Tumoil in the Nederlands:
We are watching the world governments become embroiled in unrest, especially in the radical East, meaning the unwashed, uncivilized, eh, after all I can call them this, why? based on the evidence before me and everyone else as presented by the far off DC media outlets of the state--they can't be the Etat le quatrieme but the word was first by Burke first(in parliament in 1787), since the function of that philosphic form of government is to tell the truth and report the news).
Anyway, these governments all over the middle east, pale before a rising tide of people protesting their rulers(who are after all totalitarian, if not in the form of a "prime" minister, in the form of religious radicals who adhere to a faith which rewards people for murder and which practices "matricide" telling us from one muslim Cleric that recent earthquakes are caused by women who go uncovered for God's sake).
Solution Soviet?
And those unwashed who wraile unjust situations as they are wont to do, as they have in Madison Wisconsin these past few days) are amongs the midst of nearly 1/5 of our working population working for, you guessed it--GOVERNMENT. AND THEY BELONG TO A UNION.
This doesn't sound much different to me that the Soviet, with it's basic ruling class while the rest of the peasants suffer up the grains which pass down the angled glass to pile up in mounds of death in an hour-glass - so they support the ruling 20% and the unwashed percentage of our population who live in some form or another, on Governments handouts, such as "struggling by on unemployment which amounts to enough to keep them out of the workforce, with 60 millions of us living on Food Stamps, and we have not dealt with the unemployable, the percentage of the population which has already lived 3 and 4 generations on Government provided hand to mouth speciousness, of a government which really doesn't give a damn). Getting tired of the parentheticals, huh?
okay, lets look at this then: what does this large class of people, working for government really mean? 20% of the US Population as a whole is 61 million. Now, granted, that is an invalid number but I use it to make a point: 60 million people collect food stamp funds. that is 20% of our legal population.
here are the numbers in general: 80,000,000 people are employed, approximately 1/4 of the population. If unemployment is 10%, or more(which we know from state by state numbers that the unemployment population is approximately 10%, we can then say that somewhere around 5 to 10 million people, formerly employed are now unemployed. This does not include people who have been removed the from employment statistical calculation model, perhaps as much as 10% by various estimates. And this does not include the percentage of population living on Government Stipend(Welfare). We know that the number at any one time is about 30,000,000 people, collecting some form of welfare. This number is misleading in itself. But here are the government numbers:
If you use those who are supported by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF)--best described as a federal largess to indigent families with dependent children--as stated by the Dept. of Health the data suggests 1.7% of the total population that derive over 50% of their income from Welfare supports.
The number stated that receive any portion of their support from from welfare assistance--including food stamps--it is 29,900,000 or roughly 8% of the total population in the United States.
This breaks down to:
39% white 11,661,000 of 29,900,000 recipients
38% black 11,362,000 of 29,900,000
17% Hispanic 5,083,000 of 29,900,000
That is a lot of people. OH. I forgot to mention, These are 2000 US Census numbers, not even 2010. What if this number has increased by 10 or 20%? If there are 60 million people collecting food stamps, It would mean that as a percentage of just collecting some form of public support has not just increased by 10 or 20% -- it indicates a increase by a factor of at least 2. I haven't found yet what the true numbers are but as a case in point we are able to ascertain from 2000 numbers(FROM THE US Government) That things were not exactly in good shape with 8% of the population for the Census of 2000(308 Million) is living on some form of Government
support. What do you suppose the numbers are today? 20%? More?
As for the underemployed, I count myself as one of those. But my point is, if the total workforce should number somewhere around 90 million(+ or - 5 million) and we have an elderly retired class of approximately 60,000,00 we can estimate based on 2000 numbers that the population not contributing to the general welfare of the union and it's greatness is about
140 million. This leaves a population of 80 million workers, 20% of whom work for a goverment entity(18 Million of there are 90 million workers and 16 million if 80 million workers is the figure used(Government employment has increased at a steady rate each year).
So what does that mean? of the work force, those doing anything constructive is about 65 million people. Those that are figuring out how to spend their money is 16 to 18 or figuring out how to get more of the public's money or hold on to their vastly great benefits package which most in the private sector cannot afford. We have not even dealt yet with Government works who are covered by unions let alone the Teachers union for those teachers who are employed via a union in the state.
Now, I am not an expert in these matters. I just know that there is something wrong with people say they support and why they support it. And it keeps us on total opposite sides of the fence. This little bit of looking at numbers tells me that among the work force, only about 80% are contributing to the gross National product -- doing something constructive. And yes, I will grant you that there is necessary government. Today, since 2005 for the most part, I also
barely fit in this category, as my source of income is largely based on Government programs and grants.
But good God! One Fifth of the Workforce? And this is a good thing? Largely centralized bureacracies in DC? Wasn't this locale chosen and carved out to prevent such centralization and empowerment of the state?
Or am I one of the few who can see that there is a problem here?
Or how about the 30 million people with dependents living on some form of government stipend? How many of those are among the "unemployable" and how many of those have never been off Government welfare? Is 30 million a realistic number? I think it is undercounted by 2010 and 2011 standards.
I have not given the "under" employed number as that is not an official number(yet I guess).
But the bottom line is that can expect that 20% of the legal population is working for Government(who knows how many illegals are employed?). This truly is back from the middle east into the belly of the empire. We are sitting around wondering why all of a sudden over 30 or 45 days our food cost has realistically increased by 20 or 40%. Oh yes, we can purchase items that are not top of the list, forget name brands and eat a lot of meals prepared with hamburger. But hell, 2 months ago I could afford 4 evenings per month of ribeye steak at a cost of about 15 dollars.
This really is the Belly of the beast
If I am employed and make some money that supports 1 household, and suddenly I am finding my grocery bill jumped from 60 to 110 bucks, what on earth is happening out there to people on food stamps, WICk, Welfare, etc? I will tell one story though, and this goes back to the tail end of the problems we faced after the last Democrat Commissar in chief had caused due to his shennigans during the last oil and food crisis in the US -- my brother's ex-wife worked for an agency and one of the responsibilities was to show people on welfare and food stamps etc, how to prepare nourishing meals on their alotted funds.
I was non-plussed to hear the story about purchase of rice and beans, the latter requiring soaking prior to cooking(such as navy, northern, Red and Kidney beans. This was in order to get protein into meager grocery budges. Her common complaint? I had to teach, she said, how to prepare meals from Scratch. I found them boiling unsoaked beans and they didn't have a clue...
So what have I been saying? That was around the time Carter left office or shortly after. Which means 30 years ago. Think about it. The US Population in 1930 was about 130 million. by 1945, the move to the city was to complete the locale of where the citizens lived -- now the majority after this date lived in urban areas. 35 years later, perhaps 2 generations and a bit removed at the largest extent, people can't even fix navy beans and cornbread, a staple of the families of the depression for God's sake.
73 to 2013? Come On!
Are we really seeing things for what they are? Do you see what happens now if Gas prices rise 50 cents(which they have since late summer, early fall, we are now at the 3.00 per gallon level or worse, for example, in urban areas. There is applicability and effect at play here and will discuss this below with the energy crisis begun in 73(Oil Embargo) Aramco's nationalization under Saudi Control and this should strike fear in the hearts of hard-working Americans everywhere but they are clamoring, it seems, for "Free Government Health care". So we get to stand in line for what was once a service provided by the private sector and age discrmination is going to take place in this program sooner or later, something that was obvious to adults in the 50s and 60s is now less obvious as are many things, as dependence upon government is a way of thought, philosophy, religion and life.
So we are returned from the far off meager empires to the new socialist states united(except for some of us)...Here in the middle of the empire is one thing we say and it won't be like the rioting that has occurred in Egypt and Tunisia for example. Or tianaman Square for another example. Those things occurre in uncivilized locales. It's one thing for far-flung outposts to collapse, for the "uncivilized," "unwashed" masses beyond the gates to storm their capital buildings and raise hell. But surely that couldn't happen here, could it?
Well don't believe it because we are just witness to 40,000 rioters almost marching on the hallowed halls of Wisconsin -- who were they you ask? Well, hell, Government employees. That's all. The existence of the state virtually guarantees it!
With this in mind, we issued the following words of caution to our Fellow Reckoners on Wednesday:
Warning: what happened in Egypt may be ripening here.
Oh Really now, what are they protecting? There health care plan(not the one the US Citizen would participate in. And avoiding a cut in pay. And this is at the state level in a "Progressive State" with a budget deficit for the coming fiscal year of more than 3.5 million dollars. This is 'Just one' Progressive state that is bankrupt. I can list more: California, Washington, Illinois, New York at the major level -- now can you guess the action of our current admininstration in helping out in this problem? Right. Bailout. MOre stimulus. More bankruptcy far worse than where it started(now) that should never have been a problem except that in those states, the percentage of government workers exceeds 20% and the percentage of unwashed exceed the national numbers by far(as I outlined them above).
A Rumor of Distant Insurrection
Think unrest in the US is far off? What happens when they have to soak their own beans and bake cornbread that doesn't come in a box.
You figure it out. Either you invoke a bit of sanity in what you are doing or we will get more of the same progressively worsening bullshit solutions from inept people who are intent upon establish a feel good, green idea with solar power and wind energy and when they have to go to work(if they can work since the private sector doesn't fit the current vision and scope and breadth of the Tax-dollar socialist solution outreach of the current administration and congress(even Republicans) I suggest that my admonishments from the middle of 2009 are appropos and are occurring in about the timeframe I laid out when I suggested purchase of food and firearms ought to be on your to-do list. And think seriously about removal to a climate more conducive to free people, free markets and avoidance of a Government Gulag.
David Bell - Southern MO
Sustainable Living as Religious Observance
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