Their flexing their muscles and we're fighting about People marrying the person that they love and health care.

Perhaps this is the symptom and not the disease . China and Russia have both been flexing their military muscles in the absence of America. China knows that we are much too busy worrying about who gets to marry who to challenge them as they expand their empire/country. China is island building ,disrupting shipping channels and killing coral reefs that are sure to play a pivotal role in the life of the ocean and or the planet in the process. They have gone about their business unabated for the past couple of years while the Republican's and Democrat's are embroiled in a fight about getting into everyday American's lives once again. The party of small government and less regulation, once again want to dictate from the bench to the bedroom, telling us whom we can love and who we can't. The Democrat's on the other hand , just want to leave the people to be free to marry the one that they are in love with . Russia is empire building and have threatened to use nuclear weapons if we get in their way. They have been having a proxy war against a former state and are bringing that country back into the fold. We can't be bothered with either of these provocation's as we are too busy fighting each other about Americans their marriages and their health care. Another war, two wars ,three wars does any of this make any sense? We are busy amassing weapons along Russia's borders while all in America are caught up in this tit for tat on the before mentioned issues. Diversions and deception , please just hold the cards out where all American's can see them. Lets try some empire building of our own, we could use lots of infrastructure repairs , how about providing jobs for the millions of unemployed American's. Stop the flow of goods from China to America and get America working. We have many issues that need our attention , but the only things that are getting any attention, are brought with focus and division from our friends in Washington.

Busy week at the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court had an busy week. They had to rule on housing discrimination, in which the Court ruled in favor of civil rights groups, reaffirming laws meant to protect minorities . Then on Thursday they had to rule on the ACA better known as Obama Care . The Court found in favor of upholding the ACA as written, much to the dismay of many Republican's, vowing to work on the repeal of said law for what would be the fifty first time . And on Friday the court worked on Gay marriage with the Court finding in favor of American's wishing to be included as equal members of America. These rulings brought about great anger from those on the right with some of them vowing to push for a constitutional amendment allowing for the removal of Justices that don't do as expected or required. Justices are now appointed for life , by the President that is in power when a vacancy arises. Today there are more than a few calling for the dismantling of the court all together, but when the vote goes their way it's the best thing ever imagined . It's time to grow up , and move forward as a united group, include all members of our great land and move to a higher place...

Is capitalism doomed.

Throughout the history of America, capitalism and the men of wealth and power, the movers and shakers moved America forward . They built factories and they needed labor and people needed jobs. The two elements existed hand and hand for many years, with both sides gaining and the country prospering . America was moving forward , the people were working having families buying homes and personal items and the men of wealth were growing their empires. The country needed railroads, roads, bridges and other infrastructure to support the growth . Taxes: America started to get more and more money from taxes, both personal and corporate and as America grew, more factories were being built and more people were working and paying taxes. The expansion seemed to have no end. America was leading the world in most things with a standard of living many times that of other countries which was improving with each generation. Greed: As America grew, it was clear that not everything was in perfect harmony. Along with the industrial revolution came a whole host of problems for the common worker. Industrial accidents , pollution, worker grievances and the like were taking their toll and driving up the cost of doing business. Politicians: With growth came the need for someone to protect the workers from the ever increasing risk to their lives. Vote for me, I'll protect you came as a battle cry from many a politician and with that many Governmental commissions and departments were established to deal with the ever increasing perils facing the American worker. Health and safety: it was clear to many that the industrial revolution was not without it's cost. Increased deaths due to unsafe conditions and pollution emitted from the smokestacks and other discharges of American industry, plagued the owners and workers alike . Cost continue to soar: With each problem came an increasingly expensive set of regulations. Taxes continued to climb, cost soared and prices rose. New commissions, departments and agencies were formed. The added expense equaled ever increasing taxes and more cost in order to comply with the ever increasing regulations , the dizzying spiral continued unabated for decades. More politicians: On the other side there was help for the men of wealth and power, doing their best to control the regulations thus keep the cost down. They saw that the ever increasing regulations were driving cost up and profitability down making it harder to compete with an unseen adversary. Commissions, departments and agencies were now running unchecked and both sides fought for control, establishing more commissions, department and agencies to oversee the commissions , departments and agencies that had caused bloat, waste and abuse. Bigger is better: More taxes to fund the newly established commissions , departments and agencies. Then there was new commission , department and agencies heads appointed by the controlling party to run the newly formed entities along with the need for more taxes to fund said groups . Who's in power : With each election cycle , the group winning the most seats got to make the rules , adjusting them for their particular needs. Higher wages: With each increase in Governmental regulations came about an accompanying increase in the price of the goods manufactured by the affected company. Unions: As the American workers saw their purchasing power decrease they had run out of ways to earn more money. College and trade schools for some , but many more were caught without any means to better their predicament. Enter the unions, labor it seems decided to join forces with each other in order to increase their pay figuring that if they could force a shut down or at least a slow down it would hurt the owners ability to earn money and they would be forced to pay them the pay that they wanted. This tactic did indeed work, and the workers achieved their limited goal of a few cents here and there. Unknown cost: The victories were always short lived however and the affected companies would just raise their cost , and once again labor would be unable to buy the very products that they were building. Again: Labor seeing that they had been losing their purchasing power would be legally bound to their contract and struggled to make ends meet. At the end of the contract the labor unions would once again call for another work stoppage in order to once again increase their purchasing power. These strikes as they began to be called were seen as a God send for many of the workers , as they could not see any way to increase their ability to earn any more than whatever the current contract would allow. Enough: There did come a time however when the owners had been taxed and regulated to death profitability was down and they have had enough. They saw that there was a whole world out there with cheap labor and no regulations, and at the sign of the next labor strike they just moved their production to those other countries with the cheap labor and non-existent health, safety and environmental regulations. Record profits were now the norm, things looked great, money was being made and cost were down . Millions of unemployed Americans were now without the purchasing power that they had been accustomed to and enjoyed and found it harder and harder to find suitable employment. Year after year they hunted for employment and saw an ever decreasing employment market as many of the remaining companies had now gone to contract labor or worse, hired illegals to do the work that many Americans had once done. But it appears that perhaps labor will get the last laugh as there are not enough American's left working and earning an income to be able to buy the very products that are now made in foreign countries at a fraction of the cost that they once were. And what about the foreign labor, they don't earn enough money to buy the very products that they are making.

The Donald , he's in

Donald Trump has announced his candidacy for the office of President of the United States of America. He blasted just about everyone in doing so from his fellow Republican participants to the Democratic hopefuls to Mexico and other countries. The Donald, may/ or not be a good businessman depending on who you talk to , but one thing is clear he has amassed a fortune and would not be beholding to anybody. If America could be run by decree, then having someone like Donald telling the rank and file to just do it or suffer the wrath , then it would be the perfect fix . Unfortunately we have devised a system of Government that requires certain things to happen in order for anything to happen and with the many fixes that have been implemented over the years nothing ever really gets done. King Donald , did I tell you the part about him being a good businessman?

Fathers , brothers and brothers, husbands and wives

Well today came and went for many American's as they went about their jobs, doing whatever it is that they do. Not so for one member of the Bush Dynasty , it's Jebs turn to be king of America and he proudly announced at an afternoon fabrication of reality .Taking his turn at returning America to greatness as he said turning back those unneeded regulations that our environmental protection agency has used repeatedly to stifle growth and to limit America's standing in the worlds market place.He also took shots at the current President, not really knowing that many of the very things that he was holding up as example were brought by his brother or father. 11 members of the Republican party have officially announced their candidacy for the office of President with at least five more waiting in the winds to announce. Each of these American's claiming that they hold all of the answers to America's problems and they alone can solve all of the ills keeping America down.On the other side of the aisle we had another fine American who feels as though the Presidency should just be handed to her , without the pageantry of an official election as she's best qualified to run the show , in her opinion. There are other American's running for the highest office of the land , but you will only hear about them if they do something truly out of the norm. America , the home of the.... does anyone buy that anymore....