Barry Goldwater and what I think when I read my mornings Investor’s Business Daily Paper dated 03 07 2011

Barry Goldwater and what I think when I read my mornings Investor’s Business Daily Paper dated 03 07 2011

This issue featured a Biography on Barry Goldwater.   Some of the things I liked about him and the biography and some I did not.

“In his 1964 presidential campaign, he talked about the need for smaller government…..Today the choice appears to be between smaller government and bankruptcy.”  The last part of this sentence would seem to lead a political agenda rather than be meaningful.  It is not smaller government that we need, it is more effective government.  Sometimes more effective government is created by broad brush sweeping and rebuilding and sometimes smaller government poses drastic consequences of ruin because of lack of an accountability for human actions once the structure of accountability is gone.  We will not survive as a country once the lack of accountability is gone.  Interestingly it always seems to be the ones who are least likely to be able to manage who would force smaller government on us.  Barry Goldwater was indeed from the Wild Wild West.

“When Goldwater said Social Security was actuarially unsound, many scoffed.  Today few economists deny the problem.”  Once again misleading.  Republicans had to dig a long way to support their opinion here.  This is wrong, what is being promoted here is what might be called in psychology the fulfillment of negative expectations through noncooperation.  It is like having one bad member on a team that ruins the whole team.  Social Security was sound in 1964 and still pays today.  How many of you know what it is like to have a bad member on your team that won’t go away for fifty years?  The economy was meant to grow to pay keep this system alive.  What happened instead?  The bad team members did not want to play the game of alternative energy now inflation has hit us hard, three dollar gas.  Republicans will never admit that a stitch in time saves nine.  And a stitch is a fixing not a cutting as Republicans are best at.  You cannot turn on any television program today without seeing a Republican who does not want to cooperate.  What they want instead is less accountability for their actions in the form of smaller government.  Bad team members cannot compete when held accountable to standards of fairness.

“..he voted against Medicare.  Today the program is rapidly becoming the fiscal mess that Goldwater said was intrinsic to central planning.”

You have to ask yourselves where would we be without Social Security and Medicare?  You would have the elderly who worked hard for this country forced out onto the streets as the Banks created another financial crisis while lining their “pocket” of incompetency.

“His proposed volunteer military wasn’t supposed to work, but it did.”  Again too much opinion and commentary in this article.  We only used to need a military when there was a draft.  Has our volunteer military been effective?  No it has created irresponsibility in foreign policy.  In other words would we have taken the bold stance we did in the Middle East if we didn’t have a military that could be summoned without full consent of this country?  From what I hear the military is laden with a drug problem.  From the documentaries I watch on television the military lacks any sense of discipline and accountability.  Every US citizen should be forced to discipline themselves to an exercise program after high school or college so that we do not have the weak minds that erode the values this country was founded on.

“His call for victory over communism was regarded as a reckless and an unrealistic goal.  But President Reagan set victory as a goal, and the Soviet Union collapsed.”  Goldwater was a man from the military industrial complex, if elected the world might have been destroyed through WWIII nuclear attack, because those were the cards that were on the table then.  Reagan achieved victory over communism only through diplomatic means and the only reason that he did this was because he consulted a “Witch Doctor” for advice, and those are my words and I stand by them, because I know where the “Witch Doctors” or astrologers get their advice from in turn.

“When asked if Goldwater were alive today what would be his number 1 issue be?”  The paper asked the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, and they replied, “Goldwater’s focus wasn’t on specifics.”  Now isn’t that just how a feeble minded low grade imbecile thinks?  I will just do this and not try to be proactive in my thinking about what the consequences are of what will happen next.  Hopefully we will fewer and fewer of his kind in politics in the future and thank God he did not win. 

“He looked at things structurally.  He did not pick a single issue.”  We should not be electing critics to government.  We should be electing those who are optimistic, in other words when they see something wrong structurally or otherwise they know how to fix, and that requires specifics.  And specifics require complex thinking that takes into account what our needs might be in the future, and not just how tight we can make our money satchel purse strings today.  Cutting spending is more irresponsible than not when you are not able to envision a better future or growth, development and construction for the country in place of what cuts were made.  Cutting government spending puts the breaks on the economy faster than anything else.  I can see why the Republicans would never raise taxes, because they would never have the ability to allocate the proceeds to a better future.

Loosely paraphrased from the article “His mother…Josephine…hunted with a shotgun, played poker with men and drank Whiskey.  Two years later she gave birth to Barry.”  Does anyone else read the humor into this that I do, as if to say all those things somehow together contributed in some way to the birth of Barry Goldwater.  Does anyone else want to see DNA testing done on this one for legitimacy?  Let’s see how would the future of America have read with Barry Goldwater as President, it might say, Barry did this, this and this and then the United States of a America collapsed soon afterwards.

The article does say she spoke her mind, and I do give her very high credit for that.  I think the country would be a far better place if we had more people speak their minds, and I am not talking about the Republicans as they also do, and not much of substance is heard, only what amounts to personal insult and accusation of weakness.  What results when a Republican speaks its mind is only fewer Democrats who are willing to speak their because of the insult. 

“As a youngster…he flipped pads of butter on the ceiling at school.  He had a little cannon he liked to shoot off.  He showed more interest in Popular Magazines than schoolbooks.”   I am with him on the little cannon and the Popular Mechanics, but the butter might land on my own head.

Now those of you who have strong intellects will greatly appreciate how this next part was worded in IBD. “After he nearly flunked out of school, his parents sent him to Staunton Military Academy in Virginia.”  If he didn’t flunk out why did he have to change schools? Those who have had trouble know of how situations like this are compromised.

“Goldwater thrived in the discipline.  At graduation, he was named best all-around cadet.”  Whatever atmosphere they were able to create and maintain at the Staunton Military Academy in Virginia of the time is one we need to create and maintain in our public school systems today!

Goldwater was active in the desegregation and a member of the NAACP but then apposed 1964 version of the Civil Rights Act, “He believed it unconstitutionally extended the federal government’s commerce power to private citizens.”  I don’t know what this means but I think he means that a business should be able to conduct itself with regards to issues so that it stays in business?

“Goldwater’s ideas were too far ahead of the political curve.”  This bold statement is erroneous and misleading, here again the author is reinforcing his opinion as sum certain with regard to a political stance.

“He’d be very pleased with this past election, where the candidates talked about philosophy, what they believed government should be and what it should do.”  This refers to the election where Barrack Obama was elected President of the United States.  The first part of that sentence before the period says it all, sometimes good men know something is wrong and not what to do about it, and bringing out the philosophical issues does indeed help the country right itself.  Why?  Because it allows people to start thinking of specifics.  Well here we have the real truth unveiling itself, whether you want to admit it or not, Barrack Obama has been the first president to flush out issues of philosophy in government.  Barrack so far has been effective at exposing the issues that underlie the problems in contrast to the blunt response and bold stone face of ignorance we have always seen from the Republican Party.

“…desert photography, perhaps said most about him.  The photos won praise from Ansel Adams, who wrote that Goldwater’s photographs were “of historical and interpretive significance.”  What is Ansel Adams speaking of- the importance of a solitary opinion, the belief in majestic nature, how good men often are often ostracized to become artists, or more to the point that who Barry Goldwater really was is depicted in what he chose to frame from his point of view in the lens of his camera.

Barry Goldwater’s advice to his son when he was a child was this, “You should be as you are now-God fearing’-and to always treat people with kindness and respect.”  If the Republican Party were to learn and profess just one thing from Barry Goldwater it should be the advice he gave to his child.  Let that be a new start for the Republican Party.

Other Issues in the NEWS:

The Government Accounting Office wants to make One Dollar coins the standard instead of the paper money.  The exercise of carrying all that metal would do some people good, but for those of us who move fast on our feet it would slow us down.  Maybe we could mandate that the overweight people have to pay with the one dollar coins. 

Two short paragraphs appeared right next to each other- and nobody understands how they are related.

“Fed’l prosecutors unsealed an expanded 49-count indictment against Jared Loughner, 22, who is accused of killing 6 and wounding 13 including Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, on Jan. 8.”

And;

“House Speaker John Boehner said he is launching a legal defense by the House of the law that marriage is between a man and a woman.”

Here is my take on this Jared Loughner was probably driven soulless or out of his mind by some mother who wanted her child to have a head start.  When people’s souls are driven from them, where do they go?  Women are the primary soul drivers, and it is there telepathic “voice” that often “trumps” the soul of males developing in a fetus.  There is really no other way or influence that can cause someone in a male body to become of female sexual orientation and vice versa.  The whole soul driving Wiccan process of demonology is part of the power and wealth creation process of what I call the Satanic Race.  I define someone to be of the satanic race if they willingly and knowingly participate in the systematic torment and harassment of individuals in order to steal their souls.

I would like to point out something else, the only reason we have a war on terror is because we were not strong enough to face the problems of corruption and evil that exist in the United States.  Most of us who have lived past the age of forty understand that when people clean up their act they do not attract trouble similar to this to them.

That’s It!

Thomas Paul Murphy

Copyright 2011 Thomas Paul Murphy

Originally Published on 03 05 2011 at: http://www.themilwaukeeandwisconsinnews.blogspot.com/andwisconsinnews.blogspot.com