More on how "The System" is Sticking It To Us

I’m behind the times.  It seems that officer Darren Wilson really was cleared by the Justice Department of any Civil Rights violations of Michael Brown.  It’s that “high bar” thing we spoke of a couple weeks ago.  I was watching a thing on racial coverage and the Media- - on C-Span and I recommend that everybody try and watch that.  The media’s game of course is to polarize and stereotype everything and create more heat than light.  Many didn’t want to find out factually whether Michael Brown even HAD a juvenile record.  It seems that he didn’t, but the common perception portrayed in the Media is that he did and therefore since he did he “deserved” whatever poor treatment he got.  It’s the John Kovel doctrine of “Well, the guy is guilty of Something”.  Of course they pointed out that “We won’t stop till we kill a cop” is not what that Al Sharpton crowd was chanting, but it’s what a FOX news station played.  Needless to remind you that the Media does not want to put out “The Facts”.  What the Media WANTS is to entertain slash indoctrinate us, and get us to “Tweet” about completely pointless matters and clog up the internet.  It is also pointed out that while talking about Rap Music in "The Media" they will show photos of these rap artists in their "role playing" patter lyrics.  What they will NOT show is the White record executives who promote these rap artists.  Remember that for a time even liberal talk Radio was propigated by Clear Channel, a conservative outlet - and they presented us well, because we were a money maker.  After a while politics trumped even money of all things- and they all got the axe.  In other news - - the new candidate for Attorney General is another stealth conservative candidate.  On all areas EXCEPT racial immigration, she is a died in the wool NEO CON Bush Republican - - for instance on all matters financial.  In fact if anything she’s worse than Eric Holder was.  This is why she is almost assured passage by a majority republican committee- - - because people like Lindsey Gram know when all is said and done “She is one of us”.   One blogger states that in order to work to an age “at which he can retire comfortably” he’d have to work till he was 91, and then he could retire comfortably.  To do that the average person would have to have a nest egg of 2.6 million, and since the average wage earner only makes just over fifty thousand, if he put every cent he made into a savings account, it would still take a hell of a long time to get to 2.6 million dollars, if he could ever do it.  It’s been pointed out that if Black people are paid less, then they have less, or nothing at all to pass on to their children. There was mentioned in that magazine I read that- - the average age of the Accadamy Award people is 63 and they are almost all white and male, which I find amazingly puzzling.  It almost seems that the Nominations this year going all Lilly White- - were part of a move to appease the Republicans and people like Sean Hannity who say Hollywood is dominated by liberals.  I sure used to believe that but compared to twenty or thirty years ago, the Hollywood Community has been strangely mute on today’s issues.   People wonder than the Latinos, for instance will assimilate.   I have rather profound doubts they will ever “assimilate” into the sort of red neck people you people on the right want them to be- - unless you are talking about “White Hispanics” like Zimmerman.  In short, what they want - - is impossible.

I would now like to speak on the topic of "It Doesn't Pay to be Responsible anymore".   It used to be you bought a house that went up five percent every year- - as a sort of enforced savings program, because you were building up equity.  It used to be (and I had forgotten this) that by Law, banks had to pay five and a quarter percent on Savings Accounts.  Remember that?   But now of course bloggers are chastizing people between- - oh - - aged 55 to 65 who are at least Thinking of retiring soon- - and they lambast us if we complain "But we don't have any money saved up".   It's reality check time.  How many people reading this can remember when inflation was twelve percent (the "good old days") when your money really multiplied.  Then there was Walter Mondale complaining in 1984 about "High real interest rates".  So that was HOW long ago - - 31 years?   Well, what if you haven't been working for 35 years?  It was pointed out that what "The System" (for lack of a better term) wants is not being a "Quiet builder" of equity like the good old days.  They are driving everybody to two choices- - either Starve, or become a really risky speculator engaging in all these Wall Street "debt instrument" accrobatics where maybe you "sell your loan" to others, which somehow makes you money.  It kind of reminds me of the me and the Christian Church.  Some may say "after spending years in the Church you have an investment that should be producing dividends by now".  Allow me to quote from Job in the Bible.  "I had nothing in spiritual assets when I came into the church, and I left with nothing".   First let me tell you what does NOT matter to them.  It doesn't matter how many good "personal references" you have or who likes you or what they say about you, who actually know you.  It doesn't matter how many "decisions" to do good you make to improve your life Spiritually.  It doesn't matter how much you think you may have "grown" or how much you read the Bible and can quote it.  No.  What matters is what the chief mucky-mucks of "The Church" think of you.  What roots do you have in "The Organization".  Some ask me, "When did you leave the Church?"   Well, it was sometime between August of 1994 and maybe Easter of 2002, but perhaps - - the first half of 1997 is when I was developing major emotional problems in seeing myself still as a part of the Church.  Make no mistake in what I am saying.  "Wall Street" is not broke.  Wall Street is awash in money.  The United States is not broke.  Our government is perfectly solvant, thank you.  Who's bankrupt.  You and Me are bankrupt, and collectively - - that's a lot of personal bankruptsy out there.  If you listen to the media and watch their adds for just about Anything - - you'd get the idea that the average American - - earns a whole lot more than fifty thousand a year.  That's all it is.  And I don't earn that.  Most of the ads you see are aimed at probably about the top twenty percent of salary earners - - and would have you believe THAT is "The norm".   Of course these people in soap operas coming from rich families- - seem to have money to burn all the time and think nothing of tipping the bell hop twenty dollars - - or maybe fifty dollars.  Obviously they travel everywhere in cabs - if not limozines.  A hundred dollars in your wallet is just pocket change to these people.  This paragraph is being typed Live.  The previous paragraph is Memorex, meaning that I have an additional copy of it not in this blog.

The Watchword Is Prudance

A philosophical question is raised as to whether in the name of Prudence, one should sacrifice one’s dearly held moral principles.   Let’s talk about Mike Huckibee.   Huckibee has come right out and said it.  He is going to leave the Republican Party and become an independent if the Republicans as a party embrace gay marriage.  I admire him for his moral stand on principle and would only pray that I had the moral backbone to do the same thing, as a potential democrat running for office, no matter how much it hurt me politically.  Gay marriage is an abomination - - and you can do all the sugar coating of the issue you want to and it won’t change that basic truth.   But I may have an unlikely ally in my position in Norman Goldman, who talked about the Supreme Court and whether the writers of the constitution EVER intended this already powerful court - - branch of government- - ALSO had the power of “Judicial review” as it is called.  An unanswered constitutional question at the original convention was “Who will be the ultimate authority on what is constitutional and what is not? “   And do you think the constitution would have EVER passed the states with THAT much power in a single entity?  Hummm?  I think not.  Thom Hartman has amazing clarity on this point.  If a legislature passes a law that is no good- - then the people should rise up and say this law needs to be changed, and if they won’t then elect other legislators next time.  This seems obvious to me.   Why should the will of the people be overridden by some self appointed dictator in a black robe.  Presidents Jackson,  Lincoln, and Roosevelt were ademate that this “constitutional” stuff is an abuse of power by the High Court.  So if Huckibee wants to invoke some doctrine of “nullification” I’m right there behind him.   This whole issue with John Boehner and Congress inviting the Israeli Prime Minister to speak before that body - - has come up.  I’ve thought long and hard over this but much as I’d like to come against John Boehner on this one- - I don’t see how I can.  John Boehner seems perfectly within his rights as the head of a co equal branch of government to invite whomever he wants to speak before the legislative body.   I know all this bit about interfering with the Israeli election and all.  If the citizens want to hold it against Netenyahoo then they can campaign against him in their own country.  But I don’t see any way that John Boehner is at fault on this issue.   As to the interviewing of the new Attorney General candidate on race and immigration- - I’ve had a change of heart on this immigration issue.  I now believe the president was wrong to go around what he knows to be the will of Congress on this issue, and Lindsey Graham or anybody else has the right to question a potential A G’s qualifications to head the Justice Department if they refuse to enforce a duly passed law.  That’s my opinion.

Prudence is the watch word.  One of the wisest sayings I’ve come across was from a Dr Levy collection of quotations from Founders and one female said “It’s a proven truth that the last thing you want to do - - is the first thing you should do”.   Just think of the applications of this statement.  In my own case the last thing I want to do is to get a colonoscopy, and yet I know eventually I should do it.  Also high on the list is having my computer checked out- - and the hassles of getting a new computer and transferring all of the times and hopefully if I update operating systems, the old stuff will be compatible with it.  I know that before I do that I need to back up and I also need to download photos from the camera but before even doing that I should take more pictures around here.   One thing under “The last thing you want to do” is to speak of some clear danger that only you are aware of, for instance smoking wires in some electrical system.  Everyone around you is content to either not be aware or not care about it, but you clearly see the danger and Owe it to mention it.  I would call the Trans-Canada pipeline a “clear and present danger to planet earth”.  A lot of parents should immediately get their kids vaccinated for measles since there is an epidemic right now.  They have medical staff roaming the Super Bowl looking for people displaying symptoms of being ill.  If you have measles anything you touch will have viruses on it that could infect someone else after you’ve left for the next two hours.  They call it the MRM vaccine for measles, rubella and mumps.  Of course DPT is diphtheria, pertusssis, and tetanus.   They are concerned about primarisol with the mercury, but mercury does not cause autism, which is a very specific brain genetic defect.   Mercury causes mental, confusion and disorientation and even hallucination, but not autism.  Of course there are drones to watch out for in this year’s super bowl because they are cropping up all over the place, and some people like Bill Press would like to ban all of them.  Certainly drones with cameras should be addressed- - if you/re flying past someone’s upstairs bedroom window where there would be some presumption of privacy.  Then of course there are bombs that need to be looked out for at the Super Bowl.   Something “prudent” is anything good and wise to do under known circumstances.   There is this case where two college defendants were convicted of rape, but then somehow it was learned that one of the jurors had been sexually assaulted- - fifteen years ago.  Some like Neil Savedra and Bill Halliday (neither ones bastions of forgiveness) would employ the “damaged goods” doctrine here by saying that if you were a victim of the crime you are trying you are suddenly “no good” as a juror.  As a conscientious individual I see a major flaw in this logic.  It smacks too much of this so called “pre existant condition” insurance companies like to nag you for.  But I have a doctrine of my own.  It’s the “Ask any question you want to- - but when you publicly state that you are Satisfied with your many queries- - and you make the deal, than it’s a done deal.  This juror “passed inspection” and I think it would be chaotic if anything that “passed inspection” were poked at and re-questioned - - if only mentally.  It just would not be Prudent- - to re-try a rape case where it’s clear both the parties are guilty as sin.

I need to address this whole "Reality" question when it comes to all this Federation stuff I do.  Last night I was looking at that Hubble telescope book.  It helps to understand the images of the stars you are looking at to read the comentary.  They had Orion up there and the star Beteleguise.  It's a very massive star- - and you could put Earth's entire orbital path around inside Betelguise and still have all sorts of space left over.  That's reality.  That's the size of the star we are talking about.  It's a very old star.  I heard from other sources there is Iron in this star- - which is the "final product" of any fusion reaction.  These fusion reactions keep going until they get to Iron and then stop.  "Iron Sun" is the BOC reference.  But what when what you know and learn as "reality" contradicts, for lack of a better term "Federation doctrine".   In May of 1994 Pete Richards reported that this girl singer named Annie was leaving Calvary Anaheim, and his explanation for it was "She's into Reality now".   I think it's mentally healthy for ALL of us to be "Into Reality".  Remember that among other things I am an Objectivist philosophically, which means there are certain criteria for what my mental discipline will accept as "True".  Some of these rock group origens, for instance, to me seem hopelessly arbitrary.  It was one of these Eye on LA shows and they were talking about this Atomic Cafe place in "Little Tokyo" and I guess the old building was being torn down.  And they remarked how luminaries such as David Bowie, Blondie, and the Go-Go's hung out there.  But my "doctrinal self" said "Wait a minute- - you're talking three different cosmic entities here."   It's like coming accross an Irishman, a Jamaican and a Puerto Rican and then saying 'You three can't hang out together because you're of different races" like Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, and Joan Baez all hanging out together as folk singers.  As an Objectivist there comes a point where I am going to DEMAND a certain ammount of validation Proof from that thing I profess to believe in.  And I'm not sure I have it.  I don't want to be one of those "Day Trippers" who goes on and on about something but never comes to where the rubber meets the road.  I don't want to be like these untimed web sites with no arrows - - and you don't know if the thing is going to go on for another thirty seconds or thirty minutes yammering away about FIMA or whatever government organization they're ragging on today.   They go off half cocked like an escapee from an Assylum stating their Palinesque sentense fragments, run together without any punctuation, and they leave it to You to somehow make Sense of it.  Or at least I'm ASSUMING they want you to make Sense of what they are saying.  So now I've said my peace, and it's you people's turn to respond- - as a call in show host might say.

I GUESS YOU MIGHT CALL THIS "AM AMERICAN PRAYER OF SUPPLICATION"

#1 The Obama administration tells us that 8.69 million Americans are “officially unemployed” and that92.90 million Americans are considered to be “not in the labor force”. That means that more than 101 million U.S. adults do not have a job right now.

#2 One recent survey discovered that 55 percent of Americans believe that the American Dream either never existed or that it no longer exists.

#3 Considering the fact that Obama is in the White House, it is somewhat surprising that 55 percent of all Republicans still believe in the American Dream, but only 33 percent of all Democrats do.

#4 After adjusting for inflation, median household income has fallen by nearly $5,000 since 2007.

#5 After adjusting for inflation, “the median wealth figure for middle-income families” fell from $78,000 in 1983 to $63,800 in 2013.

#6 At this point, 59 percent of Americans believe that “the American dream has become impossible for most people to achieve”.

#7 In 1967, 53 percent of Americans were considered to be “middle income”. But today, only 43 percentof Americans are.

#8 For each of the past six years, more businesses have closed in the United States than have opened. Prior to 2008, this had never happened before in all of U.S. history.

#9 According to the New York Times, the “typical American household” is now worth 36 percent lessthan it was worth a decade ago.

#10 According to one recent report, 43 million Americans currently have unpaid medical debt on their credit reports.

#11 Traditionally, owning a home has been one of the key indicators that you belong to the middle class. Unfortunately, the rate of homeownership in the U.S. has now been falling for seven years in a row.

#12 According to a survey that was conducted last year, 52 percent of all Americans cannot even afford the house that they are living in right now.

#13 While Barack Obama has been in the White House, the number of Americans on food stamps has gone from 32 million to 46 million.

#14 The number of Americans on food stamps has now exceeded the 46 million mark for 38 months in a row.

#15 Right now, more than one out of every five children in the United States is on food stamps.

#16 According to a Washington Post article published just recently, more than 50 percent of the children in U.S. public schools now come from low income homes. This is the first time that this has happened in at least 50 years.

#17 According to the Census Bureau, 65 percent of all children in the United States are living in a home that receives some form of aid from the federal government.

#18 In 2008, 53 percent of all Americans considered themselves to be “middle class”. But by 2014, only44 percent of all Americans still considered themselves to be “middle class”.

#19 In 2008, 25 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 29-year-old age bracket considered themselves to be “lower class”. But in 2014, an astounding 49 percent of all Americans in that age range considered themselves to be “lower class”.

#20 It is hard to believe, but an astounding 53 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year.

#21 According to one recent survey, 62 percent of all Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck.

#22 According to CNN, the typical American family can only “replace 21 days of income with readily accessible funds”.
The key to the recovery of the middle class is jobs.

The truth is that without middle class jobs, it is impossible to have a middle class.

Unfortunately, more middle class jobs are being offshored, are being replaced by technology, or are being lost to a slowing economy every single day.

IT’S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE, IS IT?

So how can we get this turned around?

How can we start to increase the number of middle class jobs in America once again?

Will Repentance, Prayer and Fasting work?