Housing Authority Bonus More Expensive than Occupy LA

Across the nation we were told how the Occupy movement cost $13 million in city costs. In Los Angeles we were told it might go as high as a million of a couple hundred thousand. We were told how the taxpayers were angry at the Occupiers. Here is something to be even more angry about.

LA Times - Villaraigosa didn't know about agency chief's payout, aide says

The man who headed the Housing Authority was fired and there were many complaints about money that he spent on travel. The punishment was that he was just awarded $1.2 million for leaving. That is more than what was spent on months of the Occupy LA movement to someone that just got fired and this goes on all the time for the people who are political appointees.

One might also consider the case of the rise in the costs of electricity and water at the LADWP that will result in Los Angelenos paying hundreds of millions in additional costs during a recession. These are the things that the Occupy movement were complaining about and that is why they had to be removed.

L.A. Daily News - Board backs `desperately needed' water-rate increase

Why didn't anyone tell the ex-head of the housing authority to stop whining, take a bath and get a job? Why didn't the media compare the two events? Nope, they come out and report that the Mayor was out of town and didn't know. Do you really believe that?

We don't need to agree on the solutions to the problems in government; but, we better begin agreeing on what the problems are in the government and in business and banking or nothing is going to get better. Don't call people whiners or lazy when they speak up because there is no work. Both the Tea Party and the Occupiers know what we all know, the system is rigged so that the insiders win and the rest of us get taken advantage of. It is not government employees that write the laws, it is lobbyists and your politicians, not bureaucrats, politicians and lobbyist direct the laws.

Maybe some people still don't get it. Forbes - Wiping Out Millions of Jobs is the Whole Darn Point

In short the writer for the magazine by and for millionaires asks why we should have more jobs than we need. He completely forgets about people because he doesn't care. A quote from the article, "For this is what we're actually hoping to do: destroy millions of jobs and thus get retailing done with less resources, with the use of less labour."

A couple of questions for the author Tim Worstall. Firstly, who is the "we" that you refer to that actually hope to eliminate jobs? Secondly, why do you think we created commerce and business, to give money to a few or to find productive ways to spend our time to benefit society? You are a douche bag sir. You also completely ignore why we automated, it was not to leave millions unemployed the claim was that it would give people more free time in order to pursue intellectual and spiritual purpose. Tough to do that when you are living on the street and hungry. Finally, you forget a very important lesson in history, it is about when civilizations fail. It occurs when they are the most efficient because there is no room for error and everyone eventually makes one.

According to Mr. Worstall, I find it ironic that Polly Toynbee called you a pendant. I would love to know if she was related to the great historian, Arnold Toynbee. He would disagree with you. So, what does Mr. Worstall think we should do with the excess labor, he doesn't outline how they should be treated or what they should be provided with. Do they just become excess humans, do they cease having meaning when you cannot make money off them?

The purpose of life is not to find out who can win the most toys or cheat the best. The purpose of life is to see how far we as humans can go without being genetically or technologically modified for the sake of commerce. The purpose of life is not to make things nice for a few; but, to make life better for all. To make a better world. Now that may involve people being rewarded differently; but, not the reduction in the number of people.

There is a concept called the singularity, it is about when machine surpasses man in intelligence. For many who are very wealthy, the same applies to humans. It is the point at which we don't need as many of them to remain wealthy at the top because automation can make things for us.

After the baby boom in the 40s and 50s the hippie generation of the 60s forced change. It scared the powers of the world because the hippies took charge and protested and got change. Right after the 60s, the world was terrorized with the threat of overpopulation. We were told that by the year 2,000 that the world would be out of food and clean water and a whole bunch of nonsense. Who funded these studies, while one of the biggest was the Rockefeller family. It was determined that there were too many people because they were taking charge and changing the world the way they wanted. Everything you are seeing happen in the world today was intended and planned. The term used in 1971 was "Population Stabilization" and it called for population control, restrictions on mobility and an elimination of all barriers between people.

I have linked to these reports in the past on this blog and don't feel like looking for them again, check the older posts. The links were to their own websites. Ask what you can do for society and what society can do for you. Kennedy was wrong. I could give everything for my country; but, there must be a payback unless I choose to give more freely, otherwise we benefit the wrong people. When I give my time for free it is not so that one person can benefit at the expense of everyone else. Especially not someone I don't know who is stealing from all of us. That is not why people give to charity.

If you want to understand the world you have to think about people first. We are not here for the rock that we live on, it is here for us. People matter more than rocks. Do not be blinded to the fact that we matter and are special, we are the self-awareness of the universe that is capable of understanding purpose and how this place all works. The rock that we live on cannot understand us, it is not self aware without us on it.

We all have to stop saying that "those" people don't matter, we all matter. We have to stop calling people drags on society, we have to start cherishing each other because that type of thinking is what leads to the type of thinking that only takes care of their own and takes advantage of everyone else.