Tag: debt

WORLD IS ONE THOUGHT

Campaigns are the time to get to know your political choice to Represent you, by casting a thoughtful vote.  Consider the following 3 examples of character, and vote accordingly.—- read more

ALMOST HONEST


One can commiserate with the plight of a young MSM talking head challenged with news of indictment of her Senator father for bribery, and still notice the MSM/political Party revolving door that has undermined public trust in a Free Press. read more

VORTEX OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

One suggests the value of Affirmative Action was genuine as far as it went, but it could have been a hierarchical deflection.  Consider networking as pertains to the college admissions process.  Why address the requirements of the underprivileged when legislation, policy and tradition give precedent to entrenched interests in college admissions. read more

PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE GOVERNMENT


The best explanation of passive/aggressive behavior I’ve seen is the following——It’s a large dog with his front paws on your shoulders, licking your face, and peeing on your shoes.   read more

NERO FIDDLES


Mocked by the White house Press Secretary, one need only consider the source.  If you can turn it into a joke, perhaps the deluded will giggle. read more

GOVERNMENT TERRORISM

NY hasn’t as yet challenged our uniquely heavy-handed jerrymandering, or equitable inclusion of 3rd-Party candidates that currently face absurd standards for inclusion.  The Republican/Democratic duopoly acts as a dictatorship in enacting laws to maintain their monopoly on elections that should never be in the hands of political Party corporations, but should be in the hands of the electorate. read more

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER

Judging from calls to C-Span recently, it would seem a growing number of Americans are noticing that any presumption about US democracy or freedom is instead a dictatorship by the Republican/Democratic duopoly.   read more

BOY SCOUTS WITH BINOCULARS

The painfully relevant topic of debt in the USA was addressed by a mature and informed discussion with Elyse Hicks.  The predatory character of credit card use was prominent.  We should question those who called in to say “they knew what they were getting into” as being offensive when one remembers that organized crime uses usury tactics in their power and wealth accumulation.  Some people have recognized that capitalism on a continuum is organized crime, and should be treated as such. read more

ACKNOWLEDGE ADDICTION

Acknowledgement of spirit may be the first step to challenge addiction.  Addiction comes in many forms.  Advertising thrives on addiction. read more

DEFLECTION

Some people recognize Trump for the deflection that has been his use by the Democratic/Republican duopoly.  Meanwhile the real issues that impact the lives of the public go unaddressed. read more

PREDATORY INFLATION


The story of several oligarchs pulling strings behind the scenes obscures the more relevant story of institutionalized hierarchical process that feels too similar to a Pyramid Scheme economy.  Fascism may more nearly be the correct definition since the system is held in place less by persuasion and more by laws. read more

SHIP OF FOOLS


To provide relief to targets of predatory debt and educational institutions, mirrors similar approaches by government to the disease-care industry.  In both scenarios the middleman is protected at the expense of the targets and byway of politicians bought into public “service” via Citizens United who are deft at maintaining the structure which is capitalistic hierarchical Establishment that in another place and time could be called dictatorship, and that has little to do with free market principles. read more

DEBT AND DEGROWTH

Student debt has been used as a campaign strategy with promises with no results.  Bernie Sanders ran on a platform of universal health care in an nation isolated among industrialized nations, of predatory industrial health profiteering, but was rejected by the voters.  Health debt is surely as consequential and more unavoidable than student debt, but can be suspected as another tool by the lending industry.  Capitalism is promotion of hierarchy for profit, and it is working well.  On a continuum capitalism transforms into organized crime or fascism.  Citizens United is a component in this process, that uniquely insinuates corruption into the system.  Yet voters continue to choose against their own interests and precepts of the US Constitution.  Consider the Preamble to the US Constitution. read more

SELLING THE SIZZLE, NOT THE STEAK


The student-loan anomaly seems to be an example of capture of generations of the public into a requirement to support lifestyle that seems beneficial to hierarchy.  If the reason for education is first to provide personal autonomy, debt is a bad start.  When the debt pays for education that indoctrinates into an economic system that promotes the hierarchy that provides the education, more questions are raised.  This seems to be an example of imperialism considered in an individual way, to keep it simple.
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CHARLES DICKENS AND KARL MARX

Come to think of it, the message from both Charles Dickens and Karl Marx are indeed similar.  If one hasn’t read The Communist Manifesto, a reason may be the ongoing Red Scare warnings from Establishment.  Charles Dickens as yet has not been so vilified by capitalists.   read more