The 10 Pillars of Reason is the basic mission statement for why I feel the need to blog almost everyday. The purpose is to help the average Middle Class American turn the 99% into the class of wealth, privilege, and happiness, instead of the class of worry, toil for others, and constant job insecurity. The 1% should be the poor and disadvantaged not the 99%.
Pillar #1 Fix Social Security
The United States is an aging society, we need to take care of the old. We need to be like the Asian societies and value the old as a source of wisdom instead of being treated like yesterdays newspapers. In order to fix social security, you have to
Put a lock on the lock box........... make it illegal for any politician to steal, they call it appropriating money from the Social Security fund. Make the punishment very long prison sentences for theft of this national security fund and I guarantee politicians will keep their hands out of the cookie jar.
Guarantee Benefits to all that have previously deposited money into it. Remember, all for one and one for all.
Also remember, this is not an entitlement program like food stamps. If you pay into it, it is called a trust fund because you are trusting that the money will be there when you need it.
Pillar # 2 Fix Health Care Insurance
We don't need socialized medicine in the United States when free market capitalism will create a much superior and cheaper product. It's an easy fix.
Make Health Insurance a product just like car insurance. Make it a commodity like a can of peaches on a grocery store shelf, and force the insurance companies compete for the dollar, not only will it be better care, but it will become cheaper every year.
Decouple health insurance from employment. Right now, if you don't have a decent job you cant get affordable insurance. The 1% currently uses that as one of the weapons it has against the Middle Class. There are many people out there that would love to start their own businesses but can't because they can't get affordable health insurance on their own and have to go to work for someone else to get it. You should be able to obtain "affordable" health insurance no matter what.
Oh sure, you could contact your friendly neighborhood health insurance company and get a guaranteed health insurance policy without any underwriting done, and they would love you forever for it too, because they will charge you about 2000.00 a month for it instead of the 60 to 80 a pay check that you could get it from a decent employer. See, this is really slimy too, its called price gouging, and its illegal in most all realms of business, except for insurance. The way they get away with it is simple. Bribery and corruption of the United States government. The insurance industry has one of the largest lobbying presences in Washington. The politicians, both Republicans and Democrats are all on the take, and that's why nothing will be done significantly until we clean house in Washington and elect politicians that can't be bought.
Force health insurance companies to compete in a free market, and the market would not only make it affordable but better quality as well.
Pillar # 3 Reclaim the Middle Class.
Long, long ago in the Middle ages, slaves called serfs ran away from Aristocratic estate farms ( read 1% ) into the city to free themselves and their families. In the cities, the newly freed serfs had to do something to eat, so they started to sell stuff to other people........... ta dah , the merchant class was born. When the merchant class had enough money to ship themselves over to the New World when it was discovered they gradually became the middle class. This, in a nutshell, is the history of the middle class.
The middle class today should be on the endangered species list. The 1% aristocrats want their serfs back, and they have been gradually whittling away at the middle class to bring them back into the dungeon ever since the middle ages. In the 20th century they successfully removed most folks from the family farm, which was the greatest source of self sufficiency and renewable income the world had ever seen with the industrial revolution. Then they defeated the labor unions and created job insecurity. In the last 30 years of the 20th century they created the consumer debt-credit card madness, and they also created the political correctness and diversity dogmas that attempts to keep everyone in line. Political correctness suppresses free speech and instills fear. Diversity doesn't unify, it divides according to the very definition of the word. It forces people to look at the differences instead of the similarities we all share. Remember people, a house divided can not stand. Instead of uniting as "Americans" like we all did in the Great Depression and in World War II, diversity forces us to look at ourselves as different and fosters mistrust and makes it less likely that the Middle Class will regain its former status as the Merchant Class. The 1% also makes it very hard for the Middle Class to start new businesses. Their paid for government lackeys enact debilitating red tape laws and taxes that make it almost impossible to start businesses from the ground floor.
So what can we do?
Do we have to passively sit here and do nothing?
One thing we all can do is stick together.
Forget the Dog eat dog philosophy that we all have been brainwashed with. Always work to make your own way in this world, but give back by helping fellow Middle Class people rise up. Create a network of other people you know. When you achieve a level of success, mentor others to be successful. Pass it on. This is one small way we can change this country to benefit all of us instead of just a very very few individuals, most of whom are not even Americans.
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