Tag: Wealth

Let’s Chat about Banksy Graffiti

These are some initial thoughts after an encounter with Banksy graffiti, whose work I find provokes my thinking on several different levels. In my opinion, if there is any truly great sin widely practiced in our world today, it’s the failure to think, for deep thinking almost always enjoins action. Banksy takes this on with verve. Banksy had a 2013 … Continue reading

Fair Play and True Heroism

Today we really don’t understand how horrible Polio was. It was a devastating diagnosis in the not-too-distant past: paralysis and death. Jonas Salk created a safe and effective vaccine, a cure, and Polio has been virtually eradicated from the face of the earth. When Dr. Salk was asked who owned the patent for the vaccine, he replied, “There is no… Continue reading

GOP’s Pledge to America

Make the super rich wealthier. Lie more to America. (Use FOX) Make the super rich wealthier. Spend more on war. Make the super rich wealthier. Privatise public education. Make the super rich wealthier. Destroy the environment. Make the super rich wealthier. Give corporations more control over government. Make the super rich wealthier. Take away healthy care for Americans because the… Continue reading

Thanks Dubyuh

Your enormous plan to redistribute the wealth in this country, back to the already wealthy, seems to have been a resounding success. 2 out of 5 Californians are out of work right now thanks to you. Source: California Budget Project Press Release PDF The average person in the US is mad as hell. They are powerless to affect change so… Continue reading

Just Thought I Would Share…

This came across my desk in 2000. The world is such a large and difficult place to understand. Dr. Harter’s information helps frame it in a comprehensible perspective: If we could shrink the earth’s population to a villiage of exactly 100 people, with all of the existing human ratios remaining the same, it would look something like the following. There… Continue reading