The man who taught me to "Follow the Money" also taught me about the propensity of groups who want to "Fix the Blame". Fixing the Blame is very popular. You can fix it on anyone but those like yourself.
We have a govt that doesn't want to solve problems. They flat-out refuse. Columnist Charley Reese, who wrote the famous "545 People" column, said that Congress could fix every single problem that America has ... if they wanted to. The problem is that they don't want to. It is more lucrative for them personally to pass the buck.
The Constitution says that Congress is supposed to handle the money: "“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.” — U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 7, clause 1
Congress handed over the job to the bankers so they could create the Federal Reserve. Perhaps you've heard the saying "setting the fox to guard the hen house"? Have you noticed what kind of job the Fed has been doing for the last 100 years? The Fed bankers rule our economy, like it or not.
In a natural economy, when prices go up for some reason, they go up all down the chain, ending with the lowest taxpayer. Our govt decided that it was okay for that to happen... except they didn't want to include the lowest taxpayer. They wanted the lowest tier to suffer the higher prices with stagnant wages, for some reason.
So, we have a national two-fold problem: We keep the poor, poor. We bleed everyone to give the junkies, drunks, criminals and multi-generational welfare recipients a monthly income, medical care, lost-cost housing, food stamps and cell phones. We don't do much of anything for the honest poor. But now the media wants to group them all together. The media makes money off the people who have some money, and they make them feel better by fixing the blame on the poor (all of them, not just the ones causing trouble). No one wants to solve the problem, they just want to shift the blame.
The percentage of recovery of cocaine addicts is about 4%. The recovery of meth addicts is less than 1%. Sorry, Bleeding Heart Folks, but dumping trillions of dollars into this problem is not cost-effective, or anywhere near it. Sorry to be hard-nosed about it, but these people made their decisions. It isn't really up to the rest of America to solve their problems. Remember Ebenezer Scrooge's solution? "If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
It is not the working people's job to support every deadbeat in the country. If you say that it's a mental health problem, it probably is. But our country has created it. Our govt has created it. And the working people have funded it.
Think about it for a minute: A hundred years ago, a politician came up with the idea of a public school system. Once it was in full swing, they started using a teaching method that has been PROVEN not to work. By 1955, there had been more than 100 studies on the see/say method of teaching reading that said it absolutely DOES NOT WORK. The backers of this method (Follow the Money) say ALL of the studies were "flawed". So they continued it to this day. The three most illiterate industrialized countries in the world are the U.S., Canada, and Ireland. These three countries use the See/Say method. There are many Third World countries who have a higher literacy rate than ours!
The rest of the world teaches with phonics/phonetics. You could put any adult book in the hands of a 6-year-old from virtually any other country, and he could read it. He may not know what many of the words mean, but he could read it. That is not the rule in the U.S., it is the EXCEPTION.
Studies have indicated that 75% of U.S. prison inmates are functinally illiterate. 19% are completely illiterate. When teens drop out of school, do you think it's because they can read so well, or barely/not at all? How many of these drink and/or use drugs, and get into a life of crime? How much of this could have been prevented?
Yes, we have some serious problems, but as Mr. Reese pointed out, our govt is NOT interested in solving them. They appear to have some kind of perverted interest in having the dumbest, most ignorant, most drug-addicted, criminal and poorest people on the planet. And before you get on your high horse of righteousness, ask yourself this question:
DO YOU THINK IT IS EASIER TO CONTROL THE POPULATION OF A COUNTRY THAT IS POOR AND IGNORANT, OR ONE THAT HAS AN ADEQUATE INCOME AND IS EDUCATED?
No, I do not think that education (or lack of it) or a decent income totally determines drug use. Yes, I know that mental health issues are heavily involved. But if we have a govt that can't be bothered to deal with the first two problems -- which could be solved -- why would we expect it to deal with the second?
I am who I am hehe
