That’s right, there are resources that we are dismissing and its high time that we tap into this very valuable resource. Oil? Nope! Wisdom, experience, knowledge, and understanding.
That’s right people, I am speaking of the demographic that is becoming more and more discounted…elderstatespeople of this world. The group that we have through media, government, and social inconvenience denied ourselves of a vast amount of understanding.
You see for me, I did not see this because for me, my grandfather was a guide to me. He criticized and informed me to be the man that I am. I figured that everyone had that opportunity. Then I started to see things that concerned me, we are letting the resource go by the wayside. I ignored all the symptoms, all the signs. Then I wrote in a blog about what I would do as President, one of my acts would be to turn Social Security over to the people via state run banks with federal bonds as the way to be investment tools. There were many ideas I had, but that one garnered the most attention. But the attention came to me as fear of being thrown to the wind. I have always been of two accords with life and its path. I guess the best way to put it is two quotes from songs that I truly love.
“I believe the children are our are future Teach them well and let them lead the way.”
Greatest Love of All-George Benson.
“As today I know I'm living but tomorrow, could make me the past but that I mustn't fear” As- Stevie Wonder.
It took a long time to reconcile those two quotes, they seem to make one important, while making another dismissive. Now I understand, the teachers for our children are there, hell the teachers for me are here. We as a society and country have for far too long treasured a strong back, a worker bee. We dismiss education as if knowledge and experience isn’t more important. I now know just based on working in management…we need to work smarter, not harder. We need to tap into the resource, not bury it. So I will leave you with wisdom that I will never forget…
“Over the years I have become more of a 21st century socialist, I guess you could say. The common theory is that most
liberal thought and ideology pertains to the younger, naive, college tree hugger, hippy types and that it changes when you get older.
For me it was true. I lost that hippy ideology to the conservative, small government, big national security issues in my late 20's to my early 40's.
I began to get really interested in social issues and how they drive the political landscape though and the older I get, the more I see that
the hippy culture was right to begin with.
Check this thought: Companies pollute the environment and enslave the public to a capitalist run society. We buy their product at a cost to our health, the health of the planet and our freedom from capitalist rule.
You are caught in a conundrum that dictates your every waking minute. From the clock that tells you to get up in the morning, to the car you drive to work, the food you eat, the gas you buy that takes you to a job that you are forced to work just to stay in the system that is rigged against you and stripping away your right to an open and free society.
This is where the socialist movement comes in. It's the banning together of WE THE PEOPLE to form a more perfect union, strive for the things that matter to the public like Social Security, which is basically where THE PEOPLE decided to pool a little bit of everybody's money together for the period in our lives when we get kicked out of that system when we are too old to be enslaved to the capitalist system, and too old, useless and sick to make it anymore. “
“I am still on the Social Security issue. For many a current Social Security check in the mail covers only their bare minimum needs for food, clothing and shelter. You may know of some barely living and struggling on the thinnest margins now. Is it unrealistic to image a very bleak future, with all the woes of poverty for these additional millions of Americans. What about the other federal and state programs providing aid to those in need?
I know, if the can't find bread let them eat cake.”
When I read those quotes I felt pessimism and optimism. But I did learn that the future cant be without a past. We must be students of the past and allow the past to show us the way.
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