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.