I am just going to throw this out there for brainstorming. How about we stop flooding our prisons with drug related criminals and start sending these dopes to boot camp, but not giving them access to weapons? We need to give them discipline not punishment. Prison generally only makes criminals worse. It is proven ineffective as a correctional means via high recidivism rates.
Also, the answer to some of our problems is to give the little guy a chance to get some discipline in the military, while having special forces being the key to our military. Both missions to Iraq and Afganistan could have been accomplished via special forces.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Federal Debt Fun With Math...Anyone Got A Clue What The Answer Is?
Fun facts and mathematics: How many million dollar bills would we have to print to pay of a trillion dollars of the multi-trillion dollar federal debt?
A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000
A million is 1,000,000
Therefore it would take millions of million dollar bills to pay of the federal debt, but that doesn't directly answer the question.
I don't expect anyone to answer because it probably doesn't matter anyway.
A trillion is 1,000,000,000,000,000
A million is 1,000,000
Therefore it would take millions of million dollar bills to pay of the federal debt, but that doesn't directly answer the question.
I don't expect anyone to answer because it probably doesn't matter anyway.
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
On $300,000 a Year Salary Caps to Level the Economic Playing Field
I don’t hate people who succeed. By all means, succeed, everyone should for success, but if only the rich are successful, then we haven’t achieved maximum success. When people who work for the rich are also as happy as the rich that means a greater happiness has been achieved. If we leave behind that deserve more, it causes a ripple effect, magnifying unhappiness throughout the nation, and world. I understand that riches don’t always equate to happiness, but when families don’t have enough money, it ends up putting stress on them, and often breaks them up. Truly, money must be coordinated with happiness at least a little. Rich people can suffer from depression. And, I am aware that all the money in the world can’t buy happiness. Additionally, I am not for raising the minimum wage. However, in order to make the wealth redistribution happen, it would require effort on the part of the state to ensure that nobody is making more than $300,000 a year.
The big question some may have is: Why?
I believe that there is nothing any human being should be able to do and to earn more than $300,000 a year for it. Hopefully, demand alone would then change the scale of our economy and prevent the devaluation of the dollar. Really, bread should cost 5 cents a loaf. The higher prices get, the more people can’t do the necessary math, such that I am trying to prevent people from being sloppy with money.
For leveling the financial playing field, I do not want to be accused of jealousy. Naturally, some will be able to make more than others, and naturally some will be able to spend more wisely than others. This does not bother me. I am not jealous of how much money the rich have. For all I know, I may be rich in my generation simply because my family has no unpaid debts.
What bothers me is the greed of the oligarchy of capitalists. A part of the reason I believe that the $300,000 rule is good is because it will take the wind out of the sails of the greedy. People should work because they want to work, out of zest for their career, and not for the sake of earning more money. I was told, “Go to school for education, not for the money you might get.” It will make room for smaller companies that currently aren’t able to crack into the terse economic crust, giving them a chance. Truly, this oligarchy has prevented the fruition of some really good business ideas.
What I have is not envy of the rich. It is altruistic desire. Envy is far closer to covetousness than plain old desire. And, my desire is altruistic as I have no business in mind that I want to start, only wishing to level the playing field in order that competition should be fair for aspiring entrepreneurs. As far as the self and selflessness debate goes, I do believe that there can be self in altruism. For example, sometimes it is wise to conserve one’s own self, such that he or she will be able to give more at a later date.
The big question some may have is: Why?
I believe that there is nothing any human being should be able to do and to earn more than $300,000 a year for it. Hopefully, demand alone would then change the scale of our economy and prevent the devaluation of the dollar. Really, bread should cost 5 cents a loaf. The higher prices get, the more people can’t do the necessary math, such that I am trying to prevent people from being sloppy with money.
For leveling the financial playing field, I do not want to be accused of jealousy. Naturally, some will be able to make more than others, and naturally some will be able to spend more wisely than others. This does not bother me. I am not jealous of how much money the rich have. For all I know, I may be rich in my generation simply because my family has no unpaid debts.
What bothers me is the greed of the oligarchy of capitalists. A part of the reason I believe that the $300,000 rule is good is because it will take the wind out of the sails of the greedy. People should work because they want to work, out of zest for their career, and not for the sake of earning more money. I was told, “Go to school for education, not for the money you might get.” It will make room for smaller companies that currently aren’t able to crack into the terse economic crust, giving them a chance. Truly, this oligarchy has prevented the fruition of some really good business ideas.
What I have is not envy of the rich. It is altruistic desire. Envy is far closer to covetousness than plain old desire. And, my desire is altruistic as I have no business in mind that I want to start, only wishing to level the playing field in order that competition should be fair for aspiring entrepreneurs. As far as the self and selflessness debate goes, I do believe that there can be self in altruism. For example, sometimes it is wise to conserve one’s own self, such that he or she will be able to give more at a later date.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Unemployment Stats: I Blame Marijuana
One great challenge to the world's future is marijuana. Marijuana undo's education, lowers IQ and damages young developing minds among many other things that are cited in a .gov article on the web. I am very afraid of this plant because its users can see nothing wrong with it, which is probably a combination of addiction and poor judgement. As I write this, more young adults smoke this kind of dope than cigarettes, and they are also proving themselves unable to do necessities, such keep a job. This drug, and the poor judgment caused by it which leads others to harder drugs is in my opinion the holocaust of this generation. I consider it very fearful because I believe that there is nothing more important than the mind. Our large intellectual brains are what makes us special as a species, more than anything else. Look to birds for flight. For speed look to cheetahs. But, for intelligence look to humans.
A quote from: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
A quote from: http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana
How Does Marijuana Affect a User’s Life?
Research shows marijuana may cause problems in daily life or make a person's existing problems worse. Heavy marijuana users generally report lower life satisfaction, poorer mental and physical health, more relationship problems, and less academic and career success compared to non-marijuana-using peers. For example, marijuana use is associated with a higher likelihood of dropping out of school. Several studies also associate workers' marijuana smoking with increased absences, tardiness, accidents, workers' compensation claims, and job turnover.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
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.
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.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
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
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
______________________________________________________________________________
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.
______________________________________________________________________________
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
Saturday, November 9, 2013
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.
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