Some People Will Do Anything For Money

Tomorrow is war on low wages day at fast food places.  Because there is going to be a general strike of fast food workers.  I thought the customers were also instructed to strike, but that would be harder to pull off.  It might be more cleaver is there was a major drought of workers tomorrow and on that day they’d be flooded with business they could never keep up with.  That would have those executives talking to themselves.  Of course the whole minimum wage thing is like putting a band aid on a cancer.  Literally if you have some kind of an open sore on your body you’d put a band aid on it anyhow to keep out infection, but that would not cure the cancer.   I’m thinking that $8.50 might be a good tentative target to shoot for.  You may want ten, but that would be a lot harder to sell to Congress.  I will say that the “buying power” graphs are a little misleading, because more and more people are STUCK at minimum wage jobs so the agrigate buying power of workers is lower than it’s ever been, even if the charts indicate periods in the past (isolated periods) where it has been worse.  There have also been extended periods where the buying power of dollars at minimum wage was much better than today.

As Michael Jackson said in a song ‘Some people will do anything for money”.  For instance even in Los Angeles the Better Business Beauro can be bought off.  It became a “pay to play” operation where if you don’t pay up, your business will get a bad grade.  Money has infused the school system and also the prison system.  Offences such as tardiness, or dress code violations, or failure to recite the pledge of allegence might send you to a guidance counselor in the past but now the police could get involved and you become a statistic in the criminal justice system.  Prisons of course are for profit now so the more convictions, the better for them.  Of course we already “bet against people” with all of these “salad bowl” Mortgages where the good lettuce is mixed with the bad and the consumer doesn’t know what he’s getting, and I’m informed these type of rigged bets or “swaps” are still going on, where foreclosure is a bonanza day for the banks.  Then you have the schools themselves and “teaching to the test”.  But you know the teachers cheat by expelling all of the low achieving students the day of the test so they won’t drag down the scores.  And if I were administering these Achievement tests I wouldn’t even inform the teachers what questions were on the test till the day of the test.  And frankly if I thought a school system was really wasted, I might devise some unconventional means of testing for student aptitude.   In terms of stock market gyrations- - I’d slap on a half percent investment trader tax to “even out the irregularities in trading” and don’t catch me in a bad mood or I’ll raise it to one percent.  Let me tell you just that small tax would raise a lot of revenue.

And now we have the “dog lady”.  She takes action photographs of dogs she rescues from  the pound that have been there a long time, and then posts the photographs on line.  They show the dogs in a happy, playful state that might not be apparent were they back at the shelter in a cage.  Of course a lot of ideas have been posted on line, and do a good thing for society in one way or another.  I’m taking time out for a coughing fit right now.

You’ve heard about the railroad engineer who was “in a daze” when the train rounded the  corner at eighty mph in a thirty mph zone.  This raises the question is why they would ever design a curve in a track so tight that you had to slow down to thirty.  But motorists quite often, they would have us believe, drive in brief twenty second bits of “micro sleep” with our eyes wide open but medical tests reveal that our brains are asleep.  So apparently driving while drowsy is a major epidemic- and hopefully driving occupations will invoke prudent safety precautions.

It would seem that both the states of Michigan and Illinois have specific prohibitions against raiding pension funds that have been agreed on.  But that didn’t stop that Michigan judge from waving his magic wand and making those regulations all go away, and putting pension funds on the auction table.  When Illinois saw what had happened in Michigan, it inspired them to also go after pension funds as a lucrative means of “profit”.  Although this is puzzling because governments aren’t supposed to make – “profits”, or they didn’t use to.

You heard those two Black boys say it.  “The narrative is all shot to hell”.  It’s like on Pal Sunday the crowds are shouting their approval for Jesus and on Monday they were apparently still with him when he threw the money changers out of the temple.  But then there is a break in the narrative for a few days and on Friday now the crowd is yelling for his crucifixion - - and wanting freed one “Jesus what’s-his-name”, which is a fair translation of Barrabus.  The narrative is now useless.  It makes no sense at all.  All because Mother was recording four of her shows at once.  But there are other problems with this narrative.  For instance in John 21 Jesus said of John, so they thought, that John would survive until Jesus’ second coming.  But then there is a self consciousness about “correcting this error” saying instead “If I wish, he will live till I come”.  But it wasn't any "misunderstanding" because Jesus had plainly said to his Disciples "There are some standing here today who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in Glory".   He also told them "You will see the Abomination of Desolation (The Anti Christ) standing in the Holy Place.  (The Temple)   But later on in the NT we find the passage where it says “Our apostolic fathers have all fallen asleep (died) and Jesus has not yet returned”.  Complicating this narrative is that one consistent requirement of the Church Fathers in accepting a book as Holy Writ, is that it must have been written by one of the Apostolic Fathers.  What is to be done?

Jesus may have congratulated that widow lady who put her last two meager coins on the offering plate at the Temple.  But he did nothing in the way of saying “You should not have made yourself destitute”,  it is wrong for the Clergy to even imply that such a deed will somehow earn you points in heaven for doing so, as if they were selling it”, nor did he say “Since you now have nothing to live on, come stay with me for a while”.   Not only would Jesus not “cast the first stone” at the adulterous woman- - but he also went and said “Neither do I condemn you”.   So what did he mean by that?  I got my mind working overtime and wondered whether this woman may have been raped in a Sheria law type situation where they go after the woman.  That would explain this mystery.  When Jesus spoke of getting into the Kingdom of Heaven- - he most always spoke of it as being difficult, but possible.  He would use phrases like narrow is the path and rocky is the trail- - and few there are that find it”.  This phrase of “Finding it” implies that the “Salvation point” is somehow the initiation of the sougenor himself, rather than some mystic intervention of the Divine.  Indeed he would say things like “you are not far from the kingdom of heaven” and even stated that the Kingdom of Heaven already belongs to the poor”, making it clear the deed is “doable”.  I just ruined the day of a lot of Baptists out there.