INTRODUCTION

One thing is for certain, Abraham Lincoln lied to us.

  Not everyone was created equal.

    You may not have noticed, but some are more equal.

ECONOMICS 101.

Since time immemorial, through biblical times as well as the Golden Age of Greece up to the ascendancy of the Roman Empire and beyond, we have had homeless people as well as beggars.  Why?  The reasons and excuses are many.  Do we have more people in need today than we had 2,000 years ago, or whenever?  Yes, we have more today because the population of the world today is at least a thousand times greater than it was BCE.  But is the percentage greater?  Please note that there is a distinction between beggars and the homeless or people in need since beggars are not necessarily homeless and in some cultures or countries begging is tantamount to having a viable career.  You don’t believe me?  Google it.

Karl Marx had the idea that by doing away with Capitalism and permitting only the state to have ownership of the means of production and mass distribution would there be financial equality and therefore no one would be wanting.  The Russians tried it but after some 70 years or so decided that Marx – although it looked good on paper – was wrong.

Today we have a situation where some people are getting stuff for free but somehow they don’t like the people who are paying for the stuff because the people who are paying for the stuff say that they can no longer afford to pay for the free stuff and their own stuff and yet the people who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff and have told the people who are paying for the free stuff, who say that they want to stop paying for the free stuff, that they are prejudicial and racist. As a result, the people who are getting free stuff are convinced that they have to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff because they say that the able bodied people getting the free stuff should start working for the free stuff.  Makes sense?

Anyway, because the people who are getting the free stuff have figured out that they can get more free stuff if they vote for the politicians who have promised to give them more free stuff means that now or in the very near future we will have more people getting free stuff than are paying for the free stuff.

Does this mean that all of the people should go through a complete redistribution of their stuff, as some politicians have hinted at?  NO.  But the greedy corporations – and they are legion – should be precluded from ripping off the public and avoiding taxes by looping through the loopholes, all done under the guise of benefiting their
stockholders.  If that were done there would be more stuff for everyone.

EVERYONE SEEMS TO HAVE GONE CRAZY.

It seems that we are almost at a point where mandatory psychiatric evaluation on
an annual basis may be necessary if we are to survive.  The problem here is the evaluation of the psychiatrists who from what I have heard are mostly crazy themselves.  But we do have a problem unless being crazy is the new “norm”.

If it did exist it was certainly never reported because I have absolutely no recollection of there ever being shootings of students by students when I went to school.  You can’t say that it is the fault of the NRA because none of the shooters were ever members of the NRA.  Since most of the shooters are Democrats does not mean that we should outlaw Democrats.  What is the cause of these shootings?  It doesn’t really matter what the reasons are.  What we can and should do is to regulate and limit the entrances and exits to our schools so as to give us only one such portal thereby providing us with some semblance of control and also to install metal detectors with an armed guard at that location.  Period.

While on the subject of shootings, it seems to me that the number of attacks on police officers and fire fighters has increased dramatically over the years.  Why?  Some will say that it is because the attackers feel oppressed and others will say that it is because the attackers have no respect for law and order.  I say that it is something that is in between and more importantly because the attackers have refused to accept the responsibility of their actions and that the courts have been far too lenient in such cases.

TO KNEEL OR NOT TO KNEEL.

Everyone has the right to kneel, including star athletes, in the privacy of their home or anywhere else but not in a venue that pays them perhaps millions of dollars for their services.  One of the photographs of the kneelers even showed management participating therewith.  That was truly a dumb shit thing to do.  There is a simple solution to this problem which is for the kneelers to remain in the lockers until after the playing of the National Anthem and then be permitted to come onto the field.  If the kneelers wish to express their concerns by kneeling they should be allowed to do so, in the lockers.

If the kneelers insist on kneeling while the Star Bangled Banner is being played or sung, then management has the right to exclude them from that ceremony.  End of story.