I have diplomas in computer programming and electronics, and experience in security, supervisory, and the manufacturing and trouble-shooting of laser communication components. I am currently trying to earn a living as a poet with my first book “Life is a Puzzle” recently published by PublishAmerica.com under my pen name of JosephThePoet. My books can be bought through: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ http://www.publishamerica.com/ http://www.amazon.com/

Our life and future
The security of the country is the first job of our governments, yet our governors have superseded the steering of our lives to anyone with enough wealth. All the wealth of the country is being sucked out to appease the greedy, including our jobs now being sucked out of the country, because no one is responsibly governing the direction of our country. The politicians make promises to help and protect us yet allow the private sector to govern our future once they get elected to office. I thought they applied for the job.

Our lifestyle requires lots of power and there are plenty of local power sources for us to tap but our non-governing governments have failed to steer us to this security. Wind power use had been around for centuries, and electrical production through the simple rotation of a magnet to induce current has been known for over a century, yet our direction for power sourcing was steered under the control of the wealthy and shortsighted to the massively polluting use of coal and oil.

Our whole lifestyle is under threat by the greedy and shortsighted. The people are the country and are deserving of basic human protections. All our communities, large and small, need to be defended because together they make up the country. If these communities have their own power sources then foreign powers couldn’t shut them down so easily. Our cities cannot survive without electrical power. Defense is first and foremost the protection of these many communities that make up our country, because if they fail then the country fails.

Guess what? Providing this security will give lots of local people employment, which is also needed for a country’s security. If we people don’t work then the country creates no wealth to do anything, and look at how much we owe now with so many of our jobs lost too. Free trade is stupid trade, whether within the country or outside sourced. Capitalism has to be controlled or the vile and shortsighted will cause destruction to the people and the planet that is why we elect people to govern us in our democracy.

The Huckabee 23% Tax Scheme

If you want to crash the US economy fast, then just change the tax system from personal taxes to a 23% tax on everything purchased.

Sales would go way down and depress the consumer driven economy that depends on sales.

People would lose even more jobs from yet another slowdown in the workforce.

The needy and borderline would be worse off and what people give to help these people would purchase less.

If the country was to move to a tax on sales system, then the taxing level would have to be far lower so as not to damage the economy by its introduction.

The US Stimulation Package 2
The politicians seem to think that simply scattering a bunch of money around will promote the "US economy". Too bad politicians don't have to pass a competency test before they get their hands on taxpayer money. Simple logic proves how reckless their action was.

If a pile of checks are sent out, then a huge chunk of the money will go to food and inexpensive goods (Walmart type stores), and to expensive life-style buys (overseas supplied too).

The employment in other countries will be given a massive assistance by the purchases coming from the “US Stimulation Package”.

The politicians would have done better by, for example:

1 Giving out $billions in food stamps that get spent locally and help the poor. This returns more than into the community for every food stamp dollar spent.
2 Setting aside $billions more to extend Unemployment Insurance that also helps locally. Include retraining assistance to help them get employed into a changed work environment.
3 Include using -20 billion for maybe clean fuels research, or redesign rebating to clean up dirty coal power plants.
4 And by taking a whopping 0 billion of it, and telling the American public that the money is up for grabs for the full cost of their purchase of installed operational wind and solar power collectors, of all sizes, on a first come first served basis. Exclude large power farms from this stimulation package but not the bulk purchases of with-in city limits units that cities may wish to install. Many American people, cities and companies would jump in to get their chunk of the $billions.

Engaging these few things would cause instant effects and the money will be invested to promote the “US economy”.

The continuing effect would be us becoming world leaders in these and other clean power technologies, many Americans finding permanent good employment, the US becoming a little more energy secure, and investment in the US stock market would also be assisted upward by the effect of American companies gearing up for the manufacturing, sales, and educational needs.

Giving the poor, unemployed, and low paid people a few dollars won’t help them or the economy. The permanent availability of many good paying jobs would be better for them and the current middle class. Sort of like being given a fish as opposed to being helped to become a fisherman.

My first blog on “The US Stimulation Package” can be found at: http://community.myfoxstl.com/blogs/JosephThePoet

My Philosophy
Life is a Puzzle

Compare life to a chess game, a movie and a puzzle.

In a chess game you think the whole game through before making a single move. Continuously throughout the game, before making your next move, you think the game through to its conclusion. Life is like that. Before anything happened, everything was thought of. As things happen, the conclusion is still thought to. Nothing will happen that God hasn’t first thought of. Earth is just a piece of a pawn, as are the other worlds in this and other dimensions, in the game of life. Each individual, in their own world, is but one of the games pieces.

In a movie everyone acts out their own character part. In real life we all choose our own character. Sometimes we feel compelled to act a certain way in a given situation, because of our belief that others want us to act that way. Sometimes we bow to this feeling, or to other people’s wishes, when we would have preferred to have acted differently. We are all actors.

The lead markings from a pencil joining the numbered dots on a page, or the pieces of colored cardboard when joined together, create a picture. A puzzle is a combination of things that, when combined together, create the whole or finished product. If you combine the thinking of chess and the acting of movies, then you have the absolute knowledge of the puzzle of life.

Church versus State Misunderstanding/Myth

When asked about paying taxes to Caesar, Jesus said, “Give to Caesar that which is Caesar’s and give to God that which is God’s.”

Jesus was not saying that people can keep Church and State separate in laws. Jesus was saying to give to Caesar those things that he can demand as their head of State. But God’s laws are not ever to be ignored, and Caesar had no authority above God over these things. If Caesar told people to break God’s laws, is that then justification for them to do so?

How can someone claim to a Christian if the person ignores God’s laws when politics is involved? Can you vote for the approval of anti-Christ ways and be a follower of Christ?

Once again people are taking a sentence out of the Bible and twisting it to pretend justification for their ignoring of God’s rules and laws. People also use the statement, “it’s just business”, as if that allows them to do as they please and ignore God’s rules and laws while conducting their business.

You either follow God or you are against God in everything you do. Nothing in life can be separated out from God.