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Once again the politicians from both parties, and their party leaders, have proven that their only concern is for their own greedy selves.

Politicians spend a lot of their time, when they even bother to show up for work, foolishly arguing over names for objects like buildings and enacting stupid laws that promote the destruction of the country instead of WORKING to steer the country to prosperity and to protect it from evil.  They have actively promoted the moral bankruptcy of the US for decades and this year alone have chosen to hand out over $Trillion worth of bailouts to companies run by morally bankrupt people which adds proof that they are acting to financially bankrupt the US as well.

They made laws promoting every immoral action and laws promoting the unemployment of the masses, then sat back and watched the fallout.  Then they jumped up and down yelling “you’re all in trouble if we don’t act quickly!” and passed a $700Billion Bailout package, after already authorizing $Billions more, to prop up the morally bankrupt bankers even though the majority of the people in the so-called democracy that is ruled by the will of the majority told them not to.  They also said that they don’t know when or even if this might help, and that they might have to add more money to the bailout later, but that it’s extremely important that they did something super fast.  Sort of like closing your eyes then just running and screaming for the sake of doing something when you find yourself in the middle of a building that is on fire and quickly filling with smoke.  And after piling on this tonnage of debt they went on vacation with no concern for the masses of the unemployed or for the need to act to stop the continuing flood of capital out of the country, and for the need to encourage a large amount of in-country capital creation to protect the people and to pay the debt.

The majority of the people in the US told their politicians not to pass the bailout but as per usual the wishes of the majority were ignored.  So which greedy incompetent political leaders will you vote for next to pretend you live in a democracy that is ruled by the desires of the majority?  Is anyone planning a tea party?

Satan currently still rules the Earth.  He has control over the politician’s minds and hearts because they choose to pursue the path of greed and selfishness, and the politicians have control over the direction the world’s countries take.  They are Satan’s little helpers in his promotion of all things evil in his attempt to destroy mankind.  This will continue until Jesus returns to lay claim to His ownership, which He purchased with His blood and death, and forces Satan to relinquish his control over man and the planet.

Another tea party won’t make a shred of difference in what is to come so long as Satan’s principles still rule our chosen leaders.

Man’s world will fail
As should be expected
We worship our idols
Instead of following God

Keep God out of it
Cater instead to man
God’s rules we trash
To worship our selves

There is no escape
The world will change
Our systems will collapse
Satan’s rule will end

Politicians are people so they can’t be all bad
There has to be a good one out there somewhere
Like any group of people there are the good and the bad
So there has to be one somewhere among them

There’s less chance it’ll be on the federal level
But surely locally there must be a few
Some politicians may actually start out okay
Then sell out later for their selfish interests

Re-election will become their primary focus
And they’ll trade out favours for personal gain
Morals and values have no meaning to them
It’s only about buying their power and future

Leaders they’re not as that is quite clear
They’re more like trained monkeys than thinking humans
And just like the monkeys they have their handlers
So don’t expect any originality of thought

These people are babble speakers spewing out garbage
They can yap on for hours and say nothing at all
And any stand they take is right on the fence
So we’ll know their position is as clear as thick mud

They’ll buy their favours using our money
And if they need more simply raise our taxes
Politicians are not interested in making society better
Their greed and their lies are what govern them

What a surprise to see the $700Billion bailout rejected.  I guess their fear of not being re-elected had an affect to temper their panic and arrogance.

What course will they pursue now though?  Will they just resort to more arm twisting, and incentive offerings, to again try to pass it instead of taking a time off and finding a more sensible approach to protecting the economy?

Many of the politicians still do not grasp the need to encourage the intelligent re-employment of the people for the economic protection of the country.  The people are the economic engine of the US consumer driven economy and if ignored the economy will fail.  You cannot ignore changing the oil in your vehicle engine and expect the motor will not eventually fail, nor can you remove parts from the engine or not replace failed parts of the engine and expect it will continue to function.  The removal of such a massive number of jobs from such a structured economy, by itself, was a recipe for disaster.  The greedy bad mortgage loans just speeded up the inevitable.  A solid and growing employment and new business base would have reduced the effects of the bad loans scandal.  Add in the fact that employed people get bank loans and buy everything, including Wall Street stocks, and that additional companies created by the right economic promotion will also contribute to increased equity created in-country and also additional Wall Street stock opportunities.  New business and employment growth creates new equity and promotes the free flow of capital.

Once again politicians are catering to their greed and corruption. Again they have proven they do not have the intelligence or ability to lead the escape from an open wet paper bag. Their only concern is for their own near term perceived benefit which is to ensure they can get some more money for their next election bid from the biggest and greediest of corporations that they have proven they will cater to. Of course if they get thrown out of office they can always count on those companies to hire them as lobbyists or figureheads then, right?

The politicians helped the big companies move their manufacturing to countries like China so they could make a bigger profit by not having the concerns of paying people larger salaries or having the environmental and other costs that are required in the US, with of course no concern for the loss of in-country created wealth or the many people who would become unemployed and the affect this reality would have on the country as a whole. At the same time they allowed unrestrained capitalism to run rampant and greedily through the financial markets which allowed for the sale of massive numbers of bad loans of a type that guaranteed a high percentage failure rate but quick near term profits to the greedy banks and financial institutions. So they set up the situation of a massive loss of created income and employment in the country, and the failure of massive numbers of home mortgage loans that were widely promoted without concern for the eventual results to the country. Unemployed people cannot but homes, pay mortgages, or otherwise support a country that relies on consumerism for its economic engine. So here we are with large numbers of unemployed or underemployed people, the extreme numbers of failed bad mortgages, the massive loss of home sales and home value losses from those factors, and now tight financial markets. Duh, what a surprise!

Earlier this year US politicians threw a $160 Billion “economic stimulation package” around to buy the favour of the public, and they promoted it as being a bipartisan effort to pretend that it must be a good thing if they could all agree on it. The economy was under threat and they were using their vast collective intelligence to fix it you see.

Recently they scattered around a few hundred $Billion to bail out some financial institutions that failed when their greed caught up to them. And now they have decided to scatter at least $700 Billion more around in a bailout package to insure the greedy arrogant bankers, who have brought their banks to the brink of bankruptcy, can get access to more money to loan to us if they choose to do so. We are told the reason they must do this is because the money markets are tight due to the many bad loans the bankers wrote so we have to give them access to more money to make it easier for everyone to get loans from them again. The politicians say the economy is under a massive threat and we will all suffer if they don’t act fast and aggressively and they are working in a bipartisan effort to use their great collective intelligence to once again protect us from an economic threat of massive proportions.

The majority of people in the country are employed by small businesses but the politicians get their big money for their election campaigns and retirement opportunities from the big businesses so they cater to them, and of course to the extremely wealthy who want big profits regardless of the consequences to others or the country. They could have chosen to spend any of the above mentioned money to promote new business activity and the production of new jobs while also promoting the energy security of the US, but they have instead chosen to purchase temporary voter favour and to prop up the greediest in the banking and financial institutions at the severe threat to the country being able to survive into the future.

The politician’s current claim is that they have no choice because the country would melt down if they didn’t do anything so it’s to protect us peons. I don’t believe anyone was suggesting they do nothing, but you’d think that with all those great leader brains working in a bipartisan way in Washington that they’d be able to think of something that would actually encourage economic growth and the future of the country not just pile on an additional massive amount of debt to the determent of the country.

Instead of wasting all the above spoken of money, the politicians could have chosen to do a few simple things like these:

1) Invest in the re-employment of the masses through many in-country projects that promote the protection of the country’s current and future energy needs, and that also promote the protection of our inherited technological advantage.

2) Change the rules governing when a bank is bankrupt, if necessary, so they can’t withhold people’s money or recklessly stop giving their good business customers temporary payroll loans.

3) Buy bankrupt banks at bankruptcy rates, use the FDIC for its intended purpose, and inject funds to keep the bank liquid and functioning until it can be resold at a profit to the private sector. Of course, fire the top greedy scum and retain the regular employee to do the work.

Of course those are just the immediate needs as changing governing regulations in the banking and financial industries have to be addressed too.

I don’t think it makes any sense what-so-ever to increase the country’s debt without also addressing the need for the creation of new in-country wealth to pay for it, and the equally important need to put the people of the US consumer driven economy back to work in an intelligent manner that promotes a more secure future for the country.

Copy this and e-mail it to others if you agree with it, like maybe your political representative. Who knows maybe something positive will happen.

JosephThePoet

Terrorists attacked Washington and took over the country!!!

It looks like the US lost the war on terrorism!  The homegrown terrorist George W. Bush and his gang of economic “experts” got the politicians to crumble and cower in fear in Washington.  The politicians have agreed to hand over $700Billion to the terrorists who said they may yet demand more.  The politicians have agreed to promote the terrorists agenda, and to assist them in their continued destruction of the country.

The terrorists said loans are harder to get so we must give a bunch of money to the greedy incompetent bankers who were the main cause of this economic threat so everyone can more easily get loans from them again, which is of course exactly the formula that got us into this mess in the first place.  They said, “After all, why should we allow the (unnamed) recession to continue for awhile when we can promote the occurrence of a depression of such massive proportions that it could easily bankrupt the country instead?”

We are told they must act now and very quickly or we’ll all suffer.  They want to take another $Trillion from the people who make up the country and this is how are they are going to spend it.  They are going to bail out those who have the most money to protect their wealth position above everyone else.  Now all US citizens pay attention and keep repeating this mantra, “they are doing it to protect us and the whole world from the collapse of our economic system that has such strong fundamentals of structure”.

Earlier this year the politicians said they must act quickly then scattered $160 Billion around on an “Economic Stimulus” package.  Now they are saying we must act quickly and want to scatter around another $Trillion on an “Economic Protection” plan.  Will the next “economic” plan be called the “Whoops, I Don’t Get It”, or maybe the “I’m out of Here and You’re Toast” plan?

They are going to bail out banks.  Are not individual accounts of we the people protected by FDIC up to $100,000.00?  Have we not also been told FDIC has the financial recourses to cover the failure of many banks?  Let the banks fail then, give the people some of their money through the FDIC funds, then buy the bank’s business under bankruptcy bargain basement terms if you wish to use some of the people’s money to keep banks solvent and the money fluid in our communities.  This time fire the big shots that have proven to be incompetent and yet have demanded massive salaries and golden parachutes if their position at the company ever ends, even if their own actions were the cause of the whole company’s failure.  Do you work for your boss under the knowledge that even if you threaten the jobs of all the people working at the company, or fully destroy the company, you will still be given enough money to support a life of ease and comfort for your entire lifetime as you go along your merry way?  No, most of us have to prove competent or we’ll be justly fired and told to take a hike (and sometimes not so politely).

Of course if there are no rules in an economic structure to reign in the vile and greedy then even doing things that actually result in the beneficial movement of our economy will not prevent an eventual economic collapse.  Can anyone realize what the boom to our economy could have been like if the first $160 Billion dollars had instead been spent in a manner to boost the employment level of the people of the country while at the same time making the US energy independent, protecting our infrastructures, and protecting our inheritance of technical superiority to better ensure our opportunity as a country to survive now and flourish into the future?  PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE AN INCOME TO BUY HOMES AND OTHER GOODS, DUH!!!  Does it not make sense to protect the people that are the economic engine of the country to protect a country instead of trying to temporarily ensure some currently wealth blessed people’s comfort level?

What will the politicians do?  Will they protect the future of all the country’s people or try to prop up the perceived safety of some people who currently enjoy extra living comforts and a belief of comfort for their future?  If we fail as a country then the currently comfortable and extra comfortable living among us will fall a lot further, faster, and harder.  Yes I agree with them that time is running out to act, but how they choose to act concerning this will determine the degree of the near-term suffering and the future ability of the country to chart its own course in the world.

Does everyone feel safer now that the greedy banks and financial companies got their massive bailout? Now will you just go back to your life having forgotten this event and without even bothering to try to understand what all this actually means to your future?

Just smile and be happy everyone. Come on don’t worry, spend your money. It’s just a taxpayer supported correction of our free market system to protect a lot of greedy people and companies from having to accept the consequences of their actions because we’ll all suffer otherwise. Don’t worry because we politicians will fix it so this specific action won’t be able to be used to create this threat exactly the same way again. And the next time they find a way to do it we’ll give them more money again to protect you, if the country still exists.

We are told this bailout is necessary to protect everyone’s pensions and to prevent a worldwide financial collapse. Were we not also told that the best thing to always do is to allow the markets to find their own direction and to correct themselves? Isn’t the philosophy of everyone just doing what they want and grabbing what they can, and the consumers should just beware and protect their own butts not working? But it’s all about individual freedom isn’t it? If the greediest get their $Millions or $Billions while they threaten the democratic countries economies it’s their individual right to free choice isn’t it? After all it’s not up to our leaders to lead and protect our country by constructing responsible frameworks for companies to operate within but instead it’s the job of companies whose sole interest is to make a quick buck to decide the direction our countries will take, right?

Our leaders also decided to allow all our manufacturing companies the opportunity to cater to greed by helping tear down our country’s economy while building up the strength of China. People who don’t have jobs can’t pay mortgages, buy homes, or purchase much of anything else to contribute to the continuation of a country’s economic stability. And because of the lack of foresight or leadership from our politicians, China has gotten easier access to our technologies and is increasingly more able to purchase our country’s assets while also holding the ability to promote the crippling and bankruptcy of the US at the moment of their choice by dumping large amounts of American dollars onto international markets to cause massive US inflation. Add in the fact that so many other countries that support terrorism and other policies that threaten our countries also have leverage against our countries because of this same lack of foresight from our leaders to promote local energy production so as to prevent our country from having to rely on foreign countries for our energy needs regardless of the consequences. So why did our politicians choose to protect the financial markets when they have proven that they don’t care about the average citizen or the many economic threats to the country? Is it because they are finally starting to understand that their fiscal mismanagement and foolish unfettered capitalistic practices have allowed the country to come to the brink of total financial collapse, or are they just trying to protect their and their very wealthy friend’s assets?

Our system of catering to individual and corporate greed ensures that an eventual massive financial collapse will occur, and the fact that our leaders are incapable of and unwilling to responsibly lead our people to protect the security of us all means the collapse will be extremely severe when it does occur. This bailout may delay the collapse of the US economy but it will also add to the ease with which the country will eventually be forced into bankruptcy and massive inflation which will allow for the assets of the whole country to be more easily taken from us. The people will be slaves to their masters then and their pensions will be worthless, but the very wealthy will be able to flee the country and only we peons will be left to suffer the results of promoting the right to the freedom to pursue individual greed even to the cost of the whole country. Everyone get up now and yell Freedom! Freedom! Now bow down and worship our democratic system that is so willing to destroy the lives of the many to cater to the rights of the vile and greedy few to do anything they please regardless of the eventual consequences to the country and the majority of us who make up the country.

Christians have been told to be watchful for the time of the return of Jesus and we were told of signs to look for. Can you read the signs yet of increased weather and environmental upheavals, increased disease threats, food shortages and high prices, worldwide unrest and rioting, wars and rumors of wars, the promoting of everything vile and immoral, and the increased disbelief of and blaspheming of God? Is the time when we will be brought to our knees to shake us awake from our arrogance and to pay the price for our turning away from following God’s laws and principles in every aspect of our lives soon to occur?

The protection of a country is not just about having the biggest and best military.  Without a strong economic base to support it a country will fail.  Regardless of whether your biggest concern is about your employment, keeping your home, your retirement, people’s education, transportation infrastructure, our energy needs, or healthcare, you had better be concerned about the strength of the country’s economy.  Do to the factors we are currently facing if we just want to keep our current comfortable lifestyle we have to act now to implement intelligent projects to direct the country before the opportunity is lost to us.

Too many politicians take the view that the market should choose the direction the country takes which ensures that every vile person will get a chance to assist in the destruction of the country.  Apparently politicians are not capable of understanding that their job is to lead the country to encourage its prosperity and survival.  And to the politicians whose solution mantra to everything is always “We have to lower taxes because other countries are doing it and it works”, I say, “Other countries can beat us out with things like lower business taxes, lower personal taxes, lower employment costs, and lesser environmental regulations”.  We cannot compete with countries like China and India on their terms, and I don’t think the public wants to lower the country’s standard of living to cater to big business and the super wealthy.  And maybe someone would like to research and post the annual interest amount our governments are paying on our debts so we may see the $Billions of tax dollars that could have instead been used to promote our country and reduce our taxes also?  We have to take advantage of where we are currently strong like in having many well educated and skilled people, the newest technologies, plenty of natural resources, and a desirable lifestyle.  Look around the country and the world, and you will see that there are plenty of examples to prove that people and companies will always move into areas that cost more money because of the prestige, enjoyments, and other advantages they get by being there.

Our politicians have to realize also that the ways to solving many of our problems is by following the same path.  Here is an example of how the paths can converge.  Promoting getting wind generators onto farms would help our farmers remain solvent in business to protect our food supply and this would also protect our power supplies, provide good paying jobs in manufacturing, education, installation and servicing, and also help us to maintain a good technological base.

For years our governments gave money and tax advantages to the auto industry to get them to locate locally or to stay around to employ people in good paying jobs.  They did this regularly without any requirement that the companies do anything significant to ensure the jobs would even still exist in the near term future.  It is time our governments require specifics when investing in companies to better ensure the promotion of our provinces and states into the future not just to bribe companies that are currently employing people to stay a little longer.  Wind power, solar power, and hydrogen fueled vehicles and refueling stations are areas we can begin to concentrate on to ensure our future success as the demand for these products will increase worldwide for many decades and these technologies will improve our standards of living as well.  The magnitude of change to our countries would be massive along the lines of the pollution and health threats alone and their associated costs to us as well.  Our politicians must act now to strongly promote specific types of business growth that will provide us with quality jobs and to encourage the research and ingenuity that will lead to the products of the future.

I’ll finish with educational concerns.  Having known about electricity for over a century and with electricity having such a massive elementary involvement and influence within our living environment, why are we not teaching it in our elementary schools and continuing with it through high school?  And with everything so computerized we should be teaching our youth programming coding methods early too.  Encouraging technology knowledge and experimentation in school will help them build logical thought progression during the time when they are such fast and eager learners and will help them to create the wonders of the future.  Schooling should always be adjusted for relevance to the children’s lives and made exciting to encourage their participation.  Our colleges and universities should not be the primary learning centers for the majority of our citizens to learn about our technologies.

These things would be obvious if our politicians followed God’s laws and principles in the performance of their jobs.  So will our leaders do the job they were elected to do to protect the country or will they continue to act like a bunch of clueless spoiled children who would get totally lost in a rat intelligence maze test?  Stay tuned: same bat time, same bat channel.

I like to help out and give what I can
I enjoy being used to the fullest extent
Solutions and creating are what I offer
And smart business people do well using me

I’ll come up with ways to save them money
Like maybe improving production techniques
A loss of quality is not what I’m after
Nor will I sacrifice safety for speed

Inventing product improvements is easy for me
And I may even suggest new products to try
But my desire to be used is all encompassing
I’ve even offered our politicians some thoughts

My soul is such that I like to help others
So information and ideas I freely give out
I offer first without asking for anything
It’s up to others to show me respect

Our politicians, courts, and the extremely selfish are using claims to rights and freedoms as a crutch to promote every greedy and vile life choice.  They do it so well that we do not need outside enemies to destroy all the gains our ancestors and we have achieved through our hard work.  The governments and legal systems are using the mantra of protecting individual rights to in actual fact deny the majority their rights, freedoms and inheritance.

More and more of the people’s real freedoms have been taken away by the politicians and courts as they cater to every anti-God desire.  They demand that we the majority change our language, culture, and family concepts to cater to the minorities who choose an anti-God lifestyle.  Our politicians and courts even enforce the brainwashing of all our children through our teaching institutions.  Why should the rights of the minority to choose to promote everything anti-God be allowed to supersede the rights of the majority who choose to have Godly principles rule our so-called democratic countries?

It is demanded that God be kept out of all our government’s creations and our institutions of “learning” but the teaching that homosexuality, casual sex and abortion are right is demanded to be taught.  Anyone who disagrees is punished and declared a hatemonger, and the teachers jobs are under threat to engage in this propaganda.  The “theory” of evolution is taught in schools as if it is a fact when only variances within species are proven to be true, and even so-called science shows on TV speak of their pet anti-God theory as if it is a proven fact.  Why do they fear allowing the creationism “theory” to be taught in schools and open debate to take place?  Because Satan is extremely selfish, arrogant, and vile he chooses to promote everything anti-God.  Those people who do not want to be restrained by God’s rules and principles are using every lie they can to deny God and direct our society to following Satan’s ways.

Charity toward our fellow man is a major theme in the Bible but not to the level of catering to every individual greed and deviant behaviour.  Our society puts too much emphasis on the individual which promotes selfish, greedy, arrogant, disrespectful, and egotistical character building.  Our energy, employment, pollution, economic, global warming, and international integrity problems are all a direct result of our encouraging selfish practices.  The selfish individual’s actions have pillaged our country’s wealth and threatened all the citizens of our countries.  We have reached a tipping point where the consequences of our past choices will soon cascade over us all with the speed and destructive power of a volcanic pyroclastic flow.  We only have a chance to reduce our troubles now through the quick action of a determined populace that is willing to stop and reverse this catering to the vile and selfish.  Our countries need to be restructured to work within God’s principles before we lose most of the abilities and comforts we now enjoy.

The Christian majority is strongly in support of democracies even though its structures have been used to promote everything anti-Godly.  Many will attack anyone who dares to say anything against democracy.  In their churches they sing songs to The King of Kings.  They say they believe Jesus will return to rule the earth as The King of Kings but fail to think about what this means.  The governments will be monarchies, but not the failed types we have tried.  People will be given positions based on their abilities, by those in position above them.  Their ability and desire to do God’s will, not their family birth or election lies, will determine their position of authority.  Selfish people will not get into positions of power where they can promote their evil lifestyle choices to the detriment of God, man, and our world.  This in no way means the people won’t have a plethora of freedoms, only that legalize babble will no longer be allowed to twist the truth to use a person’s claimed freedoms as an excuse to promote anti-God activity.  Total freedom is only a delusion as even the extremely wealthy are restrained by reality and only within the most secure of structures do the majority get to enjoy the maximum freedoms.

The Russian invasion of Georgia and the inability of the US or Europe to do anything about it demonstrates Russia’s newly proven position of power in the world and the current weakness of the world’s democracies.

Europe and the US will not attack Russia foremost because Russia has a large sophisticated military force and plenty of nuclear weapons, not because the US is hamstrung by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The current military tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan could be adjusted to quickly crush the will, or the capability, of those countries that are acting to promote the continuing of those wars to nothing more than a minor consideration. If the US and Europe went up against Russia then their global priorities would change with definitive power being used to quickly knock down any country that acts to help their enemies. Russia has now even suggested that it may engage in military action against Poland because Poland signed an agreement to install the US missile defense system. If Russian troops entered Poland would Europe and the US send troops into Poland to attack those troops if necessary to force them out or just put up with it? What would Russia do if the west started to move equipment and troops to provide some protection against an invasion into former USSR countries that claim they fear threatened by Russia?

Any financial penalties the US and Europe impose against Russia for their attack into Georgia, and for their remaining on and keeping any Georgian territory they please, could backfire. Europe and the US need the massive amounts of Russian gas and oil to continue to flow into Europe. If the western democratic countries freeze Russian bank accounts and apply other financial penalties against Russia then they may find out the hard way which country holds the power to cause the other the greater financial suffering. If Russia decides to shut off the taps to European countries the lack of fuel and the fuel price jump for Europe and the US could quickly cripple their economies. Even just jacking the price way up would cause a lot of damage because Europe can’t just go shopping elsewhere to get a better deal because of the tight world supply situation, and you can bet that action would cause US prices to jump too. And as hurricane Gustav approaches the US government has announced that it is willing to tap into the country’s strategic oil reserves to try to stabilize the cost of a gallon of gas at the pumps if the hurricane causes any interruptions to the US oil and gas production, which of course is being done to buy political favour during this election period. What about the ease with which hostile countries can cut the US or world oil supplies to cause costs to skyrocket and the reduced ability of the US to absorb this hit if its reserves are reduced, and even more so if a major military action is needed because the current Russian threat escalates during the same time and/or Iran causes problems with the Persian Gulf oil tanker traffic? As per usual the politician’s only thoughts prove them to be selfish and incapable of understanding the threats to themselves, their families, and all the rest of the people who make up the country. Of course the wealthiest can always move to safer parts of the world during times of war to continue their empires, notwithstanding a full out global nuclear war that they also would suffer from.

The western countries cannot succeed in bullying Iran into stopping their nuclear program either. The US and Europe cannot attack Iran to prevent them from pursuing their nuclear program without considering what Russia and Iran could join together to do. Iran could fully or partially shut down the Persian Gulf oil tanker traffic and Russia could turn off the taps to its pipelines that supply Europe or jack their prices up enough to seriously harm the economies of the west. The Russian and Iranian gas and oil could still move through Russian controlled territory, including using the Georgian pipelines that would have been a bypass around Russian territory, to sell to China and their other friendly countries. The west should not be surprised to see more Russian weapons and supplies flowing into Iran.

The US cannot act aggressively against China either because unfair trade practices have resulted in China holding a massive amount of the country’s debt that the Chinese could dump into the world’s markets to crash the US economy. The western democratic countries have allowed communist China to enact uneven trade policies to take wealth from their countries, and to purchase their resources and to get easier access to western technologies. Our democratic leaders like to pretend themselves to be more morally correct then the rest of us peons by being so inclusive of all people, so much so that they fool themselves into looking at everyone and everything through rose coloured glasses. Communist countries use this kind of naivety of the arrogantly delusional to strengthen their position of power.

The western countries democratic politician’s foolish lack of concern for the long term consequences of allowing the free market to choose the direction for their countries means they ignored the threat of outsourcing their country’s energy supply sources. They have also ignored the financial threats unrestrained free markets have caused that allows communist countries like China to hold such a massive amount of our debt as leverage against us and that have also resulted in the unemployment of millions of our own citizens. The massive amounts of money paid out for imported oil and trade imbalances that flowed out of the western countries are returning to buy up all the country’s people’s works, resources, properties and technologies. The western democratic countries economies can now be easily bought or held hostage by foreign interests because for decades our leaders have chosen not to lead but to foolishly allow the selfishly greedy markets to choose our countries path. The only thing our politicians know because they constantly practice it is how to lie and deceive, and how to suck butt of any little group that may help provide them with the few extra votes they’ll need to get them elected. Their main use of their mind is trying to think of how they can improve their chance of getting elected or reelected, and in practicing how to lie and deceive more convincingly. Instead of knowing a little history, something about human nature, and having some understanding of current business practices and technologies, and applying this knowledge to encourage the progression of our country to the benefit of we the people, who are in fact the country, the politicians prefer to blindly leave everything up to unknown people and engage in their tirade of “The best thing to do is to let the markets dictate their own path and make their own corrections.”.

Has Russia even bothered to return the US equipment they stole in Georgia or are they continuing to thumb their nose at the US? What will the western countries do if Russia decides to move their military into Poland and/or other countries? Will they be willing to go to war against a nuclear power that could immediately shut off so much of their needed power generating capability and upset their economies? Does Russia need to concern itself with the blathering of the US and European politicians when they hold so many power cards? Will Russia, China and Iran choose to work in tandem to deliver a one, two, three knockout punch to the western democracies? Stay tuned: same bat time, same bat channel.

What is this poetry thing really about
Why it is just simply everything and all about life
You may choose to share your feelings with others
Or simply describe something special you’ve seen

You can use it to teach in an interesting way
Or explain your own thoughts on whatever you choose
You can create it with rhyme or just use a rhythmic flow
But it’s always about life so not always pretty

Creating your poetry of course can be hard
But like a medicine it can be good for your soul
Sometimes all it takes is to write your thoughts down
For your pains to be eased and the healing begun

Poetry writing is good exercise for the mind
It’s an interesting discipline of ordering words
The greater your vocabulary the easier it can be
And even beginners like me can create poetry worth reading

Your beliefs are nothing but lies
Is that why you separate God out
God is a factor in everything
We act for or against Him always

Don’t follow those but-but people
God is always part of the equation
You can choose to leave God out
But this is acting against Him

Many are working to deceive us
And we can find plenty of excuses
It’s easier just following the crowd
But only you are responsible for you

God’s laws are always in effect
And we deny them at our peril
Our every action proves our soul
And by this He’ll judge us true

The warm weather is here now it’s barbecue time
So get out your gear and make sure everything works
And fill a tank for the unit and a backup as well
Because you’ll not want to run out before your meal is quite done

All the neighbourhood men are getting their barbecues ready
This is their time to shine and show they’re great chefs
But they’ve got an advantage with this type of cooking
Because anything done on a barbecue is going to taste great

Gathering together they’ll debate gas versus charcoal
Plus the various spices and their different techniques
Now this is their territory and they’ll jealously guard it
And the more experienced wives will quite wisely steer clear

Soon the great smells will permeate the whole block
Because most of the barbecues are now fired up
But who really cares who’s doing this wonderful cooking
It’s barbecue time and our taste buds are drooling