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.
Gabby, You write a very good and true story. The same thing happened to my Dad's pharmaceutical firm, but the owner, Ewing Kauffman, and the board, including my Dad, knew that a merger with a larger pharmaceutical company was the only way the company could continue to compete in the marketplace.
The company that bought Kauffman's company in the merger, paid to all of the stock owners, including the workers who were paid in stock as well as money, double or triple the stock price. The stock was their pension and they all retired comfortably. Secretaries became millionaires. My Dad was a tough negotiator.
The owner of the wire making company, should have been giving stock in the company to the employees over the decades as well as pay. Thus, when the company was sold to China, your husband and the other workers would have been wealthy. Pensions are riskier than stock most of the time. The new owner has to buy the stock. He doesn't have to honor the pensions.
Gabby, PS: When my Dad was hired by Kauffman, my Dad insisted on having equity (stock) in the company. Dad wouldn't just work for a wage. Kauffman agreed and decided to give stock to all of his associates (employees) making everyone in the company from the janitor to Kauffman partners in the firm. Kauffman was a wise man. He became a billionaire and owned the KC Royals.
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.
Gabby, Pension theft is all too common. I remember when the Post-Intelligencer newspaper was bought out by the Seattle Times. The pensions of the P-I press workers was stolen.
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.
Another very good article by T.L. Davis. I do disagree with some terms like "race". Human beings are all of the same race. This idea of race was invented by the Darwin/Eugenicists to make the elites have a "natural" reason for their "superiority."
Humans have different cultures and are in different tribes. They have different physical characteristics due to the climate where they have lived for millenia.
Nations are a recent invention of man. Tribes and cultures have been around since the beginning of man.
Nations can come and go, but tribes and cultures last as long as the tribe exists. For example, the Romans wiped out the Carthaginians just like the Europeans wiped out the Tasmanians. Their tribes and cultures no longer exist.
American Indians still exist as does their culture. The same can be said for the Irish even though they are all over the world. Same for the Jews.
Personally, I think the days of the Nation-State are coming to an end.
PS: I am 3/4s through reading "Shadow Soldier" by T.L. Davis. The book is excellent.
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.
T.L., Years ago I saw a map of the USA split into cultural divisions. My tribe is in a 300-400 mile strip from Canada to Mexico. It's pretty much the eastern halves of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also includes the western sides of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and again, Texas. Texas is a big place.
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?"
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.
Gabby, You write a very good and true story. The same thing happened to my Dad's pharmaceutical firm, but the owner, Ewing Kauffman, and the board, including my Dad, knew that a merger with a larger pharmaceutical company was the only way the company could continue to compete in the marketplace.
The company that bought Kauffman's company in the merger, paid to all of the stock owners, including the workers who were paid in stock as well as money, double or triple the stock price. The stock was their pension and they all retired comfortably. Secretaries became millionaires. My Dad was a tough negotiator.
The owner of the wire making company, should have been giving stock in the company to the employees over the decades as well as pay. Thus, when the company was sold to China, your husband and the other workers would have been wealthy. Pensions are riskier than stock most of the time. The new owner has to buy the stock. He doesn't have to honor the pensions.
Gabby, PS: When my Dad was hired by Kauffman, my Dad insisted on having equity (stock) in the company. Dad wouldn't just work for a wage. Kauffman agreed and decided to give stock to all of his associates (employees) making everyone in the company from the janitor to Kauffman partners in the firm. Kauffman was a wise man. He became a billionaire and owned the KC Royals.
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.
Gabby, Pension theft is all too common. I remember when the Post-Intelligencer newspaper was bought out by the Seattle Times. The pensions of the P-I press workers was stolen.
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.
Gabby, So much for the success of the Labor Unions. "They think we're crud!" As Ripley says in Alien 3.
Another very good article by T.L. Davis. I do disagree with some terms like "race". Human beings are all of the same race. This idea of race was invented by the Darwin/Eugenicists to make the elites have a "natural" reason for their "superiority."
Humans have different cultures and are in different tribes. They have different physical characteristics due to the climate where they have lived for millenia.
Nations are a recent invention of man. Tribes and cultures have been around since the beginning of man.
Nations can come and go, but tribes and cultures last as long as the tribe exists. For example, the Romans wiped out the Carthaginians just like the Europeans wiped out the Tasmanians. Their tribes and cultures no longer exist.
American Indians still exist as does their culture. The same can be said for the Irish even though they are all over the world. Same for the Jews.
Personally, I think the days of the Nation-State are coming to an end.
PS: I am 3/4s through reading "Shadow Soldier" by T.L. Davis. The book is excellent.
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.
T.L., Years ago I saw a map of the USA split into cultural divisions. My tribe is in a 300-400 mile strip from Canada to Mexico. It's pretty much the eastern halves of North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. It also includes the western sides of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and again, Texas. Texas is a big place.
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.