Running an ethernet cable from my study, where my desk and broadcast equipment are located, into the family room, has proven to be one of the best decisions I've made. I'm now able to sit comfortably next to the fireplace and do my research, and catch up on Dennis' headlines.
I thought I'd take a moment to share my cozy fire with you. I shot this video with my camera phone just moments ago, and uploaded onto YouTube.
The fire is especially cozy, considering that it is again below zero degrees in southern Michigan tonight. I keep waiting for "global warming" to kick in, but it never does. Maybe it will when spring comes.
Regardless, I've been pretty busy working several hours (some overtime), and it has pulled me away from the work about which I've felt most passionate — the work of our country. It's ironic, but when I was doing the radio broadcast, I almost felt as if I was married to it. Now that I'm away from it, focused to a much greater capacity on my career, it feels as though I'm almost married to my job. I actually have less time with the family than I did previously.
I really have been trying to write, but every time that I try, I feel so overwhelmed I don't know where to begin. I wish I could be more like my good friend, Nancy Levant, who was able to churn out article after article on NewsWithViews. She would always just get angry at what was happening to America and our freedoms, and she'd "puke it out on the page". That is how she put it to me, one day. It makes me smile thinking about it. I've always loved her spunk.
Despite the adjustments that I am having to undergo, the career move was a necessary one for the future of my daughters, if they are going to survive in this "global economy". Things certainly are not getting any easier for people who don't have a set of letters after their name. Even for those who have degrees, it is sometimes impossible to find work. Nancy is a good example of that. She is still away from her writing and research work because a lack of employment has made it impossible for her to continue. This is a woman who received her master's degree, graduating with a 4.0 GPA, has done public speaking, appearing on numerous radio talk shows (including frequent appearances on mine), and has published three books. Yet, she cannot find any kind of gainful employment and life is a struggle.
This is the kind of life that the purveyors of globalism have brought upon us. That is why I laugh when I read the despondent dribbles of Kenneth Scheve and Matthew Slaughter when they wrote in Foreign Affairs their piece, A New Deal for Globalization: Wages Falling, Protectionism Rising. They said,
Over the last several years, a striking new feature of the U.S. economy has emerged: real income growth has been extremely skewed, with relatively few high earners doing well while incomes for most workers have stagnated or, in many cases, fallen. Just what mix of forces is behind this trend is not yet clear, but regardless, the numbers are stark. Less than four percent of workers were in educational groups that enjoyed increases in mean real money earnings from 2000 to 2005; mean real money earnings rose for workers with doctorates and professional graduate degrees and fell for all others. In contrast to in earlier decades, today it is not just those at the bottom of the skill ladder who are hurting. Even college graduates and workers with nonprofessional master's degrees saw their mean real money earnings decline. By some measures, inequality in the United States is greater today than at any time since the 1920s.What a remarkable admission from the biggest globalist masterminds! Even though they continue to tout the benefits of globalization on the country as a whole, they apparently have been forced to admit in part that globalization doesn't produce wealth for the average worker. It impoverishes most people.
Advocates of engagement with the world economy are now warning of a protectionist drift in public policy. This drift is commonly blamed on narrow industry concerns or a failure to explain globalization's benefits or the war on terrorism. These explanations miss a more basic point: U.S. policy is becoming more protectionist because the American public is becoming more protectionist, and this shift in attitudes is a result of stagnant or falling incomes. Public support for engagement with the world economy is strongly linked to labor-market performance, and for most workers labor-market performance has been poor.
It actually amazes this writer that the NAFTA-touting Rush Limbaugh still has any credibility with his listeners — or that he even has any listeners. He has been one of the biggest cheerleaders of globalist policies that undermine and eradicate American sovereignty and jobs that ever existed. Yet, people apparently still tune into his show? No wonder he refers to his audience as "ditto-heads".
It is nice to see that there are a lot of people out there who still are doing their best to save our nation and the freedoms. Sadly, most will never mount to beans because they refuse to investigate what is happening in their own back yard. Communitarianism is the system to study and about which to learn. Niki Raapana has it right! We are being merged into a capitalism/communism hybrid of community-oriented and "planned" (meaning tightly controlled) neighborhoods. Everything we do will be controlled, and it will all be fully in line with Agenda 21.
To all of "patriots" out there who refuse to accept and talk about this fact, you are wasting your time. You'll never accomplish anything other than making a bunch of noise — and money selling your videos.
Maybe that's the point. Perhaps, most of the so-called "patriot" community are driven by love of profits, rather than love of country. Why else would they not take the time to research, discuss, expose, and explore solutions to community plans?
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