By far, the overwhelming majority or airplane crashes and resulting deaths are caused by pilot error. When one flies in a commercial airline, your life is in the hands of that pilot. True, the plane could mal-function, and the guidance systems could also fail. A control tower error could send two planes plummeting towards each other, but by and large, the pilot is the one which has your life in his hands.
In the private car, the driver, in at least 90% of the cases, is responsible for accidents. Aged drivers who have lost their reflexes, vision, and quick reaction time, cause some accidents, but it seems to me that they generally harm themselves. Teen aged boys cause huge numbers of hideous crashes, often times taking the lives of the innocent passengers or cars in their way. When a bus runs off of a cliff and kills the occupants, the driver in the majority of cases was responsible.
When an entire nation goes down the wrong road, can we blame the ’road’ or the driver(s) who take that nation awry? Over thousands of years, it has been various nations who have been disintegrated or totally failed, because of that nation’s rulers. Often times they have been self appointed…but not in our case. In our case, there are 535 members of Congress, a vice president, president, and their various advisors who have taken America down the road to perdition, mostly elected by the voters. Ignoramus voters must share responsibility in our case. It began with Teddy Roosevelt deciding we wanted the Philippines, Woodrow Wilson deciding we needed to get into WW I, FDR beginning the welfare state, and then getting us into WW II. The process continued with Truman getting us into Korea, and LBJ submerging us into Vietnam. Kennedy was going to bring the few there home and dismantle the CIA, but he was assassinated for his efforts. Now, we have the D.C. Gang continuing the move towards America’s going down the tubes. Be it the “Patriot Act,” NAFTA, food stamps, Iraq, Afghanistan, printing press money by the tractor-trailers full, earmarks by the hundreds, spying on the citizenry, cover-ups by the hundreds, and in general, acting as have all previous ruling classes who have taken their respective nations down the slippery slope to perdition.
Why do we need Washington D.C.? Why do we need the D.C. Gang, who collectively seem to have the combined brain power of a singular Thomas Jefferson. Wouldn’t fifty, individual state governments competing with each other, be a lot better? John Wayne hated politics, but loved America. He thought of America, not Republicans or Democrats. George Washington warned about foreign entanglements and the “two party system.” Eisenhower warned about the “military-industrial complex.” Washington D.C. is a haggle of ignorance. The workers, hangers on, groupies, representatives, senators, and lobbyists, care nothing about you and I. They care about themselves, making a lot of money, and getting re-elected. It is all so sad. D.C. is actually a separate, greedy nation all to itself, feeding off of the rest of us. History is indeed repeating itself, almost to the letter. Should we leave and go somewhere else, where the situation is even worse, and we can’t speak the language? Not me. Should we be political activists? Look at history. George Wallace was shot when it looked as if he would win. Barry Goldwater was crucified by smart media advertising which were total lies, and someone must have pulled the stings of Ross Perot to make him quit when he was winning. If Ron Paul, by the microscopic slimmest of odds, should get the Republican nomination and become popular, he will undoubtedly be executed. Who are we going to get next time? A black guy who is really smart, liberal, inexperienced, and who changes his mind continually? A brazen, super liberal hussy, who also changes her mind to suit the crowd, with a very shady past, and whose success depends on her ex-president husband to draw the crowds? Ever see ’thunder thighs’ in a dress? Or an ex-New York Mayor, with all the wrong beliefs and history? Washington D.C., and the entire government is broken, like Hunpty Dumpty, and believe me, it can’t be put back together again. Just protect yourself, get out of dollar savings, pray, and hope for the best.
And yeah, I’ll continue writing this drivel. Thanks for the literally hundreds of e-mails urging me to do so, but I cannot understand why. I am in the precious metals business, not writing. Writing just lets me blow off steam, and probably hurts my business, because of all the people I outrage. Oh Well, who wants them anyway? The outraged can go to an outfit in the Northwest that keeps your money for three months before you get your stuff, or charges outrageous prices, like the one in Minneapolis. I’ve taken a lot of their business.