It makes little sense for someone like myself to comment on political matters. Almost all American sources of hard news are corrupted. The news that is available is biased by the people that control information. It is, therefore, with considerable frustration that I venture to make a few logical guesses about some of our current national problems. We are told (by politicians and the media) that In America one is poor if he has only a small television set, a small home, just one cell phone, and so forth. Poor perhaps, but not very poor. Only a few in America live in absolutely devastating poverty, that is; without food, water, shelter or clothing. They are correctly designated poor but only by American standards. In less fortunate parts of the world many live without those necessities mentioned. Adding to their misery, there is little or no medical treatment available either. By the standards in their area, they are desperately poor. These impoverished people are dying by the millions every year.
Many Americans live in households with a shifting cast of members. They are struggling. If there is an adult male resident, he is often just temporary. He comes and goes as his fancy takes him. Asking a child of the household "who his father is" has become indelicate. Many respond; "do you mean my father at the moment?" Even worse a few simply do not know, and others are unwilling to answer. They don't want to talk about the footloose idiot whom they wish to forget.
Many Americans live in households with a shifting cast of members. They are struggling. If there is an adult male resident, he is often just temporary. He comes and goes as his fancy takes him. Asking a child of the household "who his father is" has become indelicate. Many respond; "do you mean my father at the moment?" Even worse a few simply do not know, and others are unwilling to answer. They don't want to talk about the footloose idiot whom they wish to forget.
In England, by the time children are 15 or 16 years old, twice as many have a television as have a biological father living at home. We have a similar statistic in America. Sadly, these homes with television often have no means of cooking a meal, in fact no evidence of a meal ever having been cooked (beyond the use of a microwave), and there is no place in the home where a meal could be eaten in a family fashion. Instead, the usual pattern of eating is a kind of foraging in the refrigerator when the mood requires, and eating the food in front of the television.
Again turning to Britain, surveys show that at least 20% of British children do not eat a meal more than once a week with another member of their household, and more often than not their home does not have a dining table. This kind of fundamental socialization is now unknown. And this is just one disturbing fact on top of many. American (and British) lives are changing at a rapid pace, and by the standards of most adults over 60 years of age, the social, religious, philosophical and other life standards are fast becoming irrelevant.
ADDICTIONS
This is (surprisingly) not off the subject. It is part of the changes now taking place. A small, very small number of Americans and British were drug (heroin) addicts in the 1950s. Since then they have multiplied about 2,000 fold. It is now a extremely serious problem. Heroin and other addictions are heavily concentrated in the poor and very poor areas of the both America and Britain. It has been presented by educators, scientists, physicians, medical societies, and politicians as a disease that strikes people like many other illnesses.
But heroin addiction is not a disease.
Even when our National Institute on Drug Abuse considers heroin addiction to be a "chronic relapsing brain disease" - it is no such thing. Definition as a "disease" is a lie, and it has not helped anyone deal with the problem.
A heroin addict has been told over and over that he or she is the helpless victims of something beyond their control, and further, that they need the assistance of a substantial bureaucratic apparatus in order to overcome it. Addicts say if only they had help, they would give it up. What this really means is that they would give up using heroin if some cure existed that could be administered (with no resolution on their part) that would change their behavior. But they know that no such cure exists - nor would most heroin addicts take it if it did.
The problem is that the basis for treatment for this supposed disease is non-sense.
3. The plain fact is that they show considerable determination to become an addict.
4. Addiction is something they do, rather than something that happens to them.
AN ASSOCIATED COMPLICATION
"Let the government do it." These words are the liberal mantra that is gaining momentum in our society. Americans are moving from a proudly individualistic, independent, self reliant, hard working national characteristic - to the opposite. The recent liberal trend has been to reverse almost all of the traditional guidelines. Most American citizens are very concerned. An ultra liberal trend is being forced on our society by politicians who have learned to insure their status by promising salvation from relative poverty by means of redistribution.
REDISTRIBUTION
The process generally means ever higher taxation for redistribution by politicians. It has always been in the background of political schemes. The cause is complex and cam usually be summed up with the words; "tax the rich and feed the poor." The object is ultimately to eliminate the gap that exists between rich and poor. The Utopian target is to achieve a classless society where everyone is paid the same. Everyone can accumulate exactly the same amount of wealth.
America politicians have discovered that it is in their best interest to gain power and longevity by encouraging high taxation for redistribution to other parts of the population. The receiving people are almost always neither grateful nor satisfied. The growth of redistribution is never sufficient to meet their dreams.
The fact is that human beings are created equal only in terms of their fundamental worth. In terms of their many talents there are numerous differences. Earning power may depend on education, taken, the power of memory, the ability to sing, the resources at hand and so on. All of the differences combine to insure that there will always be a gap between rich and poor. There are few actual limiting factors that can logically be employed to reduce the gap. One of them is not socialism.
THE FADING FAMILY UNIT
In America it has taken many years of contrary and unwise ideological ideas, irresponsible fiscal management, and impossible social policies to nearly obliterate, fracture and destroy the fabric the most basic unit of our society, the family. It is the relatively poor and broken parts of our society the need the fiscal and other welfare incentives to encourage parents, families, and extended families the most. Unfortunately, America has finally reached the point where most of it's wealth in gold and dollars has been disbursed to a needy world. Much has been squandered by politicians to insure their ongoing positions, and sadly, way to much of our nations wealth is being spent on destroying the traditional work ethic so characteristic of the family units of years ago.
America has actually created disincentives for those at the lower economic reaches of society, encouraging that population not to work, not to stay together, not to help each other.
It wasn't long ago that Americans were afraid of dependence upon the state. Such dependence signified personal failure. The change is astonishing really. Independence now means independence from those who one is related and dependence upon the state. Even the language has changed. Welfare recipients used to say; "I will receive my check on Friday." Now they say; "I get paid on Friday." The first statement was a rather neutral way of saying it. The second statement implies that the welfare recipient will be paid money in return for something. But they are not. They are being paid to exist, and existence is itself their work.
This no so subtle shift has been caused by the decline of the industry that once employed millions of unskilled workers, whose wages were very low by today's standards, but sufficient to sustain a stable, though not rich, society. The government, feeling the effects of increasing unemployment, did two things that actually did not benefit America:
1. They shifted the ranks of unemployed to that of the sick and impaired. This move created more invalids and people unable to work than ever before.
2. Then they began state subsidized idleness.
3. The unwanted side effect has been creation of more unskilled jobs and fewer unskilled workers. To address this our politicians imported almost equivalent numbers of foreigners to do the unskilled work.
But it is well known that the majority of those invalids have no impairment or disease. Simply put: The state pays. Why work.
Today Americans have a corrupt state welfare system that encourages people not to work, a ultra liberal government that raises taxes in order top redistribute them among the unemployed regardless of the consequences.
Between the two we are giving our children an America in decline.
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REDISTRIBUTION
The process generally means ever higher taxation for redistribution by politicians. It has always been in the background of political schemes. The cause is complex and cam usually be summed up with the words; "tax the rich and feed the poor." The object is ultimately to eliminate the gap that exists between rich and poor. The Utopian target is to achieve a classless society where everyone is paid the same. Everyone can accumulate exactly the same amount of wealth.
America politicians have discovered that it is in their best interest to gain power and longevity by encouraging high taxation for redistribution to other parts of the population. The receiving people are almost always neither grateful nor satisfied. The growth of redistribution is never sufficient to meet their dreams.
The fact is that human beings are created equal only in terms of their fundamental worth. In terms of their many talents there are numerous differences. Earning power may depend on education, taken, the power of memory, the ability to sing, the resources at hand and so on. All of the differences combine to insure that there will always be a gap between rich and poor. There are few actual limiting factors that can logically be employed to reduce the gap. One of them is not socialism.
THE FADING FAMILY UNIT
In America it has taken many years of contrary and unwise ideological ideas, irresponsible fiscal management, and impossible social policies to nearly obliterate, fracture and destroy the fabric the most basic unit of our society, the family. It is the relatively poor and broken parts of our society the need the fiscal and other welfare incentives to encourage parents, families, and extended families the most. Unfortunately, America has finally reached the point where most of it's wealth in gold and dollars has been disbursed to a needy world. Much has been squandered by politicians to insure their ongoing positions, and sadly, way to much of our nations wealth is being spent on destroying the traditional work ethic so characteristic of the family units of years ago.
America has actually created disincentives for those at the lower economic reaches of society, encouraging that population not to work, not to stay together, not to help each other.
It wasn't long ago that Americans were afraid of dependence upon the state. Such dependence signified personal failure. The change is astonishing really. Independence now means independence from those who one is related and dependence upon the state. Even the language has changed. Welfare recipients used to say; "I will receive my check on Friday." Now they say; "I get paid on Friday." The first statement was a rather neutral way of saying it. The second statement implies that the welfare recipient will be paid money in return for something. But they are not. They are being paid to exist, and existence is itself their work.
This no so subtle shift has been caused by the decline of the industry that once employed millions of unskilled workers, whose wages were very low by today's standards, but sufficient to sustain a stable, though not rich, society. The government, feeling the effects of increasing unemployment, did two things that actually did not benefit America:
1. They shifted the ranks of unemployed to that of the sick and impaired. This move created more invalids and people unable to work than ever before.
2. Then they began state subsidized idleness.
3. The unwanted side effect has been creation of more unskilled jobs and fewer unskilled workers. To address this our politicians imported almost equivalent numbers of foreigners to do the unskilled work.
But it is well known that the majority of those invalids have no impairment or disease. Simply put: The state pays. Why work.
Today Americans have a corrupt state welfare system that encourages people not to work, a ultra liberal government that raises taxes in order top redistribute them among the unemployed regardless of the consequences.
Between the two we are giving our children an America in decline.
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