My beliefs

There is a better way

       All I want to do is grow some food and make some electricity just in case

First the psycho-babble conjecture stuff.

Our present Federal President Obama is not too smart, has frittered away all the wonderful educational  opportunities he was provided, and is an immoral person to boot. Like he lies as a way to rule. And he is a smooth talker, for sure. I still like listening to him. I sense he actually believes much of what he is saying, which is worse on me and my situation. Like he is too dumb to even know when he is lying. Rather he is a smooth talking devil who has succeeded beyond his competence.  
 

 

His hired speech writers are probably deserving  an honorable mention as  shadow Presidents.

And now I am supposed to suffer, like even die in some kind of cold and wet and miserable situation he and his party have created. Or so it seems to me as becoming more probable. Many call such thinking "the law of unintended consequences". Some will call it hysteria.

Now I don't mind suffering, but the idea of my Family and friends suffering bothers me a lot, like a real lot.

Now whether our elected federal legislature has the institutional  strength and gumption to impeach this kind type of pretender to being a King, I don't have a good feel for that. But nobody is above the law in the USA, period.  And as far as impeachment goes, I suggest keeping it to simple illegal acts vice political ideology.  There's plenty of that illegal activity, to include apparent corruption. That's the job of the House to determine, by the way.

And if the legislature won't impeach him for his clearly illegal actions, then it is time to replace many of them, too.

I am already imagining some kind of modern day Nuremberg trials, by the way. There's a bunch of them to impeach.....some elected and some appointed. Maybe the legislature will  limit the first trials to two or three? Maybe even some of the accused will have been earlier approved by the Senate. So what when the accusations should be about alleged illegal activity and not ideology. And the accused don't have to be convicted 100% in advance. Even Admiral Nimitz as a young man was court marshaled for an incident in Manila Bay, and cleared.

Now how does a common citizen like me act, given that I feel I have also put up with a lot in the present USA.  Even isn't it amazing that Senate Majority Leader Reid just "happened" to own the formerly worthless desert land that the new bridge across the Colorado River just downstream from Hoover/Boulder Dam just happened to be connected to and built on. Or how about his receiving taxpayer funded support (via a fellow Senator's hired employees who flew out to Nevada) in his recent reelection bid in Nevada.  And he is partially in charge of my future? And his national party made him the Senate Majority Leader.

And these kinds of things have probably gone on before. But the degree to which it is happening these days is an aberration. What is going on now is not normal.

So as a consequence,  I can imagine a new Federal legislature we the people have elected.  And I can imagine consequences, too. I can even imagine a third national party until the present two national parties fade after more that a century in power.

How about the famous, to me, scene from the movie "Gone With the Wind" about 40 acres and a mule?  The idea of the modern equivalent, like "free" cell phones to gain federal votes in Ohio sets me off. I grew up with watching  a local bus and bottles of liquor to gain votes in my own past.  And I note the "free" cell phones initiative has been rescinded since the federal election.  Oh well.

Now I have even competed in sports from the local level through the international level. So I know I can get beat, and did. But at least I had a chance to win. There is a similar analogy for voting.

Life does go on. The difference is my life and my Family's life. Now these are things I now worry about,  and even have to plan about. That includes the idea of revolt if my vote is stolen, something new I never would have even imagined five years ago, yet I think it (vote stealing) has gone on recently.  Right or wrong, that is what I believe. Bottom line, I want my Family to survive if times should get hard. And in theory, I will still have elected representatives to accomplish productive goals.

Now I recognize the need for a federal government  and taxes, and I still believe in it. I also believe in certain Constitutional tasks set out for the Federal Government to accomplish as best it can.

But I don't believe in charlatans ruling my future, to include even the possibility of my dying early as they raid our large treasuries (and now depend on borrowing with all the consequences) with the inevitable results coming.  Said even another way, I don't believe in being retired in Tennessee to help pay the state retirement benefits of those fellow Americans in Illinois who have priced themselves out of the market; like their State can't even pay them their retirement benefits. 

 And I have made my peace about having to live within the law about retirement and medical benefits we can't afford. Even these beneficiaries will get old and die, and hopefully my  children can have better prospects, which they probably will if the difficult things sort out as I guess they will. It is going to get uglier before it gets better the way things are going in the USA. So be it. At least change is happening, most likely painful change for me. Hopefully, the pain is less for my children and grandchildren.

Last, this post focuses on retirement and medical benefits. But the damage to my children's futures goes way beyond that.  Take unilateral disarmament and national defense consequences, for example. Imagine a world war that begins in the Middle East or East China Sea, for another example. Imagine a simple military draft returning for our sons and daughters. Did any reader vote on these kinds of issues? Did it even come up?