Last night Tuesday Oct. 11 2011 the republican candidates meet yet again to discuss and debate why everything the democrats do is wrong and how republicans will save us.
During the debate, the candidates pretty much agreed that the problems with the economy were not Wall Street, but the government.
Well they are right, but for the wrong reasons. The government removed so many of the regulations and restrictions previously placed on the capitalist system, that Wall Street among others were allowed to act with reckless, greed, totally ignoring the human damage and carnage they left in there wake. So yes government failed the American public by ignoring the 85 percent rule, that 85 percent of the people running the financial world and private industry are dumber than rocks.
First, why is it that so many people assume that the CEO's and CFO's are brilliant and know what they are doing ? Possible because the people who believe that are so damn dumb? Now I do not take away credit from those who truly worked hard, and brought there companies and wealth up. Some of them are brilliant, shrewd and deserve to be admired or respected. But the majority, not so much. Remember, greed is dumb, not because I say so or get hurt by it, but it is self defeating.
When you "kill" your market, by cheating them or pricing things so they can not buy your product, you doom your company. Now consider that many of these brain dead s.o.b's don't care. Their premise is simple, " I got my money, screw you" but that mentality is destructive to society. If we all decide that is the route we want to take, hey, I'm wrong and lets get to it. But I have a feeling that most of you, believe that we should care about the group we live with.
So back to the point that government did fail us, by removing the restrictions that protect our society.
Like telling banks you cannot borrow 90 percent of the money with only 10 percent in hard assets to back it up if something goes wrong. You cannot loan out money to people at less than it cost you to borrow it.
You cannot "drill baby drill" for oil and gas unless you know as realistically as possible what damage if any that drilling will do to the land around you. You can't ship your company over seas, without training the people you left behind AND you are counting on to buy the products you are now making 3000 miles away. In a country that believes pollution and high mortality rates are a national goal and good for population control.
The republicans are right, government failed to tell the private sector " you cannot rape and pillage the American economy in the name of capitalism and a free world economy"
The "Ooccupy Wall street", may not have a cohesive message, but basically these people are right.
And they are not only "lay abouts" "goof offs" with nothing else to do. Well they don't have anything to do, because they lost there jobs. Teachers who had 10 years in the system, researchers, librarians, waiters, etc. These are people who would love to be too busy to protest. Its not just students who think it is cool to protest, this is your grand mother and grand father out there. The sad truth, is the protest in of them self will accomplish NOTHING. You need the nation to decide how we want our society to move forward. Do we toss aside people who have done what society said. Study, go to school, work hard, pay your taxes, and just when you think your safe, we dump you on the street??
My question from yesterday, now goes to all of you, "What do you want from society?" why kind of world do you want?
Here are some interesting numbers. Yes I looked them up at random, but its not really "cherry picking" I just took the numbers and wonder whats wrong here?
A head of ice burg lettuce cost on average .69 cents to get on the truck headed for your store, that includes growing it, the farmers overhead, the cost of harvesting it, all cost at the farm level. Another 20 cents to get it to market. Try getting a head of lettuce for under a dollar in New York City?
Actos a drug for diabetics is about $8.25 cents per pill in the U.S. and 50 cents in Europe
Eldepryl is 45 cents in Rome, 1 dollar in London and 2 dollars in U.S.
Pentamidine ( for pneumonia ) is 50 dollars in England and 150 dollars in the U.S.
Eye Glass cost on average 14 dollars to make including frames, including the glass that YOU pay 500 dollars for. Yes its true.
Gas at 3.75 per gallon in the U.S. is 6.48 cents in the Netherlands ( Netherlands is the highest so far) but they have a gas tax used for transportation cost, roads etc, and research into renewable energy and a value added tax of 19 percent for the government to use for education, health care, housing . etc.
What do we in the US get for our taxes on a gallon of gasoline.
The government has failed us, letting private industry run this nation into the ground. With about 17 percent of our national product in manufacturing the rest of it is service industries ( do you want fries with that , is a service industry ) how long can a society sustain is quality of life with that.
When I volunteer to pay $2.50 for lettuce, and $ 8 dollars for a pack of underwear. its not because I'm a bleeding hearted liberal, its because I'm a self serving capitalist who realizes that paying people better wagers, realistic and fair, increases the tax base, which provides more money for education, health care, so I don't have to pay more.
I don't talk about fraud or cheating, because you don't need a blog to tell you, that should be prosecuted from top to bottom. I believe a welfare cheat should be shoot at dawn with rusty bullets. But welfare cheat includes Corporate welfare cheats...( think bank bail outs ) You cheat, you defraud, you are proving you do not care about the rest of us, fine, than we have no responsibility to you. Talking to some co workers, they had completly forgotten that 6 months ago, the democrats tried to bring a bill to the floor to give tax relief to companies that started up in America or hired more people in the United States. The republicans would not even let it be debated. Is there some thing wrong here. China subsidises serveral large industries ( I thought they were communist ??? I guess this is communist 4.0) The average wage ( average good wage ) is $8.00 a day in China. So based on this logic, the republicans want the United States to be more competative, so your salary and mine needs to drop to $ 8.00 a day. Well let me say here and now, I will do this when everyone in Congress takes hmmmm. $10.00 a day, gives up there fringe package or gives every American the same fringe package they have. When every CEO, agrees to give back all but, oh $50 dollars a day, I will accept $8.00 When Mobil Oil pays 90 percent tax on profits because 10 percent profit should cover the reduce cost. I will take the $8.00 dollars.
One more thought, I tried to avoid this, but it doesn't look like its possible. Theocracies are among the worst forms of government in existence. As I pointed out, how to you negotiate with God. And theocrat's believe they are getting their directions from God.
If you are considering the republicans as an electable choice, watch out for any candidate that invokes God constantly. ( Perry and Michele ) not the god bless America, but God gave us a mandate, God wants us too.... Last night Michele's reference to 666, or the sign of the anti Christ ( not the devil you idiot woman) again should signal warning bells in all Americans. This woman wants to be pope of the United States. It might sound innocent, until she starts the witch trials and witch burnings again.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Yes Virginia, Santa Claus is under indictment
"In Superior, WI, City Councilor Greg Mertzig wants to pry the toys out of your tots’ kids meals at fast food restaurants just in time for Christmas....
In an interview Sunday, Mertzig claimed he is not anti-business and he is not anti-McDonald's. Mertzig sees the matter as a national security issue. Military recruiters are having a hard time recruiting physically fit young people, a symptom of what some have described as an “Obesity Epidemic” affecting our country’s youth.
In other words, if there’s a yo-yo nestled among the chicken nuggets, the terrorists will have won."
And what makes this truly priceless is that Greg Mertizig put no blame on the parents who have not learned that "NO" is not a four letter word and is completely allowable.
"The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin makes it incredibly difficult to go out of business. In order to close down a business, Milwaukee requires you to purchase an expensive license, you must submit a huge pile of paperwork to the city regarding the inventory you wish to sell off, and you must pay a fee based on the length of your "going out of business sale" plus a two dollar charge for every $1,000 worth of inventory that you are attempting to sell off."
And here is the double take on this one, some businesses use the "going out of business" as a ploy to get you into the store, thinking you will get a good deal, when in reality they are not going out of business, so they lied....ah ha....got them.... those dastardly villains.. lying to the public about going out of business,when we thought we would get a good deal based on someones Else's misfortune? The first take is that the store did do something wrong beside lying about going out of business, but, think about it. If the cost of something is to high, than don't buy it, if its a good price, than stop complaining. Now if the store refuses to refund or take back merchandise based on going out of business and they aren't going out of business, than by all means, bring the weight of the law down on the store. I prefer burning them out and killing the owners but that's my take.
'In the state of Massachusetts, all children in daycare centers are mandated by state law to brush their teeth after lunch. In fact, the state even provides the fluoride toothpaste for the children."
Here again we have an issue of government good intentions going " south" The concept of having children brush after lunch is very good. And that a large number of children require day care because parents need to work so they can afford day care, is just another bizarre twist. But making it a law, and providing the toothpaste because you were dumb enough to make it a law? this is 5 percent dumber than the 85 percent.
"Federal agents recently raided an Amish farm at 5 A.M. in the morning because they were selling "unauthorized" raw milk." I'm not sure what is more important here? That the Federal Agents knew they were selling milk or the arrest? I have to say what worries me is the Federal agents knew , bothers me more.
Selling Raw milk is banned not because our government is spoiled sports, but because raw milk can have some nasty bacteria that will kill you. ( Blame the French and Professor Pasture, he discovered this connection) Had any one gotten sick, or died, the public would be outraged that "the government did nothing !!!!!" or " It was so easy to prevent, just pasteurized the damn milk " than those same folks would sue the government and win for not demanding pasteurization or stopping the sale of raw milk.
I found this one while looking for stupid regulations :
"WASHINGTON -- After much delay, the White House has finally released a proposed rule that would update child labor regulations in agricultural work. Put forth by the Department of Labor last fall, the rule had been stuck in red tape at the White House for nine months, angering workplace safety advocates who said the regulations need to be modernized."
Now this isn't passed yet, but this was on a web paged that allowed responses. What is more amusing than the law, is the response from many people about NOT needing a new law about child labor practice.
Some how I don't think the government is stopping young ns from milking chickens and feeding the cows.
Its more in the line of operating combine machines or spraying nerve agent insecticides. While many people in rural America sing the praise of the childruns working the farm, next ta ma and pa. I would image in is with the same sense of pride middle America feels having the kids our there in the fields as did the parents of children pulling the carts out of coal mines, or placing there nibble little fingers in the spinning gears of textile mills.
Some goodies out of California :
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.• Under State Law, many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants.
• Under State Law, no alcohol beverages can be displayed within five feet of a cash register of any store in California that sells both alcohol and motor fuel.
• State Law prohibits the setting of a mouse trap without a hunting license.
• State Law prohibits women from driving in a house coat.• Under California State Law, a vehicle without a driver may not exceed 60 miles per hour at any time.
Some goodies out of California :
• In Ventura County, California, cats and dogs are not allowed to have sex without a permit.• Under State Law, many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants.
• Under State Law, no alcohol beverages can be displayed within five feet of a cash register of any store in California that sells both alcohol and motor fuel.
• State Law prohibits the setting of a mouse trap without a hunting license.
• State Law prohibits women from driving in a house coat.• Under California State Law, a vehicle without a driver may not exceed 60 miles per hour at any time.
Perhaps my favorite and oldie but a goody is putting warning labels on most everything. The hot coffee warning on the cup of hot coffee, is a tad scary. When you need a warning label on a cup of coffee that warns you the coffee is hot, you are proving that you are dumber than the 85 percent dumber than a box of rocks. And if you need a warning label on a cup of coffee, you are most likely too stupid to either read the warning or even to understand the warning, which means the warning is useless.
The Romans had an excuse, their plumbing was done through lead pipes, which had the potential to cause problems of brain function and problems reproducing, 1000 years from now ( if we are still here) what will be our excuse for complete decay of our society.
Yes I am in favor of regulations that protect our citizens from foolishness and greed. From people who might do things in a business that have a high potential in being hazardous to our population. And the truth be told, its not always obvious. You might not realize that your waste product can destroy a water source 5 miles away. Or that your process for manufacture is slowly killing your workers from an invisible toxin. Not all regulations are bad.
But we do not seem to have a system to review our laws and regulations to remove those that are out of touch with reality. Just making a blanket statement to remove government regulations is a stupid as a statement to keep many of the rules and regulations which are no longer of importance to society.
While I do believe we should continue fining "cats and dogs .... have sex without a permit"
more important why are cats and dogs having sex, see this is proof of the slipper slope in allowing gay marriages !!
There are lots and lots of regulations, as I started to read some I realized, this is a life's work, but not my life.
Some of these rules, smack of " Do these people not have common sense" and you might argue, " what is common sense to one person, could be totally unknown to another"
Well lets call that, "thinning the herd " you order hot coffee, its a good bet its hot. I can see suing them if its cold, but because its hot and you were an idiot and burned yourself?
You went to the top step of a ladder because it was there? And you fell off so that is the manufactures issue? You didn't think a two year old would put those steel balls in their mouth? I have to believe that 50,000 years ago, Mrs Urg, was smacking baby Chug, "get pebals out of mouth, you make choke noise, great spirit of moose, make you blue, not move, smell bad, spit now !"
There is a certain amount of responsibility that you sign on for when you are born. If the little toys are made of lead or cadmium, manufactures fault, if they are made out of plastic and you let the child have the toy, your fault.
Its also a good bet, that the fried in whale oil, pre buttered burger on bread with mayonnaise sauce, is not low in calories, nor is the double thick shake you washed it down with. This is not Mc Donald's fault. The use of salted salt on the salt is McDonald's issue.
Now the other side of this is, you and I don't get to decide if an oil tanker is double hulled or not. We get to be impacted if that tanker is sailed by a retired alcoholic coke abuser who thinks the sea gulls are his ex girlfriend and ends up on the rocks polluting several hundred miles of beach and killing hundreds if not thousands of wild life.
We don't get to decide if pumping water under pressure into an oil or gas well 1/2 mile from a fault line, where statistically it will cause a shift in a fault, ( earthquake )
Nor do you or I get to determine if a bank or security firm, invest several billion dollars on investments and loans with almost no proof it can be paid back, but the bank uses credit for the purchase, so when the investment goes bust, not only is the money of the investment lost but the interest on the loan on the investment is also owed. In short the 1,000,000 dollar initial investment now cost 1,100,000 guess who pays that??
Regulations are needed, not all of them, many of them. they need to be review, addressed, made usable. But when you use a sound bite, "Get rid of government regulations" you are proving you are part of the 5 percent dumber than the 85 percent. Unless of course YOU like have the medical waste being stored above your water aquifer? Did I say governor of Texas ? I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so biased.
The Romans had an excuse, their plumbing was done through lead pipes, which had the potential to cause problems of brain function and problems reproducing, 1000 years from now ( if we are still here) what will be our excuse for complete decay of our society.
Yes I am in favor of regulations that protect our citizens from foolishness and greed. From people who might do things in a business that have a high potential in being hazardous to our population. And the truth be told, its not always obvious. You might not realize that your waste product can destroy a water source 5 miles away. Or that your process for manufacture is slowly killing your workers from an invisible toxin. Not all regulations are bad.
But we do not seem to have a system to review our laws and regulations to remove those that are out of touch with reality. Just making a blanket statement to remove government regulations is a stupid as a statement to keep many of the rules and regulations which are no longer of importance to society.
While I do believe we should continue fining "cats and dogs .... have sex without a permit"
more important why are cats and dogs having sex, see this is proof of the slipper slope in allowing gay marriages !!
There are lots and lots of regulations, as I started to read some I realized, this is a life's work, but not my life.
Some of these rules, smack of " Do these people not have common sense" and you might argue, " what is common sense to one person, could be totally unknown to another"
Well lets call that, "thinning the herd " you order hot coffee, its a good bet its hot. I can see suing them if its cold, but because its hot and you were an idiot and burned yourself?
You went to the top step of a ladder because it was there? And you fell off so that is the manufactures issue? You didn't think a two year old would put those steel balls in their mouth? I have to believe that 50,000 years ago, Mrs Urg, was smacking baby Chug, "get pebals out of mouth, you make choke noise, great spirit of moose, make you blue, not move, smell bad, spit now !"
There is a certain amount of responsibility that you sign on for when you are born. If the little toys are made of lead or cadmium, manufactures fault, if they are made out of plastic and you let the child have the toy, your fault.
Its also a good bet, that the fried in whale oil, pre buttered burger on bread with mayonnaise sauce, is not low in calories, nor is the double thick shake you washed it down with. This is not Mc Donald's fault. The use of salted salt on the salt is McDonald's issue.
Now the other side of this is, you and I don't get to decide if an oil tanker is double hulled or not. We get to be impacted if that tanker is sailed by a retired alcoholic coke abuser who thinks the sea gulls are his ex girlfriend and ends up on the rocks polluting several hundred miles of beach and killing hundreds if not thousands of wild life.
We don't get to decide if pumping water under pressure into an oil or gas well 1/2 mile from a fault line, where statistically it will cause a shift in a fault, ( earthquake )
Nor do you or I get to determine if a bank or security firm, invest several billion dollars on investments and loans with almost no proof it can be paid back, but the bank uses credit for the purchase, so when the investment goes bust, not only is the money of the investment lost but the interest on the loan on the investment is also owed. In short the 1,000,000 dollar initial investment now cost 1,100,000 guess who pays that??
Regulations are needed, not all of them, many of them. they need to be review, addressed, made usable. But when you use a sound bite, "Get rid of government regulations" you are proving you are part of the 5 percent dumber than the 85 percent. Unless of course YOU like have the medical waste being stored above your water aquifer? Did I say governor of Texas ? I'm sorry, I shouldn't be so biased.
Monday, October 10, 2011
Lower Taxes and more Sports Shirts !!!!
Apologies for the absence, life has a nasty habit of taking priorities.
Well in the interest of being honest, my own "baby boy" re-enforced the fact that taxes alone do not impact employment. But in actuality the president and the executive branch, have little to do with employment. Once again I state, my reason for publishing the "High" tax periods that had the "LOW" un-employment numbers was because the republicans are using this as a sound bite. Republicans and the "tea" party rally around " low taxes" "high employment" this is false. Once again, my blog so I get to repeat what I want. If low taxes meant low un employment, than why is un employment so high now with the low taxes.
Lest you be screaming "what low taxes?" I am referring to taxes on the upper 5 percent of the U.S. economy. Another favorite of mine, is the republicans refused to give tax breaks to companies that start up in the United States, or hire in the United States. Do you not find that strange that republicans are not willing to reduce taxes for companies that open and or work in the United States and hire US workers, while saying we need to lower taxes. Well if the republicans dont want to lower taxes on US located companies, than who are they planning to lower taxes on? ( Rhetorical Question) would that leave only companies OUTSIDE the United States.??
But I guess if a certain protion of the United States population is deciding who to vote on based on how the candidate deals with Israel, and not based on how they deal with problems in the United States than it makes sense Congress would care about companies not located in the United States not hiring American workers. Hey Omar Gadafi is looking for work! If he came to the United States, and ran on a policey of Israel NOW ! I bet that certain part of this population would vote for him for president. ( While this is sarcasm, that people decide on US politicians based on the candidates views of Israel is not a joke, its scary but not funny)
But you dear reader are faced with another reality. The United States is ranked 35th out of 65 nations in taxes. France comes in as about the highest. It comes down to social choices and what do we as a people want? Europe which generally has higher taxes and the ever popular higher gasoline prices, does get more for there tax dollar than the United States. Schools, Health care, earlier retirement, some consider better social services.
Remember how I keep repeating, there is no perfect society, it takes a careful blending of all social economic forms to create the so called Utopian society.
This raises some interesting questions. " What do you want?"
Listening to an interviewer asking questions of some of the protesters at Wall Street , the interviewees, spoke of " more equality " in disbursement of money. Hmmm sounds good, but what is a more equal ? This is not a rhetorical question. I joked " If the leaders of the major firms located in Wall Street, came down, to the protestors and said , you won, what do you want? What would they answer??" A lot of generalities, a lot of "peace in our time" But who ever stops and thinks, what are you willing to do in return.
Fact, there are finite resources in this world. Fact, we are not all created equal, fact, the planet as it exist today is only capable of sustaining X number of people, with those people in a given social economic condition, ( we can't all be rich)
I ask the question "what do you want " for a number of reasons. Most of us people like to think we are fair, good, and practical people. Most of us don't like to think 85 percent of us are dumber than a box of rocks. Fact, neither scenaror, good and practical, dumber than rocks is 100 percent accurate.
One of my favorite groups to pick on are the religious, its so easy, like shooting Bambi.
Christians, who claim to be Christians but support war, the death penality, condemn homosexuals and abortion. Hey Christians, guess what, no where in the Bible does God support war. All those references to the old testament and war. Those were direct orders from God to wipe out the people in the middle east.
Any body hear from God, in the last 1000 years to go to war?? Never mind that God sponsored genocide, in the old testiment, killing men, women, children, and animals. Its should lead a sane person to ask "why the animals, were the animals sinners too? Can't we convert the sheep? Sheep are such good company on those cold win....errrr never mind?" By our human standards God is a war criminal. First he created the people of Caanan, etc, than he orders the Jewish people to wipe them out in the style of genocide. But, its God, he gets to have all the fun. Well, did God tell any one to start the 100 year wars, how about the Franco Prussian? Maybe the "boxer rebellion? Any one see the burning bush. "thou shall go into Iraq!"
Now I did find reference in the bible against homosexuality, but try as I might I couldnt find any reference to killing them? Nor beating them unmercyfully or mercyfully.
Hey "Tea Party" what was it Jesus said " render unto Casear those things that are Casear's and to God those things that are Gods" that means pay your taxes and stop whinning.
Please do not think I excuse any other religion, to me they go down hill from Christianity, with bigger and bigger lies. However, if you claim to be religious, how about obeying your laws, except the part about killing infideles who dont convert.
You shouldnt be whinning about taxes, you shouldnt be calling for the death sentence, nor supporting wars. That is up to God to decide folks. And we all know what a great sense of humor God has,
So the question remains, "What do you want?" Good Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu's , Zen Buddist, etc. Than render to God what is Gods and the government what is the governments.
Pay your taxes, demand and end to all wars, stop judging people lest you be judged.
Me, I dont believe in any supreme being so I can judge, complain, and whin.
Another interviewer asking people on the street about the presidential candidates, what they see as the main issues. With a response like "The government dont listen to us" the next question should be " What do you want them to listen to, what do you want?" "lower taxes !" ok, what services will you willingly give up. Lets cut the hell out of social security, those people are old, they dont have long to live any way !
No not social security, how about the military, lets cut the defense budget by 100 billion dollars, Im sure no one else on this planet wishes any harm to the United States and we can do without a military or a reduced military. ( I dont even believe that while I write it)
As much as I enjoy pointing out the deficincies of government and large organization, nothing is getting fixed until we fix the deficincies of our self. Stop and ask your self, what do I want, what am I willing to give up. If you arent willing to give up something , than dont expect any one else to give up anything. And if none of us sacrifice, it will at best stay the same, at worst, things will go down hill. because the world resources are finite. You and I don't get to decide, who has enough, unless we are willing to be under that same magnifition glass. Maybe some one things YOU have enough and should give something up.
Its not really our form of government that is so awful, its what our form of government has become, and we the individual citizens let it become this massive nameless form that truely doesnt listen to the individuals any more. You want it to change, than put your own house in order, next time some one ask you what you want, have some specifics. " I'll pay 30 percent federal tax, but I want the gasoline tax removed"
Of course none of this will happen until you all think just like me ? Nah I dont believe that either but it sounds good.
Well in the interest of being honest, my own "baby boy" re-enforced the fact that taxes alone do not impact employment. But in actuality the president and the executive branch, have little to do with employment. Once again I state, my reason for publishing the "High" tax periods that had the "LOW" un-employment numbers was because the republicans are using this as a sound bite. Republicans and the "tea" party rally around " low taxes" "high employment" this is false. Once again, my blog so I get to repeat what I want. If low taxes meant low un employment, than why is un employment so high now with the low taxes.
Lest you be screaming "what low taxes?" I am referring to taxes on the upper 5 percent of the U.S. economy. Another favorite of mine, is the republicans refused to give tax breaks to companies that start up in the United States, or hire in the United States. Do you not find that strange that republicans are not willing to reduce taxes for companies that open and or work in the United States and hire US workers, while saying we need to lower taxes. Well if the republicans dont want to lower taxes on US located companies, than who are they planning to lower taxes on? ( Rhetorical Question) would that leave only companies OUTSIDE the United States.??
But I guess if a certain protion of the United States population is deciding who to vote on based on how the candidate deals with Israel, and not based on how they deal with problems in the United States than it makes sense Congress would care about companies not located in the United States not hiring American workers. Hey Omar Gadafi is looking for work! If he came to the United States, and ran on a policey of Israel NOW ! I bet that certain part of this population would vote for him for president. ( While this is sarcasm, that people decide on US politicians based on the candidates views of Israel is not a joke, its scary but not funny)
But you dear reader are faced with another reality. The United States is ranked 35th out of 65 nations in taxes. France comes in as about the highest. It comes down to social choices and what do we as a people want? Europe which generally has higher taxes and the ever popular higher gasoline prices, does get more for there tax dollar than the United States. Schools, Health care, earlier retirement, some consider better social services.
Remember how I keep repeating, there is no perfect society, it takes a careful blending of all social economic forms to create the so called Utopian society.
This raises some interesting questions. " What do you want?"
Listening to an interviewer asking questions of some of the protesters at Wall Street , the interviewees, spoke of " more equality " in disbursement of money. Hmmm sounds good, but what is a more equal ? This is not a rhetorical question. I joked " If the leaders of the major firms located in Wall Street, came down, to the protestors and said , you won, what do you want? What would they answer??" A lot of generalities, a lot of "peace in our time" But who ever stops and thinks, what are you willing to do in return.
Fact, there are finite resources in this world. Fact, we are not all created equal, fact, the planet as it exist today is only capable of sustaining X number of people, with those people in a given social economic condition, ( we can't all be rich)
I ask the question "what do you want " for a number of reasons. Most of us people like to think we are fair, good, and practical people. Most of us don't like to think 85 percent of us are dumber than a box of rocks. Fact, neither scenaror, good and practical, dumber than rocks is 100 percent accurate.
One of my favorite groups to pick on are the religious, its so easy, like shooting Bambi.
Christians, who claim to be Christians but support war, the death penality, condemn homosexuals and abortion. Hey Christians, guess what, no where in the Bible does God support war. All those references to the old testament and war. Those were direct orders from God to wipe out the people in the middle east.
Any body hear from God, in the last 1000 years to go to war?? Never mind that God sponsored genocide, in the old testiment, killing men, women, children, and animals. Its should lead a sane person to ask "why the animals, were the animals sinners too? Can't we convert the sheep? Sheep are such good company on those cold win....errrr never mind?" By our human standards God is a war criminal. First he created the people of Caanan, etc, than he orders the Jewish people to wipe them out in the style of genocide. But, its God, he gets to have all the fun. Well, did God tell any one to start the 100 year wars, how about the Franco Prussian? Maybe the "boxer rebellion? Any one see the burning bush. "thou shall go into Iraq!"
Now I did find reference in the bible against homosexuality, but try as I might I couldnt find any reference to killing them? Nor beating them unmercyfully or mercyfully.
Hey "Tea Party" what was it Jesus said " render unto Casear those things that are Casear's and to God those things that are Gods" that means pay your taxes and stop whinning.
Please do not think I excuse any other religion, to me they go down hill from Christianity, with bigger and bigger lies. However, if you claim to be religious, how about obeying your laws, except the part about killing infideles who dont convert.
You shouldnt be whinning about taxes, you shouldnt be calling for the death sentence, nor supporting wars. That is up to God to decide folks. And we all know what a great sense of humor God has,
So the question remains, "What do you want?" Good Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindu's , Zen Buddist, etc. Than render to God what is Gods and the government what is the governments.
Pay your taxes, demand and end to all wars, stop judging people lest you be judged.
Me, I dont believe in any supreme being so I can judge, complain, and whin.
Another interviewer asking people on the street about the presidential candidates, what they see as the main issues. With a response like "The government dont listen to us" the next question should be " What do you want them to listen to, what do you want?" "lower taxes !" ok, what services will you willingly give up. Lets cut the hell out of social security, those people are old, they dont have long to live any way !
No not social security, how about the military, lets cut the defense budget by 100 billion dollars, Im sure no one else on this planet wishes any harm to the United States and we can do without a military or a reduced military. ( I dont even believe that while I write it)
As much as I enjoy pointing out the deficincies of government and large organization, nothing is getting fixed until we fix the deficincies of our self. Stop and ask your self, what do I want, what am I willing to give up. If you arent willing to give up something , than dont expect any one else to give up anything. And if none of us sacrifice, it will at best stay the same, at worst, things will go down hill. because the world resources are finite. You and I don't get to decide, who has enough, unless we are willing to be under that same magnifition glass. Maybe some one things YOU have enough and should give something up.
Its not really our form of government that is so awful, its what our form of government has become, and we the individual citizens let it become this massive nameless form that truely doesnt listen to the individuals any more. You want it to change, than put your own house in order, next time some one ask you what you want, have some specifics. " I'll pay 30 percent federal tax, but I want the gasoline tax removed"
Of course none of this will happen until you all think just like me ? Nah I dont believe that either but it sounds good.
Friday, September 30, 2011
The nothing special blog for a nice Friday
My co worker from another life, had suggesting placing "The 85 percent rule" in a blog format. My way of getting the message out to people. I honestly don't care about a financial compensation, ( although if you insist on sending money....oh never mind ) but although he did not completely agree with the rule, he suggested the blog.
If you have not read any of the other blogs, the 85 percent rule, is a statement on the human condition. Why we act the way we do. 85 percent of the entire world population alive now, or who ever lived, or who ever will live, is dumber than a box of rocks. 5 percent of the remaining population is dumber than the 85 percent, 5 percent are normal intelligence and 5 percent are scary smart. They are so smart, none of us really understand them, but its good they are around.
Dumber or dumb to me, means correct information is out there, or its actually easy to find and yet an individual or a group decides to use partial information, inaccurate information, lies, rumors, to make decisions. They do this because its easier not to find the truth, its safer to decide with the pack, its more convenient to believe the lie. All of which equals really dumb people.
We are ALL guilty of doing this one time or another, and we need to work at not thinking with the 85 percent or 5 percent dumber.
This is really an important concept, when you realize, our politicians, our elected officials, or corporation leaders, our clergy and spiritual leaders, our police , military, everyone you count on, ALSO are effected by this rule of being dumber than a box of rocks.
You counted on them being smarter, not so. They are human, they are also herd animals, pack animals, they do stupid things, really stupid things. Being warned about this condition, it is YOUR task to THINK. To make decisions based on fact.
My blog on Pakistan could be an considered one of my dumb moments, but I am just tired of giving money to a people who make no apologies about a desire to kill me or my fellow countryman.
In the spirit of being honest, I do not believe in any supreme being. Many years ago, I did, I was raised with religion, received all but one sacrament. While I do understand our species need for belief in a supreme being, I do not see the logic in it. Or I do not understand the logic of belief in the style of God most religions claim to believe in.
But given that many people do believe, for me an important issue is ( and I have stated this before ) how can you negotiate with some one who either actual believes they are being directed by God, or has to pretend so deeply that they believe. ( they have to pretend in order to have the mass of people , continue following them) If God is directing you ( if you believe God is directing you) than what is there to negotiate with man about. God told you this land is yours, who is man, the united nations, Palestine, Israel, Ireland to say its not yours or you need to share it. God told you or your leader, its YOUR job to convert others in the world, and if they don't convert its your job to kill them. How do we negotiate Gods orders.
And when individuals claim they are devote believers, it limits how they can respond, even if they are not true believers. They need to maintain the facade of belief, or risk losing their followers.
But religion in my blog needs to come after the election, we have bigger fish.
Lies of omission and lies because candidates just find it easier to lie to us, and count on you and I not checking.
First, I beg everyone to vote, the answer is not to not vote. Not showing up at the polls does not frighten any candidate, it means they only need there constituents to show up and it makes it easier to win with low turn out ( except if both parties bases show up) But vote, if you don't like the two parties please vote for the bizarre name you never heard of... vote for the woman dominatrix or the Albanian goat trader.... but cast a vote. And stop sending money to the parties. That is how to deliver a message, dry up campaign funds. and show a high turn out voting for any one but the two main parties. That's a message. Not voting is an easy win for one of the two parties and lets face it, both of them are lacking.
The Democrats are spineless, whining , in effective, out of touch, egotistical , idiots , with over active libidos, and lie about there private lives, the public lives are so poor no one really cares.
Republicans are all that and preach moral values while cheating on there families but they claim the devil forced them to do it. However they lie about the stuff that gets you and I, killed. That is the difference.
If the tree hugger and democrats are wrong about global warming, we will have spend allot of money getting off fossil fuels. The economy will be slow for a lot longer, more jobs lost durning the adjustment, maybe less convenience for the average person, but at the end of the day, we wont depend on foreign oil , we would create new jobs with the new infrastructure and creation of renewable energy makes money available for other issues... the social issues.
If the Republicans are wrong about global climate change, the end result is you are dead! Either the flood kills you , the food riots, the pollution, but you are dead. So again what is the logical choice here.
The republicans lied about economy, higher taxes on the rich do NOT create higher un employment. I showed that historically that is not accurate, and empirically if lower taxes create jobs, than ask where are the jobs NOW taxes are low now ( on the rich) where are the jobs.
The democrats are wrong on interest rates. increase interest rates will get more money out there not less. Why would any bank or company for the matter want to increase production or lending. You borrow money from banks at low low interest and invest it in stocks , bonds, derivatives etc. Why would you why would you build or create jobs with that borrowed money when you make more by investing it. Make it less profitable to invest money into the market by increasing the interest rates.
If I had my 3 wishes and they had to be on social issues and not me being filthy rich and universally intelligent , it would be renewable energy, no industrial nation can do anything without energy, so wish one would be renewable cost effective energy, wish two would be quality ( QUALITY ) and free education. Again no industrial society can survive without a WELL educated population , last, the proper balance on health care, between socialized heath care for emergency medicine and private for everything else.
If you have not read any of the other blogs, the 85 percent rule, is a statement on the human condition. Why we act the way we do. 85 percent of the entire world population alive now, or who ever lived, or who ever will live, is dumber than a box of rocks. 5 percent of the remaining population is dumber than the 85 percent, 5 percent are normal intelligence and 5 percent are scary smart. They are so smart, none of us really understand them, but its good they are around.
Dumber or dumb to me, means correct information is out there, or its actually easy to find and yet an individual or a group decides to use partial information, inaccurate information, lies, rumors, to make decisions. They do this because its easier not to find the truth, its safer to decide with the pack, its more convenient to believe the lie. All of which equals really dumb people.
We are ALL guilty of doing this one time or another, and we need to work at not thinking with the 85 percent or 5 percent dumber.
This is really an important concept, when you realize, our politicians, our elected officials, or corporation leaders, our clergy and spiritual leaders, our police , military, everyone you count on, ALSO are effected by this rule of being dumber than a box of rocks.
You counted on them being smarter, not so. They are human, they are also herd animals, pack animals, they do stupid things, really stupid things. Being warned about this condition, it is YOUR task to THINK. To make decisions based on fact.
My blog on Pakistan could be an considered one of my dumb moments, but I am just tired of giving money to a people who make no apologies about a desire to kill me or my fellow countryman.
In the spirit of being honest, I do not believe in any supreme being. Many years ago, I did, I was raised with religion, received all but one sacrament. While I do understand our species need for belief in a supreme being, I do not see the logic in it. Or I do not understand the logic of belief in the style of God most religions claim to believe in.
But given that many people do believe, for me an important issue is ( and I have stated this before ) how can you negotiate with some one who either actual believes they are being directed by God, or has to pretend so deeply that they believe. ( they have to pretend in order to have the mass of people , continue following them) If God is directing you ( if you believe God is directing you) than what is there to negotiate with man about. God told you this land is yours, who is man, the united nations, Palestine, Israel, Ireland to say its not yours or you need to share it. God told you or your leader, its YOUR job to convert others in the world, and if they don't convert its your job to kill them. How do we negotiate Gods orders.
And when individuals claim they are devote believers, it limits how they can respond, even if they are not true believers. They need to maintain the facade of belief, or risk losing their followers.
But religion in my blog needs to come after the election, we have bigger fish.
Lies of omission and lies because candidates just find it easier to lie to us, and count on you and I not checking.
First, I beg everyone to vote, the answer is not to not vote. Not showing up at the polls does not frighten any candidate, it means they only need there constituents to show up and it makes it easier to win with low turn out ( except if both parties bases show up) But vote, if you don't like the two parties please vote for the bizarre name you never heard of... vote for the woman dominatrix or the Albanian goat trader.... but cast a vote. And stop sending money to the parties. That is how to deliver a message, dry up campaign funds. and show a high turn out voting for any one but the two main parties. That's a message. Not voting is an easy win for one of the two parties and lets face it, both of them are lacking.
The Democrats are spineless, whining , in effective, out of touch, egotistical , idiots , with over active libidos, and lie about there private lives, the public lives are so poor no one really cares.
Republicans are all that and preach moral values while cheating on there families but they claim the devil forced them to do it. However they lie about the stuff that gets you and I, killed. That is the difference.
If the tree hugger and democrats are wrong about global warming, we will have spend allot of money getting off fossil fuels. The economy will be slow for a lot longer, more jobs lost durning the adjustment, maybe less convenience for the average person, but at the end of the day, we wont depend on foreign oil , we would create new jobs with the new infrastructure and creation of renewable energy makes money available for other issues... the social issues.
If the Republicans are wrong about global climate change, the end result is you are dead! Either the flood kills you , the food riots, the pollution, but you are dead. So again what is the logical choice here.
The republicans lied about economy, higher taxes on the rich do NOT create higher un employment. I showed that historically that is not accurate, and empirically if lower taxes create jobs, than ask where are the jobs NOW taxes are low now ( on the rich) where are the jobs.
The democrats are wrong on interest rates. increase interest rates will get more money out there not less. Why would any bank or company for the matter want to increase production or lending. You borrow money from banks at low low interest and invest it in stocks , bonds, derivatives etc. Why would you why would you build or create jobs with that borrowed money when you make more by investing it. Make it less profitable to invest money into the market by increasing the interest rates.
If I had my 3 wishes and they had to be on social issues and not me being filthy rich and universally intelligent , it would be renewable energy, no industrial nation can do anything without energy, so wish one would be renewable cost effective energy, wish two would be quality ( QUALITY ) and free education. Again no industrial society can survive without a WELL educated population , last, the proper balance on health care, between socialized heath care for emergency medicine and private for everything else.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
What Pakistan and wife beating have in common.
Before I get into this recent front page topic, I have to clarify my blog on taxes. My friend and if you like conscience , sent me information that seem to contradict my data, high taxes, lower unemployment.
I wasn't clear, my apology. The numbers I proved, where higher taxes on the top 10 percent of the economic ladder. I picked that group because the republicans are stated the opposite, and history has proven them wrong. So, the republicans, predicting taxing the rich leads to higher unemployment are either idiots, the information is easily available and to not use correct information makes you an idiot, or they are lying, which means they think YOU are idiots. Additionally, the logic is proven flawed right now..... we have low taxes on the rich, and unemployment is still 9. 4 percent. The excuse that is used is that the rich are waiting to see what happens. They are uncertain about the taxes. How long they gonna wait?? Until all the middle and lower income people are un employed? Until the president signs in blood and leaves his children as hostages that taxes will never go up? Can't they predict their profits with a 40 percent tax?
Any way, the republicans are wrong on this one.
Pakistan, has made the news yet again, with information that their government, rather their military and intelligence agency has supported and aided in terror attacks in the region and now against American forces in Afghanistan. Let us not forget that Osama Bin Laden was living a short distance from their main military base/university. This is not old news. Once more I refer you to two very good books which are history now " Charlie Wilson's War" " Ghost Wars" . Both speak to the fighting in the region. Both talk about Pakistan's military and intelligent agency working with radical factions.
Since 2001 the United States has provided over 21 billion dollars in aid with another 7.5 billion slated for 2011.
The United States is not a total innocent in this marriage ( see how I segway into the title...pretty neat haa) We are guilty of using 3rd party groups to fight battles. And we are as guilty as ever other nation of putting our interest ahead of other nations or national interest. But there needs to be a line in the sand ( so to speak) You need to say, "this isn't working" our interest are no longer the same, this isn't working and you have become counter productive". There is something fundamentally wrong with pouring money into a country, that has a population who proudly proclaim they want YOU dead! When you hear about a woman who's husband is beating her up, and you ask her why she doesn't leave him, and this woman responds " I know he loves me" this is a woman that needs help getting her priorty in order. The United States is the woman , saying " Pakistan isn't so bad"
Standing on the side line, you would tell this woman, that her husband is gonna kill you one day.
She says, but my neighbors are bullies and he protects me from them, and the children need a father.
You respond, the kids don't need an abusive wife beater, and the man is gonna kill you. The neighbors might hurt you and might not, he is hitting you and throwing you down the stairs....walk away now.
And if you don't like that analogy, I know my conscience will email me LOL. but this is also the country were beating your wife for real is not only allowed but encouraged, beating a woman in public because she wears make up or exposed her face, and killing a woman who is raped because she went out without a male escort. Which leads to the issue of everything is tied together, including education. A large population that's primary education is religious in nature. A religion that we will blog about another time, but this stuff isn't made up. Religious leaders, who are abusive to there own people ( insert women here ) has no problem with ordering the death of us foreigners. I don't support infidelity by either gender, but I think it harsh to hang a woman or stone her. A man only gets a beating.
This paragraph got thrown in, because unless a nation decides that certain social practices are detremental to that society and or to the world community, you have no bases to communicate and negotiate . If the population believes God is telling them, killing Americans is good, than how do you negotiate with them? And if you can't negotiate with them, way the devil are you giving them 7 billion dollars.
When I say "time to re evaluate our relationship" that is politically correct speak for, "time to dump them and let India wipe them off the face of the planet." Yes I know the email is coming, but I told you I wasn't a liberal
I wasn't clear, my apology. The numbers I proved, where higher taxes on the top 10 percent of the economic ladder. I picked that group because the republicans are stated the opposite, and history has proven them wrong. So, the republicans, predicting taxing the rich leads to higher unemployment are either idiots, the information is easily available and to not use correct information makes you an idiot, or they are lying, which means they think YOU are idiots. Additionally, the logic is proven flawed right now..... we have low taxes on the rich, and unemployment is still 9. 4 percent. The excuse that is used is that the rich are waiting to see what happens. They are uncertain about the taxes. How long they gonna wait?? Until all the middle and lower income people are un employed? Until the president signs in blood and leaves his children as hostages that taxes will never go up? Can't they predict their profits with a 40 percent tax?
Any way, the republicans are wrong on this one.
Pakistan, has made the news yet again, with information that their government, rather their military and intelligence agency has supported and aided in terror attacks in the region and now against American forces in Afghanistan. Let us not forget that Osama Bin Laden was living a short distance from their main military base/university. This is not old news. Once more I refer you to two very good books which are history now " Charlie Wilson's War" " Ghost Wars" . Both speak to the fighting in the region. Both talk about Pakistan's military and intelligent agency working with radical factions.
Since 2001 the United States has provided over 21 billion dollars in aid with another 7.5 billion slated for 2011.
The United States is not a total innocent in this marriage ( see how I segway into the title...pretty neat haa) We are guilty of using 3rd party groups to fight battles. And we are as guilty as ever other nation of putting our interest ahead of other nations or national interest. But there needs to be a line in the sand ( so to speak) You need to say, "this isn't working" our interest are no longer the same, this isn't working and you have become counter productive". There is something fundamentally wrong with pouring money into a country, that has a population who proudly proclaim they want YOU dead! When you hear about a woman who's husband is beating her up, and you ask her why she doesn't leave him, and this woman responds " I know he loves me" this is a woman that needs help getting her priorty in order. The United States is the woman , saying " Pakistan isn't so bad"
Standing on the side line, you would tell this woman, that her husband is gonna kill you one day.
She says, but my neighbors are bullies and he protects me from them, and the children need a father.
You respond, the kids don't need an abusive wife beater, and the man is gonna kill you. The neighbors might hurt you and might not, he is hitting you and throwing you down the stairs....walk away now.
And if you don't like that analogy, I know my conscience will email me LOL. but this is also the country were beating your wife for real is not only allowed but encouraged, beating a woman in public because she wears make up or exposed her face, and killing a woman who is raped because she went out without a male escort. Which leads to the issue of everything is tied together, including education. A large population that's primary education is religious in nature. A religion that we will blog about another time, but this stuff isn't made up. Religious leaders, who are abusive to there own people ( insert women here ) has no problem with ordering the death of us foreigners. I don't support infidelity by either gender, but I think it harsh to hang a woman or stone her. A man only gets a beating.
This paragraph got thrown in, because unless a nation decides that certain social practices are detremental to that society and or to the world community, you have no bases to communicate and negotiate . If the population believes God is telling them, killing Americans is good, than how do you negotiate with them? And if you can't negotiate with them, way the devil are you giving them 7 billion dollars.
When I say "time to re evaluate our relationship" that is politically correct speak for, "time to dump them and let India wipe them off the face of the planet." Yes I know the email is coming, but I told you I wasn't a liberal
Monday, September 26, 2011
Education, for those that dont want to compete with the box of rocks
Education is the path to learnin. That simple statement boils it all down. Want to be a fireman, and accountant, an astronaut, you need to learn certain things. Education is not limited to a class room but for the purpose of this blog, lets deal with that. Especially since the United States is doing so poorly at it.
I know I keep doing this, repeating key phrases, its a method of reinforcing concepts. Some
call it brain washing, I like reinforcing myself. Reinforcing has a nicer ring to it. : )
There are very few absolutes, and pretty much everything in life is tied together. The butterfly in Tibet flaps its wings, causing air currents to create a storm that delays a ship with a cargo; so the delievery truck driver gets angry at working so late, he isnt paying attention and hits the power post that powers computer that decides who wins the Globe Awards so NJ shores sweeps the awards. Got the idea??
Everything is tied together, but dont waste alot of time working on the connections for now.
Education, this is a biggy in the list of what needs to get straightened out here.
Follow along with me, the most important issue for an industrialized society, ( Insert America) is energy. ( Its not a tangent get over it) Energy in all its forms makes our society function. Now, better ways to make and use energy come from educated people.
Educated people cure our illness, and disease. Educated people fly us across the country and Steer the cruise ships. They do NOT have to be well educated to function, but do you want some one who still believes the world is flat and the sun circles the earth piloting the air craft you just boarded, or doing the operation on your heart ?
This leads us to the subject at hand. YOU and I have to focus on education for our children, and to some extent ourselves. The link below, is a set of statistics showing the ranking of the United States as compared to other countries in the world. At first glance, it might not depress you, until you stop to think, the countries not listed are truly third world, but more important. Your children, no longer compete with Bobby and Sally down the block for jobs and careers. Your children compete with Raj and Ju Ling from on the planet for those jobs.
http://4brevard.com/choice/international-test-scores.htm
When you want your economy to grow, and you want your economy to become more self sufficient. When you want new technology and new methods to use the limited resources, etc. you need educated people. In the long term, short term, you need people who know what they are doing.
Cutting teachers jobs, is dumb. Cutting education programs is suicidal. We might as well all "suck on the end of the barrel of a gun", because our government, our elected officials have decided that the education programs can wait another 10 years, while ( wait for it ) corporations that are moving our jobs over seas, get tax breaks for moving over seas, tax breaks on their record profits. Let's not forget Tax breaks to drill for oil ????
You and I are not off the hook. Just throwing money at education is also stupid. But paying teachers and professors and eduators a good wage, no wait paying them a decent a good competitive wage, so that people want to teach, with a salary a family can live on and beneifts to help families get on in the world. That is needed.
Teachers do need to be held accountable. My job and I guess most of you, do not have a " cannot terminate employment until 2020", card. There shouldn't be a free ride, and if you can not do your job you need to be fired.
But a large majority of educators are good and deserve more money than they are currently getting paid. Teachers should be Middle Middle income working to the upper end of the middle income and the low end of the rich so "we are going to tax you to hell and back" type of incomes.
I have to confess I dont have a method to fairly evaluate a teacher, but until the major problem blocking education is addressed, the use of student test scores is not a fair method to evalute teachers.
The major problem with our schools; number one ? Pick up a mirror, look into to it, if you ever complained that 3 hours of home work is too much,,, its you, your the problem. If you complained because a teacher scolded your child for talking or jumping around, for hitting another student or the teacher, your the problem.
Yes I am one of those who walked 10 miles to school up hill both coming and going in 4 feet of snow in August. Seriously, I didnt like school. Come to think of it, I still don't, but its necessary, and taking responsibility is as important in the class room as any where. I had "bad" teachers, not all but we had some there that were shocked to learn an eclipse was not the moon goddess expressing anger. You know what, my parents made up the difference. Both my parents and later my sister helped me with school work.
We didnt blame the schools, my parents made sure I did the work, This fascination with blaming society and the government, cause your child cant read, is nonsense to the nth degree. You and your children are not so busy you cannot work on reading, and arithmatic, and what ever other lessons they have at home.
Statistically, soccer, tennis, getting your nails done and play dates will not put food on your childrens table when they grow up. If you dont understand that thought or concept and you cant read the statistics, than you should be doing much more home study and less time on facebook.
Parents need to address the issues of there childresn learning and than follow up with why they are not learning in school. ( if that is the case.)
I realize that the 30 minutes ( if you were lucky it was that long ) the 30 minutes of pleasure, did not get you ready for the life time of parent hood.... but you know what. You made the children they are your responsibility. "Never mind you pay taxes." So did I, never stopped my wife or myself for working with our children on school work. Stop and think about this, your children are the next generation. When you are old and in a nursing home, they will be taking care of you ! Or directing the people taking care of you. Wouldnt it be nice if they could read, that medicine bottle before they gave you the wrong pills? (unless you do have heart worm). If they could add without taking off their shoes and socks to count their toes?
It would just be a bonus if they knew New York was not spelled Nuw Yark and was located on the eastern coast of the United States and not in Brazil? Our test scores on average are embarrassing, but we shouldn't laugh because one day they will be incharge of us. Or the Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Swedes will be in charge of your children because your children are too dumb to function.
Any person regardless of there status who states testing is not fair... or a fair method to judge a childs progress.... stay away from them, do not support them, do not let them use your air. They are idiots most likely dropped on their heads as children. Our children, your children need to be held accountable for the next 18 or so grades, prove they learned something, and be prepared to deal with disappointments.
NO we are not all winners. Any one who claims "we are all winners" and believes that is is in the 5 percent dumber than the 85 percent dumber than a box of rocks. The constitution may have said all men are created equall, but just like the internet, you can't believe everything you read. If that statement were true I would be a multibillionair with my corporation off shore, paying 10 percent taxes and not writing a blog.
We do not need the other extreme of screaming or yelling at the child who didnt win...kind words of encouragement and a better luck next time, maybe more study, is good. There is no need to be cruel to a child that failed, but do you want the "every body is a winner even when you are dead last, and not good at being last either , removing the brain tumor from your skull??"
So lets see... we do need to fund education, but programs that work and prove they work, hard data that shows its effective. We need to pay teachers across the board. I hate people making more than me and Im not qualified to teach, but I give the devil there do.
You want to teach a room full of kids, you deserve a good salary, I dont care if they are off 3 months a year.
Parents need to takes responsibility unconditionally of there children. Until or even if the schools do a good job, you need to work with your children, making sure they get the lessons being taught in school. We also need to fund trade schools as well as colleges and grammar schools. The education does NOT have to be college level, the trades and blue collar type work are just as important to a society.
Not everyone belongs in college, but don't look down your nose at a skilled trades person. Not all professions are taught in college and some that are, are not taught well.
The next issue that most parents and teachers do not care for but must be addressed. The school year has to be longer.
Focus, I already told you, your children are no longer competing with kids down the block, the jobs are going to kids around the world. If the United States does not get better at Math, Science, languages; than we will not even be making the souveiners that your children and grand children will be selling on the road side to foreign tourist. Those tourist will be saying " Do you remember when the United States used to be a super power?"
Wait, what did Frank say, he didnt say learn english he said language... why thats un merican!!!!
Get over it "sunshine", the United States of America, needs, should be demanding , language being taught in first grade. Even if we maintain and number one status, we should be multilingual. Chinese, spanish, german, russian, french, etc. These should be taught in first grade and mandatory through to high school
Its not happening unless our system of education gets better, longer hours of actuall class room, better pay for our educator, more accountability from our educators and the parents working with the children, and accepting the responsibility that the children have to work, that work is becoming intelligent men and women. School is not supposed to be day care. It is a disgrace if any member to the team, parent, teacher , student believe school is day care. It would explain the low test scores but this isnt something to be proud off.
I once did a quick study, to pay for college for 4 years to any one for free, 2 cents on all gasoline, diseal, fuel for planes etc. 2 cents per gallon. The student buys there education that is, get a 3.8 or better gpa, your education is free. below 3.8 you get partial payment. Anything below 2.4 gpa you pay the whole bill. Major in math or science and get other bonuses. Go on to teach, and we can give you monitary rewards.
Fixing this is all do able, we just need to remember we are Americans, not republicans or democrats, we are Americans, not Catholics, Muslims, Jews, or born again....we are Americans, we were number one, we liked it, were staying, were Merica, thank you very much.
I know I keep doing this, repeating key phrases, its a method of reinforcing concepts. Some
call it brain washing, I like reinforcing myself. Reinforcing has a nicer ring to it. : )
There are very few absolutes, and pretty much everything in life is tied together. The butterfly in Tibet flaps its wings, causing air currents to create a storm that delays a ship with a cargo; so the delievery truck driver gets angry at working so late, he isnt paying attention and hits the power post that powers computer that decides who wins the Globe Awards so NJ shores sweeps the awards. Got the idea??
Everything is tied together, but dont waste alot of time working on the connections for now.
Education, this is a biggy in the list of what needs to get straightened out here.
Follow along with me, the most important issue for an industrialized society, ( Insert America) is energy. ( Its not a tangent get over it) Energy in all its forms makes our society function. Now, better ways to make and use energy come from educated people.
Educated people cure our illness, and disease. Educated people fly us across the country and Steer the cruise ships. They do NOT have to be well educated to function, but do you want some one who still believes the world is flat and the sun circles the earth piloting the air craft you just boarded, or doing the operation on your heart ?
This leads us to the subject at hand. YOU and I have to focus on education for our children, and to some extent ourselves. The link below, is a set of statistics showing the ranking of the United States as compared to other countries in the world. At first glance, it might not depress you, until you stop to think, the countries not listed are truly third world, but more important. Your children, no longer compete with Bobby and Sally down the block for jobs and careers. Your children compete with Raj and Ju Ling from on the planet for those jobs.
http://4brevard.com/choice/international-test-scores.htm
When you want your economy to grow, and you want your economy to become more self sufficient. When you want new technology and new methods to use the limited resources, etc. you need educated people. In the long term, short term, you need people who know what they are doing.
Cutting teachers jobs, is dumb. Cutting education programs is suicidal. We might as well all "suck on the end of the barrel of a gun", because our government, our elected officials have decided that the education programs can wait another 10 years, while ( wait for it ) corporations that are moving our jobs over seas, get tax breaks for moving over seas, tax breaks on their record profits. Let's not forget Tax breaks to drill for oil ????
You and I are not off the hook. Just throwing money at education is also stupid. But paying teachers and professors and eduators a good wage, no wait paying them a decent a good competitive wage, so that people want to teach, with a salary a family can live on and beneifts to help families get on in the world. That is needed.
Teachers do need to be held accountable. My job and I guess most of you, do not have a " cannot terminate employment until 2020", card. There shouldn't be a free ride, and if you can not do your job you need to be fired.
But a large majority of educators are good and deserve more money than they are currently getting paid. Teachers should be Middle Middle income working to the upper end of the middle income and the low end of the rich so "we are going to tax you to hell and back" type of incomes.
I have to confess I dont have a method to fairly evaluate a teacher, but until the major problem blocking education is addressed, the use of student test scores is not a fair method to evalute teachers.
The major problem with our schools; number one ? Pick up a mirror, look into to it, if you ever complained that 3 hours of home work is too much,,, its you, your the problem. If you complained because a teacher scolded your child for talking or jumping around, for hitting another student or the teacher, your the problem.
Yes I am one of those who walked 10 miles to school up hill both coming and going in 4 feet of snow in August. Seriously, I didnt like school. Come to think of it, I still don't, but its necessary, and taking responsibility is as important in the class room as any where. I had "bad" teachers, not all but we had some there that were shocked to learn an eclipse was not the moon goddess expressing anger. You know what, my parents made up the difference. Both my parents and later my sister helped me with school work.
We didnt blame the schools, my parents made sure I did the work, This fascination with blaming society and the government, cause your child cant read, is nonsense to the nth degree. You and your children are not so busy you cannot work on reading, and arithmatic, and what ever other lessons they have at home.
Statistically, soccer, tennis, getting your nails done and play dates will not put food on your childrens table when they grow up. If you dont understand that thought or concept and you cant read the statistics, than you should be doing much more home study and less time on facebook.
Parents need to address the issues of there childresn learning and than follow up with why they are not learning in school. ( if that is the case.)
I realize that the 30 minutes ( if you were lucky it was that long ) the 30 minutes of pleasure, did not get you ready for the life time of parent hood.... but you know what. You made the children they are your responsibility. "Never mind you pay taxes." So did I, never stopped my wife or myself for working with our children on school work. Stop and think about this, your children are the next generation. When you are old and in a nursing home, they will be taking care of you ! Or directing the people taking care of you. Wouldnt it be nice if they could read, that medicine bottle before they gave you the wrong pills? (unless you do have heart worm). If they could add without taking off their shoes and socks to count their toes?
It would just be a bonus if they knew New York was not spelled Nuw Yark and was located on the eastern coast of the United States and not in Brazil? Our test scores on average are embarrassing, but we shouldn't laugh because one day they will be incharge of us. Or the Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Swedes will be in charge of your children because your children are too dumb to function.
Any person regardless of there status who states testing is not fair... or a fair method to judge a childs progress.... stay away from them, do not support them, do not let them use your air. They are idiots most likely dropped on their heads as children. Our children, your children need to be held accountable for the next 18 or so grades, prove they learned something, and be prepared to deal with disappointments.
NO we are not all winners. Any one who claims "we are all winners" and believes that is is in the 5 percent dumber than the 85 percent dumber than a box of rocks. The constitution may have said all men are created equall, but just like the internet, you can't believe everything you read. If that statement were true I would be a multibillionair with my corporation off shore, paying 10 percent taxes and not writing a blog.
We do not need the other extreme of screaming or yelling at the child who didnt win...kind words of encouragement and a better luck next time, maybe more study, is good. There is no need to be cruel to a child that failed, but do you want the "every body is a winner even when you are dead last, and not good at being last either , removing the brain tumor from your skull??"
So lets see... we do need to fund education, but programs that work and prove they work, hard data that shows its effective. We need to pay teachers across the board. I hate people making more than me and Im not qualified to teach, but I give the devil there do.
You want to teach a room full of kids, you deserve a good salary, I dont care if they are off 3 months a year.
Parents need to takes responsibility unconditionally of there children. Until or even if the schools do a good job, you need to work with your children, making sure they get the lessons being taught in school. We also need to fund trade schools as well as colleges and grammar schools. The education does NOT have to be college level, the trades and blue collar type work are just as important to a society.
Not everyone belongs in college, but don't look down your nose at a skilled trades person. Not all professions are taught in college and some that are, are not taught well.
The next issue that most parents and teachers do not care for but must be addressed. The school year has to be longer.
Focus, I already told you, your children are no longer competing with kids down the block, the jobs are going to kids around the world. If the United States does not get better at Math, Science, languages; than we will not even be making the souveiners that your children and grand children will be selling on the road side to foreign tourist. Those tourist will be saying " Do you remember when the United States used to be a super power?"
Wait, what did Frank say, he didnt say learn english he said language... why thats un merican!!!!
Get over it "sunshine", the United States of America, needs, should be demanding , language being taught in first grade. Even if we maintain and number one status, we should be multilingual. Chinese, spanish, german, russian, french, etc. These should be taught in first grade and mandatory through to high school
Its not happening unless our system of education gets better, longer hours of actuall class room, better pay for our educator, more accountability from our educators and the parents working with the children, and accepting the responsibility that the children have to work, that work is becoming intelligent men and women. School is not supposed to be day care. It is a disgrace if any member to the team, parent, teacher , student believe school is day care. It would explain the low test scores but this isnt something to be proud off.
I once did a quick study, to pay for college for 4 years to any one for free, 2 cents on all gasoline, diseal, fuel for planes etc. 2 cents per gallon. The student buys there education that is, get a 3.8 or better gpa, your education is free. below 3.8 you get partial payment. Anything below 2.4 gpa you pay the whole bill. Major in math or science and get other bonuses. Go on to teach, and we can give you monitary rewards.
Fixing this is all do able, we just need to remember we are Americans, not republicans or democrats, we are Americans, not Catholics, Muslims, Jews, or born again....we are Americans, we were number one, we liked it, were staying, were Merica, thank you very much.
Friday, September 23, 2011
85 percent of the entire worlds population is dumber than a box of rocks 5 percent are dumber than that and were elected to congress.
I find it necessary to repeat myself, to drive home a point.
Until 2004 I voted straight republican, I mean down the line, even dog catcher.
But I vote for the person that I believe will help me and my family. I vote for people I believe will help this country which in turn usually helps my family. I hate paying taxes, I'm fond of money. Rather I like what money can do. Having stated that, I find the republicans especially the Tea Party are the most destructive force in the United States since Hurricane Katrina and the last 7 big earth quakes.
Forgetting that the republicans are attempting to turn the US into a theocratic nation second only to Pakistan, with little difference between the extremist. The economic policy put forth is a lie. Not a difference of opinion, but a lie. A lie is a belief or statement put forth when you know the truth and put forth the false hood any way.
The republicans are telling the public that increase taxes will kill jobs. Well if that is correct, than where are the jobs NOW???
We are living with the some of the lowest tax rates this nation has seen, and almost the worst unemployment. So where are all those jobs the millionaires are going to create with the lower rate?????? What are they waiting for ?????/
Once again those awful facts get in the way, and here are some boring numbers that are facts any one can check.
1941 unemployment = 9.6 coming out of a depression, tax rate on the wealthy 80%
jump to
1960 unemployment = 6.6 tax rate = 91 percent...yes that is 91 percent but look at employment rate
1971 unemployment = 5.9 tax rate = 65 percent
1981 unemployment =7.5 tax rate = 60 percent hmmmm
1991 unemployment =6.4 tax rate = 31 percent
2001 unemployment= 4.2 tax rate = 39 percent
2011 unemployment = 9.2 tax rate = 35 percent..
are you seeing a pattern here.the higher taxes have LOWER unemployment. Yet the republicans are telling you the opposite. Well if they are not basing on history, because history proves the higher rates have better employment numbers what are they basing their predictions on???? Perhaps when God spoke to Perry or Michelle god told them lower taxes would increase the employment? Perhaps the Corporation Gods told the republicans no new taxes or your donations dry up.....but historically that isn't true either. So where are the republicans getting their economic theory from?
Well it doesn't matter since its wrong, and it must be a lie, because it took 3 minutes to look up documented figures
I try to be honest with my statements, and in the spirit of honesty, I know that is not as simple as higher taxes lower unemployment. However, the congress, the senate, economist , the pundits are NOT being honest, they are over simplifying so, for the debate its simple, higher taxes lower unemployment.
.
Rest easy the democrats aren't much better because they have neither the brains or the guts to refute what is obviously nonsense being spread by the republicans. The democrats are waiting for some one to put the truth into a sound bite they can use at the next talk show.
The jobs are not being created because of greed. and greed equals stupidity. The belief that you can push a population ever further, no work, no money, no health care, no education, but some how you believe your company or you will continue to make money. The sad thing is that it does work for a while. But eventually, there does come a breaking point. As bad as it might seem now, it can get worse. Now we still have the chance to fix the problems. I don't know of many people who want to pay taxes...but we want our standard of living, we like roads, and schools, and hospitals. Government officials like 16 dollar muffins, free golf outings and free vacations in Europe, so they can study "dog parks" and "bicycle paths", you know the important things. Some one has to pay for it, its time to raise taxes FAIRLY,
So the next time some one says taxes destroy jobs, just quote this blog. Now I have to go drink my 8 dollar coffee and 6 dollar box of Crack or Jacks.
I find it necessary to repeat myself, to drive home a point.
Until 2004 I voted straight republican, I mean down the line, even dog catcher.
But I vote for the person that I believe will help me and my family. I vote for people I believe will help this country which in turn usually helps my family. I hate paying taxes, I'm fond of money. Rather I like what money can do. Having stated that, I find the republicans especially the Tea Party are the most destructive force in the United States since Hurricane Katrina and the last 7 big earth quakes.
Forgetting that the republicans are attempting to turn the US into a theocratic nation second only to Pakistan, with little difference between the extremist. The economic policy put forth is a lie. Not a difference of opinion, but a lie. A lie is a belief or statement put forth when you know the truth and put forth the false hood any way.
The republicans are telling the public that increase taxes will kill jobs. Well if that is correct, than where are the jobs NOW???
We are living with the some of the lowest tax rates this nation has seen, and almost the worst unemployment. So where are all those jobs the millionaires are going to create with the lower rate?????? What are they waiting for ?????/
Once again those awful facts get in the way, and here are some boring numbers that are facts any one can check.
1941 unemployment = 9.6 coming out of a depression, tax rate on the wealthy 80%
jump to
1960 unemployment = 6.6 tax rate = 91 percent...yes that is 91 percent but look at employment rate
1971 unemployment = 5.9 tax rate = 65 percent
1981 unemployment =7.5 tax rate = 60 percent hmmmm
1991 unemployment =6.4 tax rate = 31 percent
2001 unemployment= 4.2 tax rate = 39 percent
2011 unemployment = 9.2 tax rate = 35 percent..
are you seeing a pattern here.the higher taxes have LOWER unemployment. Yet the republicans are telling you the opposite. Well if they are not basing on history, because history proves the higher rates have better employment numbers what are they basing their predictions on???? Perhaps when God spoke to Perry or Michelle god told them lower taxes would increase the employment? Perhaps the Corporation Gods told the republicans no new taxes or your donations dry up.....but historically that isn't true either. So where are the republicans getting their economic theory from?
Well it doesn't matter since its wrong, and it must be a lie, because it took 3 minutes to look up documented figures
I try to be honest with my statements, and in the spirit of honesty, I know that is not as simple as higher taxes lower unemployment. However, the congress, the senate, economist , the pundits are NOT being honest, they are over simplifying so, for the debate its simple, higher taxes lower unemployment.
.
Rest easy the democrats aren't much better because they have neither the brains or the guts to refute what is obviously nonsense being spread by the republicans. The democrats are waiting for some one to put the truth into a sound bite they can use at the next talk show.
The jobs are not being created because of greed. and greed equals stupidity. The belief that you can push a population ever further, no work, no money, no health care, no education, but some how you believe your company or you will continue to make money. The sad thing is that it does work for a while. But eventually, there does come a breaking point. As bad as it might seem now, it can get worse. Now we still have the chance to fix the problems. I don't know of many people who want to pay taxes...but we want our standard of living, we like roads, and schools, and hospitals. Government officials like 16 dollar muffins, free golf outings and free vacations in Europe, so they can study "dog parks" and "bicycle paths", you know the important things. Some one has to pay for it, its time to raise taxes FAIRLY,
So the next time some one says taxes destroy jobs, just quote this blog. Now I have to go drink my 8 dollar coffee and 6 dollar box of Crack or Jacks.
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