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Just stick to life, liberty and property. The government most important function is to protect those rights. The system has become flawed. It needs to be set back on course after all it created the greatest country the world has ever seen in a mere 240 years or so.
And the US changed the entire balance of power in the world with the advent of the atomic bomb. We have been the only nation in the world to unnecessarily use it. We have garnered our prosperity and wealth via two means...............might and money! Bretton Woods and the Manhattan project. Don't ever forget that! The ability for our country to come out of WWII unscathed and impart upon the world financially tyranny in the form of nuclear weapons AND the dollar as the world reserve currency meant GAME OVER for the rest of the world. Of course just about every foreign policy objective and war has been in the name of "freedom, democracy, and capitalism". LMAO! Keep drinking the kool aid! It gets hot in Kansass!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never have I been jealous of anyone in my life- I had my ego laden days in the sun...had folks worship me for my natural ability....all I know about having billions of dollars is that it would be a curse and to much work.
I am not like you who look up to the super rich as if they are better- or smarter...or happier...I don't worship anyone other than me...The reason I was poking at Gates came from a story..while working in the movie business for over 18 years and giving a lot of energy and brains to the production of American feature films and TV shows...(during the boom in Canada when hundreds of productions were done in Canada)...During this period I met a lot of insiders.
One of them was a guy who hung out with associates and friends of Bill Gates when Bill was a young guy..This person was in the room when the boys were puffing pot and drinking beer- playing some blues guitar..This was just prior the Microsoft era.
Gates was there among this very creative bunch and there was the tossing around of ideas...My friend said that Gates blurted this out "If you are not going to use that idea - I am going to run with it".....Yes Bill was smart and ambitious...and responsible for making things happen- The point I was making is that ideas...genius and the vision that created Microsoft...did not pop out of Gates's brain- It came from another person who is now lost in history.
So I respect Gates for what he did- but I realize that he is not to be worshiped ...He was a determined opportunist, It was his vision but not his intellectual property the fueled the birth of his empire...
The concept of the personal computer came out of the head of some long haired genius smoking a joint who was NOT as driven or connected as Gates,
And the US changed the entire balance of power in the world with the advent of the atomic bomb. We have been the only nation in the world to unnecessarily use it. We have garnered our prosperity and wealth via two means...............might and money! Bretton Woods and the Manhattan project. Don't ever forget that! The ability for our country to come out of WWII unscathed and impart upon the world financially tyranny in the form of nuclear weapons AND the dollar as the world reserve currency meant GAME OVER for the rest of the world. Of course just about every foreign policy objective and war has been in the name of "freedom, democracy, and capitalism". LMAO! Keep drinking the kool aid! It gets hot in Kansass!!!!!!!!!!!!
Behind every great power or great fortune was a great crime and betrayal. The great crime was when the cut throat opportunist imported Nazi brain power after the war. Brilliant men who just a year prior were creating weapons to kill Americans...not going to mention Prescott Bush and his back stabbing during WW2....
They embraced these Nazi innovators and brought them to America..they set them up- gave them money - nice homes and prime jobs..This evil was utilized and with the knowledge a super power was born. Weapons of mass destruction - rocketry evolved. I think you get my point- Britain was a nation of pirates and privateers...America was not about escaping oppression of the old empire...AMERICA was about setting up a separate enterprise of plunder...They did not escape their masters in 1776....they copied their masters and created their own operation....
Here is the local report. Why would a city CHOOSE to reduce fire protection resources?
Because they don't want to give up any of their power. Cities choose where to cut expenses. You will notice that none of them cut where they would give up power. So they cut fire protection services. But they could have cut a lot of other areas such as licensing barbers, policing store hours, policing product sales, regulating handicapped parking, policing pot consumption, policing prostitution and gambling, registration of all kinds of businesses, etc, etc. But they won't because that would mean a loss of power and politicians love power.
Actually, the only reason such vital resources gets cut is lack of money.
This is from the Reading Eagle, announcing the firing of 170 teachers:
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Rumors about impending teacher layoffs - a response to a $40 million budget deficit - had been circulating for months. And when the school board passed a tentative budget last month that called for 170 teaching positions to be cut, those in line for layoffs could see the writing on the wall.
Bad management is bad management. Capitalists who believe in social and economic Darwinism..which are most..have to face the fact that some de-evolve...and some have to step down. Or some are in a high position due to privilege and familiar entitlement- Those that inherit their high places...Genetics is strange- Just because your dad was a wizard in business and management of an empire does not mean you are..You may have inherited the brain of crazy old Aunt Martha the pill popping crazy cat lady...and would be better off fishing some where spending money than ruining an empire.
What is your point?
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