Are we like a giant barrel of crabs.

Have you ever noticed that you can have a huge barrel of crabs filled to the top and none can ever escape. Every time one tries, another will pull them back into the barrel. Instead of a few getting freed, they all end up with the same fate, at a fish fry.
America has become like a barrel of crabs. Instead of supporting and building each other up, our time and treasure is wasted pulling each other down. It is the Hatfields and McCoys all over again and the division is splitting our nation at its core. Even though we are all in the same boat.
We could easily solve a few problems by only buying products made in the USA. Our patriotism only goes so far I guess. The lure of cheap shinny “things” has been injected into our lives for so long it seems impossible to wean ourselves off of it. We are a nation addicted to stuff and things. I mean what would Mardi Gras be without the cheap plastic beads from China?
We are no longer United about nothing, while our children’s future is left hanging in the breeze.
Without a game plan we will become a second-tier nation quickly. Our choking debt and the lack of courage to speak freely about ideas and solutions ( See Worlds Greatest BBQ / 2.2011 https://americasfavoritenews.com/archives/defaultBBQ2011.htm ) is pushing us when we need help pulling the wagon to the Next World Order.
The race we are in today is not against each other as some would teach, but Americans United in assuring a place at the global table for our children. Let’s face it, we have squandered so much, so quickly and now is the time to evaluate our current position.
1. China has been securing “rare earth” long before anyone understood the real consequences. It reminds some in Texas when water was weaponized. The abrupt end of China being a US source for these materials needed for the future is problem 1.
2. Big money in politics always leaves out the average person. Please raise your hand if you were ever invited to the Presidential Ball – ever.
3. Teaching our kids Shakespeare before math and science is troublesome. 2 kids committing suicide over their family’s feud is hardly romantic but tragic. 2 kids traveling to Mars may be a good addition to our libraries.
4. Leaders. We are lacking leadership to balance our ship, so peons, like me, can hang on.
5. United.- United We Stand Divided We Fall – that American phrase is just as important today as when it was conceived.
Can Team America unite and defend our freedoms and way of life? Time will tell.

We are a generation away
from living on other planets.
AI has stepped in to pick up the pace.

Did anyone really believe that 21st Century automation would not creep to their door step? With Quantum computing it just creeped faster than anyone imagined. Like a wild fire or mudslide. Sometimes devastating.
Americans spend hundreds of thousands of hours per day doing things that computers can now do better. Faster. More Accurate. Self checking. We all should have known that certain type of jobs would no longer be needed in the real world. That day has come. When you are missing 500 Billion dollars from one government agency and no one can figure out where it went, it is time to call in a Quantum computer or two.
This is where the “Sometimes devastating” part comes in. A large number of the newly unemployed do not have the proper training to push a button and get a new job. Or at least a decent one with benefits and paid leave. Plus a large number of the new unemployed have the same outdated skill sets.
An economics professor explained it to me like this,
“You are playing a special version of musical chairs. I call it Musical Jobs. When the non human workers finish taking our jobs and the music stops. The chairs are replaced with the blinking light of a server from who knows where. You better learn to blink. And blink fast.”
The real question is how do we unwean our country from bad habits? With our tremendous debt eating us alive with interest upon interest, this day had to come.
Waste is waste. Whether by incompetence, fraud, or stupidity.
Welcome to The Next World Order.

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What is The Next World Order?

Do you remember the Billionaire Boys Club?
The club has grown in size and is now like pac-man slowly eating their way across the global business landscape. Take Bezos for example, he envisioned a bookstore for the future, sounds simple enough. His slow to adapt hundred year old competition is taking their final death knell now. Remember DreamTime at NASA, Johnson Space Center, the book shop owner looked out of place at the JSC press party. Now he owns a rocket as good as any NASA may have.
Elon Musk was smart enough to know that the US had a standard of living and mega opportunities and bent a few rules to make his place at the table. Now he owns the table.
A friend of mine once interviewed Queen Beatrice, the richest woman in the world, at the time. During their conversation she confessed that extreme wealth is a very lonely place. She found out that she no longer knew who was sincere and who were the “scallywags.” You’re innocence gets “exiled far away.”
I wonder how the Billionaire Boys Club feels about trust versus ass kissing today?
The digital heartbeat is creating The Next World Order. Efficiency is a byproduct of this World. Software takes boring and countless tasks off the table. We call our Quantum helper, Henry. Henry works 24x7, legally and never asks for a pay raise or his birthday off. He is always the employee of the year. He can spin exotic tales better than a Kirby vacuum cleaner salesman any day of the week. He is the ultimate chameleon; Shakespeare would be proud.
What does that mean for the jobs of the future? Not everyone can be in the Army or Space Force! Long haul trucker drivers are predicted to be almost obsolete in 5 years. Robots are flipping hamburgers and building cars. Having a paper route is no longer an option.
If you have not yet done this, I recommend sitting down and researching where the future is headed. Health care, global warming, clean energy, drinkable water, plenty of fascinating possibilities, but you have to jump off The New World Order and onto The Next World Order. Missing this train will have everlasting consequences for you and your family for generations.
God Save The Queen.
(That is a trick slogan. The United States has never had a queen up until 2017 when RuPaul arrived - then everything changed.)

The true test of a nation that has passed the point of no return, on its journey to the Next World Order, is to determine if we are going to continue The Hatfield & McCoy feuding mentality, or work as some sort of organized team. Team, as in Team America.
I hope we can all realize that we are at war for the jobs of the future. Tough love is headed for our trading partners, but business is business, and our children's future depends on it. Not all of us can work for non-profits or the government. At some point we have to realize that our jobs were exported to places that have less rules and regulations, not to mention social security payroll taxes, health care, clean water and so on. Now we are 30 trillion or so in debt.
When Obama turned over the keys to the internet for the world to enjoy/share, he just brought the competition directly into our backyards. No longer did you need a brick and mortar in the neighborhood or even the country to sell your wares, effectively. We Americans are price whores, and we flocked to a cheaper source, at the cost of our neighbor’s job.
Our nation is like a five-star hotel compared to most. That quality of life depends on the future of decent paying jobs. You can’t even depend on flipping burgers in the near future as a means of employment. So, we need an effective strategy and pray it produces results, because a large portion of the global economy is going to take a beating. We didn’t cut the Native Americans any slack so why would we do that for China or India?
This is a call for all good citizens to come to the aide of their country. I challenge you to stand up for our country’s future and look for the label MADE IN THE USA. If we don’t make it, you might not need it.
God bless our country.

Thought of the day.

Every time you pass a cemetery, chances are someone is buried there that had a less than perfect life. In fact some cemeteries are filled with heroic patriots that made a difference in the world we enjoy and live in today.
Taking a moment to cast your vote for who is going to steer our country, Good. Bad or Ugly, is the obligation you have to our nation, as imperfect as it may be. What would you say to our fellow country men/women who gave their life for our freedoms and you won't honor their memory by voting for something, hopefully bigger than yourself.
If you do not vote then you really have no right to complain.
Think. Then Vote because Voting is for Lovers.
The Lover of Freedom
The Lover of Choice.
The Lover of Democracy.

Our be the leader?

I think the greatest danger to our democracy is, we have bred the creativity out of our future generations. We set conditions and created rewards that made them excellent parrots but robbed them of their critical thinking skills. We taught them follow the leader instead of be a leader.
We fed them a diet of violence from cartoons to the evening news and then were surprised at how cheap life can become. FAST. When we think a hungry coyote, chasing a roadrunner being slammed by a boulder is amusing, then we have to step back and look ourselves in the mirror and ask the tough questions.
Society has gone to great lengths to invent tests that tell us how smart we are, or not. Yet, we can't explain how to create the spark inside someone's life called inspiration. The single most important thing to have growing up.
Inspiration is an amazingly powerful energy that can open doors and turn keys yet to be discovered.
When are we as Americans going to inspire again?

Paul Daniels

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With our country so divided, who is going to lead the effort to put the United back into United States?
Is it even possible?
We can't even get a handle on our carbon footprint, plastic pollution and the slow disappearance of drinkable water much less being civil to one another.

Billionaires taking joy rides to outer space and millionaires travel the globe on their private flying palaces. The line in the sand moves often, depending on how much money you have or can even be totally erased if you have the Presidential Magic Wand.
This "I want to save the planet" but we have to do it Tuesday because I'm taking my jet to Maui for the weekend" attitude is not going to get the job done. There is no Planet B we can go to until "they" get it fixed. We are the last line of defense.
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