As long as there are people alive to think it - they say it - doomsayers and prophets are abundant. Crackpots one and all! Well add another crackpot - Me! After 63 years on this planet I'm convinced of a few things - if the world were coming to an end - we wouldn't know it OR we [...]

Charity begins at home and the earth is our home. For those of us more fortunate than others in our town, city, state, country and the world at large - charity is more than a tax deduction or something that feeds your ego. Think about who is behind everything you consume. The last persons on the totem [...]

To those of us who support our President - the fact that he is wrong or right is not as important as the fact that he is leading our nation in the right direction. Our President is patient, determined, thoughtful and steadfast - neither the DOW nor FOX nor the dissenting voices shall deter him [...]

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The Dow Jones is not important. The fact that it is going down is because it should go down. Stocks have been over priced for a long, long time - and they had stopped becoming investments and started becoming bets. Even mutual funds managers who were entrusted with small amounts of money from millions of [...]

Capitalism has nothing to do with democratic freedom. It is an economic ideology. Socialism is an economic ideology as well and both capitalism and socialism can exist in a democratic society. However - either one of them CAN undermine democracy. In our country that is what has happened with capitalism. The people's democratically elected government and laws are manipulated, [...]

A long time ago when someone rich and powerful (the 5%) figured out they could get more rich and powerful - they invented mutual funds and then elected themselves to manage them. The stock market became a "bet" rather than an investment based on price earnings ratio and dividend yield. Unfortunately all non-rich Americans(the 95%) [...]

It should be noted that democracy and communism are the only two theories at odds with each other while democracy can coexist with socialism or capitalism i.e. a government by the people Democracy: government by the people Socialism: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of [...]