If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing pain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic strain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they’re just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multicultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
Footnotes:
*(1) As human beings (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. On this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on its own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a
person’s health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as
being connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than
likely be thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover
whatever costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence and that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they don’t
get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we don’t
give people the treatment they need.” The government’s answer to that was
to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks. This is allegedly true. Doctors who work
under certain agreements have to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, it is only
happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so preoccupied
in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others and how it
might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us directly, it’s
not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind,
starring Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This
according to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret. It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to the first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that it
has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but isn’t
worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a historical
point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words, the amount a person
could due for would be capped. Prior to this people sued for millions of
dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar amount fluctuates
between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has become cheaper to deny
care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t find anything wrong’ it
might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth be known, this was the
brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy
flows smoothly through the body and no pain is experienced. Consequently,
when an acupressure point is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and
pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
The Goose and the Gander
(Citizens and Congress)
If I could speak for God
There are many things I’d say
Speaking from the Unified Field *(1)
Attempt to Congress sway
The people that you represent
Are souls, the same as you
Who’ve elevated you to positions
And hoped you’d follow through
What seems to happen mostly
Money gets in the way
Backroom deals get brokered
Votes get bought for pay *(2)
Plus, “Give me this for that , , ,
And I’ll do that for this . . .”
The promises made to get you there’
End up in a twist
A belief that seems prevailing
Is that money can insulate
But as a concept, is so fragile *(3)
Which the future may demonstrate
Problems in the thirties
Brought havoc to the many
With stocks bought on margin
By those tryin’ to make a penny *(4)
Impoverishment and depression
Brought it to a head
People losing all they had
Just lucky to be fed
Commodities and charity
Helped the poor get through
Regulations creating boundaries .. . .
Institutions rules renewed *(5)
The government stepped in
Forth-which to save the day
Banking and Wall Street
Had a little less room to play
But somewhere along the path
Greed raised its ugly head
Deregulations under Reagan *(6)
And wealth began to spread
Until its culmination
The collapse of two thousand eight
Eight hundred billion tax dollars
Shored up a disastrous fate
Champagne, cheers and bonuses
CEO’s coming out ahead *(7)
No penalties or jail time
“A necessity,” it was said *(8)
There is within the ego
Or a force within the mind
To get ahead of others
Which sometimes seem quite blind *(9)
Is something lacking in character?
In those who’d compromise *(10)
‘Spin-doctoring’ false value
With intent by clever lies
The ‘Iron Curtain’ brought ‘Brain Trusts’
‘Think-Tanks,’ if you will
Strategies for dealing
But with us ever still
Rand *(11) gave us Vietnam
With the attack on Tonkin Bay
‘Intelligence’ and Bush *(12)
Took out Baghdad ‘long the way
In nineteen-eighty-nine *(13)
The ‘think-tanks had a turn
The curtain iron collapsed;
But their pay still had to earn
Turning their attention
To education *(14) and medicine *(15)
Didn’t use a rifle
But robbed us with a pen
Obama-Care *(16) a masterpiece
The high road and the low *(17)
A contract against America
In time results will show *(18)
Sold as most benevolent
Pre-conditions causing strain
For those left uninsured
‘spose to ease their economic pain
This ruse, forced into law
By an economic threat *(19)
The ceiling needed raisin’
“A read we’ll later get!” *(20)
Looking to the nineties *(21)
Clinton did his part
Promoting a ‘Global Economy’
Undermining us from the start
International capital jumped ship
‘Free-Trade’ found its voice *(22)
National capital standing mute
Enterprise zones their choice *(23)
The economy, re-stratified
Good jobs moved to zones
Jack Kemp said, let’s cure welfare
Divide and conquer comin’ home
The EPA lost traction *(24)
Pollutants far and wide
But . . . happy were we, consumers
Seems, Wal-Mart’s on our side *(25)
As the rich got richer *(26)
As Lobbyists found a place *(27)
New revenue streams were needed
The unorganized had no face
How to make more money
Became the common cry
The President ensnared the working poor*(28)
Too busy to ask him why?
Historical retribution?
As rights are weaned away
Is anyone really listening?
Or, they just determined to have their way?
What then, is the answer?
What do you put your value in?
Energy is all there really is
Without it, you can’t begin *(29)
The Unified Field, all inclusive
A computer without a chip *(30)
Holds all the dreams and sorrows
Information without a disc
The pit-fall we fall into
Have been loaned us by the past
Hitler, Stalin, Marx
A darkened shadow cast
Circulation is the foremost thing *(31)
That a body needs to move
Without it life cannot sustain
A dead one quickly proves
Society is no exception
Multi-cultural to be sure
Needs money to move right through it
To realize a cure
Welfare has done so many things
To hurt the American way
Both corporate and individual
In real terms doesn’t pay
People line the sidewalks
CEO’s line Congress’ hall
All wanting something for nothing
Adding to this nations fall
Babies born by mothers
Conjoined as evidenced *(32)
Cry single and quite helpless
With a baby ‘heaven sent’ *(33)
We’ve encouraged a population
Paying for others mistakes
Creating continued dependence
And a womb is all it takes
Government needs a revenue stream
But families need the same
On twenty-nine hours a week
A family will feel the pain
Business been given extensions
To follow this new law
Exemptions too, for Congress
The ‘Gander’ *(33) exempt from it all
The working poor, a target
With seniors in the scope
Are the ‘think-tanks’ coming up with this?
Or, is Congress all on dope?
10/11/13
*(1) As human being (which implies spirit traversing into the human realm)
we absorb and reflect the ideas which are dominantly proclaimed as we
develop. This gives every religion absolute efficacy within its’ given
realm. When I say “speaking from the Unified Field” I invoke the concept
of Dr. Jung who suggested we are all part of the collective unconscious.
Therefore, I am suggesting that despite cultural, religious or economic
differences most of us living in the United States of America recognize
there are problems with government that need to be addressed. In this
occasion I am speaking for all of us.
*(2) ‘Pay’ may be favors, not just money.
*(3) The only thing that gives money value is the general agreement that
it has any [value]. The money from the Confederacy had value once; but
isn’t worth the paper it’s written on today (except perhaps from a
historical point of view, that of a collector). You can’t eat money or
gold.
*(4) My understanding of allowing people to buy ‘on-margin’ was to allow
more people of lesser means to actually begin to invest in the Stock Market.
*(5) It was at this time Congress put more stringent regulations on the
banking industry. If for example you needed a mortgage and got one from a
bank, you would actually pay that bank back for the loan; therefore they
were particular who they gave loans to.
*(6) For thirty years after Reagan’s Presidency, Congress deregulated
banking, mortgages could be sold to other institutions and even the Stock
Market got involved selling Derivatives, something of a gamble that
mortgages would be paid back.
*(7) ‘Not sure why the ‘debacle’ happened; but it was related to the
deregulations. The laws become polluted; lawyers make sure they are
complicated enough that the average citizen stays in the dark. I only know
that it was when the eight hundred billion dollars was distributed, a lot
of CEO’s got huge bonuses, some bought jets.
*(8) We were assured by TV news that if the eight hundred billion dollars
didn’t go to shore up the ‘banking industry’ the whole economy would
collapse affecting the entire world. I keep asking, what constitutes
terrorism . . . We assume it’s related to blowing up stuff; but what of the
insecurity and terror the government imposes on it’s own citizens by
generating fear and anxiety?
*(9) In suggesting that it’s ‘quite blind’ to try to get ahead of others is
to suggest that there are inherent laws of reciprocity built into human
nature. You might get ahead in one instance; but lose ground in another.
For instance, while it appears you’re getting ahead economically, a persons
health might suffer. Unfortunately, this isn’t always seen as being
connected. The person suffering a health crisis would more than likely be
thankful they had made strides economically in order to cover whatever
costs or set-backs occurred as a result of the health crisis.
*(10) In going back over the poem, something new occurred to me in
conjunction to why people might compromise themselves. I think it’s
related to ‘group pressure’. ‘New-Agers’ talk a lot about auras or energy
fields. Everything has one: the body, the earth, a rock, a tree. When
critical mass occurs, there is a shift. Therefore, you can be of sound
character, but get sucked into something inconsistent with what you stand
for based on the numbers creating a force. Some might call it ‘pack
mentality’.
*(11) There’s a DVD called, The Most Dangerous Man in America, Daniel
Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. In the first few lines of the
documentary he tells how he worked for Rand Corporation. Rand stands for
Research and Development; it’s a ‘think tank’.
*(12) George W. Bush assured us that he had competent intelligence that
there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ that needed to be tended to, we
found none.
*(13) In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell, two years later the Soviet Union
dissolved.
*(14) Because of all the demonstrations having their origins at colleges,
they redesigned the spaces so that the ‘common’ spaces were not large
enough to facilitate huge masses of people. Demonstrations were thereby
impacted. They are still working on education and the dumbing down of
American children. Charter Schools will help to eliminate upkeep costs of
premises and logistical issues of getting the children where they need to
be.
*(15) HMO’s and PPO’ were created to lower the cost of health delivery for
the government. The institutions have been created and paid on a capitated
rate. The HMO receives a designated amount of money for each person signed
into that HMO. The figure I heard in the nineties was forty seven dollars
a month. When the idea was proposed, the HMO’s asked, “How are we possibly
going to be able to treat people for what they have at that rate?” The
answer was, for one thing not everyone will need to be treated every month.
The other thing is, “we are going to create a list and if what the patient
has is in on the list, they get treatment. If it’s not on the list they
don’t get treatment.” The concern of the HMO was, “we’ll get sued if we
don’t give people the treatment they need.” The governments answer to that
was to put a lid on litigation awards. In other words,
the amount a person could due for would be capped. Prior to this people
sued for millions of dollars for ‘mal-practice’. With the lid, the dollar
amount fluctuates between $250,000 and $500,000 per incident. It has
become cheaper to deny care, then to give it. If you’re told ‘we can’t
find anything wrong’ it might mean, what you have isn’t on our list! Truth
be known, this was the brain-child of the think-tanks.
*(16) My best guess is that ‘Obama-Care,’ is also a strategy coming out of
the think-tanks. He no sooner took office and he introduced it. I wonder
how many laws have come out of there? How much money are we paying the
various think-tanks to think up new ways to limit our access to the pursuit
of happiness?
*(17) The ‘high road’ is the idea that people with pre-existing conditions
will get treatment under the Affordable Care Act. Treatment previously
denied because of the pre-existing issues. The ‘low road’ is how they
will deny care to seniors once they are 75 years old. Addition to that it
will cost the American worker hours on the job, since people who only work
29 hours don’t have to be covered by employers. In addition causing work
hours to be cut, people will be forced to pay a fine if they can’t afford
coverage.
*(18) Insurance companies have become increasingly rich and influential in
government. They are like the Mafia, protection for a price and the
government is like the enforcement arm. It’s incredible to me that our
government has put itself in a position to demand that citizens take on a
contract with private industry and institute a fine if we don’t. It
represents capitalism at its finest or most absurd.
I think our first mistake was letting them force us into buying car
insurance. We didn’t balk then because we wanted to be protected from the
other guy. The essence of divide and conquer. Then when Medicare came
along and instituted a fine if people didn’t take out prescription
insurance once they reached 65, we didn’t stand together about that. They
(the government) opens the door slightly, gets us into a state of agreement
and then just keeps pushing the door farther and farther open. The cost is
our freedoms.
I’m hoping that Obama Care will be like Prohibition, once the economy
begins to tank and people raise enough sand, Congress may find it’s voice
to repeal it.
*(19) Wasn’t this law foisted on us in the first place because we had to
raise the debt limit? It seems like it’s just been pushed down the road
ever since it’s been passed.
*(20) Isn’t that what Nancy Palousi said, “We’ll pass it, then read it.”
*(21) Seems like it was 1991
*(22) Corporations that had the money to leave the country did so with the
government’s blessing. No problem, go out into the world and harness
cheaper labor markets, get free of insurance costs and benefit packages and
send everything back to us and we won’t even charge you. Labor Unions by
this time had a bad name for never being satisfied with what they were
getting, so the public in general didn’t put up a fuss because they would
be the winners when they got what they needed cheaper, WalMart heaven.
*(23) The idea of ‘Enterprise and Empowerment Zones’ was sold to the
American public as a way to get people off of Welfare and into the
workplace. Companies moved into the designated areas, they retooled and
reached out to their new the local community for their labor force. The
government paid 50% of the cost of the zone employees up to $6.27 per
hour. With that percentage being reduced 10% each year, until after the
fifth year the employer bore the entire cost of the employee.
What wasn’t made clear when the idea was first floated was that it was a
way to reduce labor cost simply by moving the entire business operation.
This was a way for companies to move away from higher paid laborers. It
was in this way that the economy became re-stratified. People who had
saved money, now had to pull it out of savings in order to maintain their
lifestyle.
If you look closely at most of the things that keep happening, is that it
is only happening to one group or segment at a time. Most of us are so
pre-occupied in our own lives that we don’t see what’s happening to others
and how it might eventually happen to us. If it’s not happening to us
directly, it’s not happening.
Essentially the government gave ‘Free-Trade Agreements’ to international
capitalism and Enterprise Zone and Empowerment Zones to national Capital.
The way this was done is reminiscent of the movie A Beautiful Mind, staring
Russell Crow where the concept of ‘Games Theory’ was introduced.
*(24) Once corporations moved their industry to other countries, the EPA
had no jurisdiction. One weather report indicated it was the pollutants
blowing across the ocean from China that was causing the drought conditions
in Texas the year before last.
*(25) I’m as guilty as anyone for running to WalMart. When you have such a
big operation, you can buy for less, and when you can buy things in foreign
countries that exploit labor, you can afford to sell for less. In a
diminished economy people have to save where they can.
*(26) Four hundred individuals in the United States own more wealth than
the bottom 180 million Americans taken together. This according to an
article in The Nation, October 28, 3013, pg. 20, Renovating the American
Dream.
*(27) Half of the people leaving Congress become lobbyists. This according
to 60 Minutes, channel 8-1, Sunday, October 20, 2013.
*(28) The wealthiest among us don’t want to be penalized by higher taxes;
but the government needs to find a new revenue stream. It focuses on those
among us that are the least able to defend ourselves. We don’t have
lobbyists in our pockets. As individuals don’t have a position to come
from because its not going to benefit those who create the laws
As an outstanding example of how money influences politics, I introduce the
Koch Brothers who are working hard to keep from having to pay a ‘Climate
Tax,’ by contributing to so-o-o many congressional campaigns (thirty
million the last estimate) and getting the senators and representatives to
sign a ‘No Climate-Tax’ promise for their support.
*(29) This part gets sticky because I believe that energy is all there
really is of value. Having studied massage and touching on the meridian
system of the body with its’ tsubo points, it becomes clear that as long as
the tsubo or acupressure
points are not blocked or ‘dammed up’ the energy flows smoothly through the
body and no pain is experienced. Consequently, when an acupressure point
is blocked, the energy builds up behind it and pain ensues.
Theoretically, I believe that when we do things (intentionally) that hurt
other people cause a damming up of our own energy field. It may be the
energy field of the body, or contrarily it may be the energy field of the
family, creating discord.
*(30) Naomi Wolf talks in one of her DVD’s about how so many of the things
that are happening here in the United States are similar to those things
which happened under Nazism. I won’t go into details because I don’t
remember all of them; but her description made me think of an axiom that I
heard a lot in Werner Erhard’s work, The Forum, “What you resist,
persists! And what you can’t be with won’t let you be.” It implies that
the resistance that we have to any given thing energizes the thing we
resist. The idea reflects the ideas in the book, The Secret It links us
to our environmental conditions, which also links us to first cause.
As an aside, this is the reason I have a problem with Christianity in terms
of seeing the Bible as an absolute reflection of truth. We have some five
billion Christians standing for the end of the world. That creates quite a
metaphysical force. At the same time they hold themselves blameless, as if
they are only observing reality rather than reinforcing the problems.
The point of the stanza is to suggest that history is repeating itself, as
if it’s a program on the computer written into the hard-drive.
*(31) Here I jump back to the concept of the need for the economy to move,
for money to flow through it, like blood flows through the body.
*(32) The word conjoined, in the poem, embodies the idea that the woman
obviously was with a man, or she wouldn’t be pregnant; yet in some cases,
he had only one use and that was to make a baby, so as to get on the public
dole.
*(33) Babies bring out the best in people, no one to see them suffer; but
in some cases they become a means to an end.
*(34) The old saying, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander,”
But in this case the gander is exempt from whatever the goose is
responsible for.
