Wednesday, September 11, 2013

BloggeRhythms 9/11/2013

Critically important day today in American history. One to never be forgotten. And I think every citizen would best serve themselves and each other, if they remember 9/11 not only on its anniversary, but all other days as well.
 
While that tragedy is now twelve years behind us, terrorism, conflicts and wars still go on. So last night the incumbent gave another speech, this like all his others, predominately double-talk.
 
However, while there are countless opinions about the speech itself,  I remain focused on its intent, which I still believe has nothing really to do with Syria, or anything else in the Middle-East. 
 
Because what we have here is a street-corner politician who simply got called for shooting his mouth off without thinking. And instead of stepping up like a man and taking his lumps, he’s now scrambling to find any way he can to blame somebody else.
 
Nonetheless, rather than go into lots of details, because there are thousands of others voicing their thoughts on the subject, I’ll only address the chemical warfare issue itself.
 
Peggy Noonan’s column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday morning gave a vivid description of the effects of chemical warfare, and what she expected the incumbent to say last night: 
 
”He will attempt to be morally compelling and rhetorically memorable. He will probably, like Susan Rice yesterday, attempt to paint a graphic portrait of what chemical weapons do—the children in their shrouds, the suffering parents, what such deaths look like and are. This is not meaningless: the world must be reminded what weapons of mass destruction are, and what the indifference of the world foretells.”
 
Now, while that simple description presents a vivid picture of the horrors the incumbent claims chemicals will do, what does he think happens to those that are targets of the warheads in the nuclear rockets he wants to use?
 
Moving along to another subject, this is another where  the incumbent’s plans seem to have gone awry. Because while breaking the back of the nation’s economy seeking to redistribute the wealth of the rich, much like the mistakes in his new health care tax and failure to recognize global cooling, this result too was one hundred eighty degrees off the mark.    
 
According to Paul Wiseman of myway website via Drudge, “The gulf between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America is the widest it's been since the Roaring '20s. 
 
The very wealthiest Americans earned more than 19 percent of the country's household income last year - their biggest share since 1928, the year before the stock market crash. And the top 10 percent captured a record 48.2 percent of total earnings last year. 
 
U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. And it grew again last year, according to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service figures dating to 1913 by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University.”
 
So, all the effort to strip the “rich” of their assets and level the economic field has not only failed completely, the gulf between them and other classes is the widest its been in 85 years.
 
And that brings me back to the very same issue I mention about the incumbent quite frequently. This is a nation built by free spirited individuals having the strongest entrepreneurial skills. Which means they have talents and abilities that are incredibly huge. So, the way to gain from them in any way is to befriend and help them, because those who don’t are destined to lose. 
 
But the oddest thing about the current situation is that the one who thinks he’s the smartest in the room, economically speaking isn’t even in the same area code as his competition.
 
That’s it for today folks.
 
Adios

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