Thursday, June 26, 2014

to the dogs

I love dogs but Pit Bulls do not qualify.  The problem with the breed is not their aggressive character but the people who own them, so many are just irresponsible dog owners, assuming that the loyalty and affection they receive from this breed can be loosed on the community.  They, the owners, are the criminals and a real danger to others, these owners should be reviled by all, no sympathy.  I hate Pit Bulls but I hate their owners even more.  This extreme selfishness is the state of our nation in the America of 2014.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Stand Down

When is enough, enough?  How long are we the people going to let Hussein Obama trash our military?  How long is the military going to hide in foxholes when it is under attack?  When is the officer core of each service going to stand up for their people who are being bombarded with disrespect?  Caring about your men is fundamental to military leadership.  When the job or the rank is more important than the welfare of your people, there will be no leadership and we now have none. Officers, can you live with yourself in the foxhole?  A 5 foot 6 inch black Marine drill instructor, R.J Washington, modeled that caring leadership principle for me some years ago and I regret not being man enough to pass the principle on to others.

Senior officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines…. Stand up by standing down!  Do your duty, Stand Down!  Retire and then go on every bully pulpit and tell the country why you made the sacrifice.  Say it out loud!  No longer will I serve a President who lies and deserts our brothers under fire as in Bengazi.  No longer will we bleed and die for a president who will soon give the victory away to the enemy.  No longer will we trust the lies of the man who refuses to reform the Veterans Administration death trap.  No longer will I serve this weak kneed president who is comfortable being pushed around by every tyrant in the world.  No longer will I serve a president who leaves his people behind in Mexico but repatriates an antiwar deserter in exchange for five enemy officers.  No longer will I serve a president who is accountable for nothing and throws his people under the bus so that he can slink away.  Stand down my brothers, are you not a proud soldier?

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca              

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Line in the sand

It is time to stop being nice to illegal aliens.  It is time to stop putting our heads in the sand with our asses in the air and getting fucked!  We don’t have to give all humans free medical care and a free education and free housing and a free paycheck.  Go figure, American citizens, born in this country, don’t get the free bees.  Americans have to be the stupidest people in the world and our politicians of every strip are even more brain damaged for enabling the insanity.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Sunday, June 8, 2014

Applause

Board of Directors
Bighorn Desert View Water Agency

After two years, the Goslaw household has become familiar with the desert community of Landers.  Our early fascination with the desert has not waned but increased as my dogs and I have gotten to know the people of this community.  Getting to know you, the Bighorn Desert View Water Agency has taken almost as long but with each contact I have become increasingly thankful that such good folk are in charge of our water resource.  My only experience has been with those big government operations so I had a great deal of skepticism to overcome.  Thank you Directors and the staff for your patience, you are, indeed, special.

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Saturday, June 7, 2014

Wanted

                                               Dead or Alive

                          $ 5,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  Reward

                            All traitorous liberal progressive politicians
                          who are saving the world by killing their own
                           American citizens in order to keep power!
                                     
                                      Citizens for the American Way

                                                G.Goslaw
                                              Landers, Ca

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Sin

There is a moral argument for the existence of God.  Evil will be punished and goodness will be rewarded in this life and probably the next.  Why  can’t we just accept the truth of his argument?  It would seem that this is a truth that we humans were created to test as if we were lab rats.  Why do we have to prove it over and over again?  If we are honest, each of us can recognize the moral argument in our own lives for it is what we try to teach our kids, when you choose the good it will come back to you.  We humans universally know that it works and we universally, to one degree or another, put this truth to the test daily.  In effect, we are advertising the God of the galaxies by our rebellion.  God can take the credit when we do not sin and God can reap the advertising when we do, sounds like a win, win …….. for God!

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Minimum Wage

The political argument for or against a rise in the minimum wage is a smokescreen by both Democrats and Republicans.  All of our politicians are being deceptive.  This is nothing new, the political game played by our politicians is only to create excuses for accomplishing nothing good for the people.  In the case of the minimum wage, both parties will admit that it needs to be raised for this increasingly trapped workforce to participate fairly in the new America economy, the argument is over who pays for the cost of the increase.

The Democrats want the small business employer to pay for the hike in the minimum wage. Small business is not a welfare organization, the purpose of every business is to risk their own money by making an investment that hopefully will make a profit.  Profit is not a dirty word, the profit motive is the reason the American economy was the greatest in the world and the reason our country flourished.  If small business is forced to raise wages on their businesses they will have to raise prices.  The raising of prices will result in less sales which means fewer jobs in order for the employer to maintain a profit.  This is economics 101, a higher minimum wage will punish the underpaid by making some of their brothers and sisters jobless and unpaid.

The Republicans use this true evaluation of the problem to wash their hands of any responsibility to act in behalf of these people whom they also represent.  Of course, the underpaid can not and will not fund the political careers of our politicians so these profiteers do not care about the fortunes of the underpaid.  There is no motive for the politic to make a change, especially if that change will negatively impact their fund raising efforts.  The Almighty Dollar is the reason for the Republican claimed helplessness.

Is there another answer?  The best answer is to free the American economy to be what it was designed to be, a capitalistic system.  If the economy again provided the underpaid a way up the economic ladder with hard work and personal responsibility, the minimum wage job would again be a stepping stone to a better life.  Under Democratic control and the resulting new American economy, the minimum wage job is a dead end for most all of these workers no matter how hard they work. Assuming America wants to continue punishing itself with this economy, is there a possible fix?

Why don’t we try fairness?  Fairness seems to be a Democratic buzzword lately.  Why don’t our politicians find a way to have the stock market pay for these well deserved pay hikes?   The only sector of working American that has prospered in the midst of economic recession is the politically connected stock market invested Americans with their hedge funds and IRA’s.  Our government has printed trillions of new dollars which have poured into the stock market and inflated the value of these stocks and the wealth of all these investors.  It is a form of welfare for the already rich.  President Obama is the our leader giving bonuses to the rich and the Republicans sit in silence sharing in the profit.  Washington has become the richest city in the world and all of the politicians are racking in the dollars in the midst of seeming gridlock.  Purposeful gridlock is profitable for our politically connected.

How can the politicians bring fairness to the minimum wage given the new economy?  There are many possibilities but there is no political will!  Our politicians, Democrat and Republican could tax the purchase or sale of every share of stock to fund an increase in the minimum wage.  Another possibility would be for our politicians to place an additional tax on yearly stock market invested income.  A combination of tax credits and tax funded supports could make the life of the underpaid better.  Any solution along these lines is impossible for either political party for the rich stock market folk fund their politics.  The calls for fairness are camouflage to hide their money motive.  Short of a taxpayer funded political system, America is finished as an economic power, we are going the way of Rome. Surprise, surprise!

G.Goslaw
Landers, Ca