Trump Protestors and Policies

I am pretty sure that we will not get back jobs unless both the left and the right unite. That to me is the single greatest challenge facing young people. The second biggest challenge is what we do with people when there are not enough jobs to go around. These are not complicated issues; but, they are rarely discussed by politicians. The two people discussing them are Trump and Sanders with the others just giving mouth service. Kasich and Cruz would lower taxes on the wealthy to increase jobs, even though that hasn't worked in the last 30 years and actually led to more jobs being sent overseas, and Clinton would spend more on retraining workers; but, that does nothing if there are no jobs for them to take. In fact, it is harder than ever before for people with college degrees to get jobs that pay more than the minimum wage.

Now, I was a Sanders supporter and believe in his positions the most; but, I am sadly disappointed in his refusal to tell his supporters to not make disruptive protests at Trumps rallies. That is an instance of the left failing to unite with the right over what matters, jobs and the economy. I am also disappointed in the rights calling Sanders a communist, when he is not, and berating his beliefs. The difference is that Trump is not calling on his supporters to protest anyone's rallies.

So what are the protestors saying? Well, Trump gave a speech in California today and I watched a lot of news reports. Not one mentioned jobs, the wars, the economy, social security or welfare. Not one. They talked about racism. Now, I do not know what is in someone's heart and have no idea if Trump is racist; but, having been in the public eye for over 35 years they have not found one instance of Trump saying anything negative about blacks or Asians. His comments regarding illegal aliens is about immigration and borders, not about Latinos. For those who may remember I preached to Latinos from all over south and central America and Mexico. In fact, the last time someone tried to portray me as a racist they were laughed at by people of their own race. It was an attempt by someone in business to undercut me. Two things that never worked in business against me were trying to call me a racist or a liar. Both would get you laughed at even by my enemies. I don't even hate the English and they starved one fourth of my people, the Irish to death including my family members.

The Pimpernel has been writing this blog for about 7 years and there is not one thing that anyone can point to and say was racist. I got mad at black churches saying gays should die; but, I also get mad at white churches for saying the same thing. I wish ill on none; but, will call out others for wishing ill on others. If I ran for office they would probably use that to say that I was pro-gay, anti-family and racist because that is the way the establishment divides and conquers. The reason they would have to go after me without discussing what I have said is the real issue, jobs and the economy. They don't want those things to be solved to the benefit of the American people, they want profit at the expense of this nation.

Now lets talk about the women's "issue". On a personal level I will start with this. For most of my career I had a higher number of female employees than in the rest of the organization. There are a lot more women in administrative positions than in other construction jobs. I transferred jobs at one point and my old supervisor was immediately challenged by all of my former employees for being sexist and anti-minorities. I later found out that they had waited to formally challenge him until I had left because they didn't want me to be dragged into it. When I retired I thanked the people who worked for me because they always took care of things and gave me the time to work on long term projects that benefited the organization. My employees were great because I let them be great and expected success in all our endeavors, they never let me down. Mano of the women that worked for me would confide in me, they trusted me. Again, if you have read this blog then you have never seen me say anything derogatory about women as a gender. Yet, I have said that my wife was an adulterer. If I were running for office they would say that I was anti-women. Trump got in a fight with Rosie O'Donnell and the media has said that what he said about her was anti-women. It was just anti-Rosie. One can also see the things she said about him; but, nobody called her anti-men.

This is what we need to consider. If you ask black or Mexican Trump supporters why they support him they will say jobs and the economy. That doesn't get reported; but, it is important. Before we went into Iraq, Trump and Sanders were both saying that we should not. They are the only ones running for President who said that. You know the last time we have seen protests like the ones we are seeing now, it was protests against the war in Vietnam. We have not seen the young protest against the war in Iraq as much as we have seen them protest Trump. I find that disgusting. Trump has said that he doesn't want to constantly go to war and that he wants the United States to demand more from the NATO and other countries for us to protect them. Sanders hasn't even said that. In fact, George Wallace (1968 Presidential candidate who was an avowed racist) did not get as many protests as Trump and Wallace was for segregation and attempted to deny black children from entering a white public school.

The point I am trying to get you to ask is, why now? Why the protests now. I do not believe it is actually about Trump. We know that "Black Lives Matter" is the most organized protest group right now and we also know that members had protested at Trump rallies. We know that there are many conservatives that have gone after "Black Lives Matter"; but, Trump really hasn't been part of that discussion. We also know that "Black Lives Matter" had protested at some of Sanders rallies, even forcing him off the stage at one. Now, while I find the number of unarmed blacks being shot by cops appalling, I believe they are protesting Trump because he gets larger crowds. Their playbook calls for going to the largest events they can, Sanders was just the largest crowd for Democrats. Since Trumps rallies have dwarfed Bernies they go to Trump's rallies. I understand this from a strategic, get media attention; but, it sort of misses the point. Neither Trump nor Sanders is racist and both want to expand opportunities.

Finally, here is my point. WE have a problem and the problem is opportunity and power for the majority of people in the United States. If we do not create more jobs for Americans and take care of all Americans then we will become a third world nation. Climate change is not the threat to Americans, not being able to feed ourselves as automation takes over is the threat, not having jobs is the threat, not having enough to live on is the threat. I usually chastise the conservatives for not finding common ground with liberals; but, the liberals are making the exact same stupid divisive move. They have been divided and conquered by the establishment that will not address the real issues.

The Death of Trucking Being a Good Job.

L.A. Daily News - America’s trucking industry faces a shortage. Meet the immigrants helping fill the gap. The trucking industry complains that it doesn't have enough truckers because people don't want the job while not increasing wages even as gas was going up. The industry answer is to hire people from other countries and work on self driving 18 wheelers. I read articles where they said that immigrants made good truckers because they were willing to work longer. Wait, I know truckers and over the road truckers are limited in the number of hours they can work for the safety of others on the highway. In fact, they are required to keep log books showing how many hours they have been driving. So the fact that they are willing to work more hours than are legal is a good reason to hire them?

Media Talks More About Trump Than The President.

I was watching some news videos and some late night talk show clips of the week. I am retired, I have too much free time. Anyways, I noticed something, they were all about Donald Trump. None of them were positive; but, they were all against him. There was hardly anything about Obama visiting Saudi Arabia or Britain and those two trips had a lot that should be talked about.

Here is what we know, we know that just about all of the mass media is owned by six companies. So, it only takes six people (the leaders of those 6 companies) to make it so that every story about Trump is negative, or that stories about you or me are always negative. Wait, that also means that six people can make every media story about anyone be positive. Hmmmm.

I want you to think about the implication of what I just said, that 6 people control all the mass media and can determine how anyone is portrayed. If you were one of the 6, what would your concerns be and would you make sure that your employees promoted those wants? This is not about Trump, this is about the 6 people who decide how the world is explained to you.

It is Monday 4/25/16, Fun For You

YouTube - The Onion - Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized. The video below is a joke; but, it is funny.

YouTube - World's 10 Most Mysterious Monuments. The video below is just interesting and discusses monuments you may not know about.

Obama Did Exactly What I Said He Would - Globalist

If you read the time stamp on the last post you will see I wrote it and posted it prior to President Obama landed in Britain and he said exactly what I said he would, that he didn't think Britain should leave the European Union. Some of my friends knew that was what was going to happen even before they really understood what the EU was or what the Brexit was. This is not my way of saying "I told you so". It is about something bigger. The discussion in Britain is now over whether or not Obama should have said anything. In the same way that I knew what the British response would be, he did too. He has lots of political advisers and was working with their Prime Minister on what his message would be. One would have to be a complete idiot to think that I foresaw this and the whole Obama administration did not, I'm just not that good, merely trained. The expected response occurred and the conversation in England is following the expected path.

By the way, Obama threatened the UK. In his speech he said that the United States was working on a trade agreement with the EU and that if Britain left the EU it would be years before we would get around to having a trade agreement with Britain. Here is the speech:

YouTube - US Pres. Obama threatens British if they vote for Brexit (22Apr16).

What if the Prime Minister of Canada came over here and told us it was in our best interest to join the EU and allow half of all our laws to be legislated by the United Nations and that we had to have open borders. Would you feel that was overstepping?

And where did Obama go after leaving Britain, he went to Germany to discuss this EU - America trade treaty. MSN - Associated Press - Obama to use Germany visit to push trans-Atlantic trade deal .

Brexit and Obama the Globalist

Recently I wrote a post about Britain voting to leave or stay within the European Union. As I am not a member or a European Union nation, I did not feel it necessary to give my opinion on the matter, only to make sure my readers were aware of the situation. I think far to few Americans have any idea of what is going on in Europe.

Well, President Obama is going to England and it has been said that if he is asked he will say that Britain should stay in the EU. If I were a British citizen I would vote to leave the EU. I have heard and read all sides and I find it anti-democratic to be in the EU where unelected representatives write the laws for 500 million people. Consider how the wealthy control our politicians in America, well, the globalists control the EU except they don't get to vote on the people writing the laws. This country fought over the freedom to write our own laws, I still believe in that.

Ignoring my reasons, one should ask themselves this fundamental question. Why would Obama go to England to promote them staying in the EU. What business is it of ours? Britain is a member of NATO, the United Nations, the G7 and represents itself directly with America in most areas. Further, America, Australia, Canada and Britain have a special relationship that is far more binding than our relationship with Europe as a whole. I do not believe that most Americans know about this coming vote in England and I am quite sure that most do not care because it is none of our business. So, I ask my readers again, why is Obama going to promote England staying in the EU, how does he see this as benefitting American interests? He doesn't because it doesn't, it benefits globalist interests. It benefits international businesses, not workers, not citizens, not democracy, not freedom, it supports oligarchy and anti-democracy. Here is a fun article and video.

FoxNews - 'Monstrous interference': UK pols furious at Obama's plan to intervene in EU debate. 

The above video is from YouTube and is titled, "Question Time - USA Threatening The UK Over Leaving the EU". Question time is a British show where political people are asked questions by average citizens.

Change and Moves

The building that Pimpernel lives in is being sold. These things happen and I was looking for a place to live when I moved here, so it is not a big deal. When I moved here I had just lost my home, I had lived in my own home for about half my life. I lost my home because of the divorce costs. Not the first or the last to face such a thing. I needed to move fast and a friend had an apartment for rent, I looked at it for two minutes and rented it. The building is older, I didn't care, it has limited amenities, I didn't care annnnnd, I just didn't care about anything, it was a place and I needed a place. Heck, my friend's family owned it and it was small (6 units). Small, closer to work and quiet, those are the things that mattered to me at the time. The building worked for me and I was able to live simpler and quieter and stress free after years of high stress.

I don't know how long I have lived here, I guess I could go back and read my posts to figure it out. I don't really care exactly how long ago; but, I think it was about six years ago. In the end it was where I needed to be at the time and worked incredibly well with me for my healing. Turned out I ended up really liking the location and have made many friends in the area. Now, I must leave and I think the timing is great. I am a lot better than I was when I moved here and I think it is time for a new adventure. I have no idea what that adventure will be; but, it will involve meeting new people and seeing the world in a new way. I think just maybe, it is time for me to be forced to look outside again. I think for most the past six years, I have looked to the past in my life and that maybe now, it is time to move on.

I have moved across the country four times and within those areas many, many more. In my first year of law school I moved five times. I moved a couple more before graduating. I moved three times in elementary school, three times in junior high and once in High school. My sibling have moved much more than I; but, it doesn't really seem to bother then. I think I am more attached to places than they are, or maybe they just adjust more fully. I never forget the places I live, they all hold memories for me. I guess land is like a touch stone for me, a memory trigger. When I moved from the first house that I owned I thought about my kids growing up in it, when I moved from my last house I thought about how it was a comfort to me as I went through the single worst part of my life. When I move from here I will remember how it helped me heal. I have good memories of this place and I was here when I needed to be here. I think we should look at our lives that way and appreciate what we have been blessed to enjoy.

Where I go from here is a little less clear. The problem is me, not opportunities. In my life, most of my moves have not been by choice. Those that were by choice were usually made for the benefit of others. I bought my first house so that my kids could have a backyard and more space, even though it meant I spent two hours a day on the road at a minimum and usually meant four hours a day. The other house I bought, I bought because I needed to take my father in to assist him. By the way, my father needed very little assistance, he just lost his short term memory, his attitude remained amazing.

I have a tendency not to change the places I move to, I tend to adjust to my surroundings. My sister changes her surroundings to fit her, as does my brother. I don't, I adjust to my space. I don't tend to buy new furniture, I don't have a look in mind, I don't think about what I am going to do with a space. I only question whether or not I can adapt to it. The one thing I will put up is art; but, even there, there is no plan. I put up what I feel like putting up and that alone can take a very long time.

I guess the reason this is all on my mind is because I am being forced to ask myself what I want again and actually have time to decide what I want. Where do I want to live, what sort of situation do I want to live in, those questions matter and I don't have a lot of experience answering them.

This blog is about change and what it means. While the change I write about is usually political or scientific, sometimes it is about personal change. "Gone With The Wind" is about change and how people adapt to it or fail to adapt. I adapt and if I am to tell the truth, I think the changes over my life have given me a certain ability to adjust; but, I always ask myself what the past has meant; because until we learn from the past, we cannot adapt to the future.

I hope you are all having a great week.