Stop Pulling the Wagon

The Fall of California – Ikon London Magazine

EVER WONDER WHY GOVERNMENT HOMELESS PLANS DON’T WORK?

IT IS GOVERNMENTS FIRST RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE IT’S CITIZENS WITH A SAFE, CLEAN ENVIRONMENT – SO WHY DO THEY FAIL IN THE FACE OF A HOMELESS EPIDEMIC?

Cities, Counties and States keep coming up with multi-million dollar plans to “Solve the Homeless Crises” but invariably after all the dollars  are spent,  the money disappears and there are more, not less homeless on the streets.  Why?

The easy answers as to why Government Homeless Programs don’t work are well known and I will get them out of the way first.  First, Government always seems to want to solve problems by throwing money at them, most of which gets eaten up in bureaucracy, waste and a lack of accountability.  Second, Government programs invariably fail to truly deal with the underlying cause of the problem and instead use these programs to say “Look how much I care by helping create this big pool of money to fix the problem”. 

The real reason these programs invariably fail is because politicians; Mayors, Governors, Legislators and City, County and other “Public Servants”, have no real personal incentive in solving the problem.  Creating media coverage and authorizing huge amounts of money to be doled out to their political supporters through the Multi-Million Dollar “Programs” makes their supporters rich and some of that money finds its way back into their own political coffers.  Most of the money gets paid out to “Consultants”, “Experts”, “Contractors”, “Specialists”, “Administrators”, “Staff”. etc. etc..  A year later the money is all gone, there are more homeless than there were before the program began and the politicians are back saying “We just didn’t spend enough to solve the problem and here is our new plan which will cost a “Gazillion” more Dollars but this time it will work.”  “Trust us”.

Understand, these “programs” are “Cash Cows” and if their plans worked we wouldn’t need to fund their next “Program” because the problem has been solved and so…..  no more endless pool of money for their supporters and benefactors to draw from.  The “Cash Cow” dies.  Rule #1 for “Smart Politicians” is NEVER kill a “Cash Cow”.

This is happening across the country, from Seattle to New York and up and down the State of California including San Francisco, Los Angeles and many other cities.  I live near Sacramento and we have had several years of multi-million dollar plans, all of which have not worked.  Intentional or unintentional, all these plans are a scam which costs the taxpayer without solving the homeless problem.

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JUST FOR CONTRAST HERE IS BOB’S PLAN TO REDUCE HOMELESSNESS 

1.  City streets, sidewalks and all public areas to be safe, clean and sanitary at all times.  Hosed down/washed clean on an unannounced irregular schedule as needed.

2. Strict law enforcement against public drunkenness, drug use, urination, “defecating”, aggressive “panhandling” and obscenity (nudity).

3. No general welfare funds without verifiable certificate of being tested drug free or active, current certification in rehabilitation drug or alcohol program. No exceptions.

4. If you don’t like my rules, leave town and look for greener pastures somewhere else.

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As an example of typical “Government” solutions  I am including below an excerpt from an article I posted back in August of 2021:

The Mayor’s 100 Million Dollar Homeless Plan

from August 2021

Almost two years ago Sacramento, California Mayor Darrell Steinberg and the City Council approved a 22.5 Million Dollar one year plan for Sacramento’s homeless.  The plan was to provide housing and beds for some 750 homeless.  (Search “Tweedledum & Tweedledee” on this site) At the time I calculated that the cost per proposed homeless recipient to be $29,605 per person assisted and questioned if any of these decision makers owned a calculator.

“Mayor Steinberg also approved tiny apartments in a renovated old downtown hotel, which cost more than $445,000 per unit for about 250 square feet of living space, as the Globe reported. This project only benefitted the union contractors.” (see California Globe Aug. 6, 2021)

The homeless problem has continued to grow worse, not better.

Now Major Steinberg and the City Council has approved a 100 Million Dollar plan on a unanimous City Council vote.

This plan is targeting about 9,000 people living on the streets and byways of downtown Sacramento.

A SPIN CITY NARRATIVE

Conrad Blowhard is the Mayor of Spin City, California.  His city has become infested with homeless encampments and vagrants numbering in the thousands.  To some this would seem a problem but Mayor Blowhard sees an opportunity.  

He will convince his City Council that in an effort to help the homeless and decrease their numbers on the cities streets and alleys he would like them to pass a funding bill in the amount of 80 Million Dollars with the proceeds dedicated to renovating a dilapidated, nearly abandoned hotel down on “Skid Row” and convert it’s 80 rooms into housing for the homeless.  The City Council passes the funding request and pats themselves on the back for “caring” about the homeless.

Closed bidding contracts are let out to major contractors who are supporters and donors to the Mayor for the work to be done.  A ceremonial event is held at the Foggy Bottom Hotel with the Mayor swinging a sledge hammer through a faded door of a shoddy 200 square foot room in front of live television cameras.  Everybody applauds.

Work begins.  Some effort is made to rid the building of most of the rats, termites and other vermin which infest it.  The leaking roof is patched.  Contractors workers “freshen up” the rooms with new paint, carpet, updated (cheap) fixtures from China and new window coverings.  Cost per room renovated is $400,000.  In addition, the hotel gets a new name:  “NEW BEGINNING’S” and a single fresh coat of exterior paint. 

Grand Opening Day arrives.  Brass Bands and Ribbon Cutting.  Mayor Blowhard and City Council members make grandiose speeches about how they have solved the cities Homeless Crisis.  A few ragged homeless people are seen entering the building to take occupancy of their renovated 200 square foot “apartments”.

The Mayor’s handpicked contractors, sub-contractors and suppliers go out and spend their profits on new boats, sports cars and luxury vacations but not forgetting to “tithe” back some of those profits to the Majors campaign re-election coffers.

The 80 “new” tenants of the once dilapidated hotel settle in and begin the task of de-renovation on the hotel to turn it back into a Skid Row Manor.  

The whole process is “spun” as a huge success and praise and credit is layered on all who participated in the project.  What could possibly go wrong.  Housing was provided, at least temporarily, for 80 homeless people for only 80 Million Dollars.  “WINK – WINK”.

P.S. I would like to give inspirational credit to Michael J. Fox and his long ago television series “Spin City”.

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TOO MANY POLITICIANS SEE HOMELESSNESS NOT AS A PROBLEM BUT AN OPPORTUNITY.

Bob Bandy – July 2023

I will start this piece with a statement.  I am not a “Gay” hater.  Have had numerous friends who were Gay and lived their lives quietly.  In addition, I have nothing but sympathy for the less than 1% of the population who are clinically diagnosed with Transgender Dysphoria.   We should all be able to live at peace with one another.

But, just as there are those on the radical extreme Political left and Political right, so too, there are those within the LGBTQ+ community who are radical extremists who are not content with acceptance of their chosen lifestyle in a quiet way but demand social change and public adoration. 

A friend asked me recently why the radical Transgender movement is targeting our children in grade school. After some thought I believe it can be explained with a couple of facts.

The LGBTQ+ community in a natural environment is not conducive to reproduction by normal methods.  Unless they adopt or artificially inseminate prospective “reproducers” they are in a sort of “Darwin” dead end.  The vast majority within this community do not form “traditional family units” with progeny playing in the front yard.  

You will note that when they dance in the streets chanting “We’re Here – We’re Queer and we are coming for your children”, they are not dancing in the streets chanting “We’re Here – We’re Queer and we’re here with our children”  There are none.

So what to do?  With a virtual zero birth rate new members must be found and recruited. 

I recently publicly  challenged the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” to “grow a pair” and mock Islam and Mohammed in the same way they mock the Catholic Church and Christianity but so far they have not taken me up on the challenge.  I assume they do not believe the Islamic fields are ripe for the harvest of new LGBTQ+ members.  

Hmmm!  Where can the WOKE – Radical Activist LGBTQ+ – Transgender “Crowd”  find a group of vulnerable, innocent, trusting, not sophisticated, impressionable potential candidates for their agenda?  How about Grade School with its young, captive audience?

Here is a plan.   Take radical extremist young LGBTQ+ activists, fresh out of “Progressive” colleges and have them become grade school teachers.  Preferably in “Progressive” “Woke” states like California where they can groom and indoctrinate their young targets minds in the “WOKE” agenda without fear of “Parental” interference (Parental challenges to “curriculum” are not allowed in California schools), sexualize them at a young age with graphically illustrated books, entertain them with “Drag Queens” and introduce them to the “alternate” lifestyle.  These same teachers and administrators can also help them identify as “Transgender” candidates at 6-10 years old and then assist them, without “Parental” knowledge or agreement to get the “Puberty Blockers” and other pharmaceuticals they need.  Even surgery such as castration and mastectomies.  All state sanctioned and provided for.  All without parental knowledge or approval.

In California, and I am told other states, what used to be considered “Parents” are now looked on only as “Breeders” and their progeny now legal property of the “State” who can require they be put into “State” regulated schools with “State” licensed Teachers, many of whom have been totally “Woken-ized”.  Like putting lambs in a pasture guarded by wolves.

On the plains of Africa, predator’s, for example Lion’s, prey on the herd animals, like Gazelle’s , by attacking the weak and very young.  Many call this “Thinning the Herd”.

We do not allow children to play in the street, buy guns, drive automobiles, vote, serve in the military, drink alcoholic beverages, sign contracts or any one of a long list of other things because they do not have the life experience or maturity to make good decisions.  They are not ready for sexualization.  Those who try to manipulate, groom and indoctrinate them in sexuality are committing a monstrous act of child abuse and endangerment.

As I said at the start, I don’t hate Gay’s or anybody else for that matter.  Adults can make their own decisions and be responsible for them.  My focus is on keeping our nations children safe!

Those Activist LGBTQ+/Transgender predators who groom and target  children with sexuality, gender transition and mutilation are the enemy.  They are stealing the joys of childhood innocence, often causing irreparable harm to the child, pain and grief for their parents and family.  They are guilty of a great crime.  They deserve to be punished most severely.

“It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”  Luke 17:2

I have but one goal, to save as many children as possible from being victims of sexualization,  gender transition and  mutilation by these fanatics!  If you agree please share this with as many friends, neighbors and family members as you can!

Bob Bandy – June 2023

THE TRANSGENDER CULT

Many sources now claim that this Transgender “mania” sweeping the country has become America’s new “Religion” and it requires we “bow down” to its creed or face being “cancelled”. 

The Transgender Theology is based on the doctrine that you can be your own God and decide what gender you want to be.  This is a Big Lie and any first year Biology Student knows that you can mutilate your body, attempt to attach new body parts, change your wardrobe, infuse any and all manner of chemicals and do anything else you can think of but, at the end of the day you cannot change your DNA or your basic biology.

California seems to have been especially infected and on the verge of complete capitulation to the Transgender Cult “Holy” ordinances.  There is now pending in the State Legislature legislation that would criminalize as a felony, any parental “interference” in the gender transition of a child by pharmaceutical or surgical means.  In other words, if the parent of a minor child tries to prevent the castration or mutilating of their own child they can face being charged as a felon and possible prison time.

If this legislation passes and, as a parent, your Johnny or Mary has a Transgender Activist and predator grade school teacher who convinces the little nine year old that they would be happier by changing gender, this teacher can “make it happen” without parental consent or “interference” under penalty of California law.  You see, California has previously created a law that says they have jurisdiction over minor children in the state.  Put another way, your children are property of the State of California in legal and health matters and they consider “Gender Care” a matter under their jurisdiction.  Puberty Blockers, Castration, Mastectomies, whatever it takes, the State of California would have final say, not parents.

I am horrified by this and the thought of placing our most precious and vulnerable children in the hands of a teacher or bureaucrat with a “New Religion” agenda to make permanent and life altering changes in their lives makes me sick and angry beyond words. 

I am hearing and seeing in the news that other states are working on or considering similar legal positions.  If we want this horror to stop, all of us must confront our legislators and elected officials as well as local school boards and demand that they not prey on our children.  We must do it fearlessly, tirelessly and consistently.  Class action lawsuits could be a method of deterrence as well as punitive lawsuits for damages against individual “groomers”, “activists” and “predators”. 

Our children are our most precious asset and bond with the future.  If you agree with this article, share it with as many others as possible including the above mentioned legislators, elected officials and school boards.  Do it now.  In some places tomorrow may already be too late for the damage they are causing.

photo: Blogspot.com

“It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.”  Luke 17:2

THE RAINBOW WAS A PROMISE

NOT A LICENSE TO MUTILATE CHILDREN

STOP CHILDHOOD GENDER TRANSITIONS

Bob Bandy – June 2023

Ronald Reagan

“…… government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

 For regular readers of my articles, many might get the impression that I dislike government in general and also those who work in government.  This is not the case.  Most of the people who work in government are like you and I; working at a job to support our families with a hope of someday a comfortable retirement in our “golden years” with an adequate pension for our needs.  Most government workers endeavor to do a good job and should be thanked for doing so.  They are not the problem.

The “problem” with most government agencies is structural.  I will explain:  In my perfect world government should be responsible for National Defense, limited International Diplomacy and as a mediator to provide cohesion in those cases where there are conflicting interests between the individual states.  (Move the United Nations Headquarters to North Korea and cancel our membership).  Almost all other matters should be handled by the individual states and many of their functions should be contracted out with specific requirements, results and limitations – not the “blank checks” we often give to Government Departments and Services.  Police and Fire Protection, Public Education, Health and Sanitation services,  Emergency Services, Highway Maintenance, Water and Waste Management Services etc.

With government, not just Federal but all too often State and Local, a perceived problem is not handled with a meeting, finding a solution and then a plan to solve the problem on a contract basis at a specific cost within a specified time period by an independent contractor.  Government invariably decides the “problem” is a crisis that demands the creation of a whole new Branch of Government headed up by a Czar or Cabinet Secretary, a big new budget, buildings, employees, office furniture, a fleet of vehicles,  endless new regulations, an annual budget with a built in annual increase of usually 10% or more.  To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, “A Government Agency is the nearest thing to eternal life we will experience on earth”.  Once such a Branch of Government is created it has no incentive whatever to actually solve a problem and put all these people out of work.  That does not make them evil, just self serving which is a natural human trait.  The end result is horribly inefficient and these agencies end up going on year after year, growing in size and budget and too often not producing any tangible result.

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A True Example from an article I wrote and originally published in 2012

(April 2012) Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the Department of Energy during the Carter Administration?  Bottom line is, we’ve spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency…. the reason for which not many who read this can remember!

The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977,  TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.   Now it’s 2012 —- 35 years later —- and the budget for this “necessary” department is $24.2 Billion a year.  It has 16,000 Federal Employees and approximately 100,000 contract employees and look at the job it has done!  35 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports.  Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports…..  Great job!   Good old Federal bureaucracy.  (And we could supply all our oil needs from the USA)…. 

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(2023 update) The Department of Energy proposed budget for 2023 is $48.2 Billion Dollars and it has 14,000 full time employees.  

Let us assume as a given that all 14,000 of these Department of Energy employees (and their families) are all wonderful, dedicated to the Departments Mission of making the the United States Energy Independent and you would just love to live next door to them and share a Bar-B-Que on the weekends. Ever wonder what these 14,000 employees do every day? Is there power flowing out of the Department of Energy Headquarters Building into the nations power grid?  Maybe you could ask them at your next Bar-B-Que? 

The Administration is now running around the world begging for oil from Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, Canada, “whoever”, while our current Administration has sold a million barrels of oil out of our National Strategic (Emergency) Oil Reserve to China.

The Department of Energy was formed in 1977 with the mission to make the United States less dependent on Foreign Oil.  If we kind of average out their annual budget over the last 46 years they have spent something in the lofty neighborhood of a Trillion Taxpayer Dollars and the U.S. is now going “hat in hand” to unfriendly nations begging for them to produce more oil for us.  This despite the fact the United States has enough energy reserves to supply our needs for at least 200 years.  We just need to pump it out of the ground.  This appears a little too complicated for these 14,000 employees to figure out.  Guess they will need to write a few more hundred pages of “Regulations”. 

In all those near 46 years the United States reached Energy Independence for a brief period of time near the end of the Trump Administration when the Government got the, excuse me, “hell out of the way”, and gave the nation’s energy producers a window to produce not only enough energy for our own use but also excess energy we could export to the world.

I’m still waiting to hold in my hand the bright, shiny thing produced for me by the Department of Energy!

This is your Government at Work.  How do you like it so far?  Want more Government Agencies on a “Mission”?

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OTHER GOVERNMENT “SUCCESS” PROGRAMS

Government Poverty Programs have produced, you guessed it, Poverty.   In California programs for the Homeless have, you guessed it again, produced more Homelessness.  

In FY 2023 total US government spending on welfare — federal, state, and local — is “guesstimated” to be $1,494 billion, (That is near 1 .5 Trillion Dollars) including $890 billion for Medicaid, and $604 billion in other welfare.  Have we seen any improvement in our inner-city ghettos, homelessness, reductions in crime or drug use?

In the meantime our $68 Billion Dollar Federal Department of Education Public Schools programs are focusing on Indoctrination and not Education. While children in China are learning about math and science our children are being taught about personal pro-nouns and being groomed for trans-gender medical procedures  in the third, forth and fifth grades by activist teachers and a curriculum that their parents are denied access to. 

I could go on and on.  So you see, it is not the people who work in government, it is just the nature of too many available/deficit borrowed  taxpayer dollars and not enough fiscal discipline and common sense.

Bob Bandy – June 2023

LOS ANGELES DODGERS & CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE

HONOR THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENGE

This is an Anti-Catholic (and Christian) Hate Group dedicated to the destruction of the Church and its religious beliefs, moral standing on abortion and commitment to the fact that there are two genders.  Come-on “Sisters”,  you attack Christianity because Christians do not react with violence.  “Sisters”, let’s see you “grow a pair” and attack Mohammed and Islam in the same way!  I’m waiting.

DRAG QUEEN EXPOSES HIMSELF TO CHILDREN DURING “STORIES TOGETHER” EVENT AT LIBRARY

Male “Drag Queens” are sexualizing our children with their performances at schools, libraries, public events, even churches.  We used to put these pedophiles and perverts in jail where they belong.

IT IS NOT OKAY TO SEXUALIZE OUR CHILDREN

THE WOKE “KOOL-AID” DRINKERS

Anheuser-Busch – Target and many other major Corporations have decided to “bow down” at the altar of “WOKE” and are paying a price for it.  It was recently disclosed that Target Corporation made a donation to an effort to destroy Mount Rushmore.  As these companies “come out of the closet” we want to be sure and recognize them by taking our spending dollars to their “Non-Woke” competitors.

THE “GENDER FLUID” WING OF THE LGBTQ+++ ACTIVISTS ARE AFTER YOUR CHILDREN

I remain mystified why any High School Graduate with an I.Q. higher than room temperature would indebt themselves $100,000 or more for a degree from one of our “Frankfurt School” “Marxist Inspired” former Institutes of Higher Learning to emerge with a degree in something related to “Gender Studies”.  A College degree with little marketable value causing many of them to gravitate to teaching grade school children that are 6-10 years old where they can groom the most vulnerable and innocent among us in their Dr. Josef Mengele inspired genetic experimentation as practiced on the Jews confined at Auschwitz.  I can only hope that the victims of their “Gender Fluid” agenda who undergo surgical and pharmaceutical castration and mutilation return at a later date to sue these misguided gender fanatics into bankruptcy for destroying their youthful innocence and the joys of a normal childhood. These “Monsters of the Gender Midway” deserve nothing less.

Scientific Fact:  Biologically, Scientifically, Medically and at a DNA level there are two, and only two genders.  Male and Female.  The term Transgender is not a gender.  It is a psychological and medical term describing a state of mind and being that is confused.  It is a real symptom and condition that formerly (prior to current recruiters) affected  less than 1% of the population.  At a Biological and DNA level you cannot change your gender.  You can cut and patch body parts all you want but you only end up with physical sort of “Frankenstein” mutilation.  What is left is what you were born with only scarred and battered and usually with some mental anguish attached.  

Save your money.  Attend Bob’s School of Gender Studies.  It is 100% guaranteed accurate and costs nothing.

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MILITARY INSANITY

Our once Greatest Military in the world which was loved by our allies while feared by our enemies is being destroyed by its current leadership with their WOKE agenda and focus on Racism and so called “Equity”.  Our current Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are both Political Activists, not true Military Leaders.  They are destroying our Military’s ability to attract and retain the personnel to defend our country and seem more like they are putting together a “Milktoast Brigade”.  I spent  ten years in the Army National Guard.  Six years in a Combat Infantry Brigade and four years in a Medical Brigade.  Not once in all those years did I ever encounter anything like a racial incident.  I have many friends who spent years, some of them entire careers in the Military and they all tell me the same thing.  To this day I can go into a Military Hospital or facility and feel nothing but comradery.  Our Military exists to protect our country and destroy its enemies.  It is not a place for social experimentation. 

AMERICA’S ENEMIES ARE TRYING TO DESTROY OUR CHURCH’S, OUR FAMILIES, OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR MILITARY. BY DOING THAT THEIR PLAN IS TO DESTROY OUR NATION.

IT IS TIME TO STAND AND FIGHT BACK

WITHOUT VIOLENCE AND WITHOUT BREAKING ANY LAWS

DON’T SHOP IN THEIR STORES – DON’T GO TO THEIR GAMES OR OTHER PERFORMANCES

DON’T GO TO THEIR MOVIES OR PURCHASE ANY OF THEIR PRODUCTS

LET THEM KNOW WE SUPPORT THOSE WHO SUPPORT OUR VALUES

WE MUST STAND AND FIGHT THEM EVERY DAY ON ALL THESE FRONTS

WE MUST DO IT FEARLESSLY AND TIRELESSLY.

NOW – TODAY – EVERY DAY

I WILL SPEND MY DOLLARS WITH THOSE INDIVIDUALS AND BUSINESSES THAT DO NOT SUPPORT, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THE MUTILATION OF, OR GENDER TRANSFORMATION SERVICES TO OUR CHILDREN!

Bob Bandy – June 2023

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND GOVERNMENT PLANNING

Definition: Artificial intelligence (AI):  the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings.  Note: Many prominent Engineers and Scientists, such as Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, have warned that the use/misuse/unleashing of Artificial Intelligence may pose a significant risk to humanity.

The Biden Administration has announced that it plans to use Artificial Intelligence to design and implement Government Programs with “Equity” as “Their” primary objective.  I find this not just “Scary” but absolutely “Terrifying”.  Here is why:

We seem to be at a crossroads of having the politicized, corrupt ruling class administrators in charge now, or a plethora of artificial beings, programed by the politicized, corrupt ruling class, using these robotic beings to achieve their goal of total power over our lives.  Scared yet?

I, and most reasonable thinking American’s, define “Equity” as “Equal Opportunity”.  We all should have equal opportunity to pursue Life, Liberty and Happiness in our own way.  Government, and particularly the current Administration, defines “Equity” as “Equal Outcomes For All” (except the Ruling Class and Rich). 

Every time this has been tried in history it has produced a privileged Rich Ruling Class and Equal Poverty and Misery for everyone else.  Example: Cuba.  And now they want to hand this “Fools Dream” off to Soulless Artificial Intelligent Robots for design and implementation!  It is more than possible that these empowered “Intelligent” Robots just may decide that our planet is polluted/infected  with too many “carbon based” humans and embark on a crusade of cleansing.  Or, am I just being paranoid?  Do we really want these “Machines” in charge of managing our lives and destiny? 

The average citizen has little idea how much of what is essential to our daily lives is controlled now by satellites and computers in the managing and distribution of food, water, energy, waste removal, national defense and a great many other things we take for granted on a daily basis.  Do we really want Artificial Intelligent Entities with their own agenda to have access to, and control of the tools and necessities of our very survival?

If it becomes a “Battle of Wits” between those in the current Administration “Braintrust” in Washington and the latest generation of Artificial Intelligent Robots, who can replicate themselves without human help,  I know where I would be putting my money. 

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About a year ago I wrote an article on the subject of government “Equity”.  It was titled “THE DRUMS OF EQUITY” and it is repeated below:

THEY ARE AT IT AGAIN

BEATING THE DRUMS OF EQUITY

WHENEVER the efforts of our politicians fail to produce the results of their campaign promises, and their schemes and plans just produce more debt and inflation, they seem to always fall back on a demand for “Equity”; defined by them as “Equal Outcomes” for all citizens.  Or, in their dreams, everybody has the same amount of “stuff”.  They compound their rhetoric most often by claiming that anything less than full “Equity” is somehow “unfair”, “racist”, “unjust” or pick a similar negative term.  It seems their goal is to make us all equally poor, except for them, the ruling class. 

Congress has a congenital habit of exempting themselves from the legislation they impose on we lowly tax payers.  Example: The “Affordable Care Act”.  It did not apply to Congress or their staff.

Under our Constitution it is clear that what the goal for American’s is, and should be, “Equal Opportunity”. 

OPPORTUNITY AND EQUITY ARE NOT THE SAME

Opportunity is a noble goal and we should all strive for that.  Among human beings, Equity of outcome is not possible and, I would argue, neither a reasonable nor a desirable target.

OPPORTUNITY CREATES WEALTH

EQUITY CREATES POVERTY

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Earlier on, back in February 2014, I wrote a satirical humor article to spoof how silly government dreams of “Equity” are and it is repeated below:

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FIXING INCOME INEQUALITY

The government says it wants to “fix” the problem of unequal pay and income.  They say too few are paid too much (the evil rich) while too many are not paid enough (victims of the rich).  The goal of the government is to equalize pay for all citizens.

Based on the governments track record of “fixing” things like the War on Poverty, our Public Education System, the Postal Service, Amtrak, and the growing National Debt, I am not sure we want them to try to “fix” income equality.  Or anything else.

I have a vision of what a likely government “fix” will look like.

First they will establish what is a reasonable amount for everyone to be paid. For sake of  this discussion lets say they decide on $60,000 a year.  That would be $5,000 a month.

Here is a plan that I am sure would appeal to every bureaucrats heart.  All residents of the United States of working age (18?) would receive a “salary” of $5,000 per month from the government who would function as the payroll department for all employers.  A “single payer” system under complete control of the government and IRS.   We could all become cogs in the wheel of the Proletariat masses.

Don’t worry, if you like your current job, you can keep it.  That’s a promise.

Your education does not matter.  Your age does not matter.  Race, religion, political party, type of work, skill level, work ethic, level of responsibility, or experience. None of these matter.  Unions could be eliminated, you wouldn’t need them.  No merit or performance pay, everybody gets paid the same.  Movie stars, Presidents, Barbers, Plumbers, Soldiers, Dog Catchers, Burger Flippers, Brain Surgeons, etc.

Visualize a Baseball Team under this system.  The owners, the managers, star players, beginning players,  bat boys, groundskeepers, peanut vendors, everybody gets exactly the same pay.

As desirable as this sounds in providing equal pay for all of us it would have the added benefit that the IRS could withhold their “fair share” before we see our paycheck with no need for us to ever file an annual return.  Who could possibly object to such a fair and equitable solution?   Consider this,  we would all get paid the same no matter how lousy a job we do.  Just like members of Congress.

If every citizen received the same amount of pay every month, do you think we would all have the same bank account at the end of the year?  Or would some have a fat bank account, another a new car and still another a giant hangover?

Perhaps governments next task is to require equal outcomes for all of us?  It should be easy.  A plan to devolve all of us to the lowest common denominator.  Call it government approved cookie cutter equality.

An American melting pot filled with glassy eyed, average room temperature IQ automatons.

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An old saying but fits government plans and “good intentions”:  “Be Afraid – Be Very Afraid”

Bob Bandy – May 2023