I'm older than most of you ,so I can remember a time growing up when my parents were at the kitchen table deciding if my Mom should become a stay at home wife while my Dad supported us. That's what Dad wanted but in those days he was earning enough money working in a Steel mill to support the family. My Mom was a nurse and he made more money than her...They went 50-50 in that we lived off Dad's paycheck and my parents banked Mom's paycheck.
This way they were able to buy and pay off a house in the city and then buy a small piece of land in the country (now suburbs) hire an architect and hire a builder to build their dream house...and get us kids out of the hood...heroin was becoming the scary urban "fad" then...
By the time they reached thirty years of age my parents owned two homes free and clear... Nobody got pampered ...they worked together for everything they had as my mother's parents had been sharecroppers before moving to an urban area ...and my father's family had owned their own farm until the klan visited one night and threatened my great grandpa to "Leave or Die!"
My siblings and I were lucky enough to be born in a time where one paycheck from an industrial job could feed a family ,buy a house and send kids to college...BUT THOSE DAYS IN AMERICA ARE OVER.
The high paying industrial jobs went over seas in search of penny wages ,child labor ,no unions , no worker benefits and no environmental protection regulations ...China is an ecological mess today ...the industrial area on the border between the US and Mexico is a toxic waste cesspool ...as the third world nations where the US industrial jobs moved to are also ...toxic wastelands...
We live in an era where it takes two paychecks to take care of a family...The dollar was backed by gold when I was growing up ...we had to memorize in school that gold was worth $35 dollars an ounce...THE PRICE OF GOLD WAS THAT STABLE AND HAD BEEN SINCE BRETTON WOODS AGREEMENT AT THE END OF WORLD WAR TWO...but that world does not exist any more ...the gold fix ...price of an ounce ...for 12/7/20 was $1,859.95
The dollar is nothing today...the Vietnam war broke the US economy and the Federal Reserve Banksters were printing dollars so fast to cover war costs ,that they broke the dollar...
Nixon pulled us off the gold standard and the US dollar became backed by "faith" in the GDP of the US and a Saudi pledge to sell oil only in US dollars which artificially increased global demand for dollars but not US productive capacity ...
"Nixonomics" wrecked this country and marked the shift from industrial production of tangible goods to the present day, service economy focused upon serving Wallstreet ...but Wallstreet only produces paper instead of tangible goods for sale...the stock market rises on bubbles of air ...not on the production of tangible goods to sell ...production of tangible goods is called REAL economy ...Wallstreet is speculation ,casino capitalism ...
The US lost the Vietnam war but the US Banksters won it...the Banksters ,the Defense contractors and the oil boys...and they run the government , they run the economy , they run the US...and every card in the deck is stacked in their favor.
This was the coup d'etat that took place November 22,1963...the oil boys, the defense contractors and the Banksters took over the US government and economy with the shots fired in Dallas ..someone made five hundred million dollars in "put" options that day , betting that the stock market would drop unexpectedly and it did.. just as 38 years later it dropped suddenly and someone had put options ,bets in place that the airlines and the reinsurer covering the corporate liabilities would take a big hit that tragic day in September ...
A computer wiz kid who would have been in the North tower that day on the 95th floor and taken a direct hit from hijacked aircraft ...the kid knew the fix was in the moment he asked what are the odds of a hijacked plane crashing into the home offices of the same company that served as that airlines reinsurer ? Small world eh?
And then tons of Securities and Exchange Commissions investigations ...including investigations concerning an estimated $100 billion a year in drug money being laundered on Wallstreet then ...all those investigation records were greatly impeded or just eliminated when WTC building Seven holding all those records collapsed after NOT being hit by any jet planes...somebody...drug money LAUNDERERS... lucked out that day ...BIG TIME ...
Cui Bono ? Who benefits? Who benefitted from the war in Vietnam? Who benefitted from the WTC government bailouts? Who benefitted from the SIX TRILLION TAXPAYER DOLLARS wasted on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq ?
Who benefitted from the sub prime mortgage global meltdown where thirty Trillion dollars evaporated in less than ten days and the Fed eventually ended up spending eighty billion a month in tax payer funds buying up worthless paper from the "too big to fail" corporations and banksters ...the same folks who caused the collapse ?
Who recently benefitted by getting billions in taxpayer dollars in the government pandemic stimulus feeding frenzy that threw some chump change to Joe and Jane six pack and yet threw billions at the corporations ...
The economic deck is stacked against the average American yet some how a man is a subpar man because he is not thrilled at the prospect of working himself into an early grave to provide luxury for a woman who expects to be pampered like a child and go on shopping sprees?
The system is rigged ,stacked against most people ...something is wrong with that ...at least during my college days I could work in gas stations making minium wage and still earn enough to rent a place with friends and pay for books and tuition ...try that today, college kids ...A minimum wage job will barely cover the rent to sleep on somebody's couch...
The world has changed ,the quality of living in America has greatly gone down ...the US is not even among the "top ten places to live" anymore ...Norway, Finland, Sweden , Switzerland and Denmark all score much higher...even Canada does ...because those countries economics are no where as near as cut-throat as America's...
In the game of luxury, in which you women seem to want us men to do all the drudgery work while you get pampered and play ...in that game the number of "winners" is highly limited...the deck is stacked against the majority of people ...you are saying that the overwhelming majority of humanity are defective human beings ...of less than "high quality"...genetically defective humans?
Or has the socioeconomic order failed to bring out the "extraordinary" within each human being ? Not only has it failed ...it discourages the extraordinary ...discourages the development of the best within each of us...How long can a species survive by failing to accentuate the best of its potential within the majority of its beings ?
It occurred to me ...struck me forcefully one day, after seeing a picture of a child in Africa, face down drinking dirty water from a mud puddle that would eventually kill that child with diarrhea...Of the 40,000 people who die each day on planet Earth from drinking dirty water or from starvation or from malnutrition ,and are mostly children ...WHICH OF THOSE KIDS HAD THE POTENTIAL IF PROPERLY NUTURED AND DEVELOPED... TO FIND THE CURE FOR CANCER OR FOR ANY OTHER DEADLY OR DEBILITATING DISEASE PLAGUING HUMANS, OR FIND THE SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING ,OR SOLVE ANY OF THE MANY PROBLEMS THREATENING HUMAN EXISTENCE ?
How many of those 40,000 ?
...every last one of them.
...I am sorry , I don't have time or the resources to pamper women or to shopping spree women ... A planetary imperative concerning the survival of the human species was imposed upon me ...simply by my awareness of it...
I would hope to find a woman who won't shopping spree while the planet burns...or sit and relax in the deck chairs of the Titanic ...I see icebergs in our path... no offense to anyone intended ...
