Slick Willy's counterpart, Colin Powell, was on Meet the Press today, mouthing off about the Tea Party's responsibility for most of what's wrong with Washington. Really. That's what he said. He followed that by a cri de couer for centralism, as a necessary condition precedent to compromise which he opined as the heart of our political history - and future.
Well, he ought to know.
Powell is without peer as a spineless political type; sort of a black David Gergen. He alleges to be a Republican but seemingly takes the Democrat party's planks to heart or to the camera which is where his heart really is. He voted against McCain, publicly, and with smooth apologies for having to do so. He says Obama has made mostly correct decisions, especially financial decisions. He plays his miltary career to the hilt because, were he other than military, he'd have been toast long ago. On the other hand, it was he who advised Bush 41 not to depose Saddam Hussein leaving that for Bush 43 who bungled the whole thing.
Clearly, I am not a fan of Powell. To me, he's a usable tool for left and right all for feathering his personal publicity nest. He is a perfect example of a racist black. Obama is a disaster: most Democrats would prefer him different or gone. Nonetheless, Powell, the alleged Republican, is a big Obama fan. That's because they're both sort of black. They look like coffee with cream rather than just plain black; they've used that to their personal advantage as infinitum and they hang together for that very reason. You might call them the 95 percenters for the 95% of blacks who voted for Obama.
I'll take Herman.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Friday, November 25, 2011
The White Party
Of necessity, Republicans are fast becoming The White Party. Those who condemn that transformation as racist are numerous but silent about the Democrats having already become the Black and Brown party. That is, of course, not racist. That 95% of blacks who voted for president in 2008 voted for the black candidate is also not racist. Even Catholics for Kennedy wasn't close to that: Catholics voted almost 78% for JFK. Marco Rubio, Florida's new Senator, who I believe will someday be President, garnered 62% of the Latino vote in Florida. That was configured by 78% of the Cuban vote (Rubio is of Cuban descent.) and 40% of the non-Cuban Hispanic vote.
While Blacks were once Republican, I doubt we will see that again in any reader's lifetime. From their racist voting and their slavish submission to any Democrat candidate, I see no likelihood that Blacks will vote other than 90% for Obama's re-election. The Hispanic voters are similarly constituted. Were the Black and Brown voters reflective of their fellow citizens, Democrats could hardly win the race for the Dogpatch Dogcatcher's office.
It cannot be that those two blocs vote from superior base intelligence, high levels of critical thinking or a more advanced civic view. After all, we're talking about the two groups with lowest IQs, the least education and who commit more violent, serious crime than any other citizens. That's the folks who are the heart and soul of the Democrat party. Couple them with the union crowd and, together, you have the class act of American politics: criminals, welfare-kings and queens plus the public pension people. It is that slumgullion recipe which is joined and coddled by the liberal elite who rule them.
All of the above has arisen from the break-down of the Black family, the failure of the federal government to enforce immigration law and the anarchistic tendencies of elitists who believe they can manage the country and, indeed, the world as well.
But, irrespective of from whence it came, the Republicans are faced with the demographic realities. Where will they find voters? Certainly not from those people. Who's left?
Us.
While Blacks were once Republican, I doubt we will see that again in any reader's lifetime. From their racist voting and their slavish submission to any Democrat candidate, I see no likelihood that Blacks will vote other than 90% for Obama's re-election. The Hispanic voters are similarly constituted. Were the Black and Brown voters reflective of their fellow citizens, Democrats could hardly win the race for the Dogpatch Dogcatcher's office.
It cannot be that those two blocs vote from superior base intelligence, high levels of critical thinking or a more advanced civic view. After all, we're talking about the two groups with lowest IQs, the least education and who commit more violent, serious crime than any other citizens. That's the folks who are the heart and soul of the Democrat party. Couple them with the union crowd and, together, you have the class act of American politics: criminals, welfare-kings and queens plus the public pension people. It is that slumgullion recipe which is joined and coddled by the liberal elite who rule them.
All of the above has arisen from the break-down of the Black family, the failure of the federal government to enforce immigration law and the anarchistic tendencies of elitists who believe they can manage the country and, indeed, the world as well.
But, irrespective of from whence it came, the Republicans are faced with the demographic realities. Where will they find voters? Certainly not from those people. Who's left?
Us.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The European Union
Having spent a dozen years in international business, mostly in Europe, and having had a home in Neuilly-sur-Seine at the edge of Paris, the current state of financial affairs is painful to watch as it has a more personal aspect. The notion of the European Union has never made sense to me when looked at from the individual's viewpoint. I never believed it would work. Last May (2010) I wrote that the EU would never work, something I have believed and said from its inception. Unfortunately, it appears that events are now proving that prediction to be correct.
Americans generally don't think much of 50-cycle nations; we tend to think of people who live on the continent of Europe as the same just as we tend to think Asians are alike because they look alike. Wrong. On all counts. A Finn is unlike an Italian who is unlike a Scotsman who is unlike an Austrian. That is not true of a Californian who is not unlike a Floridian who is not unlike a Vermonter who is not unlike an Oregonian. We, not they, are the same in language, customs and laws to recall Julius: they most assuredly are not. And the Chinese hate the Japanese who have no regard for the Thai and the Indians disrespect them all.
All of God's children are like that. They share one mark: one tribe dislikes all other tribes. Person by person is a dfferent deal but, in fact, tribes tend to live together. Look at big city ghettoes. They, everywhere, prove the point.
Americans generally don't think much of 50-cycle nations; we tend to think of people who live on the continent of Europe as the same just as we tend to think Asians are alike because they look alike. Wrong. On all counts. A Finn is unlike an Italian who is unlike a Scotsman who is unlike an Austrian. That is not true of a Californian who is not unlike a Floridian who is not unlike a Vermonter who is not unlike an Oregonian. We, not they, are the same in language, customs and laws to recall Julius: they most assuredly are not. And the Chinese hate the Japanese who have no regard for the Thai and the Indians disrespect them all.
All of God's children are like that. They share one mark: one tribe dislikes all other tribes. Person by person is a dfferent deal but, in fact, tribes tend to live together. Look at big city ghettoes. They, everywhere, prove the point.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Left-hand Turns
No, this is not a diatribe about leftists or rightists turning left. It's road rage about left hand turns. Here in Los Angeles and I suspect nation-wide, making a left-hand turn at a busy intersection is a real hassle. Many turn a block or two before or after the intersection wending their circuituous route to somewhere. A friend from Salt Lake City once remarked that, when driving in LA, she never made a left-hand turn after Noon. FedEx and UPS routes are organized to avoid them to the extent possible as time and fuel wasters.
There isn't too much that can be done but there is at least one easy tactic which would help, though not cure, the issue: the first cars in the turn lane should nose out to the middle of the intersection so that more cars can make the turn before or as the light changes. Those who sit on the white line waiting for oncoming traffic to pass drive me nuts. If they'd only get out to the mid-point, it would help everyone.
Do not hold your breath. It's easier to cut the budget than change driver's habits, including mine I suppose.
There isn't too much that can be done but there is at least one easy tactic which would help, though not cure, the issue: the first cars in the turn lane should nose out to the middle of the intersection so that more cars can make the turn before or as the light changes. Those who sit on the white line waiting for oncoming traffic to pass drive me nuts. If they'd only get out to the mid-point, it would help everyone.
Do not hold your breath. It's easier to cut the budget than change driver's habits, including mine I suppose.
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Affirmative Action: An American Disgrace
The disgusting policy of Affirmative Action yet resounds throughout this land of ours. Why? Because those politicians who know and believe it to be wrong are afraid of being called racists.
I have a young son. He's 6. Right now, his chances of admission to a first tier university in September 2023 are diminished because of some other 6-year old being of a preferred color. My son is half-Chinese through his Mother and half Caucasian through me. He was born in Pasadena CA so he's as American as you can get. The other 6-year old may not even be in the United States yet. He or she could be in Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico or Central America. They don't even need to show up until, say, 2023. But, because that child is a NAM (Non-Asian Minority), he will be admitted before my son or yours for that matter. Tell me again how that is a reasonable penalty to impose on your son or mine because some people believe that NAMs were oppressed. Especially show me where Latinos were oppressed. You want oppression? What about the oppression of the Chinese coolies who were brought here to work as if indentured. That's a lot more oppression than the Latinos ever had.
Any black or Latino who believes his or her child is entitled to step ahead of my son bacause of their color is a racist, a bigot and a disgrace to this land of justice for all.
I have a young son. He's 6. Right now, his chances of admission to a first tier university in September 2023 are diminished because of some other 6-year old being of a preferred color. My son is half-Chinese through his Mother and half Caucasian through me. He was born in Pasadena CA so he's as American as you can get. The other 6-year old may not even be in the United States yet. He or she could be in Africa, the Caribbean, Mexico or Central America. They don't even need to show up until, say, 2023. But, because that child is a NAM (Non-Asian Minority), he will be admitted before my son or yours for that matter. Tell me again how that is a reasonable penalty to impose on your son or mine because some people believe that NAMs were oppressed. Especially show me where Latinos were oppressed. You want oppression? What about the oppression of the Chinese coolies who were brought here to work as if indentured. That's a lot more oppression than the Latinos ever had.
Any black or Latino who believes his or her child is entitled to step ahead of my son bacause of their color is a racist, a bigot and a disgrace to this land of justice for all.
Gordian Economics
All my long life, I have had a sense of economic inferiority to economists cited by various media or pundits. These wise and mostly men have powerful credentials: first tier doctorates, tenure or think-tank chairs, peer acclaim, authors of text books, numerous articles and more. Few have managed a business; these wizards manage governments. Some are trying to run the world. Impressive stuff that.
Recently, I was thinking about the economies of nations. The wreckage reminded me of Ozymandias. Everywhere one looks in the Western world, there is economic ruin. America is in hock to its eyeballs; a larger percentage of its workers is unemployed or under-employed than at any time in decades, inflation has returned and our leaders do not have any idea as to what to do. The President's proposals gain nearly unanimous disdain. Few have confidence in the ruling class; none of the awe inspiring economists has stepped up to economic leadership. Few pundits even pretend to understand the problem much less offer a solution.
Accordingly, it falls to me to cut through the Gordian economic knots in which we are ensnared.
As a general principle, the solutions need to be set forth so that they are understood by almost all, thus gaining support from the people. Since it is "the people" who are suffering the brunt of the chaos, their recognition of answers on the way will restore the confidence necessary to begin recovery. There can be but few principles; 20 cannot be fathomed much less sold. Here are The Ten Economic Commandments:
1. The federal government's present budget will be reduced to 95% of what it spent last year. Each succeeding year, for the next 8 years, an additional 1% will be lopped off of last year's budget. Reductions will be across the board, in all departments and branches with the heads thereof deciding who and what is eliminated. Excess revenues over operating expenses must be applied to debt reduction.
2. The military will be brought home from Europe, Korea and similar billets to be retired or honorably discharged. The military budget may not be raised for the next 7 years absent a war declared by Congress.
3. The federal reserve will announce support for a strong dollar and that it will not attempt to restrain interest rates in any form.
4. The federal income tax rates shall be 5% on the first $50,000 of gross income; 10% on the next $450,000 of gross income and 15% of all gross income over $500,000. There will be no deductions other than for charity which will be limited to your highest tax rate. There will be no tax on capital gains; all income shall be deemed ordinary and taxed accordingly.
5. If you are between 55 and 50 years old, you may not draw on social security or Medicare until you are 70 years old. If you are between 50 and 45 years old, you may not draw on social security or Medicare until you are 71 years old. This sliding age scale decrements in 5 year increments with a 1 year increase in the retirement age. Thus, between 45 and 40 = 72 years; 40 and 35 = 73 years; 35 an 30 = 74 years and if under 30 = 75 years.
6. The fence between the US and Mexico will be completed; all illegal aliens will be deported via legal deportation; the social security check system will be required to hire anyone in the US with severe penalties to those caught cheating, including individuals.
7. The minimum wage will be raised to at least $15 an hour.
8. Student loans will once again be dischargeable in bankruptcy but only in a Chapter 13 type procedure.
9. Financial institutions must mark their assets to market on a quarterly basis.
10. The United States will not seek to impose democracy on any other nation.
These are the principles. The rest will follow.
Recently, I was thinking about the economies of nations. The wreckage reminded me of Ozymandias. Everywhere one looks in the Western world, there is economic ruin. America is in hock to its eyeballs; a larger percentage of its workers is unemployed or under-employed than at any time in decades, inflation has returned and our leaders do not have any idea as to what to do. The President's proposals gain nearly unanimous disdain. Few have confidence in the ruling class; none of the awe inspiring economists has stepped up to economic leadership. Few pundits even pretend to understand the problem much less offer a solution.
Accordingly, it falls to me to cut through the Gordian economic knots in which we are ensnared.
As a general principle, the solutions need to be set forth so that they are understood by almost all, thus gaining support from the people. Since it is "the people" who are suffering the brunt of the chaos, their recognition of answers on the way will restore the confidence necessary to begin recovery. There can be but few principles; 20 cannot be fathomed much less sold. Here are The Ten Economic Commandments:
1. The federal government's present budget will be reduced to 95% of what it spent last year. Each succeeding year, for the next 8 years, an additional 1% will be lopped off of last year's budget. Reductions will be across the board, in all departments and branches with the heads thereof deciding who and what is eliminated. Excess revenues over operating expenses must be applied to debt reduction.
2. The military will be brought home from Europe, Korea and similar billets to be retired or honorably discharged. The military budget may not be raised for the next 7 years absent a war declared by Congress.
3. The federal reserve will announce support for a strong dollar and that it will not attempt to restrain interest rates in any form.
4. The federal income tax rates shall be 5% on the first $50,000 of gross income; 10% on the next $450,000 of gross income and 15% of all gross income over $500,000. There will be no deductions other than for charity which will be limited to your highest tax rate. There will be no tax on capital gains; all income shall be deemed ordinary and taxed accordingly.
5. If you are between 55 and 50 years old, you may not draw on social security or Medicare until you are 70 years old. If you are between 50 and 45 years old, you may not draw on social security or Medicare until you are 71 years old. This sliding age scale decrements in 5 year increments with a 1 year increase in the retirement age. Thus, between 45 and 40 = 72 years; 40 and 35 = 73 years; 35 an 30 = 74 years and if under 30 = 75 years.
6. The fence between the US and Mexico will be completed; all illegal aliens will be deported via legal deportation; the social security check system will be required to hire anyone in the US with severe penalties to those caught cheating, including individuals.
7. The minimum wage will be raised to at least $15 an hour.
8. Student loans will once again be dischargeable in bankruptcy but only in a Chapter 13 type procedure.
9. Financial institutions must mark their assets to market on a quarterly basis.
10. The United States will not seek to impose democracy on any other nation.
These are the principles. The rest will follow.
Ten Years Later
The Islamic terrorists of 9/11 and their supporters of any stripe or level are evil.
Like the Israeli's hunted the Nazis, we should hunt down al Quaeda unto eternity, just as was done with bin Laden. The pressure should never be lessened. The whole world should know what we are doing. That will isolate the targets; few non-terrorists will want to hang with them lest they become collateral damage. As recruits join the al Quaeda crowd, they are put on the list. Forever. Until they are all dead and gone.
Support them and you are a dead man walking.
That is my commemoration of 9/11.
It is known as Justice.
Like the Israeli's hunted the Nazis, we should hunt down al Quaeda unto eternity, just as was done with bin Laden. The pressure should never be lessened. The whole world should know what we are doing. That will isolate the targets; few non-terrorists will want to hang with them lest they become collateral damage. As recruits join the al Quaeda crowd, they are put on the list. Forever. Until they are all dead and gone.
Support them and you are a dead man walking.
That is my commemoration of 9/11.
It is known as Justice.
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