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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Our Democracy Works

What is the alternative to Democracy… 

          We in Georgia find the notion of Democracy at times undesirable as it means that the majority rules, to some the unwashed many.  So as we are a republic, we create laws so the majority does not disenfranchise the minority.
           Now let’s take a look at these first years of our new century; We started out with , for the first time in decades a surplus in the budget left after all the bills of our nation were paid.. The cry went up let’s pay down the National Debt of course that did not happen. The Tax code was reordered and the surplus would be used to return money to some of our corporations. Then we became involved in Two wars probably of our own making. We were attacked sure but to open the door for a pipe line across Asia We were attacked through that door…
            In all previous Wars our nation has fought, a new tax was levied to pay for the expenditure of moneys for the materials of war (planes, bombs, tanks and so on) So now we are using the nations credit card for the most expensive war of all time not because so much it’s the longest one in our nations History, but one cruse missile cost almost as much as a world war two cruiser we have used several thousand, All other costs have increased geometrically…
             The business of any government is the people of the governed Nation and as the cost of war superseded the national income due to detaxing the better off to fall in line with the failed notion of trickle down. Less and less money has been spent on the business of this nation.
Our Middle class has dwindled as corporations move operations off shore to increase profit margins. As the middle class diminishes the income to the nation decreases the upper income groups see that the only money left is in their pockets and they say “let them eat cake”    Wake up people we are all in this boat together and it is not allowed to throw any one over board…..
                 I believe that our people most of us are Good the proof is that we as a nation have survived and we will rise above all of these short sited moves….       

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Our Vision of the future

Our vision of the future

      My vision of the future of our Country was one where all men are created equal and because we do not have a class of nobility born into that position even the poorest of us can rise to a place of importance due to our own endeavors.
      That said our world has changed where the goods and food was produced by men, large numbers of Men and Women from the fields to the factories. Machines have replaced them. In a sane World the people could maintain the machines keeping their Jobs as though the automation were tools of the people not replacements for them. But as is the nature of Man kind greed comes into play why keep people as part of the equation when they are really not needed except occasionally to retool or repair. Great piles of money are to be made. The owners of these great endeavors (corporations may they be factories or farms) have forgotten two great truths,,, markets for their stuff and you can’t down size a nation.
        So what do we do as a people to survive not just the owners but all people… With out turning on our selves which is what we are doing as a species.
         Give me some feed back folks Ideas are what we need                         



Sunday, September 1, 2013

Can we trust

        In Syria we have a nation of people tearing them selves apart.
 While we in this country wring our hands in desperation crying stop it stop it.
        We as a nation fail to see the nature of this conflict unable or unwilling to see this war for what it is. Our first reaction is to back the opposition forces aligned with the United Arab Republics,   trying to free them selves from the evil rule of the long time tyrants the Assad family who are aligned with Iran and Hamas…
         Take another look, please. We have been fighting for the last twenty two years a war against the Sunni Muslims. After Our creation of Al Qaeda (and we the US did that to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan) We lost control of that army and we have been fighting them ever since. Iran and their allies are followers of Ali, (Shia Muslims) these two sects have been fighting each other for over a thousand years.
          In the name of God these two groups are fighting and Killing the innocents, their own citizens.
           If we launch missiles to punish Assad we supporting the very people who destroyed the twin towers in New York.

           We have reason to mistrust both sides in this conflict so in this case …. The enemy of my enemy is not my friend                             

Friday, May 31, 2013

Some food for thought

Some Food for thought....These words have always caught my attention so for the next few months I am going to feed us a little sustenance for our minds to chew on

1. The other day while standing out side here in Georgia the heat coming off my AC condenser was terrific then I noticed the back ground sound of hundreds of these units pumping out heat in our neighbor hood.
In fact all over the world we are using vast amounts of power to make heat the side effect is cooling these small insulated pockets we call home.
2. In the Muslim world there are two basic followings and hands full of smaller ones. The Sunni and the Shia lead the pack. In the beginning of the of the Muslim faith the Shia had close ties to Christianity and Judaism standing along side the leader of the Shia in a battle to the death against the leader of the early Sunni.. In 1947 the Shia fought with the Jews against the Sunni in the creation of the new Israel. Now the US backs the Sunni while the Russians back the Shia.. Whats going on here