When I was a kid, I remember getting my first transistor radio; made in Japan, then
people were starting to get concerned about Japan's role in electronics development followed by their entry into motorcycle and automobile manufacturing. In response, buy American programs were instituted by companies such as the American automakers to encourage people to keep buying American made cars. Sam Walton prided himself on providing American made goods in his pilot discount stores. Americans kept working, American manufacturing thrived and wages went up, as did the price of goods. During the 50 years since then, Americans forgot the reason it was essential to buy American made goods, that of keeping America working and self-sufficient, instead demanding cheaper and cheaper goods to buy. A new term appeared in relation to everything from razors to diapers, 'disposable'.
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Continuing a trend tested against truckers starting in the 90’s, governmental
officials have now in place rules and regulations against the rest of the majority of Americans. Jack Butts head of the Department of Environmental Control of the Masses, a new department put in effect by newly elected president Chin Lee Sanchez, tells how it will now be for anyone making under $1,000,000 a year. When the United States first conquered the American Indians, they first used military tactics to do so, then they used ‘paternalism’ to totally subjugate them. What is paternalism; freedictionary.com defines it as “the attitude or policy of a government or other authority that manages the affairs of a country, company, community, etc., in the manner of a father, especially in usurping individual responsibility and the liberty of choice.”
Using paternalistic tactics, the United States government herded the Indians into reservations, took away the Indian’s means of farming or hunting to provide for themselves, forced the children into government run schools to be Americanized and provided the food for the Indians on the reservations. This demoralized the Indian people and made them completely dependent on the Great White Fathers in Washington to survive. It was also the testing ground of tactics for the government to use against the rest of the American population if necessary to exert control over them. This country was built on the self-sufficiency of its citizens. Yes, people came here from throughout the world to find the promised land in some respect; farmers, builders, inventors and laborers all came here and worked hard to find success. Through hard work, the United States became known at one time as the finest country in the world; is it that way today, no. Through the mishandling of our government and our own apathy, our finances are in the sewer, we are no longer in any way self sufficient, our own people are doing without jobs, homes and food, and our government is the best that money can buy; just ask the special interest folks who bought it.
Through calculated moves, the government has taken a proud country with a proud productive population and turned the country into close to a third world country and the once proud productive people into sheeple. A sheeple is someone who is like a sheep who follows the bell ewe over the cliff to their doom while bleating BAaa BAaa BAaa ineffectively.
This situation did not occur overnight or under the current administration, it started back in the 50’s when innovations came into being and people wanted the appliances and devices to make their lives easier. Things such as bigger T.V.s, dishwashers, washers and dryers and other appliances and technology were desired and bought on time instead of with cash. People wanted bigger houses, fancier cars and more leisure toys. This created more leisure time for some folks and a bigger demand for higher wages to pay for the luxuries which caused prices to go up. People began to live above their means. During the 60’s, sustenance farmers, who grew enough to raise their families with a little left over to sell, started finding themselves losing money farming and had to find local jobs to supplement their farms and incomes. In the 70’s, these farmers began to disappear and the corporate farms came into being. Huge acreages farmed with huge equipment and huge feedlots took the place of the small family farms. From the Wizard of Oz…
Courage! What makes a king out of a slave? Courage! What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage! What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk? What makes the muskrat guard his musk? Courage! What makes the sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage! What makes the dawn come up like thunder? Courage! What makes the Hottentot so hot? What puts the "ape" in apricot? What have they got that I ain't got? Dorothy and the Scarecrow respond, “courage!’ A news report tells of Baylor Health Systems who is going to start testing volunteers and new hires for nicotine and not hire anyone who uses it even to the extent of nicotine patches or gum. While Baylor of course, can hire whom they choose, few who read this article saw beyond the inherent health benefits or how they hate smoking. They did not see that anyone was being discriminated against for participating in a legal activity. People have been indoctrinated to dislike smokers to the extent of thinking them stupid or addicted. At carnivals, in seconds smooth talking agents convince someone that they can win that huge, expensive prize for $1.00 by pulling a string. It is not that the mark is stupid; it is that the agent is a master at brainwashing even if it is only long enough to get the mark’s money. Promises of great advantage or disadvantage are the hallmark of brainwashing.
In the trucking industry, about 35-40 years ago, the systematic destruction of the trucker’s image started. People went in droves to see movies like Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and stayed home to watch B.J. and the Bear (1978-1981). Both the movie and the T.V. show depicted truckers as outlaws who drank, drove crazily and fought the law. This culminated during those years in ABC doing a 20/20 story called Killer Truck Drivers. The reporters went out and interviewed truckers who were laid over for the weekend and partying, needless to say, it was an ugly report. |