The opening statement of POTUS during SOTU 2015 was how this century began with TERROR and it's been a long-protracted war ever since.
-- but he withdrew the troops too early, which protracted the wars and fomented militancy.
POTUS then talks about the struggles of family, citing an individual (Rebekah (sp?)) -- saying she doesn't want a "hand-out," just more 'help.'
-- but his political-entity is about raising taxes to job-secure future-generations of college-grads, professionally unionizing, 'donating-back' to his political-entity, for more, more, more, perks, benefits and raises (why we are trillions and trillions of dollars in debt).
-- so, I ask you POTUS: what's next EXACTLY? A giant bureaucracy of job-security for future-generations of college-grads, professionally-unionizing, 'donating-back' to your political-entity of the Legislative Branch for more, more, more (perks, benefits and raises) at taxpayer expense, and calling it a "CHILD CARE HEALTH AND EDUCATION REFORM ACT" ?
-- really? or, the most-likely outcome: a 'triple-bread-winner-family' ASSAULT? (Child labor camps disguised as "schools")?
The "infrustructure plan" is only job-security for future-generations of college-grads, professionally unionizing, 'donating-back' to POTUS' political-entity of the Legislative Branch, at taxpayer expense, facism in disguise, with a facade of "private ownership" which is overly-taxed, overly-regulated, and as National And World Hero To The People Edward Snowden proved, an excuse to scapegoat a few cops and troops (in or out of uniform) while private-data is filtered, scrutinized, dissected and analyzed by Senators in secret; said data used to find "new ways" to "job-secure" more "donors" via a Predatory Credentialing System to their own political-entity of the Legislative Branch at taxpayer expense : (read: VOTE-BUYING IN DISGUISE).
Where can a man-in-need go to work RIGHT NOW? To pick-up a bucket, fill it with rocks, carry it from POINT-A to POINT-B and GET PAID?
-- now, it's an excuse for paperwork-pushers, their own "job-security", to fill-out forms, type at computers, make phone-calls, hold endless meetings about jobs, about work, instead of letting men work for real.
-- POTUS' "vision" is more layers of bureaucracy instead of JOBS, at taxpayer-expense, saying that is "development," "economic growth," "prosperity," but if it were not for Bush-Era stimulus monies, mis-applied to fake "prosperity" today, there wouldn't be "job growth." It's a facade.
Look at ENERGY as an example: The President says the United States "no longer dependent on foreign oil" ; he dlayed the Keystone Pipeline, and as a result, energy prices sky-rocketed. It was a gamble to "stimulate" internal-investment in energy production and resource exploitation. This was to promote "alternatives." The resultant super-inflated prices gave FALSE HOPE to many private investors.
-- "competitor" energy-producing companies/countries increased output to lower prices, to stimulate and secure future-demand/need for their products (oil, gas, etc).
-- now, with lower prices at the pump, all those private investors have no way to be profitable, because pro-unionized workers, 'donating-back' to POTUS' political-entity for "job-security" for themselves, and more 'perks, benefits, etc.,' needs $50-70/bl to stay employed.
-- now, those 'alternatives,' which have consumed more natural resources than ever before in history just to transport, let alone construct, has destroyed infrustructure faster than ever before in history, while those pro-unionized 'workers' demand "higher wages, perks and benefits."
-- now, that same political-entity will put pressure on the Auto Mfg sector to produce bigger cars and trucks with lower MPG than ever, to increase consumption, 'stimulate' demand,' to 'increase-prices' at the gas-pump and home heating-oil (higher prices pays for the union-jobs SHORT-TERM ONLY while depleting resources FASTEST); which will increase carbon-footprints, which will be the excuse to tax the end-user more (driver and family).
POTUS says the "average" pay approx $740 {LESS} annually on gas. But his tax MANdates were triple that, and as a result, higher-prices for products/services, and endless local-legislative-bodies raising more fees, fines, taxes, etc., erases that seven-fold, especially if an "average family" has a student and pays tuition for anything, anywhere.
WEDGE-ISSUES and POTUS mentions " ... what I have seen ..." referring to several items, including GAY MARRIAGE, but it's not MARRIAGE EQUALITY and it's still ILLEGAL in most places, and is being used as a REGISTRY of 'sexual deviants'.
-- look, I was born gay. I never had a sexual relationship with a woman; I never cowered behind her, hiding in a 'closet' of deception, living a double-life, lieing and cheating. Those are not 'gay issues.' Those are bi-sexual issues. I don't care if someone was married to a woman, divorced and is now in a same-sex relationship or not. What they told their ex-spouse and kids was that they were "victims of their sexuality." That was their EXCUSE. I don't have excuses. I am just gay -- I was born this way.
Furthermore, be they man or woman, now referring to themselves as "gay" or "lesbian," they are increasingly the "face of the gay-nation," but the only discipline they ever learned was how to cheat and lie. They took it to work with them, they took it to church with them as well. I DID NO SUCH THING.
I am the "face of gay" in this nation, in this world, in reality. They've killed nearly all of us, and the Lesbians claiming they are "gay" only adds to the confusion. It was SUGGESTED in the 1950's that we homosexual men call ourselves "gay" because the bible-thumping women spit the word "homo" with venom. We formed a Gay Rights Movement. THEN, we allied with homosexual-women, who chose their own name, "Lesbian" to define their own NATURAL BORN EXISTENCE, different from the "biblical homos" the bible-thumping 'church-lady' hated.
We took our first case to court to define the difference between a homosexual man and a homosexual woman. GAY_RIGHTS_FOR_DUMMIES_101
When a woman refers to herself as 'gay,' because she is 'homosexual' (or in a same-sex relationship), she is arguing against GAY RIGHTS. Because that is the argument we won in court, that it is NOT A CHOICE, it is NOT AN ATTITUDE, it is NOT A 'club-to-join', it is NOT AN ILLNESS or DISORDER.
This President wastes the time of the world, painting pie-in-the-sky cartoon-imagery, while ignoring the most important topics facing all of Humanity today.
CLAYTON LEON WINTON citizen#C03183395
-- Sen Marco Rubio on NBC: this guy is in an artificial environment, and lends support to the thought that a Constitutional change is in order: an increase in the Age Requirement to be elected Senator, to 45. He is smart, quick, but developmentally-stunted in REAL LIFE and the REALITIES OF LIVING IT. It's as though he can 're-frame' the text-books faster, so therefore is "more qualified" to 'lead'? Good heavens!
-- Rep Ernst: a carefully worded response, short and sweat. I'm glad Cathy did not give it this year; I saw her at Mayor Condon's annual address last year, and I'm glad she was there. As for Rep Ernst, I stand with her in the (not only a sentiment but a reality) that we must work together to solve anything. And I'm glad she did not engage in ad hominem or nitpick speeches. But there is so much more to say/do. And the COMMON ENEMIES of COMMON MAN, be s/he of this citizenship or any other, of this political or religious persuasion or any other, are more abundantly-clear than ever: Predatory Credentialing System, worldwide, profiting from atop the rubble, misery, confusion and grief.
" ... only the LIVING can give THANKS ... " (TaNaKh NEVI'IM I.39.19)
Shalom and Amen.
Kind regards, always,
CLAYTON LEON WINTON (the real name I was born with and I have never used any other, citizen ID#C03183395)
-- follow-ups: MY WORDS about NBC broadcast post-SOTU, Wed Shevat 1, 5775
If Senator Harry Reed had that bad eye amputated, he'd be 50-percent less offended by all he sees.
Healthcare: you know what they told me when I ended up at the ER after a single-person accident? "self-inflicted.'
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Defending the NFL; this is what? De-flate-gate? ROFL. Perhaps an Investigator named "Starr Kennedy" can be found to investigate? $54-million dollar budget. Results will be something about, what? Blue-dresses and real-estate?
Look, there are some people that are quite particular and peculiar about INFLATION; they'll add 5psi to tires for highway use, and subtract 5psi for city driving; they'll reduce psi for volleyballs in cool weather cuz it hurts, same with soccer balls, to do headers or whatever. Sometimes, pressure-gauges are finicky, so sometimes, temperature or moisture can make the gauges read incorrect results, but "close enough." LET IT GO.
-- I own some riverfront property. I have an airbed I use to float around the bend, a 'horseshoe-loop' bend in the river. If I inflate the airbed in the morning, and it sits in the sun all day, it gets really big, like it's going to pop. But it doesn't. Then, when the sun sets, it looks under-inflated. Figure it out, geniuses. :)
-- I'm thinking that some people would actually prefer to accuse coaches and staff of some great conspiracy and fraud, some super-deception, and would actually be thankful to spending $54 million dollars 'investigating' such silliness; so, instead of a resultant of "blue dresses and real estate," perhaps it would be, BlueBalls and TailGates? lol
-- seriously, it's just a diversion from far more important things. Look, the new NFL balls were inflated to proper psi; then they traveled, were in a storage container over the engine compartment of a bus or something, or plane, whatever; the air molecules were excited by the increase in temperature, the 'fabric' of the balls stretched-out a bit; but when the field temperature was lowered, at game time, the air molecules settled down, and the internal pressure decreased. SIMPLE. LET IT GO. We've far more important things to spend energy and resources upon, than squabble about MenInTights playing with Balls;
-- so, what about SEGREGATED SPORTS, a JimCrow-ist holdout to reinforce Jim Crow-ist attitudes? Where is the NFL Team of Females going to the SuperBowl? Until then, or co-ed teams, it's SSSegregation, liars.
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INFLATION: I'm already paying nearly $5 for a loaf of Orowheat Jewish Rye Bread, you liars.
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Foreign Policy, re: CUBA: can I go there yet? No. Nor anybody else. Now, the same people that have re-authorized total sanctions and eliminated free-trade, free-markets, free-travel and free-associations, significantly harming economy and reducing tax-revenues for State, are now traveling freely to Cuba at taxpayer expense, but if I do, I'd be ARRESTED? Then the same should occur upon their return. Either it's about EQUALITY and JUSTICE FOR ALL, or it's FRAUD.
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LIBERTY'S PARABLE
There was once a man from Belle, a far-away island, cracked open by earthquake and sunk beneath the sea;
-- his name was Liberty.
Looking for a new and improved way of life, he came to the 'land of the free,' as it was called, the country name, "Chains."
He lit a cigarette and was issued a ticket. It had been issued by a black man, a descendent of slaves that had once cultivated tobacco for no pay. The taxes from slave-labor agricultural products built Chains. Now, the black man, a police officer, enjoyed his income from taxpayers of Chains, issuing such tickets, presumably.
Liberty had no money to pay the ticket and was arrested for "failing to appear," so he spent ten days in Chain's jail.
Hungry, he saw a man washing windshields of horseless-carriages as the vehicles stopped at intervals, directed by colored lights and more black men blowing whistles and waving their arms. He removed his undershirt, put his topshirt back on, and walked over to a stopped vehicle, polishing the glass with his precious clothes and a smile.
He was issued a ticket for disrupting traffic and failure to register for employment and produce a vendors' license.
Liberty had no money to pay the ticket and was arrested for "failing to appear," so he spent ten months in Chain's jail, 'compliments-of' Chains' taxpayers, but he wondered who was actually working and paying Chains' taxes?
Hungry, after being released, he wondered what real work was to be done? Should he take a uniform by force and issue tickets? Is that how the former slaves' kids survive? Perhaps he should cut-out the 'middle-man' and just demand money up-front from 'scafflaws'?
He was about to ask a man that was smoking, but the man handed him a pack of cigarettes and walked away without a word. But Liberty had quit smoking in jail. So he sold loose cigarettes for a few sheckles each, helping the needy while helping himself, almost 'earning' enough money for a meal before he was beaten and arrested by descendants of slaves for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes.
His money was confiscated and he was convicted of many crimes, including "resisting arrest," but he had not swung or struck anyone. He spent ten years of a twenty-year 'sentence' in Chain's jail, 'compliments-of' Chains' taxpayers.
Hungry, released 'early' for 'good-behavior,' he discovered he was now too old to work ...
THE END
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SOTU 2015, Last Thoughts:
I just typed my internet blog addy into the browser from the privacy of my own home and was taken to a different blog, called, "Random Thoughts," which is not my blog. Somehow, my blog name, this one, "BrutalHonesty," was moved to "BrutalHonesty2.BlogSpot.Com" -- it now has a "2" after it -- so if anybody looks it up on Google Search, they are taken to a completely different blogger and blog that has nothing to do with me. I wonder how many of my blogs have had their internet addy re-directed and now if somebody looks me up, they end up somewhere else, reading somebody else?
If you ("you" is figurative, of course) bought an airline ticket to Havana, Cuba, how would you feel if you were let off the plane in Anchorage, Alaska?
What about my main blog, ResuscitateHumanity? This is an exploration of my faith, and all these blogs are tied together from my main blog, which should be at http://www.blogger.com and always had "blogger.com" after the blog name in the internet address. Now, my blogs have been moved, and moved again, apparently, without my knowledge or consent. Is this the "new, improved, super-duper leaner, cleaner, better, brighter, whiter, more efficient, less expensive" Google? Is that how Google does business? Is that their business model? Their MISSION STATEMENT?
I think it's mean. It inflicts a shradenfraude provocation upon end-users, which in this case, is me, the blogger. Do they have company uniforms there? Brown Shirts, perhaps?
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Speaking (figuratively) of Cuba, since the President, POTUS Obama, mentioned Cuba and a "normalization of relations," which is something I have advocated for my entire life -- afterall, it's a nation of Native Americans -- it's 90-miles from our shore and if we can't get along with them, how can this country be taken seriously anywhere? How can this country say anything about "celebrating diversity" and "equality" at all, when they hate me too?
So, considering that, keeping it in mind, what I predict from the Good 'Ole Boys club, of which their BigMouth spokesperson, the Salesman In Chief, reading teleprompters like an animated talking-head, endlessly, is this: tap-in to a nation of approx 11-million cheap-labor workforce and exploit it, then blame Republicans as a diversion, as usual.
There are billions worth of investments that were Nationalized after the Cuban revolution. No compensation to those private companies and owners and investors has ever been given, or discussed. What about reparations? I think that should be the only type of "taxpayer bailout" there is, frankly. Unfortunately it would have to be 1950's dollars, not 2015 "maximum phaaat-bottom line" dollars, but at least it would be honest and fair. Well, fairer than nothing. Yes, the asset, had the monies been liquid in the 50's, would have, could have --- emphasis on 'could have' -- been invested and possibly -- emphasis on 'possibly' -- returned gains. But there is no promise of that, nor guarantee of that. And, further still, I predict that if a computer model were to analyze every dollar from the time period, PointOfTime/Sale forward to this moment, losses would outstrip gains in the majority of cases, products, services and real properties. Truthfully, I think only 9% of those 1950's dollars would have produced gains to 2015 (today). The bulk of it, 91% a loss.
-- that's why I think it's fair. That's why I think it's honest, and at least it proves integrity by compensating the wronged, finally, after all these years. We can't make inheritance rights just "materialize" out of "thin air," and we can't just assume that the real property wasn't destroyed by fire or hurricane over the past five decades, or any figurative or metaphorical equivalent for any product or service.
I think the Republican plan, whatever it turns-out to be, and I have pushed hard for freedom of association and freedom of travel and equal rights my entire life, in normalization of US/CUBA relations and free markets -- not using people as PawnsOfWar because of generation-spanning Legislative pissin' matches -- so, whatever the Republican plan turns-out to be, I ask for fairness, both to Cuban Labor, business sector, family and tourism. A gov't sponsored co-nation financial product must be hashed-out. Don't make careers out of it, and cap fees from the get-go. Please.
Thank you, and kind regards, always,
CLAYTON LEON WINTON
Thu Shevat 2, 5775 06:39PST
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Followups: Thu Shevat 9, 5775, 09:36PDT
Jobless claims at near 15-yr LOW but ONE IN FIVE KIDS ON FOOD STAMPS, two headlines in the news this morning. There is nothing "healthy" about such an economy.
Firstly, if true, "fifteen-yr low for jobless claims," that implies labor is less productive than ever, wages lower than ever, inflation greater than ever, because kids aren't being properly fed.
I suspect something else: the "job-stats" are extrapolated from ever "finessed" data-sets to produce POLITICAL RESULTS, not factual economic results.
That's the typical Higher Education's Predatory Credentialing System "positive thinking" brainwashing: SAY ANYTHING AND ACCUSE ALL WHOM QUESTION OF BEING 'NEGATIVE," then laugh, and walk away, ignoring reality as usual.
Meanwhile, the same amount of CASH that tax-dodging APPLE INC is storing OFF-SHORE, $178Billion, would erase Greece's debt, save the EU and defend a strategic and economic ally for the U.S, the EU itself.
Meanwhile, all the APPLE INC jobs are MADE in CHINA where workers earn, after "technical training," a couple/few-hundred dollars a month. The cost of the iPhone to make is probably under fifty dollars a unit, yet sells in the U.S. and EU for $600-800 each.
Meanwhile, the costs to government and society of the APPLE INC "success" is ever-growing:
1) deforestation and strip-mining, and the consumption of natural resources, mostly fossil fuels to smelt the oars to make iPhones, the 'dirty-energy' consumption to run the factories (mostly coal-fired electrical energy plants), producing the greatest Carbon Footprint of any manufacturing process in history, greenhouse gases and other toxins leaching into air, soils and drinking-water there and worldwide from disposal and discarded units, etc., yet China takes the blame according to the Obama Admin who is proposing import/export taxation and various tariffs, against China and Chinese companies that are NOT involved in that.
2) Governments "over-stressed" -- there is the fact that distracted-drivers, texting-while-driving (or talking), is over-stressing Emergency Services in multiple countries; there is all the property damage associated with that, police reports, maintenance crews, disposal, hospital services, ambulance services, law enforcement issues ... and all the wildlife, livestock, pets and pedestrians injured and/or killed.
3) social ails : there's more to it than just "distractions" -- there is the sociopathy factor; there is the hacking issues, and a good case could be made that APPLE INC technologies have been employed in every hacking incident worldwide, credit card fraud, bank fraud, data vandalism, cyber vandalism, privacy intrusions and privacy invasions, illegal surveillance by perverts, all of it. Meanwhile, I walked into a bar, and everybody in it, picked-up their iPhones and faked being "super-duper important and busy" ... not a single person was talking, having a conversation, or even said "hello," which is increasingly what will be remembered as the molestation of the Legacy of JOBS.
