Repeating The Fall Of Rome In The United States

Dedication

This effort is dedicated to the dilapidated middle class of America. Those who are Nurses, Truck Drivers, Laborers, skilled and unskilled workers, Craft Workers, Bartenders, Waitresses, Service employees, Owners of small businesses, Window Washers, Cleaners of our buildings, Police, Firefighters, Teachers, Public Works employees, Industrial workers (if any still exist), etc. All those who punch a time clock, all those that sell their one gift of life, time, to support themselves and or their families by earning a living in the United States of America. You know the former middle class.

Introduction

Over the years, many of my finish friends have often said I should compile a book based upon my experiences, opinions and observations. Therefore here we go. This book is meant to do you think, make you laugh and most of all make you question the direction we are all taking either personally, nationally and as a society. Whether you are an executive focused most of all on your million dollar portfolio, or some poor working class person in America, who struggles to make it every day in life, this book pertains to you. Actually I hope George Bush reads it, or someone reads it to him! It’s an “airplane book” in a sort of way. It was my thought that if it could be read on one or two flights it would aid a thought provoking, entertainment purpose and help you to escape your normal flight options. Sometimes what I tell you in its context is meant to be real in that it is potentially a realistic answer to a problem. Other times there is no answer because the issue may be overwhelmingly complex and destined to wind itself in to oblivion. You see, where we are, where you are, the position we are in, is the culmination of results or consequence of our personal and or social decisions. To do things differently would require unwinding the dilemma over as many years as it took to create. Maybe God or the Supreme Intervener or whatever it is, has a different idea. Only time will tell. Keep in mind that, drastic change requires drastic measures and the US has become a nation of mealy wimps watching everything go down the tubes.

Chapter One – What Are We?

In a former life I was a progressive Union Leader with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Don’t throw away the book, keep reading. I would often address large groups where I would pose the following question, “What kind of society are we? ” Almost inevitably the response was over-whelming and returned as a “Democratic Society”. I would say, “Wrong!” We live in a Capitalistic society. There are people of power in this country basing all their decisions on the basis of what makes them more money. What makes their stock more valuable. How to fleece America for profit. This is all unfortunately too good. The great American society as we once knew it to include a single worker income with a home, job security, Sundays off, a family, etc., etc., etc., is gone. All the jobs which supported a healthy middle class here, now exploit work forces in third world countries. I want you to consider this. There should be a special import tax on any imported goods sold in our fifty states which are produced out side of those fifty states, if the manufacture of those goods was once here and moved to increase corporate profit. That tax should be equal to the amount of contributions which would have been made by earnings since lost, as Social Security and income taxes, and most importantly specifically stipulated to restore and contain the Social Security System. We deserve this as a nation but we won’t ogle it because they’ve sold out America! Fewer and fewer employed paying in to support more and more un-employed or under employed on entitlements. We can fight a war for oil, American kids die, oil profits come plus 75%, billions and billions of tax payer dollars spent or worse borrowed but, but they won’t fund social security.

The extortion of America’s middles class, in the name of the War on Terror and the actions of the “Halliburton’s” and “Big Oil” amounts to TREASON and those responsible should be held accountable in the same manner as Saddam Hussein. Our priorities suck. Capitalists whether Democrats or Republicans, only care about money in their pockets. NAFTA was driven by capitalists, capitalist campaigne contributions, lobbyists, and other types of influence in Washington… Hey are you awake? General Motors is in trouble. General Motors god dam it! Get in your foreign car and think about that on the way home. Once the middle class is gone your next. Once they can’t pay, you’ll have to and so on and so on until the last multi quadrillionaire has everything, claims he or she has . “WON”, and then sticks a flag in a pile of starving people claiming everything is his or hers. Dramatic, yes, ridiculous, no. Has it happened before? Why aren’t you a Roman? A Greek or an Egyptian? Because all grand civilizations have fallen and they have all fallen the consequence of greed. We need to invest in ourselves as a nation. Now some idiot will say we do and we invest in education. I say to that person, “Are you really that stupid? ” We preach a good line of shit but in reality we have devalued the worth of education so that soon you will need a master degree to wipe cars in a car wash. Corporations are so full of themselves they run totally focused on internal political alignment rather than performance and competence. I’ve seen it so many times. Promote those who are inferior to you and therefore you are not threatened. Undue those who are superior to you in ability so that you are secure in your position and therefore the most able. Go ahead Mr. Vice President of Human Resources and deny it. You promote what’s best for those to whom you report, not what’s best for the competitive success of the company and then you all doctor up a report to the shareholders telling them that chicken shit is chicken stew, slap each other on the back and calculate your bonuses. It’s all about driving up stock value and not about any type of tangible contribution.

This is what we are. This is what we have become as a society and as a nation. I would like to rent Yankee stadium for one day. I would like to bring back the dead American soldiers from World War 1, World War II and Korea and fill the stadium. I would like our political and corporate leadership to sit in center field and define to those Americans why the top ten cars in America are Japanese. Why we are giving North Korea billions of dollars begging them not to build more nukes. Why our steel mills are empty. Why you can’t buy a baseball glove made in the USA. Why social security is going bankrupt and it does not matter. Why each American must work two jobs at half pay to survive and that gas is over three dollars a gallon. Then I would like to give those deceased vets their guns back.

I remember when there was a quality to our lives in this country, Families mattered. A person had Sundays off. Sundays were for getting together, for reasons religious or otherwise. Everything was closed. People dressed in nice clothes and relaxed for the day. Holidays were like that also. Now it’s just another day with few token institutional closings to make it seem like a special day. They are lulling us to sleep and cutting us begin and removing our vitals with so great finesse that most of you don’t know its happening. Think about the time they take your home because you can’t

Pay the taxes (only 20% of the town’s population is employed). If you are a planner at all, do a long term graph based on today’s trends and see if you don’t agree.

Chapter Two – Is it News Worthy

Do you watch the news? Do you read the paper? How do you accept your information? If you’re like me it’s all of the above. Isn’t it amazing. I have never imagined I would see and hear the level of insanity I see and hear everyday on the news. I savor it when the spin doctors go to work. Let’s take the recent hurricanes down south, around Original Orleans. Several years ago my wife and I watched a show on the Discovery channel about the hazards of living on the east and west coasts, and in particular in New Orleans. The show went on to say that Original Orleans was below sea level and protected only by outdated levees. The show continued to discuss the climatic changes and the inevitability of catastrophic storms as a result of global warming effecting America. Now assume this. When my wife and I lived in Loxahatchee Florida, we received a notice from our home owner’s insurance provider, Lloyds of London telling us they were dropping us not the result of any claims but as a result of projected pending increases in the number and severity of storms affecting our area. That was in 2002 before we relocated to Maine. My question is why doesn’t the discovery channel and Lloyds of London accelerate FEMA, they have demonstrated they know more?

The news media likes to catch us on a little lag. I once new an idiot whose idea of the truth was based upon the standard that, “It’s his story, he’s telling it” therefore it is what is believed rather than what is, that is important. They don’t lie, they bend, embellish and exaggerate to sensationalize. What is important is what they tell you is important, not necessarily what is important. I don’t give a shit if Prince Charles visits the White House. Kids are dying in Iraq. We don’t need continued hype about approaching storms, we need facts. The tendency to promote the sale of bottled water and plywood over the years helped to create the conditions which worsened the effects of hurricane Katrina. Most people figured it was more bullshit and would just blow out to sea like all the others. Don’t murder the cookout. The news which over stated so many storms in the past was not taken seriously in the case of Katrina. Are the News broadcasters guilty? Are news shows based on ratings? No brain’r.

We really are screwed up. Now we have an entirely new media to exploit called the internet. It must be true, I read it on the internet. Bloggers. $399.95 for the complete desk top from Dell (made in China) and you can be a self proclaimed expert on any subject. The Bloggers on the internet are actually threatening to replace the CB radio as the sole information source for some people. What ever happened to a little thorough research on a subject and then a report which includes all the facts not just selected facts. Why isn’t the news more proactive rather than reactive. I’ve got an idea, how about a news show called, “If this trend continues” with Jon Stewart reporting. Topics for individual shows could be such as but not limited too, “Cost of Healthcare and the elimination of retirement at any age in America’, ‘ Labor Laws and competing in a global economy with our hands tied behind our backs’, ‘Selling your organs to pay for College tuition in the year 2010′, ‘War for profit, the Halliburton secret to success”, “Who pays taxes when we are all out of work”, and my favorite, “Basing your vote on the best TV adds”. Dumb or too close to reality. What’s important to you and why don’t they record on that? That, my friend is what should matter.

I’m not entirely against sensationalism in the news and there are a few responsible reporters out there who can report a story and then demonstrate their disdain for it with a simple facial expression. Robin Mead comes to mind. She’s the best. In most cases the people I know don’t want to know what’s going on. They want to think they know. It creates a comfort level. Our government wouldn’t do that! There are no drugs here. These people spent too great time watching Leave it to Beaver rather than 60 minutes. If you take the time to piece it all together from various news and information sources you quickly identify the larger scope of today’s social issues. Once you identify them calculate them into that long term graph we talked about earlier and then build that against a declining work force to search for whose going to pay for them. Since you’re so confident you’ll be the last one working, how much will you have to earn to pay for it all by yourself? 200 billion a week? You’ll be alright; you’ve got that Bachelors degree under your belt.

Chapter Three – Religion

So your thinking, “This guy’s nuts”. Who in their right mind talks about religion? Too controversial. Well, I’m a recovering Catholic. That’s right, I went to catechism, high mass in Latin. I was raised by an insane mother who view God did everything superb and the devil did everything terrible. That we were all incestuous offspring of two nudists who woke up in the Garden of Eden. Just when I thought I could name the Saints, the church changed the rules and some of them previously worshipped bastards fell from grace. Had to eat fish on Friday or you will go to hell. What happened to that one? Oh yea McDonalds, must have to sell burgers on Friday too. I watched all this crap as a young kid growing up and continually questioned it, which got me slapped in the back of the head by one offended, drunken Irishman named Father O’Brian. If you are a good parishioner and your marriage is on the rocks, you are supposed to contemplate the relieve and counseling of the priest. That’s right, the priest, Sworn to celibacy, living in a isolated world protected from the pressures of the world by the donation basket and the nuns caring for him and the rectory not to mention the ladies

Guild. What in the fuck does he know? The most real portrayal of a priest I’ve seen was on the Sopranos when the priest would near over to Tony’s home, drink his wine, eat his food and try to screw his wife, Carmella. After all he was aging and not so able to catch exiguous boy parishioners. That’s more like it. Another splendid one is if you act in the proper manner as prescribed by the teachings of the church, God will help you succeed. More bullshit. While you’re praying for guidance your piers are plotting against you and totally undermining you to ensure their success. You go down the tubes. There’s no justice.

If God view that sex was so bad, why did he or she make it feel so good? One of those topics for my afterlife review if in fact there is such a thing. Go forth and multiply, but sex is a sin. Who performed the marriage ceremony for Adam and Eve? Protected sex is against the church. Are AIDS and some of the other diseases going around today better? In any case, all this religious application toward the thought process of life has resulted in major political and therefore social influences which resulted in wars, ethnic cleansing and other disgusting acts by mankind against mankind. As smart as we think we are this continues today. If you truly are a religious man with a religious wife raising a religious family by religious standards in today’s world, it is truly miraculous. I say my prayers every night but I don’t know where they go. They are hardly ever answered. I pray to be a better man, for my family and to hit the lottery. I’m changing my approach now and I’m going to pray that you find this little book entertaining.

Chapter Four – Labor Relations and the Global Economy

I don’t mediate there is any one area of our global economic competitive base that needs more attention. We are competing against a world where everybody else has an advantage and we are disadvantaged. Our controlling laws and standards which were drafted primarily between the beginnings of the 20^th century up until some minor changes in the 80′s are outdated. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), Labor – Management Relations Act (LMRA) and modifications such as Taft/Hartley were designed to deal with the issues and pressures of that time. Let’s talk about one little established legal action called a strike. As a Union Rep I often commented that a strike was a failure by the negotiating team to successfully reach an agreement with the employer therefore putting the burden of representation serve upon the membership in the develop of financial capital punishment. Nobody wins and everybody loses. In a global environment, foreign competition gains market share, ours loses. Employers watch an advantage to fascinating to a controllable labor environment, shipping jobs to the third world, as a long term path to their success. Keeping it brief and not doing justice to this issue, Unions in America and elsewhere need to position themselves as the, “preferred provider of labor” by training their membership and by offering a higher level of productivity creating long term employment and job security. Dump that strike language and adopt a binding arbitration system based upon the following;

- A Parties position must provide a highly competitive base for the operation of the enterprise.

- A Parties position must provide for the long term security of the workforce by providing continuing employment.

- A Parties position must align with the mission of the enterprise.

- A Parties area must provide for Quality of Life for all employees.The Arbitrator should be compelled to award an all or nothing decision based upon which party meets the conditions of the settlement guidelines or standards. This type of process would in actuality force the parties to recede closer together during negotiations as they try to prevail by the standards of award. In most circumstances there should not remain enough distance, between parties, on issues, to create a continuation of a dispute but more likely resulting in a packaged, good settlement.

I would be remiss if I didn’t take a minute here and clarify I’m not union bashing. If you want an example of a current union with great leadership take a look at the United Brotherhood of Carpenters. Under the leadership of General President Doug McCarron and others like Doug Baines, Andy Silins and Anthony Graziano, they have developed a State of the Art Training facility in Las Vegas. They have pulled out of the good ole boy standards of the AFL/CIO and are taking a progressive and positive stance in dealing with their employers. They have become the preferred provider of the highest skilled labor and therefore the most productive workforce building today’s power plants and other types of highly technical construction and installation projects. All our hats should be off to these guys as they really are putting America to work.

Chapter Five – The Promises of the 60′s

Let’s get aid to some fun stuff. I probably lost you with the Labor dialogue, I hope I didn’t but I might have. I hope you can remember the 60′s. If you are older than I am, I was born on 03 / 05 / 50, you hated the 60′s. If you are in my age group, you’re trying to figure out how to collect back to the 60′s. If you’re younger than me you probably have a distorted view of the 60′s.

In the 60′s:

Rock and Roll really had a beat that made you want to dance. Rock and Roll, ROCKED BABY!

Pot was cheap and twice as strong as today’s’.

You could buy a car the way you wanted it, colors, motor, tranny, radio, etc.

You could quit a job in the morning and start a recent one after lunch.

AMERICA WAS A MANUFACTURING ECONOMY!

TV was simple, you had about four or five FREE channels and the youngest kid was the remote control.

A high school education was something to be proud of.

Girls were easier.

Boys were harder.

You didn’t risk your life making love!

The Vietnam War was raging, young men were dying; Politicians were deceiving the American public. Now? No then! Well, now too!

We had the Beatle’s, the Stones, Motown, Jay and the Americans, the God dam Beach Boys!!

Good times, the best of times, no fears, no guilt, clean air and water, cheap rents and beer.

Transistor Radios the size of a pack of Cigarettes.

Drive-in movies,

Gas was 30 cents a gallon, etc.

And last but not least, MINI skirts were everywhere!

The 60′s did not have:

Marilyn Manson

Cell Phones, (you had to use pay phones but the cost was a dime!)

Satellite TV, the cable snake; XM Radio

Aids

Foreign Cars as widely seen as today. They were called “Jap Crap.”

Hard Rock, Screaming Rock, Rap.

Bottled Water you have to buy.

Rampant unemployment.

The Bird Flu

Total disillusionment, period.

It was fun times, where America (as it used to be referred too) was number one in the world. My civics class books used to show China as a starving farm land, populated by people who carried two baskets hung on each end of a pole, carried across their shoulders. Teachers dilapidated to show us “pie” charts indicating America had all the natural resources it would ever need, it could FEED the WORLD! We were it man, we were it! Russia was the bad guy. Them Russians man, Khrushchev banging his shoe yelling, “We will bury you”, turns out they were all nasty, those crazy Russians. The Japanese bought us, the Arabs control us, the third world has all our manufacturing, and the Koreans have all our money. Drive-in movies, to a great extent, no longer exist! If you ask me, that was the price of the beginning of the end, right there. Basically let me summarize what happened. Why you live in inconvenience. Fear of tomorrow. We were raised under the “Mushroom” theory. That’s right. We were kept in the dark and paunchy of shit. They told us so much bullshit; Americans were in denial that things were being sold down the river. That’ll never happen to US! We’re number ONE! Hell, George Bush and the Bush Cartel, unruffled think that you’ll believe anything. Yes folks, they are marching us toward the branch covered hole and telling us not to pay any attention to the guys with the guns, lining the rim!

We don’t really want the 60′s back. We want that feeling of greatness supported by accomplishment and security of our futures based upon living right, and working hard, after all, it’s the American dream. Is all hope lost? Probably.

Chapter Six

I Got to Get Out of This Place – Earth!

There’s about a snowballs chance in hell, of ever turning this accelerating spiral to doomsday, around. Some people consider it’s all been predetermined in the Bible, by our Friend and Savior! What a lousy joke for him / her or it to play. More likely it has been predetermined by the stupidity of Man. Let us fantasize.

How about a political party called, “Americans for America” whereas all political positions and goals will be focused upon the intent to stabilize the standard of living for Americans, create ZERO National debt, pay as we go. A party that recognizes the world as secondary to the America we should be, therefore allowing America to positively influence the world. The transition of the world to a higher standard of living should be more gradual and developed along some plan or strategy again focused upon the improved standard of living for the effected populous. Slowly area by region supported by our own strength of standards, America could help develop product query and manufacturing based upon regional stabilization, demand and economic development rather than capitalistic fleecing. Opening to outside markets should be scheduled to coincide with that regional developmental economy attaining success and stabilization creating parody with the other trade partners. In the same thirty and counting years it has taken to gut America’s vitals, weaken the sensible leader, and put all the world at risk, we could have created several, nine or ten, regional stabilized economies in places like Africa, the Arab world, Eastern and Western Europe, etc. At that point in time creating a global economy would not create the dismantling of any one participant. The only justification for the approach we have seen taken was corporate influence for the sake of capitalistic gain. Man, what are you talking about? It all makes too much sense.

I don’t believe that anyone really has a doubt that this whole climatic, social and immoral mess is going to collapse. It is rightfully so. We are the cancer of “Mother Earth” and nature has a arrangement of dealing with problems like us. She has all the time in the world to wait once we are wiped out and allow the earth to cleanse itself back to shipshape water and air, green trees and peace of nature. If you disagree, go pet your dinosaur. But it is amazing and we are lucky enough to live during the times, when we gape ourselves totally out of control and insane, help her along.

I’ll issue you a fair challenge. I want you to watch a program called, “Real Time”, with Bill Maher. At first you will only contemplate the Liberal side of the show, but as you continue to watch you will see that the conversation and debate on that show, exposes all sides of an issue. There are some absolutely brilliant guests on that show representing the conservative point of view. I have learned more by studying Real Time than I have anywhere else. If I had to summarize the desired resulting opinion process indispensable to put the world’s civilization back on a distinct track, I would say there should be no liberals, conservatives, capitalists, terrorists or any type of religious fanatic. There should just be what is currently most lacking. Thought based leadership based solely upon common sense.

Chapter Seven – Death

Dying is the only blueprint we are ever getting out of here. Death makes no sense to me at all. I can’t grasp the concept. You take a wonderful being who has gained all this knowledge, built his or her legacy, large or small, and then they’re gone. Love and all. Hate and all. Whatever the case may be, they are gone. Kind of senseless.

We are the only animals on Earth to live with the knowledge of death, supposedly. Now there’s a gift. I’d rather not know, how about you?

I once watched a documentary on death where it was proven a small energy pulse leaves the body upon the exact time of death. Could that be our soul? Flying in big jets kind of finished off my understanding of Heaven. What is that energy and where does it go? I have also been told that what is naturally here on Earth must remain here on Earth. We all know that electrical impulses are what keep us breathing, our heart beating, so when this energy leaves our body what does it become? There are many interesting beliefs that near into play with this gem of view. Are those energy forces Ghosts? Are they what some gain is the basis of reincarnation? Wow, follow me on this one. Do energy forces continue to sustain memory and retain intelligence? Is it in our ninety percent of unused brain that these energy forces reside, hide and appear at some later time to save mankind? Appealing stuff. Of course I’ve unprejudiced ticked off all the religious thought based people who read this book. I know, we all go to heaven regardless of religious beliefs, or denomination and if you are a Catholic even if you are the biggest scumbag ever lived, you go if you go to confession and get the last rights!

Where do “we” go? We remain here on Earth. When all this “stuff” is looked at it seems as though the scientists have the best ability to create somewhat of a believable scenario. When some of us gifted with ESP. or other types of paranormal abilities, claim to be able to justify by some means, life on the other side, science is quick to dismiss any such claim. You need factual evidence which cannot be provided. But I’m not so sure. If you step back and just contemplate at what’s going on, it all fits to well just to be an accident. Documented claims to reincarnation go yet unexplained. Visionaries and profits, how about them? I’ve seen it when a dog howls the night its master dies with no way of knowing what had occurred. How does the dog know? All this stuff, we have created about death forms a smorgasbord of possibilities to allow each individual the opportunity to pick what’s most pleasing to their palate. Death is too important, affects us all and is the purveyor of so many mysteries, to not be explored. Maybe it should be the next great frontier or maybe it’s just simply when you die you die, that’s it. It has been proven the human mind is not grand of comprehending infinity, maybe death is infinity? Oh you can say the word, know what it means, but I’m talking about really opinion it. No beginning and no end, on forever, never getting there, no middle, no front or wait on, no top or bottom no dimensional limitations whatsoever. Try to vision it and your head starts to hurt. From our first breath here in this life, everything we are exposed to is dimensional including our life!

But we know Set is infinite! Yet things are born and die in space. Planets are born, stars nova, comets are formed; there are gases, minerals, asteroids all kinds of stuff. Where in the hell did that advance from? The Father of infinity? What was there before space was there? A vacuum? What created the vacuum? What surrounds the vacuum to keep it absent of any matter or gas? How can you surround infinity? Wow! Remember I warned you, you can’t truly comprehend infinity. You originate thinking in terms of a beginning and an slay. You start thinking dimensionally. Well, maybe that little pulse of energy is infinite. Maybe it visited a non infinite being for some yet undiscovered reason. Maybe life itself creates all the confusion as upon conception it steals a slight piece of what otherwise would remain as infinite cosmic energy, and uses it for a “battery” for awhile. Whatever is going on seems to work even though we can’t understand it or accept the consequence of its end. What all this tells me is to enjoy every day, acquire your life with people you admire and love you, be qualified to as many as you can, never kick your dog and be exclaim with your position in life. Just do the best you can. Who knows, what is most important about a life maybe the smile its memory creates on someone’s face after it ends. But do me one little favor. The next time there is one of those really clear nights, with a full moon, drive to a black, and remote place away from any city lights. Recognize at the sky with all those stars and planets and try to contemplate infinity without wondering what’s on the other side. There isn’t, “the other side”.

Chapter Eight

The Only Real Differences in People

We are all aware of the different types of people inhabiting our planet. Differences which provide the basis for class or individual discrimination. We discriminate based upon National Origin, Race, Sex, Size, Age, Religious Beliefs, Political Beliefs, Financial Holdings, and Education. There are probably more examples but these are enough to create my point. These people on the receiving destroy of this discrimination whether it be illegal, or proper but immoral, still remain a execrable section class, where it should be distinct if in fact these people have attributes. And, guess what? They do. I think there’s only one characteristic which justifies discrimination to anyone, non-discriminately. I think we should openly and vigorously discriminate against assholes. Yes, you know what I am talking about. Hitler was an asshole, discriminate against that bastard. History is full of assholes that got away with a great deal of bullshit which hurt many people in horrific ways. I’m sure you can think of a couple of assholes right now, maybe sitting next to you. Fuck them, discriminate against them every god dam chance you get. If everybody is discriminating against you, and you can’t determine why. You’re not fat. You’re not dim, yellow, short tall, overly religious or any of that. As a matter of fact you’re probably a fashion model, movie star or something. The problem maybe, you’re an asshole. You fuck over everybody with your stupidity and self centered nature. Maybe your kids are undisciplined assholes, and everybody knows it, the reason is, you are in denial about their behavior. That makes you the mother or father of all assholes. There have always been and will continue to be a large portion of society which are assholes. All the laws of man have been established based upon the great need to deal with assholes and asshole behavior. That is the problem, the real struggle of mankind. It’s not good and evil, black and white, Arab and Jew, Republican and Democrat, it is assholes against non-assholes. I say, kill all the assholes and the world will be so much better. That’s true, the next time you are pulling into a parking dwelling and someone speeds in just before you, kill them. The next time someone cuts you off in traffic, boom, gone. It was supposed to be the natural order of things back in the early history of man. The non-asshole cavemen were more loving and supportive of one another, their families and tribe. The asshole cavemen were banging each other’s mates, stealing each others food, shirking their responsibilities around the cave. They were not supposed to survive. They were supposed to freeze without firewood or saber tooth tigers were supposed to eat them. But some of them made it. And guess what? They’re having sex and multiplying. Yes these assholes are not without influence. They have joined together to influence every corner of mankind. Asshole lobbyists have greatly influenced our laws and government. Why we’ve even had some regain elected President! One got in even without a majority vote of the populous. Yes these are sneaky assholes and we really should do something about them. I am afraid sometimes because I think within this overall rule by a majority, the assholes have greater numbers. They can then pass laws protecting themselves from what should otherwise be a natural outcome. They may even decide to start killing non-assholes. Could you imagine the fate of non-assholes like you and I when there becomes total control by assholes? That may be when politics comes into play. We will disguise ourselves and our beliefs to align with theirs. We will disguise ourselves as assholes! All pretty crazy. Joking aside, it is the nature of mankind that creates these antagonistic differences. Somebody doesn’t do something the way that you do, or respond in a manner that you approve of, that person “irks” you. I’ve heard it my entire life. “Irk,” translation, “To piss off, frustrate or anger, generally create dislike for ones self. Irk(s) the emotion created by someone performing an act, making a statement or gestures for which you do not approve.” Many of us budge through our everyday drudgery getting irked continuously. You can not view in any direction, at any topic or area of everyday life and life’s events and see anything positive. Everything is bad news all of which falls directly upon you, the individual. This my dear friends is why we have terrorists, why people hate other people to the point of massacre and genocide. Some may be more controlled than others, such as financial and/or social genocide, such as we are seeing here in this country. Some may be more directly clear such as the mass graves we see in places such as Africa and have seen in Western Europe. This is all the nature of the beast that we are. You can’t change the core nature of DNA; simply by thinking you can use education as an accelerant to evolution. The nature of Man is the root cause of our insanity, and will be what causes the end to his reign.

Chapter Nine

Justice

America the considerable has become a nation of “Bleating Sheep”. I probably should not have been that direct, but I hope I have your attention. We punish our own to protect the rights of others who, follow me on this, have absolutely no deserving reason justifying any entitlement of any rights or privileges and whose actions and beliefs are of such a improper and distorted value that their own existence is best terminated. Wow! I watch and read how persons are beheaded, women and children and innocent men are systematically slaughtered, mutilated and thrown out with the trash, and then I listen and read where people in this country are upset because one of our soldiers allowed his dog to bark and snarl at the same type of terrorist character’s balls. Fuck You! We will sink so fast based on our own self well-behaved beliefs and that broadcast of weakness will effect us the weak target the world sees us as now, to even a larger scale. Hey let’s go fuck with America, at a minimum they’ll give us billions to halt! If you think I’m kidding, what do you think Candeleeza Rice is doing in Korea? You need to understand. There are beings in this world that have not evolved into Humans. They have evolved into animals. With the support of do-gooders like some in the U.S., their continued deviate evolution not only continues it feeds and grows. I know, our higher standard, well shit on that. Let’s say someday they are bold enough to show their numbers here in the U.S., and decide to attack a shopping mall and slay, slaughter, dismember rape, desecrate and gut all those innocent shoppers in the name of Allah, or Osama or Donald Duck! Doing this act in their shit for brains mind and getting killed for it makes them go strait to terrorist heaven. Now if you’re one of those people who are appalled by my point of view, announce YOU were there shopping that day with your Daughter, Granddaughter, any loved family and friend, and one of these pigs held you by the hair ripping your blouse open, while his buddy grabbed your kid, held his head back, and while you were watching and begging for mercy, shoved a ten promenade knife through your kids throat from back to front so you could look the blade exit in front of your very eyes. Then, while that corpse was falling to the floor, the one holding you would cut out your eyes so it would be the last thing you ever see, if in fact you survive, while saying to you, “Tell your American President that Allah is good, Allah is mammoth and all you infidels will suffer this fate.” Because, Ladies and Gentlemen, that’s what these animals are like. They fantasize about the ability to do that sort of thing to all of us. That’s what they mean by, “Destroy all of US”. People here act like that means show up at your house with a Tupperware container full of cookies! The accepted reality of their choice to participate in terrorist behavior, justifies in my mind, like treatment in return. We ought to fill an airplane with them and fly over their hideaway and drop them on top of their buddies. That’s one they can’t do, we control the air, and our government’s Air force ought to utilize it.

If the thought of free flying terrorists screaming all the way down toward Earth, until they crash through their buddies tent roof and kill them too, doesn’t suit your need, what does? What do you think has to be done, in a manner they understand and can relate too, that will deter them from their insanity? Do you think that we should send in the Red Gross armed with enough Thorazine injections to help them see the light? One time I was involved in negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement for the Daytona Police Department. The Attorney representing the City of Daytona Beach commented on my response to a City position by referring to me as, “an peruse for an eye, guy”. I responded by saying, “Do not be confused, I am a head for an eye, guy”. The one concept that is seems Americans and the world cannot understand is that there are cultures such as we are dealing with in Iraq that live and breed to Detest and Die. Look at the example set by “our” side during the hanging of Saddam. I was disgusted. It seems as though we should have set an example of high standards rather than taunting the man being hanged minutes before his death. What I got out of that is that “we”, our side, is no better than their side! We should have just hanged him and turned the body over to his remaining family. Let me make it positive I benefit this as a procedural execution. In the streets, reap what you sow.

Where is this Justice that we all think exists? The court system or suitable system is nothing more than a game. It’s all about money, tactics, technicalities, positioning, strategies and right bullshit. You know what I am talking about. How about that little girl in Florida, taken in plain explore on video, found raped, beaten to death and buried in a shallow grave. Then the person who did it, he’s on the video, shows up in court and says, “Not guilty”. How about the same type of situation and the criminal, although found guilty, is given a light sentence, or some therapy sessions with the Judges’ cousin and let loose? All this crap wears me down. I can’t understand it. I sure as hell do not want to write about it anymore. I think things should be resolved along a more equitable means.

I consider if:

You rape or intentionally damage someone, a child, an innocent woman, or anybody by some means; you should reap what you sow. Whatever you did, should be done to you. Take one of these deviate bastards, hand cuff them, put them in a cell and let the victims family go in there and beat them with claw hammers. That’ll send a message.

You commit a crime with a gun; you secure mandatory life in prison without parole. I think that works better than harassing good citizens that enjoy shooting sports. Besides, the NRA has become too political because of our legislative arrive to resolving gun issues. They are so narrow minded they support political candidates based upon a single protest, which ultimately effects us all. In my opinion focus on the criminal, and don’t pussy foot around, maximize the deterrent.

Finally, if you are at war with us, as a terrorist and you are captured, you procure dragged through the streets at which your roadside bomb killed Americans who were sent there to try and stop the genocide of innocents. I don’t care how you’re treated, you have no rights, you wipe your ass with the Geneva Convention standards. You deserve nothing, and you’ll accumulate less. You waive rights with your behavior. They live to kill us because we are Americans. That’s it. Kill them American infidels! I say fuck you die you bastards die, die hungry lying in your enjoy shit but die now the sooner the better and go to Allah fucking heaven! You may think I’m a radical from all this, but nothing I have establish down on this paper is as radical or as stupid as continuing with the practices being employed at the time I write this. If you can’t understand that, I can’t help you.

The “Bush War” or “The War to Increase Oil Profits” however it will go down in history, is over and has been for some time. The blurring with the beginning of the civil war in Iraq has many confused. For some time now I have been telling my friends the country, Iraq, should be divided by group. Fair share of oil reserves to each. Appropriate land per capita. If an Iraqi decided he or she is not going to move to the area appropriate for his/ her beliefs. The others will most likely kill them. NOT OUR Scrape! Ever hear of East and West Germany? North and South Vietnam? Besides, then we’ll know which ones to bomb.

Chapter Ten

Trash

When I was a kid, soda came in reusable quart bottles, coffee came in thick paper cups, and groceries were carried in thick brown paper bags. Whatever happened to these products? As we are all so aware that everything is now plastic we should be equally aware that plastic is petroleum based. That’s right petroleum based. Why do we need some of these products which obviously would better serve mankind by being eliminated? Coffee used to taste great in those paper cups and you could set them to use to start your seeds for spring planting. Grocery bags used to serve many purposes up to and including making great book covers. How about cotton and wool clothing? You know where I am going. Products which were based upon renewable resources, created jobs here in America and were better than their plastic or synthetic counterparts. Where did they go and why? I smell capitalism at work; could it be there are greater profits in products derived from petroleum? Today, right now, there could be no better time to return to utilization of products derived from renewable sources available here in America. Oil producing and therefore controlling nations are looking at us like a wolf sees a rabbit and they are honest. We are on our knees to these countries and having some as friends is not going to be any wait on in the near future. The best thing about these products from renewable sources is they disintegrate over time when discarded. We have mountains of trash growing daily from the dumping of unimaginable amounts of trash everywhere. Some of the stuff we throw away will last a million years before it is broken down by nature. Is that why some people do not care? We need to adopt mandates which provide for the reintroduction of some of these simple products into mainstream America. Go back to washing diapers, paper trash bags, reusable containers, bulk sale items, better quality items which last longer including appliances and furniture. We need to get rid of this throw it out – get a current one mentality. We need to expand upon renewable products to include automobiles and other big ticket items. An example would be interchangeable bodies to chassis on cars, engine exchanges for upgraded efficiency, recapped tires on an improved technology basis. I could think of a million of these types of “out there” concepts but, my friends; they all cruise in the face of today’s priority, convenience! As portion of our energy development program we should include the development of non-petroleum based products to replace petroleum based products, and reusable, upgradeable products and long “life” products to close the overturn of throw away products filling our dumps.

Simply said, “If it’s not reusable, recyclable, upgradeable or have a fifty year use longevity don’t make it or sell it or import it. If it can be made from a renewable resource but isn’t, don’t make it, sell it, import it, buy it or use it.

The FINAL Chapter

The ‘BIG’ one -Fantasy or possibility!

Sooner or later the middle class of America is going to become totally outraged with government by the rich and famous. After all it was never the intent of our Forefathers. There has always been talk of the coming revolution in this country. I have considered the alternatives to a war of weapons with our own government. Although thought inevitable by some of our radical militia groups, not very realistic a belief. I consider if a revolution occurs it will be based on the one thing that strikes home to every capitalist at every level whether governmental or corporate. I think it will be a war of dollars. I think Middle America is going to say, “Why should I wait for you to take it, I’ll cash it in now!” Imagine if the middle class could all come together, finance everything they own, turn it into cash, hide it, proceed it or take it with them out of the country. Then, quit their jobs, sit back and tell the government, the banks, the insurance companies and everybody in between to fight it out for the remains. Property values would crash, our entire system would crash. That’s right, a revolution using the system to beat the system.

Imagine if;

At the end of the “Bush” era, America was on its heels. Trillions wasted on a senseless “war” for oil profits, a split Republican Party, and a total loss of faith in America prevailed everywhere. Social Security was all but bankrupt and actual unemployment was passing the fifty percentile of the work force. I need to comment on this unemployment figure. The government continued to spew figures showing unemployment at between four and five percent. Let’s look at it more realistically. The unemployment roles do not show workers beyond one year from lost employment, they disappear. Nor do these statistics gather the numbers of under-employed, those who had earned upper middle class wages, now earning poverty level wages. Consider this. The poor have never been effected by a dying economy, as they exist on entitlements and menial employment which is usually not cashed in on, overseas by the capitalist profit takers. The rich exist on inherited, invested volumes of money hardly the result of week to week paychecks and therefore isolated from the declining economy. More likely these invested amounts were heavily placed on the corporate, capitalistic strategies which led to the demise of the middle class, profits taken from BIG oil, etc. Understanding this, the total of unemployed, under-employed, early retired, displaced, misplaced and thrown away workers smacks hard and directly on the Middle Class. Since government statistics include the entire population at four to five percent, those percentages would probably more accurately be fifty percent of the middle class!

America, in what turns out as the last election as we know it, elects a woman President and a same party, one-sided House and Senate to help her introduce change,

By this time GM and Ford have taken on subsidiary roles in mergers with foreign automakers trying to protect the value of the shares for their investors, and assisted by intervention by the Federal government in an effort to avoid chaos. Although timelines are vague, the disgust of the American voter becomes more and more evident. Demonstrations are everywhere; people are losing their homes, only the rich can afford health care. Oil and gas along with related energy products are so costly, people can no longer heat or chilly their homes, automobiles are abandoned everywhere, things are basically, “in the crapper”.

Somewhere along the line during the Bush Administration, a new organization began to beget, to be known as “Americans for America”. This organization began a grass roots effort to bring change to America, focused upon an all or nothing goal to restore the middle class. Having a philosophy based upon the theory that to try and live in the remains of America, was far worse than many alternatives. The realization that around the world, places existed where people could go with what would be a “pittance” here and live quite well based upon the exchange values of those economies. And seeing that alternative as an acceptable contingency plan if ending as a failed strategy, the Americans for America party began challenging the systems used and exploited by those in power. Choosing the year 2015 as the peak of their efforts, the AFA began holding seminars for the disgusted citizens explaining ways to camouflage income, if any, hide any holdings, over finance any assets and basically cash in on all available monies as individuals, families or groups, culminating with a mass exodus from America occurring simultaneously on April 15, 2015. This massive exorcise of protest would bring the corrupt government to its “knees” as continued operation of all programs would be impossible. The AFA, representing about thirty percent of Americans, would pull off the greatest of all revolutions seen in the history of the world and do so in a way that the capitalists would understand. They shut off the pipeline of dollars. The investments of the rich collapsed the poor remained unaffected as their lifestyle changed very little and America would be changed forever. The AFA sent the message that, “We will determine when we no longer exist in America, Not You. We would rather leave with what little advantage we have left, than to wallow in the cesspool created for us by the capitalists disguised as Republicans and Democrats”.

When the world became aware of the actions taken by this large group of Americans, all economies became at risk of failure. Only through the efforts of many noble governments and the United Nations would a positive outcome be possible.

A new structure to Congress would require an equitable number portray Middle America. Old technicalities and complications of law would be thrown out and a new more common sense approach would apply to all aspects of American life. For example the strait ten percent income tax became a Constitutional amendment. The elimination of ninety percent of the previous tax department (I.R.S.) saved billions of taxpayer dollars annually. Elected Officials to Congress were provided an income equal to the median income of their constituency. Lobbyists, lobbying and all forms of contributions to elected officials were banned and elections became taxpayer funded and controlled. These types of dramatic changes would be the only cause for return of those Americans, who risked everything to restore America to what America was meant to be. Through this action and only through this action could, “Pursuit of Happiness” once again be realized in America. The power of clean government continued to display its high level of sensible application to remedy all types of circumstances. Another example is that all foreign aid was stopped frosty. The only aid to be granted was based on humanitarian need. We became less a target for anti-American organizations because we were not using our dollars to influence their government for self serving, political, capitalistic reasons. We become the leader of the World, by example. The end of billions of corrupt dollars given away overseas, provides financial availability to be ragged for accelerated recovery when utilized for humanitarian purposes. The continued down sizing of government and rational, intelligent use of taxpayers dollars provides for increased programs for development in the United States creating more high paying construction and related employment. And the restoration and true the improvement of the Social Security system is realized. The infrastructure of America would be rebuilt.

The sensible come by a government, having an equal share of power to the middle class, could enable many advances in all areas. How about access to college based upon ability. How about a school system which allows students the ability to self approach in areas of study they find easy, for which they have greater aptitude? How about a criminal justice system based upon convicted prisoner accountability? I always laugh when, whether watching a television show or in a conversation, I hear, “That person paid their debt to society.” The truth is that person of reference did nothing but create additional, useless and non-productive debt, to society. The law abiding paid the debt. Prisons should become training facilities where prisoners are released only when they have a skill which will generate both an income for themselves and repayment of an “incarceration loan” to the taxpayers. Our current system provides only greater costs, more incarcerations until you are better off being “in” than you are being “out” and having to pay for it!

If I can push your imagination, a realistic, common sense approach may be applied to all challenges facing mankind. Answers are less difficult to see if you pick capitalistic interests. A realistic approach tells us;

Take care of your hold so together everyone can take care of others.

Invest in your people and that is an investment in improving mankind globally.

Recognize the importance of a strong economy as a tool to secure your social structure, not to be exploited.

The more laws you create indicate the failure of your society.

Persons of little real value, but of political authority are cancerous on society as they deny the truly valuable persons opportunity to lead.

Political participation is a “loud” process and should be heard either directly or indirectly, but never be silent!

Closing

I thank you so much for having taken the time to read what I have written. Love what you have read or hate it, I have made you mediate. Although I presented some very unlikely scenarios, what could be more unlikely than the reality of the events bringing us to where we are today? Greed for profits has given away the strength of what was once the greatest industrial power, and left America an empty “shell” forced to lead the free world with its army rather than by example and guidance. What a failing on our part. History will look at us as buffoons of the past. Those that had it, exploited it, gave it all away and then tried to control what was lost. War has never made sense but at time was necessary to protect one nation from another. We look back at Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon and others as heroes when all they were was successful takers. Killers of thousands. But at least they fought with honor. Not like today where the enemy intermingles with the populous, fights from shadows, practices atrocities amongst there own brothers and sisters. How can you fight that? If nothing else is determined it should be that in such a case the internal genocide is a sickness of the civilization in itself and not curable from the outside by any third or fourth party. It must be dealt with from within.

Wherever you are in this world, as a member of the human race change may happen. In America we need to focus on purpose. Our purpose should be the well being of America which then in turn provides us a better position to abet the world. A weak America has developed the world into an “Alfa absent” wolf pack. There is no respect for failure and incompetence and that is all America can display from the mid 60′s through to today. Everywhere you look we have given it away. It is my strong thought that social genocide is no less an offense that physical genocide, therefore we are guilty of perpetuating genocide on our working middle class. Blue Collar America is now Blood stained, Red Collar America. While people like and including the Bush’s, the Kennedy’s

and the Clintons, amongst many others, continue to run things, set the direction of things, socially and politically there is little hope for the rest of us. The whole focus for the next election is being established as the war in Iraq. Although a major disaster, the war is only a small percentage of what the next election should be about. We should be out of the “war” today! We should have presented to us as voters each candidates plan on restoring America by creating jobs that people can actually survive on and long term maintenance of those standards by proposed Constitutional changes. We should ALL HAVE QUALITY HEALTH CARE without it bankrupting families and the elderly. We should have a realistic understanding to deal with lawbreakers other than extended free housing. We need responsible management of our educational dollars based upon opportunity value, based results. We need to discontinuance giving money to the UN for it to give to North Korea and China. Any serve should be strictly focused on humanitarian needs. We need to stop genocide anywhere, anytime any flavor, whether it is physical or social. We just need more people to become aware of what is happening here in America. We need to make America strong again economically and once we approach that point we need to lead the world forward on quality of life vs. economic exploitation.

End

Special Thanks To:

“Grandma Rose” always in my heart,

Mr. Ron Carey, the greatest Labor Leader ever,

Dr Jon Goldstein, economist extraordinaire,

Mr. John Hanson a accurate liberal and mentor,

Mr. Bill Murphy, Department of Labor education, U.M.O. friend and mentor,

Mr. David Kornreich, Esq. friend, mentor and example of excellence,

The members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, for whom I was so privileged and proud to serve.

Members of Maine’s Police, Fire and Public Sector which I was so proud to represent,

Mr. Jim Libby, friend to the end

Mr. Nicholas Lombard for teaching me about fairness and respect,

My wife Dorothy

My many friends and supporters

My Father, for walking picket lines on crippled knees

And last but not least,

My Son Ernest IV for his undying friendship and succor

Repeating The Fall Of Rome In The United States