WALL, IS ANYTHING BUT BAD NEWS FOR EVERYONE AND COULD LEAD TO ENLARGING AND FURTHERING THE CURRENT RECESSION.
YOU HEAR A LOT OF BLATHERING ABOUT A DEADLOCKED CONGRESS AND THAT is a bad thing!!!!!!! WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!!!!!!!! IT IS THE BEST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN PRESENTLY!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T SPEND ANY MORE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!! DON'T PASS ANY MORE BILLS!!!!!!!! TRY TO SAVE WHATEVER IS LEFT IN THE TREASURY OR WE COULD GO DOWN!!!!!!!! DOWN!!!!!!!! DOWN!!!!!!!!
FOLKS, UNFORTUNATELY, BY BECOMING WORLD TRADERS ON A ENORMOUS SCALE we are affected by the WORLD'S ECONOMY. OUR CONGRESS, BOTH THE HAWKS AND THE SOCIALIST LIBERALS, have to yield on REDUCING THE BUDGETS no matter how much it hurts. AND IT NEVER HURTS AS MUCH AS THE DIRE PREDICTIONS!!!!!!!!!
GREECE, ITALY AND SPAIN WERE GIVEN EARLY WARNINGS WHICH THEY CHOSE TO IGNORE and much like those in our CONGRESS YELLING FOR ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER TO GIVE IN. ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTINUE THE IMPASSE UNTIL JANUARY!!!!!!
WHY JANUARY??????????? The election will be over. HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE SEATED A MORE REASONABLE AND BUDGET CONSCIOUS CONGRESS AND HOPEFULLY A NEW PRESIDENT, WHO WILL USE HIS POWERS IN THE EXCUTIVE OFFICE TO .......SAVE AMERICA..........NOT RUIN IT FINANCIALLY!!!!!!!!!!!
Not only is this an election to save our REPUBLIC and our CONSTITUTION with our VALUES against A CLEAR SOCIALIST THREAT but it is an ELECTION TO SAVE OUR ECONOMY and bring us back to the LEVEL OF ECONOMIC ENDEAVOR of which we are capable if we get the GOVERNMENT OFF OUR BACKS.
CLEARLY SOCIALIST ECONOMIC AND FISCAL PLANS HAVE FAILED IN EUROPE AND IN CHINA where a launch into a CAPITALIST system was a little too late and a little too little. WHY ARE WE FLIRTING WITH SOCIALIST ECONOMY HERE??????????? THE HUMONGOUS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IN CHINA FAILED and is now a mere shadow of itself. YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT THAT DO YOU??????????? The European Union and the EURO is FLOUNDERING AND ABOUT TO FAIL. THESE ARE JUST THE OBVIOUS FAILURES OF SOCIALISM. JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T ADMIT TO THE FAILURE DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!
REMEMBER MY (CSP)=COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM AND PROGRESSIVISM=ONE AND THE SAME. You plug in the WORD YOU LIKE. JUST BECAUSE THEY GO BY DIFFERENT TERMS DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!!!!!!
DISRAELI SAID: LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICS. So, NOTHING really changes--only the SUBJECT and that doesn't really change since MONEY and POWER are at the ROOT, no matter what the discussion claims. ARE WE GOING DOWN for THE THIRD TIME AS IN DROWNING??????????? I HOPE NOT!!!!!!!!!! THIS ELECTION IS ABOUT CHOOSING BETWEEN A SOCIALIST STATE AND OUR REPUBLIC and the outcome WILL DETERMINE OUR FUTURE!!!!!!!!! IF WE GO SOCIALIST THEN WE WILL SEE EUROPEAN ECONOMICS BECAUSE THE COMMUNISTS NEVER ABANDON "BAD" IDEAS. They just EXPLAIN THEM away and blame it on someone else when the economic plan goes wrong.
FOLKS, YOU CAN SORT THROUGH ALL THIS CONFUSION IF YOU WILL IGNORE THE 'PROMISED LAND' THEORIES!!!!!! What is the 'PROMISED LAND'??????????? That's the PERFECT PLACE where there are NO WARS, NO FAMINE, NO UNTREATED ILLNESS, NO POVERTY, NO SOCIAL LEVELS, NO LACK OF EDUCATION, AND NO..............PROBS!!!!!!!! HEY!!!!!!!!!!HEY!!!!!!!!!! ISN'T THAT WHAT WE ALL ASPIRE TO?????????????? SHANGRI-LA.
UNFORTUNATELY, NO ONE CAN GIVE US THE 'PROMISED LAND'. We can hope for it but until we as individuals can figure out A REAL SOLUTION TO ALL THOSE NAMED PROBLEMS, no ONE INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP OF POLITICIANS can give it to us. THEY CAN ONLY OFFER US SOPORIFICS AND DEBT. RESEARCH, INNOVATION, INVENTION, SKILL AND MAYBE TECHNOLOGY CAN BRING US CLOSE BUT NOT PHILOSOPHICAL OR PRAGMATIC POLITICS. THE DAMN STATISTICS ARE INVESTED IN THE WRONG INTELLIGENCE GROUP.
IF NOTHING ELSE, USE MY DAD'S THEORIES: "CUT THE "TRUTH" IN HALF, THEN CUT IT IN HALF AGAIN. OR USE THE PIE IN THE SKY THEORY!!!!!!!!!! IT'LL HELP.
CHEERS, CONNIE
7/20/12
MAN'S VISION OF ETERNITY COMPARES TO A BABY CHICK IN THE SHELL BEFORE BIRTH. POST 116
Hi,
THIS IS A TRICKY SUBJECT AND ONE MOST PRUDENT INDIVIDUALS AVOID. Can't accuse this correspondent of that!
This blogger came out of the school of "laissez-faire". Folks should be allowed to believe what they wish to believe as long as it doesn't include physical harm to others.
The Buddha (wise sayings although I'm not a Buddhist) once compared man's VISIONS OF ETERNITY TO A BABY CHICK WITH A SHELL BEFORE BIRTH. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S OUT THERE!!! We don't really have a clue to what's happening around us most of the time let alone taking ON A VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE OR ETERNITY. We are locked in a shell and can only glimpse outside. Here and now ARE in our view.
So, I can't understand what makes any sect believe they have all the answers. I have provided the following NAMED GROUPS just enough information to make my point. Please don't look for descriptions of great character and depth.
The Communists claim they are too intelligent and scientific to believe in God or any higher power than the power they create. Well, good luck with that. Sooner or later as in the current financial fiasco and jobless rates all over the world, they have to admit (at least to themselves) that it's not going too well. INTELLECT is their God.
The Atheists believe that only unintelligent folk believe in the mysterious and fantasy like stories of a higher being and a more PRAGMATIC approach is the only answer. Their approach is that DENIAL is the only answer. Denial drives their wagon unless they join Communism.
The Muslims believe that Mohammed laid it all out in the Koran centuries ago and all they have to do is FOLLOW THE RULES. Well, good luck with that. The constant confusions and wars in the Middle East may one day make it clear that all the answers either were not there or interrupted incorrectly.
The Jewish faith believes the Talmud shows them as the chosen people and their land the chosen land and that they should prevail. Good luck with that, every monster regime that comes out of the woodwork feels it has to challange that postion. Sooner or later, all Jews must face up to the fact that bearing a torch casts too much light and makes them an easy target.
And we have all the Eastern "isms": Shintoism, Hindoism, Budhaism, Taosim and Confusionism, (the latter long overshadowed by Communism); all of them, of course, believe that the right way has been laid before them and pointed out irrevocably. Good luck with that, as the centuries of Asian Wars underlined.
The Christians believe that those who follow The Bible and God will find redemption and the promised land in Heaven and that hell is the punishment for sin and the after life will be the reward for a particularly good life. Best of luck with that guarantee. Atrocity or charitible living may not find either punishment or reward except as it affects others in the here and now. There is no way to know. FAITH IS THE TOOL OF CHRISTIANS.
AND GUESS WHAT???????????? THE WHOLE KIT AND KABOODLE ARE RIGHT ABOUT THEIR RIGHT TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN YOU PROVE THEM WRONG???????? ON WHAT ETERNALLY BASED EVIDENCE CAN YOU DISPUTE ANY OF THEIR CLAIMS???????????
BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY??????????? SO WHAT?????????? THAT ONLY PROVES ONE THING------YOU BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY--------HOORAY FOR YOUR SIDE.
NO ONE IS FREE OF THE EGG SHELL THAT HIDES THE TRUTH AND WISDOM OF ETERNITY. IS IT A COLD, HARD SPACE IN THE GROUND, ASHES ON THE WIND OR IS IT A PLACE OF WELCOME WHERE ALL IS PERFECT??????????? WE DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!! AND THE DEAD ARE NOT TALKING!!!!!!!!!!!So, what's the argument all about???????? IT'S NO WIN-NO WIN SITUATION!!!!!!!
Point of view???? There is that!!!!! Devotion????? A factor, certainly!!!!! Belief beyond any willingness to doubt???? Okay!!!!! I could add more reasons and certainly you have important ones I've left out but the point is not WHY WE BELIEVE AS WE DO. IT IS ABOUT WHAT OUR INVESTMENT IN A CERTAIN BELIEF.
Each group is tied to A BELIEF that can be followed without argument, reason, or responsibility. The belief takes from man's hands the CHAOTIC chores, disputes, and decisions that are too overwhelming to handle ALONE!!!!!!!!!!! The non-believers in deity accept their PHILOSOPHY as their MARGIN OF FAITH. IF YOU DON'T THINK COMMUNISM IS A FAITH----THINK AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT GIVES THEM THE POWER OF GROUP!!!!!
THE CERTAINTY OF SOME kind of PHILOSOPHY LIKE THE 'ISMS' OR SOME SUPER-HUMAN BEING FORMULATING A DOCTRINE GREATER THAN MAN'S ABILITY, MAKES LIFE BEARABLE. THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHATEVER HAPPENS THAT CAN SEEM SO INEXPLICABLE IS NOT "YOUR" OR "THEIR" FAULT BUT FATE OF SOME SORT THAT MUST BE BORNE WITHOUT COMPLAINT TO MAKE THE WORLD RIGHT AGAIN.
SO WHY IN THE NAME OF ALL THE GODS AND NON-GODS DO WE HAVE TO DESTROY ANY OF THAT JUST TO PROVE THAT ONE OR THE OTHER IS RIGHT OR WRONG??????? LEAVE THEM THEIR "BLANKIE" TO HOLD CLOSE.
YOU KNOW WHY WE ACT THIS WAY????????? OF COURSE YOU DO!!!!!!
MAN'S EGO............MAN'S EGO...........MAN'S EGO...EGO.....EGO.....EGO!
HAVE YOU ANY IDEA SPIRITUALLY AND FINANCIALLY HOW MUCH MAN'S EGO COSTS THE WORLD?????????? IN WAR, IN PEACE, IN BETWEEN. We are DAMNABLY EXPENSIVE catalysts of RELIGIOUS FERVOR AND NON-RELIGIOUS FERVOR. IT'S COSTLY. Very costly. THE ATHEISTS, THE COMMUNISTS, AND ALL THE RELIGIONISTS WAGE CONSTANT BATTLES TO PROVE THAT THEY ARE RIGHT, CLOUDING EVERY ISSUE AND CAUSING HAVOC!!!!!!!!!!
And it is all an incredible waste of time, energy, emotionality, and money. LIVE AND LET LIVE--THAT OLD WORLD LAISSEZ FAIRE--would end the division. The waste could be "LAID TO WASTE" and A NEW investment in MANKIND COULD BEGIN WITH CONSTRUCTIVE usage OF the saved TIME AND ENERGY to put into building better, more progressive societies to explore the UNKNOWN AND UNFOUND!!!!!!!!!!!
This blogger hears you.......BUT...........you say!!!!!!!!! WELL, LISTEN UP!!!!!!!
ISN'T THE UP-FRONT GOAL OF ALL OF THESE BELIEFS AND NON-BELIEFS ...........FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND.....................
So, let's get on with the GOOD!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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WHO DO WE BLAME FOR A WORLD GONE MAD? POST 115
Hi,
As we all know financial economics go in cycles, the "upzy and downzy" cycles, and in so doing present some interesting history. There's a new book out on the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's start and it has some facts that are analogous to the PRESENT TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION or "revulsion" if it's impacted your lifelihood.
"The Great A&P..." by Marc Levinson is certainly not a book favorable to the company but does make some interesting points.
The A&P that many of us knew as kids was a TREND SETTER and GROUND BREAKER and was hated for it. In the 1860s, it was the innovator of chain business, supermarkets, and sensationally oriented public relations fiction. AND FOR IT'S PROGRESSIVE OUTLOOK, IT WAS HATED BY EVERY MOM AND POP BUSINESS IN AMERICA and there were a slew of them.
There were evidently even in a handicapped communication system, so much unrest and anger that FDR IN THE 1940s (note 60 years later) used his influence in Anti-trust law to try to bring the company down. It took all told over 100 years plus union pressure to finish the job hatred started but it's interesting that BIG BUSINESS was UNDER ATTACK even in the early days. Unfortunately ALTHOUGH GEORGE HARTFORD had a knack with advertising, he did not have BILL GATES' "rock and roll" knack for moving unfavorable publicity to the the GOOD LANE.
Of course, Bill Gates experienced a similar phenomenom with his INNOVATIVE and world changing company, MICROSOFT. Instead of thanking him, the public turned against him and villified his BIG BUSINESS.
LUCKILY HE HAD SOME FRIENDS LIKE WARREN BUFFET, A GENIUS IN HIS OWN RIGHT, TO TURN THE PUBLIC TIRADE TO PUBLIC PRAISE FOR GATES' CHARITY DONATIONS.
Why are these men held up as DESTROYERS OF SOCIETY rather than BRILLIANT AND OUTSTANDING MEN SHOWING THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY????????? SCAPEGOATS????????? We need somebody to blame for the unfairness of life.
Well, in the 1860's most of the country's (AND THE WORLD's-although we weren't as involved)commerce was in the form of very small businesses, called Mom and Pop's, because that's the way food and goods had to be distributed since we were still in the horse and buggy stage.
Interstate commerce FOR PERISHABLE GOODS was a thing of the future and when A&P, that dastardly INNOVATOR, took to expanding into MULTIPLE areas, adding foods, other than tea and coffee plus CUTTING PRICE TO THE BONE, the screams of pain from small retailers were loud and clear. In spite of or because of the clamor, A&P ULTIMATELY BECAME THE LARGEST LONG LASTING FOOD RETAILER. NEVER MIND THE GREATER CONVENIENCE, BETTER PRICE, AND FRESHER GOODS and buying public support !!!!!!!!! THIS WAS CHANGE OF THE RANKEST PROPORTIONS!!!!!!!!
Or so it was said. Now it's the FUTURE of WALMART Stores!!!!!!!
SO NOW LOOK BACK AT 1960, a fermenting, fomenting, loud and brassy struggle on the streets of the world by young people. WHY???????? CHANGE WAS AGAIN IN THE WIND. Computers had made their debut but only a few could make them work because they ran on manual systems in a language unknown to the common man. The economy was struggling even as space research was heading toward its peak. BUT MOST PEOPLE unlike the young were pretty satisfied with what Atlantic and Pacific's world had delivered.
LO AND BEHOLD, suddenly the populace LEARNED OF a system to work those FOREIGN LANGUAGE computers. Something called a SOFTWARE AND NAMED MICROSOFT by a company of the same name. Articles begain to appear about this GENIUS, Bill GATES, who DROVE THE MICROSOFT TRUCK.
IN THE BEGINNING THE PRAISE WAS LOUD AND LONG and the word NERD was banished from conversation. UNTIL......UNTIL ONE DAY THE WORLD BEGAN TO CHANGE visibly and folks got uncomfortable AS THE IDEA OF A TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD.
Suddenly, just as A&P began the changes that made the United States more accessible and familiar; Microsoft made the World more
accessible and familiar. BUSINESS AS WE KNEW IT CHANGED TO A PATTERN UNFAMILIAR AND SMALL BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED BY AN ECONOMY THAT NOW RELIED ON SPEED AND FOREIGN TRADE. ALL these were ACCESSIBLE IN GREATER DEGREE BY THE CHANGES WROUGHT BY THE COMPUTER.
UH OH!!!!!!!!!!! Who's the culprit we can blame for our new discomfort and A WORLD GONE MAD?????????? WHO ELSE BUT GOOD OLD GENIUS BILL GATES????????? AND BIG BUSINESS WHICH IS WHAT MICROSOFT BECAME. Except BILL didn't stand still and let the public BEAT HIM WITH HIS GENIUS. THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!
The downturn in the economy caused by TERRIBLE FINANCIAL DECISIONS by BOTH LENDER AND BORROWER could not have happened without the computer to CREATE A SET OF PERAMETERS THAT SEEMED TO WORK BUT DIDN'T. BUT WAS THAT THE ONLY FACTOR IN THE RECENT DOWNTURN???????????
IT WAS NOT!!!!!!!!! When a country or a world is in the midst of another ECONOMIC CHANGE, like the shift in the late 1800s from farm to INDUSTRY, it happens in a uneven and uncomfortable pattern. MEN AND WOMEN who WERE TRAINED for farm work NOT ASSEMBLY LINES. Many did NOT or could not ADJUST, WERE OUT OF WORK, AND BECAME THE VICTIMS OF A NEW POVERTY and the VILLAIN???????? GOOD OLE A&P, WHO SHOWED THE WAY TO CHANGE!!!!!!!!!
THE SHIFT IN THE LATE 1960S TOWARD TECHNOLOGY BECAME ANOTHER UNCOMFORTABLE time and unfortunately those who still do not recognise the power and future of TECHNOLOGY as the LEADING EMPLOYER AND BECOME RETRAINED will suffer the same agonies that the farm workers suffered.
YES, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN INDEPENDENT WORKING MINORITY, thank goodness, for various fields that simply can't be PROGRAMMED, OR TECHNOLOGICALLY HANDLED AND IF YOU ARE FORWARD LOOKING THERE'S A NEW JOB OUT THERE FOR YOU.
But if you were to ask this blogger today to name those fields, she would be hard pressed to do so. There seem to be some obvious ones like HEALTH, CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT OF GOODS, SUPERMARKETS AND SO FORTH.........BUT...........would you have thought that OUR CARS, SO LONG BELOVED AND PART OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE ECONOMY, would become a victim of technology. BUT THEY MOST CERTAINLY HAVE DONE SO AS WE DISCUSS THE ELECTRIC and/or FOSSIL FUELS OF THE FUTURE.
OKAY, SO THE ROUGH ECONOMIC TIMES ARE NOT SO SIMPLY BASED on one factor AS we WOULD LOVE TO BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!! And they won't be resolved either quickly or easily. THE BEST HOPE IS TO STAY SOLVENT, PULL IN YOUR HORNS, KEEP SHELTERED, AND HOPE THE STORM PASSES INTO THE SECOND PHASE MORE QUICKLY THAN IN THE 1800S BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY moves more quickly.
TECHNOLOGY ITSELF IS TRYING TO MAKE CHANGE MORE PAINLESS than it was in 1860 by making technological education available free. BUT YOU HAVE TO GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE TO ENROLL AND DO THE WORK!!!!!!
FOR THE UNLUCKY FOLKS UNABLE TO STAY SOLVENT, DO THE NEXT, BEST, POSITIVE THING. GET RETRAINED FOR SOMETHING TECHNOLOGICAL. You can take free courses on the net. I don't expect to need it but I'm studying computer language such as how strings of information are put into PYTHON, a computer language.
I ENROLLED in a college called Udacity.com on the web AND THERE ARE MANY OTHER good FREE OUTLETS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRAINING BOTH OUTSIDE AND INSIDE COLLEGE CURRICULUMS on the Internet!!!! Explore them and take a shot at becoming COMPUTER LITERATE!!!!!!! I frankly despair of ever learning the new language but I shall prevail. THERE ARE COMPUTERS IN ALL THE LIBRARIES THAT CAN BE USED IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE. Libraries in recent years have been sitting on the leading edge of change toward a time when storage of books will be an anachronism.
OTHER OPTIONS include THE CHOICE OF LEADERS who CONCENTRATE on the changes that are happening NOW and don't try to stuff a SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE!!!!!!! An old system like Socialism/communism is NOT THE RIGHT SYSTEM FOR THE CHANGES FACING AMERICA IN THE FUTURE.
SOCIALISM IS A SQUARE PEG AND FORCING IT INTO THE ROUND HOLE OF TECHNOLOGY IS A DOOM'S DAY CHOICE!!!!!!!!!! We need leaders, who understand the TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE AND OFFER SOLUTIONS TO THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS FACING US IN TECHNOLOGY. Just creating STOP GAP METHODS that PLUG HOLES like HEALTH CARE INSTEAD OF SOLVING PROBLEMS is not enough. RETRAINING SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE ON ANY NEW LEADER'S LIST!!!!!!!! WE NEED WISDOM MORE THAN CHEERLEADING!!!!!!!! AND CAREFUL SPENDING IN PLACE OF SPENDTHRIFTS WHO WASTE WHAT LITTLE IS LEFT.
THINK ABOUT THIS WHEN YOU VOTE. WISDOM. THRIFT. RETRAINING. THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
As we all know financial economics go in cycles, the "upzy and downzy" cycles, and in so doing present some interesting history. There's a new book out on the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company's start and it has some facts that are analogous to the PRESENT TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION or "revulsion" if it's impacted your lifelihood.
"The Great A&P..." by Marc Levinson is certainly not a book favorable to the company but does make some interesting points.
The A&P that many of us knew as kids was a TREND SETTER and GROUND BREAKER and was hated for it. In the 1860s, it was the innovator of chain business, supermarkets, and sensationally oriented public relations fiction. AND FOR IT'S PROGRESSIVE OUTLOOK, IT WAS HATED BY EVERY MOM AND POP BUSINESS IN AMERICA and there were a slew of them.
There were evidently even in a handicapped communication system, so much unrest and anger that FDR IN THE 1940s (note 60 years later) used his influence in Anti-trust law to try to bring the company down. It took all told over 100 years plus union pressure to finish the job hatred started but it's interesting that BIG BUSINESS was UNDER ATTACK even in the early days. Unfortunately ALTHOUGH GEORGE HARTFORD had a knack with advertising, he did not have BILL GATES' "rock and roll" knack for moving unfavorable publicity to the the GOOD LANE.
Of course, Bill Gates experienced a similar phenomenom with his INNOVATIVE and world changing company, MICROSOFT. Instead of thanking him, the public turned against him and villified his BIG BUSINESS.
LUCKILY HE HAD SOME FRIENDS LIKE WARREN BUFFET, A GENIUS IN HIS OWN RIGHT, TO TURN THE PUBLIC TIRADE TO PUBLIC PRAISE FOR GATES' CHARITY DONATIONS.
Why are these men held up as DESTROYERS OF SOCIETY rather than BRILLIANT AND OUTSTANDING MEN SHOWING THE ROAD TO SUCCESS IN A CHANGING SOCIETY????????? SCAPEGOATS????????? We need somebody to blame for the unfairness of life.
Well, in the 1860's most of the country's (AND THE WORLD's-although we weren't as involved)commerce was in the form of very small businesses, called Mom and Pop's, because that's the way food and goods had to be distributed since we were still in the horse and buggy stage.
Interstate commerce FOR PERISHABLE GOODS was a thing of the future and when A&P, that dastardly INNOVATOR, took to expanding into MULTIPLE areas, adding foods, other than tea and coffee plus CUTTING PRICE TO THE BONE, the screams of pain from small retailers were loud and clear. In spite of or because of the clamor, A&P ULTIMATELY BECAME THE LARGEST LONG LASTING FOOD RETAILER. NEVER MIND THE GREATER CONVENIENCE, BETTER PRICE, AND FRESHER GOODS and buying public support !!!!!!!!! THIS WAS CHANGE OF THE RANKEST PROPORTIONS!!!!!!!!
Or so it was said. Now it's the FUTURE of WALMART Stores!!!!!!!
SO NOW LOOK BACK AT 1960, a fermenting, fomenting, loud and brassy struggle on the streets of the world by young people. WHY???????? CHANGE WAS AGAIN IN THE WIND. Computers had made their debut but only a few could make them work because they ran on manual systems in a language unknown to the common man. The economy was struggling even as space research was heading toward its peak. BUT MOST PEOPLE unlike the young were pretty satisfied with what Atlantic and Pacific's world had delivered.
LO AND BEHOLD, suddenly the populace LEARNED OF a system to work those FOREIGN LANGUAGE computers. Something called a SOFTWARE AND NAMED MICROSOFT by a company of the same name. Articles begain to appear about this GENIUS, Bill GATES, who DROVE THE MICROSOFT TRUCK.
IN THE BEGINNING THE PRAISE WAS LOUD AND LONG and the word NERD was banished from conversation. UNTIL......UNTIL ONE DAY THE WORLD BEGAN TO CHANGE visibly and folks got uncomfortable AS THE IDEA OF A TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD.
Suddenly, just as A&P began the changes that made the United States more accessible and familiar; Microsoft made the World more
accessible and familiar. BUSINESS AS WE KNEW IT CHANGED TO A PATTERN UNFAMILIAR AND SMALL BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED BY AN ECONOMY THAT NOW RELIED ON SPEED AND FOREIGN TRADE. ALL these were ACCESSIBLE IN GREATER DEGREE BY THE CHANGES WROUGHT BY THE COMPUTER.
UH OH!!!!!!!!!!! Who's the culprit we can blame for our new discomfort and A WORLD GONE MAD?????????? WHO ELSE BUT GOOD OLD GENIUS BILL GATES????????? AND BIG BUSINESS WHICH IS WHAT MICROSOFT BECAME. Except BILL didn't stand still and let the public BEAT HIM WITH HIS GENIUS. THANK GOODNESS!!!!!!
The downturn in the economy caused by TERRIBLE FINANCIAL DECISIONS by BOTH LENDER AND BORROWER could not have happened without the computer to CREATE A SET OF PERAMETERS THAT SEEMED TO WORK BUT DIDN'T. BUT WAS THAT THE ONLY FACTOR IN THE RECENT DOWNTURN???????????
IT WAS NOT!!!!!!!!! When a country or a world is in the midst of another ECONOMIC CHANGE, like the shift in the late 1800s from farm to INDUSTRY, it happens in a uneven and uncomfortable pattern. MEN AND WOMEN who WERE TRAINED for farm work NOT ASSEMBLY LINES. Many did NOT or could not ADJUST, WERE OUT OF WORK, AND BECAME THE VICTIMS OF A NEW POVERTY and the VILLAIN???????? GOOD OLE A&P, WHO SHOWED THE WAY TO CHANGE!!!!!!!!!
THE SHIFT IN THE LATE 1960S TOWARD TECHNOLOGY BECAME ANOTHER UNCOMFORTABLE time and unfortunately those who still do not recognise the power and future of TECHNOLOGY as the LEADING EMPLOYER AND BECOME RETRAINED will suffer the same agonies that the farm workers suffered.
YES, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN INDEPENDENT WORKING MINORITY, thank goodness, for various fields that simply can't be PROGRAMMED, OR TECHNOLOGICALLY HANDLED AND IF YOU ARE FORWARD LOOKING THERE'S A NEW JOB OUT THERE FOR YOU.
But if you were to ask this blogger today to name those fields, she would be hard pressed to do so. There seem to be some obvious ones like HEALTH, CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT OF GOODS, SUPERMARKETS AND SO FORTH.........BUT...........would you have thought that OUR CARS, SO LONG BELOVED AND PART OF THE ASSEMBLY LINE ECONOMY, would become a victim of technology. BUT THEY MOST CERTAINLY HAVE DONE SO AS WE DISCUSS THE ELECTRIC and/or FOSSIL FUELS OF THE FUTURE.
OKAY, SO THE ROUGH ECONOMIC TIMES ARE NOT SO SIMPLY BASED on one factor AS we WOULD LOVE TO BELIEVE!!!!!!!!!!! And they won't be resolved either quickly or easily. THE BEST HOPE IS TO STAY SOLVENT, PULL IN YOUR HORNS, KEEP SHELTERED, AND HOPE THE STORM PASSES INTO THE SECOND PHASE MORE QUICKLY THAN IN THE 1800S BECAUSE TECHNOLOGY moves more quickly.
TECHNOLOGY ITSELF IS TRYING TO MAKE CHANGE MORE PAINLESS than it was in 1860 by making technological education available free. BUT YOU HAVE TO GO FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE TO ENROLL AND DO THE WORK!!!!!!
FOR THE UNLUCKY FOLKS UNABLE TO STAY SOLVENT, DO THE NEXT, BEST, POSITIVE THING. GET RETRAINED FOR SOMETHING TECHNOLOGICAL. You can take free courses on the net. I don't expect to need it but I'm studying computer language such as how strings of information are put into PYTHON, a computer language.
I ENROLLED in a college called Udacity.com on the web AND THERE ARE MANY OTHER good FREE OUTLETS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRAINING BOTH OUTSIDE AND INSIDE COLLEGE CURRICULUMS on the Internet!!!! Explore them and take a shot at becoming COMPUTER LITERATE!!!!!!! I frankly despair of ever learning the new language but I shall prevail. THERE ARE COMPUTERS IN ALL THE LIBRARIES THAT CAN BE USED IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE. Libraries in recent years have been sitting on the leading edge of change toward a time when storage of books will be an anachronism.
OTHER OPTIONS include THE CHOICE OF LEADERS who CONCENTRATE on the changes that are happening NOW and don't try to stuff a SQUARE PEG IN A ROUND HOLE!!!!!!! An old system like Socialism/communism is NOT THE RIGHT SYSTEM FOR THE CHANGES FACING AMERICA IN THE FUTURE.
SOCIALISM IS A SQUARE PEG AND FORCING IT INTO THE ROUND HOLE OF TECHNOLOGY IS A DOOM'S DAY CHOICE!!!!!!!!!! We need leaders, who understand the TECHNOLOGICAL FUTURE AND OFFER SOLUTIONS TO THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS FACING US IN TECHNOLOGY. Just creating STOP GAP METHODS that PLUG HOLES like HEALTH CARE INSTEAD OF SOLVING PROBLEMS is not enough. RETRAINING SHOULD BE NUMBER ONE ON ANY NEW LEADER'S LIST!!!!!!!! WE NEED WISDOM MORE THAN CHEERLEADING!!!!!!!! AND CAREFUL SPENDING IN PLACE OF SPENDTHRIFTS WHO WASTE WHAT LITTLE IS LEFT.
THINK ABOUT THIS WHEN YOU VOTE. WISDOM. THRIFT. RETRAINING. THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
CHEERS, CONNIE
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