Tinker
I sometimes wonder after listening to my countryman talk about how
they feel like someone living in another world out of the same society that we
are both living in now. And how can that difference in the way we are feeling now be true? And a person who seem to be in another universe telling
me that their reality is totally different then what I am feeling in the real
time that we are living in now. How can that happen to people that we do know
and work around?
Sitting next to each other riding on the same streetcar to
work feeling different about you and I. Wow! It really does matter how we feel
about yourself.
President Barack Obama apparently has been trying to get the
American people to see everything his way. By telling us that he is
transforming the life style of our country Government. That our American
history is just filled with all the bad that our past generations of people are
guilty of, and that he can help us now to be better than they were.
Lord have mercy the good will of a nation who tried to
give a black man a shot at becoming the most powerful man in the world is not
working out for us in the same spirit that we gave it to Barack Obama. And of
course the pigments of his skill color has nothing at all to do with the way we
feel about him now. And I will be glad when he stops talking about what color
other people are and just go away feeling his way, because I don’t feel the way
that he feels at all. So Barack Obama is right that we have sinned and are sinners,
and are far from being perfect in word or deed. That I am unable to redress the
sins of the people who lived before us with the clothes that we now wear today,
is absolute true. And of course impossible to do. What happen then back in the pass is something
that I can’t do anything about now, and is a part of history forever.
And I am very disappointed with someone who keep trying to
make me pay for something that I had nothing to do with then now and I don’t believe
that we need to be perfect in order to get along with each other in gratitude
and appreciation. That I would rather be good if I can live up to that feeling
as best I can.
So now in fact I feel betrayed by President Barack Obama in
the spirit I gave him my vote, what about you?
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Insight
Defining
failure down: We've made slow growth seem normal
By George Will
Published Feb. 5, 2015
Traders work the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Two phrases that Daniel Patrick Moynihan put into America's
political lexicon two decades ago are increasingly pertinent. They explain the
insufficient dismay about recent economic numbers.
Moynihan said that when deviant behaviors — e.g., violent
crime, or births to unmarried women — reach a certain level, society soothes
itself by "defining deviancy down." It de-stigmatizes the behaviors
by declaring them normal. And sometimes, Moynihan said, social problems are the
result of "iatrogenic government." In medicine, an iatrogenic ailment
is inadvertently induced by a physician or medicine; in social policy,
iatrogenic problems are caused by government.
When the economy grew by just 2.6 percent in 2014's fourth
quarter, the New York Times headline cheerfully said "Economy Pulls Ahead."
The story said the U.S. economy is "an island of relative strength"
in a world facing "renewed torpor and turmoil." This was defining
failure down.
The Wall Street Journal said "U.S. Economy Hits Speed
Bumps," as though speedy growth had been normal for a while. The speeding
had consisted of one quarter (2014's third) of 5 percent growth. But the
economy had gone 43 consecutive quarters without 5 percent growth, the longest
such period since the government began keeping the pertinent records in 1947.
And even with this third quarter, growth for 2014 was just 2.4 percent, making
this the ninth consecutive year under 3 percent. During the recovery from the
recession of 1981-1982, there were five quarters of 7 percent or higher growth,
and five years averaged 4.6 percent growth.
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.
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