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Foundation Questions of the Political Left and Right
I have often found it useful to make rough groupings into the political left and the political right. I used to consider myself on the political left, and I no longer do, having gradually moved away from the positions that we typically call left.
What are some of the questions we try to address, in the process of which we find ourselves in the left or the right?
- How do we align the interests of individuals and society so that there can be harmony? (How can people be motivated to take care of themselves and provide for family, friends, and strangers?)
- How do we allocate and distribute capital, products/services, and natural resources?
- Who is entitled to the fruits of a person's labor?
- To what extent can governments, or individuals/groups that are part of governments, be trusted?
- To what extent can individuals be trusted without government?
- How do we balance the freedom and opportunity of individuals born today in one place with the freedom and opportunity of others born in other places and/or in the future?
- Is it possible to help another person to become independent, or is that an inherently impossible proposition?
- How can we achieve fairness and justice in conflict resolution and decision-making?
Are there any questions that ought to be added to this list or anything that should be changed?
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You ask..."do you believe that I as a citizen should also be prohibited from writing and distributing my views about political candidates running for office?"
No. I do not believe in censorship overall, and especially not censorship for a citizen's opinion. That is how regimes such as Pinochet and Straussner existed. And even in the U.S. we've had Homeland Security censoring our speech. Freedom of speech is something I hold dear as a writer...even for politicians. It is the level of financing in political campaigns I hold to a standard. However, there are certain forms of speech simply used to incite. Hate speech should be forbidden from airwaves, web sites, and other public forums, IMO. Because it does nothing to improve society or inform, nor does it generate much of anything but discrimination for those it is trying to oppress.
As for being rewarded for doing a bad job, there are countless CEOs who are compensated very well for shutting down businesses when they are sold to holding companies. I worked for one. We were selling our fairly profitable company to Invensys at one point. It would have been one of their least profitable holdings, so I'm assuming they purchased it as a tax write off for their other holdings. They brought in a CEO with a great track record for losing money in companies. He immediately spent over a million dollars building a new confernce room. He was irritated that I saved over $300,000 annually in Marketing and PR expenses, which surprised me being naive at the time, because I thought that was a company goal. He wasted money all over and brought our profits to losses in one year. The company finally was downsized by 70% and then sold off again. Mission accomplished! We had gone from strong profits to huge losses almost overnight. He was sent packing with a $10M severance package and on to the next company for this "fine" job. And that was when I learned corporate strategy.
It is for reasons such as this that I do not believe in capitalism. It is not a system that promotes financial growth. It sucks the life out of a nation by replacing profits with national debt, just as the company I worked for demonstrates. You can see this in the U.S. economy today and our national debt. And the seasoned politicians know this and grab their profits too while the system entirely fails a country, just the same way communism and socialism enhances the wealth of politicians. I believe in Democracy, but not capitalism.
This is what I believe in:
Limiting individual campaign contributions per election: state legislature; statewide elective office, governor.
Establishing voluntary spending limits, requiring ballot pamphlets to list candidates who agree to limit campaign spending.
Expanding public disclosure requirements, increasing penalties for violations.
Prohibiting lobbyists' contributions to officials, period!
Limiting campaign fund transfers between candidates and regulating use of surplus campaign funds.
Because, I feel if we did this, the political landscape would change dramatically. We might have a chance to see a few new faces with a great deal more regularity and running for office would no longer be a career option that enhanced the pockets of the wealthy who pay for lobbyists, or rubber stamped legislation that enabled CEOs to generate more wealth at the cost of the taxpayers, but it could offer us some new politicians who aren't yet prostituted for corporate greed and organized crime.
My problems with politicians lies in the fact that so many of
them are bought and paid for. They are not the free and elected officials we are led to believe they are. Let me provide an example...
You have heard of Carlos Slim? He is one of the wealthiest people in the world, owning much of the communications systems throughout Latin America. Do you think he got there by not buying politicians through capitalism? Slim has been very close to Mexican presidents and other high officials, paying for legislation that enables him to buy telephony that enriches him even further. He also owns many news outlets, so not much is published about his "associations." Sort of hard to write a story in the NY TImes, when he's invested $250 million into NYT, the paper's parent, now, isn't it? After all, President Salinas did sell Slim the Mexican national phone company, Telmex, along with a de facto commitment to maintain its monopoly for years. So, this is why I have VERY LITTLE TRUST in politicians in general.
Another example of this lies in gangs. Gangs like MS-13 are a capitalist's gold mine. I think Alex Sanchez is evidence of that. How do you think he got to become a nationally-recognized expert in gang intervention? He had political ties to some well connected politicians like L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, to name just a few. This was a man who had been a shot caller for the MS-13 gang in his youth, with several felonies on his record...a record he worked to have expunged. Even Tom Hayden helped him. And he was proven to still be working with his gang even while running one of the largest gang intervention centers in Los Angeles...and WITH supposed murder contracts against his life by the MS-13 gang. And yet, as much as he went into the community, he was never murdered. Is that logical if he wasn't an informant for these politicians?
Gangs like MS-13 were created and to enhance the wealth of capitalists. They do so in many ways, but these days it is primarily through organizations like Corrections Corporation of America and Wackenhut. If you don't believe me, then ask yourself why Gary Sanders, the CEO of Wackenhut was recently surrounded with allegations of security lapses at many nuclear plants in the U.S., when Wackenhut monopolizes most of the corrections and security contracts in the U.S. Because, Sanders knew the REAL money in security is made housing gang members and immigrants for long periods of time, and he knew where to focus his corporation's interests for profits. There isn't the same level of profit in security in nuclear contracts as arresting immigrants and gang members. The longer they hold them, the more they make. These corporations collect over a hundred dollars a day in profit for these inmates and when you figure that CCA alone, houses 68,000 inmates in over 75 facilities in the United States each year...that's a hell of a lot of money. And with the cost cutting measures they use (which includes denial of nutritious food, daily showers, access to legal representation, and many grievances that break human rights laws) they can really make a huge profit in prison management. John D. Ferguson, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Corrections Corporation of America, the other company that runs most of the remaining security contracts, profits when offenders are jailed too. These two organizations make a killing off of gang members.
And in turn, these gangs now run as entrepreneurial organizations, mostly run from prisons where shot callers like Alex Sanchez are held. They not only are allowed to sell drugs and own politician's contracts in many countries, including the U.S., but they do so with complete approval because this way corrections management systems can employ more and more security officers at almost minimum wage. I volunteered for the group doing some PR work, and even STILL, I received a phone call once because I had pissed off a politician during a phone call with him about my husband's case. The S.O.B. had threatened to deport my husband illegally without his passport and I took him to task, explaining I had copies of my husband's passport that they claimed they had lost. Alex Sanchez's organization called me at home, upset that I had irritated this jerk. They were reliant upon him for funding, so they warned me that I needed to "tread lightly" with that asshole. And I realized then that they weren't what they claimed to be...an organization that supposedly helps immigrants.
These gangs (and the paid-for politicians) have paid informants who work in many of the huge human rights organizations throughout the U.S.. They have paid politicians that protect known gang members as they break laws left and right until the public grows alarmed, and then, they simply reel in a few low level gang members, make a public announcement about it, and send them to these institutions where their pals are CEOs, so the rest of the money can be made there.
Do you actually think that politicians and CEOs of corrections facilities care about protecting a country's citizens? Are you aware that many of these politicians have a hand in releasing some of the most dangerous and violent offenders in these gangs if they volunteer to become informants, because they can make even more money from these people? When you see the gang members released for asylum, you can BET these are very well connected people who are paid informants. Because even known reformed gang members never get asylum.
Do you know that in 2007, when Operation Tijuana was going on...where the entire police department of Tijuana had their guns confiscated and tested because they were suspected of being involved in cartel murders, many of the cartel members with a known police record and no legal documents for entry were driving through the border quite safely as many customs agents turned their head? Now, keep in mind that during this time the U.S. was on high alert for terrorism, so the borders were more closely monitored than ever...but these people were let through regularly. How does that happen?
If you think I'm full of it, then read this:
Do you really believe there is a SINGLE culture in the world that has eliminated the immorality within its political ranks? Politicians may begin running with every noble characteristic known to mankind, but those with tenure have long been corrupted during the process. This is why I believe in short term limitations for politicians. Get them while they still have some of that naivety and that a positive attitude to make a difference. Then, remove them when they begin to become seasoned. People like Dianne Feinstein and Orrin Hatch should be removed and replaced with new talent. They are already corrupt and merely working on nesting their political career.
I don't favor a more restrictive policy on political speech. I simply want less of it paid for by corruption. So, I favor a different type of political campaign, where the advertising is regulated by a dollar amount...one affordable to all, not just the paid off corrupt politicians financed by organized crime and corrupt CEOs.
Cubans and color
That doesn't surprise me at all. I once dated a white Cuban who turned out to be the biggest boorish racist I ever met, not to mention the fact he suffered from a HUGE Madonna Whore complex. I ran from that guy after a few dates, because he had some deep seated issues!
Unfortunately, there are many who think like him in Latin culture, just as there are so many homophobes, machos, and other distasteful types. This is why I thank God for my parents each and every day! They had the good sense not to teach that, as did my husband's mother in El Salvador. I think some of this is weeding out with successive generations, but it has a ways to go...just like in the U.S.
Something you wouldn't see today....I recall watching a German immigrant in San Francisco, who my mother approached about renting an apartment. The old woman raised a broom to try to hit my mother with it for standing on her doorstep and asking about a vacant apartment, explaining to my Argentine mother that she "didn't rent to Mexicans because they left pig intestines all over the place". I remember that so clearly, because to this day I can't believe that one immigrant felt more entitled to live in the U.S., enough so to actually try to chase someone off by threatening them with a broom, than another. And I remember my mother taking that broom out of the old biddy's hand and telling her that she was a "foreigner" in the U.S. too, and telling the German woman that she should feel very lucky that day, since my mother didn't beat the crap out of her with her own weapon. Things have changed a great deal since then, but the odd behavior of entitlement is still there on a more subtle level in many countries.
On having a 4th branch of the government dealing with the elections, yes I do think that would solve problems, IF and only IF there is a conflict of interest clause for politicians who are running for office and are involved in this branch. I think this is MUCH more fair and allows those with valid ideas and minimal budgets to compete fairly. It should be multi partisan with members from each party contributing as a team.
The speech regulation is being done in the U.K. as we speak. They have regulated what is considered hate speech and disallowed it from U.K. citizens. Now, this sends them to American airwaves, but if we all stopped it,...hmmmm....where would they go? I am completely opposed to only enabling the wealthy to run for office and denying qualified and possibly caring individuals who have yet to be corrupted from running due to economic issues...because to me, that IS a bit like limiting the type of corn a farmer can grow. Maybe some people have a preference for yellow corn and others prefer white corn. Why should we all be forced to stomach only one type of corn, because it is financed.
I don't have issues with democracy at all. I think it can be a fair form of government. It is when it is polluted by capitalism that I see it's failures, as has happened in the U.S. It is capitalism that I think creates failures in many forms of government...thinks like bad loan origination, lobbyists, people like Bernie Madoff, etc.
Color counts in Latin America
I really was surprised when a progressive friend of mine, a light skinned Cuban born woman, told me that people in Cuba felt privileged by being light skinned and that families expected their children not to marry people of darker skin! Who would think?!
You wouldn't find that perception in Latin America
But it is wholesale inside of the U.S. And it has been for decades. It still is, even in Los Angeles where there is a huge Latin population. You can see companies every day who hire Latinos and blacks for the lowest positions in shipping and receivng or service call centers and the top wrung of management is all white faces. And in places like Costa Rica, many of the faces at the top of organizational structure are lighter too. Even in Latin America, there is a feeling that the darker a person is, the less qualified he is...although it is going away more and more.
But many of us were taught not to marry darket than we were...and this was ESPECIALLY true in my mother's country of Argentina.
Maybe organized crime
cannot be removed, but it can be minimized. I think of the power the mafia once had in NY, and how it is now.
The actions of the United Fruit Company was a very defining event, because it shaped the outcome of the banana republic and even today. It led to the murder of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala, led by our own CIA and it was the key cause of the views of many CIA directors leading covert operations in Central America under the guise of fighting "communisim.". United Fruit waa the largest banana company in the world with plantations in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama and Santo Domingo, and the owner married one well known Costa Rica President's daughter. So as you can imagine, the impact of this social phenomenon had a great deal to do with Central American history. United Fruit made profits by corruption in every form of government in Guatemala, Costa Rica, and most of the other places they built their empire. This is why I mentioned them.
A wave of terrorism against local citizens took place, financed by the United Fruit Company. About 2% of the people of places like Guatemala owned any of its land because presidents and other politicians had given the peoples' land away in land grants to United Fruit for political favors, so rents skyrocketed and kept the workers poor. Citizens of these countries employed by this company were killed in these demonstrations by goons and CIA hired from the U.S. And in the end, expropriation became a key word in Latin America, and in turn, those companies who were about to have their land expropriated for treating the citizens so poorly and with great corruption began calling the people "communists" to discredit their fight against corruption. This has a great deal to do with the communist rhetoric that even today, Americans still use. So it was historically a very significant event affecting both U.S. foreign policy and immigration policy and Central American policy even today.
well I never thonght of Latina as lazy or stupid
I had a Bar in Costa Rica and have traveled there for 35 years, never even heard anyone suggest that. Not saying it did not happen, just that I do not think tha tis the normal. perhaps it is. I am from Alabama, we like everywhere has somne lazy folks in every race and creed, But the word around here, Latins work. Before the last election tried to blame the immigrants for the econmy, anyway. Such a shame, got ot run
Of course we were talking general overall view
Certainlky there will specific's tha thave ot be dealt with. And I noted in my statement Ihad little knowledge of the fruit company, apparently it was an extreme event. And for organized crime, It is embedded. I really do not think it can be removed. You weret alking aobut giving up alot of freedoms there. and when has the government ever given back freedom. We are in a wave of lost freedoms already... I wish you all peace in your lives and it is a great thing to be able to disagree in public....
Help someone today, you are not promised tomorrow
This is going to sound funny coming from a writer
Because every single writer I know is a proponent of free, uncensored speech. And I am to an extent. But there are two areas where I feel communications should be limited.
Politicians should ALWAYS have a cap on what they can spend to advertise themselves, or better yet, there should be a standardized protocol available to competing politicians, so that money does not buy political office, instead of political agenda and policy views.
And the other is hate speech should be banned from every place on this earth, just as the U.K. has done with the internet. There should be no way that people can post, publish, or use hate speech in public, because it absolutely serves no purpose for society except to incite hate.
Other than that...I loathe censorship.
As for the admission of inferior students, I would agree. But I would also expect that there would never be any special funding for charter schools in wealthier neighborhoods by organizations like Bill Gates charities, and that each and every single public school is privy to the same funding. What is happening today is that schools in wealthy areas receive contributions that give those students access to materials that boost their education, so you can't test students on the same level as those who have led privileged lives and gained access to much greater learning tools, then call the poor kid an inferior student. That's basically a lie. Had both students been equal, the poor student might very well have passed up the wealthier student with access to the same learning tools. And this is the most hypocritical thing of all.
I recall when I was younger, vying for a postion in Marketing as a temporary employee. There were two of us vying for the same position. Another woman and I. Of the two of us, I could interpret documents in Spanish, I knew twice as many software programs, I was a great deal more liked by most of the staff because I've always been outgoing, and I dressed ten times more professionally. She was withdrawn, not the brightest cookie in the jar, and had no clue what the company did. I was the favorite for the position, until the CEO learned I spoke Spanish, and then gave her the job. The reason? Because she had more of a corporate image. He never said the real reason, but I was told later that I shouldn't have revealed I was a Latina, because he hadn't guessed that by looking at me. I encountered that a few times in my career and it held me back from reaching my goals sooner. I could have been that student that was perceived as "inferior" when most of the time I was actually the most qualified student. We should not allow this to happen. I will admit it made me a stronger person and made me one of the best marketing people out there, because I knew the competition wasn't fair, so I had to work harder and smarter to succeed, but each and every one of us should have to do the same, removing any dead weight.
Perceptions on leftist thinking
To me, being a leftist means seeking radical social and economic change with an eye towards a more tolerable equality, never complete equality...because I don't believe that is possible. It is a place where class extremes do not exploit the masses. For instance, the wealthy are not given special tax privileges or private access to lobbyists to grease the palms of politicians and effect legislation to exploit the poor while they line their pockets. The poor don't lack incentive to excel and settle for nothing, expecting complete financial support. I believe there is room enough for the majority of people to not be exploited by either social class, and for a greater sense of reality to govern a sense of reasonableness. I think my views on many issues address this.
I differ greatly from my husband's leftist theories - where he believes that radical social and economic change is best gained by military power and force, because he thinks capitalism has gone so far out of hand when countries like the U.S. are kicking elderly people out of their foreclosed homes after being conned into taking questionable loans. Or, he thinks that when the right creates a militaristic society as is being done by Homeland Security, losing touch with its purpose, that we need to bring it back to reality with revolution. He tends more towards communism as the solution, where I'm probably under the label of Democratic socialist. In my ideologic model, no one feels a need to grab that government job to glean the best riches, nor do they feel compelled to give up their right to privacy for corporate mandates. It is a more centered approach. I don't believe in expropriation except where it was gained illegally. So you say how do I determine if something is stolen? To me, when the government can force a person to sell their house to build a freeway, that land is stolen...because it has a legal deed and the owner should never be forced to let that deed go. To me, when a company uses payoffs to lobbyists to establish policies that regulate employee benefits or pay, that is stealing, because our government shouldn't be bribed that way, unless the little guy is allowed to use bribes to avoid laws too. To me, when two kids are up for a college slot and one gains admittance because their father has donated X amount of dollars to the school, that is stealing as well, especially when he then claims that donation also as a tax deduction. Those are just as appalling to me as the person who asks for a welfare check to support their child and then lives with their domestic partner who is raking in a good income. No difference! Who determines this? I think it is determined again based on what is reasonable. And I think that the old judicial adage of what a person of reason would do could cover many behaviors.
I think leftist politicians should act on behalf of humanitarianism, although I'm not sure most do. I think it is sad that this isn't the case. Unfortunately, like any other political ideology, greed usually spurs a politician's career agenda. The realism in this is no different than any other political idealism, IMO. Just as in Communism, many top politicians walk away from political office just as wealthy as any Capitalist politician because they all seem to reach the conclusion that when they make policy it doesn't apply to them. How else would you explain a right winged Republican legislator who vehemently opposes socialized health care when their own healthcare coverage for their family is exactly that?
Simply, I don't have faith in those who govern and feel they should be replaced after two terms, instead of allowing them to become lifetime politicians. That might limit their ability to skim the dollars at the top and remain true to their original ideas of how government should be.
Some points to argue...
United Fruit Company is a premier example of a company that did NOT employ the local workforce. They enslaved them with corrupt practices and because they operated with this level of ignorance, they destroyed the country's economy, political stability, and caused the collapse of their own success to a degree. When a company goes this far over the top, that happens...rebellion is imminent and expropriation is guaranteed. And that is exactly what happened. What happened after that was a bunch of who shot John about communism coming to various central American countries, which was a code word for unionism. Read about it...it's rather interesting. Look up Sam the Banana man, and you will glean a model of greed and corruption that created the situation of the "banana republic" today.
The strong survive...never bought that one! You see, many gang members believe in this and they use the strength of numbers to intimidate good folks, honest people, and those who do not have the strength of numbers. The same could be said for the mafia. If strength is upheld by intimidation and corruption, then God help us. I'm not saying these people are morally strong, or even have a strong sense of themselves when they need others to feel strong, but strength is in perception. This is why I believe in a more humanitarian way of dealing with others. Sure, any of us can go grab an AK47 and demand what we want, and if we unite with like minded spirits, we can amass great wealth, just as drug cartels do. That doesn't make it right. The same goes for people like Bernie Madoff or the Kennedy clan, or any others who are "strong" because of ill gotten gains.
The you work, you eat, you do not work you do not eat thing...well...in part, I agree with that; but what of the elderly lady who is so arthritic that she no longer can work? Do we just let her starve? What if she has worked hard her entire life but didn't have the intellectual capability to secure a good retirement plan. Same thing? What about the mentally incapacitated? Them too? At one point, we do have a social responsibility to help those who cannot help themselves. And if we also allow corporations to only hire those who are light and bright and oh so white, you might not like the ramifications of that, because those who are left out may join gangs or drug cartels and then we are back to "only the strong survive."
On land profits...let's say India comes to the U.S. and buys up all of our foreclosed homes today. Let's say they raise the rent to a margin that breaks families and causes them extreme financial hardship. (sort of like what United Fruit did) And then these people find that they can't even buy land in their own country any longer. What happens then? Bet you they'd rebel and expropriate those properties and make things fair and right, and THAT is exactly what happened in the United Fruit story.
On fairness...slap enough people and they may double up their fists and punch back. You can't go around slapping people instead of creating an environment where they see opportunity, otherwise you have Haiti, or Somalia, where armed terrorists take what they want. There has to always be hope.
On racial and cultural equality....wrong there! It can progess and has, although it comes in tides. But if you allow a dominant culture to continue to oppress others, then you have those (many immigrants coming to the U.S. demonstrate this) who have no respect for your laws or justice system and create their own. Ever heard of MS-13 gang? How do you suppose that got started and grew so huge? Then you have a pandemic. Not smart to plant the seeds for that! For every intolerable action, there is an intolerable reaction. I'm of the opinion that we realize it is a difficult task, but we never cease trying to make it right.
I don't believe in handouts either, but I do believe in teaching. Doing nothing is a prelude to disorder.
On organized crime...wrong again. Use our military and imprison each and every person who chooses to engage in organized crime. Use wire taps, Rico laws, and road blocks, but get rid of it because it is a cancer. It can be done. They got rid of the dangers of most gangs in Los Angeles to a point, and that model can work with any organized crime.
If you are wondering you are still way left
1. How do we align the interests of individuals and society so that there can be harmony?
a. you work and you eat, you do not work you do not eat. If you can not find a job we will find one for you, you might not like ours.
2. How do we allocate and distribute capital, products/services, and natural resources?
a. If you can buy it and they want to sell it fine. if not refer ot answer of question #1. As for the fruit company, admittedly I know little of the subject
but I would bet you that there are places that would give you the land if you would TRAIN and put their people to work.And of course if it is their land and they want ot ask a ton for it. Let them, nobody is forced to buy. Bribery is wrong, period.
3. Who is entitled to the fruits of a person's labor?
a. the man that pays for the work tha tis who is entitles to it.
4. * To what extent can governments, or individuals/groups that are part of governments, be trusted?
a we agree taht thisis the general rule read what jefferson davis said www.RegionsLawsuit.com
5. To what extent can individuals be trusted without government?
in large numbers it willnot work, while in small situations it works well
6. How do we balance the freedom and opportunity of individuals born today in one place with the freedom and opportunity of others born in other places and/or in the future?
a. Well you broke right on this one, l will give you that and I pretty much agree with your point
7. Is it possible to help another person to become independent, or is that an inherently impossible proposition?
a. see question #1
8. How can we achieve fairness and justice in conflict resolution and decision-making?
a. find the person that convinced you the world was fair and slap them really hard.
9. How can we remove racial and cultural naivety and intolerance?
a. IT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. what we have to do is learn to live with it. IF you for one minute are so naive to think
that man is suddenly going to stop thinking his race is the best or strongest or smartest or etc. You need to go find that
person and slap them again. Some of the most I have seen is in Latin America. YOu can put 20 Tico's and 20 Nica's
in a room and GOD himself would have trouble telling you who is who. I tell you what you run down and settle that little
feud then you can start talking about it Personal do not think there is anything tha tis not totaly normal about thinking
of yourself in a lifted light. YOu want to talk about what is true and that is not even on the table. It was that way 1000
years before rome AND WILL BE HERE 1000 YEARS FROM NOW. LEARNING TO ACCEPT IT WHAT WE HAVE TO DO.
i AM NOT saying agree with it , I am saying that is life deal and go on and make a difference
10, . How can we ensure that the worlds' population are fed, ceasing hunger in all four corners of the world?
a. well I am starting in Honduras Honduraslifestyles.com is my plan, jobs, food for kids, shoes for children,
BUT not a handout. There is a hugh difference in a hand out and helping a man to his feet
11. How can we develop a community's volunteerism efforts?
a. these must not have been your. FunrunnersTravel is a fraternity of single people that are going to show the world how it is done
12. How can we eradicate organized crime?
. There ya go again, go slap him again. EVEN in A communist state it will occur, much less in a society that thinks
becoming a police state is the way to go. THE biggest organized Crime in the world today is some of the governments. Hell the mob went legit
13. How can we ensure that no singular group of people are targeted anywhere in the world for death, torture, or any behavior that causes them
to live in fear?
a. THE STRONG WILL SURVIVE until the weak stand together. www.SOuthlandAppraisersUnion.com
I'm as left as it gets in most ways
For me the answers are:
* How do we align the interests of individuals and society so that there can be harmony? (How can people be motivated to take care of themselves and provide for family, friends, and strangers?)
I haven't found many who lean right that appear to care about humanitarian values, but I have met a few. For me, it is ALWAYS concern for the interests of humanity in general before the individual. If one is doing something that damages humanity then they are not thinking of the bigger picture. For instance, immigration extremists who would divide families don't realize the costs associated with this. Deporting one spouse or another can create a huge deficit in the partner's finances left behind and this is often passed on to the tax payer, so IMO it is ridiculous to do this. Racial profiling is another practice I feel damages the spirit of the law and has far more costly effects upon taxpayers. When we opt to choose certain cultures for unfair law practices, we create criminals which we will have to absorb the cost for later. Much better to allow individuals to see their potential and concentrate on the actual criminals, than to turn an entire culture into a reliant entity.
* How do we allocate and distribute capital, products/services, and natural resources?
For me, allocation should always be in a manner that benefits society in general, over the individual. That doesn't mean expropriating investments, except when it can be proven that the investments were acquired by illegal gains. For instance, if a person is coming to a country to buy up all the land and turning around and price gouging, then that would be illegal...as in the case of the United Fruit Company in years past. If they are paying off officials to gain tax deductions, the same thing. If a monopoly raises the price of consumer goods to a point of greed and ridiculousness, same thing. The focus should be on reason and profit, not capitalistic greed that destroys economies and creates overwhelming debt, like in the U.S.
* Who is entitled to the fruits of a person's labor?
That person, and they should be taxed on a percentage of their profit with the same percentage across all income bases to enable fair taxation, not tax exemptions for the wealthy and the debt left for the less fortunate to pick up.
* To what extent can governments, or individuals/groups that are part of governments, be trusted?
Rarely! Most governments of all forms are created upon graft and scandal, which is why the individuals who run are generally made of a similar cloth.
* To what extent can individuals be trusted without government?
Rarely! We need governments to resolve the greater issues that each country needs. But it should not be at the financial bribing of lobbiests, but at the vote of the people.
* How do we balance the freedom and opportunity of individuals born today in one place with the freedom and opportunity of others born in other places and/or in the future?
We remove borders and free all trading of skills, knowledge, natural resources, and investment, to remove imperialism and to boost growth. If a person is too lazy to prepare for the competition, they sink, no matter which country they are in. For instance, instead of the U.S. allowing dead weight employees to develop tenure in jobs, we allow healthy competition to maintain the position...that would eliminate stagnancy and if a foreign person can do the job better, then go for it! This would force people out of positions they have no proficiency in and allow much better growth potential. I like the model of competition that India uses for universities and other skills. The U.S. tends to allow employees to become lazy and nonproductive, and I'm not sure that model helps the growth of this country.
* Is it possible to help another person to become independent, or is that an inherently impossible proposition?
Yes, if they are prepared to work for it. No, if they are not willing. Depends on the person. We can hold corporations accountable that use unfair labor practices and demand that they employ a diverse workforce and this will allow people to see independence as a reality.
* How can we achieve fairness and justice in conflict resolution and decision-making?
We can cease allowing jurisprudence for only the wealthy and distribute equal and fair justice for all. That isn't being done in any country that I know of. The benefactors of justice are only the wealthiest people of each nation, because the poor usually can't afford adequate counsel.
Are there any questions that ought to be added to this list or anything that should be changed?
How can we remove racial and cultural naivety and intolerance?
If every country followed the U.K.'s model of removing hate speech from the internet, airwaves, and other communication sources, it might die out.
How can we ensure that the worlds' population are fed, ceasing hunger in all four corners of the world?
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TCU Announces Glasgow's Return As Safeties Coach
Jan. 12, 2012
FORT WORTH, Texas -- TCU head football coach Gary Patterson has announced the return of Chad Glasgow as safeties coach with Trey Haverty and Rusty Burns having new assignments on staff.
Haverty will move from safeties to wide receivers coach, while Burns becomes co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.
Glasgow was TCU's safeties coach for 10 seasons (2001-10) before serving this past year as defensive coordinator at Texas Tech.
The Horned Frogs led the nation in total defense each of Glasgow's last three seasons at TCU and four times overall during his first stint in Fort Worth.
In addition to total defense, TCU also topped the nation in 2010 in scoring defense (12.0 points), pass defense (128.8 yards), pass defense efficiency (94.9 rating), opponent third-down conversion percentage (24.1), fewest first downs allowed per game (12.0) and defensive three-and-outs per game (6.0). The Horned Frogs were fifth in run defense (99.7 yards).
Glasgow, a 2010 National Defensive Backs Coach of the Year by FootballScoop.com, has coached 14 all-conference selections at safety at TCU, including 2010 consensus first-team All-American and Jim Thorpe Award finalist Tejay Johnson. Seven safeties coached by Glasgow at TCU signed NFL contracts.
Haverty returned to TCU last season after previously serving as a graduate assistant with the Horned Frogs.
Haverty was an All-America wide receiver at Texas Tech. As a senior in 2004, he led the Big 12 in receptions (77) while placing second in receiving yards (1,019).
Haverty had 110 receptions for 1,326 yards and seven touchdowns in his Texas Tech career (2001-04). In his final collegiate game, he had eight catches for 147 yards in a 45-31 Holiday Bowl victory over California.
Burns, who has been TCU's wide receivers coach the last three seasons, will share the offensive coordinator duties with Jarrett Anderson.
Burns and Anderson were the co-coordinators in TCU's 31-24 Poinsettia Bowl victory over Louisiana Tech.
TCU marks the seventh school that Burns will have served as an offensive coordinator. He also held that role at Springfield (1978-79), Connecticut (1980-88), Memphis (1996-98), Wyoming (1999-01), Cincinnati (2002-03) and SMU (2004-07).
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A Healing Prescription for Any Painful Reaction
Part I: The only medicine guaranteed to help heal the common conflict that flares up between ourselves and another is our willingness to realize, explore, and then release our own negative reaction to what we believe we see as being the other person's transgression.
Part II: The assumption is that when your words or actions set me off, then my irritation is only the effect of having to tolerate your ignorance of my superior understanding, else you would never challenge my thinking. While the truth is that real wisdom can neither be injured nor inflamed, and only one's imagined intelligence is quick to ignite when struck!
Principles for Perfecting Relationships
Between our known negative reactions towards those who we perceive to have offended us, and that healing unknown Love that restores us to the truth of each other, is hidden a kind of conscious changing ground… an inner realm whose entrance is gained by willing intention to Love, and whose sanctuary is won through self-sacrifice.
Have you ever been so upset, so disturbed by someone, that if you didn't lash out at them, you were sure the whole world would come crashing down on you? When you and I get upset with someone or life, our attention is instantly glued onto the source of our irritation. All we do is think about the irritation we have and how it's connected to what someone else has done.
When you're upset with someone or something, you have no consciousness of yourself at all. You are only conscious of what you say he, she, or it is making you feel. You are completely outwardly oriented in order to justify your inward excitement.
At the moment you see a person or an event as being responsible for this irritation, what you are actually seeing is your experience of the moment. So really what you're experiencing isn't the person, but the content of your own past experience in its narrow confines.
This is the moment where it becomes possible to access the Truth (Love) by reversing your attention. Instead of placing all of the "consideration" on the person outside of you, turn your attention around and place your awareness entirely on yourself. Stand fast in the light of what you see about yourself before you turn that light on another person. Before you talk about the mote in that person's eye, take the beam out of your own. Instead of lashing out, come aware of your own reaction, and as best you know how, simultaneously drop the reaction by reversing your attention in the moment that you're upset.
We can find an apt spiritual metaphor for this exercise in the movie "Zorro," where there is a swordsman's circle that Zorro instructs his disciple about in this way: "Stay in your circle. Don't go outside the circle for any reason whatsoever, because if you'll stay in your circle, what you need will come to you, and then because you have remained in your circle, you will be able to deal with it on your terms."
Not going outside your circle means staying in the space of your own life. Leave the other person's space alone; it's not your business. They can't learn the lesson their space provides them (and the truth that's there) if you are in their circle, pushing on it. (And what's more, the only reason you are in their circle is because you can't bear being alone in your own!) Stay in the circle, don't go out, and you'll see that fantastic things happen. If you would learn to serve Truth first before you try to straighten out each other, then in the very attempt to do that, you would be given the Godly life that you are intended to have.
How do you serve Truth first? By daring to intend this Truth, intend this Love, intend the understanding you have, and as you intend it, be willing to stay in that spot where you can't find who you are and you can't say who the other person is. Then Truth tells you everything, because you've placed yourself where it's possible for Truth to make the connection with you. This raises you instantaneously to a new level, to the Truth that always had been waiting for you inside of your experiences with others.


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You were boring. You snored too much. You weren't that funny. I just don't love you anymore.
Whatever it was, Crust Bakeshop in Worcester has a cookie for it.
Each time February rolls around and people get all lovey-dovey, Crust bakers tap into the coldest parts of their heart to create anti-Valentine's Day cookies for everyone else.
The heart-shaped sugar cookies go for $2.50 a pop, a bargain compared to the flowers and chocolates you really don't want to buy for your significant other.
If you're a member of the broken hearts club, you can eat your feelings with these cookies and embrace your distaste toward Feb. 14.
Crust has baked more than three dozen of the cookies this season and they will be available through next Wednesday, said owner Alexis Kelleher.
If Netflix and chill is more of your thing this year, Crust has the perfect cookie for your Valentine: "You up?"
A cookie for your husband or wife, signaling that all romance is probably out the window: "What's for dinner?"
Kelleher said she and the staff keep a list of all their favorite anti-Valentine sentiments through the year, prepping to pipe them onto the sugar cookies.
Every year, the cookies are a hit.
"These are a maybe a little more honest, a little more raw, relatable, I think that's a big part of it," Kelleher said. "Other people don't say that stuff, so it's kind of fun to see it and, on a cookie. I think just seeing it on a cookie is funny."
Kelleher made one she particularly liked on Friday: "Love at first swipe."
For those who do enjoy a sweet and romantic Valentine's Day, Crust does have some sugar cookies without the sass.
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BOONSBORO — There are those who believe bookstores — the ones that offer reading material in the paper and ink variety — will one day go the way of vinyl records.
Bookstores will become dinosaurs.
Hardcovers and paperbacks will vanish from the shelves and the space will become little more than a cafe and digital connection point, or worse, another empty retail box with black-covered windows.
E-books and e-readers are what the public want, doom sayers proclaim. And the small players — the neighborhood bookshops — will eventually be squeezed out of the picture.
They obviously don't know much about the customer who supports those small businesses, Janeen Solberg will tell you.
There is the satisfaction of walking into a room filled with a tumble of books — a place where you can relax, browse and be reminded of a good story.
It's a place where a knowledgeable staff can discuss your literary preferences and make the right recommendations.
And, here, you can experience the tactile pleasure of reading a real book — "the color, the art, the texture," Solberg said.
As manager of Turn the Page Bookstore, housed in a pre-Civil War townhouse along Boonsboro's North Main Street, Solberg said there is a special relationship between the independent shop and those who step through its doors.
It's a place to buy books, of course, but it's much more, she noted.
It's a community gathering place, where you can get a cup of coffee, be part of a book club, purchase unique gift items made by local artisans and even enjoy an occasional Girls' Night Out, with hand treatments, champagne and the opportunity to mingle with writers and craftspeople.
The shop, owned by Bruce Wilder, husband of award-winning author Nora Roberts, also is known for its regular book signing events, featuring Roberts and other best-selling writers.
It's not an easy job making it all happen seamlessly.
But it's a job Solberg loves and does well — so well, in fact, that she recently was named the Steffie Walker Bookseller of the Year, a recognition given annually by the Romance Writers of America.
The national award honors the one individual who provides outstanding service to romance readers and demonstrates notable support of romance authors and the romance genre, according to RWA's website.
Solberg will receive her award at the 2012 RWA Conference in Anaheim, Calif., next month. More than 2,100 published and aspiring romance writers, editors, agents and other industry professionals are expected to attend the event.
"I'm incredibly proud to receive this award and represent Turn the Page Bookstore — not only Nora and Bruce, but our staff," Solberg said. "We're a small team. But we have a big love of romance. We value the industry and the bricks and mortar stores that are putting books into the hands of readers and providing a sense of community in our neighborhood — be it the streets of Boonsboro or our friends around the globe."
Solberg doesn't remember a time when she didn't enjoy books and, according to her mother, started reading at a very young age.
"But the book that triggered reading as a daily habit for me was a story called 'The Toothpaste Millionaire' by Jean Merrill," she said.
Solberg eventually moved on to the Trixie Belden mystery series, books she calls "the Nancy Drew for country kids." But as a teenager, "my cousin handed me my first stack of Harlequin romances and I was hooked. What wasn't to love? Spunky, adventurous young women trying to find their way in the world. Throw in handsome, experienced men who adore these heroines just the way they are with all their flaws, and you've got happiness in the making."
With a love of the written word, it was only natural that Solberg would get her master's degree in literature and become a high school English teacher.
Solberg said she has always been drawn to bookstores, especially small independents.
"When I decided to leave teaching to raise our children, I found myself on the local library board with Nora's husband, Bruce Wilder," the Boonsboro resident recalled. "We hit it off and that turned into just the kind of part-time job that fit my schedule at the time."
Over the years, Solberg became more involved in the operation of the store, including planning the numerous book signing events, leading the store's book club, maintaining the Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb subscription service and working hard to promote the Shop Local movement in the community.
She has learned to wear many hats at Turn the Page — from coffee maker to event organizer. But all aspects of the job are rewarding, she said.
Solberg especially is proud of the Turn the Page Book Club, which, she said, "has been a real joy to me. We meet faithfully on the second Wednesday of each month at 1 p.m. We don't bother with food or wine, which I know is rare, but we devour our books and have wonderfully lively discussions. About once a year, we try to work in a book where I can have the author attend the meeting and join in the discussion with us. Aside from being interesting, this is a learning opportunity for the reader and the author."
The longest standing tradition at the store is the book signings featuring Roberts and at least five other authors. The events typically draw several hundred people.
"Our job is to connect readers with writers and our book signings are a consistent way for us to accomplish this," she said. "A reader may come for one author, but find herself introduced to a new love."
While the store carries a wide genre of books and welcomes requests from customers, romance remains one of the most popular reads, she said, especially with all of the subgenres of romance — historical, paranormal, classic romance, contemporary, magic and more.
Many of the authors of those books develop a special relationship with Turn the Page, she said. Some start out as customers and contact the store when they have written a book. Others call and ask to sign stock.
When she's not reading or working with books, Solberg said she enjoys community service.
"I'm on the Boonsboro Town Council and serve as co-chair for the Boonsboro Green Fest," she said. "When I carve out enough time, I enjoy creating pottery and have a small pottery shed in the old summer kitchen behind our home."
Solberg said she's come a long way from "The Toothpaste Millionaire" — even though she did track down the book and now carries it in the young reader section of Turn the Page "as a reminder of how reading really does open doors."
Today, "it's mostly literary fiction for me," she said. "But, like clockwork, every few books I get itchy for a good romance. And I know just where to find one."


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My name is Ian (aka) Ball(y) I have been a blue since 1978 when I was introduced to Goodison by my Uncles, I was originally taken to see Liverpool by my dad from the age of three, until that is, I was bewitched by Goodison and Everton under the lights.
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