August 12, 2013

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  Woke up to rain. It has stopped for the present. I still have two yards to mow, but the grass is wet and there isn’t much wind to help dry it off.

  Charles Koch has been running ads. He is using his hometown as a test area to see if the ads should be presently nationally. Basically, it is an appeal to dump regulations, reduce government, and let the free market make us a great country once again. He states that if you make more than $ 34,000 a year, you are in the top 1% of people in the entire world.

  Here at home, Koch seems unaware of the poverty, the lack of jobs, the crooks who destroyed pensions, savings, property ownership because of the reduction of rules and regulations. He forgets that when there was a freer market – a market that helped form our railroads, for example, the robber barons ruled and the masses had no safety net, and scant means to dig out of the morass.

  As I scanned the paper this week, there were many obituaries and most were for people older than 80. Two were in their 100’s. We are living longer, but if there are not sufficient jobs, incomes, and regulations that encourage people to save for the future without fear that a Supreme Court decision will wipe out their pensions, or banks won’t mismanage their investments, then we may have people living longer, yes, but in poverty.

  We need to do more than listen to politicians who speak eloquently of flag and country and god. I am sick and tired of being ruled by people who believe in sky fairies; people who refuse to understand science and reality.

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