Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Democracy

Everyone claims their own individual freedom rights even to the point of demanding the law throw away the religious moral rights and beliefs of the majority to cater to them. There are an awful lot of people complaining about the state of the economy, yet those same people don’t seem to realize that the basic democratic freedom economy that allows everyone to seek their own path to happiness and profit, without responsibility or concern for others, is what caused all the economic problems currently affecting the US.

If you watch the news you’ll notice the politicians want to either tax the windfall profits of the oil companies or to go after the speculators who they claim are driving oil prices up. The oil companies have made their profits following the rules the politicians put in place. The speculators are only following the market place rules of trading to seek a profit. These same politicians claim they are all for the US democratic system but they now seek to punish those who were following the rules, or lack thereof, that they put in place. The many companies that shuffled so many jobs out of the country are also just following the rules the government put in place, the same as the companies that also put their quick profit above the concerns of the country to sell those mortgages that were designed with the full knowledge that most of them would fail.

Now let us all bow down and worship our countries that cater to individual selfish desires before that of respecting and protecting the country which is all the people, and let us not complain about the results of our worship.

Monday, June 23, 2008

I Need His Control

God has given me
My life many times
When I needed it
He’d come through

The right thought
And required acrobatics
To keep me alive
He’s had me dance

I gave Him my body
When just a young child
Then held on to it
To keep Satan out

He has saved me from me
Removing many temptations
I could have hurt many
If He didn’t hold me well

I have some awareness now
Some knowledge to offer up
Yet I still beg for His control
So I can be with my God

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Get Out of My Way

Some people use any excuse to be rude
No social rules or common courtesy for them
They’ll do what they please and we better beware
I’m coming through get out of my way

Some use their wheelchairs as their excuse
They’ll deliberately bump people or get in the way
And if you complain you’re being mean
I’m in a wheelchair get out of my way

I know a blind person who likes to whack people
And if you complain will say but I’m blind
He can see enough to know someone is there
But his attitude is I’m blind get out of my way

Some use babies in strollers as their excuse
Even shoving them out to stop vehicle traffic
They’ll block people’s way or plow through the crowds
I’ve got a child get out of my way

If someone is rude they’ll seek any excuse
Using whatever props to claim it’s okay
And if they’ve got their excuse you shouldn’t complain
I don’t care about you get out of my way

Friday, June 20, 2008

Carbon Tax Foolishness

What a foolish way to pretend to promote alternative clean energy sources. The cost of energy is sky high and some people want to up that cost under the guise that this will stimulate the switch to other energy sources. Duh, you can’t act in a manner that threatens to cripple the economy and expect money will flow into the technologies you want. And saying you won’t do anything until all the countries of the world agree to act together just proves you don’t want to do anything or that you are extremely naive about international politics. Doing it ourselves and proving it works will make other countries want to do the same thing and would give us a trade advantage over them because we would already be there while they would be just starting out.

First you promote the growth of the needed new energy sources and then when they come online sufficiently well enough you warn the public in advance, for example 5 years in advance, that the taxes on the old fossil fuels will jump substantially. This allows the people to choose to buy the newer products, like buying hydrogen fueled vehicles and signing on with wind and solar electrical generating companies to receive their energy needs, or to continue to buy the old gas guzzlers and staying with the companies that use fossil fuels to create electricity with the full knowledge of the high price consequences that will result from their staying with dirty burning fossil fuel sources. That will then give an added boost to the already established newer clean energy producing product companies, and an additional incentive for new startup companies to emerge, which will reduce prices further and improve efficiencies as they gear up for an even greater production demand.

The main thing preventing hydrogen fueled vehicles from selling on mass to reduce their current high cost and promote us into the cleaner hydrogen economy is the fact that the majority of us cannot afford to, nor will we choose to, buy a vehicle that we cannot refuel no matter where we choose to drive it. The politicians need to promote the installation of hydrogen refueling stations across the continent. Once there are a reasonable number of stations throughout the country then the politicians will need to give assistance to local manufactures that want to build our hydrogen powered vehicles here and to companies and individuals who wish to be among the first to buy these new products at the beginning while the production starts ramping up and the unit costs are higher.

The politicians also need to strongly promote the building and installation of wind and solar generators across the continent. There are other clean electrical producing technologies that should be promoted with tax incentives too. The more electrical production we have the easier it will be to supply the hydrogen needs to move to the hydrogen economy. Directed tax breaks to clean power source companies and their products, and the directed removal of tax breaks to fossil fuel providers, is part of the way to begin the process.

When the politicians recently spent the $160 billion on the so-called economic stimulus package I believe they said it was about 1% of the US tax base. A country should spend some of the money they demand from their citizens on the country. Can you imagine what would have happened if the politicians had said to the US public that they have set aside $160 billion dollars to refund 100%, or even only 75% or so, of the full purchase and installation costs of wind and solar electrical generators upon them becoming operational? Companies would have immediately ramped up production, and other people would have begun new companies, and they would have instantly started hiring people to do the manufacturing, selling, training, installation and servicing. Instead of first borrowing the money and then hoping something good happens after you scatter it around foolishly, the money would have had to have been spent first and would have already acted to stimulate the US economy before any of it was refunded. Requiring the operational installation aspect would have ensured the bulk of the money would have been spent on stimulating the economy of the US, instead of stimulating the Chinese economy by borrowing money from them so the refund rebates could then be spent to buy more Chinese manufactured products (Walmart type purchases).

The world’s governments have supported the fossil fuel economy long enough. The problem was that electricity and combustion came online around the same time and gas power had the advantage of more quickly accessing the power and more mobility using the technology of the day. Now that we have so much more knowledge our leaders should be acting to direct us along the intelligent path instead of continuing to promote this insanity. Casually poisoning our water and the air we breathe is race insanity. When we grow up as children we learn things and change our ways to accommodate our new understanding so we can progress positively through life, like learning how to walk, talk, look both ways before crossing the road, ride a bike, etc. Why do we stop this intelligent way of progressing through life once we become adults? It is time to take our learning and apply it to progress to a positive future for us all and, if we truly do love our children, to a positive future for all our children’s future generations as well.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Customer Respect

Whatever happened to simple customer respect
Like moving aside to let the customer through
There are so many today who’ll come right at you
They won’t give way and think it’s you who should move

There are still people who’ll show others respect
But there are far too many who don’t have a clue
For someone raised proper it’s automatic
But bosses can also encourage this trait

There are too many people with the wrong attitude
Their basis belief is that the world should give way
They are more important than anyone else
So get out of the way they’re coming through

Why do their bosses pay so little attention
Have they not received any training or instructions
Are all these people simply incapable of thought
They wouldn’t want others treating them that way

When they’re out shopping they’ll expect respect
But when they’re working it’s get out of my way
They don’t even notice the people around them
And frequently back into or bump into others

They’re dangerous when swinging a broom or a mop
And if they’re carrying or pushing something look out
What an amazing world these people live in
Where the rest of us only exist during times when they need us

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Summer Fun

What joys a child in the country may have
Hiking, exploring, or just wandering about
With the curiosity of youth they’ll cover many a mile
And there’s always the adventures they’ll stop to play out

A broken down shed that may have been home to a trapper
Or maybe a prospector who was searching for gold
A rope tied to a tree branch and suddenly you’re Tarzan
Or making a bow then you’re an Indian hunting

You’re the hero out looking to save the young woman
That villain who kidnapped her is around here somewhere
Or kill the big dragon and rescue the damsel
The king will then knight me and I’ll be a hero

Look it’s a beaver pond so let’s make a raft
I’ll be Huck Finn and you are Tom Sawyer
We’ll pole around the pond enjoying our stay
What glorious luck we found this wonderful place

Without packing a lunch they’ll seldom go hungry
For all summer long there are berries to find
And if when running and playing they come upon some
Then it’s time for a feast that sates hunger and thirst

A child in the country doesn’t need lots of money
He doesn’t need theaters or coin-sucking arcades
His imagination is plenty out there in the woods
And if boredom does strike there’s always fishing and swimming

Friday, June 13, 2008

Salmonella Tomato Poisoning

The first poisonings began in April according to the data I heard on the news tonight. The US FDA says that the bulk of tomatoes sold in the US during April and May come from Florida and Mexico, yet they still do not know where the outbreak originated as of this date of June 13th. It seems there is no tracking method to make it easier for them to do their job.

I don’t know about in the US but here in Canada we have these little stickers on our individual fruit for the connivance of the stores in identifying the product brand so they will charge the correct price. I think it would be a good idea to require all single fruits and vegetables to have those stickers, and for those stickers to also identify the original source supplier of the product. Bagged products can have the data too if they don’t already. I think this would make tracking any outbreaks of salmonella and other bacteria back to their source a lot easier. In my opinion it is an inexpensive and simple solution that the politicians can require be done to help in protecting our food sources and it can be expanded beyond just fruit and vegetables.

This is just another thought from this poet fellow who likes to offer up solutions to try to make our world just a little bit better.

Just to block one of the excuses of the excuse makers who are always looking for excuses instead of solutions, I now offer up the fact that we have the technology to put a lot of data on small sources and the equipment to read that data as well. And please don’t whine that it will cost the poor farmer too much because that is just another phony excuse to do nothing as I am quite sure the people would be willing to pay the cost increase that will probably be in the neighbourhood of as much as 1/10th of a cent per item to know their food supply is safer.

If you think this is a good idea please get involved and communicate it to your politicians so it might be considered and hopefully acted upon, after all it’s your family’s health that is at stake.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Your Life's Value

What are you worth
How you value your life
Or even just your comforts
Are you worth more then others

Will you sacrifice the weakest
Simply for your convenience
And in case you might live better
Promote killing even the unborn

Are your pleasures worth anything
No matter how many must suffer
And will you poison all future generations
Claiming your need for nuclear and oil

Satan rules over the Earth now
Spewing his lies to give us excuses
He loves when we choose his ways
Catering to everything evil and vile

But God made us the same
None better than another
And even under Satan’s rule
We still have God’s given free choice of will

America is Lost

America was built and became great by exercising God’s principles, but now the US has thrown away those principles. All things contrary to God’s ways are promoted by the politicians and the courts. The whole community used to come together to help their fellow citizens, like in gathering together for home and barn building events or to bring in the crops of anyone in need. They used to act like family as the whole community raised all the children and were not afraid to rebuke them when they were wrong. But today it is all about catering only to the selfish me because I have the right to seek all my pleasures above the rights or concerns of everyone else.

The citizens who demand the country’s legal rights are destroying the country that has given them those rights and freedoms. People from other countries come to America and then demand the country change its laws to cater to their ways because they are a minority who should have special protections and considerations that should trump the rights of all the rest of the people that make up the country. Lies and deceit are used to promote black pride as not being racism, even though white pride is recognized as the racism it is, which further divides brother against brother. Loud minorities demand we should throw away the values of the majority to cater to them including changing the meaning of family and marriage because they say we should not discriminate against them, yet their demand is that the majority be discriminated against in their family and religious values to cater to them. Instead of concentrating on our commonalities we seek only to promote our differences. Instead of a melting pot to common unity, every difference among the people is promoted. Discrimination to separate us out from each other is encouraged instead of concentrating on our commonalities to strengthen and protect our communities. We are not promoting one people indivisible under God.

America is lost. The US is actively engaged in its own destruction. Abiding by God’s principles allowed the US to become a great country and gave the people the freedoms they now have. Throwing away those principles to cater to individual selfish greed is causing the country to fail. Man made legalese deceit and pretense is the force shaping America today. Look around you at all the threats to the US and the world. Bowing down to the democracy and capitalist gods is destroying families, communities, countries and the planet as a whole. I have my democratic and capitalistic rights to seek all my pleasures and profits regardless of whether it causes large numbers of people to suffer or even to eventually die is the religion they follow. This is their freedom guaranteed by our democracy they say. Individual freedom without responsibility is the path America promotes today.

We are not acting like a people unified under a common purpose to promote a better life for us all but are instead acting like greedy selfish individuals. God warned us that if we leave his path to follow our carnal desires then we will fail, but God has no place in America today so we will continue to blindly do as we please right up until the end.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Judge Properly

Don’t you dare judge me
You don’t have the right
God said to not judge people
So you shouldn’t be judging me

I can do anything I please
No matter what you think
And you can’t say anything
Or you are wrongly judging me

Satan loves this foolish babble
Like anytime we won’t think
He loves to twist God’s words
To his benefit against man and God

But the bible demands we judge
To distinguish between right and wrong
All people’s words and actions
We are commanded to properly judge

How can we speak against evil
If we are to not judge anything
Can we choose to promote God’s ways
If we refuse to judge differences

God is the only judge of souls
And this He will properly do
But we are commanded to judge too
But only people’s actions and words

Thursday, June 5, 2008

The Mortgage Crisis

No one should be stunned that the mortgage crisis is continuing. The banks have been selling sub prime mortgages for years, not just the past few months that they have been switching to their higher rates that are causing the failures, so those mortgages will continue to kick into their higher interest rates for years to come to continue the defaults. Add in the fact that those defaults affect the values of properties around them which will continue to push other people into just walking away from their homes. Add in that so many good paying jobs are being exported to countries like China and India so a lot of us locals can no longer afford to make our mortgage payments with our lesser paying jobs when in all likelihood our home is not worth the mortgage we hold on it anyway. Add that all these job losses causes a reduction of local spending which results in even more local people being laid off which increases the competition for the fewer available jobs and you get a continuing cascading effect from all these forces. Now add in the job losses associated by the high cost of gas and oil that affects the costs of all products to this mess and you have another factor that will ensure this will continue for a long time. Let’s include the foolish use of food crops to be converted to fuel to burn which will add additional costs to everyone’s food that is already going up because of higher fuel costs anyway, and that also adds to the worldwide loss of available food to feed us people of the world. These are but a few of the many factors that will continue to drag down the US economy and threaten the future of the country.

Politicians can only see as far as the next election and for the most part haven’t any training in any field that would help them to understand anything other then how to babble deceit to get reelected to continue feeding off the public trough while pretending they are superior to the people who are the country. They have been kissing the backside of special interest groups for years to get their funding to run their next election campaign, and many of them are always engaged only in electioneering during their full time in office. Consider the large number of lawyers who are politicians and how their trade is exactly the same which is the babble of deceit to confuse the issue to win regardless of the costs to others or to the country as a whole. It is always only about them.

So long as we worship unbridled democracy and capitalism instead of God we can only expect more of the same. When you see something is not working right and continue to ignore it instead of fixing it then only blind fools will expect things will somehow change for the better. If our vehicle brakes don’t work right do we ignore it and expect things will get better? God gave us an excellent brain and it only makes sense to use it. We should not continue to encourage the lowest worldwide found rules to regulate business because it is proven that a lack of concern for life and our environment is the result. The wealthy and companies should not be allowed to continue the casual destruction of our world and people’s lives just because they are called businessmen and capitalists. Catering to selfish greed has proven to be a failure so it is time for frameworks to be designed for people and companies to work within, something that maybe we’ll choose to call governing.