does anyone hear him?
Ah yes, a bit of sarcasm for myself on this wonderful fall
day here in North Texas.
And I need to find ways to entertain myself as I look at the
political landscape for our country.
One can never say anything definitive, eventually it will
come back and haunt you. And yet I feel this need to wonder why we haven’t done
better. As you know I believe in a
different conservative philosophy than what our current Republicans and
Trumpites believe. I still hold onto the
view that we can have a strong free market economy; rich people can be rich,
even the same rich people; yet have a much broader, more diverse world that
everyone can participate.
I find it very difficult to hear so called conservatives
tell me making billionaires richer is a conservative policy. They can be rich
on their own efforts, not through economic manipulation, tax breaks that only
benefit them, laws written to their advantage, a Congress that spends more time
with lobbyists than with the people and here we are with a so-called outsider
as President, bringing more of the same old lie of trickle-down economics on
steroids with his other malfeasance.
I am a believer in the free market. I am tired of the lies
that trickle-down economics helps the free market. I believe if you make the
best product, treat your workers and consumers with respect and that they
matter, then you have every right to be successful. This is how capitalism
works for society. When you take away opportunity and hoard money; you destroy
the very engine that made the current rich successful. And yes, they can do
what they have done over the last few decades and think everything is still
good. Unfortunately, the piper needs to be paid and sooner or later most of this
planet will pay their price. ‘cause you
know the rich aren’t paying their bills….. too much to ask of someone who has
shown no respect of their fellow man historically to suddenly wake up and go
oops we just threw everything great about the U.S. and the Constitution away.
If you want to make America great again, you can. Need to
rebuild the people first though. Does anyone think the rust belt is going to be
rebuilt with phrases, no we need to re-educate our entire way of thinking for awhile?
We need to create new industries so there are new jobs. We need to come up with
new ways for general education and not use the same basic models that have been
around since the 1800’s. We have learned so much about child development, yet
it is never used to enhance if not completely overhaul how we educate our
children. We need to reeducate many adults since we left them in the lurch with
weak systems over the last few decades.
All the “conservatives” talk about how people do not want to
be successful on their own, they rely on government handouts, yet they do not
want to do anything to improve the situation. They only throw stones at people
who they ignored for generations. If you do not teach people, how can you
expect them to know? And the “liberals”
hold onto the lie of: we know more than you so we know better. Well, how come there
isn’t better? Nanny state, oversized bureaucracies haven’t prevented or can
solve the morass that you are just as responsible for creating.
Jobs, jobs, jobs, great mantra, but until you have an
educated workforce, educated populace, a government responsive to the true
needs of our people then how can anyone expect the Country to grow and thrive,
to lead by example in the world, and to find the best answers for what lies
ahead in our future. This is part of what can make America great again; not
phrases.
Economic development ideas abound, real ideas that say hey
we got problems, the world changes, yet we have solutions; we can adapt. We can
thrive. There is no future living in the past.
Instead we let lies, hate, ignorance, despotism rule the
world. More and more countries are become tyrannical; leaders are less
responsive to needs and more responsive to greed and narcissism.
And the greatest irony of all……it doesn’t matter who is at
the top…
It doesn’t matter who rules the countries or have the
billions of dollars, it only matters what they do. The exact same billionaires
still can be rich; we can have the exact same leaders for all I care. All they
need to do is put the whole first. Yet that seems to be impossible. I read of
so many solutions, ideas, policies and yet we, the people, ignore all this to
accept that same pile of crap in different wrappers over and over again.
The answers are out there. Many people know them. Our
leaders have decided not to listen. So, to all the Dimons, Kochs, Bushes,
Clintons, CEOs, Putins, Trumps, Royal Families, Revolutionary Councils, Khomeinis,
Prime Ministers, Dictators, Despots, Kims I hope that someday if you do not
change, that the amount of sewage you are creating on this planet eventually
backs up into your houses and you must live with it. The smell and waste so permeates
your lives that you realize that you took away something wonderful and it is
your own fault. This seems what you want for our planet.
And to everyone else I know you catch more flies with honey
than with vinegar so thanks for letting me vent and hopefully we can find ways
to overcome the lies etc…. to march forward on a path to make America and the
rest of the world great. “nothing good
ever came easy”
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