Sometimes our defense dept. should just sit on de fence.

Shouldn’t the defense department of the USA  be used for the defense of the USA?. It seems unreasonable to use our military to defend other nations or semi-nations that are in civil wars; when that action leaves us vulnerable to attack at home. Vulnerable, that is to say, susceptible to attack by depleting our resources, sacrificing our young men and women’s futures and weakening our economy. Ultimately we may encourage a stronger aggressor to test our defenses at home. We need to stop intervening in the foreign affairs that do not directly involve us. We need to stop irrationalizing or falsely justifying our actions just because yesterday we were strong enough to do so.  Today most of these involvements are indefensible.

Economics 101 or stop the rationalization

                Let’s clean up our own back yard before we start on our neighbors.

How can we afford to build roads, bridges and dams in Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world but not have the funds to do it in Texas, New York, Nevada and the rest of our country? Well the answer is we CAN NOT! The real cost of a project in a foreign country is far more that it appears to be. If we spend one million dollars abroad we have lost that one million dollars (plus the interest we pay China for the cash). However,  if we spend that money in the U.S.A. It cost us nothing. The logic is this; “ What happens in Vegas (or any USA city) stays in Vegas.”   That is not all. We have lost the jobs, the profits to American suppliers and the taxes that feed money back to the government. Spend it on foreign soil and our economy is bled. Spend it at home and it is nourished. We can stop this drain of our nation’s wealth (i.e. your wealth and your children’s wealth.) only If our representatives listen to our collective voice. We should write, call or visit our representatives in government so they know how to represent us.  Our own back yard needs help so let’s start at home before we work on the rest of the world.

Why are people more SEXually active....

Why are people more SEXually active today, than they are politically active?

People are dying to have _  _  _      No, I mean really dying to live in a democracy and some of America’s young men and women are still dying today. We enjoy the opportunity to provide guidance to our leaders without having to physically remove them from positions of power. Opportunity is only of value if it is used. Here are some questions I asked myself about how I am using my opportunity to exercise my freedom.    Am I politically active?

Do I make an informed vote in every election?

Do I vote at every opportunity not just for president?

Am I a party member or attend party meetings?   

Do I know who my precinct chairperson is?

Have I ever been to a precinct meeting on Election Day?

Have I ever been to a precinct meeting on any Day?

Have I ever served as a delegate or alternate at a state or national convention?

Have I ever visited my State or Federal congressman or Senators office?

Have I ever written an op-ed article or letter to the editor?

Do I belong to any group that funds lobbyist and if YES do I always agree with them?

Can I discuss issues with friends or family and recognize their right to differ without getting emotional?

Am I happy with the political decisions that I have not had a voice in?

Am I politically active?

Improving education

Just a thought: Our education system today fails to identify the passion and talent within the child. If the education system could do that early and then provide a learning road for the child’s self motivation to lead him/her on, our country would have a lot more successes. Knowledge can be acquired either inductively or deductively. Those people that tend to be Generalist (i.e. Mgr.s, Director, Supervisors etc.) learn academically, that is to say deductively, big picture first people. Some though have God given talents or interests that allow them to be Specialist; they are better served by allowing their motivation to learni to progress along the path of their interest. All knowledge is interrelated so either direction leads to the maximum information that a mind can absorb.

With the ever increasing complexity of our society we need better educated Generalist and   Specialist, but the education system we have today is short changing the future of both. To improve the system we should not ask those that have made the best out of it, as it is, but ask those that have succeeded in spite of it. We do not have to search far to find them. Drop Outs are leading successes everywhere. Here are a few with whom to start your own list:

S. Daniel Abraham, billionaire founder of Slim-Fast.

Roman Abramovich, richest man in Russia, billionaire.

Ansel Adams, photographer.

Sheldon Adelson, billionaire casino owner.

Ferran Adria, chef. Has been called the world's greatest chef

Ben Affleck, actor, screenwriter.

Miguel Adrover, fashion designer.

Andre Agassi, tennis player, winner of 8 Grand Slam titles.

Christina Aguilera, singer, songwriter

Dennis Albaugh, billionaire founder of pesticide company Albaugh Inc.

Woody Allen, screenwriter, actor, director, and producer.

Wally “Famous” Amos, multimillionaire cookie entrepreneur

Julie Andrews, Oscar-winning actress

Louis Armstrong, jazz musician

Eddy Arnold, country music singer

Cliff Arquette, aka Charlie Weaver. Comedian

John Jacob Astor, multimillionaire businessmanGene Autry, singing cowboy, actor, songwriter, producer, businessman, author, baseball team owner. High school dropout.

THESE ARE JUST A FEW DROP OUTS THAT NAMES START WITH AN “A” FOR A SLIGHTLY LONGER LIST GO TO http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/