11th of September 2001

 11 September 2001

          This is the story of where I was on 9/11, It was a beautiful day, but I was working inside at the Floral Park Verizon Telephone Central Office (CO) installing some new equipment on the second floor, when a coworker came up to me and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We thought it must have been a small private plane, but what kind of idiot could hit much a large building on a beautiful clear day. I knew we could see the city skyline from the roof of the CO and could usually see the World Trade Center pretty clear from up there, so we run up to the roof. When we got there it wasn’t hard to spot the WTC buildings smoke was pouring out of first one then the other, smoke covering about a quarter of the southern sky across Brooklyn. Some other guys joined us up on the roof and one had a small radio with the news that two airliners had hit the WTC, and another hit the Pentagon in Washington D.C. with the Newscaster saying she thinks to might be a Terrorist attack, to which I replied, “You Think?”. It wasn’t until I went home that I heard of the fourth plane went down in Pennsylvania.

What really struck me was that all whose people that worked in the World Trade Center starting what we all thought was just another work day with some going to a the nearby Deli for the coffee while the coworker waited in their offices for them, the ones whose turn it was to go for coffee lived, while the ones who waited died and it may have been the same Deli I got my coffee from when I visited the West Street CO which is across the street from the WTC. I think it is but another example that we should live each day to the fullest.         It was a beautiful day, but I was working inside at the Floral Park Verizon Telephone Central Office (CO) installing some new equipment on the second floor, when a coworker came up to me and said that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. We thought it must have been a small private plane, but what 

How safe was the safe president?

 

How safe was the safe president?

President Biden was elected over a crazy deranged president that came before him. Although he had a great agenda the most important issues were blocked by one senator from West Virginia Joe Manchin. so, he did a good job or at least better job than I expected it still shows the weakness of the American system where one man can block progress.

President Biden and Vice President Kamilla Harris Didn't seem to get along during the campaign.  I thought that was just part of the political two to four, but it seems that there is a definite friction between Biden and Harris the media doesn't seem to like Harris and gives her a tough time so far it's not known if that's because she is the first woman vice president or they just don't like her positions on certain issues.

The corporate media which controls pretty much every election especially the national elections prefer corporate friendly politicians whether they be Republican or Democrat that is why Joe Manchin of West Virginia get so much play whereas the progressives are hardly ever mentioned someday maybe America will be a true democracy, but not now.

 

 

Impeachment was necessary

The reason to impeach a president even after he left office is that future presidents cannot commit crimes in their last year in office such as the insurrection of the 6th of January get away with it because time is short, and he can't be impeached. Also he can't run again for public office and in spite of Q Anon conspiracy theories the election was fair and honest Biden is president

             Now trump should have been impeached in his first term of office if the Democrats were not so chickenshit. He used his office to funnel money into his businesses he is guilty of tax fraud, insurance fraud and money laundering  and many other things including election fraud in 2016

 

Who won the 2020 Election?

 

          All won the election of 2020, the Right Wing lost ground in that they lost the White House, and some Senate seats. the left did not gain any ground, it did not lose any either. The winners were those in the center so called Liberals and real Conservatives both of which want progress with the Conservative putting money first staying inside a budget.  The Liberals progress first then worry about the budget.

          The Corporate powers that have run the USA for the last 245 years one way or another. They have gained once again for most people have been conned yet again.

Post 2020 Election

 

Wow, the election really was over on November 4^th, but the fascist president refused to accept defeat  and still doesn't  accept the result of the election  but technically it was really over as of yesterday December 14th 2020 with Joseph R Biden junior and Kamala Harris Winning the Electoral college vote.

The Fascist will fight to keep White supremacy alive to the end that says more about the American people and the Republican Party who refused to acknowledge facts.  If They do not like the facts that doesn’t go along with their fake delusions like the fact that they keep calling COVID-19 a hoax. Also they don’t go along with the fact that Biden won they think that there was electoral fraud in the 2020 election and they brought over 50 law suits, but have no proof at They lost them all of them including two in the United states Supreme Court. They will continue their tirade until the day they die.

 What I wonder about is what's going to happen to the Republican Party for there is some Conservatives that sided with the progressives and black lives matter voters to give Biden his victory. so, there is a split between in the Republican Party between Republican Conservatives and the Republican fascist will they split into two parties or well one subdue the other I guess time will tell.

Week before the 2020 Election

 

Well it's a week before the presidential election of 2020 between Donald J Trump and Joseph Biden. So, far Biden is ahead by an average of 10 points national, but much narrower in some of the so called swing states like Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania And Wisconsin most people even Democrats are wary of these polls because of what happened in 2016 where all the pulls said Hillary Clinton was going to win by a landslide, but Trump got in by the Electoral College which makes the States count more than the United States population as a whole.

          Trump the incumbent president has some accomplishments in the foreign policy area, such as finally come to the conclusion that the United States has lost the war in Afghanistan and so Surrendering it to the Taliban and some little bit more questionable things like moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in Israel. Then getting some Muslim countries to recognize Israel which is a good accomplishment. Then the withdrawal of troops around the world would be a good thing, but it was all so far it's been all talk no action He claims to have success with China but it seems more like it's the other way around China's economy is growing even after the pandemic where is United States is shrinking

          Trump domestically is another story other than the tax cut for the rich which he would call an accomplishment. He has set storm troopers against innocent protesters of the black lives matter people. Started riots around the country blaming it on the black lives movement. Then the biggest thing is the who's to blame for thousands of American lives  by playing down the pandemic which she knew was dangerous long before it had had hit areas of the country this is still playing out today. Hopefully Biden can stop the hemorrhaging and bring the country back to normal.

          Joseph R Biden Jr. The Democratic candidate for president was not my first choice no in fact she was my last choice to run against Donald J Trump. I did vote for him because he was not Donald Trump.  He served as the senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2008 When he became Barack Obama's vice president I am sure he had many accomplishments as senator, but so far the only things have been brought out are the things that his critics like to blame him for Like the tough on crime bill which he put forth in the Congress that was tougher on the poor especially Blacks poor and put many in prisons  even with many low crime Offences.  

Retired Working Class View: War against the pandemic

Retired Working Class View: War against the pandemic: In war the best generals are the ones that gain victory with losing the fewest soldiers. Caesar after crossing the River Rubicon and taken...

War against the pandemic

In war the best generals are the ones that gain victory with losing the fewest soldiers. Caesar after crossing the River Rubicon and taken Rome with a Legion of Roman soldiers without losing one soldier that is what made him a great general and leader of the Roman Empire. Now a couple of Millennium later we need a leader like Caesar gains victory with the minimum amount of life lost. The United States of America in the year 2020 as a leader the unnecessarily cost lives rather than saving them.  

coronavirus

We must try to limit the coronavirus before we can bring back the economy and let people go to work and congregate it is life before money. yes people must live Ann put food on the table. Which is why we have public assistance to put food on the table for those that need. The fact is to get the economy going again some have to be sacrificed probably mostly the  old,  the idea is to minimize the amount of people that must die of this disease that is what Andrew Cuomo at least is trying to do

Retired Working Class View: Trump at the National Pray Breakfast Feb 2020

Retired Working Class View: Trump at the National Pray Breakfast Feb 2020: At the National Prayer Breakfast the speaker before Trump quoted Jesus about forgiveness,  then when Trump started to speak he said “I don&...

Capitalism and Socialism.

 The definition of capitalism is a money-based system where profit is more important than people and the definition of socialism is everything that is important to people should be all controlled by the people.   Nations with a good balance between the two economic systems seem to have worked best through the different crisis that come up occasionally, about every 20 years under capitalist systems.

The virtue of capitalism as proposed by its supporters is that it gives people incentive to invent new innovations but these innovations many times are beneficial only to a few and to the detriment of the many. I believe that there are people that would come up with innovations even without profit for the benefit on society it depends on their loyalty to their society.  

Everyone on earth is bias both genetically and environmentally or as they call it brainwashing. So, people believe in propaganda put out by one side or the other now this is probably true even of this writer, but these are facts to ponder.

Trump at the National Pray Breakfast Feb 2020

At the National Prayer Breakfast the speaker before Trump quoted Jesus about forgiveness,  then when Trump started to speak he said “I don't believe in forgiveness” he was the only one in that room that didn't realize that he was saying that he didn't believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ therefore was not real Christian

New York in the mid 1930's in Color!

Iowa Debate

Bernie Sanders: I agree more with Bernie than any other Politician in my lifetime about 95%. Bernie is the best at explaining Single Payer Healthcare and how he will pay for it. The trouble in the debate is that Bernie and Warren were fighting over weather a woman can be elected President. There by hurting each other and making the more moderate candidates look like the safer Choice.

Elizabeth Warren: I like her Enthusiasm she talks with a lot of energy and passion and has pretty much the same plans as does Bernie. I have trouble thinking that her plan for making the rich pay for it or most of it is that ir won't work. The rich are in power and the first even if she manages to get it through Congress, which is doubtful they will repeal it the first chance they get, better off with taxes on all classes of people according to income and she has the same trouble as Bernie with the fights between her and Bernie.

Joe Biden: Joe is a moderate choice who appeals to I wider group and people Including African Americans because he seems like he would carry on the Obama agenda. Joe has a record that will both help him and hurt him especially in his vote on the war powers act for the Iraq war.

Amy Klobuchar: another moderate choice that runs on putting forth plans that have a better chance of getting thought congress but cover less people. Amy’s plans would be much like Joe’s plans

Pete Buttigieg: Pete looks to me like someone who cut High School classes to be on the debate stage. Pete’s views are about the same as the other two moderates. Pete has little experience.

Tom Steyer: Tom is only on the debate stage because he is rich and thinks that means he know better than more experience candidates isn’t that what got us into this mess in the first place?

Retired Working Class View: Beliefs and War

Retired Working Class View: Beliefs and War: There's been many wars in human history most the original wars was over territory. Then starting maybe 2000 years ago or more we human...

Beliefs and War

There's been many wars in human history most the original wars was over territory. Then starting maybe 2000 years ago or more we humans started to have wars against beliefs people believing that their beliefs weather religious or political ideology. I think it was mostly religious that their beliefs were the only true beliefs and others must either conform to their beliefs or die.

          Wars have managed to kill a lot of people, but what war has ever killed a belief I don't remember ever reading or hearing about any such wars. I think there must be a better way people can debate in peace. Some thought the United Nations was the way and maybe it is, but the UN must be reformed to make it fairer. So I thought social media such as Facebook would make things better with regular people exchanging views. It has seemed made things worse so I'm not sure the way to go but I just think it's through education and dialogue amongst people around the world, but that must be regulated dialogue where hate speech does not excite others to violence I'm not sure how we accomplish this but my what we must try

What if: American Revolt Didn’t Happen

Our forefathers who met in Philadelphia in 1775 to decide what to do about what had happen in Boston earlier that year. They had as I see it three options one to make peace with the crown, two revolt against British role, or three become a commonwealth which was offered by the crown. We already know which choose they made, but what if the 13 colonies decided to become a commonwealth of the United Kingdom and pledge a common defense with the British empire.

          It would be nice to think that all the people of the North American continent would have more Athenian way of life than the Spartan view of life that now seems the culture of the 50 colonies. Since the United Kingdom did away with Slavery in their empire about 30 years before the Civil War it would have saved us from that carnage. The racism would still be with us for it is not an American invention and there would still be wars, but maybe we would not be as quick to start them.

          No, it wouldn’t be perfect we would still have problems, but maybe we would join with the rest of world’s nations in such things as healthcare, fighting poverty and most of all in fighting climate change. Today in the real world the United States stands alone, isn’t it about time we rejoin humanity while there is stall time.     

Tax Transfer from Poor to Rich

I hear the Republicans try to explain their transferring tax money from Medicare and Medicaid to the rich. Republicans say that maybe, corporations will use the tax loot to take jobs out of Ireland to the USA. Which may be good for American Robots not the Workingclass of America.  

If you want to lower taxes in one place, you must make it up in another place or barrow it. The Republicans don’t want to be accused of raising taxes on the m1iddle class, so they try to hide them with tricks like lowering the amount workers can put in the 401k counts there by taxing more of their pay. Another was to take money from the budgets of Medicare/Medicaid there by requiring a raise in the premiums on the seniors. 

The Republicans say they will take away tax loop wholes, but what they fail to say is that those loop wholes is what keep middle Class (workingclass) use to reduce their taxes.

What if: American Revolt Didn’t Happen

Our fore fathers who met in Philadelphia in 1775 to decide what to do about what had happen in Boston earlier that year. They had as I see it three options one to make peace with the crown, two revolt against British role, or three become a commonwealth which was offered by the crown. We already know which choose they made, but what if the 13 colonies decided to become a commonwealth of the United Kingdom and pledge a common defense with the British empire.

          It would be nice to think that all the people of the North American continent would have more Athenian way of life than the Spartan view of life that now seems the culture of the 50 colonies. Since the United Kingdom did away with Slavery in their empire about 30 years before the Civil War it would have saved us from that carnage. The racism would still be with us for it is not an American invention and there would still be wars, but maybe we would not be as quick to start them.

          No, it wouldn’t be perfect we would still have problems, but maybe we would join with the rest of world’s nations in such things as healthcare, fighting poverty and most of all in fighting climate change. Today in the real world the United States stands alone, isn’t it about time we rejoin the human race while there is stall time.     

Wrong way battle group

Trump and General James Mattis Secretary of Defense,  said the USS Carl Vinson was headed for North Korea as it sailed the opposite direction.

Now the Navy's battle group was just operating according to their orders and no one had changed those orders. Donald Trump has not been listening to his intelligence experts so it is not surprising that he did not know where the battle group was located. It is surprising that General James Mattis did not know where they are or were they just lying? This is one time when lying is better than not knowing what is going on with your own Navy.