An Aging Population and Finding Something to Write About

Not reading any interesting news. That is not quite true, I have not seen any news that needed a comment from me. I have nothing to say about Charlie Hebdo that hasn't already been said by someone. My opinion on the economy has not changed, stocks will crash; but, I don't know when, I have no date for it. There is no new tech that is worth discussing that I have not already posted on.

I deleted about 10 recent drafts because as I was writing them I could tell they were not going anywhere and just saved them to come back to later. I came back to them and they still went nowhere.

I do not have writers block, I just lack any material of interest that has not been repeated by others already. Wait, I do have something to discuss.

Pew Research - Baby Boomers Approach 65 – Glumly.

The article says that for the last 5 years, 10,000 baby boomers were expected to retire each day and that will continue for another 14 years. That is about 300,000 a month or 3.65 million a year. The highest the birth rate got in America was 25.7 in 1957 (according to the US census) and the current birthrate is only 13.8. The birth rate has pretty much gone down since 1965. No matter what we do, the population is and will continue to decrease. As the boomers die, this will become apparent as there will be not enough people to replace them in the workforce.

Here is what I want you to consider, the people that run this country have known this for a very long time. A report was issued by the Rockefeller Commission in 1972 that talked about what was coming, the relevant chapter is Chapter 2.

Chapter 2: Population Growth

The report specifically goes into what these boomers retirements will mean. President W. Bush had another report that looked at the impact of boomers retirements when he was in office. I cannot seem to remember the name of it; but, I have linked to it before.

During the late 1960s and the 1970s we were steadily told about overpopulation if the birth rate did not increase and it did not. In fact we are facing a decrease in population. We saw part of the effect this had during the decade before the market crash as the unemployment went very low and was considered too low. Companies were increasing wages and taking people with less experience to just fill the jobs.

Some of you are wondering why I mention birth rates and retirements at all. I mention it because the government and business have been planning and anticipating this for over 45 years. That is part of the purpose of outsourcing and globalization. Now is an interesting little fact, when men get jobs they are more likely to marry and have children, when women get jobs they are less likely to have children or certainly many children. I should note that one of the fastest growing areas of home buyers is single women, that has been true for 20 years and women now make up the majority of college graduates.

We are told that the baby boom was caused by returning vets; but, it continued for 20 years long after they had returned because we needed new workers. Don't forget the boom hit it's peek in 1957, 12 years after the end of the war. American industry boomed after World War II and it was easy to get a good paying union supported job, as a consequence wages saw real increases and housing became affordable. In the early 1960s the "American Dream" was to get a good job, get married, move to the suburbs and have 2 to 3 kids.

We are creating five classes of people in America. The poor, the working poor (low paying jobs for life), barely getting by class (not paid enough to have the American Dream, the average worker), middle class of professionals and small businessman and a class of the very well off. The number of poor will increase until the population begins reducing, then they will be offered low paying jobs. The working poor will increase as we know already, jobs have come back to America; but they are not the jobs that left, they are low paying primarily. The barely getting by class will increase as a percentage of the population and people with jobs. The middle class will shrink and only be populated by professionals and small business owners. That is the future.

Happy 2015

To all my dear readers. I will post again soon. Currently I am in the process of retiring and it is more complicated than I had anticipated.  An article for you in the meantime.

Technewsworld - Self-Driving Concept Cars Impress at CES.

Read the whole article if you want to be prepared for the future. The Ford executive expects self-driving cars to be easily available by 2020, that is in 5 years and one vehicle (an Audi) drove 550 miles to Las Vegas in the last couple of weeks for a big electronics and tech convention. Self driving cars will change transportation in the same way that computers and the internet changed the world.

Okay, Lots of new articles

Medium.com - Deeper Than Quantum Mechanics—David Deutsch’s New Theory of Reality. I love quantum physics because it makes fools of all of our beliefs. The basic theory of quantum physics is that on a sub atomic level the rules change, gravity ceases to follow the same rules, time ceases to follow the same rules and the speed of light ceases to be a limiting factor. The problem for scientists is that they cannot figure out what rules do apply and why. Mr. Deutsch has postulated that "In other words, the laws of physics do not tell you what is possible and impossible, they are the result of what is possible and impossible. So reasoning about the physical transformations that are possible and impossible leads to the laws of physics."

He sort of punks out. It is double speak and still misses the point. Mr. Deutsch believes that physicality creates information, that is sort of the basic thought he is promoting. In fact, information, sentience, creates physicality. Without consciousness there is no "reality". One of the most fundamental statements in philosophy is, "I think therefore I am". Science wishes to prove that "I am therefore I think"; but, many things exist that do not think. There beginning premise is wrong.

Yahoo - Your Car May Be Programmed to Kill You — and 9 More Fun Facts About Self-Driving Vehicles.

Yahoo - AP - House nearing vote on 1-year package of tax breaks. I like the misleading nature of this article, we are all going to get tax breaks. No, read the next article.

Yahoo - AFP - US House votes to extend dozens of tax breaks. Republicans are voting to give $500 Billion in tax breaks to corporations, including those that give up Unites States citizenship, and eliminate tax breaks for child care.

Huffington Post - GOP: Thanks for Electing Us, and Screw You. This article will give you the detail on who wins and loses on tax breaks in the end.

Happy Thanksgiving Again

I wish all my readers a Happy Thanksgiving. It is a day to reconnect with family and enjoy a meal together. Enjoy the day, I will be back soon enough.

The Donut Question, Two or One

Hello dear friends.

I have a math question for you. If I hand you a donut and you break it in half, do you now have two donuts or one donut? You will probably say one donut; but, lets look at it again. If I hand you a donut and you eat half of it, are you not still left with a donut? A steak does not stop being a steak because I have eaten a piece of it. This is both a philosophical question and a spiritual one

In the bible it talks about the father, son and holy ghost all being one, the same in essence. We all have emotions and thoughts, which are you, your emotions or thoughts? You are both and yet each are different expressions of you, of yourself, of your being. Why should God be any different, does he not have different aspects of himself?

If you see yourself in a mirror, does it stop being you? It is a math question, be well and enjoy the question.

Three Posts

I have begun three different posts in the last week, I deleted them. I never actually know what I will post and sometimes I write things that I change my mind about. The last post I wrote was about a young lady that I knew growing up and how I ruined the life of a young undercover police officer. She did not do drugs; but, was headed to the wrong place at the wrong time and I stopped her and sent her to another place and then I toyed with the narcotics officer in public and let everyone know what he really was. I am sorry; but, I think the police have something better to do than hassling kids for smoking cigarettes.

I have always found schools to have a lot in common with jails. It is a place where we train the slaves to accept their slavery. I was horrible in school and caused two teacher to have breakdowns, that I know of, it could have been more. Nope, it was more. One should not play with the autistic, we can be nasty and I was. I was as nasty as they were and a lot more sneaky.

I remember my first day of school. It was kindergarten, my mother walked me there. I remember walking in and sitting down and looking at some kids crying because they had been taken away from home and didn't understand why they were in an institution that felt cold and controlling. It was so that they could be trained to accept the life of a slave and even the bible says we are all slaves. The bible says we are sheep and slaves, I am neither and knew that the rest of them were.

The purpose of school is to indoctrinate and break young minds. Both Einstein and Edison flunked out of school. Some people say that they flunked out because they were bored; but, that is wrong. They knew the answers and chose not to give them, to not be incarcerated for thinking. Most teachers think like guards not like educators. They are there to tell you what you are to believe. When you show them they are wrong, it ruins their precepts and control. When you do it in front of other students they lose their presumed authority. That is what I attacked, they had no authority over me.

If you start to think about school for what it is, a brainwashing academy, you start to understand why the world is not the way you have been told it is. That is what authority fears, that you will understand how institutions, the world system is meant to institutionalize us. Now for a story.

So, there I was in Massachusetts at age 5 to 6. I was in a private school, I think it was private. They used to keep the boys and girls apart on the playground. I didn't understand that. The two female teachers, who appeared caring, would ask us questions; but, they didn't like my answers and I would be made to sit in the hallway for having better questions. We were not supposed to have better questions. I returned to southern California and was treated slightly better. I would finish my tests in minutes while the rest took an hour, I was told to put my head down on my desk when I finished.

One day I met a teacher, she actually cared about teaching us to see the world. She played a game with us. She played the Boston Tea Party game. She told us that we could not turn in tests unless we had earned a stamp tax which we earned by our grades; but, she was smart and sneaky. She was teaching us something more, she was showing us how we are controlled by systems. I think it was 4th grade, it was definitely prior to 6th and after 1st. I want you to really pay attention to this story, think hard.

She told us about the Boston Tea Party and then instituted the same tax on the kids in the class. She told us how they revolted before instituting the tax. That is sneaky with young kids and caring. I had more stamps than anyone else, it was not an issue for me, I didn't have to try or study so I had as many stamps as I would even need. One day after taking a test, I stood in front of the class and tore up my test saying that the stamps were wrong and unfair. She did nothing and neither did anyone else. I had believed that others might stand up and do the same thereby ending the game; but, they didn't, they sat like sheep. I went back to my seat. At recess I caught up with two friends, explained. the game, that she wanted us to revolt and told them that I wanted to rip up all the tests and that I needed them to keep the students from stopping me. When we returned to class I tore up all the tests.

When I tore up all the papers, the others students had differing attitudes. Many were mad at me, some said nothing and a few were glad. I got an A in that class, one of the few teachers who did not penalize me on my report card for lousy study habits (I didn't study because I didn't have to) and a poor attitude. I never knew measuring my abilities included my attitude. My attitude was not good when I was young. I am not sure it has ever been good. I didn't know that it had to be.

Work is a control system, school is a control system, life is a control system. I could have stopped working years ago; but, I didn't want the money I could have had. I have a friend, I offered him the opportunity to make a lot of money. His wife chose to not be free, to not make the money. She was afraid of what lies outside of slavery because it is the only system she understands, the ritual, the assurance that is not really there, the safety and comfort. My reason was slightly different; but, I felt those urges too. I chose to use the system. To infiltrate, use and understand.

People are taught to not see patterns. They are taught to start from a "fact" and build up their beliefs from there. They are taught to not see the world and work down, to ask why things are the way they are. They are taught to be blind and follow what they have been brainwashed to believe as basic truths. We call these first principals; but, the only true first principal is that we experience and therefore exist. That we are real. If sentient beings could not experience the universe then it would not matter if it were real because it would not exist. Existence requires that it be experienced or it has no value or meaning.

The most important question in the universe is why do we exist and experience the universe, life. We are the meaning of the universe, without us the universe has no meaning. Why do we live in a world that tells us that we do not matter? It is because Satan is a narcissist and believes he is all that matters, God believes we matter, that is why he created us. Be well. I am a preacher, remember that when you read this.

News of the World and Technology

Brisbane Times - Forget self-driving Google cars, Australia has self-driving trucks. I wish more people cared about what I write about. When I say something is coming, it is coming. I have been writing about this for years and people have told me they won't see it in their lifetime, it is already here. Nobody will drive for a living anymore in the not to distant future. No truck drivers, no delivery people, no bus drivers, no taxi cab drivers. Millions of jobs will simply disappear. They are seeking an automated society where people on the lower end just are not needed. That includes your children.

Examiner.com - Area 51 scientist's deathbed video: UFOs are real, aliens have federal jobs. Make of it what you will. I don't believe aliens are visiting this planet; but, I also don't believe we are being told the truth about what is occurring.

Matt Taibbi - Rolling Stone - The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare. I will simplify the article; but, you should really read it. JP Morgan knowingly cheated people out of billions and billions of dollars and the government has protected them.

MIT Technology Review - Google Wants to Store Your Genome. They want your DNA baby, they want to track you and make predictions based on genetics. Diversity of species will be a crime some day. In America we used to actually neuter mentally challenged people, they did it in Nazi Germany too; but, we led the way.

Business Standard - 50% of occupations today will no longer exist in 2025: Report. You need to read this article if you have children or grandchildren. It is the future.

Wired - Startup Builds Sensors That Will Analyze Sweat to Track Your Health. They are going to know more about the workers of the future then they did about the slaves of the past.

Wired - New Initiative Aims to Teach People to Code—Then Find Them Jobs. If you are not new to this blog, more stuff I have talked about. One of the few good jobs will be independently programming apps for less and less money over time.

TechCrunch - The Larger Implications Of Electronic Payments Adoption. The article is about how electronic payments will help the poor and barely mentions how it will also allow big global companies to avoid taxes and transfer money made in one country to another country.

I am at a loss for words. I have been writing for 7 years about what is coming and am sorry that so few have got it. Many will not understand until after the changes have occurred. What a shame. Be well dear readers.