The United States: Past, Present, and Future

A triple history is being played out before our very eyes at a time of great challenges.  The Bush administration is coming to an end; a new year is dawning and a new administration will assume the governing of America.  Written records have been found that date back 5 thousand years that deal with the past, present and future of that time period.

 

The ancient people of Sumer (The Sumerians) where civilization began took the events as a portend of what would happen because they believed the past was the key to the future.  The Sumerians said they were taught that man lived by destiny and fate.  That destiny (NAM) was a predetermined course of events that was unalterable, could not be changed and was preordained.  That fate (NAM.TAR) was a predetermined course of events that could be altered or changed.  Their beliefs can guide the incoming administration for a better future and to learn from the mistakes of the outgoing administration and the past.

 

President Bush decided to be a war president so he set out on a predetermined course to go to war in Iraq.  He failed to understand that decision was not his or the country's destiny.  His decision could have been altered or changed (fate) at any time.  He failed the test of a true leader.  Bush's lack of understanding those two basic principals has caused our country great damage around the world.  His concept of being a President-King who can do what he pleases has to be reversed by President elect Obama.  America's destiny is not to run the world but we are fated to be a good steward of the world because of our ideals and our President and the people can alter and change our fate when the need is called for.

 

Tyrants around the world fail to recognize the difference between destiny and fate and as a result end up being fated by history.  Knowledge about the past is the key to the future because it gives us the opportunity to change our fate.  WWII should teach us that nuclear  weapons should never be used again and that using nuclear weapons is not our destiny in the future.

 

The destiny of earth is to orbit the sun.  It is not alterable.  But man's fate on earth can be changed and altered at any time.  That is the key to the future.  Great leaders understand the difference between destiny and fate.  President Kennedy knew the U.S. was not destined to invade Cuba during the Cuban Missile crisis and knew our fate in that situation could be changed.   President-elect Obama hopefully will realize man on earth is only destined to die and that whatever is fated to man can be changed or altered for a better world.

 

Note:  The dictionary lists the words destiny and fate as interchangeable, however, the Sumerians believed otherwise.

Economic Recovery and the Middle Class

The economic recession that is playing out shows just how much the middle class should receive a tax reduction benefit as one of the first priority of the new administration.  Everyone knows that the middle class is the first to feel the effects of a recession but Republican policy have never taken that into consideration.

 

Job losses, weaker pay and weaker benefits hit the middle class the hardest and now other consequences from the recession are taking its toll on the middle class.  Louisiana just announced it will have to cut back its budget because of the recession and guess what programs are going to take a hit.  Yea, you guessed right, health care and other programs that are designed to help the middle class.  It is happening all across state governments.

 

Our economist tell us that spending represents 71% of the economy.  When the middle class is pushed farther and farther down their disposable income becomes insufficient.  The transfer of wealth from the middle class to CEO's and executives instead of sharing the good times with the average worker is one of the causes.

 

Federal and state tax codes should be revised to benefit the middle class and adjusted from time to time so their income can stay ahead of inflation and other causes that erode their incomes.  The present tax codes favor businesses but they do not use those benefits to expand business, create jobs or sustain the economy.  It is used to increase their greed.  The current economic conditions is proof.

 

It is time the middle class is put front and center and be at the heart of any economic recovery and tax reduction.