Sunday, April 21, 2013

Dear Mr. President,

Following up on my letter of April 11, I will be brief.

It seems that many folks are into ringing the Nuclear Option bell. You can be sure that those bell ringers are interested in equality and liberty for all.

I  have noted, however, that some of our semi-liberal brothers and sisters are not up for the N.O. They are actually afraid that the retrogressive mentalities in the Congress will stick a bunch of regressive amendments on to a bill.

Surly you realize that these folks would not be retrogressors if they did not do this. It's part of the field. It's what we have to deal with in a democracy. It's freedom of speech.

The need to have 60 votes to pass a bill, however, is a clear blockage of free speech. If we want free speech, it has to be free for everyone, even our regressive brothers and sisters. Eliminating these bed rock freedoms from our democratic way of life is the agenda of retrogression. Their Ann Rand fixations would return, or regress us to the 15th Century where only one person, the king had these rights.

I have lived and observed long enough to be fairly certain that Life, in fact, does imitate Art. So in the best Shakespearean traditions, I assume you are playing a deep game that will lure the repressors into some sort of cul-de-sac where liberty and justice for all will carry the day. I cannot complain about that, and I am willing to hold that as a possibility. I actually get that "from the beginning they struggled. From the beginning we conquered." It is historically documentable.

I know all about standing steady in the light. Still, what information we are able to access, makes  us a bit nervous. We understand that the so called "daily briefings", press releases, and Sunday blather shows, are a matter of moving rooks and bishops around.

A little subtle foreshadowing would be helpful. Rather than waiting 50 years or so for the events to be fed back to us in a drama, it would be good to have a Greek Chorus that comes forward in-between scenes ,so to speak, to give us the low down now and then.

An occasional offhand comment concerning your heart focus on the indestructibility of our government as a government of, for, and by the people would be encouraging, as well as enlightening to the "insiders".

I'm just saying.

lots of love

-tom

Dear Mr. President

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Dear Mr. President.

I am writing today as one of the "nut cakes" Chris Matthews and Dana Milbank referred to on Hardball last night. Their commentary and attitudes toward the "old timers", (the players of 50 years ago, like Senator Sanders, "the finest Vermont Senator ever to be born in Brooklyn" who perhaps was relevant in 68 and 69, but who now is just out for "old timers night.",) was yet another window in to how narrow is the  vision of the  "insiders" those who are insulated and out of touch with the lives that real people are living every day. It is hard to see that reality when one is looking through a $5,000,000 a year income.

These two  followed J. Carney who, obviously following instructions, wasted a lot of time saying what we already knew about your programs. He finally did point out your position of being willing to compromise and seek consensus but not move without that compromise.

 As I said in my letter of April 7, I understand and appreciate this line of approach. What is troubling is that the budget areas which you seek to use to find consensus are the very areas of  life we fought and died by the millions to create a Government of, for, and by the people to establish and protect.

These are the areas of our Common Good and our General Welfare. I am thinking not just of Social Security and Medicare, but all of the programs including the protections for suffrage,  the Union programs, the principle of free education for every person, veterans benefits, which paid for my degrees.

You know these programs well. They have been labeled "social programs" and made to appear that they are for the benefit of the lazy, stupid, and old, because the wealthy do not need and do not want any of them. You understand, no doubt, the price people paid often in blood to get those programs in place. These are not bargaining chips any more than free speech or equality under the Law are a bargaining chips.

To find consensus requires Goodwill on both sides. This frequency is not remotely apparent in the individuals whom you are facing on this field. You have at your back the love and will of a huge part of the people, not only of these United States but of the Common People of the world. If we are to be a model of government of, for, and by the people we need to act that way. The bargaining away of the issues on gun control was not necessary. We do not have to give away those things for which we so painfully struggled to gain for all of our brothers and sisters.

This present  struggle is not going on so obviously on the dense physical plane as was the struggle in which the planet was engaged in the last two world wars; however, the stakes, liberty and justice for all, are virtually the same.  It is time to use the so called nuclear option. What we have gained is not for sale or trade.

lots of love

-tom

Dear Mr. President

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Dear Mr. President

I am writing today as one of the beneficiaries of Social Security. I would refer you to my letter of March 6th in which I tried to make clear the difference between the so called "entitlement" programs in the United States of America and the Entitled Class of Americans.

Briefly, the beneficiaries of  the entitlement programs such as Social Security are "entitled" to monthly payments because they worked and paid into a program for a required number of years... In my case about 30. Lots of this work was done as members of the armed services in combat. Lots more of it was done in jobs of heavy labor at low wages.

The "Entitled Class" assume that they are entitled because they have wealth. They are entitled to the wealth they have mainly because they have it. They have wealth largely because someone else worked for it, and they received the so called "profits" from other's labor because they were entitled to it.

If those of us who do not have wealth were entitled then, obviously, we would have it.

So, I have read the available data on your proposal re Social Security. I appreciate your reasons, and I appreciate that you are trying to build consensus. However, we know in this world, or should know from bitter experiences like allowing slavery to remain in our Constitution, that consensus requires a genuine urge on the part of all parties to create a better world for all of mankind.

This proposal is "politics of the usual kind". This kind of "consensus" does not work. The erosion of our democratic ideals all across the board over the last 35  years speaks very loudly to this fact.

There has to be a better way, and I think that you can find and implement it.

lots of love

-tom

 

Dear Mr. President

Wednesday, March 06, 2013

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you for your letter.

I know that presently we are looking at the "entitlement" programs, Medicare and Social Security.

As are many of the quiet folks from whom you will hear nothing because they are used to not being heard and have been discouraged by the cruel, demeaning and heartless language that the "entitled" people use to describe the vast millions of others who have worked as much as they possibly could to have a decent life and raise good children, I am very concerned about the "looking" that is happening.

While I may not have a "seat at the table", I do have a voice and a heart and the experience of having lived one of those lives myself and I know where of I speak.

The entire concept of entitlement has been spun so that it makes those who are the beneficiaries of these programs seem unworthy. You know that this effort to label the common people as inferior and less than, started long ago. It was the base that supported the concept of serfs and Royalty or the mob and the Entitled--Kings, Queens, Dukes, Duchesses and other people of Quality--to actually treat people as property for centuries.

Our Revolution but a big hole in that delusion, but then we had to sort of reinforce it with the Civil War.

However, I clearly recall the reappearance of that lie in this country. It occurred with the launch of Ronald Reagan's offensive, Reaganomics. Among other things this carefully planned assault on Democracy whipped up hatred and resentment toward common people (another phrase whose meaning has been changed from "that which appears most often" to "something very much less than special".) and changed the image/meaning of welfare, specifically a program called Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC),  from something that the people with hearts do for the common good and general welfare of a country, into a scheme for lazy and worthless people to get benefits like food stamps and cash aid--that barley came close to the poverty levels--at the expense of good hard working, mostly white, people.

The self appointed Entitled people, those individuals who have aligned themselves against "more taxes" and want to cut "social programs" have no use whatsoever for the common good or the general welfare. They have everything they could possibly want, let alone need.  Because they have exclusive ownership of these resources, they see themselves as entitled to them. They deserve them because they have worked hard for them.

They assume, or pretend to assume, to justify their entitlement, that anyone who works hard will have what they have. The fact that one does not have is proof that one does not work hard, or are somehow otherwise undeserving. These assumptions, ancient, ingrained delusions in the human psyche, are the source of most of the suffering on the planet.

I want to encourage you stand firm on the two programs, Medicare and Social Security.

   

These two programs are a major part of the bedrock of our concept of government of for and by the people which supports and grows the Common  Good and the General Welfare. They are indeed entitlement programs. That is they support the people who are entitled to receive the benefits from them.

Our entitlement rises from the fact the these programs are Laws of the People. They are Of The People; they were legislated into existence By the People. They were meant to support the Common Good, and they are, therefore, For The People. In addition, they are paid for By the People through self legislated taxes to support the Common Good and the General Welfare of the Nation.

This is Democracy, government of for and by the people.

The People elected you. You are running our government. This fraction of our brothers and sisters who are still lost in the illusion of a separative reality where might makes right need for us to stand strong so that they can see their way out of that cave, that morass which in truth has at one time or another engulfed us all.

The Common Good and the General Welfare has to embrace everybody.

I can see that we are on the same page, because I really resonated with his quote from your letter. "Despite all our differences, we are one American family, and our country is at its best when we accept our obligations to one another and to future generations.  While we have faced great hardship, we know that for the United States of America, the best is yet to come."

lots of love

-tom

R U READY?

 R U READY?

Celebrate, Friends! the Calvary  is coming.

It is a thundering, uncountable herd of 4 to 30 year olds, and more of them are being born every minute. For those of you who do not understand or even accept the Cosmic Law of reincarnation, this fact may not be that exciting. However, your opinions on the matter really do not matter.  The thing about the Cosmic Law of Reincarnation that one needs to grasp is that it only makes sense. If  you can get recycling, you should be able to get reincarnation. Without it evolution is a joke. Anyway that is another topic for another  blog.

The thundering herd which is avalanching toward us contains an untold number of us who have been evolving, that is becoming more and more conscious of who and what we are, for a  very long time. This scientific fact puts light on the incredible explosion of humanity, that is the humane principles which are the core of our humanity and which are rapidly manifesting through these coming ones, that we are witnessing.

If your head is still in the sand of yesterday, you might not be aware of this  amazing unfolding event. It is an event that makes any tornado, earthquake, storm volcanic eruption a fly speck in comparison to the changes it is bringing about and will continue to bring about only on a more advanced and obvious scale in the immediate future.

These coming ones, a huge number of whom have already arrived,  are not riding horses. They ride waves of light and information on the world around internet. They are armed with the very latest electronic communication systems, and they use them with incredible skill. They, the ones who are old enough to have their own interface systems any way, are much better informed regarding the real world and what is going on in and on it than the vast majority of their seniors many of whom are exhibiting a kind of early manifesting senility, or mental degradation due to having drank the cool aid and becoming fixated on platitudes, shibboleths, illusory slogans, attitudes which, if they were ever true in some strange context, are worn out and useless now, as well as certifiable outright lies woven by the sophist of today and yester year.

This advancing avalanche of young brothers and sisters is remarkable for other reasons as well. For starters this avalanche includes, in fact is often driven and directed by, women and girl children. This fact alone makes the size and collective power of the group millions and millions of times more powerful  than any previous evolutionary expansion of consciousness, which is what this phenomena is, of which we have any records.

Also, the huge percentage of this Life Wave, of this new root race, to use some esoteric jargon, have hearts that actually work, that do something besides pump blood. Their hearts are sensitive to and able to register the feelings, the equality and beauty of others and to honor them as themselves. This is what the heart was designed to do. The program is in the DNA, and there was, as we are seeing, no escaping its inevitable manifestation.

They care for some things which they consider to be other and greater than their own personal, immediate comfort. Their goal  is not to "get ahead" at the expense of their brothers and sisters, but to actually, through collective government of the people by the people and for the people, see that everyone gets ahead. And ahead does not mean for them that everyone has a personal jet, yacht, island and penthouse apartment in some Dubai, New York, or Paris skyscraper.

Ahead for them means that everyone's essential humanity is respected and encouraged and helped to flower. It means that we understand that there is, after all only One Humanity and One Planet. There are no commodities on planet Earth. Everything, from the rocks to the people is part of this world and all are to be respected and encouraged to evolve in their individual patterns.

No evolutionary pattern  is in competition with another for survival. Patterns, like competition and exclusivity which depend on the enslavement or death of others for their own survival or comfort are alien to this world. The Life Force of the Planet will eventually bring them to a point of extinction.

In the mean time, don't just hang in there help it out. Celebrate! That is get involved in some joyful activity.

BIG HINT! If it isn't joyful or happy. Do not do it. Life is a joyous, unfolding revelation of what is really going on.

lots of love

-tom  

  

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you.

Your heart talk today was a wind of courage and truth that will fan the flames of other hearts and ignite those smoldering sparks of longing and hope in untold legions of our brothers and sisters into a new blaze.

So thank you.

For me it was a refreshing clarion call to action. It is self evident that we are created equal. However, as you clearly pointed out, manifesting that equality in systems, and programs is totally our responsibility. You moved this image of Truth, which we call an idea, this fount of incredible power, from idealistic language into the forefront of the people's hearts and minds and the practical, actionable, reality of everyday living.  We are not done yet!

You clearly lighted the Path forward: from the comfort of the few to the necessities of Life for WE THE PEOPLE. Through eliminating our enemies by making friends of them rather than going to war with them. For in the last analysis there is only One Humanity, and we all need each other to be complete.

The Path ahead, as are all paths that are truly ahead, will be challenging, hard, and with plenty of struggling, but it will be a joyful challenge because we will triumph. It will be bridging into a New World, a One World for the One Humanity where boundaries are simply lines on maps that indicate the incredible diversity and beauty of Humanity rather than separating walls.

As one man, one brother to another, I want to thank you for stepping up for us. You said that this was our time, and I deeply resonate with that truth. It is also your time, and I want to thank you for grasping it so beautifully, so powerfully. I also want to thank US for having the wits and courage to recognize you and to elect you to lead in this most incredible time of opportunity.

Loving Us

-tom

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Dear Mr. President:

Can't find the correct words to describe the way we (you) are handling the present maneuvers of the Sophists masquerading as elected representatives of the People. It is apparent that you are well aware of the line of light that lies between the two great fields of force. As they say, "the measure of understanding is the degree of love.", and it is great to, once again, have a President, a leader, who loves enough to understand the greater needs of Humanity.

I would like to make a suggestion regarding a solution to a present and growing problem. I suspect that, given the group nature of our collective consciousnesses, you will have heard this from other angles, so its value may be in the fact that I, who on the international stage am virtually no one,  am suggesting it.

The issue is the link between education and employment.... It is broken. An article in this morning's NYTimes, "For Poor, Leap to College Often Ends in a Hard Fall", a great piece real reporting, triggered this missive.

I have personal life experience with these conditions, and I have given a lot of thought on how to ameliorate the damage to our society as we work to bring sanity back into the system. I was a high school English teacher in much better by gone days when education really did mean something. I am the father of a brilliant daughter who has been unable to complete the work on her PhD thesis because of the need to "earn money" and is now, saddled with that "crushing debt", ($90 K), incurred while completing the academic side of that degree. Now, including the 20 paid hours a week she actually stands in front of the students, she is working 60 to 70 hour weeks trying to teach 4 classes, about 120 students, in an "educational furniture store." As an adjunct professor, an euphuism for "teaching slave", she is paid (only for the time in the class  room) a total of $1319.( Her other 50 plus hours of work are her unpaid gift to the system.) No benefits of any kind. These young brothers and sisters are the poor, the sick and practically illiterate products of our broken elementary schools.

You have been a teacher, still are, so you know that this woman, one of our children, is performing miracles everyday in those class rooms.

Over the past few years I have asked the young people I encounter working as wrappers and checkers and clerks in grocery stores and coffee shops about their education. Probably 70 percent of them have some college experience and 25 percent of them actually have BA degrees. These are the best jobs they can find, and they are constantly looking.

So, to heal this breach in our path to a greater good for all, I am suggesting that we go, as a nation, on the offense.

Our posture is to be constantly and totally on the defense. This the core rot that is generating the rapidly increasing decay of our democracy. I can't even imagine the amount of  the people's resources that we as a people are spending on defense. Actually, the concept of "defense" creates enemies and is a counterproductive hold over from ancient times when we were concerned with "savages" or wild animals coming from out of the bush to rape and kill. It is a ridiculous point of view in today's world created and nurtured by people who are "walking backward into the future".

So, the proposal is to create a Department of Reconstruction. Forget about a Department of Peace. In its present manifestation peace needs war to have meaning. I suggest that we simply forget about both war and peace and start to focus on reconstructing or building the Greater Good.

Realizing that these kinds of reconstruction take time to percolate through the collective consciousness, I would suggest that we fund the Department of Reconstruction with half of the budget we now devote to defense or, to be truthful about it, the Department of Endless War. Half of whatever gigantic billions of our money is being wasted on fear and ignorance now would be enough to provide, not just the U. S., but  the planet with a mutual force of arms if and when they were needed.

The other half would be put into those things that will really keep humanity from going over the Cliff of Oblivion. First and foremost, which anyone who actually thinks will see, is the education of our children and, now, that huge group of adult victims produced by these broken systems over the past 30 or so years.

We would not be educating these people to take places in assembly lines or other menial mindless jobs. (There will soon be no assembly lines anyway.) We will educate them to be human beings. They will know how to think, hence they will be highly useful in all sorts of human service and interface jobs hundreds of which I could name beside teachers in all disciplines, doctors, nurses, scientific expertise in all areas of environmental applications and so on.

The heart of this suggestion is that, since these are our children and our people, and since we have paid to educate them, we are obligated to provide them with meaningful labor. Humans need to labor. Labor is what gives a brother or sister honor, respect, dignity, but the labor needs to have meaning. So, we create branches of the Department of Reconstruction in agriculture, environmental quality, all fields of science, teaching, all the health and human services fields. These branches, sort of like the Peace Corps (which was a beautiful idea), will provide abundant opportunities for meaningful labor for people all around the world. If we initiate, manifest such a concept it will be picked up and utilized in all our brother and sister nations. This would be leading in the true sense of that concept.

We need to move out of the box of ignorance in which we have been trapped for centuries and into the light of reason and common sense.

lots of love

-tom