Socialists, Democrats, and The Obama Administration is Challenging Capitalism - Okay Bring It

It is amazing to me how many people on the street will actually tell you that capitalism hasn't worked for America, and it's time to try something new. Often they will suggest a hybrid of socialism and capitalism, and the Democrats will actually try to convince you that they have all the answers, and they can do it better.

That's the biggest bunch of malarkey and hogwash I've ever heard my life. How can a socialist, or Democrat whose never run a company even understand what they're talking about, much less solve the problem - assuming, of course that they are correct, that there is actually a problem in the first place.

You see, I don't think there's a problem with capitalism at all, in fact I would submit to you capitalism is what made this country great, and put the United States of America at the top of the food chain across the globe. We should be thinking capitalism, not criticizing it. Further, we should get back to free-market capitalism, or as close as we can absolutely get, and dump the crony capitalism which is going on right now.

You see, the socialist love to harvest the flows of capitalism, they love to control the labor, production, flow of capital, and money. If you let them, they will continually destroy all the efficiencies that the free-market brings us, and the abundance we as Americans have been known to expect. Okay so, let's talk about this for a moment shall we?

In Strategic Business Insights online news on March 29, 2012 there was a curious article titled; "Challenging Capitalism" which stated that even if the current economic recession ends this year, that the foundation of capitalism has been shaken so severely that everyone seems to be re-evaluating capitalism. The article went on to state that;

"Activists, politicians, and economists-a surprising mix of influential figures-are pointing to flaws in the structure. Reasons for the current economic malaise are manifold, and small adjustments might not provide relief. Substantial structural changes and policy adjustments seem necessary."

Okay so, that sounds quite dramatic and somewhat well written, but it's essentially a boatload of crap. There is nothing wrong with capitalism as the mangy-mutts and rouge angry socialists would have you believe (FYI: my opinion of course). So, let's just consider the realities here. First the 2008 financial crisis was enabled due to "crony capitalism" which isn't free-market capitalism (cite: Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand).

Look, I'm not here to pull rank over any Democrat or socialist, but since they don't know what they're talking about, and all of their sound bites, one-liners, and silly circular philosophical arguments are bunk, it's time that we pulled the carpet out from under these nonsensical notions. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.

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Which 2012 Theories Are You Worried About? Most Popular Theories Decoded

There is currently a big number of folks who solidly believe the 2012 theory that the planet is going to end in 2012. Just how might they possibly be so convinced? By using this 2012 theory, they're just backing up their claims with prophecies coming from ancient civilizations and also the Scriptures itself. Right now there tend to be many 2012 prophecies that folks think will come to happen this also makes the theories a lot more credible because they all recognize one simple factor, the date, 2012. Right now there are a couple of popular bases for the 2012 theories. The Mayan calendars and also the Nostradamus predictions happen to be the two primary popular 2012 theories. The reason? Because they have been viewed in documentaries and films. Many motion pictures and also documentaries have been produced on the foundation of the conclusion of the entire world, hence giving way to quite a few 2012 end of the world theories.

The Mayans are popular and their particular calendar is considered the single main explanation why this whole end-of-the-world-in-2012 idea began. Around 3,000 years back, the Mayans created roughly 20 calendars, which all have different functions. One was applied to calculate cultivation in plants, yet another was created for projecting sun cycles, and another was used to predict the end of the modern world. Oddly enough, you will find historians who've discovered that a period referred to as Great Cycle began in August 13, 3114 BC. It finishes in December 21, 2012. They say that on this date, the Great Alignment will happen, which means that the Sun will probably be aligned with the Milky Way's center. They also say that when this happens, devastating things may happen and is going to lead to the end of the globe.

Nostradamus had been a thinker, astronomer, mathematician and, just like lots of highly successful people in his era, a lot more. When his previously undiscovered predictions were discovered in The 80's, the world had much to dread. Although you'll find disputes regarding his several miscalculations, his prophecies about numerous things happen to be so accurate you can literally feel the hair on your back stand on end when reading about all of them. Followers claim that there isn't any harm in believing that the earth is going to end in 2012. Nostradamus stated A lunar eclipse following 3 occurrences of a solar eclipse will mark the end. Are you able to guess the end of this period? That is right, it is 2012. One can not know for sure which of these 2012 end of the world theories may come true or even if any of them at all will come true. One thing is for certain, being prepared can only help.

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The Matrix Has You

Are you, we, living in the Matrix?

The idea that what we see, hear, feel and do is an illusion is not so far-fetched. But it's not an idea I care to entertain. I'm not entirely concerned with the inner workings of my mind and how it perceives and interprets my environment. I trust what my brain tells me. But here's what I don't trust.... YOU!

Part of the premise of the movie the Matrix is that we are puppets. We are harvested for our resources, and we are fed a steady diet of what we need. Our surroundings are an illusion but real enough to satisfy us. While I'm not suggesting that you are actually encapsulated in a jelly filled vat, I am putting forward a similar proposal.

There are forces, physical and other, that direct our lives and influence our decisions and opinions. One can argue there is no such thing as free will, when free will is but a list of choices put forth in front of you by the forces that be. I propose that free will is just a series of multiple choice questions, rather than an essay. You choose path A, B, or C. You don't get to write your own essay and make you own choice; because after all, you would not know what to choose. You have no original thoughts, and any semblance of original thought or idea is but a complement to a previous thought or idea. That's why someone else has to provide you with these choices.

So who's providing this multiple choice life guide? I can tell you, but you won't believe me.

The reality is that when it comes to matters spiritual, you need a guide. When it comes to the physical, a guide is forced upon you.

I'll give you just a small example of what I mean. What kind of television will you buy? What brand? What size? Will it be an LED, an LCD or the wretched Plasma? Are you going with Sony, Vizio, or Samsung? Notice you have multiple choices. Notice also that you probably never asked yourself, "who says I need a TV?"

If you did ask yourself that question then you are more hip to what's really going on, though still far away from figuring out that someone else is pulling the strings. If even for a moment you think that buying a TV was/is your choice, you are wrong. But that's OK. Figuring out who's pulling the strings, who's running the Matrix, can be fun. Being aware that you are not nearly in control as you think you are, and accepting that, can also be freeing.

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Why Do The Democrats Like Their Populous Socialist Leaning President - It's Simple Really

As an analytical and logical thinker, I am more concerned with performance of a presidential administration here in the US, then I am of a popularity contest. However, a candidate who is well-liked, regardless of the reason is more apt to get elected, and also reelected. Much of this is branding, and a lot of it is planned, and I'd like to take a few moments of your time, and discuss our current president; Barack Obama. Perhaps you are wondering how on earth that guy got elected, or wondering if he even has a chance to get reelected based on his past performance in the White House. Okay so, let's talk.

Let me explain something that happens in American society, and let me give you a nice little flowchart here;

The Media Brainwashes the People The People Adopt That Information as Their Thoughts The President Reads This New View from the Teleprompter The People like the Populist President Because Now He Is Just like Them

It's all circular my friends.

Do you see the point here? You see, and I've done this before, but you can too - go ahead and watch all the major news stations one night, and then go to Starbucks the next day, and ask people how they feel about a current event in politics. It is so interesting, because you can tell by their opinion, the one they've adopted, as their own believe, and personal opinion - which news station they watched the night before.

In fact, they will give you the same arguments, the same sound bites, and relatively the exact same information. You'll be able to tell if they watched CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, or Fox News. Do you doubt this? You shouldn't, but if you doubt what I am saying here; go ahead and check it out for yourself.

Next, whenever you hear the president read something from the Teleprompter, consider that he is reading a prepared speech which takes into consideration social media, political polling, and how the media is spinning the event. Since political strategists know that the media is a very powerful force, they are very careful in positioning their views at the time along the same lines and opinions.

Since the Democrats all watch the same TV shows, and the Republicans have there's, it's quite easy to understand why even a socialist leaning president could be well-liked in the United States, a great nation with a history of freedom, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and free-market. It seems almost bizarre that the citizens of this awesome country would ever elect a socialist. But they did, and they may even reelect him, regardless of the reality of his previous performance during the last four years. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on.

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Evidence of Greed in Recent History - Part 1

George Orwell presents a cyclical model of society in Animal Farm. Starting in a state of oppression of the majority by a minority, there is next an overthrow of the minority by revolution, resulting in everyone equal in wealth and status. One group (the pigs) is constituted to always want and work to get more, no matter how much they have, or what it does to others. Eventually they become so rich, and everyone else so exploited, that there is a revolution, and the cycle starts over.

Evidence Of Greed In Recent History:

1. The Great Depression - The stock market crash was rigged. People like Joe Kennedy made millions and millions of dollars by selling short. Then, after the world economy collapsed, they bought things at rock-bottom prices, or for nothing in some cases (foreclosure), and then things inched upward slowly. Kennedy increased his fortune from $51.3 million in 1929 to $2.88 billion by 1935 (figures are in today's dollars).

2. The Holocaust - A small, highly wealthy minority was substantially exterminated and their assets were confiscated.

3. World War II - During the 1930's two powers competed for global domination: the U.S. and Germany. The U.S.S.R. and Japan weren't that competitive. The people of the U.S. and Germany didn't want war, but they were manipulated by their establishments into being motivated by fear to go to war. The Nazis set fire to the Reichstag and said the Communists did it, so you better go with us before Germany is taken over by Communists. Roosevelt provoked the Japanese into attacking Pearl Harbor so that Americans would accept a war against Japan. The real reason was to get the U.S. geared up to fight the strongest rival (Germany). The Germans were developing the A-bomb and a missile technology to deliver it. After the war their guys like Wernher von Braun were put to work to develop U.S. rocket technology. After Germany and Japan were conquered, their assets were substantially confiscated and their social structures altered to keep them down.

4. The Cold War (or The War Against Communism) - In 1949 the U.S.S.R. gained a nuclear weapon capacity, enabling it to compete with the U.S. for global economic exploitation (in the names of communism and democracy, respectively). The presidency of JFK (1-20-61 to 11-22-63) was an obstacle to the U.S. military-industrial complex's progress in achieving dominance over the U.S.S.R. I will describe that in Part 2.

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Knighthoods from Cardboard Swords - Why the Nation Exaggerates Its Praise for the Military

The evidence is in just two words, "hero" and "warrior." Overused, and inaccurately overused, they've been redefined. Once people had to voluntarily risk their physical safety to be heroes. Last March at a lecture he gave in Petoskey, Michigan, recent Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer referred several times to four names on his wrist. The men were slain fellow Marines and a Corpsman. "They're the heroes," he said. But today simply enlisting is called a brave act. As for the term "warrior," modern arms include night-vision gear, direct-fire rockets and computerized smart guns that hit people hiding behind rocks, but "warrior" conjures images like samurai and Prince Valiant. Chain mail can almost be heard clicking and chinging. Whatever happened to "serviceman" and "servicewoman?" Even the Stolen Valor Act is curious. Since 1923 congress has been proscribing the wearing of unauthorized military decorations. So why wait until 2006 to finally criminalize lying about them? What's going on here? Why try to ennoble military service this way? Answer: a sense of guilt.

Part of the nation's deference to the troops resides in a lingering shame over the treatment of returning Vietnam War vets. May the nation never forget the indifference and the insults. Part of the shame stems from the knowledge that nobody works harder for the nation than its armed forces, elements of which are being misused, but which most of the country is willing to sacrifice. Those are hard words, but this is the nature of the contract in place for any society with a military. However, the arrangement should be galling for the United States because it's disconnected from that other 1% that isn't rich, the population in uniform.

The American people and their military formally disengaged when the draft ended in 1973. It's not that the public doesn't care about the troops; it's that it cares less now. It's understandable. We've been a nation with two long, concurrent wars and nobody being forced to fight in them. War has become a matter for professionals, and it was free for the majority of the population. No extra taxes, no personal loss, no way to relate.

Given the data, it's reasonable for people to be glad they or their kids don't have to "go in." People can't cite the numbers but they've heard the news: Army suicides were up 80% between 2004 and 2008 the last time they were researched with 25% to 50% of them directly related to combat commitments. And the suicides continue. Overmedication and lack of support contribute to the tragedy.

Another Army study, conducted in 2009, found troops that had done three Afghanistan tours had more than double the rate of psychological problems vis-a-vis soldiers with one tour. Another study, focused on Iraq, showed the PTSD rate was almost 2.5 times higher after two deployments compared with one. The case of Sgt. Robert Bales comes to mind. He did three tours in Iraq. In WWII, GIs had 43 combat days, in Korea 180, Vietnam 260. Today it's 320. The trend is shameful. "An Army engaged in prolonged combat operations is a population under stress," said Dr. Michelle Cheval, a senior epidemiologist at the US Army Public Health Command.

Multiple deployments should have been limited, tour duration, too, but somebody is understaffed. Here are more words being used, this time with ulterior meaning: "Thank you" and "Welcome home." Translation circa 2012: "We're grateful you went so we didn't have to go." But forget a draft. Spooked by what happened to the Vietnam-era military, the Pentagon's afraid of conscription in a nation where 70% oppose its reinstatement. And that's a real problem. Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army colonel teaching at Boston University thinks, "If we are going to pursue the global war on terror, and if that means circumstances like Iraq won't be one of a kind, we don't have enough soldiers to get the job done. What do we do? Nobody knows." Meanwhile, some people are itching for a fight with Iran.

In 1972 when ex-WWII bomber pilot George McGovern ran for president, he said if elected he'd push for a law requiring every member of congress voting for a war to serve in it. Now imagine a constitutional amendment requiring the commander in chief to have military experience. The privileged class might stop running for high office. But this is not the America of WWII with the pride that came from defending the country or whatever we were doing in Iraq or are doing in Afghanistan. In the Second World War even the privileged wanted to fight. George H. W. Bush was 19 and pulled strings so that he could be an underage Navy pilot without a college degree.

Civil War soldiers called seeing action "seeing the elephant." It was a play on the chief attraction of the old circus, the greatest show on earth until their war. Because unless people see the elephant, they'll never feel the kind of anxiety that comes from living among high-explosive surprises or from being aware of the major possibility of the classic moment of truth when a sniper shoots them between the eyes. The next best thing is to know somebody that related something about the show. But most people don't know anybody who's been to either of our twin adventures, let alone both. War movies could come with live fire put over the audience. Extreme but it would help them understand. That will never happen, though, so the sympathetic or the curious will try to empathize and the conscientious will reproach themselves. No, until the burden on the military is lightened and the sacrifice shared, the accolades of "hero" and "warrior" conferred on everybody that wears or just hung up a uniform are disingenuous - knighthood bestowed with a cardboard sword.

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