Life in a Post Capitalist World

If I remember correctly, in high school my teacher taught me how the invention of the assembly line was supposed to revolutionize the idea of capitalism. Things would be made much faster, and by everyone in the assembly line having a small but focused job, there would be extra time for stuff like fun. I don’t think many assembly line workers have free time in mind when they go to work these days.

First of all, assembly lines are usually no longer profitable in America, although we do farm them out oversees to people that we are allowed to pay whatever we want, and there always seems to be takers for these jobs. Let’s look at why? First of all, these workers lack skill sets, so when American Corporations defend the wages they pay overseas they play this card saying offering that we pay them so poorly essentially because we can get away with it. Fast forward to the modern era and now we are closing in on the idea that we don’t need anyone at all, and therefore there is no reason to pay someone anything, because everyone is replaceable.

And, now that I think of that, I don’t agree that people are replaceable just because we can get a machine or another person to do their job based upon a mere whim. A job can be found in Him merely though worship of Him. Yet, that day has yet to fully come, so don’t yet quit your day job. Most people probably like to think they are valuable, and they are, but the difference in today’s world is that their value is not going to be determined by their occupation. Those that accept that people are replaceable are probably going to be the first to say, something like, “Gee! Now that I have realized that I am useless, what can I do now?” For some that thought is pure bliss, for others that thought is a reason for suicide. Unfortunately, some people worship capitalism, as if it was a Gd, and the thought of life without capitalism brings nothing but the greatest sorrow of sorrows.

These are probably the people I least worry about: If you have the knowledge to know you can probably be outpaced by a machine, or someday in the near future, that that is right around the bend, you’ve probably taken some time to entertain yourself spiritually. Possibly, like me, you have gone on the quest to find the one true Gd, or something similar. These will be the types of escapades that will go on more often starting in about year 6,000 on the Orthodox Jewish calendar. This will be the 7th millennium, which in Judaism is known as the age of Moshiach. I like to explain this age as if it were Eden. If you paid it forward and did your good deeds, in the age of Moshiach, there will be no more work for you, although life will be better than just good.

In the Middle Ages and the Dark Ages times were much tougher. Now we have the time to explore the world at our leisure because really, few people need to work more than 40hr weeks, unless they want to. Just as the inventions from 1990 to 2000 where greater in number (and downright amusingness) than we have seen in the entirety of the rest of all other time periods, so too will technology cause us to all be obsolete if we allow ourselves to believe the lies about life in an atheist world.

As we head towards socialized healthcare in America, as well as for places that are more impoverished, such as in Africa through charities such as Heifer International, I think that it is safe to say that we are headed to a world that might be described as being like the Garden of Eden. In my mind, the rules of the universe will remain the same. Live by the golden rule and karma, and chances are that somehow you will come out on top.

If I had to refute the late Christopher Hitchens, then I would say, “Live a life of superstition because I can guarantee you that doing good deeds is the best way to choose no matter how superstitious it may seem.” Ozzy Osbourne was spot on in his song, “I don’t know,” in which he rather ironically claims, “Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself. You got to believe in foolish miracles.” Thus, it is such with reality; if we are able to make peace with our Creator, then indeed He will probably allow us a share of life in a peaceful world for our good deeds. Likewise, I should importantly say, good deeds are not always easy to do. I have spent a good deal of my lifetime trying to communicate over the net the blessings of doing what is moral, and upright. Learning to write didn’t happen in a day, a month, or even a year.

My take home message is to go study, be it books or baseballs, etc., with the aim of making yourself useful, and eventually, though you may crawl and cry, eventually things will work out for Gd. Take for instance the passage in Genesis that Joseph says, “You intended to harm me, but Gd intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.” I guess that makes me a priest of sorts. So, when I go to write, I share what I know for the sake of helping people that I don’t know. In my darkest hour, You were there for me, Gd. You told me of your anger saying, “I am punishing you,” which was as music for my ears because I thought that not only wasn’t there a Gd, but also the Gd I had been told of was a wimp, so I dismissed my knowledge of a wimpy Gd. Gd you were there to accuse me, such that my soul repented out of love for your voice, and I realized that You, Gd, are a vengeful and wrathful Gd. He, Gd, reached out to me, so following that pattern, to imitate His just ways, I reach out to you, in the hope that Eden will be for all of us, from the greatest to the least, and none will be able to say, I am not important, because we can derive that Gd is reasonable because His creation is reasonable, and for His creation to be reasonable, each soul in it must have a share in the World to Come, as each soul has a share from the breath of Gd that came from Him in the creation week of Genesis Chapter 1.

On The CCRTA: An Example of Extracting Goodness Out of Negativity

I am a firm believer that good things happen to good people; but, how soon do I question my own comfort in that I have lost the favor of God?

The other day I took the bus and because the schedule wasn't clear I ended up missing the bus. I wondered what had I done to merit losing a ride and having to have my wife pick me up. I became angry, but I thought to myself that I am heading down the wrong path, and that instead of counting what is wrong, that I should be counting my blessing and trying to extract the good from this seemingly negative situation. The results started when I contacted the bus company. The management agreed with me that this needed to be fixed, and not only that, they agreed with my suggestion as to the way it should be fixed.

So, through being tactful, and not expressing anger, I was able to offer a potential fix. This fix is a blessing that may help up to 1,000 people or more over the years as the bus system becomes more popular. So, though I was quick to anger with G_d I was also quick to forgive, and Gd brought me even more blessing instead of pain.

I had missed the bus so that many others will not miss the bus. What a blessing to get a chance to change the world for better and for the sake of goodness!

Ethics of the Fathers 5:11 "There are four types of temperaments. One who is easily angered and easily appeased--his virtue cancels his flaw. One whom it is difficult to anger and difficult to appease--his flaw cancels his virtue. One whom it is difficult to anger and is easily appeased, is a chassid. One who is easily angered and is difficult to appease, is wicked." – www.chabad.org

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The rest of the blog is copies of emails that verify that indeed what had happened was indeed a very positive thing. If nothing else, missing the bus started me on the walk to home, which gave me a considerable work out, benefiting my health.

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The following is a slightly edited email Posted to the CCRTA (Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority)

To the administrator of the Cape Cod RTA website; this is a complaint about the Bell Tower Mall stop. Reading the website, it is entirely reasonable to think that the bus pulls right into the Bell Tower Mall parking lot. I did not know that the CCRTA bus does not go there, nor is that indicated on the website that the bus does not go there (in the parking lot). Consequently, I missed my bus and had to have my wife come pick me up, totally defeating the purpose of the bus system.

There is an easy fix to this problem. Simply put an asterisk next to the Bell Tower Mall stop entry on the webpage, and at the bottom of the webpage please write, “Bus does not stop in the Bell Tower Mall parking lot and must be flagged down on route 28.” This could have saved me a great deal of time, and will probably be very useful for future customers.

The following was the brilliant response of the RTA to me:

Dear Mr. Hamilton:



Thank you for your email note of earlier today. We always appreciate receiving correspondence from our passengers and public. Immediately after yours arrived today, CCRTA Administrator Tom Cahir, called me into his office to discuss your recommendation. After reviewing your concern and suggestion, we both agreed that putting a footnote in both the web site and Rider’s Guide schedules makes a good deal of sense. Thank you for that suggestion.



When we were constructing the schedules, we attempted to make the stops clear by stating that the stop was on Route 28, and then added the “@” symbol to show where on Route 28 the bus would stop. Looking at the schedule from your perspective, I can see how it could be misinterpreted. The last thing we want to do is be confusing and inconveniencing to our customers. I am sorry that you were unable to board our bus conveniently today. We also do not want anyone else be inadvertently inconvenienced.



Therefore, we would like to use your good suggestion in our next printings of the public Rider’s Guide and on our web site. The footnote idea is a good one and seems to be the most clear. We will work with our staff to make those adjustments.



Again, thank you for taking the time to share your opinions on this. If you have any further questions or thoughts, please feel free to contact me directly.



All the best,



John



John F. Kennedy

General Manager

Eastern Mass Transit Company / Cape Cod RTA

MV Transportation, Inc., Division # 198

40 American Way

South Dennis, MA 02660



508-385-1430, x118

Why I Don’t Like Cannabis

The problem with marijuana is that far more people are interested in smoking it as dope than the other usages of marijuana, which indeed can be good.  Do not delude yourself.  Smoking this kind of dope, marijuana, gives users motivation to find excuses that glorify this plant's usage.  How many people glorify pot who didn’t smoke it first?  My guess is very few.  This drug is at its worst when people’s judgment is so impaired that they can’t see anything wrong with recreational use of pot at any time.  The addiction in people is so strong that they find reasons to justify using this dope, while most dope smokers have never spent even close to the amount of time engaged in the so called positive uses of marijuana other than "getting high," which I believe are many, as most plants are useful, and everything has a purpose, even Satan.  People smoke the stuff, get doped up, and then forget to the motivation to accomplish any of the positive uses of marijuana.  And, when was the last time you heard of someone risking breaking the law to accomplish anything other than getting high on this dope?  If you have, then at least it is rare, and accompanied by recreational use.  The most disgusting aspect of marijuana is that people order their lives around it, glorifying it at virtually all costs.  When users are high then they are happy, but when users aren’t high, then they are planning the next time they are going to smoke their dope or they are promoting its usage either as a drug or trying to justify smoking because it has so many other uses.

Any chance that we won't outspend our debt limit again in a few years if we raise it? Zip, Nope, and None!

Do we actually believe that there is any chance that we won't outspend our debt limit again in a few years if we raise it?

This is not the same as paying our bills, as the President says because when we pay our bills, debt should decrease.

This is the exact opposite of what is happening now. Now we are running up our bills with no end or hint of responsibility in sight if we write ourselves another blank check in 2 weeks and a mid-October fiasco probably coming up.

Whoever would come up with such a smoke screen idea that paying our bills is merely keeping track of the debt and not paying the debt down is a filthy liar!  Oh yeah!  That would be President Obama, and possibly the Legislature, which should call the President on his lies, as a responsibility of the checks and balances our government is supposed to work on.

Smoke screens on the economy.  Smoke screens on the governments debt.  Failure to work toward a fiscally responsible goal.  I bet the death of Osama bin Laden was a smoke screen too given all the bull our President tells us.

What Is The Worst Kind of Corruption?

Judges hold the key to freedom.  Police are sometimes overzealous and have guns.  Politicians could sodomize each other for all I care. I don't believe politicians have had any sort of sovereignty since Obama took office, not like what happened when Bush Jr. was in office.

People feared Shrub because he was borderline dumb and he had the legislature by their balls. Obama may have some accomplishments, yet some of them I imagine are faked, such as the slaughter of Osama bin Laden.  President Obama's asshole commentary on the economy leads me to suspect that because it is so full of distortions that it is essentially lies.

Politician or judge depends on who is in the position of power.  Serving on the Supreme Court is a life sentence, and under our borderline corrupt Supreme Court, there is potential for some really bad decisions.  However, I think 5 to 4, that vote that wins usually reflects my opinion though most opinions I agree with and they are better than 5 to 4 decisions.  If that wasn’t the case I think that would be very horrible.

Under Bush Jr. we had the horrible Patriot act and the even more horrible Patriot II act.  I remember those times being paranoid.  The legislature was in power then, and I feared them for no other reason than the amount of poor decisions they made.  That was when the economy was in a downward spiral.  Currently, President Obama is doing a good job remaining composure, such that the Union hasn’t crumbled.

Under Obama though perhaps I should fear him like a leader, I just don't.  As far as a judge goes, I have only been called to do jury duty once and they didn't take my panel. That is the closest I have been to a courtroom in my life.

I do know what it is like to be locked up for mental illness.  After a few weeks it got boring.  I felt trapped.  However, I would liken that sort of lifestyle to living in a city.  I don't like the city; all eyes are watching so it would seem.

I Didn't Write This, But Preventing Animal Cruelty Is Very Close to My Heart

Watch this mother pig's story and help animals like her»

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September 12, 2013 Dear Craig, You can call me "Andy." It's not my real name. But since I'm an undercover investigator for The Humane Society of the United States, I have to keep things anonymous. As for my work, that's a different story. My job is to bring the darkest cruelties against animals out into the light for all to see. Today I want to tell you about one mother pig at a factory farm in Wyoming. Watch her story, and then please make a gift for animals like her. When I found this sow one day last April, she was lying on the ground -- her legs were swollen and covered in deep gashes. She had sores all over her body. I tried to give her food but she wouldn't eat it. When I touched her legs she recoiled in pain. The people responsible for her care did not even leave her water. But, I caught a few drops of water from a nearby hose and brought my hand to her mouth. All of a sudden, she lifted her head and lapped up the water. With all the strength she had left, she inched her way toward water -- for what might have been her last drink. See this sow's story -- then please make a gift to help stop this kind of animal cruelty and many other forms of animal abuse. It pains me to think about how she came to be in this condition. She was just a number to the people running this facility, a unit that wasn't producing. There were many -- too many -- other horrors at this facility. Workers punching pregnant mother pigs, drop-kicking piglets like soccer balls and smashing them into concrete floors. My job is to document these abuses for one reason: to expose them. And it's working. As a result of this investigation, seven workers at this factory farm pleaded guilty or were convicted of animal cruelty. And, we've worked with more than 60 major companies -- including McDonald's, Burger King, Costco, and Target -- to announce that they will stop using small, metal cages in which breeding sows are confined for almost their entire lives. This is tremendous progress, but there's still so much work to be done. Craig, will you make a gift today of $35.00 -- or whatever you can afford -- and help us continue our work to create a better world for all animals? Together we will confront cruelty wherever it exists, taking on the individuals and industries that profit from animal suffering -- from people who mistreat dogs in puppy mills, to those who club baby seals to death in the name of fashion, to corporations that abuse animals in factory farms. Thank you for everything you do for animals. Sincerely, "Andy" Undercover Investigator The Humane Society of the United States

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Where Is Endgame In Syria?

If you have been following the situation in Syria, then you probably know that whether Assad is in power or the rebels are in power, neither is an ideal situation.  In fact, sitting back and thinking, perhaps the situation now is ideal.  We have the rebels taking up Assad’s attention, such that Syria’s hands are tied. 

We don’t like Syria because they say only Muslims should rule, or at least practically all of the people of Syria.  Personally, I don’t consider Islamic rule as ideal, such that I don’t see any sort of world advantage war in Syria will gain for the USA.

I can’t say that I agree with the use of chemical weapons, but I don’t see use of chemical weapons as a line of demarcation where it becomes paramount that the U.S. gets involved.  Please Congress, send a message to the President that we do not want another war.  If it is true that the Syrian’s are willing to use them on their own people speaks volumes for how low of a nation this country is.

Strangely, this is coming at a time where we are thinking of raising the debt ceiling again.  I am wondering if there was foul play and Assad didn’t use chemical weapons, but some other party used them, so that the President and Congress can gain the patriotic momentum that they will need to raise the debt ceiling through war.  We won’t be able to go to war in Syria if we don’t raise the debt ceiling. 

Remember, this was the time that the Republicans were going to put down their foot on the issue of the debt ceiling.  But, will they put down their foot at the risk of not having another war?  The Republicans have long been the party that is more trigger happy than the Democrats.  So, will we go to war?  The answer is yes, and only because someone has played the war card in Syria, throwing House Republicans in a tizzy.  They can’t be the world policeman if they vote against raising the debt ceiling!!!

So where should the endgame be?:  The endgame should be now! 9/2/2013

Using ECT Weight Loss Treatment

Today when I awoke after dreaming, I imagined I had invented a way to help folks that are desperate lose weight via electrically shocking them when they eat. Then, I thought it would be too hard to tell weather water or hard food was consumed, and if someone was really hungry they could just cheat and eat soda, but with enough persistence I was able to come up with a workable idea. It gave me the giggles though to think about electrically shocking folks.

By golly I've got it! I could electrically shock folks by degree based upon how much they displace at home when they use their toilet. So my thinking is that if the toilet is filled too much and too often, then they would have submit to a zap for that. Yeah!

Humorous CD Player Invention

The invention is running a cd walkman of rests on your face.  The disc itself would revolve around the tip of the clients nose.  This would require a very small stabilizer on the nose that does not revolve, and a part that does.

The apparatus would be for lying on one's back.   It could be used perhaps when napping.  Naturally, some effort would need to be made to keep it light.  For example, it would probably be a good idea not to have a cover that goes over the top of the spinning cd.  However, if there was a cover, it may be a good idea to put PV (photovoltaic cells) on the top of that cover, so that they could be used as a power source.  However, in my mind, the cd player was to be battery operated.

Really, at heart this is a gag gift.  Though it may make some money, it is not ment to be taken seriously.  I do think that there could be a small market for it.  The idea came to me by way of a dream.  Usually, my dreams crash and burn in nonsense.  However, this time I dreamed a possible dream.  I may even call it a gift from Hashem.

Is There Anything We Can Gain From The Cape and Islands Wind Farm?

Who would have thought that the wind turbine issue would be so great? Whatever the case, we need to get some hard data on how these turbines are affecting people before we shut them down. I don't think that we have seen the last of wind power. I do believe we need to move on with wind power once we figure out what has gone horribly wrong. Keep the hope that wind power is something good, and does have real and good applications. We just need to find out where we went wrong so that we can fix it. My own instinct as a science educated person is that what is giving people vertigo and dizziness via noise and pressure should somehow be collected and used as power, and that the problems of the wind turbines should be converted to useful energy.

As an outsider, without any data, this is my pathetic guess as to what is going wrong.  The reason people are probably suffering so much is from the centrifugal force that is exuded at the tips of the wind mills.  If there was a collector of that force that brought it back (parallel to the turbine aerodynamically, or within the wind turbines themselves), perhaps a tube of sorts, that energy could be collected, and converted to useful energy.

Ed Markey and Mike Sullivan for Senate 2013: Comment on Debate

After listening to Democrats and Republicans debating for Senator Kerry’s spot, I hope that either Ed Markey http://markey.house.gov/ or Mike Sullivan are elected for senate. Their competition is 2nd class for Senatorial positions.

I am mostly in favor of the democrat candidate, Markey, but would not be disappointed if Mike Sullivan won.

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Watching how Sullivan's Republican candidates, his competitors, didn't bat an eyelash at the subject of gay marriage had me worried. I am in favor of allowing gay marriage, but I don't believe I could discuss the issue with such a straight face. You know the type of straight face that makes people want to laugh.  When I initially wrote this as a post to Facebook, I was giggling at Sullivan's Republican opponents' candidate talk, and would like the chance to laugh in the face of his current competition.

If I had to describe the Republican debate on the subject of gay marriage, it reminded me of a scene in the movie Dirty Work (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120654/).

In one scene of the movie, Norm MacDonald gets even with a mean employer who runs a movie theater by playing (so called) gay porn in the theater.  The beginning of the scene is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXQm9K9cjQ

I wouldn’t even know what gay porn is, as I have never seen it nor do I want to.  So, if you are gay and reading this, thank you for keeping the gay porn out of my search engine.

I'll never forget the tone of the words in Dirty Work, "Let's have sex with it," and thank goodness that they didn't show the porn. They just showed all the customers running out of the movie theater. That attitude of the gay porn tone of voice, which was so funny in Dirty Work is pretty much exactly the same voice these Republicans use in the debate.  It is worth a giggle.

The debate is available here: (the Democrats) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f41M6LUUils

And, (the Republicans),

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4VsKjzkBww

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Nicotene, Caffeine, Taurine, ect. Soda Pop

It is completely beyond me why I have yet to hear of a soda pop that uses nicotene.  One would think that this method for adminstering nicotene would not only be affective, but also save lives.  That is, I want to make beverages with nicotene in them.

Airplane flights would probably be much more pleasant for a good many of smokers. In fact, these drinks would probably help a good many of people quit smoking. Additionally, drinking beverages with nicotine in them would probably extend a good many of peoples lives. For example, they already know from research that people are more likely to live to be a 100 years old if they smoke, despite the fact that smoking should generally be thought of as a killer for the vast majority of people.

If We Raise Taxes With Cuts In Spending, Then Our Money Will Go Further

President Obama’s idea of raising minimum wage has to be the dumbest of his career. Money isn’t all that straight forward. We need sense with money, and that does not come by merely putting more money in peoples’ hands. It is just not that easy. That is how the game Monopoly or the board game Life works, and they are totally not realistic compared to reality where inflation is a huge issue. Our money can only be worth more if we spend it wisely. I am positively fed up with the same old same old, spins your wheels in the mud government. The truth is both sides need to put cuts and raising taxes on the table and stop finger pointing at the side that won't do the other. With talk of hope, obviously there is very little hope with President Obama in office. He has not proven powerful enough to motivate folks, or get them together and talk reasonably. Therefore, looking forward to the next term, already, I hope Hillary Clinton or Deval Patrick runs for President. I like Deval because I think we belong to the best state in the union, MA, and Deval has had to accomplish that without running any debt or deficits, as state government forbids that we go into the negative.

“ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and other major disorders may be more related than we thought.”

“ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, and other major disorders may be more related than we thought.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/28/psychiatric-disorders-genetics-mental-disorder-autism-adhd_n_2781772.html My extended commentary to a Huffington Post article on the subject of the title. I knew it all along. Why? Because I had them all. As a youngster, I had ADHD, but undiagnosed though every knew I had it. Then, I had a psychotic episode where I was told that my illness would only get worse. That was proven wrong by going not the holistic route, but the comprehensive route, where my family had to dig deep into their pockets in order that I would get healed. The treatment I receive comes by licensed practitioners at Comprehensive Psychiatric Resources in Waltham, MA. The separation of these diagnosis is often according to age more than anything else. Doctors are much likely to play the part of wishful thinking by diagnosing a kid with ADHD rather than make a mistake and give a diagnosis that has more stigma attached to it. If it’s a kid, then they call it autism or ADHD. Why? Everyone has a lot of hope that a cure will come for autism. And, frankly it is practically in style to get a diagnosis of ADHD. The problem is that autistic children become schizophrenic adults. That is when they get a, “You are beyond all hope diagnosis,” which is not entirely true if your doctor uses comprehensive resources like the Great Plains Laboratory. These folks are often able to get their diagnosis reduced to bipolar on a gluten and casein free diet, as I did, but there is no cure for the damage that ten or twenty years of opiates can deal to a young developing mind. Also, I recommend doing the test to see if a gluten free and/or casein free diet is necessary for you or your loved one. Lot’s of people go gluten free and just because they eat healthier, they report a false positive that removing gluten is helpful. That test can hopefully be administered to you through the Great Plains Laboratory that also requires that you work with a licensed practitioner in order to get the test. It will cost you an arm and a leg, and your health care almost certainly won’t cover it, but it can mean the difference between life and death. I, myself, am suspicious of the shots. Mainly, vaccines affect the immune system, and many of these disorders are traceable to the immune system. Thus, the thing that we are observing that has reaction to the immune system may go back as far as the appearance of narcolepsy, as a separate diagnosable disorder, where it was previously unknown to exist, and where these folks are observed to exhibit narcotic symptoms, that appear as if one has consumed opiates. It is that there are certain plants that contain gluten, and milk that contains casein, that these two proteins have opiate derivatives, which affect some people but not others. The fact is that the gut of someone with the illness in question, be it ADHD, autism, schizophrenia, narcolepsy, or chronic fatigue, etc, is fundamentally different. The gut of people with these illnesses digests gluten and casein different from the majority of the population. With respect to the doctor, Dr. Andrew Wakefield's, who lost his job for putting out a journal article for the above mentioned information. If the guy was actually a crook, out to do harm, he would have most likely not said something so profound as a link between vaccines and autism. That statement is so audacious that he would have had to have been a fool to make it and be trying to tell us all a lie. He would have been debunking the goodness of vaccines, and vaccines have long been considered perhaps in the 10 top medicinal inventions ever. Folks this guy was a doctor, and not a dummy. Only a dummy would make up such a lie as to correlate vaccines and autism, and frankly there is not a chance in hell that a doctor would have said that particular thing if it was in fact untrue.

The Horrible Stock Market Bubble Yet to Pop and The President

How much longer do we figure President Obama is going to be able to inflate the market to prosperity? And, why do I blame President Obama for the problems? Truth be told he is not the only factor. However, whenever he proposes cuts they just simply not enough to have a down to earth perspective on the budget. When Obama talks cuts, they just simply aren't enough money. He keeps using words to describe the type of knife used when talking about cuts, but we also have to be realistic. I agree not all the proposed cuts by Republicans are ideal. However, Washington needs more give and take. That means for the President to give into the Republicans demands, if only to ensure that we don't end up making zero progress on the debt and deficit, which has been the case. So far it appears Wall Street is eager to play into this bubble, the political bubble of minimal cuts, and unrealistic spending, but can we sustain this inflated bubble indefinately, and do we even want to do such a thing?

WTF??? Does AT&T Think That I Want To Pay More for Data Sometimes?

I just looked at my AT&T Go Phone message that just informed me that I have no money left.  That is because I didn’t buy a bigger data package.  However, it would have been nice if they had warned me to buy a data package, rather than run up the dough on my phone, as if I wanted to pay more money by not having a data package.

So hi!  Let me introduce myself.  I was a happy AT&T customer because Verizon screwed me for data to a much greater extent than AT&T did though nonetheless both companies have screwed me before. 

I am a somewhat happy user of a Go Phone now, so that getting screwed to the extent of $1,000 over data with Verizon will never happen again because when my card runs out of money, that’s it.  If I was with Verizon under contract, it could have been worse.  Last I knew, you could spend yourself into oblivion with Verizon data without even a warning.

At least a warning would have helped me with AT&T.  Now, I am without my phone because I was watching a long video on it that ate up all my data.  AT&T courteously stopped me when I had spent my last cent, but they didn’t courteously tell me that my data plan had run out.  I would have liked the option to buy a new plan when the last one ran out, such that I don’t have to wait until my next check to have a phone to use.

Like Verizon, AT&T is doing bad business.  When I worked at McDonald’s if you ordered everything that comes with a value meal, it was automatic for us to make it at the value meal price.  Why?  It is good business to help the customer get deals.  That makes your business at least seem friendly.  In the same way, when your data package ends, it should automatically deny you use of data unless you purchase a data package, even if it is an emergency package that costs say, $1 for 1MB, because seriously AT&T who actually wants to spend more money on data by not buying a data package, especially without being asked!!!???

Stopping the Media Plague That Is Cursing the Innovative Minds of Our Children

I just got done playing with my child. He handed me a spatula, and took his sword and we pretended to be having a light saber duel. That idea of using a spatula creatively like a light saber is something too many children aren’t doing these days. It is no wonder that the experts are saying that the younger generation is not as creative as they have been in previous generations. Though perhaps by accident, not having the money to buy the second light saber becomes a blessing for the creativity of a child’s mind. That is, the child only having one light saber needs to use a substitute to have fun, and through that method of substituting similar things, such as even a spatula, can have a profound effect on the minds of our youth.

So, if you are poor, don’t fret. Don’t ask the government for $9 an hour. Rather, teach your child how to be creative through allowing them to play, and be of assistance to helping them delve into their creative minds, such as through the Spatula Light Saber Substitution Theory (SLST). And, at the same time, find creative ways to make your dollar stretch further, so that you don’t need to beg the government for a higher minimum wage.

Another solution to this problem of lack of creativity is to introduce your child to the Bible stories at a young age. These stories are so fantastic that they seem like fables. However, they will cause your child to engage his or her imagination. Children are naturally inclined to these stories because children like fantasy.

Fantasy is a part of what makes the universe so awesome. Without imagination, there would be no Tesla, no Plato, and no Einstein. The world needs creative folk; one's that shake the foundations of the earth and the heavens for being allowed to play at a young age.

A Looming Potential Disaster to the Credibility of Science

I think oxidation is a major factor when it comes to dating fossils.  When dating something, oxidation is not included in the factor, because in theory these fields have yet to be united in a theory of everything, so to say.  You can't tell me that the sun beating down on some rocks causes them to decay, and that is not someway tied to the their radioactive date.  Radioactivity is only part of the picture, and it most certainly reasonable to believe that oxidation plays a role in radioactivity.

I have written on this subject years ago, but I never got much of a response.  So, now I'll give it another try.

Raising the Minimum Wage to $9 an Hour Is a Potential Economic Disaster

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This is a potential economic disaster if we keep raising minimum wage. It is not about how much money we have, but how far we are able to make it go. If people don't work hard to make $9 an hour stretch further, the only thing we have done is make for more difficult mathematics for less fortunate folks that are already challenged at the math that their current pay gives them.  This is mostly because our currency is not based on anything, such as silver or gold.  We can print money all day long, but if we did, it wouldn't be worth anything.  $7.25 is plenty for a minimum wage and it definitely should not be any higher because folks with small brains would just inflate the dollar with sloppy spending, such that the essentials become more expensive.

The road to prosperity is not via inflation. This subject already came up in American history, and the route to prosperity proved not to the inflation route. The only way to prosperity is to bargain in order to drive down prices. The American people need to bind together and agree not to pay high prices rather than buying expensive things that are overpriced, and then play the victim.

*** Beyond Outrage by Robert B. Reich – Of Reich’s Works That I Have Read It’s Comparatively Subpar

The first point I would like to make takes up a third of this book.  It is on what Reich has called Radcons in another book.  I think Reich has said enough about Radical Conservatives by now.  The Radcons are no longer a threat.  However, I agree that regression is a threat.

My generation has rejected the Radcon way of life in favor of having a more liberal lifestyle.  It is not radical conservatives Reich is afraid of, but those who wish to be fiscally responsible, and these folks may be either Democrat or Republican.

I, myself, have already stated that I believe Reich is wrong about what to do.  Reich wants to continue running trillion plus dollar deficits until the economy gets better.  However, to me that seems stupid.  We may get a good run at having a good economy, but not enough to sustain an economy recovery.  That is, 8 years is not enough time to put us in the positive, and chances are that partly because of term limits, we won’t be able to sustain enough of a recovery.  Perhaps, getting rid of term limits is something we should consider, but I think that we would just go for another 4 years of Obama mediocrity.

Some presidential leaders to look for come 2016 are Hillary Clinton, Deval Patrich, and even Reich himself.  It has baffled me why Reich hasn’t run for office.

The first part of this book, “The Rigged Game,” I think most folks already know enough about.  Most folks are angry at Wall Street and the rich, and want government to work for them doing things such as closing loopholes.  The word is out.  And, folks are right, the game is rigged.

One area I flat out disagree with Reich is that I don’t think giving more money to the poor is a good answer.  In my opinion, folks need to find out how to make their money, the money they already don’t have because they are broke because they have already spent it, work for them, such that the poor can be empowered.  Thus, the answer is for folks to be more careful when spending, rather than to toss out more handouts.  These actions are going to take a concerted effort, and America is going to need to find some fiscally conservative cheerleader that can see to it that folks are able to make their money go as far as it can possible go.

One suggestion I might make is that I often shop at Amazon.com, if a local store doesn’t have what I need, or if the local is charging an unreasonable price.  There are lots of good bargains on Amazon.com, especially if you are willing to put up with having used goods.  Also, there are other stores like BJ’s where if you are careful with your money, it will stretch further.

The major problem of this book is that it assumes that if you put more money in the hands of average Americans, then good things will happen, but that isn’t true.  The fact is that most Americans are clueless when it comes to math, such that if you gave them more money, they wouldn’t have a clue how to spend the money wisely.  Therefore, the problem is not that the poor and middle class don’t earn enough, but the problem is that CEO pay is ludicrously high.  The reason middle and lower class pay is good is because if we raise it, it would simply cause more inflation, and folks would have a much more difficult time determining whether or not they should purchase something based upon its price.

I do agree with the author that there are certain things we should be outraged at, such as the buying of political offices.  I agree that CEO pay is out of control.  I agree that we need to close tax loopholes, such taxing what is now considered to be capital gains.  Reich does make a lot of good points, but I felt that his books Supercapitalism, and Aftershock were much better. 

Lastly, the last third of the book seems both naïve and correct.  In order to have a movement that will make change, we have to get off of our couches.  However, the USA suffers for this as we Americans are couch potatoes.  Our ancestors would have bound together to fight against our problems, but for us, we are not a very cohesive nation.  That is, too often we relate to each other via the internet.  That is another subject that Reich might do well to include if he writes another book.

The USA's Junk Yard Economy

Every year the Obama administration has been in office, the deficit, roughly a trillion dollars, has been an economic stimulus. That is the yearly deficit is the yearly stimulus. Folks does this seem to be working? Last I knew prices, were going up. Can't we see, as a nation that there has to be a better way.

 

Now, I am not about having the poor and the middle class foot the bill. Why? Because the government doesn't protect the money of the poor and middle class. Why? Because they don't have any money to protect. Rather, the 5% of us that the government works for, it is these folks that the government who should foot the bill. So, it is not as if I am demanding the money from the rich to go to the poor, but rather I am demanding that the rich pay for their own government.

 

I'll also add that when I see a lot of average people, I would collectively call them a bunch of junk. They don't deserve to have more money because they will just squander it on booze, and drugs, and likewise prices will go up. I don't have much hope for average folks, and by that I don't mean poor, middle class or even rich folks. What I am talking about is that the bar has been lowered for the people and that the very morals that folks are participating in are low class. No I am not homophobic, anti abortion, etc, but what I see is that America has turned to drugs, such as marijuana that when used is proven to result in poor judgment, and a general breakdown of the family as a sacred unit of society.

 

I'll also state that I strongly believe that the time to make cuts now, rather than later, even though I agree it will make things messy. The reason I believe that now is the time is that we have a huge amount of debt. We have so much debt that it is scarcely believable that we could pay off the current debt we have now in our lifetimes. The idea that we could actually get the economy on track for long enough, meaning generating an economy that can sustain cuts all the way, and not flop is unbelievable.

 

Put it this way. We are in the economic super bowl and it is half time and we are down by 70 points. The fortune of the game is written. It seems like winning is impossible, so what is our plan? My plan I learned from a long song by Sepultura in high school, "When you go down. You go down fighting." When your down and you've got nothing to lose, go down fighting.

 

** Anker Golden AC Adapter + Power Supply Cord for Laptop Acer Aspire: It Is Already Breaking!

Right where the wires that connect the computer to the converter I have a problem.  I am already on my second one of these.  The first one didn't have this problem, but failed for another reason.  This product was very inexpensive, and it is such a shame that it's got this weakness where the shell of the wires is retracting and exposing bare wire that is ripping.  Though I have been very careful to pamper this product it is still not enough, and if it fully rips due to how delicate this connection is, I don't think that I will be able to fix it.