After watching an episode of “Cold Case”, it occurred to me that perhaps the reason that hate is still prevalent in our society is simply because many of the people who were taught hatred as a child, are still alive today.

People who grew up during, and before, the civil rights era, are still here living among us. Whatever hatred they were taught, or witnessed in their lifetime, still lingers with them, and eventually with all of us, to this day.

I see hope in our future though. Although there are still plenty of bigoted and racist people, I don’t believe that as much hatred is being taught today as before.

However, if there is one place swimming against the current of progress, it’s Fox News and the ultra-conservative mouth-pieces like Limbaugh.

1. Providing tax incentives for companies to move from one state to another = loss jobs at original site
2. Job growth is not guaranteed, and often inflated because it includes jobs that the company would have hired for regardless
3. Giving millions in tax breaks to random companies is ok by Republican standard, but giving loan guarantees to develop a new industry, and create high paying, American jobs, (ala Solyndra) is wrong.

If you think for-profit companies can do a better job, I can make you a long list of companies I have to deal with every day that I absolutely hate. Not just dislike — HATE: AT&T, Comcast, Southwest, and Best Buy just to name a few. The government does not have a monopoly on being terrible, so stop pretending like everything will be better without them.

Texas has more public employees than California
But has a smaller public budget than California
Because they pay their employees 30% less
They can afford to do this because housing prices are lower.

So the point here is, the key to getting more people employed is to lower housing cost.

Allowing home values to plumet is possibly good for improving employment rates.

Interesting. Must investigate this further.

Universal Health Care – Sure, I support universal health care because I want everyone to be taken cared of. But more importantly, I support universal health care because I absolutely hate the process of buying health insurance. Even worse, I hate having to rely on my employer to provide me with medical coverage. Why would anyone want their employer to be responsible for their health and well-being?

Illegal immigration – Yes, arresting and deporting illegal immigrants is tragic because is destroys families. However, I am more interested in protecting illegal immigrants because it is absolute stupidity to believe that the US agricultural economy could survive without this labor force.

Education Funding – Everyone should have an equal opportunity at a quality education…. Because… I am sick of dealing with incompetent, ghetto, and ignorant people.

Environmental Protection – Trees are nice, who wouldn’t want to hug them? But even if that’s not your thing, how could you argue against protecting the limited resources we have on this planet. You have to be a special kind of stupid to think that we can drill our to prosperity.

If you really want to do this with your life you have to believe that you’re necessary. And you are. People want to live like this in their cars and their big fucking houses that they can’t even pay for? Then you’re necessary. The only reason they all get to continue living like kings is because we’ve got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and the whole world gets really fucking fair really fucking quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don’t. They want what we have to give them, but they also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. That’s more hypocrisy than I’m willing to swallow. Fuck them. Fuck normal people.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/dealbook-dialogue-lynn-stout/

For me, a financial derivative is like a “sidebet” at a poker game.

Sidebets are annoying because they are usually called for by loud and obnoxious players who have no patience to wait for the next round.

To put things into perspective. The US Economy is like a $3x$6 poker game that has people making $200 dollar sidebets. If you are familiar with 3×6 poker, usually $200 is your entire bankroll. If you are making $200 sidebets, you basically got your entire bankroll riding on one hand.

It doesn’t make any sense. You might as well be playing roulette.

http://gun.io/blog/the-governments-200000-useless-android-application/

It’s having some moderate success. You should check it out.

Although the site list many reasons why we Occupy, I really have just one reason

“We Occupy to remind you that you are being cheated.”

But I am not as eloquent as this guy, who wrote a very powerful letter defending the Occupy Movement.

My favorite line is

“I’m a liberal, so I probably dream bigger than you. For instance, I want everybody to have healthcare. I want lazy people to have healthcare. I want stupid people to have healthcare. I want drug addicts to have healthcare. I want bums who refuse to work even when given the opportunity to have healthcare. I’m willing to pay for that with my taxes, because I want to live in a society where it doesn’t matter how much of a loser you are, if you need medical care you can get it.”

There really is no need for me to say more… Just watch the video…