A Special Moment

“It is a special moment when a person stops living in defense of himself, stops getting even. He quits calculating and maneuvering; he just starts living. He doesn't stop listening, he just listens better. He doesn't throw away his education; he just finds what works for him and does it.  He doesn't stop caring for others, he just finds his love is itself reward enough, acknowledged or not. He doesn't stop reaching, he just grows what he knows, and passionately seeks for more. He doesn't cut himself off from others, but he is delivered from a need to always seek their approval. He doesn't pretend he has no fear, he just learns to walk with inward peace.” Richard A. Nelson?

I create opportunities.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

~Bruce Lee

Knowledge is power, but character, respect.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

~Bruce Lee

Stop Helping Us Federal Reserve! Go Away...

Beality

Eliminate Lame Duck Sessions

Once the people have voted, it is unwise to allow their legislative bodies to convene and legislate where the political losers have nothing to lose.   We should eliminate "Lame Duck" sessions in all legislatures.

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Societal Cancer

The human body succumbs when cancerous cells proliferate to compromise a critical body function. In the same way, a human society, whether it be an empire, a nation, or the entire human race, will similarly succumb when enough of its human beings consume, rather than produce, societal resources and proliferate to compromise a critical societal function.

A person normally begins as billions of cells, ALL of whom are trying their hardest to support the health and survival of the person. A rapidly developing and productive person usually results. To maintain this survival state, there are roving cells within each person whose sole function is to search for and destroy cells that have been damaged or reprogrammed so as to take resources from the person, but not give any resources back. Normally, these damaged cells are entirely removed from the person to ensure its continued health and survival.

At some point, whether through import of poisonous resources into the organism, e.g. impure water and air or “dead” food or foreign substances, or just aging, the cells responsible for cleansing the being of cancerous cells are compromised, and the cancerous cells are allowed or even encouraged to reproduce. At some point the cancer “metastasizes” and the cancerous cells proliferate to compromise a critical body function, causing the death of the person, as stated before.

Similarly, whether through import of poisonous resources into society, e.g. entitlement beliefs, rather than productive beliefs, or aging, the persons responsible for cleansing the society of nonproductive persons are compromised, and the “entitled” persons are allowed or even encouraged to reproduce through raising their children in the same beliefs, encouraging their neighbors in the same beliefs, or in recent history, being encouraged by their governments in such beliefs!

Similarly, at some point these entitled (cancerous) persons “metastasize” and they proliferate to the point they compromise a critical societal function, causing the death of the society, as stated before.

Unfortunately, this “societal cancer” has taken root with a vengeance in current times, especially with the encouragement of increasing numbers of governments, local, regional, and even international. The numbers of persons, who believe that they are entitled to societal resources, rather than charged with producing societal resources for the benefit of all persons, are exploding. Increasing numbers of societies are compromising their critical functions, e.g. Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and eventually, if not stopped soon, America.

Cancer, when it gets out of control, requires rigorous treatment to prevent death. Cancerous cells must be eliminated. In societal terms, unproductive persons must be returned to productive status. At the risk of being lynched, I am not advocating the death of unproductive persons, although theoretically this would be more efficient, but as far as humanely possible, all persons must be encouraged to produce as much as possible (through societal incentives) to support the health and survival of society, and must be discouraged (through societal disincentives) from only consuming the resources of society.

I am not advocating that persons should not be allowed to take any resources from society. Obviously, persons need resources (food, water, etc.) in order to produce resources, but receiving resources needs to be conditioned upon producing resources to guarantee survival of society. For example, as an incentive, I am advocating that welfare recipients produce societal resources (e.g. work) in return for receiving societal resources (e.g. money). As a disincentive, I am advocating that persons who riot and destroy human resources in order to obtain or maintain human resources should be arrested and institutionalized, until they are able and willing to produce, as well as consume, societal resources.

Quite frankly, failure to defeat the growing societal cancer will doom society to death.

Beality

Eliminate Professional Politicians

We pay politicians more money than we make to sit around all year and come up with more ways to take away more of our money. Something is wrong with this. Maybe we should go back to sending persons willing to volunteer their services to assemble every two years for one or two months to pass really signficant legislation in the best interests of all of us.

We need to rid ourselves of these relatively new professional politicians who seek to remain in office with larger and larger salaries and larger and larger benefits and larger and larger pensions payable until their death by legistlating larger and larger salaries and larger and larger benefits and larger and larger pensions payable until the death of those who vote to keep them in political office, persons such as government workers and labor union workers. These wonderful benefits are paid for by the decreasing numbers of the rest of us who are receiving smaller and smaller salaries and smaller and smaller benefits and smaller and smaller pensions. This cannot last.

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