Beware of the Dark Side

The best time of day in Landers is the early morning hours in the cool of the day when the summertime flies are still asleep.  It has become my retirement ritual to smoke a morning cigar and follow our national happenings on Fox and Friends.  This ritual has inspired me to write opinions about the national political debate on the opinion page of our local newspaper.  None of my opinions are really welcomed by the paper but to their credit, most are printed.  You see, I was before the election and am to this very day an avid Trump supporter who is, in my opinion, the greatest American hero of my lifetime.  His election by the people has given me great joy and a renewed hope that my country will return to being the land of the truly free.

Former President Obama has taken up residence in the Dark House of Washington to direct radical left politics.  I am sure our paper will call this term racist but it is really about morality, about honesty, about truth and fairness.  The term, Dark House, reflects the divide between good and evil, between the oppression of government and the interests of the people, it is the divide between Darth Vader and Han Solo in the Star Wars saga.  The dark side navigates the national interest by protecting those who are complicit with the dark agenda and punishing those who stand with the people of America.  This dark side small ball reduces the political discourse to hate mongering when the function of our government should be to protect and facilitate people opportunities.

The dark side ignores our laws, deceives and condones violence against Americans as necessary to further the dark agenda.  Our political system, our justice system, even the medical community are only tools to punish all who may dissent.  Our court system is about making political statements not the law of our land.  The Internal Revenue Service is about making political statements not administering the collection of taxes in a just manner.  Our intelligence services are about making political statements not protecting the security of the people.  Our foreign services before Trump have been about making political statements here at home and not making our world safer.

The dark side has only one creditable issue that must be addressed by our current Republican politicians.  Politicians of the left rightly disparage the wealth gap in America but wrongly champion the redistribution of wealth as the solution.  The so-called Affordable Care Act is not really about the health of the people but about further depleting the wealth of the middle class.  Redistribution from on high is a perversion of our world as it exists. Our world is a competitive place.  In biological terms, our world moves according to the survival of the fittest.  In economic terms, our world moves according to the effort personally expended to build a future for you and yours.  Effort does not always bring the results we crave but effort always results in a more fulfilled life.  America has always been about hard work and the pride it brings to the individual.

Instead of the middle class carrying the burden of healthcare for the poor and those with pre-existing conditions, let's be fair, our hard-working politicians should tax stock market transactions.  A $1.00 healthcare tax per transaction would bring $30 billion a month to the crisis.  This seems only fair but the swamp will resist.  Politicians of both parties, including Barack Obama, are in debt to the special interests of the few.

   

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA

In the Moment

In moments such as this American moment in 2016, we would have talked.  That personal loss is now the missing link in my life, to know, to experience and honestly share with one other person, one other human being, each new sunrise, each new happening, good or bad.  When one has such a blessing, the rest of the world can go hang for the best possible gifting is not to face the whatever alone. The human tragedy that besets all of us is that we rarely appreciate what we have when we have it.  Not until we are without do we completely understand.  Is America going to have to learn the hard way?  Is freedom no longer to be our national character?  Maybe, just maybe, we are due to feel the overt pain of political oppression before we can rightly appreciate what it means to be free.  As a country, in this political season, we are at such a moment as this, a moment that will shape our future or the lack of it.

As Americans we have been spoiled by two hundred fifty years of government that largely reflects the will of the people.  Our freedom is summed up in the word democracy.  Webster’s Dictionary defines a democracy as “government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives, rule by the ruled”.  We the people and our interests are supposed to be what matters to our politicians.  Our freedom loving democracy is historically unique to this world as envisioned and enshrined by our forefathers in the Constitution.  Our new American establishment politicians of both parties say by their actions that this ancient document has become obsolete in our modern world.  No longer is their primary concern the people that they are supposed to serve, instead the people are to serve the rulers.  Their new plan is, in effect, a third world like political coup of America.  Some of us are sickened by that possibility and sickened as well that so many Americans seem not to understand the threat.  To remain America, we cannot ignore the fact when you betray the people you betray our democratic system.

 

The unaware or otherwise invested will object saying, wait one minute, our representative political system is not changing, we will be electing the same number of politicians to Congress and the White House.  The voting will go on!  Yes, the voting will go on but if both choices are self-serving politicians serving their donor class, the people have no real choice and the election result can only mean that the governed have no voice in their government.  Politics will continue to be as it has long been, only about words, empty promises and money, not doing the will of the people.  When there is no real choice given to the people by our elite politicians and their donor contributors, America will no longer be America.  Each voter needs to ask themselves on November 8, as Americans, who are we, who are we really?

I have been talking to cousin Jerry via email who comes to this election from a liberal mindset but is willing to use his brain.  He asked the question recently, when Mr. Trump loses the election, will you be disappointed in him?  My response, absolutely not, he is the hero of the people, willing to shoulder every abuse to finally give America a real choice.  Should the people choose to abandon our heritage, this country will have to learn the hard what freedom means.

 

We the people have the last opportunity to restore American integrity to our politics by electing Donald Trump.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Distractions

The routine goals of life seem to have largely passed away.  That unavoidable retirement arrives and regardless of our relative ease, we seniors experience the reality that this time in life is about loss.  Once life was a Buick rolling along the freeway but now we ride in a golf cart down a narrow alley.  Raising a family, working a job or a career, finding new toys and chasing a few good times were, as we now understand them to be, little more than distractions.  Sure, they were largely positive distractions but being busy about such things, as fulfilling as they might have been, must surely be less than our destiny as humans?  Why are we here at this hour?  Why are we here at all?  Is our supposed contribution to the ongoing life mix our only reason for living?  Does life not mean more than this?

Distractions are what blocks these types of questions for all of us, the eternal questions remain largely unexplored and routinely avoided at all costs, even to the point of embracing destructive distractions.  This is the human condition and our modern secularism goes further and denies the relevance of the eternal questions.  As a result, we are reaping a whirlwind of distractions, more and more of these are negative life destroyers.  Substance abuse, greed, the thirst for political power, narcissistic behaviors, hateful name calling, abortion on demand, the popularity drive, acceptable life losses for others, the avoidance of meaningful relationships and any sense of a shared destiny, all are destroying the young and the old among us.  None of us are totally immune but it would seem that unless we are dealing in some way with the eternal questions, we are adrift, tossed to-and-fro without a rudder.

Human history is replete with examples of those persons who have limited their distractions in order to attempt a connection beyond the routine of life.  Some of these persons retired voluntarily to a place of solitude while others were driven by circumstances to a place where distractions were few and the big questions remained.  They may have retired to a desert, a cave or a monastery, thereby trashing what is normal, making themselves a laughing stock, a supposed waste of a life.  In our present secular world, the seeming plight of these folk is ridiculed as failure and lunacy.  Secularism tells us that we only have one opportunity at life so be all you can be, grab as much as you can and forget about the rules.  Self-sacrifice is no longer a noble ideal and it is alien to the playbook of humanistic secularism which is fouling most all western cultures.  America may well be the last man standing but we too are on the verge of our demise on November 8.

This senior has a profound faith in the American voter to trash the distractions.  We will not be suckered.  Hillary, keep mouthing them for just thirty more days and then America will put you to bed.  We shall vote for no more progressive secularism; no more scandals; no more constant lying to the people; no more disregard for the Constitution; no more caterpillar economy; no more unholy Supreme Court; no more globalists meddling in America; no more anarchy on the streets; no more politicized Justice Department, IRS, Federal Reserve and VA; no more open borders; no more unrestricted trade that panders to big corporate donors; no more feeding off we the taxpayers; no more radical Muslim inspired death on our streets; no more gun control and finally, no more promises from your forked tongue.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA  

The Guilt Merchants

Guilt is good.  Guilt tells us who we are and why we are alive.  Guilt is an internal emotion that alerts us to a possible threat to our human sense of right and wrong.  We all have this sense because it organizes every society regardless of character.  We are all blessed to have this warning system but when we stuff these signals beneath layers of compromising excuses and refuse to be authentic, we cease to be human.  When we do so, the individual becomes me centered, life is narcissistic and only about the animal like survival of the fittest.  As humans, we are “more” beings, more than the simplistic life of the animal and plant worlds.  More than money, more than fame or an identification with any race or religion, we are internally driven to do what is right for each other.  For some strange reason, best left with those who know more, we are all birthed to search out our guilt instinct.

All guilt is not good.  We all have struggled with false guilt in our lives.  Every human society or culture around the world organizes itself to some extent by exploiting our guilt signals.  Instead of the individual searching out their own inherent warning signals we allow the culture and the religions of that culture to tell us why we should feel guilty and how to expunge these feelings.  The how usually involves a perceived enemies list that is surely a greater threat than any supposedly fraudulent warning signals.  There are those persons or institutions within the culture who use guilt to manipulate the folk, in effect they are guilt merchants.  The task of searching out the source of our guilt is a very personal trip, it is difficult and confusing but to accept the unauthorized version of others is a recipe for moral failure.  The moral failure of the individual has negative consequences just as the moral failures of cultures, societies and countries make consequences impossible to avoid.

America is suffering under just such a consequential burden imposed upon us by our politicians.  These guilt merchants want the people to feel guilty for anything and everything so that they can maintain political power and control our destiny.  The Hillary-Obama agenda is the forty-year old Democratic guilt playbook on steroids, designed to make the people feel guilty about racial injustice and the economically less fortunate.  While the people are wallowing in their false guilt, the Democratic Party politicians are holding an American fire sale and our country is being auctioned off to the highest bidders.  The highest bidders are first the free trade lobby funded by Wall Street, the big corporations and their stock market prices.  Second, the Muslim communities who are buying access with their oil money to further the replacement of our greatest treasure, freedom, with an Islamic cultural oppression.  If one is watching, it is as plain as the proverbial nose on your face and the consequence of these Democratic policies can only result in economic collapse as our safety net becomes overwhelmed by the deluge of poor immigrants, legal and illegal.   Where does this leave the American citizen?

 

A refusal to be authentically human is like a snowball rolling downhill.  As the snowball rolls it picks up speed and grows in size.  The Clinton political forty-year dynasty is the snowball that has reached gargantuan size as more and more revelations are exposed about the Clinton Foundation.  The negative consequence for the American people is that the snowball will crush the hopes of all the people at the bottom of the hill.  Voting in 2016, as never before, is a political as well as a moral decision that will determine our consequences and destiny as a nation.  The destiny we choose will be lived out by our children and their children.  Should we not all pause to consider the consequences before we vote?   Search out your own internal signals, are you being manipulated by the guilt merchants?

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca

The Henhouse

The question has been raised about the conscious character of America.  Namely, is America a hen house as stated on this blog?  Our illustrious local paper calls this accusation discrimination.  We shall see as the women of America have a choice to express in this presidential election.  Is the vagina body part the most distinguishing qualification for the Oval office?  To this point in the opinion polls, the answer from the hen house is in the affirmative.

 

No other conclusion can be reached by any rational observer of the facts.  Message doesn't count, the future of all Americans doesn't count and the forked tongue of the lady candidate matters not at all.  Hillary is the most anti women candidate to seek the office of what has always been the most distinguished leadership position in the world.  

The clincher has surfaced that Hillary's closest confidant, Huma Mahmood Abedin, the long time chief assistant to Hillary in her post as Secretary of State and a fixture in the Clinton Foundation is a graduate of the Muslim ideology that sends all women to the back of the bus.  It should be noted that this privilege will only be accorded if there is a seat available that is not occupied by a man.  Go figure this if you can. 

How else can this insanity compute?  Hen house ladies use your brain this time and prove that this blog is in error.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

The election for the future of America

I have a secret admirer.  She sends me cards without a return address in response to my guest posts in the High Desert Star.  We were on the same wave length when discussing money in politics as she supported the brief candidacy of Bernie Sanders.  This last card begins, “Glen, you are such a dope!”  What has gotten her all riled up you ask?  Right, her boy sold out for a Hillary funded house on the lake and she is left with only Donald J. Trump as an alternative.

I get it, this is a female response of displaced anger but then she proceeds to recant the Democratic talking points against Mr. Trump.  “Trump is a trigger happy whack job and suffers from terminal adolescent arrested development.  He will not win, and he will withdraw before the election because his ego will not accept his tanking in the polls.  He won’t release his taxes because he has a great deal to hide.  Love your libertarian friend.”  One might question her thinking but most of all her definition of love that precludes considering an opposing opinion.

The American female, particularly the older white hens, disrespect Mr. Trump because he is an Alpha male, an old school alpha male type that has never shown his face in American politics for about forty years.  It must be a real shock to accept the fact that there are just a few left around.  The definition of an alpha male is a dominating character among a group of individuals.  We have coyotes out here in Landers and most are emaciated specimens in survival mode except for one good old boy who is the leader of the pack.  He is fat and happy with a swagger that refuses to run when confronted with a human foe.

My libertarian friend, America needs an alpha male in the White House at this historical hour to stand up for the interests of the little people, those of us without political power.  Yes, Mr. Trump fits the definition of an alpha male, he does have a very large ego but that ego is our only hope to change the hen house that America has become thanks to our predictable and precise politicians who have sold out America to every moneyed interest in the world.  No one who is not an alpha male could stand up against the growing fury from our domineering freedom robbing American political structures.

Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”  Please allow me to list the enemies that are confronting Mr. Trump, then judge him.  Possibly, Ms. Libertarian, you may discover an alpha male that is not really that offensive to your delicate nature.
  
These are the enemies of Mr. Trump because these are the folks who are enslaving the people.

1.    Big government Democrats who will need a greatly expanded tax base (taxing the rich won’t do it).

     2.    Big government Republicans who only care about their funding sources from the free trade lobby.

     3.    Minorities, red, yellow, black and white who have been deceived and as a result will make their America the land of the rich and the poor.

    4.    All politicians who get their paychecks from taxpayers, the Wall Street moneyed interests, corporations and the big banks.

    5.    Government bureaucrats, federal, state and local who are being paid by the taxpayers and want their kids on the gravy train.  

    6.    Stock market investors who depend upon unrestricted free trade.

    7.    The broad based 401K voters who prize their own self-interest.

    8.    A majority of the ladies of America who are offended by Mr. Trump, his male demeanor, no nonsense personality and fresh thinking.

    9.    The open borders political action crowd with their globalist intentions.

   10.     The mass media, every newspaper and almost every broadcast media are ganging up on Mr. Trump to try and slander him instead of his pro American agenda.

We might as well call Mr. Trump the ultimate underdog!  Only a very large ego that has been responsible for building a very large business in the private sector can and will stand for the people who have been left out of the decision making by our corrupt politicians.  Mr. Trump has never taken a dime from these folks and it scares them to death and they are reacting with predictable name calling fury. 

We voters, are we to be hood winked into a third world America?  Mr. Trump thinks not but should you decide to be stupid at the ballot box, remember, that vote ensured the demise of freedom in America.  Mr. Trump, will not quite, he will shoulder the abuse in order to give all Americans a more prosperous future.  Should the voters of America decide for the status quo corrupt politics, the election will have consequences (Obama words). 

Can you be shamed out of standing up for the future of America?  

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

Who are the political fools of 2016?

Simply stated the political fools are many in 2016.  The whites who blindly follow Mrs. Clinton and her elitist dictatorial Wall Street agenda, are fools.  The blacks who blindly follow the agenda of the first black president even though he has made their everyday economic situation more intolerable, are fools.  The Hispanics who insist that our country welcome all their distant relatives even though this will make America into the banana republic they escaped, are fools.  Women who insist on the woman being president, regardless of her history, loyalties and integrity, are fools.  The gay and lesbian communities are fools if they assume that practical freedom resides in liberal politics.

The biggest fools of all are those who follow after a candidate or a political party and vote without knowing why?  Some of us say at election time, I’m a Democrat, some say I’m a Republican or an Independent and by saying so we have an excuse to stop thinking.  Some of us react to candidates emotionally as if we are electing a new family member or a pastor for the congregation.  No emotional reaction will give us a clue about the ability of a man or women to lead the country.

 

You can easily identify these folk because the total sum of what they have to offer is a string of personal insults, presumed character flaws and name calling from a stagnant brain.  Our politicians of every strip, get all warm and fuzzy by preaching to this mindless choir because they will accept anything they are told.  Please let us think together.

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA   

Why should the people elect Donald Trump as President?

Wearing my Trump hat around Yucca Valley is just plain fun.  At times the reaction is silence or on one occasion there was a gathering of multicultural young people around my van.  While waiting at the drug store, a senior lady asked why I would be voting for a candidate such as Donald Trump.  This question was quite welcome but along with the question came an obvious disgust for the man.  Cloaking an opinion in a question while really not wanting an answer, is a female trick that we, in your face males, find offensive and cowardly.

Responding gruffly without thinking, I asked the question, do you expect me to vote for that Hillary hag?  She was quite startled but the dictionary says that a hag is a female demon or evil spirit, an ugly, often vicious old woman.  This is Hillary, she has proven herself to be a hag, time and time again, over a life time.  She has also earned other appropriate monikers such as greedy, a liar, crooked and a criminal, a woman who has made millions and millions of dollars from selling political influence to powerful donors, foreign and domestic.  This is not another Republican talking point for it is the Hillary reality show, just talk to Bernie Sanders.

 

Enough said, please allow me to answer the question from the senior lady, why Mr. Trump, you ask?  Donald Trump is the man that country needs at this hour.  The U.S.A. has been in crisis mode for decades but now this country is one election away from never again being a true democracy whose future is in the hands of the people instead of the big donors and the political elites.  Our politicians of both parties have pandered away our future to every interest group who pays to play with money or potential votes.  As a result, politics is about being nice and saying the politically correct words that the donors and the interest groups want to hear, it is about spinning the truth. 

  

Our politicians assume that the people are so gullible and so invested in their own interests that they will believe or accept all the lies as normal.  Hey, people, are the politicians right?  Do we not care about the truth?  Do our own personal economic interests rule our lives or can we reach beyond them to again find the peoples’ democracy?  Are the Wall Street donors to be in charge of our future?   This is the fundamental issue in this election and Donald Trump is the only candidate for president that can and will say no to a dictatorship of the wealthy. 

This is as clear as the nose on your face but if you remain skeptical, take a close look at the very long Trump enemies list.  The Wall Street stock market types are funding every stop Trump movement because their only priority is unencumbered free trade even when it cripples the middle class.  The Republican establishment politicians are fighting his leadership because their donors are pissed and it flows downhill.  The big government Democrats are promising free goodies and race baiting because they don’t want to talk about the selling out of our American democracy.

 

Mr. Trump only promises a better, safer and more prosperous America, so what’s to hate?  He is not a hard line ideology who will insist upon his way resulting in another decade of national stagnation.  He is a negotiator and a builder who brings people together to accomplish the task at hand.  He is a doer.

“Make America Great Again” is not just another cutesy political slogan devised to win an election.  Some of us believe it is his heart felt desire for all the people.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca

  

Hang in there for us Mr. Trump

The Republican Party is fractured because our American national identity in 2016 is fractured.  In American history only one other fracture can be compared to our present state and that was the civil war between the states of 1861.  That war was fought to prevent a complete fracturing of America into two governments and two armies separated by the economic issue of slavery.  The political leadership of the southern states demanded an economic model that required a large poor underclass to support the privilege of the relatively few wealthy.

Today America is also fracturing on the same fissure, there is again a war like atmosphere between those who have a stake in this economy and those who have none.  Slavery is gone but the economic bondage of the underclass has ballooned in the last twenty years.  Half of Americans are making less than thirty thousand dollars a year and they know they are politically powerless.  Good paying jobs for Americans and a future for our children is the only real issue that matters to the underclass.  Instead, our politicians trade away jobs and crush our children with trillions of dollars of national debt that will consume future federal revenue when interest rates rise.

   

These are war times, the political leadership of both parties, sometimes called the establishment, are solidly on the side of the few economically powerful.  The establishment politicians fund their careers by taking money from the Wall Street corporations, the too big to fail banks and the stock market sensitive folks.  These contributions obligate the politician to support the national policies that benefit the wealthy few.  The only critical issues of concern to the wealthy few are free trade and free immigration, both policies give the wealthy few cheap labor benefiting big business and thereby inflate the stock market.  All politicians are of the establishment and want only to manage the decline of America on behalf of the wealthy few, it is that simple.

2016 is different only because of the candidacy of Donald Trump, he is the Lone Ranger on a white horse riding into the fight against political and economic injustice perpetrated upon the American underclass.  Mr. Trump is the ultimate outsider, the nonpolitician who only promises to apply commonsense to every issue and vehemently defend the interests of the underclass. Mr. Trump gets it, he says what the underclass wants to hear and has the courage to stand up against all the political elites of both political parties.  The fact that he is not a polished politician able to spin all the accepted political lingo is his greatest strength, not a weakness as his opposition claims. 

When he began his campaign, Mr. Trump only wished to be treated fairly by the Republican establishment.  This was probably a naïve request but it was more or less adhered to by the overconfident establishment through December of 2015, expecting the Donald to fade away.  Instead, the Trump bandwagon took on a winning character and the stock market reacted with a dip of 2000 points in January 2016, the donor class woke up and demanded that the Republican party stop Donald Trump.

 

In the following two months few if any person running for the presidency in the history of America has been so viciously attacked by the other Republican candidates, the Democratic candidates, the left wing stooges, the pontiff, the former president of Mexico as well as the President of the United States.  And what is their grip?  Mr. Trump is not a polished issue wise politician who can be controlled by money.  Well, praises be!

G. Goslaw

Landers, CA

What is that dirty little word?

The conversation in America is avoiding a dirty little word.  At least one would expect it to be a dirty little word because it has disappeared from our vocabulary.  It has six letters so it is small like a dirty little word but this word can be expressed in polite company, in academic circles or when children are present.  The word is in the dictionary but most Americans under the age of forty probably do not know what it means.  You see, there is one problem with this word and the reason it is not used in America, the dirty little word is not politically correct.

All of our politicians for forty years have been silenced fearful to even mention this dirty little word for to some just speaking the word is akin to a treasonous act.  The vested interests roll out all the hyped up labels like isolationist or protectionist in order to shut down the slightest mention of this word.  No politician could withstand the assault that would come against them should they buck the vested interests.  As a result, the dirty little word is not talked about, ever, not by just plain folk, our politicians or a single media outlet.  We voters need to start talking and asking questions about that dirty little word, tariff.

The American people have been duped so long that most of us do not know what the word tariff means.  The Webster definition is “a list or system of taxes placed by a government upon exports and/ or imports.”  This simple definition is the way that all countries have operated for, perhaps, thousands of years.  Tariffs were and now are imposed to protect the national interest as defined by each government.  That is the rub, our politicians in America have confused the national interest with their own money interest which to them is more important than jobs for the people.  Our politicians fund their costly politics and their sometimes costly lifestyle by playing along with the vested interests opposing tariff taxes.  Their silence has been too easily gained.

The political mantra and rallying point against American tariffs is the often verbalized phase, free trade.  Democrats and Republicans have been united in their support of free trade for the last forty years, be it the Bushes or the Clintons.  I ask, what has it gotten the average American?  Personal income for the last forty years has flat lined while it has gotten more and more difficult to pay living expenses because of government intrusion into our lives.  The multitude of trade deals put in place by our politicians has depleted the middle class and forced millions of American on government assistance. We tell our kids the truth, nothing is free in life, somebody pays.  

The medium income in America is around $40,000, I ask, who can raise a family of four on that income anywhere in America but especially in California?  The answer is that it is not possible, you either have a high paying government approved and supported job or you experience the tragedy of being on the government dole.  There are few winners, the relatively rich are getting richer and the relatively poor are getting poorer, the middle class, the historical strength of this nation, is fading away.  Am I exaggerating our predicament?  Just ask the supporters of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump about the new normal America.  The people are not happy and they are angry. 

Mr. Sanders and Mr. Trump are the only presidential candidates railing against the American vested interests who have purchased the demise of the middle class.  Who are the free trade political operatives?  You guessed it, the Wall Street charlatans and their big business cronies with their stock market profits.  You know, the ones who gave us the financial collapse and then had their hands out so our politicians could bail them out.  Our politicians obeyed on cue with taxpayer money.  That was only half of their plan, they also wanted cheap money to feed the stock market and thanks to the Obama administration cheap money they got.

How long is America going to tolerate this injustice?   Hopefully not long if we, the voters, remember that dirty little word.  I will even say please.

 

G.Goslaw

Landers, CA.

How do the people figure into politics, circa 2016?

Ever since the computer came around I have resisted and let the younger generations show me up.  Finally, I have forced myself to explore the unknown.  It may be because retirement is sometimes a bit boring or that a small slice of self-respect has at last risen to the surface, anyway, I took a course in Microsoft Office at the Copper Mountain Community College this past semester.  During all of the semester I felt like a duck out of water but everyone was extremely patient and supportive of this newbie.  It has been a very long time since I sat in a class room.

The experience informed me most about the quality of the young people attending the college, these are serious folk who value the opportunity that the college offers.  Looking back over the years I wish that I had taken life and learning as seriously as these kids.  Professor Boyer-Whitehurst assigned a Power Point project for each of us to present to the class, asking that we choose a subject that we were passionate about.  Doing as I was instructed, I prepared a presentation entitled, “Our Broken Economy”.  The point that I was trying to make was that the economy is a reflection of our politics but I was not aware that politics is sort of taboo conversation around campus.

Our politicians have always had their grubby hands in the economy but this new American economy has become politicized beyond all recognition over the last fifty years.  It was my hope that through the presentation I could convey to this new coming of age generation, the implications that our current economic environment was about to impose upon their lives.  Of course, they know the difficulties before them.  One of the ladies in the class almost yelled out during the presentation, “what can we do about it?”  I was so stretched trying to get the presentation fit into the allotted five minutes, there was no time to address the question but a class discussion was in order.

The simple truth is that our American economy is owned by corporate business folk through their lobbyists and politicians in Washington D.C.  As never before, both political parties have been hooked by the dollars flowing from big business in order to control the political agenda.  What do they want?  Simply stated, they want cheap labor and cheap money.  Our politicians have coughed them up to get elected and then cashed in, ignoring the interests and needs of the people who elected them.  The word that best describes their debauchery is treason, national treason selling out America and the American ideal of upward economic mobility for all.

 

The Democrats are the hypocrites who have their hands out while speaking empty rhetoric about the middle class and a “living wage”.  At the same time their espoused policies cut off the legs of the working class preventing upward mobility.  Policies like big spending, overseas trade deals that give away jobs and open borders immigration, all combining to further divide America into the rich and the relatively poor and getting poorer.  Hillary Clinton is the poster child for this duplicity but she has plenty of company.  President O’Bama is the grand poohbah of hypocrites.   His policies distract the people by dividing the electorate with racial animus while he opens the floodgate of cheap labor through both legal and illegal immigration.   I know how big his library will be, it will be befitting his royal status.

 

The Republicans are the worst offenders of the people.  They taut capitalistic ideals and a free economy as an excuse to give American jobs away overseas and to give tacit approval to the same immigration policies of the Democrats.  More importantly, the GOP only advances candidates for president that will give due deference to their big business donors.  The people have caught on to their deceit and this accounts for the popularity of “The Donald”, who is the only Republican candidate bucking the establishment GOP scheme.  America will conclude that Mr. Trump is the only real alternative to politics as usual.  Will he be any different if elected president, who knows?  At least he is talking the right game now.

G.Goslaw

Landers, Ca      

     

Trump to the Rescue

Mr. Trump has ignited the hopes of the little people, he understands the anger among us because the political class takes campaign money from the Wall Street and the big business types to send our jobs elsewhere with lousy trade deals.  The Republicans joined O’bama just a few weeks ago to do just that.  Then the business types and the Chamber of Commerce buy influence to leave the borders open so that illegal aliens can take the jobs of Americans citizens who, understandably, will not work for less than what welfare will pay. Cheap labor is the evil in both cases and government picks up the tab.

The little people are not stupid, this evil is destroying our country and the Democrats and the Republicans are chopping off our heads, those of our children and their children.  Every Republican standing at the debate, except Mr. Trump, can’t speak against this evil because they have been bought.  Some of them speak about bringing manufacturing back to American but it can’t be done unless every trade deal is renegotiated, no one suggested that solution.

That is where Mr. Trump comes to the fore, he is not beholding to the business class or the political class and can confront those countries who are ripping us off.  The rest of them may be slicker politicians and better debaters but he can not and will not be bought.  The evil ones are scared and that makes Mr. Trump a target and Fox News did their best to embarrass Mr. Trump because they are sympathetic to the business class.

The little people do not care if Mr. Trump is a short term conservative, divorced, filed bankruptcy or has made a few chauvinistic jokes in his life.  At least he hasn’t used a 20 years old intern on her knees in the oval office to do the deed as did president Clinton.  Tell me, who is the woman hater?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Community Organizer in Chief

Our Democratic president doesn’t have to worry about a silly little thing like the truth, everything is about spin as it is on the streets.  He sends his white pet liar, Josh Ernest, out to the cameras to spin away our presidents culpability for the murder of the young lady on the San Francisco Pier.  The illegal Mexican alien who did the deed had been deported 5 times and had 7 felony convictions in America.  Where is the federal law to protect us?

The Democratic San Francisco injustice system had him in custody just days before the murder and refused to turn this dangerous felon over to federal immigration authority.  Instead they released him on to their own streets to prey upon their own people.  The Democratic Mayor and the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco have been caught with their pants down and their hands in the cookie jar.  Their only response is, who me?

But wait, the Democratic spin is that this is a Republican problem??  Go figure!  The Republicans refuse to pass a new immigration law that gives the rest of the world ownership of America and the Republicans are the bad guys?  What about the immigration law that is already on the books?  The truth is that the Democrats are guilty of selective enforcement of our present law in order to scare the public into giving away the country.

The Democrats want Americans to die, they want our people to be victimized by these skumbags in order to bring about the American giveaway.  Spin all you can, Democrats, the truth doesn’t change!

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

politics tacking into the winds of fortune

The first rule of Clinton-O’Bama politics is to shift the blame from their own vulnerability by being the first to accuse their enemies of that same vulnerability.  This has been the first rule of Democratic politics for the last 25 years and still the Republicans can’t look beyond their own bank accounts to anticipate the next battle.  The Republicans are always on defense and they seem intent to be the forever political losers.

The current vulnerability of the Clinton-Obama machine is the school yard stuff that has dogged our politics for centuries.  The modern version, however, has reached new heights of seeming respectability because it is not the exception of the few but an every day political expectation among all of our politicians in Washington.  After all, everybody has to pay to play, there are annoying laws and procedures passed by Congress but doesn’t everybody do it?

Washington is awash with pay to play and the Justice Department of the progressive Eric Holder will only enforce the law against their own political enemies.  It is open season on integrity, Democrat or Republican and every level of the bureaucracy is for sale to the highest bidder.  Do you need a politic championed, be it green energy or lower taxes for the wealthy, contribute to a campaign or a super pack.  When business needs a favorable decision from the bureaucracy, just make a donation to a foundation and the winds of fortune will blow your way.

Hillary Clinton is the poster child of pay to play.  The new book, “Clinton Cash”, is reported to connect some of the dots between payoffs to the Clinton Foundation in order to get favors from the Hillary lead U.S. State Department during her tenure as Secretary of State.  Is it just a coincidence that she did her duties at the State Department off the book, beyond the reach of Congressional oversight?  Deleted emails, a tight circle of operatives at the top of the food chain, sounds like a vulnerability to this no body observer.

Confronted with her integrity vulnerability, what can we expect her story line to be?  Right on, Hillary says that she is the new champion of the little people, the middle class and the majority of Americans who are  attempting to scratch out an honest existence in this American den of thieves.  The Republicans are vulnerable to accusations of unconcern for the middle class but is Hillary that champion?  Now, really . …  Hillary?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Dog Fight

The 2016 Republican primary season is shaping up to be a dog fight.  Judging from past primaries, we are in for a gargantuan hissing and spitting free for all of a Republican food fight.  The Democrats, especially the O’bama progressive left wing of that party are salivating as they fantasize about the expected spectacle.  Can you imagine 20 Republican candidates tearing up each other for months prior to the big event?  The election season that really matters will be a mere political skirmish giving us another big government Democrat in the White House.   America, can you survive another repeat?

Wisdom has not been the forte of the Republican Party but this time we have no choice, it is win or die!  This time, we must do the Republican presidential primary the Ronald Reagan way.  Each and every primary candidate must adhere to his Eleventh Commandment which reads, “Thou shalt not speak ill of any other Republican”.  Reagan lived up this mantra most of the time but resorted to personal attacks against Gerald Ford in the 1976 primary.  Then President Ford won the primary but was so weakened by the attacks of Reagan that he lost the presidential election to  Jimmy Carter (Wikipedia).

If personal attacks were not allowed, each and every primary candidate would be judged on their vision for America, how well they communicate that vision and then how well they sell it to the electorate.  The O’bama way works only for the political elites, not the people, any of the people.  Just imagine 20 Republican candidates bashing the status quo of the Democrats instead of each other, the media might have to cover that show.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca    

Open Season

Our criminal President is up to his tricks again.  By the stroke of his pen and his sole authority, he will grant practical citizenship to over 4 million illegal aliens in the coming days.  Like never before, we are no longer a country of laws passed by the duly elected representatives of the people, we are now a banana republic ruled by an all powerful dictator in chief.  We are experiencing a typical south American political coup, a desperate power grab to make 4 million illegal aliens, legal Democratic voters.  Voters that will hopefully soften the impact of the Democratic rejection mood of the country as indicated by the midterm election.  The President has decided that chaos is better than the historical moderate, middle of the road politics that is America.  

It is time to declare open season on illegal aliens from whatever country.  This is not a call for violence but a call to put our niceness aside, this a call to mobilize the people to call out the lawless conspirators of illegal immigration.  The illegal political action groups, the Chamber of Commerce, all businesses that hire the illegal and all Democratic politicians unless they speak out against this crime.  It is time to declare open season on all who are aligned with the Democratic cause or fund the Democratic crimes.  Eighty per cent of the people want a legal reform of our immigration system but the key word is legal.  Democrats, as lead by our dictator in chief, only want voters not full citizenship for the illegal, they care little for the illegal alien whom they value merely as a tool to maximize Democratic political power.

If the President does not respect the Law, should we?  Of course,  we will remain respectful of the rule of law but sometimes we are tested.  This is such a time.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

What do the election results mean?

November 4, 2014 is an American revival.  The people have spoken loudly for we want another chance to be the country our forefathers believed was possible.  They did not create perfection but gave to succeeding generations a foundation upon which to grow, a foundation of self rule by the people, small government and free enterprise.  They demanded their freedom and we want to be left alone to freely build our future.  Our country will not be defined as Republican or Democrat, black or white, rich or poor, women or men, religious or secular, liberal or conservative, we are Americans, we are one people with a dream that we share together.

At the core of this dream is justice for each of us regardless of wealth, political influence or family social standing.  There will be no freedom for all if each of us is not given the same shot at one’s own dreamed future.  All the reporters are asking, Republicans what are you going to do now, post election?  The list of priorities is long but the answers have all missed the people’s priority.  The people want unity and this can not happen if we are divided economically.  There can be no unity as the few relatively rich gorge themselves on the lazy earnings of the stock market while ignoring the economic trashing of the largest percentage of the American people.  Our earnings have steadily dropped for the last six years while the prices at the grocery store have steadily gone up.  Politicians, slow and stop the printing of paper money by the Federal Reserve, do this first and by doing so you will act on behalf of all the little people.  

The inherent fallibility of humankind is to be takers at the expense of others.  Fox News gets a lot of unjustified criticism from the president and our left leaning neighbors but the talking legs do tell us the truth. The problem is that they do not tell the whole truth.  Fox News is one of the takers who glories in stock market riches and says very little about the criminal conspiracy between political power, the Federal Reserve and the stock market.  By their silence, they are saying all wealth is good and it matters little how it is obtained.  Is this Robin Hood?  Somehow it does not sound familiar.

The criminal conspiracy is obvious, the president picks the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, he or she is confirmed by the politicians in the Senate and then serves at the pleasure of the President.  This politically empowered chairman orders paper money to be printed and flushed through the financial system to prop up our economy in order to protect the politicians.  This unearned wealth is reinvested in the stock market causing stock market prices to rise to new records practically every day.  These are boom times for the few while our politicians put out the lie that the Federal Reserve is independent and acting in the best interest of the country.  Somehow that does not ring the bell.

Politicians, are you serving for the few or all the people?  This election should say to you, Democrat and Republican, do not be content with your political games and leave the little people to see their American dream blow away from political interference and neglect.  We know that it is a lot to ask in the face of the power of money in politics but please put the heat on the Federal Reserve to slow and stop the printing of unearned dollars to give to the rich or, better yet, give the dollars to us, the little people.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

The Handwriting

Election season is painfully tiring about this time but the political promises are about over.  We choose and they rule over us.  The day after the election the promises and the will of the people fade like the sunset over the San Bernardino Mountains.  Frustration and the resulting depression are the order of the day amongst the California voters who believe that this state is, after all, America.  Forget it, California is little Mexico and our politicians, from Governor Moonbeam on down the ladder of the politically privileged, are responsible for the sellout.  The new California is the glaring example of what the southern takers of this new nation will accomplish for the future.  Beware Californians for the handwriting is on the wall?

What does the handwriting say?  You know but it is easier to play dumb, dumb and dumber!

1.  Economic collapse for the wealthy few will increasingly abandon the state for a friendlier American tax systems.

2.  Private enterprise is no longer, we, the people expect the government to provide.

3.  The federally funded economy, nursing and healthcare, will deteriorate as federal spending approaches a $20 trillion federal deficit by 2016?

4.  The state tax base dwindles further eroding all government services: police, fire, code enforcement, dog catcher, etc.

5.  Our politicians will create better and better ways to nullify Prop 13 and it’s protection of the property owner from greater taxes.  The state supreme court will strike it down.

6.  Violence is the California norm, the extinction of a right to life is ignored except by the innocent victims.  Murder in the womb will foster murder on our streets, they are morally linked and unseparable (Urban Dictionary).    

 Good luck, California………..

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca.

How shall we then vote?

President Obama is a far left liberal progressive extremist.  The political strategy of his Valerie Jerrett mobsters is to get out in front of the truth by accusing the rest of the country of being extremists.  The truth is that these folk have the most anti American agenda this country has ever known.  They are so far left that most Democratic office holders consider him a political pariah but must passively support him because he one of their own and raises a lot of money.  What mindset does a far left liberal progressive use to interpret our world?

Look for his presidential actions not his politically motivated deceiving words.  The greatest good for the Obama mites is all about governmental control of the common man who ignorantly assumes that the individual matters.  The progressive believes that this individualism is dangerous and a threat that must be managed from the top as all other crises are managed.  The common man must accept his or her place in society.  Therefore, bigger and bigger government is the greatest good.  If they really believed in God they would not consider themselves to be God’s over us.  Sadly they do.

What is the ultimate scenario for the liberal progressive extremist?  The ultimate is the biggest possible government, a one world super government that will presume to know and then take actions to equalize all the people under it‘s control.  Any action by America that conflicts with this dream scenario will be trampled by the heavy heel of the liberal progressive.  All are asking, why does America have to endure an invasion across our southern border?  All are asking, why are we forced to endure the Ebola epidemic in this country without  this overbearing government doing everything possible to protect the people?

The simple answer is that Americans must die and live in a declining economy to bring to pass the new world order envisioned by the liberal progressive.  Is this what you vote for on election day?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Manual

There is no place for the young man in our new America.  Our public teacher job programs do a lousy job of educating the young man and if they do graduate they will have a limited education, no sense of the great history of this country and no hope that there is an opportunity for them to make a positive contribution.  All of us need that feeling in our soul, that feeling that we matter in the search for the greater good and to each other.  How can the young man even think about a family in the traditional sense when there are no respectable jobs, no means of earning a way in this life and no sense that America is their home.  What are the options?  Where can he fit in?  There is little opportunity besides partying, weed, drugs, crime and jail, the last form of public assistance.

What do our politicians do?  They force the manufacturing jobs overseas with burdensome taxes and regulations. Then they import uneducated and unskilled labor from anywhere in the world to compete for the low wage jobs that do remain.  Why are these illegals more important than American citizens?  No longer are there those traditional stepping stone jobs for the young, those low wage jobs that if the worker applies himself, flipping burgers will lead to a better job and a more secure future.  Not everyone is suited for a college education and few can afford today's outrageous costs involved. You tell me, what is the young man to do?

The nay sayers will point to those young men who have made a place for themselves despite the odds but in complimenting the few the vast majority are somehow trashed.  The plight of the young man is a case study in social Darwinism, if you have the right breaks in this society, you will survive.  What happens to the vast majority of young men who have no education, no family, and no friendly connections to any societal opportunity.  They may just go join ISIS or a like minded terrorist organization to vent their anger.  That anger, the anger of the American young man is justified.  

Our politicians are getting filthy rich in Washington and our federal, state and local government jobs are given regular pay raises, their jobs are secure regardless of performance and they are permanent.  The stock market investor with their IRA's, hedge funds and trading accounts are enjoying the government funded boom years.  Instead of glorying in their success, these selfish takers should hang their heads in shame, they are killing our kids and that is acceptable to them as long as the kids are not their own.

All of America should be ashamed of this trashing of America deceitfully labeled as an economic recovery.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca