In Gift to President I described a concrete case where the budget for state universities was reduced in order to increase an already sizable budget for a few private colleges. Since only the children of the rich could afford those colleges, it should be clear that this action had nothing to do with socialism or capitalism.
The issue here is the sickening fact that the mercenaries of the rich, so-called elected public servants, deceive us by using terms that they have painted dull and undesirable such as big government. The fact is that the children of the rich need a lot of pampering for receiving a college degree. These children are too spoiled to attend a publicly supported state university. Therefore, instead of our taxes supporting all the children, we must work hard and pay into the royal education of the rich babies.
Indeed, the rich would love to see only a few well-funded great schools that only their children can afford. Well, now that we also have public colleges why not lobby the elected charlatans and turn this into an opportunity. Obviously, as the budget for a university decreases the tuition and other fees will have to increase. This provides a great opportunity for burying educated work force under student loans. What a great American Dream to give young work force jobs only so they pay pack the masters for decades.
There is a lot of on going attack on universal health coverage, involving the terms big government and socialized medicine. So, let us see what is the problem with a plan for universal health care that is not socialized medicine.
Under universal care, everyone will afford to see a doctor or have a hospital treatment. There are 47 million uninsured who have a job, and probably as many who do not appear in statistics due to lack of job. That will add a third of the population to the eligible users of the pool of doctors and hospitals. Well, that creates an unacceptable inconvenience to the masters of our country. The masters must keep the demand low so the supply of doctors and hospitals will continue to be available to them as a luxury with little or no wait. Why should they be bothered with the health of the unprivileged working for them?
Obviously, the masters are also concerned about the use of tax money for everyone. Their notion of taxation is collecting money from subjects for the welfare and purposes of the dukes and barons. One does not spend tax money for those who pay the tax.
The purpose of tax is to protect the palaces of the masters inside the country, and their interests outside of our borders. Since they own our country, military, health system and everything else, we must supply funds for all of that in order to be allowed to live in our own country. So, when we say God bless America we are really saying God bless our masters so we can live miserably serving their ever-growing needs for more power towards increasing their pleasures in life.
We are just the unprivileged slaves that Spartacus left behind. If you do not consider yourself a slave while living like one, you are a happy person. Just keep trying to think of an invention, and soon you will have your American Dream fulfilled.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The fundamental paradox of democracy
Theorizing the origins of the moon is considerably easier than crafting a theory for a peaceful life on earth. The universe is regular in that it does not change its behavior for profitability. On the other hand, social theories must take into account the fact that there is an abundance of anomalies amongst us carrying the genes of indecency, corruption and deception. This article is written with the hope that we still have a chance to regain our democracy for the sake of our children.
In a pack, as far as the alpha male is concerned the law is that no other males will engage in mating activities with females of his choice. As the pack grows in size the alpha male appoints loyal beta males to smaller packs who may further appoint gamma males to serve them, and so on. That is the social system of Saudi Arabia, and yet we are surprised of all the unrest from that country. Even the name of the country is the last name of the alpha male.
In a fertile land where farmers could produce food from soil and cattle, we see a more elaborate system of laws as the commandments, 10 of which have stood the test of time as being applicable to all human societies. Whether the laws were handed over from the Creator Himself to Moses, or came about as traditions due to circumstances, is a matter of fate. The point here is to cite a major example of the notion of social laws protecting individual rights in a society.
Mohammad emphasized the significance of specific physical penalties for failure to follow the laws. After all, it is only appropriate to have earthly punishments for breaking the laws of God on earth. Indeed, we are so obsessed with the notion of democracy that we tend to overlook the significance of more primitive building blocks for social order.
The primitive laws are so fundamental that all nations have conceived them in their own ways. For instance, we used to hang a human who was thought to have stolen a horse, even when we had a democratic system in place. The point of this discussion is to emphasize the significance of earthly punishment associated with breaking a given law.
As a final example, consider a simple contemporary case. When I am unable to pay the property tax on my car, my action is illegal. I will be arrested, fined etc. The question is not whether I simply forgot to renew my car tag, or I am unable to pay. All that matters is failing to follow the law, regardless of the circumstances that caused me to do so. Like any other law, there are penalties associated with my failure that will be exercised against me. This is as it is supposed to be.
Now, administrative failures in enforcing the laws of a country are not considered as failure to follow any law. Stated differently, we trust a president would sacrifice his life for the well being of his nation in the same spirit as youngsters sacrifice their lives in protecting their nation. Therefore, no one ever thought of constitutional ingredients that could be used as a basis for laws against failing to uphold the law by the executive branch.
As we are witnessing, a democracy can be hijacked. Once this happens, failures to enforce the laws of nation will be the result of negligence, and at times deliberation. It is a good time to focus on establishing the criteria for penalizing a president who fails to enforce the laws, rather than being satisfied with resignation of his cabinet members. To that end, we need laws regarding the failure to enforce the laws, as well as the criteria that determines such failure.
What should matter is the failure, not the cause of failure precisely as a person is discharged for failing to follow a certain procedure. Obviously the definition of failure in the context of running a country is quite complex. However, presently we are experiencing a graphic example to guide us.
It is generally believed that candidates win elections by receiving the majority of votes. Surprisingly, the majority seems to ask the elected candidates to pass and enforce the laws that benefit only a small fraction of the population. This phenomenon is the fundamental paradox of democracy.
In a pack, as far as the alpha male is concerned the law is that no other males will engage in mating activities with females of his choice. As the pack grows in size the alpha male appoints loyal beta males to smaller packs who may further appoint gamma males to serve them, and so on. That is the social system of Saudi Arabia, and yet we are surprised of all the unrest from that country. Even the name of the country is the last name of the alpha male.
In a fertile land where farmers could produce food from soil and cattle, we see a more elaborate system of laws as the commandments, 10 of which have stood the test of time as being applicable to all human societies. Whether the laws were handed over from the Creator Himself to Moses, or came about as traditions due to circumstances, is a matter of fate. The point here is to cite a major example of the notion of social laws protecting individual rights in a society.
Mohammad emphasized the significance of specific physical penalties for failure to follow the laws. After all, it is only appropriate to have earthly punishments for breaking the laws of God on earth. Indeed, we are so obsessed with the notion of democracy that we tend to overlook the significance of more primitive building blocks for social order.
The primitive laws are so fundamental that all nations have conceived them in their own ways. For instance, we used to hang a human who was thought to have stolen a horse, even when we had a democratic system in place. The point of this discussion is to emphasize the significance of earthly punishment associated with breaking a given law.
As a final example, consider a simple contemporary case. When I am unable to pay the property tax on my car, my action is illegal. I will be arrested, fined etc. The question is not whether I simply forgot to renew my car tag, or I am unable to pay. All that matters is failing to follow the law, regardless of the circumstances that caused me to do so. Like any other law, there are penalties associated with my failure that will be exercised against me. This is as it is supposed to be.
Now, administrative failures in enforcing the laws of a country are not considered as failure to follow any law. Stated differently, we trust a president would sacrifice his life for the well being of his nation in the same spirit as youngsters sacrifice their lives in protecting their nation. Therefore, no one ever thought of constitutional ingredients that could be used as a basis for laws against failing to uphold the law by the executive branch.
As we are witnessing, a democracy can be hijacked. Once this happens, failures to enforce the laws of nation will be the result of negligence, and at times deliberation. It is a good time to focus on establishing the criteria for penalizing a president who fails to enforce the laws, rather than being satisfied with resignation of his cabinet members. To that end, we need laws regarding the failure to enforce the laws, as well as the criteria that determines such failure.
What should matter is the failure, not the cause of failure precisely as a person is discharged for failing to follow a certain procedure. Obviously the definition of failure in the context of running a country is quite complex. However, presently we are experiencing a graphic example to guide us.
It is generally believed that candidates win elections by receiving the majority of votes. Surprisingly, the majority seems to ask the elected candidates to pass and enforce the laws that benefit only a small fraction of the population. This phenomenon is the fundamental paradox of democracy.
Monday, September 17, 2007
You are against us therefore you are not with us
Everyone understands miscalculations resulting from inaccurate intelligence. Indeed, we all make mistakes, sometimes quite costly ones. However, the president of the richest superpower in the history of mankind has all the resources at his disposal to rectify even catastrophic mistakes.
Mr. President, you are either with us, or else you are against us. The idea of occupying the White House is to protect us, and help our nation achieve peace and prosperity. You have brought nothing for us except death, miseries and poverty. You have used the actions of Bin Laden towards profitability for special interests instead of punishing the terrorists.
Our nation’s problems are mounting while oil companies continue to create artificial circumstances for higher profitability. In return, our president gives billions of dollars from our taxes to oil companies simply as a gift. This clearly demonstrates that the president is not with us.
Mr. President, you are going to get our brave children killed in protecting your friends’ interests in the middle east. You have used the finest resources of our nation for control of energy for the advantage of your friends. You have given rise to an army of terrorists that we must fight for years to come.
Mr. President, you have neglected our nation’s needs and instead you have used our resources in facilitating profitability for your friends. You have actively helped import workforce that we had no need for, and you have facilitated the exportation of our jobs.
Mr. President, you have no regrets for all the agony that you have brought upon us because you are not with us. However, your lack of conscience has helped the nation understand the oxymoron nature of a government-backed anarchism. So, vulture capitalist want the government out of everything except for their tax cuts and wars to protect their international interests. Well then, Mr. President, tear down this oil wall.
Mr. President, you are either with us, or else you are against us. The idea of occupying the White House is to protect us, and help our nation achieve peace and prosperity. You have brought nothing for us except death, miseries and poverty. You have used the actions of Bin Laden towards profitability for special interests instead of punishing the terrorists.
Our nation’s problems are mounting while oil companies continue to create artificial circumstances for higher profitability. In return, our president gives billions of dollars from our taxes to oil companies simply as a gift. This clearly demonstrates that the president is not with us.
Mr. President, you are going to get our brave children killed in protecting your friends’ interests in the middle east. You have used the finest resources of our nation for control of energy for the advantage of your friends. You have given rise to an army of terrorists that we must fight for years to come.
Mr. President, you have neglected our nation’s needs and instead you have used our resources in facilitating profitability for your friends. You have actively helped import workforce that we had no need for, and you have facilitated the exportation of our jobs.
Mr. President, you have no regrets for all the agony that you have brought upon us because you are not with us. However, your lack of conscience has helped the nation understand the oxymoron nature of a government-backed anarchism. So, vulture capitalist want the government out of everything except for their tax cuts and wars to protect their international interests. Well then, Mr. President, tear down this oil wall.
GWB effect and the real face of terrorism
This note was published on 8/31/07 at GWB effect.
The events and examples mentioned in this note are intended for drawing conclusions related to sociology, and possibly finding solutions. A scientist should not drown himself (herself) in his research in an attempt to avoid hearing the voices of agony. The souls voicing their pain are innocents, like the scientist, under torture by criminals of humanity.
The Glide from White to Black (GWB), or from Light to Dark will be explained as a consequence of inner acquisition. Sociology is a science obscured by politics. Sociological theories are derived from observations of events that have already occurred. Thus, if the events are skirted with false outfits, theories derived from the observations of such events are inherently fraudulent and will inevitably recycle the unpleasant events of the past.
In simple words and taking mechanics as an example, future events will occur in accordance to the actual reality of laws of physics, independent of how we theorize the laws based on our perceptions. Thus, Global Warming will continue on its natural course independent of the 100-billion-dollar articles published by EXXON supported researchers.
By the way, we pay for the cost of false research through research incentives presented as birthday gifts from son to father. In other words, the nation is sucked to bankruptcy so oil companies will have the capital to support false research. This is an example of GWB effect where masses are looted and the trophies are distributed among supporters.
The GWB effect has frequently surfaced in the brief history of mankind. In every case the cause of this bizarre phenomenon has been a selfish sub-intelligent inheriting, and at times acquiring the power to control the resources of a relatively advanced nation.
Theoretically speaking, the purpose of electing a leader is to eliminate inheritance, as well as the acquisition of power. Prior to the process of election, acquisition was achieved by conquering a nation through war. Presently, we see two forms of acquisition, the inner and the outer methods.
The outer method of acquisition is relatively easy to control for an advanced nation. For instance, America can easily stop other countries from buying out its major technological industries. Considering the fact that America is a superpower, one can easily conclude that the source of all of our problems is the inner acquisition of this power for pursuing personal interests. Hence, we need to theorize ways that will make a democratic nation inner-acquisition resistant.
Once an inner acquisition takes place, it grows generating more cancerous cells inflicting extreme pain and agony to the infected nation. It only ends when the infected nation dies, and as Jesus puts it, “it is reborn” from within. The GWB effect of an inner acquisition is the real face of terrorism that destroys millions of lives just as plague did, except it is more prolonged and painful than plague.
So far in our history, the death of nations has either been terminal, or near-death experience. In the latter case, some cancerous cells remain floating around until they regain the power, and the cycle begins all over again.
Mankind needs to solve this problem so the rebirth acts more like pasteurization, and without creating chaos and destruction. Indeed, chaos and destruction will be caused by, the anomalies and the cancerous cells. The recent case of anthrax should serve as an example for future generations. It is ridiculous to even think that a superpower was unable to find the source of the anthrax attack, and now it is conveniently forgotten.
In a tightly controlled society with perpetrators fully protected by a strangled democracy and a corrupted media, the rebirth of a nation is simply a facelift for perpetrators. The death of the nation merely brings prolonged miseries to millions, while keeping the cancerous cells out of harms way.
Accordingly, any suggestion for pasteurization process will fail until we first solve the more fundamental problem of the relationship between a citizen and his nation. As things are, a child born to a citizen could have been born in any country for all that matters. What actually matters is the fact that somehow the child grows into an adult that can be used in profitable ways, and produce more children to replace him/her.
Essentially, vulture capitalists want to keep all the money they suck out of everyone, and continue to amuse themselves by catching us as fishes looking for our basic needs. Vulture capitalists know very well that once the control of our basic needs are taken away from them, it will be the people who decide, as a democracy is meant to be.
In simple and plain words, maintaining control over basic needs is not merely for profitability, as Michael Moore portrays. Citizens whose basic needs are not threatened are free and will control the course of political activities. Thus, the actual purpose of maintaining control of our basic needs is to take away our freedom. We are an enslaved nation permitted to express its sufferings.
Consider the following example of GWB effect. A scientist has a fixed income, and has probably borrowed some money to pay for health-related matters for his family. Suddenly, oil companies decide to tax him by raising their prices. The company that provides electricity to his house passes on their taxes to him. The latter is an indirect tax paid to the oil companies.
Now, with substantial reduction in scientist’s income, he has to make a choice between punishing his family for what he believes in, and selling his talent to the oil companies for research funds. This person is a hostage. He is not free to make his desired choice, but later he cannot contradict himself, either. Thus, the GWB effect has glided a fine person into darkness. We usually refer to this as selling one’s soul to the Devil.
Rudy Jiuliani, in his latest campaign, repeatedly asked, “They want to take away from you for the common good. Does that make sense”? He emphasized his plan for further tax cuts beyond what Mr. Bush has already accomplished, and ridiculed socialized medicine. Then, one of his supporters spoke in his defense, making the following amazing remarks.
“Last year I wrote a check for $200,000 for my employees’ 401K. If I am taxed for a $100,000 that money must come from somewhere. I will have to take it out of 401K contributions. Just like you have goals in life, I have my goals. So, if the government takes my profit away, I have to get it from elsewhere.”
That is so beautifully stated that speaks for itself. In effect, Mr. Jiuliani wants his masters to have total control over our minimum basic needs, and let them collect even more profit so perhaps they will be generous to throw their leftover to us. And we must fight like dogs to get a piece of the leftover. How can a nation terrorized to the lowest level of indecency claim to support a decent democracy?
Mr. Bloomberg prefers the oxymoron phrase “There is no free lunch” when referring to socialized basic needs, in particular socialized medicine. He means to imply that the services are provided freely, and right away adds that the people of those countries are heavily taxed. Now, even a monkey knows that no one can continue to receive social services without working a good portion of his/her life except Bloomberg et al, which is why the phrase is oxymoron.
By the way, are we really paying less tax than the countries that provide socialized medicine? Are other taxes such as social security considered when making that claim? How about the other half of social security paid by the employer? Note that, just because the employer is making the payment on your behalf does not mean that the employer is being benevolent. You are paying the employer’s half through your work. How about sales tax, property tax and whatever else tax? So I ask again, are we really paying less tax than other countries, or is it Mr. Bloomberg who is getting away with paying his fair share of taxes?
The term fairness in a social context means that the laws must treat citizens as equals in all respects. Now, calculate all types of taxes that you pay for a salary under $100,000. Make sure you consider all taxes that the employer is paying on your behalf. The employer is only paying such taxes because you are doing something profitable for him. Therefore, any tax paid on your behalf for the job you are performing is tax paid by you.
Finally, estimate other types of taxes, such as sales tax. You will see that you are taxed for well over half of your earnings. Next, make sure you understand that taxes paid by Mr. Bloomberg on you behalf, such as social security taxes, is not his tax. His earning is like yours, which are his salary and his profit. So, how is it that you pay more than half of your earning into tax, but he only pays a small fraction of it? Is this not a skewed version of social equality following from GWB effect?
What Caesar Bloomberg is really saying is the following.
“So long as I am pleased with your performance towards my profitability, I will let you have lunch. At any time of my choosing, without regard to your qualifications, experience, years of service and your children, I can deny you and your family from having lunch. Thus, make sure that I remain pleased at any cost to your health and your family. You solely exist to please me.”
Moving to the recent mortgage disaster, when a huge percentage of citizens are forcibly removed from their homes and left on their own along with their children, the country is under attack. As far back as we can tell from history, when citizens of a nation are under attack the ruling body takes immediate protective actions.
The fact that the attack emanates from within, it qualifies as an act of terrorism. The claim that a large percentage of population collectively made stupid decisions is unjustifiable. They simply did not anticipate the suction of funds by oil companies to support their false research, among other things. The repercussions of increase in gas prices suddenly reduced their income to the level of poverty, as another demonstration of GWB effect.
It is my observation that the GWB effect in America has reached its peak. The inner-acquisition of power by corporations has advanced to a point where it will continue to give itself appropriate facelifts for many years to come. We will be lured to pursue opportunities for financial freedom rather than paying attention to a plan for social life. Those of us who can make a difference, like scientists, are mostly taken hostage and will act contrary to their true beliefs. America will be flooded with new immigrants seeking jobs and displacing old timers towards profitability for corporations. My sorrow is for the masses that will live painfully miserable lives so a few can enjoy a pleasurable ride, for years to come.
The cost of freedom is high. The question is, who takes the burden of the cost and who benefits from the secured freedom. Perhaps if we shared the cost and the benefits of freedom, there would not be as many wars. Maybe we should focus on freedom from GWB effect as the actual source of terrorism.
May God bless America.
The events and examples mentioned in this note are intended for drawing conclusions related to sociology, and possibly finding solutions. A scientist should not drown himself (herself) in his research in an attempt to avoid hearing the voices of agony. The souls voicing their pain are innocents, like the scientist, under torture by criminals of humanity.
The Glide from White to Black (GWB), or from Light to Dark will be explained as a consequence of inner acquisition. Sociology is a science obscured by politics. Sociological theories are derived from observations of events that have already occurred. Thus, if the events are skirted with false outfits, theories derived from the observations of such events are inherently fraudulent and will inevitably recycle the unpleasant events of the past.
In simple words and taking mechanics as an example, future events will occur in accordance to the actual reality of laws of physics, independent of how we theorize the laws based on our perceptions. Thus, Global Warming will continue on its natural course independent of the 100-billion-dollar articles published by EXXON supported researchers.
By the way, we pay for the cost of false research through research incentives presented as birthday gifts from son to father. In other words, the nation is sucked to bankruptcy so oil companies will have the capital to support false research. This is an example of GWB effect where masses are looted and the trophies are distributed among supporters.
The GWB effect has frequently surfaced in the brief history of mankind. In every case the cause of this bizarre phenomenon has been a selfish sub-intelligent inheriting, and at times acquiring the power to control the resources of a relatively advanced nation.
Theoretically speaking, the purpose of electing a leader is to eliminate inheritance, as well as the acquisition of power. Prior to the process of election, acquisition was achieved by conquering a nation through war. Presently, we see two forms of acquisition, the inner and the outer methods.
The outer method of acquisition is relatively easy to control for an advanced nation. For instance, America can easily stop other countries from buying out its major technological industries. Considering the fact that America is a superpower, one can easily conclude that the source of all of our problems is the inner acquisition of this power for pursuing personal interests. Hence, we need to theorize ways that will make a democratic nation inner-acquisition resistant.
Once an inner acquisition takes place, it grows generating more cancerous cells inflicting extreme pain and agony to the infected nation. It only ends when the infected nation dies, and as Jesus puts it, “it is reborn” from within. The GWB effect of an inner acquisition is the real face of terrorism that destroys millions of lives just as plague did, except it is more prolonged and painful than plague.
So far in our history, the death of nations has either been terminal, or near-death experience. In the latter case, some cancerous cells remain floating around until they regain the power, and the cycle begins all over again.
Mankind needs to solve this problem so the rebirth acts more like pasteurization, and without creating chaos and destruction. Indeed, chaos and destruction will be caused by, the anomalies and the cancerous cells. The recent case of anthrax should serve as an example for future generations. It is ridiculous to even think that a superpower was unable to find the source of the anthrax attack, and now it is conveniently forgotten.
In a tightly controlled society with perpetrators fully protected by a strangled democracy and a corrupted media, the rebirth of a nation is simply a facelift for perpetrators. The death of the nation merely brings prolonged miseries to millions, while keeping the cancerous cells out of harms way.
Accordingly, any suggestion for pasteurization process will fail until we first solve the more fundamental problem of the relationship between a citizen and his nation. As things are, a child born to a citizen could have been born in any country for all that matters. What actually matters is the fact that somehow the child grows into an adult that can be used in profitable ways, and produce more children to replace him/her.
Essentially, vulture capitalists want to keep all the money they suck out of everyone, and continue to amuse themselves by catching us as fishes looking for our basic needs. Vulture capitalists know very well that once the control of our basic needs are taken away from them, it will be the people who decide, as a democracy is meant to be.
In simple and plain words, maintaining control over basic needs is not merely for profitability, as Michael Moore portrays. Citizens whose basic needs are not threatened are free and will control the course of political activities. Thus, the actual purpose of maintaining control of our basic needs is to take away our freedom. We are an enslaved nation permitted to express its sufferings.
Consider the following example of GWB effect. A scientist has a fixed income, and has probably borrowed some money to pay for health-related matters for his family. Suddenly, oil companies decide to tax him by raising their prices. The company that provides electricity to his house passes on their taxes to him. The latter is an indirect tax paid to the oil companies.
Now, with substantial reduction in scientist’s income, he has to make a choice between punishing his family for what he believes in, and selling his talent to the oil companies for research funds. This person is a hostage. He is not free to make his desired choice, but later he cannot contradict himself, either. Thus, the GWB effect has glided a fine person into darkness. We usually refer to this as selling one’s soul to the Devil.
Rudy Jiuliani, in his latest campaign, repeatedly asked, “They want to take away from you for the common good. Does that make sense”? He emphasized his plan for further tax cuts beyond what Mr. Bush has already accomplished, and ridiculed socialized medicine. Then, one of his supporters spoke in his defense, making the following amazing remarks.
“Last year I wrote a check for $200,000 for my employees’ 401K. If I am taxed for a $100,000 that money must come from somewhere. I will have to take it out of 401K contributions. Just like you have goals in life, I have my goals. So, if the government takes my profit away, I have to get it from elsewhere.”
That is so beautifully stated that speaks for itself. In effect, Mr. Jiuliani wants his masters to have total control over our minimum basic needs, and let them collect even more profit so perhaps they will be generous to throw their leftover to us. And we must fight like dogs to get a piece of the leftover. How can a nation terrorized to the lowest level of indecency claim to support a decent democracy?
Mr. Bloomberg prefers the oxymoron phrase “There is no free lunch” when referring to socialized basic needs, in particular socialized medicine. He means to imply that the services are provided freely, and right away adds that the people of those countries are heavily taxed. Now, even a monkey knows that no one can continue to receive social services without working a good portion of his/her life except Bloomberg et al, which is why the phrase is oxymoron.
By the way, are we really paying less tax than the countries that provide socialized medicine? Are other taxes such as social security considered when making that claim? How about the other half of social security paid by the employer? Note that, just because the employer is making the payment on your behalf does not mean that the employer is being benevolent. You are paying the employer’s half through your work. How about sales tax, property tax and whatever else tax? So I ask again, are we really paying less tax than other countries, or is it Mr. Bloomberg who is getting away with paying his fair share of taxes?
The term fairness in a social context means that the laws must treat citizens as equals in all respects. Now, calculate all types of taxes that you pay for a salary under $100,000. Make sure you consider all taxes that the employer is paying on your behalf. The employer is only paying such taxes because you are doing something profitable for him. Therefore, any tax paid on your behalf for the job you are performing is tax paid by you.
Finally, estimate other types of taxes, such as sales tax. You will see that you are taxed for well over half of your earnings. Next, make sure you understand that taxes paid by Mr. Bloomberg on you behalf, such as social security taxes, is not his tax. His earning is like yours, which are his salary and his profit. So, how is it that you pay more than half of your earning into tax, but he only pays a small fraction of it? Is this not a skewed version of social equality following from GWB effect?
What Caesar Bloomberg is really saying is the following.
“So long as I am pleased with your performance towards my profitability, I will let you have lunch. At any time of my choosing, without regard to your qualifications, experience, years of service and your children, I can deny you and your family from having lunch. Thus, make sure that I remain pleased at any cost to your health and your family. You solely exist to please me.”
Moving to the recent mortgage disaster, when a huge percentage of citizens are forcibly removed from their homes and left on their own along with their children, the country is under attack. As far back as we can tell from history, when citizens of a nation are under attack the ruling body takes immediate protective actions.
The fact that the attack emanates from within, it qualifies as an act of terrorism. The claim that a large percentage of population collectively made stupid decisions is unjustifiable. They simply did not anticipate the suction of funds by oil companies to support their false research, among other things. The repercussions of increase in gas prices suddenly reduced their income to the level of poverty, as another demonstration of GWB effect.
It is my observation that the GWB effect in America has reached its peak. The inner-acquisition of power by corporations has advanced to a point where it will continue to give itself appropriate facelifts for many years to come. We will be lured to pursue opportunities for financial freedom rather than paying attention to a plan for social life. Those of us who can make a difference, like scientists, are mostly taken hostage and will act contrary to their true beliefs. America will be flooded with new immigrants seeking jobs and displacing old timers towards profitability for corporations. My sorrow is for the masses that will live painfully miserable lives so a few can enjoy a pleasurable ride, for years to come.
The cost of freedom is high. The question is, who takes the burden of the cost and who benefits from the secured freedom. Perhaps if we shared the cost and the benefits of freedom, there would not be as many wars. Maybe we should focus on freedom from GWB effect as the actual source of terrorism.
May God bless America.
Science is God’s language
This note was published on 8/26/07 at Science.
The main argument in this article is that religion and evolution are not mutually exclusive.
Taking the scientific view, it is generally believed that water is a necessary condition for existence of life on a planet. Some scientists would rather say that the existence of water is a good indication that there might be life on a planet. That simply means that water is not a necessary condition for life to exist.
Let us start out at a point where life has already begun, accidentally or through creation. Only intelligent life forms are able to control environmental changes via technological means. So how do other living things on the same planet survive? The question of survival is significant with regard to the continued existence of life as a whole, not with regard to any particular species. Indeed, sudden climate changes have wiped out nations of our kind even in recent history.
While life is extremely fragile, perpetual change is the characteristic of environment and climate. Consequently, a form of life that is incapable of adaptation will cease to exist. Thus, evolution is a necessary condition for life to continue to exist, once it starts at all. Saying it differently, evolution is a mechanism built into life so it can adapt to the changes in its environment and to continue to exist. This conclusion applies to all forms of life that may have started on any planet.
The issue of dispute is not adaptations resulting from short repetitive environmental variations like seasonal changes. Evolution is referred to adaptations that transcend generations resulting in species with different DNA than their ancestors. Evidently, events similar to the birth of a mule do not fall in this category because parents are from different species.
The necessity of evolution for continued existence of life does not imply that life on our planet was accidental. Quite to the contrary, the evolution mechanism is so complex that it is unlikely to be the result of a series of random accidents. In order for the laws of evolution to exist, there must be fundamental particles of life (like virus) that obey the laws, and then reflect a more complex version of those laws in larger organisms that are composed of them.
The disagreement between religion and science should not be the statement, “God created man”. Rather, the source of dispute should be the process by which God created the man. Except for the final process, namely the creation of man, there is no implication that any other species where created once and for all, without transcendental transformations. In fact, Genesis does not provide any bases for rejecting an evolutionary process of creation.
Perhaps someday we will find out exactly how we suddenly started to walk this planet. Until then, religion does not have to reject evolution. The only dispute, if any, is whether man was created spontaneously, or as the final stage in the evolutionary process of creation. Science is God’s language for stating the laws of evolution. The prerequisite for learning to speak this language is not defiance of God.
Social Structure
Intelligent species extend the laws of evolution to their social structure. Initially, as small tribes we started out quite well. After all, all members of a tribe were needed for survival, and everyone had sufficient mutual experience with everyone else in order to care about them.
In larger societies, the tribal love and care transforms to love for one’s family. In a complex society such as ours, nationality extends the boundaries of the notion of family. Nevertheless, the source of our miseries is the vulnerability of democracy against corruption, and the effective use of corruption by vulture capitalists.
When a rich man approached Jesus seeking salvation, Jesus told him to give his riches to the poor and return to Him. When the man left, Jesus stated the most fundamental law of our social structure, “This man will not come back”. Simply put, it is the evolution of our social structure that will eradicate social miseries and slavery of the masses, not the enthusiasm of the rich people. Our only solution is the elimination of corruption from the body of our lawmakers, a formidable if not an impossible scenario.
Iraq War
Not a single person on this planet can say a word against the great work that our soldiers are doing in Iraq. Furthermore, going to Iraq and removal of the dictator was not such a bad idea if that was the actual goal. Our troubles started when Mr. Bush showed his hand by reserving all rebuilding contracts for his friends.
In recent meeting in Canada, Mr. Bush threw a line of dissatisfaction against the Iraqi leaders in his speech to help our corrupted media divert attention from the real intent of the meeting. That meeting was for committing more of our enslaved population to the expansion of the business of yet another friend, the Walton family.
As far as Iraq war, our soldiers have done what is rather impossible to achieve by any other army. And yet, our nation is losing its bright youngsters, and growing poorer so a few families will benefit so much as to surround their palaces with anti-missile technology.
I do not argue that pulling out of Iraq will have a worse outcome. However, we can work on this without allowing the perpetrators to continue to benefit from it. As a nation we are betraying our soldiers, and their great accomplishments. We seem to be the only free nation volunteering for slavery, or are we free?
The main argument in this article is that religion and evolution are not mutually exclusive.
Taking the scientific view, it is generally believed that water is a necessary condition for existence of life on a planet. Some scientists would rather say that the existence of water is a good indication that there might be life on a planet. That simply means that water is not a necessary condition for life to exist.
Let us start out at a point where life has already begun, accidentally or through creation. Only intelligent life forms are able to control environmental changes via technological means. So how do other living things on the same planet survive? The question of survival is significant with regard to the continued existence of life as a whole, not with regard to any particular species. Indeed, sudden climate changes have wiped out nations of our kind even in recent history.
While life is extremely fragile, perpetual change is the characteristic of environment and climate. Consequently, a form of life that is incapable of adaptation will cease to exist. Thus, evolution is a necessary condition for life to continue to exist, once it starts at all. Saying it differently, evolution is a mechanism built into life so it can adapt to the changes in its environment and to continue to exist. This conclusion applies to all forms of life that may have started on any planet.
The issue of dispute is not adaptations resulting from short repetitive environmental variations like seasonal changes. Evolution is referred to adaptations that transcend generations resulting in species with different DNA than their ancestors. Evidently, events similar to the birth of a mule do not fall in this category because parents are from different species.
The necessity of evolution for continued existence of life does not imply that life on our planet was accidental. Quite to the contrary, the evolution mechanism is so complex that it is unlikely to be the result of a series of random accidents. In order for the laws of evolution to exist, there must be fundamental particles of life (like virus) that obey the laws, and then reflect a more complex version of those laws in larger organisms that are composed of them.
The disagreement between religion and science should not be the statement, “God created man”. Rather, the source of dispute should be the process by which God created the man. Except for the final process, namely the creation of man, there is no implication that any other species where created once and for all, without transcendental transformations. In fact, Genesis does not provide any bases for rejecting an evolutionary process of creation.
Perhaps someday we will find out exactly how we suddenly started to walk this planet. Until then, religion does not have to reject evolution. The only dispute, if any, is whether man was created spontaneously, or as the final stage in the evolutionary process of creation. Science is God’s language for stating the laws of evolution. The prerequisite for learning to speak this language is not defiance of God.
Social Structure
Intelligent species extend the laws of evolution to their social structure. Initially, as small tribes we started out quite well. After all, all members of a tribe were needed for survival, and everyone had sufficient mutual experience with everyone else in order to care about them.
In larger societies, the tribal love and care transforms to love for one’s family. In a complex society such as ours, nationality extends the boundaries of the notion of family. Nevertheless, the source of our miseries is the vulnerability of democracy against corruption, and the effective use of corruption by vulture capitalists.
When a rich man approached Jesus seeking salvation, Jesus told him to give his riches to the poor and return to Him. When the man left, Jesus stated the most fundamental law of our social structure, “This man will not come back”. Simply put, it is the evolution of our social structure that will eradicate social miseries and slavery of the masses, not the enthusiasm of the rich people. Our only solution is the elimination of corruption from the body of our lawmakers, a formidable if not an impossible scenario.
Iraq War
Not a single person on this planet can say a word against the great work that our soldiers are doing in Iraq. Furthermore, going to Iraq and removal of the dictator was not such a bad idea if that was the actual goal. Our troubles started when Mr. Bush showed his hand by reserving all rebuilding contracts for his friends.
In recent meeting in Canada, Mr. Bush threw a line of dissatisfaction against the Iraqi leaders in his speech to help our corrupted media divert attention from the real intent of the meeting. That meeting was for committing more of our enslaved population to the expansion of the business of yet another friend, the Walton family.
As far as Iraq war, our soldiers have done what is rather impossible to achieve by any other army. And yet, our nation is losing its bright youngsters, and growing poorer so a few families will benefit so much as to surround their palaces with anti-missile technology.
I do not argue that pulling out of Iraq will have a worse outcome. However, we can work on this without allowing the perpetrators to continue to benefit from it. As a nation we are betraying our soldiers, and their great accomplishments. We seem to be the only free nation volunteering for slavery, or are we free?
Heroes and Imposters
This note was published on 8/14/2007 at Heroes and Imposters.
Capitalism and democracy are two great ideas that can coexist peacefully so long as democracy is in control. Once capitalism takes over, it uses democracy as a means for a small percentage of population finding pleasure and satisfaction in bringing miseries to the much greater majority. The focus of democracy will be no more than preserving the state of matters to the taste of vulture capitalists.
It is unlikely that God created us with our eventual destruction in mind. It is more logical to assume that at certain points in our history He gives us a hand to avoid Armageddon. Otherwise, our future depends on how we will deploy our accidental intelligence. In the latter case, given the rising percentage of bushes in the forest of trees of humanity, the most likely eventuality is that the bushes will consume the trees and end humanity by devouring one another. Thus, Armageddon could only be the consequence of our accidental creation, and may be avoided.
A nation with 90 percent of its population oppressed by 9 percent for the interests of 1 percent is not democratic. The democracy being exported to other countries is a screen-savor for stretching the size of the 90 percent of our population. All we get out of a two-century-old constitution that is the pride of humanity, is the ability to bark so long as we are not too loud, AKA freedom of speech. Ironically, freedom of speech has become an attractive means for selling TV commercials.
Our social and scientific evolutions have been on different paths. Socially, we have been going in circles and forced to repeat the same unfortunate events with leader substitutions. This is because science is open for research and is well documented. On the other hand, social events are studied through history, which is mainly available in fabricated forms.
The notions of conservatism and liberalism are relative to nation or a person’s interests. Consider Kennedy’s objection to using wind for generating electricity solely because some members of his family do not like to see the generators from the Kennedy’s private island. This is a form of liberalism in which the laws of nation are manipulated for personal conservatism.
Lying to save the life of a family member is not equivalent to lying because a family member wants the sun to rise from west. It is not a law of nature that someone whose last name is not Kennedy, Bush or Walton should live a miserable life of a slave so those owning the last names, in a manner similar to kings and princesses, can live a full luxury life filled with comfort and pleasure.
Nations will remember their heroes forever. However, it is the man that makes the name, not the other way round. Our democracy would be more reasonable if it limited the number of terms a person could remain a senator or a representative. Furthermore, the people would do themselves a lot of good if they do not simply vote for a name lest they elect a wolf dressed as sheep.
Being rich is not the issue. The rich overseeing the laws to keep the poor as slaves while extending their wealth and power is only 10 percent democratic, with 9 percent serving the 1 percent body of monarchs. Here and there we are catching a few thieves who have cheated a few millions, while the real ones remain untouchable by means of a strangled democracy that they have taken hostage.
The desire for profit is quite normal. However, capitalism is not a synonym for cruel exploitation. Spending millions in lobbying to lower salaries and reduce taxes is messing with laws of country for maximizing profit. After all, the less one pays in taxes the more profit, forcing the low-paid to make up for it, and miserably so. This is a clear example of legalization of theft at a very large scale, and then in a democracy.
Think about the following observation instead of feeling offended. When I eat, I always have my dog’s share in mind, and he knows that. The majority of us, however, simply eat our dinner not even remembering that we have a dog. At the end, if anything is left in our plate, assuming that the dog is closer than the trashcan, we let the dog have a taste of our food. The latter is the scenario when we replace the basic social services with the trickle down theory.
Basic social services are the right of a person in a society, not a consequence of being lucky to have a job as the servant of a king. The rich receive the very best of medical and other services at the cost of miserable lives of the poor who pay a high percentage of their income in taxes and live their lives under debt and heavy interests, chasing the mirage of a bitter retirement that keeps moving away from them.
One way to reduce the effects of vulture capitalists is for a democracy to identify the basic needs for a reasonably secure social life and provide it for its citizens, while allowing the private sector to compete. However, the cancerous cells of vulture capitalists have spread too far for a democratic treatment of the social disease we are suffering from. One possible scenario is for many of us to parish under the agony of poverty so the remaining miserable will see their future when they go to Florida’s e-voting machines, only until another breed of bushes begin crawling on the trees of humanity.
Scientists should look for means of breaking the vicious cycle of takeover of vulture capitalists. It is the responsibility of scientists to solve our social problems just as they find solutions for our scientific problems. I am not disputing Jesus’ divinity when I say that he was a social scientist who sacrificed his life for the salvation of humanity. After two thousand years we are still making movies of His heroic life. In contrast, a social scientist serving the purpose of a vulture capitalist is an imposter.
For lack of a better name I will refer to the following phenomenon as the principle of mutual devouring. A vulture capitalist wants to absorb as much wealth as he can, so other vultures like him receive less of it. In doing so, a vulture capitalist is not concerned about the impact he is having on his nation.
Thus, when a person is allowed to take billions paying little tax, and to pay as little for wages as he desires, he will use it to the maximum limits in order to increase his wealth. It is therefore the responsibility of the president and the congress to set these limits right so the middle class prospers and poverty vanishes.
It is treason to change the laws so the rich will have the opportunity to suck the wealth of a nation burying the middle class under debt so the following presidents will help them pay their debts for years to come. A democracy should be able to recognize such obvious cases of treason and to properly punish the perpetrators.
What is the point of a roller coaster life resulting from vulture capitalists playing chess against each other for redirecting profit? Is this how the science of sociology defines its object of study?
Capitalism and democracy are two great ideas that can coexist peacefully so long as democracy is in control. Once capitalism takes over, it uses democracy as a means for a small percentage of population finding pleasure and satisfaction in bringing miseries to the much greater majority. The focus of democracy will be no more than preserving the state of matters to the taste of vulture capitalists.
It is unlikely that God created us with our eventual destruction in mind. It is more logical to assume that at certain points in our history He gives us a hand to avoid Armageddon. Otherwise, our future depends on how we will deploy our accidental intelligence. In the latter case, given the rising percentage of bushes in the forest of trees of humanity, the most likely eventuality is that the bushes will consume the trees and end humanity by devouring one another. Thus, Armageddon could only be the consequence of our accidental creation, and may be avoided.
A nation with 90 percent of its population oppressed by 9 percent for the interests of 1 percent is not democratic. The democracy being exported to other countries is a screen-savor for stretching the size of the 90 percent of our population. All we get out of a two-century-old constitution that is the pride of humanity, is the ability to bark so long as we are not too loud, AKA freedom of speech. Ironically, freedom of speech has become an attractive means for selling TV commercials.
Our social and scientific evolutions have been on different paths. Socially, we have been going in circles and forced to repeat the same unfortunate events with leader substitutions. This is because science is open for research and is well documented. On the other hand, social events are studied through history, which is mainly available in fabricated forms.
The notions of conservatism and liberalism are relative to nation or a person’s interests. Consider Kennedy’s objection to using wind for generating electricity solely because some members of his family do not like to see the generators from the Kennedy’s private island. This is a form of liberalism in which the laws of nation are manipulated for personal conservatism.
Lying to save the life of a family member is not equivalent to lying because a family member wants the sun to rise from west. It is not a law of nature that someone whose last name is not Kennedy, Bush or Walton should live a miserable life of a slave so those owning the last names, in a manner similar to kings and princesses, can live a full luxury life filled with comfort and pleasure.
Nations will remember their heroes forever. However, it is the man that makes the name, not the other way round. Our democracy would be more reasonable if it limited the number of terms a person could remain a senator or a representative. Furthermore, the people would do themselves a lot of good if they do not simply vote for a name lest they elect a wolf dressed as sheep.
Being rich is not the issue. The rich overseeing the laws to keep the poor as slaves while extending their wealth and power is only 10 percent democratic, with 9 percent serving the 1 percent body of monarchs. Here and there we are catching a few thieves who have cheated a few millions, while the real ones remain untouchable by means of a strangled democracy that they have taken hostage.
The desire for profit is quite normal. However, capitalism is not a synonym for cruel exploitation. Spending millions in lobbying to lower salaries and reduce taxes is messing with laws of country for maximizing profit. After all, the less one pays in taxes the more profit, forcing the low-paid to make up for it, and miserably so. This is a clear example of legalization of theft at a very large scale, and then in a democracy.
Think about the following observation instead of feeling offended. When I eat, I always have my dog’s share in mind, and he knows that. The majority of us, however, simply eat our dinner not even remembering that we have a dog. At the end, if anything is left in our plate, assuming that the dog is closer than the trashcan, we let the dog have a taste of our food. The latter is the scenario when we replace the basic social services with the trickle down theory.
Basic social services are the right of a person in a society, not a consequence of being lucky to have a job as the servant of a king. The rich receive the very best of medical and other services at the cost of miserable lives of the poor who pay a high percentage of their income in taxes and live their lives under debt and heavy interests, chasing the mirage of a bitter retirement that keeps moving away from them.
One way to reduce the effects of vulture capitalists is for a democracy to identify the basic needs for a reasonably secure social life and provide it for its citizens, while allowing the private sector to compete. However, the cancerous cells of vulture capitalists have spread too far for a democratic treatment of the social disease we are suffering from. One possible scenario is for many of us to parish under the agony of poverty so the remaining miserable will see their future when they go to Florida’s e-voting machines, only until another breed of bushes begin crawling on the trees of humanity.
Scientists should look for means of breaking the vicious cycle of takeover of vulture capitalists. It is the responsibility of scientists to solve our social problems just as they find solutions for our scientific problems. I am not disputing Jesus’ divinity when I say that he was a social scientist who sacrificed his life for the salvation of humanity. After two thousand years we are still making movies of His heroic life. In contrast, a social scientist serving the purpose of a vulture capitalist is an imposter.
For lack of a better name I will refer to the following phenomenon as the principle of mutual devouring. A vulture capitalist wants to absorb as much wealth as he can, so other vultures like him receive less of it. In doing so, a vulture capitalist is not concerned about the impact he is having on his nation.
Thus, when a person is allowed to take billions paying little tax, and to pay as little for wages as he desires, he will use it to the maximum limits in order to increase his wealth. It is therefore the responsibility of the president and the congress to set these limits right so the middle class prospers and poverty vanishes.
It is treason to change the laws so the rich will have the opportunity to suck the wealth of a nation burying the middle class under debt so the following presidents will help them pay their debts for years to come. A democracy should be able to recognize such obvious cases of treason and to properly punish the perpetrators.
What is the point of a roller coaster life resulting from vulture capitalists playing chess against each other for redirecting profit? Is this how the science of sociology defines its object of study?
May God continue to bless America
This poetry was posted on 9/9/06 at Bless America, and is a close description of my life, and my impressions.
What is the difference between the Romans raiding a country with swords, and the Administration devastating our nation with new laws, and neglecting our constitution? The only difference is the magnitude of the people affected by the Administration.
The most horrible form of terrorism is the one that comes silently from within. It is terrible to become homeless and lose your family so someone will make a huge profit. The definition of terrorism does not necessarily include explosions and WMD, despite the fact that the Administration portrays it as such.
Dr. Z.
My life-thread unable to wait
Under democracy’s weight
Free but useless to state
Sheriff is at my door
Karl strategizing on the oval floor
Democrats looking for another Gore
Carter and Kennedy extending their share of democracy
Bush and Cheney drilling it for more currency
Neither bothered with the nature of emergency
My son killed in war
My wife gone far
I am left with a jar
At age of fifty nine
Ph.D. and creed in divine
I have nothing to dine
Jobs left are for the illegal
Illegal are made legal
Citizens perish as illegal
News portray Snow’s deceptions
Selling ads, ignoring perceptions
Profit reins receptions
Basic needs are for profit
Life for trickle from profit
Tax in service of profit
Talk yields compromise
Profit hates compromise
War lacks compromise
Wars creeping step by step
World war at our doorstep
Profit guides evils’ next step
Scorpion is born from scorpion egg
Terrorist is born from terrorized egg
War irrigates land of hopeless egg
Warning then bombing disputable
Military murder unjustifiable
Humanity no longer desirable
Paradise and hell coexist
Oppressors enjoy and persist
Served by duped scientist
Good and evil are on earth
Devil rose from CIA’s dirt
Democracy long behind left
He took pride in his physical
I cannot think of medical
Slave is but for practical
He wants to keep his gangsters
Opportunities require blasters
Profit feeds on disasters
He likes to play video games
Shock and awe for more fames
People burning in open flames
The incapable of acquiring skill
Unable to read after much drill
Is pumping miseries to the fill
May God continue to bless America for the rich
So they can hire politicians to bitch
And keep Americans in deep ditch
Later on, the wind and the rain ----
Will softly wash away my name
My grave will remain in the lane ----
Free of good and bad fame
What is the difference between the Romans raiding a country with swords, and the Administration devastating our nation with new laws, and neglecting our constitution? The only difference is the magnitude of the people affected by the Administration.
The most horrible form of terrorism is the one that comes silently from within. It is terrible to become homeless and lose your family so someone will make a huge profit. The definition of terrorism does not necessarily include explosions and WMD, despite the fact that the Administration portrays it as such.
Dr. Z.
My life-thread unable to wait
Under democracy’s weight
Free but useless to state
Sheriff is at my door
Karl strategizing on the oval floor
Democrats looking for another Gore
Carter and Kennedy extending their share of democracy
Bush and Cheney drilling it for more currency
Neither bothered with the nature of emergency
My son killed in war
My wife gone far
I am left with a jar
At age of fifty nine
Ph.D. and creed in divine
I have nothing to dine
Jobs left are for the illegal
Illegal are made legal
Citizens perish as illegal
News portray Snow’s deceptions
Selling ads, ignoring perceptions
Profit reins receptions
Basic needs are for profit
Life for trickle from profit
Tax in service of profit
Talk yields compromise
Profit hates compromise
War lacks compromise
Wars creeping step by step
World war at our doorstep
Profit guides evils’ next step
Scorpion is born from scorpion egg
Terrorist is born from terrorized egg
War irrigates land of hopeless egg
Warning then bombing disputable
Military murder unjustifiable
Humanity no longer desirable
Paradise and hell coexist
Oppressors enjoy and persist
Served by duped scientist
Good and evil are on earth
Devil rose from CIA’s dirt
Democracy long behind left
He took pride in his physical
I cannot think of medical
Slave is but for practical
He wants to keep his gangsters
Opportunities require blasters
Profit feeds on disasters
He likes to play video games
Shock and awe for more fames
People burning in open flames
The incapable of acquiring skill
Unable to read after much drill
Is pumping miseries to the fill
May God continue to bless America for the rich
So they can hire politicians to bitch
And keep Americans in deep ditch
Later on, the wind and the rain ----
Will softly wash away my name
My grave will remain in the lane ----
Free of good and bad fame
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