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.    

Syrian raid one too many.

I am sure you have heard that the US Navy attacked with fifty-nine Tomahawk Missiles an Syrian air base that some think may have been used to launch a chemical attacks on Syrian Children as seen on American Television. This attack on Syria without Congressional approval therefore illegal was meant to show how strong Trump was when faced with TV images.    

The result of the raid as per the Trump Aministration was: 1 The US destroyed 20 per cent of the Syrian Air Force (they seem to be fascinated by the number twenty) 2, 20 per cent of one wing of the Syrian Air Force. 3, 20 planes of the Syrian Air Force. 4, 20 Storage sheds that may have been used to store the chemical weapons. 5, according to the US military they hit all their attended targets. 6, According to Russian military most of the missiles missed their targets and just broke up some concrete. 7, Videos show on American news taken by Arab news networks show Syrian Fighter jets still in one piece with just a little blacken earth. 8, US photos of base from air show the same thing. The Syrian Air Force was flying missions out of that base right after the raid.

It is hard to know whom to believe unless you are a dye in the wool supporter of one side or the other, but in this case, we have to video and the fact that the Syrian base was up and running in no time. The Generals held a news conference which I never saw them do before, but I remember when I was in the Army there were no bigger lairs than generals, well maybe private company executives and a Politian. Bloggers never lie.

One thing that came out of this raid was the Trump administration charter in trying to say how evil the Syrian President Assad was Trump Press Sean Spicer said that even Hitler didn’t use Chemical weapons on his own people. I am not sure why it isn’t bad to use them on any one, but that seems to be the common wisdom that it is worst to bomb your own people than the others. Sean Spicer got in big trouble for this with everyone except Trump supporters. When the generals listed wars from World war one where the USA didn’t use chemical weapons they left out Vietnam because we did use them in Vietnam against civilian targets burning down whole villages with their family still in them with napalm chemical weapons.