For the past couple of weeks some TV advertisements in behalf of presidential candidate Herman Cain appeared which have political pundits wondering what they mean.
While they ponder the conundrums, I think these ads are very self-evident. Herman Cain wants to turn back the hands of time and do away with regulations. He wants to return to the glorious days of yesteryear: back to the era of smoking in public places as opposed today’s bans; he wants to remove regulations on pollution. He wants to return to the days of the developing West – the days when people could become anonymous and disappear in society – no social security numbers for ID etc. He wants to return to a simpler time where there was no social security, unemployment insurance, workman’s compensation, child labor laws, unions etc. and people had to depend on charity or their families for assistance. He wants to return to the era where there was no control over pharmaceutical agents by an FDA: the time when snake oil salesmen held swayand the public health be damned.
I think his messages are blatantly transparent.
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The following. from an e-mail friend, is an apt description of my approach to understanding issues: "Your response to me demonstrates a person who seeks truth probably because of your background. In your business false information is useless and can lead to costly mistakes and failure. As hard as it is for most of us who get emotionally involved in politics we need to do as you do and seek the truth and scrape away the BS that is always involved in political discussions."
With respect to political correctness: I have come to prefer "it" or “its” to either the use of “his” or what seems to have become the more politically correct “her” or the awkward “his/her” since "it" or “its” is sexually neutral and more inclusive.
Four ideas, inter alia, I now accept as truisms - the first two are what I like to consider as being apt descriptions of myself:
1. ""I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived."
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
2. Aspire to inspire before you expire. -Anon.
3. “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - Sinclair Lewis
4. “When fascism comes to America and the world, it will be because the world refused to respond properly to the banners of religion. - fd's modern paraphrase of Sinclair Lewis.
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