Thank you, I appreciate that and the distinction about race. Like you, I hold a similar view, especially after reading so much lately on American Indian cultures, wide and varied as they are. Race, however defined, is the excuse, the rally point for so many different tribes that I cannot ignore that fact in making my point. I am not the same as a California liberal, but my tribe is also Western US. Texas suits me for reasons of tribe that have alienated me from my ancestral lands, twice.
Our son told us about a theory that when a nation is dying, its attention is focused on incidentals such as green energy, diversity, etc. We are a post industrial nation, we shipped most of our manufacturing overseas and dress up this destruction by saying that we are more ecologically conscious now. The thing that really frightens me is that the knowledge of how to actually make things is being lost. My husband is literally a mine of information on the wire making process. But just before the place where he worked closed down, they sent ALL the secrets of manufacturing that the company had accumulated over a century over to China. The awful thing was that the owner of the company (it had been a family concern) had no children who wanted to take over the business (his son was a homo and his daughter was simply uninterested), and he offered to let the workers buy the place. My husband was the ONLY one who pushed for this, but he got mocked, they said he just wanted to be the big boss, which he didn't. Then they whined that the didn't have salesmen, and he said, we hire them like our former boss did, but they wouldn't go for it. We might actually have wound up as millionaires, rather than scrabbling along on Social Security since the new owners looted the pension fund totally. Not to mention the disgrace of an American company founded by a man and woman working together was sold to a foreign enemy. Sic transit gloria mundi.
I'm glad it all turned out well for your father, and for you, too. Yes, the original owner should have been providing stock to the workers, especially as some had been their for decades, but he didn't. I don't really think about the stupidity of my husband's former workers, but I admit that the theft of the pension does irk me from time to time.
Something like 70% of private pension funds have been stolen, so people who contributed for decades in many cases, are simply cast adrift. Also, workers are denied the ability to sue. That was put in around 1995 under Clinton, but in 1984 Reagan signed a bill into law that gave companies the right to steal the interest money that the pension had accrued, and literally within days, the $7 million interest was gone. The workers took it to court, but were given the raspberry. It took them a little longer to winkle out the other $44 million that was in the fund, but they did. And by the way, we were only notified about this ten years after the deed had been done, so regardless of anything else, the statute of limitations was in effect. Some people who worked at one of the big NYC banks recently tried to sue over their stolen pensions. They had the means to take it to the Supreme Court, which gave them the same answer my husband and his fellow workers had been given.
Well done T.L. We need an article 5 convention at a minimum. I have little hope for that but it’s still possible.
As far as race, you’d believe in race if you ever dealt with sub Saharan Africa or some of the more indigenous peoples of Asia. Call it by whatever name you want. But sub Saharan Africans are not the same creature as European whites. They have some traits that are better and some that are worse. But not the same.
What I'm saying is that race is hardly ever the determining factor of behavior, but rather what is accepted or expected within the tribe. Qualifying it as "Sub-Saharan Africa" is an example of that. That's all.
A couple issues. In 1900 Whites were approximately 25% of the world's population. Maybe 10% in 2000, maybe 8% now - trying to find figures is NOT easy (wonder why?) A rough guestimate is that were there no World Wars and 'brother wars' as some call them, and the birth rate stayed at or near those rates even considering greater infant mortality, there would be 800,000,000 more Whites on the planet. Damn.
So two issues: survival of those that exist (but in all fairness ANY traditional human, male or female, Black or Brown, and 'of faith.") HERE and NOW. Then, it's the reproduction issue. OK, some of us survive, but best hurry up and re-evaluate having children, to 'as many as possible.'
Or else in 30 years the New Americans will go to the zoo, and say "Look Daddy, a White person! I read about them, but why did they kill themselves?"
Thank you, I appreciate that and the distinction about race. Like you, I hold a similar view, especially after reading so much lately on American Indian cultures, wide and varied as they are. Race, however defined, is the excuse, the rally point for so many different tribes that I cannot ignore that fact in making my point. I am not the same as a California liberal, but my tribe is also Western US. Texas suits me for reasons of tribe that have alienated me from my ancestral lands, twice.
Our son told us about a theory that when a nation is dying, its attention is focused on incidentals such as green energy, diversity, etc. We are a post industrial nation, we shipped most of our manufacturing overseas and dress up this destruction by saying that we are more ecologically conscious now. The thing that really frightens me is that the knowledge of how to actually make things is being lost. My husband is literally a mine of information on the wire making process. But just before the place where he worked closed down, they sent ALL the secrets of manufacturing that the company had accumulated over a century over to China. The awful thing was that the owner of the company (it had been a family concern) had no children who wanted to take over the business (his son was a homo and his daughter was simply uninterested), and he offered to let the workers buy the place. My husband was the ONLY one who pushed for this, but he got mocked, they said he just wanted to be the big boss, which he didn't. Then they whined that the didn't have salesmen, and he said, we hire them like our former boss did, but they wouldn't go for it. We might actually have wound up as millionaires, rather than scrabbling along on Social Security since the new owners looted the pension fund totally. Not to mention the disgrace of an American company founded by a man and woman working together was sold to a foreign enemy. Sic transit gloria mundi.
I'm glad it all turned out well for your father, and for you, too. Yes, the original owner should have been providing stock to the workers, especially as some had been their for decades, but he didn't. I don't really think about the stupidity of my husband's former workers, but I admit that the theft of the pension does irk me from time to time.
Something like 70% of private pension funds have been stolen, so people who contributed for decades in many cases, are simply cast adrift. Also, workers are denied the ability to sue. That was put in around 1995 under Clinton, but in 1984 Reagan signed a bill into law that gave companies the right to steal the interest money that the pension had accrued, and literally within days, the $7 million interest was gone. The workers took it to court, but were given the raspberry. It took them a little longer to winkle out the other $44 million that was in the fund, but they did. And by the way, we were only notified about this ten years after the deed had been done, so regardless of anything else, the statute of limitations was in effect. Some people who worked at one of the big NYC banks recently tried to sue over their stolen pensions. They had the means to take it to the Supreme Court, which gave them the same answer my husband and his fellow workers had been given.
Well done T.L. We need an article 5 convention at a minimum. I have little hope for that but it’s still possible.
As far as race, you’d believe in race if you ever dealt with sub Saharan Africa or some of the more indigenous peoples of Asia. Call it by whatever name you want. But sub Saharan Africans are not the same creature as European whites. They have some traits that are better and some that are worse. But not the same.
What I'm saying is that race is hardly ever the determining factor of behavior, but rather what is accepted or expected within the tribe. Qualifying it as "Sub-Saharan Africa" is an example of that. That's all.
Yes sir. I would say culture influences behavior as a general rule.
A couple issues. In 1900 Whites were approximately 25% of the world's population. Maybe 10% in 2000, maybe 8% now - trying to find figures is NOT easy (wonder why?) A rough guestimate is that were there no World Wars and 'brother wars' as some call them, and the birth rate stayed at or near those rates even considering greater infant mortality, there would be 800,000,000 more Whites on the planet. Damn.
So two issues: survival of those that exist (but in all fairness ANY traditional human, male or female, Black or Brown, and 'of faith.") HERE and NOW. Then, it's the reproduction issue. OK, some of us survive, but best hurry up and re-evaluate having children, to 'as many as possible.'
Or else in 30 years the New Americans will go to the zoo, and say "Look Daddy, a White person! I read about them, but why did they kill themselves?"
The Anasazi of our time.