Rich vs. Poor in the US

The question should be; "Why are the rich, rich? And why are the poor, poor?" And you can't use the excuse that the rich are rich because of inheritance! Because someone along the line had to make the money for there to be an inheritance! Also this could also be said about the poor! They have inherited how to be poor! I think we need to looks at how all this happens! Our country is driven at this time by “Capitalism” which is based on competition that rewards people like Bill Gates (Microsoft), Warren Buffet (Berkshire Hathaway), Larry Ellison (Oracle), The Walton Family (Wal-Mart), Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP), Jeff Bezos (Amazon.com) and so on and so on! If you look at the wealthiest people in our country you’ll see they generally are owners of large or small companies that they were able to create because we live in a capitalist country! Russia is finding out by allowing capitalism to operate within its borders billionaires are being created such as Alisher Usmanov who is worth 17 billion dollars (Steel and Telcom)!  Hurrah for capitalism you say! It allows for people to reach for the gold ring and get it! And some would argue that these individuals are distributing their wealth by creating thousands/millions of jobs with good salaries that in turn pays taxes and spends money that creates even more jobs and taxes! You could look at our system like a football team! Let’s not talk about the owner that’s a whole different story, just the team! These teams are built on competition and those who are talented enough make the team! Even then there are disparities on the team. The quarterback will probably make $100 million dollars while the guy who only plays on the kickoff teams may make $750 thousand! Now the people who didn’t make the team have to find a way to make a living in a highly competitive job market into which he doesn’t have the skills to compete! Even though the players made the team this year doesn’t mean they will have a job next year! So what does all of this mean? Capitalism rewards those who can compete and let’s many people fall by the wayside because they can’t! So you have the rich and the poor! If your society is built on “capitalism” this will always be true. We could try socialism but any country who has been a socialist country just makes everyone equal by making everyone “POOR!” Let’s also realize that the so called POOR in the USA are millionaires compared to other countries! The POOR in this country generally have food to eat and shelter for their families! Some even have HD televisions and cable TV. They also generally have cars to drive! The so called poverty level for 4 people is $23,550. There are some people in this world who actually try to get by on $1.00 a day! I think we need to step back and look at poverty vs. inequality of income in a country! There are different levels of poverty around the globe. There is Absolute Poverty where you don’t have the means to have access to clean water, edible food, appropriate clothing and housing. These are the individuals who you see living in garbage dumps! Then there is Extreme Poverty where these individuals do have access to food, water and shelter but not education or health facilities like doctors or hospitals. These are the people you may see living in the slums in Brazil! Then there is Relative Poverty that we have here in the US. This means that someone is in poverty as measured by their relative situation compared to the society in which they live. People who are in Relative Poverty have all of their basic needs being met, food, water, clothes, and shelter! Generally in countries that have Relative Poverty is where the issue of inequality becomes an issue! It’s not that there is no food or water; it’s why they don’t have the big house with a swimming pool as opposed to living in a housing project! I hate to say but as long as we live in a “Capitalistic” society we will always have “Relative Poverty” as measured by some entity! It’s just a byproduct!  When I was living in a tenement as child with my family, my mother and father always told us to be happy with what we had and not always complain about what the rich people had right up the street from us! They also insisted that we get an education and training so we wouldn’t have to live in a tenement when we grew up. So we took advantage of the free education we got all the way through high school. After that some of us joined the military and received training as mechanics or Law Enforcement! Some of us went on to local community colleges accredited to be able to transfer our credits to major universities on academic scholarships earned through the community colleges! We are all now out of the tenements and live in nice suburbs driving nice cars! We are very happy with what we have and our children are now working toward being Doctors and Lawyers, and an Airline Pilot! I guess they will become part of the 5% that will be hated for what reason I don’t know, because the haters could be where they are!

The Progressive Bible!

I think this article by Steve Deace printed in Townhall.com articulates very well what, "in my opinion", is happening to our country today! I fear greatly for my grand, and great grand children as to what type of civilization they will be living in in the future!? 

 

 

The Progressive Bible

Steve Deace | Printed in Townhall.com Apr 06, 2013

 

If you’ve been receiving your daily downloads from our media intelligentsia, comrade, you know we must now all bow down at the altar of demographics. Therefore, our traditions and morals must forevermore be defined not by their truthfulness, but rather if they pass muster with those who binge on Mountain Dew Code Red while watching “Modern Family” reruns.

Hence, we must evolve or we will die a cruel, slow death where Karma (the only spiritual force beyond ourselves now officially recognized in our brave, new world) sentences us to an eternity of Karl Rove-Dick Morris vaudeville shows as punishment for our ignorant intolerance. That means the Bible must evolve, too, lest it get left behind (pardon the pun) as Western civilization “progresses” towards economy-collapsing debt, child sacrifice, sexual deviancy, and compulsory state-induced stupidity.

Since I have absolutely no authority to amend or alter the Word of God, who better than me to follow in the equally unqualified and arrogant footsteps of the secularists and do so anyway. True, I could be risking Hell by doing so, but Rob Bell has convinced me Hell doesn’t exist so I’m good to go. After all, if you can’t rely on a wannabe shaman peddling postmodernism in hipster glasses who can you trust?

Thus, to make the Bible more contemporary, inclusive, and progressive, here are my top 10 verses that need to be “updated” for our enlightened age.

10. In the beginning the god of your understanding watched the “big bang” occur, and then stood idly by for billions of years curious to see how this whole evolution thing would turn out.

9. For we so love the state that we give it our only begotten offspring. Whosoever believes in the state will not perish but get an Obama-phone and cash for clunkers.

8. Thou shall steal when it’s your “right”, when someone is “rich,” or when you’re a victim of white privilege.

7. Therefore, whatever god you recognize gave you over to the pure desires of your loins, to hit it with any consenting adult and/or organic orifice that floats your boat.

6. And one day every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that god is whomever you need him/her/it to be.

5. Judge not lest ye believe in redistributing wealth, then judge much and judge harshly.

4. Do not murder, unless you’re going to be “punished with a baby.”

3. And Moses said to the theocratic authoritarian denying diversity in Egypt: “Let my people go into the wilderness so that they may recycle, commune with nature, and repent for their carbon footprint.”

2. Jesus’ mother came to him because the same-sex wedding party had run out of legalized marijuana. Jesus replied, “Maternal unit, why do you involve me? I am still buzzing from our last stash.” Jesus’ mother replied to the undocumented immigrants tending the wedding, “Do whatever he tells you.” So Jesus told them: “Puff, puff, pass man…puff, puff, pass.”

1. Jesus said, “I am a good moral teacher. Believe in what you will, for all roads lead to Heaven.”

 

In regard to the Evolution THEORY!! Yes it is just a THEORY!

 

Darwin's theory of evolution, though never proven is accepted as fact today! This theory is just as crazy as Climate Change (Global Warming!)

In regard to the Evolution THEORY!! Yes it is just a THEORY! A theory that's never been proven that we are descendants of some sort of an ape like creature! In fact this theory is in crisis in light of the tremendous advances we've made in molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics over the past fifty years. We now know that there are in fact tens of thousands of irreducibly complex systems on the cellular level. And we don't need a microscope to observe irreducible complexity. The eye, the ear and the heart are all examples of irreducible complexity, though they were not recognized as such in Darwin's day. Nevertheless, Darwin confessed, "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree."

Everyone knows we are all decedents of the Samarians who were created by the Anunnaki race from planet Nibiru! They created man using genetic engineering. Through the great works of scholars such as Zecharia Sitchin and Lloyd Pye, we have learned that the Anunnaki are said to have created Humans from the primitive man already here, and combined their genes with the primitive Neanderthal to create us. In The Mystery of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, Charles Thaxton, Walter Bradley and Roger Olsen (Philosophical Library, NY 1984) calculate the energy and entropy levels involved in assembling the complex molecules that comprise our genetic code. From their work it is clear that the complex genetic program each of us inherited was created by a Superior Intelligence at the beginning-it could not possibly have "evolved." The Second Law of Thermodynamics demands that orderly, complex systems break down, fall apart, rot, rust and decay with the passage of time. Outside energy and outside Intelligence were required to bring the genetic code into existence. This Superior Intelligence may have been the Anunnaki!

 

 

 



WWII Veterans Held at Gun Point by Our own Government!

WWII Veterans Held at Gun Point by Our own Government!

 

Are Americans still in their slumber while the country is taken over by Obama and his minions! This scene reminds me of Tenormin Square! The riot police and their hardware remind me of storm troopers! Will they really shoot a WWII veteran who wants to see the monument!? Will the armored personnel carrier really fire on citizens! Is this going to be the new Lexington and Concord? Should we all grab our legal guns and head to Washington to provide armed support for or veterans?? Will Obama activate his personal army (HLS) across the country to be on guard for other disturbances? Will he try to use this to declare Marshall Law that will eliminate all of your rights under the constitution? Will he then make every law abiding citizens who own guns criminals and start confiscating them? Putting anyone who disagrees into compounds (concentration camps!) There will be no shortage of people who will volunteer to manage and guard these law breakers by observing the armed guards in Washington! Under executive order he will cancel any future elections and then appoint whoever he wants in position of leadership, just like the czars! He will eliminate again through executive order any radicals on the Supreme Court (conservatives)! Oh you say this   will/ could never happen here! That’s what the citizens of Germany, Cuba, Russia, Japan, and any other countries that fell under the spell of other charismatic leaders whom dividing the country into segments and pit them against each other! He has also picked a group to demonize and turn the rest of the country against them, just likes the Jews! Go ahead tell me I’m crazy! That’s ok, BUT what if I’m right? You Obama supporters better wake up before it’s too late! Don’t be a “Useful Idiot” supporting anything he decides to do!

The NFL and Concussions!

The NFL and Concussions!

 

.Wow! It took Steve Young seven concussions to know something was wrong!  Also one of the biggest outspoken individual on this subject is Merril Hoge who also suffered NUMERIOUS concussions while playing in the NFL! After his final concussion he sued the Chicago Bears and won a $1.5 million dollar settlement! Both of these gentleman and others like them had the warrior attitude that they would have to be carried off the field before they would stop playing!? They could have stopped playing after their 1^st concussion but they decided to continue! I don’t buy into they were told they were ok. Come on these are grown men who wanted to ignore any negative advice about stop playing because of the glory and money associated with Pro Football!  Also they only people complaining are EX players, I don’t see any current players standing up and complaining because they would have to explain why they continue to play!! Are you aware that at the high school and college level sports cheer leaders have more injuries than football players!? Where is the outcry over this?Any job has its risk and rewards and compared to the most dangerous jobs in America football rewards are very high compared to the risk. Professional football doesn’t even rank in the top ten most dangerous jobs in America! The top 2, Fisherman and Loggers rewards are considerably lower than pro football players but people knowing the risk still sign on to do the job! After watching pro football for over 50 years I have seen the sport change significantly to protect players by changing the rules and introducing better equipment! So to say the league doesn’t care about its players I think is wrong! I also think that the blame for the concussion issue needs to be put squarely on the player’s backs!   It’s their responsibility to take care of their health not some team doctor!