Saturday, October 12, 2013
I
have been talking about this for a while. We have a problem Houston.
It's time to dial this back. A Benevolent Dictatorship requires
benevolence, which is absent in the current occupant of the White House.
Exhibit A is the way he deals or more accurately doesn't deal with
Congress.
Ex-GE CEO: The President Has Become Too Powerful
www.theblaze.com
The
office of the President of the United States has grown too powerful
relative to congress, or so says former General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
"That's been happening for a long time and it's accelerated this time"
I saw
a protest near my house. On Randall Rd. South Elgin. Several people
on an overpass. "IMPEACH OBAMA". I had never seen that before in
almost 30 years here. People are getting really angry. He may not have
yet committed an impeachable offense (other than being an arrogant toad
which doesn't qualify) but people are hitting the wall... I don't think
he cares, but I have never seen this level of anger before. The line
is drawn like never before. There is no middle ground. You are either
for him and all he represents, or you are against him. Choose now.
The face of starving Americans
This
article about dire poverty in the USA. Is this REALLY the face of
starving Americans? On this day when EBT cards gave up all over the
USA... But I'm sure Obama will come up with a program for them... like
he cured all the problems related to health care... SMH
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2013/0729/4-out-of-5-Americans-face-poverty-in-their-lifetimes-says-survey-video
http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/2013/0729/4-out-of-5-Americans-face-poverty-in-their-lifetimes-says-survey-video
A Chemistry Breakthrough That Could Fuel a Revolution Now methanol can be made from natural gas and captured carbon dioxide. By GEORGE A. OLAH And CHRIS COX A personal note first. I took a lot of Organic Chemistry in College. Not because I I Needed it for a Degree, but because I loved the whole Thing. Jungle Jim was the pet name we had for our instructor. A few years ago when the whole fuel issue was on the table, I thought about why couldn't somehow CO2 and CH3 be combined reactivity to Create CH4O, methanol in liquid form that would burn straight up in gasoline vehicles. Now it appears we are on the cusp... if we can get government out of the way. This is far more encouraging than first appears. If I have some other chemistry buffs on FB, you can verify this. I hope Chuck Comstock will see this. And all the people who won't read me, but know I get the energy thing. Be encouraged: In the three weeks since the Obama administration issued its long-promised proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it has become clear the plan is far from perfect. By placing the burden of expensive new carbon capture and sequestration technology on the U.S. alone, and potentially requiring steep cuts in domestic energy to conform to carbon caps, the proposal could send the U.S. economy into shock without making a significant dent in global emissions. There is a better approach that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while growing the economy and increasing U.S. energy independence. In place of expensive mandates and wasteful subsidies, what is needed are powerful economic incentives. These incentives should operate not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well. Thanks to recent developments in chemistry, a new way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol—a simple alcohol now used primarily by industry but increasingly attracting attention as transportation fuel—can now make it profitable for America and the world to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. At laboratories such as the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute (founded by George Olah, one of the authors here), researchers have discovered how to produce methanol at significantly lower cost than gasoline directly from carbon dioxide. So instead of capturing and "sequestering" carbon dioxide—the Obama administration's current plan is to bury it—this environmental pariah can be recycled into fuel for autos, trucks and ships. Related breakthroughs in chemistry now make it possible to efficiently convert natural gas from shale into methanol. Hydraulic fracturing is making shale gas so inexpensive and abundant that America now taps more natural gas than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. Until now, however, that abundance of supply has not translated directly into benefits for drivers in the form of lower fuel costs, or reduced dependence on foreign oil. The methanol-conversion process can be a game changer, because shale gas can immediately be put to use as liquid transportation fuel. Methanol has long been known as a superior fuel for cars, one that is better for the environment than either gasoline or ethanol. Beginning in 1989, the California Energy Commission tested the viability of methanol as a vehicle fuel and found that it generates much lower vehicle emissions. Methanol-gasoline blends have cleaner burning properties than gasoline alone, reducing harmful NOx emissions—mono-nitrogen oxides, which produce smog and acid rain—and polluting particulate matter. Methanol also provides higher performance. It has an octane rating of 100, greater than premium gasoline, one reason that pure methanol was used for decades to fuel the race cars at the Indianapolis 500. Yet putting methanol in the gas tank is economical, too. It is significantly cheaper per mile driven than either gasoline or ethanol. Unlike ethanol, methanol does not raise food prices.
A Chemistry Breakthrough That Could Fuel a Revolution
Now methanol can be made from natural gas and captured carbon dioxide.
By GEORGE A. OLAH And CHRIS COX
A personal note first. I took a lot of Organic Chemistry in College. Not because I I Needed it for a Degree, but because I loved the whole Thing. Jungle Jim was the pet name we had for our instructor. A few years ago when the whole fuel issue was on the table, I thought about wA Chemistry Breakthrough That Could Fuel a Revolution
Now methanol can be made from natural gas and captured carbon dioxide.
By GEORGE A. OLAH And CHRIS COX
A personal note first. I took a lot of Organic Chemistry in College. Not because I I Needed it for a Degree, but because I loved the whole Thing. Jungle Jim was the pet name we had for our instructor. A few years ago when the whole fuel issue was on the table, I thought about why couldn't somehow CO2 and CH3 be combined reactivity to Create CH4O, methanol in liquid form that would burn straight up in gasoline vehicles. Now it appears we are on the cusp... if we can get government out of the way. This is far more encouraging than first appears.
In the three weeks since the Obama administration issued its long-promised proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it has become clear the plan is far from perfect. By placing the burden of expensive new carbon capture and sequestration technology on the U.S. alone, and potentially requiring steep cuts in domestic energy to conform to carbon caps, the proposal could send the U.S. economy into shock without making a significant dent in global emissions.
There is a better approach that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while growing the economy and increasing U.S. energy independence.
In place of expensive mandates and wasteful subsidies, what is needed are powerful economic incentives. These incentives should operate not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well.
Thanks to recent developments in chemistry, a new way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol—a simple alcohol now used primarily by industry but increasingly attracting attention as transportation fuel—can now make it profitable for America and the world to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
At laboratories such as the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute (founded by George Olah, one of the authors here), researchers have discovered how to produce methanol at significantly lower cost than gasoline directly from carbon dioxide. So instead of capturing and "sequestering" carbon dioxide—the Obama administration's current plan is to bury it—this environmental pariah can be recycled into fuel for autos, trucks and ships.
Related breakthroughs in chemistry now make it possible to efficiently convert natural gas from shale into methanol. Hydraulic fracturing is making shale gas so inexpensive and abundant that America now taps more natural gas than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. Until now, however, that abundance of supply has not translated directly into benefits for drivers in the form of lower fuel costs, or reduced dependence on foreign oil. The methanol-conversion process can be a game changer, because shale gas can immediately be put to use as liquid transportation fuel.
Methanol has long been known as a superior fuel for cars, one that is better for the environment than either gasoline or ethanol. Beginning in 1989, the California Energy Commission tested the viability of methanol as a vehicle fuel and found that it generates much lower vehicle emissions. Methanol-gasoline blends have cleaner burning properties than gasoline alone, reducing harmful NOx emissions—mono-nitrogen oxides, which produce smog and acid rain—and polluting particulate matter.
Methanol also provides higher performance. It has an octane rating of 100, greater than premium gasoline, one reason that pure methanol was used for decades to fuel the race cars at the Indianapolis 500. Yet putting methanol in the gas tank is economical, too. It is significantly cheaper per mile driven than either gasoline or ethanol. Unlike ethanol, methanol does not raise food prices. Now it appears we are on the cusp... if we can get government out of the way. This is far more encouraging than first appears.
In the three weeks since the Obama administration issued its long-promised proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it has become clear the plan is far from perfect. By placing the burden of expensive new carbon capture and sequestration technology on the U.S. alone, and potentially requiring steep cuts in domestic energy to conform to carbon caps, the proposal could send the U.S. economy into shock without making a significant dent in global emissions.
There is a better approach that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while growing the economy and increasing U.S. energy independence.
In place of expensive mandates and wasteful subsidies, what is needed are powerful economic incentives. These incentives should operate not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well.
Thanks to recent developments in chemistry, a new way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol—a simple alcohol now used primarily by industry but increasingly attracting attention as transportation fuel—can now make it profitable for America and the world to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
At laboratories such as the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute (founded by George Olah, one of the authors here), researchers have discovered how to produce methanol at significantly lower cost than gasoline directly from carbon dioxide. So instead of capturing and "sequestering" carbon dioxide—the Obama administration's current plan is to bury it—this environmental pariah can be recycled into fuel for autos, trucks and ships.
Related breakthroughs in chemistry now make it possible to efficiently convert natural gas from shale into methanol. Hydraulic fracturing is making shale gas so inexpensive and abundant that America now taps more natural gas than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. Until now, however, that abundance of supply has not translated directly into benefits for drivers in the form of lower fuel costs, or reduced dependence on foreign oil. The methanol-conversion process can be a game changer, because shale gas can immediately be put to use as liquid transportation fuel.
Methanol has long been known as a superior fuel for cars, one that is better for the environment than either gasoline or ethanol. Beginning in 1989, the California Energy Commission tested the viability of methanol as a vehicle fuel and found that it generates much lower vehicle emissions. Methanol-gasoline blends have cleaner burning properties than gasoline alone, reducing harmful NOx emissions—mono-nitrogen oxides, which produce smog and acid rain—and polluting particulate matter.
Methanol also provides higher performance. It has an octane rating of 100, greater than premium gasoline, one reason that pure methanol was used for decades to fuel the race cars at the Indianapolis 500. Yet putting methanol in the gas tank is economical, too. It is significantly cheaper per mile driven than either gasoline or ethanol. Unlike ethanol, methanol does not raise food prices.
Google the title and read the whole thing.
Now methanol can be made from natural gas and captured carbon dioxide.
By GEORGE A. OLAH And CHRIS COX
A personal note first. I took a lot of Organic Chemistry in College. Not because I I Needed it for a Degree, but because I loved the whole Thing. Jungle Jim was the pet name we had for our instructor. A few years ago when the whole fuel issue was on the table, I thought about wA Chemistry Breakthrough That Could Fuel a Revolution
Now methanol can be made from natural gas and captured carbon dioxide.
By GEORGE A. OLAH And CHRIS COX
A personal note first. I took a lot of Organic Chemistry in College. Not because I I Needed it for a Degree, but because I loved the whole Thing. Jungle Jim was the pet name we had for our instructor. A few years ago when the whole fuel issue was on the table, I thought about why couldn't somehow CO2 and CH3 be combined reactivity to Create CH4O, methanol in liquid form that would burn straight up in gasoline vehicles. Now it appears we are on the cusp... if we can get government out of the way. This is far more encouraging than first appears.
In the three weeks since the Obama administration issued its long-promised proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it has become clear the plan is far from perfect. By placing the burden of expensive new carbon capture and sequestration technology on the U.S. alone, and potentially requiring steep cuts in domestic energy to conform to carbon caps, the proposal could send the U.S. economy into shock without making a significant dent in global emissions.
There is a better approach that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while growing the economy and increasing U.S. energy independence.
In place of expensive mandates and wasteful subsidies, what is needed are powerful economic incentives. These incentives should operate not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well.
Thanks to recent developments in chemistry, a new way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol—a simple alcohol now used primarily by industry but increasingly attracting attention as transportation fuel—can now make it profitable for America and the world to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
At laboratories such as the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute (founded by George Olah, one of the authors here), researchers have discovered how to produce methanol at significantly lower cost than gasoline directly from carbon dioxide. So instead of capturing and "sequestering" carbon dioxide—the Obama administration's current plan is to bury it—this environmental pariah can be recycled into fuel for autos, trucks and ships.
Related breakthroughs in chemistry now make it possible to efficiently convert natural gas from shale into methanol. Hydraulic fracturing is making shale gas so inexpensive and abundant that America now taps more natural gas than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. Until now, however, that abundance of supply has not translated directly into benefits for drivers in the form of lower fuel costs, or reduced dependence on foreign oil. The methanol-conversion process can be a game changer, because shale gas can immediately be put to use as liquid transportation fuel.
Methanol has long been known as a superior fuel for cars, one that is better for the environment than either gasoline or ethanol. Beginning in 1989, the California Energy Commission tested the viability of methanol as a vehicle fuel and found that it generates much lower vehicle emissions. Methanol-gasoline blends have cleaner burning properties than gasoline alone, reducing harmful NOx emissions—mono-nitrogen oxides, which produce smog and acid rain—and polluting particulate matter.
Methanol also provides higher performance. It has an octane rating of 100, greater than premium gasoline, one reason that pure methanol was used for decades to fuel the race cars at the Indianapolis 500. Yet putting methanol in the gas tank is economical, too. It is significantly cheaper per mile driven than either gasoline or ethanol. Unlike ethanol, methanol does not raise food prices. Now it appears we are on the cusp... if we can get government out of the way. This is far more encouraging than first appears.
In the three weeks since the Obama administration issued its long-promised proposal to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, it has become clear the plan is far from perfect. By placing the burden of expensive new carbon capture and sequestration technology on the U.S. alone, and potentially requiring steep cuts in domestic energy to conform to carbon caps, the proposal could send the U.S. economy into shock without making a significant dent in global emissions.
There is a better approach that can reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while growing the economy and increasing U.S. energy independence.
In place of expensive mandates and wasteful subsidies, what is needed are powerful economic incentives. These incentives should operate not just in the U.S., but in other countries as well.
Thanks to recent developments in chemistry, a new way to convert carbon dioxide into methanol—a simple alcohol now used primarily by industry but increasingly attracting attention as transportation fuel—can now make it profitable for America and the world to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
At laboratories such as the University of Southern California's Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute (founded by George Olah, one of the authors here), researchers have discovered how to produce methanol at significantly lower cost than gasoline directly from carbon dioxide. So instead of capturing and "sequestering" carbon dioxide—the Obama administration's current plan is to bury it—this environmental pariah can be recycled into fuel for autos, trucks and ships.
Related breakthroughs in chemistry now make it possible to efficiently convert natural gas from shale into methanol. Hydraulic fracturing is making shale gas so inexpensive and abundant that America now taps more natural gas than either Saudi Arabia or Russia. Until now, however, that abundance of supply has not translated directly into benefits for drivers in the form of lower fuel costs, or reduced dependence on foreign oil. The methanol-conversion process can be a game changer, because shale gas can immediately be put to use as liquid transportation fuel.
Methanol has long been known as a superior fuel for cars, one that is better for the environment than either gasoline or ethanol. Beginning in 1989, the California Energy Commission tested the viability of methanol as a vehicle fuel and found that it generates much lower vehicle emissions. Methanol-gasoline blends have cleaner burning properties than gasoline alone, reducing harmful NOx emissions—mono-nitrogen oxides, which produce smog and acid rain—and polluting particulate matter.
Methanol also provides higher performance. It has an octane rating of 100, greater than premium gasoline, one reason that pure methanol was used for decades to fuel the race cars at the Indianapolis 500. Yet putting methanol in the gas tank is economical, too. It is significantly cheaper per mile driven than either gasoline or ethanol. Unlike ethanol, methanol does not raise food prices.
Google the title and read the whole thing.
Mr President, you are a fool.
This
"genius" wouldn't know a job it it bit him on the leg. He has
destroyed what little economic engine he inherited. Obamacare is the
final nail in the coffin. Mr President, you are a fool.
Friday, October 11, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
How to Solve the Student Loan Bubble and WHY
First the problem. Young people are coming out of college with huge student loans with little hope of paying them back. The work they prepared for, the majors they got are without value. Underwater basket weaving quality.
Second, the result. Many fewer young people are getting married, buying houses, having children and making any kind of upward mobility in a difficult time. They see themselves as unable because of these huge loans. Potential spouses are put off by becoming signatory to this.
Third. Business' are not being formed in the young person's twenties when most people form their first business. I had already 3 by the time I was 30. This lack of business formation has the potential to cripple out economy.
Fourth, Jobs are not there. The idea that a graduate might get a GOOD job and pay for their student loan is a myth. I almost never happens.
So, what do we do with this? The problem really is the effect this will have on our economy, nation and culture in the future. This delay in household formation, sound marriages with children and a lack of entrepreneurship is going to bury us as a country. It is in the interest of the Nation to find a way, not to pay off or forgive these loans but to let the loans liquidate themselves. I am not proposing forgiveness, I am not proposing non payment. I'm not proposing bankruptcy. I am proposing a solution that covers all these bases.
Any solution must have the capacity of creating incentive for people to want to deal with the loans and be a social driver for desired results that will help our nation's future security. Household Formations, Marriage, Children, New Business and productivity are the desired goals. The current situation as I pointed out above has the exact opposite effect.
The key to this is attaching the student loan to an appreciating asset for eventual retirement. Using a life insurance instrument to secure the loan for the principle payable to the loan holder. In exchange all interest must be paid simple only. No compounding. The loans become essentially bonds. Bonds that can be traded, monetized and invested in. High yield bonds. Bonds with some level of government backing. Not guarantees, but close.
Here's how it works:
IF a person who has student debt buys a house, takes out a mortgage on that property, his student loan becomes an immediate second mortgage. It is still not able to be discharged by bankruptcy, but it is not rolled into the first mortgage. IF that person buys the house or apartment complex or condo and the value appreciates, the loan is paid off either by the eventual sale of the house, or a second mortgage that pays OFF the student loan. Typically these seconds are much less interest. In the current housing market it is reasonable to assume that values have some upward potential. The loan as a second would remain unserviced to principle. It acts now as a debenture, a bond. No more accruing interest except simple interest which must be paid per year. That at the rate of the loan plus 2% (this funds the life insurance component). No principle reduction unless the loan is refinanced as a second or when the house is sold or move up takes place. The incentive is the high interest rate.
If a person in student load debt decides to buy or start a business, it becomes part of the loan portfolio it takes to start the business. The business carries the debt on it's balance sheet, but it is retired as if or when the business grows. At some point when that person is able, it is paid off by superior financing, revenues or capital growth. The incentive to take that chance is great. It doesn't affect the nature of the loan, only the interest need be paid at a 2% premium. Insurance.
A person with a student loan if he or she marries will receive an accelerated tax credit on the dependent spouse. Currently $3600 per person. That would accelerate to $10,000 per person. We are encouraging household formation. This functions as a tax credit that accrues back against the student loan principal. The interest plus 2% will still have to be paid. As long as they stay married they get the payment. The same applies for any children they have. Instead of Aid to Dependant Children, the amount that reduces the principle is generated by the number of Children. Using children and marriage to reduce the student loan has to do with the benefit the culture has by this. This pattern in time will retire the student loan. Divorce stops the process. It reverts.
If a person chooses to remain single, live in his parents basement, works a minimum wage job he has no hope of getting out of this. I would propose that he or she has payment responsibilities, interest only (no compounding), and it remains until he or she dies.He or she still has the insurance policy, pays 2% over on the simple interest. A better job, a business, a house, a wedding and children help them out of this. All income tax refunds if any are used to retire this debt. He has a section 8 type responsibility to pay a percentage, no matter how small to retire this. The incentive is to get him into property, marriage with children and a business.
Once these bond quality instruments with Insurance and equity cash out are in place, the could be consolidated, traded and sold as a high yield instrument to investors. While that did not work well in the Mortgage business, this has a better potential.
The reality is under the current situation, we are on a collision course to collapse. There is not getting out of this without shutting down the deleterious effects of the student loan burden in our culture.
Second, the result. Many fewer young people are getting married, buying houses, having children and making any kind of upward mobility in a difficult time. They see themselves as unable because of these huge loans. Potential spouses are put off by becoming signatory to this.
Third. Business' are not being formed in the young person's twenties when most people form their first business. I had already 3 by the time I was 30. This lack of business formation has the potential to cripple out economy.
Fourth, Jobs are not there. The idea that a graduate might get a GOOD job and pay for their student loan is a myth. I almost never happens.
So, what do we do with this? The problem really is the effect this will have on our economy, nation and culture in the future. This delay in household formation, sound marriages with children and a lack of entrepreneurship is going to bury us as a country. It is in the interest of the Nation to find a way, not to pay off or forgive these loans but to let the loans liquidate themselves. I am not proposing forgiveness, I am not proposing non payment. I'm not proposing bankruptcy. I am proposing a solution that covers all these bases.
Any solution must have the capacity of creating incentive for people to want to deal with the loans and be a social driver for desired results that will help our nation's future security. Household Formations, Marriage, Children, New Business and productivity are the desired goals. The current situation as I pointed out above has the exact opposite effect.
The key to this is attaching the student loan to an appreciating asset for eventual retirement. Using a life insurance instrument to secure the loan for the principle payable to the loan holder. In exchange all interest must be paid simple only. No compounding. The loans become essentially bonds. Bonds that can be traded, monetized and invested in. High yield bonds. Bonds with some level of government backing. Not guarantees, but close.
Here's how it works:
IF a person who has student debt buys a house, takes out a mortgage on that property, his student loan becomes an immediate second mortgage. It is still not able to be discharged by bankruptcy, but it is not rolled into the first mortgage. IF that person buys the house or apartment complex or condo and the value appreciates, the loan is paid off either by the eventual sale of the house, or a second mortgage that pays OFF the student loan. Typically these seconds are much less interest. In the current housing market it is reasonable to assume that values have some upward potential. The loan as a second would remain unserviced to principle. It acts now as a debenture, a bond. No more accruing interest except simple interest which must be paid per year. That at the rate of the loan plus 2% (this funds the life insurance component). No principle reduction unless the loan is refinanced as a second or when the house is sold or move up takes place. The incentive is the high interest rate.
If a person in student load debt decides to buy or start a business, it becomes part of the loan portfolio it takes to start the business. The business carries the debt on it's balance sheet, but it is retired as if or when the business grows. At some point when that person is able, it is paid off by superior financing, revenues or capital growth. The incentive to take that chance is great. It doesn't affect the nature of the loan, only the interest need be paid at a 2% premium. Insurance.
A person with a student loan if he or she marries will receive an accelerated tax credit on the dependent spouse. Currently $3600 per person. That would accelerate to $10,000 per person. We are encouraging household formation. This functions as a tax credit that accrues back against the student loan principal. The interest plus 2% will still have to be paid. As long as they stay married they get the payment. The same applies for any children they have. Instead of Aid to Dependant Children, the amount that reduces the principle is generated by the number of Children. Using children and marriage to reduce the student loan has to do with the benefit the culture has by this. This pattern in time will retire the student loan. Divorce stops the process. It reverts.
If a person chooses to remain single, live in his parents basement, works a minimum wage job he has no hope of getting out of this. I would propose that he or she has payment responsibilities, interest only (no compounding), and it remains until he or she dies.He or she still has the insurance policy, pays 2% over on the simple interest. A better job, a business, a house, a wedding and children help them out of this. All income tax refunds if any are used to retire this debt. He has a section 8 type responsibility to pay a percentage, no matter how small to retire this. The incentive is to get him into property, marriage with children and a business.
Once these bond quality instruments with Insurance and equity cash out are in place, the could be consolidated, traded and sold as a high yield instrument to investors. While that did not work well in the Mortgage business, this has a better potential.
The reality is under the current situation, we are on a collision course to collapse. There is not getting out of this without shutting down the deleterious effects of the student loan burden in our culture.
WILL THE US MILITARY EVER FIRE ON AMERICAN CITIZENS?
I am a first hand student of History. I was alive when FDR died. I was alive when Hitler died. I was a baby but the shadow of that recent history was clearly visible as I grew up. As a German, one who grew up in a German community, one who spoke it in part as a child, one who could commonly hear it on the street, my connection to and study of Nazi history is profound. Then I moved to and lived in Germany during the First Gulf War. While there I befriended ex Nazis. Some who had fought. Some who were still sympathetic to Hitler. Some who had been Hitler youth. Sure I ran across a large number who were astonished that they and their fathers would kill and burn human beings in ovens.
The question was then and still stands is, why would the German men who did these horrid things do them. Of course no one I ever met did. Or didn't admit to it. The reality is it was a job. Times were tough and jobs hard to come by. Cruelty was easier if connected to a paycheck.
Even though uniformed, for the most part the cruelest of them were not military. The Military had a code of not killing civilians needlessly. Most military men are much more noble than we give them credit for. NO, those most easily persuaded by a paycheck were those most easily convinced to commit sadistic acts of death and terror were quasi civilians. Lower level people. More animalistic. Second class people. Sure, there were Generals and others who were just as sadistic, but the run of the mill conscript saw killing civilians as unacceptable. Not true for all, but many.
This speaks to the question that floats around first asked by Jim Garrow which is, "would our US troops fire on civilians in case of civil disobedience". If history is any indication, even upon the order of the commander in chief of the USA, at Obama's direct order, I do not now believe they would. I believe that the morality and right mindedness would cause many if not most (other than commanders) to either disobey the order directly or become really bad shots.
So, what is a despot to do. If he cannot command the military to terrorize the population into submission, what can he do? He can create his own army. From salaried people. Brownshirts. First fill the ranks with loyalists without morals. Then find the most dependent and least qualified to control. Those without moral centers trained for excellence. Those people WILL fire on a population. They have no reason not to and they need the paycheck. I use as evidence the willingness of the cops to kill the unarmed young woman who was driving badly with a baby in the car.
I also see the cruelty of park rangers unwilling to allow senior citizens to use a bathroom because of the "Shutdown". The sadism of a president not allowing grieving widows and children to meet the coffin of their husbands and fathers. Who stand "bravely" guard against WWII vets who want to visit the memorials dedicated to them. While no shots have "yet" been fired, I now see who and how this happens. When FEMA, the Weather Service, the Park System, the IRS and several other agencies manned by civilian bureaucrats are armed like WWIII is about to break out in the USA, that is disturbing. Add to that the militarization of our domestic police forces bypassing Posse Comitatus law. Tanks in the streets.
I believe based on what we have seen the last couple years bodes evil for the days to come. Without a change, soon, we may be coming to a time none of us ever considered. I am not sanguine about this. I have been considering the events of the last several days, low level armed agents pushing people around, kicking them out of their houses.
Our government is out of control. If this were middle 1930s early in Germany when this began to decline at this rate perhaps someone spoke up then. They may have ended up dead. Or missing. They didn't have the internet then. But that doesn't mean we couldn't be "Disappeared" as well. In my work life I have also rubbed shoulders with radicals from Chile and Argentina who got rid of "troublemakers". I was in a car with some of them (they were customers of mine in the data business and they visited me from South America). They talked of taking opposition for a ride in a helicopter over the Andes and tossing them alive out of the copter. "Do you know how high they bounce they asked me laughingly". These were not military men. They were part of the government and used "disappearance" as a way to rid the nation of opposition troublemakers.
Their government was out of control. So is ours. Now what do we do?
The question was then and still stands is, why would the German men who did these horrid things do them. Of course no one I ever met did. Or didn't admit to it. The reality is it was a job. Times were tough and jobs hard to come by. Cruelty was easier if connected to a paycheck.
Even though uniformed, for the most part the cruelest of them were not military. The Military had a code of not killing civilians needlessly. Most military men are much more noble than we give them credit for. NO, those most easily persuaded by a paycheck were those most easily convinced to commit sadistic acts of death and terror were quasi civilians. Lower level people. More animalistic. Second class people. Sure, there were Generals and others who were just as sadistic, but the run of the mill conscript saw killing civilians as unacceptable. Not true for all, but many.
This speaks to the question that floats around first asked by Jim Garrow which is, "would our US troops fire on civilians in case of civil disobedience". If history is any indication, even upon the order of the commander in chief of the USA, at Obama's direct order, I do not now believe they would. I believe that the morality and right mindedness would cause many if not most (other than commanders) to either disobey the order directly or become really bad shots.
So, what is a despot to do. If he cannot command the military to terrorize the population into submission, what can he do? He can create his own army. From salaried people. Brownshirts. First fill the ranks with loyalists without morals. Then find the most dependent and least qualified to control. Those without moral centers trained for excellence. Those people WILL fire on a population. They have no reason not to and they need the paycheck. I use as evidence the willingness of the cops to kill the unarmed young woman who was driving badly with a baby in the car.
I also see the cruelty of park rangers unwilling to allow senior citizens to use a bathroom because of the "Shutdown". The sadism of a president not allowing grieving widows and children to meet the coffin of their husbands and fathers. Who stand "bravely" guard against WWII vets who want to visit the memorials dedicated to them. While no shots have "yet" been fired, I now see who and how this happens. When FEMA, the Weather Service, the Park System, the IRS and several other agencies manned by civilian bureaucrats are armed like WWIII is about to break out in the USA, that is disturbing. Add to that the militarization of our domestic police forces bypassing Posse Comitatus law. Tanks in the streets.
I believe based on what we have seen the last couple years bodes evil for the days to come. Without a change, soon, we may be coming to a time none of us ever considered. I am not sanguine about this. I have been considering the events of the last several days, low level armed agents pushing people around, kicking them out of their houses.
Our government is out of control. If this were middle 1930s early in Germany when this began to decline at this rate perhaps someone spoke up then. They may have ended up dead. Or missing. They didn't have the internet then. But that doesn't mean we couldn't be "Disappeared" as well. In my work life I have also rubbed shoulders with radicals from Chile and Argentina who got rid of "troublemakers". I was in a car with some of them (they were customers of mine in the data business and they visited me from South America). They talked of taking opposition for a ride in a helicopter over the Andes and tossing them alive out of the copter. "Do you know how high they bounce they asked me laughingly". These were not military men. They were part of the government and used "disappearance" as a way to rid the nation of opposition troublemakers.
Their government was out of control. So is ours. Now what do we do?
Tuesday, October 08, 2013
ABUSE
This
explains a lot about our uninformed electorate and the people they
support. The Poor economy, high unemployment and cultural decline is
rooted in these facts. Public education is cultural abuse
Let's get back to the basics
Our federal government was never ever designed to become the behemoth is has become. It is broken because it has morphed over the last hundred years into the mess it is today. There was a design, a constitutional outline of the simple things government in Washington was designed to do, nothing more. That design is below.
We ended up in the situation we are in our national government because at about the turn of the last century under Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson this all began to fall apart. They began to spend money we didn't have and the Income Tax was formed. States lost their rights. And the mess we have now is the result.
Everything that is not specifically listed below as a purpose of our federal government should be resident in state government. That's the way federalism is supposed to work. The power to tax should solely be at the state level. Then states could compete with one another for commerce. That would allow for grand experimentation and innovation. It worked before and can work again. Read this:
These are the limits and express duties and responsibilities of the Federal Government.
The supreme law of the land in Art. 1, § 8 of the U.S. Constitution:
To Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States, but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, borrow Money on the credit of the United States, regulate commerce (trade), naturalization, bankruptcy laws, coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, punishment regarding counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States, establish Post Offices and post Roads, Promote [Editorial note: "promote" does not mean fund] the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court, define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water, Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years, provide and maintain a Navy, make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions, provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings, make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. **
We ended up in the situation we are in our national government because at about the turn of the last century under Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson this all began to fall apart. They began to spend money we didn't have and the Income Tax was formed. States lost their rights. And the mess we have now is the result.
Everything that is not specifically listed below as a purpose of our federal government should be resident in state government. That's the way federalism is supposed to work. The power to tax should solely be at the state level. Then states could compete with one another for commerce. That would allow for grand experimentation and innovation. It worked before and can work again. Read this:
These are the limits and express duties and responsibilities of the Federal Government.
The supreme law of the land in Art. 1, § 8 of the U.S. Constitution:
To Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States, but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, borrow Money on the credit of the United States, regulate commerce (trade), naturalization, bankruptcy laws, coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, punishment regarding counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States, establish Post Offices and post Roads, Promote [Editorial note: "promote" does not mean fund] the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court, define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations; declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water, Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years, provide and maintain a Navy, make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions, provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress, Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings, make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. **
Obama’s intended lesson was meant to be, “See how awful life is without your Federal Family?”
But the lesson learned has become, “See how awful your
Federal Family can make your life if you tick it off?” We’re not seeing
the absence of government; we’re seeing an excess of bad government.
The lesson is being learned well. Government is not our friend, much
less our family.
From Victor David Hansen on the tiring orations of Barack Obama:
From Victor David Hansen on the tiring orations of Barack Obama:
'Whenever the president prefaces a sweeping statement with one of his many emphatics — “make no mistake about it,” “I’m not making this up,” “in point of fact,” “let me be perfectly clear” — we know that the reverse is always true. For Obama, how something is said matters far more than what is said'. His oratorical skills are even more overrated than his management skills
'Whenever the president prefaces a sweeping statement with one of his many emphatics — “make no mistake about it,” “I’m not making this up,” “in point of fact,” “let me be perfectly clear” — we know that the reverse is always true. For Obama, how something is said matters far more than what is said'. His oratorical skills are even more overrated than his management skills
My Plea
"I wish you would all get off facebook and get a job so you can pay for my health care, obamaphone, EBT snap card, rent subsidy [section 8] and disability".
Please don't think this has anything to do with race, the number one disability clients are poor southern whites.
Should people who are on the government dole at this level be allowed to vote for their own benefits? I have wondered.
Obamacare has it's own facebook page. If you go there you can see comments on the scam. It's hilarious.
I don't think they read the comments... but
it they did... wow. https://www.facebook.com/Healthcare.gov
When
key parts of the health care law take effect in 2014, there’ll be a new
way to get health insurance: the Health Insurance Marketplace. The
Marketplace is designed to help you find health insurance that fits your
budget, with less hassle.
Kitty Werthmann survived Hitler. “What I am about to tell you is something you’ve probably never heard or read in history books,” she likes to tell audiences.
“I am a witness to history.
“I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history.
Adolph Hitler
“We voted him in.”
If you remember the plot of the Sound of Music, the Von Trapp family escaped over the Alps rather than submit to the Nazis. Kitty wasn’t so lucky. Her family chose to stay in her native Austria. She was 10 years old, but bright and aware. And she was watching.
“We elected him by a landslide – 98 percent of the vote,” she recalls.
She wasn’t old enough to vote in 1938 – approaching her 11th birthday. But she remembers.
“Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force.”
No so.
“In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25 percent inflation and 25 percent bank loan interest rates.
Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn’t want to work; there simply weren’t any jobs.
“My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people – about 30 daily.’
“We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933.” she recalls. “We had been told that they didn’t have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living.
“Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group – Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone in Germany was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria. We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back.
“Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler.
“We were overjoyed,” remembers Kitty, “and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed.
“After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service.
“Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn’t support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage.
“Then we lost religious education for kids
“Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education.
“Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail.”
And then things got worse.
“The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free.
“We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had.
“My mother was very unhappy,” remembers Kitty. “When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn’t do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun – no sports, and no political indoctrination.
“I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing.
“Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time, unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler.
“It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn’t exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy.
“Then food rationing began
“In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn’t work, you didn’t get a ration card, and if you didn’t have a card, you starved to death.
“Women who stayed home to raise their families didn’t have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men.
“Soon after this, the draft was implemented.
“It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps,” remembers Kitty. “During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys.
“They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines.
“When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat.
“Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service.
“When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers.
“You could take your children ages four weeks old to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, seven days a week, under the total care of the government.
“The state raised a whole generation of children. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had.
“Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna..
“After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything.
“When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full.
“If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries.
“As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80 percent of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families.
“All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing.
“We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables.
“ Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn’t meet all the demands.
“Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control.
“We had consumer protection, too
“We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, and then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it.
“In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps. The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated.
“So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work.
“I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van.
“I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months.
“They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness.
“As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia.
“Then they took our guns
“Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long afterwards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.
“No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up.
“Totalitarianism didn’t come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria. Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom.”
“This is my eye-witness account.
“It’s true. Those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
“America is truly is the greatest country in the world.
“Don’t let freedom slip away.
“After America, there is no place to go.”
YOU WONDERED WHAT THE TAX ON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT WAS?
Medical Excise Tax on Retail Receipt. This is an image of a sales receipt from Cabela's, a popular sporting goods store. The 2.3% Medical Excise Tax that began on January 1st is supposed to be "hidden" from the consumer, but it's been brought to the public's attention by hunting and fishing store Cabela's who have refused to hide it and are showing it as a separate line item tax on their receipts, the email states. I did some research and found directly from the IRS's website information that PROVES this to be true and an accurate portrayal of something hidden in "Obamacare" that I was not aware of! Now being skeptical of this I went to the IRS website and found this!
Q1. What is the medical device excise tax? A1. Section 4191 of the Internal Revenue Code
imposes an excise tax on the sale of certain medical devices by the manufacturer or importer of the device.
Q2. When does the tax go into effect? A2. The tax applies to sales of taxable medical devices after Dec. 31, 2012.
Q3. How much is the tax? A3. The tax is 2.3 percent of the sale price of the taxable medical device. See Chapter 5 of IRS Publication 510, Excise Taxes, and Notice 2012-77 for additional information on the determination of sale price.
IRS.gov
So being more curious I clicked on "Chapter 5 of IRS Publication 510." And what do I find under "MEDICAL DEVICES" under "MANUFACTURERS TAXES"? The following discussion of manufacturers taxes applies to the tax on: Guns and ammunition; Sport fishing equipment; Fishing rods and fishing poles; Electric outboard motors; Fishing tackle boxes; Bows, quivers, broad-heads, and points; Arrow shafts; Coal; Taxable tires; Gas guzzler automobiles; and Vaccines. IRS.gov I think we have definitely been fooled, if we believe that the Affordable Care Act is all about health care. It truly does appear to be nothing more than a bill laden with a whole lot of taxes that we the people have yet to be aware of.
Please pass this on . I am still incredulous that this can go on. Where is our press? I guess it’s just like Nancy Pelosi said…….We have to pass it to see what is in it . What is next? What else is there we do not know about? I am sick to death about our government.
Monday, October 07, 2013
Sunday, October 06, 2013
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here, we might as well dance
A Cab Drivers Story:
I arrived at the address and honked the horn. After waiting a few minutes I honked again. Since this was going to be my last ride of my shift I thought about just driving away, but instead I put the car in park and walked up to the door and knocked.. 'Just a minute', answered a frail, elderly voice. I could hear something being dragged across the floor.
After a long pause, the door opened. A small woman in her 90's stood before me. She was wearing a print dress and a pillbox hat with a veil pinned on it, like somebody out of a 1940's movie. By her side was a small nylon suitcase.
The apartment looked as if no one had lived in it for years. All the furniture was covered with sheets. There were no clocks on the walls, no knickknacks or utensils on the counters. In the corner was a cardboard box filled with photos and glassware.
'Would you carry my bag out to the car?' she said. I took the suitcase to the cab, then returned to assist the woman.
She took my arm and we walked slowly toward the curb.
She kept thanking me for my kindness. 'It's nothing', I told her.. 'I just try to treat my passengers the way I would want my mother to be treated.'
'Oh, you're such a good boy, she said. When we got in the cab, she gave me an address and then asked, 'Could you drive through downtown?'
'It's not the shortest way,' I answered quickly.. 'Oh, I don't mind,' she said. 'I'm in no hurry. I'm on my way to a hospice.
I looked in the rear-view mirror. Her eyes were glistening. 'I don't have any family left,' she continued in a soft voice..' The doctor says I don't have very long.' I quietly reached over and shut off the meter.
'What route would you like me to take?' I asked.
For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator.
We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were ewlyweds She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl.
Sometimes she'd ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.
As the first hint of sun was creasing the horizon, she suddenly said, 'I'm tired. Let's go now'.
We drove in silence to the address she had given me. It was a low building, like a small convalescent home, with a driveway that passed under a portico.
Two orderlies came out to the cab as soon as we pulled up. They were solicitous and intent, watching her every move. They must have been expecting her.
I opened the trunk and took the small suitcase to the door. The woman was already seated in a wheelchair.
'How much do I owe you?' She asked, reaching into her purse.
'Nothing,' I said
'You have to make a living,' she answered.
'There are other passengers,' I responded.
Almost without thinking, I bent and gave her a hug. She held onto me tightly.
'You gave an old woman a little moment of joy,' she said. 'Thank you.'
I squeezed her hand, and then walked into the dim morning light.. Behind me, a door shut. It was the sound of the closing of a life..
I didn't pick up any more passengers that shift. I drove aimlessly lost in thought. For the rest of that day, I could hardly talk. What if that woman had gotten an angry driver, or one who was impatient to end his shift? What if I had refused to take the run, or had honked once, then driven away?
On a quick review, I don't think that I have done anything more important in my life.
We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.
PEOPLE MAY NOT REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID, OR WHAT YOU SAID ~BUT~THEY WILL ALWAYS REMEMBER HOW YOU MADE THEM FEEL.
President Petulant strikes again.
How much did it cost to install these traffic cones? This is on a public highway. President Petulant strikes again.
Steps to America's Destruction Predicted 55 Years Ago
55 years ago this was spoken — laying out ten steps to destroy America. “A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece-by-piece and step-by-step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example,” he said.
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
- Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
- Higher and then much higher taxes.
- An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
- Wild inflation of our currency.
- Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
- Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
- Far more centralization of power in Washington, and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many-faceted drive at work to have our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation than our county lines do now within the states.
- The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
- A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peace, peace always on communist terms of course.
- The constant willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by our government that amount to a piece meal surrender of the rest of the free world and the United States itself.
55 years ago now — laying out ten steps to destroy America. “A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece-by-piece and step-by-step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example,” he said.
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
- Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
- Higher and then much higher taxes.
- An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
- Wild inflation of our currency.
- Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
- Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
- Far more centralization of power in Washington, and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many-faceted drive at work to have our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation than our county lines do now within the states.
- The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
- A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peace, peace always on communist terms of course.
- The constant willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by our government that amount to a piece meal surrender of the rest of the free world and the United States itself.
55 years ago now — laying out ten steps to destroy America. “A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece-by-piece and step-by-step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example,” he said.
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
- Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
- Higher and then much higher taxes.
- An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
- Wild inflation of our currency.
- Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
- Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
- Far more centralization of power in Washington, and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many-faceted drive at work to have our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation than our county lines do now within the states.
- The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
- A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peace, peace always on communist terms of course.
- The constant willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by our government that amount to a piece meal surrender of the rest of the free world and the United States itself.
55 years ago now — laying out ten steps to destroy America. “A part of that plan, of course, is to induce the gradual surrender of American sovereignty, piece-by-piece and step-by-step, to various international organizations — of which the United Nations is the outstanding but far from the only example,” he said.
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
Founder Predicted Steps to America's Destruction 55 Years Ago | The Daily Sheeple
Here are the ten steps Welch outlined:
- Greatly expanded government spending for every conceivable means of getting rid of ever larger sums of American money as wastefully as possible.
- Higher and then much higher taxes.
- An increasingly unbalanced budget despite the higher taxes.
- Wild inflation of our currency.
- Government controls of prices, wages and materials supposedly to combat inflation.
- Greatly increased socialistic controls over every operation of our economy and every activity of our daily lives. This is to be accompanied naturally and automatically by a correspondingly huge increase in the size of our bureaucracy and in both the cost and reach of our domestic government.
- Far more centralization of power in Washington, and the practical elimination of our state lines. There is a many-faceted drive at work to have our state lines eventually mean no more within the nation than our county lines do now within the states.
- The steady advance of federal aid to and control over our educational system leading to complete federalization of our public education.
- A constant hammering into the American consciousness of the horror of modern warfare. The beauties and the absolute necessities of peace, peace always on communist terms of course.
- The constant willingness of the American people to allow the steps of appeasement by our government that amount to a piece meal surrender of the rest of the free world and the United States itself.
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