Conservative Americans Can Control This Mess

   I am not a scientist, but there are reasonable conclusions that I can make about human induced climate change that are impossible to dismiss.
   For something like 160,000 years the earth has been habitable by humans. Our climate has been relatively stable. Most certainly for the last 2000 years no one can deny that humans have been able to live on the surface of the planet without mass migrations and huge die offs. The sun has been baking all of this time. Heat has been rising from within the Earth to the surface. We are still here. Sure, there have been changes. The planet will never be completely static, unchanging. But can't we agree that Earth has been doing a pretty good balancing act on it's own? We all haven't been smothered with heat or frozen to extinction. That evidence is clear.
   The balancing act, in simple terms, is that when Earth gets too hot, it cools itself off. And when it gets too cold, it warms itself up. Simple, yes. But that is the point.
   Through Science, through population expansion, through waste management and clean water acquisition and all of the necessary logistics, we have managed to support humanity. If it weren't for the failures of politics, the failures of governments to anticipate population growth and build support...failure to free themselves from the vagaries of destructive, ingrained cultural issues, we could be feeding and supporting decent living standards for all of humanity much better than we do. Our achievements have come due to science. Science is objective...it does not involve God or religion. Science, with God's help, if you wish, is what has made our progress so impressive and successful... a human tool.
   What makes Science so powerful is the scientific method. Scientific method manages to find at least some of the truth in things. Usable truth. Without the scientific method we might still be trying to turn lead into gold. We humans would have our feet planted somewhere in the long ago, difficult past.
    The way I see it, the IPCC and the United Nations appear to have adopted something other than the scientific method to draw conclusions about climate change that are incredible...meaning without credibility.  They have not proven that humans induce significant climate change. They have produced models that have no real meaning and tons of rhetoric. Alarmists like Al Gore have made wild and fanciful predictions which have failed to materialize yet terrorized hundreds of millions of us into becoming politically active with bad information. Our media is parroting this mess every day and in every way nonstop.
   I wonder if the reasons boil down to ignorance and egotism for the social media crowd. I think that goes without saying.
   Money is a big reason. Green energy grants and loans mean hundreds of millions of dollars of US taxpayer money are flowing into the pockets of people who we will never know or hear about.  (Solyndra. Take a minute and review this major beneficiary of your stolen tax dollars.)
   The G77  are 77 countries that comprise the relatively undeveloped world. They have failed to build their nations as their populations have increased while we in the US have built. They find themselves behind in crucial, basic support like clean water, waste disposal and virtually everything else. Their business environment is not what our's is. Their religious influence within the governments are suffocating. Remember, with separation of church and state, we don't have that problem. Without the ability for individuals to create production and service organizations...in our country we call them businesses...we are Capitalistic...far more individuals in those countries are left to barter and hustle for basic things that allow them to subsist day to day. Those countries find themselves way behind with no way to catch up. In Climate Change they see a way for them to demand money from developed countries for the weather damages derived from our acknowledged damage to the environment.  We can thank the United Nations for this.
   We Americans really do not have the money to do for these countries what they should have been doing for themselves all along. We cannot finance nuclear power plants and wind farms in these poor countries. We are borrowing money just to keep our heads above water as it is.
   For this question of human induced climate change I expect the world will soon take a step back and look at the whole of it and slow our reaction to something that more reasonably addresses the issue. Over reaction will be the legacy of many of our political leaders. Their motives are numerous and predictable.
   Somehow our scientific community must figure out how to develop a consensus based on solid, evidence. The question and ramifications are far too significant to allow it to be driven by the United Nations/G77 and the greedy Al Gores of the world.
   Meanwhile, low information social media publishers and television media will terrorize us with "in your face" claims that weather events around the world are the result of human induced climate change without one iota of evidence...and money hungry politicians and business people, who can only count the dollars to be made, praise and finance this circus. Earth has bigger fish to fry.
  We sober, thinking individual Americans need to make our voices heard in 2016. We are the only sane bunch in Earth's crowd. We have been for a very long time. I am sure about me. What about you?
  
    

Cutting Taxes Will Increase Federal Tax Revenue

9/29/2015
 This is an argument that was made by people like John F. Kennedy, Calvin Coolidge, Ronald Reagan, Mellon. Famous people. Smart people. As tax rates have been cut from time to time in our history, tax revenues have increased. If you want  to understand this better read "Trickle Down Theory and Tax Cuts for the Rich". Listen, history is so very important because it keeps us from making the same mistakes over and over again. There are those who rewrite history through agendas...and probably more often from ignorance from negligence of due diligence in their research. This book gives you insight that you need. It is simply stated and easy to read. Downloadable to Kindle if you like on Amazon.
   Right now Donald Trump has brought the idea of tax cuts to the surface. Hillary has already called it "Trickle Down". Trickle Down is a code word for miss-describing the real fix as voo doo economics..for her political purposes. Trickle is a lie. Tax cuts encourage investment in taxable investments which are the ones that fund expansion of present job creating companies and new job creating company formations. That is what we need. Jobs. Read it and educate yourself. Be a leader.
   Hillary calls tax cuts as Trickle Down. She knows that is a lie.  By making this about class conflict she improves her chances of success.  That is playing politics with our future...with the future of all of those so much more needy than us. That's not what this country demands right now. Hillary Clinton is caught short on honor, once again.
   Read. Learn. Vote. You have plenty of time.
   Please share these blogs with your friends if you agree. Thanks.
   Jim Self

Young Gangs and Welfare and Fatherless Families...Why Fathers Matter...Children Raising Children

  Why do we have the high instances of failure in the black and poor communities in this country?  From the 1960's, government programs rewarded single parent households for children;  the more children they had... the more benefits they received.  Girls from unstable or incomplete backgrounds, beginning at puberty,  stood to gain financially by having children out of wedlock. Unemployed males were liabilities.  This brought about a rise in the number of unwed mothers and fatherless children that is still on the increase today.
    We all know that in a group and family, accountability must be assigned and respected, or no one person will have the support of other members, they will not assume accountability, problems will not be addressed and original missions of the group will often fail. In the unstable family environment  which contributed to the problems of these mothers in the first place,  it is easy to see how stability and responsible behavior are often lacking from those same family members.
    Logically speaking, all of these fatherless kids did not fall to this "absent parent" situation, but a significant percentage of them have. Welfare benefits being inadequate for full support,  these single parents still struggle, they have to work, and their children end up being cared for by grandparents and other extended family members.  As such, the situation, logically speaking, is often less than ideal and sometimes far less than adequate.
   Significant  percentages of the children end up being left to daily activities without adult input or supervision.  Neighborhood children, spending after-school and weekend time together "playing",  benefit or suffer experiences and develop mores and values more common among children with negative inputs from their experiences all around and without any constant or significant positive adult management. My point is that these children basically raise each other. And I believe that is why gangs are so numerous and strong. Gangs are more of the same...raising each other! Makes sense, doesn't it?
   They do not have a parent who brings them in in the evening, one who puts a hot supper on the table every night, one who actually talks and shows interest in them and what's going on in their lives. Their parent is too busy to know who they are spending time with and what their activities with their friends are during the day. These kids end up raising each other without benefit of adult supervision.  Since the 1960's, we have henceforth ended up with 4 generations of young people who have had children out of wedlock as single parents as a rule  rather than the exception.
   These at "risk and losing" youngsters have no frame of reference for success for themselves. Their only desire is for immediate gratification with little concern for the future or the consequences of their actions.  They have no experience with treating each other or anyone else with respect. Their code is immediate gratification instead of the Golden Rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Unfortunately, instead, it is to get what you can while the getting is good.
   These kids grow up with drug and alcohol abuse as a large part of their lives. You know that instances of sexual abuse by dysfunctional  elders and other children have to be common.  Is it any wonder that impulsive, destructive  behavior is so much in their lives? They do not understand success. They take it personally that they do not have the material things that successful people have. They believe prejudicial rhetoric by national figures that lay the blame for their apparent failing condition and unhappiness at the feet of the successful.
   We see terrible acts by people with no hope of escape from the consequences. It is a real question why young people seem to act in ways that destroy their lives.
   I believe that they don't see success in their futures. They see what they have before them, more negative and disappointing results, failure, suffering, death or incarceration at a young age. Their outlook is to take what they can get today because there may not be a tomorrow. This fatalistic view is very real for them. We see that and we scratch our heads at wonder...how could he do something like that? If he had had a father and a mother, if he had been taught to respect other people at a young age, if he had been raised with positive feedback instead of worrisome negatives , if he had had supper with his family everyday and was convinced to do his homework and study... to anticipate success and happiness with his own family with his own bright future, would he have been shot down by another drug dealer on the streets at 3 am?
   Raising a family is not something that should be taken lightly. It is labor intensive and expensive. Those who decide to do it alone risk failure, the welfare and futures of their children who may be raised by other children, and most certainly will be raised in part by family members who have no  responsibility for the outcome. It is not impossible to do a good job but it is not easy, and for various reasons many seem not to have been able to pull it off, at the cost of  perhaps 3 or 4 lost generations.
    The extremely high rate and number of abortions by young, black women  says something about how they are realizing that having a child alone is not all flowers and laughter and love. There is no doubt that love in a home is what they yearn for, but one must work hard and prepare one's self for it.  It is a shame that they have to come to that action further damaging their own self images further.
   Given plenty of financial assets it may appear easy for a liberal minded young woman to have a baby on her own, but the appearance quickly changes when reality sets in.  Hollywood's Murphy Brown was a liberal dream, a wonderful place where an alone female handled all of the responsibilities with little problem sailing through all of the challenges with easy success. That's a Hollywood illusion. The negative outcome can just as easily be the  single, white Sandy Hook mother with adequate money and a kid who buries his head in violent computer games blows away an elementary school.
   That's how  Hollywood fiction, national celebrities and liberal politicians are literally beating the hell out of minorities, helping to create  a sub-population of hopeless people with no vision of a successful future or a productive, fulfilling  life. Instead they create the illusion that all will be well without a father for their children. It's easy to buy into the illusion. The picture they paint doesn't address the situation fraught with difficulties that a "modern woman" faces to raise a child on her own who cannot imagine the risk and pain they are bringing to their families and their soon to be troubled and destroyed children. Murphy Brown does not exist. There are no "super women". There is only reality. A father's job is to teach this and the Golden Rule to his children.  It takes a village to raise a child is not reality.  Hillary says it takes a village. I say if you leave your child to the Hillary's village, that child will suffer because of it. It takes two to raise a child...a mother and a father.
Jim Self

United Nations and IPCC Fraud on Developed Nations

   3rd world electrification is an important process and should be pursued by all countries. I fear the IPCC and the UN have been compromised in this pursuit by changing data and creating a perceived liability by developed nations in that they will not be allowed to utilize coal and must develop using wind and solar...and nuclear...and will require developed nations to pretty much foot the bill. Now I see that developed nations stand extortion for raising the CO2 levels, placing these same G77 countries in more danger from natural events. This is a circus...a transparent attempt by G77 to pull wealth from developed countries. We may as well say it. How else will they try to use this falsified data against us? Time will tell. What is plain is that there are plenty of minds working this problem for them.

Income Inequality

   What to do? Well, why is your income so low compared to others? In America, if you want to survive well, you need to do what they told you in the first grade. Go to school, study hard and learn your lessons, believe in yourself, set goals, and don't let anything stop you from attaining those goals. Life in the United States is an opportunity...not a welfare line to stand in.
   If you are young and are working for minimum wage, where we all started out, you should be in school, too. Because that is not where any of us want to stay. You work, you learn how to be a good employee, you learn a skill, you should always be looking for a better job. Always. Minimum wage jobs are entry level jobs and are meant to be positions for learning. Once you learn the skill of the job and of being a reliable employee you are expected to move on.
   If there are simply no better jobs around, you have a choice. You can start your own business or you can move to a place where job prospects are better. Or you can stay where you are and protest for a higher income.
Things your Dad should have told you:
Be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. It's the Scout Law and it applies to everyone as a code for success.
   Remember, we are all human beings. Most of us are doing our best. What you hear about in social  and television media is news about those who have problems that they have brought on themselves by making mistakes and poor decisions. They are a small number in our large group. Help is available for them but our country is not able to support them. Working toward progress is up to them, just like it is for everyone else. Those that blame the country, conservatives, one race or another...those people are giving the poor a reason for suffering, not relief from suffering.

Good Morning August 25, 2015

   Bernie Sanders is saying things about the free market being old and worn out and responsible for our problems. What is there about an unfree market that would be better, Bernie? Tell us what a Socialist would do...and don't forget the part about the Government using force.
   What's new about Hillary Clinton? Not much. Does she care what anyone else thinks? She is arrogantly dismissive of questions about her "issues".  I don't think she is concerned about them. I think she is stupid in that way. God forbid anyone should suggest it, but she HAS been riding Bill's coat tails forever.  It's like we are all hypnotized by her...like she is Aunt Bee...and even though she is Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson and John Gotti all rolled up in a package flavored by cheap, Chinese made  Gardenia flower "perfume" in a perfectly horrible orange pantsuit, so many people just want to give her a big, old hug. It must be leftovers of sympathy for Bill's and Monica's tryst.  All I have heard her campaigning about is income equality, universal, federally funded child care, and now a free college education...and of course, how bad the Republicans are and how good the mindless socialist Clintons are. And that laugh...honestly...to me...it sounds like a machine gun working a ditch line in Germany, 1942.
  There are easy answers to all three of these issues...but not here this time. It's too long and breakfast is ready.

   Right quick,  on the political front, here's my take so far.
   I really liked Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss on C-Span to the Senate.
   I like Carla and Ben. I like Lindsey and Rick
Perry. If I had to choose right now, I'd pick Rick Perry.
   Something I read online: We have a lot of good people to choose from. Why can't the Democrats produce just one?

   

Mr. President, Trust Matters

   Our President and John Kerry have a deal with Iran, with two secret agreements that they will not tell us about. I do not trust these two men to conduct the negotiations without throwing the baby out with the bath water. I hope Congress can either get to the bottom of this or throw the agreement out.
    I would like to see us with a better system for checking out prospective gun purchasers before allowing them to buy a gun. But I know that once we open the door to restrictions the Democrats will increase their push. They won't be happy until only criminals will have the ability to protect themselves with a firearm. The agenda has been clear all of my life. Obama can say that he just wants the same that I do but I do not believe him. I do not trust him. Yes, trust matters.
   And if you doubt that I am correct to doubt his sincerity, remember back to how the Affordable Care Act was put together in secrecy and Obama rushed the thing through his Democrat Congress literally before anyone had a chance to read it through.
   I don't trust him. I don't trust the Democrats. I am thankful that we have our U.S. Constitution to back us up. If not for that, he and his paid activists, his paid protesters, and his terrorized, controlled  media would have sold us all down the river a long time ago. He sits back and smiles, enjoying how smart he is, while we do the dancing. I am sick and tired of him. I know what he has done, how he has pretty much made a complete mockery of the office, and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. I'll be a happy man when he and John Kerry are unemployed.