Perfectly stated! While my bonuses were not in the same category as these elites, I requested that my production bonus be split with my workers. I took half and the rest was distributed to the crew. The rest of upper management though t I was some kind of nut. It's funny how that crew consistently broke all kinds of production records. My fellow managers still didn't get it. Try treating your people with some acknowledgement for your accomplishments which are in reality their accomplishments. Demand perfection but don't forget to reward it. It was bad enough to be paying substandard wages to University grads who out of desperation took labour jobs but that was what the job paid as it was the bottom of the ladder. Several of these young men climbed the ladder into management and it was through their own hard work. I also made it a practice to go out and do all of the same jobs that they did. How else do you understand and improve their conditions. Sadly, when we were bought out by a multinational it all came to an end. I quit in protest and disgust. I have no regrets over that decision.
I would be an old bag lady living under a bridge right now had it not been for my legs and youth that attracted my husband to me, the man I chose to be my husband, who I knew had wealth. He is deceased now, but when I met him I honestly did not love him or really cared for him, I only wanted the security that came in exchange for the times he made sex to me. I had a change of heart after we had a couple kids, I honestly loved him, it took about seven years for me to fall in love with him. He was good to me and wasn't a pervert. He was a good man for over forty years. My kids were definitely born on third base, and I often remind them when they try and insinuate otherwise. My poor parents died penniless when I was a young lady. They had nothing as they were farm laborers. This story reminds me to give more away to those around me who don't have, I am not going to take any of it with me, and my kids definitely don't need that much, they have more now than I ever had at their age. Thanks to my husband I guess we were and are better off than most people, but I never forgot where I came from.
You refer to it as crony-capitalism but you have been living under communism your whole life and don't know anything different. That tells me you are still confused.
Google the Communist Manifesto. Get past all the BS that is there just to confound and confuse you. Learn the 10 planks of communism which are all in effect here in the USA.
When you understand them you will see that they are all implemented by government. Communism would not exist without government and government (what we think of as government) would not exist.
Government is a Satanic religion run by the Synagogue of Satan. Their goal is world control. How do you achieve world control? You use government, govern equals control, mente equals mind; mind control.
Now look at the main Masonic symbol of the dividers, G, and the framing square. Dividers for divide and conquer, framing square to frame your opponents, and a G for Government to accomplish your objectives. Realize that Masons set up 'our government'. Freemasonry has been described as Judaism for Christians. Do you now understand who the enemy is?
It's always been a rigged game in America, but its gotten way worse in the last 40 years. I too, knew someone who was a cashier at Safeway...in 1979, my best friend's boyfriend (he was the first person I knew to have the latest expensive consumer toy of the day - a VCR). That year the Safeway company banquet happened to fall on my birthday, so he invited both of us as his guests. The fact that employees could invite guests, shows how generous Safeway was back then. What struck me about the banquet was how egalitarian it was...cashiers and management all dining together. I'm sure that all passed away before the nineties began.
I started reading obituaries carefully in 1993. As an astrologer, I hoped it would give me clues about what was going on for people up above, when they died (it helped a lot). However, I got another lesson I was not expecting...how there was basically no class movement in American lives. Folks who were going to expensive private schools and living in high class neighborhoods as a child, were having their wakes at the country club...and the opposite for everyone else.
Donald, I'm a bit surprised that you no-longer know anyone in the massive bottom layer. Every honest study that has ever been done, shows that the single biggest factor in a country with a thriving middle-class, is strict limits to immigration. I've only ever known working class folks, and I can tell you who used to do the landscaping and construction jobs ...boys just out of highschool who weren't (or were waiting) to go to college. I have a lot of immigrant friends, and they are finally getting a slap in the face about the non-existent "American dream"...as they struggle to pay their rent, and have to walk through homeless camps on their way to the store where they can barely afford groceries. As America 2.0 is being deliberately taken down...the blinders are coming off for the starry-eyed migrants who have been here a while. Meanwhile, for the starry-eyed dupes in every poor country, staring at their smart phones all day...the non-existent American dream is on steroids.
"Immigration is unquestionably the main reason for the drop in real blue-collar wages, and the virtual elimination of meaningful benefits."
Sorry Don, but you are terribly off the mark here. But first, let us look at what built "America 1.0"- The Post WW2 Crony Capitalism Boom.
Can you say "Military Industrial Complex"?
Once upon a time, about the year, say 1945, vast stretches of the world lay completely in ruins. Germany, France, England, Italy, and Japan, in particular, had been economic powers who combined accounted for 72% of the global economic output in 1938, and had been essentially bombed back into the stone age. Meanwhile, the United States, untouched by the war, had expanded industry by a whopping 500%. After the war, Jane Doe went back to the kitchen, and the returning doughboys filled the assembly lines. And instead of building bombers they built commercial planes, and instead of building tanks they built cars that were shipped to every corner of the globe. It would take years for Toyota and Mercedes and Fiat to make a comeback. Some companies, like Rolls-Royce, never really did. Detroit in particular made immense profits, and I will pick on Detroit in particular to point to the reasons for the decline.
The fact that the United States now had the Global Reserve Currency, which replaced the Pound Sterling and the Turkish Bezant, did not hurt either. The United States inherited the empires of both British Petroleum in the Middle East and Dutch Royal Shell in the Far East, and got to profit by rebuilding both Europe and Japan.
In effect, the world was paying tribute to the American Empire, which, like Rome of old, developed a subsidiary economy off of that wealth- the service sector.
All of this started to fold up and collapse like a house of cards in the late 1950's early 1960's, as Europe and Japan began to compete in the global export market, especially in the areas of durable goods. And the fact that the quality of American labor declined precipitously in the 1960's, thanks to bloated pay, corrupt management, and plain incompetence, did not help either. Nor, of course, did the overall decline of morals- particularly those pertaining to Holy Matrimony, help either.
All of that being said, America would get another proverbial shot in the arm with the dawn of OPEC and the Petrodollar, a rigged system which forced nations to buy oil and the ubiquitous plastic goods in dollars and so ensure the prosperity of the "American Securities Market" for two generations to come.
But beginning in the 1970's, American industry would be gutted like a fat pig. A combination of tax hikes, government regulations, and bloating "health care" costs did the trick, and by the late 1970's a MASSIVE exodus of manufacturing to overseas facilities was taking place, first to Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Formosa- also known as Taiwan- and then to mainland China, thanks to Henry Kissenger.
America underwent the transformation from an "industrial" to a "service" economy. (Notice, of course, that agriculture never recovered its dominant role in the American economy it had had previous to World War I. "Farm subsidies" and "Health regulations" took care of that. Matt Walsh, like all controlled shills, never talks about restoring the "free market" of the family farm.) But those "service jobs" did not pay as well, because the "service economy" had to deal with bloated bureaucracy at all levels.
And so, all during the '80's, the medical racket, the legal racket, and the insurance rackets bloated to incredible levels. Subsidiaries of these were the Hospitality Racket and the Travel Racket. And concurrently, gov't at all levels bloated too.
Gov't subsidies and ballooning debt led to the ongoing party that was the '90's, which continued until that fateful day in September 2008, when the punchbowl went dry and many Americans had an epiphany.
But, apparently, not enough of an epiphany, as 2020 proved.
Lastly, may this Wolf humbly point out that some of those "immigrants" that are likely to do mayhem when it all hits the fan- which could be any day now- are those who lost much when we were delivering Democracy and Freedom to Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and, more lately, Ukraine and Crimea.
Mondays are Hell.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!
I was an "entrepreneur" for many years and finally folded it all because my clients increasingly thought as the years passed that trying to force me into accepting an assignment for very little money was "good business". All under the threat they could hire someone who knew nothing about the work involved for much less. This not only denigrated the skills it took to do the job well, skills I had accumulated over many year of experience, but also forced me to either accept the low ball payment that I couldn't live on or cheat and give the client an inferior product for the low pay.
It simply wasn't worth it. So when young people say they don't see a future in any of this, I agree because there isn't one.
Also, I want to be clear about the "open borders". I lived in Texas for many years. There has always been an "open border" that no one spoke of. The entire state of Texas was built by impoverished illegals who will live in conditions no animal would tolerate just to make a little money to send back to Mexico. Walk in ANY restaurant in Texas and you will find illegal workers everywhere. There are multitudes of other industries that always employ illegals. It's a way of life in Texas. Texas has built itself on the backs of impoverished illegals. What's happening now is a psyop and Gov. Abbott is a playa. Beware. Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
I'm afraid it's beyond hope at this point. The patient is stage four terminal, or has probably already
died and been resurrected like Frankenstein's monster. I mean it must be that over half of the entire
economy is built on artificial demand. Take the Covid whackzinnes for instance, they must have produced 20 billion doses of that toxic substance when in fact zero doses was needed, not to mention the ventilators, the test kits, the ridiculous masks, the antibiotic hand sanitizers, and the list goes on...
Then we could look at the ridiculous net zero policies. You can't give away a used EV because it costs more to change out the batteries or dispose of it than it's worth. Whole counties are being converted to wind and solar farms, likewise, out to sea, monstrous windmills are erected the size of which is unimaginable with the hopes of catching some wind,, not too much though or the utility gets paid for
turning them OFF, and Siemens just made us aware that those turbines are kind of well obsolescent, and the bigger they are and the more remote (like out to sea) the more difficult it is to replace them.
Well, who could have seen THAT coming!?
And even worse is the artificial demand of the wars, and like Don mentioned the not-so-intelligent intelligence agencies, my God talk about raping and pillaging, Attila the Hun would be astounded.
It's all artificial economics. This kind of thing competes with the organic economy. Just one more example, NASA needed 37,000 truckloads of sand just to build a berm along Cape Kennedy to help
prevent flooding events. I'm pretty sure that if you lived in Orlando the cost of getting a load of sand probably went up while they were hauling it all out to sea.
So, then the problem arises that since all these artificial jobs have been created, the elimination of any of them creates a bust cycle in the local economies. Try to close a base, or stop an arms program, or stop selling weapons, or selling drugs, and the local economy is like a fish out of water.
Karl Marx ripped of his 10 planks of the communist manifesto from Moses Hess, a rabbi like himself though of the preceding generation. These planks have been embedded into the fabric of American society and canonized in American law since the early part of the 20th century. Capitalism is the mother bitch that spawned communism, and both of those abominations are the antithesis of National Socialism. To attain great wealth, and I mean billionaire status, one must be connected to the Controller's network via bloodlines and/or secret society affiliation. No one through hard work "earns" billions of dollars. That's like saying, with hard training, you can pole vault across the Grand Canyon. Those with the family ties always wind up at the apex of their category, be it entertainment (which includes politics), high finance/banking, the legal industry, or military, military Intell, or so-called "law enforcement." Simply put, it's all fixed and rigged, a great game in which we proles are ruthlessly excluded from. Thanks, but I wouldn't join your club even on invitation. When the dust finally settles, it just ain't worth it. Thanks for a great piece, Don.
Back in the 80's it was possible to learn on the job and work your way up without a college degree, which is what I and most of my friends did. I did attend community college on a pell grant without finishing. Young people today do not have the same opportunities my generation had. I really feel for them.
“…Donald Trump wasn’t alone in being born on third base, and thinking he’d hit a home run. One could argue that nearly all the most successful people in the world were born on third base, or at least second base.”
This reminds me of the not-so-great baseball player, Bob Uecker, who only played 6 years in the majors with a lifetime batting average of just .200. He is far better known for his broadcasting career, as well as his acting career (Mr. Belvedere and Major League). He was a catcher, known for arguing calls by the home plate umpire. Always self-deprecating, Bob tells the story of him being interviewed by a sports journalist and asked a hypothetical question: “You’re on third base and you decide to steal home. You slide into home plate and the umpire calls you SAFE. Are you going to argue the call?” Bob’s reply, “how’d I get on third?”
That’s the question none of those privileged people ask. I don’t think I would have even gotten to first base if I didn’t get hit by a pitch.
DJ: My parents generation did get rewarded in a meritocracy. Perhaps this was just a Midwestern phenomena.
My parents came from nothing in Minneapolis. When I was born in 1952, my parents lived in a converted garage with a leaky roof and a defective oil heater. They lived on tuna fish and popcorn.
But they both worked hard. My parents also took risks. My Dad was on the road as a salesman half of the year. Mom raised us kids on her own. They moved often as Dad moved his way up the corporate ladder. Sales performance can't be hidden by the bosses. Bonuses based upon sales are paid or else the salesman moves to another company.
My parents moved from Minneapolis to Lacrosse to Green Bay to Milwaukee to Cleveland to Lincoln to Mendham, NJ to Kansas City. They became experts at moving. Us kids went to so many different schools that we've lost count of them.
The final job in KC was the riskiest one of all. The company stock was worth $1/share. My Dad, as Chief Operating Officer, was tasked with turning the company around. The job hurt his health. He gained weight and became pale as he labored long hours cleaning up the product line and the books of the company. He found good products to sell and good salesman. He had five other executives in the company who all worked together from production to sales to personnel to product development to finance. They called themselves "The Six-Pack".
And they did it! The stock price went up. It was the most successful company in the USA in the 1980s. The owner of the company became a billionaire. He owned the KC Royals baseball team. The owner was also willing to share the wealth with the associates. They all received stock in the company as part of their pay. If they held onto the stock, even the janitors became millionaires.
The company was efficient. People who didn't do the work were fired. In the company 1,000 associates created $1 billion in sales. The company that eventually bought up my Dad's company had 3,000 employees for $1 billion in sales.
DJ may well be right that this path to success is no longer available in the USA. But it was once.
A real money system to replace the global money cabal is in need for sure. The United States is designed to be self sufficient and we really don't need foreign trade survive...prosper yes, survive no. The whole world is aware of the Zionist control system and to make a lasting change that whole house needs to be destroyed. Preferably before they destroy us.
I remember back in 1974 when I started my first full-time job, I didn't have any particular set of skills, being fresh out of high school. My neighbor lady had a friend who worked for a large corporation and an interview was setup and it went from there. Back then, you could get into a company via a recommendation. I worked my way up, somewhat, in the company. If you showed a willingness to do the job, learn new skills, and were reliable, you were a keeper. Of course, being on the lower end of the employment spectrum, raises were a pittance. One had to bow down and kiss the arse of the royal boss for chicken droppings. I witnessed in the early 80s how the company sold million dollar equipment to China and I asked the sales guys, "How can China afford those big expensive mining shovels? They're a 3rd world country!" Their faces turned red and they didn't answer me. Back then, we had good insurance coverage. The shop people had a Union and I remember a couple of times when they went on strike. That company ended up being sold a few times over now because one President totally mismanaged the family run business. Basically bilking the company but of course, never ended up in prison. The rich never do. Back before I was hired, the original owner used to walk thru the shop and say hello to ALL the workers. You do not get that kind of treatment any longer. Not unless you're very small. Companies want you to have a degree just to sharpen pencils. And the BS about being "over qualified". Who cares, as long as a person has the willingness to do the job and will agree to the terms of pay. Well, the young can find jobs at Amazon, but I guarantee they'll work you to death and if you make a couple of mistakes, you're back out on the streets.
Perfectly stated! While my bonuses were not in the same category as these elites, I requested that my production bonus be split with my workers. I took half and the rest was distributed to the crew. The rest of upper management though t I was some kind of nut. It's funny how that crew consistently broke all kinds of production records. My fellow managers still didn't get it. Try treating your people with some acknowledgement for your accomplishments which are in reality their accomplishments. Demand perfection but don't forget to reward it. It was bad enough to be paying substandard wages to University grads who out of desperation took labour jobs but that was what the job paid as it was the bottom of the ladder. Several of these young men climbed the ladder into management and it was through their own hard work. I also made it a practice to go out and do all of the same jobs that they did. How else do you understand and improve their conditions. Sadly, when we were bought out by a multinational it all came to an end. I quit in protest and disgust. I have no regrets over that decision.
I would be an old bag lady living under a bridge right now had it not been for my legs and youth that attracted my husband to me, the man I chose to be my husband, who I knew had wealth. He is deceased now, but when I met him I honestly did not love him or really cared for him, I only wanted the security that came in exchange for the times he made sex to me. I had a change of heart after we had a couple kids, I honestly loved him, it took about seven years for me to fall in love with him. He was good to me and wasn't a pervert. He was a good man for over forty years. My kids were definitely born on third base, and I often remind them when they try and insinuate otherwise. My poor parents died penniless when I was a young lady. They had nothing as they were farm laborers. This story reminds me to give more away to those around me who don't have, I am not going to take any of it with me, and my kids definitely don't need that much, they have more now than I ever had at their age. Thanks to my husband I guess we were and are better off than most people, but I never forgot where I came from.
You refer to it as crony-capitalism but you have been living under communism your whole life and don't know anything different. That tells me you are still confused.
Google the Communist Manifesto. Get past all the BS that is there just to confound and confuse you. Learn the 10 planks of communism which are all in effect here in the USA.
When you understand them you will see that they are all implemented by government. Communism would not exist without government and government (what we think of as government) would not exist.
Government is a Satanic religion run by the Synagogue of Satan. Their goal is world control. How do you achieve world control? You use government, govern equals control, mente equals mind; mind control.
Now look at the main Masonic symbol of the dividers, G, and the framing square. Dividers for divide and conquer, framing square to frame your opponents, and a G for Government to accomplish your objectives. Realize that Masons set up 'our government'. Freemasonry has been described as Judaism for Christians. Do you now understand who the enemy is?
It's always been a rigged game in America, but its gotten way worse in the last 40 years. I too, knew someone who was a cashier at Safeway...in 1979, my best friend's boyfriend (he was the first person I knew to have the latest expensive consumer toy of the day - a VCR). That year the Safeway company banquet happened to fall on my birthday, so he invited both of us as his guests. The fact that employees could invite guests, shows how generous Safeway was back then. What struck me about the banquet was how egalitarian it was...cashiers and management all dining together. I'm sure that all passed away before the nineties began.
I started reading obituaries carefully in 1993. As an astrologer, I hoped it would give me clues about what was going on for people up above, when they died (it helped a lot). However, I got another lesson I was not expecting...how there was basically no class movement in American lives. Folks who were going to expensive private schools and living in high class neighborhoods as a child, were having their wakes at the country club...and the opposite for everyone else.
Donald, I'm a bit surprised that you no-longer know anyone in the massive bottom layer. Every honest study that has ever been done, shows that the single biggest factor in a country with a thriving middle-class, is strict limits to immigration. I've only ever known working class folks, and I can tell you who used to do the landscaping and construction jobs ...boys just out of highschool who weren't (or were waiting) to go to college. I have a lot of immigrant friends, and they are finally getting a slap in the face about the non-existent "American dream"...as they struggle to pay their rent, and have to walk through homeless camps on their way to the store where they can barely afford groceries. As America 2.0 is being deliberately taken down...the blinders are coming off for the starry-eyed migrants who have been here a while. Meanwhile, for the starry-eyed dupes in every poor country, staring at their smart phones all day...the non-existent American dream is on steroids.
"Immigration is unquestionably the main reason for the drop in real blue-collar wages, and the virtual elimination of meaningful benefits."
Sorry Don, but you are terribly off the mark here. But first, let us look at what built "America 1.0"- The Post WW2 Crony Capitalism Boom.
Can you say "Military Industrial Complex"?
Once upon a time, about the year, say 1945, vast stretches of the world lay completely in ruins. Germany, France, England, Italy, and Japan, in particular, had been economic powers who combined accounted for 72% of the global economic output in 1938, and had been essentially bombed back into the stone age. Meanwhile, the United States, untouched by the war, had expanded industry by a whopping 500%. After the war, Jane Doe went back to the kitchen, and the returning doughboys filled the assembly lines. And instead of building bombers they built commercial planes, and instead of building tanks they built cars that were shipped to every corner of the globe. It would take years for Toyota and Mercedes and Fiat to make a comeback. Some companies, like Rolls-Royce, never really did. Detroit in particular made immense profits, and I will pick on Detroit in particular to point to the reasons for the decline.
The fact that the United States now had the Global Reserve Currency, which replaced the Pound Sterling and the Turkish Bezant, did not hurt either. The United States inherited the empires of both British Petroleum in the Middle East and Dutch Royal Shell in the Far East, and got to profit by rebuilding both Europe and Japan.
In effect, the world was paying tribute to the American Empire, which, like Rome of old, developed a subsidiary economy off of that wealth- the service sector.
All of this started to fold up and collapse like a house of cards in the late 1950's early 1960's, as Europe and Japan began to compete in the global export market, especially in the areas of durable goods. And the fact that the quality of American labor declined precipitously in the 1960's, thanks to bloated pay, corrupt management, and plain incompetence, did not help either. Nor, of course, did the overall decline of morals- particularly those pertaining to Holy Matrimony, help either.
All of that being said, America would get another proverbial shot in the arm with the dawn of OPEC and the Petrodollar, a rigged system which forced nations to buy oil and the ubiquitous plastic goods in dollars and so ensure the prosperity of the "American Securities Market" for two generations to come.
But beginning in the 1970's, American industry would be gutted like a fat pig. A combination of tax hikes, government regulations, and bloating "health care" costs did the trick, and by the late 1970's a MASSIVE exodus of manufacturing to overseas facilities was taking place, first to Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Formosa- also known as Taiwan- and then to mainland China, thanks to Henry Kissenger.
America underwent the transformation from an "industrial" to a "service" economy. (Notice, of course, that agriculture never recovered its dominant role in the American economy it had had previous to World War I. "Farm subsidies" and "Health regulations" took care of that. Matt Walsh, like all controlled shills, never talks about restoring the "free market" of the family farm.) But those "service jobs" did not pay as well, because the "service economy" had to deal with bloated bureaucracy at all levels.
And so, all during the '80's, the medical racket, the legal racket, and the insurance rackets bloated to incredible levels. Subsidiaries of these were the Hospitality Racket and the Travel Racket. And concurrently, gov't at all levels bloated too.
Gov't subsidies and ballooning debt led to the ongoing party that was the '90's, which continued until that fateful day in September 2008, when the punchbowl went dry and many Americans had an epiphany.
But, apparently, not enough of an epiphany, as 2020 proved.
Lastly, may this Wolf humbly point out that some of those "immigrants" that are likely to do mayhem when it all hits the fan- which could be any day now- are those who lost much when we were delivering Democracy and Freedom to Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and, more lately, Ukraine and Crimea.
Mondays are Hell.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us. You are our only hope!
Excellent article. Thank you.
I was an "entrepreneur" for many years and finally folded it all because my clients increasingly thought as the years passed that trying to force me into accepting an assignment for very little money was "good business". All under the threat they could hire someone who knew nothing about the work involved for much less. This not only denigrated the skills it took to do the job well, skills I had accumulated over many year of experience, but also forced me to either accept the low ball payment that I couldn't live on or cheat and give the client an inferior product for the low pay.
It simply wasn't worth it. So when young people say they don't see a future in any of this, I agree because there isn't one.
Also, I want to be clear about the "open borders". I lived in Texas for many years. There has always been an "open border" that no one spoke of. The entire state of Texas was built by impoverished illegals who will live in conditions no animal would tolerate just to make a little money to send back to Mexico. Walk in ANY restaurant in Texas and you will find illegal workers everywhere. There are multitudes of other industries that always employ illegals. It's a way of life in Texas. Texas has built itself on the backs of impoverished illegals. What's happening now is a psyop and Gov. Abbott is a playa. Beware. Don't drink the Kool-Aid.
I'm afraid it's beyond hope at this point. The patient is stage four terminal, or has probably already
died and been resurrected like Frankenstein's monster. I mean it must be that over half of the entire
economy is built on artificial demand. Take the Covid whackzinnes for instance, they must have produced 20 billion doses of that toxic substance when in fact zero doses was needed, not to mention the ventilators, the test kits, the ridiculous masks, the antibiotic hand sanitizers, and the list goes on...
Then we could look at the ridiculous net zero policies. You can't give away a used EV because it costs more to change out the batteries or dispose of it than it's worth. Whole counties are being converted to wind and solar farms, likewise, out to sea, monstrous windmills are erected the size of which is unimaginable with the hopes of catching some wind,, not too much though or the utility gets paid for
turning them OFF, and Siemens just made us aware that those turbines are kind of well obsolescent, and the bigger they are and the more remote (like out to sea) the more difficult it is to replace them.
Well, who could have seen THAT coming!?
And even worse is the artificial demand of the wars, and like Don mentioned the not-so-intelligent intelligence agencies, my God talk about raping and pillaging, Attila the Hun would be astounded.
It's all artificial economics. This kind of thing competes with the organic economy. Just one more example, NASA needed 37,000 truckloads of sand just to build a berm along Cape Kennedy to help
prevent flooding events. I'm pretty sure that if you lived in Orlando the cost of getting a load of sand probably went up while they were hauling it all out to sea.
So, then the problem arises that since all these artificial jobs have been created, the elimination of any of them creates a bust cycle in the local economies. Try to close a base, or stop an arms program, or stop selling weapons, or selling drugs, and the local economy is like a fish out of water.
The monster IS ALIVE!
Karl Marx ripped of his 10 planks of the communist manifesto from Moses Hess, a rabbi like himself though of the preceding generation. These planks have been embedded into the fabric of American society and canonized in American law since the early part of the 20th century. Capitalism is the mother bitch that spawned communism, and both of those abominations are the antithesis of National Socialism. To attain great wealth, and I mean billionaire status, one must be connected to the Controller's network via bloodlines and/or secret society affiliation. No one through hard work "earns" billions of dollars. That's like saying, with hard training, you can pole vault across the Grand Canyon. Those with the family ties always wind up at the apex of their category, be it entertainment (which includes politics), high finance/banking, the legal industry, or military, military Intell, or so-called "law enforcement." Simply put, it's all fixed and rigged, a great game in which we proles are ruthlessly excluded from. Thanks, but I wouldn't join your club even on invitation. When the dust finally settles, it just ain't worth it. Thanks for a great piece, Don.
Back in the 80's it was possible to learn on the job and work your way up without a college degree, which is what I and most of my friends did. I did attend community college on a pell grant without finishing. Young people today do not have the same opportunities my generation had. I really feel for them.
As a millenial with no money who also lives with their parents, I thank you for writing this valuable piece Don.
Great Article!
“…Donald Trump wasn’t alone in being born on third base, and thinking he’d hit a home run. One could argue that nearly all the most successful people in the world were born on third base, or at least second base.”
This reminds me of the not-so-great baseball player, Bob Uecker, who only played 6 years in the majors with a lifetime batting average of just .200. He is far better known for his broadcasting career, as well as his acting career (Mr. Belvedere and Major League). He was a catcher, known for arguing calls by the home plate umpire. Always self-deprecating, Bob tells the story of him being interviewed by a sports journalist and asked a hypothetical question: “You’re on third base and you decide to steal home. You slide into home plate and the umpire calls you SAFE. Are you going to argue the call?” Bob’s reply, “how’d I get on third?”
That’s the question none of those privileged people ask. I don’t think I would have even gotten to first base if I didn’t get hit by a pitch.
DJ: My parents generation did get rewarded in a meritocracy. Perhaps this was just a Midwestern phenomena.
My parents came from nothing in Minneapolis. When I was born in 1952, my parents lived in a converted garage with a leaky roof and a defective oil heater. They lived on tuna fish and popcorn.
But they both worked hard. My parents also took risks. My Dad was on the road as a salesman half of the year. Mom raised us kids on her own. They moved often as Dad moved his way up the corporate ladder. Sales performance can't be hidden by the bosses. Bonuses based upon sales are paid or else the salesman moves to another company.
My parents moved from Minneapolis to Lacrosse to Green Bay to Milwaukee to Cleveland to Lincoln to Mendham, NJ to Kansas City. They became experts at moving. Us kids went to so many different schools that we've lost count of them.
The final job in KC was the riskiest one of all. The company stock was worth $1/share. My Dad, as Chief Operating Officer, was tasked with turning the company around. The job hurt his health. He gained weight and became pale as he labored long hours cleaning up the product line and the books of the company. He found good products to sell and good salesman. He had five other executives in the company who all worked together from production to sales to personnel to product development to finance. They called themselves "The Six-Pack".
And they did it! The stock price went up. It was the most successful company in the USA in the 1980s. The owner of the company became a billionaire. He owned the KC Royals baseball team. The owner was also willing to share the wealth with the associates. They all received stock in the company as part of their pay. If they held onto the stock, even the janitors became millionaires.
The company was efficient. People who didn't do the work were fired. In the company 1,000 associates created $1 billion in sales. The company that eventually bought up my Dad's company had 3,000 employees for $1 billion in sales.
DJ may well be right that this path to success is no longer available in the USA. But it was once.
A real money system to replace the global money cabal is in need for sure. The United States is designed to be self sufficient and we really don't need foreign trade survive...prosper yes, survive no. The whole world is aware of the Zionist control system and to make a lasting change that whole house needs to be destroyed. Preferably before they destroy us.
I remember back in 1974 when I started my first full-time job, I didn't have any particular set of skills, being fresh out of high school. My neighbor lady had a friend who worked for a large corporation and an interview was setup and it went from there. Back then, you could get into a company via a recommendation. I worked my way up, somewhat, in the company. If you showed a willingness to do the job, learn new skills, and were reliable, you were a keeper. Of course, being on the lower end of the employment spectrum, raises were a pittance. One had to bow down and kiss the arse of the royal boss for chicken droppings. I witnessed in the early 80s how the company sold million dollar equipment to China and I asked the sales guys, "How can China afford those big expensive mining shovels? They're a 3rd world country!" Their faces turned red and they didn't answer me. Back then, we had good insurance coverage. The shop people had a Union and I remember a couple of times when they went on strike. That company ended up being sold a few times over now because one President totally mismanaged the family run business. Basically bilking the company but of course, never ended up in prison. The rich never do. Back before I was hired, the original owner used to walk thru the shop and say hello to ALL the workers. You do not get that kind of treatment any longer. Not unless you're very small. Companies want you to have a degree just to sharpen pencils. And the BS about being "over qualified". Who cares, as long as a person has the willingness to do the job and will agree to the terms of pay. Well, the young can find jobs at Amazon, but I guarantee they'll work you to death and if you make a couple of mistakes, you're back out on the streets.
American elites are heading for a massive social revolution.