America's inequality has of late resurfaced, with worrying concerns, hence why the American model can never be a model for a free world. Inequality of income tells you a real story, far more than does say having elections, having elections is often a gimmick for the wealthy to say to the less wealthy you participated, for those with power to fool others into believing they are part of some decision making process. Latest available figures are for 2007/ 2008, be sure that after this recession the figures are much worse.
Quoting from an article written by Timothy Noah for Slate magazine, entitled "The United States of Inequality", "Today, the richest 1 percent account for 24 percent of the nation's income. What caused this to happen?"
When one looks at the Gini Coefficient one finds that the USA is the richest country in the world with the 42nd most unequal distribution of income, Cameroon, Cambodia, China, Malawi all have a more equal distribution of income. This is simply caused by policies that are more business friendly rather than citizen friendly, where a business has more rights than an individual, where in the case of America, business can demand protection from tax payer in the name of the US Army invading countries to make it safe for American interest, whilst exporting jobs away from the very system that protects them and demand a tax break and tax loop holes for exporting those very jobs.
Noah also says "Yet few of these experts have much idea how to reverse the trend. That's because almost no one can agree about what's causing it." Argue along and destroy the individual, because even 2 500 years before these economists Chinese philosophers knew there was a problem, the likes of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, of course did not care for this, these are people who favored slavery and called it their fate to be slaves, that is a Western mentality, but Chinese philosophers where very much concerned about income inequality at the same time when the likes of Plato said it is ones fate to be a slave and have no income to speak of income inequality, to answer Noah's concern, Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates would say it is their fate that income is so unequally distributed. Do not read these people if you want to be mature mentally.
Quoting from Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung, "Thus it is that whenever wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, the people will be scattered; and when wealth is dispersed widely, then the people are brought together." America every election is getting more and more polarizing, it does not matter if one is right or wrong any more, it only matters his skin color and political affiliation, because the wealth is concentrated on so few, it will, it must tear that Empire apart, because America is an empire, built over the lands of such peoples as the Apache, Cherokee, Shawnee, Comanche, and countless others, it is an Empire, all Empires are built on the subjugation of the locals, as the Roman Empire, subdued, the French, Germans, and Britons, but had the heart not to wipe them out like vermin.
The only thing that can save American Empire, even if it says Republic, it is a Republic Empire then, is the free market, but where there is honesty there can be no free market, the honest fact that when one receives billions of dollars like Wall street they should be grateful, instead they immediately claim the government is hindering their progress, the same government that just saved its skin, never have the such as Goldman Sachs walked the earth, Obama a Hitler after giving you money, therefore when somebody gives you wealth for nothing they are still evil, it is not enough. Insurance companies where given billions to survive now say they must raise rates because the very government that bailed them out is introducing bad policies, when they should be out on the streets without the shirts they are wearing, such hypocrisy is not good, but it is good for Russia and China, as they have internationally and domestically actually been truthful. With America out of the way, there might be a more compassionate world, therefore maybe to them income inequality is fantastic, keep up the propaganda Forbes, say it is genetic superiority and then go and rob the tax payers it might be good for the world in the long run. Help them along tea party, billions might be grateful, do not give the small and medium sized business' tax cuts because a black president supports it, please keep denying that exports of jobs has nothing to do with trade theory because a black said financial crises not caused by banks but by slowly degrading the middle class and exporting their jobs, try and steal it back from wall street.
Bhekuzulu Khumalo
Showing posts with label Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: Wisdom from The Sages
I would highly recommend that one reads this ancient book, "Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung", written over 2 500 years ago from China.
"For if, out of mean spirit and jealousy, he should conceive ill - will toward any man possessing manifest talents, or, there being a man of refined cultivation, should he attempt to counter him and take steps to block his advancement, then he surely be lacking in this capacity of tolerance. He would thereby show himself incapable of safe guarding our descendants for all their generations..." (Ta Hsueh & Chung Yung).
2 300 years later not following these rules of Confucius, infighting in the imperial court, giving out contracts to those unworthy who became rich without talent, China fell flat in its face, allowing communist part to rise and rescue China. Let us hope they are not doing the same thing and follow this advise. In the West one saw those without any talent claiming they have talent and now there is a huge financial crises.
Quoting further, "For when one observes worthy men yet remains unable to employ them, or perhaps employs them but remains unable to grant them precedence, the fault is due to negligence." Can anybody in their minds come to grips with these facts, no Plato, Aristotle could ever have such a vision, Westerner are only coming to grips with this now, Canadian whites through sheer envy and jealousy have a semi socialistic system in order to block those of more talents, they say a body in Canada is different than a body in India or China, or USA, hence these doctors can not practice in Canada, because Canadian whites are fascinated with the likes of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, children compared to Confucius and Lao Tzu, those Greek philosophers could never understand the concept of humanity, they wrote for the nobles of their time not for society.
Quoting further, "If, however, one observes men who act contrary to the good yet remains unable to remove them from office, or perhaps removes them from office but remains unable to distance them from power, this is a grave error."
Now this happens all over the world, unworthy people not removed from power. Stop reading Western philosophers, you will just end up being evil. you will steal other peoples thoughts and say they are yours, you will still their ideas and say they are yours, you will exterminate people for their own good, example, Native Americans and Australians, you will bomb countries and destroy them because you want what belongs to them, you do not want to buy it, Iraq, you will kill people simply because they do not think like you, Vietnam, you will say you believe in freedom but when it comes to the nitty gritty you will say well sometimes, these other Americans can not build their religious houses here, like in New York. Remember, the NAZI's, Churchill, Roosevelt where all the same, wanting to rule the world, no difference between them, no matter what the winners say. Read real works for humanity and keep away from seeds of evil.
These philosophies are the basis of freedom and the free market, read them and then read Adam Smith who said the same thing basically at the core, 2 300 years later, but even with proof evil people will say the sky is not blue only because somebody they hate and are jealous of said the sky is blue.
Bhekuzulu Khumalo.
"For if, out of mean spirit and jealousy, he should conceive ill - will toward any man possessing manifest talents, or, there being a man of refined cultivation, should he attempt to counter him and take steps to block his advancement, then he surely be lacking in this capacity of tolerance. He would thereby show himself incapable of safe guarding our descendants for all their generations..." (Ta Hsueh & Chung Yung).
2 300 years later not following these rules of Confucius, infighting in the imperial court, giving out contracts to those unworthy who became rich without talent, China fell flat in its face, allowing communist part to rise and rescue China. Let us hope they are not doing the same thing and follow this advise. In the West one saw those without any talent claiming they have talent and now there is a huge financial crises.
Quoting further, "For when one observes worthy men yet remains unable to employ them, or perhaps employs them but remains unable to grant them precedence, the fault is due to negligence." Can anybody in their minds come to grips with these facts, no Plato, Aristotle could ever have such a vision, Westerner are only coming to grips with this now, Canadian whites through sheer envy and jealousy have a semi socialistic system in order to block those of more talents, they say a body in Canada is different than a body in India or China, or USA, hence these doctors can not practice in Canada, because Canadian whites are fascinated with the likes of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, children compared to Confucius and Lao Tzu, those Greek philosophers could never understand the concept of humanity, they wrote for the nobles of their time not for society.
Quoting further, "If, however, one observes men who act contrary to the good yet remains unable to remove them from office, or perhaps removes them from office but remains unable to distance them from power, this is a grave error."
Now this happens all over the world, unworthy people not removed from power. Stop reading Western philosophers, you will just end up being evil. you will steal other peoples thoughts and say they are yours, you will still their ideas and say they are yours, you will exterminate people for their own good, example, Native Americans and Australians, you will bomb countries and destroy them because you want what belongs to them, you do not want to buy it, Iraq, you will kill people simply because they do not think like you, Vietnam, you will say you believe in freedom but when it comes to the nitty gritty you will say well sometimes, these other Americans can not build their religious houses here, like in New York. Remember, the NAZI's, Churchill, Roosevelt where all the same, wanting to rule the world, no difference between them, no matter what the winners say. Read real works for humanity and keep away from seeds of evil.
These philosophies are the basis of freedom and the free market, read them and then read Adam Smith who said the same thing basically at the core, 2 300 years later, but even with proof evil people will say the sky is not blue only because somebody they hate and are jealous of said the sky is blue.
Bhekuzulu Khumalo.
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