The truth about Green Jobs

I have been hearing about “green jobs” for too long and I have no idea WTF a “green job” is.

Is there anyone in the wonderful world who can properly define the term or is it yet another hip and cool sound bite we hear from the lips of the media and politicians because we think we want to?
We pay far too much homage to the bullshit that we hear from the media already and most people I know that mirror that crap have no idea of what they are saying.
Luckily, my best of friends don’t think in that train of thought. We all have formal educations and tend to form our own thoughts and opinions in a different manner than most of what I see about any of the current topics which flash by as quick as pop culture.

I think that is most of the problem with most of America. The media runs data over the people of the world in such high volumes it is no less than sound bites and pop culture.
Some female being photographed sans panties is as important as Brad and Angelina and pushes real news to the back until it comes forth in small bites when there is a pause in the onslaught. Political news should be ground to hamburger fare for the gossip news shows to be reduced to content that is easily understood by those that care about whether Britney or Hannah Montana are clothed or responsible role models. Who gives a shit?

CNN, FOX, HLN and MSNBC have already put OBIDEN in the White House. Anytime I watch them they declare that he has won every debate and converted all red states to blue. I have given up on watching the news because it isn’t “news”. It has become cesspools of whatever agenda the networks have to push.

Let’s turn our eyes to energy and the financial crisis…
America has to look into a mirror and point at itself. Each and every one of us. We are all at fault. That is where the finger points – to the mirror. Don’t believe either of those two running for president when they say it will be alright – they are lying assholes. We are staring depression in the face and inflation is holding it’s hand. Taxes will be in the 40- 50 percentile range within five years if not in two.  Someone has to pay for the spending our lawmakers have been reckless with and “someone” always = taxpayers. The bitch is we have a lot to catch up on so we will have to pay a lot to do so.

Look this shit over - http://www.loosechange911.com/blog/

Debt – why do some of you pay over $300 a month for a car? Is it a huge behemoth or a sensible vehicle that gets you and your family around from A to B? If you spend $50 in gas a week you are STUPID. It’s your fault. Get rid of your big pieces of shit and buy a little box. The insurance is cheaper.
Detroit has yet to pull it’s head out of it’s FAT ASS in an attempt in coming close to equaling a Japanese engine that is more efficient than anything you will buy domestically. A Toyota engine will last forever as will a Honda if one maintains it. Will a Ford, Chevy or Dodge engine? ROTFLMFAO!
Yet, they are claiming losses in the millions that the average American citizen cannot. They project revenues they are not meeting and get to take tax losses. How about us? I projected I would earn a million dollars and knew I would never for the year. Can I take a tax cut? Fuck no!

More debt – how many of you dumb asses are carrying around credit cards and owe money on them? WHY? Do you see what kind of shape the US federal government is in? It’s for the same reason. You spend what you don’t have because you want, want, want and spend, spend, spend with no means to pay. Some of you are foreclosing on your mortgages because you agreed to buy a house that was %500 above your means. Yep, you can blame some greedy fuckers for pushing you that way but where were the warning flares that told you not to do so? You keep your cable, satellite and internet and that expensive piece of shit car for some reason. My car is paid for but I need to get rid of pay TV. Why we will need a special receiver for digital next year is but another stroke of illegal night moves we let our elected officials get away with.

Our legislators just passed a trillion dollar band aid for our retarded president – BUSH – to sign into law so the stupid and greedy assholes of this country can be excused of all of their errant ways.
Why do they blame it on Wall street when it is actually the fault of Main street? It’s like SOYLENT GREEN. SOYLENT GREEN is people. The financial crisis is people, not Wall street.

Merchants had better cry poor mouth this Christmas rather than the people of this country going out and buying shit they don’t need and can’t afford. Most would do better to blow off buying Christmas shit for the next couple of years than incurring more debt they can’t afford.

Who sets the price on the barrel of crude oil? Do the oil companies simply make up numbers and tell us what they want just to shaft us or is it really that expensive? I think the oil companies are plainly fucking us over while they rack up record income and profits. Explain that Mr EXXON! Fuck you!

CNG – How many of you are aware of the vast amount of compressed natural gas we have under the soil of this nation? Why doesn’t the US government let Pickens pump that out of the ground so we can use it for energy uses?
Everyone needs electricity, correct? Why not convert every non nuclear or hydraulic power plant to CNG and build pipelines to power them at decreased prices and cleaner emissions?
Here’s one reason – the fucking US government has to put their hands on it and regulate, tax and rubber stamp it all before they figure out a way to fuck us out of the benefits of such a simple plan.
Why can’t we drill for oil in our own country? Because the fucking US federal government – led by the nose by industry and special interest groups – needs to make a buck on it before we can benefit from it.
How in hell did they pass a trillion dollar piece of legislature so quickly?? Someone is out to make a fucking fortune from it just as they do from the $10B a month they send to the illegal war.

Why are we in a war? Is anyone trying to kill Osama fucking Bin Laden? They never had an intention to do so and most of it is a ruse.  The attack on Afghanistan was simpletons using their email to send anti Bin Laden crap around and spinning each other up over nothing. The US government probably started half of the stupid propaganda to keep American citizens at fever pitch. Why is Castro or any other evil entity the USA detests still alive? Qaddafi and Arafat were free to come and go forever. Putin is a pain in the ass as is Kim in Korea. Don’t you think we would’ve figured out some way to pop a cap into their asses by now rather than involve our nation in war?
BUT we can’t do that!! We need bad guys to instill fear and terror. Hussein was like a boil on the neocon idiots asses for some reason. Iran is a bad guy we better not fuck with.

As far as “green jobs”. Has anyone ever researched the difference it would make in this country if the USA cultivated HEMP? We used to at one time until prohibition was over and the federal government didn’t like people smoking weed. Hemp is more efficient than corn for use as a bio-fuel and can make more paper than trees. Levis were made from hemp as linen that rivals cotton can be made from it. It can be used as food.
I haven’t even gotten to the medical uses and getting high. Everyone should smoke dope rather than take the pharmaceutical chemicals we ingest everyday for each and every thing your doctor prescribes them for.

Then there is the court systems and prisons filled with people that merely smoke it. You can get 25 years in jail for possession of less than an oz of weed yet be sent away for 8 years for rape or other sexual crimes.
I find that to be rather fucked up.

You want to know the truth about Green Jobs?
Both MCCAIN and OBIDEN will fuck us – believe it folks- things will never change unless a woman becomes president. I am a man and I know this to be true. Who raised and nurtured you? A woman.
Our mothers are women and have never had the opportunity to run the country though they can do everything else. They did the shitwork your father wouldn’t.  A mother knows tough love – a mix between liberal and conservative.

The only genuine thing I have seen in the 2008 election free-for-all is the naiveté of SARAH PALIN. Many don’t like her because they never heard of her or don’t like her outer beltway way of thinking – mostly due to the fact the media has convinced you not to.
You know what? The Constitution was written with her point of view in mind. The framers of the Constitution didn’t write all of that for a bunch of white haired old men to sit around for life and fuck up the country and/or  the world in they way they have in the past 100 years.
Ever since the depression and on through WWI, WWII, Korea, the Cold War, Watergate, Vietnam and the past two wars about bullshit, the USA has been at the hands of old white haired white men thinking for themselves. They have succeeded at keeping us in a state of fear.

Nothing will change if you put the two male candidates in office in November.

You read it here.

Let’s get a fresh new gang of numb nuts with open minds to go to Washington next time. Ron Paul should have planted a seed of sense in your empty brains, let it sprout and grow.

Uninformed, Uneducated, Ignorant or Just Plain Stupid?

I was at the gas station last night and picked Sunoco over BP because the price for 87 octane was $2.97 vs $3.04.
Are you aware that 99% of the cars on the road are designed to use 87 octane? I have no idea why people are spending twenty five cents more per gallon for gasoline they do not need.

MY car knocks…Yeah, so do racecars before they get up to full song. Your cars don’t ping or knock at 20mph. Racecars don’t either once they get moving. Their compression ratio far exceeds any of our domestic cars which is a need for the higher octane fuel.

At present time the refiners are mixing an average of 10% ethanol into the gasoline and my truck doesn’t run well on it. My mileage has dropped considerably due to this. I am glad I don’t drive very much as it would hurt if I did. I would most certainly rid myself of my trusty old 1993 Chevrolet pickup with a V-6 and look for something on the lines of a Honda civic. The sad part is my truck is in great shape and utilitarian as well.
Where are those Euro- Smart cars? The four-two is a little urban vehicle designed for the type of driving most of us do now. Trade in those big 4X4 SUVs and get back into the Volkswagon Beetle mindset. I don’t understand the price gouging for them at this time but that will go away soon.
One stumbling block – the EPA wants to put emissions controls on them. 40-50 mpg is my idea of emissions controls.

This was the meaning of my post and it applies to us all when it comes to petroleum and the ways in which we use it. If Al Gore and his followers want to make noise they should push for different engineering in the auto world. And then push for more efficient solar power – its there and it is free for the taking.

Conspiracy Theories

I love the tone implied by those that refer to any that mention what is equal to conspiracy as THEORISTS – basically nuts with no idea of what is wrong or right.
I am in that sector and sure, there are some that are really out there. For the most part, those that look for explanations and reasonings other than that which is digested so readily by the masses, are exercising their God given right of questioning the hidden agenda of their fellow man. Remember “The X-Files?”
I am not one to “stay the course” as the president of the US suggests. I don’t know who OUR “enemies” are. He and those that follow his mantra love to use that expression but, who are our enemies? Who are HIS enemies?

I can take an educated guess and say the $500,000,000,000.00 that has been spent enabling a civil war on the other side of the world was more than military funding. Some entity of the world wanted to transfer a large amount of cash from one hand to another. Was the USA blackmailed or are we OWNED?
Just 40 years ago we were in a war in Vietnam and the troops did for themselves there. There were no multi-million dollar contracts for housing, feeding, laundry, or the other parts of a soldiers life that are performed by others as in Iraq. I am a military brat, my father was a training instructor/war veteran and I have seen how the military has changed. I have also watched the change in the governmental policies that dictate how we are to live our lives.
In his 1961 inaugural speech JFK said -
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.”
That was cool but, then he opened his mouth and continued -
“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

Further, this heartfelt speech also held the prelude of the goal of our country to go forth and meddle -
” Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required–not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

With those words he well paved the way for the ideals held by those that put us into any of the following wars such as Vietnam as well as the middle eastern foibles of today. JFK had the good sense to back down during the “Bay of Pigs” incident but, was that his downfall?

We will never know the truth concerning his death – I for one, do not believe Oswald was the lone trigger man. I suppose that is a conspiracy for the ages. The Zapruder film, held by the government for a long time is very telling for me. JFK was shaking up the system as did RFK and MLK. They were 3 high profile figures that were to be more than prominent in the cause for civil rights. Then, as now, there is a ruling class that has the final say. Ultimately, it comes down to one’s holdings or a status of class – in this case it is the have’s and the havenots.
That’s more conspiracy talk, right?

Ask yourself honestly….Why does a lot of the evidence point to the side of the theorists whereas the Bush supporters are prone to speaking like Bush and repeating themselves over and over?

I just saw “Fahrenheit 9/11″ for the first time tonight and thought it brilliant. Combine that with “Loose Change” and the Bush administration smells like SHIT - and rightfully so.
I wasn’t born yesterday; I know much of World/USA political history and the way in which individuals think. Why any man or woman thinks their 60 years of life on this planet is so important is a laughing joke.
Here are some questions that may lead to conspiracy theories.
What does W think he can accomplish in the middle east other than steal oil from another country? What does it matter after he is dead?
Bush rallied the “Religious Right” for his last campaign didn’t he? He had all of the red states.
If he was truly a Christian – he claims to be – he would know that efforts to provoke a “religious” war is not in his realm. If he had read his bible he would know better.
BTW – That’s not a theory.
Michael Moore’s film exposes so much of the entire Bush family I wonder how any of them can hold a public office. Any close to them are tainted.

Any man, woman or child that claps as a seal in support of the man’s insanity are as those that supported Hitler to his rise as Der Feurher.
How far from that level of ruling is he?

Taxes – In the Future

Something I have heard some of our illustrious career politicians mention recently is the fact that taxes will be a bit higher in the future.

That’s pretty much a lame statement that can be heard at any time when the subject arises but when muttered aloud this time they are talking on the scale of pulling your gym shorts down in front of the entire school!!
Oh, yeah!! And not for a brief 10 minute period of humiliation. This time the tax hits are going to remind you of every time the US Postal Service wants to spank the price of a stamp up another penny or so; why they don’t go to 50 cents this time and stay there for a while is too logical in this era.

Why are taxes a point in this crazy and raving blog I type into?
Think about what our country has been involved in since George W. Bush has taken over as the president of our United States; the leader of the most powerful country on this planet.

DUH…Yeah, our armed forced have been deployed, full scale, overseas in a war of his personal choice.

Why is this so outlandish?

Consider the fact that it is not even Bush that plans this stuff. Given the history of the world; does he really think he is going to affect the course of time forever? He went to college to party and supposedly gain an education. He has to have some intelligence. (that is asking for a lot) He is nothing in the grand scheme of time and will be gone in two years. However – the USA will be stuck with whatever his administration has done or will do in the future. Tax rates are going to be in the 40 percentile range within a decade because of the cost of his “war”. That movement of cash was actually the buying and selling of the USA we aren’t yet aware of. There are other operatives in play. Call me crazy and conspiratorial but when taxes are unreal and gasoline is $4.00 gal think back on this.
He has successfully played the fool for those who want to bring down the USA. We will not be enjoying the great American lifestyle any longer; we will be living life as those in Europe know it. We are going to become equal to the EU. There was talk years ago that we would be but, no! We are the United States of America, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Too bad not enough of us are brave enough to save what is left. Not enough of us are brave enough to put down our remote controls and beer. Not enough of us have voter registration cards or show up to vote on election days. We have excuses such as “I’m not going to vote because it doesn’t matter”. Too many of us are of the mindset of “they ought to do something about that”.
Answer this – who are “they” and what are “they” to do about it? The vote that you feel doesn’t matter does when you are voting for senators and representatives. They are the folks that legislate laws and present and pass bills that decide how tax money is spent. Those are the elected officials that must be pondered upon before voting.
Something we need in this country is term limitations on senators and republicans. It is up to us to police them with our votes. A 65 year old drunk in another state represents me whether he claims to or not, Every vote on every ballot presented to them affects the entire USA and, at times, the world.

It sounds a bit biblical and end times doesn’t it? That’s because it is.

Open letter to Al Gore….

Dear AL,

What agenda are you trying to prove with your wild allegations of GLOBAL WARMING? It is quite the buzzword that politicians are attaching to their political platforms and people listen because it is the latest and greatest imaginary FEAR FACTOR. Are you merely trying to gain your way back into the public eye or do you really think you have what a fisherman may refer to as “THE BIG ONE” on the line? I think you have a “CATCH and RELEASE” license, big guy, as you are actually serving part in raising the price of gasoline – over $3 gallon today in the DC metro area and most likely not coming down.
That corn alcohol fuel additive your ilk is so favorable of actually lowers fuel mileage, as does the oxygenated gasoline we find at our pumps in the fall and winter months. Do the math with me on this one…if a car gets 20 mpg with the unadulterated 87 octane gasoline and the mileage drops to 18 mpg with either the oxygenated or corn blend, what is really happening?
Can’t answer? I didn’t think so. That change in the fuel mixture is causing the engine to dump more emissions into the air as it is not as efficient as it was before the fuel mixture was altered.

I have a better goal for you; far better. Our television and radio airwaves are constantly bombarded with commercials for trucks, trucks and more trucks with more torque and horsepower than the other model. This means the engines are larger, use more gas and emit more pollutants into the air.
The answer to this is to downsize our vehicles as the manufacturers did in the early 1970s so that we will, once again, have smaller autos in this country that are fuel efficient and using less gasoline thus, less crude oil.
The beauty of this is the start of these vehicles already exist!!
Yes, Daimler-Benz manufactures what is know as the SMART car; currently in Europe and should be here in the USA driven by commuters that sit in hour(s) long traffic jams on a regular basis in most metropolitan areas such as DC, NYC, Philly, Boston and LA.
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/smart-car.htm

I can imagine the EPA wants to slap some emission equipment on it which equals federal taxes. If someone can explain to me why a vehicle that can get 40-50 mpg needs emission equipment, in a sensible manner, I may believe it. I think 40-50 mpg is emission controls.

As far as global warming, I live in the DC metro area and I see no proof of it. Sure we had a late winter but, the local weather mouths on television are going on about how cool of a spring we are in. It has been this way for the past 5 years.

Mr. Gore,
I have lived in MD for 30 years. I have seen a change in weather patterns but nothing that could be classified as “GLOBAL WARMING”. In the infinite hours, days, months and years spent researching your global catastrophe did you ever think there may be a slight chance that the weather patterns of the world may change or did your research predict the weather was a constant from alpha to omega? Most of all GLOBAL WARMING models that these studies are based on are 2-3 centuries at the most. You nor I could be seen from a commercial airliner at a cruising altitude of 35K ft unless a sensor’s lens was configured to do so as the craft flew overhead at 500 mph. We are but specks of dust on this rock; one century’s weather seasons out of most likely millions is as a single fire ant from a nest of them.

I saw the Potomac frozen over like a bridge in 1978. I remember times when it was so cold the marinas would freeze and spit the boats out of the water and up onto the ice until it thawed. I remember summers of years past that had months of consecutive 100 degree days. Not any longer.
I don’t know where the polar caps are in dire straits and Canada is solid ice near the pole.
Picture yourself in a typical 20′x40′ backyard swimming pool. If someone slid two 500 lb blocks of ice in each end simultaneously would it be catastrophic? That would be 1/2 ton of ice – frozen water – the same as ten 100 lb people joining you; would the pool overflow? No.

Cease trying to scare everyone with rising tides that claims beaches. One of the hurricanes that blow by the east coast does that by itself. Flooding suggested by global warming is equivalent to 1/2 again the volume of water already on the earth’s surface being dumped in the seas. There isn’t that much ice on the planet.

As far as hydrocarbons and carbon dioxide; I suggest YOU pay YOUR friends at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue a visit and come to an agreement about the future of photo-voltaic energy. If, as your think tank suggests, we are supposedly burning alive under the sun, we may as well push on for the development of harnessing that energy in a far more efficient manner than what is at present.

One of the truly unfruitful dilemmas the world faces is clearing land for the sake of clearing land. Leave the trees. I have no idea of the true figures of the Amazon rain forest that has been leveled but more locations than that are being leveled because we can. A copse of trees in any locale is far better than flat land or lawn. People should be educated in that manner and not with impending doom.

Air pollution is inevitable unless we are to close shop and camp out without any of what we take for granted today. Then again, solar energy could eliminate a lot of it.

Why ask? We let them do it…

HOW SIMPLE CAN I PUT THIS???

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE NEWS AND LISTEN TO WHAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS – YEAH, YOU AND I PUT THEM THERE - ARE DOING ON CAPITOL HILL. THE IRAQ WAR IS DRAINING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE POINT OUR ROADS ARE CRUMBLING AND BRIDGES ARE FALLING APART. MEANWHILE; OUR GOVERNMENT IS REBUILDING A FOREIGN COUNTRY THAT OUR MILITARY TERRORIZED. IF BUSH AND HIS CRONIES PROCEED TO ATTACK IRAN IN THE MANNER HE HAS THREATENED, OUR COUNTRY WILL BE EMBROILED IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOR AT LEAST ANOTHER 20 YEARS AND OUR NATION WILL SURELY WEAKEN AS DID THE USSR; AS WELL AS DID ANCIENT ROME.

IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE , CONSIDER THE SUMS OF MONEY GIVEN TO THE WAR PROFITEERS DURING THE PAST FIVE YEARS. IF OUR LUNATIC PRESIDENT CAN FIND A REASON TO ATTACK IRAN HE WILL AND THAT WILL TAP OUR RESOURCES TO THE POINT OF DRY. WHY DOES HE DO SO? IN MY OPINION, IT IS HIS PART IN BRINGING DOWN THE USA.
WHY? ASK THOSE THAT PULL THE STRINGS OF WORLD FINANCE. HIS TIES ARE WITH THE OIL FUTURES OF THE USA.

THINK OF THE DIFFERENT NAMES THE BANKS IN YOUR LOCALE HAVE WORN OVER THEIR DOORS. HOW MANY TIMES HAS YOUR HOME MORTGAGE BEEN BOUGHT AND SOLD WITHIN A TWENTY YEAR SPAN?
IT IS OUT OF YOUR HANDS UNLESS YOU WANT TO REFINANCE WITH A MORE STABLE INSTITUTE BUT EVEN THAT INSTITUTES’S HOLDINGS WILL BE BOUGHT AND SOLD IN FUTURE MERGER DEALINGS. THOSE THAT HOLD THE ULTIMATE PURSE STRINGS RULE THE WORLD. THERE ARE VERY FEW TRUE PRIVATELY HELD BUSINESSES. THEY ARE UNTOUCHABLE BY ANY OUTSIDE PARTIES AND ARE THE VERY SAME THAT BUY UP HUGE BLOCKS OF STOCK OFFERINGS OF COMPANIES THAT GO PUBLIC. IN TIME, THEY CAN OWN THEM COMPLETELY, MAKE WHAT MONEY THERE IS TO BE MADE AND OFFER THEM FOR PUBLIC SALE YET AGAIN.
CONSIDER WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A CORPORATION IS IN DIRE STRAITS AND THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE BANKRUPTCY IS TO SELL MOST, IF NOT ALL, OF THE CORPORATION TO ONE THAT CAN BUY IT OUT OF DEBT, USUALLY TO THE LOSS OF STOCKHOLDERS OR OWNERS. IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD THERE ARE BUT A HANDFUL OF THOSE THAT OWN EVERYTHING AND THEY BUY AND SELL CORPORATIONS TO KEEP THE WORLD ECONOMY FLOWING.

CONSIDER THE PERCENTAGE OF WORLD BUSINESSES OPERATE TOTALLY ON CREDIT?
UNTIL PAID OFF, THOSE NOTES BELONG TO BANKING INSTITUTIONS OPERATING ON CREDIT – THEY ARE PRONE TO MERGERS AND TAKEOVERS – OFTEN SEEN AS RENAMING OF BANKS TO US AND IT BEGINS ANEW.
GLOBALIZATION HAS MADE THIS ALL TOO REAL AS THESE ACTIONS CAN HAPPEN INSTANTLY BY MEANS OF THE INTERNET; SOMETHING THAT WAS NOT A REALITY UNTIL THE ADVENT OF THE COMPUTER AGE.

AS FAR AS BEING ON LOAN; THE USA IS ON THE EDGE OF SELLING ITSELF AND HAS ALREADY REDISTRIBUTED ITS TECHNOLOGY AND MANUFACTURING TO AREAS AROUND THE GLOBE TO READY FOR THIS. WE OWE SOMEBODY TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS. MANY INDIVIDUALS OR FAMILIES ARE SO FAR IN DEBT THEY WILL NEVER RECOVER UNTIL THEY STOP THEIR LIFESTYLES.

WE HAVE LEFT OURSELVES TO MANUFACTURING SUB-STANDARD AUTOMOBILES AND A FEW LARGE APPLIANCES.
WE HELPED ASIAN COMPANIES TOOL UP FOR THEIR DOMINATION OF STEEL AND AUTO PRODUCTION AFTER BOMBING NAGASAKI AND HIROSHIMA IN 1945.
IN ADDITION TO TAKING OVER THE AUTOMOBILE MARKET IN THE USA, ASIAN MANUFACTURERS HAVE KNOCKED OUT A LARGE PORTION OF WHAT REMAINS OF LIGHT TRUCK PRODUCTION.
HONDA, TOYOTA, MITSUBISHI, NISSAN, MAZDA, KIA, HYUNDAI, SUZUKI AND YAMAHA HAVE MADE INROADS TO CAPTURING THAT MARKET AS WELL AS THE POPULAR SUV MARKET. THIS WAS ONCE THE PRIDE OF US AUTO MANUFACTURERS.

THE BULK OF HEAVY CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT COMES FROM OVERSEAS.
JAPANESE MOTORCYCLES HAVE BEEN SUPERIOR IN ENGINEERING AND QUALITY FOR 30 YEARS THOUGH THERE ARE STALWARTS THAT INSIST ON AMERICAN IRON. THEIR NUMBERS ARE SMALL IN COMPARISON TO THE TOTAL MARKET. HANG IN THERE GUYS.

VERY FEW OF THE ITEMS I TOUCH DURING THE DAY ORIGINATE IN THE USA. THIS COMPUTER IS JUST A SAMPLE. MY CLOTHES ARE ALL FROM MILLS ON FOREIGN SOIL.
MY SHOES ARE MADE IN THE USA AND ARE EXPENSIVE. I FOUND THE ONE SIZE FITS ALL VERSIONS OF ATHLETIC SHOES FROM THE VARIOUS BIG NAME LABELS MADE IN ASIA RUINED MY FEET AND DO SO TO MOST OTHERS WHO WEAR THEM.

I WAS RECENTLY FITTED WITH COSTLY FOOT ORTHOTICS WHICH MERELY MASK AND ENABLES THE PROBLEM. I AM FORCED TO SEEK OUT AND PROCURE SHOES OF QUALITY MADE IN THIS COUNTRY OR EUROPE.

AGAIN, WE COME AROUND TO THE USA BEING SOLD OUT AND REDUCED TO A SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE NATION WITH LITTLE TO SERVICE BUT OURSELVES AND THAT WHICH WE HAVE BOUGHT(IMPORTED) FROM OTHER NATIONS. MOST OF WHAT IS PURCHASED THESE DAYS HAS BUILT-IN OBSOLESCENCE – OUR CARS ARE COMING TO REFLECT THIS MORE AND MORE. I LIVE IN THE WASHINGTON DC METROPOLITAN AREA AND TO SEE A CAR IN THE RANGE OF TWENTY YEARS OF AGE IS A RARITY. IF I VISIT IN THE SOUTHWESTERN STATES A FORTY YEAR OLD CAR IS NOT OUT OF THE ORDINARY – IN MOST CASES, IT IS LESS EXPENSIVE TO REPLACE OUR APPLIANCES THAN TO REPAIR THEM. THE REASONING BEHIND THAT IS THE PRICE OF LABOR. THE COST OF LIVING IN THE USA IS UNREAL, THIS INCLUDES THE COST OF OWNING AND OPERATING A FACILITY TO REPAIR ANYTHING WE OWN. AT THE TIME OF THIS WRITING, I CAN BUY A NEW COMPUTER FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF SIMPLY REPLACING THE MOTHERBOARD AND CPU OF THIS ONE. THAT IS A SHAME AS I ENJOY DOING SUCH THINGS TO KEEP BUSY.
THE MOST IMPORTANT ITEMS WE HAVE TO SERVICE AND MAINTAIN IN THE USA IS OUR OWN HEALTH. THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM IS A SHAM IN THIS COUNTRY.
I CAN NAME WHAT I FEEL TO BE REASONS – I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT THERE ARE BUT A SELECT FEW PARTIES THAT ACTUALLY CONTROL THE FINANCES OF THE WORLD AND THIS COUNTRY.

1. INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE FIRST IN THIS GROUPING; THINK OF WHAT WE INSURE. LIFE, HEALTH, DENTAL, HOME, CAR, BOAT, BUSINESS AND THE LIST GOES ON ENDLESSLY. WE INSURE EVERYTHING AND SOMEONE IS RAKING IN COUNTLESS FORTUNES DAILY. THE INSURANCE COMPANIES OF THIS COUNTRY RECEIVE MONEY BEFORE ANY OTHER CORPORATION, GOVERNMENT OR OTHER INSTITUTION BECAUSE THEY INSURE THOSE THREE AS WELL. YOUR MONEY IS INSURED BY THE FDIC IN YOUR BANK. SOME INSURANCE COMPANY(S) UNDERWRITE THE FDIC TO ENABLE THEM TO MAKE THIS CLAIM.
2. THE HANDFUL OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES THAT MANUFACTURE AND SELL FORMULARIES TO PHARMACIES AND THE MARKUP OF THE PRICE OF THOSE DRUGS ARE CRIMINAL; YES, CRIMINAL. THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF FORMULARIES MAY BE COSTLY BUT THE CONSUMER’S COST TO PURCHASE THESE DRUGS NEEDN’T BE THE CHOICE OF FOOD OR DRUGS FOR THE WEEK, ESPECIALLY THOSE USED TO CONTROL DIABETES OR HYPERTENSION.
AS IN THE CASE OF A FEE(TOLL) TO CROSS A HUNDREDS YEAR OLD BRIDGE, THE COST OF R&D HAS BEEN GLEANED SEVERAL THOUSANDS OF TIMES OVER BEFORE EVEN PACKAGED FOR DISTRIBUTION. THERE ARE TOLL ROADS IN THIS COUNTRY THAT STILL CHARGE FOR DRIVING ON THE SAME OLD ROAD BED.
3. PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIANS, YOUR DOCTORS, ARE SEEN AS THE EVIL BASTARD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROBLEMS IN THE ENTIRE VICIOUS CIRCLE. A DOCTOR’S FEES MAY SEEM RIDICULOUS BUT WHEN HE AND YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY AGREE ON A FEE SCALE HE MAY ACTUALLY RECEIVE ONE HALF OF THAT RIDICULOUS AMOUNT.
PHYSICIANS FACE INCREDULOUS MALPRACTICE INSURANCE RATES WHICH MAY REFLECT HIS RIDICULOUS FEES. A LOT OF DOCTORS IN MY STATE HAVE CLOSED SHOP AND MOVED ON.

I HAVE STRAYED -I WILL POST FURTHER BLOGS CONCERNING THE ELECTION OF OUR SENATORS/REPRESENTATIVES. WE NEED TO IMPOSE TERM LIMITATIONS UPON THEM IF WE WANT TO RECLAIM “THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS”. IF THIS TASK IS LEFT TO THEM THEY SURELY WON’T DO IT.

BUT…HOW DOES THE PRESIDENT OF MEXICO LOWER HIS OWN AS WELL AS OTHER OFFICIAL’S OF THAT COUNTRY’S SALARIES BY TEN PERCENT?

IF ANY WILL TAKE TIME OUT OF THEIR LETHARGIC LIVES TO WATCH CSPAN RATHER THAN THE SOPRANOS OR AMERICAN IDOL IT WILL BECOME APPARENT THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE FAT AND HAPPY OVERPAID DIMWITS THAT DO LITTLE MORE THAN WHAT A 6TH GRADE SCHOOL TEACHER DOES ON A DAILY BASIS.
THE BAD PART IS OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS WANT TO LEGISLATE TO THOSE 6TH GRADE SCHOOL TEACHERS HOW TO DO THEIR JOBS.
HOW ABOUT TRYING IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND FOR A WHILE?

REMEMBER THAT MILK II WAS MURDERED IN 1968 .