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Category: Politics
The “Promise” of jobs?
The main reason jobs are an issue is that the “bread and butter” manufacturing jobs of the post World War II economy disappeared over the last 35-45 years. While the Military Industrial Complex is well in America, it is not the employer of the ages gone by. The component pieces of our military, consumer, and industrial goods are manufactured overseas in factories whose employees are economic slaves within that country and whose employees cannot rise out of that desperate situation.
We Americans cannot compete with that economically as our costs of living are astronomical high compared to those employees. Further efforts to tax or tariff the import of cheap goods is going to raise our costs without any increase in employment in our country. The international cartels of corporations will keep the price just under the level that would make sane business people invest in making the goods within our borders.
When we have frittered away the trillions we needed on infrastructure, gutted the Affordable Care Act, defunded Medicaid, and otherwise allowed the fanatical conservative right of the Republican party to refuse to support the society, we will begin to experience subsistence living akin to what our ancestors experienced around preindustrial agrarian times in America.
Simple things like running water, roads, food, electricity, communications, and transportation will become carefully and closely managed priority needs for every one of the 98%. The promise of “increased productivity” simply means that the corporations will minimize the use of humans beings and human knowledge to produce the products for those same people to consume.
As that has gone in my lifetime the erosion of “native talent” went with it. In my parents time, post WWII, all you needed to do was produce because the want and need was unfulfilled and you could largely name your own price. Today incomes are so low that we must return to “going without” or “producing it ourselves”.
Most people do not have the basic tools and skills to accomplish this. The patient planning, preparation, and forbearance required for raising food is beyond most American’s skills and means. You can still get a couple of burgers, fries, and a drink for less than five bucks. This will be available until the water, electric, fuel, and infrastructure fail or crumble.
History dictates that all civilizations will rise and fall. The governments organized by the citizens are the cause of their demise. Government overburdens the citizenry and causes the citizen to overdrive the resources fueling their lives. It is gradual and ultimately leads to individuals working alone and away from the encumbrances of the politicos and their surround. The hard working, thick skinned, determined, and unafraid will wander off and care for their small clan. The ability to learn will be more valuable that accreditation. Knowledge will be employed. Philosophies will be simple. Actions and their results will be most valuable.
What do you think?
Dan Rather’s Response to DonJohn’s speech.
We’ve seen this before. After a period of sustained chaos, Donald Trump ascends a podium, and for a moment at least, reads a relatively measured speech from a teleprompter. For the most part, in tone and temperament it is a world away from the Tweets, and the press conferences. In many ways it was standard conservative Republican fare on such topics as tax cuts, although watching Paul Ryan stand and applaud lines calling into question free trade and major spending on infrastructure shows how much the GOP elite has swung behind President Trump.
The President’s call for economic populism is a popular instinct in the country, that I think cuts across party lines. If that was the centerpiece of his agenda, I suspect his poll numbers would be much higher. But of course there is so much more we have seen over the past several weeks that show how the most controversial rhetoric of the campaign has continued from the President in office. Tonight, Mr. Trump referenced history on many occasions, seeking to give his very unconventional administration the trappings of its place in sustained American values. There were many lines that will be seen as smoothing out the edges. But bubbling beneath the surface was still a President who is stoking division. I think the most noteworthy section, and one that history will mark, was his focus on crimes from immigrants. It is a dangerous and disingenuous strawman. Yes illegal immigrants have committed crimes. But what about the Indian worker who was just murdered in Kansas? Or the little children and teachers in Connecticut? Or African Americans in prayer in South Carolina?
Nevertheless, I think that this is a speech that will play well the President’s base. If Democrats or Independents hope that Republicans in Congress will challenge the Administration, the numerous standing ovations show how faint that expectation currently is. Democrats will read between the lines on health care, the President’s language on “law and order,” his framing of foreign policy. They will claim rampant disingenuity and a glaring lack of specifics. And some may sense the low rumblings of a demagogue. But that is not how most people watching speeches judge them. Overall, I think the effect was more successful than many had expected, perhaps because of the low bar of expectation.
But there is a fundamental difference between a campaign and a presidency. The first is about words and promises. The latter is about delivering. Whether President Trump and the Republicans who back him continue in a position of strength or falter in the election cycles to come will not be determined by a few lines read to a national audience. It will be measured by jobs, health care and education. It will be shaped by the general mood of the country – the level of anxiety versus safety, calmness versus chaos.
The news cycle doesn’t stop. New challenges will emerge. New investigative reporting will be published. New legislation will be proposed, or it won’t. And our 45th President will have to appease and persuade a volatile and engaged population in a diverse and divided nation that he is the right man for the job.
- Dan Rather – Facebook post February 28, 2017
The next evening DJ went nuts on Twitter again!
Hitler Is At Work
Read or watch these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler’s_rise_to_power
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Hitler-come-to-power
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/25points.htm
After you digest this, would you not agree tht DJ is emulating Hitler? Please post your comments!
Unacceptable Behaviors
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Sustainability vs Avarice
Anyone can clear the forest of timber. Few can replant and continuously harvest that same forest.
Who You Voting For?
Vote for SUSTAINERS not AXHANDLERS!
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