AUTHOR'S ANGER

Why the hell would I take months to develop this web site and then send the address to all my friends, relatives, and acquaintances?

In addition to that, I am asking all of these people to let their friends, relatives and acquaintances know about this web site and send them the address so they can read the site and tell their friends, etc. to do the same.

If you read the web site, you will have sensed a certain amount of anger on my part.

So why am I angry? Instead of people in responsible positions trying to fix the situation they insist on making it worse to further their own greed and quest for power! Consider the following:

POPULIST POLITICS! This is the act of using words, ideas, impressions, events, and anything else available to persuade an innocent listener into believing your position as being the one and only correct position. It is very dangerous and can be used to undermine the very person believing the nonsense.

I get angry because too many politicians and pundits use this technique to distort the truth and lure people into taking action against their own best interests and the interests of the country.

For an extended description, refer to the following web site and in particular, the section dealing with Fascism and Populism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism

LACK OF DIFERENTIATION! This is a sub-set of Populist Politics. None of our politicians seem to be able to differentiate one situation from another.

Try to pass health care, to help uninsured people, and you are trying to “implement socialized medicine”; “remove people’s choice”; “ration medicine”; “establish death panels”, and “kill grandma”!

Where were the preachers and their churches? They could do a lot to get people to understand both the content and the urgency of this issue.

The same goes for gun control. You cannot compare the conditions in our major cities with the conditions found in small towns, rural areas, and semi-rural areas (such as the area where I grew up).

To take the leap from “a mayor of a major city trying to control guns in his city” to “taking the guns away from everyone in the country” is a total lack of differentiation but they do it all the time!! AND WE LET THEM!

There are just too many examples of a “Lack of Differentiation” for me to describe. You should have a general idea of what I mean by the examples above.

STUPID LAWS! This should probably be another example of the lack of differentiation. It seems to me we should have learned from the excellent results we got from prohibition (1919 to 1933). During that period we banned “booze” of every kind. All that really happened was to make Al Capone et al rich!

Now we have the same thing with marijuana and some other narcotics. The general public buys and uses much of this like previous generations used alcohol. What do our laws do? They are just like prohibition. We are making gang leaders and drug cartels rich.

Look at what has happened to our prisons and the waste of so many young lives! A young person caught selling marijuana at 9:00PM is in jail by midnight! Bernie Maddoff lived in his condo for weeks and he stole billions of dollars!

Why not legalize the stuff, ensure its purity, collect the taxes, and empty the jails?

I want you to know, I assume you will differentiate one drug from another; we know methamphetamine “meth”, phencyclidine ‘PCP”, etc. are dangerous and should not be included. I will leave that to the medical community to make the distinctions.

WHITE COLLAR THIEVES! We all know the tax payers have just been ripped off by the slick dealers on Wall Street and in some of our banks and other institutions. More than the tax payers have been ripped off; how about the poor working man or woman who lost whatever savings they may have had or lost their home?

We do not hesitate to confiscate stolen goods from other criminals; why didn’t we “claw back” some of this stolen money? We are trying to get “Bernie” Madoff’s stolen money found and returned; how come we don’t make an equivalent effort for the working man and women who lost their money on the other scams? Oh, maybe it makes sense to differentiate now because people with influence were caught in the Madoff scandal.

I don’t know; just wondering.

Oops, I should include the difficulty we are having at passing laws and rules to prevent this financial mess from happening again! What is the problem here? Again, are the wrong people being impacted?

FOREIGN AFFAIRS! Do I really have to say anything on this subject? When will we begin to keep our noses out of other people’s business? Is it really necessary for us to spend all of our money and the blood of our citizens to solve the world’s problems?

Is this really some major act of kindness or charity? I have read many times how certain people make tons of money from every war no matter how large or small it is.

Look at the leaders (questionable use of the word) we are defending in Afghanistan (Hamid Karzai and his drug dealing brother). I can probably say something similar for Nouri al-Maliki in Iraq.

I don’t even want to attempt to name all the others we are supporting with our blood and/or treasure. Besides them, who else is getting rich in this process? We know someone is and it is not the American public.

PARTISAN POLITICS! Enough Said!

Sound like a lot of skepticism? It probably is.

However, I think there is also a great deal of justification. Just listen and look around you.

Is this political climate healthy for the country? Are the actions of our corporations healthy for the country?

Is the competition we are going to face in the future from Brazil, Russia, India and China (what is now known as the BRIC countries) the same as we faced in the past?

Do we have anywhere near the natural resources we used to have?

Can we recover our Education System? We now rank 9^th among industrialized nations (people aged 25 to 34 with a High School education) and 7^th (people in the same age group with a college education). Just 20 years ago, we ranked first in both categories.

You can read the source at the following web site:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/13/national/main838207.shtml

Looks a little scary to me.

If you would like to send me a note, you can email me at:

Larry@recordsaysitall.com

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