Tuesday, November 8, 2011

It is not about taxing the rich more, it is about corruption

So Warren Buffet and Bill Clinton both think the rich should be taxed more. It is not about taxes being fair, although they should. It is about the corruption of the system. It is about how the rich get the rules they want and the rest of us get taken advantage of. It is about fairness in the process. You can tax the rich all you want; but, if that just increases how much they steal from you then nothing has been accomplished.

It is not about greed, it is not about limiting what one makes, it is about corruption. It is about a system that can work around honest rules to continue to take advantage of the honest and promotes dishonesty to justify it's own corruption. It is about fairness.

Who could possibly be against what I have just said? Who is in favor of a corrupt system and against rewarding innovation, hard work and honesty? I am sure that the mass media still cannot understand such simple concepts because they are rewarded for dishonesty. Be well and peace.

I Love Writing

When I am down or confused I write. I do not live to write, I write to live, it is such an integral part of my being. Writing and being able to use words with precision, being able to make something understandable to others is a very deep blessing. It allows me to go beyond myself.

I believe I am finding more reason to write and that is a good thing. Because there is so much to talk about. Let us begin with some scary things. Lets talk about trends that will come to the wrong answers.

Trend 1 - The drive towards direct democracy. There is most definitely a trend away from representational government. Look, it should be obvious that I support the Occupy movement's call to end corruption and take more control over our country; but, direct democracy will not work. The problem with direct democracy is that you cannot pass meaningful legislation. Everything gets dumbed down and the bureaucrats can make any decisions they want. Representational government works the best; but, it requires only voting for people of integrity more than voting for how they will vote on specific bills.

Trend 2 - Anti-Israel attitudes. Israel is not the cause of all the worlds problems and jewish people are not the world's enemy. Let's remember why Israel was given nationhood again. Firstly, wherever Jewish people went outside of Israel they were persecuted, the holocaust merely being the worst of it. Whole towns of Jews in France were wiped out by the French prior to World War II. We will see people continue to focus on corrupt Israel by pointing out the corruption of individual Jews. Guess what, go back a post or two and read what I wrote about the approach. There are crooks in the NYPD and nobody is calling for the end of them.

Trend 3 - The drive to end fractional currency. The truth is that for every real dollar that exists, a bank can lend out ten. Yes that is true, it is the whole concept of loans or future payments. Money is nothing more than a promise and it allows many wonderful things to happen, the mutual exchange of promises is the heart and soul of every contract. It only works if people are prevented from borrowing more than is reasonable to expect them to be able to pay. The same holds true for governments. The government has passed rules regulating the loaning of money; however, it does not follow it's own guidelines and merely prints more money making all the existing money less valuable. Currency needs to be based on a solid foundation (no not just gold, percentage of population working plus mineral wealth minus the entitlements that it gives to it's people or some such formula); however, we still need to be able to borrow.

Trend 4 - A coming catastrophe or mind awakening experience. Watch out for both. WE are not ready to become spiritually aware and won't be until we are dead. As for the catastrophe, yes and no. The world is not going to end, everybody doesn't die off. We are here for a reason and the reason will complete itself. I believe in God and Christ and I read the book better than the idiot that said the world was going to end. Okay, for those who wish to read my new blog here is the link, "Sundays at 5". I am telling everyone that this is exclusively about the bible so if you don't like it when I write about religion, don't follow the link.

Trend 5 - Telling people that we are merely flesh machines and that we cannot know reality. No, you matter, people are the most important thing in the universe, we are the consciousness of the universe. You can know reality, you can make valid observations and you can understand the world, it just takes the effort to do so and a willingness to not let what you want to be true get in the way of what appears to be true.

Trend 6 - The Devil is not in the detail. The Devil hates the truth and therefore he hates the details, that is how deceit rather than straight out lies work. There are no outliers, there are only people. 99% is not us, 100% is us. The problem is not that 1% have more than you, the problem is corruption. Most people get this, that is why capitalism works the best. But, it only works the best when corruption is addressed and people are shown that honesty works better and that requires honesty from all. Yes, everyone makes mistakes. I am not talking about perfection, I am talking about rewarding good and not bad behavior.

Football, Politicians and Occupy Wall Street

Lets consider something, the head of the International Monetary Fund gets arrested for rape and nobody considers this a reason to end the IMF. Penn States assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is accused of having assaulted numerous young boys and nobody calls for an end of college football. Why not? Oh right, because every organization has some jerks and we can't hold the innocent accountable for the bad ones; but, someone gets raped at a protest and we seek to remove all protesters. That is hypocrisy.

A recent article said that over 3,400 people had been arrested at Occupy events; but, it forgets to highlight the fact that almost all of them were arrested for protesting and not for committing crimes other than protesting. Would you like to hear some more stupid stuff, it is simple just follow the news media. Now there are articles across the United States about how the Occupy movement has displaced the homeless. Wait a second, it is okay for the homeless to sleep in these places but not regular people? Huh?

Consider Herman Cain, four different women have accused him of sexual harassment that we know of so far; but, that doesn't seem to be a problem except in the polls. There are other articles that claim that the Occupy movement has been "infiltrated" by some bad groups like Acorn. This is laughable, our whole political system has been infiltrated by bad groups, they are called lobbyists and big business. Perhaps the lobbyists and the political action committees should disband and go home.

When you read any article that uses one incident or even a limited number of incidents and then comes to the conclusion that the protesters must go home, then know that it is a lie. The problem is not the movement, it is not crime, it is not antisemitism and it is not their lack of leaders or their not calling for specific changes in the law. What is really annoying the people in charge is that the Occupy movement highlights what is wrong with this country and that is corruption and too much control by the government over personal freedom. The biggest statement of the movement is that they won't follow authority figures or the police.

In Washington D.C., over the weekend it has been reported that at least four protesters were struck by cars and the police let the drivers go. I guess the D.C. police only protect banks, politicians and businessmen. New York police of course are even worse. Police in New York have recently been indicted for ticket fixing (the union supports them for doing such), robberies and gun running to name just a few. Perhaps the police at Occupy Wall Street should be sent home because clearly some of them are crooked. Doesn't the same logic apply?

Now I cannot put tow good thoughts together at present because I am still upset over a recent passing; but, even I can see the shear outrageous corruption of the media and there approach to reporting on the Occupy movements. What is the message of the Occupy movement, well one of them is that they don't trust representative democracy because whenever you choose a representative they get bought off. What is the point in electing representatives if they are not going to represent you? Why is this so hard for the media to understand, are they really that retarded that they cannot understand the simple premise?

One Occupy movement recently chose a "leader", they elected a dog. The Tea Party elected many representatives and nothing has changed. NOTHING. How many people that you have voted for have actually done what they said they would do? Yeah, just like Obama and Bush, both made false promises. That is politics. I do not believe in direct democracy; but, I am not against true veto power being in the hands of the people. That can be a direct vote.

The real problems in this world are not capitalism or socialism or even communism. All of these systems have failed because we have become corrupt as a people, the real issue is of selfishness and corruption because any system goes bad when we the people care more about what we get out of the process than making sure that the process is fair and right.

In China recently a toddler fell into the street and was run over by two vehicles, neither of which stopped. Dozens of people walked by and nobody helped the child, it was all captured on video. While the Chinese believe in taking care of relatives, they have been trained to not help strangers. Their media has put on ridiculous presentations on why people should help others and was caught making up completely false stories of this occurring.

It is a known fact in standard philosophy that you cannot have an absolute morality if there is no God. Instead the highest you can hope from people is that they will look out for their own self interest and that is what we have taught in this country for the past 40 years. We are told that logic requires that we do a cost benefit analysis rather than consider if something is innately right or wrong. Remember the words of W.C. Fields, "You can't cheat an honest man".