It is with great humility that I admit to have let my readers down this moon. Perhaps there has been a benefit of writing in this blog, however. Those readers who take the time to read my writing deserve to look here for a bit of stability. Like Bernie sanders has believed since he was a young man, that if human beings are afforded security and a bit of support, they thrive. Teachers have known throughout time and science now proves that human beings are cooperative, helpful and compassionate as babies and it is only through being subjected to abuse and/or neglect that psychopaths and sociopaths are developed. There are a few exceptions to this rule, which are notable, because as human beings, we do not always act in the best interest of the fetus. Some women have been counseled by their doctors to diet while pregnant, because the baby "takes what it needs"...some people use cocaine and other drugs while pregnant, beat women who are pregnant and subject them to undue stress, so in those cases, the abuse and neglect occur in utero.
The long lead time on things I write about often make the rate of seven posts per moon seem blistering, but having thought about many of these issues since childhood helps me to dip my toe into the water amongst many diverse and infinitely deep pools. Today, people are beginning to peel back the layers of the very rotten cabbage that is Donald Trump. He is allowing a tiff with Meghan Kelly to keep him out of the debates. Now people try to believe that he would be able negotiate with Putin or Shahs, Prime Ministers or Chiefs? America, WTF? The last thing we need right now are delusional people! Perhaps I have been thin this moon, but I have begun to live in a constant state of disbelief at how off the hinges we seem to be swinging. Please, if you are reading this, help us sort things out.
Donald Trump has been studied and in addition to speaking like a middle school girl, he only tells the truth about seven percent of the time. That is 1/3 as much truth as Faux Newz gives you. I am often agape at how devolved the rhetoric has become. First and foremost, the word entitlement as it is used by policymakers, and what I know it to be. Entitlement is what allows bullies and ignorant people to graduate high School by the skin of their teeth, Get into ivy league schools because their parents endowed the Library, buy their term papers, play sports or just play the field, graduate on to the corporate world expecting to pull down huge salaries for just nodding their heads a lot and looking scornful when that is required, that is entitlement.
Don't believe for one second, the politicians who claim, that people drawing unemployment, little old ladies, pensioners, people in wheelchairs and child feeding programs are the problem. Corporate welfare and the military/industrial/energy tribute that we pay is what is strangling the economy. If the U.S. government was serious, people would be issued a Tesla with their first driver's license, but only if they were willing to put their car into a ride-sharing company during periods it is not in use. Then, take our fracking and trucking subsidies and pour them into solar/wind charging stations wherever parking lots exist. Encourage the inevitable. Just the increased efficiency between electric motors and the archaic internal combustion ones would more than halve the carbon footprint of the transportation sector. If we were truly interested in doing the right thing, we would be building Tesla manufacturing facilities where the people are!
Buying local means spending less on transport. There is no sane or scale-able way to make delivering every item by Fed-Ex. Who are we trying to kid? when we enter the marketplace at any point and follow the money, both upstream and down, we find glaring realities. If you spend an hour researching the five items you use the most, where they "come from" where the money you spend on them actually goes, and how much gets spent just getting those things to you, I guarantee it will change the way you buy things forever. See, when I signed papers at a bank, taking on a thirty year investment in property, I naively thought that the money would help someone. The banker was more harried then than he had been previously...working from before the bank actually opened until way into the evening. That was when the run up in mortgages was in full bloom. those bankers are probably near the end of trying to refinance everyone now and the need for bankers may have stabilized, but if it has, mine made less than a week's salary for what he did to make my mortgage happen. The bank promptly sold the paper to a place headquartered in Oklahoma. My bank made all the money it would ever make in one month and for twenty nine years and eleven months, I get to pay a company that isn't even in Wisconsin. The shifting money story has been told through our history, but never in as stark a contrast as it seem we have today.
There is a serious problem when the wealthiest 65 people on the planet own as much wealth as billions of others. I am going to try to rapid fire through these last four posts, so as to make the seven posts per month deadline I set for myself years ago, but I may not be able to meet the goal. Better to try and to fail than to just give up.
The long lead time on things I write about often make the rate of seven posts per moon seem blistering, but having thought about many of these issues since childhood helps me to dip my toe into the water amongst many diverse and infinitely deep pools. Today, people are beginning to peel back the layers of the very rotten cabbage that is Donald Trump. He is allowing a tiff with Meghan Kelly to keep him out of the debates. Now people try to believe that he would be able negotiate with Putin or Shahs, Prime Ministers or Chiefs? America, WTF? The last thing we need right now are delusional people! Perhaps I have been thin this moon, but I have begun to live in a constant state of disbelief at how off the hinges we seem to be swinging. Please, if you are reading this, help us sort things out.
Donald Trump has been studied and in addition to speaking like a middle school girl, he only tells the truth about seven percent of the time. That is 1/3 as much truth as Faux Newz gives you. I am often agape at how devolved the rhetoric has become. First and foremost, the word entitlement as it is used by policymakers, and what I know it to be. Entitlement is what allows bullies and ignorant people to graduate high School by the skin of their teeth, Get into ivy league schools because their parents endowed the Library, buy their term papers, play sports or just play the field, graduate on to the corporate world expecting to pull down huge salaries for just nodding their heads a lot and looking scornful when that is required, that is entitlement.
Don't believe for one second, the politicians who claim, that people drawing unemployment, little old ladies, pensioners, people in wheelchairs and child feeding programs are the problem. Corporate welfare and the military/industrial/energy tribute that we pay is what is strangling the economy. If the U.S. government was serious, people would be issued a Tesla with their first driver's license, but only if they were willing to put their car into a ride-sharing company during periods it is not in use. Then, take our fracking and trucking subsidies and pour them into solar/wind charging stations wherever parking lots exist. Encourage the inevitable. Just the increased efficiency between electric motors and the archaic internal combustion ones would more than halve the carbon footprint of the transportation sector. If we were truly interested in doing the right thing, we would be building Tesla manufacturing facilities where the people are!
Buying local means spending less on transport. There is no sane or scale-able way to make delivering every item by Fed-Ex. Who are we trying to kid? when we enter the marketplace at any point and follow the money, both upstream and down, we find glaring realities. If you spend an hour researching the five items you use the most, where they "come from" where the money you spend on them actually goes, and how much gets spent just getting those things to you, I guarantee it will change the way you buy things forever. See, when I signed papers at a bank, taking on a thirty year investment in property, I naively thought that the money would help someone. The banker was more harried then than he had been previously...working from before the bank actually opened until way into the evening. That was when the run up in mortgages was in full bloom. those bankers are probably near the end of trying to refinance everyone now and the need for bankers may have stabilized, but if it has, mine made less than a week's salary for what he did to make my mortgage happen. The bank promptly sold the paper to a place headquartered in Oklahoma. My bank made all the money it would ever make in one month and for twenty nine years and eleven months, I get to pay a company that isn't even in Wisconsin. The shifting money story has been told through our history, but never in as stark a contrast as it seem we have today.
There is a serious problem when the wealthiest 65 people on the planet own as much wealth as billions of others. I am going to try to rapid fire through these last four posts, so as to make the seven posts per month deadline I set for myself years ago, but I may not be able to meet the goal. Better to try and to fail than to just give up.
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