Asking For Blessings...

It would appear that for most Americans at least, it is very easy to ASK GOD to BLESS US but is it fair to be so ONE SIDED?  I mean, God created the HEAVENS and the EARTH, all ANIMALS whether extinct or still alive...  and GOD CREATED MANKIND...  not just AMERICANS...  but all men (and women) in all walks of life and in all countries...  and, when GOD was finished creating he said ALL WAS GOOD...  

Now for me, when someone says, especially a CREATOR, that all is good with respect to HIS creations, then one must consider the:

• Chinese
• Russians
• Orientals
• Asians
• Arabs
• Jews
• Nazis
• Terrorists
• Communists
• Socialists
• Dictators
• Monarchs
• Americans
• Hindus
• Buddhists
• Muslims, etc., etc., etc.

BUT...  AND IT WOULD APPEAR... that Americans only want God to BLESS THEM...  and, various parts of them as well like:

• winning political races
• winning athletic events
• winning competitions
• marriages and births
• various wars
• when someone is sick

AND...  I DON'T MEAN TO BE DISRESPECTFUL BUT IS THIS REALLY APPROPRIATE???

 

Domestic Terrorism

Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims.

According to the FBI:
Domestic right-wing terrorist groups often adhere to the principles of racial supremacy and embrace antigovernment, antiregulatory beliefs. Generally, extremist right-wing groups engage in activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action.

The LA Times Newspaper on December 2, 2020 printed the following story...

IOWA CITY, Iowa —
A prominent law enforcement training group is promoting a lengthy research document riddled with falsehoods and conspiracies that urges local-level police to treat Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting a violent revolution.

The document distributed by the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Assn. contains misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric that could incite officers against protesters and people of color, critics said. It alleges Black Lives Matter and antifa, an umbrella term for antifascist leftist activists, are “revolutionary movements whose aims are to overthrow the U.S. government” and claims they are planning “extreme violence.”

Phillip Atiba Goff, a Yale University professor who is an expert on racial bias in policing, called the document dangerous, noting that the association is an important source of training materials for many small and midsize departments across the country.

“It’s stunning. It’s distressing in many ways. It’s untethered to reality,” said Goff, chief executive of the Center for Policing Equity. “I worry that it leads to people dying unnecessarily.”

I find it sadly humorous that our society is bending over backwards so as not to offend BLACK PEOPLE...  just because the BLACK PEOPLE are making the claim that they are still a SLAVERY OPPRESSED people and by golly damn something has got to be done about it...

In  conjunction with this feeling is that fact that if a WHITE kills a BLACK is a HATE CRIME but if a BLACK kills a WHITE there is not hate involved at all...  it is a result of their upbringing and the white suppression that they have felt all their lives...

When I hear crap like this, all I think is BULLSHIT...  and the last thing i want to do is allow my tax dollars be spent on you...

If we don't stop bending over and catering to the blacks in this country, then we are going to have a race war in this country, the likes of which you have never seen before...  simply because of all the firearms that we have at our disposal and the damage that can be created in some of these larger cities.

A race war will not be fought in the country where all the crops are grown since most of that land is flat and it not easily protected...  but, inside a city, with large buildings and high rises, bridges and tunnels, and waterfront areas that can be easily defended...  this is where our race war will be...

AND, it will not be with the cops, but between A WHITE DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP AND A BLACK DEMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP...  with all sorts of innocent victims in between the two ENEMIES...

THE/Our New America

 THE WEALTHY AND THE POWERFUL CONTROL ALL

THE WEALTHY AND THE PWERFUL CONTROL THE MEDIA

THE WEALHTY AND THE PPOWERFUL CONTROL ALL COMMERCE

THE WEALTHY AND THE POWERFUL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY

THE WEALTHY AND THE POWERFUL CONTROL HEALTHCARE

AMERICANS LEAD THE WORLD IN THE CONSUMPTION OF ILLEGAL DRUGS

SYSTEMIC RACISM WILL NEVER BE ELIMINATED

AMERICANS DO NOT OBEY LAWS WHENEVER THEY WANT TO

AMERICANS ARE ONE OF THE MOST OBESE NATIONS IN THE WORLD

AMERICANS ARE HYPOCRITICAL WHEN IT COMES TO PRACTICING THEIR FAITH

AMERICANS ARE EGOTISTICAL, SELF-SERVING, AND ARROGANT TOWARDS OTHERS

AMERICANS THINK THAT THEY ARE BETTER THAN EVERYONE ELSE

AMERICANS DON'T CARE ABOUT AMERICAN POVERTY OR GLOBAL POVERTY EITHER

AMERICA: Not A Country Of Laws

America prides herself on being a country of laws but that is a BOLD FACE LIE and the farthest from the truth...

YES...  we have laws, but they do not apply equally to the wealthy, the middle class, or the poor and we know this to be true...  we just do not want to admit it.

White as well as Black Law Enforcement Officers know FOR A FACT that in Urban Areas, blacks perpetrate more blue collar crime than whites...

Black as well as White Law Enforcement Officers know FOR A FACT that in Urban Areas, whites perpetrate for white collar crime than blacks...

These are the facts...  just the facts...

Bill Cosby went to jail and was made an example and that is unfortunate...

OJ Simpson was declared innocent of murder and that was unfortunate as well...

Several WHITE COPS kill black potential criminals while in their custody and the whole BLACK COMMUNITY wants to RAM SLAVERY DOWN THE THROATS OF WHITEY because they are still opposing blacks...

If I am not mistaken, Barrack Obama was considered a BLACK MAN and he was PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for 8 frigging years and did VERY LITTLE to help his own black race...   and, no cries of slavery were yelled from the streets at that time...  nor has the former President apologized to his own race of people for not doing more.

Where is the TRUTH,

Where are the LAWS...  by which we as Americans want to live by???

How many wealthy people are in jail in America and compare that to how many wealthy people who have committed similar crimes are incarcerated?

How many law enforcement personnel on their OFF TIME...  their PERSONAL TIME...  commit tiny but illegal offenses...  like smoking a little pot on the weekends in States where it is still illegal...  or, drive home DRUNK after they have been out at a bar with the GALS and GUYS?

We are a HYPOCRITICAL NATION and we are finally being called out by the rest of the world who thanks to us have taken our money and gone to school and used that education against us on the economic battlefields...  while America is still claiming that we are a NATION OF LAWS...

Freedom of Choice

Philosophy of Choice  --  is a corollary of the proposition of free will or the ability voluntarily to decide to perform one of several possible acts or to avoid action entirely.   An ethical choice involves ascribing qualities such as right or wrong, good or bad, better or worse to alternatives.

In order to have a Corollary, one must form a proposition or concept from a proposition or concept that has already been proven...  therefore, ONE'S CHOICE(S) comes from ONE'S FREE WILL...  and FREE WILL means one's ability to act with one's own discretion...  therefore, making choices without influences either external or internal...  however, exercising one's free will is always contingent upon all factors that may influence the outcome of that decision.

Psychology of Choice  --  explores subconsciously why people make the choices they do as they decide making decision based upon two or more options; what motivates us to make these decisions, and what these choices are meant to satisfy within us. 

Our subconscious refers to that part of the mind which is not fully aware but which influences one's actions and feelings...  and, it may be difficult to accept having parts of our mind not being fully aware of anything...  it would seem that our mind is either aware or not aware...  BUT, that logic is INCORRECT.

When one reflects upon these definitions, one should come to the conclusion that we NEVER exercise our FREE WILL and/or CHOICES without some sort of external or internal influences which could be seen as an INTERACTION OF FORCES...

Even Jesus's choices were influenced by His Father, God...  Jesus never exercised his free will without first considering the influences and the potential outcomes of his free will, or what was motivating his free will and/or choices.

Whether we like it or not, we can never escape these influences or motivators of our behavior and our FREE WILL is NEVER exercised without influences even though we think it is just us who is making these choices.  We never makes choice on our own.  We never exercise our free will on our own, regardless of what anyone else tells you.

Therefore...

do we really have 

FREEDOM OF CHOICE?

THE FBI: A Government Police Force That Destroys People's Lives

Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen.  The film depicts the July 27 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath, as security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and alerts authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself. The film stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde.

The film had its world premiere on November 20, 2019, at the AFI Fest, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 13, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances (particularly Bates, Rockwell and Hauser) and Eastwood's direction. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the ten best films of the year. However, the film was criticized for its portrayal of a real-life reporter, Kathy Scruggs. The film grossed $43 million against its $45 million budget.  For her performance, Bates won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and earned nominations at the Academy Awards and Golden Globes.  SOURCE:  Wikipedia

I watched this movie on Netflix over a period of 2-3 nights, maybe more and for some reason was not aware that it was a true story until the very end....  but, If I had known if it was TRUE prior to me starting to watch, there is a good possibility I would not have watched it at all...  it was watched out of boredom and once I started I did not think the acting was very good and almost stopped several times...  but, I became curious, especially knowing that the FBI was making such fools out of themselves and thought the writer might be trying to make law enforcement in the USA look bad....  along with the media who got fixated on a topic and therefore knew it had to be true.

The FBI is really full of stupid people and after watching the news broadcasts from FOX about Comey and his cohorts at the fbi, this movie solidly convinced me never to trust the fbi again no matter what our federal government tells you.

If you haven't seen the movie, you should...  and know that clint eastwood directed it and no doubt took some liberties in how he portrayed the fbi and the atlanta journal but what director does not take liberties to get points across to the viewer.

after watching this movie, i am now inclined to support defund police departments because there is no doubts in my mind that they abuse their power and privilege and that our country is headed for a showdown...  and, it will not be pretty.

Unless You Are Wealthy

Did you inherit a Trust Fund worth millions?

Are you a movie star?

Are you a professional athlete?

Are you a singer or musicians?

Are you a writer?

Are you an artist?

Are you an investment banker?

Do you own your own company?

Are you a CEO?

Are you a Politician?

Are you in the top 10% of incomes?

THEN YOU, MY FRIENDS, ARE LIKE THE 90% REMAINING, AND ARE NOT WEALTHY NOR WILL WE EVER BE IN A POSITION TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT WE ARE TODAY...

Maybe 1-2% of you will always live in poverty no matter what the government does to help because any increases you get will be obliterated by cost of living increases, so you will never be any better off than you are now.

50% of you will earn more than you will ever need to live, spending that extra money on large house, cars, clothes, second homes, and vacations and well off you will be but you will never be WEALTHY and to tell the truth, NONE OF YOU GIVE A DAMN...

20% of you will have the money but you will struggle financially because of all the debt you carry and the fact that mentally you can not stop you spending habits...  you are addicted to the spending of money and either do not see it or do not want to see it.

The remaining 18% will live modestly from a modest income but your lack of education, determination, and discipline keeps you in the socio-economic level in which you find yourself now...  and, really do not want to see beyond because that is something that you have never been trained to do.

INTERESTINGLY,

the wealthy know all of this too well...  expecting you to be the sheep that you are and not rock the boat.  But, if you think that rocking the boat means getting your federal government to collect more in taxes so that they can give more to you, then you are sadly mistaken...

Collecting more taxes as the federal government wants to do will not be accomplished as easy as all that because the WEALTHY will shelter their monies in tax exempt offshore bank accounts...  and the easiest way to explain this is that the WEALTHY ARE NOT STUPID WITH STUPID TAX LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS.

AND,

what is even more interesting than this, is the fact that all the other emerging nations because of our buying habits are getting wealthier and wealthier and now have the buying power in their countries that you have here in the USA...

So...  what does this mean?

It means that THEIR DEMAND for goods and services will pull those scarce resources away from you...  all you have to do is a little internet research and make sure your sources of information are reliable because many sites on the internet lie to people, especially Americans since they are so gullible.

THIS NEXT DECADE ENDING IN 2030 WILL RESULT IN A GLOBAL, ECONOMIC, AND FINANCIAL TURNING POINT...  AND, THE LOSERS WILL BE MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS...

Stairway to Enlightenment

ENLIGHTENMENT is...

the state of having knowledge or understanding

the act of giving someone knowledge or understanding

a movement of the 18th century that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge and understanding than tradition and religion

ENLIGHTENMENT... 

was centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and advocated such ideals as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

ENLIGHTENMENT...

happens when one reaches the state of having attained spiritual knowledge about the true nature of our body and soul and all of divinity. Everyone struggles to experience, enjoy and embody what awakens your heart and soul.

ENLIGHTENMENT...
is difficult only because we are not willing to let go of the way we currently express consciousness. Yet to those who have attained enlightenment, it is the most natural way of being. Some enlightened beings express genuine wonder why would anybody choose to live any other way.

ENLIGHTENMENT...
happens when people accept themselves just the way they are. 

happens by being aware of any self critical thoughts and then deciding that they are not true. 

There is a 

THREEFOLD PATH to ENLIGHTENMENT:

First --  there is ethics which is the avoidance of non-virtuous deeds

Second --  there is concentrations which involves controlling one's mind

Third --  there is wisdom which pertains to insight into the nature of reality

These three revolve around:

CORRECT...

1. action
2. speech
3. livelihood
4. effort
5. mindfulness
6. concentration
7. view
8. intention

SOUNDS SIMPLE...  DOESN'T IT?

What Are The Wealthy Doing For Americans?

The wealthy have put their money into politics so that the Black Lives Matter movement will STOP white police from killing blacks and so that BLACKS will have a better life...

Now...

the wealthy will rebut that statement saying they do much, much more, like:

funding african american cultural centers

urban hospitals and medical research

investing in companies that hire people

investing in technologies that save people

HOWEVER...

in the reality of today's American GREED, most of the money belonging to the wealthy is sheltered away from the government's taxes in offshore tax havens and tax shelters...   and, the money that they give is not just because they are altruistic but because they are giving just enough charitable contributions to offset the taxes that they are supposed to pay...  but, you are too busy living paycheck-to-paycheck to notice what they are doing.

How are the wealthy helping our Veterans?

How are the wealthy helping our Disabled Veterans?

How are the wealthy helping Americans living in Poverty?

How are the wealthy helping Americans on Social Security?

It would appear, at least to me, that the WEALTHY are being proactive rather than reactive and once you are in one of those categories, the wealthy have no interest in you other than what they have to...  that is to say...  how the Federal Government wants to spend their tax dollars.

The wealthy give you just enough to keep your head above the water line but after that you are on your own and they don't give a damn if you are not strong enough to keep treading water, they have done their part and now their conscience is clear.

AMERICAN RETIREES: Go To Jail -- Live Large

FACTS:

The average Social Security check in 2020 was $1,503/month or $18,036/year

In 2020, 40% of all retirees received all their income from Social Security 

60% of all Americans above 60 years of age are living below the poverty line of $29,425/year

Seniors in financial trouble should commit a crime or multiple crimes so that they can be guaranteed jail time...

IN JAIL, INMATES HAVE

1. a place to sleep
2. a roof over their heads
3. clothes to wear
4. three meals a day
5. a craft to learn
6. warm showers
7. games to play
8. medical care
9. visitors
10. time outside
11. time alone
12. people to be with

It may not be the IDEAL place to die but it could be better than what they have, especially if they are living on the streets or cannot pay their bills...

In East TN, if a married couple received the average SOCIAL SECURITY check, then their combined income would be $3,006/month or $36, 0732/year which is above the poverty line and very doable to live...  but, only if you are married and/or living together...  living alone can be incredible problematic.

Without family or friends or help from the government, the ONLY LOGICAL COURSE OF ACTION is to GO TO JAIL for the REST OF ONE'S LIFE...

WELCOME TO AMERICA

HOME OF THE BRAVE

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

DEATH FOR RETIREES

Life Without Parole

 WE ARE ALL CONVICTED FELONS...

AND...  our jailors are the WEATHLY...  the once percenters who control life in America because they have so much POWER...  power that was given, taken, borrowed, earned, or stolen...  it matters little when you consider their endgame...

The one percenters control it all:

1. Banks and Investment Houses
2. Computers and Technology
3. Communications and Mass Media
4. Manufacturing and Retail
5. Entertainment and Professional Sports
6. The Justice System and the Courts
7. Politics and all the Politicians
8. Transportation and Logistics
9. Weapons and Ammunition
10. Clothing and Housing
11. Leisure and Recreation
12. Education and Innovation
13. Medical and Pharmaceuticals

If you yourself don't own something, then you work for them...  these one percenters...  helping them to get wealthier and wealthier each day that they live...  and, they don't give a damn about you and yours, only their bottom lines, competitions, and tax deductions...

 

We live in THEIR SOCIETY as prisoners...  convicted felons trying to earn a living, earn more money that is always within their powers to give or take away...  how stupid are we not to REVOLT and take it all away from them...  share it with our friends and neighbors, enjoying their holidays...

Our unions tried to help us once but as our union leaders became wealthy, they became friends with the one percenters and now do their bidding...  and, the losers are all the rest of us who remain in their prisons and jails, with no free meals and housing like the REAL FELONS get...  we are left to try and figure it out ourselves...

Remembering What's Important.

The past never catches up to the future because we are always having to live out our today...  and our future never pays much attention to our past unless it is trying to teach us a lesson...  the present is all anyone has...  nothing more and certainly nothing less...  we can remember all we want to remember but it will never make any difference as it will always be relived in memories and perhaps those memories will reflect what was important.

I do not remember much about my childhood except bits and pieces of fragments that may or may not be an accurate representation of what was experienced...  perhaps they are not even close at all...  and yet, they still lurk around my as if they were previous tomorrows.  My teenage years are a lot more vividly remembered especially my high school years but not my first 3 years of college or the 2 years I spent at that same college after 2 years in the military.  The chronology is rather accurate but the memories falter and all I can really see is that I attended and graduated...  and, received an honorable discharge from tje Navy.

My first marriage is also a blur even though it lasted more than 2 decades and provided me with a daughter whose life I will always cherish even if she no longer cherishes mine...  for one reason or another neither of which has been shared with me or any other as far as I can tell... although only her hairdresser knows for sure.

My second marriage is more readily available therefore my memories are probably more accurate and now that we have been together for over 25 years, I am not real sure what happened in our first decade together...  if was good or bad or simply indifferent...  although, one would suspect it would be better than not since we've stayed together almost 30 years...  almost half my lifetime...

So, what has actually been important in my life?

I could probably list them on the fingers of one hand with the other one tied behind my back...  but, all that is important is that we live another day.

Five years ago, I threw away all the books and notebooks that I had been collecting throughout my career, all of which I had either used or read and most of which had been given.  There were about 20 boxes of these books and I really did not know I had collected so much shit and the amount of space that it freed up was absolutely amazing.

But, more importantly my life did not fall apart once the last load was taken to the dump, so those damn books and notebooks must not have been that important.

About the only thing that I really consider important is all the writing I have done...  and yes, ever since high school, I have kept all of it...  but, if I were to go back and read some of my short stories, I would not even remember writing them or how I felt while doing so.  My poems are the same way.  I have written over 42,000 and NEVER ONCE have I looked back,. or reread, or revised any one of them...  if I did, the poems were instantly be changed from their original meaning...  even if the poem was not worth a damn.

So, I am not sure what's important in my life and what should be remembered.  My parents were important to me but each passing years causes them to pass farther and farther outside the perimeters of my memories...  and, I know this should not be so, but it is.

I am not sure if anything is really worth remembering except what might happen today.

Not Bad For A Man

 

Let's Return to the QUOTA System

 AMERICAN DEMOGRAPHICS 2020

59.7%     Non Hispanic Whites (formerly Caucasian)

18.7%     Hispanics

13.4%     Blacks (formerly African American or People of Color)

 5.9%      Asian

 1.3%      Native American and Native Alaskan

I propose that starting in January 2021 or as close thereafter as is politically feasible and practical that we commence doing everything in AMERICA based upon the 2020 DEMOGRAPHICS data and that we check that data every 2-3 years to see if it has changed...

• All House of Representatives
• All Senators
• All Judges
• All State Governors
• All State General Assemblies
• All Law Enforcement Offices
• All Branches of the Military
• All Government Employees
• All American Embassies on Foreign Soil

WILL HIRE COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY BASED UPON THE ABOVE LISTED DEMOGRAPHICS HENCE FORTH AND FOREVER MORE LET IT BE SO...

1. Only 59.7% will be non Hispanic whites
2. Only 18.7% will be Hispanics
3. Only 13.4% will be Blacks
4. Only 5.9% will be Asians
5. Only 1.3% will be Native Americans/Alaskans

NOTE:  this has nothing to do with qualifications as qualifications no longer matters because...  there may be some ethnic individuals who are not qualified and the government no longer wants to be accused of ethnic discrimination...   especially since the BLM movement brought all this to our attention...

IT IS OUR HOPE AND STRONGEST DESIRE THAT THE FOLLOWING ADOPT OUR NEW HIRING PRACTICES:

• All professional sports teams and associations
• All media outlets (including online)
• All technology companies
• All healthcare organizations and hospitals
• All Hollywood actors and actresses
• All Resorts, Hotels, and Motels
• All Artist Guilds, Clubs, and Communities
• All Singers and Musicians
• All Companies that employ any blue collar worker

EQUALITY DOES NOT EXIST IN AMERICA NOR WILL IT EVER EXIST IN AMERICA...  it is for this reason that we think all Americans should embrace this new philosophy...  I mean, when you think about it...  it is only the fairest way to cut and distribute the PIE.

IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE YOUR PERCENTAGE HAVE MORE BABIES...

Emerging Nations for 2021 and Beyond

The Big Emerging Markets (BEM) economies are (alphabetically ordered): 

1. Argentina
2. Brazil
3. China
4. India
5. Indonesia
6. Mexico
7. Poland
8. South Africa
9. South Korea
10. Turkey
11. Egypt
12. Iran
13. Nigeria
14. Pakistan
15. Russia
16. Saudi Arabia
17. Taiwan
18. Thailand

NOTATION:  Don't you find it interesting that these emerging markets are mostly on the other side of the world from the United States of America...  and, as they grow and increase their economies, financial resources will be pulled away from the USA...  and, invested overseas...  it is nothing personal...  just business...  by 2030, their growth and their wealth will be unstoppable if it already is unstoppable now.  

What Is an Emerging Market Economy?

An emerging market economy is the economy of a developing nation that is becoming more engaged with global markets as it grows. Countries classified as emerging market economies are those with some, but not all, of the characteristics of a developed market. As an emerging market economy progresses it typically becomes more integrated with the global economy, as shown by increased liquidity in local debt and equity markets, increased trade volume and foreign direct investment, and the domestic development of modern financial and regulatory institutions. Currently, some notable emerging market economies include India, Mexico, Russia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, China, and Brazil.

Critically, an emerging market economy is transitioning from a low income, less developed, often pre-industrial economy towards a modern, industrial economy with a higher standard of living.

Understanding Emerging Market Economy

Investors seek out emerging markets for the prospect of high returns, as they often experience faster economic growth as measured by GDP. However, along with higher returns usually comes much greater risk. Investors’ risk in emerging market economies can include political instability, domestic infrastructure problems, currency volatility, and illiquid equity, as many large companies may still be "state-run" or private. Also, local stock exchanges may not offer liquid markets to outside investors.

A New Decade Soon To Begin

In just a few days, that too will quickly pass, our nation, our world, will step into a new decade where changes will take place faster than ever before...  and, this new decade will be ushered in by the Democrats, not the Republicans which will allow this new decade to be focused on labor and not on management...  even though there are many, many incredibly wealthy Democrats who have invested their fortunes in the absolute growth of technology.

HOWEVER...

and let me be clear...

• labor does not hire people
• labor does not invest
• labor does not create jobs
• labor does not expand companies
• labor does not create new markets
• labor does not innovate
• labor does not provide capital
• labor does not negotiate contracts
• labor does not deal with other countries
• labor does not manage themselves
• labor does not work for free
• labor does not wear nice clothes to work
• labor does not live in big houses
• labor does not drive expensive cars
• labor does not keep their money in offshore bank accounts
• labor does not avoid paying taxes
• labor does not send their children to private schools
• labor does not dine in fancy restaurants
• labor does not use good grammar
• labor cannot afford to miss a day of work
• labor does not read the Wall Street Journal
• labor does not fly around in private jets
• labor cannot afford to purchase cocaine
• labor cannot afford to purchase the finest bottled water

AND NOW ABOUT THIS NEW DECADE...

• It will be a decade of growth for EMERGING COUNTRIES
• It will be a decade of growth for the CHINESE ECONOMY
• It will be a decade of growth for the CHINESE MILITARY
• It will be a decade when IRAN goes nuclear
• It will be a decade when NORTH KOREA goes nuclear
• It will be a decade when RUSSIA expands its territory
• It will be a decade when INDIA's economy surges to #3
• It will be a decade when TERRORISM rebuilds its influence and strength
• It will be a decade of Medicare for ALL in the USA
• It will be a decade of unprecedented immigration into the USA
• It will be a decade where USA Blacks are given more and more
• It will be a decade of spending on the USA's environment
• It will be a decade of restructuring USA law enforcement
• It will be a decade of rubbing the USA's white man's face in slavery

AND...

do you really believe that the DEMOCRATS will stop any of this from happening?

Freest Countries in the WORLD

as presented by...

By Rachel Dicker, Associate Editor, Social Media - US News and World Report

The United States prides itself on upholding freedom, but recent research indicates America is not as free as many other countries.

In fact, it might be less free now than it was before.

According to the Human Freedom Index, which "presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom," America is the 23rd freest country in the world.

The U.S. fell from 16th place in 2008 and 19th place in 2013.

The index is co-published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian, free-market-oriented think tank based in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with the conservative-leaning Fraser Institute in Canada, and the Liberales Institut at the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom in Germany.

"Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of the individual. The declining performance of the United States, once considered the bastion of liberty, is worrisome," Ian Vasquez, director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of the study, said in a press release. "We should all be concerned with the impact on liberty of the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the decline in the rule of law and economic liberty in the United Stat

According to the release, the index "ranks 159 countries based on 79 distinct indicators of personal, civil, and economic freedom, using data from 2008 to 2014, the most recent year for which sufficient data is available."

The index found Hong Kong to be the freest country, followed closely by Switzerland.

Other notable rankings include Russia, which ranked 115th, and China, which ranked 141st. Meanwhile, Iran, Yemen and Libya rounded out the bottom of the list.

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I have long suspected that the United States of America was no longer a perfect example of DEMOCRACY and HUMAN RIGHTS and FREEDOMS... as it was during the middle of the twentieth century...  but, no one wanted to listen because everyone perceived that they were free and could do anything and everything they wanted to do within reason...  but, the biggest problem with have too much freedom is that you don't notice as damn thing as it starts to slip away...

Going With The Flow

If I live 25 more years, then I have 9,131 more wake up calls before the Good Lord or someone else takes my body; if the years remaining are only 20, then my wake up calls reduce to 7,303; and if, for some reason my Maker or someone else decides that society only needs me for another 10, then my wake up considerably reduce to 3,652; however, I am not going to spend any of my morning marking any days off a calendar...  this is not the way this life was meant to be lived...  at least, not from my current perspective...

In my early years, I lived fast and loose, taking chances and risks that only not so smart idiots would take and for some reason survived them all...  but, learned no lessons...  after marriage and during middle age, I matured into the kind of person who made the kinds of decisions that always put work first instead of my family or any of my spiritual beliefs that I seemed to be leaving behind.  These years were tumultuous to say the least and again...  no lessons learned...

A funny thing happened to me along the age road and it smacked me hard in the face when I turned 60...  my healthy body that I had been treating perfectly with proper diets, no alcohol, no smoking, and exercise decided that it wanted to give into CANCER and to pour salt into the wound decided that it was necessary to have a severe heart attack.  Instead of killing me, my damn healthy body survived and decided that it was going to keep me above ground for a few more years...

This may be nothing new to those of you who like to read what I have to say, but what was new that was learned was my new perspective on life...  It seems that my entire life was spent trying to take my body in one direction, when my body fought me taking me into another direction...  that is to say, how I ended up and doing what I was doing at age 60 was NEVER PART of any of my PLANS of Action...  hard to believe but true...

My mind took me down one dirt road when my body took me down another.  I started out in light manufacturing, went into the arts, and then continuing education, took a detour into manufacturing again, catapulted into administration, and ended my career teaching...  which was not ever the last choice on my list, in fact, none of my jobs were jobs that I really wanted to do at all...  they all just sort of fell into my lap one day and there I was...

My heart's desire was threefold:  a modern dancer and/or a fine arts artist and if those did not work out, then an Architect.

Ain't it funny how life works out...  or maybe not funny at all, since I spent 42 years never doing anything that I really wanted to do...

After 12 years and into my 13th of cancer treatments...  I have had almost everything offered:

• Surgery
• Radiation
• Chemotherapy
• Immunotherapy

and...  this latest treatment protocols, combining radiation with immunotherapy seems to really be working which is why I believe that it is entirely possible that I might have another 20-25 years...  and, while this may be ambitious, I do not believe it is an exaggeration.

My life has NEVER BEEN MY OWN really and it took me 67 years to figure that out and while many people on this earth DO NOT believe in PREDESTINATION, both of my feet are firmly planted in that camp...

Why, you might ask?

Because... it all started with my birth actually...   and the fact that while my parents planted the seed, there was something more spiritual, more divine that caused ME to be born and no someone else.  You might say, it was the combo of my parents DNA, but that is too simplistic of an answer because it still does not explain why ME instead of my brother or my sister...  or, someone else...

I ended up where I did in life because that is exactly where I supposed to be and nowhere else...  not matter what I wanted or taking into the consideration the desire of someone else...

My purpose may yet to defined...  or, it may have already happened...  I do not know and will never know I suppose until I die...  but someone else or something else has already decided what, if anything, that I will contribute...  and that the purpose of my life just seems to be GOING WITH THE FLOW and nothing more.  What ever it is that I am suppose to do...  I will do...  or, have done already...  and, there is not a damn thing I can do about except just sit back and enjoy...

It is this awareness that has become my life's lesson...

THE YEAR IS 2030

The year is 2030 and I am 83 years old... and the odds are against me living until the year 2040...  however anything is possible...

The Trust Fund that was left to me by my parents will be exhausted and I will be living totally on Social Security and whatever money I have managed to save.

The USA will NO LONGER LEAD THE WORLD:

• Economically
• Militarily

That role will now fall to China...  and, this will happen because of all the EMERGING COUNTRIES located in the geographical area...  and, think of it this way...  all those cheap prices you paid for all those things you wanted...  were made in all those countries that because of you are now emerging and taking the spotlight away from Americans and shinning it on Asians...  or, Orientals...

• America's NATIONAL DEBT will be extremely high
• There will not be enough jobs for all the college graduates
• Our military budgets will have been slashed several ways
• Monies will be diverted into all sorts of social programs
• America's good fortune will have been throw out with the bath water

Global Warming...  Climate Change...  whatever you want to call it, will have devastating impacts on the entire world and not because the USA did not do their part...  but because the rest of the world decided not to participate and it takes everyone...  not just a few...

America's WEALTHY will have become MORE WEALTHY than every before and not because of repeat business from Americans but because of all the GLOBAL MARKETS that came into existence because of all these emerging countries who became wealthy because Americans wanted CHEAP PRICES.

POETIC JUSTICE...  WOULD YOU NOT SAY...

Remember,

2030 is only 10 years away...

think how fast 8 years of Obama passed and

the 4 years of Trump passed even faster...

ALSO remember Forrest Gump's Mother who said:  STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES...   and, see how much of that wisdom pertains to you and me...  and, all the rest of us who expect different results by doing the same thing over and over.

IN 2030, you will be able to compare the USA with the ROMAN EMPIRE...

Global Economic Forecasts for 2030

 IN 10 YEARS THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE THIS...

In 10 years, all the emerging countries in the world will catch-up to the global economic leaders in 2020...  this is not a phenomenon but will continue well into the future...

In 10 years, it is predicted that our global population increase will peak and start to level off and that there will be an alarming growth of the Middle Class that will put a stain on global resources...

In 10 years, the availability of fresh water will not be available to everyone because of population increases, urbanization, pollution, climate change, and wasteful usage.

In 10 years, there will be an alarming increase in the aging population in Europe while at the same time there will be an alarming increase in the youth populations in the Middle East and North Africa.

In 10 years, there will be increases in Global Trade due to population increases to the point that our current transportation capabilities will be severely limited and will not be able to accommodate.

In 10 years, the emerging economies will have a tremendous impact on Global Finances and Global Resources as China's economy continues to mature with them thus shifting the location and focus of the growing global economy.

In 10 years, there is disagreement that the US Economy will grow as a result of its vast new oil resources as the global economy shifts towards the east.

In 10 years, there will still be three main areas:  the US, Europe, and China...  however, China will be the largest.

In 10 years, China's economy will be just as large as the economies of the US and Europe COMBINED...  SOURCE:  ESPAS