Thursday, September 19, 2013

Insanity Makes Another Appearance

Thursday, September 19, 2013
Dear Mr. President:
Well, the level of insanity and ignorance that we are facing has just made a decision that indicates how much deeper it has become. As you know, our benighted brothers have just cut 4 billion dollars out of the Food Stamp Program. Their delusion is that they think of Food Stamps as a huge give away that weakens peoples resolve to work.

I am sure that you have an abundance of experience with the acts of the Stonehearted, so I won't go into the cruelty and suffering that this particular act of the insane would visit on its helpless and innocent victims. Just in terms of the damage it would do to very young children, it would  make mass shootings look like a holiday.

However, I do think it is important for us to understand that this is not cutting 40 billion from the Food Stamp Program. This action would be cutting 40 Billion from the economy. The money that goes into the Food Stamp Program goes practically directly back into the economy. It is spent mostly in grocery stores for food.

Is this fact really that hard to see? It is  not very hard for me to understand that a bloodstream has to circulate blood to be useful. Bloodstreams that develop clots cause massive, usually fatal, heart attacks. Is it really that difficult for us to understand that our economy is our bloodstream?

The real danger to our economy, ergo our citizens, is not the Food Stamp Program. The real culprit is the Trillions of dollars being sucked out of our economy and stashed in the already bloated bank accounts of the wealthy few. This greedy delusion causes the generation of clots that interferes with, and in many cases brings to a dead stop, the free circulation of energy, i.e. money, through our system. This is the generator of the the massive heart attacks we call the loss  of homes, the unemployment of millions and on and on.

The true culprits constitute a  very small group of our population. They, generated--I sometimes think, deliberately--the recent economic collapse, and, according to all reports, are the  only ones who are really recovering. These individuals, by the way, spend more money on a bottle of wine for a lunch than the average Food Stamp recipient receives for a month of food and THINK NOTHING OF IT.

Apologies for the outburst there.

The Food Stamp roles have increased dramatically over the past 4 or 5 years. Guess why. It is not because millions of individuals, who now qualify for food stamps, quit their middle class providing jobs and say "Screw you. I would rather have food stamps because, if the truth be told I am basically lazy and would rather lay back, enjoy my unemployment and get Food Stamps than work."

No. they encountered a gigantic clot, call it by its real name, GREED, in the bloodstream!

I feel pretty confident that sanity, in this case those remaining in the Congress, will stop this, "irrational"  (Irrational is a nice word; however, if anything proposed by these brothers in the last few years is just plain stupid, this is it.), event from occurring.

Understanding and appreciating the forces with which you, on the behalf of the United States of America, indeed, the Planet, have to contend, I, we send you our love and determination to create Change that Matters.

-tom

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Dear Mr. President

Thursday, September 12, 2013
Dear Mr. President:
All things considered, I think we handled this Syrian opportunity quite well. When I say "we" I mean all of us. You were not alone in this. Decisions seem to be made by Presidents, Prime Ministers, government figureheads, whomever they may be, but they are most frequently group affairs, the results of the will or the absence of the will of the people.

Billions of billions of dollars are spent by certain sectors of our population to obfuscate, confuse, warp and twist reality, to hide the actual causes of events, and manipulate the will of the people into believing and supporting the lies and distortions behind destructive and retrogressive actions of all sorts, from bombing something to make a point, to polluting the environment for profit. Frequently, they are successful as they were in the initiating of the Iraq fiasco.
   
You, on the other hand, with considerably less money to spend, have been rallying the will of the American electorate for years now to hope, to believe, and to will change that matters, that people matter, that everyone deserves an opportunity to be respected as a person, to be able lead a life with dignity and value.

Guess what! You have succeeded to a degree that is astonishing. The change in the direction of this action, was "change that mattered"

The people were behind you on this. It was our will, evoked by your clarion call for support, that these "strikes" not happen. I think that it is obvious now that  you do have the will of the people who care about the integrity of the U.S. Constitution that recognizes that all are created equal and all deserve to be treated equally, that is with compassion, and loving understanding, for without these there will be no Justice.

This is a point, by the way, that seems to escape the minds of a number of your relatively close advisers.

However, we, many of us, understand the razor edge Path. We realize what it takes to walk that Path. We have great appreciation for the model your represent, and you have our unwavering support.

One tiny suggestion. When next you sign off at the end of a talk or speech, you might consider saying something like this : "God bless you and all of the people of the world. God Bless the United States of America, and God Bless this beautiful Planet our mutual home, Earth."
lots of love

-tom

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Thursday, September 05, 2013
Dear Mr. President:
Lets recall your often stated observation that you are the President of all of the people.  Almost 130,000,000 million people voted in the last election. 70,000,000 of those were Democratic votes. It is very clear from every source we have that the vast, vast majority of those 130,000,000 people, to say nothing of the other millions who did not vote, are not in alignment with this war resolution regarding Syria.

This situation is, of course, way broader than the United States. Whatever we do will involve Humanity regardless of national borders. Do you think that we have the right to involve 7 billion other human beings in a war without their inputs? All of the data we have from the other nations of People indicates that they are very, very opposed to doing this war thing.

This is an opportunity for you to be our President and follow the wisdom of the People rather than the "intelligence" community, a community, known for its frequent withholding of truth and its outright lying, a community  that has no credibility with the People.

There is another way to deal with this situation which is not a United States problem, but a world problem. The best way would be become united with the United Nations. These kinds of situations are examples of exactly why the People of the world, in their Wisdom, established the UN. If Bashar al-Assad is responsible for the poison attack, we need to deal with him and those closest to him. We need to start discriminating between the occasional mad man who gets in control of a country and the people, most  of whom haven't got a clue about what is going on.
lots of love

-tom

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Dear Mr. President:
Regarding your position on the Syria attack issue:  "the international community and Congress's credibility are on the line if a chemical attack on civilians in Syria goes unanswered. Obama is seeking congressional and international support for military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad."

Agreed.

However, our credibility as a rational peace loving nation will once again be highly questionable, even more so than it was after the Iraq boondoggle, if we respond with the murder of a bunch of innocent brothers and sisters, including children-- those whom the military tries to justify as "collateral damage."

We, the People, really do not have the data that you claim to have that proves "beyond the shadow of a doubt" that the Syrian President actually ordered this attack. If such data exists then we can try President Assad in the World Court and deal with him that way.

Surly this situation will not go away in a few weeks. Surly the image of our Nation would be better projected if we are seen as a People who follow International Law and do not rush to judgment simply to make a point about our macho image.

We are a better people than that.
lots of love
-tom


Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Dear Mr. President

Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Dear Mr. President.
I watched your Labor Day message. Great! And, as you pointed out, nobody said regenerating, not just the middle class, but the whole notion of equality and our almost disappeared Democracy, will be easy. I think that you more than anyone of us realizes what an understatement that is.

But then, when, on the long, long trail over which Humanity has moved from being the property of the few to individual freedom and dignity, when has it ever been easy? We, as a people, do not expect easy. That innate drive into the future of freedom and liberty that has brought us this far has even made us suspicious of easy. If it is easy, we have learned, there is probably some game going on.

We have encountered some rather significant setbacks over the past 30 or 40 years. However, we also have learned that,  as we always have, we will continue to strive and to bring the inalienable right of individual freedom and the opportunities to live a dignified and meaningful life in spite of one's so called  "class" or station into manifestation.

Your vision of Democracy being an Idea which grows from the center or the middle out is profound. This is the way all Ideas manifest.  From their inception in the ethers of the imagination, Ideas or "images of Truth" move into matter and manifestation through the hearts of those who strive to bring them into the world of daily living.

From its very beginning, Democracy, like any Idea conceived in the Light, has encountered the opposition of  the "Status Quo." These new Ideas, which are based in the observable organic wholeness and inclusivity of Life, expand freedom and liberty. And, as they always have, these new ideas bring change and reconstruction.


The forces of opposition seek ever to modify and limit the basic truth of the new. They foster systems of exclusivity and privilege which generate  the sad conditions of inequality which exist in our contemporary societies. These modifications are envisioned in darkness and illusion. They are based in competition and separation.

Rather than generating an inclusive and expanding circle of freedom and liberty they establish boundaries which exclude individuals from Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, or to be specific, education, housing, health care, meaningful work with living wages, dignity. Ironically, the primary objective of these program modifications is abortion. They aim to abort the birthing of the Idea of Freedom and Liberty for All, a labor, which  on the shores of this continent has been ongoing for three hundred plus years.

We know from deep experience that opposition to Humanity's destiny always calls out the best that is in Humanity. We had, for example  in the thirties and forties of the last century the brothers Roosevelt, Truman. Then in the fifties and sixties we had Eisenhower (who actually foretold the coming danger in his remarks regarding the military industrial complex), the Kennedy brothers and King. After that, the opposition began to grow, and we were pushed back or lost ground.

This opposition is at the present moment, as you probably know better than anyone, more fierce than it has ever been. I think that this is so because the stakes are so high. We are so close to removing from this planet all such opposition through the expansion of that circle of inclusive freedom and liberty for All. This is actually phase three of the World War.

Now we have you and a handful of other heart centered leaders. We also have legions of other hearts. We will, of course, triumph, "but only by our own hand, only by our own hearts, only by our own work, only by our own striving."

I also read your commentaries and plans to improve education. I wondered about the discussions behind your use of the phrase, "to make education more affordable". Given the levels of opposition I can understand that these steps are all that can probably be made at this juncture.

However, I think that it might be helpful to the greater struggle if, while making the baby steps, you were more forthright about the facts concerning education. The education of our children, indeed, of our selves, lies at the very core of an expanding, inclusive freedom and liberty. It is the understanding of the true cooperative, inclusive nature of reality that makes us ever more free. Making education totally available for everyone, and not just from "kindergarten to high school" but from birth to death, is not only an essential aspect of Liberty it is an imperative, especially  if we expect to triumph over the ignorance that drives the opposition.

Nothing, of course, is free. There never was "free" education. We, the people have paid for making a good education available for all of our children practically form the beginning of this Nation. We. the people have, in fact, paid for everything that is national in this nation including not only our public educational systems but all aspects of our infrastructure and our armies, navies and air forces. We paid gladly with the sweat of our labor and the love of our freedom.

Perhaps the exclusive few see education as a business. But education is not a business. It is not a commodity that one can, or more likely cannot, "afford." Present oppositional forces block the use of our tax money to pay the cost for decent public schools. These same forces then complain that the schools are not performing and open separative, private, and for profit schools. Other than a few charity scholarships for the some "deserving" poor kids, these private schools mainly serve the few who can "afford." The opposition then establish bank programs to  "loan" our children money at a "fair" interest rate so that they can pay to go to the schools of higher education. Thus they create a whole new group of "indentured servants."

The degeneration of our formerly envy of the world educational systems from public paid for and supported schools to huge separative profit machines is about the best example of just how much "ground we have lost" in this current phase of the ages long struggle. We need to regenerate these systems into wombs of democracy, and as we do, let us not justify or dignify the act of theft that caused this sorry state of affairs by saying that we need to make education "more affordable."

lots of love
-tom