One of my faithful subjects mentioned to me last week that he felt the time was soon, that tax payers would again stand up and revolt at the way the American government is handling things. He was speaking of an actual revolt, including violent uprisings and people refusing to pay taxes.
As King, I hope it never has to come down to that...because there would definitely be sadness involved...and I like people to be happy. So I started contemplating whether I thought this could happen. I decided that I didn't think it would...unless things get a lot worse...which they could.
But the reason I decided I didn't think it would happen is that your average American has so much to lose today. If you look back to our founding fathers and the circumstances they were living under, they didn't have a whole lot to lose. They were faced with the constant possibility of close family and friends dying of cholera, malaria, yellow fever, or small pox to name a few. Your animals could die during the winter, your crops could freeze or suffer drought or be eaten by bugs, which meant you went without. You couldn't just run down to the local grocery store and buy some food shipped in from some far off place not affected by the conditions you were facing. There were no heated/air conditioned automobiles with soft/heated seats, and a nice smooth ride, where you could just press a button and hear the symphony playing as you rode along. There weren't huge walk-in closets packed full of beautiful clothes. There weren't jetted, heated tubs. There weren't two and three car garages. No heated water on demand, or even drinkable water on demand. There wasn't an air conditioner or heater in the homes. Most people lost teeth by their 40's. You couldn't pop a pill to fix all the aches, coughs, or sneezes. They didn't have big soft couches with enormous flat screen TVs. They didn't have dish washers, or even clothes washers for that matter. Fast food meant that the chicken you were eating for dinner died quickly so dinner was ready in only 3 hours. They didn't have all the sugar and chocolate laden goodies that to us are desserts and junk food we down multiple times a day, but to them would have been food for the Gods only tasted occasionally by royalty. And on top of all that, they had an oppressive government that never gave them what they needed. They didn't have much to lose by rebelling...even giving their lives would have come as a relief.
Where as today, the average American has all these enormous luxuries and comforts. We are currently in one of the biggest economic downturns in decades. I was in Michigan last weekend (where the economic downturn started several years ago) and every restaurant was full to capacity. The shopping mall parking lots were packed as well. New high end shopping malls and subdivisions were under construction. People were out spending money as if they thought they were the American government and that money just grew on trees, or could just be printed at will, or could be borrowed and over borrowed with no lasting consequence.
I think we have a lot to lose today. People don't want to stand up and fight for real change because it is uncomfortable. It isn't easy like their current lives. It is often painful...and if it did cost them their life...well, that's not even an option. So we have too much to lose. No one is going to stand up and rebel or fight. Especially if the government continues to take better and better care of us, even when we the people make bad choices.
It is time for a paradigm shift. It is time for a change in priorities. It is time to involve compassion in place of compromise in our principals. It is time to get back to actually having principles such as honesty, integrity, service, quality, patience, and compassion. Instead of looking at them as someone else's belief system, we should look at them as natural laws as integral in our lives as gravity. They should be taught in schools, in public places, and especially in the home. They should be lived by politicians, celebrities, intellectuals, business leaders...by all.
Let's make a change.
Love,
The King
Monday, March 2, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Overriding the Bailout
As King of America, I'm afraid I'm going to have to step in and override the way the bailout, that congress and the president have given us, is being spent. Instead of divvying it up in such a way 
that no one will know where it all went or how it was spent, we are going to dump 100% of it into energy. We will do this by installing either wind turbines or photovoltaics on every household in America. That will include installing them on large apartment buildings and Condominum buildings. We will be using the current bailout as well as taking back the ones that started the end of last year that have been so disrespectfully mismanaged. That will give us about a 2 trillion dollar working budget and with approximately 111,162,259 households in America today, and the necessary systems to be installed being an average of $20,ooo per household, that will break us just about even. The higher values of homes will bring in a small increase in taxes that will be used to pay off this rediculously large loan we are giving ourselves. Every one will have anywhere from 80% to 100+% of their energy bill provided for through renewable means which will help preserve our environment. This will raise the value of each dwelling by roughly $20,000 which we will mandate as past/future monthly payments on mortgages and or rent. This should eleviate much of the foreclosure 
problem and give families and individuals a year or two to get their situation remedied. This will also provide several million jobs installing and maintaining these services. With it now being such an intigral part of our society, it will also create jobs in research to improve the existing systems. The new, updated, systems will be marketed which will create jobs in advertising and marketing.
that no one will know where it all went or how it was spent, we are going to dump 100% of it into energy. We will do this by installing either wind turbines or photovoltaics on every household in America. That will include installing them on large apartment buildings and Condominum buildings. We will be using the current bailout as well as taking back the ones that started the end of last year that have been so disrespectfully mismanaged. That will give us about a 2 trillion dollar working budget and with approximately 111,162,259 households in America today, and the necessary systems to be installed being an average of $20,ooo per household, that will break us just about even. The higher values of homes will bring in a small increase in taxes that will be used to pay off this rediculously large loan we are giving ourselves. Every one will have anywhere from 80% to 100+% of their energy bill provided for through renewable means which will help preserve our environment. This will raise the value of each dwelling by roughly $20,000 which we will mandate as past/future monthly payments on mortgages and or rent. This should eleviate much of the foreclosure 
problem and give families and individuals a year or two to get their situation remedied. This will also provide several million jobs installing and maintaining these services. With it now being such an intigral part of our society, it will also create jobs in research to improve the existing systems. The new, updated, systems will be marketed which will create jobs in advertising and marketing.We should all be able to benefit from this, especially long term, and definately more than we would have through the plan that congress and the president gave us.
Enjoy your energy,
The King
Thursday, January 15, 2009
The Perpetual Education Fund
Education is the great stepping stone that leads humans to fulfillment, happiness, and success. It provides one with the necessary abilities to be self-sufficient. In order to help all americans to be self-sufficient and to eliminate the lower class or poverty level in our society, we need to allow for all americans to recieve an education.
In order to accomplish this we will be teaming up with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. To many this may seem like an unwise or even unconstitutional alliance...so let me explain. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints has set up an initative called the Perpetual Education Fund. This is a fund which anyone can donate to. From it they give educational loans. Typically these go to members of their church who are between the ages of 18 and 30, single or married, living a responsible life style, but who are in select under privilaged areas who other wise could not obtain education. Typically they will be studying something that can be completed in 1 to 2 years, many times it is vocational training. However, all these are limitations that had to be set because of the limitation of funds. If they are inudated...even overwhelmed with donations, these stipulations can be expanded to meet the needs of all americans, even all people. These loans have no interest while they are attending school and have a very low interest afterwards, typically around 3%. You might ask how is this any better than other government educational loans. The beauty of this program is that it is run on a volunteer basis, there is no overhead, no administrative costs...every penny put into the fund, stays in the fund. Even the interest goes 100% back into the fund to be given as more loans. The fund always gets bigger. As this fund grows, it will eventually become so big that the interest will be reduced to nothing as there will be enough there to cover everyones education. Now everyone can have the opportunity to learn and grow and create for themselves new opportunities.
We aren't taxing, or forcing anyone to donate to this fund. But we are pleading with all of you, as the american family, on behalf of our families, our children, and their children...lets make this happen. Everyone please donate as much as you can, as soon as you can, and as often as you can and lets educate our people and stregnthen our society as a whole.
As a part of this I am issuing a new mandate to all the colleges, universities, academies, and centers for learning...henceforth for every student in every major or educational path, the learning institution must have a career center that has a connection to an available job. There will no longer be 1000 graduates all fighting for 1 job...or no job. If there is no corresponding job, the learning institution must list it as recreational learning, and not list it as a major leading to a degree. This way, those who are studying for recreation only, may still take the classes they wish to, but those who believe there will be a job waiting for them at the end of the tunnel, have a better chance at getting one.
Again, everyone please donate as much as you can, as soon as you can, and as often as you can to the Perpetual Education Fund and lets educate our people and stregnthen our society as a whole.
Thank you for your continued support,
Your King
In order to accomplish this we will be teaming up with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. To many this may seem like an unwise or even unconstitutional alliance...so let me explain. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints has set up an initative called the Perpetual Education Fund. This is a fund which anyone can donate to. From it they give educational loans. Typically these go to members of their church who are between the ages of 18 and 30, single or married, living a responsible life style, but who are in select under privilaged areas who other wise could not obtain education. Typically they will be studying something that can be completed in 1 to 2 years, many times it is vocational training. However, all these are limitations that had to be set because of the limitation of funds. If they are inudated...even overwhelmed with donations, these stipulations can be expanded to meet the needs of all americans, even all people. These loans have no interest while they are attending school and have a very low interest afterwards, typically around 3%. You might ask how is this any better than other government educational loans. The beauty of this program is that it is run on a volunteer basis, there is no overhead, no administrative costs...every penny put into the fund, stays in the fund. Even the interest goes 100% back into the fund to be given as more loans. The fund always gets bigger. As this fund grows, it will eventually become so big that the interest will be reduced to nothing as there will be enough there to cover everyones education. Now everyone can have the opportunity to learn and grow and create for themselves new opportunities.
We aren't taxing, or forcing anyone to donate to this fund. But we are pleading with all of you, as the american family, on behalf of our families, our children, and their children...lets make this happen. Everyone please donate as much as you can, as soon as you can, and as often as you can and lets educate our people and stregnthen our society as a whole.
As a part of this I am issuing a new mandate to all the colleges, universities, academies, and centers for learning...henceforth for every student in every major or educational path, the learning institution must have a career center that has a connection to an available job. There will no longer be 1000 graduates all fighting for 1 job...or no job. If there is no corresponding job, the learning institution must list it as recreational learning, and not list it as a major leading to a degree. This way, those who are studying for recreation only, may still take the classes they wish to, but those who believe there will be a job waiting for them at the end of the tunnel, have a better chance at getting one.
Again, everyone please donate as much as you can, as soon as you can, and as often as you can to the Perpetual Education Fund and lets educate our people and stregnthen our society as a whole.
Thank you for your continued support,
Your King
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
America Goes Ethanol
Starting immediately, all cars will be made to run on ethanol, and systems will be put in place to retrofit existing cars with this capability. As a government we will cover this conversion from our homeland security and defense budget. Many people were hard set against ethanol because corn didn't work out well financially, but...
While almost every plant on earth has been investigated as an alternative energy resource, for some odd reason tobacco has been entirely overlooked. I call this odd because the high sugar & starch composition of tobacco is well-known, as is the very low lignin encasement of its cellulosic materials. With this data alone it should be clear to science, agriculture, and industry worldwide that the tobacco plant has a nearly ideal composition for direct digestion to ethanol, and is also an ideal candidate for biomethanation or gasification. Tobacco-based ethanol can be produced for far less cost per gallon, with far more economically valuable sidestreams, than corn-based ethanol ( see below for full details). It has also been conclusively demonstrated in lab and field trials in Europe in 2008 that by adding tobacco to manure a very, very significant enhancement of biogas production can be achieved. With biomass tobacco's demonstrated low costs of production, it is clear that biomass tobacco is the first cost-effective purpose-grown biogas substrate and ethanol feedstock. Further, it is known that tobacco is a heavily coppicing plant, enabling it to produce very high biomass tonnage, and it is also known that tobacco thrives on poor soils in a wide range of environments.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect of tobacco-based biomass fuel is that not only would tobacco fuel not take away from food crop production, as corn-based ethanol does, it would actually add immense tonnage of food-grade protein that can be extracted from the sludge remaining after ethanol is produced. Fraction-1 protein is an odorless, tasteless crystalline substance that can be extracted from tobacco, and it is a complete protein - as efficient a source of human food value as beef. It would be totally 'paid for' by the ethanol produced from the tobacco biomass, and so it would be, in effect, free food. It can be added to flour of all kinds and used to produce baked goods like bread and tortillas, adding enough high quality at no cost to these basic foods to practically eliminate protein deficiencies in even the poorest countries. Does this sound like a pipe dream? Please read on.
Another of tobacco's real advantages over all other biomass energy plants comes from its potential as a source of high quality, low cost animal feed. This property is supported by strong anecdotal evidence from commercial Tobacco farmers whose fields are sometime overrun with grazing animals who find a way in, but hasn't been proven in formal trials as far as I know. If it can be shown conclusively that cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens accept and thrive on sweet, young, zero-nicotine biomass tobacco in various forms (grazed, ensilaged, pelletized, etc), then before energy is extracted from tobacco biomass, it can be fed to animals to produce ultra-low cost meat and dairy protein, eggs and other human foods. While it is likely that many of the limitations experienced in feeding the residues of ethanol production from corn and grain to animals will apply to both fresh tobacco biomass and to the residues of biogas and ethanol production from tobacco, it is also possible that by mixing a to-be-determined proportion of fresh biomass with their conventional feed, the cost of feeding animals can be lowered very significantly.
The manure from protein production can then be used as a rich energy feedstock for either liquid fuels or methane gas, and as a chemical feedstock for other co-products. It is this dual-use potential of biomass tobacco, combined with the economics and environmental advantages of production, which I believe makes it such an attractive candidate for investigation.
Here, briefly, are some of the major facts. When grown as biomass rather than for smoking, tobacco yields between 100-200 Tons/Acre of low-cost high value biomass materials. This production range, and fully accounted costs of @$1500-$2000/acre (USD) have been established in university trials. When grown as biomass there are none of the high costs, labor requirements, chemical inputs, or geographic restrictions associated with conventional tobacco production - in fact, we might as well be talking about two entirely different plants.
Tobacco biomass has multiple high value economic uses in renewable energy and sustainable food production, as well as in industrial agriculture applications. The dry weight yield for biomass tobacco is between 10-20% of wet weight, yielding 10 at a minimum and up to 40 at a maximum Dry Tons/Acre. This material is 25-28% highly digestible sugars, and 20-25% high quality protein. Tobacco's 40% cellulose is very low in both hemicellulose and in lignin. This means that Tobacco's cellulose is readily available for chemical digestion, like ethanol production without expensive added enzymes, or natural digestion, like for animal feed.
As livestock feed, biomass tobacco will probably cost well under $10/ton. With costs this low for high quality livestock feed, truly cost-competitive electric power production from manure becomes feasible. Also when directly digested for ethanol, the fermentable materials in tobacco biomass extrapolate to between 700 - 2500 gallons/acre, and the digested sludge remains an economically valuable material. Most of the world's agricultural regions are already familiar with production of commercial smoking tobacco, so a shift to production of tobacco as an energy crop would require minimal additional infrastructure/capital requirements and would produce minimal disruption to existing work patterns.
Everything considered, I believe that biomass tobacco production can mean between $4000-$6000 per acre net profit for any farm cooperative and even for many individual farmer/rancher/growers, depending on their available acreage. (Special thanks to our ministry of agriculture for uncovering this valuable information)
We can also use many other crops more sparingly that we already grow here in america such as: soy bean, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar beets, and sugar cane, depending on the region where particular crops grow best. These we will use more sparingly because they are food related but the tobacco (which again we already produce massive quantities of) will hence forth be used exclusively for ethanol.
This will free us from disputes with the middle east, help us to be more self-sufficient, and allow us to seek peaceful arangements with the middle east with more leverage. It will also help us live a more sustainable lifestyle environmentally.
Thank you for your continued support,
Your King
While almost every plant on earth has been investigated as an alternative energy resource, for some odd reason tobacco has been entirely overlooked. I call this odd because the high sugar & starch composition of tobacco is well-known, as is the very low lignin encasement of its cellulosic materials. With this data alone it should be clear to science, agriculture, and industry worldwide that the tobacco plant has a nearly ideal composition for direct digestion to ethanol, and is also an ideal candidate for biomethanation or gasification. Tobacco-based ethanol can be produced for far less cost per gallon, with far more economically valuable sidestreams, than corn-based ethanol ( see below for full details). It has also been conclusively demonstrated in lab and field trials in Europe in 2008 that by adding tobacco to manure a very, very significant enhancement of biogas production can be achieved. With biomass tobacco's demonstrated low costs of production, it is clear that biomass tobacco is the first cost-effective purpose-grown biogas substrate and ethanol feedstock. Further, it is known that tobacco is a heavily coppicing plant, enabling it to produce very high biomass tonnage, and it is also known that tobacco thrives on poor soils in a wide range of environments.
Perhaps the most attractive aspect of tobacco-based biomass fuel is that not only would tobacco fuel not take away from food crop production, as corn-based ethanol does, it would actually add immense tonnage of food-grade protein that can be extracted from the sludge remaining after ethanol is produced. Fraction-1 protein is an odorless, tasteless crystalline substance that can be extracted from tobacco, and it is a complete protein - as efficient a source of human food value as beef. It would be totally 'paid for' by the ethanol produced from the tobacco biomass, and so it would be, in effect, free food. It can be added to flour of all kinds and used to produce baked goods like bread and tortillas, adding enough high quality at no cost to these basic foods to practically eliminate protein deficiencies in even the poorest countries. Does this sound like a pipe dream? Please read on.
Another of tobacco's real advantages over all other biomass energy plants comes from its potential as a source of high quality, low cost animal feed. This property is supported by strong anecdotal evidence from commercial Tobacco farmers whose fields are sometime overrun with grazing animals who find a way in, but hasn't been proven in formal trials as far as I know. If it can be shown conclusively that cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens accept and thrive on sweet, young, zero-nicotine biomass tobacco in various forms (grazed, ensilaged, pelletized, etc), then before energy is extracted from tobacco biomass, it can be fed to animals to produce ultra-low cost meat and dairy protein, eggs and other human foods. While it is likely that many of the limitations experienced in feeding the residues of ethanol production from corn and grain to animals will apply to both fresh tobacco biomass and to the residues of biogas and ethanol production from tobacco, it is also possible that by mixing a to-be-determined proportion of fresh biomass with their conventional feed, the cost of feeding animals can be lowered very significantly.
The manure from protein production can then be used as a rich energy feedstock for either liquid fuels or methane gas, and as a chemical feedstock for other co-products. It is this dual-use potential of biomass tobacco, combined with the economics and environmental advantages of production, which I believe makes it such an attractive candidate for investigation.
Here, briefly, are some of the major facts. When grown as biomass rather than for smoking, tobacco yields between 100-200 Tons/Acre of low-cost high value biomass materials. This production range, and fully accounted costs of @$1500-$2000/acre (USD) have been established in university trials. When grown as biomass there are none of the high costs, labor requirements, chemical inputs, or geographic restrictions associated with conventional tobacco production - in fact, we might as well be talking about two entirely different plants.
Tobacco biomass has multiple high value economic uses in renewable energy and sustainable food production, as well as in industrial agriculture applications. The dry weight yield for biomass tobacco is between 10-20% of wet weight, yielding 10 at a minimum and up to 40 at a maximum Dry Tons/Acre. This material is 25-28% highly digestible sugars, and 20-25% high quality protein. Tobacco's 40% cellulose is very low in both hemicellulose and in lignin. This means that Tobacco's cellulose is readily available for chemical digestion, like ethanol production without expensive added enzymes, or natural digestion, like for animal feed.
As livestock feed, biomass tobacco will probably cost well under $10/ton. With costs this low for high quality livestock feed, truly cost-competitive electric power production from manure becomes feasible. Also when directly digested for ethanol, the fermentable materials in tobacco biomass extrapolate to between 700 - 2500 gallons/acre, and the digested sludge remains an economically valuable material. Most of the world's agricultural regions are already familiar with production of commercial smoking tobacco, so a shift to production of tobacco as an energy crop would require minimal additional infrastructure/capital requirements and would produce minimal disruption to existing work patterns.
Everything considered, I believe that biomass tobacco production can mean between $4000-$6000 per acre net profit for any farm cooperative and even for many individual farmer/rancher/growers, depending on their available acreage. (Special thanks to our ministry of agriculture for uncovering this valuable information)
We can also use many other crops more sparingly that we already grow here in america such as: soy bean, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sugar beets, and sugar cane, depending on the region where particular crops grow best. These we will use more sparingly because they are food related but the tobacco (which again we already produce massive quantities of) will hence forth be used exclusively for ethanol.
This will free us from disputes with the middle east, help us to be more self-sufficient, and allow us to seek peaceful arangements with the middle east with more leverage. It will also help us live a more sustainable lifestyle environmentally.
Thank you for your continued support,
Your King
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Multicultural Marriages and Adoptions
Today I am implementing a tax credit for inter-racial marriages and adoptions. I have noticed that there is still a great divide in the different races within our country. Some races feel as though they are or have been victimized by the others. Some feel animosity towards other races. When the fact is, we are all americans...where ever our ancestry may come from or what our ancestors may have gone through at the hands of others...we today, are all americans.
And although we are all americans, I have noticed entirely different cultures and ways of thinking within different races. This is where a lot of our current poverty, crime, sickness, and sadness stem from. We need to unify these races so that all can partake of these opportunities and joys that are available to everyone, whether they currently realize it or not. As has been stated before, governments can't make this change, schools can't make this change, it is something that has to happen individually in the people...in the families.
To this end we will be offering an aditional $5000.00 tax credit for any inter-racial adoptions. All the current regulations on pre and post adoption checkups through a social-worker will have to be followed.
We will also be giving a tax credit for inter-racial marriages...this will be $1000.00 the first year of marriage, $2000.00 the second year of marriage, and so on until $5000.00 the fifth year of marriage.
We feel that this will incourage people to meet people of other races and in doing so many will realize the beauty and similarities that lie within all of us. We will unify the races, blend the borders, bind the people together as one. We will become more and more alike. We will still be individuals but with one goal, one heart, and one mind.
Enjoy the mending,
Your King
And although we are all americans, I have noticed entirely different cultures and ways of thinking within different races. This is where a lot of our current poverty, crime, sickness, and sadness stem from. We need to unify these races so that all can partake of these opportunities and joys that are available to everyone, whether they currently realize it or not. As has been stated before, governments can't make this change, schools can't make this change, it is something that has to happen individually in the people...in the families.
To this end we will be offering an aditional $5000.00 tax credit for any inter-racial adoptions. All the current regulations on pre and post adoption checkups through a social-worker will have to be followed.
We will also be giving a tax credit for inter-racial marriages...this will be $1000.00 the first year of marriage, $2000.00 the second year of marriage, and so on until $5000.00 the fifth year of marriage.
We feel that this will incourage people to meet people of other races and in doing so many will realize the beauty and similarities that lie within all of us. We will unify the races, blend the borders, bind the people together as one. We will become more and more alike. We will still be individuals but with one goal, one heart, and one mind.
Enjoy the mending,
Your King
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
The First American Jubilee Year
In ancient times, in Israel, they would have what is referred to as a Jubilee year. It was the year after seven, sets of seven years. The seventh day to the Israelites was a Holy day, their Sabbath, in which no labor was performed. In a like manner, they would have a sabbatical year every seventh year in the which all the fields were left fallow. After 7 of these sabbatical years, or after 49 years, they would have a Jubilee year in which all land was returned to its original owners or their heirs and all slaves were set free.
So in light of the financial problems that we are facing in America currently, I am declaring this an American Jubilee Year...which in our case means...all debts will be forgiven starting now. Therefore, everyone now owns their homes free and clear, all credit card and bank debts are forgiven, companies no longer have to pay back any of their debts, car debts are gone, government debt is gone, school loans are gone...we are all starting at zero with what ever possessions we have.
To some who had many debts, this will seem wonderful, to others who had few debts, this will seem unfair. I want all of us to look at this from the perspective that even if you don't benefit from it as much as someone else, you still probably benefit from it somewhat, and if you don't, it will still benefit you because it benefits the whole. I also ask all those who gain much by this Jubilee to please look around you and try to find some whose lives you might bless through your consequential kindness.
From today forward, lets all steer clear of debt as much as possible. We should be trying to practice delayed gratification, and save for most things before hand, and then buy them only when we have saved the needed money to be able to purchase them outright. There will still be some need for borrowing for large expenses but lets try and keep our debt minimal and manageable.
HaPPy JuBilEE,
The King
So in light of the financial problems that we are facing in America currently, I am declaring this an American Jubilee Year...which in our case means...all debts will be forgiven starting now. Therefore, everyone now owns their homes free and clear, all credit card and bank debts are forgiven, companies no longer have to pay back any of their debts, car debts are gone, government debt is gone, school loans are gone...we are all starting at zero with what ever possessions we have.
To some who had many debts, this will seem wonderful, to others who had few debts, this will seem unfair. I want all of us to look at this from the perspective that even if you don't benefit from it as much as someone else, you still probably benefit from it somewhat, and if you don't, it will still benefit you because it benefits the whole. I also ask all those who gain much by this Jubilee to please look around you and try to find some whose lives you might bless through your consequential kindness.
From today forward, lets all steer clear of debt as much as possible. We should be trying to practice delayed gratification, and save for most things before hand, and then buy them only when we have saved the needed money to be able to purchase them outright. There will still be some need for borrowing for large expenses but lets try and keep our debt minimal and manageable.
HaPPy JuBilEE,
The King
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Most Basic Unit of Society
As I hear of all the turmoil in the world, whether it be financial markets, lack of health care, lack of human dignity, wars, politics, or simple disagreements among people...I typically hear people asking, "Why doesn't the government fix this?" There are many different contributing units in society such as government, business, and religion among others. But none of these will ever give us what we need to fix the problems of society. In order to fix society, we need to fix the most basic element or unit of that society, which is the family. A strong family unit is the most basic unit of society, without which, no other unit of society be it government, business, or religion, can flourish.
To that end I am issuing this new mandate: Here to fore, the people of America will be limited to a work week consisting of five, six hour days. This will provide two hours more each day for families to interact with one another. It will lessen the income of everyone so there will be less to spend, but again, that will give us the opportunity to get back to some of the family activities where we are actually interacting, bonding, and enjoying one another's company. This should also foster an improvement in priorities and help us all remember what is really most important in life. Hopefully more basic morals and values can be instilled in us as a people. Families will be stregnthened, which will stregnthen individuals, which will give us better leaders in government, business, and religion, and thus our society will be stregnthened.
As a side benefit, more job positions will be made available to complete the tasks that would have been accomplished in the work hours we will be losing. This drop in unemployment will again allow for more families to provide for themselves and become stronger family units.
Happy familying,
The King
To that end I am issuing this new mandate: Here to fore, the people of America will be limited to a work week consisting of five, six hour days. This will provide two hours more each day for families to interact with one another. It will lessen the income of everyone so there will be less to spend, but again, that will give us the opportunity to get back to some of the family activities where we are actually interacting, bonding, and enjoying one another's company. This should also foster an improvement in priorities and help us all remember what is really most important in life. Hopefully more basic morals and values can be instilled in us as a people. Families will be stregnthened, which will stregnthen individuals, which will give us better leaders in government, business, and religion, and thus our society will be stregnthened.
As a side benefit, more job positions will be made available to complete the tasks that would have been accomplished in the work hours we will be losing. This drop in unemployment will again allow for more families to provide for themselves and become stronger family units.
Happy familying,
The King
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