Monthly Archives: January 2012

Jan 28

WARNING TO AVERAGE CITIZEN…..

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RICH DOING FINE; AVERAGE CITIZEN DOING WORSE. BASIC ECONOMICS: GOVERNMENT SPENDS MORE=YOU HAVE MORE; GOVERNMENT SPENDS LESS=YOU GET LESS. WATCH YOUR GOVERNMENT.~mackie

(highlights cited from source below)

 Firing teachers, cops and government clerks will, for sure, reduce public spending. The full economic story begins with this principle taught to every economics student: spending equals income and income equals spending. Cut spending and incomes must fall; cut incomes and spending must fall….

When private spending shrinks, then either government spending must grow to make up for it or the other side of the equation, income, must shrink….By definition, no sovereign government can ever go broke in its own currency…….

NO TO AUSTERITY

The United States government, which has a monopoly on its currency, is $15.2 trillion in debt, roughly the same as the entire output of the economy for a year……. The country was much deeper in debt, relative to the size of the economy, in 1946 than it is today and yet what followed was decades of prosperity. The 1946 debt remains and, after six decades of growth, it is inconsequential.

In Japan, government debt is roughly twice annual economic output and yet the country continues to function because real interest rates are at or below zero….

Austerity budgets, by reducing government spending, will only make incomes fall more. The only way to make incomes rise is to make spending rise, which in the short run means more borrowing by governments to enable more public sector spending…

The people who steered our financial ship into dangerous waters in the first place were at the very top of this group. We should listen more to those will suffer from austerity budgets: children who only get one chance at an education, the sick and disabled unable to support themselves and seniors too old to work.

For much more and a short video click on:

http://blogs.reuters.com/david-cay-johnston/2012/01/27/the-siren-call-of-austerity/

Jan 24

GINGRICH FLUBS FACTS….AGAIN, etc.

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ETCWASHINGTON (AP) — Newt Gingrich called rival Mitt Romney a “terrible historian” but flubbed his own history in Congress on Monday night when he claimed the nation ran four consecutive budget surpluses during his time as House speaker. Romney attacked Gingrich’s financial links to Freddie Mac while ignoring his own.
The accusations were fast out of the gate in the latest Republican presidential debate, and reality got tromped in the process.
A look at some of claims and how they compare with the facts:
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GINGRICH: “When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets.”
THE FACTS: Actually, two.
 
The four straight years of budget surpluses were 1998 through 2001. Gingrich left Congress in 1999, so he only had a hand in surpluses for his last two years. The budget ran deficits for his first two years as speaker.
The highest surplus of that four-year string came in budget year 2000, after Gingrich was out of office.
 
 

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Jan 12

LET’S GET THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS AND BACK IN OUR POCKETS, OK?

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Jan 08

STILL MISSING REVOLUTION OF 2,000 YRS

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If you are seeking for more of the ETERNAL FORCE THAT CREATED AND IS CREATING AND CARING FOR ALL GOOD THINGS THROUGH THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN THIS “ETERNAL SPIRITUAL I AM“, HE IS ALREADY LIVING WITHIN YOU. Some of you are already experiencing it. IF NOT, NEED A VERSE?
 
“Don’t waste your time about when, who, or what may happen; THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HEAVEN, I AM, etc. ALREADY LIVES IN AND THROUGH YOU TO CONTINUE TO LOVE AND CARE FOR ALL CREATION AND THAT WITHIN” (luke 17:21).
 
Also, “But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:17 and ff). We all have doubts. Jesus was human and confused when he asked on the cross: “MY GOD, MY GOD! WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?” Jesus died and went on to be with the Holy Spirit and now lives in us.
 
After 2,000 yrs many people still worship the Bible as the word of God, instead of understanding that the Spirit of God lives within us and wants us to seek His guidance in truth and worship. So, what are we to do? Are we to stay in the first grade with those 66 books as the words of God, or as a history of what the writers thought about who their gods were? No more excuses: We are to sense, feel, seek after the Eternal Spirit in our hearts, not in an outdated misunderstood 66 books. We are now told and sense that the Holy Spirit wants to teach us new things about ourselves and the one and Only true ETERNAL SPIRIT as Jesus has done and wants us to do.
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There has been a shift in many religious groups historically where people followed after a person who was telling them new things about hope that they had never heard before. The true hero kept telling the followers that he was only human, but believed in things never heard before. There crowds grew larger to the point where the people in power saw the hero as a threat to their religion or way of living. They begin following the crowd, questioning this hero whose answers threatened them. So they plotted to kill the hero by using some of his wayward followers to find out his journeys and a proper time to kill him. As the threats increased the hero became afraid and stated that he must leave. But, as usual, the hero waited too long and was slaughtered, stoned, crucified, etc. Of course, the faithful followers began to hide to avoid being murdered. They began to have visions and hear new things about their hero, but to no avail.
 
However, there is one hero that is unique: Jesus. Although he didn’t believe in the divinity of Jesus, Thomas Jefferson believed that the ethical system of Jesus was the finest the world has ever seen.
 
ONE OTHER UNIQUE THING ABOUT JESUS. HE IS THE ONE HERO KNOWN IN HUMAN HISTORY WHO PRAY AT HIS KILLING:
 
“FATHER FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.”
 
 
 
 
To know more about the “ETERNAL I AM” get in a quite space, relax and sense this presence in your breathing, blood flow, your entire body and listen as Jesus and many other Holy people have done and do because:
 
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit,
 
who lives in you and was given to you by God?
 
You do not belong to yourself. 1 Corinthians 6:19
 
Jan 07

RESOLVING THE PAIN IN YOUR LIFE ……….

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WILL CAUSE IT TO GRADUALLY HEAL.  Most important: be aware what’s going on inside of you.  You have the power to heal yourself.  Ever fall and scrape your knee or cut your finger?  Pain: do nothing and it will grow; infection, swelling and more pain will come.  If not taken care of it could infect and consume your whole body.

Being aware of yourself mentally, spiritually and physically is the first step in helping you to take care of your pain and letting it go.

Ever had the pain of someone hurting your feelings?  If you don’t resolve it within yourself it will grow with the unresolved pain you already have leading you to more despair and illness.  Confronting the person who hurt you will not resolve the pain.  He/she will become defensive and come back at you, causing their pain to grow til thank hate you and gossip about you.

 HEAL THYSELF!  Let it go.  THINK OR PRAY:

 ”I can’t heal that SOB (Son or Sister of a hard shell believer?).  I’m turning it over to my Higher Power to let Him/Her deal with that sicko.” 

Now, your wound can heal, you can go on with your life, and later on that criminal may become aware of him/herself, go through his own healing and apologize one day.  NOT YOUR PROBLEM ANYMORE, RIGHT?  You can go on with less pain in your body, mind and soul, whereas he may not become more aware of himself causing his pain body to grow and cause more infection, sadness, and sickness to himself?

“If someone hurts you, dust off your shoes and go on with your life.”  Not even God (or your High Power?) will/can change another person.  More surely, we can’t.  Someone who was being crucified prayed: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”More next time.

Jan 05

ON BEING AWARE OF THE UNSEEN IN AND AROUND US…..

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The more we become aware of our internal being the more we sense the ETERNAL BEING THAT LIVES IN ALL OF US. It’s similar to that feeling we have with a child, a close friend, a pet, etc (someone with whom we have fond feelings).

We have a strong desire to take care of that one just as the ETERNAL ONE wants to take care of us. Just be open to that PRESENCE and day by day you will sense this POWER AND LOVE FOR YOU MORE AND MORE-mackie.

 

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Albert Einstein‘s quip that ‘God does not play dice with the universe’ was about quantum physics, not a statement of faith. But he did ponder the relationship between science and religion and his sense of ‘the order deeply hidden behind everything.’ We explore Einstein’s wisdom on mystery, eternity,…
 
 
 
Jan 05

CORPORATIONS GAINING MORE POWER OVER INDIVIDUALS…….

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“I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one” is flooding the internet.
 
Put simply, a corporation can sell all its assests, pocket the money, hire a new CEO who will down size and declare bankruptcy and leave high and dry. What happens to the employees who had no other skills to find a different job right away? Many lose their homes, assets, pensions funds, family, etc. There are many more reasons. Source cited below. -mackie
 
Just three months after Romney proclaimed that “corporations are people,” he has pledged to ensure that the Supreme Court will continue to share this delusion. During editorial board meeting yesterday, Romney promised that if he is elected, he will model his Supreme Court picks after corporate America’s most favorite justices:
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said if he had the opportunity to appoint a Supreme Court justice he or she would be in the mold of Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts.
“Their approach is the approach I would encourage,” he said. “I would try to find those who would follow the Constitution.
Setting aside the obvious tension between Romney’s promise to appoint justices like Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, or Alito and his promise to appoint justices who will “follow the Constitution,” it’s important to note exactly what Romney is endorsing by supporting these four justices:
 
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