Facts (and other meaningless stuff)

I have been assimilated. Resistance was futile. Not that I offered any, I jumped in, hell, Ibellyflopped into the whole Internet thing. Today, I was unplugged. I have some understanding of what a Borg Drone feels like who is deprived of connection to the hive. It is psychologically and physically painful. For about 6 hours or so I have been screaming inside. I was watching Rachel, and because I was unable to connect and respond, even if not a single person heard or read or cared, I had decided to retreat to the bedroom with Dean Koontz and try to go to sleep. That is is my usual reaction when depression is coming on. A working computer and Internet connection is as much a medically needed healthcare device for me as are the heart pills and the insulin.

I still like things on television but the difference is that TV is an unopenable, bulletproof, soundproof window on the world, whereas the Internet is a window one can fling wide and yell at all those out there doing stuff...participation, if only vicariously. Ironic, since earlier I had a conversation with a friend about how what we do when we blog and exchange links and messages, is essentially mental masturbation, typically without even the payoff. It is. At least in large part. Still, some of us need that masturbation greatly. Apparently, the reason for the temporary disconnect here from the Internet (AT&T is our IP) had to do with the rough weather passing through the Southeast today.

Now we have the green light again...literally the green light on the modem under "INTERNET". So, here we go. Ah hell, wouldn't ya know it...performance anxiety. Geez. I'll go harvest my eggplants and be back. Y'all have a drink, talk among yerselves...

Oh yeah...we were doin' a circlej right? Damn Alzheimer's. Well, there's so much crap going on right now you could just about pull any volume of the encyclopedia off the shelf (if anyone still had those), open a page at random and be at current events. Let's talk about facts a minute, ok? Personally, I have a huge respect for and desire for truth. I might not like it worth a damn, but many years back I coined the motto, "I would rather hear the single worst truth in the universe than ten thousand beautiful lies". I think when folks deny facts that are facts, it makes them look retarded beyond redemption. I don't always necessarily think a fact is really relevant, but I don't say it ain't a fact. Here's an example: It is often put forward as fact that "seat belts save lives", meaning that the mandatory wearing of seat belts saves lives. I don't know for certain if this is fact or not, but I will concede at the outset that it may well be. I only argue, on this one, that I don't give a crap whether wearing seat belts saves lives or not; this fact, if it is indeed a fact, is irrelevant to me. The point I make in fighting it is that it takes from me my right to decide whether I will or will not wear one in my own vehicle, AND it harms no one else in any way if I do not.

Here's another example of what I'm talking about. Hardcase and many others rail about a proposal in "Obamacare", usually referred to as the individual mandate, forcing people to buy health insurance whether they like it or not. Although this has been written about for three years or so, here's one of the latest articles I found from the right wing on that: Democrats are forcing people to buy health insurance. There is NO mention of being jailed for failure to comply, as far as I know. There is a fine for refusing to comply. Nor is it even remotely true that poor people who cannot afford to buy insurance would either be fined or jailed, as some nutjobs would have you believe. Such persons would be covered by something akin to Medicare. Here's the gist of that. It is a fact that, sooner or later, every citizen, without exception, is going to need medical care of some kind. There is virtually zero chance of "opting out" of this, since it costs money (someone has to pay) even to die. Even if you kill yourself with a bullet to the head, expenses are incurred, including police, various medical personnel, etc. The idea is that every person, even if they require help from the government, should pay some share of the total expense, since there are no persons who can get out of having medical care, wanted or not, alive or dead, unless you somehow simply vanish.

This makes sense to me. I don't worry about the "being forced" part because I know I don't have money in the first place. It is true that in the US, emergency rooms are required by law to treat people who present there.

"The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a U.S. Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). It requires hospitals and ambulance services to provide care to anyone needing emergency healthcare treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. There are no reimbursement provisions..." Source.

But while you can get temporary emergency care, you cannot get ongoing care for any kind of chronic conditions, nor any sort of preventive care, nor any medications aside from what is actually dispensed in the ER. The ER might help you if you are having a heart attack, but it cannot help you if you have an enlarged heart, or clogged arteries, or any of the other things that may be leading to a heart attack unless your life is in direct imminent danger. It cannot help you with a myriad of conditions...this leaves you to buy your own insurance if you have sufficient money and IF the insurance companies will sell it to you at all (your condition may be "pre-existing"); or they may well sell you insurance and then claim your problem isn't covered when you need it. If you have no money to buy insurance in this scenario, you are simply screwed as far as non-emergency healthcare. These are the REAL death panels that actually exist in the current set-up. The "individual mandate" assures that ALL are covered one way or the other.
Under the Affordable Care Act policies set to be in place by 2014, about 129 million Americans can receive health coverage despite their previous conditions.

Let's compare this health insurance thing with mandatory car insurance. This article from 2009 argues that you can't really compare them. I disagree. Read that and then mine and see what you think. That article argues that not even all licensed drivers are required to have car insurance (unless you plan to drive) and that driving is a privilege. I say horse shit. I say in current American society driving is as much a fundamental human right as is food and medical care; that a great many people, especially in rural and suburban areas, and even some in cities, cannot maintain their livelihood and standard of living without being able to drive themselves to work, to stores, doctors, etc. Yet there is no provision in the mandatory car insurance program which helps poor people to have car insurance. You either pay yourself or you don't have it. THIS, not the health insurance is an outright attack upon the poor.

Ain't facts fun? Let's see some more. There are also "leftist" propaganda pieces too. Here's one I just lifted from Allah's blog called White Privilege. Here's the video and the link for it...hopefully you can see it.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhA5yGj42eclUn99k6

In case you couldn't see it, it's a bit from the ABC show What Would You Do? This one shows the different reactions of people to first, a white kid who seems to be stealing a bike (hacksaw, etc.) and later, a black kid of about the same age, dress, etc., trying to steal the same bike. The gist is that folks are much quicker to confront the black kid and call the cops than the white kid. Here's why I call call it leftist horse shit propaganda, of the 'oh what terribly racist people these are; can't we all just sing kumbaya and get along'.

First, all the folks reacted that same way, including the black ladies who came walking by. Second, it is statistically much more likely that the black kid might be trying to steal someone else's bike, and most folk know that, including black folk. How much more likely? How's this...
The US Census Bureau says that, in 2009, the group "Black or African American alone" comprised 38.1 million, or 12.4% of the total population, which they give as 307 million. Source.

Second, according to Table 43 of the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), in 2009, 69.1 percent of all individuals arrested were white, 28.3 percent were black, and 2.6 percent were of other races. Source.

You can check my math and tell me if I'm wrong but if "Black or African American alone" comprises only 12.4% of the population but 28.3% of all arrests, by George, that looks to me like the black kid is about two and a half times more likely to be trying to steal the bike.

Damn, it's good be connected again. Y'all come back now, yaheah.

TRB

Slavery...we need it.

I piqued the curiosity of at least a couple of people at the end of last blog by mentioning that my next blog would explain why a society can't be great without slavery. I promise I'll get to it. But I've had a touch o' the olde rum & cola, so I may meander a bit. (Holy crap, Marge, he's meandering!) I just want to reiterate (see, even with the rum I can spell reiterate) how amazing it is to me that so few people seem to grasp what dead means. I have even actually read, very recently, someone saying we (humans) are not animals. *sigh* With this level of intellectual foundation how can we ever survive? Oh brother. Look peeps, I know most of you have actual lives in which you do things in the real (3-D) world, like work or party with friends, or travel, etc. But c'mon. This ain't rocket science. This is fundamental (it don't get no fundamentaler) basic intelligence... dead is the opposite of alive.

I recently came across this; A Reasonable Argument for God's Existence. I'm really and truly sorry if anyone finds it offensive, but this is about as stupid an article as I have read. I don't think it could get much more insane than this (unless you go on to include violence and murder, like cutting off your daughter's head in an 'honor killing'). Of course, I don't blame the good Rabbi, any more than I would blame any schizophrenic or other mentally disabled person. He can't help it. It's simply the way his brain is. It would be as stupid to castigate him for this as it would to scream at Christopher Reeve to "Get over it and get up!" (Yeah I know Christopher died already.) But we simply must, as a species, develop treatments for this kind of mental disorder (along with treatments that would allow people like Christopher to get up and walk again). To speak of "respect" for this kind of thinking is almost as insane as that kind of thinking. Should we all "respect" a feller who thinks he is George Washington, the Father of our Country, come back to check on our progress...because..... 'maybe he is'?

The thing is this; not all people can run a marathon...not all people have the ability to climb Mt. Everest...not all people have the mental and psychological capacity to grasp that belief in the supernatural is idiocy. That doesn't mean that marathons can't be run, Everest can't be climbed or the real world can't be understood. The truth is that relatively few people are qualified to operate a brain. You can't operate one until you understand the basics of how it works. You sure as hell can't understand one until you understand that it produces you and you can't exist without it (or at least some kind of brain)... or that it does all kinds of things and only informs you of it later, if at all. So... if it is socially acceptable (and obviously it is) to say, "Sorry, I can't go skiing now, I have a broken leg", it should be equally socially acceptable to say,"Sorry, I can't deal with mental concepts of that order right now.") Thinking that "I am the captain of my own ship, the master of my destiny", makes about as much sense as thinking, "A MAN never puts up curtains to make the room prettier".

You know how many corrections it takes to make a thing readable when you've had a touch o' the rum? Windows pop up that I've never seen before. Ha!

Anyway, on with the slaves. This is not to say a society can't function without them, but that it always functions much better with them. You need someone to do the brute work, the nasty shit that most people don't want to do, but is necessary, like digging in the ground, taking care of human waste, etc. Every society humans have ever made, as far back as ancient Sumeria, has had slaves. Naturally, life never was so hot for the individuals who were the slaves (but it wasn't necessarily horrific either), but it was much cooler for everyone else. We've always had other animals as slaves (horses, oxen, etc.) and usually some amount of humans as slaves for the stuff that other animals didn't have enough brains to do.

But... for a couple of centuries or so, we have figured out how to have slaves that are neither human nor other animal (even though the slavery of those still persists too). We have machinery. Most people probably don't think of "machines" as slaves. but that is precisely what they are. We have cars, trains, airplanes, elevators, and thousands of other pieces of 'machinery' that do all kinds of work for us that few, if any, humans could do at all. But, for the most part, all these 'artificial' slaves have had a common limitation...they need a human to 'operate' them. That time is coming to a close.

We are rapidly becoming able to make slaves (machines) that DO have the brains to do work, that previously, only other humans could do. The entire purpose of having slaves is so that the masters (that would be us) can live much better without working so hard. There are humans, perhaps even most, who are so indoctrinated with dogmas of the past that they cannot see the beauty of 'machine' slaves. Those who actually take pride in 'working hard'. Without, apparently, even realizing it is another way of saying they take great pride in being a very good slave. This is not at all the same as taking pride in one's creative abilities...making art or writing poetry or creating architecture, etc. The difference is, in creating for its own sake, for the sake of expressing ones self, of giving to the society or culture, as opposed to doing things for the purposes of "making money" and enriching the already rich. I can think of nothing more institutionally immoral than the the idea that that there are 'rich people' and 'poor people'.

That the fundamentals of human life...food, water, housing, clothing, transportation, medical care, etc. should be subject to 'cost', in the monetary sense, is as insane to me as believing in supernatural things. It is only so because a small percentage of humans have successfully brainwashed the majority that this is necessary and right... that one must EARN one's 'living' "by the sweat of his brow" as it was expressed in ancient times (never mind that THEY do not do so, but 'earn' their living by the sweat of YOUR brow). How quaint, provincial, parochial...and downright primitive!

Our world is changing. We should learn to get away from the notions of 'we need jobs' and/or money. No. We do not. We need many things; energy, food, etc., and those things are abundant. Most people still think of energy as = fossil fuels. It does not. That big light you usually see in the sky every day...? That is a million times bigger than the entire earth and everything on it. It is absolutely and utterly impossible for there to be such a thing as an "energy crisis". Except that such things are manufactured and sold to you in the same way that ipads are. In 2002, the solar energy absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, oceans and land mass was approximately 3,850,000 exajoules... more energy in one hour than the human world used in a year. Source. Yeah, tell me again, how there is an 'energy crisis'.

The 'crisis' is in the the way most humans do a thing for the purpose of 'making money' and recreating the illusion of being 'in control' rather than for the benefit of humanity... an entirely artificial and man-made structure designed to exploit the labor of masses of humans for the benefit of a relative few... human slavery. For a few humans, 'making money' is very easy and the purpose is to enable them to play a vast game of 'monopoly' with the actual lives and social programs of real people. For the rest, it is an artificial barrier constructed between you and what should be the normal benefits and necessities of being a human, designed to further enhance the ability of the others to play their monopoly games... with you as simply a movable piece in the game.

The fact is that a great many, maybe most, of the 'jobs', that formerly existed, will never, ever come back. Many of the manufacturers have seen that one robotic unit can produce the same amount of salable goods as a dozen or a hundred humans, and it will never complain about working conditions, salary, sick days, etc. They have discovered the benefits of slavery...with slaves far more productive, compliant and efficient than any human or other animal. This will NOT stop... ever. It will increase exponentially. This is a very good thing. You need to understand that you do not need a job...or money. You need to be able to live your life (hopefully thousands of years of it, if you choose, [obviously at the peak of heath]). You need to depose or dispatch those who would make YOU a slave to their monopoly game. You need to embrace the real slavery of 'non-human' or 'non-organic' slaves for the purpose of allowing human life to be what it can be.... a wonderful existence in which your primary concern is to live your life to the fullest, to experience all that there is in life to experience, to learn, to grow, to develop, to explore the entire universe, rather than be confined to one tiny planet (how silly).

Are the (mis)adventures of Charlie Sheen and Moamar Gadaffi really sufficient for you? Would it not be grander to learn what other forms of life have acquired 'sentience' on other worlds? Ooohhh, there are plans for a 'million woman march' in Egypt...wonder if they will all be nekkid? HA! Now THERE's expression, lol...

UPDATE: Turns out only a few hundred showed up, none were nekkid, I don't recall even seeing anyone's hair...on their head even! *sigh* I think they gotta lot to learn about marching.

So...whaddaya think? More of the rum-soaked slatherings, or strictly sober "he said/she said" blogs? Is that a pickled skewed choice?

TRB

Class War

It appears that a great many people across the world are beginning to actually understand that they are indeed in a war...what is usually called 'class warfare'. Unfortunately, many people also like to sit in blissful ignorance or denial of the facts, refusing to accept that the Titanic can sink until they realize they cannot breathe because they are under water. It is not a matter of Democrats versus Republicans, or even of conservatives against liberals, though that is closer. It is not a state thing or a national thing, it is a global thing. The truth is that all of us are always in several wars at all times. Most of us become very complacent because in our personal lives, they very seldom devolve into actual physical violence, shooting and dying. We see it happen in other places and the stock response is, "But that could never happen here". WE are special, WE are Americans, WE have the greatest empire the planet has ever seen, WE have the world's greatest constitution to protect us.

We see signs around us. Today, we went to Kroger for gas. With the 3-cent-per gallon discount (with our Kroger card), our price was $3.22. Went next door to the Chinese Buffet for lunch. Before we finished lunch the price at the Kroger pumps across the driveway had moved up by 11 cents per gallon. When fossil fuel prices begin to rise, the prices of EVERYTHING rises, because there is very little in the world that does not use petroleum products in some form to make it, package it and transport it.

Peak Oil is a phenomenon that has occurred or is occurring right now on a global scale. The phrase means essentially, that the maximum amount of oil that it is possible to get out of the ground per day has been reached or passed. You can find several links which say something about "peak oil debunked". Note the source of those writings, and phrases like "...blows Al Gore's climate change scam out the window showing the fallacy of the concept of 'global warming'".

This doesn't mean, of course, that tomorrow the world will come to a screeching halt for lack of fossil fuels. Nor will the world come to a screeching halt in ten years because of this. It does mean that gradually, gas and everything else associated with fossil fuels will become more and more scarce, more and more expensive. There are wars going on as you read this, prompted in part by a desire to control countries and regions which have the most oil and coal and natural gas. The wars will increase. The poor will continue getting much poorer much quicker. There will be massive loss of human lives due to 'simple' poverty (as though the approximately 20,000 deaths every day that come because of this is not 'massive'. It is not by comparison to what is coming. Global Food Prices Hit Record Highs

Aside from oil or 'black gold', there is also 'blue gold'...water. A little over ten years ago in Bolivia this class warfare did devolve into shooting and dying, when the Bechtel Corporation tried to privatize the water supply and charge people to get what was already theirs in the first place. It was a case of the haves trying to make sure the have nots, have less. It always is.

As you read, there is much wrangling going on in the northern states and parts of Canada about the fresh water of the Great Lakes...and who gets it. Do you know who Dick Armey is? Consider this quote:

"As former Congressional leader Dick Armey of Texas warned in 2000, thirsty and growing states will surely come after Great Lakes water, 'We're not going to be buying it. We're going to be stealing it.'" Source. This from a 'Congressional leader'. Heh.

There is continual pushing from the puppet governor of Wisconsin, his controllers, and some other mostly Republican governments (Ohio Senate Passes Anti-Union Bill). It remains to be seen how that will end but, Gov. Walker Orders Arrest of Missing Wisconsin Democrats and, "In related news, 11 rounds of 22-caliber live ammo were found outside the Wisconsin Capitol building today."

One other major problem is media's tendency to be misleading. These links I have here are from Slate.com. In the same issue, along with the Wisconsin story and the Ohio story, as though it were of equal import and validity to the public is Justin Beiber's Hair Sells for $40,668 on eBay. To many people, this story and dozens like it ARE of more importance and interest than the others. This is one of the things that happens when journalism is as based upon capitalism and politics as any other endeavor.

If you are over about 30 years old, the world you live in for the next 30 years will probably be hugely different from the one you used to know. There will be good things and bad. How good or bad for you will depend partly on your ability and willingness to learn and adapt.

Another of America's 'mini-shuttles' will launch tomorrow. Did you know about those? The details of the cargo to be carried into space are classified, but I suspect it has something to do with the latest class of weapons being prepared and deployed...namely, DEWs or Directed Energy Weapons. Many of these have been in development for at least 15 years, some longer. There are several kinds; lasers, masers, particle beams, microwave, ElectroMangnetic Pulse (EMP), etc. These are no longer science fiction or theoretical but are deployed and used on the ground (and in space) right now. One of the things an EMP weapon can do might be, in some ways, more devastating that a nuclear weapon, at least for a very high-tech society. This weaponry is such that it can instantly and permanently fry any and all devices which have a computer chip in them. How many devices can you thing of that you have, or that your town has, which would cease to function if such a weapon were used? Do you doubt that China and Russia and maybe a few other nations will also have such capacity?
The phasers are here and very real, and about a century ahead of schedule...but you can't have one - yet. Did you think the writers of the Terminator movies simply made up Skynet? No, it too is very real, the writers just exaggerated, or... extrapolated until about 20 years from now.

Of course not all is gloom and doom conspiracy theories... oh wait, those pics aren't theories. Anyway, it is obvious that technology can be hugely beneficial. Consider...a 2-inch cube that can do even more than a cell phone tower can do, and do if for much less energy. Check it out. The question is, as always, what kind of mindset will dominate the use of such technologies. Will those people who think such things should be used for the betterment of human life and the world we live in...or will only the greedy and those who lust for power use them to consolidate their power to the point where they are quite literally impregnable, and the rest of humanity - whatever remnants may be left - is reverted to serfs and slaves? By the way, slavery is absolutely essential for the existence of a civilized society...see next blog.

TRB

Right Wing

Have you exercised your "right wing" today? If not, how can you be sure you're not flying in circles? Seriously, if you read a couple of articles on any given issue of the day; the union protesters in Wisconsin, Obama's position on DOMA - or Lybia - in a left publication like The Huffington Post and then read a couple of articles on the same subjects in any of these, it's sometimes hard to believe these people are talking about the same things at all. Why is that? Do you understand? Do you WANT to understand? In the interest of helping some o' youse peeps maybe not be so one-sided in yer views...

American Daily Review

If you learn and retain no other fact about socialism, learn and retain this: to the marxist/socialist/communist, government is the source of all good, virtue, and provision. The godlike State is all to this ideology. Everything de peepul have comes from government. "Without government," to dutifully twist the old Dow Chemical slogan, "life itself would be impossible."


This is why lefties condemn the private sector (the "bourgeoisie" in Marxist nomenclature, aka the middle class, aka Us, The People) as evil. Since the State is god in their worldview, anybody that pursues his own economic interests apart from it is by definition a heretic, an ingrate, and a thief stealing from the government cornucopia and corrupting the proletariat like a wicket pied piper. And since the private sector is villainous by definition, the notion of it ruthlessly exploting[sic] and plundering the "poor" it's lured away from "righteousness" is inevitable. Source.

American Thinker

The Cato Institute

Free Republic

Human Events

Reason.com

Redstate

The American Spectator

The Atheist Conservative

The Heritage Foundation

The National Review

The New American

Townhall

A Conservative Personality Test

Let's take that "universal constants" thing... that is, the assertion that if even one of the many variables of physics were only slightly different, humans would not exist. One response to that is, "AHA! This proves the universe was deliberately designed by a creator who intentionally put us here."
Another response to that is, "Well, duh! That proves that humans as we know them are one possible result of all those constants being what they are."

Which is closer to your view?

More importantly...why?

TRB

American Dream?

Not long ago I watched a documentary about how the "housing market crisis" has affected Britain. In it a man is quite upset that he has lost his house, he is being foreclosed on and must move all his possessions out o the house immediately. If he does not, the bank will move them out and charge him for doing so. Because he has so little money and must move so quickly, he will be forced to discard a lot of stuff that he would not otherwise. The way he kept referring to "my house" brought home a sad truth to me that is so glaringly obvious, yet so clouded over, that relatively few people seem to actually, truly understand it...unless they happen to have to learn the hard way. That truth is this: If you do not have the title or deed to a house, and if you are making payments on it, IT IS NOT YOUR HOUSE!

Think about it for a moment...under what circumstances could a private business, using the force of law, evict you out of your own home?

Whatever the "American Dream" is, a major pillar of it has always been "to own your own home". Why? Somewhere in the 1980's, Philis (my wife at the time) and I "bought our own home". It was a nice new home on a cul de sac in a "housing development". It was only a quarter-acre lot but I was proud of it and lay out where I wanted the garden to be, behind the house; watched most of the construction of the house. It sure had that "new house smell".

I forget now what my employment was then, but most of the payments would come from Philis's disability check. In fact, that was one thing that made us feel a little more secure about the whole thing - that her guaranteed income was even better than a regular job income, since I might possibly get fired or lose my job. After I think about a year or so, maybe two, a letter arrived which changed all that. Her disability income, it said, was "up for review" and would be suspended pending a hearing. No house payments possible. We lost "our house". We both cried profusely. Luckily, her mother had a house that her father had left to Philis to be used whenever she needed, and I, as hubby, got dragged along.

When the dust and tears settled a bit I began to realize that as much as that hurt, I was still somewhat relieved. It was to be a 30-year mortgage. It almost felt as though I had dodged a bullet in being snatched out of that decades-long enlistment. I had not liked the whole deal from the start; we were to pay $40,000 for the house plus $60,000 for the interest, over that thirty years. Sure there was conflict inside me lucked out of that slavery contract but a MAN is supposed to provide for his family and I felt about a half inch tall. In any case, it was abundantly clear that it was not OUR house. Nor, I realized, would it have been any different if we had paid 29 years and then been unable to pay. And that would have hurt a great deal more.

One of the "selling points" I always heard about buying a house is, "Why pay all that money in rent to make someone else rich and you still never own the house?" I don't recall hearing a corollary of "Why pay all that interest to make a banker richer and still might never own the house?" Sadly, most people seem to think that "buying" a house equals owning a house. It does not. Further, even if you do manage to actually acquire the deed to the house, it is still possible to lose it in various ways. Imminent domain might be invoked. The upkeep and taxes may become more than you can manage. In my opinion, unless you are very wealthy and have every reason to think you always will be (you can easily pay cash for a house), it is just goofy to volunteer for decades of slavery under the guise of "freedom".

I have become so disabused of the notion of "owning a home" that, were I to (somehow) have a high income and good credit and be able to buy a fine home, I surely would not. Even if I won a lottery and could pay cash for a home, I would consider that long and hard before doing it. I have come to detest the notion of "having good credit" because it smacks, to me, of being stood upon a stump and pronounced "good stock" as with a man at a slave auction.

TRB

Amazing

In trying to gain some understanding of the conservative mindset, I went looking for comments by them. The following is a comment I found here...http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110222/ap_on_re_us/us_census_dying_counties





If you include every American who receives their living directly from the American Government (the People) you reach a staggering sum. If you include everyone (i.e. postal workers, politicians, dept. of transportation workers, military, and so on) currently approximately 35% of the American Population is being supported by the People....

When the Federal Government (the People) can no longer support the permanent welfare class and the vast multitude of government employees, these people who received their livelihood from the People will riot. So basically, 35% of the American population (108 million people) will riot against their supporters, the 65% (201 million people). The catalyst for next American Revolution will be the 65% collectively uniting to put-down the rebellion of the 35%.



This person considers that all government employees...teachers, postal workers, firefighters, police, et al, are "welfare cases" because their pay comes from the government.



Bill "Hardcase" Gillen on Friendburst says that he asked for a raise and he got it because he works hard and does a good job...he doesn't need any "union thugs" to speak for him.



There seems to be a growing number of people now who think there will be, and look forward to, a war between the "socialist libtards" and "regular people". Not a culture war, not a rhetorical war, not a political war... a war in which bullets rip through flesh and bone and dying people are screaming.



Bring it.




http://realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com/2011/02/22/union-disputes-spread-to-indiana-ohio/

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Vive la Revolucion!

We are ALL Spartacus! We are ALL Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Lybia, ... *sigh*, Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois... *sigh*.

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We are all... (insert name here).

TRB