Last Sunday, October 16,2011, I picked up my Chicago Tribune and read Clarence Page's column condemning Herman Cain for declaring that black folks have been brainwashed. It seems that Clarence thinks Herman is a racist. Well gee whiz, to hear the present administration these days and most liberals, who isn't a racist. So, accordingly, I wrote a letter to Mr. Page and let him know how one reader felt about his comments. The following is the letter.
Dear Mr. Page,
After reading your column for Sunday, October 16, I was amazed at how little progressive, elite blacks, like yourself, understand the real plight of the black community. Mr.Cain's remarks about brainwashing, in regard to that manipulated community, make all the sense in the world. It was from that community, which Mr. Cain understands all to well, that Mr. Cain, just as you did, escaped the philosophy of progressive passiveness to the human condition of the weakness for "something for nothing."
In criticizing Mr. Cain you have revealed your need, as a black man, to suckle at the teet of the white progressive ruling elite and reduced yourself to using the race card to marginalize a black conservative in the hope of preserving some exalted position among those elites. Mr. Cains remarks are only emphasizing that which everybody knows.
Since 1964 and the the Great Society, the unintended consequence of that program has been to enslave a few generations of the black community, and surely among others, to that philosophy of "something for nothing" in exchange for the vote. And that surely is what the democratic party gets. Poverty has been reduced by a miniscule amount. The outcry of racism when a common sense call for drug testing in return for welfare is shouted down, we know that those demands are nothing more than avoiding the rule of accountability. Even you, in the raising of your own children would demand much more.
There was a song recorded by Kenny Rogers entitled ' Sweet Music Man " and a line in the lyrics went like this:
" You're a hell of a singer but a broken man
And you surround yourself with people who demand
So little of you.
The question arises, why do you demand so little of your own people ?
Monday, October 17, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
SO YA WANNA PAY 50%, DO YA.
It seems this reply to a discussion that was taking place on a friends Facebook page was considered abuse of some kind and was rejected (Abuse I guess).. Jeez, Im heartbroken. It just seems harder and harder to discuss current events with defensive people.
It seems the person was willing to.pay 50 per cent in taxes to be as happy as the population in Denmark where the government, I’m supposing, makes everybody happy. So I wrote........
V......The population of Denmark is 5,529,888 (July 2011 est.) It would seem that in a population of 5 million and a 50 per cent tax rate, the progressive idea of one size fits all might work. However, if I project that idea into a population of 308 million, that thrives on a 70 per cent consumer economy , and a large segment of the population that is dependent on government because that government has taken away the ambition and work ethic by way of the very thing you are wishing for, I would think that disaster, if not here now, would not be far behind. Taking money out of the private sector and injecting it into the government sector is tantamount to paying for your own slavery. And government injecting money to stimulate the economy seems not to work. Keynes was wrong then and his economics is wrong now. Simply look to the European models of Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and the U.K. The soft side of socialism in Western Europe is taking them down for the simple reason that which is given for free has no value. There’s a sort of folk song that was recorded by Kenny Rogers that sums it up. The song is called “Sweet Music Man” and there’s a line that in part goes,
“Your still a hell of a singer but a broken man
And you surround yourself with people who demand
So little of you"............That would be our fate in a progressive society.
It seems the person was willing to.pay 50 per cent in taxes to be as happy as the population in Denmark where the government, I’m supposing, makes everybody happy. So I wrote........
V......The population of Denmark is 5,529,888 (July 2011 est.) It would seem that in a population of 5 million and a 50 per cent tax rate, the progressive idea of one size fits all might work. However, if I project that idea into a population of 308 million, that thrives on a 70 per cent consumer economy , and a large segment of the population that is dependent on government because that government has taken away the ambition and work ethic by way of the very thing you are wishing for, I would think that disaster, if not here now, would not be far behind. Taking money out of the private sector and injecting it into the government sector is tantamount to paying for your own slavery. And government injecting money to stimulate the economy seems not to work. Keynes was wrong then and his economics is wrong now. Simply look to the European models of Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, and the U.K. The soft side of socialism in Western Europe is taking them down for the simple reason that which is given for free has no value. There’s a sort of folk song that was recorded by Kenny Rogers that sums it up. The song is called “Sweet Music Man” and there’s a line that in part goes,
“Your still a hell of a singer but a broken man
And you surround yourself with people who demand
So little of you"............That would be our fate in a progressive society.
Sunday, October 09, 2011
OVERCROWDING WALL STREET
Protesting in the streets brings back the fond memories of the 1968 riots in Chicago. As it turns out it was merely the confused academic masses and some peasant followers suffering from the same inane leftist philosophy, gathering to wait for their real estate license test results.
So now, in 2011 we have the low bourgeois and indoctrinated academic unemployed,with their $50 back packs and $90 dollar cell phone bills, and probably a host of paid union help, storming the money citadel ,Wall Street, railing for the redistribution of the belongings of others who attained success through ambition or hard work, to a section of the society that has been relegated to poverty and second class citizenship by a progressive philosophy of welfare that has destroyed the will to work and instilled in them, to an injurious degree, that the value of an education is a worthless endeavor . The real goal is specific to the progressive, wealthy, ruling elite.
Once they succeed in nullifying the values of the middle class, namely ambition and the value of an education, those same wealthy and political elite, along with the academics , will then have the road to utopia well paved . I believe that the cooperation of the wealthy, hand in hand with a progressive, if not a some what socialist level of government, will turn this country into a second class nation that will effect the future of the whole world. The ascension of China and Russia, and those with rising economy's, will assure the secular progressive political structure of this country.
With only 19 percent of the world's population, China consumes 53 percent of the world's cement, 48 percent of the world's iron ore, 47 percent of the world's coal, as well as a majority of almost every major commodity. In 2010 China produced 11 times more steel than the United States. They are the beneficiary of our employment problems.
The multitudes now gathered in Wall Street would have been better served if the government had let the inefficient banks fail. The demonstrators could then direct their ire where it belongs. In front of the White House. How absurd is it to shout down Wall Street and the wealthy when the government is hand in hand with them.
At my age it makes little difference. My time was manageable. It’s our grandchildren that have to deal with the consequences of a government that cannot make the tough calls .
So now, in 2011 we have the low bourgeois and indoctrinated academic unemployed,with their $50 back packs and $90 dollar cell phone bills, and probably a host of paid union help, storming the money citadel ,Wall Street, railing for the redistribution of the belongings of others who attained success through ambition or hard work, to a section of the society that has been relegated to poverty and second class citizenship by a progressive philosophy of welfare that has destroyed the will to work and instilled in them, to an injurious degree, that the value of an education is a worthless endeavor . The real goal is specific to the progressive, wealthy, ruling elite.
Once they succeed in nullifying the values of the middle class, namely ambition and the value of an education, those same wealthy and political elite, along with the academics , will then have the road to utopia well paved . I believe that the cooperation of the wealthy, hand in hand with a progressive, if not a some what socialist level of government, will turn this country into a second class nation that will effect the future of the whole world. The ascension of China and Russia, and those with rising economy's, will assure the secular progressive political structure of this country.
With only 19 percent of the world's population, China consumes 53 percent of the world's cement, 48 percent of the world's iron ore, 47 percent of the world's coal, as well as a majority of almost every major commodity. In 2010 China produced 11 times more steel than the United States. They are the beneficiary of our employment problems.
The multitudes now gathered in Wall Street would have been better served if the government had let the inefficient banks fail. The demonstrators could then direct their ire where it belongs. In front of the White House. How absurd is it to shout down Wall Street and the wealthy when the government is hand in hand with them.
At my age it makes little difference. My time was manageable. It’s our grandchildren that have to deal with the consequences of a government that cannot make the tough calls .
Thursday, September 22, 2011
TONY, TONY, TONY
The other day Tony Bennet was on the radio with Howard Stern and put his foot in it when he implied that the jihadists flew the planes into the towers but it was really our (The U.S.) fault. Now, I like Tony but it seems he hangs with the San Francisco crowd too much. Not knowing Tony’s political viewpoint I give him a break here because I think he got in over his head.
Hollywood and it’s celebrity citizens seem to have adopted too much of what is called, in the academic world, a post modernist philosophy. It’s certainly geared to their mentality. Now, to tell the truth I know squat about philosophy, and even less about post modernism, but it was used in an article I read the other day and I looked it up in google. To sum it up, it means just about nothing outside of academia, but since a great many of the ivory tower elite are a progressive bunch I offer the following to explain why progressives think the way they do and how they slowly ingrain the populace with their drivel via the educational system, top to bottom..
Post modernism, particularly as an academic movement, can be understood as a reaction to modernism in the Humanities. Whereas modernism was primarily concerned with principles such as identity, unity, authority, and certainty, post modernism is often associated with difference, plurality, textuality, diversity, and skepticism. While the term "Postmodern" and its derivatives are freely used, with some uses apparently contradicting others, those outside the academic culture have described it as merely a buzzword, but the thought patterns of plurality, diversity, textuality,and skepticism are prevalent in far left political pronouncements and seep their way into the culture. Not good for culture and I mean anybody’s .
And so, since I like Tony so much, I feel sad that he got sprinkled with inane progressive Pixie dust and all can be forgiven, especially since he apologized with a well written PR piece. Here’s hoping he has seen the light and it’s not fluorescent .
Hollywood and it’s celebrity citizens seem to have adopted too much of what is called, in the academic world, a post modernist philosophy. It’s certainly geared to their mentality. Now, to tell the truth I know squat about philosophy, and even less about post modernism, but it was used in an article I read the other day and I looked it up in google. To sum it up, it means just about nothing outside of academia, but since a great many of the ivory tower elite are a progressive bunch I offer the following to explain why progressives think the way they do and how they slowly ingrain the populace with their drivel via the educational system, top to bottom..
Post modernism, particularly as an academic movement, can be understood as a reaction to modernism in the Humanities. Whereas modernism was primarily concerned with principles such as identity, unity, authority, and certainty, post modernism is often associated with difference, plurality, textuality, diversity, and skepticism. While the term "Postmodern" and its derivatives are freely used, with some uses apparently contradicting others, those outside the academic culture have described it as merely a buzzword, but the thought patterns of plurality, diversity, textuality,and skepticism are prevalent in far left political pronouncements and seep their way into the culture. Not good for culture and I mean anybody’s .
And so, since I like Tony so much, I feel sad that he got sprinkled with inane progressive Pixie dust and all can be forgiven, especially since he apologized with a well written PR piece. Here’s hoping he has seen the light and it’s not fluorescent .
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
SAY WHAT WARREN ??
The news and my day yesterday are beginning to unravel my gray neurons, so I’ve got to ask the question about the addled brained Warren Buffet. The news keeps reporting that the great one paid a lower percentage of taxes than his secretary who supposedly made 60,000 dollars and he thinks that’s a terrible atrocity perpetrated by the IRS and the federal tax code, in that millionaires and billionaires should be paying less than the hired help....................................................... My first problem here is that Warren only pays a secretary, who obviously must possess some degree of competence, only $ 60,000 dollars. Of course, knowing the brilliance of media reporting these days, no one knows whether that’s gross salary or taxable income, which in any case does not equate to 29 per cent paid in taxes, as reported in many sources. In either case she did not pay more than 18 per cent and in the gross salary scenario about 13 per cent . (According to the 2010 tax tables, with some interpolation)................ We assume that whining Warren paid 17 per cent. 15 on capitol gains and the other 2 per cent for salary or whatever. The problem here( yes Ron, “here”) is that the two tax payments are totally misleading. As everyone knows Warren pays capital gains and the secretary pays in straight income, but...................In either case I believe that the secretary paid about the same or less, except, maybe she actually made a hell of a lot more than anybody knows. ...............................................................The real question then is this, how much in actual money did she pay and how much in taxable income does one have to have to be in the 29 per cent bracket ?.............................................If anyone actually believes anything that comes from the expounding of progressive thought,they should have their heads examined along with the whimpering Warren..............The answer to the 29 per cent tax paid is, the secretary made about 370,000 dollars taxable income. You don’t really believe she worked for Warren and didn’t have a little skin in the game, did you ? If you did, I have some season football tickets to the Pittsburgh Pirates games this winter. 100 dollars takes all 42 games.
HOW RIGHT WAS THAT 2007 BLOG
AFTER FOUR YEARS I CAME BACK TO THIS SIGHT AND AMAZED HOW RIGHT MY FEELING WAS BACK THEN. NEGATIVE. THE REASON I CAME BACK IS BECAUSE I'M STILL NEGATIVE BUT WILL TRY MY BEST TO CONVINCE THE PROGRESSIVE WAY IS ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG WAY. LET 2012 BEGIN..............
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